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Artificial Ignorance
10 AI predictions for 2024 Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
12 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cite Your Sources, AI In a recent note of mine, I quoted Jaron Lanier on AI chatbots: There are two ways this could go....
a year ago
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a year ago
In a recent note of mine, I quoted Jaron Lanier on AI chatbots: There are two ways this could go. One is that we pretend the bot is a real thing, a real entity like a person, then in order to keep that fantasy going we’re careful to forget whatever source texts were used to have...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Cult of Microsoft At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of...
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a month ago
At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company decision-making in everything from how products are sold, to how...
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
a year ago
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a year ago
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background artists, web designers, print layout artists, or anybody who deals with incorrect aspect ratios or odd image dimentions will be thrilled by the output. The image below represents a...
Steve Klabnik
Seriously: numbers: use them!
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Summer Tournament Linköping There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs with Old Hollywood and The Universe of Tomorrow so a lot of new things were tried. I heard a rumor that a full playset of both Aesop’s Pawnshop and Wyldside were available so I...
TheCollector
What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise undefined
7 months ago
Working Theorys
The 20/20 Workweek | Theory No. 26 The 40-hour, 80-hour, and 4-hour workweek are out. What comes next?
11 months ago
Both Are True
can everyone kindly shut the fuck up about AI The robots aren't coming, but the people who can't shut the fuck up about them are already here.
6 months ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline? Why Do Religions Decline? JamesHoare Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
a month ago
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger To get people to ditch WhatsApp and switch to Messenger, it will never be sufficient to be 10%...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To get people to ditch WhatsApp and switch to Messenger, it will never be sufficient to be 10% better than them or add fun gimmicks on any existing attribute or feature. We will have to offer some new fundamental use case that becomes important to people’s daily lives.
diamond geezer
Over 30 A heatwave in September is unusual but not unprecedented. Dates on which the temperature at...
a year ago
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a year ago
A heatwave in September is unusual but not unprecedented. Dates on which the temperature at Hampstead reached 30°C  JunJulAugSep 2010279/10   201127    2012 2518  2013 13 15/16/17 221  2014 18   2015 122  2016 18/19/202413 201717/18/19/20/216   2018 5/6/7/8 15 23 25/26/272/3...
Confused bit
Teaching the Rust Borrow Checker Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be...
a year ago
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a year ago
Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be expressible in safe Rust, but is beyond the understanding of the borrow checker. Although its use cases are probably rather niche, I still found it potentially useful. Anyway, it’s a good...
devonzuegel.com
Edge Esmeralda: A recap of June's popup village This summer, I co-organized a month-long 1,300-person "popup village" in Healdsburg, CA called Edge...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
This summer, I co-organized a month-long 1,300-person "popup village" in Healdsburg, CA called Edge Esmeralda. This gathering was incredibly fun and rewarding, and it was also a huge accelerant to the creation of the permanent village we are building, Esmeralda. Edge Esmeralda...
Spoon & Tamago
The Playable Poetry of Zeni Tainaka The Day I Couldn’t Write a Poem is a short, playable game in which the reader moves a character...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The Day I Couldn’t Write a Poem is a short, playable game in which the reader moves a character through text, interacting with obstacles and making your way through a narrative. It’s the work of Zennyan (Zeni Tainaka), a Japanese pixel artist who has been experimenting with...
Asterisk
The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google Over the past two decades, Google has hosted two different internal platforms for predictions. Why...
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a month ago
Over the past two decades, Google has hosted two different internal platforms for predictions. Why did the first one fail — and will the other endure?
TheCollector
Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ticket Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Oh you thought you saw something in panel 4? You...
a week ago
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a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Oh you thought you saw something in panel 4? You got a dirty mind. Today's News:
Cheese and Biscuits
Archway, Battersea Park Firstly, I have a confession to make. Many years ago I was very kindly treated to lunch at the River...
a year ago
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a year ago
Firstly, I have a confession to make. Many years ago I was very kindly treated to lunch at the River Café in Hammersmith, and I didn't like it. I think I was mainly intimidated - by the well-heeled crowd, the scale and the power of that vast dining room and open kitchen, and yes,...
TheCollector
What Is a Nantucket Sleighride? undefined
3 weeks ago
Old Vintage...
Reversing the Web-@nywhere Watch: browse fragments of the Web on your wrist In the halcyon days of analogue modems and POTS dialup Internet, when the only wireless connection...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
In the halcyon days of analogue modems and POTS dialup Internet, when the only wireless connection in your house was between the cordless phone and the wall, anything having to do with the Web was best consumed in small bites (pun intended). If you wanted to take data with you,...
Open Culture
John Waters’ RISD Graduation Speech: Real Wealth Is Life Without A*Holes John Waters’ rollicking commencement speech at The Rhode Island School of Design offered up some...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
John Waters’ rollicking commencement speech at The Rhode Island School of Design offered up some good one-liners and a few pearls of wisdom, though phrased, quite naturally, in an irreverent way. Ready for some sage advice on what really counts as wealth? And what career choices...
Ink & Switch
03 · Dynamic history Version control with dynamic history combines the best of auto-saving tools with manually-created...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Version control with dynamic history combines the best of auto-saving tools with manually-created milestones.
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History *my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2024 The Ware from May 2024 is a Generac RXSC100A3 100-amp automated load transfer switch. It senses when...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The Ware from May 2024 is a Generac RXSC100A3 100-amp automated load transfer switch. It senses when utility power fails and automatically throws a switch to backup power. Thanks to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware; he has posted a nice write-up about his project using...
xkcd.com
Marshmallow
a year ago
Notes on software...
Walking through a basic Racket web service Racket is an impressive language and ecosystem. Compared to Python, Racket (an evolution of Scheme...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Racket is an impressive language and ecosystem. Compared to Python, Racket (an evolution of Scheme R5RS is three years younger. It is as concise and expressive as Python but with much more reasonable syntax and semantics. Racket is also faster in many cases due in part to: JIT...
xkcd.com
Hydrothermal Vents
12 months ago
Alex Meub
My Mac OSX Setup Application Installs Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Application Installs Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge step above MacPorts and Fink when it comes to installing and managing open source software. Spectacle is a free window resizing utility that gives you keyboard shortcuts to resize...
Both Are True
we switched from a crib to a toddler bed on sleep transitions
9 months ago
Platformer
Can 'radioactive data' save the internet from AI's influence? Artificial intelligence is about to create some serious propaganda problems, a new paper argues. One...
a year ago
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a year ago
Artificial intelligence is about to create some serious propaganda problems, a new paper argues. One solution: to nuke the web
Christian Selig
Announcing Juno 2.0 Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been enjoying Juno since its launch, as well as providing awesome feedback and input to improve it. Today I’m releasing Juno 2.0, which incorporates a ton of that community feedback,...
Grow With Less
This 20-Minute On-Page SEO Checklist Could Save Your Rankings What’s the worst thing that could happen to your blog? For many bloggers, the answer is getting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What’s the worst thing that could happen to your blog? For many bloggers, the answer is getting blacklisted by Google and seeing all their organic traffic vanish overnight. And a common way this happens is when Google realizes your blog is infected before you do and simply...
Making software...
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing 2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing 2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please... Google has created one of the best operating systems...
Society's Backend
Chinese AI is Less Expensive, What it's Like to Work in AI, an Evaluation Framework for Voice... Society's Backend Reading List 11-18-2024
a month ago
SatPost by Trung...
From Beatlemania to Taylor-mania How the meteoric rise of The Beatles helps to explain Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour, on pace to be the...
a year ago
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a year ago
How the meteoric rise of The Beatles helps to explain Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour, on pace to be the first tour ever to gross $1B.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Specialize In The New > Author's note: This is part 4 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> Author's note: This is part 4 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
csvbase blog
There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike
3 months ago
Daniel Bourke
Placebo yourself If there’s something that you’d like to do or some condition you’d like to be true, let it...
a year ago
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a year ago
If there’s something that you’d like to do or some condition you’d like to be true, let it happen. Believe it’s going to happen. Write it down. Start talking about it with yourself. I’ve got this. You (I) can do
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
The Modern House
Hot Stuff: the extraordinary story of the Cobdown sauna
9 months ago
xkcd.com
Exoplanet Observation
a year ago
Tech and Tea
Goodbye to 2023 Reflections on a hard year, and looking to the year ahead
12 months ago
diamond geezer
Canary Wharf 25 Today is Canary Wharf station's 25th birthday. Not the DLR station (that's 33) nor the Crossrail...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Today is Canary Wharf station's 25th birthday. Not the DLR station (that's 33) nor the Crossrail station (that's 2) but the Jubilee line station which opened mid-afternoon on Friday 17th September 1999. The relentless commercialisation of Canary Wharf station "Twenty banks of...
Noahpinion
A better way to build a downtown It's time to learn a Japanese word: "zakkyo".
2 months ago
TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists undefined
4 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Synecdoche: Drawing the Part for the Whole
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM....
TheCollector
What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’? undefined
2 months ago
Scarlet Ink
Dave's Path to Amazon — And He Makes Fun of the Midwest My path to Amazon wasn't obvious, or all that intentional. But it changed my life forever.
3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Series Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really you should wake up every morning and check...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really you should wake up every morning and check the integral of happiness over time. Today's News:
Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story “For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway   You might...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway   You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Green flags for investable founders Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and dedication. Elevator pitch in LinkedIn tagline A founder who is all in is constantly selling. That means their tagline will: a) be for their company, not for them b) be the sales pitch, not a...
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
After the emergency If we need to wait until after the short-term emergency is settled, it’s unlikely we’re ever going...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
If we need to wait until after the short-term emergency is settled, it’s unlikely we’re ever going to get to work on the long-term important work. Of course, we want to do “everything we can” when an emergency strikes. But the standard for that has always involved tradeoffs....
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#28) Cultural stagnation, pedestrian deaths, evidence on decoupling, the benefits of education, and why...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Cultural stagnation, pedestrian deaths, evidence on decoupling, the benefits of education, and why philosophers read the classics
Londonist
Ramadan And Eid Events In London 2024 Illuminations, shopping festivals and Eid celebrations.
10 months ago
elementary Blog
One Last Bug Fix Update Before The Big One It turns out we have one more updates blog before OS 7.1 and it brings a number of fixes and a few...
a year ago
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a year ago
It turns out we have one more updates blog before OS 7.1 and it brings a number of fixes and a few small features. We’re hard at work resolving your reported issues to make this release as smooth and shiny as it possibly can be! So read ahead and find out what was new last...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Matter of Nobody’s Style But Her Own' “It is not only the pianos that have vanished (the sound of the pianos along the streets in spring...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
“It is not only the pianos that have vanished (the sound of the pianos along the streets in spring evenings when the windows were opened) but the world in which they sounded, and the young ears they sounded for. I shall never forget how beautiful they were or what they meant to...
TheCollector
8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness undefined
9 months ago
Irrational...
Video of Using LLMs in your product. A month ago, I wrote up some notes on using LLMs in your product, and yesterday I got to present an...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A month ago, I wrote up some notes on using LLMs in your product, and yesterday I got to present an iteration on those notes to the folks at the Sapphire Venture’s 2024 Hypergrowth Engineering Summit. If you’re interested, you can watch a recording of my talk on Youtube. There’s...
Maps Mania
AI Geography Quizzes
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How You Know
over a year ago
Inverted Passion
A primer on dopamine 1/ I recently made notes on the book “Hooked” but wasn’t satisfied by the depth of explanation in...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
1/ I recently made notes on the book “Hooked” but wasn’t satisfied by the depth of explanation in it. 2/ I wanted to get down into neuroscience of habit-forming products and that inevitably lead me to the (in)famous neurotransmitter dopamine. 3/ Before we dive into what dopamine...
Moneyness
Thoughts on the Tornado Cash defence and what happens when everyone adopts it Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance, has has to pay multiple fines. Western Union was famously busted in 2017. Meanwhile, Cash App is being probed as we speak for inadequate anti-money laundering controls. In the...
Maggie Appleton
A Fruitful Guide to JavaScript's Comparison Operators
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein? undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
What Was the Un-American Activities Committee? undefined
4 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Anti-capitalism 101
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Growing the Evergreens
over a year ago
Neil Madden
Digital signatures and how to avoid them Wikipedia’s definition of a digital signature is: A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Wikipedia’s definition of a digital signature is: A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents. A valid digital signature on a message gives a recipient confidence that the message came from a sender known to the...
Good Enough
Beware of Free Software Beware of free pizza If I want a slice of pizza, I don't expect it to be free. In fact, if you try...
a year ago
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a year ago
Beware of free pizza If I want a slice of pizza, I don't expect it to be free. In fact, if you try to offer me a slice of free pizza, I'd suspect there's something wrong with it. And ever since my kids can understand me, I've taught them to be careful of free stuff. Nothing is...
Stories by Andrej...
CS183c Assignment #3
over a year ago
TheCollector
How Does Street Art Shape Cities? undefined
8 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Temporal - the iPhone of System Design Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it is eating the world.
The Turn Signal RSS...
In-Car Climate Control Design: How It Has Gone Backwards and How to Fix It To illustrate how climate controls have evolved, I'll compare two generations of Mercedes S-Class:...
a year ago
macwright.com
SaaS exits by I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit experiences: Loom is surprisingly hard to exit from. There’s no bulk export option, no way to export metadata. Webflow doesn’t support exporting sites with CMS collections (blogs, docs,...
One Useful Thing
Detecting the Secret Cyborgs The AI Trap for Organizations
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor? undefined
10 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The 10 Best U.S. National Parks to Visit with Kids
a year ago
Archinect - Features
‘In the Climate Context, Architects Need to Push a New Frontier’; A Conversation with Mario... When TECLA was unveiled to the world at the beginning of 2021, it captured the attention of both the...
a year ago
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a year ago
When TECLA was unveiled to the world at the beginning of 2021, it captured the attention of both the architectural community and the imagination of the mainstream media. The world's first 3D-printed house made from raw earth, TECLA was one of 17 projects showcased at COP26 in an...
The Pragmatic...
Twitter’s ongoing cruel treatment of software engineers Twitter has become the most toxic workplace amongst any major tech company in 2022. But why is Elon...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Twitter has become the most toxic workplace amongst any major tech company in 2022. But why is Elon Musk treating developers in an unusually cruel way?
Common Edge
Should NYC’s Housing Authority Demolish Public Housing in Manhattan? Plans for a phased demolition and rebuilding of the Fulton and Chelsea-Elliott Houses should be...
a month ago
Maps Mania
Ephemeral Tweets
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Affirmations for bloggers Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of those blogs lie abandoned or sporadically updated. It's okay if you start blogging and figure out it's not really for you. But there are also some common issues that block people...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Weeee! Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: re: yesterday's comic - I have never gotten more...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: re: yesterday's comic - I have never gotten more hatemail than the time I insulted wild blueberries. Deal with it, bros. Today's News:
TheCollector
What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories? undefined
4 months ago
History Today Feed
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic? Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic? JamesHoare Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
a month ago
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 March 31 - April 6 De-digitization, get more sunlight, while you still can. What things are better...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
De-digitization, get more sunlight, while you still can. What things are better offline? Write while you can still read. Make art while you can still see. Make music while you can still hear. Make food while you can still taste.
Quanta Magazine
The Year in Biology In a year packed with fascinating discoveries, biologists pushed the limits of synthetic life,...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a year packed with fascinating discoveries, biologists pushed the limits of synthetic life, probed how organisms keep time, and refined theories about consciousness and emotional health. The post The Year in Biology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Software Has Eaten The Media As I wrote a year ago in The Rot Economy (and as I argued on the first episode of my podcast Better...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
As I wrote a year ago in The Rot Economy (and as I argued on the first episode of my podcast Better Offline), I believe that both public and private markets have become decoupled from the concept of "good business," ruled instead by a hunger for the eternal
Identity Designed
Pilo Designed by 5.5, Paris.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - What the Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Don't blame us - you're the one watching. Today's...
7 months ago
Common Edge
It’s Time to Blur the Boundaries Between Town and Gown University campus planning should look outward to the surrounding city.
6 months ago
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering Q3 2024 Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently featured Sander Schulhoff, one of the authors of a comprehensive research paper on prompt engineering. This meta-study reviews over 1,600 published papers, with co-authors from...
mtlynch.io
Paternity Leave: Month 2 Highlights I’m finding it surprisingly difficult not to work. Sleep is getting a little better. I...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Highlights I’m finding it surprisingly difficult not to work. Sleep is getting a little better. I used Nix to create a slick and reusable fuzz testing workflow. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Vacation Ideas in Los Angeles
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China? undefined
6 months ago
Rest of World -...
The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and...
a year ago
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links “I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date” Edition 1. Who rules us? Google changed its rules on what kind of behaviour it regards as “spam” and, of...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
1. Who rules us? Google changed its rules on what kind of behaviour it regards as “spam” and, of course, the impact on some companies will be pretty negative. The behaviour it is targeting is so-called “parasite SEO”, where a publisher allows a third party to create content for...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero? I lost my position as global minister for future generations because I spent my effort points to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I lost my position as global minister for future generations because I spent my effort points to fast to reach net zero.
Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
The Honest Broker
How African Musicians Came to Medieval and Renaissance Europe Western music has always been multicultural
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying "1 Exercise on a Monday night (nothing fun happens on a Monday night).2 On the fence about a...
a year ago
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a year ago
"1 Exercise on a Monday night (nothing fun happens on a Monday night).2 On the fence about a purchase? Wait 72 hours before you buy it.3 Tip: the quickest supermarket queue is always behind the fullest trolley (greeting, paying and packing take longer than you think).4 Bring...
TheCollector
Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization undefined
a year ago
essay – snarfed.org
Blockchain’s real world problem A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised to “fix” fine art. Not sure if that painting is real? Can’t find out who owns it, or where they got it? Worried that the gallery you’re emailing is a scammer? Worry no more!...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Post Bootcamp Mindmap What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or bootcamp?
diamond geezer
September events diary 2024 It's almost September again but never fear, London's putting on a last flurry of events, activities...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
It's almost September again but never fear, London's putting on a last flurry of events, activities and happenings before the nights draw in and we're all invited. Here's my weekend-by-weekend guide to free September delights. All month Totally Thames (Sep 1-30): Once again a...
Londonist
The Cosmic House: A Surreal Mansion You Can Visit In Kensington Warning: article could lead to serious house envy.
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Go slow to go fast A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long been an endurance athlete, and it's time to lean into my overall fitness and strength. Part of this is to be healthy and live a long life. But honestly? More of it is a desire to...
Liz Denys
Save Congestion Pricing! Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of congestion pricing on June 30. Your voice is urgently needed to stand up for a funded MTA with increased accessibility, a healthy planet, and good government in New York. Stop a $15...
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Google's Gemini Enters the AI Arena: Ready to Take on OpenAI? Get ready for a new contender in the world of large language models (LLMs): Google's Gemini! This...
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Get ready for a new contender in the world of large language models (LLMs): Google's Gemini! This powerful AI is set to shake things up, potentially rivaling big names like OpenAI and Microsoft. What's the Buzz About Gemini? Gemini comes in three flavors:
diamond geezer
Revisiting Northwall Road Yesterday was one of the ten busiest days ever on this blog. Almost ten thousand people turned...
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Yesterday was one of the ten busiest days ever on this blog. Almost ten thousand people turned up. • When an American website got excited about the location of pylons in London they linked to something I'd written 4 days earlier. That was my 3rd best ever day. American website...
TheCollector
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Seth's Blog
The shifting status of more data How do we know if we’re doing a good job? In some fields, it’s always been pretty easy to tell....
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How do we know if we’re doing a good job? In some fields, it’s always been pretty easy to tell. Either the building falls down or it doesn’t. Either the car starts after you charge the battery or it’s still dead. We can ask easy questions about how long it took or how much it […]
Diaries of Note
To pay up would constitute a precedent Kenneth Tynan was a towering figure in the British theatre scene, known for his sharp criticism and...
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Kenneth Tynan was a towering figure in the British theatre scene, known for his sharp criticism and a remarkable ability to discern the pulse of contemporary drama. Born in Birmingham, England, in 1927, he began documenting his life and thoughts in diaries from the age of six, a...
The Rational Walk
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Herodotus is often described as the father of history for his narrative of the Greco-Persian Wars of the fifth century BC.
Artificial Ignorance
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diamond geezer
Merton rebrands The London borough of Merton is updating its logo. But it has to die, slowly and gradually...
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The London borough of Merton is updating its logo. But it has to die, slowly and gradually from the end of November, and I'll let the council's branding team explain why. We have been using the same logo as the foundation stone of our corporate identity for the past 30...
HTMHell
What is the Difference Between Alternative Text, Long Description, and Caption? When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and...
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When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and understandable to everyone. Which means you need to include text alternatives to describe the image information or function. Three options are: Alternative Text Long...
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Slowmad Q&A The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people...
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The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people are generally interested in is my experience of remote work. As I put it [recently](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1154916667606130689):
Stoic Simple
Stoicism as a Way to Learn Patience, Acceptance & Be Calm Whether it's waiting in line at the grocery store, dealing with a difficult coworker, or facing a...
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Whether it's waiting in line at the grocery store, dealing with a difficult coworker, or facing a personal setback, we all encounter moments that test our patience. While it's natural to feel frustrated or angry in these situations, practicing patience can bring a sense of...
Steve Blank
How to Flip the Script, Beat China and Russia – And Fix the Broken Department of Defense A version of this post previously appeared in War on the Rocks. This version has been updated with...
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A version of this post previously appeared in War on the Rocks. This version has been updated with suggestions from leaders across the Department of Defense and Venture Capital community. BLUF: In WW II, the U.S. outsourced advanced weapons systems development to civilians. The...
The Marginalian
May Sarton on Writing, Gardening, and the Importance of Patience Over Will in Creative Work "Gardening is like poetry in that it is gratuitous, and also that it cannot be done on will alone."
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Quanta Magazine
How This Marine Worm Can Tell Moonglow From Sunbeams For the first time, scientists have decoded the molecular structure of a protein that helps to sync...
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For the first time, scientists have decoded the molecular structure of a protein that helps to sync a biological clock to the phases of the moon. The post How This Marine Worm Can Tell Moonglow From Sunbeams first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Subliminal git commits Luckily, I speak Leet. – Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama There’s an episode of the CBS...
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Luckily, I speak Leet. – Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama There’s an episode of the CBS prime-time drama Numb3rs that plumbs the depths of Dr. Joel Fleischman’s1 knowledge of IRC. In one scene, Fleischman wonders, “What’s ‘leet’”? “Leet” is writing that replaces letters...
Neil Madden
API Security in Action handed over to production After a flurry of last-minute corrections and updates in response to review feedback, my book has...
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After a flurry of last-minute corrections and updates in response to review feedback, my book has now been handed over to Manning’s production team. That means a few weeks of copy editing and graphics polish, then indexing and typesetting to produce the final version around...
Seth's Blog
Trouble in the grey zone In many creative industries, there’s a similar pattern. When the stakes are very low, most creators...
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In many creative industries, there’s a similar pattern. When the stakes are very low, most creators produce things that are fairly banal and ordinary. Part of that is the law of large numbers, but it’s mostly our personal cultural resistance to leaning too far into weird stuff....
Acko.net
On Progress The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to...
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The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter. Not me though. For whatever reason,...
Seth's Blog
Shields up Years and years ago, I helped the Weekly World News make a book. While their periodical was weekly,...
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Years and years ago, I helped the Weekly World News make a book. While their periodical was weekly, it certainly wasn’t news. They were just four people in a small office in Florida. They gleefully made stuff up every week. They had a few filing cabinets of stock photos, and they...
Notes on software...
Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
The American Scholar
Chris Combs Surveillance state The post Chris Combs appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Construction Physics
The dream of deregulation - the grid part III For most of the industry’s history, electric power in the US had largely been provided by vertically...
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For most of the industry’s history, electric power in the US had largely been provided by vertically integrated utility companies that handled every part of the electricity supply: generating it, transmitting it, distributing it to customers, and managing the overall system....
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Ejectable Defaults Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of...
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Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of how Ejectable Defaults fits with the Zero Config movement
Retail Design Blog
Altruist office by Tangram Interiors & ENTOS Design When quickly-growing Altruist, a digital brokerage platform for RIAs, decided to open an office in...
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When quickly-growing Altruist, a digital brokerage platform for RIAs, decided to open an office in Dallas, ENTOS Design engaged Tangram...
Joel Gascoigne
Why we have a core value of transparency at our startup, and why the reasons don't matter Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and failures. Over time this...
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Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and failures. Over time this developed into a more defined goal and principle as part of the values of the company [http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-04]. Since we defined our value of...
The Marginalian
Blue Is the Color of Desire: The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird For all the enchantment the color blue has cast upon humanity, no animal has fallen under its spell...
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For all the enchantment the color blue has cast upon humanity, no animal has fallen under its spell more hopelessly than the bowerbird, whose very survival hinges on blue. In a small clearing on the forest floor, the male weaves twigs and branches into an elaborate bower, which...
ToughSF
NTER: Nuclear Thermal-Electric Rocket There is a type of nuclear propulsion that can have most of the acceleration of a nuclear thermal...
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There is a type of nuclear propulsion that can have most of the acceleration of a nuclear thermal rocket but also the high Isp of an electric thruster.  Let’s have a look at nuclear ‘thermal-electric’ engines and their advantages. The title image is from 'dV: Rings of...
Jonas Hietala
2015 in Review Previous reviews: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. 2015 Geek Achievements Finished my university...
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Previous reviews: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. 2015 Geek Achievements Finished my university studies and got a Master in Computer Science. Discovered a new boardgame love: Android Netrunner. Finished top 4 in my first Netrunner Store Championship. Won a small local Netrunner...
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Introducing Notez Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
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Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it’s nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
Noahpinion
The death (again) of the internet as we know it A few big changes are making the online world a more boring place to hang out.
7 months ago
TokyoDev
Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook At the beginning of the year, I bought a new M2 MacBook Air for ¥220,800 (about 1,500 USD) on Apple...
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At the beginning of the year, I bought a new M2 MacBook Air for ¥220,800 (about 1,500 USD) on Apple Japan’s online store. Thanks to me not bothering to set up Find My, it’s now a worthless brick. To add insult to injury, I had paid ¥77,619 (500 USD) to have said brick returned to...
Londonist
DLR Extension To Thamesmead: Public Consultation Opens Have your say before 18 March.
10 months ago
The Marginalian
How to Own Your Human-Heartedness: Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen and the Dangers of... "Trust in human nature is acceptance of the good-and-bad of it, and it is hard to trust those who do...
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Seth's Blog
The low-stakes argument It’s tempting and fun to argue about the logo. About the way the toilet paper is hung. About how to...
a year ago
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It’s tempting and fun to argue about the logo. About the way the toilet paper is hung. About how to load the trunk of the car. These sorts of arguments work precisely because they don’t matter. At all. And they distract us from the incredibly difficult work of discussing the...
Rest of World -...
How Mexico learned to stop worrying and love EVs Despite its standing as a global auto manufacturing power, Mexico’s position as a hub for electric...
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Despite its standing as a global auto manufacturing power, Mexico’s position as a hub for electric vehicles was far from given until recently.
TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism undefined
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s Peter Marshall  has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall  has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
Christian Selig
Server side Live Activities guide iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and...
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iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and handy! I’ve been playing around with it a bit and found some parts a bit confusing, so I thought I’d do a little write up for future me as well as anyone else who could benefit! (For...
History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born The Kingdom of Sicily is Born JamesHoare Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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Mackinac’s Orbit, Part 11 (What’s Brewing?) Twelve Mile Circle readers don’t really care about my brewery visits. I get it. You won’t offend me...
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Twelve Mile Circle readers don’t really care about my brewery visits. I get it. You won’t offend me if you skip this article or scroll through the pictures without reading anything. I really do this more for myself to create a record of my visits that extend beyond the simplicity...
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Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
Rudolph with your nose so bright Won't you guide my sleigh tonight? View on my website
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Spoon & Tamago
Twenty Two Artists Created Over 120 Artworks Throughout the Tokyo Offices of GREE When Japanese internet media company GREE relocated offices last year, they wanted to do something...
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When Japanese internet media company GREE relocated offices last year, they wanted to do something special; something that would capture the unique creativity and artistic drive behind many of their employees. So the company worked with art agency TokyoDex and the architecural...
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Reflections on Urban Isolation
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Quanta Magazine
How Math Achieved Transcendence Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to...
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Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to understand them. The post How Math Achieved Transcendence first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Paul Graham: Essays
Holding a Program in One's Head
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AI Snake Oil
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South Africa’s competition watchdog takes aim at Google The group is pushing Google to do more local business promotion, but experts say this could put the...
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The group is pushing Google to do more local business promotion, but experts say this could put the country’s digital economy at risk.
One Useful Thing
How to... use AI to unstick yourself We often lose momentum because of something small. AI can help.
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Flashbak
Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973) As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree.    ...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware January 2024 As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a...
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As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a gizmo I picked out of a junk bin in Akihabara. Personally, I could not figure out the grabby motion until I actuated the central plunger manually: So, I was impressed that Ian...
The Tao Of Wealth
The 7 Common ( But Unhelpful) Beliefs That Keep Us From Feeling OK Your mind is not wise. From an early age we are taught to listen to our mind, remember that reason...
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Your mind is not wise. From an early age we are taught to listen to our mind, remember that reason and logic are the way to get ahead and to strengthen our mind. We think we are our mind. But we also have a heart.  The mind is a very good computer, but that’s aboutContinue...
Willem's Blog
Programming on Apple Watch Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
over a year ago
HTMHell
Microdata for books by Alan Dalton Dive into marking up books Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us...
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by Alan Dalton Dive into marking up books Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us web geeks. (I hope you’ll find a Web Accessibility Cookbook in your Christmas stocking, gentle reader.) Unfortunately, A Book Apart closed this year. Fortunately, the authors...
Posts on Nikita...
Handmade Seattle 2023 A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
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11 months ago
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract: An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.” Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
Common Edge
“Architecture Schools Are Responsible for Educating the Whole Student” A talk with ACSA’s executive director, Michael Monti.
3 months ago
TheCollector
Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own undefined
5 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Building a Magical 3D Button Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
Paul Graham: Essays
The Trouble with the Segway
over a year ago
Passing Time
So We Won't Forget Why do we film concerts?
a year ago
Common Edge
San Francisco’s Love Affair With the Ferry Building John King, urban design critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, talks about his new book, Portal.
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
The 2 Current Major AI Bottlenecks I’ve been going hardcore on using GPT to create essays, reports, and other kinds of analysis. I’ve...
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I’ve been going hardcore on using GPT to create essays, reports, and other kinds of analysis. I’ve had tons of success with it, and it’s given me a clear view of current limitations with the current tech. I’m not complaining. This stuff is brand-new. Here are the current...
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Stripe Goes No-Code — Stripe Payment Links Explained Stripe has entered the No Code market in a big way! I take a crack at explaining what it's doing and...
over a year ago
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Download the World in Data Our World in Data recently announced that they are providing APIs to access their data....
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Our World in Data recently announced that they are providing APIs to access their data. Coincidentally, I am using one of their datasets in my workshop on time series analysis at PyData Global 2024. So I took this opportunity to update my example using the new API – this notebook...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Test Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look it's the only test with no false...
8 months ago
Open Culture
How the Hugely Acclaimed Shōgun TV Series Makes Translation Interesting Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their...
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Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their owners ever actually got through James Clavell’s famously hefty novel of seventeenth-century Japan is open to question, but they may well have seen the first television adaptation,...
Prolost
What Does and Doesn’t Matter about Apple Shooting their October Event on iPhone 15 Pro Max A still from Apple’s “Behind the scenes: An Apple Event shot on iPhone” video Apple Shot Their...
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A still from Apple’s “Behind the scenes: An Apple Event shot on iPhone” video Apple Shot Their “Scary Fast” October Event Video on iPhones And We Had Feelings You’re somewhere on the spectrum of occasionally shooting video on your iPhone to a professional-ish video maker with...
Seth's Blog
Patterns and chaos Finding a pattern that explains events that seem like chaos is a breakthrough. It offers us...
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Finding a pattern that explains events that seem like chaos is a breakthrough. It offers us understanding and a lever we can use to make an impact. Sometimes, though, the breakthrough lies in understanding that there is no pattern, simply unpredictable noise. We need effort to...
PostHog's RSS Feed
I used to think you don't need product people. I was wrong. When PostHog was fresh out of YC last year, there were two things we focused on: (i) build and (ii)...
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When PostHog was fresh out of YC last year, there were two things we focused on: (i) build and (ii) talk to customers. Hiring a product person felt…
Diaries of Note
I do not know the origin of this ugly sport For most, Boxing Day is a time for leftovers and lounging, but in the New Forest of England during...
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12 months ago
For most, Boxing Day is a time for leftovers and lounging, but in the New Forest of England during the late 1800s and early 1900s it signified something more primal. On the 26th of December each year, the winter-stilled woods echoed with the sounds of a cruel and peculiar...
TheCollector
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate? undefined
a year ago
Roberto's blog
From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that...
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I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that all I need is Markdown rendering. Trying to update Gatsby and its dependencies to the latest version was painful enough to motivate me to jump ship. After looking at what’s out...
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
Retail Design Blog
Klim Coffee Roasting Co. by SuiL Located in a new boutique business development in the bustling southeastern suburb of Mount...
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Located in a new boutique business development in the bustling southeastern suburb of Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia, Klim Coffee Roasting...
Seth's Blog
A thoughtful review Thanks to Francis Wade for emailing me this review of THIS IS STRATEGY. Francis works in strategy,...
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Thanks to Francis Wade for emailing me this review of THIS IS STRATEGY. Francis works in strategy, and I’m so delighted the book resonated the way it did. Case: You are a corporate strategic planner – someone immersed in defining a future for your organization. But lately, you...
mtlynch.io
How I Stole Your Siacoin A seedy reddit post The night was June 9th, 2017. It was a typical Friday night for me. I was...
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over a year ago
A seedy reddit post The night was June 9th, 2017. It was a typical Friday night for me. I was watching Netflix and checking reddit partying with cool kids. Suddenly, I saw this post on the “New” tab of the /r/siacoin subreddit: If you’re not familiar with Siacoin, it’s a...
Rest of World -...
Google turns to AI in the race to dub YouTube YouTube’s new automatic dubbing system is competing with with human firms to help creators scale the...
a year ago
somenice
Coastal Mountain Forest Triptych Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species...
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Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species were inspiration to capture the texture and light of my local forest.The idea to frame each with their own type of wood came both as a natural idea but also because of materials...
Working Theorys
Word Association Fame The new attention playbooks will be full of old plays.
9 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The List of N Things
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Late-stage technocrats Water flows downhill, and tech solves the easy problems first. After the launch of Amazon and...
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a year ago
Water flows downhill, and tech solves the easy problems first. After the launch of Amazon and Google, when smartphones reached critical mass, an easy problem to solve involved bridging information with stuff. So you could use your phone to summon a car, a case of beer, a dog...
diamond geezer
Let's vote again (Bow East version) HYPERLOCAL HISTORY MONTH: Let's vote again Bow East you're about to get another chance to place a...
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HYPERLOCAL HISTORY MONTH: Let's vote again Bow East you're about to get another chance to place a cross on a ballot paper, and all because 15302 voters put their cross on a ballot paper somewhere else. by-election is being held in Bow East ward for a seat on Tower Hamlets...
TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx undefined
a year ago
Irrational...
Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis. These are speaking notes for my October 4th, QCon talk in San Francisco. Slides for this talk. Over...
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These are speaking notes for my October 4th, QCon talk in San Francisco. Slides for this talk. Over the course of my career, I’ve frequently heard from colleagues, team members and random internet strangers with the same frustration: the company doesn’t have an Engineering...
TheCollector
Who Was Julius Caesar? undefined
7 months ago
Common Edge
Why Nearly Every City in the U.S. Needs a Walkability Study A talk with urban planner Jeff Speck and his new business partner, Chris Dempsey.
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Electronics etc…
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Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few tests Internals Conclusion References Introduction I’ve been doing a bunch of measurements on oven-controlled oscillators lately, including their temperature. There are multiple ways to measure...
Escaping Flatland
Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing I began emailing essays into the void on 30 May 2021, 53 days before Rebecka, our youngest daughter...
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I began emailing essays into the void on 30 May 2021, 53 days before Rebecka, our youngest daughter was born. This writing experiment has followed roughly the same trajectory as the baby. In 2021, Escaping Flatland's prime achievement was putting a few toys in its mouth (a...
SOCKS
Matmata: Underground Dwellings for an Extreme Climate The ancient Berber village of Matmata in South Tunisia, located between the Eastern coast and the...
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The ancient Berber village of Matmata in South Tunisia, located between the Eastern coast and the desert, is characterised by settlements of dwellings dug into the clay-gypsum layers of the ground. The dating of the first inhabitations is uncertain. In these dwellings, vaulted...
diamond geezer
50 dull lists 50 dull lists UK cities without a railway station: Armagh, Ripon, St Asaph, St Davids,...
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50 dull lists UK cities without a railway station: Armagh, Ripon, St Asaph, St Davids, Wells Commemorative stamps 2024: Spice Girls, Weather forecasting, Vikings, Dinosaurs, 100 years of commemorative stamps, Peppa Pig, Dogs, Red Arrows, Dungeons & Dragons, Tower of London,...
TheCollector
A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road? undefined
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Maps Mania
Welcome To Your New Gardening Zone
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Open Culture
How Rome Began: The History As Told by Ancient Historians Much attention has been paid to the fall of the Roman Empire, by everyone from august historians...
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Much attention has been paid to the fall of the Roman Empire, by everyone from august historians like Edward Gibbon to modern-day observers wringing their hands over the fate of the United States of America. But as every Rome enthusiast knows, that long collapse constitutes just...
diamond geezer
Transport Freedom I love my Travelcard because it allows me to take multiple journeys anywhere I like whenever I like....
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I love my Travelcard because it allows me to take multiple journeys anywhere I like whenever I like. For a one-off fee I can roam on all TfL modes of transport in my chosen zones. I can go to Woolwich, then West Ealing, then Wood Green if I so choose. I can change my mind mid...
TheCollector
The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects undefined
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TokyoDev
Which countries are overrepresented in Japan's foreigner population? As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our...
over a year ago
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As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our American neighbours. While the US's population is about nine times of ours, their population in Japan was only five times ours. This got me curious, and so I did some number crunching,...
Old Structures...
Keep The Scale In Mind Here’s a photo from yesterday of Shaquana getting a good look at a brownstone finial that’s been...
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Here’s a photo from yesterday of Shaquana getting a good look at a brownstone finial that’s been removed during restoration work. This is a minor decorative element for the church it was removed from. It’s visually important, of course, and we’re not removing it to throw it away,...
Cartogrammar
Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no...
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Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no particular reason the other day, followed by a silly-sounding question: “but, like, what about land area by latitude and longitude?” Silly because, duh, a chart of land area by latitude and...
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The Daily Planet In October 1957, Angelo Rizzuto took this photo: The Library of Congress has a descriptive caption,...
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In October 1957, Angelo Rizzuto took this photo: The Library of Congress has a descriptive caption, of the kind used when they don’t know where a picture is from: “View down commercial street with skyscrapers and billboards and signs on either side.” This one is fairly easy to...
African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization. Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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DITA store It’s on P.C. Hooftstraat, Amsterdam‘s golden mile of luxury shopping, where high-end eyewear brand...
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It’s on P.C. Hooftstraat, Amsterdam‘s golden mile of luxury shopping, where high-end eyewear brand DITA has opened its largest store...
TheCollector
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Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser...
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When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser as small as possible. I write in ES6 or TypeScript then use browserify to combine all JavaScript code into a single bundle file. For production builds I use uglify to make the...
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I’m really excited to unveil a project I’ve been working on for the last year or so. It’s called Apollo and it’s a new Reddit app for iPhone. I’ve been a Reddit user for about four years now, and the site is a constant source of interesting discussion, hilarity and news for me...
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Infotainment systems are often overcomplicated and poorly built. Until recently, it was difficult to change this because each carmaker had…
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Another step toward a two-hour marathon This is an update to an analysis I run each time the marathon world record is broken. If you like...
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This is an update to an analysis I run each time the marathon world record is broken. If you like this sort of thing, you will like my forthcoming book, Probably Overthinking It, which is available for preorder now. On October 8, 2023, Kelvin Kiptum ran the Chicago Marathon in...
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Monaco What's Yours is Mine I’ve been waiting for soon to be three years for Monaco What’s Yours is Mine, and today I was...
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I’ve been waiting for soon to be three years for Monaco What’s Yours is Mine, and today I was granted an early christmas present - I was given a beta key! w00p!! I was planning on studying and sending some emails to some companies… But who knows what I’ll end up doing? Tomorrow...
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Nick Kolenda Reviews Preceden Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing...
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Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing and related topics like pricing optimization, sales psychology, and website behavior. He’s also happens to be a regular in a poker game I host each week. A few months back he...
TheCollector
Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most? undefined
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Tech + Economics +...
“Walking meetings” are not going to bring people back to the office. Joy Adan, senior thought leadership manager at Reward Gateway, an Australian human resource...
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Joy Adan, senior thought leadership manager at Reward Gateway, an Australian human resource consulting company, said that connecting with co-workers and building those relationships were a critical part of work and should not be trivialised. “Coffee badging...
The Rational Walk
Progressive is Firing on All Cylinders Progressive resumed aggressive growth in the first quarter of 2024 while reporting a strong combined...
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The Gingerbread City 2023: London's Tastiest Exhibition Returns For Christmas Buildings made of biscuits, decorated with icing and sweets.
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Asda Express Bow Petrol Most days I walk past the Co-op on Bow Road - Bow Road's Co-op. I don't shop there, it's only a...
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Most days I walk past the Co-op on Bow Road - Bow Road's Co-op. I don't shop there, it's only a garage forecourt store, nothing large or special. But it's well stocked - plenty of chiller choice, all the cereals, lots of booze. Co-op had suddenly metamorphosed into an Asda...
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The Silver Birch, Chiswick It's a pleasant novelty to, for once, not be opening a post about an excellent neighbourhood...
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It's a pleasant novelty to, for once, not be opening a post about an excellent neighbourhood restaurant without a resigned grump about the lack of such places in my own particular neighbourhood. Until recently, my fellow SW11 residents had very little to be proud of (and even...
The Changelog
The Joy of Easy Personal Radio: FRS, GMRS, and Motorola DLR/DTR Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not...
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Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not just the usefulness, but even the joy, of having our own radios. For instance: When traveling to national parks or other wilderness areas, family and friends can keep in touch even...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Royal Oak, Whatcote There are so many different types of restaurant, so much variety in the ways and manner and styles...
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There are so many different types of restaurant, so much variety in the ways and manner and styles that we eat out, that sometimes it's amazing we find anything in common about the experience at all. And yet somehow we do, and restaurant critics and food blogs exist because, by...
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In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which...
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Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand. The post In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge first...
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2024-03-17 wilhelm haller and photocopier accounting In the 1450s, German inventor Johannes Gutenburg designed the movable-type printing press, the first...
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In the 1450s, German inventor Johannes Gutenburg designed the movable-type printing press, the first practical method of mass-duplicating text. After various other projects, he applied his press to the production of the Bible, yielding over one hundred copies of a text that...
Open Culture
The Olympics in the 2020s Versus 1912: See Side-by-Side Comparisons of the Athletes’ Performance... The Olympic Games have their origins in antiquity, but their modern revival has also been going on...
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The Olympic Games have their origins in antiquity, but their modern revival has also been going on longer than any of us has been here. Even the fifth Summer Olympics, which took place in Stockholm in 1912, has passed out of living memory. But thanks to the technology of the...
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30 Day Map Challenge-Admiring the Work of Others For the past several years November for me has meant working on the 30 Day Map Challenge. This year...
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For the past several years November for me has meant working on the 30 Day Map Challenge. This year I’ve been too busy to participate - also I really needed a break from it. Not participating means I’ve been able to admire the work of other cartographers. Here are some highlights...
Willem's Blog
Inspiration from a child Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
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A Pretty Good Entertainment Setup My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a...
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My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a Synology DiskStation DS213 NAS with 2x2TB RAID 0 configured drives. This is hands down the best NAS I’ve ever used. It’s super easy to set up and the interface is awesome (all...
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Scaling Coding Communities People who can scale coding communities are 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Embeds and Quotations in Writing Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and...
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Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and quotations in my writing. A lot of my blogging is quoting other people. I remember debating the use of social embeds on my blog because I quoted a lot of things on Twitter. But I...
TheCollector
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What the Solow Model can teach us about China Economists knew back in the 1950s that a country can't build its way to infinite wealth.
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A blue plaque for Hester In the last year, my theatre trips have been dominated by Operation Mincemeat, a comedy musical...
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In the last year, my theatre trips have been dominated by Operation Mincemeat, a comedy musical currently playing in the Fortune Theatre. The writing is clever, the songs are catchy, and it’s laugh-a-minute funny, but it can also be solemn and moving. The show is based on the...
diamond geezer
Unblogged first week of May 7 unblogged things I did in the first week of May Wed 1: While I was touring City churches I came...
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7 unblogged things I did in the first week of May Wed 1: While I was touring City churches I came across this, the Lost London Churches Project. They've printed a little colour card for every church in the City of London - current and former - and the idea is to collect them all...
The Rational Walk
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Berkshire's Trillion Dollar Milestone, Will Buffett attempt to acquire Chubb?, Intel's Prospects, Personal Bots, Bitcoin, AI vs. Reality, "Useless" Knowledge, Jay Bowen, Rudy Havenstein
Applied Cartography
My approach to GTD and PKM One pernicious thing with writing about productivity and knowledge systems: you only change systems...
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One pernicious thing with writing about productivity and knowledge systems: you only change systems that aren’t working, and you tend to write about things during times of change. So most writing about productivity systems stem from people whose systems have failed them. It is...
A Beautiful Site
Access pages without the php extension using .htaccess There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight...
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There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight forward.  It allows you to access /any-page.php by simply going to /any-page.  Just place the following into your .htaccess file (and make sure that mod_rewrite is...
Strange Loop Canon
Google had a very bad week Gemini's paradox
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diamond geezer
A nice Starbucks walk A Nice Walk: Tottenham Court Road (½ mile) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing...
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A Nice Walk: Tottenham Court Road (½ mile) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, lots to see, centrally located, historic buildings, well connected, retail proximity, easy to follow, multiple refreshment opportunities, won't take...
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Is greed really seasonal? As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing...
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As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing their jobs after all, so that must mean someone is acting malevolent, dammit. This is when the age old accusation of greed is trotted out. Companies are only laying off people now...
Tech + Economics +...
AI hardware is kind of cool. PC Mag: The r1 AI Pocket Companion Will Take You Down the Rabbit Hole LAM works "by first...
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PC Mag: The r1 AI Pocket Companion Will Take You Down the Rabbit Hole LAM works "by first understanding complex human intentions, then spinning up on human-oriented interfaces across all mobile and desktop environments on a customized cloud platform, and finally...
The Modern House
Designer and creative director Walé Adeyemi MBE on the London locations that have shaped his life,...
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Old Structures...
A Survivor From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is...
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From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is given as 1763-1769 Townsend Avenue, in the Bronx, which is good because it’s not like I could ever have identified this just from the photo. The site is less isolated than the photo...
TheCollector
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The costs of microservices An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page...
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An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page Javascript application, for example - it…
diamond geezer
Greens Once their leaves come out, trees are green until the autumn. But they're never as brilliantly green...
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Once their leaves come out, trees are green until the autumn. But they're never as brilliantly green as they are in early spring when the leaves are still young. The canopy is a beautiful burst of light greens, a mix of subtle tones of jade and emerald. Here's the view from...
The Roots of...
Video: Intro to progress studies at Learning Night Boston I got invited to speak at Learning Night Boston and give an intro to progress studies: why study...
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I got invited to speak at Learning Night Boston and give an intro to progress studies: why study progress, and why do we need a new philosophy of progress? There are then a few minutes of Q&A. (It was in a bar and the audio quality is poor, sorry.)
TheCollector
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S. undefined
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Therapy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really cool thing is that those are cargo...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really cool thing is that those are cargo sandals, to match the cargo socks, cargo pants, cargo shirt. Today's News:
A Beautiful Site
New shortcut keys in Windows 7 I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects...
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I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects of window management right out of the box.  They're pretty easy to remember too: Win + Up - Maximize the current window Win + Down - Restore a maximized window, otherwise minimize...
Dan Slimmon
I was on the Slight Reliability podcast! Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident...
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Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident response, diagnosis, and looking for trouble. It was very chill! Full 28-minute episode:
Paolo Amoroso's...
A demostration of fixing a bug from Medley's debugger <![CDATA[One of the cool features of Lisp is examining and modifying a running program. This...
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<![CDATA[One of the cool features of Lisp is examining and modifying a running program. This allows, for example, to correct a bug by inspecting, editing, fixing, and resuming a program that breaks and lands in the debugger because of an error. To gain familiarity with the...
The Map is Mostly...
Designing a New Old Home: Defining Constraints Designing a New Old Home series, Table of Contents Beginnings — Why an “old” home, and how we came...
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Designing a New Old Home series, Table of Contents Beginnings — Why an “old” home, and how we came to buy land Curiosity — Advice on starting Research, Sketch, Collect — Essential research for home design Defining Constraints ← You are here The Elements
Irrational...
Trying Tailscale. Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp...
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Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp whitepaper. My foremost personal interest was grounded in the fact that Uber’s contemporaneous security implementation didn’t include a VPN, so it was interesting to see a...
Dan Slimmon
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
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When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994 On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
Old Structures...
Like Looking Down A Well Trinity Church and its yard are surrounded on all four sides by tall buildings. In 1952, when Angelo...
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Trinity Church and its yard are surrounded on all four sides by tall buildings. In 1952, when Angelo Rizzuto took this picture looking down from the roof of one of them, they were all of about 1900-1920 vintage. It’s a striking shot, but I’d guess not to everyone’s taste.
Retail Design Blog
CASETiFY Dosan flagship store by Crosby Studios There’s no denying, Seoul has the most exciting retail scene of the planet, and it has been like...
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Paul Cudenec
The global mafia and its designs on Africa Rwanda has in recent years become an important nerve-centre for the global criminocracy’s...
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Rwanda has in recent years become an important nerve-centre for the global criminocracy’s financial-imperialist designs on Africa, as I set out in an August 2023 article entitled ‘Cogs of corruption and control’.
ntietz.com blog
Decaf is good, actually We have made decaf a villain. We often malign decaf coffee and those who drink it. "No thanks, give...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We have made decaf a villain. We often malign decaf coffee and those who drink it. "No thanks, give me the good stuff." "Death before decaf." "Decaf isn't coffee." It has this reputation that it's bad and that coffee people avoid it. And yet, if you drink decaf, you're a true...
Anarchy Unfolds
Genshin Impact & the appeal of open-world games I’ve been playing a lot of Genshin Impact lately.
2 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The 11 Best Airbnbs for Stargazing
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The state of plugins on PostHog Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part...
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Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part of PostHog, as it is responsible for event…
Posts on Nikita...
EuroRust 2024 I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an...
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I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an actor system written in Rust. As I’m no longer an active contributor to elfo, it feels a bit bittersweet to finish last thing related to the project. I wish maintainers of elfo well...
Tony Finch's blog
tolower() with AVX-512 A couple of years ago I wrote about tolower() in bulk at speed using SWAR tricks. A couple of days...
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A couple of years ago I wrote about tolower() in bulk at speed using SWAR tricks. A couple of days ago I was interested by Olivier Giniaux’s article about unsafe read beyond of death, an optimization for handling small strings with SIMD instructions, for a fast hash function...
diamond geezer
Numberplate games and how to play them Numberplate games and how to play them  A 123 BCD  CNPS, in which you have to spot all the numbers...
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Numberplate games and how to play them  A 123 BCD  CNPS, in which you have to spot all the numbers from 1 to 999 in order. First you spot a 1, then a 2, all the way up to 999. It just takes a very long time to complete. I played it once and it took nearly four years, eventually...
The Marginalian
The Last Wonder: D.H. Lawrence on Death and the Best Lifelong Preparation for It "Know thyself, and that thou art mortal. But know thyself, denying that thou art mortal."
a year ago
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30-Day First Draft: Week 2.5 Report & Lessons 70,117 Words Later
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Quanta Magazine
‘Quantum Memory’ Proves Exponentially Powerful Researchers are exploring new ways that quantum computers will be able to reveal the secrets of...
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Researchers are exploring new ways that quantum computers will be able to reveal the secrets of complex quantum systems. The post ‘Quantum Memory’ Proves Exponentially Powerful first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Both Are True
graphic design is my new pation that's really how my brain spelled passion!!
7 months ago
TokyoDev
Oh, that's not your job My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese...
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My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese startup](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan). The company had a stellar development team, and in a couple of months of working there I learned more about developing software than I did in my entire computer...
Tony Finch's blog
Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch build howto main img { border: 1px solid var(--fg); width: 100%; } The Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch is a...
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main img { border: 1px solid var(--fg); width: 100%; } The Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch is a working MX-style mechanical keyboard switch, but 4x larger in every dimension. I realised at the weekend that the Big Switch should fit nicely in a simple Lego enclosure. Because an...
Epic Web Dev
Fluid Hover Cards with Tailwind CSS (tutorial)
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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…
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested...
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
David Heinemeier...
Could Apple leave Europe? Apple's responses to the Digital Market Act, its recent 1.8b euro fine in the Spotify case, and Epic...
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Apple's responses to the Digital Market Act, its recent 1.8b euro fine in the Spotify case, and Epic Sweden's plans to introduce an alternative App Store in the EU have all been laced with a surprising level of spite and obstinacy. Even when Steve Jobs was pulling power moves...
A Beautiful Site
Select all, select none, and invert selection with jQuery A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of...
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A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of checkboxes: <fieldset id="group_1"> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="0" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="1" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="2"...
The Convivial...
If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 11
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Diaries of Note
It is almost impossible to comprehend Zygmunt Klukowski was a doctor born in 1885 in Ukraine who lived much of his life in Szczebrzeszyn,...
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Zygmunt Klukowski was a doctor born in 1885 in Ukraine who lived much of his life in Szczebrzeszyn, a small town in Eastern Poland where for thirty years he held the post of superintendent at the local hospital. During World War II, he balanced his medical duties with covert work...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSC, Localfirst, and Coordination Between Multiple Computers Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which...
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Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which gives the conceptual background around how the team came up with the idea for React Server Components (RSC)[1]. I found the talk intriguing. It’s like watching someone take something...
TheCollector
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Space to create (and bonus kids' art 👩🏻‍🎨) Unexpected creative outlets beyond writing
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Aruma restaurant by RAD+ar Although not yet on the same level as Asia‘s current number one lifestyle hub Seoul, the sprawling...
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Although not yet on the same level as Asia‘s current number one lifestyle hub Seoul, the sprawling Indonesian capital Jakarta...
The Modern House
 A look inside Issue No.6 of our magazine The new issue of our print magazine has just landed in our shop – and it’s filled with stories that...
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The new issue of our print magazine has just landed in our shop – and it’s filled with stories that look at the journeys we go on with our homes, from the emotional paths they take us on, to the very real process of renovating […]