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Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 6-12 November 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Max Rozen
Strangers from the internet paid for my MacBook Air: on my 4th year of indiehacking
In which I finally make money from strangers off the internet.
over a year ago
In which I finally make money from strangers off the internet.
Notes on software...
Writing a simple Python compiler: 1. hello, fibonacci
In this post we'll write a Python to C compiler in Python. This is
especially easy to do since...
over a year ago
In this post we'll write a Python to C compiler in Python. This is
especially easy to do since Python has a builtin parser
library and because a
number of CPython internals are exposed for extension
writers.
By the end of this post, in a few hundred lines of Python, we'll be able...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
7 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
Unfiltered by Tim...
You’ll Never Be a Millionaire with a Salary
Here's the quiet path to become a different type of millionaire
a month ago
Here's the quiet path to become a different type of millionaire
Identity Designed
Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku
Designed by Tofu, Gdańsk.
a year ago
Designed by Tofu, Gdańsk.
Nela Dunato Art &...
Motivate Yourself to Create More Art + Fantasy Watercolor Portrait Painting Process
In this episode of Nela’s Art Chat I'm showing the mixed media drawing and painting process of a...
8 months ago
In this episode of Nela’s Art Chat I'm showing the mixed media drawing and painting process of a forest fae portrait, while sharing lots of tips that can help you create more art. I often struggle finding motivation, energy, and time to create elaborate pieces of art, so I’ve...
Platformer
How Google taught AI to doubt itself
Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search?
a year ago
Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search?
Retail Design Blog
Ørsted office by Workplace
Design philosophy The design of the Ørsted office is a harmonious blend of Scandinavian simplicity...
a week ago
Design philosophy The design of the Ørsted office is a harmonious blend of Scandinavian simplicity and a gently activating functional...
diamond geezer
2025 fares
-->TfL's annual fare rise was announced yesterday. It's good news for buses and bad news for...
a week ago
-->TfL's annual fare rise was announced yesterday. It's good news for buses and bad news for trains.
GOOD: "The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today announced that he will freeze bus and tram fares for an historic sixth time next year, meaning Londoners continue to pay the...
ToughSF
Permanent and Perfect Stealth in Space
Despite the commonly accepted truth in Hard Science Fiction, spacecraft are able to evade detection...
over a year ago
Despite the commonly accepted truth in Hard Science Fiction, spacecraft are able to evade detection in space in many circumstances. The Hydrogen Steamer was a design that used liquid hydrogen evaporative cooling to keep a non-reflective surface practically invisible.
However,...
Moneyness
For the first time ever, euro paper money in circulation is shrinking
Why is the paper euro shrinking? Are we at peak cash?
To begin with, here is the data,...
a year ago
Why is the paper euro shrinking? Are we at peak cash?
To begin with, here is the data, charted:
As the orange line shows, Europe is experiencing its first year-over-year drop in paper money in circulation.
While it's tempting to attribute this to paper money's declining...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx Faves: Software Engineering Daily
> "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad...
over a year ago
> "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad Masad](https://mobile.twitter.com/amasad/status/956603016513167360)
Unpacked
Epic Games, Google and App Store Monopolies
In a surprise win for the makers of Fortnite, a jury ruled that Google engaged in anti-competitive...
a year ago
In a surprise win for the makers of Fortnite, a jury ruled that Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct by suppressing other app stores and banning alternate payments
TheCollector
Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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10 months ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Enter the world of 'The Dimensionals Multiverse' — Web3 Gaming
Enter the world of 'The Dimensionals Multiverse' — Web3 Gaming
...
a year ago
Enter the world of 'The Dimensionals Multiverse' — Web3 Gaming
AoiroStudio0201—23
A groundbreaking NFT RPG game that takes you on a journey through a web3 gaming multiverse. Explore the countless dimensions, each with its unique heroes to...
Old Structures...
Future Site
An 1890 view of the south side of the intersection of 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue, the...
4 months ago
An 1890 view of the south side of the intersection of 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue, the narrow triangular block that would, a dozen years later, be the site of the construction of the Flatiron Buidling. My first thought was “would you really want a dentist who...
Adventures In...
Vignettes for the Win!
A vignette is a darkening (or lightening) of the edges of a composition, to subtly frame it and draw...
a month ago
A vignette is a darkening (or lightening) of the edges of a composition, to subtly frame it and draw the eye in to the middle. It’s an old photographer’s darkroom trick. Lucky for us, I’ve spent many hours in the darkroom and have grown to appreciate the charm and effectiveness...
bt RSS Feed
Introducing Notez
Introducing Notez
2021-01-13
I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
over a year ago
Introducing Notez
2021-01-13
I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it’s nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
7 months ago
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
Ken Shirriff's blog
The Pentium as a Navajo weaving
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving...
3 months ago
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract
pattern.
Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely.
The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium...
The Rational Walk
Stepping into the River
Just like no man steps into the same river twice, reading a worthwhile book multiple times continues...
a month ago
Just like no man steps into the same river twice, reading a worthwhile book multiple times continues to yield new insights over the years.
Noahpinion
Happy fun Cold War 2 update
It's getting a little warmer out there.
6 months ago
It's getting a little warmer out there.
Seth's Blog
The challenge of “a risky scheme”
New ideas aren’t adopted all at once. A few people go first while the rest of us watch to see how it...
4 months ago
New ideas aren’t adopted all at once. A few people go first while the rest of us watch to see how it goes. “Look, Mikey, he likes it!” This is the story of tech innovations, dance crazes and even food. Ideas spread horizontally, and people who prefer the status quo will embrace...
diamond geezer
Tup'penny
#10003 ✅ Analysis
2018 I bagged them up and took them to the bank, earning £13 for my trouble. What...
a year ago
#10003 ✅ Analysis
2018 I bagged them up and took them to the bank, earning £13 for my trouble. What I wondered was what years my remaining 2p coins were minted in and how many years are missing.
1971 1980 1990 1991 1993 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008...
FIRE v London
Mar ’23: Harvesting tax losses
March has been rather a wet month in London. Wet, and cold. This translates into the ski slopes in...
a year ago
March has been rather a wet month in London. Wet, and cold. This translates into the ski slopes in the French Alps (finally) having great conditions – sadly too late for me to enjoy. Further north, it’s been a month of big change in Scotland. Nicola Sturgeon, the...
macwright.com
Takeaway from using CO₂ monitors: run the exhaust fan
For the last few years, I’ve had Aranet 4 and AirGradient sensors in my apartment. They’re fairly...
8 months ago
For the last few years, I’ve had Aranet 4 and AirGradient sensors in my apartment. They’re fairly expensive gadgets that I have no regrets purchasing – I love a little more awareness of things like temperature, humidity, and air quality, it’s ‘grounding’ in a cyberpunk way. But...
Cremieux Recueil
Trump Should Finish What He Started
A guestpost calling for Trump to finish radically reforming the tax system
3 weeks ago
A guestpost calling for Trump to finish radically reforming the tax system
Working Theorys
Baseline Fame
When privilege becomes a pre-requisite.
7 months ago
When privilege becomes a pre-requisite.
fast.ai
Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022
A complete from-scratch rewrite of fast.ai’s most popular course, that’s been 2 years in the making.
over a year ago
A complete from-scratch rewrite of fast.ai’s most popular course, that’s been 2 years in the making.
nanoscale views
The physics of squeaky shoes
In these unsettling and trying times, I wanted to write about the physics of a challenge I'm facing...
5 months ago
In these unsettling and trying times, I wanted to write about the physics of a challenge I'm facing in my professional life: super squeaky shoes. When I wear a particularly comfortable pair of shoes at work, when I walk in some hallways in my building (but not all), my shoes...
diamond geezer
Stratford & Bow election roundup
Stratford & Bow election roundup
my constituency?
Leaflets yes
• Uma Kumaran (Labour) A letter...
5 months ago
Stratford & Bow election roundup
my constituency?
Leaflets yes
• Uma Kumaran (Labour) A letter from Keir with his six pledges, minimal promises. Looks like they sent out millions of these.
• Halima Khan (Workers Party) Roughly-folded and left sticking out of all our...
Seth's Blog
The paradox of self skepticism
If we’re to publish, teach, invent, imagine or promote, we need the confidence to believe that we...
5 months ago
If we’re to publish, teach, invent, imagine or promote, we need the confidence to believe that we have something to offer. That we are, in some way, right. But the enterprise of rational thought is based on theories, tests and improvements. We can never be certain, all we have is...
TheCollector
Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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a year ago
99% Invisible
Roman Mars Describes Athens GA As It Is [EPISODE]
This is the third and final episode in a three-part series of Roman Mars recording on-location...
8 months ago
This is the third and final episode in a three-part series of Roman Mars recording on-location guides to the design features and interesting spots in cities he loves. Roman moved to Athens, Georgia, to pursue a PhD in plant genetics, but dropped out and got into the local music...
Nothing Human
Reflections on Politics at Thanksgiving Dinner
political incorrectness as bid for closeness
3 weeks ago
political incorrectness as bid for closeness
Maps Mania
Mapping the Political Landscape
2 months ago
Home on Erik...
Microsoft's new marketing strategy: give up
I think it's funny how MS at some point realized they are not the cool kids and there's no reason to...
over a year ago
I think it's funny how MS at some point realized they are not the cool kids and there's no reason to appeal to that target audience. Their new marketing strategy finally admits what's been long known: the correlation between “business casual” and using Microsoft products:
TheCollector
May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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7 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to create an accessible React modal
A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the...
over a year ago
A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the user can’t interact with the rest of the application.
Creating a modal in React is fairly easy. There are dozens of resources that explain how to do so, including the React...
Math Is Still...
What Does Milk Do for Babies?
Human nutrition begins with milk, but the wondrous biofluid does much more than feed babies. In this...
8 months ago
Human nutrition begins with milk, but the wondrous biofluid does much more than feed babies. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with molecular nutritionist Elizabeth Johnson about her research into the impact of human milk on a healthy microbiome.
The...
Common Edge
Michael Van Valkenburgh on the Making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
The noted landscape architect talks about one of the great 21st century urban parks.
5 months ago
The noted landscape architect talks about one of the great 21st century urban parks.
computers are bad
2024-05-25 grc spinrite
I feel like I used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with suspect
hard drives. I mean,...
7 months ago
I feel like I used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with suspect
hard drives. I mean, like, back in high school. These days I almost never do,
or on the occasion that I have storage trouble, it's a drive that has
completely stopped responding at all and there's...
Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
Vadim Kravcenko
🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset
There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and...
over a year ago
There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and the […]
The post 🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Archinect - Features
10 Tips for Architects To Survive Downturns by Former HOK CEO Patrick MacLeamy
“I spent 50 years at HOK, working my way up from junior designer to CEO,” Patrick MacLeamy wrote in...
2 months ago
“I spent 50 years at HOK, working my way up from junior designer to CEO,” Patrick MacLeamy wrote in his 2020 book Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm: The People, Stories, and Strategies Behind HOK. “Where else can you do that?”
During his time as HOK CEO and Chairman from...
TheCollector
Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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4 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Vibra Caffé + Concept Store by Miguel Amado Arquitectos
The project is located at 8 Marvila, in the former wine cellars of Abel Pereira da Fonseca, in...
a week ago
The project is located at 8 Marvila, in the former wine cellars of Abel Pereira da Fonseca, in Lisbon—an iconic...
TheCollector
What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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3 months ago
Maggie Appleton
How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Winding
This 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto is titled “Bdwy winding all thru T-Sq.” and it definitely shows...
8 months ago
This 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto is titled “Bdwy winding all thru T-Sq.” and it definitely shows Broadway and Times Square, although I have some quibbles about “winding.” This view is looking north and a little bit west, probably taken from a window on a high floor of 1450...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 23-24 March 2024
Charity gigs, a glamorous speakeasy, and a boat race on the river.
9 months ago
Charity gigs, a glamorous speakeasy, and a boat race on the river.
TheCollector
When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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a year ago
anderegg.ca
Maybe Bluesky has “won”
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X....
a month ago
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this...
TheCollector
Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy
Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift...
7 months ago
Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the freedom of use granted by the license. That's it, and this ought to be straight forward, but I repeatedly see that it is not (no...
Math Is Still...
How Base 3 Computing Beats Binary
Long explored but infrequently embraced, base 3 computing may yet find a home in cybersecurity. ...
4 months ago
Long explored but infrequently embraced, base 3 computing may yet find a home in cybersecurity.
The post How Base 3 Computing Beats Binary first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Works in...
Where inflation comes from
How we calculate inflation has always been contested with small changes leading to large differences...
a month ago
How we calculate inflation has always been contested with small changes leading to large differences in how well-off we think we are.
diamond geezer
Havant
Until yesterday I hadn't been to Havant.
Havant is a large town in southeast Hampshire on the way...
4 months ago
Until yesterday I hadn't been to Havant.
Havant is a large town in southeast Hampshire on the way to Portsmouth.
They Havant got many old buildings because most of the town burnt in a fire in 1760. Only the church and a row of cottages survived.
St Faith's and they found...
Avestura's Blog
Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times
Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
a year ago
Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
Maggie Appleton
A Collection of Design Engineers
9 months ago
African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
Alex MacCaw
Lifestyle business FAQ
I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger...
over a year ago
I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger business. Lifestyle businesses are intriguing to people, they sound too good to be true but the reality is they are imminently doable.
Since I get quite a lot of questions...
Retail Design Blog
Hearts of Palm by HUMANO STUDIO
A series of boxes for dietary pasta made out of palms’ inner core.
3 months ago
A series of boxes for dietary pasta made out of palms’ inner core.
Rest of World -...
Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates
The local gig workers’ union defends the practice, which Uber forbids, as a form of peaceful...
3 months ago
The local gig workers’ union defends the practice, which Uber forbids, as a form of peaceful pushback against low earnings.
Writing - Andreas...
The LLM productivity puzzle
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of
LLMs, and one of the first...
a year ago
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of
LLMs, and one of the first with real commercial use (Copilot/Codex,
Codegen, etc.). If you spend time on the internet these days you’ll see
people claim productivity gains ranging from 0 to 100x,...
TokyoDev
Employer of Record (EOR) Services in Japan
EoR. Few employers seems to fully understand how it works, and even fewer working professionals have...
a year ago
EoR. Few employers seems to fully understand how it works, and even fewer working professionals have ever heard of it. So, what is this three-letter mystery acronym, and how can it help us swing the doors wide open on business building in Japan? Let’s have a look.
## What...
Arduino Blog
Patrol the pool with this Arduino Nano-powered DIY RC submarine
There is something inherently intriguing about submarines that doesn’t seem to apply to other...
4 months ago
There is something inherently intriguing about submarines that doesn’t seem to apply to other vehicles. Maybe that reflects our natural fears and phobias, or maybe it is a result of our curiosity about the mysterious depths. Maybe it is simply that most of us will never get the...
bt RSS Feed
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal...
over a year ago
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It’s pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc.
The only small...
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,...
6 months ago
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...
Letters of Note
It is only a matter of time
On September 12th of 2011, the New York Times published an article by Dr. Abigail Zuger in which she...
over a year ago
On September 12th of 2011, the New York Times published an article by Dr. Abigail Zuger in which she criticised certain supposedly unrealistic aspects of Contagion, Steven Soderbergh’s recently released and widely lauded thriller in which a deadly pandemic sweeps the globe. In...
Arduino Blog
This rolling ball game brings Skee-Ball-style fun from the arcade to your home
Ask your friends about their favorite games at the arcade and the most common answer will likely be...
5 months ago
Ask your friends about their favorite games at the arcade and the most common answer will likely be Skee-Ball. But while many other popular arcade games have viable at-home alternatives, Skee-Ball doesn’t — at least not unless you’re willing to spend a serious amount of money....
Old Structures...
108 Years
First up, “A view of the Federal Hall of the City of New York, as appeared in the year 1797, with...
10 months ago
First up, “A view of the Federal Hall of the City of New York, as appeared in the year 1797, with the adjacent buildings thereto” as engraved in 1850. This is looking north up Broad Street, with the old Federal Hall at the intersection of Broad and Wall streets. Next, “Broad...
Farza's Newsletter
tried to buy some honey for my tea from wikipedia but they were sold out
Life has been going pretty smoothly for the last month. Pretty much all my time is spent working on...
over a year ago
Life has been going pretty smoothly for the last month. Pretty much all my time is spent working on Zip, which is what I want! And, all the other time is spent on either watching anime or running lol. In terms of running, been running 4-5 miles per day, 6 days a week pretty...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days
Building wc in the browser
From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to...
a year ago
Building wc in the browser
From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to see how much code I wrote.
For those not in the know: wc -l shows number of lines in files.
Actually, what I have to do is more like find -name "*.go" | xargs wc -l because wc isn’t...
Cheese and Biscuits
Maresco, Soho
Shall we get the inevitable comparisons out of the way first? Yes, there's more than a little...
a year ago
Shall we get the inevitable comparisons out of the way first? Yes, there's more than a little influence from the Hart Bros' Barrafina group of restaurants on display here at Maresco, a bright and bustling new arrival on the streets of Soho. There's a raw bar groaning with...
CONTEMPORIST
A Contemporary Makeover For A Home Built In 1907
Best Practice Architecture has designed the contemporary remodel of a 1907 home in Seattle,...
a year ago
Best Practice Architecture has designed the contemporary remodel of a 1907 home in Seattle, Washington, that measures just 16-and-a-half feet wide. Surrounded by old-growth trees in Seattle’s Phinney Ridge neighborhood, the cozy gambrel roof dwelling is dubbed “Phinney Mini” for...
SatPost by Trung...
Blumhouse: The Hollywood Horror Hit Machine
How Jason Blum turned "constraints breed creativity" into a business model.
a year ago
How Jason Blum turned "constraints breed creativity" into a business model.
Ian Betteridge
Weeknote, Sunday 10th November 2024
It’s been a while since I wrote a weeknote, although I’ve kept up with the other kinds of writing...
a month ago
It’s been a while since I wrote a weeknote, although I’ve kept up with the other kinds of writing that I do. But: I work now. I’m working at a small B2B publisher helping them sort out a few things. This was originally going to be an in-and-out job which would take nine months,...
Tom Blomfield
Making something people want - The GoCardless story
I’m a co-founder of GoCardless, a direct debit payments company in London. This is the story of our...
over a year ago
I’m a co-founder of GoCardless, a direct debit payments company in London. This is the story of our first two years and the people we’ve met along the way.
Making something no-one wants
One startup I know very well in San Francisco was started by 3 ex-financiers. Their idea...
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: GoBus Ohio, 2024
Submitted by Leo, who says: The state-supported GoBus system in Ohio has a somewhat strange route...
4 months ago
Submitted by Leo, who says: The state-supported GoBus system in Ohio has a somewhat strange route scheme (e.g. no direct route from Columbus to Cleveland, or Columbus to Cincinnati via Dayton) but their map, despite being overall fairly poor, makes some interesting stylistic...
Maps Mania
Mapping the Spread of War in the Middle East
10 months ago
Tech and Tea
Creativity isn't just for painters and poets
Making space and time for nurturing the inner artist in all of us
a year ago
Making space and time for nurturing the inner artist in all of us
Archinect - Features
The Brutalist Is a Cinematic Reflection of Brutalism
Brutalist architecture is raw, powerful, emotional, and unapologetically honest. It rejects...
2 days ago
Brutalist architecture is raw, powerful, emotional, and unapologetically honest. It rejects ornamentation and architectural devices designed to make its inhabitants feel comfortable, instead creating a visceral, primal experience. Brutalism is a feeling—a bold statement that...
diamond geezer
Six 15-minute posts
Here are six brief posts, none of which I spent more than 15 minutes on.
1) The consultation...
4 months ago
Here are six brief posts, none of which I spent more than 15 minutes on.
1) The consultation report for "Extending the DLR from Gallions Reach to Beckton Riverside and Thamesmead" has just been published. At this very early stage in the project it focused on asking people...
TheCollector
What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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3 months ago
David Heinemeier...
The compounding seeds of creativity
Early on in my career, I learned a very important lesson about creativity: It can’t be saved for...
10 months ago
Early on in my career, I learned a very important lesson about creativity: It can’t be saved for later. Creativity is perishable, just like inspiration. It has to be discharged regularly or it will spoil. And if you let enough of it go to waste, eventually your talents will sour...
somethingaboutmaps
A Free eBook of Terrain Lines
Friends, earlier this week I mentioned that I’d completed a whole bunch of terrain sketches using...
a month ago
Friends, earlier this week I mentioned that I’d completed a whole bunch of terrain sketches using some novel techniques that allowed me to create a hachure drawing style from digital elevation data. If you’d like to see the whole set, I’ve now assembled them into a quick eBook...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Normal
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Normal people: You economists keep assuming humans...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Normal people: You economists keep assuming humans have perfect pricing information! Microeconomists: we need ever more complex auction mechanisms to suss out the true preferences humans are constantly hiding!
Today's News:
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Dec. 21 is Winter Solstice — Why We Have Seasons on Earth
Saturday, Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year, with...
4 days ago
Saturday, Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year, with which we mark the beginning of the winter season in the Earth’s northern hemisphere. It’s interesting to note that the planets Venus and Jupiter do not have seasons like the...
Calculated Risk
The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3
A brief...
a week ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3
A brief excerpt:
During the housing bubble, many homeowners borrowed heavily against their perceived home equity - jokingly calling it the “Home ATM” - and this contributed to the subsequent...
./techtipsy
VR, VFIO and how latency ruined everything
I’ve been running my all-in-one
PC for a while now. It was my desktop, my NAS and my gaming...
over a year ago
I’ve been running my all-in-one
PC for a while now. It was my desktop, my NAS and my gaming PC.
However, during the next couple of months I kept hitting small bumps along the
road. Most of these were quite straightforward to fix, but there is one that
finally convinced me to go...
Londonist
Miracle At Henrietta: The Christmassiest Bar In London
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The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading
This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2024, including Aeschylus,...
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This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2024, including Aeschylus, Herodotus, the Odyssey, and American Scripture.
Londonist
Week Of January Tube Strikes Set To Cause Severe Disruption
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Tony Dinh's...
Oct 2022 updates: I will write a book!
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Tony Dinh's...
Early bird license of my new product
TypingMind.com is launching tomorrow on Product Hunt!
a year ago
TypingMind.com is launching tomorrow on Product Hunt!
The Elysian
Idea Labs! An open thread for collaborative worldbuilding
Let's brainstorm the future together.
9 months ago
Let's brainstorm the future together.
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The 7 best free and open-source feature flag tools
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than...
a year ago
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than maintaining multiple feature branches in your…
Retail Design Blog
SONGZIO Galerie Noir
The SONGZIO fashion brand was founded in 1993 by designer and ESMOD graduate Zio Song and was one of...
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The SONGZIO fashion brand was founded in 1993 by designer and ESMOD graduate Zio Song and was one of the...
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The World's Greatest Netlify Demo 2019
_Note: this was published as the Complete Intro to Netlify on [the Netlify...
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Blog - Practical...
Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
On June 4, 2022, a small piece...
8 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
On June 4, 2022, a small piece of equipment (called a lightning arrestor) at a power plant in Odessa, Texas failed, causing part of the plant to trip offline. It was a fairly typical fault that happens from...
diamond geezer
McDonald's in Woolwich at 50
50 years ago today England's first McDonald's restaurant opened.
There's a brilliant plaque...
a month ago
50 years ago today England's first McDonald's restaurant opened.
There's a brilliant plaque outside.
The three signatories were big names in the American company - Robert Rhea, Fred Turner and Ray Kroc - but none of them turned up. Instead the ribbon was cut by the dynamic...
Londonist
19 Images That Tell The Vivid History Of The South Bank
From Roman temples to futuristic domes.
a year ago
From Roman temples to futuristic domes.
Maps Mania
The 3rd Hour of the 1 Hour AI Map Challenge
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History Today Feed
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS
HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant.
Rather than failing completely when encountering...
11 months ago
HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant.
Rather than failing completely when encountering syntax they don’t understand — looking at you JS/SyntaxError — browsers will continue parsing HTML and CSS as best they can when you introduce incorrect syntax.
For someone who is...
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to streamline your writing process with Whisper and GPT-4
These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
7 months ago
These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
Old Structures...
Changes and Not
I almost missed this 1938 entry in Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, because it’s...
9 months ago
I almost missed this 1938 entry in Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, because it’s mislabelled at the New York Public Library web site as “Vista, Thomas Street”. We all make mistakes, and whomever confused Thames and Thomas hid the location of this photo by accident....
Citation Needed
New York Times: Crypto's fragile foundations
My article in the New York Times describes the common practice throughout the cryptocurrency...
a year ago
My article in the New York Times describes the common practice throughout the cryptocurrency industry that can lead to death spirals like the one at FTX.
Archinect - Features
Archinect's 2023 Mental Health Survey Results
To create a space that discusses and shares insights on mental health within the industry, Archinect...
a year ago
To create a space that discusses and shares insights on mental health within the industry, Archinect recently conducted our latest Mental Health survey to better understand how our community has navigated the stressors inherent to the architecture industry. On this October 10th,...
The Rational Walk
The River of Doubt
The amazing story of Theodore Roosevelt's death defying trek through the unmapped rivers and jungles...
10 months ago
The amazing story of Theodore Roosevelt's death defying trek through the unmapped rivers and jungles of the Amazon River basin.
Society's Backend
Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option
Why everyone should learn about machine learning
11 months ago
Why everyone should learn about machine learning
Seeking Wisdom
It’s a treasure trove of health insights!
Use Insulin wisely Life on Earth started simple. For nearly 2 billion years, tiny single-celled...
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Use Insulin wisely Life on Earth started simple. For nearly 2 billion years, tiny single-celled organisms dominated. Then, a lucky accident changed everything. One cell swallowed another, and the swallowed cell became mitochondria, the powerhouse of complex cells. This chance...
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
Confessions of a...
Recording: How Hyper-Threading Works — A Microarchitectural Perspective
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous...
5 months ago
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous multithreading) implementation in Intel’s x86 processors.
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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3 weeks ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Healthcare, but funny | Out-Of-Pocket
US healthcare is a joke. Let's make it funny.
a year ago
US healthcare is a joke. Let's make it funny.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The default state of a startup is failure
If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to...
over a year ago
If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to happen, that’s because the world wants…
diamond geezer
Three Big Brother houses
The 20th series of Big Brother kicked off this week, with sixteen fresh housemate wannabes confined...
a year ago
The 20th series of Big Brother kicked off this week, with sixteen fresh housemate wannabes confined inside a brand new Big Brother House.
Where is the new Big Brother House hiding in plain sight in London's best-smelling cul-de-sac?
The first Big Brother house...
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Unit and Integration Testing for Plugin Authors
Some thoughts on how to set up testing with plugins
over a year ago
Some thoughts on how to set up testing with plugins
Common Edge
How the Global Business Class Has Transformed the Home
They’re bringing the aesthetics and lifestyle expectations of the hospitality industry into their...
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They’re bringing the aesthetics and lifestyle expectations of the hospitality industry into their domiciles.
alexwlchan
What mammal is that?
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva.
I like to take...
11 months ago
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva.
I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot:
No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held close to...
computers are bad
2023-06-07 something up there - nasa and uaps
A brief note on Grusch
First, a disclaimer of sorts: I am posting another article on UAPs, yet I...
a year ago
A brief note on Grusch
First, a disclaimer of sorts: I am posting another article on UAPs, yet I am
not addressing the recent claims by David Grusch. This is for a couple of
reasons. First, I am skeptical of Grusch. He is not the first seemingly
well-positioned former...
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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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
Netlify Build Plugins are here! Here's a smattering of thoughts on what you can do with them.
Tony Dinh's...
TypingMind is live
It's my first product launch of the year!
a year ago
It's my first product launch of the year!
This Space
The disappearance of criticism, part two
A friend mentioned to me that he felt alienated by the articulacy of a literary critical book he was...
over a year ago
A friend mentioned to me that he felt alienated by the articulacy of a literary critical book he was reading; by its neutrality of tone, by its calm. Unruffled was another word he used. We all might recognise this feeling while assuming it is admiration, respect, perhaps even...
TheCollector
Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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99% Invisible
The Power Broker #03: David Sims [EPISODE]
This is the third official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power...
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This is the third official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. Blank Check podcast co-host and The Atlantic movie critic David Sims is our book club guest. On today’s show, Elliott Kalan, Roman Mars, and David...
Drew Ex Machina
NASA’s Explorer 18: The First Interplanetary Monitoring Platform
Among the greatest scientific achievements of the opening years of the Space Age was the...
a year ago
Among the greatest scientific achievements of the opening years of the Space Age was the characterization of Earth’s magnetic field and the discovery of what became […]
Spoon & Tamago
Craft Your Own Salt From Over 600 Varieties at this New Salt Specialist in Tokyo
unless otherwise noted, all photos by Takeshi Shinto This summer, a unique store opened in Tokyo....
3 months ago
unless otherwise noted, all photos by Takeshi Shinto This summer, a unique store opened in Tokyo. Located just a few steps away from Tokyo Sky Tree is “Guruguru Shakashaka,” a salt specialty store that lets you explore 600 varieties of salt and then blend your own. Equally unique...
Essays - Benedict...
When tech says ‘no’
The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are
bad - indeed, so does...
a year ago
The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are
bad - indeed, so does any industry. They always say that! The trouble is,
sometimes it’s true, and some laws are (or would be) disasters. So which is
it? Well, there are three ways that people say...
Seth's Blog
Leprechauns
Is there a rainbow underneath your pot of gold? Sometimes, we get it backwards.
6 months ago
Is there a rainbow underneath your pot of gold? Sometimes, we get it backwards.
Open Culture
How Audrey Hepburn Risked Death to Help the Dutch Resistance in World War II
Audrey Hepburn may not have had the most prolific Hollywood career, but a fair few of her characters...
3 months ago
Audrey Hepburn may not have had the most prolific Hollywood career, but a fair few of her characters still feel today like roles she was born to play. Perhaps the same could have been true of the part of Anne Frank, had she not refused to take it up. When Anne’s father Otto Frank...
diamond geezer
London's most extreme roundabouts
London's most extreme roundabouts
i.e. the largest, smallest, deepest, farthest, earliest,...
3 months ago
London's most extreme roundabouts
i.e. the largest, smallest, deepest, farthest, earliest, weirdest, exitiest... all the extremes.
roundabout anyway, and will also have gaps, omissions and inaccuracies, but thankfully a lot of my readers are inquisitive research-friendly...
Essays - Benedict...
Netflix, Shein and MrBeast
What does Netflix have in common with Shein, and why is MrBeast more
interesting than Disney Plus?
a year ago
What does Netflix have in common with Shein, and why is MrBeast more
interesting than Disney Plus?
Steve Blank
Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2
Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops to a...
a year ago
Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops to a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to...
TheCollector
Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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3 months ago
computers are bad
2024-05-15 catalina connections
Some things have been made nearly impossible to search for. Say, for example,
the long-running...
7 months ago
Some things have been made nearly impossible to search for. Say, for example,
the long-running partnership between Epson and Catalina: a query that will
return pages upon pages of people trying to use Epson printers with an old
version of MacOS.
When you think of a point of sale...
wingolog
on taking advantage of ragged stops
Many years ago I read one of those Cliff Click “here’s
what I learned” articles in which he was...
3 months ago
Many years ago I read one of those Cliff Click “here’s
what I learned” articles in which he was giving advice about garbage
collector design, and one of the recommendations was that at a GC pause,
running mutator threads should cooperate with the collector by identifying roots...
Engineers Need Art
Mooncraft 2000
A web-based game, Mooncraft 2000 is released.
over a year ago
A web-based game, Mooncraft 2000 is released.
Londonist
At A Glance: What's Happening With London's Transport In 2024
New trains! New stations! Major closures!
11 months ago
New trains! New stations! Major closures!
Engineers Need Art
Building Quarter-Cab - Phase I
Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
7 months ago
Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
Julia Evans
Dealing with diverged git branches
Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is
when a local branch...
10 months ago
Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is
when a local branch (like main) and a remote branch (maybe also called
main) have diverged.
There are two things that make this situation hard:
If you’re not used to interpreting git’s error messages,...
Open Culture
Roger Federer’s Dartmouth Commencement Address: “Effortless Is a Myth” & Other Life Lessons from...
In 2006, David Foster Wallace published a piece in the New York Times Magazine headlined “Roger...
6 months ago
In 2006, David Foster Wallace published a piece in the New York Times Magazine headlined “Roger Federer as Religious Experience.” Even then, he could declare Federer, “at 25, the best tennis player currently alive. Maybe the best ever.” Much had already been written about “his...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Cal Russell
I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied...
a year ago
I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied Illustration at Falmouth School of Art and did a Masters in Contemporary Art at the Edinburgh College of Art. I mostly work independently and sell my prints and originals online or...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The New (Experimental) Ways To Tackle The Mental Health Crisis | Out-Of-Pocket
let's try some new stuff to scale mental health care
a year ago
let's try some new stuff to scale mental health care
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece
Andrew Parker had a great post a few years ago where he sketched out all the startups going after...
over a year ago
Andrew Parker had a great post a few years ago where he sketched out all the startups going after pieces of Craigslist: Startups that have…
The Honest Broker
Panic Among the Streamers
Spotify's losses get worse, and the CEO dumps $100 million in stock—but that's just a small part of...
a year ago
Spotify's losses get worse, and the CEO dumps $100 million in stock—but that's just a small part of the streaming crisis
Making software...
Using User-Select
Using User-Select
2019-06-04
Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
over a year ago
Using User-Select
2019-06-04
Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property?
Introducing the CSS property
Simply put, the...
The American Scholar
Our Pets, Our Plates
In defense of the furred and the hoofed
The post Our Pets, Our Plates appeared first on The American...
6 months ago
In defense of the furred and the hoofed
The post Our Pets, Our Plates appeared first on The American Scholar.
High Signal
Starting a successful business at 50 - Devan shares his tips
Ever thought if 50 is too old to start your own business? Devan is proof it's not. He was 50 when he...
a year ago
Ever thought if 50 is too old to start your own business? Devan is proof it's not. He was 50 when he created his startup and at 56 years old, he has made a million-dollar business!
Can you tell us about HR Partner and your achievements?
HR Partner
Anecdotal Evidence
'More Profundities Than Twists'
I’m sure some of you share my slightly guilty impulse: a book last read months or decades ago
enters...
5 months ago
I’m sure some of you share my slightly guilty impulse: a book last read months or decades ago
enters my thoughts and I can’t shake it. I have to read it again. For me, the
same is true of movies. To put it in not non-artistic terms, sometimes you get
a craving for spaghetti...
The Modern House
Akram Khan: the poignant story of a man who found his voice through dance
Matt Gibberd’s guest on this week’s podcast is the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan. Having...
11 months ago
Matt Gibberd’s guest on this week’s podcast is the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan. Having danced since he was very small, Akram, who was born in London to Bangladeshi parents, is one of the most acclaimed names in contemporary dance working today, known for his […]
Anecdotal Evidence
'A General Effect of Pleasing Impression'
Back in the Golden Age of Blogging, the decline of
which roughly coincided with the arrival of...
a year ago
Back in the Golden Age of Blogging, the decline of
which roughly coincided with the arrival of Anecdotal Evidence in 2006, literary
memes were far more popular. Some were trivial parlor games, a way for certain readers
to safely show off without having ever opened a book....
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#46)
Morning in America; Trump's bad vibes; Japan's chip industry; Biden and abundance; native-born...
4 months ago
Morning in America; Trump's bad vibes; Japan's chip industry; Biden and abundance; native-born employment; redistribution; transit costs
Old Structures...
He Is, After All, A Boy From Queens
2 months ago
Josh Thompson
On Scooters as a class of vehicle/tool
Introduction
Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of...
5 days ago
Introduction
Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of something different than what I mean. Here’s Denver’s Sportique Scooters, here’s one of their recent posts:
So that is the kind of vehicle I’m talking about when I say “scooter”.
I...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Costa Rica, Part 7 (On To Monteverde)
Next we began our trek to Monteverde, into Costa Rica’s famed Cloud Forest. This is one of the...
a year ago
Next we began our trek to Monteverde, into Costa Rica’s famed Cloud Forest. This is one of the nation’s smallest microclimates and one of its most intriguing. High in the mountains, a thick blanket of fog frequently envelopes the landscape and creates a gentile moisture. A steady...
Making software...
Browser History Sucks
Browser History Sucks
2019-04-20
Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to...
over a year ago
Browser History Sucks
2019-04-20
Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to find a particular site or product? Do you remember that experience being good? Most likely not.
Much like printers, the design of browser history interfaces hasn't changed in years....
Ognjen Regoje •...
Green flags for investable founders
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and...
11 months ago
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and dedication.
Elevator pitch in LinkedIn tagline
A founder who is all in is constantly selling. That means their tagline will:
a) be for their company, not for them
b) be the sales pitch, not a...
Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
8 months ago
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dragons
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Dangle-balls is copyright SMBC Industries, All...
7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Dangle-balls is copyright SMBC Industries, All Rights Reserved
Today's News:
Spoon & Tamago
Isometric Drawings of Sento, Kissaten and other Japanese Establishments by Honami Enya
rendering of the Takara-yu sento in Tokyo Japanese illustrator Enya Honami uses a style of...
4 months ago
rendering of the Takara-yu sento in Tokyo Japanese illustrator Enya Honami uses a style of architectural rendering known as isometric drawings to faithfully recreate cross-sections of Japanese public bathhouses, or sento. Honami is a skilled draughtswoman by trade, having...
Dan Slimmon
Clinical troubleshooting: diagnose any production issue, fast.
Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My...
9 months ago
Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My approach is derived from a different field in which groups of experts with various levels of context need to reason together about problems in a complex, dynamic system:...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Earned
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Kelly didn't like this one, but twitter did, and...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Kelly didn't like this one, but twitter did, and twitter, let me tell you, is very smart.
Today's News:
It's the last day that sales of Bea count toward our NYT bestseller total! The list is normally dominated by major franchises,...
Epic Web Dev
The Golden Rule of Assertions (article)
Learn about The Golden Rule of Assertions that helps pinpoint good tests from bad ones.
11 months ago
Learn about The Golden Rule of Assertions that helps pinpoint good tests from bad ones.
Strange Loop Canon
Evaluations are all we need
On analysing talent in LLMs
11 months ago
On analysing talent in LLMs
Applied Cartography
Fathom
I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly...
2 weeks ago
I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly good reason to do so until the news broke that Paul Jarvis was selling his share of the company to Jack Ellis, the technical co-founder. [1]
Anyway, the two thoughts:
I think Fathom...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Rob Jones
I am a textiles artist working with Japanese techniques such as Shibori, shaped resist and Katagami...
9 months ago
I am a textiles artist working with Japanese techniques such as Shibori, shaped resist and Katagami stencilling (using indigo to dye the fabric). I also work with formal Japanese embroidery techniques - Sashiko and Kogin (counted thread) embroidery as well as some Boro inspired...
Retail Design Blog
Zeus Eyewear by studio LETTAR
Glasses are among the most delicate and functional items we wear, possessing structural and...
4 months ago
Glasses are among the most delicate and functional items we wear, possessing structural and mechanical characteristics. They serve a functional...
Seth's Blog
If they know, they should tell us
Asymmetrical information creates real problems. And fixing the flow of useful proxies benefits both...
6 days ago
Asymmetrical information creates real problems. And fixing the flow of useful proxies benefits both sides. Cigarette companies knew a great deal about the addictions they were causing and the illnesses that resulted. If the public had known, they would have made different...
The Diff
Meta's Least-Untrusted Clone Model
Plus! AI Interfaces; The Many Peaks of Mobile; Borrowing Distribution Networks; Ad Arbitrages; More...
4 days ago
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Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Time Management Problems: Ask Marcus Aurelius
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
a year ago
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Christopher Butler
Christmas Day – Multiple UFO Sighting
My wife, children, and I witnessed a cluster of high-flying, unidentified objects at 6pm on...
over a year ago
My wife, children, and I witnessed a cluster of high-flying, unidentified objects at 6pm on Christmas Day.
At 6pm on the evening of Christmas Day, 2021, in Durham, NC, my wife and I were preparing to walk our children down the street to their grandparents’ house for...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Kind of Things I Love'
At the end
of her Friday post on Orson Welles and his Chimes
at Midnight, Di Nguyen at the Little...
11 months ago
At the end
of her Friday post on Orson Welles and his Chimes
at Midnight, Di Nguyen at the Little White Attic appends a bookish cri de coeur, one I have echoed many
times:
“I
increasingly feel at odds with modern culture,” she begins. “I’m indifferent to
contemporary music,...
Jonas Hietala
An invisible Remake
What does a guy like me do when not working on a new game? Except living my life, being a coach for...
over a year ago
What does a guy like me do when not working on a new game? Except living my life, being a coach for my little brother’s hockey team and eating strawberries? The last week or so I’ve been working hard with my webpage, yes this page. If you’ve visited my site before today you’ll...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 7 best mobile app analytics tools
1. PostHog Best for: Engineering and product teams What is PostHog? PostHog (that's us 👋) is an...
4 months ago
1. PostHog Best for: Engineering and product teams What is PostHog? PostHog (that's us 👋) is an all-in-one platform built to help engineers create…
Artificial Ignorance
Saving the world with AI and government grants
Listen now | A conversation with Helena Merk, founder and CEO of Streamline Climate.
5 months ago
Listen now | A conversation with Helena Merk, founder and CEO of Streamline Climate.
Rest of World -...
How InstaDeep became Africa’s biggest AI startup success
Karim Beguir is the co-founder and CEO of InstaDeep, a Tunisian startup that was acquired for $682...
3 months ago
Karim Beguir is the co-founder and CEO of InstaDeep, a Tunisian startup that was acquired for $682 million by BioNTech.
Retail Design Blog
Prompt Café by SAISA STUDIO
The cafe called Prompt is a cafe with a small nature in the city center. To contain the outside...
2 months ago
The cafe called Prompt is a cafe with a small nature in the city center. To contain the outside nature,...
Commoncog
Data is an Added Sense
A useful operating principle to sidestep the biggest misconception with becoming data driven in...
4 months ago
A useful operating principle to sidestep the biggest misconception with becoming data driven in business.
A Weekly Dose of...
Ando and Le Corbusier
Ando and Le Corbusier is a two-volume project that shows how the works of two pioneers of modern...
over a year ago
Ando and Le Corbusier is a two-volume project that shows how the works of two pioneers of modern architecture – Le Corbusier and Tadao Ando – connect human experience to the basic givens of existence: interactions among human beings and personal encounters with nature, including...
Matt Mullenweg
CNBC on WP Engine
Ari Levy at CNBC has a great article covering the battle between WordPress and Silver Lake / WP...
2 months ago
Ari Levy at CNBC has a great article covering the battle between WordPress and Silver Lake / WP Engine: Why WordPress [co-]founder Matt Mullenweg has gone ‘nuclear’ against tech investing giant Silver Lake.
Adventures In...
How to emboss an imagery basemap
Ah the simple pleasures of the World Imagery basemap. So much earth. So much imagery. So many...
a year ago
Ah the simple pleasures of the World Imagery basemap. So much earth. So much imagery. So many corners of this world to explore. How can we take something so verdant and charming and just ratchet it up to eleven? We’ll use a water mask and some layer effects, that’s how! 0:00...
TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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8 months ago
macwright.com
Recently
Busy month! In January, I wrote
about the first four Val Town runtimes, and built a lot of
features...
9 months ago
Busy month! In January, I wrote
about the first four Val Town runtimes, and built a lot of
features in Val Town.
I also hacked around enough to make
Placemark Play available
again, the “free-as-in-beer” Placemark UI. It still
has some warts, but it’s there. Want to improve...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to measure product engagement
Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for...
over a year ago
Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for your business. Though it seems easy to view success…
Rest of World -...
The CEO trying to democratize cybersecurity
Felix Kan on building a bug-hunting platform to enhance cybersecurity for small companies.
10 months ago
Felix Kan on building a bug-hunting platform to enhance cybersecurity for small companies.
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.3 released
D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in
nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the...
2 weeks ago
D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in
nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the heels of [the previous release][prev],
here’s nsnotifyd-2.3. Sorry for causing extra work to
my uncountably many users!
The nsnotifyd daemon monitors a set of DNS zones and runs a...
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
The Roots of...
Cellular reprogramming, pneumatic launch systems, and terraforming Mars
In December, I went to the Foresight Institute’s Vision Weekend 2023 in San Francisco. I had a lot...
11 months ago
In December, I went to the Foresight Institute’s Vision Weekend 2023 in San Francisco. I had a lot of fun talking to a bunch of weird and ambitious geeks about the glorious abundant technological future. Here are few things I learned about (with the caveat that this is mostly...
TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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8 months ago
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What MongoDB got Right
MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now.
While some of the...
over a year ago
MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now.
While some of the mockery is out-of-date or rooted in misunderstandings, much of it is well-deserved, and it’s difficult to disagree that much of MongoDB’s engineering is incredibly simplistic,...
One Useful Thing
Change blindness
21 months later
4 months ago
Left To Write
My 3 Principals To Become A Copywriter
What I’ve figured out so far as a 1 man Ad-agency
a year ago
What I’ve figured out so far as a 1 man Ad-agency
Archinect - Features
Debates Surrounding Architectural Competitions Are Nothing New
In the US architectural profession of the 2020s, and newfound scrutiny over workplace conditions...
6 months ago
In the US architectural profession of the 2020s, and newfound scrutiny over workplace conditions from unpaid overtime to a poor work-life balance, architecture competitions have become the subject of debate over how the profession values itself and is valued by wider society...
CONTEMPORIST
A Material Palette Of Pale Brick, Concrete, And Timber Echoes This Home’s Coastal Site
Architecture firm studioplusthree has shared photos of a project in Sydney, Australia, that included...
6 months ago
Architecture firm studioplusthree has shared photos of a project in Sydney, Australia, that included the alterations and additions to an existing house. The home features a material palette of pale brick, concrete, and timber evoking the project’s coastal location and echoing the...
Tinloof - Blog
Guide to content creation with Sanity
We go through how Sanity can be used as a headless CMS to create and manage content.
over a year ago
We go through how Sanity can be used as a headless CMS to create and manage content.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
alexwlchan
The best way to tell a website your age
There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access...
11 months ago
There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access certain content online.
Now children can be protected from adult content like well-organised spreadsheets, YouTube videos about kitchen appliances, and websites that sell you...
Archinect - Features
Notes on Progress: Sixteen Women Discuss What It Means To Be Female in Architecture...
The tides are changing for women in architecture schools in surprising ways. Female deans currently...
7 months ago
The tides are changing for women in architecture schools in surprising ways. Female deans currently lead Harvard, Yale, Princeton, NJIT, Cornell, Syracuse, NYIT, CCNY, Cooper Union, and Boston Architectural College, among others. Despite the difficulties some of them have faced,...
devonzuegel.com
A libertarian just won Argentina's presidency... what's going on?
If you're wondering how the heck a hardline libertarian just won the Argentinian presidential...
a year ago
If you're wondering how the heck a hardline libertarian just won the Argentinian presidential election, here's some background.
First, a key fact is that the government is printing money at an accelerating rate, resulting in 143% annual inflation as of the most recent count. The...
TheCollector
The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Old Structures...
Like Looking Down A Well
Trinity Church and its yard are surrounded on all four sides by tall buildings. In 1952, when Angelo...
7 months ago
Trinity Church and its yard are surrounded on all four sides by tall buildings. In 1952, when Angelo Rizzuto took this picture looking down from the roof of one of them, they were all of about 1900-1920 vintage. It’s a striking shot, but I’d guess not to everyone’s taste.
Mazdak
Unplugging Australia: Kids vs. Social Media
Australia is going offline!
3 weeks ago
Australia is going offline!
Strange Loop Canon
State of the Canon
Onwards
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Euros final liveblog
Euros final liveblog 🏴🇪🇸
19:00 Only an hour to go.
19:10 I'm having steak and ale...
5 months ago
Euros final liveblog 🏴🇪🇸
19:00 Only an hour to go.
19:10 I'm having steak and ale pie.
20:00 Kick-off. The score is nil nil.
20:48 Off for oranges at half time.
21:05 Back.
21:06 Goal 😢
21:32 Goal 😀
21:46 Goal 😢
21:54 ENGLAND HAVE COME SECOND!
21:55 I'm sure...
Commoncog
Process Improvement is Trickier Than You Think
Most companies skimp on process improvement. But the surprising thing is that they do so not because...
over a year ago
Most companies skimp on process improvement. But the surprising thing is that they do so not because they're bad or lazy — but because there are system dynamics that prevent them from doing so. We take a look at what those are.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Even Erudition is Possible Outside Academe'
A reader tells
me he earned his B.A. in English several years ago and now he works for a
non-profit...
5 months ago
A reader tells
me he earned his B.A. in English several years ago and now he works for a
non-profit that pushes “arts education,” whatever that might be. I don’t take
him for an idealist. He’s bright, personable, an ambitious reader and bored.
Our culture doesn’t know what to do...
Seth's Blog
Indifferent overhead
Every business and individual has overhead. The bills we have to pay and the costs we incur that...
7 months ago
Every business and individual has overhead. The bills we have to pay and the costs we incur that aren’t directly related to our income. You pay them whether or not you’re busy. But there are two kinds of overhead, worth differentiating: Different overhead … the investments that...
Flashbak
Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
4 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Kayak, Hike, and Bike in Off-Season Virginia Beach
6 days ago
watchTowr Labs -...
We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI
Welcome back to another watchTowr Labs blog. Brace yourselves, this is one of our most astounding...
3 months ago
Welcome back to another watchTowr Labs blog. Brace yourselves, this is one of our most astounding discoveries.
Summary
What started out as a bit of fun between colleagues while avoiding the Vegas heat and $20 bottles of water in our Black Hat hotel rooms - has now seemingly...
Contemporist...
A’ Design Awards And Competition – The Winners
A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts in...
a year ago
A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts in over 114 countries.
TheCollector
7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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6 months ago
This Space
39 Books: 1986
In my second year of reading, I read four novels by DM Thomas, beginning with his most famous, The...
8 months ago
In my second year of reading, I read four novels by DM Thomas, beginning with his most famous, The White Hotel, in the edition below with its very 1980s cover design. I look at the single-word titles of the others and can remember absolutely nothing about them.
Both the title...
TheCollector
What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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2 months ago
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3 months ago
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Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
8 months ago
Wuthering...
Books I read in November 2023
Recovery from surgery leads to a long list of books.
(Everything is going well, by the way,...
a year ago
Recovery from surgery leads to a long list of books.
(Everything is going well, by the way, thanks).
My idea of a “comfort read” is a book on a subject about which I do not
know much – start me over at the beginning – thus my enthusiastic Indian
literature project, which is...
TheCollector
Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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balajis.com
Going Meta
Meta may be Android to Apple's Apple.
a year ago
Meta may be Android to Apple's Apple.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.10.0
This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out -...
over a year ago
This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out - you can walk through your own website or app and see…
History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
Diaries of Note
The crying could be heard from the street
“There is so much influenza about that they’ve had to shut the university.” The opening line in the...
a year ago
“There is so much influenza about that they’ve had to shut the university.” The opening line in the diary of Josep Pla sets the stage for what would become a transformative period in his life and, subsequently, a landmark in 20th-century Catalan literature. In 1918, the Spanish...
NeuroLogica Blog
Hybrid Biopolymer Transistors – Implications for Brain Machine Interface
There are several technologies which seem likely to be transformative in the coming decades. Genetic...
a year ago
There are several technologies which seem likely to be transformative in the coming decades. Genetic bioengineering gives us the ability to control the basic machinery of life, including ourselves. Artificial intelligence is a suite of active, learning, information tools....
Notes on software...
Tail call elimination
In this post we'll explore what tail calls are, why they are useful,
and how they can be eliminated...
over a year ago
In this post we'll explore what tail calls are, why they are useful,
and how they can be eliminated in an interpreter, a compiler targeting
C++, and a compiler targeting LLVM IR.
Tail calls
A tail call is a function call made at the end of a block that
returns the value of the...
Saturday Morning...
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a year ago
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Moneyness
How is the foreign expansion of Canadian banks going?
With the high profile nixing of TD Bank's purchase of First Horizon Bank last month, I thought I'd...
a year ago
With the high profile nixing of TD Bank's purchase of First Horizon Bank last month, I thought I'd take a step back and try to visualize the last few decades of Canadian bank expansion outside of the country.
What I've done is go through the annual reports of the big-5 banks at...
The Modern House
Why modern living is easy at Farnley Hey – Peter Womersley’s first domestic dwelling
7 months ago
XO Capital - Field...
Our First Community Call
This week Danny jumped on a live Twitter Spaces with me. We talked about:
When to "quit"
XO...
10 months ago
This week Danny jumped on a live Twitter Spaces with me. We talked about:
When to "quit"
XO community, courses,
Motivations for picking a startup idea
Decision making differences between short holds and longer holds.
Irrational...
Team Charters are a trap.
I’m cleaning out old lingering drafts. This one’s on why I dislike Team Charters.
Recently an email...
a year ago
I’m cleaning out old lingering drafts. This one’s on why I dislike Team Charters.
Recently an email came in asking about writing team charters. I’ve worked at a number of companies that asked teams to write charters, and I think it’s an interesting project. That said, it’s not a...
Londonist
Ticket Alert: The Devil Wears Prada Musical On Sale From Today
Tickets? For the West End? Groundbreaking.
a year ago
Tickets? For the West End? Groundbreaking.
CONTEMPORIST
3D Printed Sculptural Walls Surround The Interior Of This New Retail Store
Barcelona-based architecture firm External Reference, led by Italian architect Carmelo Zappulla, has...
5 months ago
Barcelona-based architecture firm External Reference, led by Italian architect Carmelo Zappulla, has shared photos of a retail store design they completed for fashion brand PINKO, which includes an interior lined with 3D printed design elements. Based on the history of the...
diamond geezer
Lower Lea Valley Bus Review
HYPERLOCAL BUS NEWS: Lower Lea Valley Bus Review
development papers focused on particular...
4 months ago
HYPERLOCAL BUS NEWS: Lower Lea Valley Bus Review
development papers focused on particular geographical areas. A recent set covers the Lower Lea Valley, an area of "historically relatively low trip-generating industrial land progressively transforming into higher trip-generating...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Reading Notes on “Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp”
by Josef Czapski
over a year ago
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...
10 months ago
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...
Seth's Blog
Practical empathy (vs. telepathy)
“If I were you…” or, more commonly, “if you were me.” Management has never been easy, but as the...
6 months ago
“If I were you…” or, more commonly, “if you were me.” Management has never been easy, but as the world becomes more complex, it gets more difficult. We’d like to imagine that the person (or AI bot, or freelancer, or firm) that we hired has enough drive, insight and common sense...
Steve Klabnik
Single text, many masters
over a year ago
Maps Mania
The Interactive Turbulence Map
11 months ago
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2023, Day 3
There is vigorous discussion taking place on the Day 2 link regarding the highly controversial claim...
a year ago
There is vigorous discussion taking place on the Day 2 link regarding the highly controversial claim of room temperature superconductivity.
Highlights from Wednesday are a hodgepodge because of my meanderings:
The session about quantum computing hardware was well attended,...
Good Enough
Lettini is Good Enough
We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know...
a year ago
We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know much about us. So we’re starting a new Q&A column to introduce ourselves, one-at-a-time, starting with our resident designer…
Who the hell do you think you are?
👋 Hello, I’m...
Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Human Impulse, the Human Aspiration'
The upstairs
neighbor, a diffident graduate student in English, knocked on the door to tell me W.H....
a year ago
The upstairs
neighbor, a diffident graduate student in English, knocked on the door to tell me W.H. Auden had died. He was close to
tears and couldn’t stop shaking his head in disbelief. This was half a century ago, late September
1973. We talked books almost daily and a few...
Saturday Morning...
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a year ago
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The Modern House
Landscape designer and architect duo Anna and Allan Joyce share their dynamic family home...
5 months ago
Archinect - Features
Archinect's 2023 Summer Reading List
Summer is here, and whether you're on vacation or preparing for one or looking to lay low at home, a...
a year ago
Summer is here, and whether you're on vacation or preparing for one or looking to lay low at home, a summer must is a good book. The Archinect team has curated a list of reading essentials to explore.
Below is a collection of books organized into five categories – New Releases,...
Saturday Morning...
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TheCollector
Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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Noahpinion
What are the checks and balances on the power of Elon Musk?
The question we'll all be asking over the next year or more.
2 days ago
The question we'll all be asking over the next year or more.
TheCollector
Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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diamond geezer
Eu-stun
For two decades Euston had a very long departures board across the front of the station...
11 months ago
For two decades Euston had a very long departures board across the front of the station concourse.
large expectant crowd often gathered.
switched off to be replaced by two new departure boards in the centre of the floor space.
If you feel the need to tell us you would have...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Retail Design Blog
July James Street Store by In Addition
July draws inspiration from the breezy outdoor spirit of Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, where leisure,...
3 months ago
July draws inspiration from the breezy outdoor spirit of Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, where leisure, lifestyle, and experience enrich the built...
Avestura's Blog
An opinion on what's a good general-purpose programming language
What features should a programming language have to be ideal, in my opinion?
over a year ago
What features should a programming language have to be ideal, in my opinion?
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Hey friends, social media makes it impossible to reach my own readers. But you, the RSS reader have the ability to check out my...
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The time before YC
I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company....
over a year ago
I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company. This is us (I'm on the right), just after we got…
Rest of World -...
The vehicle experience center tackling EV misconceptions in Nigeria
EV adoption in Nigeria is almost nonexistent, but a local startup is helping solve that problem.
a year ago
EV adoption in Nigeria is almost nonexistent, but a local startup is helping solve that problem.
The American Scholar
Bony Ramirez
Beautiful parasites
The post Bony Ramirez appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 months ago
Beautiful parasites
The post Bony Ramirez appeared first on The American Scholar.
Laetitia@Work
What's not to like about work-life balance?
Laetitia@Work #43
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Write your own words
Why not to use AI for writing - a blog post on the underestimated long term costs of AI tools for...
a month ago
Why not to use AI for writing - a blog post on the underestimated long term costs of AI tools for human creativity.
Retail Design Blog
Bear Capital office by Oktra
Oktra designed a purpose-built office space for Bear Capital in Richmond, transitioning from angular...
7 months ago
Oktra designed a purpose-built office space for Bear Capital in Richmond, transitioning from angular to curved architecture to enhance flow...
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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5 months ago
David Perell
Thoughts on Free Will
My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will....
over a year ago
My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will. When it comes to living in it, assume you have no free will.” Here’s an example: I lost my love of working out during the pandemic. Before it started, I worked out at a nice,...
ntietz.com blog
The phrase "good enough" isn't fit for purpose
Words matter.
First impressions matter.
I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and...
a year ago
Words matter.
First impressions matter.
I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and there's a section titled "Good-Enough Software".
In it, the authors expand that "the phrase 'good enough' does not imply sloppy or poorly produced code" and that it must still meet...
Math Is Still...
Two Students Unravel a Widely Believed Math Conjecture
Mathematicians thought they were on the cusp of proving a conjecture about the ancient structures...
a year ago
Mathematicians thought they were on the cusp of proving a conjecture about the ancient structures known as Apollonian circles. But a summer project would lead to its downfall.
The post Two Students Unravel a Widely Believed Math Conjecture first appeared on Quanta...
The Great Discontent...
Luke Zahm
“Everyone eats. There's so much beauty in realizing that humaneness and that oneness.” This is the...
9 months ago
“Everyone eats. There's so much beauty in realizing that humaneness and that oneness.” This is the ethos of Luke Zahm. The James Beard-nominated chef, host of the hit PBS show Wisconsin Foodie, and owner of the widely acclaimed Driftless Café in Viroqua, Wisconsin, believes food...
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Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA
Coming out this summer from Belt Publishing (publishers of the "50 Maps" book series on Cleveland,...
7 months ago
Coming out this summer from Belt Publishing (publishers of the "50 Maps" book series on Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo) is the Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA.
"Ferguson, Missouri, became the epicenter of America’s racial tensions
after the 2014 murder of Michael Brown and the...
The Modern House
How architect Alex Nikjoo lifted a lower-ground floor flat with a lightness of touch
4 months ago
ToughSF
Lasers, Mirrors and Star Pyramids
Lasers can hit targets at extreme ranges, at the fastest speed possible. They are ideal weapons for...
over a year ago
Lasers can hit targets at extreme ranges, at the fastest speed possible. They are ideal weapons for space warfare.
However, everyone knows that lasers bounce off mirrors... does this make lasers useless?
The post is inspired by the discussion that arose from the conclusions...
Christopher Butler
object – Game Boy
It’s boxy, but it’s good.
On Christmas in 1990, I received a Game Boy! Though I was never much...
a year ago
It’s boxy, but it’s good.
On Christmas in 1990, I received a Game Boy! Though I was never much of a video game player, I was very excited about this little, handheld system. There was something about it that felt magical to me — so much more so than the Nintendo system we...
Wuthering...
The sophists and their rehabilitation - they clearly cause the ruin and corruption of their...
I have been pursuing the sophists, the great antagonists of Socrates and Plato. Minimized for...
a year ago
I have been pursuing the sophists, the great antagonists of Socrates and Plato. Minimized for centuries in the history of philosophy as, following Plato (but not Socrates), hucksters, they, or some of them, are now taken seriously as an intermediate step between the cosmological...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Comfort, Solace, Inspiration'
“A few
books, however,” writes Michael Dirda, “become lifelong companions, works we
regularly turn...
a year ago
“A few
books, however,” writes Michael Dirda, “become lifelong companions, works we
regularly turn to for comfort, solace, inspiration.” The reviewer identifies a slightly
different category, “the books we find ourselves crazy about and hope to
revisit someday,” as distinguished,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Guest Appearance on ShopTalk Show #605
Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/
I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all...
9 months ago
Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/
I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all things web.
The conversation was fun and casual, mostly around topics I’ve written about recently — which is good, since those are topics I should (presumably) be able to speak on at...
Joel Gascoigne
The highs and lows of startup life
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event in London about the incredible journey with my startup in the last two
years.
When I speak, I try my best
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Digital Trees
Trees have many functions:
they provide shade,
they purify air,
they store carbon,
they grow...
5 months ago
Trees have many functions:
they provide shade,
they purify air,
they store carbon,
they grow fruit,
and they’re aesthetically pleasing.
What’s intriguing to me about trees is their return on investment (ROI).
It takes years, even decades, to grow a tree to the point where you...
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Year in Review
The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old...
12 months ago
The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old writing is nostalgic and horrific.
By the numbers, 2023 was pretty normal: I read around 20 books, ran around 400 miles. It’s funny how the statistics even out to the same numbers...
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