Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas

There is a vast literature near the topic of this post, much of which has developed specialized vocabularies and concepts.

The IEEE Life Fellow is remembered as a founder of the field

a formula which relates partial derivatives of three interdependent variables

A free Android logbook for blood sugar. No account, no internet, no cloud — everything stays on the phone.

Documents from law enforcement spy centers show the government is warning cops of "extensive and ongoing chatter on social media" about methods to "physically destroy Flock LPR cameras."

Americans' credit card debt reached $1.26 trillion, increasing by $21 billion in the second quarter of this year, according to new data.

ESP32-based FM radio with TEA5767 tuner, KY-040 rotary encoder, PAM8403 amplifier, and 0.96" OLED display. Custom PCB design. - turtushig22-blip/tea5767-radio-tuner

Worldwide AI-chatbot web visits: ChatGPT 76% → 54%. Gemini 6% → 28%. Claude 1% → 9%. This is not monthly users and not revenue. See who took the share →

A fast, native app for local coding agents. Amp, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Grok, and Pi — one timeline, entirely on your machine.

The free online version of Grab the Mic: get a word, buzz in, and sing a real song containing it — your friends vote. No app, no mic needed, 2–8 players.

Professional communication is increasingly mediated by LLMs - but do these models serve all users equally? We show that when prompts contain linguistic features more commonly used by women...

Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

A live ranking of the benchmarks reported in frontier model cards, system cards, and technical reports. Measures vendor reporting convention, not benchmark quality.

Flip through the personal homepages of programming language creators, ranked by their top PLDB language.

There are three main camps emerging with proposals, all of which have downsides.

Find the plaintext secrets on your Mac and move them behind Touch ID, injected just in time without breaking the tools that read them. Free and local-first. - jitpass/jit

Unofficial Grafana Agent Observability plugin for Hermes Agent - alexander-akhmetov/grafana-agento11y-hermes

Note: This role is for someone who can combine engineering excellence with strong product thinking and taste. That’s why I’ve called it Founding Builder. The role is best for those who actually enjoy building products, not just building engineering systems.…