Links for July 2026

“Blogs have shaped our philosophical worldviews, found us careers and friends, and changed our lives.” Write Carol and Austin Chen. “But many great bloggers have stopped blogging. … So we’re launching the Blog Revival Project, to crowdfund $1,000+ bounties for good bloggers.” We plug ADS who they already have on the list and would consider pledging towards Troof and Max Goodbird. People on twitter have discovered a compact, visual way of representing recipes as a small card-sized image. The source, unsurprisingly, seems to be cookingforengineers.com, but already people are innovating — see for example this project and this project. a theory of invention; or why you’re an inventor too “Potatoes and corn for dinner” diet — “Last time, I tried the ‘potatoes and cottage cheese for dinner’ diet, and I lost 1.10lb per week for six weeks. This time, I thought it’d be fun to try a ‘potatoes and corn for dinner’ diet, and I’ve lost weight at the same rate: 1.10lb per week!” Perhaps…