Nick Felker
@felker.dev
Software engineer. Pokemon master. Fantasy author.
https://felker.dev <-- Personal Website
https://felker.page <-- Fantasy Books
https://scifi.felker.dev <-- Sci-Fi Short Stories
https://fleker.medium.com <-- Blogging
https://felker.dev <-- Personal Website
https://felker.page <-- Fantasy Books
https://scifi.felker.dev <-- Sci-Fi Short Stories
https://fleker.medium.com <-- Blogging
We are always coming back to this
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We are always coming back to this
I'm watching Inheriting the Wind tonight and it's a good movie. It's hard to imagine evolution being such a legally controversial issue.
November 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I'm watching Inheriting the Wind tonight and it's a good movie. It's hard to imagine evolution being such a legally controversial issue.
Please let this be satire
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Please let this be satire
I'm happy my hometown schools helped the community by organizing for those who lost their snap benefits
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Glassboro Public Schools hosts food drive amidst SNAP benefits pause
The Trump administration abruptly ordered all states to stop issuing food stamp benefits on Saturday night, threatening aid to millions, as the federal government shutdown continues. The late-night N...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I'm happy my hometown schools helped the community by organizing for those who lost their snap benefits
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Poor households almost all having a refrigerator is a big economic success.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Poor households almost all having a refrigerator is a big economic success.
Total victory for beards
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Total victory for beards
Something I've been working on is a way to turn TikTok recipes into a structured recipe page that my girlfriend can collect instead of scrolling through a grid of video thumbnails.
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Something I've been working on is a way to turn TikTok recipes into a structured recipe page that my girlfriend can collect instead of scrolling through a grid of video thumbnails.
I bought another bookshelf last year to handle my collection of books. Somehow I'm once again in need of another bookshelf.
Me: We have too many books.
My husband: We have inadequate shelf space.
My husband: We have inadequate shelf space.
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I bought another bookshelf last year to handle my collection of books. Somehow I'm once again in need of another bookshelf.
Is it possible to move into economic populism without needing to fight a culture war too?
Honestly grateful to Douthat for this accessible distillation of this point of view. Going to be a great teaching tool that generates lots of conversation.
November 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Is it possible to move into economic populism without needing to fight a culture war too?
Fantastic news for all New Yorkers. It's time to build. Everywhere. For everyone.
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Fantastic news for all New Yorkers. It's time to build. Everywhere. For everyone.
The election results out of NJ are quite surprising. For Cape May to just get barely 50% is astonishing.
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The election results out of NJ are quite surprising. For Cape May to just get barely 50% is astonishing.
Who died and put the Pope in charge of Christian doctrine?
The previous pope!
The previous pope!
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Who died and put the Pope in charge of Christian doctrine?
The previous pope!
The previous pope!
Beards will change your life
I refuse to believe that this is the same person but three years apart
November 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Beards will change your life
I think it's good the mayor of the world's most globalist city is a rootless cosmopolitan
I find it so fascinating that even in a post explicitly claiming "I don't care" about being racist or not, they still engage in desperate verbal gymnastics to avoid acknowledging it. Like she's still too cowardly to say "I know this is racist but", has to be "I know people will call this racist but"
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I think it's good the mayor of the world's most globalist city is a rootless cosmopolitan
Seems very legit
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Seems very legit
At a Day of the Dead party tonight. I think we don't really talk enough about how Mexico is, like the US, a bunch of different people and cultures coming together to form a single nation.
November 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
At a Day of the Dead party tonight. I think we don't really talk enough about how Mexico is, like the US, a bunch of different people and cultures coming together to form a single nation.
Reposted by Nick Felker
A JWST wonder, once again! 🔭
This is the image of the NGC-2440 planetary nebula as seen by the JWST one year ago, that I processed last night! Look how wonderful that thing is 😍
And if you zoom on the centre, you can see a little dot which is suspect is the white dwarf!
HD: flic.kr/p/2rCzjR1
This is the image of the NGC-2440 planetary nebula as seen by the JWST one year ago, that I processed last night! Look how wonderful that thing is 😍
And if you zoom on the centre, you can see a little dot which is suspect is the white dwarf!
HD: flic.kr/p/2rCzjR1
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A JWST wonder, once again! 🔭
This is the image of the NGC-2440 planetary nebula as seen by the JWST one year ago, that I processed last night! Look how wonderful that thing is 😍
And if you zoom on the centre, you can see a little dot which is suspect is the white dwarf!
HD: flic.kr/p/2rCzjR1
This is the image of the NGC-2440 planetary nebula as seen by the JWST one year ago, that I processed last night! Look how wonderful that thing is 😍
And if you zoom on the centre, you can see a little dot which is suspect is the white dwarf!
HD: flic.kr/p/2rCzjR1
People keep saying New York City is safe but there are tons of ghosts wandering the streets
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
People keep saying New York City is safe but there are tons of ghosts wandering the streets
Mamdani seems set to win in New York. He has charisma but I don't think his victory works well outside of New York. There aren't many places where the majority of residents rent and a majority of residents take public transit.
October 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Mamdani seems set to win in New York. He has charisma but I don't think his victory works well outside of New York. There aren't many places where the majority of residents rent and a majority of residents take public transit.
Really this is overpromising. You can't just throw money at states and collapsing towns. Federal healthcare already throws a ton to rural communities and it's not enough.
October 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Really this is overpromising. You can't just throw money at states and collapsing towns. Federal healthcare already throws a ton to rural communities and it's not enough.
It's amazing how solar really snuck up on us
IEA: between 2025 & 2030, the world will likely build 4.6TW of clean power.
"That’s nearly double the amount built over the previous 5-year period, which was in turn more than double the amount built across the 5 years before that. Put differently, the growth has essentially been exponential."
"That’s nearly double the amount built over the previous 5-year period, which was in turn more than double the amount built across the 5 years before that. Put differently, the growth has essentially been exponential."
Chart: Solar is driving renewable energy to new heights around the…
Between 2025 and 2030, the world is expected to build nearly 4,600 gigawatts of renewables — almost double the amount built over the previous five-year…
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October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It's amazing how solar really snuck up on us
Cloud services are concentrated because apps like Signal choose not to spend the billions on their own data centers. And who'd want to? Infrastructure is expensive and low-margin. But the alternative is that apps like Signal wouldn't exist. Can there be a better way?
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Cloud services are concentrated because apps like Signal choose not to spend the billions on their own data centers. And who'd want to? Infrastructure is expensive and low-margin. But the alternative is that apps like Signal wouldn't exist. Can there be a better way?
I agree with @chriscoyier.net there are a lot of great reasons to build a website. And with modern web hosting platforms it's easier than ever to do it.
frontendmasters.com/blog/50-reas...
frontendmasters.com/blog/50-reas...
50 Reasons to Build a Website
Should have done 150.
frontendmasters.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I agree with @chriscoyier.net there are a lot of great reasons to build a website. And with modern web hosting platforms it's easier than ever to do it.
frontendmasters.com/blog/50-reas...
frontendmasters.com/blog/50-reas...
Probably a mistake to have gotten a Graham Platner tattoo last week
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Probably a mistake to have gotten a Graham Platner tattoo last week
How does an editor from New York City not know the context
October 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
How does an editor from New York City not know the context