For Jo Powell, cleaning is about restoring dignity and understanding the grief and shame behind every pile of rubbish.

In 1897, the California native went to the frozen North looking for gold. What he found instead was the great American novel

Internet Archive Staff Bruce Li introduces his The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting thus: Thi...

Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding, an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large numbers of autonomous coding agents. One of the projects mentioned in the article …

Connie Sherburne lost her husband to a plane accident in 2020. A small bit of advice she got from an insurance company employee made a huge difference in her life for years after that.

A new extraction system from Rocq to modern, memory-safe, performant C++.

Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…

At KotlinConf 2025, the Kotlin team showcased progress toward Rich Errors with union types. After years of watching languages slowly adopt patterns that Elm has championed since day one, it’s exciting to see Kotlin taking this significant step toward more…

My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought I'd write up a review, in case you were thinking of getting one for yourself.

I have traveled billions of kilometers since birth. Check your cosmic stats here.

I've been using GitLab for years for all my private projects. Some thoughts on why it stuck.

Windows 11's online Microsoft Account requirement means your PC is automatically backing up its data encryption key to the cloud, and Microsoft says it will hand those over to the FBI if requested via legal order.

Nobody Tells You Freedom Has a Billing Rate This year in 2026, I turn 40. I’ve been self-employed since I was 25. That’s fifteen years of answering to no one,...