News
12/10/2026 12:54 Milky Way’s fastest star orbits our supermassive black hole so closely it feels its spin: From the European Southern Observatory: “Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy,…orbiting the black hole at its centre….It comes closer to it than any other observed before, so close that it feels the effects of the black hole’s rotation.”
12/10/2026 10:13 Shift + Shift: I just came across this article from 2018. It starts with fascinating observations about motor memory, and ends by introducing us to Rick Dickinson.
11/10/2026 12:24 A Nobel Prize for Hating Israel
11/10/2026 11:22 Native HTML and CSS Features That Replaced JavaScript
11/10/2026 11:01 Zohran Mamdani’s Moral Obscenity
10/10/2026 9:44 Happy Birthday Thelonious Monk: 
Born October 10th, 1917. A pure artist of searing originality who repainted the musical landscape. A personal hero of mine. Read the superb biography.
Born October 10th, 1917. A pure artist of searing originality who repainted the musical landscape. A personal hero of mine. Read the superb biography.
5/10/2026 14:26 Hacker News: An Apology: That’s it for me.
5/10/2026 7:24 I Watched NAZA in Full. Here Are Eleven Ways It Misleads Viewers.: Someone with relevant expertise exposes the lies in the film “NAZA”.
1/10/2026 16:17 Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes: Daniel is on to the secret.
30/9/2026 12:44 An unexpected difference between terminal programs: backward line wrapping: You could get a Ph.D. in Linux terminal emulators. Here is yet another wrinkle. I was happy to read that my favorite terminal emulator passes this test.
30/9/2026 7:44 McMansion Hell Returns and Notices Ceiling Fans: One of my favorite websites, McMansion Hell, had been on vacation for a while. It has returned with a horrified catalog of trends in ceiling fan design.
29/9/2026 12:57 The Claude Delusion: Cory Doctorow’s wise and thoughtful take on machine-generated pseudo-creative works.
09/9/2026 15:4 Typst makes big strides: My article about the major new features in Typst v0.15 appeared today in LWN. Typst is a typesetting system that is the first realistic candidate for a modern LaTeX replacement. For the next two weeks you need to be subscribed to see the article. Subscribing to LWN is a great way to support the Free Software community (and the content is first rate).
22/8/2026 11:32 Hating Israel Fatigue: Victor Hanson gets it very right. Everyone who knows anything about the Middle East already knows these truths, but they still need repeating, and Hanson is eloquent on the subject.
13/8/2026 7:35 Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia: Web demonstration of the 3D reconstruction technique implemented in GaussianSplatting.jl 2.0. “Written entirely in Julia it supports following GPU backends: AMD GPU (AMDGPU.jl); NVIDIA GPU (CUDA.jl); MacBook GPU(Metal.jl).”
11/8/2026 8:32 Emily Wilson and Beethoven: Beethoven and Emily Wilson as trolls. With fascinating musical examples (from Beethoven).
5/8/2026 15:21 Slime Without Plugins Using Kitty: Slime plugins let you send code from your editor directly to a repl for evaluation. If you use the Kitty terminal emulator, you can use its built-in features to replace these plugins.
3/8/2026 11:6 Seven books I keep close because I love them: This sampling by Mark Dominus will definitely have an effect on my future book buying and reading.
