I am an indie iPhone developer, and I've been working for 3 hours everyday for almost 2 years now. It may not work for everybody, but I started this habit in early 2014, and I have continued to do it since have I found that this is the most productive way…

We have successfully created an independent, bit-by-bit-identical rebuild of the nixos-minimal ISO published by Hydra 🎉 Why is this useful? While there are a number of ‘side-benefits’, the main point of Reproducible Builds is that it gives us a reliable…

A mental model for service businesses.

That could help check whether reforestation projects work as advertised

The beast’s near-extermination had a devastating effect on Native American tribes

One of the things I’ve been doing for quite a while, other than tracking myexpenses, has been keeping my CV up-to-date as much as I could. Every three ...

I'm no stranger to quirky USB power systems; indeed I have ranted about USB chargers for over ten…

New work attacks a long-standing barrier to understanding how prime numbers are distributed.

In Scratch Projects, bilman66 posts using Scratch as a RISC-V emulator running the Linux 6.1.14 kernel: A real build of the Linux 6.1.14 kernel running in pure scratch code! This is done by running…

Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards. - donnemartin/system-design-primer

Chemical changes inside Mars's core caused it to lose its magnetic field. This, in turn, caused it to lose its oceans. But how?

The popular model Software product companies aren’t usually started by people with a strong background in building software products. Those who most likely end up founding businesses are good at getting funding, and at understanding their target industry.…

A rare gold coin found by a metal detectorist and recently auctioned off was minted by a little-known ruler in pre-Roman Britain.

Uber drivers are damaging their Teslas.

In this article, I walk through the entire process of how I built the Open Australian Legal Corpus, the largest open database of Australian law.

Amateur radio operators who study space physics and the upper atmosphere probed the ionosphere’s response to the 2023 annular solar eclipse using shortwave transmissions.

Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely. This blog post is where I write down what I know.
Some Background
Here’s how adblockers (used to)...