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AUGUST 30
One Machine, Several Linux Kernels, No Hypervisor
Multikernel Linux's first public release lets several independent Linux kernels share one machine on bare metal—dedicated CPUs, memory, and devices, with no hypervisor in between.
Inspired by lkml.iu.edu · Cong Wang
AUGUST 21
Terafab Is More Interesting Than Its 100-Million-Square-Foot Headline
Terafab's 100-million-square-foot pitch is hard to ignore, but the more interesting experiment is collapsing mask design, logic and memory fab, packaging, and test into one SpaceX-style vertical manufacturing loop.
Inspired by terafab.ai · SpaceX / Tesla
AUGUST 17
The Next Moon Race Is About Infrastructure, Not Flags
China and the United States are racing toward crewed south-pole landings and lunar bases. The finish line is infrastructure—power, water, comms, transport—not a flag, and not legal ownership of the Moon.
Inspired by science.slashdot.org · Slashdot
Reticulum Treats the Network Underneath It as Replaceable
Reticulum is a transport-agnostic networking stack for communications that should keep working when the Internet does not—compelling because the transport is replaceable, while metadata, radio physics, and a missing independent spec still matter.
Inspired by reticulum.network
AUGUST 07
RAM Prices May Be Showing Us the Shape of the AI Boom
PCPartPicker’s DRAM curves and manufacturer capacity math suggest AI HBM demand is squeezing consumer RAM—and also that demand destruction or a supply supercycle could reverse today’s nearly vertical price charts.
Inspired by ca.pcpartpicker.com · PCPartPicker
JULY 25
Renewable Ammonia Could Make Fertilizer Production Far More Local
UMN’s wind/solar-powered ammonia demo shows fertilizer can follow intermittent renewables—arguing local nitrogen production matters for resilience when global fertilizer supply chains break.
Inspired by ammoniaenergy.org · Ammonia Energy Association
JULY 23
We Made Lighting Cheaper, So We Used More of It
Paul Bogard examines how cities turned efficient LEDs into another source of excessive night light—arguing programmable, directional fixtures should illuminate only where useful, and that darkness should not be treated as a design failure.
Inspired by spectrum.ieee.org · Paul Bogard
JULY 20
When the Publishing Pipeline Goes Down
GitHub Actions went down for a significant part of the day and blocked publishes to this site. Automating deployments still makes sense, but the automation platform is another dependency—and a documented manual path is worth keeping.
Inspired by githubstatus.com · GitHub Status
JULY 15
When Infrastructure Failure Becomes Normal
Recurring major outages raise a harder question than home batteries: how a wealthy nation treats public infrastructure failure.
Inspired by electrek.co · Jo Borrás
How Infrastructure Works — Deb Chachra
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us.