Zed Dead

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Вроде заработало radio.mksb.me Если кто хочет послушать популярные 90е, подобранные людьми, присоединяйтесь. Пока утрясаем плейлист так что есть сюрпризы. Сейчас там только зарубежные 90е. Как доделаем костяк плейлист, будет нормальное программирование сетки, джинглы, и прочее серьезные передачи

Somewhere in Haarlem

33yrs ago the New York Times published an article criticising Federico Fellini and other foreign language films — calling them "hard work". MARTIN SCORSESE sent this in response.

Different ways to do math 🧮

me: so i name all my cats after numbers! them: oh? me: cat3, cat5 them: you skipped four-- me (ignoring them): cat5e them: but 'e' is not a number me (continuing to ignore them): cat6, cat6a, cat7, cat8

Its alive

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

Given the fact that there are at least two

Golden shower color

Fingals cave, Isle of Staffa, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Solidworks should lock the fillet tool until you pass a test proving you understand design-for-manufacture

Lol.

There is something deeply wrong with Germany and every Germany-adjacent Euro country when it comes to renting. The first time I learned about the German kitchen thing I had the exact same thought about it being too stupid to be real and yet

before agentic coding: *writes code* *doesn't release* *gets busy, reviews a month later* what the fuck who wrote this over-complicated shit after agentic coding: *has robot write code* *doesn't release* *gets busy, reviews a month later* what the fuck who wrote this over-complicated shit

🇸🇪 Sweden will create its own foreign intelligence service UND, similar to British MI6 — The Economist Foreign Intelligence Service will work in parallel with military intelligence, but will take over some of its functions, leading a unit that conducts agent and other secret operations abroad.

It arrived

If you use Chrome on Windows, reclaim the 4GB of your SSD by creating: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings Type: DWORD Value: 1 Then restart Chrome and a few seconds later it'll delete the enormous, useless, unwanted slop cache.

Earth is close. Prepare for the earth

Remember the days before MPEG2 (DVD), back then we had VCD's, CD-i and MPEG1 video files. If you wanted to play videos on a computer you needed additional power, these were provided in the form of MPEG decoder cards. Here's my REALmagic Netstream 1 ISA card, let's investigate!

Water times coming

In April 1998, Macromedia released the Macromedia Fireworks 1.0 graphics program. The program was able to work with both vector and bitmap graphics and was designed specially for web designers. #WebDesignHistory

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

And it is broken. There is no fun buying working equipment

This is either brilliant or scary: Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA. BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!

Exciting stuff nesbitt.io/2026/03/25/t...

I need 27 GB of free space on my computer to install a "minor update". Just how minor is this update?

KiCad version 10 is out today! Lots of features, lots of speed. We hope you like it. www.kicad.org/blog/2026/03...

Everything is possible if you know where ;-)

Debugging is a mess. Bottom line: it works. But i need new parts. I used old ones instead of burned ones