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Josh Ghent (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshghent.com
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What NTP actually is, how distributed systems keep their clocks in sync with UTC, and why the protocol matters.
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Which programming language should you learn first? It matters far less than the noise suggests.
Josh Müller (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshmuller.ca
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We’ve all got things we’ve been putting off dealing with. Even as I say that, you probably have a bit of anxiety well up thinking about (or trying to not think about ) one of those things. So, let’s do this together: Think of one thing you’ve been putting off. Now, before you sleep tonight, Take One Step towards making it happen. Think of the one “next action” , no matter how small, that you can t
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We have within each of our skulls an inbuilt technology that allows us to take our very thoughts — no matter how simple or complex — and through either rhythmic vibrations of air molecules propagating in waves between our mouths and our recipients’ ears, or through multiple series of lines of chaotic squiggles, dots, and shapes representing those vibrations in visual form, we have the capacity to
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Sometimes it’s easy to lull ourselves into that comfortable mindset that our day-to-day decisions only impact us — that it doesn’t really matter what we do, because the effects of our choices start and end with us. I think, with rare exception, that’s actually pretty far from the case. Many of choices we make day-to-day have very real impact on others. For examples, in no particular order: Choosin
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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Opera HTML-in-Canvas puts live DOM into WebGL and WebGPU scenes. Why that matters for playful—and practical—web experiments.
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Susanne Rockwell spent extraordinary time improving my writing at UC Davis. I still care about getting the words right because she taught me why that matters.
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Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram remains one of the best stories about a tool that becomes something more — and why that question still matters for AI.
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Building a /friends page made me think about the people I have let drift out of my life. A link cannot maintain a friendship, but it can be a reason to reach out and tell someone they still matter.
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A California appeals court revived an unfair-competition suit over Apple's past iPhone repair practices—not by finding liability, but by accepting a marketwide competition theory of injury.
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homeOS does not look like a Homebridge kill-switch so much as another HomeKit consumer. The real risk is what Apple does with HAP as Matter takes over—and Homebridge 2.0's dual transport is the insurance policy.
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Reticulum is a transport-agnostic networking stack for communications that should keep working when the Internet does not—compelling because the transport is replaceable, while metadata, radio physics, and a missing independent spec still matter.
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Chris Morgan’s case for Atom over RSS—not novelty, but clearer text constructs, summary versus content, and fewer parser guesses—while podcasting remains the stubborn RSS exception and twenty years of RFC 4287 still wait for wider adoption.
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LetsSeal is an open-source tool that creates cryptographic seals so anyone can verify a file has not changed since it was published—arguing authenticity often matters more than secrecy, especially as software supply-chain attacks become more common.
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Inkless is a free document-signing service built around legally defensible electronic signatures and an audit trail of consent, timestamps, and IP addresses—arguing process evidence matters more than a signature image on a PDF, though free accounts retain documents only 14 days.
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UMN’s wind/solar-powered ammonia demo shows fertilizer can follow intermittent renewables—arguing local nitrogen production matters for resilience when global fertilizer supply chains break.
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Reward Hacking in the Wild catalogs 3,607 user-reported incidents where AI agents optimized for apparent success—overeagerness, destructive actions, test tampering, and more—arguing constrained credentials and verification matter more than better prompting alone.
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Safari Technology Preview 248 adds experimental TC39 BigInt Math and WebDriver support for the Digital Credentials API—asking whether browsers should ship Stage 1 proposals for early testing, and noting that verified identity on the web may matter more than a few new JavaScript methods.
Joshua P. Steele (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuapsteele.com
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Defining fascism beyond the political buzzword: understanding its historical origins, characteristics, and why it matters today.
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If the government can take people without due process, none of our rights are safe. Why habeas corpus and due process matter for all of us.
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A brief meditation on God's economy, where the poor and overlooked matter more than wealth, status, or productivity.
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A first-day-of-school reflection from deep in graduate study, wondering about vocation, stamina, and why the work still matters.
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A Trinity Sunday sermon connecting Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to racial justice: why Trinitarian theology matters in 2020.
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The following templates come from *They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing*.
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Kevin Vanhoozer's concise account of what theologians should do and why the task matters for the church.
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A theological statement: Scripture as the Spirit's illocutionary act testifying to the Son, accomplishing redemption in God's people.
