For decades, school design was synonymous with rigidity. Today, child-centric principles are shaping contemporary educational spaces. This article explores how modern educational architecture is moving away from rigid, institutional designs toward child-centric principles that prioritize flexibility, imagination, and the integration of nature, reflecting a changing understanding of childhood and learning.

This LessWrong post describes the phenomenon of a “laziness death spiral”, where small acts of procrastination and poor self-care compound into a persistent state of unproductivity, and suggests strategies like seeking a “reset point” and analyzing the mundane, original cause of the spiral.

This comprehensive article from Farnam Street explains mental models, simplified explanations of how things work, across various disciplines (like physics, mathematics, and human nature) to help readers make better decisions and avoid common pitfalls.

This http webpage serves as a collection of Jim Shamlin’s study notes on various short-form works, covering topics in software development, business, economics, and ethics, intended primarily for his own research and reference.

The Citizen Lab’s first public security analysis of WeChat’s proprietary MMTLS encryption protocol found that modifications to the standard TLS 1.3 protocol introduced multiple weaknesses and that an older, less secure “Business-layer encryption” is still being used, failing to meet the expected cryptographic best practices for an app used by a billion users.

This Mused page details the archaeological tunneling done into the Copán acropolis since the 1930s to uncover early construction phases of the Maya site, including the ongoing collaborative conservation plan for the nearly 4 kilometers of tunnels.

After 11 years of development, the Doom III mod for Doom 2 has been released, providing a direct, non-reboot sequel to the original game with over 20 hours of new gameplay, new monsters, weapons, and 36 new music tracks.

This article provides a comprehensive guide and best practices for maintaining a downstream fork of an open-source project, focusing on Git workflows like using atomic commits, rebasing frequently, and minimizing downstream changes to ease future updates.

This article provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the Live Home 3D application to design and render a traditional Chinese manor known as a siheyuan, focusing on architectural details like the complex layout and curved roofs.

This blog post visualizes the extreme wealth distribution in the United States using a histogram with a linear scale, demonstrating that from the perspective of the ultra-wealthy, nearly the entire population is crammed into the first bar.

This article discusses the concept that software structures are traversed as paths, arguing that the simplest explanation of software design is rarely a straight line because components’ meanings are intertwined and depend on shared context and history (like the MVC pattern).

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) reflects on how becoming a millionaire after selling a stake in Basecamp did not bring the expected lasting euphoria, leading him to appreciate that intrinsic activities and non-material contentment are the true sources of happiness.

Arvados is an open source platform for managing, processing, and sharing genomic and other large scientific and biomedical data. The Arvados blog provides updates and articles about the Arvados open-source platform, which is a unified system for managing scientific data and running computational workflows using technologies like CWL and supporting GPU stacks from NVIDIA and AMD.

This website uses a metaphorical and interactive presentation to critically illustrate the modern web user experience, emphasizing the frustrations of constant interruptions, unnecessary animations, and intrusive elements common on contemporary websites.

kv4p HT is a free, open-source amateur radio transceiver project that allows users to build a VHF radio that plugs into an Android smartphone’s USB-C port, turning the phone into an off-grid device capable of voice and text communication.

This GitHub Gist provides Python code examples and results demonstrating a basic test of OpenAI’s Structured Output feature using the gpt-4o-mini model and pydantic to extract and structure data from image screenshots of financial disclosure reports and police blotter narratives.

Clipscreen is a simple application that creates a virtual monitor that mirrors a designated portion of the main screen, allowing users to easily share only a specific area of their desktop during video calls and screen sharing sessions.

Orbidium is an open-source application demo that displays asteroid orbits using data parsed from the NASA Minor Planet Center (MPC) database, featuring basic 2D rendering and parsing of the MPC data file.

A three-decade dream of the USSR ended up in the scrapyard. also here: http://archive.today/yGODe

This article provides a detailed guide on how to revive an old, low-end laptop into a functional gaming machine by installing a lightweight Linux distribution like Lubuntu and optimizing it for Steam Proton and emulation to achieve better performance than on Windows.