below are some links I stumbled upon surfing the internet and found interesting
I really like the Helix editor. @30 Jun 2025
herecomesthemoon.net | ‘Search & Replace’ popup windows are bad user interface design.
How much slower is random access, really? | Sam Estep @27 Jun 2025
RSS Server Side Reader @27 Jun 2025
matklad.github.io | I like the idea of RSS, but none of the RSS readers stuck with me, until I implemented one of my own, using a somewhat unusual technique. There's at least one other person using this approach now, so let's write this down.
A new Mongolian tyrannosauroid and the evolution of Eutyrannosauria @24 Jun 2025
www.nature.com | A new tyrannosauroid, Khankhuuluu mongoliensis gen. et sp. nov., from lower Upper Cretaceous deposits of Mongolia provides a new perspective on eutyrannosaurian origins and evolution.
The Server Doesn't Render Anything @19 Jun 2025
unplannedobsolescence.com | You can make a website with nothing but string concatenation.
TimeLine for the Robots & Foundations Universe @13 Jun 2025
A receipt printer cured my procrastination [ADHD] @12 Jun 2025
www.laurieherault.com | Why can I focus for hours on a game but procrastinate on simple tasks? I finally cracked the code using thermal receipt printer and game design.
What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning? Our research suggests it may have taken place inside a black hole @12 Jun 2025
www.port.ac.uk | In this blog, Professor Enrique Gaztanaga from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth, puts forward a new theory about how the Universe was created.
Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits @11 Jun 2025
www.joanwestenberg.com | A few years ago, I sat across from a friend at a late dinner. He was telling me about his new promotion, the big title, the bonus, the corner office. I remember watching his face as he described it. He looked like someone describing a story he’d once believed but no longer knew how to finish. Later that night, walking home alone, I realized I had spent the last year of my life pursuing a goal I barely remembered choosing. I had grown proficient at producing, scaling, optimizing. I had systems.
The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela @11 Jun 2025
kaveland.no | Imagine entering the biggest library in the world. You peer down an incredibly long aisle with wooden bookshelves brimming with books. You can see multiple such corridors, all lit with a comfortable warm light. There’s a rich smell of old paper. You can hear some muted voices, perhaps arguing in a whisper. It’s perfect, but vast and difficult to make sense of. Just this day, it doesn’t feel like such a terrible ordeal to just wander for a while, see where your legs take you. Maybe you’ll find something interesting completely by accident? The prospect is both exhilarating and daunting. The library appears endless, it feels like you could potentially find all sorts of exotic and interesting book collections.
quarkdown: 🪐 Markdown with superpowers — from ideas to presentations, articles and books. @11 Jun 2025
github.com | 🪐 Markdown with superpowers — from ideas to presentations, articles and books. - iamgio/quarkdown
An app can be a home-cooked meal @11 Jun 2025
www.robinsloan.com | I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.
Ipe Web Edition @11 Jun 2025
ipe-web.otfried.org | The Ipe extensible drawing editor
Decker @11 Jun 2025
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps @11 Jun 2025
www.inkandswitch.com | The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
Is Rust faster than C? @10 Jun 2025
steveklabnik.com | Blog post: Is Rust faster than C? by Steve Klabnik
machinelearning.apple.com | Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…
I Do Not Remember My Life and It's Fine @07 Jun 2025
aethermug.com | What reminiscing is like without mental imagery
10 years of betting on Rust @06 Jun 2025
tably.com | I wrote my first line of Rust in June 2015, a month after Rust 1.0 landed. Coming from C, Python, and JavaScript, I never looked back. Two Rust-based startups and 500k lines of Rust later, here are some reflections on the milestone.
Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way @05 Jun 2025
alexwlchan.net | How I built a web archive by hand, the tradeoffs between manual and automated archiving, and what I learnt about preserving the web.
How to deal with Rust dependencies @02 Jun 2025
notgull.net | I hate to be the first one to tell you this, but Rust projects tend to have a lot of dependencies.
The radix 2^51 trick @30 May 2025
Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For @26 May 2025
chomsky.info | The Noam Chomsky Website.
Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry @12 May 2025
www.righto.com | In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. To improve performance, the ...
How to live an intellectually rich life @03 May 2025
utsavmamoria.substack.com | .. and how living one is easier than you think