BillG the Manager: How Bill Gates Scoped Product Leadership at Microsoft
TL;DR Steven Sinofsky recounts how Bill Gates led Microsoft by setting high-level strategy rather than micromanaging every project. Gates prioritized…
New Research Revives Ancient Nasal Rinse as a Tool to Fight Colds
TL;DR Recent clinical work links regular saline nasal irrigation to shorter, milder colds, with a large 2024 trial reporting about…
LaTeX ‘Coffee Stains’ PDF (2021) — CTAN entry with unavailable full text
TL;DR A PDF titled "LaTeX Coffee Stains" appears on CTAN with a 2021 date, but the source indicates the full…
LLM Failure Modes Now Seen in Human Conversation, Author Observes
TL;DR An essay by Jakob Kastelic argues that conversational shortcomings once framed as large language model (LLM) failure modes are…
Commodore 1541 floppy drive packs a 1 MHz MOS 6502 and can run BASIC
TL;DR A Commodore History YouTube video shows a 1982 Commodore 1541 floppy drive contains a 1 MHz MOS 6502 CPU…
Many Hells of WebDAV: Building a Go WebDAV/CalDAV Client and Server
TL;DR A small team attempted to implement a WebDAV/CalDAV client and server in Go for Homechart and found the ecosystem…
Archive: Sugar Industry Shaped Research to Shift Heart-Disease Blame to Fat
TL;DR A UCSF analysis of mid-20th century industry records found sugar trade groups worked with nutrition scientists to emphasize fat…
Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle Through Vasocomputation
TL;DR A meditation practitioner frames relaxation as a wakeful skill and explores a theory—vasocomputation—that vascular smooth-muscle tension helps stabilise mental…
US Job Openings Fall to Lowest Point in Over a Year, Report Shows
TL;DR Bloomberg reported on Jan. 7, 2026 that U.S. job openings have fallen to their lowest level in more than…
LaTeX ‘Coffee Stains’ package documentation (PDF) — comments and notes
TL;DR A PDF titled "LaTeX Coffee Stains" is available at a CTAN URL but the full text is not accessible…