Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage https://maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-ambitious-is-a-clever-form
Substack
being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
on starting, doing, being, and becoming.
Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched https://www.eumetsat.int/europes-first-geostationary-sounder-satellite-launched
EUMETSAT
Europe’s first geostationary sounder satellite is launched
Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 is successfully launched.
Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishing https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-cod-have-been-shrinking-dramatically-for-decades-now-scientists-say-theyve-solved-the-mystery-180986920/
Smithsonian Magazine
These Cod Have Been Shrinking Dramatically for Decades. Now, Scientists Say They've Solved the Mystery
Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, according to new research
Hidden interface controls that affect usability https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2025/stop-hiding-my-controls-hidden-interface-controls-are-affecting-usability
ACM Interactions
Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Usability | IX Magazine Issue XXXII.4 July - August 2025
In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart [1] first introduced the notion of
Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/cgi-bin-performance/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin
Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …
July 5, 1687: When Newton explained why you don't float away https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/when-newton-explained-why-you-dont-float-away/
The Multiverse Employee Handbook Podcast Quantum Physics Meets Comedy
July 5, 1687: When Newton Explained Why You Don’t Float Away
On this day in 1687, Isaac Newton published the Principia—a book that explained why apples fall, why planets don’t wander off, and why NASA is still lighting enormous tubes on fire to fling humans into orbit 337 years later.
Get the location of the ISS using DNS https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/get-the-location-of-the-iss-using-dns/
Terence Eden’s Blog
Get the location of the ISS using DNS
I love DNS esoterica. Weird little things that you can shove in the global directory to be distributed around the world instantly(ish). Domain names, like www.example.com usually resolve to servers. As much as we think of "the cloud" as being some intangible…
Functions Are Vectors (2023) https://thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/
thenumb.at
Functions are Vectors
Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-07-01/a-17-year-old-teen-refutes-a-mathematical-conjecture-proposed-40-years-ago.html
EL PAÍS English
A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago
Hannah Cairo has solved the so-called Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a problem in harmonic analysis closely linked to other central results in the field. This fall, she will begin her doctoral studies at the University of Maryland
Claude Code Pro Limit? Hack It While You Sleep https://github.com/terryso/claude-auto-resume
GitHub
GitHub - terryso/claude-auto-resume
Contribute to terryso/claude-auto-resume development by creating an account on GitHub.
Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics https://alpha.lisagui.com/
LisaGUI
A Lisa-themed Graphical User Interface
Can we test it? Yes, was can [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqC3tudPH6w
YouTube
Can we test it? Yes, we can! - Mitchell Hashimoto
As the co-founder of HashiCorp, Mitchell has been instrumental in the development of tools that many of us use daily, like Vagrant, Terraform, Vault, and more. He also helped shape the initial testing strategies for them, gaining hard-won insights into testing…