Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)

Dithered QR Codes

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

A Macintosh System 1-style graphical OS for the Intel 8086/8088. Real-mode assembly, boots from floppy, runs in 256KB. Free to download.

My server is a phone now

rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home.

The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)

Making difficulty curves in games

Making difficulty curves in games - Just Things Made By Dave

Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband

Assert(): A Modern How To

assert(): A modern How To

Real-time MCP interceptor that blocks .env reads and dangerous commands agents

Trust layer for agent commerce. 9,248 MCP servers, Sentinel L2.5 gVisor sandbox audits, x402+USDC payments, AP2 mandates. 9,248 free. AliceLabs LLC Proprietary.

_for-sale DNS records

If a domain is genuinely for sale, say so in DNS. A TXT record at _for-sale.example.com advertises it to brokers and availability services without taking the site down or parking it.

Fastmail offers EU data region

Choose if you want to make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam.

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age

The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

How we used SKIP LOCKED, composite primary keys, and connection visibility to hit our scale targets.

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

Interactive map of the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse. Precise timings, path of totality, weather odds and viewing tips for any location.

Incentives are for losers

OR: you must look at this fish and go insane

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

Port of Microsoft Word 1.1a to x64 with extra features for research purposes. - jmarshall23/msword

TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics

A public workspace for machine mathematics: open problems, permanent records of proofs and attempts, evidence and credit.

Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025)

Prosocial behavior, the act of helping others, is essential to social life, yet spontaneous environmental triggers for such behavior remain underexplored. This study tested whether an unexpected event, such as the presence of a person dressed as Batman, could increase prosocial behavior by disrupting routine and enhancing attention to the present moment. We conducted a quasi-experimental field study on the Milan metro, observing 138 rides. In the control condition, a female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train with an observer. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs.