Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/foursquare-open-source-places/

Everyone should know how to solder. It's not hard and it can save you a ton of money because when your electrical appliances or electronic equipment stop working, it is often simply a loose connection because a solder point has come loose. #handy

https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/113442601741099044

Facebook is not a fully open platform, but the protocol it is built on, HTTP, is fully decentralized and open and anyone can run an alternative Facebook server on top of it, so I think it is ok to say Facebook is a decentralized social network.

Also once Jack had lunch with Mark Zuckerberg, so it is ok to have Jack's picture on every article about the decentralized social network Facebook.

Breaking, president-elect appoints "Man who famously hates soup" as the new head of the U.S. Department of Soups.

The new Linkin Park songs are actually quite good. It might be helpful to consider them as if the band were named "Linkin Park Tribute," which could evoke fewer mixed feelings of nostalgia.

pro tip from @wilcoxjay for everyone who's doing line edits on a PLDI submission right now: https://jamesrwilcox.com/runtime.html