August 2025 Archive
1471.
What kids told us about how to get them off their phones (theatlantic.com)
1472.
Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf] (unicode.org)
1473.
Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality (poynter.org)
1474.
Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat (aggressivelyparaphrasing.me)
1475.
Why is this hard? (programmersstone.blog)
1476.
How to Use Snprintf (bernsteinbear.com)
1477.
What Happened to Egghead Software (dfarq.homeip.net)
1478.
From Hackathon to YC (producthunt.com)
1479.
Is the A.I. Sell-Off the Start of Something Bigger? (nytimes.com)
1480.
Git-fetch-file – Sync files from other repos with commit tracking and safety (github.com)
1481.
ICE Budget Now Bigger Than Most of the Militaries (newsweek.com)
1482.
The $21.7B Blunder: Analyzing the Waste Generated by Doge [pdf] (washingtonpost.com)
1483.
Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals (iapsop.com)
1484.
Image Fulgurator (2011) (juliusvonbismarck.com)
1485.
Qoder Quest Mode: Task Delegation to AI Agents (qoder.com)
1486.
Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody (wired.com)
1487.
TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users' personal data (techcrunch.com)
1488.
Ditching GitHub (2024) (tomscii.sig7.se)
1489.
Pride Versioning 0.3.0 (pridever.org)
1490.
Writing is power transfer technology (danco.substack.com)
1491.
Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash (tampabay28.com)
1492.
Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering (pdelboca.me)
1493.
US to review all 55M visas to check if holders broke rules (bbc.com)
1494.
Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams (restofworld.org)
1495.
Scientists discover surprising language 'shortcuts' in birdsong – like humans (manchester.ac.uk)
1496.
Json2dir: a JSON-to-directory converter, a fast alternative to home-manager (github.com)
1497.
Build Log: Macintosh Classic (jeffgeerling.com)
1498.
U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China (nytimes.com)
1499.
Btrfs Has Saved Meta "Billions of Dollars" in Infrastructure Costs (phoronix.com)
1500.
How Does a Blind Model See the Earth? (outsidetext.substack.com)