The role of media coverage in the bubble formation: Evidence from the Bitcoin market. “This paper explores the role of media coverage in bubble formation in the Bitcoin market. Three main findings emerge.” Interesting analysis.

What if failure is the plan? by danah boyd. Interesting read on Twitter’s crawl towards failure (or is it?) and the wider discussion on failure actually being the target of the plan.

The genius of Lionel Messi just walking around. “Messi is soccer’s great ambler. To keep your eyes fixed on him throughout a match is both spellbinding and deadly dull. It is also a lesson in the art and science of watching a soccer match.”

Auto-M4B Docker docker container for the powerful auto-m4b “wrapper for ffmpeg and mp4v2 to merge, split or and manipulate audiobook files with chapters. Although m4b-tool is designed to handle m4b files, nearly all audio formats should be supported, e.g. mp3, aac, ogg, alac and flac.”

Biblioteche: Umberto Eco. “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” – Borges.

Open sourced code for Quotes the Daydreamer Android App.

The Tyranny Of Time. Interesting read on how the clock superseded Time. The title should more aptly been ‘The Tyranny of the Clock’. “Like money, the clock has come to be seen as the thing it was only supposed to represent: The clock has become time itself.”

Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. The heart was in the right place but as they concluded “Children can be protected without companies combing through personal data”.

Why did the OpenSSL Punycode vulnerability Happen? “an explicit IETF design choice, that made punycode decoding part of X.509 verification, without even a line of acknowledgement in the Security Considerations.”

In Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. — Personal Recollections. By Steven M. Bellovin.

So long and thanks for all the bits, Ian Levy, the NCSC’s departing Technical Director, discusses life, the universe, and everything (but mostly cyber security). “The trick for making cyber security scalable in the long term is to get the various security burdens in the right place and incentivise the entities that need to manage those burdens properly.”

Quotes the Daydreamer, after a long hiatus, a new version of my favorite Android app. „tD“ is an Android app that displays witty, wise and enigmatic curated quotes in the Screen saver (formerly Daydream) mode. Clean, free and great curation of quotes, just the way I like it.

The Essential Philip K. Dick, by Molly Young (NYT). The article itself is a joy to read - “Dick picked up on sinister cultural undercurrents the way a cat senses a can of tuna being opened six rooms away.”, ”you’ll be left with the sense that something terrifying has wandered into your mind, looked around and set up permanent camp.” and “Be sure to notify loved ones before starting the book so they can initiate a rescue effort in case you get lost in there.”

Regulating DAOs, interesting article by Bruce Schneier. Do not agree with most of the logic though and mostly agree with the comprehensive rebuttal by Peter Van Valkenburgh.

What is Amazon? A long, rewarding and enriching read. Won’t highlight anything just because the whole read is worth it.

On Design Thinking, by Nick Foster. A crib against ‘Design Thinking’ Bo ho.

24 Quotes that became a compass for my life, David Hieatt. “The best quotes come into your life and never leave. They are on repeat in your head. They become a secret mentor. A board of directors. All rolled into one powerful single sentence. (…) These quotes have definitely helped me, I hope they can help you.”

Monzo growth, by Tom Blomfield, co-founder. “how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years” - interesting read.

Return of the Lazy Billionaire, you need some dose of reality like this once in a while.

Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed for reading research papers and technical books. Interesting features.

What is the piece of writing advice that has helped you most, personally?. Some interesting thoughts.

Why Do Rich People Love Quiet? “For an hour I pretended to be a meek, muted version of myself. No one had told me to do this. I instinctively understood that, in this unfamiliar environment, the proper way to express my gratitude was to hush myself.”

TCP Congestion Control: A Systems Approach, by Peterson, Brakmo, and Davie. “What we have tried to do in this book is provide a framework for understanding congestion control as a systems problem, and to characterize the many approaches along a few main themes. For example, our work on TCP Vegas opened up a line of research that continues today, where the aim is to avoid severe congestion rather than react after it has set in. We thus consider avoidance-based approaches as one of the main categories of congestion control.”

Random acts of kindness and 50 ways to be ridiculously generous—and feel ridiculously good.

The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time. A nice profile of David Mills.

Everyone seems to be suddenly proposing RFC-like protocols - Robin Sloan’s Spring ‘83, Tom Critchlow’s Library JSON

Worldly Wisdom, some proverbs from around the world.

Winnnie the Pooh in Latin. When it reached the New York Times bestseller list in 1960, the Christian Science Monitor wrote, “It is hard to conceive of a Latin work more calculated than this attractive volume to fascinate the modern public, young and old.”

GCHQ puzzles. Daily ones on their Twitter feed as well.

“piece of writing advice that has helped you most”.

He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal – an interesting profile of June Huh. In Times of Scarcity, War and Peace, a Ukrainian Finds the Magic in Math – a profile of Maryna Viazovska who became the second woman to win a Fields Medal in the award’s 86-year history

Patrick Collison’s Questions. A lot to chew on.

Gödel’s Loophole. “In 1947 Einstein and economist Oskar Morgenstern accompanied Gödel to his U.S. citizenship exam because they were concerned about his unpredictable behavior: During his voluminous preparation for the exam, Gödel said, he had uncovered a flaw in the U.S. constitution that could lead to a dictatorship.”

Putin’s Philosophers, NATO’s Philosophers and An International Relations Theory Guide to the War in Ukraine — interesting reads to understand how we got here and what lies ahead.

10 Lessons I learned walking 10,000 Kilometers in 2021’s Pandamic Year. Meditative and reassuringly approachable. Long read, and therein lies its comtemplative beauty.

The Chinese Room Thinks. “In my view, one of the most famous thought experiments in philosophy, John Searle’s Chinese Room experiment, has been decisively answered by science.”

Crony Beliefs and and an addendum on this topc. A great set of essays - “Earlier I argued that other people are the cause of all our epistemic problems. Now I find myself arguing that they’re also our best solution.” From the author of The Elephant in the Brain

An app can be a home-cooked meal - Robin Sloan’s essays are always a treat to read. “When you liberate programming from the requirement to be general and professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether.”

103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known. Kevin Kelly on his 70th birthday. Every single one of them is worth thinking over.

Edsger W. Dijkstra: a Commemoration, “a multiauthored portait of Edsger Wybe Dijkstra that consists of testimonials written by several friends, colleagues, and students of his” (PDF).

chez baldwin, “Some of the sounds that filled the abode of James Baldwin in St. Paulde-Vence,. These songs document the vinyl records left behind in Chez Baldwin after his death in 1987”. A Spotify playlist.