below are some links I stumbled upon surfing the internet and found interesting
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
Pycco @02 May 2025
pycco-docs.github.io | “Pycco” is a Python port of Docco: the original quick-and-dirty, hundred-line-long, literate-programming-style documentation generator. It produces HTML that displays your comments alongside your code. Comments are passed through Markdown and SmartyPants1, while code is passed through Pygments for syntax highlighting.
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector @29 Apr 2025
defector.com | Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan […]
The Music of Light: Emily Noyes Vanderpoel’s Colour Analysis Charts (1902) @29 Apr 2025
publicdomainreview.org | Colour analysis charts of various objects, such as Assyrian tiles, Persian rugs, a case containing an Egyptian mummy, and even a teacup and saucer — looking at times like some kind of strange fusion of De Stijl abstraction and Tetris.
Recommended Crate Directory - Blessed.rs @24 Apr 2025
The Collector’s Fallacy @22 Apr 2025
zettelkasten.de | There’s a tendency in all of us to gather useful stuff and feel good about it. To collect is a reward in itself. As knowledge workers, we’re inclined to look for the next groundbreaking thought, for intellectual stimulation: we pile up promising books and articles, and we store half the internet as bookmarks, just so we get the feeling of being on the cutting edge.