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TheCollector
Who Were the Landsknechts? undefined
8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Remains of the Day
Veblen values NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
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NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
Applied Cartography
Why should a company? For a long time, my goal with Buttondown was largely around failure avoidance: "I want to get my...
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9 months ago
For a long time, my goal with Buttondown was largely around failure avoidance: "I want to get my first paying customer so I know it's not a fake product"; "I want to hit a thousand dollars in revenue so I know it's not just friends humoring me"; "I want to make $10K/mo or else I...
diamond geezer
London's triple points There are six points around the Greater London boundary where three counties...
a year ago
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There are six points around the Greater London boundary where three counties meet. London/Kent/Surrey Specifically: Biggin Hill/Westerham/Tatsfield Location: Rag Hill To get here take a walk along the quiet twisty country lane that wends between Tatsfield Green and the...
Old Structures...
The True Form I thought I had posted this map before, but apparently not. John Montresor was an engineer in the...
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I thought I had posted this map before, but apparently not. John Montresor was an engineer in the British army, who was in North America from the French and Indian War until about halfway through the American Revolution. He created this map in 1775, showing the city of New York,...
Open Culture
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic...
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Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, meaning they can be downloaded directly from the museum’s website for...
Maps Mania
Mapping Russian Military Facilities in Crimea
a year ago
The Convivial...
Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology: Or, how to make sense of techno-optimist... The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 3
10 months ago
Math Is Still...
The Social Benefits of Getting Our Brains in Sync Our brain waves can align when we work and play closely together. The phenomenon, known as...
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8 months ago
Our brain waves can align when we work and play closely together. The phenomenon, known as interbrain synchrony, suggests that collaboration is biological. The post The Social Benefits of Getting Our Brains in Sync first appeared on Quanta Magazine
ntietz.com blog
Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why? If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at some point you have to figure out if it does or not. This is where load testing comes in: if you want to see whether or not your application can handle scale, just generate scale...
The Map is Mostly...
Everything I know about gardening I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies and roses, or my fields, and several people have asked me to write about gardening, or for gardening advice. But this request encounters a ridiculous shortcoming: I know almost...
Probably...
The Overton Paradox in Three Graphs Older people are more likely to say they are conservative. And older people believe more...
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Older people are more likely to say they are conservative. And older people believe more conservative things. But if you group people by decade of birth, most groups get more liberal as they get older. So if people get more liberal, on average, why are they more likely to say...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Book Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks for supporting this book -- it has succeeded...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks for supporting this book -- it has succeeded all expectations. Today's News:
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
As Good as HTML Jan Miksovsky has a talk titled “Delivering Universal UI Patterns as Web Components” that speaks on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jan Miksovsky has a talk titled “Delivering Universal UI Patterns as Web Components” that speaks on the incredible opportunity that is web components: That HTML tag that you create [for a web component] that’s just HTML. You can use that anywhere you use HTML. That means the...
Max Rozen
Why you should use functional components + Hooks over class components in React If you find yourself asking whether to use functional components with Hooks over class components,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you find yourself asking whether to use functional components with Hooks over class components, you'll find a lot of outdated information out there. Let's settle this once and for all in this article.
Jonas Hietala
Design for Hackers has arrived! Design for Hackers It’s here! After about a month of waiting I’ve finally gotten the book that will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Design for Hackers It’s here! After about a month of waiting I’ve finally gotten the book that will make me a design god! Or at least make me aware of something called design. Joking aside I’m really terrible at design and making things look good. Admittedly my programming art...
Diaries of Note
I can’t find the words Andy Horwitz had been sitting at his desk for a quarter of an hour when a loud bang shattered the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Andy Horwitz had been sitting at his desk for a quarter of an hour when a loud bang shattered the morning calm. The time was 8:46 a.m., and the first of two planes had just been flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center that stood two blocks from his office. But soon...
Maps Mania
Where Might I Live?
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Wearing the costume There’s a huge difference between carrying a stethoscope and being a doctor. And being a clown...
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a month ago
There’s a huge difference between carrying a stethoscope and being a doctor. And being a clown requires far more than getting a clown suit. Entrepreneurs with business cards, slick websites and mission statements are confused. That’s not the hard part. If the costume puts you in...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 3: Returning to Math The third week of my batch at Recurse Center is finished. It is still flying by too quickly. Nine...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The third week of my batch at Recurse Center is finished. It is still flying by too quickly. Nine weeks left! This week was a whirlwind and really busy. I think I pushed myself too hard. I had just recovered from my cold and was a little drained, and then got my COVID booster and...
The Marginalian
Youth and Age: Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of "the great aloneness which knows not what...
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a year ago
A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of "the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great."
Andrej Karpathy blog
Biohacking Lite Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew...
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over a year ago
Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of abstraction. I also knew that I can probably get away with...
Christian Selig
Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front...
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9 months ago
Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front and center on the window so you can easily search through your content. Oddly, as of visionOS 1.1, replicating this visually as a developer using SwiftUI or UIKit is not...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates May 3
7 months ago
The Honest Broker
Are Harvard Graduates Better Than Harvard Dropouts? Or how I spent $503,402 on college education
11 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
The choices we make when we build startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’ve recently...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’ve recently reached the point with Buffer where I’ve started to think about a lot of key higher level choices. As a CEO these can be difficult decisions to make. I’ve been taking time to...
xkcd.com
UK Coal
2 months ago
Common Edge
Inga Saffron on the Philadelphia 76ers’ Push for a New Downtown Arena A talk with the Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
a week ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The ‘Great Awokening' Preceded Trump. It May Continue Beyond Him Newsweek opinion piece Follow-up: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse...
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over a year ago
Newsweek opinion piece Follow-up: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse Over the last five years, poll after poll has found that the GOP base has grown warmer towards Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and Muslims. They’ve simultaneously become
Val Sopi
blogstatic numbers for October <p>I announced the new blogstatic pricing ($19/year) and launched the <a...
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<p>I announced the new blogstatic pricing ($19/year) and launched the <a href="https://blogstatic.io/blog/rebrand">new website</a> on October 11th.</p> <p>As I was considering the new pricing and the pros and cons, I wrote this in my daily business journal:</p> <figure><img...
Explorations of an...
Otamendi Reserve and Laguna Chiquita Mar January 11, 2023 Laura and I picked up our rental car from Enterprise in Buenos Aires as soon as...
a year ago
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a year ago
January 11, 2023 Laura and I picked up our rental car from Enterprise in Buenos Aires as soon as they opened. The 9 AM start time meant that it was after 10 AM by the time that we had finally hit the open road. For the next six weeks, we are completing a big loop with the car,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Puzzle Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, you should just think of every moment of...
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, you should just think of every moment of your life as a series of escape rooms. It's healthy. Today's News:
devonzuegel.com
Chautauqua: an idea embedded in a place I want to tell you about the place I spent summers growing up. It's called Chautauqua Institution,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I want to tell you about the place I spent summers growing up. It's called Chautauqua Institution, and it's one of the most special places in the world — and not just because I spent my childhood there. Chautauqua is special because it is an idea embedded in a place. The place...
Arduino Blog
7 powerful ways to integrate Collaborative Coding into education with the Arduino Cloud Collaborative coding in education can be a game-changer for students, providing them with real-world...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Collaborative coding in education can be a game-changer for students, providing them with real-world skills in communication, teamwork, and problem-solving. With the new collaborating coding feature of the Arduino Cloud, students can collaborate in real time on coding projects,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential PostHog apps for new users PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they can do almost anything — and they’re hard to…
TheCollector
The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World undefined
7 months ago
History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian The Pilgrim as a Historian JamesHoare Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for Hacktoberfest again. I am in the middle of buying…
TheCollector
Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King undefined
10 months ago
xkcd.com
Inspiration
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Netscape support ending in February 2008 On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Godot Isn't Making it Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title. What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new terms of the present? What
Seth's Blog
Raising the bar That’s not the same as raising the average. With the advent of the high jump, the idiom raising the...
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a year ago
That’s not the same as raising the average. With the advent of the high jump, the idiom raising the bar became well understood: If you can’t jump over the bar that the current leader cleared, you don’t win. But most of the innovations that change our culture don’t actually...
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings undefined
6 months ago
Map of the Week
Maps of Julian Hoffman Anton I'm always excited to find new cartographic artists. Here are some maps from Julian Hoffman Anton....
a year ago
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a year ago
I'm always excited to find new cartographic artists. Here are some maps from Julian Hoffman Anton. The first one is his Tokyo Eat Map. I've cropped the map a bit to fit the format of this page. To see it all click here. This is really a heat map showing restaurant density. Egg...
Diaries of Note
I won’t marry Jo to Laurie to please any one Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was...
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a year ago
Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was originally published in the 1860s as two separate volumes, the first of which Louisa May Alcott completed in two months after being asked by her publisher to “write a girl’s book.” The...
GeoCurrents
Fernand Braudel: The Greatest Geographer of the Twentieth Century? [Today’s post is the text of an oral presentation that I recently gave at a Stanford-Berkeley...
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a week ago
[Today’s post is the text of an oral presentation that I recently gave at a Stanford-Berkeley Symposium on the legacy of the French historian Fernand Braudel.] In 1981, I entered the graduate program in geography at U.C. Berkeley and found myself in a war zone. The traditionalist...
TheCollector
What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time? undefined
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
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9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
Engineer’s Codex
How Google writes clean, maintainable code Google's SWE Book explains their readability process and style guides
a year ago
Christopher Butler
Fascinated by Layout A working knowledge of the fundamentals of design is as important now as it ever has been. Ever...
a year ago
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a year ago
A working knowledge of the fundamentals of design is as important now as it ever has been. Ever since I was a child, I have been fascinated by layout. I didn’t know to call it that before I studied design; I just knew that I could look at a page and find beauty and wonder in it...
NeuroLogica Blog
Trust in New Technology In an optimally rational person, what should govern their perception of risk? Of course, people are...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In an optimally rational person, what should govern their perception of risk? Of course, people are generally not “optimally rational”. It’s therefore an interesting thought experiment – what would be optimal, and how does that differ from how people actually assess risk? Risk is...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Bonus Geekiness For the end-of-summer holiday weekend, an extra. Daredevil makes a new friend: That’s one of the...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
For the end-of-summer holiday weekend, an extra. Daredevil makes a new friend: That’s one of the eagle hood-ornament sculptures at the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building. They’ve been fascinating people since Chrysler was first built. There’s a very big but not famous building...
Math Is Still...
Unfolding the Mysteries of Polygonal Billiards The surprisingly subtle geometry of a familiar game shows how quickly math gets complicated. ...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The surprisingly subtle geometry of a familiar game shows how quickly math gets complicated. The post Unfolding the Mysteries of Polygonal Billiards first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Rest of World -...
Ultra-cheap meals from China’s delivery giant are hugely popular. Drivers are bearing the costs Meituan’s group order program boomed amid China’s post-Covid-19 thrift economy, but delivery drivers...
6 months ago
balajis.com
#5 - India's Largest Exit Listen now (161 min) | The $16B acquisition of Flipkart was the largest in Indian tech history....
a year ago
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a year ago
Listen now (161 min) | The $16B acquisition of Flipkart was the largest in Indian tech history. Balaji speaks with Flipkart founder/CEO Binny Bansal on how he built the company from scratch when Indian startups weren't even a thing — and how Flipkart's rise parallels the rise of...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Guide to the Best Food in Kansas City
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
This Engineer Became a Star in Technology Publishing Donald Christiansen, who transformed IEEE Spectrum from a promising but erratic technology magazine...
2 months ago
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Donald Christiansen, who transformed IEEE Spectrum from a promising but erratic technology magazine into a repeat National Magazine Award winner, died on 2 October 2024, at the age of 97, in Huntington, N.Y. served aboard the aircraft carrier San Jacinto, an experience that led...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
a month ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Leave Him Something to Imagine' “I am now beginning to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a vegetable diet, with a few of...
a year ago
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a year ago
“I am now beginning to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a vegetable diet, with a few of the cold seeds, I make no doubt but I shall be able to go on with my uncle Toby’s story, and my own, in a tolerable strait line.”  By the time a persevering reader has reached Book...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Length Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time I tell a joke about ads targeting men...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time I tell a joke about ads targeting men for being weak I wonder if I'm the only one who's being targeted. Today's News:
Jonas Hietala
Building my ultimate keyboard The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate keyboard”? There are many keyboards in this world; here are some that might fit the “ultimate” moniker: Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate mechanical keyboard DataHand Ergodox EZ Glove80 Happy...
Kevin Chen
Real estate is one of the hardest open problems in scaled self driving I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few...
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3 months ago
I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few months, I’ve flown a drone as part of a stakeout to understand how they work. And I’ve taken a deep dive into an apparent Waymo outage to find the company charging its electric vehicles...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bingo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You ever feel bad for cartoon character graves,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You ever feel bad for cartoon character graves, which just have first names and no dates? Today's News:
Vadim Kravcenko
Build vs Buy: age old dilemma The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch...
a year ago
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a year ago
The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch or buy some off-the-shelf solution? […] The post Build vs Buy: age old dilemma appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The Great Discontent...
Sofía Gallisá Muriente Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed...
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over a year ago
Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now Can you share a little bit about where and how you grew up and what...
Jonas Hietala
Building the GH60 I’ve finally completed my first custom made keyboard. I’m still missing stabilizers and some smaller...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve finally completed my first custom made keyboard. I’m still missing stabilizers and some smaller screws to hold it all together but I’ve been using it the last days and I thought I’d share. The hardware Several years ago I joined the geekhack forum and I joined in a few group...
SOCKS
“One Can No Longer Distinguish the Sun’s Outline”: Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky (1930) A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification and nomenclature. Cloud atlases were primarily developed starting in the 19th century and utilised for training weather forecasters and meteorologists. The 1930’s International...
Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
Farza's Newsletter
pointed my tv remote at my microwave and then i met the Beatles, wild. What’s going well: talking to users. I used to think that talking to users meant, like, talking to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What’s going well: talking to users. I used to think that talking to users meant, like, talking to them on the phone. And, well, it does! That’s one way to talk to users. But, when I started Zip I wanted “talking to users” to be literally built into
One Useful Thing
Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs Also, we have a prompt library!
9 months ago
Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe" Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
9 months ago
The American Scholar
Aging Out Many of us do not go gentle into that good night The post Aging Out appeared first on The American...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night The post Aging Out appeared first on The American Scholar.
Jonas Hietala
Gruvbox Syntax Highlighting for Pandoc Edit: I have updated the highlighting again so the inline code used as examples have changed. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Edit: I have updated the highlighting again so the inline code used as examples have changed. I guess I should’ve used images to record the look. Recently when I reinstalled Slackware I decided to restyle my workspace as well. I settled on gruvbox with neovim and using the...
Christopher Butler
Link – Linsey Rendell's personal website linseyrendell.com is a really nice website. I just love the overall look and simplicity of what...
11 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
If Not Could Not Suppose you're hiring for a sales job. In the first interview, the candidate says: "I'm very good at...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Suppose you're hiring for a sales job. In the first interview, the candidate says: "I'm very good at selling things." Well, that's nice: the job is all about selling things, so someone good at selling things would indeed be a good fit.
Jonas Hietala
IDA Summer of Code 2014 IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in a project of their choice and if selected they get paid to work on it for 4 weeks during the summer. In return the university get to show off the students and their projects in...
bt RSS Feed
Perspective Perspective 2024-08-06 I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Perspective 2024-08-06 I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I...
macwright.com
How are we supposed to do tooltips now? by I’ve been working on oldfashioned.tech, which is sort of a testbed to learn about htmx and the other...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
I’ve been working on oldfashioned.tech, which is sort of a testbed to learn about htmx and the other paths: vanilla CSS instead of Tailwind, server-rendering for as much as possible. How are tooltips and modals supposed to work outside of the framework world? What the Web...
Joel on Software
So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway? For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I’m still going on some customer calls… Read more "So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?"
./techtipsy
Life is maintenance, maintenance is life Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building things. When I was still an inexperienced junior developer who barely survived operating in a Linux environment and saw backend development as a black box, I was happy to get...
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections undefined
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers ...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Riding with a power meter on your bike In this post I describe my experience with installing the 4iiii Precision Powermeter on my road...
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Wearing Grand Seiko I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship, innovation and practicality.
TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II? undefined
10 months ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Sega logo (1976–present) Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Sega logo...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Sega logo used since 1976, in its official color for the Japanese market. Source: segaretro.org Image: Scarred Sun. License: All Rights Reserved. Sega logo used from the late 1950s to...
diamond geezer
Hyperlocal History Month August is often Local History Month on diamond geezer. I thought this year I might go hyperlocal and...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
August is often Local History Month on diamond geezer. I thought this year I might go hyperlocal and bring you historical details of objects and places particularly close to home. We'll see how it goes. HYPERLOCAL HISTORY MONTH: My fridge My fridge is four years old, having...
Spoon & Tamago
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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...
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I started a small new Google project for a new script I wrote called LFS. It stands for Linux Firewall Script. I run a small Linux box as an internet router that doubles as a firewall. The firewall is configured using iptables. In my opinion, iptables is not the easiest tool to...
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My Robotic Mower Woes My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I'm no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
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My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I'm no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
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Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing) Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing. Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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Left the Beatles On the evening of 10th January 1969, after a tough day at work, guitarist George Harrison opened his...
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On the evening of 10th January 1969, after a tough day at work, guitarist George Harrison opened his diary and in three words noted that he had quit the world’s most popular band. For a week the Beatles had been rehearsing at Twickenham Film Studios, their efforts captured on...
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This I find in The Lone Heretic: A Biography of Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1963) by Margaret Thomas Rudd, who quotes her subject: “Each man can be judged by his favorite books.” She adds of the great Spanish thinker and novelist:  “Throughout his long life Unamuno returned to...
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The last in alphabetical order The last in alphabetical order Ocean: PACIFIC Month: SEPTEMBER Angel Delight flavour: STRAWBERRY EU...
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The last in alphabetical order Ocean: PACIFIC Month: SEPTEMBER Angel Delight flavour: STRAWBERRY EU member state: SWEDEN Platonic solid: TETRAHEDRON Quality Street: TOFFEE PENNY Shakespeare play: TWELFTH NIGHT Olympic host city: VANCOUVER Planet: VENUS Zodiac sign:...
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Michio Kaku and science popularization in the Age of Shamelessness In some ways, we live in a golden age of science popularization.  There are fantastic publications...
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In some ways, we live in a golden age of science popularization.  There are fantastic publications like Quanta doing tremendous work; platforms like YouTube and podcasts have made it possible for both practicing scientists and science communicators to reach enormous audiences;...
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Here is a graph of the year-over-year change in shelter from the CPI report and housing from the PCE report this morning, both through November 2024. CPI Shelter was up 4.8% year-over-year in November, down from 4.9% in October, and down from the cycle peak of 8.2% in March...
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Without context or other clue, who do you think might have written this tart little couplet?:  “With squeaky wit the light, improper verse Falls on the heavy lunch and makes it worse.”   I first encountered him in the eighth grade, in English class. He was sold to us as the “poet...
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Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here. Stroustrop's Rule I first encountered Stroustrop's Rule on this...
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I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do this, and I normally reach for Python inside a Jupyter Notebook because those are tools I’m very familiar with. I’ve done this a few times now, so I thought it’d be worth pulling...
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I changed my setup again. I’m now the proud owner of an APC Smart-UPS 750. Why? Because I got it as a gift, and I have never actually had an UPS before, so it makes for a good introduction to this world. Overview My setup is quite basic: everything that I have on my table...
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Beavers Are Back In London For The First Time In 400 Years This'll bring a toothy grin to your face.
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What if the goal is not to make it out of the neighborhood? The post Hometown Heroes appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Marginalian
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"You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum entities, and you are the quantum foam, and you are the energetic field of space-time, and, ultimately, you are the fundamental awareness out of which all these emerge."
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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During a routine test, two HL-LHC magnets unexpectedly flatlined. Was it just a coincidence, or did they have a common foe?
Quantum Frontiers
Building a Visceral Understanding of Quantum Phenomena A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the...
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A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the early 90’s. For those not in the know, this is a physics-based puzzle game about building Rube Goldberg style contraptions to achieve … Continue reading →
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#1 💡 #2 💡 Tons of companies are looking to hire someone like this but no one knows how to do it reliably. There are also tons of people who would like to work in such a role but they are hard to find as there is no generally accepted job title. Seems like a huge opportunity if...
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Shimmering Glass Plates Make You Feel Like You’re Eating Off Water Droplets It’s said that shutter speeds of around 1/1000th of a second are necessary to really capture the...
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It’s said that shutter speeds of around 1/1000th of a second are necessary to really capture the detail of moving water in photography. So you can imagine the technical challenge of accurately capturing water as a three-dimensional object. Product designer Masahiko Tanoue has...
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How is duct tape like the force? I’m at Dragon*Con this weekend, my second time here now. I decided that if I was going to Dragon*Con...
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I’m at Dragon*Con this weekend, my second time here now. I decided that if I was going to Dragon*Con again, I needed to do something in terms of costuming, and I wanted it to be something unique – I wasn’t going to come anywhere near as epic as some of the costumes people pull...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Patreon subscribers pointed out numerous objections but I think if I work hard I can find technical reasons I'm right and my supporters are wrong. Today's News:
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I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring is just what I need. Sometimes I can challange myself to build cool complex stuff and I’m even an avid follower of Doc’M and Etho and the other mindcrackers over at the youtube....
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How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving. One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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George Clooney may be better regarded as an actor than as a director, but his occasional work in the latter capacity reveals an admirable interest in lesser-dramatized chapters of American history. His films have found their material in everything from the early years of the NFL...
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My last post was on how ‘smart devices’ create overly complex designs by throwing in too many features and misusing their hardware. It showed how great design doesn’t need to be fancy. Design, in fact, can be free. This post wants to push those assumptions a bit, redesigning a...
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Courage is a generous act that involves risk. It’s not courageous to hang out with friends and make a crank phone call. The risk involved might be actual risk (it took courage to go to the moon) or it might feel risky (raising your hand at a meeting to ask a useful question...
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Ohio is still a piano In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital,...
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In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital, web-based work can break or disappear in an instant. I’ve certainly done some things which are now gone forever. Anyway, one broken thing was the crazy Ohio piano map I made nearly...
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Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I soon learned that it describes one of those strangely seductive sounds you can produce from pressing the keys on a keyboard tuned for acoustical joy. And now, dammit, I've...
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Decorating a home is a substantial matter – quite literally. The materials we choose to live alongside inform our understanding and enjoyment of spaces, which is something we’re quite invested in. As such, we’ve got pretty good at seeing the wood from the trees. Here, […]
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Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"
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Salvador Dalí, born in Spain in 1904, was the mustachioed maestro of surrealism, with a flair for the fantastical in both his life and art. His paintings, like The Persistence of Memory with its melting clocks, are playful explorations of the dream world, but this love of the...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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When embarking on a mission to deliver a building to a high environmental and ecological standard, architects are presented with a range of accreditation systems to both guide the design process and reward the results.  While some systems, such as LEED and BREEAM, emphasize...
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A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced in computer science. One of the things she mentioned was how wearing dresses caused her to be treated differently. I, too, prefer dresses because I find them much more comfortable...
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A Holdout In January 1958, Angelo Rizzuto took this photo from the east side of Lexington Avenue, between 53rd...
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In January 1958, Angelo Rizzuto took this photo from the east side of Lexington Avenue, between 53rd and 54th Streets, looking west toward Park Avenue. The block bounded by those four streets was at that time entirely empty except for this old rowhouse at 620 Lexington. It was...
Both Are True
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a tale of two idiots who fell in love as told by one of those idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying everything
Math Is Still...
How Pools of Genetic Diversity Affect a Species’ Fate A new, deeper understanding of how the breeding structure of species affects their genetic diversity...
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A new, deeper understanding of how the breeding structure of species affects their genetic diversity is giving conservationists better tools for saving animals. The post How Pools of Genetic Diversity Affect a Species’ Fate first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Marginalian
A Tender Illustrated Celebration of the Many Languages of Love That one mind can reach out from its lonely cave of bone and touch another, express its joys and...
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That one mind can reach out from its lonely cave of bone and touch another, express its joys and sorrows to another — this is the great miracle of being alive together. The object of human communication is not the exchange of information but the exchange of understanding. If we...
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A New Project: Remote Rocketship 🚀 In my last post, I talked about how I going about searching for a new idea to work on. I’ve now...
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In my last post, I talked about how I going about searching for a new idea to work on. I’ve now landed on Remote Rocketship, a job board for remote roles. In this post, I’ll talk about how I got there, what I’ve been up to and how I’m thinking about moving forward.
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I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I'
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I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've used. Note that I currently practice in a community studio that glaze fires to cone 6 in oxidation, so my observations reflect that. Standard 420 Sculpture: Cone 6: average shrinkage...
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I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying conversations with investors. The founder's company was growing well, had crossed $1mm ARR, but still couldn't raise money. According to conventional wisdom, that should have been enough to...
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Exactly 80 years ago today, the world held its breath as the Allied forces launched the largest seaborne invasion in history, marking the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany’s occupation of Europe. Among the thousands of brave soldiers who set out to liberate the continent was...
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February 9 - 11, 2023 The Brazilian Araucaria is a tree that seems more suited to the pages of a Dr. Seuss book than the rolling hills of the Atlantic forests of southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina. Stands of Araucaria angustifolia are peculiar looking, with massive trunks...
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The latest episode of my podcast Better Online is a conversation with Matt Stoller — America’s leading voice on monopoly and antitrust matters, and a thoughtful and prolific writer. You can find Matt on Twitter here, and his newsletter here. It was a timely conversation. At the
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Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights have been reported in Tampa, Vancouver, Wichita, Boston. They're certainly in evidence here in Albuquerque, where Coal through downtown has turned almost entirely to mood lighting....
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Math That Connects Where We’re Going to Where We’ve Been Recursion builds bridges between ideas from across different math classes and illustrates the power...
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Recursion builds bridges between ideas from across different math classes and illustrates the power of creative mathematical thinking. The post Math That Connects Where We’re Going to Where We’ve Been first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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From the perspective of web standards to concerns about increasing complexity, Kent C. Dodds shares his opinions on why he won't use Next.js.
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Stoicism - a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece - has been gaining increased popularity in modern culture. It has been embraced by people from all walks of life, from high-powered business executives to the average person seeking ways to cope with the daily stresses of...
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How Rome Began: The History As Told by Ancient Historians Much attention has been paid to the fall of the Roman Empire, by everyone from august historians...
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Much attention has been paid to the fall of the Roman Empire, by everyone from august historians like Edward Gibbon to modern-day observers wringing their hands over the fate of the United States of America. But as every Rome enthusiast knows, that long collapse constitutes just...
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While the startup cities industry is still small, it is already quite heterogeneous. Each project has its own distinct set of goals, motivations, and scope. However, this diversity isn’t fully captured by the vocabulary we use right now. To help myself create a mental map of the...
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Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to tell them what browser, OS, etc. you're using. Here's a free tool that will make that so much easier. As soon as you visit About My Browser, it will show you what browser and...
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It's been a long time coming, but Matt Mochary's book The Great CEO Within is out. I feel very fortunate to be involved in this project. This is the best book I've read on making the journey from founder to CEO.
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A project is a promise. It’s about coordinating unknowable future events to deliver something of value. Showing up on time for a meeting is a project (airlines! traffic! weather!) and so is building a skyscraper. That next podcast you’re going to publish is a project, and so is...
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On 24th October 1967, American painter Raphael Soyer found himself standing amidst a lifetime of his creations at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born in Russia in 1899, Soyer emigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1912, eventually becoming a prominent figure in the Social...
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The 9 best mobile app A/B testing tools A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it...
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A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it comes to mobile apps, there are many different A/B…
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Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just gives you the control to eke out whatever performance you need. So if your program is still slow, how do you fix that? Profiling your program is one of the best options for figuring...
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Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart: Supreme Commander. It’s not the game I’ve played the most and there might even be games which are better and more fun but supcom was the game that introduced me to competitive gaming...
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There is something inherently intriguing about submarines that doesn’t seem to apply to other vehicles. Maybe that reflects our natural fears and phobias, or maybe it is a result of our curiosity about the mysterious depths. Maybe it is simply that most of us will never get the...
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Last week, Apple announced “Apple Intelligence,” a suite of features coming to iOS 18 (the next version of the iPhone’s software) in a presentation that FastCompany called “uninspired,” Futurism called “boring,” and Axios claimed “failed to excite investors.”  The
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis    These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Blue Truck Studio collaborated with a new homeowner with DIY construction experience, to renovate a home for the owner’s family. The interior, contemporary yet comfortable in its design, includes a living room that has a large empty wall. However, this wall isn’t stationary but...
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A friend sent me a link to a 1978 BBC documentary about a working-class hero in England. I had never heard of Fred Dibnah, practitioner of a trade I didn’t know was still extant: steeplejack. In the words of the OED: “a person who climbs steeples or tall chimneys to repair them.”...
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Ilya Strebulaev at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Director of the Stanford Venture Capital Initiative just came out with a book that should be on your reading list – The Venture Mindset. The books premise is that Venture Capitalists (who were responsible for the...
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The outer layers of the sun’s atmosphere are a blistering million degrees hotter than its surface. The hidden culprit? Magnetic activity. The post How a NASA Probe Solved a Scorching Solar Mystery first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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You don’t go to watch a band play live for the audio quality — most venues are atrocious in that regard. No, you go to enjoy the show as a whole and that includes the visuals. The more a band can do to make the performance look exciting, the more you’re going to enjoy it. […] The...
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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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In tech, we're fortunate to have separate management and technical tracks, though it's still underdeveloped1. However, the path you take isn't very clear, it's not broadly understood what the responsibilities are, and there aren't as many resources out there as there are for...
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I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out, this is not only a great way to make programming fun but actually one of the best ways to learn. Below are some my favorite tiny programs I’ve created. Finding Campsites My wife...
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Systemic and existential problems dance their way through three circles: If it’s not solvable, we’ll pretend it’s not a problem. If the cultural cost of solving the problem is too high, we’ll pretend there’s no solution. People don’t spend a lot of time planning for death because...
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I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I already knew Git pretty well, but as usual when I try to explain something I’ve been learning some new things. None of these things feel super surprising in retrospect, but I hadn’t thought about them...
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Architecture studio JMA has designed the Vistas House in Escobar, Buenos Aires, whose shape is based on the idea of turning boxes rotated to take advantage of the lake views and sun.
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A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it found that BCG consultants who used GPT-4 were up to 43% more effective at tasks vs. employees who didn’t.
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I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers and founders need to deeply understand and care…
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The two-site business is done. Oldstructures.nyc now redirects to Oldstructyres.com, so everyone is seeing the same, new website. We’re still working some kinks out. If you have an email or WordPress subscription to the website, I think you’ll have to update it. Or maybe not, who...
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Under a secular mindset, intuition is all about you — your wants, needs, passions, and desires. A heavenly, God-inspired intuition is different. The post A Divine Intuition appeared first on David Perell.
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PostHog Launch Week I: A Universe of New Features PostHog made huge strides in 2021. To name just a few landmarks, we: Raised a $15 million Series B...
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I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too. To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin. When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
Cheese and Biscuits
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Looking over the confidently international menu at Nessa the other evening, it occurred to me that it's been a while since I've had a moan about anywhere being 'inauthentic'. For all the years that we British were insecure about our place in the culinary world, and those years...
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I’ve spent some time over the last few weeks reading about the various *nix init systems: venerable SysV, interim replacement Upstart, controversial monolith systemd, Apple’s proprietary launchd, and niche variants like runit and Epoch. Lots of history, lots of flame wars. One...
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In “How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly”, Jennifer Ouellette gives a good summary of a recent paper “Thread form at the Crystal Palace” by John Gardner and Ken Kiss. My even shorter summary: the 1851 Crystal Palace in London was made possible, in part, through the...
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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...
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History Today Feed
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This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in front-end development: 🔥 the close button. 🔥 In modals, ads, and other overlays you often find a button with a close symbol that allows users, or at least some of them, to close...
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I've been using FreeBSD as my daily driver at work since December. I've successfully done my job and I've learned a hell of a lot forcing myself on CURRENT... But there's been a number of issues with it that have made it difficult to keep using, so I replaced it with Arch Linux...
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pon receiving my speaking assignments for the Tucson Festival of Books, I mentally raised my eyebrows. I’d be participating in a panel discussion with Mike Evans, the founder of Grubhub? But I hadn’t created an app that’s a household name. I … Continue reading →
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I was reading yet another blog post titled “Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y>” (I forgot which one) and I started wondering if you can generalize it a bit. Is it possible to generate a N * N contingency table of moving from language X to language Y?
99% Invisible
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This past May, the city of Los Angeles rolled out a brand new, state-of-the art feature for bus shelters. It’s called La Sombrita. La Sombrita is a metal screen that’s intended to provide shade for the thousands of people who ride the bus every day. The shade screen is about two...
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A Smart Bear
In its emptiness, there is the function of a startup Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage...
a year ago
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a year ago
Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage is meaningless, unless you decide what those things are.
Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s currency devaluation is a disaster for startups “So many businesses will die. It’s not a matter of if but when.”
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Failure to face the truth This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.