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I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-retur...

Toxicity on Social Media

https://thenoisyroom.com

Rotten Dot Com

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/05/06/rot...

First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed

https://www.arup.com/en-us/news/first-fehmarnbelt-...

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky

Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/business/media/...

Appearing productive in the workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-producti...

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747...

Task Paralysis and AI

https://g5t.de/articles/20260510-task-paralysis-an...

Building a Memory Allocator from Scratch in C

https://0xkiire.com/memory-allocators/

Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989

https://github.com/wojtczyk/trust

RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me...

Natural-language messages between LLM agents are an architectural anti-pattern

https://novaberg.de/papers/clipboard-pattern.html

A consistent pattern of lying': trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/11/mu...

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/

Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-m...

LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05419

Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/0...

Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

https://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/premium...

The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962

https://www.righto.com/2024/02/the-first-microcomp...

Shunting-Yard Animation

https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/shunting-yard...

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/

How LEDs are made (2014)

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-leds-are-...

GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs

https://openrouter.ai/announcements/gpt55-cost-ana...

Surfel-based global illumination on the web

https://juretriglav.si/surfel-based-global-illumin...

Mythical Man Month

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MythicalManMonth.ht...

An Introduction to Meshtastic

https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/

Amiga and Atari ST: 16-Bits in the Browser

https://retrogamecoders.com/amiga-amos-atarist-sto...

Python Is Weird

https://kowal.dev/blog/python-is-weird