- Camestros Felapton on whether there's an inherent political tendency to subgenres of science fiction and fantasy, with bonus Judge Dredd mention
- A post doing the rounds about how hard it is to run a mail server. I think this is too paranoid - there's no need to posit an oligopoly, things are the way they are because email was designed for networks where you could trust all of the actors. And I'm old enough to remember what it was like running a mail server before spam: it was always fiddly and annoying, the kind of work you should really be getting paid to do.
- Part one of a podcast interview with the current custodian of Metafilter. Even though I try not to hang out on Metafilter as much as I used to - it triggers the same cycle of crankiness that kept me on Twitter for too long - I respect it.
- An epic case of procrastination to get to the bottom of which Python modules have binaries compiled with a bad floating-point arithmetic flag
- An extremely old-school website about extremely old-school guitar amplifiers