SuperGeekery: A blog probably of interest only to nerds by John F Morton.

A blog prob­a­bly of inter­est only to nerds by John F Mor­ton.

Link List

Wel­come to my link library. These are not links to con­tent I have cre­at­ed unless you see that men­tioned in the link’s descrip­tion. These are links I found inter­est­ing enough to want to keep track of. If you read Craft Link List, the Craft CMS newslet­ter I used to write, this page is a replace­ment of sorts for that exer­cise. Enough talk. Let’s hit the links.

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18Jun2025

Katy Cowan | How Online Publishers Can Survive in a Post-Search World

It seems iron­ic that I’m even typ­ing this, but the very thing I’ve delib­er­ate­ly moved away from over the years — putting my face to my brand — has now become absolute­ly essen­tial. If Cre­ative Boom, or any inde­pen­dent pub­li­ca­tion, is going to sur­vive the next 12 months, we need to act fast. And I’m not being dra­mat­ic. AI is fun­da­men­tal­ly chang­ing how peo­ple access infor­ma­tion…

07Apr2025

The Curve is Bending

We’ve final­ly crossed an inflec­tion point of mod­el util­i­ty where the out­put is actu­al­ly worth more than the cost for real dev work. It’s start­ing to make sense to throw lots of mon­ey towards infer­ence.

08May2024

How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. Qureshi

Intel­li­gent peo­ple sim­ply aren’t will­ing to accept answers that they don’t under­stand — no mat­ter how many oth­er peo­ple try to con­vince them of it, or how many oth­er peo­ple believe it, if they aren’t able to con­vince them selves of it, they won’t accept it.

25Apr2024

Why we suck at estimating software projects

You can plan, strate­gize, chunk, fold, spin­dle, and muti­late a project for count­less per­son-hours, and you still won’t know the dif­fi­cul­ties that lay ahead in actu­al­ly writ­ing the code.

19Sep2023

Free for Developers

Devel­op­ers and Open Source authors now have a mas­sive amount of ser­vices offer­ing free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all to make informed deci­sions.

14Apr2023

DiskStation® DS1823xs+ | Synology Inc.

Flex­i­ble large-scale stor­age for small and medi­um-sized busi­ness­es. The Syn­ol­o­gy DS1823xs+ is capa­ble of hard­ware-accel­er­at­ed video transcod­ing. It is equipped with AMD Ryzen V1780B D‑1567 12-core proces­sor and sup­ports Intel Quick Sync Video, which pro­vides hard­ware accel­er­a­tion for video transcod­ing tasks.