1. Pi square is nearly 10 (mihai.page)
It
2. University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts of History (www.smithsonianmag.com)
The historical timeline you keep in your head might not be as accurate as you think
3. Is The Economist Always Wrong? (economist.com)
4. Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC (dmarcwise.io)
How DNSSEC compact denial can prevent DMARC
5. Dependencies should be fetched directly from VCS (www.arp242.net)
6. Functional Programming in hica (www.hica.dev)
A modern, safe, expression-oriented, functional-flavored language with a gentle learning curve.
7. Reflections on the Guillotine (theanarchistlibrary.org)
Albert Camus Reflections on the Guillotine 1957
8. We Always Leave Things Unfinished (bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com)
9. Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents (hic-ai.com)
HIC Mouse gives AI coding agents precision file editing tools — 56% higher accuracy, 58% lower cost, and 3.6× faster than built-in tools.
10. Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty (www.adexchanger.com)
Papa Johns tapped NBCUniversal, Instacart and the dentsu-owned media agency Carat for help reaching consumers when they’re low on groceries.
11. Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline (www.nature.com)
12. My ASN Journey series (2024) (www.animmouse.com)
A comprehensive beginners guide about getting your own ASN and own IP address
13. Every Postcard Tells a Story (observer.co.uk)
Wishes from abroad, love letters and confessions – leading authors including Julian Barnes, Ali Smith and Geoff Dyer are invited to write miniature stories on the back of vintage postcards
14. Pint in England (dispatch-media.com)
Burton once brewed beer for an empire • The empire is gone but the pubs remain • We went looking for the perfect pint
15. Efficacy and Safety of Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression (jamanetwork.com)
16. My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress (ekinertac.com)
I can
18. Scientist who cleaned space toilet on work now leading Mars exploration (www.bbc.com)
Claire Parfitt says her time at the National Space Centre in Leicester gave her a unique insight.
19. Do you hate XML? (2010) (sigfrid-lundberg.se)
Does developers really dislike XML? If they do, why and how much
20. Reducing Assumptions, Exploding Your Code (ryelang.org)
We can all write elegant scripts, that assume a lot. And assumption is the mother of all ...
22. About the Digital Art (www.tricivenola.com)
23. The full stack of terminals explained (ahmadawais.com)
Most developers use a terminal for years before realizing they don't actually know what a terminal is. They know how to use one. They couldn't define one.
24. Dark Mode with Web Standards (olliewilliams.xyz)
Implementing dark mode with minimal JavaScript and standard CSS
25. The Plight of the Martian Farmer (mceglowski.substack.com)
26. The Engineer in the Half-Space (yusufaytas.com)
Some engineers do their best work between the lines of ownership, where handoffs, runbooks, dependencies, and missing context quietly decide whether software delivery gets cheaper or more expensive.
27. Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks (www.bbc.com)
The car-maker found AI quality checks failed to match the skill of veteran technicians.
28. How the first solo-founder unicorn gets built (www.thisandthat.chat)
The naive take is that AI lets firms dissolve into the market. The gig economy already tried that and failed. What changed is the coordinator, not the price of a transaction.
