MergeStat taps open source and SQL to bring 'operational analytics' to software engineering tcrn.ch/3VEcEFy by Paul Sawers (not on here much)

I created a Google Calendar event in the year 7777 CE, but the start time in the confirmation email is off by an hour from the one in the calendar. I love imagining the heavy sigh from whoever handles this bug report.

🆕 Drawing improvement: just like in your favorite graphics editor, you can now hold down the Shift key on your keyboard to draw shapes with right angles! placemark.io

The Unnecessary Peril of the Fuller Projection somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/the…

#OpenAI's ChatGPT is ready to become a lawyer, it passed a practice bar exam! Scoring 70% (35/50). Guessing randomly would happen < 0.00000001% of the time

A Neat XOR Trick mattkeeter.com/blog/2022-12-1…

US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved energy.gov/articles/doe-n…

It's that time of year where I post this one

A detailed #map of our universe has become available to Internet users medium.com/@wwco/a-detail…

In 24 hours, Elon Musk banned accounts he said he never would, made up new rules to justify it, threatened legal action against a 20-year-old, pontificated on how doxing is banned on the platform, and then immediately doxed a man. trib.al/V9JEL5O

(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video. Well, I have good news.

Twitter suspends Mastodon's account, making a good case for Mastodon tcrn.ch/3WiA0Aw by Taylor Hatmaker

[Thread] Twitter suspends accounts of journalists who cover Elon Musk, including WaPo's Drew Harwell, NYT's Ryan Mac, CNN's Donie O'Sullivan, and Aaron Rupar (follow @bencollins on bluesky) x.com/oneunderscore_… techmeme.com/221215/p42#a22…

GTK File Chooser Dialog gets a thumbnail view after 18 years thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/12/…

Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton, Mesa, and More old.reddit.com/r/linux/commen…

Corkscrew Optics Yield Direct Line to Electronics spectrum.ieee.org/optical-comput…

Twitter won’t let you post your Facebook, Instagram, and Mastodon handles tcrn.ch/3Yv581v by @indianidle

Elon Musk Trung Phan @stillgray Why did you just suspend Paul Graham? He said he no longer believes in Twitter and was instantly suspended. Doesn’t seem like this is a safe place to speak freely anymore.

There's no longer any tech promo value here, so my last link here is gone. You can find me at the fuzzy elephant place.