What I've been reading

• End of Year Review: the Russo-Ukraine War, Lawrence Freedman

• Dark Energy May Not Exist: Something Stranger Might Explain The Universe, Michael Irving. Super interesting theory now with some supporting evidence that attempts to explain the expansion of the universe without dark matter. The idea that time passes differently between galactic filaments and voids is particularly crazy in my mind and opens the potential for the universe to be far older than we think.

• POTA Activation Report: Upton Country Park, Ian Renton. Parks on the air, what a cool thing.

• How Do You Like What You’ve Built?, Morris Brodersen

• Goodbye Github Pages, Hello Coolify, Brandon Quakkelaar

• Kakizome, Japanese way of new-years resolution, Harimus blog

• 30 December 2024 – 3 January 2025 Walknotes

• The spiralling cost of borrowing spells trouble for Rachel Reeves – but she must hold her nerve, Jonathan Portes

• They squandered the holy grail, Xe Iaso

• Why Go Should Sometimes Be a No-Go, Wouter Groeneveld

• How We Cracked a 512-Bit DKIM Key for Less Than $8 in the Cloud

• Be aware of the Makefile effect, William Woodruff

• Apple is Killing Swift, Jacob Bartlett

• End of Year Review: the Middle East, Lawrence Freedman

• Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night, Dafydd Vaughan

• Don't use cosine similarity carelessly, Piotr Migdał

• A Primer on Python Metaclasses, Jake VanderPlas

• Technology, ai, billionaires and the world order…, Martha Lane Fox

• Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet, Chris Siebenmann

• Moving on from React, a Year Later, Kelly Sutton

• The Government needs its growth explanation, Giles Wilkes

• g.co, Google's official URL shortcut (update: or Google Workspace's domain verification, see bottom), is compromised. Zach Latta

• Build It Yourself, Armin Ronacher

• Until we tackle the nihilistic rage behind terrorism, it will stay the menace of our age, Kenan Malik

• 228. DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why (History Tells Us), Steven Sinofsky

• DeepSeek FAQ, Ben Thompson

• Vast carelessness, Robert Gordon

• TIL How To Make Brown Noise in Python, Mathew Duggan