Olympian Giorgia Villa has a cheese sponsorship and many publicity shots

Extraordinary recording of the band playing live at a radio station at the height of their best psychedelic era

A very long list of some influential tech investors

A way to use 1Password to store secrets in various dev tools using a CLI

Report of a small one person tech operation. It's a great service!

Sentiment analysis of Steam community reviews

Simon Willison's description of building websites with static data

A comparison of two writing systems for Urdu and how computerization is favoring a more utilitarian writing system

Analysis finds that US states with public health policies restricting transmission saved a lot of lives. Behavioral changes worked.

Nice writeup of the brief hyperpopular realtime multiplayer website

Interesting survey of mindshare of various technologies for software developers. Go go "Markdown file"!

Interesting vision post from the Tailscale CEO about making small computing easier

Release notes for the excellent Linux backup software

Lovely grace note from the animator

Interesting application of California's special laws about online renewal of subscriptions. A $2.375M settlement of a class action lawsuit.

Willy Spiller's photos from the subway (ignore the stupid text)

William Playfair's 1786 book in which he invents a bunch of now-common infographic techniques like time series charts

A few examples where time moves to the left. Uncommon but not entirely unknown

Yet another Python packaging implementation, hatchling is the replacement for setuptools

Revisit the sights and sounds of DOS filesystem maintenance

"jury-rigged" and "jerry-built" are two English expressions that mean similar things but have different etymologies. "jerry-rigged" seems to be a malapropism.

Perceptual color space support in browsers

A list of Mastodon servers and their policy towards Threads. Many are in the Fedipact, declaring their intent to block Facebook's entry to the fediverse

List of various advanced database features like spatial queries and fulltext

Baysean phylogenetics running in a browser with a live visualization. Just a crazy-powerful webapp.

Free code signing for open source projects

A new date and time library accelerated by Rust native code. Thoughtful about why it's better than Pendulum

Details of all the various ways shells and terminals read lines of input from the user and let them edit what they're typing

A remarkably good roundup of screenshots and discussion

A library for extracting museum object ID numbers from larger text

Short video on the artificial noises electric cars make

New LLM you can install in your browser, a Chrome experimental thing

xterm's tty has a second buffer you can swap to: programs like vi use this to preserve the old screen. maybe dates to a DEC terminal feature?

Canadian archive of LGBTQ2+ content

George Washington's step-granddaughter who married a man twice her age. Including some children partially of South Asian descent

A Unicode publication of localization strings in many languages for concepts like month names, country names, numbers.

Details of how Unicode encodes a bunch of country and region flags with digraphs

A backgrounder that explains what's going on in Kenya's unstable and deadly politics.

Funny, cute, also intense sex fetish described by the woman's husband.

Readable web pages about the metadata standard for library archives