• Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press, a briefing on leaking sensitive information updated for the modern US administration. The biggest takeaways are on personal safety and reducing risk that these leaks can be traced back to you.
  • The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler, a comparison between modern tech bro-ligarchs and historical oligarchs which supported Hitler’s rise to power. Both leveraged their media empires and chased economic gains at the cost of individual freedoms and totalitarian rule.
  • WikiTok, a web-app which transforms various Wikipedia pages into an endlessly scrollable feed. Perhaps a more useful way to kill time than TikTok.
  • Building a Rust service with Nix, a detailed walkthrough of building Rust services, first in an Ubuntu VM, and then using Nix. This is a map of content of several blog posts by FasterThanLime, each of which teaches a valuable lesson on composable software services.
  • How Progressives Froze the American Dream, or more specifically, how a lack of mobility for modern Americans was driven by progressive policies. In particular, strict zoning laws and regulation prevents the construction of new, dense housing in the most productive parts of the country. People should be able to live near where jobs are plentiful, but suburban sprawl and NIMBY-ism has crippled upwards mobility via a lack of physical mobility. This one is a hefty piece, but worth reading!