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What to Do

paulgraham.com

Rated 2025-03-30T13:33:27-0700 - sethherr

Cottagecore Programmers: The Idealization of Farming by Tech

tjmorley.com

Rated 2025-03-24T19:28:31-0700 - sethherr

America’s “First Car-Free Neighborhood” Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?

Since breaking ground in 2021, Culdesac Tempe has had its share of detractors and skeptics. But none of them live there.

2025-02-04T11:02:09-0800 Dwell Ben Ikenson 2,000 words

Rated 2025-03-21T14:38:46-0700 - sethherr

For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower

In the long run, e-bikes are cheaper than motorbikes. With financing help from start-ups like Guajira, many immigrant workers are making the switch. #Sustainability #Transportation #Work

2025-03-07T00:00:16-0800 Reasons to be Cheerful Mariel Lozada 2,000 words

Rated 2025-03-19T06:29:11-0700 - sethherr

Discworld Rules

And LOTR is brain-rot for technologists

2025-03-07T18:34:39-0800 Contraptions Venkatesh Rao 7,000 words

Rated 2025-03-15T09:06:54-0700 - sethherr

Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act

YC sent a letter on Wednesday urging the Trump Administration to support Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA).

2025-03-13T13:49:21-0700 TechCrunch Maxwell Zeff 1,000 words

Rated 2025-03-14T08:01:43-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | I Loved ‘Anora,’ but I Still Hope It Loses at the Oscars

“Anora” is neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian. But its Oscar nominations have been portrayed as a national victory in Russia. #Donald Trump #Movies

2025-02-27T02:03:45-0800 The New York Times Michael Idov ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-03-09T21:13:13-0700 - sethherr

The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0

The New York Times

Rated 2025-03-05T07:50:11-0800 - sethherr

How I'm thinking about AI (LLMs)

island94.org 2,000 words

Rated 2025-03-04T13:09:40-0800 - sethherr

Moving on from 18F.

I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening.

ethanmarcotte.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-18T14:37:50-0800 - sethherr

Asdf Has Been Re-Written in Golang - Stratus3D

Over the last year I’ve rewritten asdf in Go. I’m excited to announce that the rewrite was released last Wednesday as asdf version 0.16. …

stratus3d.com Trevor Brown 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-13T07:37:20-0800 - sethherr

Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion’s “everywoman.com”

Didion’s appraisal of Martha Stewart, in which most glosses of the subject could also apply to the author, is an ur-text on contemporary feminine ambition.

2025-02-10T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Jia Tolentino 500 words

Rated 2025-02-13T06:56:59-0800 - sethherr

Introducing: Barbecue Running Gel

It's time to smoke the competition.

2024-02-29T04:02:09-0800 Haterade Liz Cook 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-11T18:26:07-0800 - sethherr

Against Kathleen Stock On Neil Gaiman

Anti-kink feminism is surprisingly blase about rape

2025-02-07T08:01:56-0800 Thing of Things Ozy Brennan ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-07T20:30:20-0800 - sethherr

My stupid noise journey

A tale of bad choices

2023-06-26T17:00:00-0700 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-06T15:49:53-0800 - sethherr

Car trouble

And how not to fix it

2025-02-06T09:02:19-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-06T15:45:42-0800 - sethherr

minimum effective dose

I am still recovering from my failed root canal (and still have one visit to complete the procedure), so I have been hesitant in taking up my regular exercise again because I don't want to distract my immune system from my tooth's healing. So when I went to the gym today for the first time...

2025-02-01T03:50:23-0800 Winnie Lim 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-05T23:19:29-0800 - sethherr

n0rdy - What Okta Bcrypt incident can teach us about designing better APIs

n0rdy personal blog 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-05T13:57:15-0800 - sethherr

A Coup Is In Progress In America

A coup is underway in the United States, and we must stop pretending otherwise. The signs are unmistakable and accelerating: in just the past 48 hours, Elon Musk's DOGE commission has seized control of Treasury payment systems and gained unauthorized access to classified USAID materials, while security officials who followed protocols were removed. Career civil servants…

2025-02-03T12:07:41-0800 Techdirt 7,000 words

Rated 2025-02-03T17:41:23-0800 - sethherr

Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.

2025-01-30T11:36:15-0800 404 Media Jason Koebler 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-01T17:08:56-0800 - sethherr

Patrick Mahomes and the secrets of the Dad Bod: What we get wrong about athleticism

Patrick Mahomes and Nikola Jokić aren't just superstars. They challenge us to better understand the hidden secrets of athleticism. #NBA #NFL

2025-01-30T02:00:43-0800 The New York Times Rustin Dodd ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-01T07:47:15-0800 - sethherr

The Antitrust Revolution, by Barry C. Lynn

Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech #Amazon #Apple #Donald Trump #Facebook #Google #Microsoft #Supreme Court

2024-08-20T14:23:10-0700 Harper's Magazine 200 words

Rated 2025-01-30T21:50:20-0800 - sethherr

The Gravitational Force of Tech Money

The main story of the post-techlash years has been too few people with too much capital

2024-03-13T13:12:55-0700 The Future, Now and Then Dave Karpf 3,000 words

Rated 2025-01-30T06:33:26-0800 - sethherr

Why I still like Sublime Text in 2025

I still use Sublime Text in 2025 even after trying a lot of other editors

OhDoyleRules james2doyle@gmail.com James Doyle 4,000 words

Rated 2025-01-29T18:13:52-0800 - sethherr

“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking

I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal combustion engine doesn’t run that way. If…

2024-12-17T09:53:35-0800 charity.wtf 9,000 words

Rated 2025-01-29T12:39:41-0800 - sethherr

Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder

"Founder Mode" is such garbage.

2024-09-13T11:10:00-0700 The Future, Now and Then Dave Karpf 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-28T21:47:12-0800 - sethherr

The Alpha Myth: How Captive Wolves Led Us Astray

A wolf paces in captivity, teaching us all the wrong lessons about power

2025-01-27T09:47:31-0800 The Impossible Path Anthony David Adams 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-28T07:25:14-0800 - sethherr

Algorithmic ranking is unfairly maligned

Only some kinds are bad

2025-01-23T09:01:59-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-23T21:03:51-0800 - sethherr

Bike Link Lockers

About using the Bike Link Lockers with a clipper card

2025-01-19T21:01:58-0800 blog.carfree.city 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-20T15:55:56-0800 - sethherr

NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days

People have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.

2025-01-14T05:53:11-0800 thezvi.substack.com Zvi Mowshowitz 5,000 words

Rated 2025-01-19T14:13:47-0800 - sethherr

No calls

Enterprise sales don't have to be crazy.

Keygen 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-17T09:19:31-0800 - sethherr

I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff

Joey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog.

joeyehand.com 200 words

Rated 2025-01-16T15:54:30-0800 - sethherr

How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates

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2025-01-15T05:11:02-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 65,000 words

Rated 2025-01-16T13:59:04-0800 - sethherr

Nobody Cares

A rant about caring

grantslatton.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-16T07:39:42-0800 - sethherr

It's Charisma, Stupid

paulgraham.com

Rated 2025-01-14T22:35:46-0800 - sethherr

Take the pedals off the bike

Apparently if you want to teach kids how to ride a bike you're supposed to take the pedals off first, and now my mind will never be the same again.

2025-01-06T08:39:13-0800 Fortress of Doors Lars Doucet 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-14T19:22:08-0800 - sethherr

Why is every Bay Area event imposing Chatham House Rules?

An archaic English gag rule is enforcing silence everywhere in the Bay Area, from health conferences to AI salons to dinner parties. #Startups

2025-01-11T06:00:00-0800 The San Francisco Standard Zara Stone ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-11T17:18:32-0800 - sethherr

Magic/Tragic Email Links: Don't make them the only option

Subscription websites now like to use magic email links for login. They are extremely annoying.

2025-01-06T16:00:00-0800 Recyclebin.zip 500 words

Rated 2025-01-08T07:30:06-0800 - sethherr

Software is eating the world, … all right

I retired from my IT career a couple of months ago after 43 years of commercial software product development and transitioned to the real world where I run two “brick-and-mortar” small businesses. I…

2024-05-18T13:41:38-0700 Medium Jean-Jacques Dubray 3,000 words

Rated 2025-01-06T13:28:02-0800 - sethherr

Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you — Coding 2 Learn

coding2learn.org Marc Scott 4,000 words

Rated 2025-01-03T20:27:27-0800 - sethherr

Opinion | I Won’t Feel Good About Flying Until the Airlines Solve This

The aviation industry should get serious about direct air capture so that its emissions don’t remain in the atmosphere. #Climate Change #Global Warming

2024-12-28T04:00:05-0800 The New York Times Mark Miodownik ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-30T17:51:58-0800 - sethherr

The torture of an unphilosophical life

#Culture

2024-12-25T16:03:27-0800 UnHerd Agnes Callard 5,000 words

Rated 2024-12-28T08:14:51-0800 - sethherr

Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?

Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections. #Doctors #Health Care #Indiana #Pennsylvania #Texas

2024-12-11T03:00:00-0800 The Marshall Project Shoshana Walter 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-28T07:37:30-0800 - sethherr

fhur

fhur's blog

fhur 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-27T21:21:18-0800 - sethherr

Cognitive load is what matters

There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.

minds.md 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-26T06:52:23-0800 - sethherr

Berkeley's Evolution On Housing

To understand and appreciate Adena Ishii's victory, it's important to understand how Berkeley got to this point and what the election really means vs. the bombastic headlines.

2024-12-23T13:56:36-0800 The Discourse Lounge Darrell Owens 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-25T11:23:27-0800 - sethherr

On blankfaces

For years, I've had a private term I've used with my family. To give a few examples of its use: No, I never applied for that grant. I spent two hours struggling to log in to a web portal designed by the world's top blankfaces until I finally gave up in despair. No, I paid…

2021-08-02T13:30:48-0700 Shtetl-Optimized 20,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T20:52:01-0800 - sethherr

Chip Cities Rise in Japan’s Fields of Dreams

The scale of Tokyo’s ambition creates the risk of spectacular failure, but so too does succumbing to decline in a sector the nation once dominated. #City #Government #Infrastructure #Japan

2024-12-11T12:00:02-0800 Bloomberg Gearoid Reidy 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T19:40:14-0800 - sethherr

Telraam Traffic Monitoring & Bike Match Network Shutting Down

Reflecting on 4 years of Bike Match and 2 years of Bay Area Traffic Monitoring

2024-12-17T12:30:34-0800 Transpo Maps Stephen Braitsch 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T16:54:29-0800 - sethherr

Always Go To The Funeral

As a child, Deirdre Sullivan learned from her father to always pay her respects at funerals. Now, this NPR listener believes those simple acts of human kindness are as important as the grand gestures.

2005-08-07T21:00:00-0700 NPR Deirdre Sullivan 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T06:56:56-0800 - sethherr