Wuthering...
What has happened to me may well be a good thing - the death of Socrates
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo,
the extended version of the death of Socrates.
These texts,...
a year ago
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo,
the extended version of the death of Socrates.
These texts, especially the last three, are a large part of the fame of
Socrates, the reason he is an exemplar of the wise man to this day. He asked annoying questions, he rejected
material...
Christopher Butler
The Top Ten Hitchcock Films
This is my personal ranking, subject to change at any time.
Rear Window
North by...
a month ago
This is my personal ranking, subject to change at any time.
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Vertigo
Rebecca
Rope
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Spellbound
Notorious
To Catch a Thief
Strangers on a Train
The Marginalian
18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian
Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your...
2 months ago
Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols, not the philosophers or the poets, not your liberal arts education or your twelve-step program, not church or therapy or Tolstoy. No matter how valuable any...
Roberto Vitillo's...
Testing and operating distributed systems
I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally...
over a year ago
I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally complete! First things first, I have…
The Marginalian
We Go to the Park: A Soulful Illustrated Meditation on Our Search for Meaning
"Sometimes it feels as if all of life is made up of longing."
4 months ago
"Sometimes it feels as if all of life is made up of longing."
Engineers Need Art
Jigsaw Puzzle
Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big...
over a year ago
Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big jigsaw puzzle.
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Master Etcher of Human Portraits'
In
celebration of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s fiftieth birthday, on December 22,
1919, seventeen...
a year ago
In
celebration of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s fiftieth birthday, on December 22,
1919, seventeen poets and friends were asked to contribute to a symposium published
a day earlier in the New York Times Book
Review. All but Robert Frost contributed. Amy Lowell wrote: “A realist,...
Joel Gascoigne
Welcoming Maria Thomas as Buffer’s Chief Product Officer
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
In July, we shared that we were looking for a...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
In July, we shared that we were looking for a product leader to help us take Buffer forward in our next phase. After speaking to an incredible group of talented folks in product, I’m happy to share that Maria
the singularity is...
The Soul
ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you...
3 weeks ago
ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you wish there was a deep state that came for me. then at least there would be some adults in the room.
I used to fantasize about being or kissing Skrillex
the whole album is bangers...
Passing Time
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
Why do we forget what we want to remember and remember what we want to forget?
a year ago
Why do we forget what we want to remember and remember what we want to forget?
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - NYT
Click here to go see the bonus...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/opinion/space-billionaires-sex.html
Today's News:
Back to regular comics shortly, but the book comes out tomorrow. Opening week sales matter a lot, so wish me luck!
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Denmark and Finland Are Must-Visits for Foodies
4 months ago
TheCollector
7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
undefined
a year ago
Map of the Week
Humpback Whale Migration
The Arctic University of Norway leads the Whaletrack program to map Humpback and Killer Whale...
a year ago
The Arctic University of Norway leads the Whaletrack program to map Humpback and Killer Whale migrations.
Whales are tracked as they travel thousands of miles from the Barents Sea in the Arctic where they feed to winter breeding breeding grounds in the Caribbean Sea. The map...
Both Are True
The meet-cute (rom com, Act One)
a tale of two idiots who fell in love as told by one of those idiots, full of sound and fury,...
9 months ago
a tale of two idiots who fell in love as told by one of those idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying everything
TheCollector
Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
undefined
4 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
Painted Drop Shadows Around The Windows Create An Interesting Effect On This Building
Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has unveiled its own new office that’s located within a century-old,...
a year ago
Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has unveiled its own new office that’s located within a century-old, three-storey brick building in Toronto’s Corso Italia neighborhood. A unique design feature not often seen on the exterior of a building, are the painted drop shadows surrounding...
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
Applied Cartography
11ty
.njk as the default templating language is an odd choice, and I find myself stubbing my toe on it a...
10 months ago
.njk as the default templating language is an odd choice, and I find myself stubbing my toe on it a good amount. Maybe that's a me thing!
It is extremely fast. This site has around 2300 pages; Eleventy is compiling it in around two seconds.
The extensibility ergonomics are...
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
undefined
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Zucchini Crabcakes
With a tiny bit more planning I made a dinner out the lessons 4 and 5 as the crabcakes were only...
over a year ago
With a tiny bit more planning I made a dinner out the lessons 4 and 5 as the crabcakes were only supposed to be an appetizer:
Crabcakes: Surprisingly delicious. Both me and Veronica gives them a 7.
Zucchini: While I thought they passed Veronica said “Zucchini is not my thing” and...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The “thin edge of the wedge” strategy
Establishing relationships with new users is the hardest part of growing a startup. For consumer...
over a year ago
Establishing relationships with new users is the hardest part of growing a startup. For consumer products establishing relationships can…
Londonist
London's Smallest Art Gallery Is In A Phone Box Outside The British Museum
You can buy the art, too.
a year ago
You can buy the art, too.
diamond geezer
Leap day
Leap day - 29 leap facts for February 29th
1) Leap years occur quadrennially, that's every four...
9 months ago
Leap day - 29 leap facts for February 29th
1) Leap years occur quadrennially, that's every four years. They're required because a solar year is almost exactly 365¼ days long, and over a four year period those four quarter-days add up to make one whole extra day.
2) Today is the...
nanoscale views
ARPA-E Roadshow
Today, Rice hosted the ARPA-E Roadshow, a series of presentations by ARPA-E program officers, MC-ed...
a year ago
Today, Rice hosted the ARPA-E Roadshow, a series of presentations by ARPA-E program officers, MC-ed by the director, Prof. Evelyn Wang. It was all about the energy transition, and it was pretty fascinating, particularly hearing from leaders of startups who were making...
Cheese and Biscuits
Archway, Battersea Park
Firstly, I have a confession to make. Many years ago I was very kindly treated to lunch at the River...
a year ago
Firstly, I have a confession to make. Many years ago I was very kindly treated to lunch at the River Café in Hammersmith, and I didn't like it. I think I was mainly intimidated - by the well-heeled crowd, the scale and the power of that vast dining room and open kitchen, and yes,...
Irrational...
Getting lucky isn't a plan.
One piece of flippant commentary that you’ll hear occasionally is that it’s “Better to be lucky than...
a year ago
One piece of flippant commentary that you’ll hear occasionally is that it’s “Better to be lucky than to be good.” On an individual level, it’s almost certainly true that being very lucky outperforms being quite good: I certainly know a number of folks who are financially...
Blog System/5
Links: November 2023 edition
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
a year ago
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
Mark Manson
3 Steps to Stop Negative Thinking
Ever find yourself drowning in a sea of negativity, wondering how you can escape the relentless...
a year ago
Ever find yourself drowning in a sea of negativity, wondering how you can escape the relentless tidal wave of self-doubt and judgment?
Well, you're not alone. We all suffer from negative thoughts, and it's about time we learned how to deal with them effectively.
In this...
Left To Write
#9 Writemas: What Is Driving You?
I had a call with an old poker friend earlier. We both have similar backgrounds; we are reasonably...
a year ago
I had a call with an old poker friend earlier. We both have similar backgrounds; we are reasonably well educated, started poker around the same time, and never felt like we were enough. Both of our poker careers were driven by insecurity. We both had this desire to prove...
The Modern House
The delightful details of an Art Deco apartment in Shepherd’s Bush, west London
a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Easter Weekend In London: 29 March-1 April 2024
Our bumper events guide for the long weekend.
9 months ago
Our bumper events guide for the long weekend.
mtlynch.io
I Regret My $46k Website Redesign
Two years ago, I created a website for my business. By combining my terrible design skills with a...
over a year ago
Two years ago, I created a website for my business. By combining my terrible design skills with a decent-looking template, I created a site that looked okay. I told myself that if the business took off, I’d hire a real designer to make it look professional.
TinyPilot website,...
Rest of World -...
The job listing app where you can slide into a recruiter’s DMs
Boss Zhipin’s AI connects job seekers directly with recruiters, and it’s thriving on China’s...
a year ago
Boss Zhipin’s AI connects job seekers directly with recruiters, and it’s thriving on China’s employment crisis.
The Thinking Cap
The Future of No Code is Low Code
Or why we should write more programming languages instead of trying to build virtual legos.
over a year ago
Or why we should write more programming languages instead of trying to build virtual legos.
TheCollector
What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
undefined
a year ago
Home on Erik...
Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering
This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts...
over a year ago
This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts of libertarianism and a lot of the good parts:
Both ideologies strive to eliminate [the] state.
Seth's Blog
Demanding certainty
The defenders of the status quo often demand certainty when facing decisions about the future. It...
8 months ago
The defenders of the status quo often demand certainty when facing decisions about the future. It sets up the conditions for doing nothing, because certainty never happens until the future arrives. It’s much more useful to look at probabilities. Flipping a fair coin has a 50%...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dave
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
But hey, you should see the guy who necessitated...
6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
But hey, you should see the guy who necessitated the 613 mitzvot.
Today's News:
Boop
Seth's Blog
The lazy jugglers
The best jugglers don’t seem to be trying very hard. That’s because they understand what the work...
5 months ago
The best jugglers don’t seem to be trying very hard. That’s because they understand what the work involves, and they don’t confuse effort with results. Some approaches to keep in mind: Focus on the work at hand Don’t take on more than you can handle Establish a spec, and ignore...
TheCollector
Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
undefined
9 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Binius: highly efficient proofs over binary fields
7 months ago
Seth's Blog
The marketing department
That’s the first part of the confusion. It’s a group of people who can’t decide what the thing they...
8 months ago
That’s the first part of the confusion. It’s a group of people who can’t decide what the thing they do is supposed to be. Is it: Advertising Publicity Increasing retail distribution Direct and measured response SEO Making the logo pretty Wholesale and trade relationships...
Archinect - Features
How to Get a Job at Workshop/APD
Established by founding principals Andrew Kotchen and Matt Berman in 1999, New York City-based firm...
a year ago
Established by founding principals Andrew Kotchen and Matt Berman in 1999, New York City-based firm Workshop/APD has grown into a design force whose reach far exceeds the American Northeast with completed projects also in the Rocky Mountains, South Florida, California, Europe,...
journal – Winnie Lim
from creativity to activity
I started making websites and dabbling in photoshop when I first got my computer at 15. I never felt...
10 months ago
I started making websites and dabbling in photoshop when I first got my computer at 15. I never felt particularly creative as a child and I hated art classes so when that...
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2022
I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping...
a year ago
I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping detailed records.
I don’t set reading goals, but I’m pleased with that.
Nearly a third of those books came from my local library; both books I knew I already wanted to read, and books...
./techtipsy
This page looks better in the app
You’re a web developer at a social media company that has recently made a big push for
modernizing...
over a year ago
You’re a web developer at a social media company that has recently made a big push for
modernizing their frontend for the mobile-first era. It has taken a lot of time and effort from many people.
Countless challenges, arguments, testing.
The release is near. You’re probably a bit...
TheCollector
Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
undefined
7 months ago
Noahpinion
Trumpism is kakistocracy
A cult of personality prizes loyalty above competence, resulting in "rule by the worst".
a month ago
A cult of personality prizes loyalty above competence, resulting in "rule by the worst".
Wuthering...
Daryl Hine's Ovid's Heroines - I, who could a dragon hypnotize
An anti-Valentine’s Day book now, Ovid’s Heroides
(25-16 BCE, somewhere in there), a collection of...
10 months ago
An anti-Valentine’s Day book now, Ovid’s Heroides
(25-16 BCE, somewhere in there), a collection of fictional letters in verse written
by mythical heroines to their no-good boyfriends and husbands. Many end in suicide. Dido castigating Aeneas, Phaedra mourning...
TheCollector
The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
undefined
2 months ago
nanoscale views
CHIPS and Science - the reality vs the aspiration
I already wrote about this issue here back in August, but I wanted to highlight a policy statement...
2 months ago
I already wrote about this issue here back in August, but I wanted to highlight a policy statement that I wrote with colleagues as part of Rice's Baker Institute's Election 2024: Policy Playbook, which "delivers nonpartisan, expert insights into key issues at stake on the 2024...
Retail Design Blog
2050 coffee by TEKI Design
“2050 coffee problem” ,which is a concern that by the year 2050, we may not be able to enjoy...
2 months ago
“2050 coffee problem” ,which is a concern that by the year 2050, we may not be able to enjoy coffee...
Spoon & Tamago
Post-Apocalyptic Illustrations of Tokyo in Ruins
Shinjuku Station – the road has collapsed on the South side of the station, revealing pools of blue...
a year ago
Shinjuku Station – the road has collapsed on the South side of the station, revealing pools of blue water that have formed on the train tracks Stories about the collapse of civilization and order—apocalyptic stories—endlessly seduce us. As terrifying as the real thing would...
Lighthouse Blog
Overview of the reading view
6 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from Pen & Teller’s Masterclass
I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks...
3 months ago
I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks that came in handy while we sitting in the airport waiting for a connecting fight with restless kids.
I also really enjoyed Pen & Teller’s reflections on the art of their craft....
TheCollector
How Did Romania Become a Country?
undefined
2 months ago
Making software...
Menu Toggle with Pure CSS
Menu Toggle with Pure CSS
2020-10-19
When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices...
over a year ago
Menu Toggle with Pure CSS
2020-10-19
When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices sometimes the best option is to store away the content behind a toggle button. This button would then display the menu items upon interaction. Let me show you how to create such an...
The American Scholar
Tramping With Virginia
A seminal essay about walking the streets of London can present challenges in the classrooms of...
7 months ago
A seminal essay about walking the streets of London can present challenges in the classrooms of today
The post Tramping With Virginia appeared first on The American Scholar.
mtlynch.io
Installing Jellyfin on TrueNAS Core
I always run into issues installing Jellyfin on TrueNAS core. I fix them, and then I forget a few...
a year ago
I always run into issues installing Jellyfin on TrueNAS core. I fix them, and then I forget a few months later, so these are just my notes to myself of how to install Jellyfin on TrueNAS core.
Instructions Install based on these...
NeuroLogica Blog
How Substance Abuse Affects the Brain
I will acknowledge up front that I never drink, ever. The concept of deliberately consuming a known...
a year ago
I will acknowledge up front that I never drink, ever. The concept of deliberately consuming a known poison to impair the functioning of your brain never appealed to me. Also, I am a bit of a supertaster, and the taste of alcohol to me is horrible – it overwhelms any other...
the singularity is...
The Elon Swing Voter
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
2 weeks ago
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
Londonist
5 Amazing Places To Eat Asian Food In Central London
As chosen by chef Jeff Tan.
10 months ago
As chosen by chef Jeff Tan.
History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
5 months ago
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
Casey Handmer's blog
Potentially undervalued companies
I am routinely solicited for my technical opinion on new and interesting technologies and companies...
3 months ago
I am routinely solicited for my technical opinion on new and interesting technologies and companies developing them. 90% of the time, my answer is “I don’t know” but it continues to concern me that aspects of technical feasibility are evidently not legible to financial types (and...
Mazdak
The Latest in Smartglasses Tech
From Samsung's latest specs to the buzz surrounding Apple's potential entry, the world of...
a month ago
From Samsung's latest specs to the buzz surrounding Apple's potential entry, the world of smartglasses is heating up!
TheCollector
Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
undefined
6 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Few Details About My Notes Website
A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a...
a year ago
A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a little more about some of my favorite parts of the site.
First: It’s Really a Page, Not a Site
I’m not sure I should call it a “website”, as I think of a website as a collection...
AFAR Media - Travel...
These Airlines Make Flying Easier for Travelers With Autism
a year ago
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
Louwrentius
The sorry state of CoW file systems
I'd like to argue that both ZFS and BTRFS both are incomplete file systems with their own drawbacks...
over a year ago
I'd like to argue that both ZFS and BTRFS both are incomplete file systems with their own drawbacks and that it may still be a long way off before we have something truly great.
Both ZFS and BTRFS are two heroic feats of engineering, created by people who are probably ten times...
Acko.net
React - The Missing Parts
Question the rules for fun and profit
One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a...
over a year ago
Question the rules for fun and profit
One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a popular library's patterns is that you can experiment with all sorts of changes.
In my case, I have a React-clone, Live, which includes all the familiar basics: props, state and...
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
undefined
a year ago
The Honest Broker
My 'Personal Favorites' Carla Bley Playlist
I pay tribute to the jazz pianist and composer—who left us yesterday at age 87
a year ago
I pay tribute to the jazz pianist and composer—who left us yesterday at age 87
Old Structures...
Other People’s Perception
Every once in a while, something slightly out of the ordinary reminds me of how our work looks to...
5 months ago
Every once in a while, something slightly out of the ordinary reminds me of how our work looks to people not in the AEC world. Yesterday morning I was walking up Thames Street from Trinity to Broadway and took this photo: That block of Thames is a great illustration of why the...
TheCollector
Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
undefined
a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
Make Big Money Mistakes Early
It's just a cafe, how hard can it be?
a year ago
It's just a cafe, how hard can it be?
Val Sopi
Test
<p>
Some super </p>
<p class="top-button">
<a href="#top">🔝</a>
</p>
10 months ago
<p>
Some super </p>
<p class="top-button">
<a href="#top">🔝</a>
</p>
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Challenge your performance intuition with C++ magic squares
Let's play a game. There will be twelve rounds, each round is a match between two solutions. Or...
over a year ago
Let's play a game. There will be twelve rounds, each round is a match between two solutions. Or rather between their execution times. Using your intuition and best judgment, please estimate their relative performance.
Louwrentius
Unattended automatic installation of Linux nvidia binary driver
As part of an unattended installation, it was necessary to install a binary
nvidia graphics driver....
over a year ago
As part of an unattended installation, it was necessary to install a binary
nvidia graphics driver. This is a manual proces by default. However, it can be
done fully automatic:
prerequisite: install xserver-xorg-dev package or similar xorg development
package.
sh NVIDIA-.run -q...
Seth's Blog
Everything costs
But not all costs are the same. There are three kinds of costs that people get confused about, but...
2 months ago
But not all costs are the same. There are three kinds of costs that people get confused about, but understanding them, really understanding them–in your bones–unlocks opportunity. Opportunity cost: If you eat the cupcakes, you can’t also eat the brownies. Every time we choose to...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
If you asked people in 1989...
"If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they...
over a year ago
"If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they would have said that a decentralized…
The Codist
I Learned How To Program 50 Years Ago
In the fall of the 1973-1974 school year, my public high school offered a class in computer...
a year ago
In the fall of the 1973-1974 school year, my public high school offered a class in computer programming. This class was rare for its time, as there were few computers in the world accessible for students, and most people had no idea what they could do other than seeing HAL
tomcritchlow.com
Notes on Search and AI
What to say about the future of AI and search?
10 months ago
What to say about the future of AI and search?
CONTEMPORIST
Vertical Fins Surround The Exterior Of This House Giving It A Distinct Appearance
Architecture and design studio MDAMMM, has recently completed the remodel of a home that had a...
a year ago
Architecture and design studio MDAMMM, has recently completed the remodel of a home that had a nondescript appearance and little aesthetic appeal. The original home had an exposed brick facade in ochre tones and all other elements featured different grey tones and finishes. The...
Making software...
Embracing Slow Tech
Embracing Slow Tech
2022-11-22
I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux...
over a year ago
Embracing Slow Tech
2022-11-22
I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux through Wayland/Sway and it is going well so far. Setting things up was much easier than I initially expected. There were only a few minor tweaks I had to make, such as setting vim...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 2
The VIC-20
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Fight Burnout, Go For a Run
Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We...
over a year ago
Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We need to talk about it. We need to know how to deal with it and recover from it. And we need to recognize that everyone can come back from it, stronger than ever.
In the software...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unabridged Conclusion to the State of JS
the full text of my State of JS writeup!
over a year ago
the full text of my State of JS writeup!
Mazdak
Interest Rates Dip, But Will Demand Follow?
As the housing market continues its dynamic dance, a recent drop in interest rates presents a...
a year ago
As the housing market continues its dynamic dance, a recent drop in interest rates presents a curious conundrum. While the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for qualifying loans sunk to 6.83%, purchase applications surprisingly declined 1%. This begs the question:
Diaries of Note
Turkeys are beautiful in themselves
Born in London in 1896, J. R. Ackerley was a distinguished author and editor celebrated for his...
a year ago
Born in London in 1896, J. R. Ackerley was a distinguished author and editor celebrated for his candid autobiographical writing and his lengthy tenure as the literary editor of the BBC magazine, The Listener. On 22nd December 1952, as millions of households across Britain...
Jake Zimmerman
Generic methods cannot have non-generic defaults in Sorbet
4 months ago
The Diff
Are VCs Incentivized to be too Nice for Venture Debt?
Plus! Art of the Cram-Down; Transaction Costs; Amazon Air; Bull Markets; Misinformation
2 weeks ago
Plus! Art of the Cram-Down; Transaction Costs; Amazon Air; Bull Markets; Misinformation
Maggie Appleton
The Best Illustration Books and Courses
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off
Global funding in the cultured meat industry dropped by 75% in the last year. Singapore sees its...
6 months ago
Global funding in the cultured meat industry dropped by 75% in the last year. Singapore sees its chance to become a world leader, backing local and international firms.
Laetitia@Work
7 Reasons Women Feel More Guilt At Work
Laetitia@Work #73
3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Experience
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Also what if this IS the experience machine and the...
2 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Also what if this IS the experience machine and the real world is way worse?
Today's News:
Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
8 months ago
Explorations of an...
Heading East Across The Chaco
I’ve written about the Chaco region before – that vast dry, scrubby area south of the Amazon which...
a year ago
I’ve written about the Chaco region before – that vast dry, scrubby area south of the Amazon which happens to cover much of central and northern Argentina. Laura and I had skirted the edge of the Chaco earlier in the trip, including near Laguna Salinas Grande and in the Salta...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Solution
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Other dilemmas take a few billion years, but they...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Other dilemmas take a few billion years, but they all work out eventually.
Today's News:
Just 10 more days!
TheCollector
What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
undefined
4 months ago
mtlynch.io
On Migrating from Cypress to Playwright
Cypress is an open-source tool for testing web applications end-to-end. I first saw Gleb Bahmutov...
over a year ago
Cypress is an open-source tool for testing web applications end-to-end. I first saw Gleb Bahmutov demo Cypress at a 2018 web dev meetup in New York, and I was blown away.
I’ve been using Cypress since I saw it demoed at a dev meetup in 2018.
Before discovering Cypress, I had...
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
Jonas Hietala
A small LED Cube
As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I...
over a year ago
As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I got started a little with soldering by constructing a small 3x3x3 LED cube.
Although extremely hard to see in this picture it actually worked without a hitch! It’s not the...
macwright.com
Luxury of simplicity by
An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too...
11 months ago
An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too complicated.” With the risk of stating the obvious:
Writing a blog engine, with one customer, yourself, is the most luxuriously simple web application possible. Complexity lies...
Spoon & Tamago
Local Noto Businesses that You Can Support
Roughly 6000 people remain in temporary evacuation shelters ever since the Noto Earthquake on...
11 months ago
Roughly 6000 people remain in temporary evacuation shelters ever since the Noto Earthquake on January 1st upended life for so many. And while the recovery is long and arduous, many are doing what they can to return to normal and that includes the many local businesses in the Noto...
Spoon & Tamago
Download Over 30 Butterfly Designs by Meiji-Era Artist Yuho Tanaka
Yuho Tanaka (田中幽峰) was an accomplished artist and draughtsman active in Kyoto during the late-1800s....
a year ago
Yuho Tanaka (田中幽峰) was an accomplished artist and draughtsman active in Kyoto during the late-1800s. At the height of his career in the 1890s he created numerous graphic patterns inspired by butterflies that were eventually compiled into a book titled hyaku-cho-zuan, or One...
Dan Slimmon
Platform teams don’t need to act like companies
Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search...
a year ago
Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search Team provides a Search service and its “customers” are the teams whose code consumes that service. The Developer Productivity Team’s product is a suite of tools for managing local...
Identity Designed
Norfolk Coast
Designed by Lantern, London.
a year ago
Designed by Lantern, London.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#15)
Working-class wealth, the education gap, zero-sum thinking, data uncertainty, and indigenous...
a year ago
Working-class wealth, the education gap, zero-sum thinking, data uncertainty, and indigenous knowledge
alexwlchan
Filtering AWS CLI output by tags using jq
Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of...
a year ago
Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of results using jq.
Specifically, I wanted to filter using some of the AWS tags, which are a bit unwieldy – although the tags form a set of key/value pairs, they’re returned as a list...
Old Structures...
Also From The Train, Again
I was going through some old photos and found this, and was gong to use it for a blog post until I...
2 months ago
I was going through some old photos and found this, and was gong to use it for a blog post until I looked and realized that I already had. So here it is again: That’s the West Shore railroad, as seen from the Hudson line (AKA the New York Central main line), and from across […]
The Marginalian
Roxane Gay on Loving vs. Being in Love and the Mark of a Soul Mate
"It isn’t perfect, not at all. It doesn’t need to be. It is, simply, what fills you up."
a year ago
"It isn’t perfect, not at all. It doesn’t need to be. It is, simply, what fills you up."
Probably...
Combining Risks
Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
7 months ago
Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. combine_risk Combining Risks¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. Bit of a weird one but I’m hoping you’re the...
Luxagraf:...
Everyday It's 1984
Nostalgia is commonly used pejoratively. As if the very idea of looking backward in time and saying,...
a year ago
Nostalgia is commonly used pejoratively. As if the very idea of looking backward in time and saying, hmm, maybe we lost something between then and now were... bad? The American Psychological Association considers nostalgia a subset of depression, which is, ahem, depressing. But...
Seth's Blog
“What’s next?”
The way we think about our priorities makes a huge difference. Leaders of every stripe make one...
a year ago
The way we think about our priorities makes a huge difference. Leaders of every stripe make one thing more than any other: decisions. In any environment with constraints (which is, actually, any environment), the decisions about time and resources–about what to do next–change...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Aspen Uncovered: How to Explore the City Like a True Local
7 months ago
diamond geezer
Premature poppying
We can all agree that the Royal British Legion does excellent work supporting ex-service personnel...
a year ago
We can all agree that the Royal British Legion does excellent work supporting ex-service personnel and their families, and that their annual Poppy Appeal is an inspirational fund-raising exercise. We can all agree that the Royal British Legion does excellent work supporting...
Tony Dinh's...
Oct 2023: side project, interview on Indie Hackers
Going viral, my thoughts, and updates from me in October 2023.
a year ago
Going viral, my thoughts, and updates from me in October 2023.
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five Finals Intro
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI...
over a year ago
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI beat the world champions at Dota 2:
“Welcome everyone. This is an exciting day.
First, this is an historic moment: this will be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play...
Making software...
Setting Up a Free SSL
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
over a year ago
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol.
Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 1 (Teacher's Pet)
The first in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
8 months ago
The first in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
bunnie's blog
Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been...
3 months ago
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been framing the weaponization of pagers and radios in the Middle East as something we do not need to concern ourselves with because “we” are safe. I respectfully disagree. Our militaries...
Old Structures...
Like Looking Down A Well
Trinity Church and its yard are surrounded on all four sides by tall buildings. In 1952, when Angelo...
7 months ago
Trinity Church and its yard are surrounded on all four sides by tall buildings. In 1952, when Angelo Rizzuto took this picture looking down from the roof of one of them, they were all of about 1900-1920 vintage. It’s a striking shot, but I’d guess not to everyone’s taste.
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2023, Day 1
Ahh, Las Vegas. I will say, I think every APS March Meeting from now on should have a giant Ferris...
a year ago
Ahh, Las Vegas. I will say, I think every APS March Meeting from now on should have a giant Ferris wheel right by the registration lobby.
Here are a few highlights from what I saw after I arrived around lunchtime today:
Given some of my current research, I spent a fair bit...
Making software...
CSS Variables
CSS Variables
2018-03-24
The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
over a year ago
CSS Variables
2018-03-24
The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I'd like to focus specifically on the "new" CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now.
Getting started is easy
Let's just jump...
TheCollector
A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
undefined
a year ago
Posts on Made of...
BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM
I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the...
over a year ago
I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine on Linux.
Virtunoid: Breaking out of KVM from Nelson Elhage [Edited 2011-08-11] The code is now available. It should be fairly well-commented, and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Netlify Year One - 360 Review
I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year...
over a year ago
I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) Recap. That post was entirely me looking back at myself. It's helpful to see what others said about me at my review.
Strange Loop Canon
Strange Loop Canon Commencement Address
5 months ago
Stephen Diehl
FPTs: Pure Fungibility on the Blockchain
over a year ago
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
HTMHell
The UX of HTML
by Vasilis van Gemert
Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a...
a year ago
by Vasilis van Gemert
Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a font — a student asked: does it have to be semantic and shit? The whole class looked up, curious about the answer — please let it be no! I answered that no, it doesn’t have to be...
Old Structures...
Fun With Telephoto Lenses
A lot of times, when I’m discussing an old photo, I’ll talk about where the photographer was...
8 months ago
A lot of times, when I’m discussing an old photo, I’ll talk about where the photographer was standing when he or she took the shot. It matters to understand exactly what you’re seeing, and figuring it out is usually not that difficult if you know some of the quirks of Manhattan...
One Useful Thing
Catastrophe / Eucatastrophe
We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.
a year ago
We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.
Retail Design Blog
Kurasu café by Kousou
Exploring the tension between order and disorder When Kurasu, the specialty coffee brand from Kyoto,...
4 months ago
Exploring the tension between order and disorder When Kurasu, the specialty coffee brand from Kyoto, entered Indonesia, its first home...
Archinect - Features
The Pandemic Is History, but for Architects, Its Impact on Office Design Remains
Our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey highlighted concerns among architects that...
4 months ago
Our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey highlighted concerns among architects that their business health has been impacted by the ongoing adoption of remote and hybrid working patterns across the U.S. in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. We explore in more detail...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Some time in the next 10 years, someone's gonna...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Some time in the next 10 years, someone's gonna whoopsie an AGI into existence trying to create a highly multimodal porn-bot.
Today's News:
Computer Ads from...
ViaGrafix Computer Training Videos
Learn...by Simply Watching TV
a month ago
Learn...by Simply Watching TV
The Marginalian
The Sky and the Soul: 19th-Century Norwegian Artist Knud Baade’s Transcendent Cloudscapes
Nothing on Earth appears more divine yet attests more fully to the materiality of being than clouds...
a year ago
Nothing on Earth appears more divine yet attests more fully to the materiality of being than clouds — enchanting emblems of the water cycle that makes this rocky planet a living world, drifting across our shared dome as if exhaled by some lovesick god. That we should have such a...
Paul Cudenec
The spirit of Sophia: our promise
Our Beloved!
3 months ago
Citation Needed
Issue 61 – Soft war by the enemy
How will recent Supreme Court decisions affect the crypto world? Also, more absurdity from the...
5 months ago
How will recent Supreme Court decisions affect the crypto world? Also, more absurdity from the crypto lobby, and some new regulatory actions.
TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
undefined
2 weeks ago
Castles in the Sky
Pure Research is a Bet on Progress
Normally I spend part of my summer convincing a group of reluctant students that pure research is an...
a year ago
Normally I spend part of my summer convincing a group of reluctant students that pure research is an essential part of the progress and preservation of civilization. But for the first time in four years, my calendar was blank for the middle weeks of June. I would usually teach a...
Probably...
Logarithms and Heteroskedasticity
Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
7 months ago
Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. log_heterosked Logarithms and heteroskedasticity¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. Is it correct to use...
journal – Winnie Lim
getting closer to my darkness
I have always struggled with my mind, but the intensity seemed to worsen in the past few months....
a year ago
I have always struggled with my mind, but the intensity seemed to worsen in the past few months. Tracing back, I think it was since my covid infection. I wasn’t surprised to...
Making software...
Width or Flex-Basis?
Width or Flex-Basis?
2018-11-28
Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be...
over a year ago
Width or Flex-Basis?
2018-11-28
Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be a little tricky depending on the desired outcome. Let's breakdown how to solve this issue using both inline-block paired with width and flex-basis.
Width
Setting the width of the...
A Smart Bear
How to measure the accuracy of forecasts
How do you assess forecasts, when the forecast is only a probability? It's not just about accuracy....
11 months ago
How do you assess forecasts, when the forecast is only a probability? It's not just about accuracy. Let's dive into the math.
Tinloof - Blog
Learn ESLint concepts, not rules
What is ESLint and why is it useful?
A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's...
over a year ago
What is ESLint and why is it useful?
A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's start with the problems we have when writing JavaScript code.
Problem #1: JavaScript is not compiled while you write it
Seth's Blog
Amazon Smile gets a frown
I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates...
a year ago
I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates 5% for referrals. If we pay charities a tenth of that and call it a donation, it’ll be great PR and we’ll also make a profit on every sale because we won’t need to pay a full...
diamond geezer
First and last quiz
First and last quiz
All answers now in the comments box.
chemical
element
1) Ac
2) Be
3) Ce
4)...
a year ago
First and last quiz
All answers now in the comments box.
chemical
element
1) Ac
2) Be
3) Ce
4) Cn
5) Cr
6) Fe
7) Gd
8) In
9) Sn
tube
station
10) At
11) Ct
12) Fd
13) Hr
14) Ld
15) Mn
16) Ne
17) Rr
18) St
19) Tk
20) Ww
UK city
21) Ah
22) Bt
23) Cd
24) Dr
25) Ld
26) Nt
27)...
Nadia Asparouhova
Early stage funding markets for science - an analysis
In the summer of 2022, with support from Schmidt Futures, I took a closer look at several emerging...
a year ago
In the summer of 2022, with support from Schmidt Futures, I took a closer look at several emerging science funding mechanisms – rapid grants, scout programs, and focused research organizations (FROs) – to understand how they serve the needs of early stage science. I also...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#21)
Saudi oil, delayed economic optimism, the EV revolution, U.S. education performance, Indian...
a year ago
Saudi oil, delayed economic optimism, the EV revolution, U.S. education performance, Indian industrialization, and Chinese urbanism
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
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...
Londonist
Battersea Power Station And Nine Elms Tube Stations Just Got Mark Wallinger Labyrinths
Great news for Labyrinth hunters!
a year ago
Great news for Labyrinth hunters!
Rozado’s Visual...
The Academic Literature and its Increasing Emphasis on Prejudice and Social Justice
Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked...
over a year ago
Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked increase of references to prejudice in US, UK and Spanish news media content. The work summarized here investigates the prevalence dynamics of prejudice-denoting terms in 175...
bt RSS Feed
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
2019-06-11
Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous...
over a year ago
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
2019-06-11
Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous post about how changing the display properties on tables can impact screen readers. I highly recommend his excellent article Tables, CSS Display Properties, and ARIA
I find that the...
Vadim Kravcenko
What questions to ask a startup before joining them?
Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared...
over a year ago
Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared […]
The post What questions to ask a startup before joining them? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
David Heinemeier...
Switching to Android was easy
In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number to Android...
10 months ago
In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number to Android recently. And that turned out to be far easier. Dangerously easy, you might say, if you were in Apple’s shoes. But it’s all down to how deep you’re mired in the platform services soup.
I...
latest projects -...
Portable Probability Panel
[Misc] Laser-cut Galton board
5 months ago
[Misc] Laser-cut Galton board
Melissa Penfold
ISABELLA’S INCREDIBLE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION
It’s a bargain hunter’s paradise at Isabella Walker-Smith’s bumper Christmas Collection which has...
3 weeks ago
It’s a bargain hunter’s paradise at Isabella Walker-Smith’s bumper Christmas Collection which has stacks of table lamps in the style of Christian Liaigre, Kelly Wearstler, Ralph Lauren, and Aerin, from $80. There are quality travertine lamps, $280 a pair, and adorable rattan...
99% Invisible
Planet Money: Zombie 2nd Mortgages [EPISODE]
Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her...
3 months ago
Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her Quincy, Massachusetts home—until one day, a group of strangers appeared on her lawn, claiming her house was up for foreclosure. What followed was a surreal discovery of “zombie...
FIRE v London
Compounding, type II
Supposedly Albert Einstein called compounding the 8th wonder of the world. Certainly the wonder of...
a month ago
Supposedly Albert Einstein called compounding the 8th wonder of the world. Certainly the wonder of compound annual growth rates is something I feel quite viscerally, the more so with each month that I track my portfolio. But I’ve been struck recently by a radical improvement in...
History Today Feed
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
a month ago
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
Maps Mania
Mapping a Global Coral Bleaching Event
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hope
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
No, OR is not a typo, but the lack of a bottom...
8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
No, OR is not a typo, but the lack of a bottom strap in panel 3 will require some retconning.
Today's News:
Louwrentius
Buying a new computer
*** Desktop or Laptop ***
When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to...
over a year ago
*** Desktop or Laptop ***
When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to make is about whether to go for a desktop or a laptop. There was a time that many believed that the desktop would become a niche product. Most people want a laptop because they can...
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#26)
The U.S. economy, U.S. energy, Millennial wealth, medical administrators, and standardized tests
11 months ago
The U.S. economy, U.S. energy, Millennial wealth, medical administrators, and standardized tests
Math Is Still...
What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved
A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of consciousness theorists led to a stagy showdown in front...
a year ago
A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of consciousness theorists led to a stagy showdown in front of an audience. It crowned no winners — but it can still claim progress.
The post What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved first appeared on Quanta...
Matt Mazur
Preceden’s Spam Problem
Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS...
a year ago
Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I’m honestly surprised it took spammers so long: Preceden is a freemium product (meaning people can sign up and try it for free), the product makes it very easy to...
TheCollector
KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
undefined
5 months ago
dthompson
Catbird: An experimental game engine for Scheme programmers
I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now,
and the next one is starting...
over a year ago
I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now,
and the next one is starting on
10/28, and with each attempt
I've been accumulating code that forms something resembling a game
engine. I'm now attempting to solidify some of the concepts I've been
exploring in...
Retail Design Blog
Tate Britain Exhibition by Millennium Contracts
Tate Britain hosted ‘The Squash’, an ambitious installation by British artist Anthea Hamilton, which...
6 days ago
Tate Britain hosted ‘The Squash’, an ambitious installation by British artist Anthea Hamilton, which took over the iconic Duveen Galleries....
Diaries of Note
I have seen something splendid
It was towards the end of his life in 1979 that John Cheever told his son, Benjamin, about his...
a year ago
It was towards the end of his life in 1979 that John Cheever told his son, Benjamin, about his journals, and of his wish for them to be published after his death. These journals comprised twenty-nine looseleaf notebooks filled with entries that, in Cheever’s inimitable style,...
Luxagraf:...
What Vanlife is Really Like
I have no idea what Vanlife is or is like. But I can tell you that if you think you're just going to...
a year ago
I have no idea what Vanlife is or is like. But I can tell you that if you think you're just going to cruise around in an old vehicle, living the life, um, yeah, not all the time. Some of the time, sure. Maybe even most of the time, but there's a good bit of work to be done on the...
TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
undefined
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
undefined
a year ago
Computer Ads from...
Apple IIe and IIc Design Manager Peter Quinn Interviewed by BYTE's Gregg Williams
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of the Apple IIe and IIc.
9 months ago
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of the Apple IIe and IIc.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bea
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Thanks, everyone. It took about 5 years to get from...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Thanks, everyone. It took about 5 years to get from the beginning to here. It's as a good of a thing as I can write, and I hope you enjoy it.
Today's News:
The most frequently asked question is the age range for Bea Wolf readers,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Secrets
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Kids, you can literally find ways to annihilate all...
10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Kids, you can literally find ways to annihilate all humans, but you have to start with algebra!
Today's News:
Louwrentius
Howto get the hard disk size under Linux?
A: There is no single tool for this job, but it seems that Fdisk is just fine:
server:~# fdisk -l 2>...
over a year ago
A: There is no single tool for this job, but it seems that Fdisk is just fine:
server:~# fdisk -l 2> /dev/null | grep Disk | grep -v identifier
Disk /dev/sda: 500.0 GB, 500028145664 bytes
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.0 GB, 500028145664 bytes
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.1 GB, 1000123400192...
Bits about Money
KYC and AML: beyond the acronyms
Know Your Customer policies at financial institutions have more nuance than you'd expect.
a year ago
Know Your Customer policies at financial institutions have more nuance than you'd expect.
Epic Web Dev
Adding OpenID Connect Authentication to the Epic Stack (tip)
Learn how to integrate OpenID Connect authentication into the Epic Stack with this comprehensive...
a year ago
Learn how to integrate OpenID Connect authentication into the Epic Stack with this comprehensive tutorial.
Math Is Still...
New Kind of Magnetism Spotted in an Engineered Material
In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes...
11 months ago
In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes electrons’ spins to align.
The post New Kind of Magnetism Spotted in an Engineered Material first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Math Is Still...
In Highly Connected Networks, There’s Always a Loop
Mathematicians show that graphs of a certain common type must contain a route that visits each point...
6 months ago
Mathematicians show that graphs of a certain common type must contain a route that visits each point exactly once.
The post In Highly Connected Networks, There’s Always a Loop first appeared on Quanta Magazine
macwright.com
You can finally use :has() in most places by
The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the...
a year ago
The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the compatibility table is pretty decent (89% at this writing). I already used has() in a previous post - that Strava CSS hack, but I’m finding it useful in so many places.
For example, in Val...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Google Your Errors
---
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
MOBE – A New Gene Editing System
Have you memorized yet what CRISPR stands for – clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic...
7 months ago
Have you memorized yet what CRISPR stands for – clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats? Well, now you can add MOBE to the list – multiplexed orthogonal base editor. Base editors are not new, they are basically enzymes that will change one base – C (cytosine), T...
elementary Blog
Spring cleaning is in full effect
March was all about bug fixes. This month don’t expect too many new features, but instead get...
a year ago
March was all about bug fixes. This month don’t expect too many new features, but instead get excited about improved stability and closed issue reports! The team has been hard at work sorting through your feedback and smoothing out all of the wrinkles.
Sideload
Since sideloading...
alexwlchan
How moving to the cloud took our digital collections to new heights →
I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the...
a year ago
I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the benefits of moving our data storage and processing to the cloud.
Building out this infrastructure is a large part of what I’ve been working on for the last six (!) years.
It’s been...
Steve Klabnik
What's new with "The Rust Programming Language"
over a year ago
Louwrentius
How to determine which process causes IO ?
There is a nifty little program called 'iotop'. Iotop is part of Debian or
Ubuntu and can be...
over a year ago
There is a nifty little program called 'iotop'. Iotop is part of Debian or
Ubuntu and can be installed with a simple apt-get.
Once you have determined with 'top' that the system is waiting on IO-access,
It is nice to know
which process is responsibe for this IO. Therefore, you...
Rest of World -...
Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India
Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders.
a year ago
Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders.
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Aren't Cheap
Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they...
over a year ago
Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they tend to be much more involved. In a post by Nathan Curtis entitled And you thought buttons were easy?, he demonstrates how costs can quickly skyrocket to $1,000,000 when one arm of...
Old Structures...
Discussing Immigrants Elsewhere
That’s discussion elsewhere about immigrants here, not discussion here about immigrants somewhere...
6 months ago
That’s discussion elsewhere about immigrants here, not discussion here about immigrants somewhere else. I’m at the 8th International Congress on Construction History this week, where I hope to learn a lot about past design and construction practice. I have certainly learned much...
TheCollector
Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
undefined
3 months ago
Paul Cudenec
Vote for Nobody!
Nobody cares.
a month ago
Josh Collinsworth
How to Connect Local with CodeKit
Enjoy all the convenience of easy local WordPress development with Local, plus build tools with...
over a year ago
Enjoy all the convenience of easy local WordPress development with Local, plus build tools with CodeKit, without any of the tricky command line setup.
Diaries of Note
Society is not geared to the expression of compassion
In 1942, shortly before the US joined the war, editor and lifelong pacifist Alfred Hassler...
a year ago
In 1942, shortly before the US joined the war, editor and lifelong pacifist Alfred Hassler registered as a conscientious objector. However, his commitment to nonviolence led him to refuse even the alternative to combat service: enrollment in a Civilian Public Service camp, as...
Steve Klabnik
You can't "turn off the borrow checker" in Rust
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Putting up the big numbers
Some people go to the gym for health and energy. Some go to lift more weight than they did yesterday...
8 months ago
Some people go to the gym for health and energy. Some go to lift more weight than they did yesterday (or more than the person next to them). You can start a company to make an impact and surround yourself with people on a similar journey, or you can seek to maximize the stock...
A Smart Bear
You're a little company, now act like one
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the...
2 months ago
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
The Changelog
Consider Security First
I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly...
11 months ago
I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly can, including my Raspberry Pi devices, to Debian. I will write about that later. But for now, I wanted to comment on something I think is often overlooked and misunderstood by...
TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
undefined
6 months ago
The Beauty of...
Silver Machine (Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station, Hanley, Staffordshire, UK)
With a horrid shock of recognition, I suddenly realised what Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station reminded me...
over a year ago
With a horrid shock of recognition, I suddenly realised what Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station reminded me of. As a one-time public transport officer in a local authority I, like most others, often experienced the depressing feeling of being unable to source enough funding to keep an...
Common Edge
As Brooklyn Nets’ Value Booms, a Missed Opportunity With the Arena
A $688 million Koch family (!) investment shows the enormous upside for NBA team owners.
6 months ago
A $688 million Koch family (!) investment shows the enormous upside for NBA team owners.
Coding Horror
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015....
over a year ago
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that's yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
Society's Backend
A Privacy Review: Google
I read Google's privacy policy for you
a year ago
I read Google's privacy policy for you
Moneyness
Thoughts on the Tornado Cash defence and what happens when everyone adopts it
Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance,...
8 months ago
Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance, has has to pay multiple fines. Western Union was famously busted in 2017. Meanwhile, Cash App is being probed as we speak for inadequate anti-money laundering controls.
In the...
Citation Needed
I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”
Independent publishing is one important facet of the media ecosystem, and while I love it, I know it...
a month ago
Independent publishing is one important facet of the media ecosystem, and while I love it, I know it is not the path for everyone.
Retail Design Blog
Tiana Factory by Hooold Design
The core goal of the Tiana Cake project is to transform an abandoned office space into an efficient...
2 months ago
The core goal of the Tiana Cake project is to transform an abandoned office space into an efficient baking factory....
Home on Erik...
Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory
It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe...
over a year ago
It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering...
Maggie Appleton
Talk: The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
a year ago
The Perry Bible...
Invasion
The post Invasion appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
a month ago
The post Invasion appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
Oxide Computer...
Exploiting Undocumented Hardware Blocks in the LPC55S69
At Oxide Computer, we are designing a new computer system from the ground up. Along the way we...
over a year ago
At Oxide Computer, we are designing a new computer system from the ground up. Along the way we carefully review all hardware selected to ensure it meets not only functional needs but our security needs as well. This work includes reverse engineering where necessary to get a full...
Archinect - Features
Are Architectural Workers More Pessimistic About the Economy Than Firm Owners?
In our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey published last month, we observed a distinct...
4 months ago
In our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey published last month, we observed a distinct divergence between how firm owners and workers were feeling about the business health of their firm, industry, and the wider U.S. economy. Across the board, our survey suggests...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How to Redeem AmEx Membership Rewards Points for Top Value
a year ago
TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
undefined
a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Record/Replay testing in Sorbet
In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the...
over a year ago
In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the Sorbet project at Stripe to build a gradual static typechecking system for Ruby, with the aim of enhancing productivity on Stripe’s millions of lines of Ruby, and eventually producing a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSC, Localfirst, and Coordination Between Multiple Computers
Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which...
7 months ago
Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which gives the conceptual background around how the team came up with the idea for React Server Components (RSC)[1].
I found the talk intriguing. It’s like watching someone take something...
Paul Cudenec
Life philosophy: against the destructive will of Mammon
It is today not considered possible by our culture for a sane and serious person to be entirely...
2 months ago
It is today not considered possible by our culture for a sane and serious person to be entirely opposed to the modern world, to its infrastructure and to its thinking.
Simply Explained
Why I don't take sponsorships
Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN...
over a year ago
Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN providers. They all told me the same thing: our service is the best way to protect your privacy, and we were hoping you could convey this message in one of your videos.So I decided to do...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - License
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
You'd think working in the fellatio building would...
5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
You'd think working in the fellatio building would be exciting, but it's mostly paperwork and meetings.
Today's News:
Florian Bellmann |...
Processes don't create ownership, people do
Creating a sense of ownership in the team is crucial for the success of a project. What's the right...
7 months ago
Creating a sense of ownership in the team is crucial for the success of a project. What's the right angle?
FIRE v London
May ’24: UK election called
The month of May seems a little while ago, so I’d better get on and write it up. This will be quick....
6 months ago
The month of May seems a little while ago, so I’d better get on and write it up. This will be quick. The big news in the UK was Rishi Sunak, the outgoing PM, calling a general election for 4 July. Independence-from-the-Tories Day. May was also the month that u-turner/blowharder...
Home on Erik...
I already found the best gifs
Just search for “hackers gif“.
There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From...
over a year ago
Just search for “hackers gif“.
There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From the awesome movie Hackers. That movie together with The Warriors convinced me that I wanted to live in NYC when I was like… 14 years old.
Identity Designed
Ryuko
Designed by Blok Design, Toronto.
over a year ago
Designed by Blok Design, Toronto.
Tech + Economics +...
The curse of the Sisyphean read-later list
Let's talk about our digital 'save for later' pile. You know what I'm
talking about - that growing...
a year ago
Let's talk about our digital 'save for later' pile. You know what I'm
talking about - that growing list of articles, videos, and podcasts we
swear we'll get to eventually. It's like we're building our own little
museum of cool stuff we'll explore 'one day.'
When are you...
TheCollector
Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
undefined
8 months ago
The Honest Broker
Nick Drake at Age 75
On a milestone birthday, I revisit a singer-songwriter nobody ever really knew
a year ago
On a milestone birthday, I revisit a singer-songwriter nobody ever really knew
TokyoDev
Getting a job at a Japanese startup
At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead...
over a year ago
At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead software developer at [Crowdcast](http://crowdcast.jp/), a Japanese startup with a product, [bizNote](https://secure.biznote.jp/) that makes small business accounting easier. As it...
TheCollector
The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
undefined
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'They Will Leave Behind Trenches'
“You wouldn’t
give up utopia it was too nourishing seductive / For mommy’s boys the heirs of
fortune...
a month ago
“You wouldn’t
give up utopia it was too nourishing seductive / For mommy’s boys the heirs of
fortune heirs / To the bloody myths of the twentieth city.”
Today is the
centenary of Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert. The
Anglophone world has been fortunate. Herbert’s poems...
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Treated Us Like Adults'
I grew up
thinking writers – poets, certainly – were not quite real. None lived in my
neighborhood....
11 months ago
I grew up
thinking writers – poets, certainly – were not quite real. None lived in my
neighborhood. I never saw writers on television. My parents never talked about them, as they might actors and politicians,
who also were unreal. Without thinking too
deeply about it, I put...
macwright.com
Recently
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s
been fun...
a year ago
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s
been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new,
especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from
my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
2 months ago
Willem's Blog
Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP
Reparing an old Nintendo Gameboy Advance to play classic Zelda again.
over a year ago
Reparing an old Nintendo Gameboy Advance to play classic Zelda again.
Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Map: Brussels S-Train by Elliot H
Submitted by Elliot, who says: I’ve come across this blog a couple of months ago, and have been...
a year ago
Submitted by Elliot, who says: I’ve come across this blog a couple of months ago, and have been lurking ever since. I’ve always wanted to try my hand at designing a trasit diagram, and having gotten some free time, I decided to redesign the S-Train diagram for Brussels. So here...
Making software...
Animated Card Tiles
Animated Card Tiles
2019-02-27
The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive...
over a year ago
Animated Card Tiles
2019-02-27
The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive sections/article headings in an app or website remains a popular choice among designers. So, let's build a set of animated cards with only HTML & CSS.
What we will be building...
The Changelog
Pipe Issue Likely a Kernel Bug
Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a...
over a year ago
Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a certain pipeline seems to have a deadlock. I described tracing it into kernel code. Indeed, it appears to be kernel bug 212295, which has had a patch for over a year that has never...
Anecdotal Evidence
'What Will Become of My Diary?'
“During the
morning hours of the first of September 1939, war broke out between Germany and
Poland...
3 months ago
“During the
morning hours of the first of September 1939, war broke out between Germany and
Poland and indirectly between Germany and Poland’s allies, England and France.
This war will indeed bring destruction upon human civilization which merits
annihilation and destruction....
Val Sopi
Where is blogstatic now?
<p>blogstatic is growing slowly at around 20% month-to-month.</p>
<p>Currently, it's hovering at...
a year ago
<p>blogstatic is growing slowly at around 20% month-to-month.</p>
<p>Currently, it's hovering at ~$700/month in revenue.</p>
<p>Since pricing is currently "yearly" only, each month starts from zero.</p>
<p>It will be interesting come October 2023 when the first yearly upgrades...
The Pragmatic...
Behind the Scenes with Two New Salary Transparency Websites
On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have...
a year ago
On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have launched, built by the creators of Levels.fyi and Layoffs.fyi. I talked to both teams to learn how they were developed.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies
VC returns over the last decade have been poor. The cause is widely agreed to be an excess of...
over a year ago
VC returns over the last decade have been poor. The cause is widely agreed to be an excess of venture capital dollars to worthy startups…
diamond geezer
The 20 year-old 2016 tube map
20 years ago this week TfL published a map of what their transport network might look like in...
5 months ago
20 years ago this week TfL published a map of what their transport network might look like in 2016.
(technically it was 20 years ago last week, but the actual anniversary was election day and we were all otherwise occupied)
The map has obviously disappeared from the TfL...
The Honest Broker
The Hit Singles of Sun Ra
On the 30th anniversary of the Afrofuturist's death, I explore the oddest discs in his discography
a year ago
On the 30th anniversary of the Afrofuturist's death, I explore the oddest discs in his discography
The Marginalian
The Wound Is the Gift: David Whyte on the Relationship Between Anxiety and Intimacy
"Intimacy is presence magnified by our vulnerability, magnified by increasing proximity to the fear...
2 weeks ago
"Intimacy is presence magnified by our vulnerability, magnified by increasing proximity to the fear that underlies that vulnerability."
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
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...
Casey Handmer's blog
It Is Time To Build The Monster Scope
A shorter version of this post was published in Palladium on 10/18/24. This version incorporates...
3 weeks ago
A shorter version of this post was published in Palladium on 10/18/24. This version incorporates helpful feedback from a number of knowledgeable readers. With the recent SpaceX Starship orbital flight tests, it is time to commit to building the largest physically possible space...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company
over a year ago
TheCollector
Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
undefined
8 months ago
The Elysian
Will you explain anarchism to me?
Letters to an anarchist, part one.
a month ago
Letters to an anarchist, part one.
Many Worlds
The Makeup of Red Dwarf Solar Systems May Seriously Limit the Formation of Habitable Planets
Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation...
a year ago
Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation and evolution of Earth possible. In the early days of the solar system, massive Jupiter helped the planet grow rapidly while serving as a gravity well that shielded the planet from...
TheCollector
What Is First Thessalonians About?
undefined
a month ago
Seeking Wisdom
From Linear to Logistic – Sigmoid Curve and Log Loss
Can we predict the likelihood of heart disease from sleep and exercise? This is my fourth post on my...
a year ago
Can we predict the likelihood of heart disease from sleep and exercise? This is my fourth post on my journey to build a toy GPT. I’d recommend checking out my previous posts before diving into this one. Let’s train a model to predict heart disease using sleep and exercise data....
TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
undefined
3 months ago
Explorations of an...
Borneo: Quest For The Bulwer's Pheasant
The Bulwer's Pheasant was one of the first birds to grab hold of my attention when I first flipped...
3 weeks ago
The Bulwer's Pheasant was one of the first birds to grab hold of my attention when I first flipped through the pages of my Borneo field guide many years ago. This pheasant of Bornean hill forest is nearly unbelievable-looking (the male, that is). He has a deep maroon chest and a...
This Space
39 Books: 2008
On January 19 of this year, I received a traumatic brain injury that for 16 years has limited my...
7 months ago
On January 19 of this year, I received a traumatic brain injury that for 16 years has limited my capacity to read. It was also the year I read two novels in which the legacy of violence presses on the form they take. Horacio Castellanos Moya's Senselessness spirals in Bernhardian...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes)
Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut content.
Maps Mania
Out of Africa - The Story of Human Migration
6 months ago
TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
undefined
a year ago
Noahpinion
Harris needs to be Pennsylvania fracking's biggest champion
Biden already boosted fracking. Harris needs to promise more of the same.
3 months ago
Biden already boosted fracking. Harris needs to promise more of the same.
Londonist
At A Glance: What's Happening With London's Transport In 2024
New trains! New stations! Major closures!
11 months ago
New trains! New stations! Major closures!
Musings on Markets
The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!
I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at...
10 months ago
I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. While I will use the "Magnificent Seven" moniker attached by these...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.22.0
PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual bug squashing. Community MVP The community MVP…
Handprinted - Blog
Making a Multi-Block Linocut
A multi-block linocut uses more than one piece of lino to create a layered image. Usually, each...
a year ago
A multi-block linocut uses more than one piece of lino to create a layered image. Usually, each block is inked with a separate colour. Where the colours overlap, another colour can be achieved.
Multi-block linocuts allow you to partially print an edition and create complete...
The Tao Of Wealth
The Meaning Of “Om”
With the help of “Om” one can realize the Divine. “Om” has a transformative power. “Om” represents...
over a year ago
With the help of “Om” one can realize the Divine. “Om” has a transformative power. “Om” represents the Divine. They say that all the aspirations of the world when going towards the Divine make “Om”, like that. I was in France, some, I think 60 years ago. There was a Frenchman who...
Retail Design Blog
Matsumoto City Museum by KUME SEKKEI Co.
The project is to move and rebuild the city museum of Matsumoto from within the historical site of...
5 months ago
The project is to move and rebuild the city museum of Matsumoto from within the historical site of Matsumoto Castle...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pino
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I am prepared for your call Hollywood. It's...
2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I am prepared for your call Hollywood. It's time.
Today's News:
Blog posts of...
Mindshare 🧠
The hard part now, is to get mindshare with customers.
9 months ago
The hard part now, is to get mindshare with customers.
Seldo.com
Databases: how they work, and a brief history
over a year ago
The Perry Bible...
Clicked
The post Clicked appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
a month ago
The post Clicked appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
TheCollector
Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
undefined
7 months ago
Arduino Blog
Arduino and Truesense partner to bring UWB technology to millions
We are excited to announce our latest partnership with Truesense, a leader in ultra-wideband (UWB)...
a month ago
We are excited to announce our latest partnership with Truesense, a leader in ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, known for its innovative software and hardware solutions. This collaboration enhances our ecosystem of hardware products, software solutions, and cloud services,...
Business Brainstorms
Hard startups, importance of founder-led sales, Netflix for written content
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “I wish I could pay per newspaper article, with only...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Five Destinations to Explore Beyond the Ordinary on Your Next Journey
a year ago
Londonist
When Are London's Christmas Lights Switched On For 2023?
Three...two...one... CHRISTMAS!
a year ago
Three...two...one... CHRISTMAS!
Willem's Blog
The Problem With Bitcoin
Some thoughts on the long term viability of Bitcoin's rising value.
a week ago
Some thoughts on the long term viability of Bitcoin's rising value.
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
undefined
5 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Better Bayesian Filtering
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
How rollup-plugin-svelte Works
Svelte is often thought of as a compiler. But really it is a compiler within a bundler.
over a year ago
Svelte is often thought of as a compiler. But really it is a compiler within a bundler.
The Pragmatic...
Google Domains to shut down
The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t...
a year ago
The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t notify customers just yet. When could this happen, and why is Google silent?
Joel Gascoigne
Why I'm going to Hawaii with my co-founder
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
My co-founder...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
My co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] and I are headed to Hawaii tomorrow
morning for a 10 day trip. I just emailed the team, and I thought in line with
one of our core...
TheCollector
Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
undefined
9 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
For Sale: Used Domain (**Clean Title**)
Bryan Braun has an interesting post about his experience with what he calls a “haunted domain”:
He...
a month ago
Bryan Braun has an interesting post about his experience with what he calls a “haunted domain”:
He buys a domain that seems fine on the surface.
When he begins using it, he notices some things aren’t right (organic search traffic, for example, is dead).
After some investigation,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Four
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Sesame Street is to blame.
Today's News:
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Sesame Street is to blame.
Today's News:
Full Width 
Shortcuts 
Sign Up 
Log In 
Articles 
Reading List 