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The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses
func_arena interviews Kristian Duske, creator of the TrenchBroom Quake level editor, about starting it in 2010 as a Mac user, rewrites from Objective-C to C++, the move from wxWidgets to Qt, a stubborn CSG algorithm, and how he maintains a widely used open-source project alongside a full-time job - despite never making another map.
10 min · 2,295 words
I'm Not Going to Have Blood on My HandsWhy Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest
Columbia Journalism Review interviews former ESPN producer Nicole Noren on quitting over sports-betting partnerships, and what it means when newsrooms normalize gambling promotion.
6 min · 1,441 words
Deepthi Sigireddi from Supabase
Phil Eaton interviews Deepthi Sigireddi, Head of Databases at Supabase and former Vitess project lead at PlanetScale, about 25 years of database scaling work, leading Vitess, sharding Postgres with Multigres, incidents she learned from, and what agents creating many tiny databases mean next.
6 min · 1,473 words
This Digital Radio Gets Messages to the World's Remotest LocationsIt sends encrypted signals with no satellites or relay towers required
IEEE Spectrum interviews Rhizomatica’s Peter Bloom on HERMES, an open-source HF data radio that pushes files and optional encryption over the ionosphere for remote and emergency communities.
3 min · 594 words
Alex Alejandre interviews CHICKEN Scheme maintainer Peter Bex on the 6.0.0 release, Scheme standardization, Postgres versus MySQL/SQLite, and working in Clojure.
15 min · 3,518 words
Dylan Patel's Information Machine
Substrate profiles Dylan Patel and SemiAnalysis: how a research shop became an information machine covering AI infrastructure, semiconductors, and the supply chains that power frontier models.
14 min · 3,133 words
ECHO presents Suzanne Ciani’s 1976 Buchla Cookbook as an open digital edition — original patches, diagrams, and a conversation with Ciani on documenting the Buchla 200 for composers and practitioners.
30 min · 6,971 words
A Cocktail Party in the Street: An Interview with Alan Stillman
Edible Geography's 2010 interview with Alan Stillman, founder of T.G.I. Friday's and Smith & Wollensky, on how he opened the first Friday's in 1965 as a public cocktail party for single men and women in Manhattan, and how it reshaped American casual dining. An expanded version of a piece for the New City Reader food issue.
18 min · 4,085 words