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The Story of Suica, Japan’s First IC Transit Card

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:23:00 +0000

The Story of Suica, Japan’s First IC Transit Card

Interesting look at the history of transit cards in Japan

Your executable is a SQLite database

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:35:00 +0000

Your executable is a SQLite database

Replacing ELF with a SQLite DB

12 Sunsets

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:28:00 +0000

12 Sunsets

Ed Ruscha’s photos of Sunset Boulevard

The Hardest Way to Make a GIF

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:30:00 +0000

The Hardest Way to Make a GIF

Wonderfully convoluted

the computer at the bottom of a canal

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:18:00 +0000

the computer at the bottom of a canal

An interesting article about a failed computer system in the 1980s

The Tower Keeps Rising

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:27:00 +0000

The Tower Keeps Rising

An essay on how LLMs are reducing the need for a shared understanding of a codebase between the developers working on it

18 Words

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:20:00 +0000

18 Words

An addictive but difficult daily word game

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:18:00 +0000

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

Super interesting and readable look at how roles in LLMs enable prompt injection

Signalbox

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Signalbox

A live map of train locations in Great Britain

World

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0000

World

A beautiful spinning globe rendered in text embedded in its own JavaScript source code

Half-Baked Product

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Half-Baked Product

This rang true

On the semantic web

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0000

On the semantic web

Don’t reinvent the wheel when building web UIs, use the semantic tags that already exist

Permissioned Data Diary 1: To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:14:00 +0000

Permissioned Data Diary 1: To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt

I’ve not finished reading this series of posts yet, but it’s an interesting look at how atproto is designing private data in to the protocol

The AT-URI Syntax Mess

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:14:00 +0000

The AT-URI Syntax Mess

An article about the difficulties of standardising AT URIs

How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:15:00 +0000

How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout

A very deep dive in to how logs are stored on disk by VictoriaLogs and how it makes searching them fast

Rebuilding the computer room

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:10:00 +0000

Rebuilding the computer room

An essay on how technology has become more closely intertwined with our lives over time