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Ryan Mulligan
The Infinite Marquee The deprecated tag The HTML <marquee> element had blessed (cursed?) the early days of the internet...
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over a year ago
The deprecated tag The HTML <marquee> element had blessed (cursed?) the early days of the internet with the ability to insert scrolling text onto a webpage. It even included options to control text behavior once it reached the end of its container with a handful of attributes....
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Blind Bull, Little Hucklow A large menu is rarely a good sign, and I have to admit a part of my heart sank when I sat down at...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A large menu is rarely a good sign, and I have to admit a part of my heart sank when I sat down at the Blind Bull and counted 12 items in the starters section, 6 mains, 3 sides and 5 desserts (even if I'm being kind and counting all the ice creams as one) - fully 26 dishes...
Louwrentius
'Secure programming: how to implement user account management' Most web applications work like this: The application uses a single database account to perform all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Most web applications work like this: The application uses a single database account to perform all actions. Users are just some records in a table. Account privileges and roles are part of this table, or separate tables. This implies that all security must be designed and build...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: PowerBook Duo 2300c Jerry Seinfeld had one. many other TV shows and even movies, most notoriously Hackers: my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jerry Seinfeld had one. many other TV shows and even movies, most notoriously Hackers: my favourite PowerBook 1400: the metal hinges are starting to tear out of their attachment points in the plastic back of the display, and naturally it's the one with all the upgrades in...
Old Structures...
Old Adventures In Photo-Bombing Someone occasionally notices that most of Manhattan has little open space to create picturesque...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Someone occasionally notices that most of Manhattan has little open space to create picturesque vistas. Or to put it another way, it’s difficult to get decent pictures of a lot of buildings here because there’s so much stuff in the way. There’s also stuff in the background, which...
ntietz.com blog
Licensing can be joyful (and legally dubious) Software licenses are a reflection of our values. How you choose to license a piece of software says...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Software licenses are a reflection of our values. How you choose to license a piece of software says a lot about what you want to achieve with it. Do you want to reach the maximum amount of users? Do you want to ensure future versions remain free and open source? Do you want to...
History Today Feed
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express Interrail: The Trans Europe Express JamesHoare Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide
a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do In London On Christmas Day Guided tours, river trips and Christmas lunch.
a year ago
Society's Backend
Clarifying DEI What makes DEI important and where it fails
12 months ago
A Smart Bear
You're a real company when… What marks the moment when you become a "real" company?
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Elizabeth Holmes Going to Prison I first wrote about the Theranos scandal in 2016, and I guess it should not be surprising that it...
a year ago
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a year ago
I first wrote about the Theranos scandal in 2016, and I guess it should not be surprising that it took 7 years to follow this story through to the end. Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the company Theranos, was  convicted of defrauding investors and sentenced to 11 years in prison....
Maps Mania
GeoGuessr for Art
8 months ago
Business Brainstorms
Never launch, AI as an anti-signal, slow news, zero shame in pulling the plug. Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Billing for software is broken. Stripe is REALLY good...
David Heinemeier...
Et tu, Zoom? The corporate cause for return-to-office just claimed its perhaps most ironic victim: Zoom! The...
a year ago
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a year ago
The corporate cause for return-to-office just claimed its perhaps most ironic victim: Zoom! The company that literally lives to sell us all on the wonders of remote collaboration wants its own people back into the office again. Which I guess is just a regression to the mean of...
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 22 Timelapse Here’s the timelapse for my entry to Ludum Dare 22,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here’s the timelapse for my entry to Ludum Dare 22, Sat-E. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKDyhxCVm0 This time I managed to record one screen every minute, which is very suboptimal to say the least but I slowed it down a bit so you can at least see something being done there.
Retail Design Blog
Milpa whiskey by Monograf Milpa is a distinctive Mexican 100% corn-based whiskey crafted in the highlands of Oaxaca, embodying...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Milpa is a distinctive Mexican 100% corn-based whiskey crafted in the highlands of Oaxaca, embodying a unique process rooted in...
Seth's Blog
Goals and expectations [a note to a frustrated friend, just starting out on a long career] There are three reasons that our...
a year ago
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a year ago
[a note to a frustrated friend, just starting out on a long career] There are three reasons that our goals might not be achieved. In order of palatability, they are: Perhaps the goals are too lofty, too based on chance, unlikely for anyone to achieve, surrounded by barriers that...
IEEE Spectrum
Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says? In 1976, Ralph Baer and Howard Morrison, two game designers, happened to see a trade show...
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a year ago
In 1976, Ralph Baer and Howard Morrison, two game designers, happened to see a trade show demonstration of an Atari arcade game called Touch Me. The game’s waist-high cabinet featured four large buttons on the top, which lit up in random sequence; the player had to push the...
Rest of World -...
A little-understood role in a global VC could also be one of the most influential Ana Jiménez, 500 Global’s chief of staff for Latin America, on building a relationship of trust and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Ana Jiménez, 500 Global’s chief of staff for Latin America, on building a relationship of trust and strategic vision with her organization’s leader.
Home on Erik...
What's up with music recommendations? I just answered a Quora question about what, if any, are the differences in the algorithms that are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just answered a Quora question about what, if any, are the differences in the algorithms that are behind recommendations for music and movies. Of course, every media type is different. For instance, there's fundamental reasons why latent factor models works really well for...
Maps Mania
China vs America - World Influence Map
4 months ago
xkcd.com
University Age
5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Santa and The Space Men It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you.  Something about Santa and Flying...
a week ago
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a week ago
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you.  Something about Santa and Flying Saucers seems to go together like White wine and Cracker Jack. Sort of sweet and tangy and gets your attention. Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
Math Is Still...
‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality Experiments that test physics and philosophy "as a single whole" may be our only route to surefire...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Experiments that test physics and philosophy "as a single whole" may be our only route to surefire knowledge about the universe. The post ‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Louwrentius
Why I still won't switch to Linux and keep my Mac The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to admit that the Linux desktop is really becoming a nice, user-friendly environment. I'm truly starting to like what I see. I considered whiping Mac OS X from my macbook, but there...
Maps Mania
Neighborhood Colors
a year ago
xkcd.com
Overlapping Circles
a year ago
Abstruse Goose
tradeoff
over a year ago
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 27 November-3 December 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Little Stove & Little Stump Coffee Shop and Playground by NITAPROW Little Stove & Little Stump, a bread/coffee shop, and a playground with both indoor and outdoor...
7 months ago
TheCollector
The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World undefined
8 months ago
Rest of World -...
The Vietnamese military has a troll army and Facebook is its weapon Force 47 abuses Facebook's safety tools to silence government critics at home and anywhere in the...
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
The tech layoffs continue A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and thousands of other big and small companies in the industry. And it looks like this year is not going to bring any relief. Google just announced more layoffs, Twitch...
High Signal
Making $1m ARR with social media scheduling Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and many more. The business is now doing over $1m in annual revenue! Davis joined me for an interview about joining the...
Noahpinion
Three holes in the U.S.' economic strategy against China Legacy chips, drones, and coordination with allies.
6 months ago
Computer Ads from...
Creative Computer Publishes Interview with the Guy Behind the Death Star Trench Run (1978) An Interview With Star Wars Animator Larry Cuba
8 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
I sold Big Timer Five months ago I sold my countdown timer web app, Big Timer! I never really announced that, so...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Five months ago I sold my countdown timer web app, Big Timer! I never really announced that, so here’s what...
TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore) undefined
4 months ago
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
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...
Luxagraf:...
In The Dunes Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.—Henry David Thoreau,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.—Henry David Thoreau, Journal, March 22, 1842 Mornings grow colder with every passing day. The sunrise edges a little further south every time I crest the dunes to watch. The wind howls most mornings, a...
TokyoDev
Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
a year ago
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a year ago
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
Londonist
A Farewell To Wilko "I thought this was the new Woolworths to be honest."
a year ago
Tom Blomfield
Peter Nixey: Cook something or get out of the kitchen Peter Nixey: Cook something or get out of the kitchen: peternixey: I seem to have a lot of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Peter Nixey: Cook something or get out of the kitchen: peternixey: I seem to have a lot of conversations recently with people who find themselves in the kitchen but without the means to cook anything. As a cook myself they often ask me how to go about finding themselves a chef...
Spoon & Tamago
Japanese Designer New Year’s Cards of 2024 It’s been a rough start to the new year for Japan as one disaster begets another. We are of course...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been a rough start to the new year for Japan as one disaster begets another. We are of course talking about the evolving situation at Haneda airport, as well as the Noto Peninsula. Our hearts go out to everyone affected but we also want to highlight the many heroes of the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ancient times Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And if you had no dog-bites-ass receiver, it was as...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And if you had no dog-bites-ass receiver, it was as if summer storm had rainbowed the world, yet passed over your home as you dwelt in twilight and sorrow. Today's News:
Mazdak
Popular Business Tips That Are Actually Hurting Your Success In the age of LinkedIn influencers and business gurus, we're bombarded with seemingly wise advice...
a month ago
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a month ago
In the age of LinkedIn influencers and business gurus, we're bombarded with seemingly wise advice that often does more harm than good.
TheCollector
Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism undefined
5 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Like a Golden Retriever' Part of the pleasure of listening to the late jazz musician Dave McKenna playing piano was hearing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Part of the pleasure of listening to the late jazz musician Dave McKenna playing piano was hearing the musical quotes he wove into his improvisations. The practice, deplored by some critics, was not unique to McKenna, of course. To cite only jazz musicians I have seen in person,...
abdz.do - Have you...
Stellar: A new home for the best freelance creatives Stellar: A new home for the best freelance creatives abduzeedo0203—23 ...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stellar: A new home for the best freelance creatives abduzeedo0203—23 Businesses are hiring freelancers now more than ever. But in the creative freelance industry, there are no platforms to find high-end, vetted talent. Most of the popular...
Maps Mania
The US Foreign Assistance Map
9 months ago
The Modern House
Tim Little: the owner of Grenson footwear on his journey from Adidas ad man to sole trader For this week’s episode of Homing In, Matt Gibberd talks to Tim Little, who – after zigging and...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
For this week’s episode of Homing In, Matt Gibberd talks to Tim Little, who – after zigging and zagging his way through the worlds of marketing, advertising and, latterly, shoes – now sits at the head of Grenson, the traditional cordwainers that have been handcrafting […]
Contemporist...
A Kitchen And Bathroom Renovation Updates This Home With New Ideas Australian-based Studio Minosa has shared photos of a kitchen and bathroom renovation they completed...
a year ago
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a year ago
Australian-based Studio Minosa has shared photos of a kitchen and bathroom renovation they completed for a Sydney suburban home owned by a design-conscious couple.
Stephen Wolfram...
Introducing Chat Notebooks: Integrating LLMs into the Notebook Paradigm This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin KitThe New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram LanguagePrompts for Work & Play:...
Open Culture
Medieval Cats Behaving Badly: Kitties That Left Paw Prints … and Peed … on 15th Century Manuscripts “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” –Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–90) When...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” –Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–90) When Emir O. Filipovic, a medievalist at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, visited the State Archives of Dubrovnik, he stumbled upon something that will hardly surprise...
The Forney Flyer
And Here We Go Trying Yet Again... There are so many good reasons/excuses I could give you as to why I did just one blog post last...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are so many good reasons/excuses I could give you as to why I did just one blog post last June, with indications that I would start consistently blogging again, and then I disappeared... again. I could tell you that life has been super crazy busy, and that by...
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories) Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
a month ago
Ryan Mulligan
A Horizontal Scroll List and Custom Keyboard Navigation Getting started It was time for a personal site refresh. I didn't plan much for this next iteration,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Getting started It was time for a personal site refresh. I didn't plan much for this next iteration, but I knew I wanted to include a showcase of my CodePen projects. With so many to choose from, it was tough deciding on how I'd ultimately like to visibly display project content....
symmetry magazine
The magnet detectives During a routine test, two HL-LHC magnets unexpectedly flatlined. Was it just a coincidence, or did...
a year ago
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a year ago
During a routine test, two HL-LHC magnets unexpectedly flatlined. Was it just a coincidence, or did they have a common foe?
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Algorithm Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You are what we call a discontinuity at...
6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs undefined
3 months ago
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 30 October-5 November 2023 The best articles from Londonist over the past week.
a year ago
Ben Borgers
Current Self and Going to Libraries
over a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #164 Howard Marks on intelligent risks, Li Lu's amazing life story, Damodaran on streaming, Thompson on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Howard Marks on intelligent risks, Li Lu's amazing life story, Damodaran on streaming, Thompson on Charter vs. Disney, Taleb's favorite literary works, Buffett's Japanese investments, and more ...
Seth's Blog
The Net Promoter Score More than two-thirds of the companies surveyed said that they used NPS methodology with their...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
More than two-thirds of the companies surveyed said that they used NPS methodology with their customers. Some are using it to measure employee satisfaction as well. The P stands for ‘promoter’, but of course, it doesn’t actually measure promotion. If that many of your customers...
NeuroLogica Blog
Science Communication About Controversial Issues The world of science communication has changed dramatically over the last two decades, and it’s...
a month ago
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a month ago
The world of science communication has changed dramatically over the last two decades, and it’s useful to think about those changes, both for people who generate and consume science communication. The big change, of course, is social media, which has disrupted journalism and...
Both Are True
we're okay - a quick Asheville update and a list of places to donate
3 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
Why doesn’t advice work? In ancient India, there was a long-running feud between the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Duryodhana,...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In ancient India, there was a long-running feud between the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Duryodhana, leader of the Kauravas, planned a huge war to end things forever. Krishna warned that this would lead to the total destruction of both sides and made every effort to forge a...
Math Is Still...
Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent evolution, in which a critical fork in the creatures’ past determined their evolutionary futures. The post Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past...
TheCollector
What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact undefined
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
5 Exciting New Electric Camper Vans
a year ago
Citation Needed
Issue 51 – It's quiet... too quiet It's been a quiet few weeks in the world of crypto disasters... too quiet.
10 months ago
TheCollector
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America undefined
8 months ago
The Honest Broker
Here's My Mission Impossible Article—But I Refuse to Talk About the Movie I just care about the theme song
a year ago
Math Is Still...
The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling...
a year ago
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a year ago
Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians. The post The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences first appeared on Quanta...
TheCollector
How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution? undefined
8 months ago
Old Structures...
A Stylistic Joke As A Name There’s a large, somewhat ominous, vaguely art deco building in lower Manhattan commonly called the...
a month ago
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a month ago
There’s a large, somewhat ominous, vaguely art deco building in lower Manhattan commonly called the Tombs. The main portion of it is a courthouse with a lot of court-related office space, the northern wing – see below – is a short-term prison, mostly used to hold people awaiting...
Maps Mania
Coins Hoards from the Roman Empire
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Django Reinhardt? undefined
7 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Expert of nothing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most interesting and simultaneously challenging realizations I’ve had is that as a founder, especially the CEO, you essentially have chosen to never become an expert of anything. Oh,...
The Gradient
The Artificiality of Alignment This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk”...
a year ago
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a year ago
This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
Christopher Butler
We Live in the Uncanny Valley Now Making virtual worlds can help us understand the real one, but they’re not places we can live...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Making virtual worlds can help us understand the real one, but they’re not places we can live permanently. Terebithia, the imaginary world he and his friend Leslie create in the woods would have no meaning, no power, and no purpose. Theirs is a story about real children, in...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Scarcity Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Next he kicks the robot, and it moans in...
4 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Transformers for software engineers Ever since its introduction in the 2017 paper, Attention is All You Need, the Transformer model...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ever since its introduction in the 2017 paper, Attention is All You Need, the Transformer model architecture has taken the deep-learning world by storm. Initially introduced for machine translation, it has become the tool of choice for a wide range of domains, including text,...
Notes on software...
AOT-compilation of Javascript with V8 tldr; I'm working on a AOT-compiled Javascript implementation called jsc. Many dynamically typed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
tldr; I'm working on a AOT-compiled Javascript implementation called jsc. Many dynamically typed programming languages have implementations that compile to native binaries: Python: Cython Common Lisp: SBCL Scheme: Chicken Scheme The benefits of compiling dynamically typed...
Atoms vs Bits
Don't Meet Me In The Middle Against journey centerism
2 months ago
Working Theorys
Companionship Content is King | Theory No. 29 Why short-form video has a ceiling & how companionship content escapes it.
11 months ago
Ink & Switch
Making a new medium and other recaps It's always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our work are ongoing journeys. So, in this end of the year dispatch we wanted to share some recaps and talk a bit about one of our longest standing research tracks: programmable ink.
TheCollector
History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games undefined
5 months ago
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
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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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“That’s Another Podcast” I’ve long been a fan of the Rich Ziade / Paul Ford podcast duo. They did Track Changes then The...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve long been a fan of the Rich Ziade / Paul Ford podcast duo. They did Track Changes then The Postlight Podcast then The Aboard Podcast then Ziade+Ford, and now (again?) The Aboard Podcast. Through all my listening, one thing I’ve noticed is that they often make comedic...
Marcus on AI
Two visions of AI’s future It’s not looking good
a month ago
Seth's Blog
Who cares? A question we don’t ask ourselves very often, but a choice we make every day. It’s tempting to not...
a year ago
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a year ago
A question we don’t ask ourselves very often, but a choice we make every day. It’s tempting to not care. If you choose to not care, you’re off the hook. It’s simply to do as little as possible, avoid too much trouble, ask if it will be on the test, try to stay off the […]
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Canvas: A Bet On New EMRs | Out-Of-Pocket what if EMRs didn't totally suck?
a year ago
Rest of World -...
China’s favorite resale app is a youth subculture hotspot You can sell anything on it, and millions do, but it's also become a forum for fandoms and birthed a...
a year ago
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a year ago
You can sell anything on it, and millions do, but it's also become a forum for fandoms and birthed a unique style of confessional item listings.
Seth's Blog
Elegant and classy If you announce that something is elegant or classy, it probably isn’t. There’s a humility to...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you announce that something is elegant or classy, it probably isn’t. There’s a humility to hospitality and sophistication that evaporates when we name it.
TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York undefined
7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Steg Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: SMBC is a comic about mathematics, philosophy,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: SMBC is a comic about mathematics, philosophy, literature, and science. Today's News:
The Pragmatic...
Pollen’s enormous debt left behind: exclusive details Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the company has accumulated, most of which will not be paid. The highest offer to buy Pollen’s business assets - but without its liabilities - currently stands at only $250K. Details.
Quantum Frontiers
Now published: Building Quantum Computers Building Quantum Computers: A Practical Introduction by Shayan Majidy, Christopher Wilson, and...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Building Quantum Computers: A Practical Introduction by Shayan Majidy, Christopher Wilson, and Raymond Laflamme has been published by Cambridge University Press and will be released in the US on September 30. The authors invited me to write a Foreword for … Continue reading →
TokyoDev
You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know it. The trick is knowing what you’re up against, why these obstacles persist, who might be able to help, and how far you may be required to shift your perspective from where it...
Londonist
Secrets Of Tower Bridge A behind the scenes tour of one of London's great icons.
a year ago
Drew Ex Machina
Webb’s First Glimpse of Jupiter, Its Moons & Rings A long time ago when I was a budding amateur astronomer, one of the first targets I would observe...
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A long time ago when I was a budding amateur astronomer, one of the first targets I would observe each evening with my new telescope was […]
TheCollector
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Contemporist...
This Australian Terrace House Was Modernized For Today's Living Chan Architecture has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Clifton Hill, Australia,...
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a year ago
Chan Architecture has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Clifton Hill, Australia, that included transforming the interior of a terrace house into a modern home.
Common Edge
What’s the Point of Lower-Density Urbanism? We need new models for fixing existing sprawl and growing small towns.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
A tale of two feeds Car smuggling in Bolivia is booming, despite thieves and theft victims widely documenting the...
a year ago
The Marginalian
Winnicott on the Psychology of Democracy, the Most Dangerous Type of Person, and the Unconscious... In the late morning of the first day of August in 2023, exactly twenty summers after I arrived in...
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In the late morning of the first day of August in 2023, exactly twenty summers after I arrived in Philadelphia as a lone teenager from a country thirteen centuries America’s senior, I experienced that wonderful capacity for self-surprise as tears came streaming down my face in a...
NeuroLogica Blog
Nobel Prize for Attosecond Physics One attosecond (as) is 1×10−18 seconds. An attosecond is to one second what one second is to the age...
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a year ago
One attosecond (as) is 1×10−18 seconds. An attosecond is to one second what one second is to the age of the universe. It is an extremely tiny slice of time. This year’s Nobel Prize in physics goes to three scientists, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier, whose...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Well-known Types of Miracle' It’s grim out there and getting grimmer. Two poems encountered on the same day provided a touch of...
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8 months ago
It’s grim out there and getting grimmer. Two poems encountered on the same day provided a touch of buoyancy. The first was originally written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov on May 6, 1923:  “No, life is no quivering quandary! Here under the moon things are bright and dewy. We are...
Math Is Still...
An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that...
a year ago
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a year ago
The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been disproved, the universe of shapes has exploded. The post An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Lobo MAX-80 The Computer Tandy Should Have Built (at least according to the ad).
9 months ago
The Ruffian
How Did Politics Get So Weird? James Kanagasooriam Explains Everything
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Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 4) This is the last article of the series. We've built a few things with ReasonReact and now it's time...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is the last article of the series. We've built a few things with ReasonReact and now it's time to share my opinion about using Reason to create React applications. Access Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here. Though, my opinion shouldn't really matter if you're also...
Anecdotal Evidence
'For Grief and Lost Belief' In the U.S., Memorial Day is observed on the final Monday in May – this year, May 27....
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7 months ago
In the U.S., Memorial Day is observed on the final Monday in May – this year, May 27. Formerly called Decoration Day, it started after the Civil War as commemoration of the nation’s war dead. The meaning and observance of holidays tend to dilute with time. When I was a boy, the...
Christopher Butler
The Internet's Greatest Potential It seems that the internet’s greatest potential is to create intimacy across distance. Which means...
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It seems that the internet’s greatest potential is to create intimacy across distance. Which means we still have a long way to go.
Math Is Still...
Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level? A new phase of matter called a “time crystal” plays with our expectations of thermodynamics. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
A new phase of matter called a “time crystal” plays with our expectations of thermodynamics. The physicist Vedika Khemani talks with Steven Strogatz about its surprising quantum behavior. The post Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level? first appeared on...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. LLVM system calls Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the ulisp compiler's LLVM backend to support printing integers to...
AFAR Media - Travel...
JetBlue to End American Pact—What This Means for Travelers
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image, Part II: As Little JS As Possible This is part two of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project...
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2 weeks ago
This is part two of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project Announcement Pt. I: Design Iterations Pt. II: As Little JS As Possible One of my goals when making this project was to use as little JavaScript as possible. In retrospect, I have to...
TheCollector
Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know undefined
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Maps Mania
Mapping the Causes of Haze
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TheCollector
The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts undefined
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TheCollector
9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan undefined
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A Weekly Dose of...
A Modernist Reads About Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the English architect who was born in 1869 and died in 1944, that is....
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a year ago
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the English architect who was born in 1869 and died in 1944, that is. Although a famous name, Lutyens was not an architect I had much familiarity with before I received a review copy of the first volume of The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens....
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Capitalism just like Adam Smith pictured it From far away, things that are very different look alike. I grew up in a family of musicians and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
From far away, things that are very different look alike. I grew up in a family of musicians and English professors. To them, the entire…
Tinloof - Blog
Using CSS files in web components When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might expect plain CSS files and CSS modules to just work, but they don’t 😱. Here is an example of a CSS module in a React component:
blag
How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how to configure git emails per directory or per project.
Math Is Still...
If the Universe Is a Hologram, This Long-Forgotten Math Could Decode It A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping physicists understand how quantum threads could weave together...
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3 months ago
A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping physicists understand how quantum threads could weave together into a holographic space-time fabric. The post If the Universe Is a Hologram, This Long-Forgotten Math Could Decode It first appeared on Quanta Magazine
elementary Blog
elementary OS 7 Available Now It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and fixes based on your feedback, introduced new office productivity features, and expanded compatibility with a wide range of hardware. So far, OS 6.1 has been downloaded from our...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hold Up Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: From this angle you can't see the Habsburg...
3 months ago
Flashbak
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
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a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants.     Via University...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Guide to Guatemalan Food: 11 Essential Dishes to Try in Guatemala
a year ago
Moneyness
Why I'm in favor of financial illiteracy I'm not a fan of mandatory investor education classes. The issue was brought up recently by former...
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I'm not a fan of mandatory investor education classes. The issue was brought up recently by former chair of FDIC, Sheila Bair, who sees such classes as ways to stop future FTX-style disasters. The model of finance I've been using for many years is the fairly dismal dark forest...
TheCollector
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9 months ago
Ben Borgers
Schmooze
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Laetitia@Work
What future of work in a warmer world? Laetitia@Work #60
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Small-scale investors are building Vietnam’s EV charging network Anyone with spare land in a good location can become a franchisee for a charging company, but with...
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Anyone with spare land in a good location can become a franchisee for a charging company, but with no government support it can take years to break even.
Old Structures...
Half Of A Grand Commercial Palace 380 Broadway has architecture above its station. It was built in 1860 with retail space at the base...
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7 months ago
380 Broadway has architecture above its station. It was built in 1860 with retail space at the base and loft space above, but it’s got that grand marble-veneer facade on the upper floors and some very nice cast iron by Daniel Badger at the first floor. It’s fortunes have followed...
bt RSS Feed
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari. This switch back doesn’t mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
Seth's Blog
The half-life of magic “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke Try to...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke Try to imagine the you of twenty years ago holding a Rabbit R1, or using a cell phone or being able to listen to every song, ever recorded, for just a few dollars a month. We don’t just take...
Posts on Made of...
Getting carried away with hack value Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of BarnOwl into perl code, instead of C (BarnOwl is written in an unholy mix of C and perl code that call each other back and forth obsessively). Moving code into perl has many...
CONTEMPORIST
A New Home Inspired By The Verticality Of Neighboring Victorian Houses NEO Architecture Inc. has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Ontario, Canada,...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
NEO Architecture Inc. has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Ontario, Canada, whose design was inspired by the verticality of neighboring Victorian homes. The extruded gable form is a tribute to the architectural motifs of the past while blending it with...
Old Structures...
Baseball in New York 3 After Tuesday’s description of teams, and yesterday’s discussion of some of the ball fields in...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
After Tuesday’s description of teams, and yesterday’s discussion of some of the ball fields in Brooklyn, it’s time for stadiums in Manhattan. Like yesterday, this is not an exhaustive list, just some of the interesting highlights…excluding the more famous major league fields. All...
Arduino Blog
ThermoGrasp brings thermal feedback to virtual reality Imagine playing Half-Life: Alyx and feeling the gun heat up in your hand as you take down The...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Imagine playing Half-Life: Alyx and feeling the gun heat up in your hand as you take down The Combine. Or operating a robot through augmented reality and feeling coldness on your fingers when you get close to exceeding the robot’s limits. A prototype device called ThermoGrasp...
Society's Backend
Why Software Engineers Need to Understand Machine Learning And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
7 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Failing to use HSL to do Palette Theming Learning from Slack and Refactoring UI to create color palettes, then using HSL colors to do...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Learning from Slack and Refactoring UI to create color palettes, then using HSL colors to do customizable theming with CSS variables
Home on Erik...
The mathematical principles of management I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's the lack of first principles thinking. Basically it's a ton of heuristics. And heuristics are great, but when you present heuristics as true objectives, it kind of clouds the...
Nelson's Weblog
Seven slaves, a marker I've written before about learning that my ancestors Leonard and Melvina Ward owned a slave. Today I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've written before about learning that my ancestors Leonard and Melvina Ward owned a slave. Today I learned there were more, at least seven. This marker comes courtesy of Find-a-Grave. It's on a small family cemetery near Bagwell, TX. I'm not positive but I think the land is...
Londonist
Pollock's Toy Museum Is Reopening... In Croydon Six month pop-up arrives this January.
12 months ago
Abort Retry Fail
The History of GM-NAA I/O and SHARE The Birth of Computer Operating Systems
a year ago
diamond geezer
Crossing the boundary While I was in Enfield, heading away from the power station, I decided to depart across Sewardstone...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
While I was in Enfield, heading away from the power station, I decided to depart across Sewardstone Marsh. Why exit the dull way when you can cross the Lea and walk through a minor Essex village? The riverside path passed nosey ponies and a pumping station and crossed three...
Diaries of Note
A duty, not a pleasure John Fowles was twenty-three when he wrote this journal entry in 1949. Just a few years after...
a year ago
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a year ago
John Fowles was twenty-three when he wrote this journal entry in 1949. Just a few years after spending two years in the military, he was now navigating his final year at Oxford, and as the festive season descended he found himself back at home, enveloped in the annual Christmas...
Open Culture
The Story of Lee Miller: From the Cover of Vogue to Hitler’s Bathtub In late-twenties Manhattan, a nineteen-year-old woman named Elizabeth “Lee” Miller stepped off the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
In late-twenties Manhattan, a nineteen-year-old woman named Elizabeth “Lee” Miller stepped off the curb and into the path of a car. She was pulled back to safety by none other than the magnate Condé Nast, founder of the eponymous publishing company. Not long thereafter, Miller,...
Seth's Blog
The conspiracy of mediocrity Solo mediocrity is rampant, of course. We know that toasting the bread before making the sandwich...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Solo mediocrity is rampant, of course. We know that toasting the bread before making the sandwich makes it more delicious, but in service of convenience and speed, we skip a step. It becomes a conspiracy when more than one of us is involved. The freelancer who offers cheap and...
Rest of World -...
How Presto became Libya’s most successful tech startup The delivery app now plans to expand to neighboring countries.
3 months ago
Seth's Blog
Flashing on contempt It doesn’t have to happen with intent, in fact, it rarely does. Micro-emotions appear on our face...
a year ago
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a year ago
It doesn’t have to happen with intent, in fact, it rarely does. Micro-emotions appear on our face and then disappear in less than a second. Blink and you’ll miss them. But sometimes, people don’t blink. We’ve evolved to be hyperware of these tiny displays of emotion. And yet,...
Maps Mania
Ten Years of Global Marine Traffic
a year ago
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Are design ethics useless? Have you worked in digital design for a while? I bet you’ve been under pressure to apply deceptive...
a year ago
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a year ago
Have you worked in digital design for a while? I bet you’ve been under pressure to apply deceptive design patterns...
Tony Finch's blog
On "the OSI deprogrammer" Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses to die”, in reaction to Robert Graham’s “OSI Deprogrammer” published in September. I had discussed the OSI Deprogrammer on Lobsters, and George’s blog post prompted me to write an...
Simply Explained
Howto Virtualize Unraid on a Proxmox host Here's how to run Unraid as a virtual machine under Proxmox. This is useful when you're already...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's how to run Unraid as a virtual machine under Proxmox. This is useful when you're already using Proxmox and if you want to use Unraid as a NAS.
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
a year ago
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a year ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
Math Is Still...
How Can Math Help Beat Cancer? Cancer treatment has come a long way in recent decades. But finding the best course of treatment for...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Cancer treatment has come a long way in recent decades. But finding the best course of treatment for each case of this diverse, dynamic disease remains a challenge. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with computational biologist Franziska Michor about how math,...
NeuroLogica Blog
How Much Do Couples Share Traits? Do birds of a feather flock together, or do opposites attract? These are both common aphorisms,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Do birds of a feather flock together, or do opposites attract? These are both common aphorisms, which means that they are commonly offered as generally accepted truths, but also that they may by wrong. People like pithy phrases, so they spread prolifically, but that does not mean...
Handprinted - Blog
Making a Copper Sulphate Mordant Solution Copper sulphate is a non-toxic mordant used to etch aluminium, zinc and steel plates for intaglio...
a year ago
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a year ago
Copper sulphate is a non-toxic mordant used to etch aluminium, zinc and steel plates for intaglio printmaking. Copper sulphate is a safer alternative to acids - and we always opt for safer solutions here at the Handprinted studio! Metal plates are traditionally etched using...
Arduino Blog
Explore underwater with this Arduino-controlled DIY ROV Who doesn’t want to explore underwater? To take a journey beneath the surface of a lake or even the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Who doesn’t want to explore underwater? To take a journey beneath the surface of a lake or even the ocean? But a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), which is the kind of robot you’d use for such an adventure, isn’t exactly the kind of thing you’ll find on the shelf at your local...
Math Is Still...
Ninth Dedekind Number Found by Two Independent Groups The numbers count a variety of seemingly unrelated mathematical structures. The post...
a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
Jan 2021: I got a $500K acquisition offer! ...and other updates in January 2022 from me
a year ago
Neil Panchal
Dear Spotify. Can we just get a table of songs? Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy cross-platform Electron framework. I've come to terms with it. It's fine. It'll do. But, your understanding of interface design seems like it needs a bit
Liz Denys
'First' thoughts on git I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git;...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git; I've certainly already been exposed to git in a variety of ways. I'd always been told that my love of graph theory would convert me over to this different type of version control. I...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Downhill Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I too commit the fundamental attribution...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I too commit the fundamental attribution error! Today's News: Hey geeks, last day to buy A City on Mars during launch week. Purchases now really help us, so if you were going to buy, we appreciate it happening soon. I am looking...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City? undefined
a year ago
Making software...
Styling Empty Table Cells Styling Empty Table Cells 2019-07-17 Often when designing tables on the web you're bound to come...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Styling Empty Table Cells 2019-07-17 Often when designing tables on the web you're bound to come across empty pockets of data. These will be rendered as "blank" table cells, which isn't always the intended outcome. Let's take a quick look at how to target and style empty table...
Irrational...
Executive translation. One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts is Extract the Kernel, which argues that executives...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts is Extract the Kernel, which argues that executives are generally directionally correct but specifically wrong, and it’s your job to understand the overarching direction without getting distracted by the narrow errors in their...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
It’s the future — you can stop using JPEGs For the past several months, after leaving Amazon I have been hard at work building a software...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the past several months, after leaving Amazon I have been hard at work building a software product. I anticipate probably another 1-…
alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Colder Here Than Organized Charity' Hugh Kenner’s first extant letter to Guy Davenport is dated March 7, 1958. Its manner is at once...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Hugh Kenner’s first extant letter to Guy Davenport is dated March 7, 1958. Its manner is at once business-like and chatty: “I hope subsequent activities haven’t yet sufficed to obliterate our Boston dinner last fall from your memory.” The men had first met in 1953 when each...
TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know undefined
2 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
Dec 2022 updates and happy new year! Hello everyone! It's Tony again with another monthly updates.
over a year ago
Nela Dunato Art &...
Nela Dunato Art & Design got a brand refresh! My previous brand identity design lasted from 2015 until 2023, and it has served me quite well. But...
a year ago
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a year ago
My previous brand identity design lasted from 2015 until 2023, and it has served me quite well. But my new professional photos sparked the need to overhaul the website, which led to a more substantial brand redesign including new typography and updated logo design. Come see what...
macwright.com
Recently Busy month! In January, I wrote about the first four Val Town runtimes, and built a lot of features...
10 months ago
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10 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...
Unpacked
AI-enabled SaaS vs Moatless AI Several enterprise SaaS companies have announced generative AI features recently, which is a direct...
a year ago
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a year ago
Several enterprise SaaS companies have announced generative AI features recently, which is a direct threat to AI startups that lack sustainable competitive advantage
AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Best U.S. National Parks for Stargazing
a year ago
Open Culture
The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year (1973–2023) Hip-hop was once a subculture, but by now it’s long since been one of the unquestionably dominant...
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a month ago
Hip-hop was once a subculture, but by now it’s long since been one of the unquestionably dominant forms of popular music — not just in America, and not just among young people. There are, of course, still a fair few hip-hop holdouts, but even they’ve come to know a thing or two...
Ben Borgers
Three People Talking
over a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
A Reflection in Birds Last Sunday I needed to make a decision. I was debating leaving my job, unsure which way to go. So I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last Sunday I needed to make a decision. I was debating leaving my job, unsure which way to go. So I went for a run in search of clarity. I hit the trail dressed in black, only my white head exposed to the winter wind.
Working Theorys
Before the Crowd Shows Up The arena rewards those who arrive early.
9 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
Confessions of a...
A first step into the unknown world of academia……. At the beginning of this blog I did promise to include some writings that would at least be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At the beginning of this blog I did promise to include some writings that would at least be semi-useful (hopefully!) to future students hoping to move into a career in marine science; so here it goes! From today I am beginning a year long Postgraduate Teaching Internship at UWA....
Rest of World -...
Domestic work in Vietnam: The 5-star butler who naps on the steps She cooks, cleans, and has a key. But she also naps in stairwells and eats in hallways.
a year ago
somethingaboutmaps
A Free eBook of Terrain Lines Friends, earlier this week I mentioned that I’d completed a whole bunch of terrain sketches using...
2 months ago
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2 months 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...
Rest of World -...
Why are Apple and Tesla losing ground in China? The Chinese market isn’t quite as untapped as U.S. companies thought.
9 months ago
Coffee with an...
Architect Valentines 2024 It’s that time of year again. The time of year when an architect’s thoughts turn to Love. Well, not...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
It’s that time of year again. The time of year when an architect’s thoughts turn to Love. Well, not really. We’re working on a deadline right now. But, we promise, as soon as we’re finished with these details, our thoughts will totally turn to love. In the meantime, here are a...
Math Is Still...
What Is Machine Learning? Neural networks and other forms of machine learning ultimately learn by trial and error, one...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Neural networks and other forms of machine learning ultimately learn by trial and error, one improvement at a time. The post What Is Machine Learning? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Home on Erik...
Approximate nearest news As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I'm...
over a year ago
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As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I'm the author of a Python package called Annoy. I've also built a benchmark suite called ann-benchmarks to compare different packages.
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November Theme: Art Game Back over at The Experimental Gameplay Project a new theme has come up. My last three themes haven’t...
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Back over at The Experimental Gameplay Project a new theme has come up. My last three themes haven’t been “my” themes: I’ve been following their lead and their themes and this month is no exception. This months’ apparently a big theme - Art. It’s even a collaboration with a big...
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_Published on [the Netlify Blog](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/09/26/git-centric-workflow-the-one-api-to-rule-them-all/)_
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Planned closures An extraordinary number of Underground lines are closed this morning. By my calculations that's...
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An extraordinary number of Underground lines are closed this morning. By my calculations that's 67 stations with no train service of any kind, or 25% of the entire tube network. What's more only 23 of these are getting a replacement bus service. Residents of Stanmore, Turnham...
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How PostHog built an app server (from MVP to billions of events) PostHog's mission is to increase the number of successful products in the world. To achieve it,...
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PostHog's mission is to increase the number of successful products in the world. To achieve it, we're building a comprehensive suite of analytics and…
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In deciding what startup to start, I’ve been thinking about what problem space I want to tackle. An area that’s drawing my attention is team communication and collaboration, especially for knowledge workers. This is for several reasons: With the trend towards distributed/hybrid...
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In a future where humanity has been driven underground by an apocalyptic event, a prisoner is haunted by the childhood memory of seeing a man gunned down at an airport. A group of scientists make him their time-traveling guinea pig, hoping that he’ll be able to find a way to...
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Hello! I posted a comic on Mastodon this week about what’s in the .git directory and someone requested a text version, so here it is. I added some extra notes too. First, here’s the image. It’s a ~15 word explanation of each part of your .git directory. . You can git clone...
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Computer History Museum’s collection has a biography of sorts—a life before CHM, a tale about how it came to us, and a life within the museum. The chapters of that biography include the uses made of it, and the historical and interpretive stories it can be made to tell. This then...
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Avoiding Featurism Avoiding Featurism 2022-10-14 I rather enjoy the term “featurism”. I came across this term while...
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Avoiding Featurism 2022-10-14 I rather enjoy the term “featurism”. I came across this term while reading the wonderful article Why I don’t use Netscape, which the author credits to Bernd Paysan. Although it sums up the current “digital product” industry quite well the more...
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July 26, 2010 By Venkatesh Rao James C. Scott’s fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, examines how, across dozens of domains, ranging from agriculture and forestry, to urban planning and...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. We've been building Buffer for coming up to ten years now. We’re currently a 90-person fully remote team with over 70,000 paying customers and $20M in annual revenue. We’re proud to be a leader
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Magic Wheelchair - a Frozen sled for Angelle Working on a Frozen themed costume for Angelle.
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later the nutritionist is forced to quote from revelations about what is to come. Today's News:
Seth's Blog
The intentional stance Dan Dennett explained that it began as a survival mechanism. It’s important to predict how someone...
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Dan Dennett explained that it began as a survival mechanism. It’s important to predict how someone else is going to behave. That tiger might be a threat, that person from the next village might have something to offer. If we simply wait and see, we might encounter an unwelcome or...
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Refactoring Invariants (Feeling a little sick so this one will be short.) I'm often asked by clients to review their...
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(Feeling a little sick so this one will be short.) I'm often asked by clients to review their (usually TLA+) formal specifications. These specs are generally slower and more convoluted than an expert would write. I want to fix them up without changing the overall behavior of the...
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I'd like to introduce my new web design studio. After considering a list of potential names and designs, I finally came up with a name that I thought fitting for the kind of web design business that I want to run. After a few pencil and paper sketches, a few hours in Photoshop,...
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Stratford station has a new entrance. Gibbins Road entrance and for most passengers it's of no use whatsoever. Stratford station has a new entrance. by the end of March but it didn't. It was due to open in May but it didn't. It's looked finished for ages but it clearly wasn't...
Sam Altman
E Pur Si Muove Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me.  I realized I felt more...
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Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me.  I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco.  I didn’t feel completely comfortable—this was China, after all—just more comfortable than at home. That...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The arts of course existed before Aristotle was wrong about them. Today's News:
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and baby makes four??? lauren and baby are healthy, i am unwell!
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PostHog ships every two weeks, unless it makes more sense not to. Why? Iterating frequently helps improve our product. We get features in users’ hands…
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Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn't this same approach...
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Researchers got a better look at chatbots’ thoughts, amateurs learned just how complicated simple systems can be, and codes became expert self-fixers. The post The Year in Computer Science first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Habits Take Preparation Kristi and I moved to Golden, Colorado. We’ve been in our new apartment for five days. I’m trying to...
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Kristi and I moved to Golden, Colorado. We’ve been in our new apartment for five days. I’m trying to quickly settle into a routine that makes sense for both of us. For example - I work for a company in Boston. While I could keep local working hours (Mountain Time) I prefer to...
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Periodical 14 – v DIY While you’re here, make the world your own. Hello from the makerspace, otherwise known as...
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While you’re here, make the world your own. Hello from the makerspace, otherwise known as home. Home should be a makerspace! At any level — food, art, life, clothing, and on to more difficult craft like furniture and construction — everyone should have their hands in...
Citation Needed
Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain...
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Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists.
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Haunt 0.2.6 released Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that...
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Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that was accidentally broken in 0.2.5. Additionally, Haunt now uses the inotify API to watch for file changes on Linux when running haunt serve --watch, replacing a slower and more naive...
Josh Thompson
Processes Vs. Goals (or, Systems vs. Accomplishments) In this excellent article on systems vs. goals, James argues that even if you did not pursue any...
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over a year ago
In this excellent article on systems vs. goals, James argues that even if you did not pursue any specific goals, with the right system, you will still go a long way. This idea has been floating around my head for over a year, now, and I think it’s slowly coalescing into something...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The Rise of Touch Screens in Cars Explained Touch screens in cars are not new. In fact, the first production car fitted with a touch screen was...
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Touch screens in cars are not new. In fact, the first production car fitted with a touch screen was the 1986 Buick Riviera.   The CRT…
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Play On The Guitar Of Your Dreams At This Gibson Showroom Live out your Nigel Tufnel fantasy.
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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:
One Useful Thing
The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
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diamond geezer
Tuesday transport news Subscribe now to get a dose of London transport news in your inbox every Tuesday. The Main...
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Subscribe now to get a dose of London transport news in your inbox every Tuesday. The Main Drag acton mail line. What's more they'd made this spelling error previously in spring 2021 and now they'd made it again in autumn 2023. It wasn't clever. We may have giggled. acton...
FIRE v London
July ’24: New UK government July has been quite a busy month. I’ve been getting about a bit. Some South Coast action, some...
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July has been quite a busy month. I’ve been getting about a bit. Some South Coast action, some Mediterranean fun, a trip up to Oxford, a visit to one of England’s great Cathedrals, and more. And July saw some fine times in London. Both outdoors and inside. And of course we had...
The Wandering...
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(This is the math geek part about the Sala de la Barca ceiling. For instructions on constructing the pattern with compass and straightedge, go over to Part 1.) In the process of figuring out how to draw this pattern, I ran into a lot of questions, and had to do more than a little...
Paul Graham: Essays
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The Marginalian
Henry James on Losing a Mother "These are hours of exquisite pain; thank Heaven this particular pang comes to us but once."
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Visualizing the World, Visualizing Change In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf. Neurath was...
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In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf. Neurath was director of the International Foundation of Visual Information and used the Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) system to "teach through the eye." A recent...
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The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay. But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
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Identity Designed
Monkey Baa Designed by Universal Favourite, Sydney.
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Old Structures...
Odd One Out Two views of the Queensboro Bridge… First, a HAER photo I’ve used before: Second, a view from an...
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Two views of the Queensboro Bridge… First, a HAER photo I’ve used before: Second, a view from an early 1900s edition of King’s Views of New York, showing a rendering of the bridge before it was completed (on top), paired with a photo of the just-completed Williamsburg Bridge...
Nelson's Weblog
Linkblog archives I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to...
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I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to 2003. The UI is a little minimal but usable and it will work for any search indexers, which is what I most care about. Note old posts will have a grey background because I wasn't...
Open Culture
The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Explore the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard’s... I mean, the idea that you would give a psychedelic—in this case, magic mushrooms or the chemical...
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I mean, the idea that you would give a psychedelic—in this case, magic mushrooms or the chemical called psilocybin that’s derived from magic mushrooms—to people dying of cancer, people with terminal diagnoses, to help them deal with their — what’s called existential distress. And...
Rest of World -...
Mexicans say some police officers are taking bribes with mobile payment services Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed...
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CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
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You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
Opsbros
WiFi Binary Clock Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from...
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Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from ThinkGeek, and it was pride of place on my desk. LED's are a thing of beauty.
Passing Time
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines.  ...
Weighty Thoughts
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If demand is high enough, SMBC will reorient all business around the production of nugs. Today's News:
Cheese and Biscuits
64 Goodge Street, Fitzrovia The first thing we were given to eat at 64 Goodge Street was a little plate of truffle-cream...
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The first thing we were given to eat at 64 Goodge Street was a little plate of truffle-cream gougères topped with shaved Comté. These turned out to be important for two reasons - firstly, they weren't on the menu and as unannounced bonus extra dishes go you could hardly do more...
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Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free....
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Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering…
Seth's Blog
Possibility and opportunity We have the chance to build something that creates connection and generates value. On the other...
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We have the chance to build something that creates connection and generates value. On the other hand, a system that diminishes agency and dignity is inherently unstable. When we seek to create scarcity and control and optimize output at the expense of our humanity, it may pay off...
David Heinemeier...
Apple actually lost a court case for once, but they refuse to comply in good faith Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app...
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Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app developers the right to link to their own websites. And it seems like Apple had been preparing for this outcome, because immediately thereafter, Apple revealed an elaborate bad-faith...
McMansion Hell
mojo dojo casa house Howdy folks! Sorry for the delay, I was, uhhhh covering the Tour de France. Anyway, I’m back in...
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Howdy folks! Sorry for the delay, I was, uhhhh covering the Tour de France. Anyway, I’m back in Chicago which means this blog has returned to the Chicago suburbs. I’m sure you’ve all seen Barbie at this point so this 2019 not-so-dream house will come as a pleasant (?)...
Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ... Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
Maps Mania
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Louwrentius
'Syslog: the hidden security risk' People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to...
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over a year ago
People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to the security of your systems. SNMP is a well-known service, notorious for being configured with a default password (or community string). But there is another service that is...
Londonist
When A Plague Of Millions Of Rats Gnawed Its Way Through Central London They even ate the window frames...
a year ago
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A Quick Application of Model Categories Almost exactly a year ago (time flies!) I was thinking really hard about model categories in...
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Almost exactly a year ago (time flies!) I was thinking really hard about model categories in preparation for the HoTTEST summer school. I learned a TON doing this, but I’ve just today seen a really nice (and somewhat concrete) reason to care about the whole endeavor! I’d love...
Applied Cartography
Vibes and years XH asks: How do indie developers/small teams keep track of and prioritize long-term roadmaps? I've...
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10 months ago
XH asks: How do indie developers/small teams keep track of and prioritize long-term roadmaps? I've been basically work off my gut + Feeling of the Day for the past few years, and that's getting a bit unsustainable Buttondown's roadmapping has existed for the past three years in a...
This Space
39 Books: 1993 I've written about Gert Hofmann's novels a few times, most recently Veilchenfeld (Our Philosopher in...
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I've written about Gert Hofmann's novels a few times, most recently Veilchenfeld (Our Philosopher in the US edition), but not his short stories. In the year Hofmann died aged only 62, I bought and read Balzac's Horse and other stories in the wonderful Minerva paperback imprint....
Internal Tech Emails
"I just need to decide if we're going to buy Instagram" We have this big issue right now because gaming is shifting from us to mobile platforms.
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How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles As computer-driven cars and planes become more common, the key to preventing accidents, researchers...
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As computer-driven cars and planes become more common, the key to preventing accidents, researchers show, is to know what you don’t know. The post How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Daniel Miessler
News, Analysis, and Discovery | NO. 356 SECURITY NEWS TikTok has now admitted, after denying last week, that Chinese staff can in fact read...
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SECURITY NEWS TikTok has now admitted, after denying last week, that Chinese staff can in fact read European TikTok data. Pressure is increasing across the US government to outright ban the app, but it's quickly becoming national infrastructure so many young people. MORE |...
Daniel Bourke
The subtle shade of the clouds Garlic takes six to seven months to grow. I’m still working it out. I planted my garlic too...
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Garlic takes six to seven months to grow. I’m still working it out. I planted my garlic too late. Not the farm garlic though. They’ve had practice. Over a thousand bulbs this year, maybe more. Tens of thousands of cloves. Garlic is the biggest harvest of
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The Network State Book A new book on starting new countries. Available on Kindle and for free at thenetworkstate.com.
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over a year ago
A new book on starting new countries. Available on Kindle and for free at thenetworkstate.com.
Posts on Nikita...
What's that touchscreen in my room? Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the reasons I picked this apartment was age of the building. The construction was finished in 2015, which ensured pretty good thermal isolation for winters as well as small nice things...
Trying to Understand...
No Way Out Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Both Are True
omg we missed AI Appreciation Day????? + a new holiday that you won't want to miss (sincere)
5 months ago
The Modern House
Pride and Joy: six family homes for sale You may not be able to choose your family, but you can choose a home to share with them. Whether...
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You may not be able to choose your family, but you can choose a home to share with them. Whether you’re a young couple with a little one on the way, are searching for additional space or want to create a more sustainable living environment […]
Math Is Still...
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Today’s AI largely lives in computers, but acting and reacting in the real world — that’s the realm of robots. In this week’s episode, co-host Steven Strogatz talks with pioneering roboticist Daniela Rus about creativity, collaboration, and the unusual forms robots of the future...
Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
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On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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Seth's Blog
Naming is part of marketing A name is a hook for us to hang a story on. We need to begin with empathy and a useful story… useful...
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A name is a hook for us to hang a story on. We need to begin with empathy and a useful story… useful to the people who want to believe it, spread it, and use it to accomplish their goals. But then, the story needs firm footing and a way to stick with us. Patagonia […]
High Signal
Sailing the world while building startups James and his partner Danielle have an enviable working set-up - they live and work on a sailing...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'To Be in Some Respect Unique' “[L]et us not forget that ‘public’ denotes a collection not of identical units, but of units...
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“[L]et us not forget that ‘public’ denotes a collection not of identical units, but of units separable and (under close scrutiny) distinguishable one from another.”  I work with professors of statistics, among others, for whom data are the primal substance of the human world. You...
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Disaggregated Storage - a brief introduction a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems
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