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diamond geezer
Littlehampton → Shoreham Walking the coast of Britain can be a tortuous meandering slog round umpteen bays and inlets or it...
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6 months ago
Walking the coast of Britain can be a tortuous meandering slog round umpteen bays and inlets or it can be a simple stroll along a gentle curving shoreline. The coast of Sussex is mostly the latter which makes it ideal for a good long coastal walk. At the weekend I headed to the...
macwright.com
Work hard and take everything really seriously Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life balance and whether it’s a good or...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life balance and whether it’s a good or bad idea to work hard when you’re young. Like most of these recurring debates, it has generated two opposite archetypes: The anti-capitalist tells the young worker not to trust HR...
History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary JamesHoare Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
8 months ago
Seth's Blog
Make or buy? If you’re a writer, it probably doesn’t pay to chop down trees and make your own paper, or even to...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
If you’re a writer, it probably doesn’t pay to chop down trees and make your own paper, or even to set up a little machine shop to make your own pens. That’s pretty obvious. Should the smoothie shop make its own almond milk? It’s pretty clear that Starbucks should have a team of...
The Modern House
Grand Designs at 25: six Modern House homes that started life on the much-loved homebuilding TV show Grand Designs first aired in 1999 when television schedules were awash with dubious interiors...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Grand Designs first aired in 1999 when television schedules were awash with dubious interiors programming. From the start, it was distinctly different. With just one project per episode, it allowed the viewer to become fully involved, immersed and invested. Thought-provoking and...
Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
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7 months ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
Epic Web Dev
Tailwind CSS Color Tokens (tutorial)
4 months ago
Matt Mullenweg
GPL Clarification A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a...
a month ago
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a month ago
A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a trademark infringer that was also distributing nulled plugins. I said “Not illegal. Legal under the GPL. But they weren’t changing the names. They were selling their customers Pro...
computers are bad
2023-06-30 calling in the alarm I currently find myself on vacation in the Canadian Rockies, where internet is hard to come by. But...
a year ago
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a year ago
I currently find myself on vacation in the Canadian Rockies, where internet is hard to come by. But here's something short while I'm temporarily back in the warm embrace of 5G: more about burglar alarms. I recently gave a presentation on this topic and I'll probably record it for...
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
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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...
alexwlchan
Documenting my DNS records I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of sysadmins everywhere. It all went fine, but I definitely felt like I was playing with fire. My current domain registrar is Hover, and the only way I can manage my domains is through a...
Noahpinion
Some ideas for science fiction in the 2020s The future ain't what it used to be.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Tips for Traveling with Neurodivergent Kids
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Art of visualisation You learn from experts if you have the privilege to work with them, this month I had a chance to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You learn from experts if you have the privilege to work with them, this month I had a chance to help a professional food photographer.
Melting Asphalt
Crony Beliefs [Note: if you prefer audio, you can listen to this essay narrated by Grognor on his excellent...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
[Note: if you prefer audio, you can listen to this essay narrated by Grognor on his excellent podcast Second Enumerations. —Ed.]   Credits up front: This essay draws heavily from Overcoming Bias, Less Wrong, Slate Star Codex, Robert Kurzban, Robert… Read more ›
The Map is Mostly...
[subscribers only] Ask Me Anything about My Home (or Yours)
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 39 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
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a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910 Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
Arduino Blog
Adjusting office chair height with simple voice commands A month ago, ElectronicLab modified his office chair with an electric car jack, giving it motorized...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A month ago, ElectronicLab modified his office chair with an electric car jack, giving it motorized height adjustment. That worked well, but required that he push buttons to raise or lower the seat. Pushing those buttons is a hassle when one’s hands are full, so ElectronicLab...
TheCollector
Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal undefined
3 weeks ago
Patrick Kayongo
Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...
a year ago
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a year ago
The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...
Stephen Diehl
The Crypto Chernobyl
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Will of the Masses edition (#55) Abandoning X; Drone world; Asian voters' rightward shift; China and the Global South; Polycrisis;...
a week ago
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a week ago
Abandoning X; Drone world; Asian voters' rightward shift; China and the Global South; Polycrisis; Illegal immigration's fiscal impact; Iranian power
Platformer
The unbearable slowness of Meta's Oversight Board A 234-day wait to get a ruling in a case about incitement to violence suggests that something...
a year ago
Dan Slimmon
Incident, Inçident, Incidënt When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And don't forget to create an incident so customers can stay informed!
Ink & Switch
Provenance for science papers, local-first access control In this Dispatch, we'll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In this Dispatch, we'll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments for science papers and local-first access control. We also have some updates on WASM packaging for Automerge, and a new researcher-in-residence.
Writing - Andreas...
Overconfidence and future-proofing “Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable...
a year ago
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a year ago
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable design decisions. Future-proofing only makes sense if you have some idea of what the future will look like and you understand what the tradeoffs are.
Rest of World -...
Clickwork in Brazil: A mom balancing endless gigs with childcare Through platforms like UHRS, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Appen, a clickworker takes on a job...
a year ago
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a year ago
Through platforms like UHRS, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Appen, a clickworker takes on a job consisting of hundreds of quick, repetitive tasks.
The Honest Broker
How Picasso Turned Me into a Strategy Consultant I share a shameful incident from my student days
6 months ago
Working Theorys
Some Thoughts on Airchat For people in a tiny slice of the world and internet, there’s no greater canon event than the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
For people in a tiny slice of the world and internet, there’s no greater canon event than the prospect of a new social app taking off. Sometimes there are multi-year droughts. In a plentiful year, there are one or two prospects that excite us. (And I wrote a stream of...
Escaping Flatland
Pseudonyms lets you practice agency I don’t think I would have become a writer if it wasn’t for the internet forums of the early 2000s.
4 months ago
The DESK Magazine
How to create free press for your work You know what’s not a portfolio, but still acts as a portfolio?
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Our new objective: Nail Self Serve The longer your strategy gets, the more useless it becomes. That's why, at PostHog, we communicate...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The longer your strategy gets, the more useless it becomes. That's why, at PostHog, we communicate strategy as 'Nail X', where X is the thing we need…
High Signal
Newsletter that make money in 2024 Newsletters are a great way to make money. The humble email list can be monetized through...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Newsletters are a great way to make money. The humble email list can be monetized through advertising or if you have a seriously big value proposition, paid subscriptions. Most email platforms give generous free plans so you don't have to pay anything for your first 1,000-2500...
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth? undefined
a month ago
The Wandering...
Cartographic palettes and colour harmonies This story begins one day when I was assembling a map of the city of Edmonton, Alberta from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This story begins one day when I was assembling a map of the city of Edmonton, Alberta from OpenStreetMap data. It was going to be a big map, a 42″ (106 cm) wide poster for a wall. The data was good, but the standard OSM colours were not. They would work fine for a street …...
Many Worlds
A Real ET Discovery With Promise, Amid Some Other Quite Questionable Claims Beware easy answers to the question of whether life exists beyond Earth. Be they “alien” skeletons...
a year ago
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a year ago
Beware easy answers to the question of whether life exists beyond Earth. Be they “alien” skeletons in Mexico City, interstellar probes that briefly pass through our solar system, UFOs of all sorts and claims to have found “biosignature” chemical byproducts of life around planets...
Math Is Still...
Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack? Two mathematicians have proved a long-standing conjecture that is a step on the way toward finding...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Two mathematicians have proved a long-standing conjecture that is a step on the way toward finding the worst shape for packing the plane. The post Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Rest of World -...
The obscure social media app beloved by China’s tech scene Jike might be the most important social network in Chinese tech.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Artist Knows He Is Ready' A young reader complains that he’s “good with words” but doesn’t know what to write about. It sounds...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
A young reader complains that he’s “good with words” but doesn’t know what to write about. It sounds as though he seizes up when he sits down at the keyboard. To call his condition “writer’s block” would be premature. He’s too inexperienced for that to be happening already. The...
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently startups pop up and take over the press, framed as an “overnight success” taking just a year or two to reach some incredible milestone. For some time I’ve had a slight intuition that...
Beautiful Public...
Utah Highway LiDAR Scans Utah's Department of Transportation uses state-of-the-art 3-D laser scanners to capture the surfaces...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Utah's Department of Transportation uses state-of-the-art 3-D laser scanners to capture the surfaces and area surrounding 15,000 miles of its roads.
Sean Carroll
New Course: The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics In past years I’ve done several courses for The Great Courses/Wondrium (formerly The Teaching...
a year ago
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a year ago
In past years I’ve done several courses for The Great Courses/Wondrium (formerly The Teaching Company): Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Mysteries of Modern Physics:Time, and The Higgs Boson and Beyond. Now I’m happy to announce a new one, The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics....
Atoms vs Bits
My Personal Electoral College Total Would the states you've visited be enough to win the electoral college? Find out....
10 months ago
TheCollector
Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament? undefined
10 months ago
TokyoDev
Recruiting Developers Through Conferences Conferences bring together passionate developers, typically around a specific technology such as a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Conferences bring together passionate developers, typically around a specific technology such as a programming language like Ruby. This makes them the perfect place to recruit developers for your company. This article outlines how a company can get the most value out of these...
symmetry magazine
What is neutral naturalness? Indirectly testing this theory, motivated by the mysterious mass of the Higgs boson, could be within...
a year ago
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a year ago
Indirectly testing this theory, motivated by the mysterious mass of the Higgs boson, could be within reach for experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
2 months ago
Rest of World -...
South Indian temples are embracing digital donations with QR codes Hindu temples are now accepting cashless payments for offerings, VIP tickets for festivals, and...
2 months ago
One Useful Thing
Thinking Like an AI A little intuition can help
2 months ago
Londonist
10 DLR Trains Have Now Got Front Seat 'Control Panels' You Can Play With Sorry, that your KIDS can play with.
11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Leviathan in the Bible? undefined
6 months ago
Arduino Blog
Controlling a drum machine with the Arduino Opta Makers have long asked the question “why bother with an expensive PLC when I can just use an...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Makers have long asked the question “why bother with an expensive PLC when I can just use an Arduino?” The answer comes down to the priorities and needs of industrial clients. In a factory automation setting, the client will prioritize durability, reliability, and serviceability...
TheCollector
Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich undefined
a year ago
Confessions of a...
Substack has Failed Indian Creators Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the problems I (and many other Indian writers) have faced in monetizing their writing on Substack, even after being here for years, bringing in thousands of new readers and producing...
Essays - Benedict...
Competing in search A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?
TheCollector
Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over? undefined
a year ago
Both Are True
i interviewed a bunch of cool ppl and now it's a...print publication??! Whoa, Vol 1: Conversations to make you feel human
a month ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'More Profundities Than Twists' I’m sure some of you share my slightly guilty impulse: a book last read months or decades ago enters...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I’m sure some of you share my slightly guilty impulse: a book last read months or decades ago enters my thoughts and I can’t shake it. I have to read it again. For me, the same is true of movies. To put it in not non-artistic terms, sometimes you get a craving for spaghetti...
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies? And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review ‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review JamesHoare Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Getting to the top of the GPT Store (and building an AI-native search engine, too) Listen now | A conversation with Christian Salem, founder and CPO of Consensus.
8 months ago
Contemporist...
This Home's Addition Is Designed To Feel Like You've Stepped Into The Garden BENT Architecture has shared photos of a project they designed in Victoria, Australia, that included...
a year ago
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a year ago
BENT Architecture has shared photos of a project they designed in Victoria, Australia, that included the design of a rear extension that answers the statement, "Imagine if your home could feel like living in a garden pavilion".
Neil Panchal
Bare Metal vs. Virtualization Performance I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows: Neil's Lab Server Specifications CPU...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows: Neil's Lab Server Specifications CPU Model Intel® Xeon® Gold 6326, 16 Cores (32 Threads), 2.90 GHz (Base), 3.50 GHz (Turbo) CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12S DX-4189 Motherboard Supermicro...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sad Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Borgin hard or hardly borgin? Today's News:
a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
On "the OSI deprogrammer" Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses to die”, in reaction to Robert Graham’s “OSI Deprogrammer” published in September. I had discussed the OSI Deprogrammer on Lobsters, and George’s blog post prompted me to write an...
Handprinted - Blog
In the Studio 2022 We have had the pleasure of hosting lots of new and exciting Fab Friday workshops and wonderful...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We have had the pleasure of hosting lots of new and exciting Fab Friday workshops and wonderful Guest Tutors in 2022, exploring a variety of printmaking techniques. Take a look at this selection of work produced by students throughout the year:   Life Drawing - Mono Screen...
The Great Discontent...
Beatie Wolfe Beatie Wolfe has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Beatie Wolfe has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation, and pioneered new formats for art that bridge the physical and digital. Wolfe's latest projects include a visualization of 800,000 years worth of climate data, a collective postcard art...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Just stop adding people. “Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack...
a year ago
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a year ago
“Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack is a great way to destroy a workday. You can lose whole days hammering out details with coworkers across a few Slack threads. But communication is the cost you pay for capacity—the...
Maggie Appleton
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web
over a year ago
Both Are True
the detonator no, i will not 'grieve' my pre-parent self
8 months ago
Retail Design Blog
PEDRO flagship store Part of the Singapore-based Charles & Keith Group since its inception in 2005, the fast-growing...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Part of the Singapore-based Charles & Keith Group since its inception in 2005, the fast-growing PEDRO shoe brand evolved from...
Open Culture
Join Us on Bluesky. We Will Have Fun Together There’s an eXodus taking place, and millions are finding a new home on Bluesky. In recent days, the...
a month ago
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a month ago
There’s an eXodus taking place, and millions are finding a new home on Bluesky. In recent days, the decentralized social media platform has been gaining 10,000 new users every 10–15 minutes, or about 1 million new users per day. Open Culture is already there, sharing the cultural...
Arduino Blog
RIoT Secure joins Arduino’s SIPP as Gold Partner We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership Program at the Gold level. Founded in 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden, RIoT Secure is at the forefront of IoT security, especially in regards to resource-constrained microcontrollers,...
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
CommitStrip
Once upon a Teams meeting…
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
Why does a extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster? For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and Ethereum cryptocurrency. To learn more about both, I’ve been using Zig to write a bytecode interpreter for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Zig is a great language for performance...
A Beautiful Site
Access pages without the php extension using .htaccess There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight forward.  It allows you to access /any-page.php by simply going to /any-page.  Just place the following into your .htaccess file (and make sure that mod_rewrite is...
Maps Mania
Text Search for Street View
3 months ago
Escaping Flatland
6 lessons I learned working at an art gallery On agency, doing value-aligned work, and making your job fun
a month ago
The American Scholar
A Stranger in the Seven Hills A refugee’s experience in the Eternal City The post A Stranger in the Seven Hills appeared first on...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A refugee’s experience in the Eternal City The post A Stranger in the Seven Hills appeared first on The American Scholar.
Seth's Blog
Getting better at bucket management If you throw a bucket of water on a small campfire, you’ll succeed in putting it out. Pour a...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you throw a bucket of water on a small campfire, you’ll succeed in putting it out. Pour a bucketful of sake into one of those little glasses and you’ll waste most of it and ruin the table setting. And try to use a bucket to refill a dried-out lake and not much will happen. […]
Mazdak
The Rollercoaster Ride of Long-Term Rates: What it Means for You and the Economy Remember that dramatic rise in long-term interest rates back in September and October? The one that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Remember that dramatic rise in long-term interest rates back in September and October? The one that had everyone from policymakers to financial analysts glued to their screens? Well, guess what? It's mostly reversed! What does this mean? In a nutshell, it means a sigh of relief...
The Honest Broker
Terry Gibbs Celebrates His 100th Birthday—but Why Isn't He a NEA Jazz Master? A newly-discovered recording from 1959 reminds us of this artist's greatness
2 months ago
macwright.com
awesome-codemirror by () I started another “awesome” GitHub repo (a list of resources), for CodeMirror, called...
a year ago
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a year ago
I started another “awesome” GitHub repo (a list of resources), for CodeMirror, called awesome-codemirror. CodeMirror has a community page but I wanted a freewheeling easy-to-contribute-to alternative. Who knows if it’ll grow to the size of awesome-geojson - 2.1k stars as of this...
PostHog's RSS Feed
We ship whenever PostHog ships every two weeks, unless it makes more sense not to. Why? Iterating frequently helps...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog ships every two weeks, unless it makes more sense not to. Why? Iterating frequently helps improve our product. We get features in users’ hands…
A Smart Bear
When you want to quit because it's just not worth it Are you crying in the shower because you can't handle it anymore? Beyond Impostor Syndrome: Complete...
a year ago
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a year ago
Are you crying in the shower because you can't handle it anymore? Beyond Impostor Syndrome: Complete melt-down? Well, at least you're in good company.
Mazdak
Unplugging Australia: Kids vs. Social Media Australia is going offline!
3 weeks ago
Probably...
Should divorce be more difficult? “The Christian right is coming for divorce next,” according to this recent Vox article, and “Some...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
“The Christian right is coming for divorce next,” according to this recent Vox article, and “Some conservatives want to make it a lot harder to dissolve a marriage.” As always when I read an article like this, I want to see data — and the General Social Survey has just the data I...
Identity Designed
Champ Designed by Jesús López, Hermosillo, Mexico.
7 months ago
Tom Blomfield
Startup Series Part 3: You make what you measure Merely measuring something has an uncanny tendency to improve it. If you want to make your user...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Merely measuring something has an uncanny tendency to improve it. If you want to make your user numbers go up, put a big piece of paper on your wall and every day plot the number of users. You’ll be delighted when it goes up and disappointed when it goes down. Pretty soon you’ll...
Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
./techtipsy
My self-hosting setup has an UPS now, here's my experience with it I changed my setup again. I’m now the proud owner of an APC Smart-UPS 750. Why? Because I got it as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
One Useful Thing
The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself? Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
On the Arts
What are Liminal Spaces? And why are they so popular? “Liminal spaces” have become trendy in recent years, especially on TikTok, Tumblr, and YouTube. But...
a year ago
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a year ago
“Liminal spaces” have become trendy in recent years, especially on TikTok, Tumblr, and YouTube. But what makes a space liminal? And why are they so popular lately?
Chris Grossack's...
Estimating a Difference of Products Wow, it’s been a long time! Both since my last blog post, and since my last quick analysis trick....
a year ago
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a year ago
Wow, it’s been a long time! Both since my last blog post, and since my last quick analysis trick. But I’ve been itching to write more blog posts lately, and I thought that something quick and easy like this would be a good way to get back into it without the kind of effort...
Escaping Flatland
Thinking about perceptiveness links
4 months ago
Seth's Blog
The length trick It’s possible that the memo or video is simply too long. A 14 minute video explaining how to have a...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s possible that the memo or video is simply too long. A 14 minute video explaining how to have a 10 minute brainstorming meeting might benefit from some editing. But it might be that your instruction manual would benefit from some more photos and better in depth explanation....
This Space
The disappearance of criticism, part two A friend mentioned to me that he felt alienated by the articulacy of a literary critical book he was...
over a year ago
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A friend mentioned to me that he felt alienated by the articulacy of a literary critical book he was reading; by its neutrality of tone, by its calm. Unruffled was another word he used. We all might recognise this feeling while assuming it is admiration, respect, perhaps even...
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Running Google Lighthouse five times will half the variability of your test results. So how do you figure out which run is the median?
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Every now and again on social media, the observation circulates that Americans look back so fondly on their college years because never again do they get to live in a well-designed walkable community. The organization of college campuses does much to shape that experience, but so...
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This week Danny jumped on a live Twitter Spaces with me. We talked about: When to "quit" XO community, courses, Motivations for picking a startup idea Decision making differences between short holds and longer holds.
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Some restaurants just make it look so easy, don't they? The menu at Camille is so enticing, with unusual eye-catching ingredients prepared in exciting and distinctive ways, that it's almost enough to spoil any other dining experience by default, and it makes you wonder if they...
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I don’t have an exact date for this photo, but the Temple Bar Building, the three-turreted skyscraper in the center, was constructed 1899 to 1901, so 1900 to 1910 is my guess. (As for how difficult discussing timelines can be, the New York Times article on the building I discuss...
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Southeast Asians are heading to Taiwan to train for semiconductor jobs, which is helping to fill a talent gap at the world’s top producer.
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MW Architects has shared photos of a new garden room in London, England, that replaced an old derelict wash house, that was in danger of slipping down a steep slope and existed at the back of an overgrown garden. Here’s what it looked like originally. The new studio, which has...
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Unlike my sons, I can’t listen to music while working – that is, writing. When the music is good, that’s what I’m doing, listening. Otherwise, I don’t need a soundtrack for my life. I would find that annoyingly attention-splitting. What I do instead is periodically take a break...
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust. I would like to share my experience and thoughts on the transition between 2 languages. Disclaimer: This article is not a C++ vs Rust...
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I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way to reference the current text color when writing CSS. Works in modern browsers, including IE9+. If you use Less or Sass then you probably already use something like @text-color....
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later Steve discovers Stable Diffusion and never leaves his room again. Today's News: Just 11 days till launch!
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Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative released the latest State of Local News. It highlights the dire state of print journalism with maps to illustrate the problems. This one highlights counties that are on the watch list to become news deserts. News deserts...
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"The Future of Reading Depends on the Future of Learning Difficult to Learn Things" Socrates’ complaints about writing included “Writing removes the need to remember”. He meant that a...
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Socrates’ complaints about writing included “Writing removes the need to remember”. He meant that a prosthetic brace on a healthy limb will…
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At $WORK, we have a case where we have implemented an event trigger to prevent customers from dropping an extension. As this extension is part of contrib and normally installed by users, we can’t prevent them from dropping it normally. However, event triggers can only be created...
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Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages make perfect partners.
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Download Linux 64bit Windows So I actually finished Ludum Dare 33. I can’t believe how hard it was to actually make something! It continues to amaze me what fantastic stuff everyone manage to make in just 48 hours. This is what I came up with for the theme You are the Monster....
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Unsupervised Learning NO. 364 | Reality Headset, BingPT, AI+Cyber If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it with your favorite...
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If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it with your favorite client. APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS The FBI is warning people to block online ads due to imposters poisoning search results. They advise users to 1) check ad URLs, 2) go...
Diaries of Note
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Sherwood Anderson was an important and influential writer, highly regarded for his seminal work Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of interrelated short stories that painted an intimate portrait of small-town America and had a lasting impact on American literature. By 1938, three...
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How to change the world All successful cultural change (books, movies, public health), has a super-simple two-step loop:...
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All successful cultural change (books, movies, public health), has a super-simple two-step loop: AWARENESSTENSION–>Loop<– It’s easy to focus on awareness. Get the word out. Hype. Promo. I think that’s a mistake. Because awareness without tension is useless. The tension is like...
diamond geezer
Merton rebrands The London borough of Merton is updating its logo. But it has to die, slowly and gradually...
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The London borough of Merton is updating its logo. But it has to die, slowly and gradually from the end of November, and I'll let the council's branding team explain why. We have been using the same logo as the foundation stone of our corporate identity for the past 30...
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on grayness in real estate Allegedly, somewhere in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a 4 bed, 5.5 bathroom house totaling more than 6,600 square feet is for sale at a price of 2.37 million dollars. The house, allegedly, was built in 2021. Allegedly, it looks like this: A McMansion...
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Dynamic Checkboxes Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether...
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Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether you’re selecting a pricing plan during a site’s sign-up process or just simply selecting to opt-out from a newsletter, you have most likely interacted with some form of checkbox...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 12, 2016: women's financial planning Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. Today's ride home from choir practice: Former Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck launched Ellevest yesterday. Ellevest differs from other investment platforms...
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Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto our own hardware, without the need for the complexity of something like Kubernetes. Kamal 2 is a huge leap forward for that tool, and it has just shipped.  Now you can deploy...
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Radio personality Bill Barry was fascinated with the place names of his native Saskatchewan. So much so that he wrote a Dictionary of Saskatchewan Place Names, I'm sure you've probably read it already but an interesting item about this toponymy is how many of the towns were...
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In-depth: PostHog vs Heap Want to know how PostHog and Heap are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two...
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Want to know how PostHog and Heap are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two points: Heap is a product analytics tool designed…
The Modern House
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Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to have a dedicated conditional syntax, like ng-if="condition", relying on JS boolean operators instead: condition && <JSX /> renders <JSX /> iff condition is truthy, condition ?...
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I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been obsessed. All I want for breakfast these days is a bowl of this granola with some plain yogurt. UPDATE: I no longer order from Sqirl after hearing about their jam mold and the deeper...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Cal Russell I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied...
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I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied Illustration at Falmouth School of Art and did a Masters in Contemporary Art at the Edinburgh College of Art. I mostly work independently and sell my prints and originals online or...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Doing Him a Favor By Taking His Money' Of all things, I have an anecdote – from a friend in Washington, D.C. He was visiting Second Story...
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Of all things, I have an anecdote – from a friend in Washington, D.C. He was visiting Second Story Books in that city earlier this week. The volumes in the outdoor stalls are priced at $4 each. My friend collects Lionel Trilling and he found a copy of Of This Time, Of That Place...
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The 20th series of Big Brother kicked off this week, with sixteen fresh housemate wannabes confined inside a brand new Big Brother House. Where is the new Big Brother House hiding in plain sight in London's best-smelling cul-de-sac? The first Big Brother house...
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My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would...
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I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would serve content as HTML from this directory. This was a simple way to share my GIFs with the world. I even adopted an Alfred workflow for quickly searching and copying my GIFs URL to the...
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Lighthouse Blog
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Your Wi-Fi might be terrible because of Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5...
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For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5 GHz one would suddenly stop working and completely disappear from the available Wi-Fi networks. OpenWRT upgrades also didn’t improve the situation. This was very annoying. After...
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'These Pieces of Moral Prose' “Where did you get your humility? I thought that was an extinct virtue.”  Creating anything...
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“Where did you get your humility? I thought that was an extinct virtue.”  Creating anything worthwhile, whether joke, villanelle or pot of lentil soup, calls for pride and humility. Pride because one presumes to add to the world’s bounty and impose it on others; humility because...
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Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by philosopher Zeno of Citium and was quickly adopted and expanded upon by his successors, including the influential Roman philosopher, Seneca. Stoicism's focus on self-discipline,...
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Some things aren't still intended to last forever, like KitchenAid stand mixers Meet Bernice: Bernice is a Hobart-motored thirty-two and a half year old KitchenAid stand mixer. My...
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Meet Bernice: Bernice is a Hobart-motored thirty-two and a half year old KitchenAid stand mixer. My grandma named her. She's a slightly green lemon chiffon color reminiscent of the end of the 70's with which, despite all odds, I've become quite enamored. She's even older than...
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I used to have several design heroes I looked up to. But when I changed from industrial design to digital...
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Hi! I made this transit diagram myself. I saw there was no “real” map with all the stations for the region of Arendal in Norway, so I decided to do this project. I would love to read your comments and criticisms! Transit Maps says: There’s a lot to like about this diagram – a...
TheCollector
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Old Structures...
Tiny and Cute, But Purposeful This is the lighthouse at the northern tip of Roosevelt Island. The island is two miles long and a...
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This is the lighthouse at the northern tip of Roosevelt Island. The island is two miles long and a tenth of a mile wide, cutting the East River into two roughly-equal half-channels. That alone makes the need for lighthouses at its tip reasonably clear, but the conditions are...
Londonist
Vintage Football Shirts: The Best And Oddest From Every Big London Club New book delves deep into the world of vintage collectables.
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Too much therapy at work Many years ago, Jason and I hired a COO at 37signals, but ended up letting them go after just a year...
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Many years ago, Jason and I hired a COO at 37signals, but ended up letting them go after just a year (many reasons, another story). This happened not long before one of our company meet-ups, so we thought it fitting to discuss the matter in-person. What a mistake. The session...
Society's Backend
What Makes Machine Learning so Hard for Software Engineers How decades of learning a mindset makes adapting difficult
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TheCollector
Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked undefined
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Electronics etc…
$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few...
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Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few tests Internals Conclusion References Introduction I’ve been doing a bunch of measurements on oven-controlled oscillators lately, including their temperature. There are multiple ways to measure...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The creative agency of small projects Since I moved out of the startup world I've exclusively worked on small projects. Niche, simple...
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Since I moved out of the startup world I've exclusively worked on small projects. Niche, simple tools packed with love and attention to detail. I've written about my approach to building, and how it impacts my life and outlook. Today, however, I want to write about a less-obvious...
Birchtree
When do the Trump flags come down? (members post) The flags are still flying, celebrating the man, not the country. Why is this something that happens...
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The flags are still flying, celebrating the man, not the country. Why is this something that happens now, and why is it something only happening on one end of the political spectrum?
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Four Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sesame Street is to blame. Today's News:
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Anecdotal Evidence
'But, Take It From This Famous Pote [sic]' Isaac Waisberg of IWP Books has published his latest anthology of Horace translations, this time a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Isaac Waisberg of IWP Books has published his latest anthology of Horace translations, this time a generous 417 versions of Ode I.5, the “Ode to Pyrrha,” dating from 1621 to 2007. The one I’m familiar with is John Milton’s, described by the poet as “rendered almost word for word...
Old Structures...
Dry-Goods Palace This is a newspaper ad circa 1883, advertising that the store Wechsler & Abraham had moved about two...
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This is a newspaper ad circa 1883, advertising that the store Wechsler & Abraham had moved about two blocks down Fulton Street to a new building that was something like five times the size of its old home. That name doesn’t mean much today, but in 1893, a change in ownership...
TheCollector
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4 months ago
Making software...
Happily Paying For macOS Apps Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It's no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source...
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Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It's no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS[^0] systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
Construction Physics
Why Did Supersonic Airliners Fail? Progress in aviation has traditionally been associated with speed. Following the Wright Brothers’...
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Progress in aviation has traditionally been associated with speed. Following the Wright Brothers’ flight in 1903, aircraft speeds steadily increased each decade, and increasing aircraft speeds was one of the primary goals of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA’s...
Nadia Asparouhova
Idea machines Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their...
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Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their ideologies. Where do these ideologies come from, and how do they influence what’s accomplished? One of the most visible ideologies in tech is effective altruism (or EA), a...
Rest of World -...
The SoftBank-backed fintech that helped Nigerians through a cash crisis is eyeing “innovative... Olu Akanmu, co-CEO and president of OPay Nigeria, on the importance of cloud infrastructure and the...
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: FamousAdolf My name is Adolf, like the famous one. I was born in Barcelona 37 years ago and I spent my childhood...
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My name is Adolf, like the famous one. I was born in Barcelona 37 years ago and I spent my childhood watching TV and eating lots of bread and chocolate. When I got older I got a degree in Advertising and Public Relations that I never really used. I worked as a Graphic Designer in...
A Beautiful Site
What is my browser? This tool will tell you Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
mtlynch.io
Deploying Syncthing on a Fly.io Cloud Server I recently discovered Syncthing, an open-source tool for syncing files across multiple...
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I recently discovered Syncthing, an open-source tool for syncing files across multiple machines. Setting up Syncthing on my personal devices was easy, but I went on an interesting journey deploying it to a cloud server. Why run Syncthing in the cloud? Syncthing synchronizes files...
Cognitive...
Rise of the Open Source ChatGPT Clones At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat....
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a year ago
At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat. Now three projects (that I know of!) aim to give everybody the ability to create their own ChatGPT clone. The basic components of a ChatGPT clone are: large language model as its...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Nostalgia A piece of a 1987 Daredevil comic, with some thugs attacking pieple on the subway. The route map (on...
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11 months ago
A piece of a 1987 Daredevil comic, with some thugs attacking pieple on the subway. The route map (on the left, abive the man in a blue jacket, blue pants, and badly-outdated boots) is clearly the Vignelli Map, in use from 1972 to 1979. The cars with the big central cicular fans...
Seth's Blog
The challenge of “a risky scheme” New ideas aren’t adopted all at once. A few people go first while the rest of us watch to see how it...
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New ideas aren’t adopted all at once. A few people go first while the rest of us watch to see how it goes. “Look, Mikey, he likes it!” This is the story of tech innovations, dance crazes and even food. Ideas spread horizontally, and people who prefer the status quo will embrace...
NeuroLogica Blog
AI Video Recently OpenAI launched a website showcasing their latest AI application, Sora. This app, based on...
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Recently OpenAI launched a website showcasing their latest AI application, Sora. This app, based on prompts similar to what you would use for ChatGPT or the image creation applications, like Midjourney or Dalle-2, creates a one minute photorealistic video without sound. Take a...
CONTEMPORIST
272 Wood Slats Were Used To Create A Sculptural Element Inside This New Coffee Bar Design firm jones | haydu has shared photos of The Caffé by Mr. Espresso, a new coffee bar in...
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Design firm jones | haydu has shared photos of The Caffé by Mr. Espresso, a new coffee bar in Oakland, California, that features curved birch slats. The design of the cafe is heavily inspired by Italian culture, using minimalism and contrast, with the designers explaining, “The...
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Scrollbar Shenanigans Styling scrollbars for my space on the Internet
over a year ago
somenice
CBC Spark with Nora Young Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in...
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Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in June 2024. (Announcement episode) One of the most intelligent, progressive technology-in-society news shows in Canada or anywhere for that matter. Perhaps that it’s medium is radio...
mtlynch.io
Hiring: Freelance Blog Illustrator I’m a blogger, and I often commission custom illustrations for my blog posts like this one: An...
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I’m a blogger, and I often commission custom illustrations for my blog posts like this one: An example of an illustration I commissioned for the blog, part of my year-in-review series The blog’s previous illustrator was the awesome Loraine Yow, who worked with me for six years....
TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom? undefined
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Garfield Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I heard the Internet likes comics about...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I heard the Internet likes comics about cats? Today's News: Big thing coming MONDAY!
AFAR Media - Travel...
BIPOC Guide to Asheville's Outdoors
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A Smart Bear
Pick one and own it What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will...
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What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will make your positioning and strategy stronger.
Sam Altman
US Digital Currency I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use case we have seen work at scale so far).  There was possibly a time when governments could have totally stopped it, but it feels like that’s in the rearview mirror. ...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 026: AudioCraft August 4, 2023
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Both Are True
This really is it no time to review this cuz the kids are screaming again lol I hope it doesn't suck
4 months ago
99% Invisible
Raccoon Resistance After Toronto unveiled its “raccoon-resistant” compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals...
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After Toronto unveiled its “raccoon-resistant” compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals would be starved but many more celebrated the innovative design. Rolling out this novel locked bin opened a new battlefront in city’s ongoing “war on raccoons.” Toronto’s new...
Business Brainstorms
Hiring a geo-guesser, change merchants, one distribution channel is all it takes Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
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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 “request for service: roast my onboarding for SaaS...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Buy Something Before You Get Socked in the Eye' The indispensable Brad Bigelow of The Neglected Books Page has introduced me to a poet I had never...
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a year ago
The indispensable Brad Bigelow of The Neglected Books Page has introduced me to a poet I had never known before, Margaret Fishback (1900-85). Like L.E. Sissman she worked in advertising and published in The New Yorker. Unlike Sissman, she wrote light verse almost exclusively and...
TheCollector
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NeuroLogica Blog
AI Designed Drugs On a recent SGU live streaming discussion someone in the chat asked – aren’t frivolous AI...
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On a recent SGU live streaming discussion someone in the chat asked – aren’t frivolous AI applications just toys without any useful output? The question was meant to downplay recent advances in generative AI. I pointed out that the question is a bit circular – aren’t frivolous...
Probably...
Multiple Regression with StatsModels This is the third is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from...
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This is the third is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 10, which is about multiple regression. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab. In the previous...
TheCollector
Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design undefined
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blogging and Composting Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct...
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12 months ago
Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of the banana you get the peel. And if you compost, you can make good use of the peel. Similarly, whatever you’re building is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of whatever...
Society's Backend
Would You Build the Manhattan Project in the UAE? Thoughts on AI national security threats
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza undefined
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Beddington Farmlands A Nice Walk: Beddington Farmlands (1 mile) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing...
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A Nice Walk: Beddington Farmlands (1 mile) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, wildlife guaranteed, railway-adjacent, mostly dry underfoot, broad pylon vistas, binocular opportunities, possibility of lapwings, won't take long. So...
xkcd.com
March Madness
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macwright.com
Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by () ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror...
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ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view. You use a Facet. Great example in JupyterLab. Like everything in CodeMirror, this lets you be super flexible with how configuration works - it is designed with multiple...
TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect undefined
6 months ago
The Rational Walk
Three Lessons A few life lessons based on observations over a half century.
a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
Traditional Publishing is Great, Actually Don't be deceived like I was...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Misrepresenting the Past and Its Culture' I was still a kid when Marshall McLuhan became the sage du jour in the sixties. Television was a...
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a year ago
I was still a kid when Marshall McLuhan became the sage du jour in the sixties. Television was a “cool” medium, according to Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964). The cooler the medium, McLuhan wrote, “the more someone has to uncover and engage in the media” and...
the singularity is...
Dangerous Misinformation When I Google myself, I get this infobox: As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not...
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4 months ago
When I Google myself, I get this infobox: As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not 5’4” Google, please take this misinformation seriously before you end up in a very large libel suit. This is not on a site you are linking to, this is first party misinformation...
swyx's site RSS Feed
250k downloads of Latent Space Pod I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded...
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I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded developer-part-time-creator, the Latent Space Newsletter + Pod has done much better than I usually do. Here are the stats as of today:
Seth's Blog
Compared to perfect Perfect is useful. It’s an absolute measure, a north star, a chance to improve our work. But it’s...
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Perfect is useful. It’s an absolute measure, a north star, a chance to improve our work. But it’s also a shortcut to persistent dissatisfaction. Compared to perfect is helpful when we’re creating something. But it’s also worth noting that perfect is unattainable. What’s on offer...
TheCollector
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Anecdotal Evidence
'I Am Breathing--Still' R.L. Barth is preparing a chapbook of poems titled Ghost Story for a publisher. One of its sections,...
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R.L. Barth is preparing a chapbook of poems titled Ghost Story for a publisher. One of its sections, “Snowfall in Vietnam: Poems/Maxims,” consists of ten one-line, five-syllable poems and accompanying titles, some of which are longer than the poems. Their extreme...
Rest of World -...
Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are unionizing Citing meager wages, no safety gear, and exploitative working conditions, the country’s drivers are...
a year ago
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a year ago
Citing meager wages, no safety gear, and exploitative working conditions, the country’s drivers are organizing to demand better.
Seth's Blog
Surprise and uncertainty Until just recently, a solar eclipse wasn’t a tourist event. It was the cause of real panic. Two...
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8 months ago
Until just recently, a solar eclipse wasn’t a tourist event. It was the cause of real panic. Two reasons that are worth considering: Eliminate surprise and explain the circumstances and panic starts to fade.
TokyoDev
Memories of Sapporo Ruby Kaigi 2012 (#sprk2012) I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already [another Rubyist here](https://twitter.com/igaiga555/status/247511186394972160). Five minutes before, I met [another one](https://twitter.com/yotii23) walking down the street. Last...
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #04: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [EPISODE] This is the fourth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
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This is the fourth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the U.S. representative for New York’s 14th...
TheCollector
Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs undefined
4 months ago
Words and Buttons...
Trippy polynomials in arctangent scale This shows the global properties of polynomials, their derivatives, and explains how the Maclaurine...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This shows the global properties of polynomials, their derivatives, and explains how the Maclaurine and Taylor series work all with animated plots in arctangent scale.
Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer The Antikythera Mechanism
10 months ago
One Useful Thing
One sentence. Prompting for maximum impact (and why that is a bad idea)
a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized,...
10 months ago
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...
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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...
Archinect - Features
2024 Summer Architecture Programs for Kids and High School Students If you are a parent looking for engaging architecture-focused programs for kids, or a high school...
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If you are a parent looking for engaging architecture-focused programs for kids, or a high school student interested in gaining valuable pre-college experience, take a look below at Archinect's latest highlight of summer architecture programs. For the 2024 season, we have...
TheCollector
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Business Brainstorms
Copilot for cooperations, futility of SOPs, $0->$100m->$0 in 5 years, and adjusting to market... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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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 “Is there a Superhuman for Salesforce? Because this...
Diaries of Note
The instinct explains so much Born in Dorset in 1890, Mary Butts was a modernist writer who fused spirituality, mythology, and...
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Born in Dorset in 1890, Mary Butts was a modernist writer who fused spirituality, mythology, and reality in that were largely unappreciated during her lifetime. Twice married, first to writer John Rodker in 1918, and later to artist Gabriel Atkin in 1930, Mary navigated...
Tech and Tea
What I've been eating... Anyone who spends any time with me knows that I love food — thinking about food, making food, eating...
a year ago
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a year ago
Anyone who spends any time with me knows that I love food — thinking about food, making food, eating food, telling people about food. Why not add it into Tech and Tea?
Explorations of an...
Uruguay Part 3: Lagoon Shorebirding February 28, 2023 Our first few days in Uruguay had been very successful. We had been able to...
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a year ago
February 28, 2023 Our first few days in Uruguay had been very successful. We had been able to experience a few days in the beautiful rural countryside, staying at a wonderful hacienda. We had found our first Uruguayan snake. And we had found most of the potential bird lifers that...
haseeb qureshi
DeFi in Eth2: Cities, suburbs, and farms Ethereum today is incredibly congested—it’s even more congested now than it was during the height of...
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Ethereum today is incredibly congested—it’s even more congested now than it was during the height of the ICO bubble. This is impressive, but also worrying! Ethereum 2.0 is still a ways away, but the tiny island of Ethereum 1.0 is already populated to the point of...
Londonist
Buy A Toy For One Of The 5,000 Poorest London Kids In London This Christmas Winter Toy Appeal back for 10th year.
a year ago
TheCollector
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diamond geezer
Hinchley Wood One Stop Beyond: Hinchley Wood Hinchley Wood, one stop beyond Surbiton on the New Guildford...
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One Stop Beyond: Hinchley Wood Hinchley Wood, one stop beyond Surbiton on the New Guildford line. unsung fields to the east of Esher, officially in the parish of Thames Ditton, sliced through by a non-stopping railway. What changed things was the arrival of the Kingston Bypass...
diamond geezer
Ten ways to solve London's housing crisis Ten ways to solve London's housing crisis 1) Pave over golf courses golf courses in London covering...
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Ten ways to solve London's housing crisis 1) Pave over golf courses golf courses in London covering approximately 3% of the capital by area, a ridiculously wasteful proportion. A lot of fairways are also very close to existing railway stations so could swiftly become a key part...
The Convivial...
Too Many Words, and Not Enough The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 6
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Mazdak
Tesla's Robotaxi: A Gamble? Elon Musk finally took the wraps off his highly anticipated Cybercab at Tesla's "We, Robot" event on...
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Elon Musk finally took the wraps off his highly anticipated Cybercab at Tesla's "We, Robot" event on October 10th.
TheCollector
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
Design and art In high school I wanted to become someone who draws comics or cartoons for a living. I wasn’t too...
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In high school I wanted to become someone who draws comics or cartoons for a living. I wasn’t too concerned...
./techtipsy
I looked at this site on the Wayback Machine Yesterday was election day in Estonia and the results are in, which is why I remembered that one...
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Yesterday was election day in Estonia and the results are in, which is why I remembered that one time I looked at my website on the Wayback Machine. This domain used to point to a Wordpress site that hosted content for a candidate in the local elections, at least around...
Tony Dinh's...
Oct 2022 updates: I will write a book! Also in October: Speak at JOM Launch Asia 2022, and the thing about Elon Musk.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
A riddle wrapped in an enigma… made easy, with Arduino Plug and Make Kit The Arduino Plug and Make Kit was designed to open up infinite possibilities, breaking down the idea...
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The Arduino Plug and Make Kit was designed to open up infinite possibilities, breaking down the idea that technology is a “black box” reserved for experts. With its snap-together system, this kit gives everyone – beginners and seasoned makers alike – the power to create and...
The Modern House
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