Confessions of a...
Recording: How Hyper-Threading Works — A Microarchitectural Perspective
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous...
5 months ago
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous multithreading) implementation in Intel’s x86 processors.
Josh Collinsworth
Let's learn SvelteKit by building a static Markdown blog from scratch
Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with...
over a year ago
Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with Markdown support, Sass, an API, and an RSS feed.
mtlynch.io
My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes (Part Two)
In part one, I described my arduous journey to capture my old home movies in digital format and...
over a year ago
In part one, I described my arduous journey to capture my old home movies in digital format and divide them into individual scenes. After processing all the clips, I wanted the experience of exploring them to be as simple as looking up clips on YouTube. Because these videos are...
The Marginalian
Beyond Either/Or: Kierkegaard on the Passion for Possibility and the Key to Resetting Relationships
"Were I to wish for anything I would not wish for wealth and power, but for the passion of the...
4 months ago
"Were I to wish for anything I would not wish for wealth and power, but for the passion of the possible, that eye which everywhere, ever young, ever burning, sees possibility."
Yazin Alirhayim
Part 2: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain’s economy?
👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first.
In the last post, I discussed the question of access...
over a year ago
👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first.
In the last post, I discussed the question of access to capital and why’s important to verify that we do in fact have a problem before we attempt to “solve” it.
Now, we’re going to talk about the method for measuring the extent of...
Open Culture
Michio Kaku Demystifies the God Equation: The Key to Understanding Everything
It speaks to the importance of discoveries in physics over the past few generations that even the...
3 months ago
It speaks to the importance of discoveries in physics over the past few generations that even the disinterested layman has heard of the field’s central challenge. In brief, there exist two separate systems: general relativity, which describes the physics of space, time, and...
TheCollector
The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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a year ago
computers are bad
2023-04-10 solving problems with chatgpt
One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by
popular culture, is...
a year ago
One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by
popular culture, is to automate away our jobs. When your job is (put simply) to
get computers to work correctly, there's sort of an irony to this view of
things. Still, just within the span of my...
Renegade Otter
I am not your Cloud person
Jack of all clouds
In an episode of
Screaming in the Cloud podcast,
Corey Quinn, a cloud services...
a year ago
Jack of all clouds
In an episode of
Screaming in the Cloud podcast,
Corey Quinn, a cloud services expert, mentioned a running prank that he sometimes pulls on Amazon engineers: Quinn
inserts a fictional AWS service name into the conversation, with the AWS person not batting an...
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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3 months ago
Unpacked
Klarna, Buy Now Pay Later & first mover advantage
The company got to profitable growth by cementing its first mover advantage and doubling down on...
a year ago
The company got to profitable growth by cementing its first mover advantage and doubling down on retailer relationships but faces competition from incumbent giants
Simply Explained
Why I don't take sponsorships
Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN...
over a year ago
Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN providers. They all told me the same thing: our service is the best way to protect your privacy, and we were hoping you could convey this message in one of your videos.So I decided to do...
Tom Blomfield
Startup Series Part 1: Interviewing Engineers
There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and...
over a year ago
There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and philosophies. This is a positive thing for the ecosystem - just as new software tools mean it’s simpler and cheaper to start a company, these methodologies allow first-time entrepreneurs...
Tony Dinh's...
Sep 2022: I'm on Indie Hackers Podcast!
Also in September: $12K MRR, built a small new app, SEO, and other updates...
over a year ago
Also in September: $12K MRR, built a small new app, SEO, and other updates...
Castles in the Sky
I have a new face.
Reintroducing myself and Castles in the Sky
4 months ago
Reintroducing myself and Castles in the Sky
Rest of World -...
Nigerian businesses increasingly skip traditional banks and turn to Moniepoint
Moniepoint’s payment machines have become ubiquitous across Nigeria. But the company faces...
9 months ago
Moniepoint’s payment machines have become ubiquitous across Nigeria. But the company faces competition from Chinese-backed OPay.
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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10 months ago
Astral Codex Ten
How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?
...
a month ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons"
My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!
over a year ago
My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!
Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
The Modern House
Take Root: eight homes with gorgeous gardens for sale
If the blue skies and warm days of the past few weeks are anything to go by, summer is fast...
a year ago
If the blue skies and warm days of the past few weeks are anything to go by, summer is fast approaching – and so too are long alfresco lunches and weekends spent pottering around the garden. Whether you’re partial to a compact easy-care courtyard or […]
TheCollector
Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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a year ago
Grow With Less
10 Proven Meta Descriptions Templates Top Blogs Use to Get More Clicks
I face the same problem every time I need to write a meta description.
I have no idea where to...
over a year ago
I face the same problem every time I need to write a meta description.
I have no idea where to start.
Should I first mention the problem the article is solving? Should I use a call-to-action? Is it bad to repeat what I already wrote in the headline?
To find out, I analyzed...
Making software...
My Cheapskate Commenting System
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of...
I went down a...
over a year ago
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of...
I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
The Ruffian
Stories are bad for your intelligence
How Historians (and Others) Make Themselves Stupid
a year ago
How Historians (and Others) Make Themselves Stupid
Common Edge
Urban Farming: A Sustainable Pathway Out of Nigeria’s Unfolding Food Crisis
Havana, Tokyo, and Paris offer successful examples of how it might work.
5 months ago
Havana, Tokyo, and Paris offer successful examples of how it might work.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 5: The Purge
a month ago
Commoncog
Learning About Moats the Hard Way
How even legendary conglomerator Henry Singleton got caught out by competitive arbitrage at the end...
6 months ago
How even legendary conglomerator Henry Singleton got caught out by competitive arbitrage at the end of his career.
Steve Klabnik
How do you find the time?
over a year ago
History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
a month ago
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
NeuroLogica Blog
Using AI and Social Media to Measure Climate Change Denial
A recent study finds that 14.8% of Americans do not believe in global climate change. This number is...
10 months ago
A recent study finds that 14.8% of Americans do not believe in global climate change. This number is roughly in line with what recent survey have found, such as this 2024 Yale study which put the figure at 16%. In 2009, by comparison, the figure was at 33% (although this was a...
TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
a week ago
TheCollector
Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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a month ago
Working Theorys
Invisible Duels
You didn’t agree to this duel. Yet it’s happening.
2 weeks ago
You didn’t agree to this duel. Yet it’s happening.
diamond geezer
Six 15-minute posts
Here are six brief posts, none of which I spent more than 15 minutes on.
1) The consultation...
4 months ago
Here are six brief posts, none of which I spent more than 15 minutes on.
1) The consultation report for "Extending the DLR from Gallions Reach to Beckton Riverside and Thamesmead" has just been published. At this very early stage in the project it focused on asking people...
Contemporist...
These Home Owners Wanted An Office And A Yoga Studio Behind Their Existing Home
Office of Ordinary Architecture has shared photos of two backyard getaways they designed for a home...
2 months ago
Office of Ordinary Architecture has shared photos of two backyard getaways they designed for a home in Seattle, Washington, that created space for a yoga studio and an office.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce
I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve...
over a year ago
I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve decided to write about a few of those…
Tinloof - Blog
How to create & manage a Postgres database in NodeJS from scratch
Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a...
over a year ago
Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a tutorial you'd read while sitting in public transportation or on your toilet seat. You might want to find a nice place to sit for an hour and follow the tutorial.
We have 1 goal: set up...
Chris Grossack's...
Preprint -- The RAAG Functor as a Categorical Embedding
After almost a year of sitting on my hard drive, I finally had time in
August to finish revising my...
a year ago
After almost a year of sitting on my hard drive, I finally had time in
August to finish revising my new preprint on
Right Angled Artin Groups (Raags). And in September I had time to put
it on the arxiv for people to see! Within 24 hours I had an email from
somebody who had...
CONTEMPORIST
Ombré Wallpaper Was A Creative Design Choice For This Bedroom
Svetlana Tryaskina of ESTEE DESIGN has shared photos of a contemporary home renovation that she...
a year ago
Svetlana Tryaskina of ESTEE DESIGN has shared photos of a contemporary home renovation that she completed for a busy family of five. One of the design elements that caught our attention, was the room that includes colorful accent walls in the form of ombre wallpaper. The ombre...
nanoscale views
ARPA-E Roadshow
Today, Rice hosted the ARPA-E Roadshow, a series of presentations by ARPA-E program officers, MC-ed...
a year ago
Today, Rice hosted the ARPA-E Roadshow, a series of presentations by ARPA-E program officers, MC-ed by the director, Prof. Evelyn Wang. It was all about the energy transition, and it was pretty fascinating, particularly hearing from leaders of startups who were making...
Seth's Blog
Unaware
If you don’t realize that you have power, you might not be able to exercise it. The power to speak...
11 months ago
If you don’t realize that you have power, you might not be able to exercise it. The power to speak up, to participate, to invent, to lead, to encourage, to vote, to connect, to organize, to march, to write, to say ‘no’ or to say ‘yes’. It’s tempting to imagine we have less power...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Small Web
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the...
a year ago
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative.
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What is Kagi Small Web?
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To begin with, while there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
11 months ago
ntietz.com blog
Throw away your first draft of your code
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then...
a year ago
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all.
Just throw it away.
I'm serious.
And you should probably have some of your best engineers doing this throwaway work.
It's going to save you time in the long run.
The...
Making software...
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
2021-05-29
A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a...
over a year ago
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
2021-05-29
A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a first-person sci-fi horror-adventure game. The story was intriguing and the developers nailed the overall atmosphere of Pathos-II. Though both those aspects were great, what I found...
Ralph Ammer
The Creative Switch
This secret to creativity will help you come up with many ideas.
The post The Creative Switch...
over a year ago
This secret to creativity will help you come up with many ideas.
The post The Creative Switch appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
TheCollector
Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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7 months ago
Math Is Still...
How Genetic Surprises Complicate the Old Doctrine of DNA
For over a century, biologists have had to contend with a complicated picture of genetics, which...
a year ago
For over a century, biologists have had to contend with a complicated picture of genetics, which they’ve only recently begun to understand.
The post How Genetic Surprises Complicate the Old Doctrine of DNA first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Modern House
Opportunity Knocks: seven homes with earning potential
We know not everyone coming to our site is in search of a new place to live – or at least not all...
a year ago
We know not everyone coming to our site is in search of a new place to live – or at least not all the time. And catering to your desires – always with good design at the front of our minds – is what we’re […]
The Tao Of Wealth
A Prayer For The New Year
God, grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I...
over a year ago
God, grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I can,and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time,enjoying one moment at a time;accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;taking, as Your Divine Incarnations...
Old Structures...
Less Than Artistic
My originally-planned blog post for today has some issues and will show up next week; I was...
a year ago
My originally-planned blog post for today has some issues and will show up next week; I was traveling yesterday and couldn’t write another proper one in time. So, above, a failed attempt at taking a picture without adequate light. I didn’t think I moved but I obviously did. I...
TheCollector
The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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a year ago
TheCollector
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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a year ago
Common Edge
The Missing Flower Power in Walkability and Neighborhood Vitality
There’s a surprisingly simple alternative to our hard, urban spaces.
6 months ago
There’s a surprisingly simple alternative to our hard, urban spaces.
The Works in...
Notes on Progress: The world that has never been
Introducing Speculative Technologies
a year ago
Introducing Speculative Technologies
Epic Web Dev
Skip SDKs in Simple Integrations (article)
When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is...
6 months ago
When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is worth the trade-offs.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
The most useful programming language
Aspiring developers often ask me what's the best programming language to learn. Personally, I mostly...
11 months ago
Aspiring developers often ask me what's the best programming language to learn. Personally, I mostly work with JS — solid choice, but everyone and their dog learns JS these days, so it might be time to add some diversity. I'm curious — which single programming language covers the...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 24
Highlights TinyPilot reached an all-time high of $74k in revenue. I’m trying to figure out the best...
over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot reached an all-time high of $74k in revenue. I’m trying to figure out the best approach to software licensing. I’m still searching for a web framework I can love. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did...
Open Culture
See Albert Camus’ Historic Lecture, “The Human Crisis,” Performed by Actor Viggo Mortensen
Back in 2016, New York City staged a month-long festival celebrating Albert Camus’ historic visit to...
5 months ago
Back in 2016, New York City staged a month-long festival celebrating Albert Camus’ historic visit to NYC in 1946. One event in the festival featured actor Viggo Mortensen giving a reading of Camus’ lecture,“La Crise de l’homme” (“The Human Crisis”) at Columbia University–the very...
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 2
In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the...
over a year ago
In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the server-side components as well as coding and launching the first iteration of the site along with some of the limitations I encountered when programming on such an old system.
Server...
swyx's site RSS Feed
5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
over a year ago
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
Simply Explained
My Sixth Year as YouTube Creator (statistics + retrospective)
Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. Last year has been my most...
over a year ago
Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. Last year has been my most successful year on YouTube so far, and I'd like to share some statistics and thoughts. I will also go over how my email newsletter is doing and where I'm headed. And finally, I'll set...
Londonist
Your London Reading List: The Best Non-Fiction Books
Best books voted for by Londonist readers.
8 months ago
Best books voted for by Londonist readers.
TheCollector
How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Are open foundation models actually more risky than closed ones?
A policy brief on open foundation models
a year ago
A policy brief on open foundation models
bt RSS Feed
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-14
I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-14
I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air with Linux Mint. It’s a distro I’ve used a few times in the past, but never set it as one of my main daily drivers until now.
Setting up all my go-to applications (Sublime, LocalWP,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cast
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
You can also cast subways and dig them up!
Today's...
12 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
You can also cast subways and dig them up!
Today's News:
diamond geezer
Brookside Close
London's Soap Streets
Albert Square E15 and Albert Square SW8.
Coronation Street but the capital...
a year ago
London's Soap Streets
Albert Square E15 and Albert Square SW8.
Coronation Street but the capital doesn't have one.
Come with me to the borderlands between South Ruislip and South Harrow...
Brookside Close HA2
namesake cul-de-sac can be found beside the big roundabout on...
diamond geezer
Nazareth Gardens and Bethlehem House
To conclude this year's selection of festive streets, here are both ends of the donkey's...
12 months ago
To conclude this year's selection of festive streets, here are both ends of the donkey's journey.
Nazareth Gardens SE15
Nazareth Gardens. I realised none of this when I turned up.
Round the corner is a large space given over to parking surrounded by old flats and two...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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3 weeks ago
Math Is Still...
Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons
For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new...
a year ago
For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new experiment has found that in at least one strange material, this understanding falls apart.
The post Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons first...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Technology and job creation
In response to my recent post “Making industries ‘garage ready’ for startups“, venture...
over a year ago
In response to my recent post “Making industries ‘garage ready’ for startups“, venture capitalist Jordan Elpern-Waxman made an interesting…
The Modern House
Our Guide to Oxford: cinnamon buns, honey-hued domes and small plates in the 'city of dreaming...
7 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles
over a year ago
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles
Retail Design Blog
Converting heritage buildings into shops
ADS (ALLDESIGNSTUDIO) has crafted a novel shopping experience within the Fuzhou Kerry Center in...
6 months ago
ADS (ALLDESIGNSTUDIO) has crafted a novel shopping experience within the Fuzhou Kerry Center in Fujian, China, with their latest project...
TokyoDev
Writing Developer Job Postings
When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a...
over a year ago
When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a developer hears about your company. Despite the posting being the first step in the hiring flow, companies put little effort into them, often having it be little more than a list of...
Archinect - Features
Just Finished Architecture School? Here's Some Advice
As the 2023/2024 academic year draws to a close, architecture graduates across the United States are...
6 months ago
As the 2023/2024 academic year draws to a close, architecture graduates across the United States are preparing for the next stage in their design career, be it through employment, further education, journeys into adjacent fields, and beyond. If you are one of the many graduates...
Spoon & Tamago
Shibuya Unveils Graphics Discouraging Halloween Parties in Their Ward
After the tragic and fatal Halloween crowd crush that occured in Seoul last year, Tokyo’s Shibuya...
a year ago
After the tragic and fatal Halloween crowd crush that occured in Seoul last year, Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, which has increasingly become a go-to spot for Halloween parties—often with dangerous consequences—is taking preemptive measures to discourage people from congregating in their...
journal – Winnie Lim
random scenes from busan
I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the...
2 months ago
I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the archive from my korea trip a couple months ago. It is an...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Fave New Podcasts of 2023
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years...
11 months ago
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's time to do year 5(!)
Rest of World -...
The CEO trying to democratize cybersecurity
Felix Kan on building a bug-hunting platform to enhance cybersecurity for small companies.
10 months ago
Felix Kan on building a bug-hunting platform to enhance cybersecurity for small companies.
nanoscale views
What is turbulence? (And why are helicopters never quiet?)
Fluid mechanics is very often left out of the undergraduate physics curriculum. This is a shame, as...
6 months ago
Fluid mechanics is very often left out of the undergraduate physics curriculum. This is a shame, as it's very interesting and directly relevant to many broad topics (atmospheric science, climate, plasma physics, parts of astrophysics). Fluid mechanics is a great example of how...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How do hospitals spend money? | Out-Of-Pocket
it's time to look at a financial statement
6 months ago
it's time to look at a financial statement
Vitalik Buterin's...
An Incomplete Guide to Rollups
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Best of SatPost (First Half of 2024)
PLUS: Solar Industry, LVMH Real Estate, Delta Airlines is Winning.
5 months ago
PLUS: Solar Industry, LVMH Real Estate, Delta Airlines is Winning.
Moneyness
Memecoins are the point
Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins.
Our story begins with some very...
a month ago
Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins.
Our story begins with some very smart and idealistic developers, known as cypherpunks, creating a new technology know as a blockchain. Blockchains are databases, but decentralized. Advertised as being...
diamond geezer
346
Last Saturday one bus route on the edge of east London disappeared and another quadrupled in length....
9 months ago
Last Saturday one bus route on the edge of east London disappeared and another quadrupled in length. I didn't fancy spending my birthday in Upminster so left it a few days before taking a ride on the end result.
• The 346 used to be one of London's shortest bus routes, a brief...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering
a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
over a year ago
a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five Finals Intro
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI...
over a year ago
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI beat the world champions at Dota 2:
“Welcome everyone. This is an exciting day.
First, this is an historic moment: this will be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play...
Alex Meub
Dealing with Dropbox Link Overages
Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the...
over a year ago
Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the fact that I can give public links to others as an easy way to send large files.
Recently though, a few links of mine were getting pretty popular and I received the following very...
One Useful Thing
Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D
Ideas come from the edges, not the center
6 months ago
Ideas come from the edges, not the center
The Marginalian
No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life
"We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other."
7 months ago
"We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other."
The American Scholar
The Wonder of It All
In search of awe
The post The Wonder of It All appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 weeks ago
In search of awe
The post The Wonder of It All appeared first on The American Scholar.
Old Structures...
So Very Random
Hidden among the vast holdings of the New York Public Library is a set of 52 images of playing cards...
a year ago
Hidden among the vast holdings of the New York Public Library is a set of 52 images of playing cards donated by William Barclay Parsons, arguably most famous for being the chief engineer of the Interborough Rapid Transit system, New York’s oldest subway. Each card has an...
Aaron's Essays
Unbundled Capital
The way we talk about fundraising is wrong. Specifically, I don’t think that founders sell equity...
over a year ago
The way we talk about fundraising is wrong. Specifically, I don’t think that founders sell equity when they raise money. It’s the other way around - founders use their equity to buy capital from investors.[1]
Investors know this, which is why they spend so much time and money on...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: PowerBook Duo 2300c
Jerry Seinfeld had one.
many other TV shows and even movies, most notoriously Hackers:
my...
a year ago
Jerry Seinfeld had one.
many other TV shows and even movies, most notoriously Hackers:
my favourite PowerBook 1400: the metal hinges are starting to tear out of their attachment points in the plastic back of the display, and naturally it's the one with all the upgrades in...
TheCollector
Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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a year ago
Londonist
TfL Poppy Roundels: Here Are The Underground And Overground Stations Where You'll Find Them
London's trains and buses are 'wearing' poppies too.
a year ago
London's trains and buses are 'wearing' poppies too.
TheCollector
Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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5 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Home Renovation Where The Walls Were Removed So The Interior Connects With the Exterior
Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they renovated in London, that included opening up...
a year ago
Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they renovated in London, that included opening up the walls to connect the interior spaces with the garden. The designers removed the whole ground floor, including the external walls to the rear, the stairs, most of the interior,...
The Codist
How Many Hours Can You Code?
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down?...
5 days ago
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down? Even more important is how many weeks and months of that max effort you can still be effective.
In my life, there have only been three periods where I
diamond geezer
Summer Olympics of my lifetime
Summer Olympics of my lifetime
10th October 1964: Tokyo
Tokyo Melody by Helmut Zacharias - and...
4 months ago
Summer Olympics of my lifetime
10th October 1964: Tokyo
Tokyo Melody by Helmut Zacharias - and helped propel it to number 9 in the singles chart. As one of a limited number of 7-inches in our record box while I was growing up it got a lot of plays, and I still subliminally love...
Londonist
UEFA Euro 2024 Screenings: Where To Watch Matches In London
3 x 🦁 + 👕 = ⚽
9 months ago
devonzuegel.com
Situated Software
Written by Clay Shirky
First published March 30, 2004 on the "Networks, Economics, and...
over a year ago
Written by Clay Shirky
First published March 30, 2004 on the "Networks, Economics, and Culture"
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I teach at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where the student population is about evenly divided between...
Cognitive...
Uploading CSV to DynamoDB with Node JS
So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB.
Easy right?
Not so fast.
It turns out, you have to obey...
over a year ago
So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB.
Easy right?
Not so fast.
It turns out, you have to obey your provisioned write capacity.
Unlike S3, "Simple Storage Service" where you simply upload a file, DynamoDB isn't "Simple". There's no "upload CSV" button. You have to write a...
The Modern House
Why a nomadic design dealer is finally putting down roots at this family home in east London
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
Stephen Diehl
The Haskell Elephant in the Room
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Bugger
It’s time for the follow up on my latest game Bugger.
Wow it seems like forever since I begun this...
over a year ago
It’s time for the follow up on my latest game Bugger.
Wow it seems like forever since I begun this monthly game business, but it’s only been two months since I first thought about this and here I am having finished my third game. I’ve really come a long way, in the beginning I...
TheCollector
The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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a year ago
latest projects -...
Talking Tines
[Concept] Tuning forks that talk
5 months ago
[Concept] Tuning forks that talk
Seth's Blog
“But what if I’m wrong?
If we’re going to come together and invest the time in conversation, in research or in analysis, we...
8 months ago
If we’re going to come together and invest the time in conversation, in research or in analysis, we should begin by understanding what would be required for you or I to change our minds. If you’re not willing to consider that you’re wrong, then, in the words of a Dan Dennett,...
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
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...
The Works in...
Issue 12: Houston, we have a solution
Plus: How Mexico built its state, the causes of the Baby Boom, and the 141-year quest for a malaria...
a year ago
Plus: How Mexico built its state, the causes of the Baby Boom, and the 141-year quest for a malaria vaccine.
Both Are True
someone is impersonating me so i reached out to them
going undercover to meet myself -- a video of our entire 30 minute long convo
6 months ago
going undercover to meet myself -- a video of our entire 30 minute long convo
Flashbak
Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
3 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Persisting State to localStorage in Recoil Across Browser Tabs
I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React.
I needed to persist some...
a month ago
I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React.
I needed to persist some state to localStorage, and there’s some info on how to do it in Recoil’s docs.
That works; however it doesn’t respond to state changes from other instances of your app in multiple...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
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...
over a year ago
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…
Irrational...
Deciding to leave your (executive) job.
If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up...
a year ago
If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up things are at work.
Initiatives are behind, layoffs are happening everywhere, the team is in disarray.
Then they’ll laugh, and switch topics. Sometimes one of the executives can’t...
bt RSS Feed
Making a Website Under 1kB
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
over a year ago
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn’t as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
Lars Lofgren
CNN and USA Today Have Fake Websites, I Believe Forbes Marketplace Runs Them
What if I told you that Forbes Marketplace, the affiliate company operating on Forbes.com ALSO had...
2 months ago
What if I told you that Forbes Marketplace, the affiliate company operating on Forbes.com ALSO had agreements with CNN and USA Today? And that Forbes Marketplace was stuffing those sites full of affiliate content just like it is with Forbes? And what if Forbes Marketplace went to...
nanoscale views
The 2022 Welch Conference
The last couple of weeks have been very full.
One event was the annual Welch Foundation conference...
over a year ago
The last couple of weeks have been very full.
One event was the annual Welch Foundation conference (program here). The program chair for this one was W. E. Moerner, expert (and Nobel Laureate) on single-molecule spectroscopy, and it was really a great meeting. I'm not just...
Christopher Butler
Link – David Sleight's personal website
stuntbox.com is a beautifully-designed personal website. I especially love the simplicity and...
11 months ago
stuntbox.com is a beautifully-designed personal website. I especially love the simplicity and readability of his article pages.
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #5
Four months of major roadworks were supposed to begin at the Bow Roundabout on Monday 30th...
2 months ago
Four months of major roadworks were supposed to begin at the Bow Roundabout on Monday 30th September. This did not happen. But they are now underway and - spoilers - it's bad news for local road users.
Monday 7th October
Tuesday 8th October
10 years ago.
However as a...
GeoCurrents
The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Was No Landslide
Donald Trump clearly enjoyed an unexpected and decisive victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential...
a month ago
Donald Trump clearly enjoyed an unexpected and decisive victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Indeed, many journalists and pundits have described the results as nothing less than a “landslide.” In truth, it came nowhere near that standing. Although the final vote count...
Open Culture
Watch an Enthusiast Drive the First Car Ever Made, the 1885 Mercedes Benz
In 1885, Karl Benz built what’s now considered the first modern automobile. According to the...
7 months ago
In 1885, Karl Benz built what’s now considered the first modern automobile. According to the Mercedes Benz website, the car featured a “compact high-speed single-cylinder four-stroke engine installed horizontally at the rear, a tubular steel frame … and three wire-spoked wheels....
Old Structures...
Baseball in New York 4
After old teams, old Brooklyn ballparks, and old Manhattan ballparks, it’s time for ballparks in...
2 months ago
After old teams, old Brooklyn ballparks, and old Manhattan ballparks, it’s time for ballparks in Queens. Despite the modern use of a numbered street system, Queens has street naming that drives outsiders mad, so it is fitting that three of the four old ballparks in the borough...
The Marginalian
How to Befriend Time: The Gospel of Pete Seeger and Nina Simone
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."
a year ago
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."
TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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10 months ago
The Pragmatic...
Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years?
Why did the company do so? I’ve talked with people involved in organizing the competition for more...
a year ago
Why did the company do so? I’ve talked with people involved in organizing the competition for more details
Seth's Blog
The simple word replacement for connection
What do we say when a customer or colleague says, “thank you”? For a long time, it was “you’re...
a year ago
What do we say when a customer or colleague says, “thank you”? For a long time, it was “you’re welcome.” This indicates that you put in some effort and you’re willing to do it again on request. Recently “no problem” has become more common. This implies that the effort could have...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Healthcare in Jail | Out-Of-Pocket
How does it work?
a year ago
A Weekly Dose of...
On Hiatus
Monday is when I would normally post a new book review, but instead, this blog and its related...
a year ago
Monday is when I would normally post a new book review, but instead, this blog and its related newsletter are going on hiatus indefinitely due to a family emergency.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: 10 Mar 2024 - Band of Brothers
Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum...
9 months ago
Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum call where we made some concessions. I wish he were better able to take things off my hands but also I need to step up
bt RSS Feed
Do You Have an Extra $10?
Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-23
As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
over a year ago
Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-23
As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it’s a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it’s a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it’s an impulse buy while we’re out shopping for...
Londonist
Stratford Sphere Nixed By Mayor: But Where Else Could They Build It?
Where to put a giant glowing sphere?
a year ago
Where to put a giant glowing sphere?
TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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10 months ago
Math Is Still...
Magnetism May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry
The preferred “handedness” of biomolecules could have emerged from biased interactions between...
a year ago
The preferred “handedness” of biomolecules could have emerged from biased interactions between electrons and magnetic surfaces, new research suggests.
The post Magnetism May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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11 months ago
The Changelog
Really Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary
Like many young programmers of my age, before I could use the Internet, there were BBSs. I...
over a year ago
Like many young programmers of my age, before I could use the Internet, there were BBSs. I eventually ran one, though in my small town there were few callers. Some time back, I downloaded a copy of Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary. You might know Jason Scott from textfiles.com and...
History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
The Marginalian
The Fairy Tale Tree
Creativity is at bottom the combinatorial work of memory and imagination. All of our impressions,...
11 months ago
Creativity is at bottom the combinatorial work of memory and imagination. All of our impressions, influences, and experiences — every sight we have ever seen, every book read, every landscape walked, every love loved — become seeds for ideas we later combine and recombine,...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: More security stories!
The latest Loose Leaf Security is out, a handful of Geoffrey and my own security adventures,...
over a year ago
The latest Loose Leaf Security is out, a handful of Geoffrey and my own security adventures, including concerns about Twitter's "favorites" evolved into "likes," and some juicier news stories:
Security stories: surveillance databases, unlocking apps, unexpected photo booths, and...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Will of the Masses edition (#55)
Abandoning X; Drone world; Asian voters' rightward shift; China and the Global South; Polycrisis;...
a week ago
Abandoning X; Drone world; Asian voters' rightward shift; China and the Global South; Polycrisis; Illegal immigration's fiscal impact; Iranian power
Rest of World -...
A U.S. outsourcing company brought lofty promises to Nepal. Then came the layoffs
Former employees say the company killed the dream it once sold them.
a year ago
Former employees say the company killed the dream it once sold them.
Seth's Blog
Project resistance
In Steven Pressfield’s classic The War of Art, he introduces the idea of Resistance. It’s the...
a year ago
In Steven Pressfield’s classic The War of Art, he introduces the idea of Resistance. It’s the internal force that keeps us from doing our most important creative work. If an instinct, a habit or a feeling gets in the way of the work, it’s Pressfield’s Resistance. Things we would...
NeuroLogica Blog
Using Plants as Biofactories
When you think about it, plants are self-reproducing solar-powered biological factories. They are...
a year ago
When you think about it, plants are self-reproducing solar-powered biological factories. They are powered by the sun, extract raw material from the air and soil, and make all sorts of useful molecules. Mostly we use them to make edible molecules (food), but also to make textiles,...
Londonist
Panto In London - Where To Watch The Best Pantomimes This Festive Season
Panto is back for 2023 - oh yes it is!
a year ago
Panto is back for 2023 - oh yes it is!
Stephen Diehl
The Twilight of the Securities Act
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Implementing HATEOS with presenters
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Out of control
It’s negative when we say that someone is out of control. They’ve lost their self-restraint, and...
9 months ago
It’s negative when we say that someone is out of control. They’ve lost their self-restraint, and they’re doing things that they’ll regret later. And it’s honest when we acknowledge that just about everything is out of our control. We can work to influence it, we can practice...
symmetry magazine
LHC experiments see four top quarks
The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs...
a year ago
The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs bosons.
The ATLAS and CMS experiments have successfully detected the production of a quartet of top quarks during high-energy proton collisions inside the Large...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-28
After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for...
over a year ago
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-28
After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it.
Keeping Things...
journal – Winnie Lim
did i just do my first pull-up?
Wanted to write a note but I guess this warrants a proper post since I’ve completed my main...
7 months ago
Wanted to write a note but I guess this warrants a proper post since I’ve completed my main aspiration for 2024! Today while trying our home pull-up bar I realised I could...
Writing - Andreas...
Summer reading list 2024
Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being
read after decades or...
3 months ago
Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being
read after decades or centuries, it must contain some universal truths or
be useful at a fundamental level.
A Beautiful Site
Validating URLs and email addresses in PHP
This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var()...
over a year ago
This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var() function, it's actually very easy and doesn't require regular expressions. The following wrapper functions force a true boolean response, so you can use them safely in your logic.
Email...
Josh Comeau's blog
The styled-components Happy Path
styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've...
over a year ago
styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've learned a lot about how to use it effectively. This article shares my personal “best practices”.
The Codist
Working At Home Over The Decades
When I started in the early 80s, working at home was never an option—in fact, it took decades to...
a year ago
When I started in the early 80s, working at home was never an option—in fact, it took decades to become practical, even though I occasionally could do it under limited circumstances. In my last year working before I retired, I spent the entire Covid year working at home.
Archinect - Features
Upcoming Architecture School Admission Deadlines You Shouldn’t Miss
As 2024 winds down, there’s still time to apply to architecture programs! Many schools are accepting...
6 days ago
As 2024 winds down, there’s still time to apply to architecture programs! Many schools are accepting undergraduate and graduate applications through January and February 2025 (and some even beyond that).
If you’re planning to start your architecture journey in Fall '25, check...
Birchtree
I’m Not a Panda Person
Niléane has a new webcam, Chris is downing in keyboards, and everyone installs some web-ass web...
3 days ago
Niléane has a new webcam, Chris is downing in keyboards, and everyone installs some web-ass web apps.
Watch it on YouTube or listen in your favorite podcast app!
Joel Gascoigne
Reflecting on 10 years of building Buffer
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Today marks ten years since I launched the...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Today marks ten years since I launched the first version of Buffer. What started as a landing page to gauge interest, and then a very basic product that I worked on alone, has become so much more. Buffer is now a
TheCollector
Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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8 months ago
Melting Asphalt
The Elephant in the Brain
It's finally here! The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life — my first book,...
over a year ago
It's finally here! The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life — my first book, coauthored with Robin Hanson — is now widely available. You can find the ebook version on Kindle, Google Play, and iBooks. It's also…
Read more ›
Mazdak
Nearly All US Job Growth in November Came From Just 3 Sectors!
Did you know? The US economy added 199,000 jobs in November, slightly more than expected. But what's...
a year ago
Did you know? The US economy added 199,000 jobs in November, slightly more than expected. But what's even more interesting is that nearly all of this job growth came from just three sectors! So, which sectors are we talking about? Healthcare: Leading the pack with a steady demand...
Arduino Blog
This smart spice box makes cooking a breeze
Many people shy away from cooking because they’re overwhelmed by all of the different steps and...
6 months ago
Many people shy away from cooking because they’re overwhelmed by all of the different steps and ingredients. Recipes are useful, but they aren’t very intuitive to those who are more comfortable with visual thinking. To help these people enjoy the cooking experience, Purdue...
Commoncog
What To Think When Looking at a Chart
In a business context, what should you think when presented with a time series? Or: a really dumb...
a year ago
In a business context, what should you think when presented with a time series? Or: a really dumb question that nobody seems to talk about.
Old Structures...
A Very Specific Moment
I wrote before about the destruction of St. John’s Park, but I had not seen the photo below. The...
10 months ago
I wrote before about the destruction of St. John’s Park, but I had not seen the photo below. The photo shows St. John’s Chapel, an out-chapel of Trinity Church, which was constructed in 1807 and which eventually gave the park its name. This was originally an almost suburban...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 23-29 October 2023
The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
The best articles from the past week.
A Smart Bear
Learn by Copy
In America we're trained that all copying is bad; of course plagiarism is, but perhaps we're...
8 months ago
In America we're trained that all copying is bad; of course plagiarism is, but perhaps we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Winning from the back - late mover advantage
We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to...
over a year ago
We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to share a diary? Late mover advantage Product…
One from Nippon
The shoe that became a sock. And then a shoe again.
Stockholm, 1912
At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the...
a year ago
Stockholm, 1912
At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the start line of the marathon in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Shizo was carrying the hopes, dreams, and pride of Japan, a country attempting to become a “modern” nation.
There
Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
a year ago
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
Joel Gascoigne
My experience with burnout as a startup founder
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
In mid-2017, I hit burnout in a really big way...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
In mid-2017, I hit burnout in a really big way and wound up taking a 6-week break to recharge.
I want to fully share my story here and include some things I wish I’d done differently in the hope
TheCollector
Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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3 months ago
Oxide Computer...
A Gap in the TrustZone preset settings for the LPC55S69
We’re very excited to have announced
the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this...
a year ago
We’re very excited to have announced
the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this work, we
continue to build on top of the LPC55S69 from NXP as our Root of Trust. We’ve
discovered some gaps when using TrustZone preset settings on the LPC55S69 that
can allow for...
The Marginalian
Doris: A Watercolor Serenade to the Courage of Authenticity and the Art of Connection
“There is no insurmountable solitude,” Pablo Neruda asserted in his stirring Nobel Prize acceptance...
a year ago
“There is no insurmountable solitude,” Pablo Neruda asserted in his stirring Nobel Prize acceptance speech. “All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the...
Patrick Kayongo
Mammon
The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of...
over a year ago
The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of the occasional car passing by outside. As the cool air gently brushes across her arms, Gladys Tyamzashe’s strands of hair stand up, mounted on the goose bumps of her aged and...
Classical Wisdom
Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
2 months ago
Making software...
CSS: Indenting Text
CSS: Indenting Text
2019-04-05
A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
over a year ago
CSS: Indenting Text
2019-04-05
A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn't an insult - I'm happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
Artificial Ignorance
The State of AI Engineering
Notes from the first AI Engineer Summit.
a year ago
Notes from the first AI Engineer Summit.
Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
over a year ago
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
Unpacked
The EU's war on behavioral advertising
Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by...
a year ago
Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by default, marking the end of an era. The regulators won, at least for now.
Left To Write
The Power of Storytelling
Seriously, this is the skill you want to learn
a year ago
Seriously, this is the skill you want to learn
TheCollector
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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11 months ago
TheCollector
444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Discover Nine Ways to be Present in Los Angeles.
9 months ago
mtlynch.io
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Like all Gladwell books, Outliers does an excellent job of building an engaging narrative out of...
over a year ago
Like all Gladwell books, Outliers does an excellent job of building an engaging narrative out of topics that the average person might otherwise find inaccessible. His exploration into the causes of airline crashes was especially fascinating.
While it provides a nice collection of...
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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a year ago
Computer Things
Stroustrup's Rule
Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light.
Hanuka Sale
Logic...
a week ago
Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light.
Hanuka Sale
Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here.
Stroustrup's Rule
I first encountered Stroustrup's Rule on this...
The Pragmatic...
The state of startup funding
I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far,...
a year ago
I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far, it’s downwards. What does this mean for tech? My analysis.
alexwlchan
Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another
I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one.
I had two accounts...
10 months ago
I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one.
I had two accounts as a way to keep two separate watch histories.
I was watching videos about gender and trans stuff before I came out, and I didn’t want them appearing in my main account – say, when...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#24)
Economists had a good 2023, degrowthers promising growth, the troubles in the humanities, U.S....
11 months ago
Economists had a good 2023, degrowthers promising growth, the troubles in the humanities, U.S. redistribution, and defense production
devonzuegel.com
Making is Show Business now – alexdanco.com
Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may...
over a year ago
Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may not have been on your short list of books to read this year. It’s admittedly a nerdy topic: it’s about open source projects, roles and responsibilities; the rise of GitHub as a...
Sam Altman
Join the YC Software Team
If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's...
over a year ago
If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's ready for that yet, joining the YC software team is a great hack to get there.
The YC software team is a small group of hackers in SF that write the software that makes all the parts...
Epic Web Dev
What's Coming in React 19 Beta (tip)
7 months ago
Nela Dunato Art &...
Why you’re not getting hired as a designer & how to fix it
Starting out in any new career is hard. Especially nowadays, when you’re not only competing with...
a year ago
Starting out in any new career is hard. Especially nowadays, when you’re not only competing with other designers in your hometown, but those from all over the world! But you do have a chance to make it, if you change whatever currently isn’t working. Let’s troubleshoot and see...
Willem's Blog
Measuring cholesterol levels in blood
This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know...
over a year ago
This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know your LDL, HDL and Triglycerides numbers with a simple test.
Math Is Still...
Pierre de Fermat’s Link to a High School Student’s Prime Math Proof
How Fermat’s less famous ‘little theorem’ got mathematicians young and old to play with prime-like...
a year ago
How Fermat’s less famous ‘little theorem’ got mathematicians young and old to play with prime-like Carmichael numbers.
The post Pierre de Fermat’s Link to a High School Student’s Prime Math Proof first appeared on Quanta Magazine
FIRE v London
Oct ’23: Terror erupts from Gaza
It’s the Middle East again. I don’t have any perspective on it, sadly, other than that I hear of...
a year ago
It’s the Middle East again. I don’t have any perspective on it, sadly, other than that I hear of some nasty low level youth violence/intimidation/vandalism in North London in Jewish neighbourhoods by pro-Palestinian, dare-I-say-it pro-Hamas hotheads. But in most of London life...
Good Enough
TIL: Tapback Keyboard Shortcuts
If you use Mac, and you use Messages on your Mac, you will probably know that in the not-too-distant...
a year ago
If you use Mac, and you use Messages on your Mac, you will probably know that in the not-too-distant past, simple reactions to messages were added: what Apple calls Tapbacks.
These are great for a quick way to say yes (or no, or WTF!?!), but they are a bit of a pain to actually...
Construction Physics
How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years
It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial...
7 months ago
It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial output. Even before the U.S. entered the war, the Americans provided hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of equipment to the Allies, and between 1938 and 1943 U.S. manufacturing...
The Marginalian
The Great Blind Spot of Science and the Art of Asking the Complex Question the Only Answer to Which...
“Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you,” says the Skin Horse — a stuffed toy...
a month ago
“Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you,” says the Skin Horse — a stuffed toy brought to life by a child’s love — in The Velveteen Rabbit. Great children’s books are works of philosophy in disguise; this is a fundamental question: In a reality of matter,...
The History of the...
The Analog Web
On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it.
The post The...
8 months ago
On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it.
The post The Analog Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
MMapped blog
The off-chain reporting protocol
10 months ago
devonzuegel.com
Inside Argentina's currency exchange black markets
In Argentina, your money is worth double if you skip the airport currency exchange and instead go to...
over a year ago
In Argentina, your money is worth double if you skip the airport currency exchange and instead go to one of the many black market exchanges hidden throughout Buenos Aires.
These illegal exchanges are called "cuevas" (the word for "cave" in Spanish), and they are a crucial part of...
Marine Madness
Culture Club: Time to let the cetaceans in?
Up until recently, culture has been thought of as a primarily human characteristic. However, recent...
over a year ago
Up until recently, culture has been thought of as a primarily human characteristic. However, recent studies shine a light on the fact that non-human animals including Cetaceans (dolphins and whales), may also possess it. They live in tightly-knit social communities, exhibit...
Epic Web Dev
Deploy Web Applications All Over the World (tutorial)
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
Ralph Ammer
J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world
A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson...
over a year ago
A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson was an American pragmatist and psychologist.
The post J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
TheCollector
13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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a year ago
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Symmetry
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Later they place Taylor Swift in a jar of ethanol.
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mtlynch.io
What Got Done - Month 2
Highlights What Got Done received 32 new user sign-ups (growth of about 5x since May) Zestful may be...
over a year ago
Highlights What Got Done received 32 new user sign-ups (growth of about 5x since May) Zestful may be rising from the dead, with four new inbound customer inquiries. Is It Keto earned $184, and Zestful earned $26, making it my highest revenue month since quitting my job. Goal...
The Map is Mostly...
[subscribers only] Ask Me Anything
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
To the crazy ones
In an earlier era, we'd all have been glued to the television to cheer SpaceX successfully catching...
2 months ago
In an earlier era, we'd all have been glued to the television to cheer SpaceX successfully catching Starship's returning booster rocket on the first try. I remember my father talking about seeing Apollo 11 make it to the moon. That was a lifelong memory for him. And I remember,...
Last Place Comics
Boys Club vs Girls Club, Part 2
The post Boys Club vs Girls Club, Part 2 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
3 days ago
The post Boys Club vs Girls Club, Part 2 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Matt Mazur
The Security Questionnaire Dilemma
About once a year I get an email from someone working in a security and compliance department at a...
a year ago
About once a year I get an email from someone working in a security and compliance department at a large organization asking that I fill out a detailed security questionnaire to help them assess the risk of their employees using Preceden. I received one recently from a large,...
Max Rozen
Managing your Node.js installation
If you're finding yourself manually installing different versions of Node, you need to know there's...
over a year ago
If you're finding yourself manually installing different versions of Node, you need to know there's a *much* better way.
TheCollector
La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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5 months ago
Old Structures...
An Alternate Timeline
Gustav Lindenthal really wanted to bridge the Hudson River. He was one of the most successful bridge...
11 months ago
Gustav Lindenthal really wanted to bridge the Hudson River. He was one of the most successful bridge engineers in the US – he’s best represented in New York by the Queensboro and Hell Gate Bridges – but nothing compares with his effort to building a suspension bridge across the...
Maggie Appleton
Speaking the GraphQL Query Language
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Back to the University
Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python...
a year ago
Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python with recent advancements in machine learning like ChatGPT!
Identity Designed
Ashton
Designed by LG2, Quebec.
5 months ago
The Convivial...
The Work of Art
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 8
6 months ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 8
Daniel Miessler
Stadia is Google’s Product Strategy
Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it...
over a year ago
Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it came out: Here’s what I said about it in 2021. And here’s my analysis of why this keeps happening: How I Knew Stadia Would Fail The overall reason for this is UI/UX in my opinion,...
Wuthering...
Let's read Ovid's Metamorphoses! And perhaps more.
Who would like to read Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE)
with me? We have had some discussion of
this...
a year ago
Who would like to read Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE)
with me? We have had some discussion of
this good idea, and I feel I am up to it now.
Up to writing about it.
Metamorphoses is a compendium of Greek myths that feature
transformation, which turns out to be hundreds of pages...
TheCollector
Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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10 months ago
Working Theorys
In Defense of 'Tarpit Ideas'
In the startup world, there’s a term called “tarpit ideas.” These ideas look enticing at first. They...
6 months ago
In the startup world, there’s a term called “tarpit ideas.” These ideas look enticing at first. They have universal surface appeal, but they end up being huge drains on time and resources, and ultimately, they fail. The common trope is that young, first-time founders pursue...
Farnam Street
Why Write
Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one for you? Why write an...
a year ago
Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one for you? Why write an email when AI can auto-respond for you with all the typical pleasantries and talking-points? While AI doing these things for you is likely to happen, it’s not necessarily a good thing....
Open Culture
The 11 Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Cartoons That Haven’t Been Aired Since 1968
For decades and decades, Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons have served as a...
3 months ago
For decades and decades, Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons have served as a kind of default children’s entertainment. Originally conceived for theatrical exhibition in the nineteen-thirties, they were animated to a standard that held its own against the...
Map of the Week
Thirty Day Map Challenge 2023-Days 24-30
The final installment of this year’s 30 Day Map Challenge.
Day 24 - Black and White
I had no...
a year ago
The final installment of this year’s 30 Day Map Challenge.
Day 24 - Black and White
I had no thoughts ahead of time on this one. I wanted to do something with raster data and the easy, quick thing (this often requires taking the easy and quick route) was to grab the Natural...
./techtipsy
Strangling your service with a Kubernetes misconfiguration
This is a quick story about a fun discovery that I made a while ago.
For legal reasons, all of this...
over a year ago
This is a quick story about a fun discovery that I made a while ago.
For legal reasons, all of this is made up and no such service ever existed.
Once upon a time, we had this Java service that handled all the backend
work that you’d expect to occur for a product with a web...
Londonist
Punchdrunk: Immersive Doyens Return In 2024 With "Moonlit Fever Dream"
Tickets for Viola's Room on sale this week.
9 months ago
Tickets for Viola's Room on sale this week.
History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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3 months ago
Stephen Wolfram...
Observer Theory
The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But...
a year ago
The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it’s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds. We might have thought that we could do science “purely […]
A Smart Bear
Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy
This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who...
a year ago
This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.
TheCollector
7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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a month ago
diamond geezer
The Royal Mail Experiment
Have you ever wondered whether the Royal Mail are failing to deliver your post on time? I've long...
3 months ago
Have you ever wondered whether the Royal Mail are failing to deliver your post on time? I've long thought it suspicious that I go days without post then a whole batch arrives together, and that bills seem to arrive long after they were posted. But without evidence all this is...
Ognjen Regoje •...
When am I "allowed" to quit and not be labeled a quitter?
There’s a type of startup that stays alive but doesn’t achieve meaningful growth. One that keeps...
11 months ago
There’s a type of startup that stays alive but doesn’t achieve meaningful growth. One that keeps raising bridge rounds but whose valuation stagnates.
Anecdotally, their founders belong to two groups:
They’re still convinced that the business will work and are unflappable in their...
Max Rozen
Using Tailwind CSS with React and CSS-in-JS
If you're already using a CSS-in-JS library, trying out Tailwind CSS with your existing app might be...
over a year ago
If you're already using a CSS-in-JS library, trying out Tailwind CSS with your existing app might be much easier than you think.
Val Sopi
Quitting is for the naive
<p>Pop culture glorifies quitting. I have done it. There's nothing glorious about it. Having your...
over a year ago
<p>Pop culture glorifies quitting. I have done it. There's nothing glorious about it. Having your savings dwindle fast is no fun. Time is relative. You have no idea how fast it flies when you need it the most. Especially when you have no contacts in the industry nor an audience....
Platformer
Google unveils Gemini
CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product...
a year ago
CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product roadmap — of their answer to GPT-4
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - BAH!
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The keynote is gonna be reeeediculous.
Today's...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The keynote is gonna be reeeediculous.
Today's News:
Or click here for info! Tickets are more than half sold and we're still two weeks out, so buy soon to lock yours in!
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
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...
The Honest Broker
Are There Alternating Cycles of Hot and Cool in American Cultural History? (Part 1 of 2)
And are we midway through a hot cycle right now?
a year ago
And are we midway through a hot cycle right now?
TheCollector
What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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5 months ago
Don Melton
My traitorous move to Windows
I still have my Mac. Three of them in fact. And, of course, my iPhone. Why would I ever get rid of...
over a year ago
I still have my Mac. Three of them in fact. And, of course, my iPhone. Why would I ever get rid of it? That’s just crazy talk.
But… uh… my primary desktop computer has changed. Just a bit.
Most of you probably don’t know this but a little over five years ago I built my own gaming...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost
Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how...
over a year ago
Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how to boost it even further, and faster
Open Culture
Join Us on Bluesky. We Will Have Fun Together
There’s an eXodus taking place, and millions are finding a new home on Bluesky. In recent days, the...
a month ago
There’s an eXodus taking place, and millions are finding a new home on Bluesky. In recent days, the decentralized social media platform has been gaining 10,000 new users every 10–15 minutes, or about 1 million new users per day. Open Culture is already there, sharing the cultural...
Retail Design Blog
Zhoushan Summer Hotel Phase II by MAT Office
The Zhoushan Summer Hotel was completed five years ago. The strategy of adding balconies and...
5 months ago
The Zhoushan Summer Hotel was completed five years ago. The strategy of adding balconies and changing the facades at that...
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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9 months ago
TheCollector
A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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4 months ago
Liz Denys
gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
over a year ago
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
Unpacked
YouTube, Ad Blockers & the Advertising "Tax"
Though it looks like big vs small tech at first glance, poking into how ad blocker companies operate...
a year ago
Though it looks like big vs small tech at first glance, poking into how ad blocker companies operate and their “whitelisting” programs will likely change your opinion
nanoscale views
A busy and contentious week in condensed matter physics
There were a couple of interesting and controversial things afoot this week in the condensed matter...
a year ago
There were a couple of interesting and controversial things afoot this week in the condensed matter world.
There was a new preprint from the group of Prof. Hemley at the University of Illinois Chicago featuring electronic transport measurements in samples of the putative room...
Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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a year ago
On Life and Lisp
Passing the reins on Panfrost
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver.
It’s been a wild...
a year ago
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver.
It’s been a wild ride.
In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
TheCollector
Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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5 months ago
Diaries of Note
We gather the world into the compass of our speculation
Scottish poet William Soutar was 45 when he died. For two decades he had battled with a form of...
a year ago
Scottish poet William Soutar was 45 when he died. For two decades he had battled with a form of arthritis named ankylosing spondylitis, and the last thirteen of those years had seen him bedridden after an unsuccessful operation to counteract the muscular contraction that was...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Be Aware of the Quiet Ones like Keanu Reeves — They Are the Ones That Actually Make You Think
The smarter you become, the less you speak.
a month ago
The smarter you become, the less you speak.
diamond geezer
Lavenham
Day out: Lavenham
well off the beaten track - roughly west of Ipswich and south of Bury St Edmunds....
a year ago
Day out: Lavenham
well off the beaten track - roughly west of Ipswich and south of Bury St Edmunds. But 500 years ago Lavenham was one of the wealthiest towns in the country thanks to all the money to be made from sheep, specifically the dyeing, spinning and weaving of woollen...
Old Structures...
A Simple Drawing For A Difficult Structure – Part 2
The illustration above, from the May 1883 issue of Harper’s Magazine, courtesy of the New York...
a year ago
The illustration above, from the May 1883 issue of Harper’s Magazine, courtesy of the New York Public Library, gives a better sense of the Brooklyn Bridge caissons than yesterday’s working drawing (repeated below) even if it’s got less technical information. Note that May 1883...
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates on Netscape | Larry Page and YouTube
I don't want a lot of guesses about Netscape generated by people who may know less than I do. I want...
a year ago
I don't want a lot of guesses about Netscape generated by people who may know less than I do. I want to learn a lot of facts - most of which I don't already know.
Lighthouse Blog
Updates December 08: YouTube support
a year ago
Transit Maps
Historical Maps: Private Railways and Extra-urban Tramways of Italy, 1936
I stumbled across this atlas of maps the other day and had to share. A few sample pages are below –...
a year ago
I stumbled across this atlas of maps the other day and had to share. A few sample pages are below – head to the originating website to view all 20 of them. Enjoy! Source: Stagniweb.it
TheCollector
7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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a week ago
Identity Designed
Earthfoam
Designed in-house by Michael Mitzman, NYC.
a year ago
Designed in-house by Michael Mitzman, NYC.
haseeb qureshi
How DeFi cannibalizes PoS security
On-chain lending has become the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application today,...
over a year ago
On-chain lending has become the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application today, with over $600M in loans originated this year across MakerDAO, Compound, and dYdX. On-chain lending has the potential to disrupt traditional secured lending. But it seems it may do more...
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings
over a year ago
Mazdak
The Weight-Loss Gold Rush
A Race to Develop Blockbuster Obesity Drugs
a year ago
A Race to Develop Blockbuster Obesity Drugs
Society's Backend
Alignment: Understanding the Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity within Machine Learning
A glimpse into the biggest challenge in the world of AI, why it matters to you, and why it's worth...
10 months ago
A glimpse into the biggest challenge in the world of AI, why it matters to you, and why it's worth so much
History Today Feed
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
11 months ago
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "Please Resign"
This was an act of betrayal.
a year ago
This was an act of betrayal.
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The problem with tranched VC investments
In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over...
over a year ago
In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over time when certain pre-negotiated…
Daniel Miessler
The 2 Current Major AI Bottlenecks
I’ve been going hardcore on using GPT to create essays, reports, and other kinds of analysis. I’ve...
a year ago
I’ve been going hardcore on using GPT to create essays, reports, and other kinds of analysis. I’ve had tons of success with it, and it’s given me a clear view of current limitations with the current tech. I’m not complaining. This stuff is brand-new. Here are the current...
Willem's Blog
Increase traffic to your blog with a RSS feed
Using NodeJS I added RSS feeds to my blog as support for feeds can still provide you with value....
over a year ago
Using NodeJS I added RSS feeds to my blog as support for feeds can still provide you with value. Read about the "how" and "why" in this post.
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