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Old Structures...
Masonry Against The Sky Specifically the art-deco brickwork of 21 (striped and shorter) and 20 (solid and taller) West...
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a year ago
Specifically the art-deco brickwork of 21 (striped and shorter) and 20 (solid and taller) West Street, with the turn-of-the-century (and somewhat scarred) brick and terra cotta of 17 Battery Place in the background, and with some cumulus clouds (I think…the naming system always...
The Honest Broker
Doctors Raise a Patient from a Deathlike State with Electronic Music Is ultrasound the healing song of the 21st century?
4 months ago
The American Scholar
“He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy appeared first...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy appeared first on The American Scholar.
Tech + Economics +...
There is only one form of passive income worth celebrating. It’s a UBI. The romanticised notion of passive income typically conjures up picturesque images of digital...
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a year ago
The romanticised notion of passive income typically conjures up picturesque images of digital nomads lounging on immaculate beaches, their bank accounts growing with the profits from their latest online course on becoming a digital nomad. Dividends from investments in...
Nelson's Weblog
APIs for content sites must be free Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives...
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Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives most of its value from content that users write for free then it must provide APIs for anyone to download and manipulate that content. While an interactive API that enables...
A Beautiful Site
Testing Support for :focus-visible The new :focus-visible CSS selector lets us remove unsightly focus rings that often result in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The new :focus-visible CSS selector lets us remove unsightly focus rings that often result in developers adding this to their stylesheets: /* Please don't do this */ button:focus { outline: none; } While unsightly to mouse users, a clear focus indicator is essential for proper...
Arduino Blog
Ready for SPS Italia 2024? Ready for accessible industrial automation! Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our...
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7 months ago
Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our open-source solutions are revolutionizing the industrial sector with high performance and accessibility. At Arduino’s booth #C020, hall 7, we’ll be presenting the latest additions to...
Liz Denys
Patina tissue box, 2024 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, matte copper patina glaze
8 months ago
The Rational Walk
Biden’s Withdrawal and the Limits of Gaslighting President Biden's withdrawal from the election is the culmination of months of gaslighting by the...
5 months ago
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President Biden's withdrawal from the election is the culmination of months of gaslighting by the Democratic Party and allies in the mainstream media.
computers are bad
2023-09-10 the Essex GWEN site Programming note: this post is in color. I will not debase myself to the level of sending HTML...
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Programming note: this post is in color. I will not debase myself to the level of sending HTML email, so if you receive Computers Are Bad by email and want the benefit of the pictures, consider reading this online instead (the link is at the top of the email). In the aftermath of...
Seeking Wisdom
Neural Networks – Part 1 This is my 5th post on my journey to build a toy GPT. I’d recommend checking out my previous posts...
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a year ago
This is my 5th post on my journey to build a toy GPT. I’d recommend checking out my previous posts before diving into this one. Take the statement, ‘I will only go for a walk if it’s nice outside AND I have free time.’ This can be neatly represented using a truth table. We can…
Blog - Practical...
Why Some Roadways Are Made of Styrofoam [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you’ve ever driven or...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you’ve ever driven or ridden in an automobile, there’s a near 100% chance you’ve hit a bump in the road as you transition onto or off of a bridge. In fact, some studies estimate that it happens on a quarter...
Matt Mullenweg
State of the Word Tokyo It’s a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We’re going to be in an...
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a week ago
It’s a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We’re going to be in an amazing venue that looks over the city. Most of WordPress and Automattic’s senior leadership is here, and we’ll also have several hundred folks from the local community and press. We’ve...
diamond geezer
Dangleway Week Often around this time of year I go totally tubular with a week devoted to the London Underground -...
a year ago
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a year ago
Often around this time of year I go totally tubular with a week devoted to the London Underground - five days of quizzes, quirks, commentary and obscure statistics. Well not this year. I should warn you that I haven't actually ridden the cablecar while researching these fifteen...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The Sultan's Riddle Once upon a time there was a Sultan who was looking for a vizier to help him rule his country. It became known to him that among the multitudes of his loyal subjects...
Steve Klabnik
Six years with Rust
over a year ago
Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Left To Write
#4 Writemas: When A Man Loves A Woman Dear Ladies, I wish you could see inside a man’s head when he falls in love with a woman. It’s so...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dear Ladies, I wish you could see inside a man’s head when he falls in love with a woman. It’s so surreal and stunning that you’ve got to experience it to believe it. First, it starts small. He begins to notice things about her appearance. Like the curve of her small nose, the...
The Marginalian
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: An Uncommon Meditation on Presence and the Aperture of Wonder "Survival often depends on a specific focus: a relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the...
a year ago
Mazdak
The Best Age to Start Taking Social Security: It's Not What You Think When you reach full retirement age (FRA), you can start taking Social Security benefits. But you may...
a year ago
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a year ago
When you reach full retirement age (FRA), you can start taking Social Security benefits. But you may want to consider taking them sooner, even if it means a smaller monthly check. Here's why: Your benefits will grow by 8% per year for each year you delay taking them, up to age...
Open Culture
How the Ancient Greeks & Romans Made Beautiful Purple Dye from Snail Glands Much has been written about the loss of color in the twenty-first century. Our environments offered...
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6 months ago
Much has been written about the loss of color in the twenty-first century. Our environments offered practically every color known to man not so very long ago — and in certain eras, granted, it got to be a bit much. But now, everything seems to have retreated to a narrow palette...
TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige undefined
11 months ago
Alex Meub
Indeterminate Checkboxes While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can actually have up to four different visual states: checked, unchecked, disabled and indeterminate. What is indeterminate? It’s defined by the W3C this way: If the element’s...
TheCollector
End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up? undefined
a year ago
High Signal
Selling Unicorn Platform for $800k I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder,...
a year ago
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I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder, as I previously interviewed him about learning to code without a CS degree. Alex has stayed on at Mars, the company which has acquired him and unlike a lot of founders, will stay
NeuroLogica Blog
Nobel Prize for Attosecond Physics One attosecond (as) is 1×10−18 seconds. An attosecond is to one second what one second is to the age...
a year ago
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a year ago
One attosecond (as) is 1×10−18 seconds. An attosecond is to one second what one second is to the age of the universe. It is an extremely tiny slice of time. This year’s Nobel Prize in physics goes to three scientists, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier, whose...
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway’s Q2 2023 Results Thoughts on Berkshire Hathaway's second quarter results with a focus on GEICO, BNSF, HomeServices,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Thoughts on Berkshire Hathaway's second quarter results with a focus on GEICO, BNSF, HomeServices, Clayton Homes, Apple, and share repurchases.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Finite Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Butt-cream is in fact universal, for a sufficiently...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Butt-cream is in fact universal, for a sufficiently wide definition of butt. Today's News:
Kagi Blog
New features in the Orion Browser *Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing...
a year ago
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a year ago
*Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing over 160 new features, improvements, and bug fixes, making this our most significant release ever.
TheCollector
What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting? undefined
2 months ago
UX Collective
Why is hiring software so impersonal? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3 weeks ago
Old Structures...
Four, Maybe Five, Maybe Six Bridges Walking along South Street, which is to say along the East River waterfront. First up, the view from...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Walking along South Street, which is to say along the East River waterfront. First up, the view from Rutgers Street and South Street: We’ve got a pseudo-dramatic, badly framed view of the Manhattan tower of the Manhattan Bridge, with the elevated FDR Drive blocking most of it....
Probably...
PMFs and PDFs It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
5 months ago
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It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. If you get this post by email, the formatting is not good — you might want to read it on the site. pmf_and_pdf PMFs and PDFs¶ Here’s...
A Beautiful Site
Getting duplicate ids in an HTML document I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task, but unfortunately, I didn't find anything out there that fit the bill. I did find a couple functions that returned the duplicates, but they didn't include the first occurrence (I...
Londonist
An A-Z Of The London Underground X was tricky but we think we sorted it.
11 months ago
Archinect - Features
The US Just Defined a Zero Emissions Building: Is It Enough? For the first time, the US government has issued a definition of a 'zero emission building.' While...
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For the first time, the US government has issued a definition of a 'zero emission building.' While the effort to define a 'zero emission building' is both timely and commendable given the proliferation of unverified titles such as 'net zero' and 'carbon positive' in the AEC...
diamond geezer
Bow Street BOW STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets BOW STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price:...
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6 months ago
BOW STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets BOW STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price: £180 Rent: £14 Length: 200m Borough: Westminster Postcode: WC2 n.b. This is Bow Street in Covent Garden which is nowhere near Bow Road in Bow, nor close to the church of St-Mary-le-Bow...
TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League? undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists undefined
a year ago
devonzuegel.com
Why do home buyers look at price/sqft more than renters? A question that's puzzled me for a while is why home buyers focus on price/sqft so much more than...
a year ago
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a year ago
A question that's puzzled me for a while is why home buyers focus on price/sqft so much more than renters. I asked around for what other people thought and got some interesting answers, so I decided to write up my takeaways. I. Investments demand legibility Homeownership is...
Joel Gascoigne
Reflecting on 10 years of building Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the first version of Buffer. What started as a landing page to gauge interest, and then a very basic product that I worked on alone, has become so much more. Buffer is now a
Seán Barry
Using snippets in sublime text to speed up your development How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your...
over a year ago
The American Scholar
In the Mushroom True foraging isn’t the domain of the weekend warrior; it’s serious, serious business The post In...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
True foraging isn’t the domain of the weekend warrior; it’s serious, serious business The post In the Mushroom appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Elysian
Will you explain anarchism to me? Letters to an anarchist, part one.
a month ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Git-Centric Workflow _Published on [the Netlify...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
_Published on [the Netlify Blog](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/09/26/git-centric-workflow-the-one-api-to-rule-them-all/)_
Chris Grossack's...
Talk -- 2-Categorical Descent and (Essentially) Algebraic Theories A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the CT Octoberfest 2023 about some work I did over the summer that...
a year ago
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a year ago
A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the CT Octoberfest 2023 about some work I did over the summer that I’m really proud of. Unfortunately, while writing up the result I found a 1999 paper by Pedicchio and Wood that proves the same theorem (with roughly the same proof), so I...
Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997 New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
TheCollector
Why Should You Seek Ignorance? undefined
3 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Tracking Humanity
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
An overlooked and powerful editing tool Consider building a word cloud of your writing. It might be all the text on your website, or the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Consider building a word cloud of your writing. It might be all the text on your website, or the last 50 emails you sent. It might be your new book or the speech you’re going to give at Rice University. It only takes a few minutes. I use wordclouds.com because it’s easy and free....
Vitalik Buterin's...
7ème tour des subventions Gitcoin - Rétrospective
over a year ago
Old Structures...
A Deservedly Unknown Truss There’s a street bridge over the Hudson Line (the former main line of the New York Central Railroad)...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
There’s a street bridge over the Hudson Line (the former main line of the New York Central Railroad) tracks just south of the Dobbs Ferry Station: For now, ignore the big white pipe at the bottom of the side truss: it’s a utility line, not part of the truss. That leaves us with...
The Marginalian
Kafka on Friendship and the Art of Reconnection Among the paradoxes of friendship is this: All friendships of depth and durability are based on a...
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a month ago
Among the paradoxes of friendship is this: All friendships of depth and durability are based on a profound knowledge of each other, of the soul beneath the costume of personality — that lovely Celtic notion of anam cara. We bring this knowledge, this mutual understanding, to...
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly undefined
5 months ago
Musings on Markets
META Lesson 2: Accounting Inconsistencies and Consequences In my last post, I used Facebook's recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my last post, I used Facebook's recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate governance, and how we, as investors, have abandoned the power to change management at many younger tech companies in return for being able to invest in young tech companies, with growth...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I See Only Their Marvelous Works' “How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
“How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works.”  A reader reprimands me for dismissing Ezra Pound from serious consideration. “We can’t imagine modernism without him,” he...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023 Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
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a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
History Today Feed
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah JamesHoare Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
9 months ago
Seth's Blog
Informed consent (rarely is) Adults make choices and live with the consequences. No one else should tell us what flavor of ice...
a year ago
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Adults make choices and live with the consequences. No one else should tell us what flavor of ice cream we prefer, or what career to choose. We’re good at knowing what we want. In practice, this works really well for certain kinds of decisions. But when we add the network effect,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Fruit of My Studies' I’ve been invited to join an online book club and have politely declined. I even like some of the...
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3 months ago
I’ve been invited to join an online book club and have politely declined. I even like some of the readers who already belong, but by nature I’m not a joiner of anything. As soon as an arrangement among friendly individuals becomes formalized – by that I mean, organized, with...
Seth's Blog
Who’s got the camera? For years, I’ve been using this picture of Neil Armstrong when I tell the story of meeting him and...
a year ago
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a year ago
For years, I’ve been using this picture of Neil Armstrong when I tell the story of meeting him and hearing his talk at one of his last public appearances: I wasn’t there when this photo was taken, so I relied on a Google image search to find it: I compounded Google’s error....
Ognjen Regoje •...
Working on legacy code Take your time If you rush, you might miss some implications of your changes and cause more work in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Take your time If you rush, you might miss some implications of your changes and cause more work in the long run. So, do it right the first time. Secondly, since you’ll be in the code anyway, take some time to ensure that it will survive unchanged for another stretch of...
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates on "hard-core detractors" | Elon Musk responds to Tesla investor The key point is that they can't both be right. They share only one thing - saying negative things...
over a year ago
Mazdak
A Guide to 2024 Tax Brackets and Rates (Canada 🇨🇦) Tax season can be a daunting journey, with its intricate paths and hidden obstacles. For Canadian...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Tax season can be a daunting journey, with its intricate paths and hidden obstacles. For Canadian taxpayers, understanding the tax code and optimizing their financial position requires careful planning and informed decisions. This comprehensive guide equips you with the knowledge...
Nadia Asparouhova
How to do the jhanas The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to...
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6 months ago
The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This...
Vadim Kravcenko
Contracts you should never sign When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part...
a year ago
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a year ago
When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. […] The post Contracts you should never sign appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles] Our third Ink & Switch Unconference, at the beautifully retro Preserve in Los Angeles
a month ago
The Map is Mostly...
A lot with a little Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest — The Fool,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest — The Fool, King Lear Some works are better for their brevity. Fan Ho needs very little: Most of the image is black, or blurry. You can scarcely tell what materials you’re looking at. But the...
History Today Feed
The True Knights Templar The True Knights Templar j.hoare Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
11 months ago
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: The Squirrel Gestapo Dead Squirrels, Community Notes, and Good Frog Energy
a month ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Being a minor AI public figure I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is now for sale After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is finally for sale for all! This is The Moment of Truth where we get to see whether all that excitement turns into credit card swipes. That release rush. I love it. And I especially love...
alexwlchan
Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2 A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2. We’d started seeing issues in our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2. We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case. I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
Londonist
Brixton Tube Station Gets A New Artwork From Jem Perucchini Rebirth of a Nation adds a bright touch to station entrance.
a year ago
Construction Physics
The Story of Titanium The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By...
a year ago
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The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By mass, there’s more titanium in the earth’s crust than carbon by a factor of nearly 30, and more titanium than copper by a factor of nearly 100. But despite its abundance, it's...
David Heinemeier...
Is greed really seasonal? As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing their jobs after all, so that must mean someone is acting malevolent, dammit. This is when the age old accusation of greed is trotted out. Companies are only laying off people now...
A Weekly Dose of...
A Modernist Reads About Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the English architect who was born in 1869 and died in 1944, that is....
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a year ago
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the English architect who was born in 1869 and died in 1944, that is. Although a famous name, Lutyens was not an architect I had much familiarity with before I received a review copy of the first volume of The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens....
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Iconic There are all sorts of tricks – visual shorthand – for saying “you’re in New York” in movies, TV,...
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There are all sorts of tricks – visual shorthand – for saying “you’re in New York” in movies, TV, and photos. One of them is to include some roof-top water tanks. Comics, too: The purpose of the tanks is very simple. They store water pumped up form the municipal main, and water...
TheCollector
Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction undefined
a month ago
Nat Eliason's...
Do You Want a Happy Life or a Memorable Life? The Mindfulness Happiness Conflict
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Top 10 Locations and Hotels for Food Lovers
a year ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 27 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
over a year ago
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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 $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Diaries of Note
Spring will come Elsa Binder was twenty when, in October of 1941, German forces carried out a brutal massacre of...
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10 months ago
Elsa Binder was twenty when, in October of 1941, German forces carried out a brutal massacre of thousands of Jews in her hometown of Stanislawów, Poland. Two months later, she and her family were compelled to enter the Stanisławów Ghetto, joining 20,000 others in a harrowing...
Drew Ex Machina
GOES Video of Solar Eclipse – October 14, 2023 Solar eclipses have fascinated humanity since ancient times and the annular eclipse of October 14,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Solar eclipses have fascinated humanity since ancient times and the annular eclipse of October 14, 2023 was no different. Unlike a total solar eclipse where the […]
Unfiltered by Tim...
Be Aware of the Quiet Ones like Keanu Reeves — They Are the Ones That Actually Make You Think The smarter you become, the less you speak.
a month ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments) Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
History Today Feed
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review ‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review j.hoare Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Concrete Ceiling Floats Above This Round Hotel Bar Portuguese architecture office Openbook has designed the Ritz Pool Bar as part of an overall project...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Portuguese architecture office Openbook has designed the Ritz Pool Bar as part of an overall project to renovate the terrace and galleries of the Ritz Four Seasons Hotel Lisbon. The bar has an organic design and total openness to the terrace, with walls of glass allowing the...
diamond geezer
High Streets My High Streets post got a lot of attention over the weekend. How many High Streets are there in...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
My High Streets post got a lot of attention over the weekend. How many High Streets are there in London? Twitter and got 20 more comments. Hacker News, the behemoth American syndicator, and got 80 more comments. diamond geezer. a) not realising the significance of capital...
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales undefined
4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review ‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review j.hoare Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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My All-Time Favorite Science Discovery June 1, 1984—forty years ago today—is when it would be fair to say I made my all-time favorite science discovery. Like with basically all significant science discoveries (despite the way histories often present them) it didn’t happen without...
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Until yesterday I hadn't been to Havant. Havant is a large town in southeast Hampshire on the way to Portsmouth. They Havant got many old buildings because most of the town burnt in a fire in 1760. Only the church and a row of cottages survived. St Faith's and they found...
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One of the biggest challenges in moving from a software developer to entrepreneur has been changing my perception of the value of software. As a developer, the underlying assumption was the more functionality software had, the more valuable it was. This proposition was...
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reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an...
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Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use...
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Caroline Fox was an English diarist born in 1819 in Cornwall, England, into a prominent Quaker family—her father, Robert Were Fox, was a scientist and respected member of the community. Fox was sixteen when she began keeping the diary for which she is now known, posthumously...
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This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short lightning talk on any topic we wished. I picked cuttles. I actually saw one in real life diving in Fiji once!
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For quite a few years, I’ve been using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as my shell. One of the cool things it does is autosuggestions from my shell history. As I’m typing, it suggests (in light grey) a command I’ve run before. I can press the right arrow to accept the suggestion,...
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Adobe graciously invited me to speak at their IBC 2019 booth about visual effects compositing in After Effects — something I’ve been doing against all advice for many (many!) years. You can watch the entire talk here:
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This is one of the toughest decisions I've faced recently. This is the entrance to the public conveniences under the Fulham Broadway Retail Centre. I should point out that I'm not in the habit of photographing public conveniences. But the toilets at Fulham were very quiet,...
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One summer day in 1933, in a brief pocket of time between the two World Wars, a British man named Maurice Wilson clutched the stick of his tiny, open air biplane and watched his fuel gauge dwindle. He had only learned to fly two months earlier, but inexperience was not his...
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I was recently invited to speak at the AMS Sectional in Tallahassee, Florida. In particular, at the special session on Homotopy Theory and Category Theory in Interaction. The conference was this weekend, and I’m typing this up on my plane ride home. I had a great time, and...
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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...
devonzuegel.com
Part 2: Cluster development preserves California’s landscape A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
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A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal. One of the most essential parts of California Forever’s proposal to...
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My partner and I were were surprised we had radically different interpretations of a particular scene of a kdrama we had just watched. She had thought the lines were full of hope...
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Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the Prabhakar Raghavan newsletter), I’ve made the case that while rot economics are responsible for making technology products manifestly worse, this transformation was only possible thanks to...
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Ensembles vs Committees A useful dichotomy for team dynamics.
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MAP Architecture has shared photos of a contemporary cabin they completed in Suffolk, England, that’s located adjacent to the creek and reedbeds within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The ‘Creek Cabin’, with early...
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FINNE Architects has shared photos of a Pacific Northwest house they designed on Bainbridge Island, Washington. A 500-ft driveway winds through the woods up to the house, located in a clearing at the top of a gentle hill. The house was designed to be sustainable from the start,...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please click the annoying ad so I can make more books and then make more annoying ads. Today's News: <3
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There are three specific activities I have loved in some product managers I've worked with (and missed in others). tldr; Talk with customers and prospects Develop and share a vision Evangelize Talk with customers and prospects As a product manager, your superpower over...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Better than the stoic genies who just tell you to appreciate that your current situation is in line with the nature of things. Today's News:
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<![CDATA[I read the book Recursion via Pascal by Jeffrey S. Rohl, Cambridge University Press, 1984. I discovered this rare, little known gem by chance and, although it's available online, I also bought a cheap printed copy. The book Recursion via Pascal. What makes this short...
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Social media platforms have helped many people establish their business, but what if you don’t want to play the algorithm game? Is it possible to find clients without social media in 2024? The short answer is yes, and here's how.
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The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among thousands. Many of us feel like we need to Do Something about these problems. There’s just one problem (sorry):
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Since Newton had his initial revelation about gravity, our understanding of this fundamental concept has evolved in unexpected ways. In this week’s episode, theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham and co-host Janna Levin discuss the ways our current understanding of gravity needs...
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This month I attended Global AppSec Amsterdam, an international conference for hackers and security specialists. Read along for some of the highlights.
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I had a cush job at a university with great benefits, decent pay, and normal hours. Five years ago, I took a risk and gave it all up to start a company. Here are the five most important lessons I've learned about risk-taking. 1. There are good risks and bad risks # People that...
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A blue plaque for Hester In the last year, my theatre trips have been dominated by Operation Mincemeat, a comedy musical...
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In the last year, my theatre trips have been dominated by Operation Mincemeat, a comedy musical currently playing in the Fortune Theatre. The writing is clever, the songs are catchy, and it’s laugh-a-minute funny, but it can also be solemn and moving. The show is based on the...
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Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious that your dog has a different one than you do. They see fewer colors and smell far more intelligently. Sea slugs see a much wider range of colors, and bats can sense vibrations. Among...
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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“Though most of the teachers followed Erasmus in seeking to make learning palatable, Montaigne considers himself fortunate to have avoided getting 'nothing out of school but a hatred of books, as do nearly all our noblemen,’” writes Donald Frame in his 1965 biography of the...
Herbert Lui
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Shane Parrish writes at Brain Food, “Moments don’t make legends. Consistency does. And the hardest consistency isn’t in doing brilliant things but avoiding stupid ones. Every mistake puts you in hard mode, forcing you to make up lost ground.” In some lines of work, a person must...
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Akwasi Brenya-Mensa on the future of Pan-African cuisine at Tatale in Southwark
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This Kitchen Island Was Designed With Built-In Seating C. Kairouz Architects has shared photos of a renovation and extension project they designed for a...
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C. Kairouz Architects has shared photos of a renovation and extension project they designed for a home in Melbourne, Australia. One of the design details in the new extension is the kitchen island that doubles as seating for the dining area. The design of the kitchen island has a...
TheCollector
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Dream to Meet(1958) A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images. Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.) Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
NeuroLogica Blog
How To Prove Prevention Works Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm. Lisa: That’s specious...
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Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm. Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad. Homer: Thank you, dear. Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away. Homer: Oh, how does it work? Lisa: It doesn’t work. Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa:...
The Honest Broker
Cruising for Classical Music in LA A section from Dana Gioia's new book
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Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work...
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Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago...
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Almost all human-robot interaction (HRI) approaches today rely on three senses: hearing, sight, and touch. Your robot vacuum might beep at you, or play recorded or synthesized speech. An LED on its enclosure might blink to red to signify a problem. And cutting-edge humanoid...
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"At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution."
Flashbak
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“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism Heraclitus against Parmenides
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I and We Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego...
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Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego component is even larger. This is a good thing. Ego is what gives the founder the confidence to create something new. Ego powers the belief that the new thing the founder creates will...
mtlynch.io
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Highlights I hired TinyPilot’s first support engineer. I learned that hiring a support engineer is even harder than I expected. I’m evaluating platforms for paying international contractors. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how...
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“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
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How to Design Almost Any Backend and Deploy It to AWS with No Code With the Amplify Sandbox, it is really easy to model and think through any app backend scenario
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Another week, another fantastic new restaurant in Camberwell. I try not to moan too much on this site about the fact that certain areas of town seem overly saturated with great places to eat, while others have to wait decades between worthwhile new options, but it's hard not to...
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Political Alignment, Affiliation, and Attitudes Is there a growing gender gap in the U.S? Alignment A recent article in the Financial Times suggests...
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Is there a growing gender gap in the U.S? Alignment A recent article in the Financial Times suggests that among young people there is a growing gender gap in political alignment on a spectrum from liberal to conservative. In last week’s post, I tried to replicate this result...
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Tracking the cursor in Selenium driven Chrome From the links in the sources, the following code snippet can be used to track the cursor: <style> ...
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From the links in the sources, the following code snippet can be used to track the cursor: <style> .dot { background: red; position: absolute; width: 2px; height: 2px; z-index: 10000; } </style> (function () { "use strict"; document.onmousemove =...
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Distributed Logical Time Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is...
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Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
Daniel Bourke
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We walked out of the movies and it was still daylight. I helped Dad get onto the escalators. He moves slower than most. It keeps me in check when I’m steaming along. Walking into the movies I looked at the time. We were late. Friday afternoon traffic. So
Willem's Blog
Escaping the flat tires Finding the answer to the question how resilient a puncture-proof tire really is took me quite some...
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Finding the answer to the question how resilient a puncture-proof tire really is took me quite some time, but alas - here it is!
Anecdotal Evidence
'There Is Brio Enough Here' A word I’ve always liked is brio. It sounds like the name of a commercial product, floor wax or an...
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A word I’ve always liked is brio. It sounds like the name of a commercial product, floor wax or an energy drink. We have an Italian restaurant in Houston called Brio. My Italian dictionary translates it as “zest” and the OED gives “liveliness, vivacity, ‘go.’” It suggests...
Arduino Blog
ardEEG is an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi shield for measuring biosignals The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount...
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The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount of progress in reading signals produced by the brain. We may not understand exactly what is going on, but we can see the result and utilize it. And now you can start...
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When I started in the early 80s, working at home was never an option—in fact, it took decades to become practical, even though I occasionally could do it under limited circumstances. In my last year working before I retired, I spent the entire Covid year working at home.
Jonas Hietala
A simple timeline using CSS flexbox As I added a /now page to the site I also decided to refresh my /about page and I figured it would...
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As I added a /now page to the site I also decided to refresh my /about page and I figured it would be neat to have timeline element where I could list some of the larger events in my life. To my surprise it wasn’t too difficult to create one that looks pretty clean—the flexbox...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination? Corruption in the Ancient World
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A Beautiful Site
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I know you can change the mouse cursor using CSS, but I never realized that you can actually hide it altogether. .no-cursor { cursor: none; } Of course, that doesn't mean you should, it just means you can. Practical uses for this are definitely limited, but things like...
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Old Structures...
Gain Some, Lose Some This is the Bradbury Building, an 1893 office building in downtown Los Angeles: It’s a nice enough...
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This is the Bradbury Building, an 1893 office building in downtown Los Angeles: It’s a nice enough facade but really nothing special. A lot of people are familiar with the building because of its inside: The office space is a rectangle donut around the atrium, connected by...
davidyat.es
Syntax highlighting with render hooks
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Construction Physics
Welding and the Automation Frontier The big question about Artificial Intelligence, other than whether it will destroy human...
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The big question about Artificial Intelligence, other than whether it will destroy human civilization, is the effect it will have on employment. Large language models already seem poised to automate large fractions of the work in certain industries, and the technology is only...
TheCollector
How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness? undefined
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Liz Denys
Crafting a recipe: creamy Vidalia onion soup I often find myself cooking, or sometimes even baking, without recipes or even measuring cups and...
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I often find myself cooking, or sometimes even baking, without recipes or even measuring cups and spoons. The latter, especially with baking, is some linear combination of adventurousness - things haven't gone badly yet as I have always managed to produce the results I've wanted...
TheCollector
7 Museums to Visit in Athens undefined
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Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink 2024-07-24 A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a...
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Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink 2024-07-24 A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a standard pi-hole server with eero WiFi but since that time I have swapped out my “cell tower” internet for Starlink. The speed improvement has been incredible and there is no looking...
TheCollector
How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings undefined
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The Modern House
Food system researchers Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual on their explorative approach to a...
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2016 Read Books Yeah so I managed to not read a single fiction book this year. To compensate and make myself feel...
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Yeah so I managed to not read a single fiction book this year. To compensate and make myself feel better I’ll add in some new mangas I’ve read, but I may may have missed some. Fiction Crickets Non-Fiction Getting to Yes Relax into Stretch Thinking, Fast and Slow 59 seconds The...
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Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change the world? “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?” –...
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“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?” – Steve Jobs I sometimes wish that instead…
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts A simple way to normalize asking for help.
over a year ago
Prolost
iPhone ProRes Log in Peru and Taiwan This is a blog post about a video, which is about new color-conversion LUTs for Apple Log footage...
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This is a blog post about a video, which is about new color-conversion LUTs for Apple Log footage from the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max (updated from my first set). The video is also a mini-travelogue of my recent trips to Taiwan and Peru. This post dives a bit deeper into both the...
TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview undefined
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #156 Flawed clinical studies, AI and employment, Anonymous wealth, Age of the universe, 19th century...
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Flawed clinical studies, AI and employment, Anonymous wealth, Age of the universe, 19th century anarchy, Buffett and Japan, Claude Hopkins, Benjamin Franklin
TheCollector
6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley undefined
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The Convivial...
Care, Not Control The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 11
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TheCollector
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Home on Erik...
Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts of libertarianism and a lot of the good parts: Both ideologies strive to eliminate [the] state.
bt RSS Feed
Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
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Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it’s core seems so simple - yet is...
HTMHell
Control the Viewport Resize Behavior on mobile with `interactive-widget` by Bramus figcaption { font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; } Viewports units on...
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by Bramus figcaption { font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; } Viewports units on mobile have been a problem for a long time. Using 100vh is most likely not exactly what you initially expected it to be. To fix this, the CSS Working Group came up with more units over...
Seth's Blog
While standing on one foot Make it easy! they insist. One of the longest-running direct response ads of all time was for a...
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Make it easy! they insist. One of the longest-running direct response ads of all time was for a piano playing course. For more than forty years, people mailed in money for a simple, fast way to impress their friends by playing the piano. They sold a lot of manuals, but I’m...
Applied Cartography
Linear I invited nickd to join our Linear instance yesterday, which reminded me that I had a slew of notes...
6 days ago
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I invited nickd to join our Linear instance yesterday, which reminded me that I had a slew of notes I wanted to publish on our own experience of migrating from GitHub Issues to Linear, and some reflections on it as a product now that we've been using it for a few months. One...
Londonist
Tower Bridge: Rare Behind-The-Scenes Tours Now On Sale Including a chance to explore the bascule chambers.
a year ago
Maps Mania
Destroying People's Homes in Gaza
a year ago
Christopher Butler
The Rhythm of Your Screen Length is not the problem; lack of rhythm is. It’s 2023 and I’m still frequently asked by...
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Length is not the problem; lack of rhythm is. It’s 2023 and I’m still frequently asked by clients about scrolling. I understand why. Every design comes with assumptions about how much content will be seen by people because the space in which people access our designs is...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Anatomy of Determination
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Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 32 Weight Loss, Civilization, and Good Reading
a year ago
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large... For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
Confessions of a...
The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
3 months ago
Made by Ollin
Priors for Autonomous Vehicle Development
over a year ago
Applied Cartography
You should build this: A prior iteration of this site had a page called "Project ideas" that listed a bunch of things that...
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2 months ago
A prior iteration of this site had a page called "Project ideas" that listed a bunch of things that I'd like to build. This was a good idea and useful in its own right (I got a few people to build companies and projects based on them, and it was a useful avenue by which folks...
TheCollector
Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law? undefined
a year ago
Posts on Made of...
What's with ML software and pickles? I have spent many years as an software engineer who was a total outsider to machine-learning, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have spent many years as an software engineer who was a total outsider to machine-learning, but with some curiosity and occasional peripheral interactions with it. During this time, a recurring theme for me was horror (and, to be honest, disdain) every time I encountered the...
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Good bizdev cannibalizes itself A few successful websites were built almost entirely through viral growth. The vast majority,...
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A few successful websites were built almost entirely through viral growth. The vast majority, however, started off by partnering with other…
Notes on software...
Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This...
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With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party...
Diaries of Note
One bomb fell about ten feet from the train station Petr Ginz was an extraordinary young Czech-Jewish man who left a lasting impression despite a life...
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Petr Ginz was an extraordinary young Czech-Jewish man who left a lasting impression despite a life cut tragically short. Born in 1928, he was fourteen when he was sent to the Theresienstadt Ghetto. While there, he edited Vedem, an underground magazine produced by teenage...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 9: Parallels of Proofs and Programs I have three weeks left at Recurse Center. This last week was significantly less productive for me...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have three weeks left at Recurse Center. This last week was significantly less productive for me than usual, because I've been pretty fatigued and just recovered from a cold. But I still got some work done that I'm proud of. More than that, I'm excited for the coming three...
Making software...
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own...
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Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own personal "reading list" of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
Confessions of a...
Live Session on CPython Virtual Machine Internals + Upcoming Posts We are long overdue for a new live session as well as some more articles.
8 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Frontview Mirror: 2023 Edition This is member content. Thank you for being a subscriber. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
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The Honest Broker
In Search of Dupree Bolton How I tracked down the most mysterious musician in the history of West Coast jazz
10 months ago
Left To Write
№ 67: The Last Generation of Chinese Takeaway Kids Growing up in a takeaway - Growth is always painful - Struggle is what makes us human
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Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
TheCollector
9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII undefined
5 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Steve Jobs, Rick Rubin and "taste" The Apple co-founder and the super-producer share similar ideas regarding taste and creativity.
a year ago
Maps Mania
2024 Fall Foliage Map
3 months ago
Chris Nicholas
How to use Next.js middleware Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access, and more. Let’s take a look.
Louwrentius
Got myself a Norco RPC-4020 I've got this fetish for storage. So I bought a case that gives me some room for future expantion....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've got this fetish for storage. So I bought a case that gives me some room for future expantion. The current 6 TB RAID 6 storage server does not have any room for expantion. This Norco RPC-4020 case with 20 hot swap drive bays does however. Don't know what to fill it with yet.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI Is Like a Lossy JPEG That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense...
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That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense when I read it. But Paul Ford, writing in the Aboard Newsletter, helped it make even more sense in my brain. [AI tools] compress lots and lots of information—text, image, more—in...
Copper • A blog...
Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of...
a year ago
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a year ago
You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of pixels. You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision. Closing the lid is not an option because you...
Construction Physics
Is Land-Use Regulation Holding Back Construction Productivity? Ed Glaeser is perhaps the pre-eminent urban economist working today, and I’ve cited his work...
4 months ago
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Ed Glaeser is perhaps the pre-eminent urban economist working today, and I’ve cited his work repeatedly when looking at land-use restrictions and burdens on new development.
The Convivial...
The Ambling Mind The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 6
7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again... Getting our events straight...
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Failed Attempts to Install NixOS on the Raspberry Pi 4 In creating the tutorial, “Installing NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4,” I ran into a ton of paths that...
a year ago
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In creating the tutorial, “Installing NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4,” I ran into a ton of paths that didn’t work. I’ve collected them here for the sake of saving others time retrying the same steps. The standard NixOS aarch64 image doesn’t work When I checked the NixOS download page, I...
Rest of World -...
The IITs remain undefeated They took up seven out of the top 10 slots in a recent government ranking.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Sacrifice and Doom' Scholars of Russian literature tell us the edition of Anton Chekhov’s letters published between 1944...
2 months ago
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Scholars of Russian literature tell us the edition of Anton Chekhov’s letters published between 1944 and 1951 was heavily censored by Soviet editors, filled with ellipses that signify an excised word, phrase or sentence. Nothing surprising here. Censorship is an obligatory tool...
exist
Fooling Around With Word Embeddings
over a year ago
xkcd.com
Linear Sort
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Arduino Blog
Arduino Nicla Sense Env: adding advanced environmental sensing to a broad range of applications We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Nicla Sense Env: the latest addition to our portfolio of...
2 months ago
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We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Nicla Sense Env: the latest addition to our portfolio of system-on-modules and sensor nodes, empowering innovators with the tools to unlock new possibilities. This tiny yet powerful sensor node is designed to elevate your environmental...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum? undefined
4 months ago
ntietz.com blog
Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods The job of a software engineer is not to produce code, but to solve problems; we just happen to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The job of a software engineer is not to produce code, but to solve problems; we just happen to solve most of those problems by producing code. Ultimately, producing code is hard, and we need help. That's why GitHub's Copilot is exciting, but it's far from ideal, and it's the tip...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 6-7 January 2024 Last-chance exhibitions, comedy, ice hockey, and bottomless fondue.
11 months ago
Map of the Week
Soprano Land The Sopranos is having a bit of a moment with the recent HBO documentary about David Chase....
3 months ago
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The Sopranos is having a bit of a moment with the recent HBO documentary about David Chase. Illustrator Robert Sikoryak made a nice map to orient fans to the New Jersey landscape of the show. You can click above to see a larger version. I've only watched bits of the show so I...
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
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a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas? undefined
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TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe undefined
a month ago
Jonas Hietala
August theme: Bare Minimum This time I’ll be following my inspiring site and declare Bare Minimum as the theme for my next...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This time I’ll be following my inspiring site and declare Bare Minimum as the theme for my next game. This could really be anything, from graphics to user interaction… But I’ve got an idea. It’ll be a real challange for me to make but hopefully I’ll have a game in a few weeks...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Important Medium'' I grew up in a place I’ve been told for most of my life should embarrass me. When I went to college...
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2 months ago
I grew up in a place I’ve been told for most of my life should embarrass me. When I went to college and someone asked where I came from, invariably I said “Cleveland” not “Parma Heights,” a suburb on the West Side of that city. By age seventeen I was already sensitive to the...
Coding Horror
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015....
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over a year ago
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that's yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
Arduino Blog
Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace! We’re excited to announce that Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace, making it easier...
2 months ago
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We’re excited to announce that Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace, making it easier than ever for developers and businesses worldwide to integrate our powerful IoT platform into their AWS infrastructure. This development is particularly relevant for those in...
Matt Mullenweg
Kindness and Techcrunch Disrupt Back in June I recorded an episode with Jaclyn Lindsey on the Why Kindness podcast, for their...
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a month ago
Back in June I recorded an episode with Jaclyn Lindsey on the Why Kindness podcast, for their awesome non-profit kindness.org. You can listen to it through Pocket Casts here: This is kind of funny because I’m obviously in the midst of the big battle with Silver Lake and WP...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How to Plan a Relaxing Getaway in the Austrian Alps
6 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build remote teams properly This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post How to build remote teams properly appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Weekly Dose of...
Olmsted Trees Olmsted Trees Photographs by Stanley Greenberg, with contributions by Tom Avermaete, Kevin Baker,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Olmsted Trees Photographs by Stanley Greenberg, with contributions by Tom Avermaete, Kevin Baker, Mindy Thompson Fullilove Hirmer Publishers, August 2022 Hardcover | 9 x 11 inches | 160 pages | 100 illustrations | German/English | ISBN: | $X.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: Central...
Archinect - Features
Architectural Visualization Was Rather Flat: Then We Invented Perspective Before the invention of architectural perspective, architects and artists faced significant...
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Before the invention of architectural perspective, architects and artists faced significant challenges in visualizing and communicating architectural space. Without a systematic way to represent depth and spatial relationships, architectural drawings were often symbolic,...
Old Structures...
Ephemeral Elephant I mentioned the Colossus of Coney Island once before, but it’s time to expand on that a bit. (The...
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I mentioned the Colossus of Coney Island once before, but it’s time to expand on that a bit. (The fact that I mentioned this building three and a half years ago and did not remember having done so until I searched for it makes me wonder if I’ve written too many blog posts.)...
Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion. And the exhaustion of politics.
5 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers that they neglect actually running their […] The post Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Seth's Blog
The friendly professional Friendly doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, or changing every policy, or giving up our...
a year ago
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a year ago
Friendly doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, or changing every policy, or giving up our principles. Friendly is how it feels, not what it does.
Drew Ex Machina
Rockets Falling from Orbit: The Saturn V That Launched NASA’s Skylab In recent years, the uncontrolled reentries of the spent 22-metric ton core stages of China’s new...
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over a year ago
In recent years, the uncontrolled reentries of the spent 22-metric ton core stages of China’s new Long March 5B heavy lift launch vehicle, used to orbit […]
Josh Comeau's blog
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Winning from the back - late mover advantage We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to share a diary? Late mover advantage Product…
Ferd.ca
Negotiable Abstractions 2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
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a year ago
2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City What if the Syrians can’t return home?
a week ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
A NoteCards project for the RetroChallenge 2024 <![CDATA[Team Lisp is ready to play: I'm entering the RetroChallenge 2024 (RC2024) with a NoteCards...
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<![CDATA[Team Lisp is ready to play: I'm entering the RetroChallenge 2024 (RC2024) with a NoteCards project targeting Medley Interlisp. The RC2024 announcement explains the point of the challenge is to do something new, learn, and have fun with retro systems: In a nutshell,...
Maggie Appleton
GreenSock Animations with React Hooks
over a year ago
Christopher Butler
object – Bedside Lamp It’s not smart, but it dims. We briefly dabbled with smart-bulbs in our house. It did not go...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s not smart, but it dims. We briefly dabbled with smart-bulbs in our house. It did not go well. Why we make these things, I do not know. Why is controlling a lamp with your phone better than with your hands? What I noticed after creating a smart light array in our house...
The Honest Broker
Why Are Music Fans Throwing Things at Pop Stars? The latest trend in music is injuring your favorite artist
a year ago
42!
Hanging on to 'stuff' Like most families, we like to start the new year with a bit of a clean slate, which means moving on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Like most families, we like to start the new year with a bit of a clean slate, which means moving on old pieces of furniture and belongings that are just cluttering our life and no longer needed. But this is a surprisingly difficult task. Almost every time we go to get rid of a...
Irrational...
Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience. In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a...
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In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a company’s developer experience. To support that exploration, I’ve developed a system model of the developing software at the company. In this chapter, we’ll work through: Summary results...
Internal Tech Emails
Sam Altman emails Elon Musk The mission would be to create the first general Al and use it for individual empowerment—ie, the...
9 months ago
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The mission would be to create the first general Al and use it for individual empowerment—ie, the distributed version of the future that seems the safest.
Maps Mania
Sea Level Rise Maps
a year ago
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
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a month ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
CONTEMPORIST
A Green And White Tiled Design Was Created For This Vegan Cafe Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio has shared photos of a vegan cafe they have recently...
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Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio has shared photos of a vegan cafe they have recently completed that has an eye-catching tiled facade and interior. The V-Spot Café, located in Chandigarh, India, has a common design aesthetic throughout, from the facade to the interior....
Mazdak
Don't Let Savings Turn into Penalties: Understanding RRSP and TFSA Contribution Limits Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) are cornerstones...
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Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) are cornerstones of Canadian financial planning. Both offer distinct advantages for saving and investing, but exceeding their annual contribution limits can lead to unwanted financial consequences.
TheCollector
What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy) undefined
a month ago
A Weekly Dose of...
The 'As Found' Over at World-Architects I reviewed As Found: Experiments in Preservation (Flanders Architecture...
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a year ago
Over at World-Architects I reviewed As Found: Experiments in Preservation (Flanders Architecture Institute, 2023) edited by Sofie De Caigny, Hülya Ertas and Bie Plevoets, the companion to the exhibition of the same name at the Flanders Architecture Institute. Read my review...
Moneyness
Circle says its USDC stablecoin was as diversified as possible. Is that accurate? There's a good article by Leo Schwartz on stablecoin issuer Circle, which provides some clarity into...
a year ago
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a year ago
There's a good article by Leo Schwartz on stablecoin issuer Circle, which provides some clarity into last March's big depegging of the USDC stablecoin, and Circle's subsequent bailout by the government. I wrote about the whole thing here, but the short version is that a handful...
Maps Mania
The Hezbollah Map
a year ago
Diaries of Note
The important thing is to keep going Born in London in 1909, Stephen Spender’s talent was recognised early on by T.S. Eliot, who...
a year ago
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Born in London in 1909, Stephen Spender’s talent was recognised early on by T.S. Eliot, who published Spender’s first book, Poems, at Faber & Faber in 1933. Spender wrote the following diary entry six years later, a few days after lunching with Eliot and with the world teetering...
AVC
The Rebrand I’d guess that upwards of half of USV’s portfolio companies have changed the name of their company...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’d guess that upwards of half of USV’s portfolio companies have changed the name of their company during their lifetime. It is not hard to understand why. Founders start out with an idea and not much more. By the time they have built a product, built a team, and found product...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Poets in an Age of Prose' Yvor Winters published his final book, Forms of Discovery, in October 1967, three months before his...
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Yvor Winters published his final book, Forms of Discovery, in October 1967, three months before his death from cancer at age sixty-seven on January 25, 1968. Read his late correspondence in The Selected Letters of Yvor Winters (ed. R.L. Barth, 2000) for an understanding of the...