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UX Collective
A love letter about change Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2 weeks ago
Spoon & Tamago
Travelling Through Eizan Railway’s Picturesque ‘Momiji Tunnel’ all photos courtesy Eizan Electric Railway Along Kyoto’s Eizan Electric Railway is a section known...
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all photos courtesy Eizan Electric Railway Along Kyoto’s Eizan Electric Railway is a section known as “Maple Tree Tunnel” (momiji tunnel, in Japanese) that is lined with hundreds of maple trees. They are, of course, beautiful any time of year. But maple trees are particularly...
Rest of World -...
The changing face of protest Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the...
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Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the equation.
Seth's Blog
Everything costs But not all costs are the same. There are three kinds of costs that people get confused about, but...
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But not all costs are the same. There are three kinds of costs that people get confused about, but understanding them, really understanding them–in your bones–unlocks opportunity. Opportunity cost: If you eat the cupcakes, you can’t also eat the brownies. Every time we choose to...
Maggie Appleton
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
As we forgive those who trespass against us Google's announcement that they're done discussing politics at work widely echoed the policy changes...
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Google's announcement that they're done discussing politics at work widely echoed the policy changes Coinbase and we at 37signals did a few years back. So yesterday, I did two separate interviews with media outlets on the topic. And we spoke in part about those early weeks of...
TheCollector
The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu? undefined
11 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
This Tall Black House Appears To Be Made From A Series Of Stacked Boxes Studio for Architecture & Collaboration (StudioAC) has designed a modern single-family home with a...
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Studio for Architecture & Collaboration (StudioAC) has designed a modern single-family home with a black exterior in Toronto, Canada. The home has a gable roof and appears as a series of stacked boxes, with different levels defining the various areas of the home. The rear of the...
Rest of World -...
Sierra Leone’s first lady hopes going viral on TikTok will secure Saturday’s elections Amid economic turmoil, President Julius Maada Bio is seeking re-election in Sierra Leone. His wife,...
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Amid economic turmoil, President Julius Maada Bio is seeking re-election in Sierra Leone. His wife, Fatima, is dancing to a crowd of over 200,000 on TikTok to drum up votes.
Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
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a year ago
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
Commoncog
The Hospitality Solution in Your Business A look at the main provocation of Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality: that you can solve...
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A look at the main provocation of Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality: that you can solve (certain) business problems with hospitality, and that it only takes a little thoughtfulness to do so.
Math Is Still...
First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set No two pairs have the same sum; add three numbers together, and you can get any whole number. ...
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No two pairs have the same sum; add three numbers together, and you can get any whole number. The post First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Marginalian
Love’s Work: Philosopher Gillian Rose on the Value of Getting It Wrong "You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my...
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"You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my power against my power... Let me discover what it is that I want and fear from love. Power and love, might and grace."
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Who will control the software that powers the Internet? Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over...
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Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over its most important services has gradually…
Diaries of Note
My oldest Friend is at last going to leave me Born in 1741 in Caernarvonshire, Wales, Hester Thrale belonged to the esteemed Salusbury family....
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Born in 1741 in Caernarvonshire, Wales, Hester Thrale belonged to the esteemed Salusbury family. Famous for her friendships with such luminaries as Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and David Garrick, Thrale was a prominent figure of the period, and her writings, particularly the...
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes. Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Matt Blewitt
Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those...
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over a year ago
Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those not directly involved. I’ll help you understand why this is an important thing to be aware of and how to use it to help your career.
symmetry magazine
Vera C. Rubin Observatory brings the universe to everyone The Rubin Observatory is making education and outreach a top priority.
a year ago
Eukaryote Writes...
Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!” Why didn't we invent knitting before 1000 CE?
over a year ago
Mind Mine
approaching life with ease the essence of living effortlessly
5 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Narrative Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please, oh god please use panel 5 wherever you...
a year ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 39 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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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...
Retail Design Blog
Aesop boutique by Sher Maker At long last, Aesop has landed in Bangkok, opening a standalone boutique in achingly fashionable...
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At long last, Aesop has landed in Bangkok, opening a standalone boutique in achingly fashionable Thonglor, a fast-evolving neighbourhood known...
Maps Mania
Live From Space
8 months ago
The Honest Broker
My Secret Life as a Social Media Coach When people ask my advice on how to flourish online, I share these five rules
3 months ago
samwho.dev
Getting an Autism Diagnosis On the 3rd of March 2022, we received a letter informing us that our eldest son, Max, has Autism...
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On the 3rd of March 2022, we received a letter informing us that our eldest son, Max, has Autism Spectrum Disorder. The letter was the end result of a long process. I’m going to talk about that process from start to finish, in as much detail as I can. This post would not have...
Arduino Blog
The Club Master is a Nano RP2040 Connect-powered device that improves your golf swing When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even...
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When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even small deviations can be the difference between a hole-in-one and additional strokes. To improve his game, Concept Bytes has designed a small clip-on device called the “Club Master.”...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Flourishing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is based on a thoughtful email a reader sent...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is based on a thoughtful email a reader sent me, but I didn't know if he'd want to be associated with with it technically called Choculatio. Email me sir, if it is otherwise. Today's News: Somehow this feels like peak SMBC,...
SatPost by Trung...
Nike’s Marketing Blindspot What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
a year ago
Charles Chen
Vue 3x3 - A Mental Model for Building Fast A mental model for helping you get oriented with with Vue3 and Composition API
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Trusting platforms In response to my post yesterday about how an internet of people has enabled a new wave of web-based...
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In response to my post yesterday about how an internet of people has enabled a new wave of web-based marketplaces, Nick Mango commented…
Cartogrammar
A guide to not being a sidewalk jerk Hello friends. It has become apparent that you are all terrible at being pedestrians. I feel...
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Hello friends. It has become apparent that you are all terrible at being pedestrians. I feel confident saying that despite some good eggs and battle-tested walkers such as New Yorkers, most Americans are obliviously selfish, inconsiderate users of sidewalk space. It’s true even...
Commoncog
What Rigorous Process Improvement in Education Looks Like What an rigorous trial and error looks like when applied to improving disadvantaged student outcomes...
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What an rigorous trial and error looks like when applied to improving disadvantaged student outcomes ... and why you should do this in your own organisational contexts.
xkcd.com
Making Tea
2 weeks ago
diamond geezer
Lavenham Day out: Lavenham well off the beaten track - roughly west of Ipswich and south of Bury St Edmunds....
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Day out: Lavenham well off the beaten track - roughly west of Ipswich and south of Bury St Edmunds. But 500 years ago Lavenham was one of the wealthiest towns in the country thanks to all the money to be made from sheep, specifically the dyeing, spinning and weaving of woollen...
Archinect - Features
New Dog, New Tricks: Reflections on Construction, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence What is the current relationship between humans, robotics, and construction? What is its future? To...
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What is the current relationship between humans, robotics, and construction? What is its future? To explore these questions in depth, Archinect speaks with both Boston Dynamics and the Applied Research + Development group at Foster + Partners for their experiences and...
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece undefined
a year ago
Londonist
The Chelsea Flower Show 2024: A Blooming Brief Guide The world’s greatest flower show returns.
9 months ago
Stephen Wolfram...
Prompts for Work & Play: Launching the Wolfram Prompt Repository This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram...
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This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin KitThe New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram LanguagePrompts for Work & Play:...
diamond geezer
Central line upgrade #10002 ✅ Journeys January 2020 TfL started withdrawing rolling stock from the Central line as part...
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#10002 ✅ Journeys January 2020 TfL started withdrawing rolling stock from the Central line as part of an ongoing programme of refurbishment. All the motors need replacing, plus this offered the additional opportunity to add wheelchair spaces, LED lighting, CCTV and improved...
The Rational Walk
The Berkshire Hathaway MBA Studying Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Berkshire Hathaway's history can provide a level of...
a year ago
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Studying Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Berkshire Hathaway's history can provide a level of fluency in business and investing rivaling a costly MBA degree.
Acko.net
Headless React Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things -...
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Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things - Memoization, Data Flow and reconciliation Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU Live It is actually pretty easy to build a mediocre headless React today, i.e. an...
Christopher Butler
The AI Designer The AI Designer is a powerful notion, but it is incomplete. For creative craftspeople, AI is...
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The AI Designer is a powerful notion, but it is incomplete. For creative craftspeople, AI is more of an imposed thought experiment than it is a utility. Yes, there are countless AI tools that can do parts of the job — make an image for you, create a layout, automate a...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Classics Gifts!
3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review ‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review JamesHoare Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
8 months ago
mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 1 Highlights I’m rebooting my blogging course from 2020. htmx is pretty good but not everything I wish...
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Highlights I’m rebooting my blogging course from 2020. htmx is pretty good but not everything I wish it could be. I’m looking for a buyer for Is It Keto, my old keto website. Rebooting Hit the Front Page In 2020, I created a video course about blogging called “Hit the Front Page...
Home on Erik...
What is the right level of specialization? For data teams and anyone else. This isn't as much of a blog post as an elaboration of a tweet I posted the other day: I think this...
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This isn't as much of a blog post as an elaboration of a tweet I posted the other day: I think this specialization of data teams into 99 different roles (data scientist, data engineer, analytics engineer, ML engineer etc) is generally a bad thing driven by the fact that tools are...
TheCollector
Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts? undefined
10 months ago
Patrick Kayongo
Can I Speak To Someone? On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from...
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On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from Heathrow Airport, London. After boarding, the flight remained on the runway for over an hour without taking off. Eventually, the pilot told us that due to the coup in Niger, the...
Contemporist...
The Ultimate Gift Guide With Over 50 Ideas For Interior Designers, Architects, And Design Lovers Finding a gift for an interior designer, architect, or design lover can sometimes be a difficult...
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Finding a gift for an interior designer, architect, or design lover can sometimes be a difficult task, so we’ve put together a collection of more than 50 gift ideas to make your life easier.
devonzuegel.com
OWD #4: Supersonic planes, levitating trains, & electric automobiles Mobility is central to living in every city. In this episode, we discussed how different communities...
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Mobility is central to living in every city. In this episode, we discussed how different communities tackle the question of transportation, and how culture shapes how different transport technologies get adopted. RSS · Apple Podcasts · Spotify · Overcast Mobility is central to...
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review ‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review JamesHoare Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
Both Are True
graphic design is my new pation that's really how my brain spelled passion!!
7 months ago
Rest of World -...
A horrific video sparks a national reckoning in India The northeastern state of Manipur has plunged into violence since May as the two major ethnic groups...
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The northeastern state of Manipur has plunged into violence since May as the two major ethnic groups fight over identity, land, and influence.
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on comments For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a...
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For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a good blog post without a relevant discussion to accompany it? You might find it strange to learn that Postleaf doesn't ship with comments. This is by design, and I'll explain why...
RhysTranter.com
A new role I am delighted to say that today I accepted a role as Head of Religious Education and Chaplaincy...
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I am delighted to say that today I accepted a role as Head of Religious Education and Chaplaincy Coordinator at St David's Catholic College. I joined the college as a pastoral tutor four years ago this month, after a religious conversion prompted me to seek out a new career in...
Society's Backend
Would You Build the Manhattan Project in the UAE? Thoughts on AI national security threats
6 months ago
Christopher Butler
Link – Rebecca Toh's Personal Website rebeccatoh.co is a really nice personal website. Something about the chunkiness of Karla at 700...
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rebeccatoh.co is a really nice personal website. Something about the chunkiness of Karla at 700 weight is just ideal, and the colors Rebecca has chosen are unique and gentle. It is all just perfectly simple and lovely to read.
Mazdak
Gannett Sues Google for Digital Advertising Monopoly. Gannett Sues Google for Digital Ad Monopoly. iPhone 15 Pro Max: Everything We Know So Far About...
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Gannett Sues Google for Digital Ad Monopoly. iPhone 15 Pro Max: Everything We Know So Far About Apple's Next Flagship. Reddit Protests Continue as Company Threatens to Remove Moderators. Gannett Sues Google for Digital Ad Monopoly. Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper chain, has...
Herbert Lui
Greatness means avoiding stupid mistakes consistently Shane Parrish writes at Brain Food, “Moments don’t make legends. Consistency does. And the hardest...
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Shane Parrish writes at Brain Food, “Moments don’t make legends. Consistency does. And the hardest consistency isn’t in doing brilliant things but avoiding stupid ones. Every mistake puts you in hard mode, forcing you to make up lost ground.” In some lines of work, a person must...
The Marginalian
A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous... Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other...
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Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other what the world is and what we are, for conveying the blueness of blue and the wonder of being alive. But it is also a thing of great pliancy and creativity — a living reminder that...
Seth's Blog
Long-term selfish Everyone is selfish. We do things that increase our chances of survival, help us achieve our goals...
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Everyone is selfish. We do things that increase our chances of survival, help us achieve our goals and give us a story we can tell ourselves about our role in the community. But short-term selfish is something we try to grow out of. Short-term selfish runs a red light because...
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire undefined
4 months ago
Stephen Diehl
SBF is Crypto Personified
over a year ago
TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III undefined
9 months ago
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial JamesHoare Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
2 months ago
Unpacked
Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which...
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On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which will force tech giants (predominantly Meta and Google) to pay news organizations in Canada for content that is shared on these platforms. The foundational premise of the law is...
Roberto Vitillo's...
Testing and operating distributed systems I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally...
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I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally complete! First things first, I have…
There are two types...
Me on the On Cities Podcast CLICK HERE to open in Apple Podcasts The post Me on the On Cities Podcast appeared first on There...
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CLICK HERE to open in Apple Podcasts The post Me on the On Cities Podcast appeared first on There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind.
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review ‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review JamesHoare Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
Seth's Blog
Spines out I lost a cookbook the other day. After twenty more minutes of searching, there it was, right on the...
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I lost a cookbook the other day. After twenty more minutes of searching, there it was, right on the cookbook shelf. But the spine was much more subtle than the cover, and it hadn’t been what I was looking for or expecting. We spend a lot of time on our (metaphorical) book covers....
TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian undefined
5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Nov 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
Bits about Money
Credit card debt collection Credit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being...
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Credit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being sordid, for complex structural and microeconomic reasons.
TheCollector
The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas undefined
10 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
Blue paint in the C preprocessor In the C preprocessor, after a macro has been expanded the result is rescanned for further macros....
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In the C preprocessor, after a macro has been expanded the result is rescanned for further macros. To prevent recursion, [the C standard][n3220] says the following in section 6.10.5.4p2. (This text has been basically the same since C89.) If the name of the macro being replaced is...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to stop thinking as an engineer and start thinking like a business man? Uff, this is a tough one. I can say for sure — it’s possible, everything can be learned. I do...
a year ago
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a year ago
Uff, this is a tough one. I can say for sure — it’s possible, everything can be learned. I do […] The post How to stop thinking as an engineer and start thinking like a business man? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Retail Design Blog
Liquor packaging by BXL Packaging Design A bottle of good is like a work of art The packaging design of this liquor is inspired by the...
5 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
Jan 2021: I got a $500K acquisition offer! ...and other updates in January 2022 from me
a year ago
TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story undefined
9 months ago
Chris Grossack's...
Proving Another "Real Theorem" with Topos Theory Another day, another post that starts with “So I was on mse…”, lol. Somebody asked whether...
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Another day, another post that starts with “So I was on mse…”, lol. Somebody asked whether maximizing over a compact set is a continuous thing to do. That is, given a continuous function $f : K \times X \to \mathbb{R}$ is the function $x \mapsto \max_{k \in K} f(k,x)$...
TheCollector
Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station undefined
8 months ago
Flashbak
On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC ‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
bt RSS Feed
Website Backups with Apple iCloud Website Backups with Apple iCloud 2024-02-16 My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really...
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Website Backups with Apple iCloud 2024-02-16 My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really well with my iPhone SE (they are in the same ecosystem after all - duh!). Since both of these devices are Apple products, it makes sense that I pay for the optional iCloud service...
TheCollector
What Is the Book of Galatians About? undefined
a month ago
The American Scholar
Ground Truth A story of dirt, dollars, and death The post Ground Truth appeared first on The American Scholar.
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A story of dirt, dollars, and death The post Ground Truth appeared first on The American Scholar.
Stoic Simple
Stoicism and the Path to Finding Inner Peace in Your Life In today's tumultuous world, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the constant barrage of events,...
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In today's tumultuous world, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the constant barrage of events, emotions, and distractions around us. Many of us seek a sense of inner peace, a place of refuge from the chaos of the outside world. While there are many paths to inner peace, one...
CONTEMPORIST
An Observation Tower That Looks Like Twisted Wood Rises Above The Swedish Landscape White Arkitekter has shared photos of Observation Tower Kärven on the Swedish west coast, which they...
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White Arkitekter has shared photos of Observation Tower Kärven on the Swedish west coast, which they completed after winning Varberg Municipality’s architectural competition. Recently opened, the tower in Getterön nature reserve north of Varberg, measures 39 feet (12m) high and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
A non-coders thoughts on ‘Everybody Codes’ - Part Two One of PostHog’s values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs to be a developer,...
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One of PostHog’s values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs to be a developer, but we do encourage everyone to practice the…
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content undefined
a year ago
The Convivial...
If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 11
4 months ago
Bits about Money
Money laundering and AML compliance A brief overview of what money laundering is, what financial institutions do about it, and why.
a year ago
Map of the Week
Summer Light Reading 2024 Here is another installment of what is becoming an annual summer tradition. Just like the light...
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Here is another installment of what is becoming an annual summer tradition. Just like the light beach reading, here is some light map reading. Not much to comment about, just some maps and related items I like. First of all since the Olympics are in Paris, a nice papercut map you...
The Modern House
New Wave: seven coastal homes for sale in Kent and Sussex In the middle of the 19th century, well-meaning Victorian doctors would advise their patients to...
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In the middle of the 19th century, well-meaning Victorian doctors would advise their patients to take ‘the sea cure’. Dutifully, they would go to the coast – particularly in the south – bathe in the waters and draw in lungfuls of salty air. Smart promenades, […]
Dominik Sobe's...
First, second, wait—third customer
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
A new Plug and Make Kit challenge! A game of rhythm and creativity The Arduino Plug and Make Kit is all about unleashing creativity while simplifying the process of...
2 weeks ago
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The Arduino Plug and Make Kit is all about unleashing creativity while simplifying the process of turning ideas into reality. It enables everyone to focus on the fun of creating with the power of the UNO R4 WiFi and a user-friendly, modular design – bypassing the complexities of...
Josh Thompson
Overcome (some) barriers in work with this magic phrase You’re sending an email to your boss about some decision point you’re facing. How should you word...
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You’re sending an email to your boss about some decision point you’re facing. How should you word it? Compare this wording: Let me know if my criteria are sound, or if you have any concerns. I’d like to get started as soon as possible. To this wording: Unless I hear otherwise,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Frontend filters & backend SQL - A chat with Eric Duong, Sam Winslow, James Greenhill, and Buddy... By: Engineering @ PostHog Eric: I'll just do it on my computer, upload it, and then toss it later....
over a year ago
Tech and Tea
Space to do whatever, Part II Insights from carving out space for creativity
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
creative experiences in osaka A few months ago I joked with my partner that we should visit Osaka at the end of the year. She...
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A few months ago I joked with my partner that we should visit Osaka at the end of the year. She seriously replied that if so we could visit a sewing studio...
Patrick Kayongo
Rhythms of Order Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous...
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Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous generations could never have dreamed of. Whether it’s bypassing traffic jams on the outskirts of hills of Kampala, or it’s determining your public transport route from your hotel to your...
diamond geezer
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At work, we use Amazon SNS as the trigger for a lot of our data pipelines. You send a message to an SNS topic, and it gets picked up by an SQS queue, an ECS task, or a Lambda function – and they in turn send new messages to other SNS topics, and the pipeline continues. Sending a...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use. It was designed to be intuitive for beginners, such as students. In under a half hour I had created some common basic mechanics! Check it out: See the...
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Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all evil”, from his 1974 Turing Award lecture (pdf). A fuller quotation of the surrounding context gives a rounder view: I am sorry to say that many people nowadays are condemning...
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My router decided to change the device name for some USB storage devices. So /dev/sdc was swapped for /dev/sdd and vice versa. The result was some file system corruption on /dev/sdc, because it was used on a remote system through iSCSI, using a different file system from...
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These white and intricate forms appear to be the work of mother nature, sculpted over hundreds and thousands of years. Instead, they’re the work of Japanese ceramicist Eriko Inazaki, who painstakingly shapes and assembles each prick and piece by hand. And in doing so, she’s...
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Patalathri, commonly known as Singaperumal Koil is a very famous Narasimha Kshetra situated in Chengalpattu District, Tamilnadu. This place houses a beautiful rock-cut Narasimha temple, which is situated on a small hill. The name of the place, ‘Patalathri’ also gives a similar...
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Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a two-part article. All across Japan, one sight remains ubiquitous – the convenience store. A far, far cry from their American cousins, convenience stores in Japan are without...
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In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it from a follow-on to Warcraft — derisively called “Orcs in space” in 1996 — into the award-winning game that we were finally able to deliver after two more years of hardship. But one...
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Recently I was chatting with a Staff-plus engineer who was struggling to influence his peers. Each time he suggested an approach, his team agreed with him, but his peers in the organization disagreed and pushed back. He wanted advice on why his peers kept undermining his...
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Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers, measure bundle size, and what not. npm scripts are fine for one-liners, but as the workflows grow more complex — run these things in parallel, then do something else, but only if...
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From Carol Highsmith’s archive, a Target store in Brooklyn in 2018. If you’re going to reuse an old theater for your big-box store, why not reuse the marquee and vertical knife sign for advertising?
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
The American Scholar
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Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest otherwise. The post Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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(This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts when thinking about instrumenting a system to understand its overall performance and capacity is what I call “time utilization”. By this I mean: If you look at the behavior of a...
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I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Apple Messages for months. And it made me sad. But in the past few months we got it fixed. And that made me very happy! We really love our Pika social share images. They are...
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I don't know whether it's by design or sheer accident that Bossa, a brand new Brazilian restaurant from chef Alberto Landgraf, has landed right next door to the Brazilian embassy. But it felt very appropriate walking under a giant Brazilian flag up to the front steps of Bossa -...
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Looking back, I realized that I haven't written much about halide perovskites, which is quite an oversight given how much research impact they're having.  I'm not an expert, and there are multiple extensive review articles out there (e.g. here, here, here, here, here), so this...
Arduino Blog
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Kinetic sand art tables are pretty hot right now, because they look really cool. They’re like zen gardens that rake themselves in intricate patterns. But most of the builds we’ve seen use a conventional cartesian CNC layout or polar layout. This table by Newsons Electronics takes...
The Marginalian
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We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe. And maybe we have to forget — or we would be too stupefied with gratitude for every raindrop and every eyelash to get through the daily tasks punctuating the unbidden wonder of...
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I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact on the way I absorb and learn from a book. It’s a once in a century sort of shift in this medium. My new book is now available in audio. It’s not on Audible, at least […]
Seth's Blog
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And you can be the first on your block to play it. It’s free. Click here to see today’s game. Over the next week, I’m going to do a few bonus posts to explain how we thought about the creation and game design and marketing of this new project. The last eighteen months of...
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There are different ways to understand and practice Stoic philosophy, and this is true not just for the differences between ancient and modern Stoicism, but even within ancient Stoicism itself. After all, the philosophy evolved over a course of more than five centuries from Zeno...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On April 20, 2023, SpaceX launched it’s first orbital test flight of its Starship spacecraft from Boca Chica on the gulf coast of Texas. You probably saw this, if not live, at least in the stunning videos that...
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So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB. Easy right? Not so fast. It turns out, you have to obey your provisioned write capacity. Unlike S3, "Simple Storage Service" where you simply upload a file, DynamoDB isn't "Simple". There's no "upload CSV" button. You have to write a...
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I highly recommend the soon-to-be-released book The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the University of Illinois and not just because I wrote on chapter of it. Marci Uihlein, the editor, an architect and engineer, and a professor of architecture at...