The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier https://www.switchyardmag.com/issue-1/bulgarianfrontier
Switchyard
The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier β Switchyard
By Dimiter Kenarov
ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/12/21/accessibility-update-arxiv-now-offers-papers-in-html-format/
Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms https://varun.ch/server
The Art of Electronics (2015) https://artofelectronics.net/
The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition
by Horowitz and Hill
Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable synced narration platform for ebooks https://smoores.gitlab.io/storyteller/
Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9780/did-english-ever-have-a-formal-version-of-you
English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Did English ever have a formal version of "you"?
Off the top of my head, Danish "De" (practically never used), German "Sie", Chinese "ζ¨", French "vous", Spanish "usted" are formal ways of addressing
First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61106
www.eia.gov
First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation
Energy Information Administration - EIA - Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government
π2
3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js https://satoshi7190.github.io/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo/
Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source) https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem
GitHub
GitHub - jasonjmcghee/rem: An open source approach to locally record and enable searching everything you view on your Mac.
An open source approach to locally record and enable searching everything you view on your Mac. - jasonjmcghee/rem
4B If Statements https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html
Blabbinβ
4 billion if statements
I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments, criticizing this fresh programmerβs attempt to solve a classical problem in computer science. The modulus operation.
Cold-blooded software https://dubroy.com/blog/cold-blooded-software/
Particle Life https://github.com/hunar4321/particle-life
GitHub
GitHub - hunar4321/particle-life: A simple program to simulate artificial life using attraction/reuplsion forces between many particles
A simple program to simulate artificial life using attraction/reuplsion forces between many particles - hunar4321/particle-life
Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017) http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2017/01/salt-and-salary.html
Blogspot
Salt and salary: were Roman soldiers paid in salt?
Roman soldiers weren't paid in salt, and they weren't given "salt money". Dictionaries of the 1700s and early 1800s are to blame for this myth.
Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT https://danluu.com/seo-spam/
An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020) https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
Robin Sloan
An app can be a home-cooked meal
I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.