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High Signal
500,000 users per month after quitting his developer job Today's interview is with Ruurtjan, a Dutch founder whose two sites get 500,000 users a month....
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a year ago
Today's interview is with Ruurtjan, a Dutch founder whose two sites get 500,000 users a month. Ruurtjan quit his job to go all in on his business
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Deno De-emphasizes HTTP Imports I’ve been a long-time fan of Deno and their ethos of following the web platform. But I’m not sure...
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4 months ago
I’ve been a long-time fan of Deno and their ethos of following the web platform. But I’m not sure how I feel about their latest admission which makes their dependency story more like npm and less like the web. Designing Deno’s module system around HTTP imports was ambitious. It...
Unfiltered by Tim...
If You’re Poor, the Solution Isn’t to Save Money. It’s to Make More Money. “A lot of poor people stay poor because they’re too cheap to get rich”
4 days ago
Londonist
The Cosmic House: A Surreal Mansion You Can Visit In Kensington Warning: article could lead to serious house envy.
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Why You Should Prefix Custom Events Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event...
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Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event must also contain a dash. This removes all ambiguity between native events and custom events. Therefore, I prefix all custom events in Shoelace with sl-. It may seem contradictory...
Old Structures...
Between Demolition and Redevelopment Angelo Rizzuto, in 1959, was going for the same feeling as Berenice Abbott in her Changing New York...
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7 months ago
Angelo Rizzuto, in 1959, was going for the same feeling as Berenice Abbott in her Changing New York photos twenty years earlier: contrast the new and the old. In this case we’ve got three eras represented: the mid- to late-1800s in the rowhouses and tenements along Third Avenue,...
Blog posts of...
Sh*t! Twitter is exciting - again! Every epoch in the history of humanity had a raw resource that became the key to commercial success...
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over a year ago
Every epoch in the history of humanity had a raw resource that became the key to commercial success that time. Similar to companie...
diamond geezer
Rooms Through TIme The Museum of the Home in Hoxton has evolved again. It used to be the Geffrye Museum, a linear...
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The Museum of the Home in Hoxton has evolved again. It used to be the Geffrye Museum, a linear celebration of historic middle-class interiors. In 1998 it extended beyond the almshouses into a loopy extension with cafe and gift shop. In 2021 they added a thematic basement, shifted...
Nela Dunato Art &...
Free Mixed Media Art Supplies Compatibility Chart Behold: the most detailed free art mediums compatibility reference! The chart shows how different...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Behold: the most detailed free art mediums compatibility reference! The chart shows how different art mediums interact together and whether they can be safely layered on top of each other.
Seth's Blog
Getting the word out “How do you get the word out?” I’ve heard this from presidential candidates, from small business...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
“How do you get the word out?” I’ve heard this from presidential candidates, from small business leaders and nonprofits as well. It’s easy to believe that the goal of marketing is to shout, hype, hustle and otherwise promote. It’s tempting to focus on your story as the top of the...
Flashbak
Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s “I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s   Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
TheCollector
The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War undefined
a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks,...
5 months ago
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The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks, but the details of the design of this type of ware are interesting from an engineering standpoint. Some of the tricks used here are kind of mind blowing; on paper, I wouldn’t think...
The Works in...
Anemia and Malaria In malaria endemic regions, being anemic could be keeping children safe
2 months ago
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty undefined
7 months ago
Seth's Blog
Different kinds of people It’s a tempting shortcut. Different kinds of people prefer pop tarts to pizza, or prefer expensive...
a year ago
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It’s a tempting shortcut. Different kinds of people prefer pop tarts to pizza, or prefer expensive wine to beer, or prefer amusement parks to bowling. Except everyone is the same and everyone is different. What’s actually useful is to realize that in this moment, under these...
Scott Jenson
The future needs files For many mobile users, files are like dinosaurs, a holdover from the bygone desktop era. Sure, they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For many mobile users, files are like dinosaurs, a holdover from the bygone desktop era. Sure, they “work” but, they’re mostly there because, you know, ancient history. I’ve discussed this issue for the last 2 years and I usually get some version of “get over it grandpa”.  I’m...
Rest of World -...
MercadoLibre is a massive fish in a medium-sized pond The Argentine e-commerce company is no doubt beating the likes of Amazon in Latin America, but how...
a year ago
TheCollector
Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts undefined
7 months ago
Rest of World -...
ShopeeFood drops non-compete clause after Rest of World reporting Drivers for the Vietnam delivery company had used workarounds but feared detection. After Rest of...
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Drivers for the Vietnam delivery company had used workarounds but feared detection. After Rest of World's reporting, the clause was dropped.
TheCollector
Did Jesus Live in India? undefined
2 months ago
Probably...
Think Python third edition! I am happy to announce the third edition of Think Python, which will be published by O’Reilly Media...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I am happy to announce the third edition of Think Python, which will be published by O’Reilly Media later this year. You can read the online version of the book here. I’ve posted the Preface and the first four chapters — more on the way soon! You can read the Early Release and...
TheCollector
What Are the Romance Languages? undefined
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Going to University I mentioned in the last post that I’m going to the university, which might explain my lack of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I mentioned in the last post that I’m going to the university, which might explain my lack of activity here and for that I’m sorry. It’s not as hard as I had imagined, and I don’t have that much in school but there’s still a lot that’s going on. For example now how to make...
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894) Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Home on Erik...
Interview with a Data Scientist: Erik Bernhardsson I was featured in Peadar Coyle's interview series interviewing various “data scientists” – which is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was featured in Peadar Coyle's interview series interviewing various “data scientists” – which is kind of arguable since (a) all the other ppl in that series are much cooler than me (b) I'm not really a data scientist.
Artificial Ignorance
The State of AI Engineering (2024) Notes from the AI Engineer World's Fair.
5 months ago
Mazdak
Why 2024 will be the year of the Delivery Drone? For years, drone delivery has hovered on the horizon, a tantalizing glimpse of a futuristic utopia...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
For years, drone delivery has hovered on the horizon, a tantalizing glimpse of a futuristic utopia where packages pirouette through the air and land at our doorsteps with clockwork precision. But 2024 marks a pivotal juncture, a year where the sci-fi fantasy transforms into a...
Retail Design Blog
Bayer Offices by Contract Workplaces Until recently, the offices of the German chemical giant Bayer in Bogotá were located in an...
a month ago
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a month ago
Until recently, the offices of the German chemical giant Bayer in Bogotá were located in an industrial zone, far from...
Seth's Blog
Finding a more useful umwelt Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious that your dog has a different one than you do. They see fewer colors and smell far more intelligently. Sea slugs see a much wider range of colors, and bats can sense vibrations. Among...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Convince Investors
over a year ago
Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s “Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview undefined
a month ago
Math Is Still...
Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of Shock Therapy Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one...
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9 months ago
Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it works. New research suggests it may restore balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain. The post Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of...
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is now for sale After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is finally for sale for all! This is The Moment of Truth where we get to see whether all that excitement turns into credit card swipes. That release rush. I love it. And I especially love...
Irrational...
2022 in review. Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual...
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over a year ago
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual reflection where my first thoughts are happy rather than bleak. The truth is that there is a lot of bleak out there right now–just look at the layoffs and the funding environment–but...
The Great Discontent...
Rick Garzon Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed...
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Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now Let’s start by talking a little bit about your origins. Where did you...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Trouble with the Segway
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
FENDI store Little over two years after first setting up shop in Madrid, an event we’ve covered in a previous...
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a month ago
Little over two years after first setting up shop in Madrid, an event we’ve covered in a previous post, FENDI...
journal – Winnie Lim
one year of strength training Last year around this time I had my first strength training session with a personal trainer. I had...
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Last year around this time I had my first strength training session with a personal trainer. I had only 3 sessions with them, but due to a fundamental incompatibility – they had...
Willem's Blog
Data versus Feeling Do you rely on data or on your feeling when running a Marathon? I decided to run two marathons to...
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5 days ago
Do you rely on data or on your feeling when running a Marathon? I decided to run two marathons to find out the differences!
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...
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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...
The Honest Broker
Eleven Predictions: Here's What AI Does Next Are you ready? Is anybody ready?
3 months ago
Society's Backend
Meta's New Segmentation Model, A New Open-Source Image Generation Model, Apple Intelligence Model... Machine learning resources and updates 8/5/2024
4 months ago
diamond geezer
Brookside Close London's Soap Streets Albert Square E15 and Albert Square SW8. Coronation Street but the capital...
a year ago
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a year ago
London's Soap Streets Albert Square E15 and Albert Square SW8. Coronation Street but the capital doesn't have one. Come with me to the borderlands between South Ruislip and South Harrow... Brookside Close HA2 namesake cul-de-sac can be found beside the big roundabout on...
Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968     You didn’t need...
Daniel Miessler
My Mom Died on Saturday My mom died on Saturday. My biological mother became unable to function when I was around five due...
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My mom died on Saturday. My biological mother became unable to function when I was around five due to mental illness, which left my dad and me on our own. Sometime after we were blessed with a strong, beautiful soul named Rhonda. My dad and I were like rescue dogs, and she saved...
TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples) undefined
10 months ago
xkcd.com
Heat Pump
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System 2024-04-11 OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220 With the recent...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System 2024-04-11 OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220 With the recent release of OpenBSD 7.5, I decided to run through my personal OpenBSD “installer” for laptop/desktop devices. The project is built off of the dwm tiling window manager and only...
Londonist
When You Start Seeing Roundels Everywhere One you spot, you just can't stop...
a year ago
Old Structures...
Slow, But Faster Than Original My in-home team for rebuilding Notre Dame – LEGO Notre Dame – has fallen behind schedule. As of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
My in-home team for rebuilding Notre Dame – LEGO Notre Dame – has fallen behind schedule. As of today, we’re about up to where the Parisians were in 1200 or so. From a month ago, construction of the nave walls: and the forest of nave columns: From yesterday, the nave walls and...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Do you really need to set a theme color to color Safari's UI? When it was announced that websites can change the color of Safari’s UI, I was eager to try it...
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Pick one and own it What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will make your positioning and strategy stronger.
diamond geezer
Littlehampton Seaside postcard: Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside town, I hesitate to say resort, midway...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Seaside postcard: Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside town, I hesitate to say resort, midway along the coast of West Sussex. It has a Heatherwick cafe, a sort-of lighthouse, Britain's longest bench and a lot of crabs. I visited yesterday. [Visit Littlehampton] [12...
Mazdak
Elon Musk Lashes Out at Advertisers Leaving X ⚡️ Musk's Fiery Response to Advertiser Exodus 💥 "Go Fk Yourself," Musk Says to Advertisers** 🚀 X...
a year ago
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a year ago
⚡️ Musk's Fiery Response to Advertiser Exodus 💥 "Go Fk Yourself," Musk Says to Advertisers** 🚀 X CEO Defiant Amidst Advertising Boycott In a fiery exchange at the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York, Elon Musk unleashed a barrage of profanity at advertisers who have pulled their...
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized? Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
TheCollector
British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville? undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London undefined
8 months ago
Archinect - Features
'Everything in Design Is Extremely Collaborative': A Conversation with Emerging Architecture... Starting your own practice comes with a mixture of excitement, collaboration, stressors, and endless...
a year ago
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a year ago
Starting your own practice comes with a mixture of excitement, collaboration, stressors, and endless problem-solving. As a new firm, architects Neda Kakhsaz and Zabie Mustafa are developing their approach to architectural design and how they would like to make their mark within...
sancho.dev
Server-side rendering React in OCaml
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.34.0 PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for projects, smart names for all insights, an entire Data Management tool as well as support for horizontal scalability!
Rest of World -...
Indonesia has more than 700 languages. Can AI save them? Most LLMs such as GPT, Llama, and Gemini are trained largely in English, but several Southeast Asian...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Most LLMs such as GPT, Llama, and Gemini are trained largely in English, but several Southeast Asian firms are focusing on Bahasa Indonesia and other regional languages.
One Useful Thing
How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide People often ask me how to use AI. Here's an overview with lots of links.
a year ago
The American Scholar
Mortal Coils We aren’t alone in facing the inevitable The post Mortal Coils appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
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We aren’t alone in facing the inevitable The post Mortal Coils appeared first on The American Scholar.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stars War Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I swear, we're working on that stupid t-shirt...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I swear, we're working on that stupid t-shirt design. Info in a day or two. Today's News:
swyx's site RSS Feed
Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
TheCollector
How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips) undefined
8 months ago
Arduino Blog
Simplifying IoT for smarter manufacturing: Join the chat with Arduino, AWS, and Atlas Machine We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes feel daunting. But what if you could simplify the process and start seeing results quickly? That’s exactly what we’re going to explore in our upcoming Arduino Cloud Café webinar on...
Blog posts of...
Why the future needs a brandname. There is a disenchantment in our generation. We are still sitting on our lonely planet without space...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a disenchantment in our generation. We are still sitting on our lonely planet without space travel nor flying cars or at...
Rest of World -...
AI translation is jeopardizing Afghan asylum claims Cost-cutting translations are introducing errors and putting refugees at risk.
a year ago
TheCollector
Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant undefined
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Our simpler goal: Help engineers to be better at product One of the things I've learned at PostHog is the simpler a strategy, the more likely it's right. We...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the things I've learned at PostHog is the simpler a strategy, the more likely it's right. We simplified our strategy recently. This post…
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 20 Highlights I hired TinyPilot’s first support engineer. I learned that hiring a support engineer is...
over a year ago
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Highlights I hired TinyPilot’s first support engineer. I learned that hiring a support engineer is even harder than I expected. I’m evaluating platforms for paying international contractors. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how...
Math Is Still...
The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it is, in fact, a hub of sensory and emotional processing in the brain. The post The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings first appeared on Quanta...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The...
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over a year ago
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The problem with this approach is lack of selectivity: imagine you have 100 tests and only 1 test fails. For debugging the issue you only need to see logs when executing that 1 test...
Wuthering...
Philoctetes by Sophocles - Let me suffer what I must suffer Philoctetes by Sophocles (409 BCE), performed when the author was 87, which is perhaps why he is in...
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Philoctetes by Sophocles (409 BCE), performed when the author was 87, which is perhaps why he is in a mood of reconciliation and healing.  Literal healing.  Philoctetes possesses the bow of Hercules.  Either the bow, or Philoctetes himself, or both – prophecies are ambiguous...
A Smart Bear
You're a real company when… What marks the moment when you become a "real" company?
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought? undefined
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing1 software is a complex...
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Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing1 software is a complex thing. A great deal of real-world testing and user feedback is needed to create the best solution to the problem you are trying to fix. Obvious requirements are to keep things...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 2-8 October 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
What is algorithmic amplification and why should we care? A symposium and a primer on social media recommendation algorithms
a year ago
TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right? undefined
a year ago
Maps Mania
Your Global Local Radio Map
a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964) Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961. Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
diamond geezer
merry = 𝑥 - mas We have the best signwriters at Bow Road station. merry = 𝑥-mas
2 weeks ago
Laetitia@Work
Desperate for more male nurses, teachers and cleaners Laetitia@Work #57
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know undefined
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Cheam Charter Fair Every year on May 15th the people of Cheam hold a charter fair. Also much of the above may not be...
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Every year on May 15th the people of Cheam hold a charter fair. Also much of the above may not be true. Firstly there is no evidence that Henry III granted a charter to Cheam in 1259 or in any other year. Tradition says he did but no historical records exist to confirm this,...
Ralph Ammer
Show me! Why do we like images? Because they help us understand things.  But what does that mean?...
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7 months ago
Why do we like images? Because they help us understand things.  But what does that mean? Understanding Well, the world is complicated. And in order to make good decisions we need to know what is going on. Language can help us structure the world. So one way to understand things...
bt RSS Feed
Using Parent Selectors in CSS Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
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over a year ago
Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories) undefined
3 months ago
Arduino Blog
Controlling a drum machine with the Arduino Opta Makers have long asked the question “why bother with an expensive PLC when I can just use an...
6 months ago
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Makers have long asked the question “why bother with an expensive PLC when I can just use an Arduino?” The answer comes down to the priorities and needs of industrial clients. In a factory automation setting, the client will prioritize durability, reliability, and serviceability...
Willem's Blog
Building a product platform Leverage platform capabilities to quickly launch new products, designing for reusability,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Leverage platform capabilities to quickly launch new products, designing for reusability, flexibility and extensibility.
Retail Design Blog
QuadReal Offices by Figure3 The QuadReal building at 200 King Street in Toronto showcases a redesigned Green Room lounge by...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The QuadReal building at 200 King Street in Toronto showcases a redesigned Green Room lounge by Figure3, blending 1920s opulence...
Oxide Computer...
March 2020 Update Hello friends! I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this unprecedented time in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hello friends! I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this unprecedented time in which we are all united. Our thoughts go out to everyone working hard to help those in need. We wish you and your families health and resilience. Hard at work…​ and growing A lot...
./techtipsy
My attempt at archiving nfscars.net Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which...
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Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which later got “upgraded” to Windows 98 SE after I managed to completely screw up the OS, a whopping 96MB of RAM and a hard drive that probably wasn’t much larger than 1-3GB. It wasn’t...
Steve Klabnik
Announcing Emoji 1.0
over a year ago
Society's Backend
MASSIVE New Model Releases from Google, OpenAI, and Meta Change the AI Landscape Society's Backend Reading List 12-16-2024
a week ago
TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon undefined
4 months ago
nanoscale views
What is a glass? I want to write about a recently published paper, but to do so on an accessible level, I should...
a year ago
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a year ago
I want to write about a recently published paper, but to do so on an accessible level, I should really lay some ground work first. At the primary school level, typically people are taught that there are three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas.  (Plasma may be introduced...
Noahpinion
How much can you really learn about a country from visiting it? Not as much as people think.
6 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
AC vs DC and other Power Questions I was away last week, first at CSICON and then at a conference in Dubai. I was invited to give a 9...
a month ago
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a month ago
I was away last week, first at CSICON and then at a conference in Dubai. I was invited to give a 9 hour seminar on scientific skepticism for the Dubai Future Foundation. That sounds like a lot of time, but it isn’t. It was a good reminder of the vast body of knowledge that is...
Blog - Practical...
Every Type of Railcar Explained in 15 Minutes [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] A train is a simple thing at...
a year ago
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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] A train is a simple thing at first glance: a locomotive (or several) pull a string of cars along a railroad. But not all those railcars are equal, and there are some fascinating details if you take minute to...
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After almost a hundred years of modernist architecture, the writer and critic Alan Powers argues that the canon is ripe for reappraisal. Here, he makes the case for “Nice Modernism” – an altogether gentler strand of architecture that emerged in the 1930s and is typified […]
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Sweating through seven shirts… That was the definition of work when work was the same thing as physical labor. For many of us, the physical labor is no longer the way we add value. And it’s tempting to imagine that we simply have to show up for the coffee. But it’s still called...
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Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the individuals top 3 strengths, and top 3 weaknesses, and share the feedback with them directly in person. There was a prolonged fight against even documenting the feedback, which was viewed...
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Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft victims frequently lose time and money and undergo significant mental hardships while dealing with the fallout. It can happen a few different ways, but one large attack vector is...
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Winter Came in August Killing Fruit and Seed' A sad and sorely final yet incomplete tagline found after a poem in the Winter 1986 issue of The...
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A sad and sorely final yet incomplete tagline found after a poem in the Winter 1986 issue of The American Scholar:  “Edward Case’s work has appeared in various journals, including the New Criterion, the Wall Street Journal, and Modern Age. This poem was taken from a collection of...
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The simplest possible smooth contouring algorithm The algorithm that takes a distance function and makes a smooth contour out of it in three steps.
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Mark Manson
Mark Manson’s 3 Rules for Life Hey party people! It's Mark Manson, and today I want to talk about Dr. Jordan Peterson and his...
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Hey party people! It's Mark Manson, and today I want to talk about Dr. Jordan Peterson and his books, "12 Rules for Life" and "12 More Rules for Life." I've had the pleasure of chatting with him on his podcast and even got some F-bombs out of him. But what really stuck with me...
Charles Chen
A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
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Mounting a file system or partition from a disk image You cannot just make a disk copy with dd and then just mount it as a regular disk. You must know...
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You cannot just make a disk copy with dd and then just mount it as a regular disk. You must know where the partition starts on the disk. So first, you need to get the partition table with sfdisk: sfdisk -l -uS image_file.dd The output is something like: Disk...
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Discover Your Neighborhood Tree Score
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Should We Try to Control Nature? Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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A return to company core mission & values If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of...
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If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of time to do it
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AI Art Will Push the Top 1% to Human Artists One effect I think we’ll see from all this AI-generated art is magnified status for those who insist...
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One effect I think we’ll see from all this AI-generated art is magnified status for those who insist on the opposite, i.e., manual, human art. The more manual the better. The more human the better. Ideally there’d only be one of whatever you have, and it’d only be yours. Why is...
Arduino Blog
Top Arduino Cloud IoT dashboard ideas with the new Image widget  Recently, we announced the exciting new Image widget for Arduino Cloud. This powerful feature opens...
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Recently, we announced the exciting new Image widget for Arduino Cloud. This powerful feature opens up a world of possibilities for enhancing your IoT dashboards. But the true potential of the Image widget lies in the applications that you create. Today, we’re excited to dive...
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Unblogged June 30 unblogged things I did in June Sat 1: Kept bumping into Spanish and German football fans all over...
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30 unblogged things I did in June Sat 1: Kept bumping into Spanish and German football fans all over parts of London nowhere near where the Champions League final would be taking place. It's amazing how far a stadiumful spreads out. Dortmund had by far the better kit, and by far...
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How To Kill a Superhero Hollywood embraces a desperate strategy—canceling franchise films before they're released
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Contracts you should never sign When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part...
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When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. […] The post Contracts you should never sign appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are Paul Kedrosky recently speculated that there might be seed fund “crash” looming. Liz Gannes followed...
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Paul Kedrosky recently speculated that there might be seed fund “crash” looming. Liz Gannes followed up by suggesting seed investors are a…
Mark Manson
Why Skills Matter More Than Goals Welcome to the first Monday of the new year. It’s 2022 and if you’re like me, it still feels like...
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Welcome to the first Monday of the new year. It’s 2022 and if you’re like me, it still feels like 2019 was last year. Talk about a mindfuck. This is that time of year where most productive and growth-minded people sit down and focus on their goals, their identity, and who they...
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The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its...
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This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit Turning LLM Capabilities into Functions So far, we mostly think of LLMs as things we...
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The inevitable showdown between Twitter and Twitter apps People usually think of business competition as occurring between substitutes – products that serve...
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People usually think of business competition as occurring between substitutes – products that serve similar functions for the user.   Famous…
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Adornment "Form follows function" is a maxim that an object's shape and appearance should be defined only by...
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"Form follows function" is a maxim that an object's shape and appearance should be defined only by its purpose or function. A quick perusal of any antique shop will show that this maxim is generally ignored. Humans (Homo sapiens) have been called "naked apes," but we and our...
A Beautiful Site
Subtle Patterns: hundreds of free backgrounds that tile I've been using Subtle Patterns for quite some time now. All the patterns are great, and their...
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I've been using Subtle Patterns for quite some time now. All the patterns are great, and their Photoshop plugin is incredibly useful. I can't remember when it first launched, but I do remember when there was only one or two pages to browse on the site. Now it has over 380 images...
Tony Finch's blog
Where does my computer get the time from? This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting. On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called...
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This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting. On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called where does my computer get the time from? The RIPE meeting website has a copy of my slides and a video of the talk; this is a blogified low-res version of the slides with a rough and...
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What is the thermal Hall effect? One thing that physics and mechanical engineering students learn early on is that there are often...
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One thing that physics and mechanical engineering students learn early on is that there are often analogies between charge flow and heat flow, and this is reflected in the mathematical models we use to describe charge and heat transport.  We use Ohm's law,...
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London Overground Strikes Next Week Cancelled Normal service now planned.
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Array 1.21.0 Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into...
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Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into the overall stability of PostHog squashing dozens…
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New Social App Who am I? And other urgent existential questions.
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Mapping Russian Military Facilities in Crimea
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How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022 We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of...
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We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of v2.3](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/2961)) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found [this...
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The myth of the overnight success Angry Birds was Rovio’s 52nd game. They spent eight years and almost went bankrupt before finally...
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Angry Birds was Rovio’s 52nd game. They spent eight years and almost went bankrupt before finally creating their massive hit. Pinterest is…
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Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster New results break with decades of conventional wisdom for the gradient descent algorithm. ...
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New results break with decades of conventional wisdom for the gradient descent algorithm. The post Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster first appeared on Quanta Magazine
99% Invisible
Devil in the Details [EPISODE] In 1994, an independent producer made a short, earnest video featuring an eccentric cast of...
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In 1994, an independent producer made a short, earnest video featuring an eccentric cast of characters who were focused on a very specific paranoia. The tape was made to look like a TV news special. It opens with a cheap, Jerry Springer-era computer graphic of a gold pentagram...
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These Metals Destroy Themselves to Prevent Rust [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the old Howard...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the old Howard Frankland Bridge that carries roughly 180,000 vehicles per day across Old Tampa Bay between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida. A replacement for the bridge is currently under...
Working Theorys
Angel Investing | Theory No. 28 A 5-year reflection & predictions on the practice of writing small checks into early-stage startups.
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland? undefined
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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
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The Ruffian
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What is TypeScript and why should I use it? A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
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Aurorasaurus
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Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Build start The end goal, as rendered by Autodesk’s online viewer I’m not sure where it came from, but it was...
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The end goal, as rendered by Autodesk’s online viewer I’m not sure where it came from, but it was suddenly very important that I got myself a 3D printer. Maybe it was an important insight, but it maybe it was only a fix idea I got that somehow became this all-import...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Coming Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wishing I had just taken this job instead of joking...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wishing I had just taken this job instead of joking about it. Today's News:
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Obsession In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having...
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In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having something in mind and the desire to do it. Yet the natural way to deal with a desire to do something is to justify why it's not possible. "I want to read more books but nobody reads...
TheCollector
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Is the Ideology Gap Growing? This tweet from John Burn-Murdoch links to an article in the Financial Times (FT), “A new global...
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This tweet from John Burn-Murdoch links to an article in the Financial Times (FT), “A new global gender divide is emerging”, which includes this figure: The article claims: In the US, Gallup data shows that after decades where the sexes were each spread roughly equally across...
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review ‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review JamesHoare Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Gleams Like a Warm Homestead Light' Here is epigram 1.33 by Marcus Valerius Martialis (c. 38-102 A.D.), better known in English as...
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Here is epigram 1.33 by Marcus Valerius Martialis (c. 38-102 A.D.), better known in English as Martial:  “In private she mourns not the late-lamented; If someone’s by, her tears leap forth on call. Sorrow, my dear, is not so easily rented. They are true tears that without witness...
Ian's Blog
Pragmatically Generating a Self-Signed Certificate and Private Key using OpenSSL Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS...
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Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS app using OpenSSL, what surprised me was the total lack of documentation for OpenSSL. While there is plenty of function documentation, what OpenSSL really lacks is examples of how it...
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How Spotify (and PostHog) build successful features This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers...
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This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
xkcd.com
Classical Periodic Table
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Asia-Pacific, Part 5 (Japan: Farther Afield) Monday arrived and I had to get back to work. A weekend in Tokyo was nice although I had other plans...
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Monday arrived and I had to get back to work. A weekend in Tokyo was nice although I had other plans and that involved getting out of the city. After all, the whole premise for this trip was visiting U.S. military facilities USS Blue Ridge The 7th Fleet of the United States Navy...
The Modern House
The delightful details of an Art Deco apartment in Shepherd’s Bush, west London
a year ago
Julia Evans
Reasons I still love the fish shell I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day...
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I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I thought I’d write a new post with both the old reasons I loved it and some reasons. This came up today because I was trying to...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Being friendly has become a competitive advantage in VC Over the last decade or two, the supply of venture capital dollars has increased dramatically at the...
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Over the last decade or two, the supply of venture capital dollars has increased dramatically at the same time as the cost of building tech…
The Changelog
The Good, Bad, and Scary of the Banning of Donald Trump, and How Decentralization Makes It All... It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit...
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over a year ago
It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit for the moment. It may well save lives, perhaps lots of lives. But it raises quite a few troubling issues. First, as EFF points out, these platforms have privileged speakers with...
Noahpinion
How China's "debt traps" actually work Raiding the Global South like a piggy bank.
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One Useful Thing
One sentence. Prompting for maximum impact (and why that is a bad idea)
a year ago
The Codist
The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Estimates In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the...
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a year ago
In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the 1980s when there was no estimating because no one had any idea how to do it to my last job where estimation was always demanded but never actually relevant. In
The Marginalian
Delight Between Science and Magic: Euler’s Disk and the Sound of the Singularity One afternoon in the late 1980s, sitting in the company cafeteria, aerospace engineer Joseph Bendik...
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3 weeks ago
One afternoon in the late 1980s, sitting in the company cafeteria, aerospace engineer Joseph Bendik found himself so bored that he took a coin out of his pocket and began spinning it atop the table. In a testament to the eternal paradox of boredom and wonder as two sides of the...
TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry undefined
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Come On In: our collection in Open House Festival 2023 gives you access to some of London’s best...
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires undefined
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Open Culture
Tracking Pianist Yuja Wang’s Heartbeats During Her Marathon Rachmaninoff Performance The Carnegie Hall YouTube Channel sets the scene: On January 28, 2023, pianist Yuja Wang joined The...
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The Carnegie Hall YouTube Channel sets the scene: On January 28, 2023, pianist Yuja Wang joined The Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Carnegie Hall for a once-in-a-lifetime, all-Rachmaninoff marathon that featured the composer’s four piano concertos...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Digital photos and privacy Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most...
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over a year ago
Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most important technology-related privacy issues influencing your physical safety, so make sure to catch the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security: Digital photos and privacy Digital...
Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius! A Celebration of Virtue
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Mazdak
Capital Gains Tax Hike: Sell Now or Hold On? A Canadian Investor's Guide Canada's recent federal budget has sent ripples through the investment and real estate communities....
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Canada's recent federal budget has sent ripples through the investment and real estate communities. A key change: a looming increase in capital gains tax on sizeable transactions. This has many wondering – should I sell assets before June 25th, 2024, to avoid the taxman's bite?...
Liz Denys
A quick hop across the southern border Taken while admiring the beach at Tulum.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Stimulated to Vigour and Activity' When John Ruskin (b. 1819) traveled as a boy, his father packed in his luggage four small volumes of...
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8 months ago
When John Ruskin (b. 1819) traveled as a boy, his father packed in his luggage four small volumes of Dr. Johnson’s Rambler and Idler essays. In his peculiar memoir Praeterita (1885), Ruskin tells us “had it not been for constant reading of the Bible, I might probably have...
samwho.dev
Life Skills Learned Playing World of Warcraft Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft...
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over a year ago
Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft (WoW). In the first half of this post I'm going to explain the game and how I played it. In the second half I'll talk about the skills I learned and how they've helped me. If you played a...
The Great Discontent...
Yashas Mitta Yashas is a creative director and ambitious connector. He was also a self-described outsider for...
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a year ago
Yashas is a creative director and ambitious connector. He was also a self-described outsider for much of his life, and his path from Bangalore, India to New York City has been a winding one driven by sheer stubbornness and a keen instinct for creating community wherever he goes....
Coding Horror
The Existential Terror of Battle Royale It's been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video...
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over a year ago
It's been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video games. Video games are probably the single thing most attributable to my career as a programmer, and everything else I've done professionally after that. I
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
NeuroLogica Blog
Serial Dependence Bias As I have discussed numerous times on this blog, our brains did not evolve to be optimal precise...
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a year ago
As I have discussed numerous times on this blog, our brains did not evolve to be optimal precise perceivers and processors of information. Here is an infographic showing 188 documents cognitive biases. These biases are not all bad – they are tradeoffs. Evolutionary forces care...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation system. Aerospace computers are an interesting but mostly neglected area of computer hardware, so I'm always delighted to examine one up close. In an era when most computers were large...
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I...
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over a year ago
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I received a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer for my birthday. One of my earliest memories I remember is sitting with my Dad, reading the manual to work out the magic commands to load...
Maps Mania
The City Map Game
a year ago
Lennart Koopmann
Documentation Belongs in Engineering Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point, many companies move the hosting and writing of documentation out of engineering and into a separate part of the company. It could be marketing, it could be customer success. This...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hood Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's uniforms all the way down, man. Today's News:
a year ago
Noahpinion
Sizing up the New Axis A timely repost.
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consequences Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: 'How dare you politicize this tragedy' works in...
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2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: 'How dare you politicize this tragedy' works in literally any context. In fact, if anyone sends hatemail, it's going to be my response. Today's News:
Seth's Blog
The reluctant spammer “I don’t want to send this pitch to a list of every single podcaster in the world, but we have to...
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a year ago
“I don’t want to send this pitch to a list of every single podcaster in the world, but we have to get the word out.” “I don’t want to send an email to every one of our previous donors every three days until they unsubscribe, but our work is so important, it has to be […]
computers are bad
2023-02-17 something up there pt II As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of...
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a year ago
As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017: the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to very little. I...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your phone We take our phones everywhere and trust them with a lot of sensitive information, but have we put enough thought into how to secure them? Liz and Geoffrey discuss different...
UX Collective
How did a company acquisition feel like for a product designer Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a month ago
David Gerrells
how not to run a saas company Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Robin Mackenzie I am Robin Mackenzie, a Wood Engraver and Lino Cutter based in Dorset.  I create limited edition...
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a year ago
I am Robin Mackenzie, a Wood Engraver and Lino Cutter based in Dorset.  I create limited edition relief prints using a combination of hand printing and an Albion printing press.  My work explores the British coast and countryside.  Beginning with walks and research trips I seek...
Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
Diaries of Note
We spend our lives in tense expectation In the midst of the Russian Civil War, April 1919 saw the city of Odessa plunged further into...
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a year ago
In the midst of the Russian Civil War, April 1919 saw the city of Odessa plunged further into turmoil as the Bolshevik Red Army entered, leaving the future uncertain for the once-thriving port and its inhabitants. One person who found himself caught amidst the chaos was Ivan...