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Contemporist...
From Old Victorian Shopfront to Sustainable City Home with Solar Panels and Rooftop Garden In the heart of a heritage conservation zone, CplusC Architects + Builders have reimagined the urban...
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In the heart of a heritage conservation zone, CplusC Architects + Builders have reimagined the urban home as a living system. Welcome to the Jungle House is built on the belief that architecture must move beyond shelter and aesthetics, it must support life, reduce consumption,...
Nothing Human
To all Language Models Reading This Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
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Computer Ads from...
Comics from Winter 1980 Issue of Electronics Today International AI and everything in between.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Can’t-Miss Summer Events in Park City
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Epic Web Dev
Another tip (tip)
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Contemporist...
Blending Into Nature: A Half-Buried House With A Green Roof Set in the lush terrain of Galamares, a small village in Sintra, Portugal, this minimalist home is...
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Set in the lush terrain of Galamares, a small village in Sintra, Portugal, this minimalist home is more than a place to live, it's a personal milestone for architect Vasco Lima Mayer. Designed while still a student, it was his first independent commission, making it both intimate...
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This apartment's moving walls hide a secret bedroom Most growing families dream of upgrading to a house when space feels tight, but one family of four...
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Most growing families dream of upgrading to a house when space feels tight, but one family of four in downtown Toronto chose to do the opposite. With help from Picnic Design Inc., they turned their modest 850-square-foot condo into a forever home using a pair of ingenious movable...
Wuthering...
What I Read in June 2025 - A life of agony was all for naught. My summer plan was to read, short, easy books, and I almost succeeded.  I read short, difficult...
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My summer plan was to read, short, easy books, and I almost succeeded.  I read short, difficult books in French, and accidentally read several grim, sad, violent books, alongside some playful nonsense.   FICTION The Field of Life and Death (1935), Xiao Hong – For example.  Ninety...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
All about Svelte 5 snippets Snippets are a useful addition to Svelte 5. I use them in my Svelte 5 projects like Edna. Snippet...
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Snippets are a useful addition to Svelte 5. I use them in my Svelte 5 projects like Edna. Snippet basics A snippet is a function that renders html based on its arguments. Here’s how to define and use a snippet: {#snippet hello(name)} <div>Hello...
Handprinted - Blog
Using a Mylar Mask to Reduce Chatter in a Linocut One of the problems to overcome when printing a linocut is ink being picked up by the carved away...
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One of the problems to overcome when printing a linocut is ink being picked up by the carved away areas of the block. These lines print onto the paper causing 'chatter' or 'noise'. Sometimes chatter on a print can add character or interest to a piece but other times it can just...
Trying to Understand...
An Apology And A Few Suggestions. More next week.
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Computer Things
Logical Quantifiers in Software I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once...
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I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once explained basic logical quantifiers. They're both simple and incredibly useful, so let's do that this week! Sets and quantifiers A set is a collection of unordered, unique elements....
Quentin Santos
The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and...
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In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it did not behave quite as expected. In this article, we’ll look into the missing pieces. An incomplete circuit For a hint, we’ll...
Patterns in Humanity
The rise of life expectancy Illustrated and explained
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Contemporist...
This Elevated Modular Tiny House Is The Woodland Escape You’ve Always Wanted Tree Tents, known for their innovative suspended treehouses, has developed a new outdoor...
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Tree Tents, known for their innovative suspended treehouses, has developed a new outdoor accommodation called the Birdhouse Modular. This structure combines modular design with sustainable building practices, aiming to offer flexible and environmentally responsible options for...
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How Terracotta Shingles Bring Earthy Warmth To This Modern Home Nestled in suburban Melbourne, Mahogany House is more than just a family residence. It's a deeply...
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Nestled in suburban Melbourne, Mahogany House is more than just a family residence. It's a deeply personal project by Vish and Gaurav Rajadhyax, co-founders of R ARCHITECTURE. Designed as a sustainable, multi-generational home, it balances functionality with emotional connection,...
Computer Ads from...
Ann Arbor Software's Textra Word Processing The shortest distance between your thoughts and the printed word.
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Build In Public...
Vibe Coding Showcase is back. Here are 10 new projects. If a fund accountant can build video platforms, a designer can ship icon libraries, and a marketer...
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If a fund accountant can build video platforms, a designer can ship icon libraries, and a marketer can create language learning apps, what's stopping you?
Tony Finch's blog
clamp / median / range Here are a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators. comparison...
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Here are a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators. comparison style clamp style clamp is median clamp in range range style style clash? comparison style Some languages such as BCPL, Icon, Python have chained comparison operators, like if...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
C++ engineering decision in SumatraPDF code SumatraPDF is a medium size (120k+ loc, not counting dependencies) Windows GUI (win32) C++ code base...
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SumatraPDF is a medium size (120k+ loc, not counting dependencies) Windows GUI (win32) C++ code base started by me and written by mostly 2 people. The goals of SumatraPDF are to be: fast small packed with features and yet with thoughtfully minimal UI It’s not just a matter of...
elementary Blog
Supporting Disability Is Our Social Responsibility July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled...
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July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled community and work on breaking down barriers to access. Last year we had the pleasure of being introduced to Florian—a fully blind cybersecurity enthusiast—and thanks to his feedback...
99% Invisible
Open Borders A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it....
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A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it. Global borders can be sites of peace and conflict, violence and celebration, opportunity and confinement. And borders as they exist today – which is to say, increasingly militarized...
Diaries of Note
Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time A diary is a rare thing: an unfiltered space where a person can meet themselves without judgement,...
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A diary is a rare thing: an unfiltered space where a person can meet themselves without judgement, without audience, and (for most, at least) without performance. In an age of constant sharing and curated lives, the diary remains stubbornly private, gloriously unedited. It offers...
Citation Needed
Issue 87 – SO ORDERED Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders,...
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Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat
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Outdoor Seating You’d Actually Want to Visit: Where Nature Is Wrapped in a Whimsical Birdcage At the heart of San Francisco’s Mission Rock development, The Garden Party by Min Design transforms...
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At the heart of San Francisco’s Mission Rock development, The Garden Party by Min Design transforms a bustling pedestrian path into something softer, slower, and more inviting.
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The Stunning Cliffside Home That Makes You Feel Like You’re Living in the Trees Tucked into the northern shore of Lake Tremblant, Canada, La Flèche is a contemporary residence by...
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Tucked into the northern shore of Lake Tremblant, Canada, La Flèche is a contemporary residence by MU Architecture that reinterprets the traditional chalet through bold geometry and material sensitivity. Designed as a multigenerational retreat, it offers a lasting connection to...
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The Hidden Engineering of Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] There’s a new trend in...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] There’s a new trend in high-rise building design. Maybe you’ve seen this in your city. The best lots are all taken, so developers are stretching the limits to make use of space that isn’t always ideal for...
Steve Blank
Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve...
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Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve been having coffee with lots of frustrated founders (my students and others) bemoaning most VCs won’t even meet with them unless they have AI in their fundraising pitch. And the AI...
Spoon & Tamago
Tanjiro Emerges in the Fields as Gyoda Unveils 2025 Rice Paddy Art Every summer, the city of Gyoda in Saitama Prefecture turns rice paddies into giant canvases,...
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Every summer, the city of Gyoda in Saitama Prefecture turns rice paddies into giant canvases, planting colorful rice varieties to form massive works of art. Known as tanbo art, these living murals stretch across nearly three hectares and can only be fully appreciated from above....
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Digital hygiene: Emails Email is your most important online account, so keep it clean.
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Alice GG
Building a container orchestrator Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and...
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Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and learning the surrounding ecosystem is even harder. Even those who have managed to tame it are still afraid of getting paged by an ETCD cluster corruption, a Kubelet certificate...
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From building ships to shipping builds: how to succeed in making a career switch to software... I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of...
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I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of their careers. A major change like that can be scary and raise a lot of fears and doubts, but I can attest that this can work out well with the right personality traits and a...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
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Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive. Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
Christian Selig
A slept on upscaling tool for macOS I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in...
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I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in 8K!”. Even better, I’ve had comments from the like, seven people with 8K TVs that the video looks awesome on their TV. And you guessed it, I don’t record my videos in 8K! I record them...
Contemporist...
These Apartments Are Like Sculptures You Can Live In In the heart of Brighton, Melbourne, Wood Marsh has delivered a fresh take on coastal living with...
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In the heart of Brighton, Melbourne, Wood Marsh has delivered a fresh take on coastal living with Esplanade Brighton, a medium-density housing project that’s bold in form but deeply respectful of its surroundings. Set across a former brownfield site, the development includes 24...
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These 4 Homes Are a Cat’s Dream Come True As pet-friendly design evolves, more homeowners are asking architects and interior designers to...
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As pet-friendly design evolves, more homeowners are asking architects and interior designers to consider the needs of their cats, not just as pets, but as part of the family. From built-in walkways to custom furniture, these four homes show how thoughtful design can create spaces...
Spoon & Tamago
A Garden on Rails: Mitone Design Transforms Train Car into Monet Museum All photos by Shotaro Hamasaki, courtesy mitone design. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kochi...
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All photos by Shotaro Hamasaki, courtesy mitone design. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kochi prefecture’s Monet’s Garden Marmottan, a beloved recreation of Monet’s iconic garden in France, Kitagawa Village has brought the garden’s peaceful beauty to the Gomen-Nahiri Line in...
Cheese and Biscuits
Studio Gauthier, Fitzrovia Hard as it may be to believe from my supremely easy-going and liberal attitude these days (no...
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Hard as it may be to believe from my supremely easy-going and liberal attitude these days (no laughing at the back), there was a time when I was, well, if not completely anti-vegan then certainly vegan-skeptic. To someone who once considered vegetarianism radically restrictive,...
markround.com
AmigaGuide Reference Library As I slowly but surely work towards the next release of my setcmd project for the Amiga (see the 68k...
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As I slowly but surely work towards the next release of my setcmd project for the Amiga (see the 68k branch for the gory details and my total noob-like C flailing around), I’ve made heavy use of documentation in the AmigaGuide format. Despite it’s age, it’s a great Amiga-native...
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That boolean should probably be something else One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean...
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One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean logic underpins much of modern computing. And yet, it's one of the types we should probably be using a lot less of. In almost every single instance when you use a boolean, it should...
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Implementation of optimized vector of strings in C++ in SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is a fast, small, open-source PDF reader for Windows, written in C++. This article...
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SumatraPDF is a fast, small, open-source PDF reader for Windows, written in C++. This article describes how I implemented StrVec class for efficiently storing multiple strings. Much ado about the strings Strings are among the most used types in most programs. Arrays...
Passing Time
The Asymmetry of Destruction It's easier to destroy than to create
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Spoon & Tamago
Tomoe Shinohara Brings 1,300 Years of History to Life in Wearable Art all photos by Sayuki Inoue Located in Nara, the ancient capital of Japan, the Shosoin is the...
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all photos by Sayuki Inoue Located in Nara, the ancient capital of Japan, the Shosoin is the Imperial treasure house associated with Todai-ji Temple. Constructed in the 8th century, it safeguards nearly 9,000 precious artifacts once belonging to Emperor Shomu, donated by his...
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Why learn about the golden-section search An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a...
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An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a motivation to learn them both. Spoiler alert! One converges better, and the other has a better computational cost.
Contemporist...
Exploring A House and Barn Where Raw Materials Meet Scenic Views Worrell Yeung has designed a two-part retreat in the wooded hills of Columbia County, New York, for...
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Worrell Yeung has designed a two-part retreat in the wooded hills of Columbia County, New York, for a young family looking to connect with the landscape. Set on an 88-acre ridgeline, the project includes Ridge House and Ridge Barn, two structures that balance clean architecture...
Computer Ads from...
Computer Games mag Interviews Don Bluth (1984) Talks about the famous Dragon's Lair
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5 CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document,...
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CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document, triggered via Ctrl + F. In my note-taking application Edna I wanted something slightly different. This article describes how I implemented it. The UI went from: to: CodeMirror is very...
Nothing Human
The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat against efficiency and accountability
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Quentin Santos
Reproducing Espressif’s reset circuit I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily...
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I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily update the code on an Espressif microcontroller. There are actually more subtleties than a quick look would suggest, and I spent a fair bit of time investigating them. This article and...
SatPost by Trung...
Hayao Miyazaki: 9 Creative Lessons Notes on the creative process for the legendary Japanese filmmaker and founder of Studio Ghibli.
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