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Anecdotal Evidence
'So Important That It Ought to Absorb Him' In his brief portrait of Joseph Conrad, Desmond MacCarthy tells us the novelist “felt himself...
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In his brief portrait of Joseph Conrad, Desmond MacCarthy tells us the novelist “felt himself impelled to attempt an intenser vividness in description. Try, just try, so to describe something that the inattentive reader must see it, and the attentive one can never forget that he...
bt RSS Feed
Making a Website Under 1kB Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
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over a year ago
Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn’t as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 3 Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Is It Keto Month 3:...
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over a year ago
Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Is It Keto Month 3: Returning to a Site that Grew without Me
Global Inequality...
The third framing Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Platformer
13 predictions for platforms in 2023 Twitter! ChatGPT! Content moderation! And more
over a year ago
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...
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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...
The Modern House
With the rolling South Downs on its doorstep, the award-winning Black Timber House by HAPA...
8 months ago
Irrational...
How should you adopt LLMs? Whether you’re a product engineer, a product manager, or an engineering executive, you’ve probably...
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Whether you’re a product engineer, a product manager, or an engineering executive, you’ve probably been pushed to consider using Large Language Models (LLM) to extend your product or enhance your processes. 2023-2024 is an interesting era for LLM adoption, where these...
Platformer
A visit to TikTok's transparency center Few companies have ever made their code so available for inspection. How much will it matter?
a year ago
Archinect - Features
Being Laid off in Architecture Is Tough; So Is Waiting To Be Findings from our recent Archinect Business Survey suggest that many architecture employees do not...
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4 months ago
Findings from our recent Archinect Business Survey suggest that many architecture employees do not feel secure in their current roles. For those facing the looming prospect of layoffs in the coming weeks or months, the emotional strain can be as taxing as that experienced by...
CONTEMPORIST
A Bathroom Renovation Where Adding A Vanity That Wraps Around The Corner Added Much Needed... Designer Ana Dahlman has shared photos of a bathroom renovation she completed that included...
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Designer Ana Dahlman has shared photos of a bathroom renovation she completed that included replacing the vanity with a floating L-shaped corner vanity. Before we see the renovated bathroom, here’s what it looked like originally, with cream-colored walls and a small vanity with...
nanoscale views
Faculty positions at Rice, + annual Nobel speculation Trying to spread the word: The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University in Houston,...
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Trying to spread the word: The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University in Houston, Texas invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions, one experimental and one theoretical, in the area of quantum science using atomic, molecular, or optical methods....
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Dead CEOs and Conservative Progressives Plus! Hawk Tuah crypto scandal, gift guide season, and a good Spotify Wrapped
2 weeks ago
The American Scholar
Reborn in the City of Light At a time when Paris was an incubator of modernism, a group of bold American women arrived to make...
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At a time when Paris was an incubator of modernism, a group of bold American women arrived to make art out of their lives The post Reborn in the City of Light appeared first on The American Scholar.
Noahpinion
Six reasons chipmakers should put their fabs in Japan It has every resource the semiconductor industry needs.
a year ago
Identity Designed
Krayna Designed by Heyholm, Basel.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Starting Svelte Society Thoughts on how I am doing with 4 months of Svelte Society in the bag.
over a year ago
AVC
AI Art There has been a lot of discussion about how AIs can make art and possibly replace artists, but I...
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There has been a lot of discussion about how AIs can make art and possibly replace artists, but I think the opposite is more likely to happen. Artists have been using AI to make art for a while now and the pace has picked up a lot in recent years. I have always loved the […]
Archinect - Features
The Books You Should Read for Summer 2024, According to Leading Voices in Architecture Is your bookshelf ready for Summer? If not, we have you covered.  Continuing a recurring tradition,...
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Is your bookshelf ready for Summer? If not, we have you covered.  Continuing a recurring tradition, Archinect has reached out to notable figures across the architecture community who have been featured in our editorial over the past year, asking them what books they believe...
Epic Web Dev
Use Client Hints to Eliminate Content Layout Shift (tip) Learn how to eliminate CLS using client hints in the Epic Stack.
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Social sharing buttons are ineffective Back in 2012, I wrote an article called Down with the "Share" Widget. In it, I talked about why...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Back in 2012, I wrote an article called Down with the "Share" Widget. In it, I talked about why plastering social sharing buttons all over your website is completely ineffective. This morning, Smashing Magazine all but confirmed my theory. In today's Smashing Newsletter, they...
TheCollector
Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal undefined
8 months ago
Open Culture
Spin the 17th-Century Death Roulette Wheel & Find Out What Would Have Killed You in 1665 A common historical misconception holds that, up until a few centuries ago, everyone died when they...
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A common historical misconception holds that, up until a few centuries ago, everyone died when they were about 40. In fact, even in antiquity, one could well make it to what would be considered an advanced age today — assuming one survived the great mortal peril of childhood, and...
Gwern.net Newsletter
June gwern.net newsletter June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening,...
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over a year ago
June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening, AI scaling, politics, and technological unemployment.
Nabeel S. Qureshi
The Serendipity Machine Notes on Using Twitter
11 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography “Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
computers are bad
2023-11-25 the curse of docker I'm heading to Las Vegas for re:invent soon, perhaps the most boring type of industry extravaganza...
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I'm heading to Las Vegas for re:invent soon, perhaps the most boring type of industry extravaganza there could be. In that spirit, I thought I would write something quick and oddly professional: I'm going to complain about Docker. Packaging software is one of those fundamental...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Most Perverse Gesture' “Books are friends, oracles, household gods, characters in the ongoing drama of our...
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a year ago
“Books are friends, oracles, household gods, characters in the ongoing drama of our minds.” Understandably, Lance Marrow gets a little sentimental about books and their needless destruction. We resist soft-headed fetishism but for some of us, discarding or destroying books, even...
Diaries of Note
A disgusting day! In April of 1891, Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky made the long journey to New York where...
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In April of 1891, Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky made the long journey to New York where he was to play a pivotal role in the inauguration of the city’s new music hall, later known as Carnegie Hall—a momentous occasion and the first time he had set foot in the United...
IEEE Spectrum
Chuck E. Cheese’s Animatronics Band Bows Out That may have been the last time I entered a Chuck E. Cheese pizzeria. And yet, when I heard that...
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3 weeks ago
That may have been the last time I entered a Chuck E. Cheese pizzeria. And yet, when I heard that the company was phasing out the animatronic bands from all but five locations by the end of this year, I felt a twinge of nostalgia. Much to my surprise, I was truly sad that the...
CONTEMPORIST
A Design Award Announces Their Annual World Design Rankings This article has been brought to you by A’Design Awards. A’Design Award and Competition have...
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This article has been brought to you by A’Design Awards. A’Design Award and Competition have released their World Design Rankings (WDR) in Arts, Architecture and Design, with China taking first place, followed by the USA, and Japan. The World Design Rankings ranks all the...
Noahpinion
The perverse incentives of euthanasia Suggesting that people die is not a good way of saving taxpayer money.
8 months ago
alexwlchan
Documenting my DNS records I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of...
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I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of sysadmins everywhere. It all went fine, but I definitely felt like I was playing with fire. My current domain registrar is Hover, and the only way I can manage my domains is through a...
TheCollector
Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s undefined
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
“Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform… “Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform...
over a year ago
Ben Borgers
School But Online
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Random Ruby Tricks: Struct.new
over a year ago
Castles in the Sky
Treat life like a trip to the used bookstore. Bookstore Register #4
9 months ago
The Berkeley...
TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic...
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The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic systems that can complete a user query by orchestrating the right set of tools (e.g. ToolFormer, Gorilla). This, along with the recent multi-modal efforts such as the GPT-4o or...
Math Is Still...
The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it...
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The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it is, in fact, a hub of sensory and emotional processing in the brain. The post The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings first appeared on Quanta...
Explorations of an...
The Terror Bird's Relative January 21, 2023 Laura and I left Salta before dawn so that we could be at our first birding...
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January 21, 2023 Laura and I left Salta before dawn so that we could be at our first birding location nice and early. The forecasted weather would be few degrees warmer than normal summer temperatures, and we wanted to make the most of our morning.  Our goal for the day was to...
diamond geezer
The 24th pub on the A24 Yesterday I attempted to buy a pint in the 24th pub on the A24. Let's see how I did. A24 is a major...
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Yesterday I attempted to buy a pint in the 24th pub on the A24. Let's see how I did. A24 is a major trunk road linking London to Worthing in Sussex. It starts outside Clapham Common tube station and follows the Northern line down to Morden, then continues through Cheam, Epsom,...
Math Is Still...
How Randomness Improves Algorithms Unpredictability can help computer scientists solve otherwise intractable problems. The...
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Unpredictability can help computer scientists solve otherwise intractable problems. The post How Randomness Improves Algorithms first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Arduino Blog
Exploring Alvik: 3 fun and creative projects with Arduino’s educational robot platform Alvik is cute, it’s smart, it’s fun… so what can it actually do?  To answer this question, we...
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Alvik is cute, it’s smart, it’s fun… so what can it actually do?  To answer this question, we decided to have fun and put the robot to the test with some of the most creative people we know – our own team! A dozen Arduino employees volunteered for a dedicated Make Tank session...
Coding Horror
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it...
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When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Websites have gotten a lot
Neocha – Culture &...
Deep Baby Sleep Realm
a year ago
Maps Mania
VersaTiles Free Map Tiles
3 months ago
Open Culture
A New Analysis of Beethoven’s DNA Reveals That Lead Poisoning Could Have Caused His Deafness Despite the intense scrutiny paid to the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven for a couple of...
7 months ago
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Despite the intense scrutiny paid to the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven for a couple of centuries now, the revered composer still has certain mysteries about him. Some of them he surely never intended to clarify, like the identity of “Immortal Beloved”; others he...
Rest of World -...
Ride-hailing drivers in Nigeria are suffering after government triples fuel prices Uber and Bolt drivers say the fuel subsidy removal has put them at risk of losing their livelihoods.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
On holding back the strange AI tide There is no way to stop the disruption. We need to channel it instead
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Jim Croce and Me 50 years ago today, the gifted singer-songwriter died in a plane crash
a year ago
TheCollector
8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness undefined
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
The 2024 Toyama Kei-Truck Gardening Contest The 2024 Kei-Truck Gardening Contest took place over the weekend. In what is perhaps the...
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The 2024 Kei-Truck Gardening Contest took place over the weekend. In what is perhaps the most-Japanese contest, professional gardeners and landscapers compete to create a beautiful, seasonal, and unique landscape , all within the bed of their kei-trucks. This contest originated...
xkcd.com
Wish Interpretation
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema? undefined
6 months ago
diamond geezer
Littlehampton → Shoreham Walking the coast of Britain can be a tortuous meandering slog round umpteen bays and inlets or it...
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Walking the coast of Britain can be a tortuous meandering slog round umpteen bays and inlets or it can be a simple stroll along a gentle curving shoreline. The coast of Sussex is mostly the latter which makes it ideal for a good long coastal walk. At the weekend I headed to the...
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “ignoring the election” edition 1. UK university fees going up (but not by enough to make the system work) For those of you not in...
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1. UK university fees going up (but not by enough to make the system work) For those of you not in the UK, the British system of university funding is a weird mash-mash of different stuff, cobbled together from the mistakes made by successive governments. When I was young, the...
The Rational Walk
Dollar General: Value or Value Trap? I spent Labor Day weekend reading about this beaten down retailer. This article provides some...
a year ago
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I spent Labor Day weekend reading about this beaten down retailer. This article provides some initial thoughts about the company as well as the overall retail landscape.
RhysTranter.com
Visit to the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia In July, Jenn and I travelled to Estonia to visit the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa. Pärt is the...
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In July, Jenn and I travelled to Estonia to visit the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa. Pärt is the most-performed living composer in the world, and his life and work played a key role in the development of my faith. We even saw Arvo Pärt and his wife Nora shopping at their local...
macwright.com
Playing with bikeshare data, part one Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a...
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Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a datapoint for each of the roughly 2,090 stations with numbers for how many bikes are available or broken, and how many bikes are electric. It’s a long-term project that combines my...
Spoon & Tamago
Elongated Engawa Defines this Community Welfare Center in Chiba As Japan’s population continues to grow older—one in 10 residents are aged 80 or above—care for the...
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As Japan’s population continues to grow older—one in 10 residents are aged 80 or above—care for the elderly becomes an increasingly important issue. And while elderly populations are typically seen as a burden, there are places around rural Japan that offer glimpses of a more...
lcamtuf’s thing
Analog filters, part 2: let it ring A continuation of the gentle intro to analog signal filtering. In today's episode: the Sallen-Key...
2 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
What You Can Do with Netlify Build Plugins Netlify Build Plugins are here! Here's a smattering of thoughts on what you can do with them.
over a year ago
Open Culture
George Harrison Explains Why Everyone Should Play the Ukulele George Harrison loved the ukulele, and really, what’s not to love? For its dainty size, the uke can...
2 months ago
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George Harrison loved the ukulele, and really, what’s not to love? For its dainty size, the uke can make a powerfully cheerful sound, and it’s an instrument both beginners and expert players can learn and easily carry around. As Harrison’s old friend Joe Brown remarked, “You can...
TheCollector
An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt undefined
8 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Ideas for Startups
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
It’s simple (it’s complicated) It’s simple: This surgery will fix your problem and you’ll be better. It’s complicated: Changes in...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s simple: This surgery will fix your problem and you’ll be better. It’s complicated: Changes in lifestyle, diet and attitude will, over time, help you feel better. Or… Our enemies are bad, and we’re good. Vote for me. The world is a big place that is filled with nuance,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: The AARRR pirate funnel explained Want to build an AARRR funnel in PostHog? Use our AARRR dashboard template to set one up quickly...
a year ago
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a year ago
Want to build an AARRR funnel in PostHog? Use our AARRR dashboard template to set one up quickly and easily. What is the AARRR framework? The AARRR…
Stoic Simple
Stoic Philosophy and its Influence on Literature Throughout History Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. It is a way of...
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Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. It is a way of life that encourages individuals to be virtuous, rational, and in control of their emotions. Stoicism has been an important part of literature throughout the ages, with many authors...
alexwlchan
Digital decluttering I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom. I read novel-length stories about...
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I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom. I read novel-length stories about Doctor Who characters; I swooned over fan art of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries; I pored over in-depth analyses of each episode of Carmilla. Most of that is gone now. Links rot quickly,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Early Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The worst part is you can't source any pumpkins...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The worst part is you can't source any pumpkins because there's been no first contact with the Americas. Today's News:
AFAR Media - Travel...
New United Lounge in Newark Airport's Terminal A Now Open
a year ago
The American Scholar
We Are the Borg Is the convergence of human and machine really upon us? The post We Are the Borg appeared first on...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Is the convergence of human and machine really upon us? The post We Are the Borg appeared first on The American Scholar.
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...
Londonist
A Bald Man Chooses His Favourite Bald Spots In London The O2, the huge Hitchcock head - which is your fave?
9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World? Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Anorak Corner (rail edition) Anorak Corner [National Rail edition] passenger data from across Britain's railway network, this...
a year ago
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a year ago
Anorak Corner [National Rail edition] passenger data from across Britain's railway network, this batch covering the period April 2022 to March 2023. After a couple of years of freakish statistics we've finally left the pandemic behind, with its subdued commuting, reduced...
David Heinemeier...
You can't get faster than No Build For the first time since the 2000s, I'm working on a new Rails application without using any form of...
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For the first time since the 2000s, I'm working on a new Rails application without using any form of real build steps on the front-end. We're making it using vanilla ES6 with import maps for Hotwire, and vanilla CSS with nesting and variables for styling. All running on a...
TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker undefined
a month ago
Spoon & Tamago
Go See 5.3 Million Baby Blue Eye Flowers at Hitachi Seaside Park in Japan photo by teerayut hiruntaraporn Japan’s cherry blossoms usually get all the attention for their...
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photo by teerayut hiruntaraporn Japan’s cherry blossoms usually get all the attention for their short-lived beauty. But equally ephemeral are Japan’s Nemophila, or Baby Blue Eyes. And once a year, around late April to Early May, an astounding sea of 5.3 million of these little...
The DESK Magazine
When our persona becomes our prison You stand out online by having a “thing.” A certain style, a specific voice, a schtick or a skill...
a year ago
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You stand out online by having a “thing.” A certain style, a specific voice, a schtick or a skill that catches the eye of a few people and eventually snowballs you into notoriety.
Stephen Wolfram...
Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems
over a year ago
Maps Mania
Explore the World in 3D
a year ago
Making software...
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
a year ago
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a year ago
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
Math Is Still...
Overexposure Distorted the Science of Mirror Neurons After a decade out of the spotlight, the brain cells once alleged to explain empathy, autism and...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
After a decade out of the spotlight, the brain cells once alleged to explain empathy, autism and theory of mind are being refined and redefined. The post Overexposure Distorted the Science of Mirror Neurons first appeared on Quanta Magazine
A Smart Bear
Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric “Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail to produce the best answers, and fail to create explanations that help others understand why they’re the best answers. This system works.
History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts JamesHoare Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
4 months ago
The Marginalian
The Sunflower and the Soul: Wendell Berry on the Collaborative Nature of the Universe and the Cure... "We are not the authors of ourselves. That we are not is a religious perception, but it is also a...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
"We are not the authors of ourselves. That we are not is a religious perception, but it is also a biological and a social one. Each of us has had many authors, and each of us is engaged, for better or worse, in that same authorship. We could say that the human race is a great...
The Marginalian
The Challenge of Closeness: Alain de Botton on Love, Vulnerability, and the Paradox of Avoidance The psychological machinery of our commonest coping mechanism for the terror of hurt, rejection, and...
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Two Kinds of Judgement
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Building confidence in the face of impostor syndrome When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I question if I am a good enough engineer, designer, or statistician, but once I get started, my excitement transforms those doubts into motivation. But all bets are off as soon as I...
Open Culture
Michio Kaku Demystifies the God Equation: The Key to Understanding Everything It speaks to the importance of discoveries in physics over the past few generations that even the...
3 months ago
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It speaks to the importance of discoveries in physics over the past few generations that even the disinterested layman has heard of the field’s central challenge. In brief, there exist two separate systems: general relativity, which describes the physics of space, time, and...
TheCollector
The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director undefined
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Give your JPEGs alpha channels If you need alpha transparency on the web, 24-bit PNGs are usually your best bet. The only problem...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you need alpha transparency on the web, 24-bit PNGs are usually your best bet. The only problem is that PNGs are lossless and can grow in file size very quickly — much larger than your average JPEG. So what if there was a way for JPEGs to support alpha channels? I discovered...
Retail Design Blog
424 store by Zoo as Zoo Originally from Guatemala City, designer Guillermo Andrade defined his style very early on, but it...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Originally from Guatemala City, designer Guillermo Andrade defined his style very early on, but it wasn’t until 2015 that he...
Home on Erik...
Fermat's principle I was browsing around on the Internet and the physics geek in me started reading about Fermat's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was browsing around on the Internet and the physics geek in me started reading about Fermat's principle. And suddenly something came back to me that I've been trying to suppress for many years – how I never understood why there's anything fundamental about the principal of...
TheCollector
What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament? undefined
10 months ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 359 | WhatsLeak, CCTV Ban, Meta Threats SECURITY NEWS There appears to be a WhatsApp data leak of over 500 million users' data in 84...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
SECURITY NEWS There appears to be a WhatsApp data leak of over 500 million users' data in 84 countries. They're supposedly selling the data for $7K in the UK, and around $2K in the US and Germany. MORE The FCC has banned Chinese CCTV cameras on sensitive government sites and...
Ralph Ammer
How to draw ideas Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process drawing can play four different roles. Let’s say, we want to come up with ideas for a new flower pot. 1. Study: Fill your mind To prepare for our ideation we first draw what we want...
The Forney Flyer
Rain Rain Go Away... This past year has been by far the wettest year since we've been in Uganda. Last year we had a very...
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This past year has been by far the wettest year since we've been in Uganda. Last year we had a very short dry season, and then the rains came again with extra vengeance. The second, shorter, dry season that is supposed to come about half way through the year--well it basically...
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When I hate writing, it’s because I love it so much. An experienced writer is somebody who knows when the hatred is temporary. The post I Hate Writing (and So Will You) appeared first on David Perell.
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In a previous post we looked at some real-world APIs, highlighting the good and the bad, and in this post we’re going to do the same! › Python’s datetime.datetime Most experienced Pythonistas have written something like this at some point in their career: import datetime now =...
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all images courtesy the artist On the spectrum of artistic materials, pixel art and ceramics seemingly couldn’t be further apart. On one end you have one of mankind’s oldest forms of expression dating back to the late Paleolithic period. On the other, a digital form of art that...
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Going into Being Busy mode I’m in the civil service atm and, sadly, we’re going to be extremely busy the coming… two months or...
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I’m in the civil service atm and, sadly, we’re going to be extremely busy the coming… two months or something? So I can’t promise a game the next two months. Kinda beats the point of this site doesn’t it? I’m really sorry and that’s all I can say really… Hopefully I’ll get a week...
Math Is Still...
Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are...
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Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction. The post Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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In most competitive markets, when an organization offers a new benefit, others will quickly move to match it. This means that it’s hard to justify the hard work of creating something better, because it’s just going to become a new standard. It doesn’t pay for a credit card...
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So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of professionals. Announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/ New Jet Brains interface We're professionals. We can...
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Recently, John Cutler [tweeted](https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1533661807029563392?s=21&t=WJORvdw2EyoLB1ChjQ8NpA) a chart on the view of management:
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The First Stoic Zeno of Citium
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A decade-long effort to build a machine to unlock the promise of nuclear fusion fell victim to budget constraints and competing science, and was shut down the day it was dedicated. It was never turned on.
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“Literariness, as I understand it, does not necessarily entail any particular set of formal qualities. What makes a work literary is the ability to be understood and appreciated outside the context of its origin. That is why a literary work, however valuable as a document of its...
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I love useRef, but it lacks the lazy initializer functionality found in other hooks (useState / useReducer / useMemo). useRef({ x: 0, y: 0 }) creates an object { x: 0, y: 0 } on every render, but only uses it when mounting — it subsequent renders it's thrown away. With useState,...
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One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to...
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One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to write a symphony.” The man said, “You…
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Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere client, which is only available for the Windows platform. Therefore, I run VMware Fusion on my Mac to be able to access VSphere and manage my ESXi host. The trouble is that both ESXi...
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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
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PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year, pivoted again whilst we were there and have now gone…
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Also, why solar will beat wind, why they are so complementary, the nuclear renaissance, the poor state of German energy, and more.
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Recursion builds bridges between ideas from across different math classes and illustrates the power of creative mathematical thinking. The post Math That Connects Where We’re Going to Where We’ve Been first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of drawings, (inks, crayons and acrylics) of greenhouses based on various modes of representation, from axonometric projections, to outside central perspective or interiors views....
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Every time Dennis Cooper posts his favorite (sic) fiction and non-fiction of the year, it alone exceeds the number of books I'm able to read in a year let alone the number from which it was presumably narrowed down. This is why I suggested a couple of years ago such pages choose...
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I wanted to find out if I could successfully redeploy my Weather Station monitoring software into a Docker container. Let's battle the elements together...
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There are two ways to write: The Printer Method and the Pixel Method. With the Printer Method, you write and rewrite every sentence until it’s perfect. Nail the first sentence, then the second, and so on. Perfection is the name of the game so you don’t advance to a new sentence...
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Henry VIII, after Hans Holbein the Younger It's fun to imagine traveling back in time and engaging with the then-prevailing technologies. Would you be able to ride a boneshaker or use a counting board? It's probably harder than you think: kids today can't even use a 1980s rotary...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only that it had the line 'I will show you the power of illusion' and was, possibly, from the Hindu tradition. Anyone know it? Today's News:
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The further I get into this series, the fewer books there are on my yearly lists that I haven't already written about and among those few that I feel able to write about. For 2009 there is one outstanding exception: another book about a writer exiled in Paris. Already in this...
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Finding a pattern that explains events that seem like chaos is a breakthrough. It offers us understanding and a lever we can use to make an impact. Sometimes, though, the breakthrough lies in understanding that there is no pattern, simply unpredictable noise. We need effort to...
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I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009. In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most...
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In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most of my life, I'd intended to become a math professional of some sort: a math teacher, when that was all I saw math for; an actuary, when I started to learn more; and then a...
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I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I feel compelled to jump in and lend a hand. However, sometimes that's a leadership blunder which does a greater disservice to the longer view of things.
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Now that it’s almost two years since I first had the idea for Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and with the year and a half before that which I worked on my previous startup, I’ve started to notice...
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Why It's Good To Be Biased When everyone is rational, reasonable and nice, we all get a little dimmer
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Posts on Made of...
Stripe's monorepo developer environment I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed...
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I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed to many generations of Stripe’s developer environment – the tools that engineers used daily to write and test code. I think Stripe did a pretty good job designing and building that...
IEEE Spectrum
Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the...
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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. Mr. Raskin believed the computer he...
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Recovering a lost partition using gpart Even today people do not understand how important it is for the safety of your data to make backups....
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Even today people do not understand how important it is for the safety of your data to make backups. I was asked to perform some data recovery on a hard drive of an old computer, which still contained important documents and photo's. The first thing I did was to make a disk image...
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Once it was a commonplace: a letter in the mailbox, handwritten or typed, in an envelope most likely moistened with the sender’s tongue and sealed. A person-to-person letter, not junk mail, credit-card come-ons, campaign postcards, jury summonses and the rest of the...
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The creative agency of small projects Since I moved out of the startup world I've exclusively worked on small projects. Niche, simple...
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Since I moved out of the startup world I've exclusively worked on small projects. Niche, simple tools packed with love and attention to detail. I've written about my approach to building, and how it impacts my life and outlook. Today, however, I want to write about a less-obvious...
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Metaphors We Web By
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Atoms vs Bits
Additive Domains, Multiplicative Domains 1 and 1 and 1 is 3, unless you're multiplying
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In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas, capital, service providers, and companies tend to have strong network effects that support startup formation and success in a given industry. For example, Silicon Valley, London,...
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The future, soon: what I learned from Bing's AI We had a brief glimpse of two different types of AI. Both are significant
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What happens when the mud disappears? The Yellow Sea provides important ‘service stations’ for shorebirds on the East Asian-Australasian...
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The Yellow Sea provides important ‘service stations’ for shorebirds on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, especially on their way north to Russian and Alaskan breeding areas. In a thought-provoking paper in Biological Conservation, Xiaodan Wang and colleagues consider how...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of entertainment, in that nothing means anything, but everyone still gets hurt. Today's News:
Diaries of Note
I thought once or twice we were done for In the late 1860s, amid the rugged landscapes of post-Civil War America, countless cowboys undertook...
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In the late 1860s, amid the rugged landscapes of post-Civil War America, countless cowboys undertook arduous journeys herding cattle from Texas to Kansas where the demand for beef was on the rise. One such cowboy was Jack Bailey, a 37-year-old North Texan who herded approximately...
History Today Feed
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The Real C++ Killers (Not You, Rust) All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D,...
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All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D, help you write more features with fewer bugs, but they don't much help when you need to squeeze the very last FLOPS from the hardware you rent. As such, they don’t have a...
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Ads, privacy and confusion Privacy is coming to the internet and cookies are going away. This is long overdue - but we don’t...
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Privacy is coming to the internet and cookies are going away. This is long overdue - but we don’t know what happens next, we don’t have much consensus on what online privacy actually means, and most of what’s on the table conflicts fundamentally with competition.
TheCollector
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Floating Sargasso Sea Mapped from the Canaries to the West Indies, against a blank background, the Sargassum Belt seems...
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Mapped from the Canaries to the West Indies, against a blank background, the Sargassum Belt seems removed from the levels of phosphorous of our coastal oceans leaving the high density of its thirteen million tons on a blank screen as the latest whacky disturbance of the...
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The Collective Marshmallow Test Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test. Instead of a single person, imagine 100...
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Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test. Instead of a single person, imagine 100 people in a room. One marshmallow is placed on a table. If everyone can leave it alone for 15 minutes, everyone gets 2 marshmallows. But if just one person eats it, everyone gets...
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Me And My Shadow One nice thing about fire escapes: they let you get photos from a position that is effectively...
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One nice thing about fire escapes: they let you get photos from a position that is effectively floating in midair a few feet away from the building.
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A Less Obvious Canyon A few months ago I wrote about the appearance of streets lined with old, pre-zoning skyscrapers. I...
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A few months ago I wrote about the appearance of streets lined with old, pre-zoning skyscrapers. I mentioned my two favorite examples: Thames Street between Broadway and Trinity Place, and Pine Street between Broadway and Nassau Street. I skipped the obvious example, Broadway, as...
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ACDF Architecture and BVN Architecture transformed McCarthy Tétrault law firm’s Montreal offices into open, collaborative spaces with standardized workstations, flexible...
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On lateness and imperfection At my first job, I realized that I’d missed a meeting invite and my team had started without me. I...
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At my first job, I realized that I’d missed a meeting invite and my team had started without me. I was early in my career, and hesitant to join the meeting late in-person. I felt embarrassed and, without knowing it, I started beating myself up. How could I be so inept? If I could...
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McMurdo's Automated Teller Machines Cash, in Antarctica!
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macwright.com
Bandcamp wrapped I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s. The downside...
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I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s. The downside is that this marks me as a weirdo, but otherwise it’s great and has been working well for me. Since I last wrote about it, Bandcamp was acquired by Epic games (?) and then acquired...
Old Vintage...
Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my...
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I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my literal first game console: the Tandyvision One, Tandy Radio Shack's label variant of the Mattel Intellivision Master Component. The Mattel Intellivision proper originally hails...
Londonist
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The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While coding is undeniably the […] The post Habits of great software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
Laetitia@Work
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Stone Hands Reaching I’m told the statue is right in front of me, so I reach out and find myself touching a stone forearm. It’s cold, of course, and it’s coarser than skin, but tracing along the arms is enough to bring back memories of being comforted, of being held, when I was a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Pure Essay' “A good deal that he wrote took the form of the ‘pure’ essay, written, as Lord David Cecil says,...
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“A good deal that he wrote took the form of the ‘pure’ essay, written, as Lord David Cecil says, ‘not to instruct or edify but only to produce aesthetic satisfaction.’ I do not know why it should be so, but today the ‘pure’ essay is a literary genre to which no reader under sixty...
Londonist
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Letters of Note
Into Eternity Born in the Czech Republic in 1904, Vilma Grünwald was 39 years old when she wrote a final letter to...
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Born in the Czech Republic in 1904, Vilma Grünwald was 39 years old when she wrote a final letter to her husband, Kurt. They had been held at Auschwitz with their two sons for 7 months, separated for much of their ordeal following a stint in a “family camp” that was soon...
Classical Wisdom
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Highlights Zestful had its biggest month ever, with $3,936 in revenue. Is It Keto also had its best month ever, at $393 in revenue. After lots of research and customer interviews, I gave up on my idea for creating sheet metal software. I published my first version of an app for...
The Rational Walk
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General Motors, under the leadership of Alfred P. Sloan, capitalized on the mistakes of Henry Ford in the 1920s to become the dominant American automaker.
High Signal
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Ever wondered, "Is there an AI to see how your baby looks?" Well you're not alone! OurBabyAI is an app that shows how your future baby may look.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Single Sloping Roof Covers This Home That Hovers Above The Land Weber Arquitectos has sent us photos of their recently completed project, a tiny house in Valle de...
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Weber Arquitectos has sent us photos of their recently completed project, a tiny house in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, that rises from the ground on a platform supported by a metal structure. The house, which measures 1291 square feet (120m2), has exterior walls made from heat-treated...
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Ask vs guess culture When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the...
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When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.
Nothing Human
Prayer over a new smartphone Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most...
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Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most treasured possession. I will feel your weight in my pocket every moment of every day, a presence as constant as my breath. The muscles and bones of my hand, arm, and shoulder will deform...
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The Cult of Microsoft At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of...
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At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company decision-making in everything from how products are sold, to how...
Londonist
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Several people have asked me about a new NBER working paper that takes a look at construction productivity (a popular topic around here), “The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the US Construction Sector,” by Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson. This paper doesn’t bring any...
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I asked GPT-4 to respond to my previous article "Uncensored Models" because it is more likely to provide civil discourse rather than the shrill demagoguery that my human opponents have tended to employ. I found it interesting and both sides have validity. But my argument is...
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At least 20 apps exist to help Muslims track their dhikrs, a form of Islamic worship in which people repeat prayers and holy phrases.
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In LA last weekend, I met with Michael Kives and his firm, K5. He is, probably, the most connected person I’ve ever met.  In attendance at the dinner at his house were: 1) Hillary Clinton 2) Doug Emhoff 3) Katy Perry 4) Orlando Bloom 5) Kate Hudson
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This I found in an interview with the late novelist Richard G. Stern: “I prefer windows to mirrors. Not just for diversion, or something to study. I like new vocabularies, rhythms, ways of thinking, associations of every sort.”  Stern (1928-2013) was seventy-one at the time and...
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Knowing we would be having dinner at Evernight I thought aperitifs at Homeboy Battersea, just around the corner in the same building, would be a nice way to kick off the evening. I was at Homeboy a couple of years ago just after it had opened, was treated to a very decent burger...
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I’ve just learned that some thirty percent of Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, is paved, covered in concrete and asphalt. That doesn’t count buildings and other structures. It amounts to roughly 384 square miles of ground surface that is “case-hardened, carapaced,” to...
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Highlights I paused TinyPilot sales to address a design problem. I’m manufacturing a custom USB power connector for TinyPilot. Revenue across all my projects was among my strongest ever, at $3.6k total. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
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Hey everyone 👋 Here’s a powerful quote to kick us off into the Thanksgiving week: “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” - Melody Beattie I’m grateful for many things this year including my son’s birth
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Perhaps you only acknowledge and focus on problems where you know and are comfortable with the appropriate response. Denying the existence of the other ones is easier than dealing with them. Or it might be that you only choose to see the problems that are actually situations,...
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I’m not entirely sure what this proposed law would mean in practice: existing data at the Department of Buildings will be examined to identify which buildings are considered to be high risk, and the usual DoB actions – violations, etc. – will start from there. It all depends on...
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For our latest Studio Snapshot conversation, we had the pleasure of chatting with Brent Linden and Chris Brown, founding partners of Portland, Oregon-based Linden, Brown Architecture. Established in 2018 as a collaborative venture after working for large, established firms, the...
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I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s security isn’t binary. In fact security in general isn’t black and white. It’s a trade-off being secure enough for your threat model vs the cost and feasibility of your...
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You need to use social services to understand them I don’t know if Malcolm Gladwell is right when he claims “the revolution will not be tweeted,” but I...
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In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case consistently. But in 2013 Les Binet and Peter Field bought some much-needed data to the discussion. In their seminal report, The Long and The Short of It, the duo analysed 30 years of...
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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...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License: All Rights Reserved. Book jacket (second edition by Niggli, Teufen, 1964) Dan Reynolds, esteemed friend of the site, writes on Mastodon: 125 years ago today – at exactly...
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In the first post of the series, we talked about what the topological topos is, and how we can think about its objects (and, importantly, how we can relate computations in the topos $\mathcal{T}$ to computations with topological spaces in “the real world”). In part two, we...
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It was when she joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 that Frida Kahlo first met Diego Rivera, a fellow artist 21 years Kahlo’s senior who soon became her mentor and husband. Kahlo’s life up until then had been a struggle due to polio as a child and a serious traffic...
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Traditional Materials And Forms Were Adapted To A Modern Language For This House Mel­bourne-based archi­tec­ture and inte­ri­or design stu­dio Splinter Society, has shared photos of...
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Mel­bourne-based archi­tec­ture and inte­ri­or design stu­dio Splinter Society, has shared photos of modern rear addition they recently completed for a home in Australia. The designers retained the existing floor plan, roofing tiles, gable forms, small brick garage, simple...
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#10005 ✅ Observations The Star Beast, the return of David Tennant as Doctor Who in the 60th anniversary special. It did the traditional thing and plonked an alien spaceship in the middle of London, and it also did all sorts of untraditional things because the series always has,...
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Bits and bobs, some of the small projects I've been working on. Rounding up a few smaller projects I’ve been working on here and there.
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A controversial opinion about REST API design I was just reading yet another article on REST API design guidelines. Some of it is good advice,...
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I was just reading yet another article on REST API design guidelines. Some of it is good advice, some of it I could quibble with. But several of the rules are about how to design the path hierarchy of your API: use plural nouns, don’t use nested sub-paths unnecessarily, etc. In...
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8 Landing Page Tips from Rob Hope I submitted my book's landing page for Rob Hope's review and he obliged! Brutal feedback incoming.
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photos by Osamu Nakamura In Niigata prefecture’s Murono Village, a surreal scene has unfolded…or should I say, inflated? From the rear of an abandoned townhouse a colossal, semi-transparent bubble has emerged, immediately transforming the quiet village into what could easily be...
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Ecologists Struggle to Get a Grip on ‘Keystone Species’ More than 50 years after Bob Paine’s experiment with starfish, hundreds of species have been...
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More than 50 years after Bob Paine’s experiment with starfish, hundreds of species have been pronounced “keystones” in their ecosystems. Has the powerful metaphor lost its mathematical meaning? The post Ecologists Struggle to Get a Grip on ‘Keystone Species’ first...
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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"What has been your favourite country that you have visited?"  People often ask me various iterations of this question when they hear about the traveling that Laura and I have been fortunate to have done. Sometimes I say Colombia, sometimes I say Peru, but usually I don't name a...
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Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention was to do freelance work ("consulting", to all my clients) until I was able to launch my first product, and then shift into being a product company. My ambitions and confidence...
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When Steve Jobs spoke about the intersection of liberal arts and technology, he did not envision crushing symbols of art and culture.
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Curious about Google's newly released TensorFlow? I don't have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some time getting it to run on EC2. The steps on how to reproduce it are pretty brutal and I wouldn't recommend going through it unless you want to waste five hours of your live.
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The Goodman ZONE is a medium-format 3D-printed film camera designed by Dora Goodman as part of her range of open-source camera models, using the existing Mamiya Press lens series for glass and the Mamiya RB67 backs to hold film. She sells pre-printed kits that contain all the...
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Until the end of the internet It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and...
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It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Working a Thing Out' Long ago an editor urged me never to assume I knew what readers were thinking or what they wanted....
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Long ago an editor urged me never to assume I knew what readers were thinking or what they wanted. It’s presumptuous to do so. Mind-reading quickly turns into seeking approval from readers and sucking up to them. Be clear, don’t condescend, respect the reader’s intelligence....
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The McClusky Curve - Viral vs Evergreen Content An insightful discussion on how to trade off aiming for viral or permanent posts.
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The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is hearing a case that will have profound effects on social media – is Google liable for a terrorist killing? The family of Nohemi Gonzalez is suing Google, because she was shot by an Islamic terrorist in 2015 and the family alleges this act was abetted...
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You never forget your first solar eclipse The post Corona Chasers appeared first on The American Scholar.
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A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very reliable piece of hardware, especially for a printer. Then came Windows 10. The printer would not work out of the box with it and the official drivers got stuck during installation....
Artificial Ignorance
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Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers” too complex or technical?
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Personal Income increased 0.3% in November; Spending increased 0.4% The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays report for November: Personal income increased...
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The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays report for November: Personal income increased $71.1 billion (0.3 percent at a monthly rate) in November, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI), personal...
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Trains Intersect with Everyday Life in Nostalgic Illustrations by Shinjiro Ogawa Trains are an integral part of daily life in Japan, supporting commutes, errands and all other forms...
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Trains are an integral part of daily life in Japan, supporting commutes, errands and all other forms of daily life. And while their existence can be taken for granted, their many forms and colors add to the uniqueness of each neighborhood they traverse. Capturing the scenery of...
diamond geezer
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This is a sponsored post on behalf of the Poverest Tourist Board Visit Poverest - London's Secret Leisure Destination Poverest, the charming outer London suburb handily located on the Chislehurst Road, where a good time is always on offer. [map] Ask anyone in Poverest where...
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What you know that just ain't so The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower...
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The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower or leave it alone? Should we chase these customers over here or those customers over there? Should we add more features or polish the ones we have? There's endless variation in...
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Fun with IE7 and the Zoom Property This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any...
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This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any invalid numbers. It replaces .my_class{ zoom:1; } with .my_class{ zoom:1px; } Those two characters (“px”) on the zoom property will blow up IE7 as it tries to zoom to a value in...
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Located on the banks of the Harlem River, the Bronx Children’s Museum aims to engage children with the connectivity of...
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Designing for (Realistic) Attention The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute. When I advise that a...
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The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute. When I advise that a webpage — like a service detail page — have a maximum main body word-count of 150 words, I’m really recommending that it ask a reader to commit to 30 seconds. To put that in perspective, a...
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Over the last few months or so, I have been fairly consistent with getting outside for Sunday morning runs. A series of lower body issues had prevented me from doing so for many years, but it was an exercise I had enjoyed back then. It took time to rebuild that habit and muscle...
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Keyword difficulty or SEO difficulty is the likelihood of ranking for a keyword. And the way most bloggers estimate it is dangerous. They use SEO tools like Ahrefs, Keysearch, or SEMrush and rely on their keyword difficulty scores to tell how easy ranking for a keyword should...
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Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front...
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Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front and center on the window so you can easily search through your content. Oddly, as of visionOS 1.1, replicating this visually as a developer using SwiftUI or UIKit is not...
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Perhaps no single person did more to popularize Zen Buddhism in the West than Alan Watts. In a sense, Watts prepared U.S. culture for more traditionally Zen teachers like Soto priest Suzuki Roshi, whose lineage continues today, but Watts did not consider himself a Zen Buddhist....
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So let's say you're working on a household project and need around a dozen telephone cables---the ordinary kind that you would use between your telephone and the wall. It is, of course, more cost effective to buy bulk cable, or simply a long cable, and cut it to length and attach...
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It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the accolades in the future.
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What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events...
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Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events mean for the rest of the industry?
99% Invisible
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Happy National Train Day, everyone – for those of you who missed it: that was May 13th this year. A year ago, we started down this path with Train Set: Track One, which gave way to Track Two …and now, here we are for the final part of our train-fecta. First Stop: Shining Time...
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Lessons from React, GraphQL, and Rich Hickey on how to design software that doesn't implode the first time requirements change.