What I've been reading

• Why Nothing Works, Jennifer Pahlka

• Avoid the nightmare bicycle, Geoffrey Litt

• The Great Crisis, Lawrence Freedman

• Tailscale is pretty useful, Fatih Altinok

• Don’t ask forgiveness, radiate intent, Elizabeth Ayer

• You might not need Redis, Victor Blomqvist

• The Three Types of Money Behind Silicon Valley's Rise to Dominance, Dave Karpf

• Visualising modern digital government, Helena Trippe & Tim Paul

• Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter, Nelson Elhage

• Building Websites With LLMS, Jim Nielsen

• ‘He nails it on the first take’: how the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice, John Harris

• Can we communally deprecate git checkout?, Mira Welner

• Lobste.rs doesn't geoblock the UK due to OSA

• 2025 Spine Race – Four Seasons Total Bogscaping, John Kelly

• Spine Race DNF 2025, Hannah Richman

• Punching left or punching back?, Jennifer Pahlka

• A Society That Lost Focus, Lionel Dricot

• ‘60 hours of hell’: hardship is the only way forward at the Barkley Marathons, Jared Beasley

• Adolescence reveals a terrifying truth: smartphones are poison for boys’ minds, Martha Gill

• Do you need another map? Probably not, Vicky Houghton-Price

• Artificial intelligence learns to reason, Melanie Mitchell