Details from deployment in the satellite network

Using a USB power bank to power a small server

Remarkable photo from the Japanese space mission showing the lander is upside down on the surface of the moon

A study of rude neologisms

A nice visual explainer for the data encoding method

A word that describes trying to make something better but making it worse instead

It's too hard to find a knowledgeable heat pump installer. This should be a fixable market problem.

A 1966 American cookbook full of camp and queerness

He invented NTP, the protocol we use to set our computers clocks.

Tom MacWright's excellent map editing webapp is now open source

Gay sex in a giant slippery mud pool

Detailed analysis of how China is looking to dominate the global shift to electric cars

Hardware hack to control a garage door opener over the Internet (without manufacturer proprietary crap)

Obituary for an underrecognized hero of the AIDS epidemic; she exposed malpractice in China that led to millions of infections

A fun Google thing which mashes up two emoji; the results are hand-drawn

Demo of progressive web apps, various system capabilities with example code

A sensor for utility power lines; a drone mounts a sphere over the wire to measure power flow

A rundown of products designed to administer game servers like Minecraft or Valheim

A recipe collecting site, sort of like Paprika, but web-based

Excellently detailed map from Britton & Rey, showing Tulare Lake and Owens Lake which are now mostly gone. (Note this is before the great flooding of 1861.)

Data on where Mastodon servers (and some others) are hosted

2018 research on how conspiracy communities are self-reinforcing when their insular language is exploited by search engine optimization

Tom Coates' notes from a meeting at Facebook a few months ago

Report of a Dutch engineer installing a water pump brought the malware infection in to Iran's nuclear program

2021 edit of a Star Trek Deep Space 9 scene with fantastic music and commentary

A worm that hops from computer to computer via ssh keys. More of an experiment than malware.

Historical perspective on historical efforts to define colors

Tailscale now has a file transfer utility

Account of a man's four years of travelling around the US by horse drawn wagon

A major change to Python was committed with a Christmas poem

A map of restaurant truck stops that are like ones in India (and Pakistan?)

A system auditing tool; gives a simple text log of file system events

Excellent essay on why WASM is interesting

Recognition of an important coinage

Tools for building PWA apps

Javascript PWAs can access files in various interesting ways in the modern platform

Easy charts for data stored in Datasette and sqlite

A lovely description of a simple but very useful web product built using PHP and some basic storage technology. The modern webapp world of AWS and Javascript, etc can be overkill.

A very nice overview of what the filesystem can do and what it's doing

In 1996 I wrote an HTML mode for emacs and created a special syntax for updating timestamps. It lives on today.

A professional statement of the operation and books for a small Mastodon community

The editor in chief of the high quality free ebook project is answering questions.

Basic introduction to the ZFS filesystem

Anil Dash talks about forces that may lead to more interesting stuff happening on the Internet again. I'm skeptical but I like his hope.