Really heartfelt piece that cuts through the noise imo. It deals with it quite fairly.

This is some really good advice! And it also doubles as being a capsule for all sorts of web-related history.

Oh my god. On one hand, I feel a little sympathy - on the other… what the heck? LMAO?

Interesting. I’ll have to look into this further to see why I’d want this over say, nushell, but it’s interesting nonetheless!

Holy cow this site is amazing.

Good god. At this point, Meta should just be dissolved as a company. Hell, should’ve been years ago, honestly…

It’s nice to know that there’s some options… but it’s also rather depressing how janky and unusable most of the candidates on the “Are We GUI Yet?” are!

Least surprising thing ever. I do hope this makes it back to court hearings. I don’t really have an issue with LLMs in concept, but in practice these companies are really abhorrent.

Here’s to hoping!

Another great article about the current state of academia in the midst of LLMs.

This is a really interesting look in how much of a pain in the ass adding features to C and C++ is.

This reminds me quite a lot of similarly felt issues in the Linux kernel.

This has a really convenient csv with all the available formats, etc.

I’m really,really tempted to create a SPLADE vectorization database of these textbooks. Especially in the context of Google search so heavily deteriorating.

Sad times. I think the move forward is curated search engines, but the Open Source community hasn’t budged much from YacY irt decentralized/federated search engines.

This article describes my classmates (thankfully not me) that I have encountered in college thus far. Not a great experience. Rather demoralizing.

If you didn’t plan to think or learn in college… then when?

This is such a fascinating capsule of ideology/philosophy.

It also is a great overview of the various ways the tech industry as-is tries to screw you over.

This is my favorite overview of the intrinsic rot at the heart of the crypto industry.

Really useful compiler explorer that supports a myriad of languages and assembly targets. I’ve been taught MIPS so that’s some of the most useful for me irt reference.

Ugh, I wish messaging apps supported SVG format.

Think: Instead of using OCR you could simply select from the underlying text!

You could also press the links, etc.

SVGs are also just significantly smaller than images in size, anyhow.

I know there are security concerns, but I’m sure that’s a solvable problem with an intentionally limited subset of the SVG format, or such.

Fascinating peak into both past and also the Unix culture. It was originally made in the mid 1980s.

Really neat to have this annotated version!

This is really important, and I was thinking about the necessity of this.

It’s too easy to get exhausted documenting all the bs this administration has been doing. So it’s nice to have a site for documentation!

Let’s see where this goes.

Great cheatsheet for various programming languages.

One of my favorite webcomics of all time. The art is so interesting and the plot is nonlinear and includes obscure references to linux, bsd, gnu, plan9, etc.