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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
Jarred Sumner explains why the Bun team is moving from Zig to Rust, after years of fighting memory safety issues in a codebase that mixes GC and manual memory management. He also shares how Claude helped make a mechanical,...
Book | E-book | Audiobook (affiliate links) A City on Mars is the perfect kind of pop-science non-fiction for science fiction writers. It’s no surprise they got blurbs from the likes of Mary Robbinette Kowal and Andy Weir. It’s easy...
“Android has come to dominate the global smartphone marketplace, and a large part of why this has happened is thanks to its open-source nature. Any phone maker can put Android on its phones with no licensing fees, and its adoption has...
How to build in Minecraft through an artistic lense Hi! In this blog post I will walk you through my process of building in Minecraft. In recent months I have been enjoying playing again and have started to practice my skills quite a bit...
Oh, this is wonderful. Reader K writes to us: On reading your June 19th email exploring the lives of back-to-back cruiseniks, I was reminded of these passages from “The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst”, which elegantly combines...
I am again in a season of diapers and burp cloths. In other words, my son is born! We welcomed him July 1, and it has been wonderful spending time with him. This has felt much easier than our first kid for a variety of reasons, which has...
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - attributed to Pablo PicassoHello friends! I’m just enjoying the sounds of summer these days. The birds, the bees, the cicadas, and even the hum of activity. Here are...
Lou Reed: “Coney Island Baby” - St. Mark’s Church, New York City, January 1, 1976It’s been far too long — almost two months! — since we took a trip into the Louniverse. And anyway, we’ve somehow yet to really celebrate the 50th...
In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: After years of frustration, suddenly progress with France - Spain rail connectionsBullshit Meter: Direct trains Trieste - BeogradGood week: A little summer holiday pauseAlso a good week:...
As touched on previously, four of the greater Gorch Fock-class training barques (USCGC Eagle, FGS Gorch Fock II, NRP Sagres, and NMS Mircea) met up in Norfolk earlier this summer as part of Sail250 and carried on to New York. Now, headed...
Everyone’s favorite Disco vintage super carrier and almost-Kidō Butai vanquisher just transited to her new home at Norfolk after being the center of the Sail4th naval parade/International Naval Review 250/FLEETEX 250 in New York. Note:...
Or, “Pardon, I didn’t catch that…” for the rest of your life. Official period caption: “American howitzers shell German forces retreating near Carentan, France. 11 July 1944.” Note the shoulder patch has been obscured by the censors....
Go's concurrency is one of the main reasons people like the language. You write go f(), send values through channels, and the runtime scheduler runs thousands of goroutines on just a few OS threads. It feels effortless. None of that...
About twenty years ago, I was working on what would eventually become RavenDB, and I needed an engine to handle queries. Writing a query engine from scratch is its own very large project, quite separate from writing a database engine. I...