Thoughts, stories and wild ideas from the world of Infrastructure Engineering.

A minimal Chrome extension that removes LinkedIn's home feed while keeping the rest of LinkedIn usable. - andrewpollack/linkedin-feed-blocker

Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.

Students at Dueholmskolen are pictured in their classroom in Nykøbing Mors, Jutland, Denmark, on March 1, 2021. Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images. The policy takes effect immediately, but educators say the first response must evolve as AI tools keep…

Interactive map of the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse. Precise timings, path of totality, weather odds and viewing tips for any location.

Reveals that 85 percent of the platform's most powerful editors are anonymous, how conservative sources are blacklisted, and that the CIA has edited content.

rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home.

Arthur Brooks studies happiness for a living, and he says the epidemic of depression and anxiety among young adults comes down to one culprit: a meaning crisis.

A Macintosh System 1-style graphical OS for the Intel 8086/8088. Real-mode assembly, boots from floppy, runs in 256KB. Free to download.

Americans do not care for artificial intelligence. Recent polling shows that their attitudes mostly range from ambivalence to horror.

How we tracked down "The Spider" who was once one of the most-feared men in Syria.

New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.

My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration…

The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.

Port of Microsoft Word 1.1a to x64 with extra features for research purposes. - jmarshall23/msword

The largest reservoir in the United States has plummeted to its lowest water level since it was created some 90 years ago.

SAP says it needs to “be disciplined in how we spend.” That includes still freezing hires and travel. Unless it's to do with AI, of course.