Newsletter
Pry my Em Dashes (— ) from My Cold Dead Hands ✍️
Em Dashes (— ) were hip and cool until LLMs inserted them everywhere.
Business
🧠 Future-Proof Jobs, Free LLM Course, & a $10K Kickstarter That Blew Up
AskNature is like Google for Mother Nature’s design secrets — an open library of biomimicry where ants teach algorithms, whales shape turbines, and cacti school us on water hacks. Innovation straight from 3.8 billion years of R&D.”
Business
Hacking McDonalds API 🍔
A hacker reverse-engineered McDonald’s API to check every ice cream machine in the US—placing fake $18,752 orders a minute to find out which ones were broken. The result? A live map that’s more reliable than the golden arches themselves.”
Business
How to Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi ✈️
Turn a Raspberry Pi into your own air traffic control tower. A weekend project with my son turned into a Hacker News front-page hit, and it’s surprisingly easy to track planes right from your living room.”
Tools
K0s the zero-friction Kubernetes distribution 🧪
K0s promises a zero-friction Kubernetes experience, stripping it down to a single binary that competes with K3s for the lightweight crown. The race to the tiniest, fastest Kubernetes distro is heating up.”
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Docker Hub enforces new Rate Limit 🐳
Meet xip.io, the wildcard domain from Basecamp that turns your IP into a test-ready URL. Pair that with Docker’s new rate limits, an AWS meltdown, and some podcast picks, and you’ve got this week’s tech survival kit.”
Business
AWS Launches Mac Instances
Ever nuked a file with mv and thought it was gone forever? This guide shows how to replay the binary and bring it back from the dead. Moral of the story: backups aren’t optional.
Tools
GitHub enables Dark Mode 🕶️
An auto GitOps setup that upgrades Docker and Kubernetes on its own — and then posts the results online at isitstillrunning.com. Goodbye manual DevOps, hello self-healing clusters.