Search The Weekend Essay Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged. January 4, 2025 Illustration by Wesley Allsbrook It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite…

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This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. I am a recovering optimizer. Over the past several years, I’ve spent ages agonizing over every decision I made…

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In the United States as well as abroad, this is an election year—what has been called a “global election supercycle.” By the end of 2024, countries holding almost half the world’s population will have gone to the polls to vote in major elections: general elections, presidential elec­tions, and…

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What is Packfiles? Packfiles appears in this week’s edition of Tampa Bay Business Journal as one of the “25 Hottest Startups in Tampa Bay”, and I’m pleased to report that I’m working with them! Here’s what they wrote: PackfilesTampa-based Packfiles is a project management and software platform…

The geekiest factions of the online whiskey community can be particularly nasty, with insiders railing on “taters” (uninformed collectors) and lambasting the limited-edition releases they pursue. That makes it all the more surprising that, over the past year, there’s been a groundswell of support…

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reMarkable Paper Pro with Type Folio (Image credit: reMarkable) By published 13 September 2024 in News As a diehard fan and daily user of the reMarkable 2 e-ink tablet, along with its handy Type Folio, news of an upgraded and enhanced tablet from the Oslo-based company was eagerly received. The new…

Managing containers can make you feel crazy. If you’ve worked with platforms like AWS ECS, you’ve probably experienced the frustration of manually pulling task IDs, attaching shells to containers, or

DVD shop owner vows to be 'last man standing' 5 days ago Rachael McMenemyBBC News, Suffolk Rachael McMenemy/BBC Steve Webber has been behind the desk at Northgate Video for 43 years Perched on the end of a row of terraces in a small town is one of the last DVD rental shops in the UK. In 2022, there…

Image Credits:Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services AI AWS says it’ll invest ‘at least’ $11B to expand data center infrastructure in Georgia Kyle Wiggers 1:40 PM PST · January 7, 2025 On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, said that it plans to invest…

Platform teams are very common these days, and the approach has been widely adopted. When implemented successfully, platform teams become huge force multipliers, delivering a tremendous amount of value. But as with any engineering approach, there are common anti-patterns, let’s call them "sins",…

Altadena, California. (Photo: Getty) The phrase “women and children first” may sound unforgivably patriarchal today, but the rule expressed a noble purpose when it was coined. Namely, “In a disaster situation, we will not let the strong save themselves at the expense of everyone else.” When the ship…

The 2024 “winners” of the annual Shkreli awards, given each year to perpetrators of the most egregious examples of profiteering and dysfunction within the healthcare industry, have been released from the Lown Institute, an independent healthcare thinktank. The recipients are chosen by a panel made…

Google Home hubs get a big upgrade. Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge One of the key changes Matter is bringing to the smart home is a standardized way to enable local control of smart devices. This means your light bulb doesn’t have to talk to the cloud when you ask your voice assistant to turn it…

Jan 2025 Contents Intro I recently needed to learn Python concurrency. I always thought I’d get to that topic someday. That someday arrived. The best resource I’ve found is David Beazley’s Python Concurrency From the Ground Up: LIVE!. Not only does he do live coding without mistakes, but he explains…

2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months. It’s also been wild at…

The web’s caching model served us well for over two decades. Recently, in the name of privacy, it’s undergone a fundamental shift that challenges many of our performance optimization assumptions. This is called Double-keyed Caching or cache-partitioning more generally. Here’s what changed, why it…

As software engineers and technologists its common to have access to some powerful devices and super fast bandwidths. It’s highly likely that you will be developing/testing on a high end Mac (or similar) or pulling out an expensive mobile device such as an iPhone from your pocket. But we need to be…

ISC-licensed terminal multiplexer. tmux is geared for developers and admins who interact regularly with CLI (text-only interfaces) In the world of computers, there are 2 realms: The text realm The graphical realm tmux resides in the text realm. This is about fixed-width fonts and that old fashioned…

Hannah Arendt on the Human Condition: Productivity Will Replace Meaning 60 years ago, Hannah Arendt provided a haunting critique of modernity. Society will become stuck in accelerating cycles of labor and consumption, she argued. Free human action will be replaced by instrumentalization, and meaning…

Unlike the rest of the FreakTakes ARPA series, today’s piece does not have the usual narrative structure. It is, instead, a set of personal notes cleaned up and re-structured as a post. While the post is atypical, the ARPA series would be incomplete if I did not outline the factors that mark key…

Fixing America's elevators is becoming a heavy lift. Why it matters: The U.S. has about 1 million elevators, with Americans traveling about 2.55 billion miles a year altogether on elevators and escala

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Opinion The resurfacing of a 1995 Usenet post earlier this month prompted The Reg FOSS desk to re-examine a pivotal operating system flop … and its long-term consequences. A 1995 Usenet post from Gord

The first essay in Durga Chew-Bose’s Too Much and Not the Mood is called “Heart Museum,” and it opens with a long description of an iPhone emoji: There’s an emoji on my phone that I’ve never used, of a shell-pink tower-block building with blue windows. Smaller than an apple seed, crumb-sized—if…

Credits Henry Wismayer is a writer based in London. Photography by Lucas Foglia for Noema Magazine. We were halfway down the Point Reyes peninsula when Dacher Keltner wandered off-trail. He stopped at an outcrop of granite boulders, where the ground fell away toward Driftwood Beach and the wide,…

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