It would shock you to know that Costco, according to a new Harvard School of Public Health methodology, caused 120,687 cases of cancer mortality nationally every year, simply due to living in close proximity to their warehouses. Private colleges accounted … Read more
This was a very old draft I’ve had sitting around for years. The recent discussions of new query languages like Acadia spurred me to revisit, revise, and publish this. I think one of the biggest causes of NoSQL is that … Read more
Hello! I’m on a funny journey right now where I’m trying to learn how to make websites in a sort of 2010 style, where I have an SQL database and render some HTML on the backend. It’s kind of an … Read more
A sunscreen ingredient used in Europe and Asia that blocks UVA and UVB rays has been approved for use in the U.S. mihailomilovanovic/iStockphoto/Getty Images mihailomilovanovic/iStockphoto/Getty Images For the first time in nearly three decades, the Food and Drug Administration approved … Read more
written on March 20, 2026 Trees take quite a while to grow. If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of money or … Read more
Mon, Mar 9, 2026 | View comments on Hacker News I started programming in middle school. The first thing I remember writing is HTML for my neopets homepage. That morphed into writing static sites for Minecraft servers, and later on … Read more
I’m sitting down to write this in a gap between jobs. The downtime is strange, like the world has stopped moving but my thoughts haven’t caught up. Other than replaying the shit that went down during the last six months … Read more
Preparing to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Scheduling time to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Making a to-do list for the thing isn’t doing the thing. Telling people you’re going to do the thing isn’t doing … Read more
Paying homage to the component we usually don’t think about. The diode might be the most neglected component in the electronics curriculum today. Pages upon pages have been written about the mechanics of resistors, capacitors, and inductors; on this blog … Read more
Even though the impacts of LLMs have never been seen before, they feel familiar to earlier assumptions. For context: I wasn’t the “PhD scientist,” working on models. I was the guy who worked on productionizing their proof-of-concept code and turning … Read more