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icanhazip history
A useful microsite that tells you your IP address got to 1 billion requests a day, mostly malware
2023-07-31 history • icanhazip • internet • networking • scaling
Causes of Stack Overflow's decline
Interesting analysis of what contributes to a 50% drop in traffic for the major programming website.
2023-07-31 google • internet • seo • stackoverflow • traffic
BBC joins Mastodon
This feels like a moment to me: BBC is innovative but also a large mainstream news agency
2023-07-31 bbc • fediverse • journalism • mastodon • news • socialmedia
Python no GIL plan
Steering Council adopts a plan for enabling concurrency in Python processes
2023-07-31 concurrency • gil • nogil • parallelism • programing • python
genart.social
A Mastodon instance for generative artists
2023-07-31 art • fediverse • generative • mastodon
990 backlog cleared
IRS was years late to publish data about non-profits, now fixed
2023-07-30 501c3 • 990 • irs • nonprofits • propublica • taxes
Bumming a charge
Funny story of someone plugging their Tesla into a light pole in a small town and getting caught
2023-07-30 charging • electric • ev • funny • montana • tesla
Starlink geopolitics
Global Internet access, more than half the satellites orbiting earth, all in the control of one untrustworthy man
2023-07-29 elonmusk • internet • politics • starlink • ukraine
Why is DNS hard to learn?
An excellent analysis of the various ways a piece of Internet and Unix infrastructure is so hard to understand
2023-07-28 computers • dig • dns • internet • learning • nslookup • teaching • unix
18th century demons (NSFW)
Remarkable illustrations of demons from a book.
2023-07-28 18th • art • books • demons • satanism • watercolors
About The Wok Shop
Small SF store recommended in a couple of high visibility books and websites can't keep up, but is charming
2023-07-28 cooking • food • sanfrancisco • wok
Elon Musk Today
Various empty promises
2023-07-27 elonmusk • fraud • hyperloop • scam • tesla • twitter
June 2023 Temperature Update
A nice collection of climate data and graphs
2023-07-27 climate • climatechange • globalwarming • science • weather
Neeva postmortem
Serious search engine competitor never quite succeeded
2023-07-27 google • internet • neeva • search • sridhar
Tesla range lies
Musk directed engineers to have the car mislead drivers on remaining range. Now they cancel service appointments from owners trying to figure out what's wrong.
2023-07-27 cars • electricvehicles • elonmusk • fraud • musk • tesla
Sinead obituary
An excellent retrospective on her career
2023-07-27 music • obituary • sinead
bird.makeup
A bridge to see Tweets inside Mastodon
2023-07-26 activitypub • mastodon • socialmedia • twitter
press.coop
A bunch of journalism accounts mirrored from Twitter to Mastodon
2023-07-26 journalism • mastodon • news • socialmedia • twitter
Crossing the Rubicon
Matt's jeep trip on an off-road adventure over the Sierra to Tahoe
2023-07-25 jeep • mountains • offroading • rubicon • tahoe • travel
Kustom Widgets
Create Android widgets using a scripting language
2023-07-24 android • customization • programming • widget
Sex & Obscenity In the Bible
A guide to the dirty bits
2023-07-24 bible • doublestandard • religion • sex
Google Pixel Fold review
Thoughtful comments from a particularly insightful device guy
2023-07-24 google • googlefold • hardware • mobile • phone • pixel • review
Peasy font
A new modern sans serif font from an old grad school friend
2023-07-24 design • fonts • petercho • sans • sansserif • typography
Tailscale auth support
What a modern smart Internet company is doing for logins: Passkeys, OpenID, various proprietary SSOs
2023-07-22 login • passkey • password • security • tailscale
Pride terrorists convicted
Narrowly thwarted attack by white supremacist terrorists in Coeur d'Alene leads to conviction
2023-07-21 accelerationism • idaho • lgbt • patriotfront • politics • pride
microG Project
An effort to build a Google-free Android phone, mostly by replicating Google Play Services and other non-open-source APIs
2023-07-21 android • freedom • google • hacking • opensource • sisyphus
OpenWeatherMap
Weather graphics and forecasts with somewhat generous licensing. A lot of mobile apps use this, as do hacker projects.
2023-07-20 api • forecast • maps • mobile • weather
Microsoft cloud hack
Ugly attack by a Chinese group, lots of questions left unanswered
2023-07-20 apt • china • hack • microsoft • security • signatures
SVG paths
A really well presented tutorial for the vector graphics format
2023-07-20 graphics • spline • svg • vector • web
RIP Coffee People
Pioneer of drive through coffee and coffee milkshakes passes away
2023-07-19 coffee • coffeepeople • obituary • portland
Chinese Hershey font
SVG font for drawing Chinese characters
2023-07-18 chinese • computerart • plotterart • plotting • writing
Texas immigrant abuses
Horrific attacks on migrant children by Texas state paramilitary
2023-07-18 border • children • immigration • politics • razorwire • texas
Brave scraping sleaze
Dodgy browser company crawls the web and makes data available to others without appropriate measure
2023-07-15 ai • brave • crawling • scraping • via:hackernews • web
My linkblog architecture
How this site itself works, my system documented
2023-07-15 blog • linkblog • pinboard • software
Evelyn Boyd Granville
Obituary for the pioneering Black mathematician
2023-07-15 history • math • obituary • texas • tyler
Florida State Guard horror
Desantis is building his own private militia with abusive techniques
2023-07-15 desantis • extremism • fascism • florida • military • militia • politics
There I Ruined It
AI generated mashups of classic singers singing modern songs
2023-07-14 ai • elvis • funny • johnnycash • music • parody
Parable of the Sower opera
Did not expect this!
2023-07-14 books • octaviabutler • opera • scifi
Supreme Court smell
Federal judge Michael Posner on the Supreme Court corruption
2023-07-14 corruption • politics • posner • supremecourt
Bierstadt / Aptos
Microsoft picks a new default font from the 5 candidates. Not my favorite but it's a fine font.
2023-07-14 bierstadt • fonts • microsoft • tenorite
Minecraft in Minecraft
Virtual machine created in-game runs a small Minecraft-like game. (running at 20000x speed in an emulator)
2023-07-14 emulation • games • minecraft • recursion • turtles • via:hackernews
D-PLACE
Anthropology database indexing ethnographic information we know about various groups of people
2023-07-13 anthropology • data • database • ethnography • science
Smart Tabs
Code formatting: tabs for structural indentation, spaces for visual alignment. (Sadly won't work with a proportional font.)
2023-07-13 code • editing • emacs • formatting • programming • tabs
Wavefunction Collapse
Algorithm for reproducing locally-similar pixel patterns
2023-07-12 algorithms • cellularautomata • graphics • relax
Windows Terminal shell integration
Clever tricks where the terminal is aware of the structure of shell commands, etc
2023-07-11 bash • cli • commandline • terminal • ui • windows • wsl
Let's Encrypt cert change
Last time they changed the signing setup a bunch of stuff broke
2023-07-11 android • crypto • letsencrypt • software • ssl • x509
Starlink RF leaking
New concern for astronomers; Starlink satellites (and others?) are emitting more radio waves at more frequencies than they are supposed to
2023-07-10 astronomy • radio • rf • spacex • starlink
doxy-PEP
New sexually transmitted disease prevention; take an antibiotic after unprotected sex, prevent gonorrhea and other bacterial STIs.
2023-07-10 lgbt • medicine • pep • prevention • safesex • sex
Using pyproject.toml
Notes on yet another new packaging option for Python, this one more sane and simple than previous ones
2023-07-09 distribution • packaging • python • setuptools • software • venv
Women in street art
Comments from various artists and experts on gender and street art
2023-07-08 art • gender • sexism • streetart
Red, White, & Royal Blue trailer
Fun gay romance novel being made into a movie
2023-07-07 gay • lgbt • movies • romance
Jill Scott National Anthem
Powerful protest version from 2023 Essencefest
2023-07-06 america • jillscott • nationalanthem • politics • protest
Generative Art history
Casey Reas interview
2023-07-05 art • generative • history • reas
College Mobility
2017 study on economics of students at US colleges
2023-07-05 america • class • college • diversity • education
Misskey
Social media from Japan, A Fediverse/ActivityPub network that's not Mastodon.
2023-07-05 activitypub • fediverse • japan • mastodon • socialmedia
Roughtime
Another Internet time service focussed on providing secure time. Less concerned about accuracy; 10 seconds is considered sufficient
2023-07-05 cloudflare • google • ntp • roughtime • servers • time
Tuna Mayo Rice Bowl
A very simple recipe, makes a nice quick lunch
2023-07-05 cooking • food • lunch • rice • tuna
Enshittification
Cory's summary of the business forces that cause tech products to get worse over time
2023-07-04 business • capitalism • consumer • startups • tech
Samuel Delany profile
Career retrospective and also current update, focusing more on his queer writing than the early scifi
2023-07-04 chipdelany • delany • gay • lgbt • scifi • writing
NSFW: Goofus & Gallant slash
A very wrong porn story starring Goofus and Gallant
2023-07-03 comics • funny • gay • goofusandgallant • highlights • porn
Pagefind
Simple search for small static websites, runs in Javascript / no server needed.
2023-07-03 blogs • hugo • javascript • search • static
New Texas barbeque
Roundup of new BBQ joints, many with interesting inflections and changes from other cultures
2023-07-03 barbecue • barbeque • bbq • food • restaurants • texas
Goofus and Gallant considered
Deep read on the insipid morality tale comic
2023-07-03 america • children • comics • gallant • goofus • morality • via:metafilter
Religious zealot in gay case
More on the lies that underpin the recent decision against LGBT rights in the Supreme Court. The plaintiff never made wedding websites; she filed the case because "God is calling her"
2023-07-03 civilrights • justice • lgbt • politics • supremecourt
US energy prices
A simple chart of what we pay for electricity and natural gas
2023-07-03 electricity • energy • gas • naturalgas • pge • power
Factorio in 3D
Hack to import a Factorio map and look at it in a 3d renderer. Not playable, but looks neat.
2023-07-02 factorio • games • unreal • via:hackernews
Goodreads purgatory
The sad state of the vital book review site after Amazon bought and neglected it
2023-07-01 acquisition • amazon • goodreads • socialmedia • tech