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Maps Mania
Discovering the Dissolution
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TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus? undefined
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization undefined
11 months ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Unmistakable The Shadow returns home: R.M.S Olympic at sea: (It is surprisingly difficult to find a good view of...
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The Shadow returns home: R.M.S Olympic at sea: (It is surprisingly difficult to find a good view of the ship from the rear. The front three-quarter view is the dramatic cutting-through-the-waves view, as well as being somehow less creepy.) Given how similar Olympic was to...
mtlynch.io
Run a Simple Go Web Service on NixOS I have a few toy utility apps that I run 24/7 on cloud infrastructure. One example is PicoShare, a...
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I have a few toy utility apps that I run 24/7 on cloud infrastructure. One example is PicoShare, a simple web app that makes it easy for me to share files with friends and teammates. There are several convenience apps I would run if it were easy to run them constantly. But...
Diaries of Note
O God is there no redress, no peace, no justice in this land for us? Ida B. Wells was a trailblazing African American journalist, civil rights activist, and suffragist...
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Ida B. Wells was a trailblazing African American journalist, civil rights activist, and suffragist who courageously fought against racial injustice and gender inequality throughout her life. Born into slavery in 1862, she grew up to become a vocal advocate for the rights of Black...
37signals Dev
Turbo 8 released We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework....
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10 months ago
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board. Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8: Morphing...
Retail Design Blog
RACKS café by Kidz Online gaming is an integral part of lifestyle for the Millennial and Gen Z demographics, providing...
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Online gaming is an integral part of lifestyle for the Millennial and Gen Z demographics, providing both a level of...
On Life and Lisp
Software freedom isn't about licenses -- it's about power. A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When...
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over a year ago
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When the free software movement was founded thirty years ago, these restrictive licenses were the primary user-hostile power dynamic, so permissive and copyleft licenses emerged as...
The Works in...
Fixing retail with land value capture How to create beautiful shopping streets everywhere
6 months ago
Val Sopi
Marching into March <p>February was yet another month with unexpected expenses on top of my planned budget of -2500....
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<p>February was yet another month with unexpected expenses on top of my planned budget of -2500. They were again family related.</p><p>The lesson here is that my personal budget is way too tight without much margin for any unexpected expenses, especially with two growing kids and...
macwright.com
Rendering Tidbyt graphics in Rust One of my other long-term projects has been building new graphics for my Tidbyt in Rust. It has been...
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a year ago
One of my other long-term projects has been building new graphics for my Tidbyt in Rust. It has been a slow, silly process in which I celebrate when a single pixel lights up on the device. I’m not even writing firmware or code that runs “on the device” - that’s a stretch goal for...
Londonist
15 Delightful Day Trips From London: November 2023 Charming events within easy reach of London.
a year ago
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Helping Others: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/j_A9C-oIzDs There's a misconception about Stoicism in the modern...
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/j_A9C-oIzDs There's a misconception about Stoicism in the modern world that makes people think Stoic philosophy teaches us to care only about ourselves and not think of others. In fact, this couldn't be further from the truth; true Stoicism teaches...
Math Is Still...
‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality Experiments that test physics and philosophy "as a single whole" may be our only route to surefire...
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Experiments that test physics and philosophy "as a single whole" may be our only route to surefire knowledge about the universe. The post ‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Christopher Butler
The Two Most Important Skills for Interaction Designers They are almost certainly not what you think they are. Good interaction design depends upon a...
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They are almost certainly not what you think they are. Good interaction design depends upon a very long list of skills, from a practical understanding of formal design concepts to the speed and efficiency with which you wield digital design tools and navigate a variety of...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #180 Berkshire Hathaway Energy, John Neff and Peter Lynch on investing, Charlie Munger on parenting,...
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Berkshire Hathaway Energy, John Neff and Peter Lynch on investing, Charlie Munger on parenting, Damodaran on key person risk, Microsoft's IPO, Howard Marks and Annie Duke on risk
TheCollector
What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries? undefined
a month ago
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Toolhead Since the last update I’ve made some good progress: All the motors are installed The x-axis and belt...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since the last update I’ve made some good progress: All the motors are installed The x-axis and belt are installed Tap is installed The toolhead with Stealthburner + Clockwork 2 is also installed Purple means Pretty. I’ve run into a few problems on the way that I’ll try to...
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs on iPhone design This may be our answer - we could put the number pad around our clickwheel.
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous? undefined
a year ago
Grow With Less
A 10-Minute Guide to Finding Low Competition, High Traffic Keywords You may have heard of unicorn keywords: low competition, high volume keywords. Some say they are...
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over a year ago
You may have heard of unicorn keywords: low competition, high volume keywords. Some say they are extinct. Others say they are so plentiful in some niches that any blog can easily rank without backlinks. As often, the truth lies somewhere in between. One thing is for certain...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 21-27 August 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
One year update: book submitted; TIME 100; Sep 21 online workshop It's been an eventful year
a year ago
nanoscale views
Really doing mechanics at the quantum level A helpful ad from Science Made Stupid. Since before the development of micro- and...
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A helpful ad from Science Made Stupid. Since before the development of micro- and nanoelectromechanical techniques, there has been an interest in making actual mechanical widgets that show quantum behavior.  There is no reason that we should not be able to make a mechanical...
Noahpinion
Feeling strangely optimistic about Egypt It has many of the building blocks for a successful industrialization story.
a year ago
Build In Public...
No-Code is Hitting an Inflection Point. Are You Ready? Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy....
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Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions :) Much like Shopify ‘armed the rebels’ by allowing anyone to build an e-commerce store, a slew of no-code tools are empowering...
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber? undefined
6 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Fragility of Happiness' Christopher Carduff, books editor at the Wall Street Journal, asked me to review a new translation...
a year ago
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a year ago
Christopher Carduff, books editor at the Wall Street Journal, asked me to review a new translation of a Russian novel due for publication in November. The proofs arrived on Thursday and I sent Chris an email letting him know I was already reading the book. The email bounced back...
Val Sopi
I'm done making <p><em><strong>UPDATE:</strong> This post got such a great response that it inspired me to start...
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over a year ago
<p><em><strong>UPDATE:</strong> This post got such a great response that it inspired me to start playing and building <a href="https://claritask.com">Claritask</a> while documenting it out in the open</em></p> <p>—</p> <p>I'm going to let you in on a great secret.</p> <p>Do you...
mtlynch.io
How I Tricked Myself into Shipping Too Late Many software founders fail for a simple reason: they ship too late. They spend years developing a...
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over a year ago
Many software founders fail for a simple reason: they ship too late. They spend years developing a product in a vacuum only to see it crumble the first time a real customer touches it. The Indie Hackers podcast features many such stories. The show’s stated mission is to help...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Mars Chopper Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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a week ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
Londonist
Join The Race To Help Beat Childhood Cancer On A Family-Friendly Fun Run RBC Race for the Kids returns.
a year ago
xkcd.com
Siphon
a year ago
xkcd.com
Perseids Pronunciation
a year ago
Old Structures...
A Different Definition of Speed I’ve mentioned the “Speedway” a few times in passing. It was a pleasure drive along the Harlem...
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I’ve mentioned the “Speedway” a few times in passing. It was a pleasure drive along the Harlem River, meant to provide a place for people with horses and horse carriages – i.e., the upper middle class and the wealthy – to have fun. There was nothing inherently terrible about...
Eukaryote Writes...
Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11 This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at...
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This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at great effort and expense during the 1969 Apollo landing.
IEEE Spectrum
In 1926, TV Was Mechanical John Logie Baird had a lot of ingenious ideas, not all of which caught on. His phonovision was an...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
John Logie Baird had a lot of ingenious ideas, not all of which caught on. His phonovision was an early attempt at video recording, with the signals preserved on phonograph records. His noctovision used infrared light to see objects in the dark, which some experts claim was a...
One Useful Thing
On-boarding your AI Intern There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
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There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
Drew Ex Machina
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 […]
diamond geezer
Unblogged September 30 unblogged things I did in September Sun 1: My new laptop is on quite the sightseeing tour....
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30 unblogged things I did in September Sun 1: My new laptop is on quite the sightseeing tour. Yesterday it was in Shanghai, today it's in Köln and tomorrow it'll be in Stanford le Hope. Mon 2: At Gipsy Hill station I spotted a cat on the Oyster reader, and quite frankly this...
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Did you know AI is answering our community questions? AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that...
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AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that try to replace a human in a product support context…
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Minute Rice, Minute Text, Minute Websites I was reading Baldur’s article (which I took notes on) and he suggests an interesting overlap...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was reading Baldur’s article (which I took notes on) and he suggests an interesting overlap between AI enthusiasts and “idea people”: That algogen fans are predominantly idea people—the lot who think that 99% of the value delivered by any given form of media comes from the...
Identity Designed
Champ Designed by Jesús López, Hermosillo, Mexico.
7 months ago
The Ruffian
Why It's Good To Be Biased When everyone is rational, reasonable and nice, we all get a little dimmer
9 months ago
sbensu
On becoming a person (book) It reframes therapy as a relationship instead of a treatment.
2 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World ...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
Wuthering...
Books Read in May 2024 – Some are certainly knowing what they are meaning, some are certainly not... A month without writing anything.  Plenty of reading, though. FICTIONS The Autobiography of an...
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A month without writing anything.  Plenty of reading, though. FICTIONS The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), James Weldon Johnson The Making of Americans (1925), Gertrude Stein – read over the course of months.  The quotation up above is from p. 783.  I will write about...
Home on Erik...
In defense of false positives (why you can't fail with A/B tests) Many years ago, I used to think that A/B tests were foolproof and all you need to do is compare the...
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Many years ago, I used to think that A/B tests were foolproof and all you need to do is compare the metrics for the two groups. The group with the highest conversion rate wins, right?
History Today Feed
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah JamesHoare Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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CONTEMPORIST
A Curvy Concrete Cube With Cut Outs For Windows Is The Form Of This New Home Cadence Architects has sent us photos of a new modern home they completed in Krishnagiri, India,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Cadence Architects has sent us photos of a new modern home they completed in Krishnagiri, India, that features a cube design with cut-outs. The K-Home, located in a busy residential neighborhood, has strategically scooped-out segments that create dynamic openings that frame the...
Seth's Blog
Promo creep Hustle harder. Run more ads. Spam people. Interrupt. Make the logo bigger. Post again. Post again....
a year ago
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a year ago
Hustle harder. Run more ads. Spam people. Interrupt. Make the logo bigger. Post again. Post again. Add more blurbs. Push the press release to irrelevant people. Do one more ad. Use AI to create faux intimacy. Get the word out. Burn trust. Get more attention. In the last forty...
TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste? undefined
4 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Acing the coding challenge How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview scenarios, typically a coding challenge is not a…
diamond geezer
Apple Day From: Diamond Geezer Content Producing Minion 17 To: Diamond Geezer Content Coordination...
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From: Diamond Geezer Content Producing Minion 17 To: Diamond Geezer Content Coordination Tsar Apple Day.     From: Diamond Geezer Content Coordination Tsar To: Diamond Geezer Content Producing Minion 17 From: Diamond Geezer Content Producing Minion 17 To: Diamond Geezer ...
Londonist
Dreaming Of Owning A Home In France? You Need To Know About This Event! The French Property Exhibition returns to London this month.
11 months ago
Alice GG
Why diversification matters for long-term investors? Meet Shannon's Demon Any introduction to finance will mention that diversification is extremely important. Intuitively,...
a year ago
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Any introduction to finance will mention that diversification is extremely important. Intuitively, it is easy to understand that diversification reduces risks. If I own stocks in two companies, and one of them goes bankrupt, I lose less than if I had invested all my money in...
Londonist
9 Challenge Events In London In 2024 To Sign Up For Right Now New year, new challenge!
11 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Gadgets and Computers From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you start with a product that has a few…
David Perell
The TWA Hotel The core concepts are simple. The implementation is borderline excessive. The post The TWA Hotel...
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over a year ago
The core concepts are simple. The implementation is borderline excessive. The post The TWA Hotel appeared first on David Perell.
TheCollector
Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic undefined
7 months ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2023 The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the...
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The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the general category of the ware first, David was the first to give the exact model. Usually I award the prize to the first person to give an exact, correct model number and fall back to...
Londonist
Pubs With Real Fires In London: Cosy Up With A Pint By These Roaring Fireplaces Updated for winter 2023!
a year ago
TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties undefined
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Londonist
Holy Immersive Pop-Up! You Can Visit The Batcave At This Free Batman Experience Feat. costumes, props and vehicles from the movies.
a year ago
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content undefined
12 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ex Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sadly, the patreon subscriber ideas were all better...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sadly, the patreon subscriber ideas were all better than mine. Today's News:
bt RSS Feed
Yes, I Still Use jQuery Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end developers since the newest build of (jQuery 3.4.0) released a couple of days ago. While I understand not all developers share the same work-style or are using the same tech-stack,...
GitButler
Stacked Branches with GitButler GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
2 weeks ago
AI Snake Oil
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
5 months ago
Maps Mania
Explore the World in 3D
a year ago
The DESK Magazine
Is the folder dead? Think about a real folder made of paper. Back in the day... We invented paper folders because we...
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over a year ago
Think about a real folder made of paper. Back in the day... We invented paper folders because we had limited space in the physical world to organize ourselves. We needed a way to group and sort our letters, documents and papers. If we had stacked up our files anywhere on
CONTEMPORIST
Tropical Living: This Modern Home Embraces The Steep Terrain Of The Costa Rican Jungle SARCO Architects has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, designed to focus on...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
SARCO Architects has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, designed to focus on transparency, blurring the boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces. The steep terrain posed the biggest challenge of the design, and as a result, the home was broken up into...
Louwrentius
Monitoring HP MSA P2000 G3 I/O latency with Nagios At work we have a couple of HP MSA P2000 G3 SANs. These are entry-level SANs that still seem to have...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At work we have a couple of HP MSA P2000 G3 SANs. These are entry-level SANs that still seem to have almost all features you might want from a SAN, except for official SSD-support. It seems that the new MSA 2040 adds support for SSDs and also provides 4 GB cache per controller...
Rest of World -...
The capybara influencer revolt A wildlife influencer’s famous capybara was confiscated by Brazilian authorities. A mass movement...
a year ago
Identity Designed
The Other House Designed by DesignStudio, London.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
TikTok wants to turn millions of Americans into paid shopping influencers You only need around 1,000 followers to earn money eating noodles and selling toys on TikTok Shop.
2 months ago
TheCollector
Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World undefined
a week ago
Seth's Blog
Can you draw it on a graph? Explain it with quadrants? Translate it into Spanish? It’s easy to memorize a few words that purport...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Explain it with quadrants? Translate it into Spanish? It’s easy to memorize a few words that purport to explain something, but all they do is relabel it. If you truly understand something, you can use different modalities to help someone else understand it. The magic of a good...
A Beautiful Site
How to File a Bug Report They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal...
a year ago
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a year ago
They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal reproduction will give you the best chance of a speedy resolution. When a potential bug is discovered, many developers' first reaction is to file an issue. That's great, but please exercise...
Rest of World -...
How to launch a Chinese smartphone in Mexico Antonio Tercero is guiding Infinix’s Mexico expansion, facing off against Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo.
11 months ago
Both Are True
All Day I Dream About Substack (ADIDAS) writing is the new sex
2 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Archiving Postleaf Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it...
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over a year ago
Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it back as something different. Maybe an open source project. Maybe a SaaS product. I'm not sure at this point. The world still needs a simple platform to encourage blogging and the...
pcloadletter
Surely dark UX doesn't work in the long run I was just feeling pretty good—I published my article about RSS and it's being pretty...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I was just feeling pretty good—I published my article about RSS and it's being pretty well-received. I decided a fitting way to celebrate was to head on over to Feedly and catch up on some reading! I clicked on an engineers blog feed to check out here latest couple posts. I...
Seán Barry
Presentation: Pushing Compute to the Browser Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose technical and real-world problems. Using a number of modern solutions like HTTP 2, web workers and careful state management with redux we can offload the work to the browser and deliver...
Applied Cartography
Notebook as marketing primitive Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from SingleStore — notebooks as a first-party page! There are a handful of nice things about this idea: Very easy to fan out. You're not going to really run out of sample notebooks from which you...
Making software...
CSS Variables CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I'd like to focus specifically on the "new" CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now. Getting started is easy Let's just jump...
TheCollector
What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society? undefined
8 months ago
On the Arts
How to Write a Proper Haiku A Starter's Guide to the Deceptively Simple Poetic Form
a year ago
Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
Steve Klabnik
Want to join the Rust docs team?
over a year ago
TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live? undefined
8 months ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 44 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
David Heinemeier...
Where next for DEI? It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural world from 2020-2022, the reversal last year was astounding. The Supreme Court ruled the use of race in college admissions illegal, Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracst Research center fell...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How we made our pre-commit check 7x faster As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our company, I've spent the last couple of months woried about the performance of our pre-commit checks. We have around 50 projects on a standard react + typescript stack, and a...
TheCollector
Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars? undefined
a month ago
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Eternal September Plus: A little TPOT and a very good Christmas song
a week ago
Londonist
Save The Chewing Gum Art Trail On The Millennium Bridge Ben Wilson's art is threatened.
a year ago
The Modern House
Outside chance: six homes with spectacular gardens “Gardening is a promise,” said Piet Oudolf in Thomas Piper’s meditative documentary about the...
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4 months ago
“Gardening is a promise,” said Piet Oudolf in Thomas Piper’s meditative documentary about the pioneering Dutch garden designer. “It doesn’t have to be there. You’re looking for what will be there.” From a particularly pastoral front garden in Brixton, to a transportive Cornish...
computers are bad
2024-02-11 the top of the DNS hierarchy In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" that structural aspects of the Internet make truly decentralized systems infeasible, due to the lack of a means to perform broadcast discovery. As a result,...
Society's Backend
Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option Why everyone should learn about machine learning
11 months ago
Calculated Risk
December Vehicle Sales Forecast: 16.7 million SAAR, Up 5% YoY From WardsAuto: December U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Brighten Lackluster Year; Unusually High Drain on...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
From WardsAuto: December U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Brighten Lackluster Year; Unusually High Drain on Inventory (pay content).  Brief excerpt: Improved affordability is the main thrust to the end-of-year improvement in demand, with higher consumer confidence also likely a...
Tech and Tea
Reader Mailbag: Struggling to do it all A reader writes in with questions about technical up-skilling, finding balance in life and work, and...
9 months ago
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A reader writes in with questions about technical up-skilling, finding balance in life and work, and getting in touch with their identity outside of work.
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This is the ninth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Majora Carter, an urban revitalization strategist and real estate developer from...
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For 142 years now, Sagrada Família has been growing toward the sky. Or at least that’s what it seems to be doing, as its ongoing construction realizes ever more fully a host of forms that look and feel not quite of this earth. It makes a kind of sense to learn that, in designing...
Asterisk
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Over the past two decades, Google has hosted two different internal platforms for predictions. Why did the first one fail — and will the other endure?
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Digital hoarding as a check against the ephemeral nature of the internet ... and maybe some peace of mind.
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RITM Generator, an interactive tool that generates abstract waveform graphics AoiroStudio0131—23 In the world of design, innovation is key to pushing the boundaries of what's possible. And Antlii's latest project is doing just that with RITM,...
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The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering In 1963, the philosopher Edmund Gettier published a three-page paper in the journal Analysis that...
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In 1963, the philosopher Edmund Gettier published a three-page paper in the journal Analysis that quickly became a classic in the field. Epistemologists going back to the Greeks had debated what it meant to know something, and in the Enlightenment, a definition was settled upon:...
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Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past public appearances, Gates – like most experts – has attempted to walk the line between antagonizing the Trump administration and promulgating real science. But now he appears to be...
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AI Geography Quizzes
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia? undefined
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Refurb weekend: the Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machine I have hated Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into that...
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Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into that they would have defenestrated it years ago except for all the aforementioned time and money. Yours truly is no exception. a future article.) They existed in highly technical...
Anecdotal Evidence
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“Though the Quickness of thine Ear were able to reach the noise of the Moon, which some think it maketh in it rapid revolution; though the number of thy Ears should equal Argus his Eyes . . .”  The first surgery on my left ear was fifty years ago, prompted by a perpetually...
Kagi Blog
Towards conceptual generalization in the embedding space (This is a whitepaper published in the early days of Kagi AI research) A neural network in a...
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(This is a whitepaper published in the early days of Kagi AI research) A neural network in a self-driving car may properly react in most situations based on billions of images it has seen.
Jonas Hietala
Eduroam for wicd in Linkoping's University So we have eduroam at our University and unsurprisingly wicd is not on their official support list...
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So we have eduroam at our University and unsurprisingly wicd is not on their official support list but with some googling the wonderful Arch Wiki had the answer. Well, almost. Save the following as /etc/wicd/encryption/templates/ttls-80211: name = TTLS for Wireless author =...
sancho.dev
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Irrational...
Developing leadership styles For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would...
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For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished...
devonzuegel.com
IVF egg retrieval notes I’ve now done two egg retrieval cycles. Given that I had a zillion questions before I started, I...
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I’ve now done two egg retrieval cycles. Given that I had a zillion questions before I started, I thought I’d share my notes for others who might have similar questions. Things I would’ve loved to know beforehand Overall the process was way easier and less intense than I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For a number of years now, I’ve found that I generally always had a “training partner” for my entrepreneurial goals. A few years ago, this was my great friend Khuram...
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
A small freedom area...
Figuring out round, floor and ceil with integer division Lately I've been transforming a float based algorithm to integers in order to make it bit-exact....
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Lately I've been transforming a float based algorithm to integers in order to make it bit-exact. Preserving the precision as best as possible was way more challenging than I initially though, which forced me to go deep down the rabbit hole. During the process I realized I had...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Where They Grind the Grain of Thought' Let me sing the praises of Miss Milly, Miss McClain, Miss Esson, Miss Shaker, Miss Martin, Miss...
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Let me sing the praises of Miss Milly, Miss McClain, Miss Esson, Miss Shaker, Miss Martin, Miss Rose, Miss Whistler – my teachers, K-6, at Pearl Road Elementary School. Most were young and pretty, more like big sisters than mothers. On the television in Miss Shaker’s class we...
Anecdotal Evidence
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Sometimes an eccentric judgment – one that reflects the critic’s discernment, not merely his wish to provoke and attract attention – proves useful to the common reader. Take a sentence from Ford Madox Ford's final book, The March of Literature (1939): “The modern English language...
ntietz.com blog
Reflecting on 2023, preparing for 2024 This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, reviewing last year's...
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This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, reviewing last year's goals, and talking about hopes and goals for next year. They're cliche, and they're also useful. The planning and reflecting process is a useful one, and sharing openly means other...
Commoncog
Executing on Becoming Data Driven Every analytics project consists of two parts. The technical part, and then the 'get the...
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a year ago
Every analytics project consists of two parts. The technical part, and then the 'get the organisation on board' part. We talk about why the latter is the real challenge.
TheCollector
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Letters of Note
Never get a bulldog When he wrote this letter to his mother in 1944, Roald Dahl was working at the British Embassy in...
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When he wrote this letter to his mother in 1944, Roald Dahl was working at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C.—one of hundreds of undercover agents employed by Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service to spy on the United States. Dahl’s debut novel, The Gremlins, had been...
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The chatbot answering modern-day questions about an ancient religion JainGPT answers inquiries ranging from “What is Jainism?” to “What happens after we die?”
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diamond geezer
Losing our marbles I went to see the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum yesterday. Greece can't have them back. This...
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I went to see the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum yesterday. Greece can't have them back. This whole controversy thing is just a ploy by the British Museum to drum up more visitors. It worked with me anyway, I went yesterday, and their devious marketing strategy deserves to...
Citation Needed
Citation Needed has a new home Citation Needed is no longer hosted on Substack. Welcome to my antifascist bar.
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CONTEMPORIST
A New Home Overhanging The Water’s Edge In Alaska Architecture firm Prentiss + Balance + Wickline has shared photos of a home they completed in...
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Architecture firm Prentiss + Balance + Wickline has shared photos of a home they completed in Alaska, that overlooks inlet waters and is balanced on the edge of a rock wall. The home’s geometry is defined by two tall shed roof structures with a connector between them. Along the...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
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TheCollector
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Musings on Markets
Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price... In my last post, I looked at banking as a business, and used  a simple banking framework to advance...
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In my last post, I looked at banking as a business, and used  a simple banking framework to advance the notion that the key ingredient tying together the banks that have failed so far in 2023 is an absence of stickiness in deposits, created partially by depositor and deposit...
Moneyness
There are now two types of PayPal dollars, and one is better than the other PayPal now offers its customers two types of U.S. dollars. In addition to having the option of...
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PayPal now offers its customers two types of U.S. dollars. In addition to having the option of opening a traditional PayPal account to maintain a balance of dollars, PayPal customers can now hold something new called PayPal USD, a crypto version of a dollar. Whereas PayPal USD...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Taking care This is a comic about grief, and it's based on a poem by Callista Buchen. View on my website
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swyx's site RSS Feed
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_My thoughts to self while weighing adding `netlify functions:create` to Netlify Dev. [Originally a gist](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/6f97b9d7f3efbfad4c8e5b8a14b5bd27)_
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Mapping the Unknown – The Ten Steps to Map Any Industry A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step  Lǎozi 老子 I just had lunch with Shenwei, one...
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over a year ago
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step  Lǎozi 老子 I just had lunch with Shenwei, one of my ex-students who had just taken a job in a mid-sized consulting firm.  After a bit of catching up I offered he was looking a bit lost. “I just got handed a project to […]
The Modern House
An artist and architect’s 1960s courtyard house among the trees in Kentish Town
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The half apology What a waste. Something went wrong, and the other person cared enough about the relationship to let...
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What a waste. Something went wrong, and the other person cared enough about the relationship to let you know. Perhaps they’re hoping that you can rebuild a bridge. That you can see what they see and care enough to do something about it. A half apology is a little like half a...
Willem's Blog
Why Apple Silicon is a big deal Never have I been so blown away as by the new MacBook Air with M1 processor. It is a big deal.
over a year ago
Society's Backend
A Fundamental Overview of Machine Learning Experimentation [Part 1] And how it differs from the software development you're familiar with
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Old Structures...
Two Ridiculous Snippets First, Batman at the plate as a bat man: Second, the National League standings:
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devonzuegel.com
Part 2: Cluster development preserves California’s landscape A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
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A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal. One of the most essential parts of California Forever’s proposal to...
diamond geezer
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Postcards from Norwich ✉ Goldsmith Street five years ago it went to council housing in Norwich. They could have built flats but instead they packed 105 energy-efficient houses into a handful of dense terraced streets, aligned east-west to maximise solar gain. Extra-thick walls...
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The Best Walking Neighborhoods in Toronto
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Tripgeo Cities
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diamond geezer
Crewe Gadabout: CREWE Crewe is a large town in Cheshire and a key junction on the West Coast Main Line....
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Gadabout: CREWE Crewe is a large town in Cheshire and a key junction on the West Coast Main Line. It's only here because of the railway so has pretty much no history before that arrived, and the railway's only here because the nearby towns of Nantwich and Winsford turned the...
Retail Design Blog
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QUAHWA is a fictional coffee product created as part of a university project. The word itself comes from the Arabic...
Seth's Blog
What spoiled wrecks There’s nothing wrong with abundance and joy. But being spoiled causes two real problems: As a...
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There’s nothing wrong with abundance and joy. But being spoiled causes two real problems: As a community increases in wealth, the number of spoiled citizens increases as well. It’s often the acid that corrodes the magic that created the wealth in the first place. Whining is a...
Moneyness
Renovatio monetae This silver pfennig from the Archbishopric of Magdeburg (1152-1192) was subject to a policy of...
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This silver pfennig from the Archbishopric of Magdeburg (1152-1192) was subject to a policy of renovatio monetae. Twice a year whoever held it had to bring it in to be changed for new coins at a rate of four old coins to three new coins. That suggests an annualized tax rate on...
Jonas Hietala
Goals for Autumn 2016 Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read...
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over a year ago
Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read the book 59 seconds which among other things presented a way of structuring goals I will try out. In short you should divide your main goal into 5 subgoals with a date of completion,...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Wha? From a 25-years-old Avengers story: a man sees some news on televsion: The Verrazano Narrows Bridge,...
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From a 25-years-old Avengers story: a man sees some news on televsion: The Verrazano Narrows Bridge, huh? It sure looks like something else…
Arduino Blog
A DIY bottle-labeling machine perfect for homebrewers While it is certainly possible (and common) to put homebrewed beer into kegs, that requires...
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While it is certainly possible (and common) to put homebrewed beer into kegs, that requires regulated gas and large refrigeration space. A keg is also more difficult to transport and overkill if you just want to bring a few beers to a friend’s backyard BBQ. For those reasons,...
Christian Selig
Choosing a travel pack is hard I love the “carry-on only” traveling style, it’s cheaper and you don’t have to worry about airlines...
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I love the “carry-on only” traveling style, it’s cheaper and you don’t have to worry about airlines losing your stuff. Outside of requiring a bit more planning, what’s not to love? Turns out this is a beloved product category with a passionate community behind it, and as a result...
Internal Tech Emails
Barry Diller: Facebook is trying to "steal" Tinder's cofounder Their attempts to hire Sean away from us potentially indicate they believe something like Tinder...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Their attempts to hire Sean away from us potentially indicate they believe something like Tinder could be replicated by them. I’d like to avoid that, though I don’t know that FB itself makes it that much more likely to succeed than anyone else.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lalala Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: After 10 minutes of DuoLingo, my daughter and I...
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: After 10 minutes of DuoLingo, my daughter and I were able to have entire conversations in Greek just by inflecting the word karoto. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Probe Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Well I'm pushing back 10 years the date my kids get...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Well I'm pushing back 10 years the date my kids get to read these. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pig Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel there's a culinary horseshoe graph where...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel there's a culinary horseshoe graph where only the highest and lowest quality restaurants will serve you macerated chicken kidneys or whatever. Today's News:
Good Enough
Bad Ideas Are Fun Once I was complaining to Arun about how hard it is to come up with ideas, and he pointed out that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Once I was complaining to Arun about how hard it is to come up with ideas, and he pointed out that coming up with ideas is actually very easy––what makes it hard is that we’re aiming for good ideas. The next time you're coming up with ideas, tell yourself, Forget about good...
Electronics etc…
ThinMachine - a $25 Thin Client MacOS Time Machine Appliance The instructions below set up Time Machine using the Apple File Protocol (AFP). After publishing...
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The instructions below set up Time Machine using the Apple File Protocol (AFP). After publishing this blog post, I’ve been told that this is now deprecated and that Samba should be used instead. I’ll update this blog post in the near future. Introduction The HP t520 Thin...
Escaping Flatland
Thinking about perceptiveness links
4 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Contemporary Gable Roof Runs The Length Of This Home Architecture firm JURY!, has shared photos of a renovation project they completed for a home in...
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Architecture firm JURY!, has shared photos of a renovation project they completed for a home in Maasland, The Netherlands, that enhanced an existing dike house with a modern barn-inspired design. The original dike house includes a basement partially built into the dike, which is...
Maps Mania
Dressing Miku
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Asterisk
The Wrong Kind of City? How much can the way cities grow tell us about the economic trajectory of their countries? According...
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3 months ago
How much can the way cities grow tell us about the economic trajectory of their countries? According to the father of modern sociology, quite a lot.
Quentin Santos
AMD CPUs, CCDs and CCXs When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more...
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2 months ago
When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more familiar with how my CPU works. I thought I knew quite a bit, with L1/L2/L3 caches, ISA extensions, branch predictors, register renaming and so much more. But, it turns out, even...
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step… Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
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9 months ago
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”. I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance. This...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Rub Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wow, uncle murdered your Dad and now you've killed...
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wow, uncle murdered your Dad and now you've killed your friends and family? That's a real bump in the ol' bowling alley, Hamlet. Today's News:
Engineers Need Art
Building Quarter-Cab - Phase I Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
7 months ago
Blog - Practical...
The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Wallis Annenberg...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing under construction over the 101 just outside Los Angeles, California. When it’s finished in a few years, it will be the largest wildlife crossing (*of its kind) on...
Drew Ex Machina
First Pictures: Earthrise from Apollo 8 – December 24, 1968 The year 1968 was a tumultuous one in the US with many political and cultural changes punctuated by...
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The year 1968 was a tumultuous one in the US with many political and cultural changes punctuated by the assassination of prominent public figures, violent protests […]
Retail Design Blog
Sartorius Offices by Conexus Studio Conexus Studio designed Sartorius’ regional office in Singapore, integrating agility, innovation,...
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Conexus Studio designed Sartorius’ regional office in Singapore, integrating agility, innovation, biophilic elements, and collaborative spaces, prioritizing a vibrant yet...
swyx's site RSS Feed
API Design: Modifying Defaults > This is a quick note on a API Design. I hope to make this an ongoing series.
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
A very wonderfull scene In 1768, British botanist Joseph Banks was one of nearly a hundred crew members to join Captain...
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In 1768, British botanist Joseph Banks was one of nearly a hundred crew members to join Captain James Cook on the first of three historic voyages of exploration. For three years they journeyed, visiting South America, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia and Java as they...
Londonist
Ticket Alert: The Devil Wears Prada Musical On Sale From Today Tickets? For the West End? Groundbreaking.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Yomatsuri whisky by Backbar Studios Yomatsuri, a blended Japanese whisky, takes its inspiration from the ‘Chichibu Yomatsuri Night...
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Yomatsuri, a blended Japanese whisky, takes its inspiration from the ‘Chichibu Yomatsuri Night Festival,’ a 300-year-old celebration and one of...
TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London undefined
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Louwrentius
71 TiB DIY NAS based on ZFS on Linux This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB NAS (17 TiB). With a storage capacity four times higher than the original and an incredible read (2.5 GB/s)/write (1.9 GB/s) performance, it's a worthy successor. Purpose The...
TheCollector
Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk undefined
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Christopher Butler
object – The Present Clock This hand of this clock makes one rotation every 365 days. Something like eight or nine years...
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This hand of this clock makes one rotation every 365 days. Something like eight or nine years ago, I funded a Kickstarter campaign for a clock that Scott Thrift was making with a neat idea behind it — its single hand would make one full rotation every 365 days. It was called...
Casey Handmer's blog
It Is Time To Build The Monster Scope A shorter version of this post was published in Palladium on 10/18/24. This version incorporates...
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A shorter version of this post was published in Palladium on 10/18/24. This version incorporates helpful feedback from a number of knowledgeable readers.  With the recent SpaceX Starship orbital flight tests, it is time to commit to building the largest physically possible space...
Math Is Still...
Computation Is All Around Us, and You Can See It if You Try Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can...
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Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world. The post Computation Is All Around Us, and You Can See It if You Try first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Maps Mania
Where Mountains Rise From Oceans
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Rest of World -...
TikTok creators are being arrested for violating religious laws in Nigeria Digital rights advocates say social media companies like TikTok have a responsibility to protect...
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ntietz.com blog
The phrase "good enough" isn't fit for purpose Words matter. First impressions matter. I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and...
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a year ago
Words matter. First impressions matter. I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and there's a section titled "Good-Enough Software". In it, the authors expand that "the phrase 'good enough' does not imply sloppy or poorly produced code" and that it must still meet...
Common Edge
20 Life Lessons in Architecture (and Beyond) Some suggestions on living a life in design with meaning and purpose.
3 months ago
Rest of World -...
19 books to read in 2023 Rest of World's staff favorites, from around the globe to add to your must-read pile.
a year ago
General Robots
Dimension Hopper Part 1 2D Platformer using Stable Diffusion for live level art creation
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Citation Needed
Wind the clock A message to those asking “what do I do now?”
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions undefined
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Get You Some Practical Accessibility Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for...
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Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for pre-order right now. I’ve never met Sara in person, but have been an online follower for some time. She is one of those people who has the discipline and eye to make everything they...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#32) The bridge disaster, Daniel Kahneman, Biden and nuclear power, ebbing unrest, Bay Area...
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The bridge disaster, Daniel Kahneman, Biden and nuclear power, ebbing unrest, Bay Area "progressives", and cancer detection
99% Invisible
Christiania [EPISODE] In the year 1623, Christian IV, king of Denmark and Norway, built a long series of moats and...
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In the year 1623, Christian IV, king of Denmark and Norway, built a long series of moats and ramparts just across from central Copenhagen, on the eastern edge of the city’s harbor, to protect the city from Swedish invasion. In the early 19th century, the Danish government added...
Open Culture
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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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A couple of years ago I wrote about our work on "above threshold" light emission in planar metal tunnel junctions.  In that work, we showed that in a planar tunnel junction, you can apply a bias voltage \(V\) and get lots of photons out at energies quite a bit greater than...
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In my last post I wrote about some ideas and projects I have and how it’s a little bit too much at a time, so now I’m going to try something new here. In the beginning of every week I’ll declare something I’ll be focusing on and then that’s the only thing I should focus on on my...
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The image above, of the Grand Union Hotel on the east side of Park Avenue is labelled by the New York Public Library as 1868 to 1900, but is likely from the late 1870s, or early 1880s. The hotel is the building on the right with three flags and with S-curved mansard roofs on its...
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The American Scholar
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