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The most beautiful formula not enough people understand [video] (youtube.com)

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The Finger and the Moon (taylor.town)

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Training Scientists in Low and Middle Income Countries (2024) (newthingsunderthesun.com)

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Students Get Interested in What Their Mentors Are Interested in (2024) (newthingsunderthesun.com)

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Overheads (2023) (xoria.org)

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Powerball in Python (leancrew.com)

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The online community trilemma (2026) (pluralistic.net)

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A Note on Graciousness (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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Where things stand with the Department of War (anthropic.com)

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The five AI value models driving business reinvention (openai.com)

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Should You Be a Carpenter? [video] (youtube.com)

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ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations (openai.com)

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I'm a Coin Boy, Too (2023) (taylor.town)

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I Love Email (2023) (xoria.org)

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Case Study: lynnandtonic.com 2025 refresh (lynnandtonic.com)

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A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator [video] (youtube.com)

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Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity (openai.com)

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Infinite Jest belongs in the techno-optimist canon (danco.substack.com)

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I made my whole-home humidifier slightly less terrifying [video] (youtube.com)

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Archival Selves (venkateshrao.com)

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Finding the Single Number with XOR (jamessimas.com)

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AI Twitter's favourite lie: everyone wants to be a developer (joanwestenberg.com)

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Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025) (matejlou.blog)

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Hello Developer: March 2026 (developer.apple.com)

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Maybe there's a pattern here? (dynomight.net)

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So long, and thanks for all the logs (jerodsanto.net)

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20 Years of Programming (sidhion.com)

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Digital Iris [video] (youtube.com)

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Radish is for sale: The compound that inspired Live Near Friends (livenearfriends.com)

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/Llms.txt File (llmstxt.org)

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Notes on Project Oberon (sidhion.com)

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Border-Image Tool (jacobfilipp.com)

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Evolution in Higher Dimensions [video] (youtube.com)

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Some Lotto Math (leancrew.com)

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Agentic swarms are an org-chart delusion (joanwestenberg.com)

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The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp (mssv.net)

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Bridging Research and Manufacturing: The Role of Surface Science Nanometrology [video] (youtube.com)

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A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing (asimov.press)

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Review: Mercury Personal Banking (taylor.town)

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Book Review: Why Are the Prices So Damn High? (2019) (srconstantin.wordpress.com)

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From Fargo to Zebra (cendyne.dev)

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A New Map of Human Experience [video] (youtube.com)

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Mac Themes Garden (macthemes.garden)

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Querying 3B Vectors (vickiboykis.com)

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Do Less (usefulfictions.substack.com)

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Making interesting borders with CSS corner-shape (cassidoo.co)

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The Housing Ladder's Broken Promise (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

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One-Bit Delay (onebitdelay.com)

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Members only: "Won't Fix" self help (joanwestenberg.com)

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A Geometric Interpretation of the 3D Cross Product (2024) (matejlou.blog)

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Canada Lost Its Measles Elimination Status Because Few Nurses Speak Low German (lesswrong.com)

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A bit of fluid mechanics from scratch not from scratch (tsvibt.blogspot.com)

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Life is the Sum Total of 2k Mondays (joanwestenberg.com)

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SFQ: Simple, Stateless, Stochastic Fairness (brooker.co.za)

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Lil' Fun Langs' Guts (taylor.town)

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Against Query Based Compilers (matklad.github.io)

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American Abundance Index (humanprogress.org)

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The Divergence Machine (venkateshrao.com)

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Circle Games (2019) (srconstantin.wordpress.com)

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Redis Patterns for Coding (antirez.com)

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Josh Collison and Dwarkesh Patel Interview Elon Musk [video] (youtube.com)

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Our Agreement with the Department of War (openai.com)

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Michelangelo's First Painting [video] (youtube.com)

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Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk (jyn.dev)

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Highly Customizable Magnetic Touch Sensing Using Cut-Cell Microstructures (e-flesh.com)

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The Tonnetz (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Approximation Game (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (anthropic.com)

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An update on our mental health-related work (openai.com)

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Trump Bans Anthropic from All US Federal Agencies (twitter.com/whitehouse)

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Traveling neighborhoods: a different kind of group trip (2024) (postach.io)

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Colt's Revolutions (2024) (taylor.town)

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Why Concepts Aren't Objects (essenceofsoftware.com)

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The Simple Essence of Monomorphization [video] (youtube.com)

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Writing on Mount Hymettos in Duplo (viewsproject.wordpress.com)

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Finite functional programming via graded effects and relevance types [video] (youtube.com)

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An Argument The Moon is a PLANET [video] (youtube.com)

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Zeroes (2022) (taylor.town)

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Squidcasa/midipipe: ALSA Sequencer to plain text and back (codeberg.org/squidcasa)

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Betrayal in Space (jacobfilipp.com)

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Photonic Chips Are Coming Faster Than Anyone Expected [video] (youtube.com)

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My Phone Will Spam You If I Fail to Exercise by 3PM (taylor.town)

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Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (worksinprogress.co)

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Seeing Like a Sedan (asteriskmag.com)

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Give us Snot, not Slop (grizzlygazette.bearblog.dev)

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The most popular email providers (alexsci.com)

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What was the first life restoration of a sauropod? (svpow.com)

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The Dysfunctional Tiger (worksinprogress.co)

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Cabbage Genetics (worksinprogress.co)

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The two kinds of desire, and one of the most important things I know (sashachapin.substack.com)

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YouSky: My one-person social network (Short version) (rosswintle.uk)

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Exploring a Future of Programming (sidhion.com)

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Nvidia's Insane AI Found the Math of Reality [video] (youtube.com)

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First 12 Minutes of MTV [video] (youtube.com)

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Giger QTVR (jacobfilipp.com)

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Map projections are tough – here's my new favorite (signoregalilei.com)

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Is Auvelity (dextromethorphan/bupropion) something new in depression treatment? (thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com)

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Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics (psychotechnology.substack.com)

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Change your default date format to the least ambiguous (practicalbetterments.com)

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Georgist land taxes balance community benefit and the efficiency of markets (2024) (postach.io)