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The Modern House
Come On In: our collection in Open House Festival 2023 gives you access to some of London’s best...
a year ago
Christopher Butler
Being Normal There’s a theory of Being Online that online isn’t merely a technological thing — access to a...
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11 months ago
There’s a theory of Being Online that online isn’t merely a technological thing — access to a signal, say, like a telephone line — but a modality. A form; a way. And being, of course, is just being. Early internet users have trouble with this theory because we remember using...
The Modern House
Opportunity Knocks: seven homes with earning potential We know not everyone coming to our site is in search of a new place to live – or at least not all...
a year ago
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a year ago
We know not everyone coming to our site is in search of a new place to live – or at least not all the time. And catering to your desires – always with good design at the front of our minds – is what we’re […]
Anecdotal Evidence
'Art Must Be Giving Pleasure' On May 14, 1947, after giving seven months of lectures on the sonnets and all but two of...
a year ago
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a year ago
On May 14, 1947, after giving seven months of lectures on the sonnets and all but two of Shakespeare’s plays at the New School of Social Research in New York City, W.H. Auden delivered a concluding lecture. He roots Shakespeare’s vision in the notion of original sin and what he...
TheCollector
Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream? undefined
2 weeks ago
Throwable
AI is Coming for Software Engineers (I'm a Software Engineer) There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should...
a year ago
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a year ago
There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should worry as much as software engineers.
Old Vintage...
xa (xa65) 2.4.0 - finally xa (xa65) 2.4.0 is the newest release of André Fachat's fast and portable two-pass 6502/65816...
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xa (xa65) 2.4.0 is the newest release of André Fachat's fast and portable two-pass 6502/65816 crossassembler; yours truly is the current maintainer and I just punched "live" on it tonight. It runs on Un*xy things and Windows (with Cygwin or msys2 or similar), and probably other...
Paul Graham: Essays
What Startups Are Really Like
over a year ago
diamond geezer
The Limit I have not yet faced the coming of The Limit. It comes to most of us, some sooner than others, a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have not yet faced the coming of The Limit. It comes to most of us, some sooner than others, a one-way, permanent restriction after which life is never quite so free again. I'm not trying to be maudlin here, nor am I building up to the revelation that The Limit has come to...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The New Wave of Concierge Medicine | Out-Of-Pocket This episode of Out-Of-Pocket is brought to you by…
5 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Content Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's time to open the SMBC foodgore channel. Who's...
a year ago
Louwrentius
Benefits of hyper-threading on a Core 7i processor I had some wave files that I wanted to encode to mp3. I wrote a small parallel processing framework...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had some wave files that I wanted to encode to mp3. I wrote a small parallel processing framework for this job. It executes parallel jobs so I can benefit from the 4 cores + 4 virtual cores of my new Core 7i 920 processor.  The framework is based on some shell scripts running...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Facebook, Zynga, and buyer-supplier hold up The brewing fight between Facebook and Zynga is what is known in economic strategy circles as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The brewing fight between Facebook and Zynga is what is known in economic strategy circles as “buyer-supplier hold up.” The classic…
PostHog's RSS Feed
What's the true role of a product team at an engineering-led organization? We’ve talked before about product-minded engineers at PostHog. We don’t have PMs dictating a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We’ve talked before about product-minded engineers at PostHog. We don’t have PMs dictating a roadmap or solutions - it all comes from engineering. A…
👋 Hello, I'm...
The real reasons why your boss wants you back in the office
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Early Stage Company Offsites this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
2 months ago
Darek Kay
My personal one-pager I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to pronounce, so I've been mostly using it in a formal context. Last year, I changed my legal name, which also influenced my online presence. Due to the change, looking up my new name via...
alexwlchan
Tag your infrastructure-as-code resources with a link to their definitions The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create...
a year ago
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a year ago
The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create all your resources by writing a file that defines them, and any time you change something, you update the definition in that file. It’s a nice idea, but easier said than...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #164 Howard Marks on intelligent risks, Li Lu's amazing life story, Damodaran on streaming, Thompson on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Howard Marks on intelligent risks, Li Lu's amazing life story, Damodaran on streaming, Thompson on Charter vs. Disney, Taleb's favorite literary works, Buffett's Japanese investments, and more ...
Ink & Switch
03 · Fine-grained provenance Connecting parts of source and build files as a universal primitive
3 months ago
Raw Thought (from...
Fix the machine, not the person
over a year ago
Simply Explained
Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistant Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the world. Best of all: it's open-source and anyone can build a sensor.I was very curious to see the air quality in my neighborhood, so I decided to build myself a sensor. And of course,...
Map of the Week
Some Maps in the Wild: Nova Scotia Edition There is an entire web site dedicated to #MapsintheWild - also a social media hashtag. On a recent...
a year ago
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a year ago
There is an entire web site dedicated to #MapsintheWild - also a social media hashtag. On a recent trip to Nova Scotia, I found some very nice examples, including last week's post. Here are a few more.  There are many memorials throughout the province to the Acadians who were...
The Marginalian
A Tender Illustrated Celebration of the Many Languages of Love That one mind can reach out from its lonely cave of bone and touch another, express its joys and...
a year ago
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a year ago
That one mind can reach out from its lonely cave of bone and touch another, express its joys and sorrows to another — this is the great miracle of being alive together. The object of human communication is not the exchange of information but the exchange of understanding. If we...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - History Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's true though. Today's News:
a year ago
Londonist
The Best Places To Find Bluebells In And Near London This Spring You can walk your dog in some of these spots, too.
9 months ago
Seth's Blog
Beyond CRM Many marketers spend time with their CRM systems. Expensive cloud-based tools that automate Customer...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Many marketers spend time with their CRM systems. Expensive cloud-based tools that automate Customer Relationship Management. Maybe customers don’t want to be managed. They probably don’t. It might be more useful to think of our most important work as customer relationship...
Castles in the Sky
The Unlikely Connection Between Fiction and Travel Castles in the Sky #44
12 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They...
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9 months ago
I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They are:   1. Chart the course Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone...
TheCollector
A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs? undefined
3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nice Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Absolute Midden is copyright SMBC Enterprises 2024...
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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Absolute Midden is copyright SMBC Enterprises 2024 all rights reserved. Today's News:
ntietz.com blog -...
Terminology isn't universal A little while back, I wrote that we shouldn't say "auth" but should use other terms instead. I...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
A little while back, I wrote that we shouldn't say "auth" but should use other terms instead. I stand by my argument in general, but it also has another side to it: my suggested terminology makes sense in some domains, but not in all domains. And that's because terminology...
Buck on Software
Thoughts on SaaS and other things Welcome to Buck on Software!
over a year ago
99% Invisible
Craptions [EPISODE] Bad closed captions can be entertaining, but they can be serious, too, because captions are a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bad closed captions can be entertaining, but they can be serious, too, because captions are a critical tool for lots of lots of people. There are the people learning a new language, the easily confused, and of course captions are essential for people who are Deaf or...
The Modern House
How a love of Japan and the 1970s shaped Sherrill Smith’s Hackney home
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inadequate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The sad part is he's been in that elevator for...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The sad part is he's been in that elevator for twelve hours now, and so far everyone has reached the same conclusion. Today's News:
Vitalik Buterin's...
Zmowa
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Choose your customers …choose your future. It’s an odd way to think about your project, your job, your startup, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
…choose your future. It’s an odd way to think about your project, your job, your startup, but there’s little that matters more. There are two key elements: At one extreme is the first few years of Google’s growth. The salesforce didn’t matter–the customers showed up on their own,...
Construction Physics
The Rise of Steel Part II Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization...
a year ago
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a year ago
Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization of iron and steelmaking, between roughly 1200 and 1850. To briefly recap, making steel was an involved, multistep process. Iron would first be smelted from iron ore in a blast...
Maps Mania
Adding URL Parameters to an Interactive Map
11 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Those Move Easiest Who Have Learned to Dance' Hugh Kenner glosses a well-known couplet in Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” (1711) by...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hugh Kenner glosses a well-known couplet in Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” (1711) by reference to Newton’s second law of motion (published in 1687 in his Principia Mathematica, one year before Pope’s birth) and “numerous points of disequilibrium”:  “True ease in writing...
TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist undefined
11 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Pentagon Report – No UFOs In response to a recent surge in interest in alien phenomena and claims that the US government is...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
In response to a recent surge in interest in alien phenomena and claims that the US government is hiding what it knows about extraterrestrials, the Pentagon established a committee to investigate the question – the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). They have recently...
The Marginalian
The Double Flame: Octavio Paz on Love “Love is a bet, a wild one, placed on freedom. Not my own; the freedom of the Other… A knot made of...
a year ago
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a year ago
“Love is a bet, a wild one, placed on freedom. Not my own; the freedom of the Other… A knot made of two intertwined freedoms.” We love to forget ourselves, but also to remember what we are: mortal creatures lustful of meaning, radiant with life, eternally alone and eternally...
Both Are True
bad hair day (terrible, horrible, no good, very bad tbh) a new, never-before-seen haircut for Alexander
2 months ago
The Modern House
Tim Ross: the Australian broadcaster on the life-enhancing effect of modest, modernist buildings –... Growing up in a 1960s house in the suburbs of Melbourne, the Australian broadcaster Tim Ross was...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Growing up in a 1960s house in the suburbs of Melbourne, the Australian broadcaster Tim Ross was often left to his own devices. A daydreamer with an eye for design, his passion for modernist buildings took root and caught up with him following his early […]
Seth's Blog
The drift to normal As an organization grows in scale, the idiosyncrasy and distinctiveness that was originally informed...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
As an organization grows in scale, the idiosyncrasy and distinctiveness that was originally informed by the taste of the founders moves toward the mean. Over time, things get more average. That’s because each new customer, each new supplier and each new employee wants or needs...
xkcd.com
Ravioli-Shaped Objects
2 months ago
diamond geezer
Our new coins The News For Those Who Are No Longer Looking An increasing number of my acquaintances no longer...
a year ago
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a year ago
The News For Those Who Are No Longer Looking An increasing number of my acquaintances no longer follow the news in mainstream media, for whatever reason, avoiding all the bad news but simultaneously missing the good. So I thought I'd perform a public service by blogging about...
Tinloof - Blog
Using CSS files in web components When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might expect plain CSS files and CSS modules to just work, but they don’t 😱. Here is an example of a CSS module in a React component:
Diaries of Note
She cured me of the disease of night fear Dawn Powell was a master of incisive, sharp-witted prose that dissected the intricacies and follies...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dawn Powell was a master of incisive, sharp-witted prose that dissected the intricacies and follies of the human experience. Born in Ohio in 1896, she moved to New York City in her early twenties and quickly became an active member of the literary scene, writing novels, plays,...
Rest of World -...
Online extremism linked to rise in school shootings in Brazil, researchers find After a rise in shootings, an all-woman group is advising the new Brazilian government on how to...
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
An introduction to economics under capitalism
over a year ago
Musings on Maps
Maps and Metaphors The war around Gaza is not for territory, but rather for the destruction of the presence of a terror...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The war around Gaza is not for territory, but rather for the destruction of the presence of a terror network that has entrenched its power base deep underground. In many case, deeper than thought.  While Israel has been pretty clear about … Continue reading →
Matt Mazur
AOL Underground Podcast Interview about AOL-Files.com Back in 1998 when I was 13 years old I got heavily involved in the AOL hacking scene, originally...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Back in 1998 when I was 13 years old I got heavily involved in the AOL hacking scene, originally building add-on software called progs (Revolution, Meridian), publishing code libraries called bas files (Alpha32), and later co-founding AOL-Files.com (where I went by the hacker...
TheCollector
Was Alexandre Dumas Black? undefined
a year ago
TokyoDev
Generating social images with static site generators With TokyoDev, this site, my goal is to help international software developers start and grow their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With TokyoDev, this site, my goal is to help international software developers start and grow their career in Japan. Being a developer myself, it's been tempting to come up with technical solutions to do this. But I've realized that rather than writing code, my time is better...
TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth undefined
10 months ago
Diaries of Note
More of London’s madness! Born in South Africa in 1934, Gordon Forbes was a seasoned tennis professional who clinched his...
a year ago
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a year ago
Born in South Africa in 1934, Gordon Forbes was a seasoned tennis professional who clinched his first junior title at the tender age of twelve, initiating a stellar career among the tennis elite. Forbes and his doubles partner, Abe Segal, formed an unstoppable force in the...
Daniel Marino
Making Generative Art I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he was, but more so with the work he was doing with generative art. I had never heard of generative art before, but I immediately fell in love with the concept of it. I like to draw,...
A small freedom area...
Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up watching a large...
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As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up watching a large number of video tutorials on the subject. Even though the quality of the content is pretty variable, I'm very grateful to the creators for it. That being said, I couldn't help...
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5 TILs about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book 5 Things I Learned about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book
over a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
Apr 2023: I sold Black Magic And other updates in April 2023
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clouds Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someone told me they could only do 2 weeks of SMBC...
a month ago
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a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someone told me they could only do 2 weeks of SMBC in a single sitting before feeling sad and needing a walk. Today's News:
Folklore.org:...
Reality Distortion Field Bud defines Steve's unique talent
a year ago
Platformer
Why note-taking apps don't make us smarter They're designed for storage, not sparking insights. Can AI change that?
a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #180 Berkshire Hathaway Energy, John Neff and Peter Lynch on investing, Charlie Munger on parenting,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Berkshire Hathaway Energy, John Neff and Peter Lynch on investing, Charlie Munger on parenting, Damodaran on key person risk, Microsoft's IPO, Howard Marks and Annie Duke on risk
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Aren't Cheap Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they tend to be much more involved. In a post by Nathan Curtis entitled And you thought buttons were easy?, he demonstrates how costs can quickly skyrocket to $1,000,000 when one arm of...
Seth's Blog
“We used to do that” When electricity came along, there was a swath of industries that were trapped in an old way of...
a year ago
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a year ago
When electricity came along, there was a swath of industries that were trapped in an old way of thinking. The only ones that thrived were able to walk away from what they used to do and eagerly embrace something new. When the internet was young, the major book publishers had...
diamond geezer
Silver Jubilee In May 2004 I wrote a month-long series called Silver Jubilee to celebrate the 25th anniversary of...
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7 months ago
In May 2004 I wrote a month-long series called Silver Jubilee to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Jubilee line. I believe in playing the long game, so today I'm reviving the feature to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Jubilee line extension. So here's what I wrote...
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174? It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If Section 174 tax changes stay, the US will be one of the least desirable countries to launch startups
Jonas Hietala
I'm writing a book: Why Cryptocurrencies? I decided to write a book. It’s called “Why Cryptocurrencies?” and I will be uploading chapters as I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I decided to write a book. It’s called “Why Cryptocurrencies?” and I will be uploading chapters as I complete them. It’s available to read online for free. I’ve only uploaded the introductory parts but I’ve got a bunch more planned. Why write a book you ask? Well, why not? I...
Basta’s Notes
Things nobody taught me about money When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different...
a year ago
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a year ago
When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different education from previous generations. I grew up under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policies. Classes teaching important life skills like home economics and...
TheCollector
What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism? undefined
4 weeks ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Challenge your performance intuition with C++ magic squares Let's play a game. There will be twelve rounds, each round is a match between two solutions. Or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let's play a game. There will be twelve rounds, each round is a match between two solutions. Or rather between their execution times. Using your intuition and best judgment, please estimate their relative performance.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Won't Choose To Be A Manager I recently decided that I will not _choose_ to be a manager. This is how I arrived at that...
over a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Efficiency trades off against resiliency What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from...
a year ago
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a year ago
What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from a well-designed and well-run service, what CPU utilization should we hope to see, averaged over a day or two? It’s a very general question, and it’s not clear it should have a...
Steve Klabnik
Writing a su feature with Authlogic
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed? Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
Londonist
Short Courses At UAL: Learn Life-Changing Creative Skills How (And When) You Want Over 1,000 short courses to choose from.
a year ago
Seeking Wisdom
Case for indexing Warren Buffet made a compelling case in favor of indexing in the 2021 Berkshire Hathaway’s AGM. In...
a year ago
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a year ago
Warren Buffet made a compelling case in favor of indexing in the 2021 Berkshire Hathaway’s AGM. In 1989, 65% of the top 20 global companies were domiciled in Japan. After three decades, 65% of the top 20 global companies are from the US. No companies from Japan made into the top...
Matt Mullenweg
Inc Hit Piece When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn’t a magazine I have read much since I was a teenager, David seemed like a legit journalist who usually writes for better publications...
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
Rest of World -...
Meet the Nigerian YouTuber bringing a positive lens to African stories With 600,000 subscribers, Tayo Aina is one of Africa’s most prominent creators.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Vacuum with American Light' Edward Hopper is often a favorite painter of literary-minded people because, I suspect, so many of...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Edward Hopper is often a favorite painter of literary-minded people because, I suspect, so many of his works suggest in-media-res excerpts from larger narratives. Looking as his paintings is like opening a novel to a memorable scene, without access to backstory or subsequent...
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...
Londonist
Explore Notre-Dame Cathedral... From Westminster Abbey Hit augmented reality experience comes to London.
11 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Kachori, Elephant and Castle There's a lot to be said about the redevelopment/regeneration/whitewashing (delete as applicable) of...
a year ago
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a year ago
There's a lot to be said about the redevelopment/regeneration/whitewashing (delete as applicable) of Elephant and Castle, and I am singularly unqualified to say it. I'm not trying to avoid the issue (honest), but am very aware that having nothing invested in the old place and...
ntietz.com blog
What's in my software engineering tool belt? One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I use. When I read a post recently about a data journalist's data tool belt, well... I knew I'd have to share my own software engineering tool belt, too. So, here's my software...
Coffee with an...
A simple description The structural exploration reflects the dichotomy of the diametrically opposed forces creating...
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7 months ago
The structural exploration reflects the dichotomy of the diametrically opposed forces creating intrinsic tension within the interstitial forms which have been bifurcated and articulated throughout the design exploration phases resulting from the pedological rigor employed...
Maps Mania
Write Your Name in Landsat
3 months ago
Londonist
The Top Exhibitions To See In London: February 2024 Clocks, consumerism and centurions.
11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud? undefined
7 months ago
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Argentine Railways, 1907 Now this is a map! This is just superb cartography: detailed, clear and lovely to look at. I love...
a year ago
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a year ago
Now this is a map! This is just superb cartography: detailed, clear and lovely to look at. I love the way that brown is used for mountainous features, and a light blue is used for water features – it allows this information to be visible, but it doesn’t compete with the overlaid...
Frank’s Ramblings
Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) (Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we...
a year ago
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a year ago
(Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we took a look at scalar quantization and product quantization - two indexing strategies which are used to reduce the overall size of the database without reducing the scope of a...
Londonist
The Iconic Harry Beck Map But Make It Aeroplanes But is everything as it seems?
a year ago
Old Structures...
A Moment Captured This sketch is labelled ‘Architectural drawing for a customs house (“United States Custom House”),...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This sketch is labelled ‘Architectural drawing for a customs house (“United States Custom House”), New York, New York’ on the Library of Congress website. It’s not clear if that title was somehow written on the sketch or is a librarian’s interpretation of the content. It’s...
Londonist
TfL Releases Treasure Trove Of Historic Tube Maps, Photos And More The transport motherlode via Google Arts & Culture.
10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today? undefined
4 weeks ago
TheCollector
Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover undefined
a year ago
A Weekly Dose of...
On Case Studies "What is a case study?" you might be asking, or maybe, "Is it different than a monograph?" Although...
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a year ago
"What is a case study?" you might be asking, or maybe, "Is it different than a monograph?" Although the word monograph literally applies to any book devoted to any individual subject — be it a person, a place, a thing, or even an idea — in the realm of architecture books that...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Noah Bragg Lessons from building and growing Potion to its acquisition all in public
a year ago
The American Scholar
“To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov appeared...
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Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated trying to escape the output properly. Here's a way that always works—no escaping necessary. Let's say we have the following variable in PHP: $name = 'Bob Marley'; And we want to...
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The future creeps up on us slowly. But when it leaps dramatically, we notice. One spam phone call a day is an irritation. 1,000 of them destroy the utility of the phone. One photographer undercutting our rates is a threat. 1,000 of them means we can’t make a living at it any...
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At my first job, I realized that I’d missed a meeting invite and my team had started without me. I was early in my career, and hesitant to join the meeting late in-person. I felt embarrassed and, without knowing it, I started beating myself up. How could I be so inept? If I could...
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I stumbled upon a short post that intrigued me. In it, the author claims that the cure for boredom is superpowers. Not superpowers in the Superman sense, but ones that we can teach ourselves. Learn Photoshop, and you’ll have a superpower. You’ll be able to see what your bedroom...
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I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And this is that, in part. But it discusses a bunch of other topics, some only tangentially related to TikTok. All the points I wanted to cover seem hyperlinked in a sprawling loose...
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Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here. I’m now a pretty happy student at Linköpings university and I’m reading something similar to Computer Science or Computer engineering, but I guess it’ll become whatever you make it to be. For...
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We use Prometheus metrics quite heavily at 37signals nowadays. They’re used to monitor a variety of components in our infrastructure, such as MySQL, Redis and the servers hosting our applications. My colleague, Victor, previously wrote in detail about Prometheus metrics at...
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Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments are metallic pigments that can be mixed into printing inks, acrylics, oils, encaustics and loads more. As printmakers we were keen to see how they could be used in various printmaking applications, starting with linocut.    We began by mixing Apple...
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Since there’s more interesting things happening in construction than I can cover in a weekly post (especially if I’m spending posts writing about things that happened 800 years ago), I’m experimenting with occasionally sending out a brief roundup of interesting links related to...
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I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
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As we all know, intent is an ancient eldritch power! Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks enter into pacts with otherworldly patrons who grant them such ancient magics in the form of pact boons. From page 107 of the Player's Handbook (5e, 2014): At 3rd level, your otherworldly patron...
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I moved into my house a couple of years ago, and for all that time I’ve had a porch light which doesn’t work. I’ve tried taking it apart a couple of times to replace the bulb, but to no avail. Although it’s a simple cylinder with only a black base and a clear cover, I couldn’t...
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Designer Ana Dahlman has shared photos of a bathroom renovation she completed that included replacing the vanity with a floating L-shaped corner vanity. Before we see the renovated bathroom, here’s what it looked like originally, with cream-colored walls and a small vanity with...
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A thoughtful reader, knowing of my fondness for A.E. Housman’s poems, has sent me the English composer John Ireland’s 1928 setting for a verse from Last Poems (1922, that literary annus mirabilis). The baritone is Mark Stone; the pianist, Sholto Kynoch. Here is Housman’s poem,...
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I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for years now. Especially with those awful app store monopolies that have been choking out developers left, right, and center. But now that something finally looks to be happening, I'm...
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The wealthy have a secret weapon when it comes to taxes: the "buy, borrow, die" strategy. This strategy allows them to avoid capital gains taxes, interest payments, and estate taxes. Here's how it works: Buy assets and hold them. This could be anything from real estate to stocks...
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Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not just the usefulness, but even the joy, of having our own radios. For instance: When traveling to national parks or other wilderness areas, family and friends can keep in touch even...
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A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and thousands of other big and small companies in the industry. And it looks like this year is not going to bring any relief. Google just announced more layoffs, Twitch...
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The 2022 sanctioning of privacy tool Tornado Cash by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (or OFAC, the U.S.'s sanctioning authority) has inspired a new privacy idea: Privacy Pools.  An olive branch to OFAC, Privacy Pools will let users choose who they associate with, the idea...
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Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the clefs, but it was the least nasty way to span the piano. You can grab a full copy of the score.
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<![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space flight. On November 23, 2014 she was launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a mission to the International Space Station. I had the privilege of helping Samantha with a public...
Open Culture
Spin the 17th-Century Death Roulette Wheel & Find Out What Would Have Killed You in 1665 A common historical misconception holds that, up until a few centuries ago, everyone died when they...
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A common historical misconception holds that, up until a few centuries ago, everyone died when they were about 40. In fact, even in antiquity, one could well make it to what would be considered an advanced age today — assuming one survived the great mortal peril of childhood, and...
TheCollector
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Notes on software...
btest: a language agnostic test runner btest is a minimal, language-agnostic test runner originally written for testing compilers. Brian,...
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btest is a minimal, language-agnostic test runner originally written for testing compilers. Brian, an ex- co-worker from Linode, wrote the first implementation in Crystal (a compiled language clone of Ruby) for testing bshift, a compiler project. The tool accomplished exactly...
Max Countryman
Grow In Public There's a secret when it comes optimizing growth: it's about doing our work in public. But there are...
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There's a secret when it comes optimizing growth: it's about doing our work in public. But there are barriers that can make this difficult or even impossible. Here's how we build a culture that enables building in public.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Tech’s Epithet: “Enabled By Default” I joked on Mastodon: If anyone endeavors to write a book about what went wrong with tech, I have a...
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I joked on Mastodon: If anyone endeavors to write a book about what went wrong with tech, I have a great suggestion for the title: “Enabled by Default” It seems there really are two hard problems in tech: Naming things Setting good defaults Keeping to scope Anyhow, a little while...
Retail Design Blog
Babyark Offices by Studio Tali Gotthilf Studio Tali Gotthilf used the innovative baby car seat made by Babyark to design their Kefar Sava...
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Studio Tali Gotthilf used the innovative baby car seat made by Babyark to design their Kefar Sava office with a...
Lighthouse Blog
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Internal Tech Emails
Elon Musk's texts I read the article. It is weak sauce and still makes me sound like a liar. It is filled with...
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I read the article. It is weak sauce and still makes me sound like a liar. It is filled with equivocation and in no way indicates the strong interest you conveyed in person.
Rest of World -...
Apple should tell Indians what it knows about politicians’ phones being hacked The Silicon Valley giant’s muted public response after several Indian opposition leaders received a...
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The Silicon Valley giant’s muted public response after several Indian opposition leaders received a message that their devices may be compromised is doing more harm.
On Test Automation
PNSQC 2024 - experience report While most of the clients I work with are based in Europe, over the last couple of years my client...
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While most of the clients I work with are based in Europe, over the last couple of years my client base on the North American side of the Atlantic has slowly but surely started to grow, mainly in the United States. As someone who really enjoys working with and learning from...
Nelson's Weblog
Class action employment suits Google has agreed to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees. Congratulations to...
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Google has agreed to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees. Congratulations to the plaintiffs, suing your employer is a difficult and stressful thing. But while the $118M headline looks big it works out to only $7600 per employee, less after the lawyers'...
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South Africans are using a power outage notification app to sell weed, find odd jobs With blackouts devastating the country’s economy, EskomSePush’s AskMyStreet feature has become a...
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The Wandering...
Mapping Gottfried Merzbacher I’m wrapping up my work on Gottfried Merzbacher—a sort of back-burner project that’s been active and...
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I’m wrapping up my work on Gottfried Merzbacher—a sort of back-burner project that’s been active and then dormant, on and off, for about seven years. It’s been a pleasure to learn about places like the Bayumkol valley, the relationship between the Saryzhaz and Kum-erik Rivers,...
One from Nippon
The shoe that became a sock. And then a shoe again. Stockholm, 1912 At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the...
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Stockholm, 1912 At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the start line of the marathon in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Shizo was carrying the hopes, dreams, and pride of Japan, a country attempting to become a “modern” nation. There
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One from Nippon
A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 3) Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of...
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Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of onsens and the science behind them. In this article we take a deep-dive into the business of onsens. Onsen as a Business Despite all the hype in Part 1
TheCollector
Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation undefined
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The Marginalian
About War "Outsiders who are not themselves immersed in pain should make an effort to empathize with all...
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"Outsiders who are not themselves immersed in pain should make an effort to empathize with all suffering humans, rather than lazily seeing only part of the terrible reality. It is the job of outsiders to help maintain a space for peace."
Luxagraf:...
Autumn Every year for the past couple of years, when September rolls around we start getting ready to hit...
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Every year for the past couple of years, when September rolls around we start getting ready to hit the road, packing away the paddle boards, washing the bus, and burning through the last of the firewood. Sometime around the middle of the month we say goodbye to friends and head...
Julia Evans
Popular git config options Hello! I always wish that command line tools came with data about how popular their various options...
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Hello! I always wish that command line tools came with data about how popular their various options are, like: “basically nobody uses this one” “80% of people use this, probably take a look” “this one has 6 possible values but people only really use these 2 in practice” So I...
Stephen Diehl
The Tinkerbell Griftopia
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Londonist
Where To Go Pumpkin Picking Near London This Autumn Oh. My. GOURD.
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Google turns to AI in the race to dub YouTube YouTube’s new automatic dubbing system is competing with with human firms to help creators scale the...
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mtlynch.io
What Got Done - Month 3 Highlights I’m shelving What Got Done, as customers seem uninterested in the idea. Zestful has...
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Highlights I’m shelving What Got Done, as customers seem uninterested in the idea. Zestful has become my greatest challenge in not sweating the small stuff. Is It Keto continues growing in the background, with a 22% increase in revenue and a 35% rise in traffic. Goal Grades...
Old Structures...
The Name Lost Meaning From the great archive of her photographs that Carol Highsmith donated to the Library of Congress,...
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From the great archive of her photographs that Carol Highsmith donated to the Library of Congress, “View of a Manhattan street from New York City’s High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail.” Except that you can’t see the High Line because she was...
The Marginalian
Make Yourself a Seer: The Teenage Arthur Rimbaud on How to Be a Poet and a Prophet of Possibility "The day of a single universal language will dawn!... This language will be of the soul, for the...
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"The day of a single universal language will dawn!... This language will be of the soul, for the soul, encompassing everything, scents, sounds, colors, one thought mounting another."
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Love Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time you pray to God, one finger of the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time you pray to God, one finger of the infinite monkey's paw curls inward. Today's News:
TheCollector
Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong undefined
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Benny Kuriakose
Activity Spaces and Play Areas in a School Activity spaces in schools can encourage students to learn from the outdoor environment. Sports...
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Activity spaces in schools can encourage students to learn from the outdoor environment. Sports activities such as athletics, volleyball,...
Steve Blank
Cram Down – A Test of Character for VCs and Founders This article previously appeared in TechCrunch. Cram downs are back – and I’m keeping a list. At the...
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This article previously appeared in TechCrunch. Cram downs are back – and I’m keeping a list. At the turn of the century after the dotcom crash, startup valuations plummeted, burn rates were unsustainable, and startups were quickly running out of cash. Most existing investors...
Saturday Morning...
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I Have No Idea What...
A Summary of My Learnings On How To Find Startup Ideas I’ve been searching for new startup ideas and problem areas to tackle. It’s quite difficult to do,...
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I’ve been searching for new startup ideas and problem areas to tackle. It’s quite difficult to do, especially when you begin adding constraints to the criteria such as “Am I excited about this problem space?”. The internet is filled with helpful ways to come up with startup ideas...
TheCollector
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Home on Erik...
When machine learning matters I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to...
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I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to forget, but Spotify's key differentiator back then was the low-latency playback. People would say that it felt like they had the music on their own hard drive.
Londonist
The Legendary India Club Is Closing Next Month Restaurant owners are "heartbroken".
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History Today Feed
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane JamesHoare Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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The Modern House
A Modern Way to Live: our co-founder Matt Gibberd on space Since The Modern House launched in 2005, we’ve come to realise that beautifully designed homes share...
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Since The Modern House launched in 2005, we’ve come to realise that beautifully designed homes share the same timeless principles: space, light, materials, nature and decoration. These five tenets are not only the subject of our co-founder Matt Gibberd’s book, A Modern Way to...
Joel Gascoigne
An invitation to come and hack on Buffer * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two years have been truly incredible. What started in my bedroom in the UK has taken us across the world [https://joel.is/post/27260290057/thoughts-on-travelling-with-your-startup] to...
Londonist
Supperclub.Tube: The Tube Carriage Serving A Six-Course Tasting Menu Definitely the best way to spend three hours on the tube.
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Map of the Week
Ice Flows in Greenland The Atlas of the Invisible was published a few years ago. The maps show trends in the earth’s...
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The Atlas of the Invisible was published a few years ago. The maps show trends in the earth’s climate and demographics that are largely hidden to the naked eye. I never got a chance to review it but was recently struck by this visualization. A detailed description of the...
Arduino Blog
You can now work in collaboration in Arduino Cloud In today’s busy world, getting students or engineers to work together is key to tackling complex IoT...
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In today’s busy world, getting students or engineers to work together is key to tackling complex IoT projects. Traditional code sharing and editing methods, like using offline IDEs or swapping files manually, often slow down projects and lead to mistakes. This can be a hassle and...
A Smart Bear
Not disruptive, and proud of it I remember "disruptive" when it was called a "paradigm shift." You should be worrying more about...
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I remember "disruptive" when it was called a "paradigm shift." You should be worrying more about making something people want to buy, and less about disrupting everything.
Arduino Blog
Alumnus Software joins Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership Program We are thrilled to announce that Alumnus Software, based in India and the United States, has joined...
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We are thrilled to announce that Alumnus Software, based in India and the United States, has joined our System Integrators Partnership Program (SIPP) at the Gold level. With over 20 years of expertise in embedded software, IoT applications, and Edge AI development, Alumnus has a...
The Marginalian
Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how...
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Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed against to exist, a reliquary of the violent collisions that forged our rocky planet lush with life...
balajis.com
All It Takes Is All You Got Your assets are the government's collateral.
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TheCollector
Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem undefined
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Retail Design Blog
RUN TO THE FUTURE store by One Fine Day Studio & Partners Gender-neutral Chinese fashion brand RUN TO THE FUTURE is taking its operations to a higher level by...
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Map of the Week
Terrain Representations from the Atlas of Design In last week’s post I reviewed Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design. As an occasional cartographer I have...
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In last week’s post I reviewed Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design. As an occasional cartographer I have been interested in how topography is represented in maps for a long time. This atlas volume provides many contrasting examples. From the “cartographic realism” of Tom Patterson’s...
Seth's Blog
Useful assumptions for teachers Not simply in the classroom, but anywhere we hope to inform, inspire or educate: Assume enrollment....
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Not simply in the classroom, but anywhere we hope to inform, inspire or educate: Assume enrollment. Either someone is committed to learning or they’re not. While many situations place people into a spot where they are compelled to show up (exhibit A: learning arithmetic in grade...
Aaron's Essays
Conflicted Capital I’ve spent a long time wrestling with how to advise founders about investors and the conflicts of...
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I’ve spent a long time wrestling with how to advise founders about investors and the conflicts of interest generated by opposing incentives.[1] These considerations are especially important when a founder thinks about fundraising. The founder needs to figure out how to treat...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sciences Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The arts of course existed before Aristotle was...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The arts of course existed before Aristotle was wrong about them. Today's News:
TheCollector
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Poem Calls For a Formal Reading' I swore off poetry readings a long time ago for reasons of health. The atmosphere of pressurized...
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I swore off poetry readings a long time ago for reasons of health. The atmosphere of pressurized solipsism makes it difficult for me to breathe. Sugary adulation induces diabetic comas. Free verse is emetic and I’m allergic to hipsters but Thursday evening I broke my vow and went...
Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian? Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Steve Klabnik
About Crows
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Platformer
The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and ... LeBron?
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Tinloof - Blog
Translating Shopify stores with Sanity At Tinloof, we have an internal library that does a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to building...
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At Tinloof, we have an internal library that does a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to building fast Remix websites that have their content managed from Sanity. A while ago, we took a step back to research and implement a localization setup with Sanity that handles all...
PostHog's RSS Feed
We built an internal tool to generate changelog images for social media PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ...
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PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ideas was to share our changelog updates in a…
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 19-20 August 2023 Black Pride, All Points East, a foodie weekend, a cocktail festival and more.
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Mazdak
RRSP Guide for New Immigrants to Canada: Everything You Need to Know As a newcomer to Canada, one of the most important financial tools you'll encounter is the...
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As a newcomer to Canada, one of the most important financial tools you'll encounter is the Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP).
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Taking Risks: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/86mSy3jnSr0 For Stoics, taking risks is something that they feel we...
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/86mSy3jnSr0 For Stoics, taking risks is something that they feel we should never fear to do . . . if, that is, the risk is actually something that will help us live a more virtuous life, fulfill our potentials, or help other people. However (and...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 14 Highlights A redesign of TinyPilot’s website seems to have increased sales. TinyPilot now has a...
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Highlights A redesign of TinyPilot’s website seems to have increased sales. TinyPilot now has a European distributor. After three years, I’ve earned back my investment in Zestful (and I might sell it). I’m still ruthlessly delegating every task I can. Goal Grades At the start of...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #195 BHE Investor Conference, United States vs. Apple, Ajit Jain interview, Flaws in medical studies,...
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BHE Investor Conference, United States vs. Apple, Ajit Jain interview, Flaws in medical studies, Pursuing happiness, Mitsubishi Corporation, Robert Cialdini interview
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cargo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No giving birth until these planks are perfectly...
a year ago
The Marginalian
Yellow Butterfly: A Moving Wordless Story About War, Hope, and Keeping the Light Alive In his little-known correspondence with Freud about war and human nature, Einstein observed that...
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In his little-known correspondence with Freud about war and human nature, Einstein observed that every great moral and spiritual leader in the history of our civilization has shared “the great goal of the internal and external liberation of man* from the evils of war” as Freud...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Taste for Strolling in Cemeteries' Just as most of the people we encounter across a lifetime mean nothing to us and will not...
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Just as most of the people we encounter across a lifetime mean nothing to us and will not even linger in memory, as they stir neither distaste nor devotion, so it is with books and writers. Had I been one of those desperately obsessive readers who records every title read, I...
One Useful Thing
Working with AI: Two paths to prompting Don't overcomplicate things
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 4: The Verge
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Open Culture
Isaac Newton Creates a List of His 57 Sins (Circa 1662) Sir Isaac Newton, arguably the most important and influential scientist in history, discovered the...
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Sir Isaac Newton, arguably the most important and influential scientist in history, discovered the laws of motion and the universal force of gravity. For the first time ever, the rules of the universe could be described with the supremely rational language of mathematics....
The Convivial...
Antivirals The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 17
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rite On Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Interestingly, SMBC is in fact an erotic fertility...
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Moneyness
Why is Binance leaving Canada? Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, announced last month that it would be exiting Canada....
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Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, announced last month that it would be exiting Canada. At the time, it blamed "new guidance" issued by Canada's securities regulators. We now have an even more detailed explanation from Binance about the nature of this "new guidance."...
Spoon & Tamago
Elongated Engawa Defines this Community Welfare Center in Chiba As Japan’s population continues to grow older—one in 10 residents are aged 80 or above—care for the...
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As Japan’s population continues to grow older—one in 10 residents are aged 80 or above—care for the elderly becomes an increasingly important issue. And while elderly populations are typically seen as a burden, there are places around rural Japan that offer glimpses of a more...
The Modern House
Field Work: A guided architectural tour of the Thames – 'a pukka example' of a team away day Earlier this month, The Modern House team had the pleasure of Benedict O’Looney’s company. For a...
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Earlier this month, The Modern House team had the pleasure of Benedict O’Looney’s company. For a full three hours, the architect, historian and former punk musician stood at the prow of a riverboat in the Thames and narrated the rich, complex history of the buildings […]
TheCollector
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Working Theorys
Before the Crowd Shows Up The arena rewards those who arrive early.
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Essays - Benedict...
Looking for AI use-cases We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful...
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We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone, right now? Do Large Language Models become universal tools that can do ‘any’ task, or do we wrap them in single-purpose apps, and build thousands of new companies...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
NFTs and A Thousand True Fans In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform...
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In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform the economics of creative activities: To…
Jonas Hietala
A * After a few hours of coding I’ve made a little, little, bit of progress but it took a lot longer...
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After a few hours of coding I’ve made a little, little, bit of progress but it took a lot longer than I would have liked. I’ve basically managed to make a world and some tiles in the world and we have a worker who can move around on the tiles and he can’t move on all...
Escaping Flatland
Without looking it up, what do you think? + links
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Your Next Caribbean Vacation to The Cayman Islands
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Max Rozen
How to write semantic HTML Writing semantic HTML markup is one of the first steps to writing accessible websites. Let's learn...
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Writing semantic HTML markup is one of the first steps to writing accessible websites. Let's learn how to get started!
Platformer
The OpenAI saga isn’t over just yet A new board and a promised investigation could threaten Altman’s happy ending
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diamond geezer
Westminster 25 Silver Jubilee: Westminster Westminster's Jubilee line platforms opened 25 years ago today on 22nd...
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Silver Jubilee: Westminster Westminster's Jubilee line platforms opened 25 years ago today on 22nd December 1999. Westminster station - a clickable choose-your-own adventure (it is genuinely clickable - give it a go!) (1) You have arrived on the westbound Jubilee line...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Reachy 2 IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few...
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IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE ICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK Cybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024,...