You've probably heard me complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their im...

Multi-disciplinary artist Jack Rusher discusses habit as excellence, what scientists and artists have in common, and the influence of AI on creativity.

On designing finger-friendly interactions

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become widely adopted, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved on both sides of decision-making processes, ranging from hiring to content moderatio...

Harvard geneticist David Reich argues that ancient DNA has exposed the myth of purity and uncovered a far messier history of who we are and where we came from.

Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

expand-region is one of my all time favorite Emacs packages. I’ve been using it since forever – press a key, the selection grows to the next semantic unit, press again, it grows further. Simple, usefu...

Secondary representations enable our minds to depart from the here-and-now and generate imaginary, hypothetical, or alternate possibilities that are decoupled from reality, supporting many of our rich...

Join us for the third edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin 12-14th July 2026.

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

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Using Clojure to query and classify the world's knowledge.

Someone's trash is another person's web server.

The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is gett...

Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

Discover why building reliable systems outperforms motivation hacks every time and how to create the infrastructure your team actually needs.

Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color?

A couple of years ago, I participated in a study of the HealthFerm Citizen Science group in …

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A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.