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High Signal
Making $12k from podcasts - James McKinven interview James McKinven is an entrepreneur who has succeeded in making money from podcasts - no easy feat. He...
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James McKinven is an entrepreneur who has succeeded in making money from podcasts - no easy feat. He earns money by editing podcasts for companies
Society's Backend
5 Highlights From Society's Backend in 2024 The top 5 articles and resources
a week ago
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
Old Structures...
Me And My Shadow One nice thing about fire escapes: they let you get photos from a position that is effectively...
a year ago
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a year ago
One nice thing about fire escapes: they let you get photos from a position that is effectively floating in midair a few feet away from the building.
CONTEMPORIST
This Kindergarten Design Features Vibrant Colored Glass Inside And Out SAKO Architects has sent us photos of a kindergarten they designed in Tianshui, China, that features...
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a year ago
SAKO Architects has sent us photos of a kindergarten they designed in Tianshui, China, that features a white exterior with a kaleidoscope of colors. The kindergarten, built in a small provincial town, features white exterior walls with windows in the shape of local yao-tung...
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #9: Majora Carter [EPISODE] This is the ninth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
This is the ninth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Majora Carter, an urban revitalization strategist and real estate developer from...
xkcd.com
Effect Size
a year ago
Maps Mania
The Rise & Fall of the Irish Railway
a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
How I learned to stop worrying and love the military industrial complex Whether Trump wins or loses today, Europe should tool up and prepare to fight.
2 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Will AI Make Work Redundant? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming for your job. This, at least, is increasingly conventional...
a year ago
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a year ago
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming for your job. This, at least, is increasingly conventional wisdom, but I’m not so sure. In a recent interview, Elon Musk predicted that AI would “make paid work redundant.” I encountered the same opinion watching the latest season of...
Steve Klabnik
Finale
over a year ago
ben-mini
Old School Business In a prior role, I experienced friction with my sales team’s leadership: They emphasized the needs...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In a prior role, I experienced friction with my sales team’s leadership: They emphasized the needs of the economic buyer and neglected the end-users. They withheld key performance indicators from prospects (i.e. pricing, number of customers, customer satisfaction). They demeaned...
Quanta Magazine
Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level? A new phase of matter called a “time crystal” plays with our expectations of thermodynamics. The...
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a year ago
A new phase of matter called a “time crystal” plays with our expectations of thermodynamics. The physicist Vedika Khemani talks with Steven Strogatz about its surprising quantum behavior. The post Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level? first appeared on...
Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Case-Shiller Index Up 3.6% year-over-year in October At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger...
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5 days ago
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.6% year-over-year in October Final Look at Local Housing Markets in November and a Look Ahead to December Sales Fannie and Freddie: Single...
xkcd.com
Sheet Bend
12 months ago
37signals Dev
Mission Control — Web You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s because it was developed alongside another useful tool, Mission Control — Web. Today I’m pleased to announce that we are open sourcing Mission Control — Web and you can find it on...
somethingaboutmaps
Projection Cards I had a whimsical idea a few months ago: map projection trading cards. Something nerdy and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had a whimsical idea a few months ago: map projection trading cards. Something nerdy and map-related that you could collect and exchange at conferences. I poked around at some design ideas for a while, and here’s what I’ve come up with so far. This is the front side of the...
TheCollector
The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons undefined
4 months ago
Open Culture
How Well Does Medieval Armor Actually Stand Up to Medieval Arrows?: A Historical Re-Creation Lets... The popular image of the medieval suit of armor looks formidable enough that any of us could be...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The popular image of the medieval suit of armor looks formidable enough that any of us could be forgiven for assuming that, with its steel-plated protection, we’d emerge from even the most harrowing battle without a scratch. Yet if we really found ourselves transported to, say,...
The personal website...
Deontology Deontology was the result of a surge of new energy in philosophy beginning in the 17th century....
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over a year ago
Deontology was the result of a surge of new energy in philosophy beginning in the 17th century. After the chaos and destruction of the Black Death, Europeans re-evaluated their relationship to the world around them. Scholars like René Descartes and Isaac Newton took on monumental...
Steve Klabnik
The next iteration of my blog
over a year ago
TheCollector
Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea? undefined
10 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
VC’s care about the upside case, not the mean The biggest mistake entrepreneurs make when pitching VCs is to argue that their startup is likely to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The biggest mistake entrepreneurs make when pitching VCs is to argue that their startup is likely to succeed.  Instead, they should argue…
Josh Comeau's blog
Lessons Learned Speaking at Conferences Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes look at what the experience is like, and shares tips for getting started as a conference speaker.
Bits about Money
The business of wallets How digital wallets work, and how payment costs drive a lot of product decisions inside and around...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
How digital wallets work, and how payment costs drive a lot of product decisions inside and around them.
Rest of World -...
In-home beauty service in Pakistan: the woman sweet-talking tough clients Though gig work gives respite from the grind of working in a salon, choosy clients make a...
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
The self improvement pomodoro
over a year ago
On the Arts
The Sea Has Always Looked the Same A View of the Ocean as a Connection to the Past
a year ago
Diaries of Note
When I die I shall go to May British gardener Monty Don has been educating and inspiring the British public for decades through...
a year ago
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British gardener Monty Don has been educating and inspiring the British public for decades through his love of nature, beginning in 1989 with a television debut that ultimately led to him presenting BBC’s much-loved Gardener’s World. It was shortly after he became a broadcaster...
Contemporist...
A New Home In Costa Rica Designed To Highlight Its Surroundings Architecture firm Studio Saxe, has shared photos of a new home they completed in Costa Rica, that's...
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5 months ago
Architecture firm Studio Saxe, has shared photos of a new home they completed in Costa Rica, that's designed to progressively highlight the wondrous ecological and topographical surroundings.
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog's recommended reading for startup teams The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so...
a year ago
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a year ago
The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so here’s a collection of the books our teams recommend…
xkcd.com
Sign Combo
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
open-air dining in hong kong When I wrote about open-air dining in seoul I thought nobody would care, but surprisingly I got...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
When I wrote about open-air dining in seoul I thought nobody would care, but surprisingly I got quite a bit of comments and DMs from fellow covid-cautious travellers. I would keep on...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Dew Drop Inn, Hurley I think the Dew Drop Inn must exist, because I have photographic proof I was there on Saturday...
a year ago
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a year ago
I think the Dew Drop Inn must exist, because I have photographic proof I was there on Saturday afternoon, sheltering from the wind and rain in their front bar, cozying up next to a log fire and sipping on a pint of ale. I can see the payment on my credit card statement, I can see...
NeuroLogica Blog
Is the AI Singularity Coming? Like it or not, we are living in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Recent advances in large...
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10 months ago
Like it or not, we are living in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Recent advances in large language models, like ChatGPT, have helped put advanced AI in the hands of the average person, who now has a much better sense of how powerful these AI applications can be (and...
macwright.com
Recently Well, I missed a Recently post on January 1st, so scratch any other resolutions, I’ll just live my...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Well, I missed a Recently post on January 1st, so scratch any other resolutions, I’ll just live my life. Reading In loving memory of the square checkbox is the kind of UX rant I’m there for. Interfaces that have different behaviors should look different, and familiar styles are...
Joel Gascoigne
Why I'm going to Hawaii with my co-founder * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * My co-founder...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * My co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] and I are headed to Hawaii tomorrow morning for a 10 day trip. I just emailed the team, and I thought in line with one of our core...
Maps Mania
The Self-Driving Car Simulation
a year ago
Dan Quach Blog
Vietnam Grandma and the Vietnam WarWhen I was young, friends would visit, and there was one photo on the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Grandma and the Vietnam WarWhen I was young, friends would visit, and there was one photo on the shelf that caught their attention in my room.  It was a photo of an elderly Caucasian lady and their first question to me was, “How come you didn’t take the stock photo out of the...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
It's been fifteen years. I created The Oatmeal fifteen years ago. View on my website
9 months ago
Home on Erik...
Some more font links My blog post about fonts generated lots of traffic – it landed on Hacker News, took down my site...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My blog post about fonts generated lots of traffic – it landed on Hacker News, took down my site while I was sleeping, and then obviously vanished from HN before I woke up. But it also got retweeted by a ton of people.
CONTEMPORIST
LED Lighting Illuminates Shelving Throughout This Home’s Interior Estevez + Persson, a new architecture and design studio, founded by Fernando Estevez Barroso and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Estevez + Persson, a new architecture and design studio, founded by Fernando Estevez Barroso and Daniel Persson, has debuted a residential project called Casa Bosques de Olivos in Mexico City. The exterior of the house features concrete, wood, and metal, as well as landscaped...
Joel Gascoigne
Welcoming Maria Thomas as Buffer’s Chief Product Officer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In July, we shared that we were looking for a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In July, we shared that we were looking for a product leader to help us take Buffer forward in our next phase. After speaking to an incredible group of talented folks in product, I’m happy to share that Maria
TheCollector
Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits? undefined
2 months ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How we made our pre-commit check 7x faster As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our company, I've spent the last couple of months woried about the performance of our pre-commit checks. We have around 50 projects on a standard react + typescript stack, and a...
Ian Betteridge
20241202 Ten Blue Links, the late late late show edition! Technically this is eight blue links, because I spent the weekend in Bristol and we’re getting...
a month ago
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a month ago
Technically this is eight blue links, because I spent the weekend in Bristol and we’re getting towards Christmas. Next week: five blue links and a bag of wine gums. 1. RIP ChromeOS (sort of) Odd as it sounds today, when I talk a lot about user privacy and avoiding cloud services,...
Marcus on AI
A new AI scaling law shell game? Scaling laws were supposed to be, well, laws.
a month ago
journal – Winnie Lim
the uncomfortable phase of learning I have begun strength training for the first time in october last year. I had three personal...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I have begun strength training for the first time in october last year. I had three personal training sessions before I traveled to japan, and when I got back there was a...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Builders and extractors Tim O’Reilly poses a question every entrepreneur and investor should consider: are you creating more...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tim O’Reilly poses a question every entrepreneur and investor should consider: are you creating more value for others than you capture for…
bunnie's blog
Bypassing Windows 11 Account Setup I had the misfortune of setting up a Windows 11 machine and being confronted with creating a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had the misfortune of setting up a Windows 11 machine and being confronted with creating a mandatory Microsoft account. I can’t concisely explain why being forced to create an account bothers me so much, but generally when a vendor tries this hard to get you to do something,...
Archinect - Features
'Instead of Living in Fear of AI, Designers Should Engage With It'; A Conversation with... Amanda Talbot did not come from a technological background. Her career path through architecture,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Amanda Talbot did not come from a technological background. Her career path through architecture, interiors, journalism, and fashion nonetheless instilled in her a commitment to heart-centric design, which she believes is crucial to conversations on the relationship between...
Maps Mania
The Coldest Day of the Year
3 weeks ago
Old Structures...
Smooth Still in Montreal, the roof of a now enclosed, formerly (I think) open areaway in front of a high...
a month ago
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Still in Montreal, the roof of a now enclosed, formerly (I think) open areaway in front of a high rise: In case that’s difficult to make out, it’s a glass slab roof supported on laminated glass beams. The hand belongs to Will Teron, who was standing on the same stair landing I...
Explorations of an...
El Valle Encantado (The Enchanted Valley), And A Bump In The Road January 19, 2023 It is not always easy to find trails worth exploring in the Andes, and the reason...
a year ago
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January 19, 2023 It is not always easy to find trails worth exploring in the Andes, and the reason for this is simple. The extreme topographical changes in the mountains, combined with frequent rainfall and thick vegetation do not lend themselves to the construction and regular...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Family Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The Queen frowns upon vacation days. Today's News:
a year ago
The Works in...
The duplication crisis: the other replication crisis How bad publishing incentives hinder long-term thinking in computational biology research
3 months ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: But Unfamiliar The Black Widow thinks deep thoughts while standing on a rooftop: To be clear about what we’re...
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3 months ago
The Black Widow thinks deep thoughts while standing on a rooftop: To be clear about what we’re seeing, A is the Empire State Building, B is the Chrysler Building, C is Silver Towers at Lafayette Place and Bleecker Street, and D is the Widow: So we’re looking north from SoHo. The...
Diaries of Note
You have to see it On 6th December 1912, at the ancient site of Tell el-Amarna in Egypt, a team led by German...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 6th December 1912, at the ancient site of Tell el-Amarna in Egypt, a team led by German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt made a remarkable discovery: they uncovered a workshop once belonging to Thutmose—more formally known as ‘The King’s Favorite and Master of Works, the Sculptor...
diamond geezer
The disappearing Status updates map The introduction of six Overground line names continues to have unfortunate repercussions. Status...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
The introduction of six Overground line names continues to have unfortunate repercussions. Status updates page on the TfL website where for the last ten years you've been able to see a map of disruptions to the network. The map was removed three weeks ago when the big...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Outperforming everything with anything It's about 100 lines of Python code that generate a linear solver in LLVM intermediate language...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's about 100 lines of Python code that generate a linear solver in LLVM intermediate language outperforming C and C++ solutions. Originally published in mid 2018, now completetly rewritten.
Old Structures...
Embracing office-to-residential conversion in the ‘City of Yes’ A timely ‘Yes’ to converting older buildings is set to further fuel Manhattan’s current...
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2 weeks ago
A timely ‘Yes’ to converting older buildings is set to further fuel Manhattan’s current office-to-residential boom. New York City Council recently passed Mayor Adams’ ‘City of Yes’ proposal to create over 80,000 new housing units across the city over 15 years. Among the historic...
Willem's Blog
Designing and implementing a (micro) payment system Designing and implementing a micro payment system with an emphasis on simplicity. Read about how I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Designing and implementing a micro payment system with an emphasis on simplicity. Read about how I did it in this post.
samwho.dev
Dude, where's my main?
over a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review ‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review JamesHoare Tue, 01/30/2024 -...
11 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Hotel Review: Sofitel Legend Casco Viejo in Panama City
a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Mr. UFOs Go to Washington On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said...
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On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said is already public knowledge, but it allowed witnesses to testify under oath, get information into the congressional record, and publicize the issue. The highlights: High-level...
Marcus on AI
Which CEO will be the last to see it? What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped...
a month ago
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a month ago
What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.
Willem's Blog
Business in a bag After much testing I have selected a bag and set of cases to fit my entire business, wherever I go.
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After much testing I have selected a bag and set of cases to fit my entire business, wherever I go.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some thoughts on SEO “SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via organic search traffic.”  I don’t like…
Vitalik Buterin's...
Multidimensional gas pricing
8 months ago
Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works #1: Data Auctions The data auction system explained
10 months ago
The Marginalian
An Illustrated Field Guide to the Science and Wonder of the Clouds Clouds drift ephemeral across the dome of this world, carrying eternity — condensing molecules that...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Clouds drift ephemeral across the dome of this world, carrying eternity — condensing molecules that animated the first breath of life, coursing with electric charges that will power the last thought. To me, a cloud will always be a spell against indifference — a little bloom of...
Retail Design Blog
Dover Street Market Although Paris was initially considered too bourgeois as a location for Rei Kawakubo‘s brilliantly...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Although Paris was initially considered too bourgeois as a location for Rei Kawakubo‘s brilliantly forward Dover Street Market store concept,...
Confessions of a...
Disillusioning the Magic of the fork System Call How the kernels implement the fork system call
a month ago
blag
Installing Transmission (remote and CLI) client on Raspberry Pi This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Carpenters Road Carpenters Road has reopened again. It has a habit of doing this. 2007 so its rundown automotive...
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7 months ago
Carpenters Road has reopened again. It has a habit of doing this. 2007 so its rundown automotive industries could be snuffed out in readiness for the Olympics. It took until 2014 to reopen, freshly sanitised, as a link road round the back of the Olympic Park. It then closed...
Val Sopi
Work less <p>A friend recently boasted how they're working 15 hour days. To which I replied with a concerning...
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over a year ago
<p>A friend recently boasted how they're working 15 hour days. To which I replied with a concerning "Why?" and was met with a distant look.</p> <p>My friend thought I'd metaphorically pat him on the back.</p> <p>I didn't. No surprise there.</p> <p>Supposedly the industry he's in...
Mark Manson
Pain Is Part of the Process https://youtu.be/c3uoyCNIa5c You've probably never heard of Kazimierz Dąbrowski. He was a...
a year ago
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https://youtu.be/c3uoyCNIa5c You've probably never heard of Kazimierz Dąbrowski. He was a psychologist from the 1940s with a fascinating background. He studied with Freud's contemporaries in Vienna, worked with mentally ill patients, participated in the Polish resistance during...
AVC
What Does “Native” Mean When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology....
a year ago
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a year ago
When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology. What is a “native” AI application? What is a “native” Web3 application? I have not seen a better articulation of “native” than my partner Albert’s post from 2009 on native mobile...
Louwrentius
Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html;... I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source software. Now I know that it is very easy, unless you are stubborn and do things your own way. In this example, I'm setting up a small IM server that is only for internal company use, but...
The Marginalian
Into the Blue Beyond: William Beebe’s Dazzling Account of Becoming the First Human Being to See the... "It was stranger than any imagination could have conceived... an indefinable translucent blue quite...
a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Boiling Your Kermit Drop a frog in boiling water and it jumps out in shock. Place him in room-temperature water and he...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Drop a frog in boiling water and it jumps out in shock. Place him in room-temperature water and he won’t mind if you slowly crank up the heat. He’ll look you square in the eye, absorbing the heat until it all goes black. Sorry, Kermit.
the singularity is...
The Soul ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you...
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a month ago
ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you wish there was a deep state that came for me. then at least there would be some adults in the room. I used to fantasize about being or kissing Skrillex the whole album is bangers...
TheCollector
Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Capital Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The complex derivative guys are given AAA ratings...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The complex derivative guys are given AAA ratings then surprised that they still sink. Today's News:
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.15.0 Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has the largest changelog to date, with 175 PRs merged…
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Incumbents die due to irrelevance or ineptitude Judging from the tech press, you’d think the biggest risk to successful companies is competition....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Judging from the tech press, you’d think the biggest risk to successful companies is competition. But when you examine the history of…
Anecdotal Evidence
'We Are All Potential Recruits for Anarchy' It’s an honor to be published in The New Criterion, a journal I started reading in 1986, four years...
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7 months ago
It’s an honor to be published in The New Criterion, a journal I started reading in 1986, four years after it was founded by the late Hilton Kramer and Samuel Lipman. To share pages in the June issue with Gary Saul Morson, Victor Davis Hanson and other gifted writers is...
Left To Write
№ 67: The Last Generation of Chinese Takeaway Kids Growing up in a takeaway - Growth is always painful - Struggle is what makes us human
a year ago
Mazdak
Understanding the Stock Market Cycle The stock market cycle is a crucial concept for investors aiming to navigate the financial markets...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The stock market cycle is a crucial concept for investors aiming to navigate the financial markets effectively. It represents the period from a market low to a peak and back again. Understanding the dynamics behind these cycles can help investors maintain their strategies during...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023 Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
Good Enough
Fixing Things In 2009 I started doing something called "business travel." I bought a piece of dependable luggage:...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 2009 I started doing something called "business travel." I bought a piece of dependable luggage: the Travelpro WalkAbout Lite 2 22" Rollaboard Suiter. The reality was that this wasn't proper business travel. First, it'd only be two or three round-trip flights a year. Second,...
ribbonfarm
Sons of the Soil, Migrants, and Civil War, We read an interesting paper today (ht Sachin Benny with an assist from ChatGPT) in the Yak...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We read an interesting paper today (ht Sachin Benny with an assist from ChatGPT) in the Yak Collective weekly governance study group (Fridays at 9 AM Pacific). Sons of the Soil, Migrants, and Civil War, by James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin (World Development, V 39, No. 2,...
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world. the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
8 months ago
Asterisk
When Was the Last Time We Built a New City? California Forever wants to build a new city in Solano county. On paper, it would be an affordable,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
California Forever wants to build a new city in Solano county. On paper, it would be an affordable, high-density urbanist wonderland — but can they actually pull it off?
TheCollector
Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit undefined
a month ago
Matt Blewitt
What Is a Senior Engineer, Anyway? I’ve been having a bunch of conversations with my team about our career ladder, and what it means to...
a month ago
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a month ago
I’ve been having a bunch of conversations with my team about our career ladder, and what it means to be “senior” in a software engineering context. It’s a little different in every company, but here is my view.
History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death j.hoare Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
11 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator” In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do we come up with all of the parameters, though? I've built a tool that'll help.
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In our work to make things better, it’s easy to overlook two things: The best way to make things better is to begin. Create the conditions for others to join you. Persist.
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If you're an annoying know-it-all like me, I suggest that you try playing the following game when you attend a conference or a user group meetup or even a work meeting. The game is: If someone asks you a question, and you say “I don't know”, you score a point. That's it. ...
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This disturbing Halloween doll was brought to life with Bottango Halloween is popular for a lot of reasons and it is safe to say that “creative expression” is near...
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“Love is a bet, a wild one, placed on freedom. Not my own; the freedom of the Other… A knot made of two intertwined freedoms.” We love to forget ourselves, but also to remember what we are: mortal creatures lustful of meaning, radiant with life, eternally alone and eternally...
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I know we are supposed to be worried about the world supply of fresh water. I have been hearing that at least for the last 40 years, and the statistics are alarming. According to the Global Commission on the Economics of Water: “We are seeing the consequences not of freak events,...
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About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
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On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which will force tech giants (predominantly Meta and Google) to pay news organizations in Canada for content that is shared on these platforms. The foundational premise of the law is...
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Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America is one of the most celebrated books on the subject. Unfortunately, carelessness about the ways we measure poverty undercuts its main argument.
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I don't blog that much about savory food: savory food for me is even more technique-based than recipe-based, so I find it limiting to discuss one dish because it's a particular combination of techniques on a very particular set of ingredients. But I really enjoyed this particular...
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For Open House this weekend I visited twelve different and varied properties, ranging from underwhelm to amazeballs. I'll save the wow until later but here are brief reports on the others, hopefully as testament that exploring otherwise inaccessible spaces is an opportunity not...
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I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I was drawn to the license plates on passing cars, and how they look different to the cars I’m used to. Whenever I visit new places, I enjoy looking for the tiny bits of infrastructure...
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Experiencing failure can be a difficult and draining experience. It can leave us feeling defeated, discouraged, and unsure of ourselves. However, it is important to remember that failure is a natural part of life and can be an opportunity for growth and learning. In this article,...
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This image of the surface of Mars was released last Spring as part of the Atlas of Mars. Images were compiled from the Emirates Mars Mission "Hope", an approximately two year mission in that began orbiting the planet in 2021. via New York Times  Some remarkably detailed...
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I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some of my highlighted excerpts and notes. It’s always hard reading a book like this because I highlight so much and have so many thoughts that I could spend hours and hours rehashing...
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Theoretical astrophysicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein recently unveiled the Cite Black Women+ in Physics and Astronomy Bibliography.
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Answering questions from one of the most popular posts of last year, I am reviewing my commuter bike after one year of extensive use through winter and summer.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
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SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from attaining advanced semiconductors. And now it looks like the bans will be expanded to quantum computing and AI as well. NYTIMES | MY ANALYSIS BELOW It appears Bytedance had a plan to...
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This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts: In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and...
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Here’s yet another big post on money and income and saving and reading. I tried to write everything on my mind in one massive letter, so I could write a really detailed answer once, rather than a less-useful but less-thoughtful email that I can never reuse. Hey there, I’m...
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In recent years, the uncontrolled reentries of the spent 22-metric ton core stages of China’s new Long March 5B heavy lift launch vehicle, used to orbit […]
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When it comes to vodka packaging, it’s important to highlight the product’s features and how best to enjoy it—like keeping...
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We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1 – We started bootstrapping, then changed our minds…
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When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure out how to use Hashicorp's Raft implementation. There weren't any examples I could find in the Hashicorp repo itself. And the only example I could find was Philip O'Toole's hraftd. It's...
diamond geezer
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After I boarded my train home from Surrey on Sunday I noticed that a beetle had hitched a ride on my rucksack. It could have jumped from a bush I'd brushed against, it could have worked its way up from my boots or it could have crawled on when I put my rucksack down on the...
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By watching “minimal” cells regain the fitness they lost, researchers are testing whether a genome can be too simple to evolve. The post Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Google Gemini Debacle Shows Us Why Office Politics Matters More Than Ever On the Real Alignment Problem
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 6 Highlights TinyPilot had another record-breaking month, with $15k in revenue. I sold $1.1k in...
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I just started drawing and painting again last week after stopping for a couple of months. Since then I’ve been trying to do it more regularly, hoping to incorporate it as a...
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Notes on The Psychology of Money A review and reflection of Morgan Housel's bestselling collection of essays on personal/behavioral...
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Disclaimer: I am a contractor at the CDC not an employee. These opinions and thoughts are entirely my own. Early in my career, I did…
A Smart Bear
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These forces make larger companies slower and more difficult to execute, but also more effective when harnessed and leveraged.
Mind Mine
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NOTE: The following was written for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Street Design, The Secret To Great Cities and Towns, where it will appear in a shorter version. This version still needs a little editing for its new context. Part … Continue reading → The post A Short...
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Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It's no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS[^0] systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can get you pretty damn close. As the second richest man alive,  Elon Musk should be rolling electric coal down Rodeo Drive in a cybertruck, smugly aware of the fact that, despite what the haters say, he's kind of
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We made a zine! The first issue was released in August, and I finished the second issue just last week. Right now, a hundred copies are on their way from the printer to me (update: they've just arrived!). Today I'd like to share the story of how this zine came about. (Sorry for...
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How (and why) to track your website with PostHog PostHog may have been built for product analytics, but that doesn’t mean you can only deploy it on...
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PostHog may have been built for product analytics, but that doesn’t mean you can only deploy it on your core product — you can also use it to gather…
Map of the Week
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Before the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps encouraged segregation (documented extensively including on this blog), there was this 1934 map by property analyst J. M. Brewer. It showed real estate conditions in Philadelphia with a wary eye towards immigrants,...
Applied Cartography
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I was late to the VS Code zeitgeist, and as penitence I try to go out of my way to try new editors whenever I see them — which is why this morning I installed Zed, which makes its bones on performance (yay!) and teams functionality (irrelevant for my use cases, but seems...
Stoic Simple
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bt RSS Feed
They Won't Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites They Won’t Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites 2019-06-25 Your website is probably slow. I’m not...
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They Won’t Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites 2019-06-25 Your website is probably slow. I’m not trying to make you feel bad or dismiss all the hard work you’ve put into your project. Heck, performance might have been a core value of the design. But websites can always be...
Cheese and Biscuits
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40 Maltby Street sits alongside places like Quality Chop House and the French House in that special category of restaurants used as a kind of shorthand amongst food-obsessed types in order to prove they know what they're talking about. Like Quality Chop House and the French...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Treats from git's contrib tools🍭 .title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here,...
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.title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones Junio C Hamano, git/contrib/README Git bundles handy tools along with its source repo. They live in a directory named contrib—short for contributed...
Rest of World -...
Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are running Temu shipping centers out of their homes To speed up delivery and dodge a crackdown on shipments from China, e-commerce companies are turning...
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Noahpinion
Putin is a rest stop on the road of post-Soviet collapse The narrative of Russian revitalization is more hype than reality.
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There is no American Ambani A tale of two tech industries.
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Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
The Honest Broker
Where Do Music Genres Come From? A new section from my online book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
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Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Anyone know if there's a case of partial application of law of the sea? Today's News: Come see me! BAHFest London, this Saturday, one night only.
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Handling Enzyme in React 18 React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing...
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React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing implementation details to more user-centric unit tests. However, many projects still contain lots of Enzyme tests from the early days, making migration difficult and time-consuming. At my...
Londonist
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Spoon & Tamago
Elongated Engawa Defines this Community Welfare Center in Chiba As Japan’s population continues to grow older—one in 10 residents are aged 80 or above—care for the...
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As Japan’s population continues to grow older—one in 10 residents are aged 80 or above—care for the elderly becomes an increasingly important issue. And while elderly populations are typically seen as a burden, there are places around rural Japan that offer glimpses of a more...
Aaron's Essays
Goodbye YC I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t...
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over a year ago
I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t many people around. PG and Jessica were still running things. We had offices in Mountain View, Palo Alto, and on Kearny street, but they were nearly always empty. The only meeting...
Alex Meub
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
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Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites. AWS Certficate Manager I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
Common Edge
The Architecture of “Thin Places” and How to Design Them Places that are “thin” offer experiences outside of the everyday.
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The Best Places to Eat and Drink in Myrtle Beach, SC
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema? undefined
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Blog - Practical...
Why Construction Projects Always Go Over Budget [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Boston, Massachusetts is one...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Boston, Massachusetts is one of the oldest cities in America, founded in 1630, more than a few years before the advent of modern motor vehicles. In the 1980s, traffic in downtown Boston was nearly unbearable...
The Modern House
Food system researchers Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual on their explorative approach to a...
a year ago
Making software...
CSS Variables CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
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CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I'd like to focus specifically on the "new" CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now. Getting started is easy Let's just jump...
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Using Multiple CSS Background Images Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn't something developers have a need to do very...
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Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn't something developers have a need to do very often, but you can set multiple background images on a single element. Example: .element { background: url('image_path') center repeat, linear-gradient(transparent 0%, #000...
Londonist
The London Of Doctor Who, Mapped All the key locations from Hartnell onwards.
a year ago
TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language undefined
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Jibran’s Perspective
Project 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate Links: Gumroad page Build Log My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that...
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Links: Gumroad page Build Log My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that has plagued me for my entire adult life; failure to commit and focus. I decided to work in 6 week “sprints” (inspired by Shape Up) and complete the projects I start - for some known...
Tech and Tea
Ask vs guess culture When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the...
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When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.
Noahpinion
Decoupling isn't phoney The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself, and it's mostly not Biden's doing.
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Fintech and Practical Utopianism
over a year ago
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I’m keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site. I recently added a fairly...
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Try React Suspense In 5 Minutes ---
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Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
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a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
TheCollector
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pig Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel there's a culinary horseshoe graph where...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel there's a culinary horseshoe graph where only the highest and lowest quality restaurants will serve you macerated chicken kidneys or whatever. Today's News:
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The problem with online “local” businesses One of the most popular areas for startups today is “local.”  I probably see a couple of business...
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over a year ago
One of the most popular areas for startups today is “local.”  I probably see a couple of business plans a week that involve local search…
The Pragmatic...
Github Copilot and ChatGPT alternatives There are a growing number of AI coding tools that are alternatives to Copilot. A list of other...
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There are a growing number of AI coding tools that are alternatives to Copilot. A list of other popular, promising options.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clear Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Based on a conversation I had with two different...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Based on a conversation I had with two different astronomers recently, in which I was informed Jupiter is unable to clear its orbit. They weren't willing to say Jupiter is a dwarf planet but *I* am. Today's News:
Liz Denys
A better grumpy fuzzball cake: just one of the many reasons I love buttercream more than fondant Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted...
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over a year ago
Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted primarily with rolled fondant, a dough-like frosting that is made with gelatin, food-grade glycerine, and the usual frosting suspects. But I don't love the taste or texture of fondant....
The Tao Of Wealth
A Prayer For The New Year God, grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I...
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over a year ago
God, grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I can,and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time,enjoying one moment at a time;accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;taking, as Your Divine Incarnations...
Irrational...
Video of Developing Eng Leadership Styles. The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering...
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The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering leadership styles. It’s an interesting chapter to me peronally, precisely because it’s not something I would have agreed with or written five years ago. This past Friday I gave a...
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I don't know how to build software and you don't either Are microservices better than monoliths? Should teams set their own technical direction, or is it...
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Are microservices better than monoliths? Should teams set their own technical direction, or is it better to have that dictated by some…
Common Edge
Why So Many Banal Boxes? Because Architecture Reflects the Ethos of Its Time The 5-over-1 is a perfect embodiment of our increasingly selfish and self-isolated existence.
7 months ago
Odds and Ends of...
WATCH: Were the US election polls right? My conversation with polling guru Mark Pack
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Passing Time
How to improve traffic efficiency and save time Why merging early when there is a lane closure makes YOU the asshole
over a year ago
The American Scholar
Bastienne Schmidt The fabric of life The post Bastienne Schmidt appeared first on The American Scholar.
8 months ago
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The 9 best GDPR-compliant analytics tools The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) places significant restrictions on how you can use...
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The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) places significant restrictions on how you can use tools like Google Analytics to track and collect user…
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: iPhone 📱 This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
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This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s iPhone report card here. iPhone 16 Pro I really, really liked the 15 Pro lineup, and I would
Cheese and Biscuits
Kolae, Borough Market Everywhere you look the cost of living crisis bites, and few areas is that more evident than the...
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Everywhere you look the cost of living crisis bites, and few areas is that more evident than the restaurant industry. If you're a regular anywhere you will have noticed your favourite dishes and tipples creeping up 10%-20% every few months, seemingly in an existential race with...
Steve Blank
The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you watch...
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This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context. See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading. Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II...
Seth's Blog
Digital stocking stuffers (and the other kind) Ever since O. Henry wrote about the Magi, it’s been pretty clear that gifts aren’t about the stuff...
a year ago
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a year ago
Ever since O. Henry wrote about the Magi, it’s been pretty clear that gifts aren’t about the stuff as much as they are the intent. Holidays where gifts are expected undermine this, because it’s hard to tell where obligation begins and intent fades away. One lightweight and quick...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Is now a good time to start a company? Back in 2006, my co-founder at Hunch, Caterina Fake, wrote a blog post called “It’s a bad time to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Back in 2006, my co-founder at Hunch, Caterina Fake, wrote a blog post called “It’s a bad time to start a company.”  There were no doubt…
nanoscale views
Lots to read, including fab for quantum and "Immaterial Science" Sometimes there are upticks in the rate of fun reading material.  In the last few days: A...
3 months ago
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Sometimes there are upticks in the rate of fun reading material.  In the last few days: A Nature paper has been published by a group of authors predominantly from IMEC in Belgium, in which they demonstrate CMOS-compatible manufacturing of superconducting qubit hardware...
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If Verizon’s Droid is good, that’s bad for the wireless ecosystem I carry around an iPhone and a Blackberry Tour.  I know that’s ridiculous. The iPhone is a great...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I carry around an iPhone and a Blackberry Tour.  I know that’s ridiculous. The iPhone is a great device on an awful network; the Tour is an…
99% Invisible
Toyetic [EPISODE] This year marks the 40th anniversary of a lot of landmarks in pop culture, especially sci-fi and...
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This year marks the 40th anniversary of a lot of landmarks in pop culture, especially sci-fi and fantasy. So many franchises were born in 1984. Some came to define the genre or invent new genres. The great podcast Imaginary Worlds noticed this and produced a three-part series...
Londonist
TfL Launches A New Podcast Hosted By Tim Dunn Guests include Tube Mapper and, er, Rylan.
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Netscape support ending in February 2008 On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web...
over a year ago
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On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web browsers effective February 1, 2008. This doesn't come as much of a surprise, considering the significant decline in Netscape's marketshare over the past decade to more competative...
Paul Graham: Essays
Six Principles for Making New Things
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Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’ The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place  “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero undefined
8 months ago
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 12 Highlights I added 88 new programmatically-generated articles to Is It Keto. With 100k monthly...
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Highlights I added 88 new programmatically-generated articles to Is It Keto. With 100k monthly pageviews, it’s time to explore new ways of working with Is It Keto’s audience. I created a KVM over IP device that requires <$100 in hardware. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
CONTEMPORIST
Large Travertine Slabs Were Used To Update This Home’s Design Architecture firm SWATT + PARTNERS has shared photos of the Kojima House, a home that has been...
8 months ago
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Architecture firm SWATT + PARTNERS has shared photos of the Kojima House, a home that has been updated with an additional and a remodel. Located in Kentfield, California, the home boasts unobstructed views of San Francisco Bay, Kent-Woodlands Valley, and surrounding mountains....
Simply Explained
Tracking gas usage with ESPHome, Home Assistant, and TCRT5000 In 2019, I built an energy monitor to keep track of our electricity consumption. Then, in 2021, Home...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 2019, I built an energy monitor to keep track of our electricity consumption. Then, in 2021, Home Assistant added an Energy Management feature that keeps track of electricity and gas usage. So naturally, I had to make my gas meter smart as well.
computers are bad
2024-05-25 grc spinrite I feel like I used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with suspect hard drives. I mean,...
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I feel like I used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with suspect hard drives. I mean, like, back in high school. These days I almost never do, or on the occasion that I have storage trouble, it's a drive that has completely stopped responding at all and there's...
TheCollector
What Was Négritude? undefined
4 months ago
AI Snake Oil
AI safety is not a model property Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be...
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Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be used for bad things
Jonas Hietala
Life and Shields Time is running out! At least the more technical parts are mostly done. The ships have an acceptable...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Time is running out! At least the more technical parts are mostly done. The ships have an acceptable AI, they have rechargeable shields and they can now even be killed. Currently the game is far too easy, but it’s starting to look a little cooler at least.
Jonas Hietala
FTL got a new victim Faster than Light the great game I lost a ton of time on, has found a new victim. It’s not someone...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Faster than Light the great game I lost a ton of time on, has found a new victim. It’s not someone you’d expect, it’s even someone who said: “What a bad game” when she saw me playing it. But nevertheless this Saturday she played it more than 2.5 hours! I told Veronica I wanted...
The Works in...
To change a norm How the war on drunk driving was won
6 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.37.0: Cohorts 2.0 and event & property detail pages PostHog 1.37.0 introduces advanced filtering for cohorts, improved events and property pages,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog 1.37.0 introduces advanced filtering for cohorts, improved events and property pages, dancing hedgehogs and much, much more.
A Beautiful Site
Custom Event Names and the Bubbling Problem The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users who get confused when events of the same name are emitted from different components. Take <sl-details>, <sl-dialog>, and <sl-dropdown>, for example. They all emit sl-show and...
A Weekly Dose of...
On Guidebooks A portion of the paperback wrapper of A Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C., published by...
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A portion of the paperback wrapper of A Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C., published by the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1965.  Are guidebooks still a valid and useful subgenre of architecture books? Do architects...
julian.digital
Review of my 2020 Goals I set myself 24 goals for this year and completed 9 of them (38%), which is a significantly lower...
over a year ago
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I set myself 24 goals for this year and completed 9 of them (38%), which is a significantly lower success rate compared to my 2019 and 2018 lists (60% and 56%, respectively). Publish 52 blog posts ❌ This was my number one goal for this year and even though I ended up publishing...
Noahpinion
We’re entering a golden age of engineering biology A guest post by Joshua March and Kasia Gora
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay? Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
8 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
Dynomight internet survey Hello, clever charming good-looking people. I am in need of a richer understanding of: you the...
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8 months ago
Hello, clever charming good-looking people. I am in need of a richer understanding of: you the nature of reality consciousness ethics dynomight internet website and have therefore created a survey, which you can take here. (You don’t need to create an account or give your email...
TheCollector
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a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Mental Health And The Weird Fixation With Employers | Out-Of-Pocket an uncomfortable conversation about mental health access
a year ago
The Modern House
Skye’s the limit at this home in a serene settlement in the Scottish Highlands
a year ago
Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation… A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
5 months ago
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out...
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Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out in a cultural clash between different…
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Uncertainty: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/3GTYvkPMEh8 it's a fact: the future is always uncertain, no matter...
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/3GTYvkPMEh8 it's a fact: the future is always uncertain, no matter how much we try to plan for it or predict it. And that uncertainty can easily upset people, because it's always a possibility that the future won't go as we want it to. For...
Diaries of Note
I hear some funny noise Born in Alaska in 1898, Ada Blackjack was an Iñupiaq woman who found fame in the 1920s after...
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Born in Alaska in 1898, Ada Blackjack was an Iñupiaq woman who found fame in the 1920s after surviving a doomed two-year expedition to Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean. Hired as a seamstress and cook, Ada, who had no survival skills to speak of, was the sole female in a...
Charles Chen
Programmatically Invoke Cloud Run Jobs with Runtime Overrides Love Google Cloud Run but need to be able to programmatically invoke long running jobs?
a year ago
The Convivial...
Impoverished Emotional Lives Is this anything?
over a year ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Logo design and brand identity for charging network service Logo design and brand identity for charging network service abduzeedo0424—23 ...
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Logo design and brand identity for charging network service abduzeedo0424—23 Logo design and brand identity are crucial elements in creating a company's visual identity. They help to communicate the company's values, mission, and personality to...
Applied Cartography
Au revoir, Invoke It's not quite interesting or noteworthy enough to warrant a full-on essay, but yesterday we...
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7 months ago
It's not quite interesting or noteworthy enough to warrant a full-on essay, but yesterday we unshipped the last remaining Invoke commands and ported them over to just. I think Invoke is a good, cool project, and I wish it well. If you're at the precise intersection of "you have...
Diaries of Note
This tedious battle against the mountain is almost over At 3:15 pm on 22nd May 1963, Luther ‘Lute’ Jerstad and his teammate Barry Bishop became the second...
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At 3:15 pm on 22nd May 1963, Luther ‘Lute’ Jerstad and his teammate Barry Bishop became the second and third Americans ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest, following an arduous journey that began alongside a formidable team of 17 other Americans, 32 Sherpas, and 909 porters...
A Smart Bear
What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by...
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A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by violently exceeding them, all of the time. It's worth it.
Willem's Blog
The value of notifications It's easy to dismiss your phone's notifications as something that disturbs you, but if you take the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's easy to dismiss your phone's notifications as something that disturbs you, but if you take the time to set them up correctly, notifications can actually save you time!
Notes on software...
An intuition for distributed consensus in OLTP systems Distributed consensus in transactional databases (e.g. etcd or Cockroach) is a big deal these days....
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Distributed consensus in transactional databases (e.g. etcd or Cockroach) is a big deal these days. Most often under the hood are variations of log-based Paxos-like algorithms such as MultiPaxos, Viewstamped Replication, or Raft. While there are new variations that come out each...
AI Snake Oil
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem. Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
3 weeks ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Where I Went and Cannot Come Again' A brief return to the Russian word toska mentioned in Thursday’s post by Gary Saul Morson in...
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A brief return to the Russian word toska mentioned in Thursday’s post by Gary Saul Morson in reference to Chekhov. Dave Lull alerted me to Nabokov’s explication of the word in his translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. In the second of the four volumes, Nabokov writes:  “No...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Push Notifications Are Organizational Marshmallows It’s a notifications’ world, we’re just living in it. Companies can’t help but try and get your...
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It’s a notifications’ world, we’re just living in it. Companies can’t help but try and get your attention via email, text, or push notifications and drive you to their app. Push notifications in particular are a powerful tool — and where there’s power, there’s abuse. I’m sure...
alexwlchan
CSS formatting in the console I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service)...
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I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service) and I was mildly surprised by what I saw in the developer tools console: Code that runs in the dev console can be very powerful, so I can understand why they want to...
Home on Erik...
Where do locals go in NYC? One obvious thing to anyone living in NYC is how tourists cluster in certain areas. I was curious...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One obvious thing to anyone living in NYC is how tourists cluster in certain areas. I was curious about the larger patterns around this, so I spent some time looking at data. The thing I wanted to understand is: what areas are dominated by tourists?
A Smart Bear
Stop saying "fail" Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations...
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Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations and to suggest the next step.
diamond geezer
The centre of London The centre of London is generally taken to be the statue of Charles I on the south side of Trafalgar...
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The centre of London is generally taken to be the statue of Charles I on the south side of Trafalgar Square. It sits on the site of the original Charing Cross and is also the point from which mileages are measured, as a plaque at its foot attests. 1) The centroid centroid is...
Steve Klabnik
I got hit by a car today
over a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
The 2024 Toyama Kei-Truck Gardening Contest The 2024 Kei-Truck Gardening Contest took place over the weekend. In what is perhaps the...
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The 2024 Kei-Truck Gardening Contest took place over the weekend. In what is perhaps the most-Japanese contest, professional gardeners and landscapers compete to create a beautiful, seasonal, and unique landscape , all within the bed of their kei-trucks. This contest originated...
TheCollector
What Is Appropriation in Art? undefined
a year ago
Steve Blank
The Venture Mindset – Worth A Read Ilya Strebulaev at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Director of the Stanford Venture...
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Ilya Strebulaev at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Director of the Stanford Venture Capital Initiative just came out with a book that should be on your reading list – The Venture Mindset. The books premise is that Venture Capitalists (who were responsible for the...
Diaries of Note
I never saw daffodils so beautiful Born in the English county of Cumberland on Christmas Day, 1771, Dorothy Wordsworth was an author,...
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Born in the English county of Cumberland on Christmas Day, 1771, Dorothy Wordsworth was an author, poet, and diarist arguably best known as the sister to Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Close throughout their lives, it was on 15th April, 1802, shortly after taking a walk with...
Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967) Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space. This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space. This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 1-7 January 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago