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The side-effects of any medication need to be weighed against the cost of the underlying medical condition going untreated. Sometimes that cost-benefit calculation works out in fav…

I was at a place recently that had a nude sauna. The year before a guy had been caught propping up his phone discreetly in a corner to film people, so this year their policy was th…

> One possibility the abolition of the license fees reportedly due to Red from users of Apple’s ProRes RAW codec. This would be great but I’m not going to hold my breath.

Email rendering is such a mess. It’s insane that the standard way to lay out an HTML email in 2026 is with tables. If you look at https://www.caniemail.com/scoreboard/ there are ev…

That’s the goal of every publicly-traded corporation in a mature market. Wall Street demands ever-increasing returns and they can’t grow their customer base much so cost-cutting an…

iOS 15 is a really old version but if developers want to put in the effort to support old versions, why not let them? Sometimes it feels like Apple thinks I work for them and have …

I briefly tried R2 and there were so many issues and absolutely no way to contact anyone at Cloudflare about it. Backblaze weren’t much better - they at least have support but they…

I think that if every app has to explain to the user how to use their own operating system, that operating system is not intuitive. I’ve been using Macs for a long time but I had t…

That’s less that China needs to buy from the rest of the world, so it’s still a win.

It’s interesting that they’re using Blitz for parsing HTML/CSS, which is at an early stage with a lot of features still not implemented, which doesn’t matter for their use-case of …

This sounds like the kind of feature that ends up being quick to initially implement but takes up way more engineering time to maintain than everything else combined. The author co…

In speaking with non-technical friends who are anti-data centers, I get the impression that they only recently discovered what a data center even was and are oblivious to how much …

Other companies will take cues based on how well this goes. The only way to prevent every single device you own becoming a billboard is to raise hell whenever a company tries it.

One thing I’ve learned on my journey of switching away from AWS is that I took reliability for granted and a lot of third party services are not as solid. You have to do your homew…

Compile times are being worked on: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2026/roadmap-...

> ownership, generics, safety, Async Aren’t they the main selling points of Rust? Why use Rust over another language if you’re not using its main features?

I don’t understand why many sites with news updates / blogs don’t offer an RSS feed. Are they expecting me to keep visiting the site over and over to see if there is new content? T…

Ladybird has far more funding. The original blog post said Servo brought in $7k last month. Compare that to Ladybird and the first donation on this list already exceeds Servo’s tot…

Is there actually a genuine use-case for inserting fake things onto maps? I can only see frivolous and disinformation use-cases, but maybe I’m short-sighted.

Some people have suggested AI could usher in an age of abundance, but it does seem like it’s just making everything more expensive.