An explanation of the pre-Lent holiday that includes a special cream-filled bun, dressing up, and hitting a barrel filled with candy. This child-centric holiday can be enjoyed by the whole family in Scandinavia.

Internet forums are still alive and kicking and full of information. Here are the best niche communities I could find that are alive and well.

Author: Alexey Makhotkin squadette@gmail.com. Introduction In this database design tutorial (~9000 words) I’m going to show how to design the database tables for a real-world project of substantial complexity. We’ll design a clone of Google Calendar. We will model as much as possible of the functionality that is directly related to the calendar. This series illustrates an approach explained in the book called “Database Design using Minimal Modeling”, scheduled to be released in Summer 2024.

Oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel aren’t just hostile to progressivism. They’re hostile to American democracy itself

My spiciest take on tech hiring … is that you only need to administer one technical interview and one n…

Kids are worse off in America than in any other rich country. What gives?

A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.

Butterick’s Practical Typography

We’ve been using a Sony Vaio VGN-P588E for the past few months as our primary personal laptop. This thing’s great; it’s got a small but not uncomfortable keyboard. It’s got a trackpoint, which we absolutely need to keep our hands healthy. Crucially, it’s only 1.5 pounds. We’re disabled in a way that means we’ve got to care about every bit of weight we add to our bag when we leave home, so that’s a big deal! One catch: the Intel Atom inside hits a peak speed of 1.33GHz, with a normal speed of 800MHz under most thermal conditions. Oh yeah and there’s only 2GB of DDR2, GPU drivers don’t work in Linux, and it’s a 32 bit processor too did I say one catch I meant four. Let’s talk about life in the slow lane.

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Neuroscientist Simon Baron-Cohen argues in his new book ‘The Pattern Seekers’ that 70,000 years ago humans evolved new abilities for systemization and innovation, and that autism spectrum disorders may reflect an overexpression of that ability.

We don’t need the next big thing. We need countless next little things.