links, etc Silca Chain Waxing System Review: It’s Like Brewing Coffee i must confess, i love this. i too love the wax and am in the process of making the conversion. winter’s offline maintenance opportunities provide the perfect time to make the switch. Cormac McCarthy: Vanity Fair writer Vincenzo Barney explains himself. i absolutely love how the literary folks are losing their shit over this article abot cormac mccarthy. this is, i suppose, my equivalent of “owning the libs” for literary dorks....

links, etc SankeyMATIC: Make Beautiful Flow Diagrams h/t molly white for the pointer to this.

links, etc Don’t call it a Substack. - Anil Dash it’s an email wrappered with a VC driven capture model. get a blog. Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community | Foursquare this is one of the more interestingin opensource releases as of late.

links, etc Nvidia’s Delayed Blackwell AI Chips Are Overheating in Servers | PCMag Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech | Knight First Amendment Institute - with the migration from twitter to bluesky this seemed like relevant reading. Homebrew and Workbrew — Homebrew - this is the first work wrapper around homebrew that i’m actually kind of interested in. Does Bluesky have the juice? - by Max Read - Read Max - more twitter -> bluesky migration reading....

links, etc Trust in scientists hasn’t recovered from COVID. Some humility could help. - Ars Technica some humility and empathy from the “in this house we believe in science” households might be warranted here as well.