What America’s seizure of websites says about the ‘rules-based’ order
This article first appeared in the Nonzero Newsletter and is republished with the authors’ permission. This week Peter Beinart, writing in the New York Times, took aim at one of the Blob’s favorite terms: the “rules-based order.” The Biden administration often invokes the term, typically in reference to the threat allegedly posed to that order by China. The problem, Beinart […]
Maps Of Matter
Status: Rough working notes – me thinking aloud. Speculative, and likely contains errors, misconceptions, and omissions; thoughtful, informed comments are welcome. Intended for a general scientifically curious audience, not requiring much detailed specialist background. It is sometimes said physics is nearing its end – closing in on a “theory of everything” – because we understand […]
Building Permanent and Censorship-Resistant Blog with Ethereum ENS and IPFS
The internet nowadays is ephemeral. Layers upon layers of trusted 3rd parties are necessary to distribute content online. It requires ongoing maintenance and is susceptible to censorship or hostile takedowns. In this blog post, I describe the steps I took to host my blog in a trustless, permanent, and censorship-resistant way using the IPFS network […]
Why Specs Matter (2004)
Monday, August 16, 2004 Why specs matter Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes. I have at various times counted myself in both groups, so I can say this with the utmost confidence. Assholes Assholes read specs with a fine-toothed comb, looking for loopholes, oversights, or simple typos. Then they write code that […]
The Y Combinator
or: How to Succeed at Recursion Without Really Recursing Tiger got to hunt,Bird got to fly;Lisper got to sit and wonder, (Y (Y Y))? Tiger got to sleep,Bird got to land;Lisper got to tell himself he understand. — Kurt Vonnegut, modified by Darius Bacon Introduction I recently wrote a blog post about the Y combinator. […]
Spline (YC W21) – Senior Engineer (3D/Computer Graphics)
Hello there! At Spline (twitter.com/splinetool), we are building a design tool to create 3d content for the web. We are looking for someone who can help us solve Spline app technical/graphic challenges. 🌈 We are passionate about building visual tools and solving creative challenges. What’s the job? Write JS code to solve graphic/visual/technical challenges. Work […]
Wiretrustee: WireGuard-Based Mesh Network
A WireGuard®-based mesh network that connects your devices into a single private network. Why using Wiretrustee? Connect multiple devices to each other via a secure peer-to-peer Wireguard VPN tunnel. At home, the office, or anywhere else. No need to open ports and expose public IPs on the device. Automatically reconnects in case of network failures […]
ARM64EC: Building Native and Interoperable Apps for Windows 11 on ARM
Today, we’re announcing ARM64EC (“Emulation Compatible”), a new way to build apps for Windows 11 on ARM. With the latest Visual Studio tools in preview and the Windows 11 Insider SDK, you’ll be able to take advantage of ARM64EC to incrementally transition your app to running with native speed on ARM, even if you have […]
The Next Car You Buy Should Be Electric
Companies like Ree are creating whole new opportunities in the automotive industry. User-facing technology Car companies haven’t really been in the foreground of user facing technology development. Well. Ever. This is about to change. User’s won’t be tolerating 5 year old user interface design running on 10 year old hardware in their cars anymore. Users […]
Beets: the music geek’s media organizer
[embedded content] The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database. Then it provides a bouquet of tools for manipulating and accessing your music. Because beets is designed as a library, it can do […]