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Jonas Hietala
2011 in Review It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek...
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It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek Achievements Wrote three games this year: My Minions Grand Thief Arto Sat-E Bought a new computer! Bought a mechanical keyboard. Bought custom Starcraft 2 keycaps for the...
xkcd.com
Compact Graphs
a year ago
This Space
39 Books: 1992 Poetry is a notable absence in my book lists. I assumed at this time that because novels excited my...
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Poetry is a notable absence in my book lists. I assumed at this time that because novels excited my attention, poetry should do too. Under this assumption I bought and read Wallace Stevens' Collected Poems in this chunky Faber edition, adding an ugly plastic cover.* Many of...
Common Edge
On the Value of Miniatures and Scale Models Thinking small can help us answer the challenges of our time.
4 months ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Broomfield and Denver Weekend I’ve been traveling a lot lately. It feels like I just got back from the Pacific Northwest, and...
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I’ve been traveling a lot lately. It feels like I just got back from the Pacific Northwest, and before that England, and then I’m heading right back out the door again. This should do it for awhile though; I need some rest. But this trip was a little different because I was there...
Old Structures...
He Is, After All, A Boy From Queens
6 months ago
xkcd.com
Physical Quantities
a year ago
Stoic Simple
What Does it Mean to be a Stoic? Using Christianity to Explain Stoicism by Tanner Campbell What does it mean to be a Stoic? I think Christianity can be used as a...
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by Tanner Campbell What does it mean to be a Stoic? I think Christianity can be used as a quasi-parallel to help answer this question. What does it mean to be a Christian? I think the base-line of the faith is the belief that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior.  In Stoicism that...
The DESK Magazine
Breaking the algorithm The world wants to tell you what to think about, what to be interested in, what to learn, what to...
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The world wants to tell you what to think about, what to be interested in, what to learn, what to pursue, what to worry about. And it's easier to let it.
The Roots of...
What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came? Imagine you could go back in time to the ancient world to jump-start the Industrial Revolution. You...
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Imagine you could go back in time to the ancient world to jump-start the Industrial Revolution. You carry with you plans for a steam engine, and you present them to the emperor, explaining how the machine could be used to drain water out of mines, pump bellows for blast furnaces,...
Seth's Blog
Decoding the Knock Knock situation Novels, movies, even consulting, are based on a knock knock business model. Tom Cruise made a movie,...
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Novels, movies, even consulting, are based on a knock knock business model. Tom Cruise made a movie, and you need to buy a ticket to see it. Jane Collins is an engineering professional and you need to pay to get their insight about how to fix your bridge. This 300-page...
Lighthouse Blog
Rules improvement: filter based on content
4 months ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eventually consistent plain text accounting .title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past...
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.title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past six months, I’ve tracked my money with hledger—a plain text double-entry accounting system written in Haskell. It’s been surprisingly painless. My previous attempts to pick up...
Retail Design Blog
LEICA store by Format Architecture Office Almost twelve years after first opening up shop in Soho, LEICA has inaugurated a second store and...
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Almost twelve years after first opening up shop in Soho, LEICA has inaugurated a second store and gallery in the...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Eero Saarinen designed it 20230925_Weightshifting_STL_01.jpg Day 16: Sept 25, 2023 — We visit this marvel almost every time...
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20230925_Weightshifting_STL_01.jpg Day 16: Sept 25, 2023 — We visit this marvel almost every time we’re in the area. It’s always stunning. Read on nazhamid.com or Reply via email
TheCollector
Who Are the Main Aboriginal Clans from West & Central Australia? Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland form the macro-region known as Eastern Australia, along...
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Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland form the macro-region known as Eastern Australia, along with the Tasmanian Island, Jervis Bay Territory, and the Australian Capital Territory. The remaining mainland states of South Australia, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory...
Mazdak
What is QSBS? As a small business owner, you know the importance of every dollar. You pour your heart and soul...
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As a small business owner, you know the importance of every dollar. You pour your heart and soul into your company, and you want to see it thrive. But taxes can eat into your profits, leaving you feeling frustrated and discouraged. That's where QSBS (Qualified Small Business...
Math Is Still...
The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy For decades, physicists have struggled to develop a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity —...
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For decades, physicists have struggled to develop a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity — and space-time — are fundamentally classical? The post The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
macwright.com
The one about AI Like everyone, I’ve been thinking about AI. It’s already useful, in a way that the previous big...
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Like everyone, I’ve been thinking about AI. It’s already useful, in a way that the previous big thing, crypto, wasn’t. I don’t think it’ll become generalized AI - I think the AI winter cycle is the base case and human-like intelligence is qualitatively different than LLM, no...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bio Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid appropriate, and I don't know. Today's News:
Common Edge
Warlords in Our Midst Why Elon Musk is worse than science fiction.
8 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs emails Adobe's CEO One of us must change our policy. Please let me know who.
a year ago
Lighthouse Blog
Updates December 22
a year ago
Anarchy Unfolds
Did we really just get taken over by fascists in less than a month? Red Round-up #2
2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land Nothing connects.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Dior store Dior has stepped up its retail presence in the Land of the Rising Sun, not only one of its most...
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Dior has stepped up its retail presence in the Land of the Rising Sun, not only one of its most...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Is vision insurance a scam? | Out-Of-Pocket the weird, verticalized world of vision "insurance"
a year ago
Asterisk
Rat Traps Does the rationalist blogosphere need to update?
5 months ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars You cannot make friends with the rock stars...if you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a...
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You cannot make friends with the rock stars...if you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a rock journalist. First, you never get paid much, but you will get free records from the record company. [There’s] fuckin’ nothin' about you that is
symmetry magazine
Whatever happened to the theory of everything? A theory of everything was all the rage in the 1980s. So where did it go? It is...
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A theory of everything was all the rage in the 1980s. So where did it go? It is only the optimists who achieve anything in this world—theorist John Ellis once read this adage on a candy wrapper. It stuck with him, so much so that in 1986 he referenced this...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks JavaScript Tooling is just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.
over a year ago
Trying to Understand...
All About Aid. Well, probably more than you wanted to know, anyway.
a month ago
Platformer
TikTok nears the endgame Breaking off TikTok from ByteDance might be the right thing to do — but it will come at a high cost....
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Breaking off TikTok from ByteDance might be the right thing to do — but it will come at a high cost. PLUS: How Twitter keeps competitors off its For You page
The Honest Broker
Your Brain on Art My Q&A with Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
11 months ago
Birchtree
Quick Reviews is out now! Quick Reviews is currently available on the App Store and is a free download. Check it out! I...
2 months ago
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Quick Reviews is currently available on the App Store and is a free download. Check it out! I recently wrote about how the app works, so I’ll let you read that to see how it works. I have finalized my monetization, so I did want to lay that
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The case of WOPR and the lost code... I got an email earlier this week from a guy reaching out after he read a post of mine on a gaming...
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I got an email earlier this week from a guy reaching out after he read a post of mine on a gaming forum that was posted over two decades ago! I couldn't for the life of me remember what I had said, but he reiterated that it was about a simulation that I wrote in BASIC that was...
Working Theorys
The Great Movie Theory Man's pursuit of greatness is the pursuit of a great film.
a month ago
Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased in Weekly Survey From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications...
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From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications decreased 3.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending January 3, 2025....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Judge Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Written after enjoying the delightfully...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Written after enjoying the delightfully controversial book Status and Culture. Today's News:
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Cost of Avoiding Annoyance tl;dr Living with annoying technological constraints might be less costly than maintaining the...
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tl;dr Living with annoying technological constraints might be less costly than maintaining the sophisticated workarounds we create to avoid them. I really enjoyed this well-reasoned article explaining why htmx, the open-source hypermedia JS framework, does not have a build...
Old Structures...
A Generational Change A view of Park Avenue by Angelo Rizzuto from June 1959m looking south. The big tower on the left is...
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A view of Park Avenue by Angelo Rizzuto from June 1959m looking south. The big tower on the left is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, with St. Bart’s in front of it; the ornate tower that seemingly ends the avenue is the New York Central Building, not yet sold by the railroad and...
Calculated Risk
Thursday: National Day of Mourning for former President Jimmy Carter, Unemployment Claims Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Thursday: NYSE...
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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Thursday: NYSE and the NASDAQ will be closed in observance of a National Day of Mourning for former President Jimmy Carter. Small Business Optimism Index for December. initial weekly unemployment...
Diaries of Note
The Last of England Ford Madox Brown was a British artist born in Calais in 1821, widely recognised though never...
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Ford Madox Brown was a British artist born in Calais in 1821, widely recognised though never officially part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. It was in 1852 that he started work on two of his most famous paintings: Work, which took thirteen years to complete, and The Last of...
Alex Meub
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
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Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites. AWS Certficate Manager I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
Diaries of Note
Dear diary, I don’t want to die Éva Heyman spent much of her brief life in the company of her grandparents following the divorce of...
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Éva Heyman spent much of her brief life in the company of her grandparents following the divorce of her parents when she was a young child. On her thirteenth birthday, in February of 1944, as her home country of Hungary was taken over by the Nazis, she began a diary that would...
The Marginalian
O Sweet Spontaneous: E.E. Cummings’s Love-Poem to Earth and the Glory of Spring The ultimate anthem of resistance to the assaults on life.
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?
a year ago
Londonist
Stunning Images At Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2023 National Maritime Museum shows off the cosmos.
a year ago
TheCollector
Great Wall of China Is Centuries Older Than Previously Thought Dating back millennia and once spanning over 13,000 miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the...
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Dating back millennia and once spanning over 13,000 miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the most ambitious construction projects ever undertaken by humans. Recent excavations at the ancient monument suggest that its oldest sections were built 300 years earlier than...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Inland Northwest, Day 7 (Abrupt End) What should have been a ten day trip ended unexpectedly on the seventh day. The previous evening our...
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What should have been a ten day trip ended unexpectedly on the seventh day. The previous evening our kid who was watching the house called to tell us about our soaking wet basement carpet. Our ancient boiler was leaking. So we immediately contacted our insurance provider, a water...
lcamtuf’s thing
Real MLCCs (and inductors) have curves Linear components are pretty nonlinear -- and parasitics don't tell the whole story.
a week ago
Arduino Blog
This mod simplifies single-point threading on mini lathes “Single-point threading” on a lathe is the process of cutting threads, such as for a bolt, into the...
2 months ago
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“Single-point threading” on a lathe is the process of cutting threads, such as for a bolt, into the material through turning. The spindle/workpiece spin and the carriage moves linearly at a precise amount per turn of the spindle. That linear movement is the thread pitch. But this...
Diaries of Note
THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS Woody Guthrie was a folk pioneer, social activist, and restless wanderer who journeyed across the...
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Woody Guthrie was a folk pioneer, social activist, and restless wanderer who journeyed across the country, connecting with the struggles and aspirations of the American people during the trying times of the Great Depression. He filled innumerable notebooks with lyrics, prose,...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How Chai Pani Is Transforming Asheville’s Food Scene
a year ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Hot Dogs In A Temple Above, a somewhat pathetic villain threatens the people of Gotham City, while Batgirl muses. Below,...
a year ago
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Above, a somewhat pathetic villain threatens the people of Gotham City, while Batgirl muses. Below, the stair connecting the train shed at the old Penn Station with the concourse: And zoomed in: And another angle:
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon. Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
Retail Design Blog
Unity Office Design by Millennium Contracts Unity is a video game software development company based in San Fransisco. Unity tasked Millennium...
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Unity is a video game software development company based in San Fransisco. Unity tasked Millennium Contracts with completing the design...
Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal Global power has always been distributed.
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Ode to software
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Throat clearing Simply say it. The first minute of a speech, the first paragraph of a novel or the tuning of the...
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Simply say it. The first minute of a speech, the first paragraph of a novel or the tuning of the orchestra before they begin… The performance improves if we skip that part. Sometimes, our throat actually needs clearing. But most of the time, we’re hooked on a ritual that doesn’t...
The Rational Walk
The Berkshire Hathaway MBA Studying Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Berkshire Hathaway's history can provide a level of...
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Studying Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Berkshire Hathaway's history can provide a level of fluency in business and investing rivaling a costly MBA degree.
xkcd.com
Flatten the Planets
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Coconut Cauliflower Curry Mash It’s time for lesson 3. I made the mistake of not planning for something to augment the mash with,...
over a year ago
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It’s time for lesson 3. I made the mistake of not planning for something to augment the mash with, but a simple salad had to do: It was okay. Girlfriend gave it 5/10 and I gave it a 6/10, a higher rating would be possible if there was something else to eat it with.
HTMHell
Forced Colors Mode Futility by Matthias Zöchling figure{margin-bottom:2.4rem}figure img{aspect-ratio:4;border: 6px solid...
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by Matthias Zöchling figure{margin-bottom:2.4rem}figure img{aspect-ratio:4;border: 6px solid #000}figcaption,sup,.highlight,section:has(#resources) span,section:has(#fns)...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Places to Eat and Drink in Myrtle Beach, SC
7 months ago
Willem's Blog
Enter text without keys Worn on your fingers, the Tap Strap recognises tapping and moving to control and type without a...
over a year ago
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Worn on your fingers, the Tap Strap recognises tapping and moving to control and type without a mouse or keyboard!
Tony Finch's blog
inlined nearly divisionless random numbers a blog post for international RNG day Lemire’s nearly-divisionless algorithm unbiased bounded...
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a blog post for international RNG day Lemire’s nearly-divisionless algorithm unbiased bounded random numbers has a fast path and a slow path. In the fast path it gets a random number, does a multiplication, and a comparison. In the rarely-taken slow path, it calculates a...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Breaking down circular dependencies in JavaScript I write a lot of JavaScript but circular dependencies have always been kind of a mystery to me. The...
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I write a lot of JavaScript but circular dependencies have always been kind of a mystery to me. The error messages always seem random and inscrutable, and sometimes there’s no error message at all! I wanted to understand this topic better, so I ran a series of experiments and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Don't Rush to Simplicity Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the...
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Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the complexity?
Arduino Blog
This UNO R4 WiFi-controlled device streamlines a restaurant’s online order system Most successful restaurants operating today have to take advantage of online ordering, as a huge...
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Most successful restaurants operating today have to take advantage of online ordering, as a huge chunk of customers have switched to takeout and delivery. But point-of-sale (POS) systems don’t always integrate well into a kitchen’s workflow and that can lead to missed orders —...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't? Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from...
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Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from other countries, and if that means that…
Tony Dinh's...
Aug 2022: One year since I quit my job Reached $10K MRR, launched Xnapper (#1 of the week), went on Indie Hackers podcast (😱), and other...
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Reached $10K MRR, launched Xnapper (#1 of the week), went on Indie Hackers podcast (😱), and other updates in Aug 2022...
Arduino Blog
Innovative new tactile sensor helps assess fine motor skills Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s...
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Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s motor skills can be critical in diagnosing and treating a variety of conditions. But objective evaluation has been a challenge, as suitable sensors weren’t available. To help...
The American Scholar
Let Us Compare Mythologies Exploding the Canon, Episode 4 The post Let Us Compare Mythologies appeared first on The American...
12 months ago
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Exploding the Canon, Episode 4 The post Let Us Compare Mythologies appeared first on The American Scholar.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pro Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of...
10 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of entertainment, in that nothing means anything, but everyone still gets hurt. Today's News:
Nat Eliason's...
30-Day First Draft: Week 1 Report & Lessons 29,588 Words Later
8 months ago
On the Arts
The Paradox of the Garden of Eden An Interview with Professor David Fenner
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Favorite New Podcasts in 2020 An update to my favorite podcasts list with the ones I have found this year
over a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
Some subtleties of keycaps There’s plenty of material online about the bewildering variety of keycaps, eg, eg, but I learned a...
a year ago
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There’s plenty of material online about the bewildering variety of keycaps, eg, eg, but I learned a few things that surprised me when working on Keybird69. nightfox I found out that the remaining stock of Matteo Spinelli’s NightFox keyboards were being sold off cheap because of...
99% Invisible
Towers of Silence [EPISODE] Situated right in downtown Mumbai, India is an area of about 55 acres of dense, overgrown forest. In...
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Situated right in downtown Mumbai, India is an area of about 55 acres of dense, overgrown forest. In one of the most populous cities in the world, this is a place where peacocks roam freely — a space out of time. This forest is protected by a religious community. It has survived...
Londonist
45+ Action-Packed Things To Do In London In April 2024 The best events in London this month.
a year ago
Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967 It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
Diaries of Note
So here I am, two hours into my sixty-sixth year Born in 1936 in Hampshire, England, Simon Gray was a prolific playwright whose later years saw him...
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Born in 1936 in Hampshire, England, Simon Gray was a prolific playwright whose later years saw him acclaimed for The Smoking Diaries, a series of insightful, often irreverent memoirs in which he delves deep into the human experience, tackling themes of ageing, vulnerability, and...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee ☕ Complicated coffee: plain and simple. There’s a scene in AMC’s “Breaking Bad” where Gail Boetticher...
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Complicated coffee: plain and simple. There’s a scene in AMC’s “Breaking Bad” where Gail Boetticher explains to Walter White how to make the perfect cup of coffee. And it all sounds so plausible—there’s a perfect coffee, and science will magic it for us. That whole idea, scene,...
Willem's Blog
Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet? Over the past few weeks I worked with Microsoft Surface Pro X to see if it is any good, can it be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the past few weeks I worked with Microsoft Surface Pro X to see if it is any good, can it be your main computer?
swyx's site RSS Feed
3 Tips from Kent C Dodds for People Just Getting Started advice for beginners from a podcast
over a year ago
Oxide Computer...
dtrace.conf(24) Sometime in late 2007, we had the idea of a DTrace conference. Or really, more of a meetup; from the...
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Sometime in late 2007, we had the idea of a DTrace conference. Or really, more of a meetup; from the primordial e-mail I sent: The goal here, by the way, is not a DTrace user group, but more of a face-to-face meeting with people actively involved in DTrace — either by porting...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #180 Berkshire Hathaway Energy, John Neff and Peter Lynch on investing, Charlie Munger on parenting,...
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Berkshire Hathaway Energy, John Neff and Peter Lynch on investing, Charlie Munger on parenting, Damodaran on key person risk, Microsoft's IPO, Howard Marks and Annie Duke on risk
Society's Backend
Stop Obsessing Over the Product and Start Thinking About the Bigger Picture The actual takeaways from the iPhone 15 event
a year ago
Rest of World -...
How an economic crisis shifted Sri Lanka’s e-commerce industry Rakhil Fernando of Daraz talks about how the company had to shift its focus from lifestyle products...
a year ago
David Perell
Where the Liberal Arts Went Wrong We’ve lost touch with the ultimate purpose of education: to transform our being and improve our...
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We’ve lost touch with the ultimate purpose of education: to transform our being and improve our character. The liberal arts are the ends, not the means.   The post Where the Liberal Arts Went Wrong appeared first on David Perell.
The Rational Walk
Buffett Accelerates Gifts to Family Foundations For the second year in a row, Warren Buffett has made gifts to four family foundations in excess of...
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For the second year in a row, Warren Buffett has made gifts to four family foundations in excess of the annual commitments pledged in 2006.
Calculated Risk
PCE Inflation expected to be Soft in March The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index for March will be released on April 30th. ...
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The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index for March will be released on April 30th. The data released so far suggests the PCE inflation will be soft in March. The producer price index (PPI), the PPI excluding food and energy, and the PPI excluding food, energy, and...
Chris Grossack's...
Externalizing Some Simple Topos Statements Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done math in any serious capacity for almost the past month. It’s been a lot of hard work trying to get fair contracts out of the UC, but I had a lot of travel plans this December to...
Molson Hart's Blog -...
Richard the Great This is a eulogy for my father. Its goal is to honor the man for who he was and what he...
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This is a eulogy for my father. Its goal is to honor the man for who he was and what he accomplished, but also to pass on the lessons we can learn from his life. Richard Michael Hart was born on November 1st, 1941 in Porirua, New Zealand. Richard was not so studious. He...
TheCollector
What Are the Five Pillars of Islam? The foundation of religious life for Sunni Muslims, who comprise around eighty-five percent of...
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The foundation of religious life for Sunni Muslims, who comprise around eighty-five percent of Muslims worldwide, is known as the “Five Pillars of Islam.” They are designed not merely for personal use, but to foster solidarity within the Muslim ummah, or community. They are not a...
Steve Klabnik
Is WebAssembly the return of Java Applets & Flash?
over a year ago
Win Vector LLC
Hat Color Puzzles Introduction Theoretical computer scientists tend to love a class of problems I call “hat color”...
3 months ago
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Introduction Theoretical computer scientists tend to love a class of problems I call “hat color” puzzles. There seem to be only a few of these puzzles, yet they feel like examples or tests for a large and important class of methodologies. I’d like to introduce a few of these...
Hidden History
The Assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Civil rights icon Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, on a motel...
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Civil rights icon Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, on a motel balcony in Memphis. One of the earliest successes of the civil rights movement was a boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.  In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her...
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Dead Stars: Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s Stunning Love Poem to Life "We’ve come this far, survived this much. What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love...
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Owning equity in your company should be as common as owning equity in your home What belongs in common to the most people is accorded the least care: they take thought for their...
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This 3D-printed robotic arm can be built with just a few inexpensive components Robotics is already an intimidating field, thanks to the complexity involved. And the cost of parts,...
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Robotics is already an intimidating field, thanks to the complexity involved. And the cost of parts, such as actuators, only increases that feeling of inaccessibility. But as FABRI Creator shows in their most recent video, you can build a useful robotic arm with just a handful of...
The Berkeley...
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning...
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Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning phase, which uses human preference in the form of comparisons, and the RL fine-tuning phase, which optimizes a single, non-comparative reward. What if we performed RL in a comparative...
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Information is the (other) currency of venture capital Many seasoned entrepreneurs have had the following experience.  A VC eagerly wants to meet with you....
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Many seasoned entrepreneurs have had the following experience.  A VC eagerly wants to meet with you.  You have what seems like a very good…
The Marginalian
Yellow Butterfly: A Moving Wordless Story About War, Hope, and Keeping the Light Alive In his little-known correspondence with Freud about war and human nature, Einstein observed that...
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In his little-known correspondence with Freud about war and human nature, Einstein observed that every great moral and spiritual leader in the history of our civilization has shared “the great goal of the internal and external liberation of man* from the evils of war” as Freud...
Grant Slatton
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Bryan Braun - Blog
Capability makes your life simpler If you can tolerate discomfort, then you can camp much lighter. Camping lighter means you spend less...
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If you can tolerate discomfort, then you can camp much lighter. Camping lighter means you spend less time and energy packing, setting-up, tearing down, and unpacking. The same goes for travel. Fewer clothes and shoes means less luggage to carry, manage, and lose. You can board...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: More mods The printer is done, but I feel one of the best part of a VORON printer is the ability to modify and...
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The printer is done, but I feel one of the best part of a VORON printer is the ability to modify and personalize it. There a tons of mods you can do, and while I’ve done a few there are lots more that I’d like to do some day. It’s a wonderful feeling to augment the printer with...
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A Building to Tell the Time: The Toghrol Tower in Rey, Iran (1063) The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and...
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The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and Sarooj, a water-resistant mortar. It was erected in 1063, and according to some sources, it was conceived as the tomb of Tuğrul Beg, the founder of the Seljuk dynasty. Other scholars...
Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Existing-Home Sales Increased to 4.24 million SAAR in... At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. NAR:...
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At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. NAR: Existing-Home Sales Increased to 4.24 million SAAR in December NMHC on Apartments: "Looser market conditions for the tenth consecutive quarter 1.73 million Total Housing Completions in...
Seeking Wisdom
Buffett’s Bathtub Memory I love reading physical books. But there’s one problem with physical books. My shelf space is...
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I love reading physical books. But there’s one problem with physical books. My shelf space is limited. To overcome the shelf space limitation, I developed a simple fitness function for my books. Books that I won’t reread will be donated to the library. Don’t get me wrong. They...
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London Now Has Its First Statue Of Queen Elizabeth II Bronze likeness unveiled at Royal Albert Hall.
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HogMail #16 Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder how many miracles get boring if you just grant god an extra dimension? Today's News:
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Naughty vs. nice I love this bit from Paul Graham on pattern-matching founders: Though the most successful founders...
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I love this bit from Paul Graham on pattern-matching founders: Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not...
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A bookmarklet to show which responsive image was chosen I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better...
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I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better than when I started. I’ve read a bunch of articles on responsive images, and I’ve sprinkled the <picture> and <source> tags everywhere to offer images in a variety of sizes and...
Letters of Note
You would be so proud Uhuru Houston was born in Brooklyn in 1969. He joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey...
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Uhuru Houston was born in Brooklyn in 1969. He joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department in 1993, and three years later married Sonya, whom he had met when they were both students at Norfolk State University. In 1999, he was assigned to the World...
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986 From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the  club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
Wrong Side of...
What will become of the Sensitive Young Men? Wrong Side of History round-up #59
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Mentoring software engineers or engineering leaders Great mentors are useful for professional growth, and have benefitted both informal and formal...
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Great mentors are useful for professional growth, and have benefitted both informal and formal mentorship from experienced engineers and managers. A collection of free and paid resources where you can find mentors to help with your professional growth.
Josh Comeau's blog
Magical Rainbow Gradients If you've ever tried to animate a gradient, you've been met with a harsh reality—it isn't possible....
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If you've ever tried to animate a gradient, you've been met with a harsh reality—it isn't possible. At least, it wasn't! In this tutorial, we'll leverage bleeding-edge browser features to animate ANY CSS property, including background gradients, using CSS Houdini, CSS variables,...
The Marginalian
The Afterlives of the Soul: Sister Nivedita on Love and Death "To the soul, time does not exist. Only her own great purpose exists, shining clear and steady...
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"To the soul, time does not exist. Only her own great purpose exists, shining clear and steady through the mists before her."
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The American Scholar
Diana Antohe Threads of memory and home The post Diana Antohe appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Disk is OK Maybe I am unlucky with computer hardware. Maybe I have the opposite of the golden touch of...
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Maybe I am unlucky with computer hardware. Maybe I have the opposite of the golden touch of Midas. Or maybe it’s just the fact that I use my hardware for things they were never meant to be used for. Anyway, I have acquired two Seagate 4TB external hard drives for doing some...
Cartogrammar
Hachures and sketchy relief maps I’ve never been a terrain representation expert, but occasionally I get briefly super interested in...
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I’ve never been a terrain representation expert, but occasionally I get briefly super interested in some DIY technique for relief mapping, not using typical GIS tools or rendering software. Tom Patterson’s old (but still applicable) Photoshop tutorials were my introduction to the...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Joshua Xu Lessons from building HeyGen from 0 to $1m ARR in 7 months
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add...
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Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add authentication and serverless functionality and get up and running incredibly quickly with Netlify - here's how.
Wuthering...
Middle period Plato - He’s garbage, he cares about nothing but the truth. Assembling yesterday’s post I saw that I was only missing one dialogue from Plato’s early period, so...
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Assembling yesterday’s post I saw that I was only missing one dialogue from Plato’s early period, so I knocked off Greater Hippiaslast night.  The early dialogues are generally short; the three in the “death of Socrates” group are only fifty pages total, for example. Hippias is...
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Can I ethically use LLMs? The title is not a rhetorical question, and I'm not going to bury an answer. I don't have an...
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The title is not a rhetorical question, and I'm not going to bury an answer. I don't have an answer. This post is my exploration of the question, and why I think it is a question1. Important things up front: what's my relationship with LLMs today? I don't use any LLMs regularly....
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✏️ To Comprehend To stand in a landscape that is hard to comprehend is to know that not all that should be celebrated...
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To stand in a landscape that is hard to comprehend is to know that not all that should be celebrated is human-made. To understand that to get here, it took hundreds, thousands, millions of denominations of time to render this environment is a lesson in a slow life that we’ve...
Math Is Still...
The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change An ultra-precise measurement of a transition in the hearts of thorium atoms gives physicists a tool...
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An ultra-precise measurement of a transition in the hearts of thorium atoms gives physicists a tool to probe the forces that bind the universe. The post The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great More than a Villain
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Eulogy for Brian Eulogy for Brian Howard, Macintosh hero, 1944-2010
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Bats Use the Same Brain Cells to Map Physical and Social Worlds New research in social bats raises the intriguing possibility that evolution can reprogram the...
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New research in social bats raises the intriguing possibility that evolution can reprogram the brain’s “place cells,” which are typically associated with location, to encode all kinds of environmental information. The post Bats Use the Same Brain Cells to Map Physical...
James Vaughan's blog
Custom iPhone text tones
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Scott DeLong
AI-Integrated Search: The Latest Way Big Tech Is Stealing From And Crushing Small Businesses It's Big Tech's latest way to steal the hard work of publishers, and there's nothing you can do...
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It's Big Tech's latest way to steal the hard work of publishers, and there's nothing you can do about it except adapt. The post AI-Integrated Search: The Latest Way Big Tech Is Stealing From And Crushing Small Businesses appeared first on Scott DeLong.
TokyoDev
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The Marginalian
Kafka on Friendship and the Art of Reconnection Among the paradoxes of friendship is this: All friendships of depth and durability are based on a...
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Among the paradoxes of friendship is this: All friendships of depth and durability are based on a profound knowledge of each other, of the soul beneath the costume of personality — that lovely Celtic notion of anam cara. We bring this knowledge, this mutual understanding, to...
Mark Manson
3 Steps to Becoming Great at Anything Today, we're going to talk about a question I get asked all the time: How do I become great at this...
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Today, we're going to talk about a question I get asked all the time: How do I become great at this one thing? Let's dive right in. To become great at something, you must identify the 20% of actions that will yield 80% of the results. Take writing, for example. Editing is the 20%...
Melissa Penfold
2025 PREDICTIONS ARE IN: DESIGN FORECAST FOR THE WHOLE HOUSE Style manifested in many forms over the last 12 months, as well as in our homes and gardens with the...
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Style manifested in many forms over the last 12 months, as well as in our homes and gardens with the way we decorate, entertain, and live. Of course style – and trends – are subjective, not to mention a subject of heated discussion – but each of the trends we discuss for the year...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2023 The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully...
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The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully photographed circuit board as this month’s entry.
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 9-10 March 2024 Live comedy, an artisan market, Disney events and more.
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China is six months behind the U.S. on AI, the US has to move faster: Div Turakhia The India-born tech investor, entrepreneur and billionaire businessman spoke to Rest of World about...
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The India-born tech investor, entrepreneur and billionaire businessman spoke to Rest of World about the promise of AI technology, why the U.S. needs to move faster to compete with China, and the advantage the UAE has in building AI.
Notes on software...
Windows It has been six years since I last used Windows for any remotely serious software development. I've...
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It has been six years since I last used Windows for any remotely serious software development. I've used Ubuntu, Arch, or FreeBSD since. But eventually I spent so much time working around common workplace tasks that I decided to put Windows 10 Pro on my work laptop. Windows...
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Introducing the Avo Inspector app We're excited to announce that we have launched a new app with Avo , a leading data governance...
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We're excited to announce that we have launched a new app with Avo , a leading data governance platform which enables you track data consistently and…
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Global TikTok creators depend on U.S. viewers. A TikTok ban would be devastating Without Americans on the app, advertising dollars are at risk.
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The Pragmatic Engineer 100K Giveaway The Pragmatic Engineer's YouTube channel crossed 100K subscribers. Celebrating with a giveaway of...
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The Pragmatic Engineer's YouTube channel crossed 100K subscribers. Celebrating with a giveaway of 100 books and newsletter subs: 10x signed physical books (The Software Engineer’s Guidebook [in English or German - your choice!], Building Mobile Apps at Scale; winners get both;...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Macaroni Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: At least she holds back how the heat death is...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: At least she holds back how the heat death is pointless and without meaning! Today's News:
Fathy Boundjadj
Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork...
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I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork of Chromium to support modern web standards. This post explains most patches. Take a picture Chromium is built on top of Blink: an HTML engine forked from WebKit, and Skia: a 2D...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Plato and Atlantis
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Branding for Ecuador, Pilsener World Edition Qatar 2022 Branding for Ecuador, Pilsener World Edition Qatar 2022 abduzeedo0201—23 ...
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Branding for Ecuador, Pilsener World Edition Qatar 2022 abduzeedo0201—23 The leading beer brand in Ecuador, Pilsener, has a history of over 110 years and is a significant part of the AB InBev portfolio in the region. Known for its association...
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Rockefeller Foundation trustee Patty Stonesifer is a “technology multimillionaire and philanthropist”.
Irrational...
Setting engineering org values. Uber’s best known corporate value is probably Super Pumped, which, in addition to being a one-time...
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over a year ago
Uber’s best known corporate value is probably Super Pumped, which, in addition to being a one-time company value, is also the title of Mike Isaac’s account of Uber and the subsequent television show. However, for me personally, the value I remember most is Let Builders...
Data Boutique
Economics of Web Data: ROI Customer's Value Standpoint
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One Useful Thing
Google's Gemini Advanced: Tasting Notes and Implications And then there were two.
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How Indians are watching Succession after HBO ditched Disney With HBO walking away from Disney+ Hotstar, shows like Succession, The Last of Us, and Game of...
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With HBO walking away from Disney+ Hotstar, shows like Succession, The Last of Us, and Game of Thrones can no longer be streamed in the country.
Grow With Less
The 27 tools I use to grow my online business People often ask me what tools I use to build and grow French Together so I thought I would put...
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People often ask me what tools I use to build and grow French Together so I thought I would put together a list of my favorites. These are not necessarily the best and trendiest tools, some may even be considered old-fasshioned. But they are the tools that help me build and grow...
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 11 – What Could Have Been In his Substack this week, Dave Karpf concludes that the trajectory of any emerging technology bends...
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In his Substack this week, Dave Karpf concludes that the trajectory of any emerging technology bends toward money. Of course it does. Because, capitalism. Karpf is in the midst of a chronological reread of the entire WIRED magazine corpus — of great interest to me, of...
IEEE Spectrum
How Antivirus Software Has Changed With the Internet We live in a world filled with computer viruses, and antivirus software is almost as old as the...
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3 months ago
We live in a world filled with computer viruses, and antivirus software is almost as old as the Internet itself: The first version of what would become McAfee antivirus came out in 1987—just four years after the Internet booted up. For many of us, antivirus software is an...
Nat Eliason's...
Sapiens is Good You Silly Status Monkeys No banana for you!
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Eat Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Based on a conversation with Phil Plait, whom I...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Based on a conversation with Phil Plait, whom I wish to associate with the above subject. Today's News:
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All Set! Looking Under the Hood of Python's Set Data Structure Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
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The Marginalian
The Warped Side of Our Universe: A Painted Epic Poem about the Dazzling Science of Spacetime The first English use of the word space to connote the cosmic expanse appears in line 650 of Book I...
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a year ago
The first English use of the word space to connote the cosmic expanse appears in line 650 of Book I of Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost: “Space may produce new Worlds,” he wrote, and grow rife with them. In the centuries since Milton, who lived through the golden dawn of...
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968) The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
The Prism
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David Gerrells
A lazy dark mode A fast simple way of drop in dark mode support using nextjs and react.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Home Office Was Hidden Behind A Wall That Folds Open BENT Architecture has sent us photos of a renovation and extension they completed for a house in...
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BENT Architecture has sent us photos of a renovation and extension they completed for a house in Hawthorn, Australia. One design detail that caught our attention is the home office hidden in plain sight in the dining room behind a wood accent wall. The floor-to-ceiling wood...
TokyoDev
How to buy a house in Japan Since moving to Japan on a J-Find visa, I’ve been curious about buying a home in Japan. This is a...
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11 months ago
Since moving to Japan on a J-Find visa, I’ve been curious about buying a home in Japan. This is a big topic with lots of details to consider, and so after having discussions with several experts, Emil Gorgees from RealEstate.jp, James Howell from Kanachu, Masaru Takeyama from...
Scott Jenson
A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar I borrowed a friend’s Tesla 3 yesterday. About 5 minutes into the ride, the windshield started...
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over a year ago
I borrowed a friend’s Tesla 3 yesterday. About 5 minutes into the ride, the windshield started fogging up. I couldn’t find the defroster on the large control screen Teslas are so famous for. In desperation, I tapped the CAR icon but that took me to the settings screen which ended...
Math Is Still...
Simple Equation Predicts the Shapes of Carbon-Capturing Wetlands To calculate the amount of carbon stored inside peatlands, researchers developed a unified theory of...
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To calculate the amount of carbon stored inside peatlands, researchers developed a unified theory of “bog physics” applicable around the world. The post Simple Equation Predicts the Shapes of Carbon-Capturing Wetlands first appeared on Quanta Magazine
A small freedom area...
Deconstructing Bézier curves Graphists, animators, game programmers, font designers, and other graphics professionals and...
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over a year ago
Graphists, animators, game programmers, font designers, and other graphics professionals and enthusiasts are often working with Bézier curves. They're popular, extensively documented, and used pretty much everywhere. That being said, I find them being explained almost exclusively...
Open Culture
Explore a Digitized Edition of the Voynich Manuscript, “the World’s Most Mysterious Book” A 600-year-old manuscript—written in a script no one has ever decoded, filled with cryptic...
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A 600-year-old manuscript—written in a script no one has ever decoded, filled with cryptic illustrations, its origins remaining to this day a mystery…. It’s not as satisfying a plot, say, of a National Treasure or Dan Brown thriller, certainly not as action-packed as...
mtlynch.io
Hiring Content Writers: Part Four - Working with Writers Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job...
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Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description Part Three: Screening Candidates Part Four - Working with Writers (this section) Part Five - Terminating Writers You can’t judge a writer’s skill accurately until they...
Good Enough
How We Built Unique Social Preview Images for Pika One of the goals of Pika, the happy blogging software that we recently launched, is to help you find...
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One of the goals of Pika, the happy blogging software that we recently launched, is to help you find your own place on the internet. Along with a nice place on the internet, when you share links to your blog we want them to represent your internet home, which you've likely taken...
Josh Thompson
Setting up Application Performance Monitoring in DataDog in your Rails App When I write guides to things, I write them first and foremost for myself, and I tend to work...
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over a year ago
When I write guides to things, I write them first and foremost for myself, and I tend to work through things in excruciating detail. You might find this to be a little too in-depth, or you might appreciate the detail. Either way, if you want a step-by-step guide, this should do...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
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Both Are True
The meet-cute (rom com, Act One) a tale of two idiots who fell in love as told by one of those idiots, full of sound and fury,...
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a tale of two idiots who fell in love as told by one of those idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying everything
The American Scholar
Once More, Without Feeling Can a memoir be effective when it lacks any warmth? The post Once More, Without Feeling appeared...
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Can a memoir be effective when it lacks any warmth? The post Once More, Without Feeling appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Mattamy Homes Sales and Decor Centre in Toronto merges office and sales spaces with Scandinavian and Japanese-inspired design by Figure3,...
Vadim Kravcenko
 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob...
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Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob mentioned that I […] The post  🎭 Owning up to your mistakes appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Rest of World -...
Clickworkers are turning against each other Brazil’s online gig workers, who power features like social media moderation and AI training, are...
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Brazil’s online gig workers, who power features like social media moderation and AI training, are increasingly wary of newcomers.
xkcd.com
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NO. 366 | T-Breach, Siri++, Conception Ages… 🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your...
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🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your favorite client! APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS Another T-Mobile Breach T-Mobile has had another security breach, this one affecting at least 37 million accounts. They...
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How to disrupt Wall Street Sarah Lacy has a very interesting post on TechCrunch where she argues that the internet is finally...
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Sarah Lacy has a very interesting post on TechCrunch where she argues that the internet is finally starting to disrupt Wall Street. I’d love…
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Digital shortcuts and cognitive load I used to drive 200 miles to Boston once a week or so. After a few trips on the highway, my...
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I used to drive 200 miles to Boston once a week or so. After a few trips on the highway, my subconscious figured out that getting behind a few trucks for the entire ride enabled me to spend four hours without using much conscious effort on driving. Every day, we make decisions....
Bits about Money
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Ever wondered what happens if you try to take $50,000 in cash out of a bank? Answer: a year of investigative journalism.
Code Of Honor
The making of Warcraft part 2 In my previous article about Warcraft I talked about the beginnings of a series that would come to...
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In my previous article about Warcraft I talked about the beginnings of a series that would come to define Blizzard Entertainment and lead it to being one of the best-known and most-loved game companies in the world. But how did Warcraft go from an idea to a full-fledged game? Let...
Calculated Risk
Final Look at Local Housing Markets in November and a Look Ahead to December Sales Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Final Look at Local Housing Markets in...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Final Look at Local Housing Markets in November and a Look Ahead to December Sales A brief excerpt: After the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) releases the monthly existing home sales report, I pick up additional local...
Common Edge
A Model for a Healthier, Adaptive Approach to Community Development The Smiling Gecko project in Cambodia addresses a more complex and systemic view of community life.
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99% Invisible
The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons [EPISODE] Hailing from central African cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa, sapeurs have become increasingly...
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Hailing from central African cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa, sapeurs have become increasingly recognizable around the world. Since the 1970s, sapeurs (from: le sape, short for “Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes”) have been known for donning technicolored...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
My Pardot landing page starter kit Over the past year, I’ve built an increasing amount of Pardot landing pages in my day to day role. I...
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Over the past year, I’ve built an increasing amount of Pardot landing pages in my day to day role. I think landing pages are a really…
Arduino Blog
It’s silver, it’s green, it’s the Batteryrunner! An Arduino-powered, fully custom electric car Inventor Charly Bosch and his daughter Leonie have crafted something truly remarkable: a fully...
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Inventor Charly Bosch and his daughter Leonie have crafted something truly remarkable: a fully electric, Arduino-powered car that’s as innovative as it is sustainable. Called the Batteryrunner, this vehicle is designed with a focus on environmental impact, simplicity, and custom...
Londonist
Can You Set Off Your Own Fireworks In London? DIY whizzbangs, explained.
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Anecdotal Evidence
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A reader asks, “How did you learn to read so fast?” The answer is simple: I didn’t. I have always read slowly, often taking notes, which makes it even slower. This frustrated me when I was young, and I briefly contemplated enrolling in one of Evelyn Wood’s...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Suddenly wondering if THIS is the one that gets me that hatemail I've wanted all these years. Today's News:
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Fingerprints on the Feculence If you don’t claim responsibility for the user experience who will? Is there a stronger advocate for...
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If you don’t claim responsibility for the user experience who will? Is there a stronger advocate for quality, anyone more in touch with good taste than you? It is time to fess up to poor UX.
Seth's Blog
Specific It’s one thing to say that 7,000,000 people will die next year from smoking cigarettes. It’s a...
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It’s one thing to say that 7,000,000 people will die next year from smoking cigarettes. It’s a totally different thing to list those folks by name. When we confront risk, two things make it seem less real: We’re not sure who, and we’re not sure when. If you want to clarify our...
A Smart Bear
How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10) If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list...
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If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list probably doesn't have the correct number of things.
The Marginalian
May Sarton on Writing, Gardening, and the Importance of Patience Over Will in Creative Work "Gardening is like poetry in that it is gratuitous, and also that it cannot be done on will alone."
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Making sense of TypeScript using set theory I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to...
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I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to my despair, some low-level behaviors still confuse me: Why does 0 | 1 extends 0 ? true : false evaluate to false? I'm very ashamed, but I sometimes confuse "subtype" and...
Vadim Kravcenko
Code Reviews Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […] The post...
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Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […] The post Code Reviews appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Techies and normals There are techies (if you are reading this blog you are almost certainly one of them) and there are...
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over a year ago
There are techies (if you are reading this blog you are almost certainly one of them) and there are mainstream users – some people call them…
Josh Thompson
November 2016 Goals November 2016 Goals Note to the reader: The words that follow are all about me. Very naval-gaze-ish....
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over a year ago
November 2016 Goals Note to the reader: The words that follow are all about me. Very naval-gaze-ish. I feel I owe you this warning. My November goals are an extension of my October goals. October was good ( October review) - I made progress on two of three projects, and one of...
Louwrentius
The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor...
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Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor implementing the VDEV expansion feature. A new pr has been created for this effort. The feature was merged into the code base, but may not be available to the general public before the end...
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Bouldering My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO:
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Willem's Blog
Health and fitness data Exploring the balance between health data and intuition, this blog post delves into how personal...
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Exploring the balance between health data and intuition, this blog post delves into how personal well-being and fitness goals shape our relationship with technology and self-awareness.
Noahpinion
In which I rebut Nate Silver on the economy and Matt Yglesias on nuclear Bloggers love to argue.
6 months ago
Archinect - Features
'AI Is Built on Datasets That Are Already Biased'; A Conversation with Felecia Davis Ever since her childhood summers sewing patterns at the family dining table, Felecia Davis has...
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Ever since her childhood summers sewing patterns at the family dining table, Felecia Davis has understood the power of textiles to be a vehicle for communication, connection, and understanding. As her career in architecture unfolded in parallel with wider advances in...
Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In? Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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./techtipsy
Cool links This is an unsorted list of links that I find to be cool. slow roads sit back, relax and let the AI...
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This is an unsorted list of links that I find to be cool. slow roads sit back, relax and let the AI do all the driving or don’t, I’m not your dad
Platformer
The Supreme Court reckoning over content moderation is arriving Platforms might have a way around Texas's social media law — unless a separate case makes that...
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gold Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: When I think of altruism, I think of guys selling...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: When I think of altruism, I think of guys selling apocalypse gold on youtube. Today's News:
Matt Mullenweg
Ed Catmull on Change I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me...
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I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me by my colleague Dave Martin a while back and I finally got around to it. There’s an interesting story in it where George Lucas has asked him to develop a film editing system that...
Retail Design Blog
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TSK Group partnered with NERA to design a new London office emphasizing well-being, productivity, and exceptional client experiences, featuring enhanced...
Jonas Hietala
Breaking the rule of three It’s pretty darn stressful making a game in a week, especially when you have this big great vision...
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over a year ago
It’s pretty darn stressful making a game in a week, especially when you have this big great vision on how your game should be (which is always grand). For me making Balls, Black and White and Jonas IceCream Stand where truly stressful, MenuCity and Bugger not so much but...
Ben Borgers
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over a year ago
On Life and Lisp
AAA gaming on Asahi Linux Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which...
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Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0. Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®, OpenCL™, and...
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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Seth's Blog
But it matters a lot to them… To get to the Kebab House Cafe, you’ll need to drive past a dozen fast food restaurants, restaurants...
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a year ago
To get to the Kebab House Cafe, you’ll need to drive past a dozen fast food restaurants, restaurants you can find off just about any interstate. It’s certainly less convenient to go a few blocks off the beaten path, but the food and service and vibe might be worth it. The thing...
Adventures In...
Tolkien Style Maps in a GIS: part 1, Forests “Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake.” In this 4-part series we’ll...
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“Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake.” In this 4-part series we’ll walk through the reckoning of a Lord of the Rings style fantasy map, right in ArcGIS Pro. We map-makers get to breathe honest to goodness geographic life into the seminal aesthetic...
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Maggie Appleton
A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes Bringing visual explanations and embodied knowledge to programming tools
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Handprinted - Blog
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I’m a printmaker and illustrator, living in York, North Yorkshire. I create limited edition linocut prints inspired by the British countryside and British wildlife. Describe your printmaking process. When I started making lino prints I used SoftCut lino and a wooden spoon to...
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A Home Designed To Walk Up And Around The Green Roof AtelierM has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Capilla del Senor, Argentina,...
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AtelierM has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Capilla del Senor, Argentina, whose design was inspired by geometry and its surroundings.
History Today Feed
What was the Industrial Revolution? What was the Industrial Revolution? JamesHoare Thu, 04/24/2025 - 09:22
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji. This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
Castles in the Sky
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Chonk A heavy display sans that likes to take up space. — Jason Santa Maria Visit original link → or View...
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A heavy display sans that likes to take up space. — Jason Santa Maria Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Pre-1968 Batman climbs a skyscraper: Apparently, the Singer Building. Here’s a view of its top circa 1920:...
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Batman climbs a skyscraper: Apparently, the Singer Building. Here’s a view of its top circa 1920: And in 1967, with some scaffolding in place to begin its demolition:
The Marginalian
The Stubborn Art of Turning Suffering into Strength: Václav Havel’s Extraordinary Letters from... “I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me,” Oscar Wilde wrote from prison....
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“I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me,” Oscar Wilde wrote from prison. “There is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try and make into a spiritualising of the soul.” The cruel kindness of life is that our sturdiest fulcrum of...
Society's Backend
Call of Duty has a data science problem A lesson in why data science matters and what makes it so complex
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Threat of Technology In my second book (shameless plug alert) – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors and I...
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a year ago
In my second book (shameless plug alert) – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors and I try to imagine both the utopian and dystopian versions of the future, brought about by technology, either individually or collectively. This topic has come up multiple times recently...
Mind Mine
a series of morning thoughts trying something new… listen to my voice :)
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Literally everyone would be happy about this. We should be building NOW Today's News:
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The best Google Optimize alternatives for apps and websites Google recently confirmed the sunsetting Google Optimize, its A/B testing platform. In a statement ...
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Google recently confirmed the sunsetting Google Optimize, its A/B testing platform. In a statement on its website, Google said: "Google Optimize and…
Ben Borgers
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NeuroLogica Blog
Biofrequency Gadgets are a Total Scam I was recently asked what I thought about the Solex AO Scan. The website for the product includes...
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I was recently asked what I thought about the Solex AO Scan. The website for the product includes this claim: AO Scan Technology by Solex is an elegant, yet simple-to-use frequency technology based on Tesla, Einstein, and other prominent scientists’ discoveries. It uses delicate...
The Marginalian
The Universe and the Soul: Richard Jefferies on Nature as Prayer for Presence How to grow "absorbed into the being or existence of the universe."
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The Pragmatic...
Google Shutting down Firebase Dynamic Links Firebase Dynamic Links was a popular way to build universal deeplinks that worked across iOS,...
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a year ago
Firebase Dynamic Links was a popular way to build universal deeplinks that worked across iOS, Android, and the web. Now after 7 years, Google is shutting down this product. But why? I asked the Big Tech giant for details.
Jonas Hietala
My Dream Game: The RTS Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart:...
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Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart: Supreme Commander. It’s not the game I’ve played the most and there might even be games which are better and more fun but supcom was the game that introduced me to competitive gaming...
Rest of World -...
Argentina’s “TikTok nun” is bringing Catholicism to the masses Sister Cattaneo has gained 200,000 followers through cumbia dances, influencer collabs, and...
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CrimethInc.
Eight Things You Can Do to Stop ICE The Trump administration is paving the way for mass deportations by building new prison camps and...
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The Trump administration is paving the way for mass deportations by building new prison camps and invoking the Alien Enemies Act, which was used to justify the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Motivated by nativism and white nationalism, Steven Miller and...
Math Is Still...
New Elliptic Curve Breaks 18-Year-Old Record Two mathematicians have renewed a debate about the fundamental nature of some of math’s most...
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Two mathematicians have renewed a debate about the fundamental nature of some of math’s most important equations. The post New Elliptic Curve Breaks 18-Year-Old Record first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The American Scholar
Brown Wasps The post Brown Wasps appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
The Universe of...
Genealogy of the House of Reuss A couple of years ago I lamented the difficulty I had in verifying what appeared to be a simple...
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A couple of years ago I lamented the difficulty I had in verifying what appeared to be a simple statement of fact: [Abdullah bin Abdul-Rahman] was the seventh son of the Emir of the Second Saudi State, Abdul Rahman bin Faisal. The essential problem is that Saudi princes have at...
Moneyness
Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation On the last day of 1945, with World War II finally behind it, Finland's government announced a new...
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On the last day of 1945, with World War II finally behind it, Finland's government announced a new and very strange policy. All Finns were required to take out a pair of scissors and snip their banknotes in half. This was known in Finland as setelinleikkaus, or banknote cutting....
Louwrentius
Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm...
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over a year ago
Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm documenting the scenario where I just want to create a file system that can tollerate at least a single drive failure and can be shared over NFS. Identify the drives you want to use for the...
Ben Borgers
Un-figure-out-able Software
over a year ago
wingolog
whippet lab notebook: on untagged mallocs Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been...
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Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been finally starting to look at getting into , and there are some open questions.WhippetGuile I started by taking a look at how Guile uses the ‘s API, to make sure I had all my bases...
Seth's Blog
Avoiding technology Robert Caro never learned to type. He pecks out his books two fingers at a time on an electric...
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Robert Caro never learned to type. He pecks out his books two fingers at a time on an electric typewriter. There are two reasons to avoid learning a proven new technology: You know what it can do and how it will change your life and you don’t want it. You don’t know what it can...
Jonas Hietala
The Arty Timeline While working on Jonas IceCream Stand I took a screenshot every day and I thought they looked pretty...
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over a year ago
While working on Jonas IceCream Stand I took a screenshot every day and I thought they looked pretty cool so here they are: And now I’m off with New World Order and (for once) I’ve got a really really good idea!
One Useful Thing
Innovation through prompting Democratizing educational technology... and more
a year ago
This Space
The end of literature, part four This tweet has been seen thousands of times since it was posted on the 82nd anniversary of Britain...
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over a year ago
This tweet has been seen thousands of times since it was posted on the 82nd anniversary of Britain and France declaring war on Germany. Not that the coincidence means much. At least, no more than what the general population, interest and powerful mean here, or indeed what poetry...
Retail Design Blog
ZUCZUG Bazaar & Flat by Sò Studio Conveying the brand’s character and narrative and seeking breakthroughs through the use of spatial...
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Conveying the brand’s character and narrative and seeking breakthroughs through the use of spatial design language, the full integration of...
Frank’s Ramblings
Vision Transformers are Overrated Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
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Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious upside: in a visual recognition setting, the receptive field of a pure ViT is effectively the entire image 1. In particular, vanilla ViTs maintain the quadratic time complexity...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Explore the Arctic's Beauty and Wildlife on a Luxury Cruise
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What did DeepSeek figure out about reasoning with DeepSeek-R1? The Chinese AI lab DeepSeek recently released their new reasoning model R1, which is supposedly (a)...
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The Chinese AI lab DeepSeek recently released their new reasoning model R1, which is supposedly (a) better than the current best reasoning…
Ryan Hoover's...
Why you should move
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Math Is Still...
The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time These three imagined scenarios lead many physicists to doubt that space-time is fundamental. ...
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These three imagined scenarios lead many physicists to doubt that space-time is fundamental. The post The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Citation Needed
Guilty or coerced? Ryan Salame’s last interviews before prison Unpacking my conversation with FTX executive Ryan Salame, where we discussed his claims that he’s...
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Unpacking my conversation with FTX executive Ryan Salame, where we discussed his claims that he’s innocent of the charges for which he’s now serving seven and a half years in prison.
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% ARABICA café by Nguyen Khai Architects & Associates Hong Kong may already have a large number of design-led % ARABICA coffee parlours, but the company...
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Colombia’s EV sales soar, but battery recycling startups struggle to keep pace A surge in electric vehicle sales has helped drive a boom in battery recycling, but the startups...
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Seth's Blog
Polishing the problem I won’t walk away. I won’t ease any of the constraints. I won’t forgive. I won’t get a coach. It’s...
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I won’t walk away. I won’t ease any of the constraints. I won’t forgive. I won’t get a coach. It’s personal. I don’t want to talk about it. I will think about this often. I can add another problem just like this one. I can do this. Persistent perfect problems are a great way to...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Following Links I loved this post from Chris Enns (via Robb Knight) where he outlines the rabbit hole of links he...
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a year ago
I loved this post from Chris Enns (via Robb Knight) where he outlines the rabbit hole of links he ventured down in writing that post. It felt fun and familiar, as that’s how my own browsing goes, e.g. “I saw X and I clicked it. Then I saw Y, so I clicked that. But then I went...
Society's Backend
Side Projects to Get a Job in ML, a Survey of Small Language Models, How to Build ML Pipelines, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
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Introduction to self-service analytics There are lots of ways to do analytics. You can do SQL . You can do it in the cloud. You can not do...
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There are lots of ways to do analytics. You can do SQL . You can do it in the cloud. You can not do it at all and hire an analytics agency or…
History Today Feed
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Kagi raises $670K Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our...
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Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date.
David Perell
The Counterfactual Theory of Value The Labor Theory of Value argues that the value of a product or a service is determined by the...
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over a year ago
The Labor Theory of Value argues that the value of a product or a service is determined by the amount of labor required to produce it. If so, something that takes 100 hours to produce is worth 10x more than something that takes 10 hours. One issue with the Labor Theory is it...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army... This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
MMapped blog
Designing error types in Rust
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Seeking Wisdom
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This is the 10th post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for better understanding. I asked ChatGPT to complete the sentence given the phrase: “I chose that bank for”. It completed the sentences sensibly. Here are the four sentences it generated: In...
Don't Worry About...
Levels of Friction Scott Alexander famously warned us to Beware Trivial Inconveniences.
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Identity Designed
Freetree Designed by How&How, Lisbon and London.
over a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The People Deliberately Killing Facebook Over the last decade, few platforms have declined quite as rapidly and visibly as Facebook and...
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Over the last decade, few platforms have declined quite as rapidly and visibly as Facebook and Instagram. What used to be apps for catching up with your friends and family are now algorithmic nightmares that constantly interrupt you with suggested content and advertisements that...
Retail Design Blog
10 Prospect Life Science Hub by SGA SGA designed the 10 Prospect project in Somerville, featuring a lab-ready facility with materials...
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SGA designed the 10 Prospect project in Somerville, featuring a lab-ready facility with materials reflecting the area’s industrial history, emphasizing...
Common Edge
Architecture and the God Problem Defining divinity and higher powers, in the context of design, is often fraught.
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The Diff
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Rest of World -...
Turkey’s brain drain is taking its female coders with it As sexism persists in Turkey’s tech sector, women are leaving for less patriarchal workplaces...
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Reverse engineering the barrel shifter circuit on the Intel 386 processor die The Intel 386 processor (1985) was a large step from the 286 processor, moving x86 to a 32-bit...
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The Intel 386 processor (1985) was a large step from the 286 processor, moving x86 to a 32-bit architecture. The 386 also dramatically improved the performance of shift and rotate operations by adding a "barrel shifter", a circuit that can shift by multiple bits in one step. The...
Jonas Hietala
What's up It’s been a while again since the last time we met mr. Blog. I’ve been busy with school and other...
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over a year ago
It’s been a while again since the last time we met mr. Blog. I’ve been busy with school and other stuff. I’ve thought about you but I just never really picked up emacs to write to you. I know it’s my fault but I beg of your mercy mr. Blog. You know that I had laid off school for...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Principles // This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.
Casey Handmer's blog
Maximizing electrical power output from a nuclear reactor delivered by Starship to a base on Mars This post is a follow on from Powering the Mars Base. It’s an extended riff on the following thought...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
This post is a follow on from Powering the Mars Base. It’s an extended riff on the following thought experiment: What is the most electrical power you could extract from an integrated Starship-delivered nuclear reactor on Mars? The usual caveats apply. I have taught nuclear...
latest projects -...
LED Industrial Piercing [Hardware] Illuminated circuit inside a hypodermic
a year ago
Ben Borgers
5% of things go wrong
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn
How to get good at anything creative
3 months ago
Matt Mullenweg
Cloudflare Stories There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend. The first is Steven Levy’s...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend. The first is Steven Levy’s incredible story about Tim Jenkin, who created a secure communication protocol for the African National Congress to overthrow the apartheid regime in South Africa. Cloudflare’s CTO,...
Jonas Hietala
I beat FTL on Hard with all ships in the game For 2023 I wanted to do something different than usual—I wanted to start playing computer games...
a year ago
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a year ago
For 2023 I wanted to do something different than usual—I wanted to start playing computer games again. So I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck (and like any self-serving gentleman I took care to pitch it as being for my kids) and I started loading it up...
Jason Fried
Introducing Writebook You know, it's really easy to publish short form content on a variety of social platforms. And...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
You know, it's really easy to publish short form content on a variety of social platforms. And individual blog posts on a number of other platforms. These are solved problems. But it's surprisingly challenging to publish books on the web in nice, cohesive, tight, easy-to-navigate...
Odds and Ends of...
Here's a pitch for what the National Data Library should actually be Do you want to be a National Data Librarian?
a month ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Exploring Fort Myers: A Local's Guide
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bad Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It suddenly became intersection of sex and...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It suddenly became intersection of sex and technology week? Today's News:
Seth's Blog
Hiring for stuck Once an organization figures out a successful model, it begins to grow. And when it grows, it needs...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Once an organization figures out a successful model, it begins to grow. And when it grows, it needs more staff. And they often hire for specific tasks and the skills that go with them. They need a person who will reliably and obediently deliver what they need right now. And...