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Open Culture
Behold Gustave Doré’s Dramatic Illustrations of the Bible (1866) One occasionally hears it said that, thanks to the internet, all the books truly worth reading are...
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One occasionally hears it said that, thanks to the internet, all the books truly worth reading are free: Shakespeare, Don Quixote, the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, the Divine Comedy, the Bible. Can it be a coincidence that all of these works inspired illustrations by Gustave Doré?...
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Lines of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway, 1927 Here’s a fascinating map of streetcar lines in Omaha, Nebraska in 1927, beautifully hand drawn on...
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Here’s a fascinating map of streetcar lines in Omaha, Nebraska in 1927, beautifully hand drawn on top of a pre-printed single colour map of the area produced by the City’s engineering department. Not only does the map show the extent of all the streetcar lines (with 64.6 miles of...
TheCollector
How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests? undefined
6 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea:...
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In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public? It was such a novel concept that when von Miller approached...
Mark Manson
3 Hard Truths You Need to Hear Welcome to the realm of uncomfortable truths, where I, Mark Manson, will make you question...
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Welcome to the realm of uncomfortable truths, where I, Mark Manson, will make you question everything you've ever believed in. Buckle up, buttercup. Let's dive into the rabbit hole of reality. Remember the past you? The one with embarrassing beliefs and naïve ideas? Well, guess...
TheCollector
Who Were the Black Panther Party? undefined
2 weeks ago
Diaries of Note
BOREDOM, HOMESICK, LOVESICK In April 1918, Spike Milligan was born. A titan in the world of comedy and literature, he is...
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In April 1918, Spike Milligan was born. A titan in the world of comedy and literature, he is arguably most fondly remembered for ‘The Goon Show’, a radio comedy programme that not only brought laughter to millions but also reshaped the landscape of British humour. But Milligan’s...
Diaries of Note
A greater public calamity could not have occurred On 6th November 1817, the British public was plunged into deep mourning following the unexpected...
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On 6th November 1817, the British public was plunged into deep mourning following the unexpected death of Princess Charlotte of Wales. The only child of the Prince Regent (later King George IV) and Caroline of Brunswick, Princess Charlotte was admired for her spirited personality...
Liz Denys
He's not my friend. Appearances can be deceiving. When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind....
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over a year ago
Appearances can be deceiving. When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind. What I want to say is often not what someone else wants to hear, and I learned early in life that men who don't hear what they want to hear often get angry. Maybe that anger will...
Commoncog
What is Power? Understanding how power works in business is necessary to understanding business in developing...
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Understanding how power works in business is necessary to understanding business in developing markets. A members-only mini series.
The Modern House
The house that art built: Paul Huxley and Susie Allen invite us into their west London home and...
3 days ago
Irrational...
Rough notes on learning Wardley Mapping. In my ongoing efforts to draft a book on engineering strategy, I’ve finally reached the point where...
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3 weeks ago
In my ongoing efforts to draft a book on engineering strategy, I’ve finally reached the point where I need to transition “Wardley Mapping” from a topic to consider including into a topic that I either do or do not include. The first step on that line is getting much deeper at...
Farnam Street
Why Write Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one for you? Why write an...
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a year ago
Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one for you? Why write an email when AI can auto-respond for you with all the typical pleasantries and talking-points? While AI doing these things for you is likely to happen, it’s not necessarily a good thing....
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Reverse Interview Investors I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it...
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I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
Julia Evans
Some notes on upgrading Hugo Warning: this is a post about very boring yakshaving, probably only of interest to people who are...
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2 months ago
Warning: this is a post about very boring yakshaving, probably only of interest to people who are trying to upgrade Hugo from a very old version to a new version. But what are blogs for if not documenting one’s very boring yakshaves from time to time? So yesterday I decided to...
Map of the Week
Planning for the Next Eclipse Maybe you saw Monday's eclipse and were impressed enough to want to travel to see another one or...
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8 months ago
Maybe you saw Monday's eclipse and were impressed enough to want to travel to see another one or maybe you missed it because life got in the way or you couldn't justify the time and expense of travel. Or, maybe you're like me and foolishly traveled to Rochester, New York where...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Quick Tip: docx is a zip Archive Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached media. Super useful, everyone should know it! When I tell my colleagues, friends, or students about it, they don't take me seriously the first time. So, here we go again. If you have...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change the world? “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?” –...
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“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?” – Steve Jobs I sometimes wish that instead…
Mazdak
10 Steps to Transform Your Life As someone who has built and scaled multiple businesses over decades, I've learned that success...
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As someone who has built and scaled multiple businesses over decades, I've learned that success isn't about sporadic breakthroughs—it's about consistent, intentional changes in how we think and act.
Spoon & Tamago
The Evolution of Meiji Era Craftsmanship, On Full Display in Tokyo It’s hard to overstate the cataclysmic impact that the Meiji Restoriation had on Japan. The Meiji...
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It’s hard to overstate the cataclysmic impact that the Meiji Restoriation had on Japan. The Meiji period, defined as the period between 1868 and 1912, followed what was nearly 300 years of almost complete isolation from the globe. Craftsmen and artists who had previously served...
Irrational...
Layers of context. Recently I was chatting with a Staff-plus engineer who was struggling to influence his peers. Each...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Recently I was chatting with a Staff-plus engineer who was struggling to influence his peers. Each time he suggested an approach, his team agreed with him, but his peers in the organization disagreed and pushed back. He wanted advice on why his peers kept undermining his...
Anecdotal Evidence
'It All But Lovely As Silence Is' Thanks to S.J. Perelman and his 1952 collection The Ill-Tempered Clavichord, I get confused with...
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6 months ago
Thanks to S.J. Perelman and his 1952 collection The Ill-Tempered Clavichord, I get confused with Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (1722) and with that bone that runs from the sternum to the shoulder blade. You know, the clavicle. Each time I need to cite one of the three, in writing...
Identity Designed
CleanO2 Designed by Ordinary Things, San Francisco.
over a year ago
The Ruffian
Five Bad Motivations With Good Outcomes Plus a Rattle Bag of Juicy Links
5 months ago
Blog System/5
End-to-end tool testing with Bazel and shtk If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate size, it almost-certainly builds one or more binaries, at least one of which is a CLI tool. But let’s face it: you don’t have end-to-end testing for those tools, do you?
TheCollector
An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan undefined
7 months ago
Quantum Frontiers
My favorite rocket scientist Whenever someone protests, “I’m not a rocket scientist,” I think of my friend Jamie Rankin. Jamie is...
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Whenever someone protests, “I’m not a rocket scientist,” I think of my friend Jamie Rankin. Jamie is a researcher at Princeton University, and she showed me her lab this June. When I first met Jamie, she was testing instruments to … Continue reading →
A Beautiful Site
Hashing Passwords with Node.js and bcrypt The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're...
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The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're coming from a PHP background, these are roughly equivalent to password_hash() and password_verify(). Bcrypt is the de facto way to hash and store passwords. For a brief explanation of...
Retail Design Blog
424 store by Zoo as Zoo Originally from Guatemala City, designer Guillermo Andrade defined his style very early on, but it...
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Originally from Guatemala City, designer Guillermo Andrade defined his style very early on, but it wasn’t until 2015 that he...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 9 best GA4 alternatives for apps and websites In July 2023, Google closed Universal Analytics (UA), forcing users to switch to Google Analytics 4...
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In July 2023, Google closed Universal Analytics (UA), forcing users to switch to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) or another provider. This hasn't proved a…
Steve Klabnik
About Crows
over a year ago
Common Edge
On the Value of Miniatures and Scale Models Thinking small can help us answer the challenges of our time.
5 days ago
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
Essays - Benedict...
Unbundling AI ChatGPT and LLMs can do anything, so what can you do with them? How do you know? Do we move to...
a year ago
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a year ago
ChatGPT and LLMs can do anything, so what can you do with them? How do you know? Do we move to chat bots as a magical general-purpose interface, or do we unbundle them back into single-purpose software?
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful...
a year ago
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a year ago
CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb...
The Marginalian
The Afterlives of the Soul: Sister Nivedita on Love and Death "To the soul, time does not exist. Only her own great purpose exists, shining clear and steady...
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy” undefined
a year ago
Ferd.ca
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents 2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running...
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2022/11/01 The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running an incident analysis in Jeli, and pointed out that the overall process was a big drag on their energy level, that it was hard to do, even if the final result was useful. They were...
dthompson
Chickadee 0.8.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
over a year ago
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I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. Notable improvements and...
Jonas Hietala
Competition Feedback The voting is over and I got a few ratings I want to comment on. You can view all ratings and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The voting is over and I got a few ratings I want to comment on. You can view all ratings and comments here. They’re all from 1 to 5. Innovation: 3.75 Fun: 3.29 Theme: 3.17 Graphics: 2.54 Audio: 2.14 Humor: 2.54 that ugly. Overall: 3.13 something playable out of this. Community:...
xkcd.com
Earth Formation Site
8 months ago
Maps Mania
America is a Jigsaw
a year ago
Working Theorys
The Time-Boxed Startup What if startups had an expiration date?
9 months ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Blueshift Collective: Where NFT Meets Creativity Blueshift Collective: Where NFT Meets Creativity abduzeedo0214—23 ...
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Blueshift Collective: Where NFT Meets Creativity abduzeedo0214—23 Are you tired of the same old NFT collections that feature the same type of art over and over again? Look no further than the Blueshift Collective - a free and open NFT...
Maps Mania
Halloween's Most Haunted Places
a year ago
Noahpinion
The New 1970s The U.S. is a confused, unsettled nation. But green shoots are quietly sprouting.
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Problems with the Institute Of Noetic Sciences I was interviewed recently for a Daily Beast article on recent research involving the Institute of...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was interviewed recently for a Daily Beast article on recent research involving the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). Overall the article is very good, and author Maddie Bender was fair and reasonable in how I was quoted. I can’t always take that as a given. No matter how...
TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet undefined
7 months ago
Posts on Nikita...
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
a year ago
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
Rest of World -...
Portraits of gig workers in rare moments off the clock Rest of World shadowed workers in São Paulo, Lagos, Dhaka, and Jakarta to get an intimate look at...
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Rest of World shadowed workers in São Paulo, Lagos, Dhaka, and Jakarta to get an intimate look at how they spend their breaks between orders.
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Argentine Railways, 1907 Now this is a map! This is just superb cartography: detailed, clear and lovely to look at. I love...
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Now this is a map! This is just superb cartography: detailed, clear and lovely to look at. I love the way that brown is used for mountainous features, and a light blue is used for water features – it allows this information to be visible, but it doesn’t compete with the overlaid...
TheCollector
The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon undefined
2 months ago
The Marginalian
I Touched the Sun: A Tender Illustrated Parable About How to Find and Bear Your Inner Light “One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives...
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“One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light,” James Baldwin wrote in one of his finest, least known essays. In his exquisite memoir of the search for inner light, the blind resistance hero...
TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus undefined
4 months ago
Max Rozen
2023: Focusing on a single product pays off The first year where I managed to keep my focus entirely on a single project.
a year ago
Quentin Santos
ViHN: Vim for Hacker News tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox and Chrome. This is about yet another Hacker News extension. But other people with my obsession for killing the mouse might enjoy it. Most of the...
CONTEMPORIST
A House That Blends Into The Color Palette Of The Surrounding Desert Design and development office Industry of All Nations has recently completed ‘The Landing House’, a...
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Design and development office Industry of All Nations has recently completed ‘The Landing House’, a new modern home that’s integrated into the rugged natural landscape of the Mojave Desert, With a backdrop of California’s Joshua Tree National Park, the home has been designed as a...
Stoic Simple
Using Stoicism to be Less Emotional About Politics & News Media by Bob Cymber Most Stoics are aware of the famous "Dichotomy of Control." In this view, there are...
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by Bob Cymber Most Stoics are aware of the famous "Dichotomy of Control." In this view, there are things that are directly under our influence and things that are not directly under our influence (although those who know about modern Stoic William Irvine’s commentary realize that...
Maps Mania
The Royal Parks of London
a year ago
diamond geezer
perhaps your most incredibly dull post According to a reader, my investigation of the five smallest parks in Barking and Dagenham was...
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2 weeks ago
According to a reader, my investigation of the five smallest parks in Barking and Dagenham was "perhaps your most incredibly dull post". All the buses in Barking and Dagenham in alphabetical order What I had for dinner on December 4th for the last 45 years 1980 roast 1981...
Castles in the Sky
Becoming an adult, one toddler tantrum at a time. A letter from a father
8 months ago
Construction Physics
Building Fast and Slow: The Empire State Building and the World Trade Center (Part I) The Empire State Building was completed in 1931. At a height of 1250 feet [0], it was the world's...
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The Empire State Building was completed in 1931. At a height of 1250 feet [0], it was the world's tallest building, exceeding the recently completed Chrysler building by 202 feet. It would hold that title for the next 39 years, until 1970 when it was surpassed in height by...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Society Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The good news about our society is everyone comes...
9 months ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for...
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I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for a retrospective. The app SumatraPDF is a multi-format (PDF, ePub, Mobi, comic book, DjVu, XPS, CHM) viewer for Windows and currently looks like this: The...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Caroline Fearn Hello, I’m Caroline. I live in London. Two years ago I picked up a carving tool and a block of lino....
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Hello, I’m Caroline. I live in London. Two years ago I picked up a carving tool and a block of lino. I quite liked it.   Describe your printmaking process My process is an intuitive one, so I typically just start, and I will see what develops through doing. Experimenting with...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of...
a year ago
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a year ago
We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of data we process every day. In doing this at scale for…
The Honest Broker
How We Lost the Ability to Listen In this extract from my book 'Music to Raise the Dead' I look at how texts replaced songs as sources...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In this extract from my book 'Music to Raise the Dead' I look at how texts replaced songs as sources of wisdom and guidance
Stephen Diehl
The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Solution Aversion Fallacy I like to think deeply about informal logical fallacies. I write about them a lot, and even have an...
a year ago
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a year ago
I like to think deeply about informal logical fallacies. I write about them a lot, and even have an occasional segment of the SGU dedicated to them. They are a great way to crystalize our thinking about the many ways in which logic can go wrong. Formal logic deals with arguments...
Engineers Need Art
Stereographer Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
TheCollector
The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy undefined
11 months ago
diamond geezer
The suddenest bank holidays Had England won the Euros, our new PM said "we should certainly mark the occasion". He stopped short...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Had England won the Euros, our new PM said "we should certainly mark the occasion". He stopped short of confirming there'd be a bank holiday saying he didn't want to "jinx it", but an extra day off work was always a possibility. It didn't happen because Spain scored more goals...
Wuthering...
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Canto I, "Of shapes transformde to bodies straunge" Some notes on Canto I of Ovid’s Metamorphosis (8 CE).  Just some of the things I am looking for...
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a year ago
Some notes on Canto I of Ovid’s Metamorphosis (8 CE).  Just some of the things I am looking for or enjoying while reading Ovid’s epic of “forms changed / into new bodies.”  (tr. Charles Martin, 2004, p. 15).  Or, per Arthur Golding (1567, p. 3 of the Paul Dry paperback) “Of...
Uncharted...
GeoHistory News | Q3 2024 Longshoremen strike, Mexico – Spain conflict, how Islam propelled Europe more than Protestantism,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Longshoremen strike, Mexico – Spain conflict, how Islam propelled Europe more than Protestantism, and more
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bot Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The humanoid body is important to achieving maximum...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The humanoid body is important to achieving maximum self-loathing. Today's News:
The Modern House
Kitchen tips and kimchi pancakes with Jesse Jenkins, founder of Another Day in Paradise
a year ago
nanoscale views
Brief items With the end of the semester approaching and various grant deadlines, it's been a very busy time. ...
a year ago
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a year ago
With the end of the semester approaching and various grant deadlines, it's been a very busy time.  Here are some items I spotted this week (some new, some old): This article from Quanta about the "Einstein tile" is great - I particularly like the animated illustration.  This...
Wuthering...
Books I Read in May 2023 I had a good time. GREEK PHILOSOPHY The Nicomachean Ethics (4th C. BCE), Aristotle - a post,...
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I had a good time. GREEK PHILOSOPHY The Nicomachean Ethics (4th C. BCE), Aristotle - a post, however shallow, should appear soon. FICTION Joseph in Egypt (1936), Thomas Mann The Long Valley (1938) & The Grapes of Wrath (1939), John Steinbeck - I last read this probably...
A Weekly Dose of...
Places in Time I Like most human beings, I can be contradictory at times. One area where this manifests is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Like most human beings, I can be contradictory at times. One area where this manifests is architectural surveys: books that usually collect buildings of a certain typology, but also ones spanning a particular timeframe or through some other theme. I've written a few of them...
Maps Mania
The Hezbollah Map
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos? Do Words Matter?
a year ago
Calculated Risk
December 20th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Increasing Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm...
2 days ago
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2 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly. Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
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...
Classical Wisdom
Monsters of Mythology Who Made the Top Ten?
a month ago
Diaries of Note
How beautiful that leaf was, so simple in its death Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life teaching and sharing his insights on self-awareness, freedom from conditioning, and the importance of living in the present moment. He traveled the world, engaging in dialogues with...
Contemporist...
A Contemporary Interior Was Given To This Victorian Era Home Richard Beard Architects and The Wiseman Group has sent us photos of a project they recently...
a year ago
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a year ago
Richard Beard Architects and The Wiseman Group has sent us photos of a project they recently completed in San Francisco, California, that involved updating a historic Victorian-era home.
Jonas Hietala
Notifications with xmonad/irssi/urxvt So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I have not had notifications enabled, so I can see from the statusbar whenever someone messages me. As I’ve never been very active this has been fine, but now I figured it’s time to fix...
Blog posts of...
A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of metrics, analytics, retention and gro...
TokyoDev
How I Obtained a Business Manager Visa in Japan Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa and thus my permission to stay in Japan as well. I was in my late 40s and, although I had significant work experience, I had no university degree. I wanted to remain in Japan but I...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The importance of dogfooding - Why product managers should use their product as much as their users Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction which build up over time and frustrate your users…
NeuroLogica Blog
Science Communication About Controversial Issues The world of science communication has changed dramatically over the last two decades, and it’s...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks 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...
Noahpinion
Six reasons chipmakers should put their fabs in Japan It has every resource the semiconductor industry needs.
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Industry, Thrift, and Loyalty On 13th September 1840, the day after their wedding and on Clara’s 21st birthday, Robert Schumann...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 13th September 1840, the day after their wedding and on Clara’s 21st birthday, Robert Schumann wrote the first entry in a diary with a difference. Designed to be a shared sanctuary for the newlyweds, the diary was a place for them to alternately record their aspirations, joys,...
Irrational...
Notes on The Value Flywheel Effect The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand gibbering eyes. Today's News:
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission plans, weather reports, crew activity plans, and other documents. Needed for the first Shuttle launch in 1981, this printer was designed in just 7 months, built around an Army...
Willem's Blog
Different ways to visualise health To better understand how to visualise health I looked at different health/fitness apps and games.
over a year ago
somenice
Merlin Bird Sound ID I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...
Blog - Mac Pierce
The Whys and Hows of the Opt-Out Cap. Why I built the Opt-Out Cap cap, and how it all came together.
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Feckful Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I hope, dear readers, that I have fecked many of...
7 months ago
Charles Chen
.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Zero-setup bundle size checker We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that —...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that — webpack-bundle-analyzer, bundlesize, size-limit, what not. But sometimes you you're lazy, or you're stuck choosing the tool, or the project is too small to justify spending extra...
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4 months ago