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Open Culture
Soviet Inventor Léon Theremin Shows Off the Theremin, the Early Electronic Instrument That Could Be... You know the sound of the theremin, that weird, warbly whine that signals mystery, danger, and...
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You know the sound of the theremin, that weird, warbly whine that signals mystery, danger, and otherworldly portent in many classic sci-fi films. It has the distinction of being not only the very first electronic instrument but also the only instrument in history one plays...
TheCollector
Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture? undefined
2 months ago
Maps Mania
Out of Africa - The Story of Human Migration
6 months ago
TheCollector
German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content undefined
12 months ago
The Modern House
Rich Pickings: four homes for sale in Kent Fruit may be Kent’s greatest export, but as regular explorers of our listings will know, there are...
a year ago
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Fruit may be Kent’s greatest export, but as regular explorers of our listings will know, there are other sweet surprises to be found here – albeit of a more architectural streak. And while there’s plenty of history to be found in this corner of the […]
Seth's Blog
“For what purposes will it be useful?” In 1840, at the dawn of the information age, the king of Sardinia asked Charles Babbage what nearly...
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9 months ago
In 1840, at the dawn of the information age, the king of Sardinia asked Charles Babbage what nearly instant messaging like the telegraph could possibly be good for. Twenty years later, it was obvious. When I first saw Prodigy in 1986, I saw that the consumer internet would have...
Seth's Blog
Aerodynamic figureheads That’s sort of an oxymoron. The original figureheads were carved into the bow of a ship. They exist...
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5 months ago
That’s sort of an oxymoron. The original figureheads were carved into the bow of a ship. They exist to express the spirit of the boat and to demonstrate its power and resilience. Here’s an AI recreation of the most famous one: The sailors were wise enough to understand that the...
Good Enough
TIL: System Colors are supported in CSS, but they’re unreliable I’ve said this before: We’re primarily a web shop here at Good Enough, but occasionally we come up...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve said this before: We’re primarily a web shop here at Good Enough, but occasionally we come up with ideas that we think would work really well as a native desktop or mobile application. Still, we prototype those ideas on the web first. Recently, I wanted to try and make one...
IEEE Spectrum
A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea:...
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7 months ago
In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public? It was such a novel concept that when von Miller approached...
Math Is Still...
The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes Cynthia Rudin wants machine learning models, responsible for increasingly important decisions, to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Cynthia Rudin wants machine learning models, responsible for increasingly important decisions, to show their work. The post The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
CONTEMPORIST
A Kid’s Bedroom With Built-In Reading Nooks Architecture and interiors firm Picnic Design has created a built-in storage unit with nooks for two...
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4 weeks ago
Architecture and interiors firm Picnic Design has created a built-in storage unit with nooks for two kids in their tween years. The request came from two siblings who have been sharing a room since birth and have reached the point where they would like to have their own room....
This Space
39 Books: 1996 It's a commonplace that in reading novels one can escape the ravages of time. In 1994, I borrowed my...
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7 months ago
It's a commonplace that in reading novels one can escape the ravages of time. In 1994, I borrowed my student housemate's innocent-looking hardback edition of Nicholson Baker's The Fermata in which Arno Strine writes about how he can actually stop time. The title refers to the...
Open Culture
How Kodak Invented the Snapshot in the 1800s, Making It Possible for Everyone to Be a Photographer We still occasionally speak of “Kodak moments,” making conscious or unconscious reference to the...
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2 months ago
We still occasionally speak of “Kodak moments,” making conscious or unconscious reference to the slogan of the Eastman Kodak Company in the nineteen-eighties. Even by that time, Kodak had already been a going concern for nearly a century, furnishing photographers around the world...
Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ... We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
Oykun
1 Simple Approach to Discover Your Design Career Path As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from...
a year ago
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a year ago
As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from Junior to Senior levels. We either have no idea where we are going or get lazy and lost in our comfort zone. If I've based the advice purely on
The Modern House
How artists Amy Dennis and Neville Rae built a home in which their family and practices could grow...
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Love of Reading Is Caught, Not Taught' I’ve used “home library” to describe the accumulation of books in our house but it’s starting to...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’ve used “home library” to describe the accumulation of books in our house but it’s starting to sound a little pretentious. For now I’ll keep it at “books.” Nadya Williams titles her essay “Home Libraries Will Save Civilization,” which, I understand, is more reader-enticing than...
Old Structures...
Straight and Curved I first started reading architectural theory and criticism when I was still an engineering undergrad...
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6 months ago
I first started reading architectural theory and criticism when I was still an engineering undergrad student. It gave me a perspective on buildings that was notably different than that I was learning in my design and analysis classes, but because I was an outsider it took me a...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How Asheville’s Nature Inspires Local Chef, Ashleigh Shanti
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
What It Was Like to Walk Across Liechtenstein
a year ago
Society's Backend
Why Machine Learning Systems Misbehave And what makes them so difficult to work with
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques undefined
a week ago
Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius! A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
Christopher Butler
Eclipse We gathered on our street and shielded our eyes to behold a spectacle we last saw in 2017 and won’t...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We gathered on our street and shielded our eyes to behold a spectacle we last saw in 2017 and won’t again — with this clarity, on this part of the planet — until 2045.
AFAR Media - Travel...
5 Exciting New Electric Camper Vans
a year ago
Business Brainstorms
API for simple manual online tasks, pickleball for surfing, freelancer laptop stickers, ... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “I want an AI companion that I can share my goals with...
Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books China’s Communist Comic Books JamesHoare Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
2 weeks ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The idea maze for AI startups An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need to make: A good founder is capable of…
Arduino Blog
Simplifying IoT for smarter manufacturing: Join the chat with Arduino, AWS, and Atlas Machine We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes feel daunting. But what if you could simplify the process and start seeing results quickly? That’s exactly what we’re going to explore in our upcoming Arduino Cloud Café webinar on...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Security through diversity Someone asked me the other day whether I thought the United States was vulnerable to a large scale...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Someone asked me the other day whether I thought the United States was vulnerable to a large scale “cyber” attack. While I have no doubt…
CONTEMPORIST
A Tiny Public Library With A Roof Inspired By A Sheet Of Paper Ninja Stuudio has shared photos of “White Sheet”, a tiny public library and reading pavilion they...
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8 months ago
Ninja Stuudio has shared photos of “White Sheet”, a tiny public library and reading pavilion they completed in Tallinn, Estonia. The design has been inspired by the image of a literary idea, with the pavilion’s roof hovering as a light sheet of paper in mid-air relying only on...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Local Baker’s Top Picks to Maine’s Best Winter Adventures
4 months ago
The Marginalian
“Little Women” Author Louisa May Alcott on the Creative Rewards of Being Single "Liberty is a better husband than love."
a year ago
Charles Chen
Programmatically Invoke Cloud Run Jobs with Runtime Overrides Love Google Cloud Run but need to be able to programmatically invoke long running jobs?
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Skydio I’m excited to announce today that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $3M financing of Skydio, a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m excited to announce today that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $3M financing of Skydio, a startup developing artificial intelligence…
Anecdotal Evidence
'Appear to the Public to be Some Sort of Miracle' On Christmas Eve 1890, Chekhov writes to his friend and editor Alexi Suvorin:  “I believe in both...
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4 months ago
On Christmas Eve 1890, Chekhov writes to his friend and editor Alexi Suvorin:  “I believe in both [Robert] Koch and spermine, and I praise the Lord. Kochines, spermines, etc. all appear to the public to be some sort of miracle that has sprung unexpectedly from someone’s head like...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Amused Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: They'll go outside again later. Today's News:
6 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Collecting Art undefined
6 months ago
Math Is Still...
When Data Is Missing, Scientists Guess. Then Guess Again. Across the social and biological sciences, statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Across the social and biological sciences, statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown. The post When Data Is Missing, Scientists Guess. Then Guess Again. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Maps Mania
Dressing Miku
a month ago
TheCollector
What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela? undefined
8 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Artificial Diamond Boom The history of aluminum, and what is now happening in the artificial diamond market, may tell us...
a year ago
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a year ago
The history of aluminum, and what is now happening in the artificial diamond market, may tell us something about a post-scarcity world. Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust. However, it like to form with other elements and therefore it was very difficulty to...
TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art undefined
5 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Collapsars and Gravitational Waves The state of modern science and technology is truly amazing, much more so than the fake stuff that...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The state of modern science and technology is truly amazing, much more so than the fake stuff that people like to spread around. Gravitational waves have opened up an entirely new type of astronomy, a way to explore the universe through very subtle ripples in spacetime produce by...
Noahpinion
Interview: Dan Wang, China specialist We talk about China's economy, decoupling, export controls, industrial policy, state control, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
We talk about China's economy, decoupling, export controls, industrial policy, state control, and lots more.
TheCollector
6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain undefined
2 months ago
Mazdak
Understanding Employment Insurance (EI) Employment Insurance (EI) is a social insurance program in Canada that provides temporary financial...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Employment Insurance (EI) is a social insurance program in Canada that provides temporary financial support to eligible individuals who lose their jobs through no fault of their own. While this is the most commonly understood purpose of EI, the program offers various benefits...
Construction Physics
Building Fast and Slow Part II - The World Trade Center Part II in our series comparing the construction of two Tallest Building in the World projects - the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Part II in our series comparing the construction of two Tallest Building in the World projects - the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center. See here for Part I. Unless otherwise noted, information and quotes are from “City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World...
Seth's Blog
A possible AI future Persistent, connected and kind. Most visions of the internet in 1995 were about individuals...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Persistent, connected and kind. Most visions of the internet in 1995 were about individuals interacting with content online. It turns out that the internet (inter plus net) is actually about connection. The apps and businesses that were most successful connected people–to ideas,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Perfect Restaurant This is a *rant* of uninformed thoughts and theories about running a restaurant.
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Why on Earth does Trump want to cancel the CHIPS Act?? A second Trump presidency would truly be a gift to Xi Jinping.
a month ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The 10 Best U.S. National Parks to Visit with Kids
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector undefined
11 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Diana Steads Him Nothing, He Must Stay' For earned emotional intensity, especially coming from a man seldom associated with emotion, you...
a year ago
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a year ago
For earned emotional intensity, especially coming from a man seldom associated with emotion, you can hardly outdo A.E. Housman, as recounted by one of his students in Richard Perceval Graves’ A. E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet (1979):   “One morning in May, 1914, when the trees in...
Anecdotal Evidence
'All These Jolts of Beauty' Once I interviewed a mycologist who, before his lecture, removed a yellow mushroom from an oak tree...
a month ago
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a month ago
Once I interviewed a mycologist who, before his lecture, removed a yellow mushroom from an oak tree in front of the hall where he was speaking and munched on it while he spoke. A few years later the writer Paul Metcalf, author of Genoa (1965), swore me to secrecy before revealing...
sancho.dev
Run yarn/npm scripts with fzf
over a year ago
SOCKS
“One Can No Longer Distinguish the Sun’s Outline”: Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky (1930) A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification...
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9 months ago
A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification and nomenclature. Cloud atlases were primarily developed starting in the 19th century and utilised for training weather forecasters and meteorologists. The 1930’s International...
diamond geezer
Overground line factfile Overground line factfile (because all the stats have changed) Windrush line...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Overground line factfile (because all the stats have changed) Windrush line              Operates: Highbury & Islington to New Cross/Clapham Junction/Crystal Palace/West Croydon Colour on map: red parallel lines Joined the Overground: 2010 Length: 24 miles Zones: 1-5 Number...
brr
Redeployment Part Three Off-continent after 446 days!
11 months ago
Probably...
Bertrand’s Boxes An early draft of Probably Overthinking It included two chapters about probability. I still think...
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7 months ago
An early draft of Probably Overthinking It included two chapters about probability. I still think they are interesting, but the other chapters are really about data, and the examples in these chapters are more like brain teasers — so I’ve saved them for another book. Here’s an...
Quantum Frontiers
The Noncommuting-Charges World Tour (Part 1 of 4) Introduction: “Once Upon a Time”…with a twist Thermodynamics problems have surprisingly many...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Introduction: “Once Upon a Time”…with a twist Thermodynamics problems have surprisingly many similarities with fairy tales. For example, most of them begin with a familiar opening. In thermodynamics, the phrase “Consider an isolated box of particles” serves a similar purpose …...
The American Scholar
Changing the Lens Exploding the Canon, Episode 5 (Finale) The post Changing the Lens appeared first on The American...
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7 months ago
Exploding the Canon, Episode 5 (Finale) The post Changing the Lens appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Convivial...
Whose Time? Which Temporality? The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 4
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Code Reviews Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […] The post...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […] The post Code Reviews appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
This Space
39 Books: 2001 In 1995 I found this hardback edition in the British History section of a Brighton bookshop six...
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7 months ago
In 1995 I found this hardback edition in the British History section of a Brighton bookshop six years after the French original was cited by Gabriel Josipovici as one of his books of the year: "a beautifully controlled examination of the effect on [Roubaud] of his wife's death...
Words and Buttons...
The simplest possible smooth contouring algorithm The algorithm that takes a distance function and makes a smooth contour out of it in three steps.
over a year ago
Maps Mania
The World's Most Controversial Interactive Map
10 months ago
Citation Needed
Issue 58 – Threats to the stability and integrity of Ethereum The Justice Department worries about the stability of Ethereum, DCG tries to bilk their subsidiary's...
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7 months ago
The Justice Department worries about the stability of Ethereum, DCG tries to bilk their subsidiary's creditors, and Biden threatens a crypto veto.
TheCollector
The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know undefined
8 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making a Website is for Everyone Dave asked what makes people excited about building for the web and Thomas answered with this...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dave asked what makes people excited about building for the web and Thomas answered with this wonderful articulation: the web is the only programming platform (that I know of) that considers its builders regular people, not IT Professionals and continues to write standards with...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers
over a year ago
TheCollector
13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’ undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece undefined
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Symposium: On Building God
a year ago
TheCollector
Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism undefined
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Doing old things better vs doing brand new things New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could already do but can now do better because…
mtlynch.io
A Simple Example of Calling a C Library from Zig Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C...
a year ago
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a year ago
Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C that attempts to retain all of C’s performance benefits while also taking advantage of improvements in tooling and language design from the last 30 years. Because Zig is designed...
Maps Mania
The Little Free Library World Map
a year ago
History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books New Year, Old Books JamesHoare Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
6 days ago
African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa. a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
11 months ago
Rest of World -...
Africa fell in love with crypto. Now… it’s complicated Trust is fading, startups are shutting down, and Web3 workers are reconsidering their career...
a year ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware August 2023 The Ware for August 2023 is a viewfinder from a JVC Super VHS Camcorder, model number GR-SXM915U....
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for August 2023 is a viewfinder from a JVC Super VHS Camcorder, model number GR-SXM915U. I’ll give the prize to Jin because of the correct identification of the SOIC as the BA7149F. Congrats, email me for your prize! The exact model number of the originating camera...
Engineer’s Codex
10 lessons from successful one-person startups I interviewed 7 indie hackers and full-time SWEs with side ventures for their insights.
a year ago
Louwrentius
PPSS version 2.30 now operates asynchronous If you background a bash or shell process, how do you determine if it has finished? Since inter...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you background a bash or shell process, how do you determine if it has finished? Since inter process communication is not possible using shell scripts, people often refer to while loops or other polling mechanisms to determine if some process has stopped. However, the one...
macwright.com
Takeaway from using CO₂ monitors: run the exhaust fan For the last few years, I’ve had Aranet 4 and AirGradient sensors in my apartment. They’re fairly...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
For the last few years, I’ve had Aranet 4 and AirGradient sensors in my apartment. They’re fairly expensive gadgets that I have no regrets purchasing – I love a little more awareness of things like temperature, humidity, and air quality, it’s ‘grounding’ in a cyberpunk way. But...
Londonist
Eid In Trafalgar Square: Muslim Celebrations Return This April End of Ramadan marked in style.
9 months ago
Rest of World -...
The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data Argentine startup Nippy aggregates data from gig workers and sells it to companies like Mastercard...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Argentine startup Nippy aggregates data from gig workers and sells it to companies like Mastercard and Movistar, who in turn offer workers their services.
The Rational Walk
The Digest #174 Working Hard, Berkshire Q3 Recap, ProPublica attacks Buffett, Chipotle's international ambitions,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Working Hard, Berkshire Q3 Recap, ProPublica attacks Buffett, Chipotle's international ambitions, The AI Gold Rush, 100th anniversary of Hitler's beer hall putsch, The Federalist Papers
This Space
39 Books: 2015 In the Spring of 1997, I visited a friend in Kassel, a city in the middle of Germany, home of the...
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7 months ago
In the Spring of 1997, I visited a friend in Kassel, a city in the middle of Germany, home of the Brothers Grimm and Franz Rosenzweig, and not very far from Weimer, hence the visit to the Goethehaus mentioned in the entry for 1989. I hadn't heard of it before and nor had my...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.37.0: Cohorts 2.0 and event & property detail pages PostHog 1.37.0 introduces advanced filtering for cohorts, improved events and property pages,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog 1.37.0 introduces advanced filtering for cohorts, improved events and property pages, dancing hedgehogs and much, much more.
brr
Mud Murdo The beautiful ambiance of a McMurdo summer.
over a year ago
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali. At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
Tony Finch's blog
GCRA: leaky buckets without the buckets Yesterday I read an article describing the GCRA rate limiting algorithm. I thought it was really...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Yesterday I read an article describing the GCRA rate limiting algorithm. I thought it was really interesting, but I wasn’t entirely satisfied with Brandur’s explanation, and the Wikipedia articles on leaky buckets and GCRA are terrible, so here’s my version. what is GCRA? GCRA is...
Eukaryote Writes...
COVID-19 FAQ A lot of people have been asking me questions about the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) outbreak, in my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of people have been asking me questions about the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) outbreak, in my informal capacity as “local biodefense person”.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Breaking Barbarian This week in a [Svelte Radio recording](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1555596996744028160),...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week in a [Svelte Radio recording](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1555596996744028160), @rich-harris commented that something I said was "uniquely swyx": an offhand observation that "we are all professional streamers now" [^1]. I responded that I've been calling this...
Posts on Nikita...
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
TheCollector
7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Scribe Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You'll be tempted to hit the printer, but then it...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You'll be tempted to hit the printer, but then it might leak blood on your tablets. Today's News:
diamond geezer
Unblogged December 28 unblogged things I did in December Fri 1: My monthly electricity bill arrived and it was an...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
28 unblogged things I did in December Fri 1: My monthly electricity bill arrived and it was an estimate, except that after several months of them assuming I'd used 40 kWh they'd suddenly decided I'd used 192 kWh. The bloke on the helpline couldn't explain the massive hike ("no, I...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Betwixt Reason and Result I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling International](https://reservations.hostellingtoronto.com/iqreservations/asp/IQHome.asp), highly recommend for solo travel, I have stayed in SF, LA, NY, PHL, TO, NZ and more I probably forget) where a cute...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Prejudice Against Humor?' “What is the origin of the prejudice against humor? Why is it so dangerous, if you would keep the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
“What is the origin of the prejudice against humor? Why is it so dangerous, if you would keep the public confidence, to make the public laugh? Is it because humor and sound sense are essentially antagonistic? Has humanity found by experience that the man who sees the fun of life...
Adventures In...
Close Encounters of the Cartographic Kind I was watching the Steven Spielberg 1977 classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the...
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7 months ago
I was watching the Steven Spielberg 1977 classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the family last night and nerded out when I saw a character that claimed to be a cartographer. I always do. It was the cartographer who recognized that the signals the aliens sent were...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How to Explore Innsbruck, the Capital of the Alps
6 months ago
The American Scholar
All Talk Ease of communication will not save us The post All Talk appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Ease of communication will not save us The post All Talk appeared first on The American Scholar.
CONTEMPORIST
Vertical Fins Surround The Exterior Of This House Giving It A Distinct Appearance Architecture and design studio MDAMMM, has recently completed the remodel of a home that had a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Architecture and design studio MDAMMM, has recently completed the remodel of a home that had a nondescript appearance and little aesthetic appeal. The original home had an exposed brick facade in ochre tones and all other elements featured different grey tones and finishes. The...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Selling to enterprises For some reason when you are selling information technology, big companies are referred to as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For some reason when you are selling information technology, big companies are referred to as “enterprises.” I’m guessing the word was…
Passing Time
UPPERCASE lowercase Andinbetvveen On stylized titling: the expanding canvas of musical expression
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OS 7 Updates and More OS 8 News It’s a new year and that means we’re back from the holidays with new updates! We’re now shipping the...
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It’s a new year and that means we’re back from the holidays with new updates! We’re now shipping the latest GNOME Web which includes a new Tab Overview mode. Plus we’re shipping some updated icons for things like the animated downloads icon in the Headerbar and hardware access...
Society's Backend
I Enjoy Technical Interviews and You Can Too A simple change in mindset that completely changed the way I interview
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Old Structures...
Too Perfect Yet another view of lower Broadway, this time from 1908. It’s low resolution and artificially...
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Yet another view of lower Broadway, this time from 1908. It’s low resolution and artificially colored, so it’s really more of an illustration than a photo, but good enough for a postcard. This picture bothers me and it took me a while to realize why. The issue exists for a lot of...
Matt Mullenweg
State of the Word Tokyo It’s a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We’re going to be in an...
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It’s a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We’re going to be in an amazing venue that looks over the city. Most of WordPress and Automattic’s senior leadership is here, and we’ll also have several hundred folks from the local community and press. We’ve...
Londonist
The Coca-Cola Christmas Truck Drives Into London This Week Merry fizz-mas!
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samwho.dev
Load Balancing .simulation { width: 100%; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items:...
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.simulation { width: 100%; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; margin-bottom: 2.5em; } .load-balancer { color: black; font-weight: bold; } .request { color: #04BF8A; font-weight: bold; } .server { color:...
TheCollector
How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization? undefined
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WPAI Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic. They have some...
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Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic. They have some very cool products including CodeWP, AgentWP, and WP.chat.
Posts on Made of...
wpa_supplicant: GUI and wpa_action I’ve made two new interesting discoveries about wpa_supplicant since writing my last blog post on...
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I’ve made two new interesting discoveries about wpa_supplicant since writing my last blog post on the subject. (Actually, I pretty much made both of them while reading documentation in order to write it, and have been lame about writing them up). Using wpa_gui It turns out that...
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
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Littlehampton Seaside postcard: Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside town, I hesitate to say resort, midway...
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Seaside postcard: Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside town, I hesitate to say resort, midway along the coast of West Sussex. It has a Heatherwick cafe, a sort-of lighthouse, Britain's longest bench and a lot of crabs. I visited yesterday. [Visit Littlehampton] [12...
Seth's Blog
Abundance and ideas A colleague got an angry note. It concluded with, “you should know better.” The transgression? The...
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A colleague got an angry note. It concluded with, “you should know better.” The transgression? The sender was offended that my friend had written a post about a concept she’s been developing for nearly a decade. Of course, no idea is unique, and the posted idea sort of rhymed...
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How to Market Yourself Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market...
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Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market Yourself in Public + at Work.
Jonas Hietala
An intriguing new puzzle Here’s another game made for the experimental gameplay project: Slidoku which is a sort of mix...
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Here’s another game made for the experimental gameplay project: Slidoku which is a sort of mix between Rubik’s cube and sudoku. I enjoy puzzles like those and I really enjoyed this one too - it took me a while to beat it but I just love the feeling when you do. If you like...
The Marginalian
Favorite Books of the Year: Art, Science, Poetry, Psychology, Children’s, and More Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my living — looking back...
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Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my living — looking back on a year of life has always been looking back on a year of reading. This year was different — a time of such profound pain and profound transformation that it fused reading and...
journal – Winnie Lim
the experience of completing a sketchbook for my japan trip Last year I started sketching, and for the first time in my life I started bringing art materials on...
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Last year I started sketching, and for the first time in my life I started bringing art materials on my travels. I did the same when I went to Japan, except a...
Steve Blank
Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2 Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops to a...
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Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops to a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to...
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Courage to Face Reality Squarely' I’m flying to Cleveland today to see my brother who has been diagnosed with cancer. It has already...
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I’m flying to Cleveland today to see my brother who has been diagnosed with cancer. It has already metastasized and he’s in the Cleveland Clinic, waiting to be admitted to their hospice program. Ken turned sixty-nine in April and is two and a half years younger than me. My...
Christopher Butler
Unscalable, Hand-Crafted Lists of Links Or, Technology vs. Taste The first search engine wasn’t one at all. It was a webpage with a...
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Or, Technology vs. Taste The first search engine wasn’t one at all. It was a webpage with a list of links on it. There were many of these, some freely accessible, and others within the first walled-gardens of America Online, Prodigy, and so on. But the most famous one is...
The Works in...
Should you infect yourself with Zika? What life is like in a challenge trial
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Greg Brockman
#define CTO OpenAI It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I...
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It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I could have scalable impact by writing code. I’ve finally found that role, though not by seeking it — instead, I sought out a problem more important to me than my role within it,...
Mazdak
Commercial vs. Residential Real Estate: Which One Is Right for You? Investing in real estate can be a great way to build wealth and generate passive income. But which...
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Investing in real estate can be a great way to build wealth and generate passive income. But which type of real estate is right for you? Commercial or residential? In this blog post, we will compare and contrast commercial and residential real estate, and help you decide which...
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution undefined
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The Ruffian
On not tolerating intolerance Why all companies, institutions and leaders should care about free speech
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biometrics pre, during & post-covid A couple of weeks ago I received a notification from my apple watch that there were some new health...
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A couple of weeks ago I received a notification from my apple watch that there were some new health trends from the health app: Obviously this is because I had covid: being...
blag
Recurse Center: Winter Break the Recurse Center winter break
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? undefined
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Notes on Progress: Thinking like a dog How dog brains could save us from dementia
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It) undefined
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A Smart Bear
Who's lying? Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because...
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Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
TheCollector
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The Marginalian
Marie Howe’s Stunning Hymn of Humanity, Animated "It began as an almost inaudible hum..."
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The Network State Book A book by Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) on how to start a new country. Now available for preorder...
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A book by Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) on how to start a new country. Now available for preorder on Amazon.
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 11-17 March 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
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Acko.net
On Witchcraft Lies, damned lies, and social media Rhetoric about the dangers of the internet is at a feverish...
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Lies, damned lies, and social media Rhetoric about the dangers of the internet is at a feverish high. The new buzzword these days is "disinformation." Funnily enough, nobody actually produces it themselves: it's only other people who do so. Arguably the internet already came up...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - God Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why He stopped answering prayers. Today's...
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Britain’s interwar apartment boom A decade of Art Deco densification
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Jason Crawford
Reflections on six months of fatherhood To be fed from a spoon requires three distinct skills. First, you must open your mouth when the...
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To be fed from a spoon requires three distinct skills. First, you must open your mouth when the spoon approaches. Second, you must close your mouth around the spoon once it has fully entered the mouth (and not before). Third, you must swallow the food that remains in your mouth...
mtlynch.io
Hiring Content Writers: Part One - Finding Writers Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers (this section) Part Two - Creating a...
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Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers (this section) Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description Part Three: Screening Candidates Part Four - Working with Writers Part Five - Terminating Writers There are thousands of working freelance writers in the...
Posts on Made of...
Followup to "A Very Subtle Bug" After my previous post got posted to reddit, there was a bunch of interesting discussion there about...
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After my previous post got posted to reddit, there was a bunch of interesting discussion there about some details I’d handwaved over. This is a quick followup on some the investigation that various people carried out, and the conclusions they reached. In the reddit thread,...
diamond geezer
Stratford station has a new entrance Stratford station has a new entrance. Gibbins Road entrance and for most passengers it's of no use...
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Stratford station has a new entrance. Gibbins Road entrance and for most passengers it's of no use whatsoever. Stratford station has a new entrance. by the end of March but it didn't. It was due to open in May but it didn't. It's looked finished for ages but it clearly wasn't...
CONTEMPORIST
A Sculptural Ceiling Inspired By Flowing Chocolate Can Be Seen Inside This Store Architectural studio Arch&Type has shared photos of Blue Table Chocolates, a new retail chocolate...
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Architectural studio Arch&Type has shared photos of Blue Table Chocolates, a new retail chocolate store in Buffalo, New York. Key to the intriguing interior design is the custom parametric ceiling tiles that were inspired by an image of golden, silky, and flowing untempered...
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Some thoughts on startup crowdfunding Like a lot of people, I’m excited about crowdfunding, and specifically the crowdfunding of startups...
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Like a lot of people, I’m excited about crowdfunding, and specifically the crowdfunding of startups now that’s it’s legal in the US. Based…
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Censure of Knaves and Fools' “Mr. Michael Johnson was a man of large and robust body, and of a strong and active mind; yet, as in...
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“Mr. Michael Johnson was a man of large and robust body, and of a strong and active mind; yet, as in the most solid rocks veins of unsound substance are often discovered, there was in him a mixture of that disease, the nature of which eludes the most minute enquiry, though the...
TheCollector
Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India undefined
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TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas undefined
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Seth's Blog
The half-life of magic “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke Try to...
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke Try to imagine the you of twenty years ago holding a Rabbit R1, or using a cell phone or being able to listen to every song, ever recorded, for just a few dollars a month. We don’t just take...
The Elysian
Elysian gatherings around the world Picnic with me in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and San Francisco.
5 days ago
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your...
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Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your phone We take our phones everywhere and trust them with a lot of sensitive information, but have we put enough thought into how to secure them? Liz and Geoffrey discuss different...
Platformer
Substack's new fundraising pitch Venture capitalists wouldn't give the company the terms it wanted. Its writers might
a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The New (Experimental) Ways To Tackle The Mental Health Crisis | Out-Of-Pocket let's try some new stuff to scale mental health care
a year ago
Stephen Wolfram...
A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
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This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of...
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How to increase test coverage FAST The second quarter is coming to an end. I suppose a lot of my fellow developers are struggling to...
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The second quarter is coming to an end. I suppose a lot of my fellow developers are struggling to meet their ambitious KPI of "20% more test coverage". Fear not — I'll show you a couple of neat tricks that will up your coverage game in no time, so that you can go on with your...
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Know Your Tools > Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
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> Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
Maps Mania
Standing on Top of the World
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965) Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s  Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
diamond geezer
Emails from 2004 Today I thought I'd dig into my inbox archive and bring you ten emails I was sent in October 2004....
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Today I thought I'd dig into my inbox archive and bring you ten emails I was sent in October 2004. Twenty years ago was a different time. From londonmobs (1/10/04) (and that was it, no further London flashmobs were organised) cc-ed from my work address (5/10/04) The...
A Smart Bear
Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How...
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Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How can we leverage the wisdom of the crowd, while ensuring that decisions and responsibilities continue to reside with an individual?
The Map is Mostly...
[subscribers only] Ask Me Anything about My Home (or Yours)
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Elad Blog
Fireside: Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft live in SF Monday Nov 6, 11:30am - sign up now on link below
a year ago
Seth's Blog
On the dot Hardy came home from school and proudly showed his mom the cheap plastic trinkets he had earned that...
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Hardy came home from school and proudly showed his mom the cheap plastic trinkets he had earned that day. “I stood quietly on the dot and so I got some tickets. And if I stand on the dot quietly tomorrow, I can get some more prizes!” First grade! That’s one way to indoctrinate...
TheCollector
What is the Eye of Ra? undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
Astral Codex Ten
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Inbox Full O’ Receipts Dave parodying those pesky “Dear business owner” emails one tends to get: I clearly have no ethics,...
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Dave parodying those pesky “Dear business owner” emails one tends to get: I clearly have no ethics, but you should enter a business relationship with me, a guy who found your email on the internet. That’s the subtext of those emails. You are now signed up for a no-opt-out email...
Open Culture
How Car Chase Scenes Have Evolved Over 100 Years: The Technology Behind Bullitt, The French... For many a classic action-movie enthusiast, no car chase will ever top the one in Bullitt. The...
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For many a classic action-movie enthusiast, no car chase will ever top the one in Bullitt. The narrator of the Insider video above describes it as “the scene that set the standard for all modern car chases,” one made “iconic partly because of the characters, but also because of...
TheCollector
Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies undefined
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
We’re All Content Creators for Machines Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since...
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Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since [checks archives] 2005. As of late his writing has gone quiet, but he’s got a new book due out early next year and I think he’s starting up blogging again to help drum up interest....
Platformer
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major...
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TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US undefined
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Contemporist...
A Small Laneway House Designed For A Narrow Property In Toronto Lanescape Architecture has shared photos of a laneway home they completed for a narrow 17-foot wide...
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Lanescape Architecture has shared photos of a laneway home they completed for a narrow 17-foot wide lot in Toronto's Junction neighborhood.
alexwlchan
Making alt text more visible I add alt text to every image on this site. I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text...
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I add alt text to every image on this site. I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text before I publish the site, but that means alt text has often been an afterthought – something I’d dash out at the very end of writing a post. I wanted to give it more attention, and...
mtlynch.io
End-to-End Testing Web Apps: The Painless Way Okay, I know you’re skeptical. Other guides have promised you painless web app tests only to reveal...
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Okay, I know you’re skeptical. Other guides have promised you painless web app tests only to reveal that their solution requires some hyper-specific tech stack or a paid third-party service. I won’t do that to you. This guide provides a straightforward and flexible template for...
The Roots of...
2023 in review 2023 was another big year for me and The Roots of Progress. It was a year when ROP as an...
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2023 was another big year for me and The Roots of Progress. It was a year when ROP as an organization really started to take off. Even though the org itself was formed in 2021, at first it was just a vehicle for my own intellectual work, plus a few side projects. Last year we...
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.
Math Is Still...
New Elliptic Curve Breaks 18-Year-Old Record Two mathematicians have renewed a debate about the fundamental nature of some of math’s most...
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Two mathematicians have renewed a debate about the fundamental nature of some of math’s most important equations. The post New Elliptic Curve Breaks 18-Year-Old Record first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Damn Interesting
Journey to the Invisible Planet In the late 17th century, natural philosopher Isaac Newton was deeply uneasy with a new scientific...
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In the late 17th century, natural philosopher Isaac Newton was deeply uneasy with a new scientific theory that was gaining currency in Europe: universal gravitation. In correspondence with a scientific contemporary, Newton complained that it was “an absurdity” to suppose that...
Stephen Wolfram...
The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its...
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This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit Turning LLM Capabilities into Functions So far, we mostly think of LLMs as things we...
NeuroLogica Blog
Betavoltaic Batteries In 1964 Isaac Asimov, asked to imagine the world 50 years in the future, wrote: “The appliances of...
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In 1964 Isaac Asimov, asked to imagine the world 50 years in the future, wrote: “The appliances of 2014 will have no electric cords, of course, for they will be powered by long- lived batteries running on radioisotopes. The isotopes will not be expensive for they will be by-...
Math Is Still...
Ninth Dedekind Number Found by Two Independent Groups The numbers count a variety of seemingly unrelated mathematical structures. The post...
a year ago
Arduino Blog
This frighteningly realistic animatronic head features expressive silicone skin The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of...
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The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of ways. Some of that is utilitarian — your jaw muscles are good for chewing, after all. But a lot of it seems to be the result of evolution giving us fantastic non-verbal...
Jake Zimmerman
Old vs new case statement in Ruby
6 months ago
The Rational Walk
Endurance The amazing story of Shackleton's legendary voyage to the Antarctic and how his 28 men survived...
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The amazing story of Shackleton's legendary voyage to the Antarctic and how his 28 men survived shipwreck, ice floes, and constant danger.
Diaries of Note
My body is the record of those I have loved American sculptor Anne Truitt was a singular figure in the field of minimalism, best known for her...
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American sculptor Anne Truitt was a singular figure in the field of minimalism, best known for her large, colour-saturated, wooden column sculptures. Born in 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, Truitt studied psychology at Bryn Mawr College before venturing into art, her studies taking...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Neon Genesis Evangelion Contributed by Peiran Tan Source: www.evangelion.co.jp ©カラー/Project Eva....
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Contributed by Peiran Tan Source: www.evangelion.co.jp ©カラー/Project Eva. ©カラー/EVA製作委員会 ©カラー. License: All Rights Reserved. Created and directed by Hideaki Anno, Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, often abbreviated as NGE or simply EVA) is a Japanese media...
Retail Design Blog
SUSHISAMBA Singapore Situated at the pinnacle of Singapore’s iconic Capital Tower, the newest member of the SUSHISAMBA...
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Situated at the pinnacle of Singapore’s iconic Capital Tower, the newest member of the SUSHISAMBA network, masterfully crafted by Kokaistudios,...
99% Invisible
Trail Mix [EPISODE] A good trail is one that is easy to follow and well maintained. Each trail is designed, constructed...
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A good trail is one that is easy to follow and well maintained. Each trail is designed, constructed and maintained to meet specific standards. These standards relate to the recreational experience the trail is intended to provide. But trails are something many of us take for...
Christopher Butler
Writing is a Primary Design Tool In an interview with Tracy Francis at McKinsey, Jony Ive had something profound to say about writing...
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In an interview with Tracy Francis at McKinsey, Jony Ive had something profound to say about writing and design: “You’ll often find creatives are obsessed with process and tools. A primary tool for me is that I write an awful lot. I write because I realized at art school that...
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Lines of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway, 1927 Here’s a fascinating map of streetcar lines in Omaha, Nebraska in 1927, beautifully hand drawn on...
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Here’s a fascinating map of streetcar lines in Omaha, Nebraska in 1927, beautifully hand drawn on top of a pre-printed single colour map of the area produced by the City’s engineering department. Not only does the map show the extent of all the streetcar lines (with 64.6 miles of...
Val Sopi
On using time <p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my...
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<p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my product-making process.</p><p>Back in the day, when I was greener, I&nbsp;used to rush things, not just for the sake of rushing to get them out of the door —&nbsp;but I would get to...
The American Scholar
In Reprise: Next, Line Please A new poetry prompt for players new and old The post In Reprise: Next, Line Please appeared first on...
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A new poetry prompt for players new and old The post In Reprise: Next, Line Please appeared first on The American Scholar.
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: An Impossible View Above, Iron Man flies past the Chrysler Building. I was trying to figure out if the buildings in the...
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Above, Iron Man flies past the Chrysler Building. I was trying to figure out if the buildings in the background were realistic, and got part of the way there. The gray building on the right looks like a simplified version of the Socony-Mobil Building at the southeast corner of...
TheCollector
What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise undefined
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Ink & Switch
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Arduino and Microchip are excited to open electronica – the “world’s leading trade fair and conference for electronics” – by introducing the Arduino UNO SPE Shield, a powerful ally to bring advanced connectivity to new and existing projects, with Single-Pair Ethernet (SPE) and...
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The Honest Broker
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Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives most of its value from content that users write for free then it must provide APIs for anyone to download and manipulate that content. While an interactive API that enables...
The Pragmatic...
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👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. In this article, we cover two out of seven topics from today’s
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oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a comfortable margin was Cursor. WindSurf and Zed also seem to be getting traction at the expense of Visual Studio, and JetBrains.
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Uhuru Houston was born in Brooklyn in 1969. He joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department in 1993, and three years later married Sonya, whom he had met when they were both students at Norfolk State University. In 1999, he was assigned to the World...
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Artificial intelligence is about to create some serious propaganda problems, a new paper argues. One solution: to nuke the web
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When it’s tough going and it feels fraught, it’s easy to imagine that the headwinds will never end. And yet, when all is going well and the wind is at our back, it’s tempting to imagine that this is the way it’s going to stay. Neither is true. The reason we see them as headwinds...
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OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way. Shortly after
Saturday Morning...
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SF's Market Street debacle, the debate over real wages, why U.S. growth has gotten smoother, TikTok as a propaganda engine, and California homelessness
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Interior design studio, Pure AW’s Designers Ltd, has shared a modern apartment they completed in Kowloon, Hong Kong, that combines warm woods and soft lighting. Designed for a couple with two children, the apartment’s interior is influenced by traditional Nordic aesthetics and...
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The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values) format. function csv($array) { $csv = ""; for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) { $csv .= '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $array[$i]) . '"'; if ($i < count($array) - 1) $csv .= ","; ...
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We noticed that the victory symbol at the bottom of our homepage looked different in Chrome than Safari––it was playing smart and rendered the unicode character as an emoji. Lettini found a fix though! Append this string of code to the symbol: &#xFE0E;. So &#9996;&#xFE0E; renders...
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I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon (along with the free web version). If you've read and enjoyed it, please Tweet about how it'
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A short pep talk I delivered to kick off a Three-Day Startup challenge event. And overwhelming confirmation that the lesson is correct.
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4 Myths About Construction Debunked [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Construction is something you...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Construction is something you probably either love or hate, depending on your commute or profession. Obviously, as a civil engineer, it’s something I think a lot about, and over the past 6 years of reading...
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I know you don’t need one more thing to worry about, but I have already written about the growing problem of space debris. At least this update is about a mission to help clear some of that debris – ClearSpace-1. This is an ESA mission which they contracted out to a Swiss...
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Plus: bland buildings can't be blamed on labor costs, reasons to be sceptical about prediction markets, and gentrification policies that actually help.
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ISENSE DESIGN has shared photos of a recently completed retail design for Beauty Technology Skincare Center in Beijing, China. The designers transformed a dark store with a red facade and awning, into a bright and open retail design with a green facade and large windows. Seizing...
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Old Structures...
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First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about the same time: It’s standard practice in New York real-estate glamor pictures to pretend that the buildings between you and the subject don’t exist. Narrow streets and big buildings...
Noahpinion
Harris has the right idea on housing It has to be managed as both a consumer good and as an asset class.
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Yesterday I went to the Becontree estate to take some photos of its churches. Then I added those photos to yesterday's post about churches on estates. I didn't add this photo, even though it was my favourite. This is St Cedd's in Becontree. It has a lovely postwar copper roof...
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Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer. I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
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I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
The Map is Mostly...
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Health is not merely about one’s diet, but it feels like a natural place to start. What follows are a few beliefs of my own.
TheCollector
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Frances Partridge was a remarkable British diarist born in 1900 whose long life was interwoven with the illustrious Bloomsbury Group. By 1967, when she wrote the following entry, she had already lost two of her nearest and dearest: her husband, Ralph, in 1960, and then tragically...
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I debated for a long time whether to visit Hiroshima since I was already on my way to Osaka from Fukuoka. It would be almost a midway stop, breaking up the original...
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The professor asked me to write a paper on Tristram Shandy, the novel she had introduced to us in her eighteenth-century English fiction class. It was her favorite novel. Its bawdy humor matched her own. For me it was love at first sight – for the novel, I mean. I was already a...
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Anecdotal Evidence
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A human being is “born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.” Aristotle didn't get it quite right when he thought we could be defined by our capacity for speech and even, on occasion, rational discourse. No, it’s learning that makes us...
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In Proximity is a podcast from Proximity Media about craft, career, and creativity. Proximity founder Ryan Coogler talks all about podcasts with Roman Mars, host and creator of 99% Invisible, a sound-rich narrative podcast about architecture and design. They discuss holding...
Old Structures...
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My off-hand comment yesterday about a Baedeker guide made me think that I should look to see what a nineteenth-century European guidebook had to say about New York and I was not disappointed. The guidebooks put out by the Baedecker company since the 1830s are famous for their...
Cheese and Biscuits
Chungdam, Soho I generally try and avoid focusing too much on service on invited meals. If the front of house know...
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I generally try and avoid focusing too much on service on invited meals. If the front of house know you're in to review they usually try and be that extra bit more attentive, and occasionally too much so, and either way it's rarely an accurate reflection of the average punter's...
Seth's Blog
Avoid unnecessary amplifiers This is extremely unique vs This is unique I’m very upset vs I’m upset and I love you a ton vs I...
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This is extremely unique vs This is unique I’m very upset vs I’m upset and I love you a ton vs I love you Sometimes, more words aren’t better.
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Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let's make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks. What our final product will look like: Live CodePen Example The HTML The set of Mario blocks doesn't require a huge...
The Rational Walk
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'The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.' Teilhard de Chardin 💡Broken Hips This feels like one of these problems that most people have accepted as inevitable but that will be solved soon and we will look back and think how crazy we allowed this...
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Rest of World -...
Mexico botched the end of daylight savings Banal change combined with everyday tech can upend everything in unexpected ways.
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On September 20, 1845, the polymathic Scottish mathematician Mary Somerville — the woman for whom the word scientist was coined — sent a letter to the polymathic English astronomer John Herschel, who six years earlier had coined the word photography for the radical invention of...
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Anxiety and Mapping the Climate Crisis Many of the maps I have created in recent years address the climate crisis and I’ve been asked a...
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Many of the maps I have created in recent years address the climate crisis and I’ve been asked a number of times about if I feel powerless in the face of the data I’m showing. I reflect on this here with Kit Rackley. Our chat also in part inspired this article in The...
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On the connection between time, skills, ideas, and what makes us truly human. Knowledge workers advance through economies by transitioning from selling time to selling labor to selling IP. The notion here is that narrowing the funnel increases the value: everyone has time,...
Castles in the Sky
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Selling a property can be a significant financial event, and understanding the tax implications is crucial. This article delves into capital gains tax in Canada, explaining how it works, how it's calculated, and how to potentially reduce your tax burden.
The Marginalian
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Nothing on Earth appears more divine yet attests more fully to the materiality of being than clouds — enchanting emblems of the water cycle that makes this rocky planet a living world, drifting across our shared dome as if exhaled by some lovesick god. That we should have such a...
Willem's Blog
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The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the power we put into these things.
The Marginalian
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Here we are, matter yearning for meaning, each of us a fragile constellation of chemistry and chance hurtling through a cold cosmos that has no accord for our wishes, takes no interest in our dreams. “I can’t but believe that all that majesty and all that beauty, those fated and...
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Ways to think about a metaverse Your boss wants a metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does metaverse even mean?...
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Your boss wants a metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does metaverse even mean? If we strip away the noise, what can we say about this, and what can we predict?
Inverted Passion
The Anti-Productivity Manifesto After a barrage of recommendations on my twitter, I finally ended up reading Oliver Burkeman’s Four...
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After a barrage of recommendations on my twitter, I finally ended up reading Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks. The central premise of the book is simple: everyone has got about four thousand weeks to live, and spending that limited time chasing efficiency is wrongheaded. The...
TheCollector
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Notes on software...
Interpreting TypeScript In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript...
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In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript makes much of its functionality available programmatically. In this post we'll use the TypeScript compiler API to build an interpreter. We'll build off of a...
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Noahpinion
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Dan Slimmon
Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
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Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about an hour. The exact pathology is a tale for another time, but the investigation led...
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Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it is eating the world.
The Honest Broker
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