Finley (YC W21) is hiring our first Sales Ops team member (SF, NY, Remote)
Background Finley helps innovative companies unlock growth by helping them maximize their access to debt capital. In industries from finance to real estate, today’s most innovative startups rely on debt capital to fuel their growth. But managing debt capital manually is so error-prone and labor-intensive that it might as well be rocket science. Debt capital […]
MIME, RSS, and Existential Torment
Published on 06/23/2024, 1362 words, 5 minutes to read TL;DR: how I fixed my RSS feed by installing mailcap so I don’t get tormented by mimes Greenery next to a retaining pond, with a path and a trashcan. The sky is reflecting off of the water. – Photo by Xe Iaso, Canon EOS R6 mark […]
The case for not sanitising fairy tales
During Flannery O’Connor’s childhood, the future author had a creative way of weeding out any unsatisfactory playmates who had been chosen by her mother as respectable society. O’Connor would read Grimms’ Fairy Tales aloud to her guests. Some were too frightened by the stories to ever return to the O’Connor house in Savannah (which suited […]
Nuclear engineer dismisses claim that modular reactors could be viable soon
Australia would need “many decades” to develop the regulations and skills to operate a nuclear power plant, and the experience gained at the existing Lucas Heights facility won’t help much, according to New South Wales’ chief scientist and engineer. Hugh Durrant-Whyte said he stood by comments made to a 2019 NSW upper house inquiry into […]
Leaking URLs to the Clown
With all of this feed reader stuff going on, I’ve learned a few more things about goings-on in this space. Some of it is just strange. During the early development stage of this project, I installed a couple of apps from the Mac app store on my machine to do some testing. Each one of […]
A journey into Kindle AI slop hell
A journey into Kindle A.I. slop hell with Leah Beckmann Greetings from Read Max HQ, directly beneath the dreaded Heat Dome. This week’s edition is a guest post about spooky Kindle A.I. slop from Leah Beckmann, an L.A.-based screenwriter and journalist and Chief Kindle Bullshit Correspondent for Read Max. But first, some self-promotion I was […]
Robots on Lake Michigan beaches to prevent drownings
ST. JOSEPH, MI — As people were enjoying a sunny day on the shores of Lake Michigan, rescuers were on the same stretch of beach preparing for an emergency. They now have some new technology to help. Instructors demonstrated the high-tech tool at a Monday, June 10, training event at Silver Beach in the city […]
Human neuroscience is entering a new era – it mustn’t forget its human dimension
Studies involving people who are awake during brain surgery are helping to explain how the brain produces and perceives speech.Credit: BSIP/Universal Images Group/Getty In neuroscience, ‘Broca’s area’ is a well-known part of the brain that is crucial for speech production. It is named after the nineteenth-century physician-researcher who discovered it — Paul Broca. Less well […]
More Memory Safety for Let’s Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs
When we look at the general security posture of Let’s Encrypt, one of the things that worries us most is how much of the operating system and network infrastructure is written in unsafe languages like C and C++. The CA software itself is written in memory safe Golang, but from our server operating systems to […]
Infisical (YC W23) is hiring to build the open source security stack for devs
About Infisical Infisical is the #1 open source secret management platform for developers. In other words, we help organizations manage API-keys, DB access tokens, certificates, and other credentials across all parts of their infra! In fact, we process over 2B of such secrets per month. Our customers already include some of the largest public enterprises and […]