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Engineers Need Art
Camera Genealogica (Part 1) I’m very much into genealogy. I came to realize that my interest was more specifically as a kind of...
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I’m very much into genealogy. I came to realize that my interest was more specifically as a kind of photograph genealogist.
Drew Ex Machina
As Government Cuts Weather Forecasting, Private Weather is Poised to Take the Lead By Ilya Schiller For decades, Americans have relied on federal agencies like NOAA and the National...
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By Ilya Schiller For decades, Americans have relied on federal agencies like NOAA and the National Weather Service (NWS) to provide essential weather forecasts, storm tracking, […]
The Rational Walk
Daily Journal Accused of Incorrect Accounting Daily Journal has been accused of incorrectly accounting for software development costs by an...
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Daily Journal has been accused of incorrectly accounting for software development costs by an activist investor seeking a consulting contract.
99% Invisible
Air-Borne This week, a conversation with Carl Zimmer about his new book Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the...
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This week, a conversation with Carl Zimmer about his new book Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. Air-Borne is an epidemiological history of how we think about the air and its relationship to disease. For centuries, fear of airborne miasmas impacted the design...
Archinect - Features
How the Architectural Model Maker Behind the Chinese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale... MAD’s exhibition in Rotterdam, to the China Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, to KPF’s renovated...
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MAD’s exhibition in Rotterdam, to the China Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, to KPF’s renovated Manhattan studio, and to the groundbreaking ceremony for Changi Airport Terminal 5 in Singapore, QZY Models has made frequent appearances in these remarkable architectural projects....
GeoCurrents
Is Apple Maps Erasing Druze Identity by Calling the “Jabal al-Druze” the “Jabal al-Arab”? Armed conflict over the past few weeks in southern Syria between the Druze and Bedouin militias...
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Armed conflict over the past few weeks in southern Syria between the Druze and Bedouin militias receiving help from the Syrian military have taken over a thousand lives. As reported in the Kurdish press, Tawfiq al-Hijri, Deputy Head of the Foreign Relations Office of the...
Alice GG
Playing with open source LLMs Every 6 months or so, I decide to leave my cave and check out what the cool kids are doing with...
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Every 6 months or so, I decide to leave my cave and check out what the cool kids are doing with AI. Apparently the latest trend is to use fancy command line tools to write code using LLMs. This is a very nice change, since it suddenly makes AI compatible with my allergy to...
The Map is Mostly...
Californias The first time I went out to Silicon Valley, or California for that matter, or anywhere at all west...
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The first time I went out to Silicon Valley, or California for that matter, or anywhere at all west of New York state, was after college.
somethingaboutmaps
A Sketch of Isle Royale It’s been a summer full of side projects here. Which is a very good sign — I used to do many, many...
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It’s been a summer full of side projects here. Which is a very good sign — I used to do many, many side projects, but for the last couple of years, poor health has left me with reduced energy, and my output dropped off significantly. It’s nice to feel inspired again, in so many...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Advice and Lessons for Healthcare Founders | Out-Of-Pocket Some stuff people don’t tell you
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balajis.com
All Property Becomes Cryptography For 99%+ of what's valuable, for every financial asset and capital asset, we will secure it onchain.
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Quantum Frontiers
Little ray of sunshine A common saying goes, you should never meet your heroes, because they’ll disappoint you. But you...
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A common saying goes, you should never meet your heroes, because they’ll disappoint you. But you shouldn’t trust every common saying; some heroes impress you more, the better you know them. Ray Laflamme was such a hero. I first heard … Continue reading →
Spoon & Tamago
Tokyo’s Coolest Cats Take Over Galerie LE MONDE Discover new artists, take home some new art and do it all for a good cause. The CAT POWER 2025...
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Discover new artists, take home some new art and do it all for a good cause. The CAT POWER 2025 exhibition is back at Galerie LE MONDE in Harajuku, Tokyo—marking the return of its annual cat‑themed charity show, now in its 10th edition. illustration by Rina Yoshioka, who creates...
The Codist
What Is A Good Programmer? Am I a good programmer? The short answer is: I don’t know what that means. I have been programming...
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Am I a good programmer? The short answer is: I don’t know what that means. I have been programming for 52 years now, having started in a public high school class in 1973, which is pretty rare because few high schools offered such an opportunity back then. I
GeoCurrents
Wolves in the Gaza Strip? The Geography of the Coyote-Like Arabian Wolf The gray wolf is usually seen as a wilderness species, an animal that needs vast expanses of habitat...
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The gray wolf is usually seen as a wilderness species, an animal that needs vast expanses of habitat far from human concentrations, as well as sizable populations of large herbivores to prey upon. Yet many distribution maps, including one featured in the Wikipedia article on the...
Farza's Newsletter
hans zimmer and me got a burrito in sf but it was just a dream my life is a lie man Hey everyone :).
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Val Sopi
You Probably Can! "I can't do this!" —— that's what my mind was telling me. I was running on the beach when that...
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"I can't do this!" —— that's what my mind was telling me. I was running on the beach when that thought popped up in my head. It was pitch perfect weather. Morning. A vail of a cloud slightly blocking the full radiation of the sun. However, if meditation has taught me one thing,...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: fontsinuse.com Nick Sherman. License: All Rights Reserved....
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: fontsinuse.com Nick Sherman. License: All Rights Reserved. Black Sabbath’s first four studio albums – Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, and Vol 4, released in rapid succession between 1970 and 1972 – laid much of the...
Weighty Thoughts
The US Should Run Faster on AI Instead of Trying to Trip Up China Export Controls and Trump's New AI Action Plan
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99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #1: Nikole Hannah-Jones This is the first official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the U.S. Constitution. This...
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This is the first official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the U.S. Constitution. This month, Roman and Elizabeth discuss the Preamble, alongside Nikole Hannah-Jones. Nikole is an investigative reporter for the New York Times Magazine and the Knight Chair in Race and...
Charlie Becker
Fumbling Toward Truth and Beauty in Used Bookstores CBL #95 | A dispatch from a Sunday at the store
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Laetitia@Work
Careless People: how power destroys empathy Laetitia@Work #83
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charity.wtf
How We Migrated the Parse API From Ruby to Golang (Resurrected) I wrote a lot of blog posts over my time at Parse, but they all evaporated after Facebook killed the...
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I wrote a lot of blog posts over my time at Parse, but they all evaporated after Facebook killed the product. Most of them I didn’t care about (there were, ahem, a lot of status updates and “service reliability announcements”, but I was mad about losing this one in particular, a...
GeoCurrents
Mapping the Return of the Gray Wolf to California One of the most surprising aspects of the recovery of the gray wolf in the United States is the...
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One of the most surprising aspects of the recovery of the gray wolf in the United States is the return of the species to California. Wolves had been eliminated from the state in the 1920s and were not expected to return any soon time, if at all. But in 2011, a single wolf made...
Archinect - Features
Archinect Meets: The Daily Splice Cutting up, piecing together, remixing, and collaging have been essential and time-tested elements...
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Cutting up, piecing together, remixing, and collaging have been essential and time-tested elements of the creative process, including architecture. British graphic designer and animator Adam Hale, however, takes the medium to another level with a steady stream of often humorous —...
Cheese and Biscuits
Bo.Tic, Corçà You will probably be aware that Catalonia has well more than its fair share of influential...
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You will probably be aware that Catalonia has well more than its fair share of influential restaurants, a tradition that runs from El Bulli through Can Roca and Disfrutar and has fanned out in all kinds of interesting ways across all levels of the culinary scene, from the most...
99% Invisible
The Quiet Storm 99% Invisible Presents: A Quiet Storm Party  >> Sounds by Ayanna Heaven >> Sun July 27, 5-8pm >> Ace...
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99% Invisible Presents: A Quiet Storm Party  >> Sounds by Ayanna Heaven >> Sun July 27, 5-8pm >> Ace Hotel – Brooklyn, NY >> INFO & RSVP HERE! In the mid-1970s, the national media was reporting on the rise of a new socioeconomic group that was quickly gaining unprecedented access...
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Ideas for faster web dev cycle I strongly believe that fast iteration cycle is important for productivity. In programming fast...
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I strongly believe that fast iteration cycle is important for productivity. In programming fast iteration means: how quickly can I go from finishing writing the code to testing it. That’s why I don’t like languages that compile slowly: slow compilation puts a hard limit on your...
Damn Interesting
Omiword, a Word Game In certain dialects of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, the word for ‘four’ sounds very...
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In certain dialects of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, the word for ‘four’ sounds very similar to the word for ‘death’1. Consequently, the number 4 is considered by many people in East Asian nations to be unlucky. It is not unusual for buildings in that region to skip...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
What goes into SOC 2 and HITRUST? (with Vanta) | Out-Of-Pocket
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Blog System/5
Bazel and action (non-) determinism A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of...
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RhysTranter.com
Rome Pilgrimage: Jubilee Year, 2025 This July, Jenn and I journeyed to Rome as part of a Jubilee Year pilgrimage with a group of...
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This July, Jenn and I journeyed to Rome as part of a Jubilee Year pilgrimage with a group of colleagues from St David’s Catholic College. We passed through the Holy Doors of St Peter’s, St John Lateran, St Paul Outside the Walls, and St Mary Major, where the remains of Pope...
Archinect - Features
Archinect City Guide: Get Your Portland Travel Tips from Chris Brown of Observation... Archinect City Guide dives into Portland, Oregon, today, featuring some of the favorite spots for...
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Archinect City Guide dives into Portland, Oregon, today, featuring some of the favorite spots for dining, gallery-hopping, and discovery shared by Observation Studio founding principal Chris Brown. (Avid Archinect readers will remember him from our Studio Snapshot of Linden,...
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Covers as a way of learning music and code When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able...
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When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able to play your instrument and express yourself through it. You need to know the style you're playing, and its idioms and conventions. You may want to record your music, and need all...
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Stage manager in Mac OS Stage Manager in Mac OS is not a secret, but I’ve only learned about it recently. It’s off by...
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Stage Manager in Mac OS is not a secret, but I’ve only learned about it recently. It’s off by default so you have to enable it in system settings: It’s hard to describe in words, so you’ll have to try it. And experiment a bit because I didn’t get in the first hour. It’s a...
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Zed debug setup for go server / Svelte web app Today I figured out how to setup Zed to debug, at the same time, my go server and Svelte web app. My...
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Today I figured out how to setup Zed to debug, at the same time, my go server and Svelte web app. My dev setup for working on my web app is: go server is run with -run-dev arg go server provides backend apis and proxies requests it doesn’t handle to a vite dev server that does...
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Seer A few weeks ago, The Economist looked at the growing problem of “ubiquitous technical surveillance”...
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A few weeks ago, The Economist looked at the growing problem of “ubiquitous technical surveillance” in the field of espionage. It describes the difficulty of maintaining a rigorous or believable cover story, for example, when genealogy websites might be consulted by adversarial...
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Seer A few weeks ago, The Economist looked at the growing problem of “ubiquitous technical surveillance”...
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A few weeks ago, The Economist looked at the growing problem of “ubiquitous technical surveillance” in the field of espionage. It describes the difficulty of maintaining a rigorous or believable cover story, for example, when genealogy websites might be consulted by adversarial...
Dreams of Space -...
My Weekly Reader March 12, 1962 Happy Moon Day! This is the last of this batch of My Weekly Readers. I hope you haven't gotten too...
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Happy Moon Day! This is the last of this batch of My Weekly Readers. I hope you haven't gotten too tired of this summer break. In this issue we celebrate the USA in Space. This March 12th issue celebrates John Glenn's success and looking forward to the next set of missions...
Stoic Simple
How Stoicism Helped Me Navigate Divorce: My Obstacle to Flourishing by Benny Voncken We Need to Talk “We need to talk.” Those famous four words we are all too familiar...
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by Benny Voncken We Need to Talk “We need to talk.” Those famous four words we are all too familiar with. Our instant response to this short sentence is that something bad is about to happen. I remember it well when they came my way. It was the beginning of one of the biggest...
Spoon & Tamago
Flushing into the Future: Toto’s High-Tech Health Tracker Imagine sitting on your toilet and getting a personalized health report sent straight to your phone....
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Imagine sitting on your toilet and getting a personalized health report sent straight to your phone. No clinic visit, no awkward conversations. Just data, insight, and… well, your poop. This isn’t science fiction anymore. Toilets in Japan have long been known for their...
Irrational...
Commenting on Notion docs via OpenAI and Zapier. One of my side quests at work is to get a simple feedback loop going where we can create knowledge...
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One of my side quests at work is to get a simple feedback loop going where we can create knowledge bases that comment on Notion documents. I was curious if I could hook this together following these requirements: No custom code hosting Prompt is editable within Notion rather than...
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An agent to use Notion docs as prompts to comment on Notion docs. Last weekend, I wrote a bit about using Zapier to load Notion pages as prompts to comment on other...
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Last weekend, I wrote a bit about using Zapier to load Notion pages as prompts to comment on other Notion pages. That worked well enough, but not that well. This weekend I spent some time getting the next level of this working, creating an agent that runs as an AWS Lambda. This,...
Val Sopi
Goals are deceptive I was walking on the beach. Hadn't walked on a beach in a while. Was loving it. The sea breeze. The...
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I was walking on the beach. Hadn't walked on a beach in a while. Was loving it. The sea breeze. The waveless sea surface in the morning. After a while, maybe out of boredom, I started placing goals. Rather, my mind started placing goals: "I'll walk up to that grove" or "I'll...
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lazy import of JavaScript modules When working on big JavaScript web apps, you can split the bundle in multiple chunks and import...
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When working on big JavaScript web apps, you can split the bundle in multiple chunks and import selected chunks lazily, only when needed. That makes the main bundle smaller, faster to load and parse. How to lazy import a module? let hljs = await...
Chris Grossack's...
Free Things Are Complicated (Especially the Sphere Spectrum!) I’ve spent the last week at CT2025, which has just come to a close. It was great getting to see so...
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I’ve spent the last week at CT2025, which has just come to a close. It was great getting to see so many old friends and meet so many new ones, and every time I go to a CT I’m reminded of just how much category theory there is in the world, as well as just how much I enjoy all...
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Using await in Svelte 5 components Svelte 5 just added a way to use async function in components. This is from Rich Harris talk The...
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Svelte 5 just added a way to use async function in components. This is from Rich Harris talk The simplest component <script> async function multiply(x, y) { let uri = `/multiply?x=${x}&y=${y}` let rsp = await fetch(uri) let resp = await rsp.text(); return...
Confessions of a...
x86 Assembly Exercise #1: Toy kill Program (Solution) A step-by-step walkthrough of the toy kill program using raw Linux syscalls.
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geo/acc Slag heap debris on the English coast has apparently been fusing into a new kind of sedimentary...
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Slag heap debris on the English coast has apparently been fusing into a new kind of sedimentary rock. A team of geologists studying the beach recently “found a series of outcrops made from an unfamiliar type of sedimentary rock. The beach used to be sandy, so the rock must have...
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Slag heap debris on the English coast has apparently been fusing into a new kind of sedimentary rock. A team of geologists studying the beach recently “found a series of outcrops made from an unfamiliar type of sedimentary rock. The beach used to be sandy, so the rock must have...