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macwright.com
Web pages and video games An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are...
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An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are so amazing and fast?” I’ve thought about it more than I’d like. Anyway, here are some reasons: Web pages are just-in-time delivered, with no installation required. Modern video...
Cheese and Biscuits
Ploussard, Battersea As much as I complained on these pages that all the exciting new restaurants were opening up not...
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As much as I complained on these pages that all the exciting new restaurants were opening up not handily close to where I live in SW11, but in far-flung places like Dalston or Shoreditch or Highgate, part of me still hoped that something would eventually come along to prove me...
Alex MacCaw
Captain's Log #1 In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech businesses, and more.
Stephen Wolfram...
How to Think Computationally about AI, The Universe and Everything Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics....
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Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics. Logic. These are all ways to formalize the world. And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
A Movie about a Galaxy Far, Far Away & Long, Long Ago (from Webb Telescope) Explains a new movie of distant galaxies and remote time from the Webb Telescope. The post A Movie...
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Explains a new movie of distant galaxies and remote time from the Webb Telescope. The post A Movie about a Galaxy Far, Far Away & Long, Long Ago (from Webb Telescope) appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
The Modern House
‘I go to bed thinking about it’: why Tate Modern director Frances Morris returns to her childhood... Where does our spirit go when we die? Frances Morris has this question figured out: she will return...
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Where does our spirit go when we die? Frances Morris has this question figured out: she will return to the home in which she was born, a Georgian house abreast the Meridian Line in Greenwich. Listen to this deeply personal conversation on our podcast, Homing […]
Remains of the Day
Veblen values NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
over a year ago
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NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Making noisy SVGs Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology...
a year ago
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Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology inform web design. In an earlier post this…
Oykun
Tackling FOMO-driven social media struggle with your new Designer Mindset You are a designer, working on your full-time job or your freelance projects. You go online Open X...
a year ago
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a year ago
You are a designer, working on your full-time job or your freelance projects. You go online Open X app You see  1. John released his Framer template  2. Fatma launches her “How To Make $100k As A Designer” course  3. Gary starts his subscription model
The Convivial...
The Work of Art The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 8
6 months ago
Diaries of Note
They have to fight an eagle on the top of the Empire State Building Michael Palin, born in Sheffield on 5th May 1943, is best known as a member of Monty Python, the...
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Michael Palin, born in Sheffield on 5th May 1943, is best known as a member of Monty Python, the iconic comedy group who redefined the world of comedy with their surreal, subversive humour and innovative performances. However, Palin’s career extends beyond comedy thanks to...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
over a year ago
Nothing Human
The Tyranny of the Marginal User why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
a year ago
Christopher Butler
Link – Johannes Klingebiel's Personal Website johannesklingebiel.de is a really nice website and digital garden. There is so much to like on...
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johannesklingebiel.de is a really nice website and digital garden. There is so much to like on Johannes’s website — from the attention he gives to details that orient you to the site’s structure to the delicate balance between the playful and the analytical in its visual...
Notes on software...
Generating a full-stack application from a database DBCore can now generate a TypeScript/React CRUD UI that is automatically hooked up to the generated...
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over a year ago
DBCore can now generate a TypeScript/React CRUD UI that is automatically hooked up to the generated REST API (in Go). The UI has full support for login, viewing (and filtering), editing, and creating database entities. PostgreSQL, SQLite and MySQL are supported. How to use? The...
Seth's Blog
The hubris of creativity Where’s your permit? Who said you could try to solve this problem? I don’t get it… That’s too...
6 months ago
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Where’s your permit? Who said you could try to solve this problem? I don’t get it… That’s too original. It’s not original enough. You missed a comma. That’s not funny. That’s been done before. That’s never been done before. It’s not your best work. None of us are authorized to...
Retail Design Blog
Good Job Games Offices by Jeyan Ülkü Architects Good Job Games is a mobile gaming technology company characterized by a predominantly youthful...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Good Job Games is a mobile gaming technology company characterized by a predominantly youthful workforce. Right from the beginning we...
alexwlchan
Telling mechanize how to find local issuer certificates I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize, the Python library I use to simulate a web browser. I’d upgraded my version of Python and mechanize, and now I wasn’t able to connect to HTTPS sites. If I tried a simple...
Josh Collinsworth
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?
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."
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Lisa Was Apple’s Best Failure Happy 40th Birthday to Lisa! The Apple Lisa computer, that is. In celebration of this milestone, the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Happy 40th Birthday to Lisa! The Apple Lisa computer, that is. In celebration of this milestone, the Computer History Museum has received permission from Apple to release the source code to the Lisa, including its system and applications software. You can access the Lisa source...
MMapped blog
If composers were hackers
a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 5 (Mississippi Gulf) Next we returned to familiar territory. I’ve mentioned the Mississippi Gulf Coast many times on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Next we returned to familiar territory. I’ve mentioned the Mississippi Gulf Coast many times on Twelve Mile Circle because I go there fairly regularly and I have a lot of family there. However, my last trip was way back in 2019 and only for a long weekend. Somehow I never figured...
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals undefined
6 months ago
Musings on Markets
Beat your Bot: Building your moat against AI It seems like a lifetime has passed since artificial intelligence (AI) became the market's biggest...
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It seems like a lifetime has passed since artificial intelligence (AI) became the market's biggest mover, but Open AI introduced the world to ChatGPT on November 30, 2022. While ChatGPT itself represented a low-tech variation of AI, it opened the door to AI not only as a business...
./techtipsy
About the time I used Google Drive as a CMS for a web app Near the beginning of my software development career, I worked on a pretty standard web application....
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Near the beginning of my software development career, I worked on a pretty standard web application. The project was not a commercial success, but it did give me a good technical foundation that turned out to be very useful for my career so far. For those interested, the tech...
Opsbros
WetSocks Revival How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do to get WetSocks Windows 98 tray weather app working again.
Seth's Blog
The interaction cascade Walk into an office, and the person behind the desk begins an interaction. You respond (or react)....
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2 months ago
Walk into an office, and the person behind the desk begins an interaction. You respond (or react). They respond (or react) in turn. Answer the phone. Caller ID tells you who it is–are you smiling? How much enthusiasm or disdain or annoyance or delight comes through? The caller...
Paul Graham: Essays
Taste for Makers
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Every Web Performance Test Tool Check your site's speed quickly with a battery of tests
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Peace Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the one hand there's data and on the other...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the one hand there's data and on the other there's the tiny angry man in my brain who is VERY persuasive. Today's News: Another lovely review for A City on Mars.
Handprinted - Blog
Hand-Painted Textiles: A Practical Guide to the Art of Painting on Fabric by Sarah Campbell Book... We have recently added some fantastic new books to the Handprinted shop and this one is no...
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We have recently added some fantastic new books to the Handprinted shop and this one is no exception. Sarah Campbell's beautifully curated and inspirational book explores the art of painting and making patterns on fabric. Even just flicking through the pages of this book makes...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Flourishing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is based on a thoughtful email a reader sent...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is based on a thoughtful email a reader sent me, but I didn't know if he'd want to be associated with with it technically called Choculatio. Email me sir, if it is otherwise. Today's News: Somehow this feels like peak SMBC,...
Maps Mania
The Year of the Map Game
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist? Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
TheCollector
Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen? undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans undefined
13 hours ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Nick Morley (with giveaway!) Nick Morley, aka Linocutboy, is an artist, illustrator, author and educator specialising in linocut....
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Nick Morley, aka Linocutboy, is an artist, illustrator, author and educator specialising in linocut. His prints have been bought by people all over the world and his illustrations have appeared on book covers and in magazines. Nick teaches regular linocut workshops at Hello Print...
NeuroLogica Blog
Oxygen As A Technosignature This is one of the biggest thought experiments in science today – as we look for life elsewhere in...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This is one of the biggest thought experiments in science today – as we look for life elsewhere in the universe, what should we be looking for, exactly? Other stellar systems are too far away to examine directly, and even our most powerful telescopes can only resolve points of...
Sam Altman
Helion I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion...
over a year ago
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I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen. David and Chris are two of the most impressive founders and builders (in the sense of building fusion machines, in addition to building companies!) I have ever met,...
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2023, Day 4 + wrapup My last day at the March Meeting was a bit scattershot, but here are a few highlights: In a...
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My last day at the March Meeting was a bit scattershot, but here are a few highlights: In a session about spin transport, the opening invited talk by Jiaming He was a clear discussion of recent experimental results on spin Seebeck effects in the magnetic insulator LuFeO3. The...
Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin Still A Living Language?
3 months ago
Blog - Practical...
When Natural Gas Had No Smell [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Excitement and hope permeated...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Excitement and hope permeated the crowds gathered in a dusty farm carved from the piney woods in east Texas. The rumor was that Columbus Joiner had struck oil. At 70 years old, Joiner had already won and lost...
TheCollector
What Was the Great Migration in the US? undefined
a year ago
The Works in...
Making architecture easy Architecture is inherently public, which means buildings should be agreeable, not unpopular works of...
a month ago
There are two types...
A Short Discussion of Residential Building Heights in New York City NOTE: The following was written for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Street Design, The Secret To...
a year ago
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a year ago
NOTE: The following was written for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Street Design, The Secret To Great Cities and Towns, where it will appear in a shorter version. This version still needs a little editing for its new context. Part … Continue reading → The post A Short...
Retail Design Blog
Hourglass Cosmetics Retail Concept in Selfridges, London by Checkland Kindleysides Checkland Kindleysides debuts a new, visually-arresting cosmetics counter for Hourglass, bespoke to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Checkland Kindleysides debuts a new, visually-arresting cosmetics counter for Hourglass, bespoke to Selfridges London. Hourglass is a global leader in...
Beautiful Public...
Vehicle Crash Test Films from the 1970's and 1980s Deep in the public archives of the NHTSA, there are thousands of films of some classic (and some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Deep in the public archives of the NHTSA, there are thousands of films of some classic (and some ugly) 70’s and 80’s cars being smashed into smithereens.
James Cheshire
Being creative is reason enough to try different data visualization A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not...
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over a year ago
A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not be given a second glance. Getting the viewer to work a little harder to interpret and think about a graphic can be a very effective way of generating engagement. This is where the...
Old Structures...
Very Local Requirements Below, a construction fence of typical New York design. Such fences here have had windows of some...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Below, a construction fence of typical New York design. Such fences here have had windows of some kind going back at least to the mid-1900s. Per the current NYC building code, section 3307.7.3, “Viewing panels shall be provided in solid fences erected on or after July 1, 2013, at...
Londonist
Olympic Park's East Bank Is Open, With Two Landmark Buildings To Visit Just walk in: UCL East and London College of Fashion.
a year ago
The Gradient
Financial Market Applications of LLMs The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies and captured the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies and captured the public’s imagination in 2023. Transformational consumer products like ChatGPT are powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) that excel at modeling sequences of tokens that represent...
Uncharted...
Wind and Solar, a Perfect Match Also, why solar will beat wind, why they are so complementary, the nuclear renaissance, the poor...
a month ago
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a month ago
Also, why solar will beat wind, why they are so complementary, the nuclear renaissance, the poor state of German energy, and more.
Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Jimi ‘Mundane’ Halloween Costumes of 2024 Happy Jimi Halloween to everyone who celebrates. It’s that wonderful time of year when our favorite...
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a month ago
Happy Jimi Halloween to everyone who celebrates. It’s that wonderful time of year when our favorite Japanese festival, Jimi Halloween, is on full display. Mundane Halloween, as we coined it back in 2018, is when people dress up in costumes so mundane they have to be explained....
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 30 The First Two of Twelve Questions
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Luar Offices by Iram Boxwala Design Studio Iram Boxwala Design Studio in Mumbai designed Luar Beauty’s office as a transformative canvas...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Iram Boxwala Design Studio in Mumbai designed Luar Beauty’s office as a transformative canvas reflecting brand identity through curved walls,...
Louwrentius
'Linux: unattended installation with Debian preseeding' Debian Linux provides a mechanism to install the operating system without user intervention. This...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Debian Linux provides a mechanism to install the operating system without user intervention. This mechanism is called 'preseeding' and is similar to Red Hat Kick Start and Sun Solaris Jump Start. The basic idea is that the installer is fed a recipe, according to which the system...
Nat Eliason's...
The Bad Goal of $5m by 30 And perhaps a better framing
a year ago
Map of the Week
An Appreciation of Ordnance Survey Maps I spent some time in May at the British Library randomly looking at atlases and maps, some of which...
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I spent some time in May at the British Library randomly looking at atlases and maps, some of which will be featured here in upcoming weeks. They have a huge collection of Ordnance Survey atlas books of 1:1056 scale (1 inch = 88 feet) map sheets. While these maps are primarily...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 23-24 September 2023 Exhibitions, festivals, workshops, talks, cabaret, comedy... phew!
a year ago
Open Culture
The First Professional Footage of Pink Floyd Gets Captured in a 1967 Documentary (and the Band Also... British filmmaker and novelist Peter Whitehead has been credited with inventing the music video with...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
British filmmaker and novelist Peter Whitehead has been credited with inventing the music video with his promo films for the Rolling Stones in the mid-60s. According to Ali Catterall and Simon Wells, authors of Your Face Here, a study of “British Cult Film since the Sixties,”...
TheCollector
Who Was Averroes? undefined
9 months ago
Math Is Still...
Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates Electrons have been seen uniting into entities with fractions of electric charge, this time without...
6 months ago
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Electrons have been seen uniting into entities with fractions of electric charge, this time without a magnetic field coaxing them into it. The post Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed? undefined
a month ago
Open Culture
Watch Patti Smith Read from Virginia Woolf, and Hear the Only Surviving Recording of Woolf’s Voice In the video above, poet, artist, National Book Award winner, and “godmother of punk” Patti Smith...
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6 months ago
In the video above, poet, artist, National Book Award winner, and “godmother of punk” Patti Smith reads a selection from Virginia Woolf’s 1931 experimental novel The Waves, accompanied on piano and guitar by her daughter Jesse and son Jackson. The “reading” marked the opening of...
Maps Mania
The Rising Risks of Wildfire
a year ago
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration undefined
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
U.S. Airplane Bathrooms Must Meet New Accessibility Rules
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Out of the Software Crisis”: Making Software The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
a year ago
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a year ago
The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. More manpower !== more innovation. design innovation isn’t generally a question of team size but more about having the resources and freedom to experiment...
CONTEMPORIST
A Pier Foundation Allowed This Home To Be Built On A Steeply Sloped Property LTD Architectural Design Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Auckland, New...
a year ago
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a year ago
LTD Architectural Design Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Auckland, New Zealand, that’s located on a steep site. This very steep site provided a challenge for the architects in terms of creating a suitable living platform. They wanted to minimize piling...
Roberto Vitillo's...
Leader election best practices Sometimes a single process in a system needs to have special powers, like being the only one that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sometimes a single process in a system needs to have special powers, like being the only one that can access a shared resource or assign…
Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
HTMHell
#6 link with void operator as href value Bad code <a href="javascript:void(1)" onClick='window.location="index.html"'>Link</a> Issues and how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <a href="javascript:void(1)" onClick='window.location="index.html"'>Link</a> Issues and how to fix them Links won't work, if JavaScript fails to load or execute. You don’t need JavaScript to link to other pages, you can use the href attribute for that. Browser support is...
Jonas Hietala
2014 Read Books In total I read 20 books, which is 33% less than last year. Fiction How to Be a Woman - Catilin...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In total I read 20 books, which is 33% less than last year. Fiction How to Be a Woman - Catilin Moran Fun! The Kill Room - Jeffery Deaver A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin Reread. A Song of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin Reread. A...
xkcd.com
Beam of Light
5 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Three Transitions
a year ago
Open Culture
Patti Smith Reads Her Final Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, Calling Him “the Most Beautiful Work of... If you go to hear Patti Smith in concert, you expect her to sing “Beneath the Southern Cross,”...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
If you go to hear Patti Smith in concert, you expect her to sing “Beneath the Southern Cross,” “Because the Night,” and almost certainly “People Have the Power,” the hit single from Dream of Life. Like her 1975 debut Horses, that album had a cover photo by Robert...
TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate undefined
10 months ago
The Marginalian
2,000 Years of Kindness From Marcus Aurelius to Einstein, poets and philosophers on the deepest wellspring of our humanity.
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Navigations on the Web When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of...
a month ago
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a month ago
When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of thumb is: links are for navigation, buttons are not. That can take you pretty far. However, like most things, there’s nuance and that mental model can fall apart under certain...
Retail Design Blog
FUDDY DUDDY pizza takeout by Saint of Athens & ICD Designers Saint of Athens and ICD Designers present FUDDY DUDDY, a unique pizza takeout store located in the...
6 months ago
Nelson's Weblog
Proxmox Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets you easily run multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. It also manages disk storage and has some more complex support for high availability in a cluster, distributed storage...
Ink & Switch
Inkbase: Programmable Ink What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
The Knowledge Hydrant
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Lisbon's Culinary Scene Rivals Europe's Best Food Cities
a month ago
charity.wtf
The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: The reality is that jack-of-all-trades systems infrastructure jobs are slowly...
A Smart Bear
Metrics that cannot even be measured in retrospect Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's...
a year ago
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a year ago
Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's now to identify and avoid this trap.
nanoscale views
Some interesting recent papers - lots to ponder As we bid apparent farewell to LK99, it's important to note that several other pretty exciting...
a year ago
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a year ago
As we bid apparent farewell to LK99, it's important to note that several other pretty exciting things have been happening in the condensed matter/nano world.  Here are a few papers that look intriguing (caveat emptor:  I have not had a chance to read these in any real depth, so...
A Beautiful Site
Subtle Patterns: hundreds of free backgrounds that tile I've been using Subtle Patterns for quite some time now. All the patterns are great, and their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been using Subtle Patterns for quite some time now. All the patterns are great, and their Photoshop plugin is incredibly useful. I can't remember when it first launched, but I do remember when there was only one or two pages to browse on the site. Now it has over 380 images...
TheCollector
Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers? undefined
5 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rite Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: What's really irritating is the way some of them...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: What's really irritating is the way some of them live lives of quiet desperation which is a thing our people have been doing for generations. Today's News: Thanks everyone. Some day I will stop being surprised by how willing my...
somenice
Autumnal equinox 2023 Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using...
a year ago
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a year ago
Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using Trapcode Particular.
diamond geezer
Tractor Tax Protest Thousands of farmers, countryfolk and their supporters were in central London yesterday to protest...
a month ago
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a month ago
Thousands of farmers, countryfolk and their supporters were in central London yesterday to protest against the imposition of inheritance tax on farmland. You could tell something was up by the number of people in Barbour jackets, tweed caps and sensible outerwear milling around...
diamond geezer
Stratford & Bow election roundup Stratford & Bow election roundup my constituency? Leaflets yes • Uma Kumaran (Labour) A letter...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Stratford & Bow election roundup my constituency? Leaflets yes • Uma Kumaran (Labour) A letter from Keir with his six pledges, minimal promises. Looks like they sent out millions of these. • Halima Khan (Workers Party) Roughly-folded and left sticking out of all our...
Computer Things
I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible jetlag but also itching to get writing again, so let's go. The opening keynote to the conference was called "Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Software Architecture". It was mostly about...
NeuroLogica Blog
Ripples in Spacetime It’s always exciting when a scientific institution announces that they are going to make an...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s always exciting when a scientific institution announces that they are going to make an announcement. Earlier this week we were told that there was going to be a major announcement today (June 29th) regarding a gravitational wave discovery. The goal of the pre-announcement is...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll...
7 months ago
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Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2. Step 2: Hit the “Send” button. Shortly after...
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We’re excited to announce that the Arduino IDE 2.3.3 is now live!  What’s in the new version This new release is packed with improvements, including one feature we’re particularly proud of: support for shared spaces in Arduino Cloud. If you have a Cloud Business plan or School...
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Make it easy! they insist. One of the longest-running direct response ads of all time was for a piano playing course. For more than forty years, people mailed in money for a simple, fast way to impress their friends by playing the piano. They sold a lot of manuals, but I’m...
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Just by chance, could you use a song about perseverance and overcoming adversity? Something to give you a little encouragement and reassurance? Then we submit to you “Don’t Give Up,” featuring the isolated vocals of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. When he released the song on his...
Retail Design Blog
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For the coming summer season, the Hermès flagship store in Amsterdam has once again engaged with a talented Dutch creative—set...
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We analyze growth in unicorn market cap by region. We also compare # of Barry's Bootcamps to # of unicorns for key cities.
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Annoy Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm...
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Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm not trying to compete with existing packages, but Annoy has a couple of features that makes it pretty useful.
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How to Start a Cleaning Company Without Cleaning The cleaning industry is a booming one, with the global market size expected to reach $690 billion...
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The cleaning industry is a booming one, with the global market size expected to reach $690 billion by 2026. This growth is being driven by a number of factors, including the increasing number of dual-income households, the growing popularity of Airbnb, and the rising demand for...
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The United States was at the time approaching “peak space.” The previous year, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first human to reach outer space, and on 12 September 1962 President Kennedy would announce the United States’ intention to put a man on the moon before the...
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It was six years ago that I first wrote about NASA’s X-59 QueSST project, contracted to Lockheed Martin. Now the plane has finally been built and is ready for testing. At the time it was reported that NASA “had a design” for a quiet supersonic jet, one that would not create a...
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I grew up with, Boy Meets World. The main characters, who've now come of age, speak with the teacher that has been with them through every phase of their educations and lives: Mr....
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Above, an 1870 drawing by Washington Roebling showing the masonry of the Brooklyn tower of the Brooklyn Bridge. I guess it doesn’t quite qualify as art, although I’d certainly hang it on a wall. The lettering at the top and the 3D-effect frame around the image suggest that this...
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All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not suck. My spirit wasn’t high, just check this post and this but now when it’s done it’s like night and day, or like black and white! I’m damn happy I got it done!! Aah I’ll try to...
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There are strange happenings in dusty, old, forgotten small towns on the border of nowhere. Particularly when the end of October draws near. Sightings. Strange lights. Spirits. There are always spirits. I live in such a place. Me and my dog Jazz. “Jazz,” I said, “it’s that time...
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A new algorithm brings together the advantages of randomness and deterministic processes to reliably construct large prime numbers. The post How to Build a Big Prime Number first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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I describe myself as a dabbler, and it does get in the way of my best laid plans. A few weeks ago, I posted my first data update pulling together what I had learned from looking at the data in 2023, and promised many more on the topic. In the month since, I have added two more...
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Seen from above, Sofia, Bulgaria, looks less like a city and more like a forest. Large “interblock park” green spaces between big apartment structures are a defining characteristic of the city. They’re not so much “parks” in the formal sense, with fences and gates, just open...
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[cw: pain, death] Yesterday I started experiencing pain in my body again. It is difficult not to feel low when it happens. I think chronic pain snowballs into a form of ptsd,...
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In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product evolves, your schemas evolve too, and you need…
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Renaming the business expertise triad from Supply/Demand/Capital to the simpler Operations/Market/Capital.
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven't seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
99% Invisible
Maximum Temperature [EPISODE] The impacts of climate disasters are often measured in terms of property damage. But in places like...
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The impacts of climate disasters are often measured in terms of property damage. But in places like Phoenix, Arizona, and in hot places all over the world, climate change is wreaking a very different kind of havoc – on living things. In the final episode of Not Built for This, we...
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Women delivery workers are pushing for protection from gender-based violence, creating safe meeting spots and WhatsApp support groups, and fighting for legal protections.
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Meet the Maker: Cal Russell I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied...
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I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied Illustration at Falmouth School of Art and did a Masters in Contemporary Art at the Edinburgh College of Art. I mostly work independently and sell my prints and originals online or...
Open Culture
Meet Madame Inès Decourcelle, One of the Very First Female Taxi Drivers in Paris (Circa 1908) If you can read this, you almost certainly know the French word for a professional automobile...
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If you can read this, you almost certainly know the French word for a professional automobile driver. That’s because we use the same word in English: chauffeur. French nouns, unlike English ones, come in masculine and feminine varieties, and that -eur ending unmistakably...
Making software...
Menu Toggle with Pure CSS Menu Toggle with Pure CSS 2020-10-19 When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices...
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Menu Toggle with Pure CSS 2020-10-19 When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices sometimes the best option is to store away the content behind a toggle button. This button would then display the menu items upon interaction. Let me show you how to create such an...
diamond geezer
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Non-Hyperlocal update: The news from Birmingham 1) Ozzy the Bull, who you may remember stole the show at the 2022 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony, has been relocated to take pride of place at New Street station. To be fair he's been there since last summer but this is the...
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Catching a break: How gig workers find rest Rest of World asked over 100 gig workers across 10 cities how they take a break between tasks.
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Silly. But… After a site visit in Sunset Park yesterday, I was on the ferry back to Manhattan and I happened to...
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After a site visit in Sunset Park yesterday, I was on the ferry back to Manhattan and I happened to look out the window. Maybe it’s only obvious to me. That’s our office, as seen looking up Broad Street from its foot at the East River.
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Google Sheets v4 API with Netlify Dev wiring up Google Sheets via a Netlify Function
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Quobna Ottobah Cugoano: 18th Century Abolitionist Celebrated In Permanent Artworks Che Lovelace canvasses bring Trinidadian colour to St James's Piccadilly.
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"It's a Balance" isn't always the answer Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a...
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Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a new solution, or find the balance.
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How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
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I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
TheCollector
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The Black Exterior Of This Barn-Inspired Home Is Contrasted With A White Interior Architecture and interior design studio Laney LA has shared photos of a modern home they designed in...
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Architecture and interior design studio Laney LA has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Culver City, California, that has a dark black exterior.
NeuroLogica Blog
Clickbait and Misinformation Which is worse – clickbaity headlines for news articles that are factually correct, but may be...
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Which is worse – clickbaity headlines for news articles that are factually correct, but may be playing up a sensational angle, or straight-up misinformation? It depends on what you mean by “worse”. A new study tries to address this information, with some interesting findings....
Alex Meub
A Look at Portland Car2Go Data Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast,...
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Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast, cheap and ridiculously convenient; it’s a pretty incredible transportation option. Part of what makes it so great are the apps that give you up-to-date car location and availability...
Diaries of Note
The whole Channel is filled with little ships Exactly 80 years ago today, the world held its breath as the Allied forces launched the largest...
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Exactly 80 years ago today, the world held its breath as the Allied forces launched the largest seaborne invasion in history, marking the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany’s occupation of Europe. Among the thousands of brave soldiers who set out to liberate the continent was...
wingolog
on taking advantage of ragged stops Many years ago I read one of those Cliff Click “here’s what I learned” articles in which he was...
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Many years ago I read one of those Cliff Click “here’s what I learned” articles in which he was giving advice about garbage collector design, and one of the recommendations was that at a GC pause, running mutator threads should cooperate with the collector by identifying roots...
Christopher Butler
Christmas Day – Multiple UFO Sighting My wife, children, and I witnessed a cluster of high-flying, unidentified objects at 6pm on...
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My wife, children, and I witnessed a cluster of high-flying, unidentified objects at 6pm on Christmas Day. At 6pm on the evening of Christmas Day, 2021, in Durham, NC, my wife and I were preparing to walk our children down the street to their grandparents’ house for...
Classical Wisdom
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The real data wall is billions of years of evolution Say you have a time machine. You can only use it once, to send a single idea back to 2005. If you...
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Say you have a time machine. You can only use it once, to send a single idea back to 2005. If you wanted to speed up the development of AI, what would you send back? Many people suggest attention or transformers. But I’m convinced that the answer is “brute-force”—to throw as much...
Seth's Blog
Nothing to ad A recent discussion about the challenges of direct-to-consumer marketing of a skincare product ended...
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A recent discussion about the challenges of direct-to-consumer marketing of a skincare product ended with one participant describing the hard part with, “nothing to ad.” She was referring to how much the thread had covered, but the pun wasn’t lost on us. Social media offered an...
99% Invisible
Train Set: Track Three [EPISODE] Happy National Train Day, everyone – for those of you who missed it: that was May 13th this year. A...
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Happy National Train Day, everyone – for those of you who missed it: that was May 13th this year. A year ago, we started down this path with Train Set: Track One, which gave way to Track Two …and now, here we are for the final part of our train-fecta. First Stop: Shining Time...
Contemporist...
This New House Was Designed To Fit Into A Protected Historic Neighborhood Architecture firm FLOWER, together with interior design studio Saltwolf, has completed a new home in...
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Architecture firm FLOWER, together with interior design studio Saltwolf, has completed a new home in Boulder, Colorado, whose design was inspired by the nearby historic houses in the neighborhood.
Elad Blog
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What does the future market structure look like for AI foundation and API companies? How does OSS play a role in a world of ever scaling models?
Adventures In...
Three Maps & the Truth You may have heard that “all maps lie” and that’s right (also, here’s some required reading). Each...
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You may have heard that “all maps lie” and that’s right (also, here’s some required reading). Each map is a collection of compromises, whether they’re geomatic (your projection and scale choices), editorial (your choice of subject and what you’ve chosen to show and not show), and...
Left To Write
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Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases...
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Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres. The post Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Making software...
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
Melting Asphalt
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[Note: if you prefer audio, you can listen to this essay narrated by Grognor on his excellent podcast Second Enumerations. —Ed.]   Credits up front: This essay draws heavily from Overcoming Bias, Less Wrong, Slate Star Codex, Robert Kurzban, Robert… Read more ›
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A Beautiful Site
Don't Do Magic We recently had a design for an "alert" component with an actions slot. In the spec, only secondary...
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We recently had a design for an "alert" component with an actions slot. In the spec, only secondary buttons were allowed in it. Dev: "Design only wants secondary buttons in the actions slot, so I'm forcing it." The developer was listening for the slotchange event and applying the...
Seth's Blog
More vs. better If every building in the shopping district in a big city was owned by one landlord, rents would go...
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If every building in the shopping district in a big city was owned by one landlord, rents would go up. So would the prices of everything sold. The landlord would keep a significant percentage of each store’s profits and innovation would suffer as well. Google’s monopoly is real....
Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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Understanding useMemo and useCallback What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of...
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What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of reasons. In this tutorial, we'll dig deep and understand what they do, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them.
Seth's Blog
Chasing cool The cool thing is always a little out of reach. And for most of us, once we get it, it’s not seen as...
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The cool thing is always a little out of reach. And for most of us, once we get it, it’s not seen as cool any more. This is not an accident. One definition of cool are things that are just out of reach.
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I found this cool strip map of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, the first elevated electric railway in the world. It opened in 1893 and was dismantled in 1957 because the company could not afford to make the necessary repairs. This map is dated "c1938". via Flickr According...
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Always have 18 months of cash in the bank I was once told by an experienced entrepreneur (I can’t remember who) to always have at least 18...
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over a year ago
I was once told by an experienced entrepreneur (I can’t remember who) to always have at least 18 months of cash in the bank. The logic…
The Modern House
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Our guest on this episode of our podcast, Homing In, is Mary Portas. As a retail consultant and broadcaster, Mary is best known for presenting TV shows such as Mary Queen of Shops, in which she came to the rescue of the UK’s failing high […]
Platformer
Bluesky's big moment A new Twitter clone is surging in popularity. Could it have legs?
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The World's Rarest Stamp Is On Display In London This September It's also the most expensive.
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Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document became crystal clear to me. I am sharing mine externally to inspire other founders and leaders to reflect and write down their own working styles. These documents are incredibly...
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
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Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
nanoscale views
News items for the new year After I was not chosen to be Speaker of the US House of Representatives, I think it’s time to...
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After I was not chosen to be Speaker of the US House of Representatives, I think it’s time to highlight some brief items: Here is a great blog post by a Rice grad alum, Daniel Gonzales, about flow to approach faculty searches.  I had written a fair bit on this a number of years...
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Multi-Window support in your iPad app Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI...
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Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI concepts enabling different use cases for your app.
Diaries of Note
The greatest crime on the largest scale known in modern history George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of...
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George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of his city, but his lasting impact extends far beyond the legal world. From 1835 to 1875, Strong meticulously recorded his observations and insights in a diary that has since become an...
Steve Blank
The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done This post previously appeared in Defense News  and C4SIR. Despite the clear and present danger of...
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This post previously appeared in Defense News  and C4SIR. Despite the clear and present danger of threats from China and elsewhere, there’s no agreement on what types of adversaries we’ll face; how we’ll fight, organize, and train; and what weapons or systems we’ll need for...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Advanced Promise Coordination: Rate Limiting In the previous post we learnt to serialize and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js....
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In the previous post we learnt to serialize and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js. This time we dive further and handle rate limiting. What Exactly to Rate Limit Let's get terminological matters out of the way first. Promises represent operations that last a certain...
Common Edge
Social Housing in America: Architects Must Answer the Call They have a responsibility to the public to visualize the potential of social housing in America.
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Open Culture
Harvard Removes the Human Skin Binding from a Book in Its Collection Since 1934 In June of 2014, Harvard University’s Houghton Library put up a blog post titled “Caveat Lecter,”...
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In June of 2014, Harvard University’s Houghton Library put up a blog post titled “Caveat Lecter,” announcing “good news for fans of anthropodermic bibliopegy, bibliomaniacs, and cannibals alike.” The occasion was the scientific determination that a book in the Houghton’s...
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Joe Biden? Why It's Hard and What Will Happen
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Old Structures...
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From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is given as 1763-1769 Townsend Avenue, in the Bronx, which is good because it’s not like I could ever have identified this just from the photo. The site is less isolated than the photo...
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Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's difficult to flush toilets. As of yesterday, the hospital has water (via tanker trucks), but 80% of the public water system is still without running water. Things are really bad. Lots of...
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Is there a market(place)? Not all needs have a market (yet). A market is a category. A market is a place with competition. In...
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Not all needs have a market (yet). A market is a category. A market is a place with competition. In a market, people have habits and budgets and social pressure to engage. There are buyers and sellers. In many cultures, there’s a market for all the items that go with a...
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Five Unbreakable Rules for Startups I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower...
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I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower of Paul Graham and the YC camp of startup wisdom. There’s now a great deal of literature laying out the unbreakable rules for startups. Despite studying this literature, I’ve...
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How We Got To Now I really enjoyed Steven Johnson's How We Got To Now. I read a lot of history and science books, but...
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I really enjoyed Steven Johnson's How We Got To Now. I read a lot of history and science books, but this book stood out because 1) the…
Musings on Markets
For the fun of it: An Open House for my Spring 2025 Classes I am a teacher at heart, and every year, for more than two decades, I have invited people to join me...
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I am a teacher at heart, and every year, for more than two decades, I have invited people to join me in the classes that I teach at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Since I teach these classes only in the spring, and the first sessions for each of the classes...
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel. I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
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I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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APS March Meeting 2023, Day 2 I ended up spending more time catching up with people this afternoon than going to talks after my...
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I ended up spending more time catching up with people this afternoon than going to talks after my session ended, but here are a couple of highlights: There was an invited session about the metal halide perovskites, and there were some interesting talks.  My faculty colleague...
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There is no human being in the world whom he loves and trusts Biographer and historian Iris Origo was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1902 to an American...
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Biographer and historian Iris Origo was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1902 to an American multi-millionaire and an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, and spent much of her adult life in Italy after her mother’s remarriage to an Italian nobleman. In 1924, she and her husband bought La...
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Birkenstock IPO: Is it worth $10B? And 4 other questions about the 249-year cult German footwear brand.
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A New Analysis of Beethoven’s DNA Reveals That Lead Poisoning Could Have Caused His Deafness Despite the intense scrutiny paid to the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven for a couple of...
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Despite the intense scrutiny paid to the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven for a couple of centuries now, the revered composer still has certain mysteries about him. Some of them he surely never intended to clarify, like the identity of “Immortal Beloved”; others he...
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What You Can Learn from Just Seven Pages by Hannah Arendt She wrote this book in the 1950s, but it's frighteningly relevant right now
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Delightful Literary Days Out Near London That All Book Lovers Should Do Immerse yourself in the worlds of famous authors, from Charles Dickens to AA Milne.
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Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an...
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls…
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Contemporary Japanese Design Blends Seamlessly With Tropical Modernism In This New Home Architecture firm Alexis Dornier Makings has shared photos of a private residence in Berawa, Bali,...
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Architecture firm Alexis Dornier Makings has shared photos of a private residence in Berawa, Bali, that they completed which seamlessly blends contemporary Japanese design with tropical modernism. The centerpiece of ‘The Free Bird Project’ is a living room positioned above the...
General Robots
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What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
TheCollector
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Failure to Launch: The First Moon Race 1958-60 While it has been a few months since I have published a new post on the Drew Ex Machina website,...
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While it has been a few months since I have published a new post on the Drew Ex Machina website, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t […]
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The two ways to estimate your monthly event usage When talking through our editions and pricing options with potential customers I'm often asked "How...
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When talking through our editions and pricing options with potential customers I'm often asked "How can I estimate my event count?" If you're not…
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The inevitable showdown between Twitter and Twitter apps People usually think of business competition as occurring between substitutes – products that serve...
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People usually think of business competition as occurring between substitutes – products that serve similar functions for the user.   Famous…
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Woman in a Red Raincoat The post Woman in a Red Raincoat appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Care Doesn’t Scale I met a social worker whose job was to look after four orphaned children. She’d alternate with her coworkers spending 24 hours at a time living with the kids, effectively acting as their parent. The children, unsurprisingly, had a lot of trauma and so her job...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The maximum size of brain a human can comprehend consists of 3 neurons. Today's News:
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GOES Video of Solar Eclipse – October 14, 2023 Solar eclipses have fascinated humanity since ancient times and the annular eclipse of October 14,...
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Solar eclipses have fascinated humanity since ancient times and the annular eclipse of October 14, 2023 was no different. Unlike a total solar eclipse where the […]
Map of the Week
The Grand Paris Express I was recently in Harvard University's Graduate School of Design (GSD) when I came across this...
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I was recently in Harvard University's Graduate School of Design (GSD) when I came across this fantastic exhibit on the Grand Paris Express. The GPE is a hugely ambitious project to add several metro ring lines connecting the suburbs of Paris to each other and to the central...
Classical Wisdom
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Buckminster Fuller Tells the World “Everything He Knows” in a 42-Hour Lecture Series (1975) History seems to have settled Buckminster Fuller’s reputation as a man ahead of his time. He...
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History seems to have settled Buckminster Fuller’s reputation as a man ahead of his time. He inspires short, witty popular videos like YouTuber Joe Scott’s “The Man Who Saw The Future,” and the ongoing legacy of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI), who note that “Fuller’s...
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Analysis in the Browser Here is a two-pack with some small adventures with data in ArcGIS Online. The first is a smashing of...
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Here is a two-pack with some small adventures with data in ArcGIS Online. The first is a smashing of two fields into a new frankenfield ready for mapping, and the second shows how to create entirely new map layers and cram them with meaningful attributes. … Sometimes you have all...
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Recovering a password-protected ThinkPad T60 A couple of years ago, I worked on a ThinkPad T60. That ThinkPad had been in use by a family member...
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A couple of years ago, I worked on a ThinkPad T60. That ThinkPad had been in use by a family member before that, and I started its cleanup by disassembling the whole machine and making sure that it was pristine. However, once I put it all back together, I saw that it was password...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I’m Tickled to Death When They Call Me Comic' Like porkchops, fame is highly perishable. Writers once read by millions – think of James Michener...
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Like porkchops, fame is highly perishable. Writers once read by millions – think of James Michener and, at a far more accomplished level, James Gould Cozzens – have evaporated from literary memory. Newspaper writing and journalism in general are especially biodegradable. Who...
diamond geezer
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London's Free Buses 847: Stratford to Here East Length of journey: 1 mile, 7 minutes shuttle bus that runs up and down the Olympic Park and has done since May 2017. It may therefore come as a surprise to hear that I've never previously ridden it, especially as it's very close to...
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When Leonard Cohen Guest Starred on Miami Vice (1986) Leonard Cohen was Canada’s answer to Bob Dylan. While best known perhaps as a singer-songwriter who...
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Leonard Cohen was Canada’s answer to Bob Dylan. While best known perhaps as a singer-songwriter who penned the tune “Hallelujah” — which was covered by Jeff Buckley, John Cale and just about everyone else under the sun — he was also at varying points in his colorful life a poet,...
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by Rian Rietveld It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage. Fun fact: the alt text of the image inside a link, will be added to the link text. The problem with linking a logo is that it serves 2 purposes: a logo, that tells you which site you are...
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"Bitcoin is the currency the internet deserves and needs" George Gilder discusses the importance of Bitcoin in a very interesting interview: To have a...
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George Gilder discusses the importance of Bitcoin in a very interesting interview: To have a civilization you need more than just bits and…
Blog - Guerrilla...
Can You Stay? Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning...
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Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning housing precarity, focusing on a part of the world with unique geography and social issues. Project Background This map is cut from the cloth of a capstone project I did in 2018 at...
On Test Automation
Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top...
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In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top 10. For each entry, I’ll show you how to perform experiments on APIs to test for the vulnerability, and I’ll discuss my observations. I’ll use different APIs as test subjects in...
A Smart Bear
Your non-linear problem of 90% utilization Is everyone is working very hard, all the time, and yet accomplishing 1/10th of what it seems they...
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Is everyone is working very hard, all the time, and yet accomplishing 1/10th of what it seems they should? Maybe this is why.
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927. Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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How to seed, grow, and scale Developer Relations (and how we're doing it at PostHog) Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer...
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Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer Relations journey at PostHog has just begun, and…
Anecdotal Evidence
'Won’t You Turn Your Radio Down' Most of the surfaces in the radio station, not counting the DJs and turntables, are plastered with...
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Most of the surfaces in the radio station, not counting the DJs and turntables, are plastered with yellow-on-black KTRU bumper stickers. In some cases, students have cut up the stickers and rearranged the letters into the same timeless obscenities we scrawled on the walls of the...
TheCollector
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts? How Did the First World War Change the Arts? JamesHoare Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
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A Beautiful Site
An icon converter that supports multiple sizes and transparency If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's...
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If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's one that does exactly that. It supports full transparency when converting 24-bit PNGs and even lets you combine multiple resolutions into one icon file — perfect for generating...
NeuroLogica Blog
Roleplaying Games May Help Autistic People Gotta love the title of this paper: “A critical hit: Dungeons and Dragons as a buff for autistic...
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Gotta love the title of this paper: “A critical hit: Dungeons and Dragons as a buff for autistic people“. Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is a tabletop roleplaying game where a small group of people each play characters adventuring in an imaginary world run by the dungeon master (DM)....
Maps Mania
Making Animated Map GIFs
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Rest of World -...
Political campaigns embrace AI to reach voters across language barriers Advocacy groups like AAPI Victory Alliance are using ChatGPT and Claude to reach speakers of Hindi,...
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samwho.dev
API Design: Errors Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems...
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Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems from time to time, and an error is the first thing they're going to see when they do. It's worth spending time on them to make using your API a more pleasant experience. › Guiding...
Jonas Hietala
Early Christmas Present School is almost over and it’s almost time to travel back up to Övertorneå. This year me and...
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School is almost over and it’s almost time to travel back up to Övertorneå. This year me and Veronica opened our Christmas presents a bit early - we’re impatient like that. I got one of the best presents yet I think! A Raspberry Pi! Just look at this bad boy! She got some...
Old Structures...
Adelaide House, Part 2 – Structure Continuing my discussion (part 1 is here) of London’s maybe-first skyscraper, the Adelaide House,...
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Continuing my discussion (part 1 is here) of London’s maybe-first skyscraper, the Adelaide House, let’s talk about structure. There’s a big difference between trying to build the first skyscraper in your city in the 1870s or 80s or 90s (depending on how you want to define...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Being friendly has become a competitive advantage in VC Over the last decade or two, the supply of venture capital dollars has increased dramatically at the...
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Over the last decade or two, the supply of venture capital dollars has increased dramatically at the same time as the cost of building tech…
AVC
NFT Art CDMX We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the...
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We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the premier NFT art “gallery” in the world. I use that term in parentheses because Bright Moments is much more than a gallery but that word is well understood. USV is a member of the...
Daniel Bourke
Those days when nothing gets done A lie.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - A City on Mars Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I will be nagging about this book for the next...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I will be nagging about this book for the next while, and I apologize for that. Good news though - the main form of nag will be bonus SMBC comics. Also, HOLY SHIT GUYS, ANDY FUCKIN WEIR! Today's News: Good morning, friends. Today...
HTMHell
A Theory of Web Relativity The rel attribute has the potential to take the Internet to the next level… and yet, we usually...
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The rel attribute has the potential to take the Internet to the next level… and yet, we usually forget about it. Imagine a city where people guided themselves by the landmarks and the stores, where there were no directional signs, and where streets and neighborhoods had no names....
Quantum Frontiers
Identical twins and quantum entanglement “If I had a nickel for every unsolicited and very personal health question I’ve gotten at parties,...
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“If I had a nickel for every unsolicited and very personal health question I’ve gotten at parties, I’d have paid off my medical school loans by now,” my doctor friend complained. As a physicist, I can somewhat relate. I occasionally … Continue reading →
The Marginalian
18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your...
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Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols, not the philosophers or the poets, not your liberal arts education or your twelve-step program, not church or therapy or Tolstoy. No matter how valuable any...
TheCollector
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The American Scholar
The Power of the Common Soul Ives, music-making, and hope The post The Power of the Common Soul appeared first on The American...
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mtlynch.io
Questions to ask a potential 3PL vendor Over the past six months, I’ve been transitioning the fulfillment processes at my e-commerce...
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Over the past six months, I’ve been transitioning the fulfillment processes at my e-commerce business to a third-party logistics (3PL) vendor. I didn’t know anything about 3PLs before starting this process, so there were a lot of things I didn’t know to ask about. Here are the...
CONTEMPORIST
Chairs For Sitting On Stairs ARTA Architects has designed the Tai Kwun Chairs for The Hong Kong Jockey Club, allowing a more...
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ARTA Architects has designed the Tai Kwun Chairs for The Hong Kong Jockey Club, allowing a more comfortable and modular seating solution for these stairs. The chairs complement the distinctive design languages of the Tai Kwun arts and cultural centre’s ancient and contemporary...
CONTEMPORIST
Stone Snakes Around The Curved Exterior Of This Modern Home Adrian James Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Oxfordshire,...
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Adrian James Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Oxfordshire, England, that has a sculptural form which sprouts organically from its hillside setting. The home’s design is inspired by the crinkle-crankle Cotswold stone wall, with ribbons of cast...
Matt Mazur
Nick Kolenda Reviews Preceden Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing...
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Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing and related topics like pricing optimization, sales psychology, and website behavior. He’s also happens to be a regular in a poker game I host each week. A few months back he...
Spoon & Tamago
Japanese Aqarium’s Flowchart Illustrates the Complex Relationships of Their Penguins the Kyoto Aqarium’s 2020 Penguin Relationship Flowchart Penguins, the way they waddle around and...
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the Kyoto Aqarium’s 2020 Penguin Relationship Flowchart Penguins, the way they waddle around and protect their eggs, are often thought of as cute, cuddly and romantic. But those who observe them for extended periods know they have a dark side. Two aquariums in Japan, Kyoto...
TheCollector
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Revisiting Brooklyn’s Barclays Center—a Telling Landscape The arena and plaza have become notably more commercialized since 2012, while the towers lag in...
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The arena and plaza have become notably more commercialized since 2012, while the towers lag in affordability and represent a modular failure.
TheCollector
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Pivot Points Not "enabling constraints", not "weaknesses", not even "strengths". The concept of a "Pivot Point"...
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Not "enabling constraints", not "weaknesses", not even "strengths". The concept of a "Pivot Point" grapples with the same reality, but more constructive and useful.
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A brief introduction to interval arithmetic You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet,...
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You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet, then you measure the couch and get 7 feet. Can you fit the couch against that wall? Maybe. If the two measure is exactly 7 feet than sure, 7 ≤ 7. But you probably didn't line your...
CONTEMPORIST
A Stepped Brick Extension Makes Space For A Soft Warm Blush Kitchen Architecture and interior design firm Bradley Van Der Straeten, has shared photos of a home in...
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Architecture and interior design firm Bradley Van Der Straeten, has shared photos of a home in England that received a new stepped brick extension with views of the garden. When the front door is open, you can see all the way through to the rear garden. A stepped form took shape...
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious? I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
Seth's Blog
Quietly change it When we think about altering a policy, a setting or even the outfit we usually wear, it’s easy to...
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When we think about altering a policy, a setting or even the outfit we usually wear, it’s easy to imagine that everyone is going to notice. In fact, almost no one will. That’s because no one cares about the noise in our head (or the actions we take) nearly as much as we do. You...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'More Than Documentary' “Literariness, as I understand it, does not necessarily entail any particular set of...
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“Literariness, as I understand it, does not necessarily entail any particular set of formal qualities. What makes a work literary is the ability to be understood and appreciated outside the context of its origin. That is why a literary work, however valuable as a document of its...
NeuroLogica Blog
Managing Plastic Waste The world produces 350-400 million metric tons of plastic waste. Less than 10% of this waste is...
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The world produces 350-400 million metric tons of plastic waste. Less than 10% of this waste is recycled, while 25% is mismanaged or littered. About 1.7 million tons ends up in the ocean. This is not sustainable, but whose responsibility is it to deal with this issue? The debate...
A Beautiful Site
Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to...
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When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons. Issues with leap years # A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
Daniel Marino
Deploying My Eleventy Site to GitHub Pages I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of...
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I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of switching my site to Eleventy was getting deployments to GitHub pages set up. I suppose I could have built my site locally, and then push that to the gh-pages branch, but that felt...
Contemporist...
Pitched Roofs Cover This Dark And Moody Farmhouse Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that...
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Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that was once a brown-brick, pitched-roof farmhouse built in the 1980s.
Tinker, Tamper,...
How To Use PyJWT With Django In A Resource Server And Still Keep Parts Of Your Sanity The OAuth2 spec cleanly separates the role of Authorization Server (AS) from that of Resource Server...
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The OAuth2 spec cleanly separates the role of Authorization Server (AS) from that of Resource Server (RS). The role of the AS, and the whole OAUTH2 dance, is to get an access token that will be accepted by a RS.It’s puzzling. It should be easy, nay, trivial, to implement the...
Archinect - Features
Echoes and Requiems: Reflecting on the Legacy of Woodbury University School of Architecture... In the summer of 2006, I received a call from my friend and colleague Catherine Herbst, who had...
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In the summer of 2006, I received a call from my friend and colleague Catherine Herbst, who had recently become the head of Woodbury University School of Architecture in San Diego (WUSD) following the departure of the previous chair, Geraldine Forbes, to New Mexico. During our...
The Modern House
Pure 1970s glamour at an iconic modernist house, from sunken sofas to an indoor pool
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel like all these people trying to measure attention span degradation should just look at what percent of the population is cognitively capable of reading Sense and Sensibility. Today's News:
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