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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus The God of Wine!
2 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'There Will Be No One Left Who Knew Their Cost' For the boys in the neighborhood, our primary occupation when chores were finished and the grownups...
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For the boys in the neighborhood, our primary occupation when chores were finished and the grownups were leaving us alone was “playing Army.” All of us had toy guns or at least sticks. Given our ages, when dividing into good guys and bad guys, the latter were always Germans and...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The future of self-driving Modern self-driving technology still has a way to go before it becomes generally safe, and useful...
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Modern self-driving technology still has a way to go before it becomes generally safe, and useful enough for broader adoption. While I do believe that at some point in my lifetime I'll be able to hail an eTaxi, it'll really depend on where I am, the road infrastructure, and the...
Patrick Kayongo
The Fruitfulness of Grunt Work I had an interesting software development problem the other day. I was working on a NodeJS...
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7 months ago
I had an interesting software development problem the other day. I was working on a NodeJS application, doing general maintenance work, which led me down an interesting rabbit hole. I could’ve used an online knowledge tool such as the various LLM-based tools available now. But...
Rest of World -...
Argentina’s far-right front-runner is not the crypto candidate fans think he is Milei’s plans for the dollarization of Argentina’s economy might even depress crypto adoption.
a year ago
Irrational...
Culture vs systems. Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
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a year ago
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
Blog - Bitfield...
Constraints in Go Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a powerful way to build...
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Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a powerful way to build polymorphic types and functions constrained by type sets. Let’s geek out.
TheCollector
Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints undefined
4 months ago
Making software...
Better Box Shadows Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } ...
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Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } .box-container, .box-container-depth { background: white; box-shadow: 0 4px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); border: 1px solid #eee; border-radius: 10px; margin: 2rem auto; ...
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war? Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings? undefined
5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete. You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
Josh Comeau's blog
Making Sense of React Server Components This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official...
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a year ago
This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official way to run React components exclusively on the server. This is a significant paradigm shift, and it's caused a whole lot of confusion in the React community. In this tutorial,...
Max Rozen
What it means to not test implementation details in React Most guides to testing React these days preach: 'Test functionality, not implementation details'....
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Most guides to testing React these days preach: 'Test functionality, not implementation details'. This article explains what that means, and how to do it.
Platformer
Google goes to court On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
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a year ago
On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
The Forney Flyer
MAF Liberia A few weeks ago I was asked to pop over to Liberia (on the west coast of Africa) to help with their...
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over a year ago
A few weeks ago I was asked to pop over to Liberia (on the west coast of Africa) to help with their flying for six weeks. Our Liberia program has been short on pilots and very busy with flying, so of course I was happy to help! Above is a shot of a bunch of Covid vaccines...
Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of...
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over a year ago
If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of behaviors you take mostly for granted without really thinking about them. If you press ^C or ^Z it kills or stops the foreground program – unless it’s something like emacs or vim, in...
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PostHog teams up with Altinity That’s right, we’re teaming up with Altinity . It’s an exciting new partnership that also marks the...
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over a year ago
That’s right, we’re teaming up with Altinity . It’s an exciting new partnership that also marks the launch of the PostHog Marketplace . Double…
Stoic Simple
Did Stoicism Have Any Influence on Ancient Rome? Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by...
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Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by philosopher Zeno of Citium and was quickly adopted and expanded upon by his successors, including the influential Roman philosopher, Seneca. Stoicism's focus on self-discipline,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I'd Walk in Heaven With My Feet on Earth' “If love of beauty were the same as faith, / I’d walk in heaven with my feet on earth.” The...
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12 months ago
“If love of beauty were the same as faith, / I’d walk in heaven with my feet on earth.” The late Terry Teachout once described himself as a “Midwestern aesthete,” an identification I have happily claimed. I sense that a love of beauty has grown scarce and too often earns contempt...
Seth's Blog
Regressing to the mean all by yourself “The mean” is the average. Another word for “mediocre.” When an organization gets big enough, by...
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“The mean” is the average. Another word for “mediocre.” When an organization gets big enough, by definition, it’s the average. When you have enough customers, they represent the population as a whole. If you find yourself seeking to serve the largest possible number of people,...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves? Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Roberto's blog
Decision matrices as a thinking tool Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best....
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Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best. One common way of doing that is to list the pros and cons of each option. For example, option A lists low latency as a pro, while option B lists high throughput as a pro. But do...
Londonist
These Futuristic Tram-Buses Should Be On London's Streets From Spring 2024 TfL gives new date for ieTram trials.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Soothe the Soul and Nurture the Imagination' “Among the lessons we’ve learned during these past few difficult years of pandemic, climate crisis...
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a year ago
“Among the lessons we’ve learned during these past few difficult years of pandemic, climate crisis and political discord is that beauty and nature matter more than ever, and that if our homes are to be sanctuaries from an often harsh outside world, then we should fill them with...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Doing old things better vs doing brand new things New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could...
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New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could already do but can now do better because…
Stoic Simple
Stoicism & Modern Therapy: Is Stoic Philosophy a Form of CBT? Stoic philosophy has been around for over two thousand years, with the likes of Epictetus, Seneca,...
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Stoic philosophy has been around for over two thousand years, with the likes of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius as some of its founding figures. However, it wasn't until the emergence of modern therapy that the principles of Stoicism were integrated into the psychological...
TokyoDev
The Remarkable Decline in Home Burglary Rates in Japan I stumbled across an amazing fact. From 2003 to 2022, the number of home burglaries in Japan...
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I stumbled across an amazing fact. From 2003 to 2022, the number of home burglaries in Japan decreased by a factor of 12! Home burglaries in Japan peaked in 2003, with 190,473 cases in Japan. But as of 2022, where the most recent data is available, they have dropped to a mere...
diamond geezer
Behind The Red Moon Big Brother isn't the only cultural phenomenon dividing public opinion annually since the turn of...
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a year ago
Big Brother isn't the only cultural phenomenon dividing public opinion annually since the turn of the millennium. There's also the giant artwork in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, which over the years has been amazing, tedious, thought-provoking, bland, must-see, involving,...
Londonist
Ticket Alert: Beyoncé's Renaissance Tour Film Is Coming To London Welcome to the Renaissance.
a year ago
./techtipsy
Your Wi-Fi might be terrible because of Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5...
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For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5 GHz one would suddenly stop working and completely disappear from the available Wi-Fi networks. OpenWRT upgrades also didn’t improve the situation. This was very annoying. After...
Quentin Santos
Merging Responsibly tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing...
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7 months ago
tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing MR/PRs git commit git has emerged as the obvious choice for SCCS (Source Code Control System). The consensus is that it is unambiguously better than the previous standard, SVN. There...
TheCollector
What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings? undefined
5 months ago
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
The DESK Magazine
How to make a minimalist portfolio with Carbonmade You don't need anything too fancy. You don't want to work for hours on your site.
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Alberta’s Best Nature Escapes for Adventurous Travelers
a month ago
Rest of World -...
Why Chinese EV battery manufacturers are flocking to Hungary They are drawn to the country’s access to European automakers, government subsidies, and favorable...
a year ago
TheCollector
Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola? undefined
7 months ago
Construction Physics
The blast furnace - 800 years of technology improvement The modern world uses shocking amounts of steel - in the US, we make roughly 575 pounds of steel per...
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The modern world uses shocking amounts of steel - in the US, we make roughly 575 pounds of steel per person per year. At the peak of US steelmaking in the late 1960s, it was closer to 1500 pounds per person, which is roughly how much China makes now.
Lighthouse Blog
Updates June 14
6 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Traffic Engineering What is Traffic Engineering?
over a year ago
Ralph Ammer
The Creative Switch This secret to creativity will help you come up with many ideas. The post The Creative Switch...
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This secret to creativity will help you come up with many ideas. The post The Creative Switch appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Seeking Wisdom
Few thoughts on Learning I was learning how to program during the mid to late 90s. Finding learning material in a world...
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a year ago
I was learning how to program during the mid to late 90s. Finding learning material in a world without the Internet, Google, and YouTube was incredibly challenging. I struggled to understand how pointers in C worked. Yashavant Kanetkar’s Understanding Pointers in C book helped me...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Odd Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you toot the whoopie cushion long enough you'll...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you toot the whoopie cushion long enough you'll eventually toot the proof. Today's News:
journal – Winnie Lim
100 days of post-covid infection: state of mind, health & writing It has been 100 days since I tested negative for covid. I know this because I count it incrementally...
a year ago
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a year ago
It has been 100 days since I tested negative for covid. I know this because I count it incrementally in my morning pages. If I do develop long covid it would be...
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 32 Weight Loss, Civilization, and Good Reading
a year ago
Stoic Simple
An Introduction to the Ancient Philosophy of Stoicism Stoicism is an ancient Greek philosophy that has gained popularity in recent years as a practical...
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Stoicism is an ancient Greek philosophy that has gained popularity in recent years as a practical guide for navigating life's challenges. It is a philosophy that places great importance on improving oneself and making the most of one's circumstances, regardless of external...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
The Exorcist movie titles Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. License: All Rights Reserved....
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Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. License: All Rights Reserved. License: All Rights Reserved. The Exorcist is a 1973 horror film directed by William Friedkin based on William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel of the same name. The story focuses...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#42) The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI;...
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5 months ago
The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI; solar power uses; Global South tariffs; Gen Z wages; Stiglitz
Seth's Blog
The rock star conundrum Forty years ago, the royalty of rock spent the night in a studio to record one of the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Forty years ago, the royalty of rock spent the night in a studio to record one of the fastest-selling singles of all time. The documentary of the event is just okay, but it’s fascinating in how it shows us just how deep imposter syndrome lies. Only a few stars seemed at all...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Chipmunks Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Conveniently they just pack the gold in boxes like...
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 070: AI whistleblowers June 7, 2024.
6 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to learn coding without a degree? Hey there, I’m always happy when someone new decides to join the software engineering field. If...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Hey there, I’m always happy when someone new decides to join the software engineering field. If you’re used to browsing […] The post How to learn coding without a degree? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Maps Mania
Real-time Air Pollution Alerts
9 months ago
diamond geezer
Banksy's animals Over the course of this week, the artist Bansky has been out daily painting an animal at various...
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4 months ago
Over the course of this week, the artist Bansky has been out daily painting an animal at various locations across London. The sequence of events generally goes like this. Overnight: Bansky (or his henchpeople) paint an animal silhouette on a wall somewhere. Early morning: Local...
Beautiful Public...
Government Comic Books Government comics have taught Americans how to prevent forest fires, survive a nuclear blast, and...
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Government comics have taught Americans how to prevent forest fires, survive a nuclear blast, and how soldiers should handle homosexuality in the military.
Nat Eliason's...
How We Designed a FUN Nonfiction Book Cover Every step and cover along the way
6 months ago
The Convivial...
Impoverished Emotional Lives Is this anything?
over a year ago
TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000 undefined
3 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Randomevent store by Zach Architecture Design Aranya is a newly developed cultural resort which in earlier days formed part of the Chinese...
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Aranya is a newly developed cultural resort which in earlier days formed part of the Chinese Communist Party‘s official summer...
CONTEMPORIST
A Contemporary Extension Adds New Living Spaces And Natural Light To This Brick Home North London architects XUL Architecture have sent us photos of their latest project, where they...
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North London architects XUL Architecture have sent us photos of their latest project, where they were tasked with renovating this three-story family home to completely enlarge the rear of the house while still allowing for plenty of natural light. The architects removed the...
Florian Bellmann |...
You are never taught how to build quality software Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn...
a year ago
diamond geezer
Piccadilly PICCADILLY £280   London's Monopoly Streets PICCADILLY Colour group: yellow Purchase price:...
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PICCADILLY £280   London's Monopoly Streets PICCADILLY Colour group: yellow Purchase price: £280 Rent: £22 Length: 1400m Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1/SW1 Piccadilly leads from the West End to the west of town and is one of London's older roads. The eastern half was...
Seth's Blog
The digital barback A barback supports the bartending staff. There are always clean glasses and fresh ingredients, ready...
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A barback supports the bartending staff. There are always clean glasses and fresh ingredients, ready to go. Having someone else do your mise en place can dramatically improve your productivity. And now, with a bit of effort, you can train an AI and a few systems to do it for you....
The DESK Magazine
It's live! Introducing the new HOVS website The new HOVS (House of van Schneider) aka my personal (studio) website, is finally LIVE!
6 months ago
Remains of the Day
Veblen values NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
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NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
David Heinemeier...
Multi-tenancy is what’s hard about scaling web services Computers have gotten so ridiculously fast that there is scarcely any organization in the world that...
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Computers have gotten so ridiculously fast that there is scarcely any organization in the world that can overwhelm a web-based information system running on a single server. All the complexity and sophistication required to run web services today stem from multi-tenancy. From...
brr
Showering at the South Pole Potable water, and not much of it.
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Adding a Shadow to an SVG Icon with Tailwind CSS (tip) Learn how to add a shadow that follows the edges of an SVG icon using Tailwind CSS DropShadow,...
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Learn how to add a shadow that follows the edges of an SVG icon using Tailwind CSS DropShadow, giving your icons a smoother and more visually appealing look.
Luxagraf:...
Microcosm We sprinted across Florida, from St. Augustine to the far end of the panhandle in two quick drives....
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We sprinted across Florida, from St. Augustine to the far end of the panhandle in two quick drives. We stopped in the middle at the Tallahassee Car Museum, an odd little museum with a few campsites out front (not everything on Harvest Hosts is a farm). The kids and I wandered...
TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin? undefined
4 months ago
diamond geezer
Havant Until yesterday I hadn't been to Havant. Havant is a large town in southeast Hampshire on the way...
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Until yesterday I hadn't been to Havant. Havant is a large town in southeast Hampshire on the way to Portsmouth. They Havant got many old buildings because most of the town burnt in a fire in 1760. Only the church and a row of cottages survived. St Faith's and they found...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"The great ideas have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas" It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable....
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable. It seems the height of unreason to…
Basta’s Notes
25 terrible engineer interview questions Ones that you should never ask
a year ago
julian.digital
Media Consumption (Mar 2021) >_ Summary Read 6 books (1664 min, -24% MoM) and 43 articles (+95%) Listened to 596 songs (+64%) and...
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>_ Summary Read 6 books (1664 min, -24% MoM) and 43 articles (+95%) Listened to 596 songs (+64%) and 17 podcasts (747 min, -.3%) Watched 2 movies (251 min, -72%), 5 soccer games (680 min, -30%) and 15 TV episodes (944 min, +133%) Played 0 board games (0 min, same) and 0 video...
Rest of World -...
Indonesia is trying to block LGBTQIA content from the internet A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially...
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A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially hurting content creators and broadcasters in Indonesia.
Matt Blewitt
Modifying pg_dump To Exclude Event Triggers At $WORK, we have a case where we have implemented an event trigger to prevent customers from...
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5 months ago
At $WORK, we have a case where we have implemented an event trigger to prevent customers from dropping an extension. As this extension is part of contrib and normally installed by users, we can’t prevent them from dropping it normally. However, event triggers can only be created...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Shutting down I’ve seen a number of situations recently where entrepreneurs decided to shut their startups down...
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I’ve seen a number of situations recently where entrepreneurs decided to shut their startups down while they still had cash in the bank…
Map of the Week
Tyne River Shipbuilders While researching something unrelated, I came across this series of maps showing ship builders and...
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While researching something unrelated, I came across this series of maps showing ship builders and related industries on the River Tyne in and near Newcastle, UK.  The maps, from 1972, stretch from the mouth of the river (above) to the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, and westward...
Dustin Curtis
How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast,...
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over a year ago
Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites. I host several sites using the method described below, and it costs me pennies per month. The only problem is that getting things set...
CONTEMPORIST
This Cat Cafe In New York Was Designed With Whimsy And Playfulness Architect Sonya Lee has shared photos of the new location of Meow Parlour, a cat cafe in New York...
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Architect Sonya Lee has shared photos of the new location of Meow Parlour, a cat cafe in New York that had outgrown its previous space. The storefront has a 10’ wall of white oak shelves that spell out M E O W, which also function as signage, a playspace for the cats to snuggle...
Old Vintage...
Scenes from the Solbourne Computer corporate video, March 1992 Solbourne Computer, which for a number of years was probably Sun's most significant early competitor...
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Solbourne Computer, which for a number of years was probably Sun's most significant early competitor in SPARC-based systems. Solbourne was the first to market in 1989 with multiprocessing SPARC servers based on their custom circuit-switched 108MB/s KBus interconnect, running a...
Lighthouse Blog
What I want to achieve with Lighthouse
10 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'This Refined, White-Sheeted Torture' My tutelary spirit of recent days has been the American poet L.E. Sissman, dead from Hodgkin...
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4 months ago
My tutelary spirit of recent days has been the American poet L.E. Sissman, dead from Hodgkin lymphoma at age forty-eight. Out in the hall I spoke with three oncologists  after they had yet again examined my brother. I asked the question no one had yet asked: How much time does...
Style over Substance
Shooting the Ligero 3D-printed Mamiya Press camera by MaxWanderlush Last year I started shooting my first 3D-printed camera, a Goodman Zone. It was soon followed by the...
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Last year I started shooting my first 3D-printed camera, a Goodman Zone. It was soon followed by the panoramic pinhole Goodman Scura and the MPWide, a modified Fuji Instax Wide 300. The MPWide is a mod by the talented Mario, otherwise known as MaxWanderlush. He has been releasing...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
a year ago
macwright.com
Web pages and video games An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are...
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An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are so amazing and fast?” I’ve thought about it more than I’d like. Anyway, here are some reasons: Web pages are just-in-time delivered, with no installation required. Modern video...
Seth's Blog
The positive auction In 2023, I developed a new idea that transforms an old way of doing commerce. In traditional...
9 months ago
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In 2023, I developed a new idea that transforms an old way of doing commerce. In traditional auctions, there are rounds of bidding and the high bidder pays to get the prize. The last bid is the amount paid, and no one else is charged anything. This is an interesting ‘game’ in...
The Roots of...
Why consumerism is good actually “Consumerism” came up in my recent interview with Elle Griffin of The Post. Here’s what I had to say...
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a year ago
“Consumerism” came up in my recent interview with Elle Griffin of The Post. Here’s what I had to say (off the cuff): I have to admit, I’ve never 100% understood what “consumerism” is, or what it’s supposed to be. I have the general sense of what people are gesturing at, but it...
TokyoDev
The 2021 International Developers in Japan results are live! In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2021-developer-survey), please check them out! With 435 people responding, I had about 20% more responses than [2020's...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The bowling pin strategy A huge challenge for user-generated websites is overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem: attracting...
over a year ago
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A huge challenge for user-generated websites is overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem: attracting users and contributors when you are…
SatPost by Trung...
Introducing "Caffeinated Deep Dives" My new podcast.
a month ago
History Today Feed
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review ‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review JamesHoare Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
8 months ago
weird medieval guys
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars A history of the monastic high life
a year ago
The Ruffian
Notes on Radiohead The weirdest success story in pop
11 months ago
Quanta Magazine
How ‘Embeddings’ Encode What Words Mean — Sort Of Machines work with words by embedding their relationships with other words in a string of numbers. ...
3 months ago
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Machines work with words by embedding their relationships with other words in a string of numbers. The post How ‘Embeddings’ Encode What Words Mean — Sort Of first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Pain & Illness: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next There are more quotes available for us to read from the Stoics about pain and illness...
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Previous Next There are more quotes available for us to read from the Stoics about pain and illness than nearly any other topic. That's not because Stoicism teaches that we should like discomfort, but rather because the Stoics are concerned with how to NOT let pain and sickness...
Steve Blank
What Does Product Market Fit Sound Like? This. I got a call from an ex-student asking me “how do you know when you found product market fit?”...
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In the C preprocessor, after a macro has been expanded the result is rescanned for further macros. To prevent recursion, [the C standard][n3220] says the following in section 6.10.5.4p2. (This text has been basically the same since C89.) If the name of the macro being replaced is...
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this post is sponsored by mirit weinstock Mirit Weinstock is an artist and designer living in Tokyo, specializing in Japanese crafts and working in a variety of mediums. The creative director and founder of “Mirit Weinstock” jewelry brand, the artist is steeped in the Japanese...
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Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
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This year we give thanks for something we’ve all heard of, but maybe don’t appreciate as much as we should: electromagnetism. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s Law, the Spin-Statistics Theorem, conservation of momentum, effective field...
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Are the maps of President Trump's 2024 electoral evidence of a sudden shift or deep undercurrents of disaffection? The sudden partisan shift of voting maps suggest a dark undercurrents in American politics. Continue reading →
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In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a company’s developer experience. To support that exploration, I’ve developed a system model of the developing software at the company. In this chapter, we’ll work through: Summary results...
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Contributed by Peiran Tan Source: www.evangelion.co.jp ©カラー/Project Eva. ©カラー/EVA製作委員会 ©カラー. License: All Rights Reserved. Created and directed by Hideaki Anno, Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, often abbreviated as NGE or simply EVA) is a Japanese media...
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The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values) format. function csv($array) { $csv = ""; for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) { $csv .= '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $array[$i]) . '"'; if ($i < count($array) - 1) $csv .= ","; ...
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Brilliant. This moving manuscript depicts a single musical sequence played front to back and then back to front. Give the video a little time to unfold and enjoy.
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Years ago, many readers wrote to me complaining that I didn’t include trigger warnings in my articles. This was 2014-15 or so. The trigger warning thing had become popular on university campuses and left-leaning news sites. Given that at the time many of my readers were young...
Stoic Simple
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The James Webb Space Telescope spectroscopic analysis of K2-18b, an exoplanet 124 light years from Earth, shows signs that the atmosphere may contain dimethyl sulphide (DMS). This finding is more impressive when you know that DMS on Earth is only produced by living organisms, not...
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The Domino’s “Pizza Tracker” is an intriguing piece of UI. As an end user, it provides the precision of detail you want in tracking your order: Your order has been received Your pizza is being prepped Your pizza is in the oven Your pizza is being checked for quality by...
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Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes look at what the experience is like, and shares tips for getting started as a conference speaker.
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#1 💡 It’s an easy trap to start making excuses when sales velocity is slow. It’s almost always a symptom of a fundamental issue, not an unchangeable feature of the system. The one things missing from the growth model described here is prompts. In Brian Fogg’s model: B = MAP,...
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I'm not loving Unreasonable Hospitality, but it did supply me with a phrase that I've been looking for: Eventually, that gesture became one of our steps of service. The host would ask guests, “How’d you get here tonight?” If they responded, “Oh, we drove,” he’d follow up with,...
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How and where did you learn to print? A decade ago, when I first stepped into a print workshop, I met print technician and artist India Ritchie, who taught me various printmaking methods while studying at Arts University Plymouth. India taught me intaglio, relief, and screen...
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I have a question: has anyone ever tried to standardize an RSS feed in HTML? I can’t find any discussion around it — but I’d love to read more about the idea because it intrigues me. The OG RSS was an XML feed. Later we got JSON feeds. So why not an HTML feed standard? (I know,...
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Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux through Wayland/Sway and it is going well so far. Setting things up was much easier than I initially expected. There were only a few minor tweaks I had to make, such as setting vim...
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art? undefined
5 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Rising from the Dead, it's Ludum Dare I’ve been a long time gone, been busy with school then having summer vacation and generally not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been a long time gone, been busy with school then having summer vacation and generally not making games or blogging. But I have revived! I scrambled to push my new website live because today it’s Ludum Dare time! The theme is “Evolution” and it’s the 24th time for Ludum Dare...
FIRE v London
Sep ’24: Ominous politics, juicy economics September was fairly action-packed. I enjoyed getting out on a friend’s boat around Poole and the...
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September was fairly action-packed. I enjoyed getting out on a friend’s boat around Poole and the Solent. I made it to the Labour party conference in Liverpool, which was fascinating albeit wet. I am apparently firmly in the tax-raising sights of the Government, but I wasn’t the...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Dayton, Ohio Part 4 (Venturing North) The ultimate destination was Dayton, Ohio and it took about seven and a half hours to get there....
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The ultimate destination was Dayton, Ohio and it took about seven and a half hours to get there. However we didn’t just sit in Dayton for an entire week. If I had to drive all that way you better believe I would do some County Counting along the way too. At this point I’ve...
Working Theorys
Why Are All the Public Intellectuals Men? | Theory No. 18 The most identifiable people in this arena aren’t "traditional" scholars. They’re usually not...
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The most identifiable people in this arena aren’t "traditional" scholars. They’re usually not researchers, scientists, or writers by education or trade. Instead, they seem to have just put themselves forth as vessels — to study the world, share their observations, and sprinkle in...
Willem's Blog
The Same, Differently
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Steve Blank
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained Artificial Intelligence is a once-in-a lifetime commercial and defense game changer (download a PDF...
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Artificial Intelligence is a once-in-a lifetime commercial and defense game changer (download a PDF of this article here) Hundreds of billions in public and private capital is being invested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning companies. The number of patents...
TheCollector
When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition undefined
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Irrational...
Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers. Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer...
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Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer role](https://qconsf.com/presentation/nov2024/ambiguous-roles-and-ambiguous-problems-navigating-life-principal-engineer). You can also watch the video on YouTube. The content itself...
Common Edge
Architects Must Address the Issue of Toxic Building Materials Ending the cycle of pollution within our buildings benefits worker health, community health, and...
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Will Apple’s Vision Pro Change Anything? For the first time in over a decade, Apple has announced a new product designed to change computing....
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For the first time in over a decade, Apple has announced a new product designed to change computing. There was the transition to personal computing with the Apple computer, then to portable computing with the iPhone, and now they hope to usher in the transition to virtual...
Steve Klabnik
Resque: let's do this
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Tech Meetups in Tokyo Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into...
a year ago
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a year ago
Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into attending tech meetups. Tech meetups are events held online and offline, and attending them is a great way to form connections and establish yourself in the tech community. It...
Christopher Butler
The Top Ten Hitchcock Films This is my personal ranking, subject to change at any time. Rear Window North by...
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This is my personal ranking, subject to change at any time. Rear Window North by Northwest Vertigo Rebecca Rope The Man Who Knew Too Much Spellbound Notorious To Catch a Thief Strangers on a Train
TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads undefined
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TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery undefined
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Explorations of an...
Los Amigos Biological Station - Part 3 My final post from Peru.... September 22, 2022 Much like the previous morning, Laura and I...
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a year ago
My final post from Peru.... September 22, 2022 Much like the previous morning, Laura and I arranged a packed breakfast and we hit the trails around dawn. While birds were obviously on my mind, there were still a few mammals that I was really keen to search for, too. And luck...
Vadim Kravcenko
Dealing with Failures and Postmortems On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A...
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On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A technician’s failure […] The post Dealing with Failures and Postmortems appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Maps Mania
Canada's Hidden Subterranean Rivers
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Londonist
Festive Film Screenings: Where To Watch Christmas Movies In London This Year Pop-up cinemas in palaces, rooftops and big tops.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
a year ago
The Changelog
Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things...
over a year ago
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Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things are difficult – maybe there’s been a disaster, or an invasion (this page is being written in 2022 just after Russia invaded Ukraine), or maybe you’re just backpacking off the grid...
Old Structures...
Recognizing Reality A hundred years ago, jaywalking was a made-up offense. In 1926, a study of traffic included the...
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A hundred years ago, jaywalking was a made-up offense. In 1926, a study of traffic included the statement “all persons have an equal right in the highway, and that in exercising the right each shall take due care not to injure other users of the way.” Old pictures of even a...
Vadim Kravcenko
What does a CTO actually do? In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small...
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a year ago
In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small […] The post What does a CTO actually do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The Roots of...
Event, Feb 29: “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” in Boston and on Zoom On Thursday, February 29, I’ll be giving my talk “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” to the New...
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On Thursday, February 29, I’ll be giving my talk “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” to the New England Legal Foundation, for their Economic Liberty Speaker Series. The talk will be held over breakfast at NELF’s offices in Boston, and will also be livestreamed over Zoom. See...
Notes on software...
Extending gosql to supporting LIMIT and OFFSET It's been a few months since I picked up gosql and I wanted to use it to prototype a SQL interface...
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over a year ago
It's been a few months since I picked up gosql and I wanted to use it to prototype a SQL interface for data stored in S3. But one missing critical feature in gosql is LIMIT and OFFSET support. This post walks through the few key changes to gosql to support LIMIT and OFFSET. You...
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #7 The second full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen drilling continue on the Stratford...
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The second full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen drilling continue on the Stratford side, both under and beside the flyover. A third lane is already substantially carved out at the end of Stratford High Street. Below we see a broad curve where grey concrete block...
The Modern House
MRTN Architects’ garden studios in Melbourne are a place to work – or to not work
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AFAR Media - Travel...
How to Plan a Relaxing Getaway in the Austrian Alps
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Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
Julia Evans
Writing Javascript without a build system Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend project, I was faced with the question: should I use a build system? I want to talk about what’s appealing to me about build systems, why I (usually) still don’t use them, and why I find...
TheCollector
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Old Structures...
Not Quite Qualifying One of the points that I felt has to be made in discussing early skyscrapers in The Structure of...
a year ago
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One of the points that I felt has to be made in discussing early skyscrapers in The Structure of Skyscrapers in America was that the issues discussed apply to buildings outside the specific boundaries of my research. My research was specifically on buildings ten stories and...
HTMHell
#20 HTMHell special: close buttons This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in front-end development: 🔥 the close button. 🔥 In modals, ads, and other overlays you often find a button with a close symbol that allows users, or at least some of them, to close...
TheCollector
How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens undefined
9 months ago
Diaries of Note
The prop department are about to fuck up the spacecraft Released in 1979, the groundbreaking film Alien is indelibly associated with H. R. Giger, the Swiss...
a year ago
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Released in 1979, the groundbreaking film Alien is indelibly associated with H. R. Giger, the Swiss artist who brought a unique blend of horror and beauty to its alien species and environments. For much of 1978, beginning in February, Giger could be found in his workshop at...
Seth's Blog
The empathy device It’s interesting to realize that mirrors weren’t perfected until a few hundred years ago. Human...
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It’s interesting to realize that mirrors weren’t perfected until a few hundred years ago. Human beings spend a lot of time considering our own appearance and our own feelings and most of all, our own needs. The market produces a shift. When it’s a fair and open exchange, the...
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2023 Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
11 months ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's decision to use the 8088 processor in the IBM PC (1981) was a critical point in computer history, leading to the dominance of the x86 architecture that continues to the present.1 One...
mtlynch.io
Running NixOS on Proxmox One of the stumbling blocks I ran into when trying out NixOS was that I couldn’t run it under...
a year ago
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One of the stumbling blocks I ran into when trying out NixOS was that I couldn’t run it under Proxmox, my preferred virtual machine server. Through some trial and error, I figured out how to install NixOS as a Proxmox container. Download the NixOS container image First, download...
Daniel Marino
My First Sketch Plugin and What I Learned I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some of the nice effects it ships with. I love Sketch, but I don’t think these effects will ever make their way into Sketch. Sketch does have the ability to add plugins, and I’ve always...
devonzuegel.com
Empathy for the Devil I. Loan application Before serving time for mortgage fraud, Toby Groves seemed like the last person...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I. Loan application Before serving time for mortgage fraud, Toby Groves seemed like the last person who would get into that kind of trouble. His older brother had been sentenced for the same crime twenty years earlier, and Toby had seen how it destroyed his family. He swore he’d...
abdz.do - Have you...
Custom Font made of shapes and patterns for John Lewis (UK) Custom Font made of shapes and patterns for John Lewis (UK) ...
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Custom Font made of shapes and patterns for John Lewis (UK) AoiroStudio0510—23 In the world of graphic design, there are few studios as talented and innovative as Hola Bosque™. Based in the vibrant city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, this creative...
symmetry magazine
A cosmological headache For over a century, scientists have wondered what is counteracting the force of gravity in the...
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a year ago
For over a century, scientists have wondered what is counteracting the force of gravity in the universe.
CONTEMPORIST
Built-In Furniture Makes The Most Of This Renovated Home’s Interior Nook Architects has shared photos of a home interior they remodeled in Barcelona, Spain, that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Nook Architects has shared photos of a home interior they remodeled in Barcelona, Spain, that includes a lot of built-in elements. This home was originally designed by architect Joan Bosch Agustí in 1978 as a cooperative housingproject, with the units sharing a swimming pool,...
Nat Eliason's...
The Best Books I Read in 2024 My first fiction-heavy roundup
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TheCollector
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a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Black Accents Are Ever Present Throughout This Apartment Koshulynskyy & Mayer studio has sent us photos of an apartment interior they completed that includes...
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6 months ago
Koshulynskyy & Mayer studio has sent us photos of an apartment interior they completed that includes matte black accents throughout its design. The apartment, designed for a family, includes a living room with a dark accent wall, and a large couch in front of a suspended cabinet...
Seth's Blog
Variety and the long tail In a We Are All Weird universe, there are two sorts of cultural disappointments. The first has been...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
In a We Are All Weird universe, there are two sorts of cultural disappointments. The first has been around since the dawn of cable: We don’t all watch the same thing. We don’t all talk about it, hits aren’t really hits, not like they used to be. There’s no comparison in the reach...
Retail Design Blog
Simi Mama Birtoka Chutneys and Jams by Corvin Art School Simi Mama Birtoka is a small family business selling high-quality organic products such as jams,...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Simi Mama Birtoka is a small family business selling high-quality organic products such as jams, chutneys, syrups and juices. The...
Scarlet Ink
Six Reader Questions About Meetings, Feedback, Communication, and Ideas I regularly receive questions over email and in comments on my newsletter. I decided to answer a few...
4 months ago
TheCollector
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David Heinemeier...
Not everyone can be the best Many software developers seem to have a uniquely hard time accepting that not everyone who just...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many software developers seem to have a uniquely hard time accepting that not everyone who just tries real hard will become so good as to be among the best in this field. That there really is a discrepancy of talent that leads to a discrepancy of competence. That not everyone can...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 075: Levels of AGI July 12, 2024.
5 months ago
Londonist
London Hotel Rooms With A Serious View Penthouse suites, balconies, and the city spread at your feet.
a year ago
Farnam Street
Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions....
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over a year ago
A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse. *** When we seek to intervene in any system created by someone, it’s not enough to view...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The risks of being a small investor in a private company With the passage of the JOBS act, it seems that many more Americans will soon be able to buy equity...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the passage of the JOBS act, it seems that many more Americans will soon be able to buy equity in private companies. I am no expert on…
Londonist
London Transport Museum Is Throwing A Special Friday Late For Students London Calling takes place on 6 October.
a year ago
xkcd.com
Solar Panel Placement
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 043: Happy birthday, ChatGPT December 1, 2023.
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
a year ago
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a year ago
CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Plans are nothing, but planning is indispensable It is widely believed that writing a business plan is a waste of time, because: 1) very few people...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is widely believed that writing a business plan is a waste of time, because: 1) very few people will read it, and 2) you’ll end up…
Seth's Blog
The unwritten rules get written …when someone decides to selfishly push. There’s an assumption of civility and fairness in all of...
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a year ago
…when someone decides to selfishly push. There’s an assumption of civility and fairness in all of our interactions. When a harsh competitor unilaterally breaks unwritten rules (because it’s “not technically against the rules”) the community then writes down a new rule. The best...
The Architectural...
The Classic Planning Herald International: A Window into the Global New Traditional Architecture... The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning...
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6 days ago
The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning Institute. The project offers insights into what is happening in the New Traditional Architecture community and aims to challenge the modernist dogma. In this article, Michelle Sofge...
Paul Graham: Essays
Two Kinds of Judgement
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Good Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Why does anything good happen to anyone? We're all...
9 months ago
The Modern House
A family home in Hackney, lovingly tended inside and out
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Distractions Cause Bad Code We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our digital society now is set up to allow us to focus for mere minutes at a time, since we are in an attention economy and the sole objective of companies is to capture more of our time....
Elad Blog
Things I Don't Know About AI The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
10 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Two Kinds of Moderate
over a year ago
Sam Altman
Researchers and Founders I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always individual exceptions, on average it’s surprising to me how different the best people in these groups are (including in some qualities that I had assumed were present in great...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #45: Deliverism, blasphemy and selfies from space Plus the best Minecraft-themed political deepfake you'll see today
2 weeks ago
A Smart Bear
How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10) If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list...
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If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list probably doesn't have the correct number of things.
Applied Cartography
Tailwind black magic: swallowing all pointer events I wrote two days ago about a real and useful application of Tailwind black magic; here's...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I wrote two days ago about a real and useful application of Tailwind black magic; here's another. Buttondown has a dropzone component lets folks drag-and-drop items or click on it to get a file-picker. It's used for importing images, archives, CSVs, the works: because it's so...
SatPost by Trung...
SpaceX's 5-Step Design Process How rapid failure and iteration will get Starship to orbit and beyond.
a year ago
Sean Carroll
Energy Conservation and Non-Conservation in Quantum Mechanics Conservation of energy is a somewhat sacred principle in physics, though it can be tricky in certain...
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over a year ago
Conservation of energy is a somewhat sacred principle in physics, though it can be tricky in certain circumstances, such as an expanding universe. Quantum mechanics is another context in which energy conservation is a subtle thing — so much so that it’s still worth writing papers...
Old Structures...
Well Duh Another photo from Berniece Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, this one from 1936 and titled...
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11 months ago
Another photo from Berniece Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, this one from 1936 and titled “Park Avenue and 39th Street.” As usual, Abbott was contrasting the big buildings in the background with the much older and smaller buildings in the foreground. Four of those big...
TheCollector
What Is George Orwell Best Known For? undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar? And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Alkonost mead by Sofya Khmeleva “Alkonost” is a design concept of craft mead made according to traditional Slavic recipes. The...
3 months ago
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“Alkonost” is a design concept of craft mead made according to traditional Slavic recipes. The design of the jar is...
Seth's Blog
Redefining a profession Pharmacists used to mix chemicals by hand to create prescriptions. Opticians used to grind lenses...
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Pharmacists used to mix chemicals by hand to create prescriptions. Opticians used to grind lenses from scratch. Lawyers used to start with an empty page. Graphic designers needed to know how to draw. All of these jobs are still important. None of them are the same as they were...
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau undefined
a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
How to Design and Print a Straight Repeating Pattern Here’s an easy way to design a repeat pattern (without using a computer) and to block print it on to...
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over a year ago
Here’s an easy way to design a repeat pattern (without using a computer) and to block print it on to fabric. We used MasterCut for our block because it’s an easy to cut stamping material that prints beautifully. Draw around your block onto a piece of paper. Draw part of your...
Rest of World -...
Exclusive: Microsoft Bing’s censorship in China is even “more extreme” than Chinese companies’ New Citizen Lab study comes as U.S. lawmakers scrutinize Microsoft’s willingness to comply with...
5 months ago
beep.blog
Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? John Gruber asks and answers: Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? I say...
a year ago
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a year ago
John Gruber asks and answers: Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? I say no. But it feels a bit skeevy, and more than a little curious, that they choose to. Is it outrageous? My gut said yes. It's outrageous that Apple would change their
Seeking Wisdom
Modeling Life: Oscillation This is my 3rd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I...
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This is my 3rd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I recommend reading my earlier posts first to get a good grounding on the foundations covered in the book. A system can exhibit three different types of behavior: equilibrium,...
African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
Old Structures...
Not A Skyscaper The picture above – courtesy of Irfan Haider of the Central Park Conservancy – shows the realization...
a year ago
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a year ago
The picture above – courtesy of Irfan Haider of the Central Park Conservancy – shows the realization of another of our designs for small rustic structures in the park. Again, Shaquana Lovell took the lead for OSE. In this case, the design of the log structure was not the main...
A Beautiful Site
Reflection and Custom States in Web Components In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both...
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In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both internally and as public APIs for consumers. If you're not familiar, attribute reflection occurs when an attribute in the DOM is updated due to changes in a corresponding property. A...
charity.wtf
Deploys Are The ✨WRONG✨ Way To Change User Experience This piece was first published on the honeycomb.io blog on 2023-03-08. …. I’m...
a year ago
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a year ago
This piece was first published on the honeycomb.io blog on 2023-03-08. …. I’m no stranger to ranting about deploys. But there’s one thing I haven’t sufficiently ranted about yet, which is this: Deploying software is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad way to go about the...
Farza's Newsletter
i got suitcases full of matcha tea don't mess with me punk Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a...
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a year ago
Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a live gameshow I hosted and gave away $100,000, had 225 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in SF, and then the following week had 125 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in...
David Heinemeier...
Turns out nobody cared about panel gaps One of the most fascinating aspects of Tesla's rise to dominance has been how they discarded many of...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the most fascinating aspects of Tesla's rise to dominance has been how they discarded many of the traditional values of car making. While the rest of the industry was stuck competing on the size of their panel gaps, and other aspects of precision and quality assembly,...
Steve Klabnik
Fast Rails tests with CanCan
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Chap Who Doesn't Care Much About Anything' Below the masthead of the August 19, 2024 issue of The Daily Chronicle is a brief, boxed...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Below the masthead of the August 19, 2024 issue of The Daily Chronicle is a brief, boxed announcement:  “Today is National Orangutan Day. The apes are the largest tree-dwelling animals on Earth. They spend 90 percent of their time in trees, even sleeping in leafy nests. No wonder...
The Forney Flyer
Heading North, Way Back When... As promised, I'm continuing from my previous post about way back when...  After I graduated from...
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over a year ago
As promised, I'm continuing from my previous post about way back when...  After I graduated from University and flight school, we briefly moved to Oregon as we prepared for future, cross-cultural work/ministry. That fall I had the opportunity to go on a short vision trip to a...