The “3 standup questions” are terrible and need to die
How did we end up in this place? Thousands – maybe millions? – of developers sit in standup meetings daily and answer the same 3 questions (“What did you do yesterday?”, “What are you going to do today?”, “Any blockers?”). Managers around the world blindly adopt the same standup meeting format, without critical thought to […]
Saving Electricity (1998 – 2023)
Last update: December 1, 2023 This was the very first site on the Internet about saving electricity, launching in 1999. I was telling you about LED lights, front-loading washers, and heat pump heating years before they started to become mainstream. I don’t have time to update the site much these days, but most of the […]
I’m an engineer that needs to sell my services. Any good books on sales?
I am in the same boat and am interested in the same type of books! If you’d like to have some accountability and some sort of light book club kind of thing let me know, as well. I am a social creature and would love to collaborate. Also, I have reached out to a SaaS […]
A Case for the Preservation of Abandoned Places
When I first moved to Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, a decade ago, I was immediately intrigued by the grand façade of the old theater in the center of town. Lansdowne, a small borough two miles southwest of Philadelphia, has the usual collection of dry cleaners and fast-food franchises, but the 1927 Spanish Revival theater stood out, both […]
Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power
The U.S Energy Information Administration (EIA) is now requiring large-scale commercial cryptocurrency mining operations to report their power consumption. This initiative is part of a larger effort to regulate and penalize cryptocurrency mining due to the exorbitant amount of energy the industry consumes yearly. For now, the EIA is only collecting data, but this new […]
Add coffee stains to LaTeX documents
This package provides an essential feature that LaTeX has been missing for too long: It adds coffee stains to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding them manually. Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (493.0k). Announcements Here you can […]
Show HN: Oration (iOS) turns pdfs into audiobooks
Academic Excellence Enhance Your Research with AI-Powered Summaries Transform complex academic PDFs into insightful audiobook chapters with Oration. Perfect for researchers, academics, and students who want to absorb knowledge efficiently.
Juniper support portal exposed customer device info
Until earlier this week, the support website for networking equipment vendor Juniper Networks was exposing potentially sensitive information tied to customer products, including which devices customers bought, as well as each product’s warranty status, service contracts and serial numbers. Juniper said it has since fixed the problem, and that the inadvertent data exposure stemmed from […]
Fedora Atomic Desktops
We are happy to announce the creation of a new family of Fedora Linux spins: Fedora Atomic Desktops! As Silverblue has grown in popularity, we’ve seen more of our mainline Fedora Linux spins make the jump to offer a version that implements rpm-ostree. It’s reached the point where it can be hard to talk about […]
In Reversal, Guinness Gives a Frenchman’s Matchstick Eiffel Tower the Record
Weeks after disqualifying a 24-foot tower made of matchsticks, Guinness World Records apologized and said it had been too “heavy handed.” Richard Plaud toiled over eight years to construct a nearly 24-foot model of the Eiffel Tower. Each of the 706,900 matchsticks he glued together brought the Frenchman one step closer toward his dream: achieving […]