I follow a lot of RSS feeds to make it easier to find interesting articles without having to regularly visit my entire list of interesting blogs which aren't updated often. As you can see, I find a dizzying array of topics interesting. For example today while taking the dog outside over my lunch break, looking up treated me to this interesting halo around the sun. Apparently it's caused by ice crystals interacting with the sun's rays.
Ronny Chieng, who you might know from The Daily Show or movies, gave one of the more amusing commencement speeches I've seen recently. It was better received than the speech Eric Schmidt gave where he got booed for his comments about AI. There have been a number of other recent commencement speakers telling graduates that they'll have a hard time finding employment thanks to so many CEO's obsession with AI. I think that shows how out of touch these speakers, often members of upper management of various companies, are with their workers or potential employees.
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/tracewilliamcowen/ronny-chieng-ai-speech-harvard
Apparently some of the Tesla staff members charged with reviewing video footage of their "Full Self Driving" feature in order to improve its performance don't trust Tesla's self driving technology. I can't say I blame them.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/why-teslas-ai-trainers-dont-trust-its-self-driving-tech-or-its-safety-stats-2026-05-28/
I love cool cars so I found this story about how hot rodders are using 3-D printing to help build parts for their cars interesting. I've heard people are doing the same thing to restore old computers.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/old-school-hot-rodders-are-using-high-tech-3d-scanners-to-make-custom-parts
This proposed Lego kit for building a model of the CROCUS reactor looks very cool. The instructions and parts are already available if you'd like to build it yourself.
https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/e235fbd0-8ab8-4575-bd1c-37a25625f118
I found this article about the history of Digital Research's DR DOS interesting. I used DR DOS in the late late 1980s when it was first released. I even submitted a bug report to Digital Research when I found a program which didn't behave properly under DR DOS. The bug was caused by a system call which behaved differently than the same system call on MS-DOS did when passed a string containing wildcards instead of an actual filename. I even included a TSR (terminate and stay resident) program to work around the bug.
https://dfarq.homeip.net/dr-dos-revenge-of-cp-m/
This article about how people discovered someone they knew was super intelligent was interesting. I used to work for a boss down at the Washington Navy Yard who would type long assembly language source files on the old CRT terminals we were stuck with on mainframes back in the late 1980s. You could even ask him questions while he was typing and he would answer you with only a minor slowdown in his typing. After typing these long programs, he would use the assemble and run option and his programs worked. I was amazed that he could remember variable names he had used several pages of source code ago. He was also amazingly effective with his explanations. He's start out explaining at his level of understanding and if he saw you weren't understanding him, he'd adjust his explanation until you understood him and did it so you didn't feel insulted by the simpler explanation.
https://pleated-jeans.com/2026/05/22/people-share-the-moment-they-knew-they-were-in-the-presence-of-a-truly-massive-intellect/
Some of you may have build kits from Heathkit in the past. I built two computer kits, an H-89 which ran CP/M and an H-151 which ran MS-DOS. I also built one of their dot matrix printer kits. Here's a video tour of their factory back in the day.
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/15/inside-the-heathkit-factory/
I found the news that plants react to anesthetics in a similar fashion to humans both fascinating and a little disturbing.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11586303/
If you've never seen the TV series Halt and Catch Fire, it's definitely worth watching. It focuses on the early days of personal computing which sounds as if it would be boring but this show manages to keep it entertaining. The title refers to the mythical HCF op code which causes the CPU to catch fire.
https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire
Reading about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon reminds me of how much I enjoyed watching it the couple times I've seen it. I think I may be due to watch it again.
https://yusufaytas.com/why-crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-is-a-masterpiece
If you've heard this story which Kurt Vonnegut told a few times, it illustrates why I like him so much as an author. I think I would have enjoyed meeting him as well. His books will both entertain you and lead you in directions you would have never expected when you started reading it.
https://chrisglass.com/2024/11/01/kurt-vonnegut-buys-an-envleope/
Before I became a father, I would have been skeptical about how much the experience changes someone. When I held my daughter for the first time, it completely changed me. Those changes were for the better although I would have doubted that a few years before.
https://www.sciencealert.com/fatherhood-dramatically-rewires-your-brain-scans-reveal
I've managed to clear out some of my backlog of interesting links with this link dump. I hope you find something in here to inform or entertain you.
