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Old Structures...
Odd One Out Two views of the Queensboro Bridge… First, a HAER photo I’ve used before: Second, a view from an...
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Two views of the Queensboro Bridge… First, a HAER photo I’ve used before: Second, a view from an early 1900s edition of King’s Views of New York, showing a rendering of the bridge before it was completed (on top), paired with a photo of the just-completed Williamsburg Bridge...
diamond geezer
Sunday transport news Some transport news Central line news well known in tubular circles that the longest direct...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Some transport news Central line news well known in tubular circles that the longest direct journey on the Underground is between Epping and West Ruislip on the Central line. It's 54.9km long (34.1 miles), comfortably ahead of Uxbridge to Cockfosters on the Piccadilly line...
Wuthering...
My cancer - "It can’t be true! It can’t, but it is." Liver cancer.  That was a surprise.  I knew something was wrong, but I was not expecting that. Since...
a year ago
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a year ago
Liver cancer.  That was a surprise.  I knew something was wrong, but I was not expecting that. Since the diagnosis last summer, since it was known for a fact that I had something serious, things have moved fast.  It has been like boarding a train.  Once in motion there is no way...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pokeymen t-shirt will be on sale just as soon as...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pokeymen t-shirt will be on sale just as soon as pokemon enters the public domain. Today's News:
Tech and Tea
Space to create (and bonus kids' art 👩🏻‍🎨) Unexpected creative outlets beyond writing
a year ago
diamond geezer
Mayfair MAYFAIR £400   London's Monopoly Streets MAYFAIR Colour group: dark blue Purchase price:...
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MAYFAIR £400   London's Monopoly Streets MAYFAIR Colour group: dark blue Purchase price: £400 Rent: £50 Area: 1km² Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1 Mayfair was mostly fields until the late 17th century when Sir Thomas Grosvenor, a Cheshire baronet, made an exceptionally...
The Elysian
I'm not going to have kids to save the economy Not on my list of reasons to have children.
8 months ago
Seth's Blog
Are you weather? The thunderstorm doesn’t know we exist. Rain dances and wishes are ineffective at bringing or...
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The thunderstorm doesn’t know we exist. Rain dances and wishes are ineffective at bringing or preventing a storm, because it isn’t caused by our actions. Metaphorical weather is tempting to mistake as a response. When someone cuts us off in traffic or doesn’t engage with us the...
diamond geezer
Northumberland Avenue NORTHUMBER LAND AVENUE £160   London's Monopoly Streets NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE Colour group:...
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NORTHUMBER LAND AVENUE £160   London's Monopoly Streets NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE Colour group: pink Purchase price: £160 Rent: £12 Length: 300m Borough: Westminster Postcode: SW1 Northumberland Avenue is a young street by central London standards, and a grand one at that. Like...
Working Theorys
The Granny Hobby Protocol And the hands-on, thumbs-off economy
8 months ago
diamond geezer
Unblogged March (true) 31 unblogged things I did in March (true version) Fri 1: I can't believe another constituency has...
8 months ago
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31 unblogged things I did in March (true version) Fri 1: I can't believe another constituency has elected George Galloway as its MP (actually I can, mine once did, because politics repeatedly proves you can fool enough of the people some of the time). Sat 2: Yes I watched the...
dthompson
Haunt 0.2.6 released Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that was accidentally broken in 0.2.5. Additionally, Haunt now uses the inotify API to watch for file changes on Linux when running haunt serve --watch, replacing a slower and more naive...
The Marginalian
Little Black Hole: A Tender Cosmic Fable About How to Live with Loss Right this minute, people are making plans, making promises and poems, while at the center of our...
a year ago
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a year ago
Right this minute, people are making plans, making promises and poems, while at the center of our galaxy a black hole with the mass of four billion suns screams its open-mouth kiss of oblivion. Someday it will swallow every atom that ever touched us and every datum we ever...
Map of the Week
Earth Transit Earth Transit is a project by Zhaoxu Sui showing the major passenger rail lines of the world. In...
a year ago
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a year ago
Earth Transit is a project by Zhaoxu Sui showing the major passenger rail lines of the world. In his own words "This is the beta version, which means a lot of errors and mistakes could be on the map, please give me corrections and suggestions so that I can improve." Lines are...
Seth's Blog
The digital barback A barback supports the bartending staff. There are always clean glasses and fresh ingredients, ready...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
A barback supports the bartending staff. There are always clean glasses and fresh ingredients, ready to go. Having someone else do your mise en place can dramatically improve your productivity. And now, with a bit of effort, you can train an AI and a few systems to do it for you....
Retail Design Blog
Moch Restaurant by Nastia Mirzoyan Located in the bustling heart of Kyiv, the street food restaurant boasts a simple yet innovative...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Located in the bustling heart of Kyiv, the street food restaurant boasts a simple yet innovative design that is sure...
David Heinemeier...
Native mobile apps are optional for B2B startups in 2024 I continue to see new B2B software startups struggle with native mobile apps. Consumer software...
a year ago
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a year ago
I continue to see new B2B software startups struggle with native mobile apps. Consumer software makers can usually start by going all-in on a single platform, but for business tools, that’s rarely an option. So they must face the tall task of tackling web, iOS, and Android at the...
symmetry magazine
New map of space precisely measures nearly 400,000 nearby galaxies The Siena Galaxy Atlas will be a tool for research into how galaxies form and evolve, gravitational...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Siena Galaxy Atlas will be a tool for research into how galaxies form and evolve, gravitational waves, dark matter and the structure of our universe.
Computer Things
Formally modeling dreidel, the sequel Channukah's next week and that means my favorite pastime, complaining about how Dreidel is a bad...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
Channukah's next week and that means my favorite pastime, complaining about how Dreidel is a bad game. Last year I formally modeled it in PRISM to prove the game's not fun. But because I limited the model to only a small case, I couldn't prove the game was truly bad. It's time...
Blog - Practical...
What Happens When a Reservoir Goes Dry? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2022, the level in...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2022, the level in Lake Mead, the largest water reservoir in the United States formed by the Hoover Dam, reached yet another all-time low of 175 feet or 53 meters below full, a level that hasn’t been...
Neil Panchal
Eternal Robustness "Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take...
a year ago
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a year ago
"Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take great care to provide you with excellence year after year. Your involvement with us will be predictable and stable."
A Weekly Dose of...
Favorite Books of 2022 For this last post of 2022 I looked back at the dozens of books I reviewed or featured as "Book...
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over a year ago
For this last post of 2022 I looked back at the dozens of books I reviewed or featured as "Book Briefs" on this blog, and the ones I reviewed on World-Architects. From those books I gathered just over a dozen favorites, grouping them into some common themes that happened to come...
This Space
A rare sort of writer Today is Gabriel Josipovici's 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, I'll link to various posts I've...
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over a year ago
Today is Gabriel Josipovici's 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, I'll link to various posts I've written over the years – after a brief interlude. I read him first in July 1988 after borrowing The Lessons of Modernism from the second floor of Portsmouth Central Library because...
Data Boutique
Case Study: MatchesFashion Inventory Outflows Web data for market insights
9 months ago
The Elysian
How would anarchist societies protect themselves? Letters to an anarchist, part three.
a month ago
Maps Mania
The Map of Roman Amphitheaters
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Sept 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
Christmas Mailbag - Questions Wanted! Ask me stuff!
a week ago
alexwlchan
Saving your alt text from Twitter It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of their archive in case the site goes down unexpectedly. But large as it is, the archive doesn’t contain everything: Kate @thingskatedid my twitter archive...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Not Sucking at TypeScript: 3 Tips I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting there with all those little "fuck-fuck-fucks" in my head, thinking of how I'd great it would be to burn the annotations, change the extensions to .js and get out of this nighmare...
Maps Mania
How Near do You Live to a Mass Shooting?
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moderating AI Conferences I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home: I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday: I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election. I don't unfriend people due to political views....
Willem's Blog
Offline Music People sometimes act suprised when I tell them about my music hobby, manually converting CD's to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People sometimes act suprised when I tell them about my music hobby, manually converting CD's to lossless audio files; there is some reason to this madness however!
Explorations of an...
Uruguay Part 2: The Saffron-cowled Blackbird Search February 26, 2023 Laura and I left the hacienda behind and and headed southeast towards the coast....
a year ago
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a year ago
February 26, 2023 Laura and I left the hacienda behind and and headed southeast towards the coast. Our route was a meandering one and we took our time on the potholed roads. The countryside was birdy and we didn't mind the relaxed pace.  We had booked an AirBnB property in the...
The Universe of...
Stuff I wanted to say to the historic district people but didn't [ Thanks to John Wiersba for noticing that I forgot to publish this. ] A few weeks ago I wrote a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
[ Thanks to John Wiersba for noticing that I forgot to publish this. ] A few weeks ago I wrote a letter to my neighbors about why I thought it was a bad idea to oppose building more housing in our neighborhood. I didn't write this paragraph: In the past it has often happened that...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stop Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Oh wait, shoot, would you mind if I did a quick...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Oh wait, shoot, would you mind if I did a quick full body scan before never speaking to you again? Today's News:
Quanta Magazine
Why Insect Memories May Not Survive Metamorphosis The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t...
a year ago
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a year ago
The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults. The post Why Insect Memories May Not Survive Metamorphosis first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Epic Web Dev
The Golden Rule of Assertions (article) Learn about The Golden Rule of Assertions that helps pinpoint good tests from bad ones.
11 months ago
ntietz.com blog
Names should be cute, not descriptive A long-standing debate between me and a peer at work has been how we should name services. His...
a year ago
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a year ago
A long-standing debate between me and a peer at work has been how we should name services. His position was always that services should be named something descriptive, so that you can infer from the name what it does. My position is that the name should definitely not be...
The American Scholar
Ups and Downs The post Ups and Downs appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 weeks ago
Global Inequality...
The third framing Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Old Vintage...
Teaching Apple Cyberdog 1.0 new tricks (featuring OpenDoc) this cyberdog (image credit). that cyberdog, though this is one of my favourite weirdo pinball...
a year ago
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a year ago
this cyberdog (image credit). that cyberdog, though this is one of my favourite weirdo pinball machines. that cyberdog. our PowerBook Duo 2300 rehabilitated, guess what we're gonna look at? Internet document? Thus was the nucleus of Cyberdog (named for the famous New...
Quanta Magazine
The Simple Geometry That Predicts Molecular Mosaics By treating molecules as geometric tessellations, scientists devised a new way to forecast how 2D...
a year ago
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a year ago
By treating molecules as geometric tessellations, scientists devised a new way to forecast how 2D materials might self-assemble. The post The Simple Geometry That Predicts Molecular Mosaics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Timing your startup I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would have passed (which of course would have…
Last Place Comics
Lasso Man 4 The post Lasso Man 4 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
6 months ago
Seth's Blog
What happened vs. what we do about it It’s possible to have a useful conversation about what to do about something that’s broken or needs...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
It’s possible to have a useful conversation about what to do about something that’s broken or needs improvement. But first, we must acknowledge that it happened. It’s not controversial to understand the facts, the data and the shifts that are happening in the world we live in. In...
Rest of World -...
South Africans are using a power outage notification app to sell weed, find odd jobs With blackouts devastating the country’s economy, EskomSePush’s AskMyStreet feature has become a...
a year ago
Dan Slimmon
Putting a meaningful dent in your error backlog We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand....
4 months ago
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4 months ago
We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand. After all, we've got shit to do. Deadlines to hit. By the time we decide to get serious about error management, a huge, impenetrable, meaningless backlog of errors has already...
Identity Designed
Big C Charters Designed by Mucho, San Francisco.
over a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Show Your Japan Prefectural Love With These Enamel Pins This series of enamel pins, with each representing one of Japan’s 47 prefectures, are the perfect...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
This series of enamel pins, with each representing one of Japan’s 47 prefectures, are the perfect way to show love for your hometown, or simply keep as mementos from your travels. Not only do they accurately capture the shape of each prefecture but the colors were also carefully...
Max Countryman
Let It Fail I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I feel compelled to jump in and lend a hand. However, sometimes that's a leadership blunder which does a greater disservice to the longer view of things.
TheCollector
Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know undefined
a year ago
Bryan Braun - Blog
Unusual Git IDs You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with...
a month ago
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a month ago
You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with 0000000! While looking for commits like these, I started to become suspicious that people were intentionally modifying their commits IDs to be unusual: A commit ID of eeeeeee, with a message...
Opsbros
Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a Wemos D1 mini running Tasmota super super easy.
TheCollector
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence? undefined
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Happy City by Charles Montgomery Given how much urban design affects our lives, it’s surprising how little we think about and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Given how much urban design affects our lives, it’s surprising how little we think about and participate in it. This book was eye-opening in terms of the way I look at cities and how its inhabitants interact with them. I took for granted the idea that cities should be friendly to...
Sam Altman
Helion Needs You Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q >...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design a mass-producible fusion generator. The goals of the company are quite ambitious—clean, continuous energy for 1...
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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over a year ago
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...
Quentin Santos
Linux Pipes are Slow Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have included errata, but the results might not be reliable, so take this with pinch of salt! vmsplice is too fast Some programs use a particular system call “vmsplice” to move data faster...
Epic Web Dev
What is a Superset (in programming?) (article) Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency, scalability, and improved tooling for devs.
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963) This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963.  It is mostly an...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963.  It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it. Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 27 November-3 December 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Blind Bull, Little Hucklow A large menu is rarely a good sign, and I have to admit a part of my heart sank when I sat down at...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A large menu is rarely a good sign, and I have to admit a part of my heart sank when I sat down at the Blind Bull and counted 12 items in the starters section, 6 mains, 3 sides and 5 desserts (even if I'm being kind and counting all the ice creams as one) - fully 26 dishes...
TheCollector
What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”? undefined
10 months ago
Seth's Blog
Searching for stars It’s easy to imagine that talent is a magical gift, and that we’ll know it when see it (and that you...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
It’s easy to imagine that talent is a magical gift, and that we’ll know it when see it (and that you have it or you don’t). And yet, over the years, Star Search has rejected each of these musicians, picking someone else to win the competition: One could argue that they’re simply...
Product Identity
The other chair In praise of the HÅG Capisco
4 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Green Exterior Helps This Cabin Blend Into The Forest Scalar Architecture has completed a modern cabin in Connecticut that has a minimal ecological...
a year ago
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a year ago
Scalar Architecture has completed a modern cabin in Connecticut that has a minimal ecological footprint. Designed as a 1200-square-foot retreat for a family of writers and producers, the cabin is only accessible via foot or light utility vehicle. The cabin is located in a hilly...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware August 2024 Last month’s Ware was a peak programming meter driver board made by JC Broadcast, taken from an...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Last month’s Ware was a peak programming meter driver board made by JC Broadcast, taken from an Audix broadcast console. Thanks again to Howie M for contributing the ware! Howie hypothesized that the four mounting holes would be a dead give-away, in his words: The meters, typical...
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
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
19 Great Wineries and Tasting Rooms in Napa Valley
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image, Part III: The HTML This is part three of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project...
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4 days ago
This is part three of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project Announcement Pt. I: Design Iterations Pt. II: As Little JS As Possible Pt. III: The HTML o(m)g:image is presented like a quiz: You get one question at a time When you choose an...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Where They Grind the Grain of Thought' Let me sing the praises of Miss Milly, Miss McClain, Miss Esson, Miss Shaker, Miss Martin, Miss...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let me sing the praises of Miss Milly, Miss McClain, Miss Esson, Miss Shaker, Miss Martin, Miss Rose, Miss Whistler – my teachers, K-6, at Pearl Road Elementary School. Most were young and pretty, more like big sisters than mothers. On the television in Miss Shaker’s class we...
abdz.do - Have you...
Life Between Blocks Life Between Blocks abduzeedo0214—23 A solo exhibition by...
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Life Between Blocks abduzeedo0214—23 A solo exhibition by Santiago Oddis.  As a collaboration between the production company Final Frontier and the renowned animation studio Le Cube the exhibition Life Between Blocks is now open at Silk...
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history. Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
12 months ago
diamond geezer
Bedford to Bletchley for £1 A ride down the Marston Vale line (where a train journey currently costs just £1, for reasons...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A ride down the Marston Vale line (where a train journey currently costs just £1, for reasons explained yesterday) Bedford Platform 1a beside the car park, chugging away noisily and hourly. Nearby: The town centre was fairly buzzy on Saturday, helped by umpteen outdoor market...
TheCollector
What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature? undefined
6 months ago
balajis.com
#2 - Tobi Lütke & Kaz Nejatian on Shopify's Country-Sized Economy Listen now (127 min) | Tobi Lütke (Shopify Founder & CEO), Kaz Nejatian (Shopify COO), and Balaji...
a year ago
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a year ago
Listen now (127 min) | Tobi Lütke (Shopify Founder & CEO), Kaz Nejatian (Shopify COO), and Balaji review how Shopify rose from tiny startup to $180B+ global economy, with an annual GMV on par with the GDP of New Zealand. In the process they touch on Hayek, the Hanseatic League,...
alexwlchan
Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools to take screenshots, and I love them as a way to take quick snapshots and skim the history of a site, but bitmap images aren’t a great archival representation of a website. What...
./techtipsy
I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out one UPS that was recommended on the basis of it being much more power efficient compared to the APC UPS that I previously ran. That UPS? CyberPower UT650EG. Why switch out a...
HTMHell
What the slot? by Egor Kloos (aka dutchcelt) Web Components. The discussion seems to pop up more than it used...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Egor Kloos (aka dutchcelt) Web Components. The discussion seems to pop up more than it used to. Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework HTML Web Components: An Example Material web components 1.0 release HTML Web Components are Just JavaScript? Web Components...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
All About That Button, ’Bout That Button In modern SPAs it’s common to immediately escape baked-in browser behaviors. For example, using...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In modern SPAs it’s common to immediately escape baked-in browser behaviors. For example, using <button> often looks like this: <div> <input type="text" name="q" /> <button type="submit" onClick={(e) => { // Stop the baked-in behavior ...
TheCollector
Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation undefined
4 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the “golden age” in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
Notes on software...
Two books I recommend to developers Originally published on February 1, 2021. The original version included two books I don't think...
a year ago
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a year ago
Originally published on February 1, 2021. The original version included two books I don't think are actually so worthwhile. This list is down to two. I think that's a good thing actually. These are the books I recommend to developers wanting to improve their skills as...
The Pragmatic...
Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least...
a year ago
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a year ago
Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation.
Seth's Blog
Most people (and the people you choose) Most people want you to make something cheap, write something short, share something funny, and fit...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most people want you to make something cheap, write something short, share something funny, and fit in. But the people you serve… they might want something else. The few people you need to thrive in your work might want you to write something they’ll remember for a long time, or...
The Honest Broker
Tell Us What You're Doing? Today is open mic day at The Honest Broker—and you can promote your own projects
3 months ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
The Black Panther: Black Community News Service Contributed by Stephen Coles Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable) Bold Face No. 2 (IBM)...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable) Bold Face No. 2 (IBM) (Sample unavailable) Source: letterformarchive.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Black Panther, published weekly by the Black Panther Party, shone a light on...
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Issue 55 – Halving a bad time The bitcoin "halving" looms, and that may not be as good news as coiners hope. Also, Terra committed...
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The bitcoin "halving" looms, and that may not be as good news as coiners hope. Also, Terra committed fraud and Uniswap got a Wells notice.
Confused bit
Birth of a new blog What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or...
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What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or dynamic typing? The answer to all these questions and more on “Confused bit”. This blog is a place to host and share my thoughts on software, crafting, and my experience with various...
Quanta Magazine
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Yael Tauman Kalai’s breakthroughs secure our digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum future. The post The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
diamond geezer
First steps As the phoney war before the next election escalates, I'd like to express my disappointment that the...
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As the phoney war before the next election escalates, I'd like to express my disappointment that the next government won't be as left wing as it should have been. These are Comrade Starmer's so-called first steps, a limp selection of depressingly weak promises which reads...
Seth's Blog
I was wrong about sun tea The story is a good one: put some tea bags in a mason jar filled with fresh, cold water. Put it in...
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The story is a good one: put some tea bags in a mason jar filled with fresh, cold water. Put it in the sun. Four hours later, smooth and delicious tea is waiting for you. The photons from the sun go through the clear glass and the water, strike the leaves and transfer radiant...
Handprinted - Blog
Using Schmincke Water-Based Inks to Create a Jigsaw Linocut We love the range of colours that are available in Schmincke water-based inks. We’re creating a...
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We love the range of colours that are available in Schmincke water-based inks. We’re creating a jigsaw linocut to allow us to use multiple colours of Schmincke ink in just one block! We are using Easy Carve Blue as it’s soft to cut up with a scalpel, making it ideal for a jigsaw...
A Beautiful Site
IE8 burns the Acid 2 test An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as...
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An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as Microsoft is showing more and more progress towards incorporating web standards into Internet Explorer, even though IE7 has remained dormant since it's release back in October 2006. The...
Style over Substance
Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art,...
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Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art, using cheap LED strips and DIY parts you can order online. The post Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture appeared first on Style over Substance.
Retail Design Blog
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Since MAM is similar to a growing organism, its new competence center resembles one as well, with the intention of...
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Jan 2020 Recap a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
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Spoon & Tamago
Director Ryota Nakano to be Special Guest at Japan Society’s Family Portrait: Japanese Family in... this post is sponsored by Japan Society Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan...
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this post is sponsored by Japan Society Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan Society are proud to announce the eighth installment of the ACA Cinema Project film series, Family Portrait: Japanese Family in Flux. The series examines the shifting dynamics and...
Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works #2: Volume Discounts The volume-related pricing system explained
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Noahpinion
Feeling strangely optimistic about Egypt It has many of the building blocks for a successful industrialization story.
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The Science of Gift Giving There is a lot of social psychology out there providing information that can inform our everyday...
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There is a lot of social psychology out there providing information that can inform our everyday lives, and most people are completely unaware of the research. Richard Wiseman makes this point in his book, 59 Seconds – we actually have useful scientific information, and yet we...
CONTEMPORIST
A White Material Palette Creates A Peaceful Coastal Living Feeling For This Home Habitat Studio Architects has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Queensland,...
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Habitat Studio Architects has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Queensland, Australia, that’s located right on Currumbin Beach. Inspired by coastal living, the home features an exterior of stone, white weatherboards that reflect the sun, and white battens that...
The Elysian
The rich are controlling our government Ok but what can we do about it?
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A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using robots.txt: User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / That felt a bit “ex post facto“ as they say. Or, as Jeremy put it, “Now that the horse has bolted—and...
Tech + Economics +...
Red state politics are too much of a headache for tech. Is the Texas boom town of Austin losing its luster? During the COVID-19 pandemic, investors...
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Is the Texas boom town of Austin losing its luster? During the COVID-19 pandemic, investors and startup founders alike flocked to the Texas capital, attracted to the lower cost of living, “hip” lifestyle and business-friendly environment (i.e. no state income ...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Books I Have Liked' One way to classify readers is by their choice of reading matter across time. Some are specialists....
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One way to classify readers is by their choice of reading matter across time. Some are specialists. They read deeply but narrowly, only science fiction or the Latin classics in translation. That strategy is alien to me because by nature I’m an omnivore, moving from Henry James to...
HTMHell
The hidden attribute in HTML by Ahmad El-Alfy The hidden attribute allows us to hide HTML elements from the page. When it was...
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by Ahmad El-Alfy The hidden attribute allows us to hide HTML elements from the page. When it was introduced, it worked in a very simple way: it set the CSS display property to none. Many people voiced concerns because here we are, mixing styles with markup again. To be fair, this...
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 1) ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to...
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ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to JavaScript. ReasonReact is Reason bindings for ReactJS (aka the translated ReasonML version of the ReactJS). It has improved a lot lately and even added support for hooks in a...
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Poet in residence A unique opportunity has arisen for creative narration, the post of poet in residence, five...
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A unique opportunity has arisen for creative narration, the post of poet in residence, five maintained by them: apply, Tower Bridge London Bridge Since medieval masons built a stone span with central chapel, Since pilgrims passed through in reverent migration, Since...
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I had better finish up Ovid’s Metamorphoses before I forget what was in it.  It is full of memorable things, but I have limits.  Books XI through XV, the last five, in this post. Book X ended with the songs of Orpheus, so he has to begin Book XI with Orpheus’s gruesome death,...
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How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days Building wc in the browser From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to...
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Building wc in the browser From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to see how much code I wrote. For those not in the know: wc -l shows number of lines in files. Actually, what I have to do is more like find -name "*.go" | xargs wc -l because wc isn’t...
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Postmortem: Black and White All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not...
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All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not suck. My spirit wasn’t high, just check this post and this but now when it’s done it’s like night and day, or like black and white! I’m damn happy I got it done!! Aah I’ll try to...
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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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...
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O, Sunlight! “O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in...
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“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in this world, much hope, much life. All we need to do is pause, breathe, and take a moment to see it. It might be as simple as the gift of sunlight. I hope you all have … Continue...
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Loading, please wait... Starting the 1A2A3D project. Starting out on a project looking at the first amendment, second amendment, and 3-D printing.
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Instagram account hacked? “Ethical hackers” will get it back Meta’s account recovery process is so complicated that people are paying experts to do it for them.
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Howdy folks! Today’s McMansion is very special because a) we’re returning to Maryland after a long time and b) because the street this McMansion is on is the same as my name. (It was not named after me.) Hence, it is my personal McMansion, which I guess is somewhat like when...
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"Ship it!" "We're agile now, baby. Move fast and break things!"" "We measure our engineers by the impact they have!" Somewhere along the way, in the midst of the agilification of software, or the software engineer salary gold rush, we forgot about craftsmanship. I have been in...
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Berkshire's conservatism, Weschler's IRA, National Indemnity, A Defense of Andrew Left, Inflation hammers the poor, Felony convictions as footnotes, Immanuel Nobel, Eisenhower and D-Day
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Web technology optimism hour It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer...
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It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer energy wasted on crypto, which has produced negative real-world value, the wider downturn in tech stocks, and the often-antagonistic interactions between developers on Twitter and...
A Beautiful Site
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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...
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RRSP Guide for New Immigrants to Canada: Everything You Need to Know As a newcomer to Canada, one of the most important financial tools you'll encounter is the...
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The Marginalian
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"Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it. If you understand one outcropping of stone, or one wildflower, or one hummingbird — if we see our way along the tracery of cause and effect, the mystery of change and recreation — then we are led to everything we see, and...
The Modern House
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5 essential tips for Customer Success teams on PostHog While PostHog is obviously useful for product managers, engineers and analysts, there’s a lot it can...
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While PostHog is obviously useful for product managers, engineers and analysts, there’s a lot it can do for other teams too — including customer…
Seth's Blog
What’s the right size? There are no city buses with just four seats. And none with 400 seats. We get to leverage the...
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There are no city buses with just four seats. And none with 400 seats. We get to leverage the driver’s effort if we put in a few more seats, but add too many and the bus is too big to make a turn–and soon we’d have to add conductors and cleaners and then the bus […]
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I have never once had a popular platonism joke but I WILL NOT STOP Today's News:
Chris Nicholas
Quick UI: Rotating text mask I came across an appealing text effect on the Adobe XD home page, and thought I'd recreate it here,...
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I came across an appealing text effect on the Adobe XD home page, and thought I'd recreate it here, and give it a quick colourful retouch.
diamond geezer
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31 unblogged things I did in October Tue 1: Two new developments in Barking & Dagenham are over-egging transport links in their roadside marketing. Barking Riverside says 'Perfectly connected' when the reality is a half-hourly boat, a train to Barking or non-express buses....
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The First “Selfie” In History Taken by Robert Cornelius, a Philadelphia Chemist, in 1839 In 2013, the Oxford Dictionaries announced that “selfie” had been deemed their Word of The Year. The...
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In 2013, the Oxford Dictionaries announced that “selfie” had been deemed their Word of The Year. The term, whose first recorded use as an Instagram hashtag occurred on January 27, 2011, was actually invented in 2002, when an Australian chap posted a picture of himself on an...
Louwrentius
Redhat explains why chroot is not a security feature I came across this Redhat security blog post that explains why the chroot command has it's uses, but...
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I came across this Redhat security blog post that explains why the chroot command has it's uses, but it isn't magic security pixie dust. Running an application from within a chrooted jail or just on a well-configured system would result in the same level of security. Josh...
On the Arts
What are Liminal Spaces? And why are they so popular? “Liminal spaces” have become trendy in recent years, especially on TikTok, Tumblr, and YouTube. But...
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“Liminal spaces” have become trendy in recent years, especially on TikTok, Tumblr, and YouTube. But what makes a space liminal? And why are they so popular lately?
TheCollector
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CONTEMPORIST
This Home Hidden In The Forest Appears Like A Stack Of Illuminated Boxes William / Kaven Architecture has sent us photos of a home they completed in Portland, Oregon, that’s...
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William / Kaven Architecture has sent us photos of a home they completed in Portland, Oregon, that’s part of a collection of private residences perched on several steeply sloped sites within Forest Park, a 5,000-acre woodland. A simple material palette of dark steel, concrete,...
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Building the blog... in style! Find out if it is possible to turn a computer from the 90s into a modern development machine.
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Michael Palin, born in Sheffield on 5th May 1943, is best known as a member of Monty Python, the iconic comedy group who redefined the world of comedy with their surreal, subversive humour and innovative performances. However, Palin’s career extends beyond comedy thanks to...
A Beautiful Site
Validating URLs and email addresses in PHP This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var()...
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This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var() function, it's actually very easy and doesn't require regular expressions. The following wrapper functions force a true boolean response, so you can use them safely in your logic. Email...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
A Beautiful Site
Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to...
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When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons. Issues with leap years # A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
Saturday Morning...
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Applied Cartography
Applied Cartography × Val Town Had a blast live-coding some experimentations with Steve and Shovel yesterday using Val Town. (If...
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Had a blast live-coding some experimentations with Steve and Shovel yesterday using Val Town. (If you haven't used Val, well, watch the stream — think live, zero-deploy code snippets that can be arbitrarily extended and executed.) Reflecting on the experience, the most exciting...
Retail Design Blog
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On having more interesting ideas “To write well, all you have to do is cultivate your mind and then write what you see.” When I talk...
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“To write well, all you have to do is cultivate your mind and then write what you see.” When I talk to people who have worked with their ideas seriously for 10+ years, it feels like I can throw any topic on them and they’ll have an interesting idea, or if not an idea so at least...
Sean Carroll
Johns Hopkins As far as I remember, the first time I stepped onto a university campus was in junior high school,...
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As far as I remember, the first time I stepped onto a university campus was in junior high school, when I visited Johns Hopkins for an awards ceremony for the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. (I grew up in an environment that didn’t involve spending a lot of time on...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why you may not need a sales team You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder...
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You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder of a new tech startup. A few months back, you and…
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The complete guide to safe type narrowing in TypeScript Say I'm building a TODO app with two tabs: done and pending tasks. To make the app routable, I put...
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Say I'm building a TODO app with two tabs: done and pending tasks. To make the app routable, I put the active tab into the ?tab query parameter, so that mytodo.io?tab=done takes me directly to the done tasks. I implement routing like this (pardon my hand-coded querystring...
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The brand identity and packaging design for Slayyyy was inspired by harmony and finding the perfect balance for each individual....
The Marginalian
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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...
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One way to look at power is “you get to tell people what to do.” But an alternative is that the most powerful institutions, brands and people are the ones who are in alignment with their audience. Trust and the benefit of the doubt are more powerful and resilient than command and...
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Four It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three...
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It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three years of my journey as a first-time technical founder. 2021 was not an exception, and my role as RevenueCat’s CTO kept evolving quite a lot. As expected, my job did not get any...
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Our guest on this episode of Homing In – our podcast on which our co-founder Matt Gibberd asks cultural tastemakers about a home from their past, present and future – is the French-Iranian architect India Mahdavi. Known as the Queen of Colour, she has designed […]
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A recreation of the military sandals. (Photo: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation) Whether you’re putting together a stage play, a film, or a television series, if the story is set in ancient Rome, you know you’re going to have to get a lot of sandals on order. This...
Open Culture
Wes Anderson Directs & Stars in an Ad Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Montblanc’s Signature Pen One hardly has to be an expert on the films of Wes Anderson to imagine that the man writes with a...
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One hardly has to be an expert on the films of Wes Anderson to imagine that the man writes with a fountain pen. Maybe back in the early nineteen-nineties, when he was shooting the black-and-white short that would become Bottle Rocket on the streets of Austin, he had to settle for...
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My first ever app I made and sold... I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below. I was initially...
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I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below. I was initially flabbergasted that I still had a copy on hand, but that soon gave way to feelings of nostalgia that took me back 30 years (yes, that is 3 decades) to when I first created this. It...
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Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your control. Everything except for one thing: what you produce. You might know that repeatedly posting on social media that you are looking for work is ineffective. That it looks (or...
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Alex Meub
Building the DataToaster 3000 Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local...
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3 months ago
Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local computer recycling store. The idea of a computer with the design of a home appliance was really appealing and so was the absurdity of it. It occurred to me that this would be a fun...
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step… Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”. I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance. This...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #215 Ajit Jain's Berkshire sales, Dollar Stores, Jobs vs Cook on Innovation, Robert Caro, Fact checking...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Ajit Jain's Berkshire sales, Dollar Stores, Jobs vs Cook on Innovation, Robert Caro, Fact checking Kamala Harris, Weaponizing political anger, Nick Sleep's letters, Howard Marks on risk
99% Invisible
De Fiets is Niets [EPISODE] Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more...
a year ago
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a year ago
Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. The country has more than 20,000 miles of dedicated cycling paths. International policymakers make pilgrimages to the Netherlands...
The Marginalian
Coleridge on the Paradox of Friendship and Romantic Love On sympathy, reciprocity, and satisfying the fulness of our nature.
a year ago
UX Collective
Creativity is the only thing Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2 weeks ago
AI Snake Oil
OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models LLMs have become privately-controlled research infrastructure
a year ago
Commoncog
What To Think When Looking at a Chart In a business context, what should you think when presented with a time series? Or: a really dumb...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a business context, what should you think when presented with a time series? Or: a really dumb question that nobody seems to talk about.
Map of the Week
Forest Fires All Over North America This has been a remarkably heavy year for forest fires and it's still very early in the season. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
This has been a remarkably heavy year for forest fires and it's still very early in the season. The last few summers the West Coast has experienced many days of terrible air quality. This year the East Coast is experiencing it. Last week cities like New York, Philadelphia and...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 13-14 January 2024 Circus, comedy, drag, live music and more.
11 months ago
African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900) Journal of African cities chapter 8
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus? Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
The Honest Broker
The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College Our problem is in the real world—not the ivory tower—and so is the solution
8 months ago
Noahpinion
Argentina's macroeconomic situation is even worse up close A guest post by Karl T. Muth
a year ago
The Marginalian
May Sarton on Writing, Gardening, and the Importance of Patience Over Will in Creative Work "Gardening is like poetry in that it is gratuitous, and also that it cannot be done on will alone."
a year ago
Working Theorys
The Time-Boxed Startup What if startups had an expiration date?
9 months ago
Dominik Sobe's...
Feedback, acquisition offer and the journey to product-market fit
over a year ago
Open Culture
Inside the Beautiful Home Frank Lloyd Wright Designed for His Son (1952) Being Frank Lloyd Wright’s son surely came with its downsides. But one of the upsides — assuming you...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Being Frank Lloyd Wright’s son surely came with its downsides. But one of the upsides — assuming you could stay in the mercurial master’s good graces — was the possibility of his designing a house for you. Such was the fortune of his fourth child David Samuel Wright, a Phoenix...
Maps Mania
25 Cities
11 months ago
TheCollector
5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters undefined
2 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
How to combine multiple RSS feeds in one view
6 months ago
alexwlchan
Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
The Honest Broker
What Happened to Sly Stone? At age 80, he tells his tale—but is it a story of recovery, or mere survival?
11 months ago
Arduino Blog
A drone remote designed to enhance magic shows Maker culture has always been a major part of magic performance. Some tricks are well-rehearsed...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Maker culture has always been a major part of magic performance. Some tricks are well-rehearsed slight of hand, but many of them rely on clever engineering to sell an illusion. And modern technology offers a great deal of interesting possibilities. That is the idea behind Peter...
TheCollector
10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre undefined
5 months ago
Platformer
The surgeon general's warning is a wake-up call for social networks A growing body of evidence suggests that social products pose significant risks to teenagers
a year ago
Confessions of a...
Recording: Six Key Performance Engineering Lessons from 1BRC Last night we did this live session on performance engineering.
3 months ago
The American Scholar
My Cousin Manya One survivor’s story The post My Cousin Manya appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
Max Rozen
How to implement a Higher-order component in React with TypeScript You probably know how to implement a HoC, but do you know how to write types for one?
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for jobs, applying, interviewing, and all those fun things. For whatever it's worth.
Diaries of Note
At times I feel that I could write endlessly Born in 1938, Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer with more than 50 novels and numerous literary...
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a year ago
Born in 1938, Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer with more than 50 novels and numerous literary awards to her name. Since the age of 21 Oates has kept a journal of some kind, but it was in 1973, aged 35, that she began the 5,000 pages now housed at the Joyce Carol Oates […]
Seth's Blog
On the dot Hardy came home from school and proudly showed his mom the cheap plastic trinkets he had earned that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hardy came home from school and proudly showed his mom the cheap plastic trinkets he had earned that day. “I stood quietly on the dot and so I got some tickets. And if I stand on the dot quietly tomorrow, I can get some more prizes!” First grade! That’s one way to indoctrinate...
xkcd.com
Alphabet Notes
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Join My Six-Week Blogging Course I’m teaching a small-group, live course about attracting readers to your blog through Hacker News....
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I’m teaching a small-group, live course about attracting readers to your blog through Hacker News. Sign up by Monday (June 24th) to reserve your slot. Why take a class with me? My blog receives 300k-500k unique readers per year. After Google, Hacker News is the primary way that...
Julia Evans
Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood until a few weeks ago. Let’s say you’re running this command to watch for some specific output in a log file: tail -f /some/log/file | grep thing1 | grep thing2 If log lines are...
Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech Secrets from Cicero
4 months ago
Quanta Magazine
He’s Gleaning the Design Rules of Life to Re-Create It Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If...
a month ago
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a month ago
Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date. The post He’s Gleaning the Design Rules of Life to Re-Create It first...
diamond geezer
Eu-stun For two decades Euston had a very long departures board across the front of the station...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
For two decades Euston had a very long departures board across the front of the station concourse. large expectant crowd often gathered. switched off to be replaced by two new departure boards in the centre of the floor space. If you feel the need to tell us you would have...
Christopher Butler
Blogging Is Not Publishing It's Therapy I keep a NOTES.txt document as a catch-all for any ideas I jot down that don’t have an immediate...
a year ago
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a year ago
I keep a NOTES.txt document as a catch-all for any ideas I jot down that don’t have an immediate place elsewhere. It is a digital container that is at least 15 years old at this point. I’ve carried it from machine to machine. Every now and then I go back through it to see if...
Flashbak
Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Won’t You Turn Your Radio Down' Most of the surfaces in the radio station, not counting the DJs and turntables, are plastered with...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most of the surfaces in the radio station, not counting the DJs and turntables, are plastered with yellow-on-black KTRU bumper stickers. In some cases, students have cut up the stickers and rearranged the letters into the same timeless obscenities we scrawled on the walls of the...
James Vaughan's blog
College Advice I Would Give My Freshman Self
over a year ago
Noahpinion
EVs are just going to win Because they're a superior technology, and superior technologies win.
2 months ago
Louwrentius
Did you know that RDP is as insecure as telnet? Microsoft developed the remote desktop protocol in order to allow remote GUI- based access to hosts....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Microsoft developed the remote desktop protocol in order to allow remote GUI- based access to hosts. It is easy to pick on Microsoft and I do respect what they have accomplished, however, it may not come as a surprise that they did it all wrong with RDP in terms of security. By...
Liz Denys
Reversing the Parks Dept. Ban on E-Bikes is a Matter of Equity Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs: The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs: The original signs announcing this ban only stated it in English. I'm in Streetsblog today with a piece about why reversing this arbitrary ban is a matter of equity: Over Memorial Day...
African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885) Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
somethingaboutmaps
Projection Connections: A Very Nerdy Poster Friends, I’m excited to offer to you a new poster. Not a map this time around, but something...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Friends, I’m excited to offer to you a new poster. Not a map this time around, but something map-related. A 16 × 24-inch tangled web showing how 100+ different map projections are all related to each other: Projections are a niche topic even among cartographers, so I don’t...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AAAAAA Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I was actually screaming in agony, but now that you...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I was actually screaming in agony, but now that you mention it they are lovely. Today's News:
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Advice That Actually Worked For Me My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
over a year ago
the singularity is...
Imitation Learning 7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea. Gather tons of human driving data, state action...
a year ago
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a year ago
7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea. Gather tons of human driving data, state action pairs: (S_t, A_t) Train a supervised model f(S_t) -> A_t Drive cars with that model. The exact original formulation was a model that predicts steering angle from image, then used a...
Computer Ads from...
ProHance Technologies' Power Mouse Even A Totally Souped up PC Is A Dog Without PowerMouse
3 months ago
Computer Things
Solving a math problem with planner programming The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either the end of this week or early next week. During a break on Monday I saw this interesting problem on Math Stack Exchange: Suppose that at the beginning there is a blank document,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sorry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, he gets a bill anyway. Today's News:
9 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Introducing "Caffeinated Deep Dives" My new podcast.
a month ago
Londonist
V&A East - Brand New Museum Opening In 2025 Announces Its First Exhibition The Music Is Black: A British Story will get the ball rolling.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Rust has finally outgrown me
over a year ago
TheCollector
10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit undefined
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
5 Must-Visit UNESCO Sites in Berlin
7 months ago
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787? undefined
3 months ago
On Life and Lisp
Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth, implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available here in Toronto. Wait –...
tonsky.me
Talk: Clj-reload: A smarter way to reload code @ In Clojure, we all love the REPL. We love playing with our code and seeing results applied live...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
In Clojure, we all love the REPL. We love playing with our code and seeing results applied live without ever restarting the app. But in any project, there comes a time when your state becomes more complex than a simple set of functions. Evaluating the buffer does not...
Contemporist...
The Dining Table Becomes Part Of The Stairs Inside This Eclectic House Mag Arquitectes together with Clara Lleal INTERIORISTA has shared photos of a home they designed in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Mag Arquitectes together with Clara Lleal INTERIORISTA has shared photos of a home they designed in Catalunya, Spain, that showcases a unique dining area.
Seth's Blog
Beyond CRM Many marketers spend time with their CRM systems. Expensive cloud-based tools that automate Customer...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Many marketers spend time with their CRM systems. Expensive cloud-based tools that automate Customer Relationship Management. Maybe customers don’t want to be managed. They probably don’t. It might be more useful to think of our most important work as customer relationship...
Matt Mazur
Friday Updates: Shipping AI Suggestions in Preceden, EmergentMind Growth and Brainstorming Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I had planned on slowly rolling it out to 100% of users over the course of a week or two, but my OpenAI costs were minimal on Tuesday so on Wednesday I said screw it and just […]
samwho.dev
The dos and don'ts of large, online communities One of the ways I spend my spare time is moderating the Programming Discussions Discord server. It's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the ways I spend my spare time is moderating the Programming Discussions Discord server. It's an online community of almost 20,000 people, focussed around helping people with their programming problems through real-time chat. A frequent mistake I see people make in the...
Mark Manson
An Unconventional Guide to Happiness Every day, we're bombarded with messages telling us that we need to be happy all the time—and that,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every day, we're bombarded with messages telling us that we need to be happy all the time—and that, in order to be happy, we need the perfect job, the perfect partner, the perfect life. And we're made to think that anything less than perfect happiness is a failure. But the...
A Beautiful Site
$.postJSON() for jQuery $.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
$.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response. Alas, the jQuery documentation lacks a sister function that should be named $.postJSON(). Why not just use $.getJSON() and be done with it? Well, perhaps you want to send a large...
dthompson
Lisp: Icing or Cake? The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached...
diamond geezer
Far From Super Loop On bus shelters across London TfL are keenly advertising the Superloop. The poster shows a bus, a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
On bus shelters across London TfL are keenly advertising the Superloop. The poster shows a bus, a rainbow burst of pastel colours and the legend The Superloop Is Coming. The given date is Spring 2024 and it's described as a commitment by the Mayor to improve public transport in...
Jonas Hietala
My first theme: Addictive Gaming In true experimental spirit I’ll now announce the theme for my first game: Addictive Gaming. I won’t...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In true experimental spirit I’ll now announce the theme for my first game: Addictive Gaming. I won’t be following the lead from the Experimental Gameplay Project’s site but I will follow their three laws (7 days, alone, themes). Puh… my first game! Wish me luck =)
The Rational Walk
Charlie Munger (1924 – 2023) A life well lived
a year ago
The Great Discontent...
Brian Eno From pioneering ambient music and ever-evolving light paintings to innovating production styles,...
a year ago
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a year ago
From pioneering ambient music and ever-evolving light paintings to innovating production styles, installations, and strategies of surrender, Brian Eno’s work occupies a rare space in this world with an imprint as deep as it is wide. For the Roxy Music founder, art is the kind of...
TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York undefined
6 months ago
The Modern House
With the rolling South Downs on its doorstep, the award-winning Black Timber House by HAPA...
8 months ago
Marcus on AI
Two visions of AI’s future It’s not looking good
2 weeks ago
somethingaboutmaps
The Unnecessary Peril of the Fuller Projection Throughout my career, I’ve heard a variety of rumors and conflicting opinions about whether or not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Throughout my career, I’ve heard a variety of rumors and conflicting opinions about whether or not you can get in trouble for using the Fuller projection. Let's find out if it's true.
Seeking Wisdom
Neural Networks – Part 2 This is my sixth post in a series on building a toy GPT. I recommend that you read my previous posts...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is my sixth post in a series on building a toy GPT. I recommend that you read my previous posts before reading this one. When using linear and logistic regression, which involve just a single linear equation, calculating derivatives is easy since there is only one equation...
History Today Feed
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia JamesHoare Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Data Boutique
How to Estimate Sales Using Inventory Web-Scraped Data A powerful use case for web data
9 months ago
TheCollector
Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview undefined
a year ago
Society's Backend
JAX is for More Than Just Machine Learning What JAX is and its potential applications
6 months ago
David Heinemeier...
We need a Right To Compute The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If it’s a computer, we ought to have the right to compute. Like consumers have won the right to repair. If it’s a computer, it ought to be yours, and you ought to have the right to...
Mind Mine
Discussing King, Warrior, Magician, Lover with Co-Author Douglas Gillette masculine archetypes, understanding our shadow, and how we can raise the collective consciousness
2 weeks ago
The Marginalian
Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing Change in Relationships and the Key Pattern for Nourishing Love "All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building...
10 months ago
Mazdak
Netflix Discontinues Basic Plan in Canada Netflix has stopped offering its Basic subscription plan in Canada. The company has not said if it...
a year ago
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a year ago
Netflix has stopped offering its Basic subscription plan in Canada. The company has not said if it plans to discontinue the plan altogether, but it is no longer available to new or rejoining members. The Basic plan was the most affordable option for Netflix subscribers in Canada,...
The Turn Signal RSS...
A Guide to Prototyping Automotive Interfaces First, it's important to clarify that this article is about the first stages of the design process....
a year ago
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a year ago
First, it's important to clarify that this article is about the first stages of the design process. There are many processes for…
The Diff
What Would it Look Like if The Pod Shop Model Blew Up? Plus! Economic Blocs; Benefits; Headlines; IP and Finance; Squaring the Global Imbalances Circle
6 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Energy in Things Shone Through Their Shapes' Some fugitive thinkers among us long for order in a manner almost nostalgic:  “I envied those past...
a month ago
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a month ago
Some fugitive thinkers among us long for order in a manner almost nostalgic:  “I envied those past ages of the world When, as I thought, the energy in things Shone through their shapes, when sun and moon no less Than tree or stone or star or human face Were seen but as fantastic...
NeuroLogica Blog
Categorization and What’s In a Name Categorization is critical in science, but it is also very tricky, often deceptively so. We need to...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Categorization is critical in science, but it is also very tricky, often deceptively so. We need to categorize things to help us organize our knowledge, to understand how things work and relate to each other, and to communicate efficiently and precisely. But categorization can...
Mazdak
The AI Invasion: Is humanity on the verge of a digital takeover? The AI Invasion: Is humanity on the verge of a digital takeover?
a month ago
Christian Selig
Announcing Apollo: a new Reddit app for iPhone I’m really excited to unveil a project I’ve been working on for the last year or so. It’s called...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m really excited to unveil a project I’ve been working on for the last year or so. It’s called Apollo and it’s a new Reddit app for iPhone. I’ve been a Reddit user for about four years now, and the site is a constant source of interesting discussion, hilarity and news for me...
Making software...
CSS Character Unit CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the golden standard is to have no more than 75 characters per line. This is easy to achieve in the world of print but on the responsive, ever-changing web - statically defined...
TheCollector
Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language undefined
4 months ago
Blog - Guerrilla...
Blocking Sediment Migration Blocking Sediment Migration from Colorado River Basin to Gulf of California I didn’t intend to map...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Blocking Sediment Migration from Colorado River Basin to Gulf of California I didn’t intend to map human migration for the Atlas in a Day project. My plans for a map of the migration of sediment in rivers raised some eyebrows at home, mostly wondering how the subject would fit in...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Alpine Charms and Traditions of Bregenzerwald
a year ago
Steve Blank
Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. National Security is Now Dependent on Commercial...
TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus undefined
4 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Announcing Emoji 1.0
over a year ago
TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know undefined
3 months ago
diamond geezer
Unblogged April 30 unblogged things I did in April Mon 1: Three highlights of a day spent at my Dad's in Norfolk: i)...
7 months ago
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30 unblogged things I did in April Mon 1: Three highlights of a day spent at my Dad's in Norfolk: i) going to the local art exhibition and having tea and cake with a sheep farmer. ii) watching a wren repeatedly bringing nest material into the birdbox beside my bedroom window....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Shoes Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately he was able to invest those socks and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately he was able to invest those socks and return a dividend later. Today's News: Monday!
TheCollector
Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War undefined
3 weeks ago
devonzuegel.com
Book notes: Against the Grain, by James C. Scott Here are some notes and quotes that particularly stood out to me from each chapter of Against the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here are some notes and quotes that particularly stood out to me from each chapter of Against the Grain. This isn't a summary of the book. It's mostly for my future self to refer back to (and thus probably missing a lot for someone who hasn't read it), but the tidbits are so...
TheCollector
10 Baroque Artists You Should Know undefined
11 months ago
Seth's Blog
I fixed it for you Creativity is about hope and possibility. It gives us a chance to make things better. Plenty has...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Creativity is about hope and possibility. It gives us a chance to make things better. Plenty has been written about the sad iPad ad that Apple just apologized for. It wasn’t just out of character for the story Apple tells, it was a cheap hack, taking the nihilism and helplessness...