News

1. It Can Happen to You (www.mattkeeter.com)
2. Cbonsai: Grow bonsai trees in your terminal (gitlab.com)
3. Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video] (twitter.com)
4. Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation (github.com)
5. Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory (www.quantamagazine.org)
6. Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B (www.cnbc.com)
7. Silicon Valley stays on top as tech salaries climb across U.S. (spectrum.ieee.org)
8. Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors (sweis.medium.com)
9. The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber (www.thedrive.com)
10. M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU (jott.live)
11. Flutter 2 (developers.googleblog.com)
12. fs.promises.readFile is 40% slower than fs.readFile (github.com)
13. Google Cloud products in 4 words or less (cloud.google.com)
14. Germanium transistors: logic circuits in the IBM 1401 computer (www.righto.com)
15. Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes (www.randomservices.org)
16. Killing TurboTax (kunle.app)
17. ImHUI: Imgui-style library for the web using actual HTML output (games.greggman.com)
18. Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling (www.theregister.com)
19. Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing (www.wsj.com)
20. PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus (lwn.net)
21. Cleaner parallel curves with Euler spirals (joy.recurse.com)
22. |Blockchain| How I heat my home by mining crypto currencies. (blog.haschek.at)
23. The Base Rate Is A Hell of A Thing (commoncog.com)
24. Only one person can visit this site at a time (joy.recurse.com)
25. Things your manager might not know (jvns.ca)
26. Tacit Skill in Wicked Domains (Members Newsletter) (commoncog.com)
27. All That is Rare and Valuable (commoncog.com)
28. Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer (joy.recurse.com)
29. Bitcoin and Buying Things (themargins.substack.com)
30. A Saturday waste of CPU cycles: building time_t values (rachelbythebay.com)
31. An opinionated map of incremental and streaming systems ()
32. A Rust HAL for your FPGA SoC (joy.recurse.com)
33. DuckDuckGo logo redesign (tonsky.me)
34. Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep (joy.recurse.com)
35. |Tourism| Crowdfunded wandering. (craigmod.com)
36. |Blockchain| The Crypto-Chernobyl. (www.stephendiehl.com)
37. |Free Speech| Cancel culture. (en.wikipedia.org)
38. Maps Are Everything (blog.veitheller.de)
39. How to run Electron on Linux on Docker on Mac (joy.recurse.com)
40. A little tool to make DNS queries (jvns.ca)
41. My Hotel Quarantine in Kuala Lumpur (gochugarugirl.com)
42. Macs and 4K 120Hz displays compatibility list (tonsky.me)
43. What's Your Time Preference? (commoncog.com)
44. How Materialize and other databases optimize SQL subqueries (joy.recurse.com)
45. An incomplete list of complaints about real code (rachelbythebay.com)
46. symbolist (joy.recurse.com)
47. Unfortunate things about performance reviews (rachelbythebay.com)
48. My Little Parser (joy.recurse.com)
49. Clone of a musical GUI with melodic infilling (joy.recurse.com)
50. |Reduce, Reuse, Recycle| Kenya is recycling waste plastic into strong cheap bricks. (www.core77.com)
51. |Tools| Your phone vs Supercomputers. (www.tnhh.net)
52. |Parenting| Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons. (www.economist.com)
53. How Sustainable is High-tech Health Care? (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
54. The Worst Professional Advice You Will Ever Get (blog.veitheller.de)
55. Who Gets a Slice of Apple’s Pie? (themargins.substack.com)
56. Create Your Own Rituals (commoncog.com)
57. How Materialize and other databases optimize SQL subqueries ()
58. Vertical farming does not save space (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
59. Chinese New Year in London 2021 (gochugarugirl.com)
60. |Beliefs and Ethics| Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts. (www.pnas.org)
61. |Farming| How to lower the price of plant-based meat? (mailchi.mp)
62. |Democracy| The war on disinformation is a war on dissent. (humanevents.com)
63. How To Reduce Decision Noise (commoncog.com)
64. Carp and derive II: This Time It’s Personal (blog.veitheller.de)
65. I tried to fix it, and failed miserably (rachelbythebay.com)
66. The Real Novelty of the ARPANET (twobithistory.org)
67. |Social| Flattery-driven open-source. (ppinera.es)
68. |Economy| Two worlds. (www.collaborativefund.com)
69. Celeriac and Green Lentil Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
70. Push some big numbers through your system and look for bugs (rachelbythebay.com)
71. Apart (blog.veitheller.de)
72. Baby Banana Bundts (gochugarugirl.com)
73. Reduce Noise, Not Cognitive Biases (commoncog.com)
74. Carp Patterns IV: Modules (blog.veitheller.de)
75. |Business| Bringing back old features. (www.inputmag.com)
76. |Parenting| We are sending more foster kids to prison than college. (www.kansascity.com)
77. |Health| Myopia correcting «smart glasses». (asia.nikkei.com)
78. |Health| Patient regains sight following artificial cornea implantation ending a decade of blindness. (www.prnewswire.com)
79. Your nines are not my nines (rachelbythebay.com)
80. Carrot, Orange and Ginger Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
81. Joke Capital (themargins.substack.com)
82. Game. Stop. (themargins.substack.com)
83. Waiting in Berło (blog.veitheller.de)
84. Let’s Build a Quasiquoter (blog.veitheller.de)
85. Simple Swiss Chard (gochugarugirl.com)
86. Everything is content now (themargins.substack.com)
87. |Drones, robotics and AI| Machine learning: the great stagnation. (marksaroufim.substack.com)
88. |Demography| New visa allows 70% of Hong Kong residents to migrate to UK. (www.bbc.com)
89. |Business| All companies are technology companies now. (blogs.thomsonreuters.com)
90. A new newsletter on database engines, streaming systems, query planning, compilers, incremental view maintenance, benchmarking, developer tools and whatever else nerd-snipes me this week ()
91. Firecracker: start a VM in less than a second (jvns.ca)
92. Lurking bugs behind infrequently-executed code paths (rachelbythebay.com)
93. Goodbye 2010s: techno-optimism edition (themargins.substack.com)
94. Why isn't differential dataflow more popular? ()
95. Farewell to the Frictionless President (themargins.substack.com)
96. The Gap Between Reputation and Personal Brand (commoncog.com)
97. HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know (rachelbythebay.com)
98. |INFO| Future curation will be explained with a basic rationale. (github.com)
99. |Democracy| America’s new corporate tyranny. (www.tabletmag.com)
100. Failing to make progress under excess request load (rachelbythebay.com)
101. |Democracy| China CCP to nationalize Alibaba. (www.ibtimes.sg)
102. |Inequality| Google workers announce plans to unionize. (www.theverge.com)
103. |Media| Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor. (locusmag.com)
104. |Free Speech| Poland announces online freedom of speech bill. (polandin.com)
105. |Democracy - Updated link| The Progressive Purge. (www.allsides.com)
106. Feedback: music, bash, BSD, cattle/pets, and "the cloud" (rachelbythebay.com)
107. 2020 spending ()
108. Mushroom and Radish Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
109. Green Beans with Black Sesame (gochugarugirl.com)
110. Server-sent events: a simple way to stream events from a server (jvns.ca)
111. What Bill Gurley Saw (commoncog.com)
112. Hiring (blog.veitheller.de)
113. Cauliflower and Chestnut Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
114. The first phygital coup (themargins.substack.com)
115. Un Dîner Marocain (gochugarugirl.com)
116. Daily blog posts about my time at RC (jvns.ca)
117. Silicon Valley's China Envy (themargins.substack.com)
118. |Work| Four-day week means «I don’t waste holidays on chores». (www.bbc.com)
119. |Health| mRNA COVID-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology. (www.nature.com)
120. |Ecology| Wall Street begins trading water futures as a commodity. (e360.yale.edu)
121. |Demography| The Great Replacement. (en.wikipedia.org)
122. |Farming| 2-acre vertical farm out-produces 720-acre flat farm. (www.intelligentliving.co)
123. Geometric effects of certain system design choices (rachelbythebay.com)
124. Docker Compose: a nice way to set up a dev environment (jvns.ca)