Articles by thecosas
3

How to eat with others – Mike Monteiro (buttondown.com/monteiro)

15

Cory Doctorow: "centaurs" and "reverse-centaurs" (locusmag.com)

16

How to Leave Substack (leavesubstack.com)

1

MyHeritage – Improved LiveMemory (myheritage.com)

5

The Irrelevance of Hari Seldon (macsparky.com)

1

Ready for Wildfire (readyforwildfire.org)

13

Brett Terpstra Is Open to Work (brettterpstra.com)

48

The Seven-Year Rule (macsparky.com)

2

Blurring the Line Between Rain and Snow: Limits of Meteorological Classification (uvm.edu)

1

Markdown Lipsum API V3 (brettterpstra.com)

3

What's the deal with all these airplane crashes? (theverge.com)

2

SXSW Session – How "Good" Management Creates Bad Technology (sxsw.com)

1

Searching for settings in all the wrong places (sixcolors.com)

1

One-Time (lmnt.me)

8

Ronald Read – Philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant (wikipedia.org)

1

Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. Maps (loc.gov)

1

Soundtrack Fun (brettterpstra.com)

1

Pallet (wikipedia.org)

1

My "remote" web development setup (brettterpstra.com)

1

Reclaiming the Web (lmnt.me)

1

Nuns Were Excommunicated but Won't Leave Their Convents (nytimes.com)

2

Have I Been Pwned: API v3 (haveibeenpwned.com)

2

Ostrich Napping Pillow (ostrichpillow.com)

2

Voted in America? This Site (Likely) Doxed You (404media.co)

7

How to Become a Billionaire in Skilled Nursing by Scamming Taxpayers (hindenburgresearch.com)

1

Walt Disney's Corporate Strategy Chart (2015) (kottke.org)

1

Solid: Data, Your Choice (solidproject.org)

1

Scientific Success and Financial Success, and the Gap Between (science.org)

169

The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira (ehandbook.com)

1

Amazon Finds a Path for AI to Augment Creatives (spyglass.org)

1

St. Jude Play Live Tools (stjude.org)

2

Relay for St. Jude (stjude.org)

1

Yesterday and Tomorrow Islands (nasa.gov)

2

Trio – an automated insulin delivery system for iOS (github.com/nightscout)

3

Viral videos of people stealing money from ATMs are just plain check fraud (cnn.com)

2

iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Review (macstories.net)

1

Generate slick changelogs from Git commits (brettterpstra.com)

2

Personal Identity (lmnt.me)

2

Colors in Japan (nandakke.jp)

1

Microsoft: Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage (microsoft.com)

2

How the BBC reports polling day (bbc.com)

4

New NOAA GOES-U satellite will track weather for most of Western Hemisphere (noaa.gov)

2

Juneteenth National Independence Day (wikipedia.org)

1

We Tell Bees About Death (atlasobscura.com)

1

Summer Project: Tailgate Tub (caseyliss.com)

2

WWDC24: System Requirements for Platform OSes and Apple Intelligence (512pixels.net)

2

Island of Sark (wikipedia.org)

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The Moral Economy of the Shire (nathangoldwag.wordpress.com)

2

Smart Tractors Face Shut-Down by Solar Storm (ifixit.com)

3

Teplizumab: Immune Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes (jdrf.org)

1

The unexpected upside of global monopoly capitalism (pluralistic.net)

1

At the FTC, a quiet, profound shift on antitrust (2022) (pluralistic.net)

2

Digital Democracy: Technology that reveals how decisions are made in California (calmatters.org)

1

Cotino – Storyliving by Disney (storylivingbydisney.com)

3

Caltrans CCTV Feeds in CSV, JSON, TXT and XML (ca.gov)

2

Dimspirations, nihilist inspirations for your daily life (dimspire.me)

1

Electoral college reform – 50 states with equal population (2012) (fakeisthenewreal.org)

2

Process Goals > Outcome-Based Goals (durmonski.com)

1

About Jeff Richardson a.k.a. iPhone J.D (iphonejd.com)

1

Using AI to get information from documents in PDF on iOS (iphonejd.com)

1

Hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges (arstechnica.com)

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AI Weather Forecasting Can't Replace Humans–Yet (scientificamerican.com)

3

LOTR Demographics (lotrproject.com)

2

An Essay on Criticism (~1711) (poetryfoundation.org)

2

Festivus (Wikipedia) (wikipedia.org)

2

iOS 17 NameDrop Misinformation (macrumors.com)

2

Loop: DIY Artificial Pancreas System (loopkit.github.io)

1

Sam and Max (wikipedia.org)

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Merlin's Wisdom Project (github.com/merlinmann)

1

Vouchery: AI-Powered Coupon Management and Automation (vouchery.io)

2

Costco: Free Technical Support for Life of Product (costco.com)

1

Akira Miyawaki (wikipedia.org)

4

Facebook – Pokes (facebook.com)

2

Bee Keeping and Bee Breeding, Along with Other Interests of Dave Cushman (dave-cushman.net)

1

Echolalia (wikipedia.org)

1

Create and download custom papercraft and packaging templates (templatemaker.nl)

1

Are corporate profits to blame for inflation? (morningbrew.com)

2

Security Rules for Email (2016) (matt.sh)

1

Smart watches and mobile apps could transform life for Type 1 diabetics (colorado.edu)

1

70°F Road Trip version 2.0 (2023) (us-climate.blogspot.com)

2

US Credit Rating at Risk of Fitch Cut on Debt-Limit Impasse (bloomberg.com)

2

List of World War II Prisoner-of-War Camps in the United States (wikipedia.org)

3

Camp Douglas, Wyoming (wikipedia.org)

1

Salsa dips into $10M to fire up payroll features for software companies (techcrunch.com)

2

33 Years of TidBITS: Handcrafted Content from Humans (tidbits.com)

2

Haunted Swing Illusion (wikipedia.org)

2

The Great Moose Migration: 23/4 – 3/5 2023 10:00 CEST (twitch.tv)

2

Pixelmator Photo gets AI-powered selective adjustments and new name: Photomator (pixelmator.com)

1

Matt Basta: How I accidentally duped the Bay Area press in 2013 (basta.substack.com)

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Glucomate: an app for people who record, track, and monitor their blood glucose (zachsim.one)

1

Logan (Novel) – 1822 (wikipedia.org)

4

Multiple NWS Accounts: Twitter is now limiting automated tweets (twitter.com/nwsbayarea)

1

The Knowledge (tfl.gov.uk)

4

Open-Meteo: open-source weather API (open-meteo.com)

1

Chopin’s Heart (atlasobscura.com)

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Poor people pay higher time tax (pluralistic.net)

2

The Weird Dinosaurs of America’s Lost Continent (bbc.com)

27

Weather Machine – Rock solid weather APIs with zero hassle (weathermachine.io)

2

Toot.pics: quickly and easily view Mastodon media descriptions (toot.pics)

1

The (Computationally) Post-Scarcity World (vivalapanda.medium.com)