The Luxuries in Life

Labor Day weekend has always been the back to school marker for me. I'm 60, closing in on 61, and thinking a lot more about what I actually care about. Amy texted me a list yesterday.

Singapore subway (mrt) information display types

Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA

U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

Learn Programming with OCaml

Steffen's Polyhedron – Greg Egan

Steffen’s Polyhedron by Greg Egan

Terpstra Keyboard

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

OpenAI showed GPT-6 Astra routing a PCB. We built EEBench to find out whether AI-designed circuits actually work.

Stopping the Unstoppable: When an unstoppable force meets a dashpot snubber

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On the morning of September 29, 2016, a New Jersey Transit commuter train rolled into Hoboken Terminal during rush hour with about 250 passengers on board, and it just… didn’t stop. The train reached the end of the track, overro

Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

Static hosting for frontend developers who care where their sites live. Git push, custom domain, done — on European infrastructure owned by Europeans, all the way down.

Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory

A follow-along series of coding experiments as I explore Rust's peculiarities, from a C++ developer's perspective.

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.

Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners

The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and "24/7" lectures.

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

shitter - Alternative Twitter front-end. Fork of zedeus/nitter on GitHub.

A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found

For years, the secret winter home of rare red-footed falcons remained a mystery. Then an ornithologist discovered the hidden world of “Falcopolis.”

A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads

Two years of nightmarish smiles and makeup before anyone laid hands on Mimic Systems' actual product.

.gitignore Everything by Default

An opposite view on .gitignore files.

Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)