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241. Java.evolved: Java has evolved. Your code can too
A collection of modern Java code snippets. Every old Java pattern next to its clean, modern replacement — side by side.
242. Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway submitted its latest 13-F filing on February 17, revealing some interesting changes in the portfolio. 
243. The Only Moat Left Is Money
The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.
244. Assigning Open Problems in Class
245. Breccia: Single-file, append-only, blob storage with efficient random access
Contribute to petertodd/breccia development by creating an account on GitHub.
246. JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
I’m Sérgio, and I work with Web frontend code. Sometimes I write about it here.
247. The DOJ's Top Antitrust Officer Has Left as Lobbying Surges
The head of the DOJ’s antitrust division has been ousted after clashing with Attorney General Pam Bondi over how aggressively to crack down on corporate crimes. Her removal lays bare a broader fight within the department over enforcement priorities.
248. Split Diffs Are Here
From the Zed Blog: View your code changes in a split diff view in Zed.
249. Contra "Grandmaster-level chess without search" (2024)
250. -fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C
251. Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification
TeamSpeak seems to be rather enjoying the technical issues
252. planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary
Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun. - GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.
253. FBI 'Asset' Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years
A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the sale of fentanyl-tainted pills, including those from a dealer linked to a confirmed death.
254. My journey to the microwave alternate timeline
Recommended soundtrack for this post • As we all know, the march of technological progress is best summarized by this meme from Linkedin: …
255. Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows
256. MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
Developing a standard for localizable message strings - unicode-org/message-format-wg
257. Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox
Learn how to run NanoClaw, a Claude-powered WhatsApp assistant, inside a Docker Sandboxes shell sandbox for stronger isolation and proxy-managed API keys.
258. Members-only Philly cop bar has been linked to two DUIs and a third crash
Anna Wakeman still questions why 7C Lounge bartenders didn’t stop serving the officer who crashed into her house and upended her life five years ago.
259. The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation
After rapid advances thanks to one-shot decompilation, progress on the Snowboard Kids 2 decompilation began to falter. This post explores the workflow evolution, tooling improvements, and fundamental LLM limits that emerged when tackling the long tail of increasingly difficult functions.
260. Virgins, Unicorns and Medieval Literature (2017)
261. I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D
Track live flights in 3D over the world's busiest airspaces. Altitude-aware, beautifully rendered, and completely free.
262. Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers
Synchronization barriers let you test for race conditions with confidence.
263. Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund
(Cancelled) ~FLOSS/fund sponsorship~ and UI rewrite
264. IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup
265. The Economics of a Super Bowl Ad
An inside look at the economics of Super Bowl advertising and how to think about risk, upside, and timing as a growing brand.
266. In Search of a Discord Replacement
267. Poor Deming never stood a chance
This post is an elaboration of a shorter post I wrote about five years ago. The two management giants of the mid-twentieth century were Peter Drucker and W. Edwards Deming. Ironically, while Drucker hails from Austria-Hungary (like me, Drucker emigrated to the U.S. as an adult) and Deming was born in the U.S., it was…
268. picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code
A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code. Contribute to antirez/picol development by creating an account on GitHub.
269. History of AT&T Long Lines
270. Making the Vortex Mixer
The forgotten story of an invention found in every biology lab.