My wife and I run OpenBenches. It's a niche little site which lets people share photos of memorial benches and their locations. Most modern phones embed a geolocation within the photo's metadata, so we use that information to put the photos on a map. Google's…

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of ‌Appeals in New Orleans on Friday declared unconstitutional a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling.

Customize the look and feel of tmux

Professional video editing, color correction, visual effects and audio post production all in a single application. Free and paid versions for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goes to since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes.

Put Claude Code on autopilot. Define routines that run on a schedule, trigger on API calls, or react to GitHub events from Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure.

Author: Alexey Makhotkin squadette@gmail.com, (~3900 words)
One of the goals of this publication is to deconstruct the traditional ways of teaching basic topics in relational databases. Previously we discussed the fourth normal form (4NF): “Historically,…

A weekly-or-more deep dive on technical topics surrounding Mars exploration, from microbiology to rocket science and everywhere in between.

Skills in Chrome let you discover, save and remix AI workflows — and repeat them instantly.

This was a long one–I spent a fair bit of time with the Orange Pi 6 Plus over the past few months, and what I expected to be a quick look at...

California’s bill, AB 2047, will not only mandate censorware on all 3D printers; it will also criminalize the use of open-source alternatives. Repeating the mistakes of DRM won’t make anyone safer,

Guide.world travel writing

Una investigación sobre Guernica de Pablo Picasso llevada a cabo por el Museo Reina Sofía y compuesta por alrededor de 2000 documentos.

Against dependency cooldowns as a response to supply chain attacks

Ever wondered how Clojure's persistent vector actually works? This is part 1 of a blog series which aims to explain them.

a personal blog

The editor in chief of this blog was born in 2004. She uses the 1997 window manager, *Enlightenment E16*, daily. In this article, I describe the process of fixing a show-stopping, rare bug that dates back to 2006 in the codebase. Surprisingly, the issue has…