kottke.org
Massive Military Spending “A Theft From Those Who Hunger”
1 min · · In 1953, shortly after taking office and Joseph Stalin’s death, President Dwight Eisenhower gave a speech to the American So · Shared by 4, including slumos
birtles.blog
Weird things engineers believe about Web development
13+ min · · I wrote most of this post sometime in 2022 but I think it holds up alright in 2024 so I decided to publish it for posterity. I don’t really like doing posts like this—I’d much rather share some… · Shared by 118, including slumos
moviecode.tumblr.com
Source Code in TV and Films
3 min · · Images of the computer code appearing in TV and films and what they really are. · Shared by 17, including Ahmad Ragab, Matthew Herper, slumos, Pixel, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Luiz Borba
behind-the-screens.tv
Behind The Screens
6 min · · About Behind The Screens Back in 2017, I started a YouTube channel based upon my Tumblr Movie Code. Movie Code shows real source code appearing in films and television and the YouTube channel went… · Shared by 7, including slumos
matduggan.com
Fixing Macs Door to Door
18+ min · · Fun stories from my time working as an AppleCare Dispatch contractor going door to door in Chicago. · Shared by 4, including slumos
Stanford University
Stanford University
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zed.dev
Introducing Zed
3 min · · A lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust. · Shared by 56, including Andreas Klinger 🏝, Stammy, Guillermo Rauch, Cory LaViska, pizza.lottie 🍕, Marcin Krzyzanowski, slumos, Zain Fathoni, Simon07, Brian Lovin, Devon Govett, Max Stoiber, David Hellmann
xeiaso.net
The birth & death of search engine optimization
15+ min · · Published on 11/28/2023, 3872 words, 15 minutes to read A brown-haired catgirl with her hair tied back in a ponytail in a green hoodie runs down an idyllic forest path. She is wearing a pa · Shared by 5, including slumos
danluu.com
How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
· In The birth & death of search engine optimization, Xe suggests Here's a fun experiment to try. Take an open source project such as yt-dlp and try to find it from a very generic term like "youtube… · Shared by 124, including slumos
matheustavares.gitlab.io
Faster Git checkouts on NFS and SSD with parallelism
· The parallel checkout feature in Git can speed up some checkout operations by up to 3.6x on SSDs and 4.5x on NFS mounts. · Shared by 4, including slumos
thedieline.com
The Chinese Takeout Box is As American As Baseball and Apple Pie
4 min · · The history of one of the most ubiquitous pieces of carryout food packaging—the Chinese takeout box. · Shared by 29, including Dieline, Mathew Ingram, slumos
egr.unlv.edu
x86 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu
· The purpose of this text is to provide a reference for University level assembly language and systems programming courses. Specifically, this text addresses the x86-64 instruction set for the popular… · Shared by 30, including Massimiliano Aroffo, Damian Gryski, slumos, Emerson Macedo, @AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club by znmeb, ἀποκαραδοκία
TechCrunch
Is the Texas boom town of Austin losing its luster?
5 min · · The Texas dream of taking on tech’s traditional home in California could be hitting some speed bumps as Techstars pauses operations in Austin. · Shared by 8, including slumos
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫
My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s
5 min · · A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers. · Shared by 8, including slumos
mysanantonio.com
A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show
3 min · · Numerous Silicon Valley tech companies have settled in Austin in recent years, but just as many are now leaving due to 'lackluster' startup scene. · Shared by 4, including slumos