May 2023 Archive
2011.
The four times the United States government defaulted on its debt (2021) (thehill.com)
2012.
Tony Hsieh and the Emptiness of the Tech-Mogul Myth (newyorker.com)
2013.
Where Did Personal Computing Go Wrong (2020) (mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com)
2014.
Remembering the Golden Age of Airline Food (atlasobscura.com)
2015.
Comparing iPhone 13 vs. iPhone 14 for Astrophotography (diyphotography.net)
2016.
Pixies keep switching off my morning alarm, says Google Pixel owner (theregister.com)
2017.
Show HN: Avoiding Imgur Link Rot (haasie.com)
2018.
Review of Epictetus: The Complete Works (lrb.co.uk)
2019.
Globalization is evolving, but does not seem to be reversing (conversableeconomist.com)
2020.
Traders Do Less Crime at Home (bloomberg.com)
2021.
NFL labor union is out almost $42M thanks to crypto collapse (theathletic.com)
2022.
The most important machine that was never built (quantamagazine.org)
2023.
Cardinal/WASM: In-Browser Modular Synth Based on VCV Rack (cardinal.kx.studio)
2024.
Qwik Reaches v1.0 (builder.io)
2025.
Sudo and signal propagation (dxuuu.xyz)
2026.
Anatomy of a Drum Machine (2012) (mickeydelp.com)
2027.
Anna’s Archive has backed up the world’s largest comics shadow library (annas-blog.org)
2028.
Little Languages for Music (1990) [pdf] (usenix.org)
2029.
Notes on the Cost of Go Finalizers (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2030.
macOS Activation Lock: Friend or Foe (zipsec.com)
2031.
Our Amiga Demo-Creator Turns 36 Years (coding-and-computers.blogspot.com)
2032.
How to Play Hextraction (playhextraction.com)
2033.
Two Weeks at the Front in Ukraine (newyorker.com)
2034.
On Having Enough Socks (2019) (gwern.net)
2035.
Tipping at self-checkout has customers crying ‘emotional blackmail’ (wsj.com)
2036.
France bans flights between cities linked by trains (twitter.com)
2037.
Dear Ubuntu (hackaday.com)
2038.
What's up with this new memory_order_consume memory order? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
2039.
Mechanical backpack boosts the sensation of jumping in virtual reality (newscientist.com)
2040.
Consumer Credit and the Removal of Medical Collections from Credit Reports (consumerfinance.gov)