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Epic Web Dev
Adding OpenID Connect Authentication to the Epic Stack (tip) Learn how to integrate OpenID Connect authentication into the Epic Stack with this comprehensive...
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The shifting status of more data How do we know if we’re doing a good job? In some fields, it’s always been pretty easy to tell....
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How do we know if we’re doing a good job? In some fields, it’s always been pretty easy to tell. Either the building falls down or it doesn’t. Either the car starts after you charge the battery or it’s still dead. We can ask easy questions about how long it took or how much it […]
Noahpinion
Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program! Fun!!
2 months ago
Christopher Butler
The Internet is Already a Social Network Make it easier for anyone to have a website. Make syndication easier and better. That’s all that...
a year ago
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Make it easier for anyone to have a website. Make syndication easier and better. That’s all that is needed to reclaim the power we’ve ceded to the many posting places and their owners.
Maggie Appleton
Folk Interfaces
over a year ago
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection “I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
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a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis    These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
Marine Madness
Book Club: ‘How To Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea’ In this absolute must-have for all walkers, sailors, swimmers, divers, photographers, and nature...
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over a year ago
In this absolute must-have for all walkers, sailors, swimmers, divers, photographers, and nature lovers, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares his knowledge and skills to help you navigate and interpret the water around you. Combining elements of natural navigation history,...
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
./techtipsy
My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia While on vacation I went on a small road-trip across Estonia. During the second half of the trip I...
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a year ago
While on vacation I went on a small road-trip across Estonia. During the second half of the trip I ended up being in Võrumaa, and while driving I suddenly remembered a random fact that some people mentioned in a hackerspace Slack channel: there’s a new museum around here! The...
A Smart Bear
The Lindy Effect on startup potential On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here,...
6 months ago
Seth's Blog
Choosing your pacemaker Roger Bannister ran a four-minute mile by having a relay race of pace runners next to him. If he...
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a year ago
Roger Bannister ran a four-minute mile by having a relay race of pace runners next to him. If he could keep up with his pacer, he’d finish the run in record time. If you work in an office where people are regularly shipping breakthrough work, it’s likely your work will ship as...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Milton Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: OK OK but I am CORNERING the market on...
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Am I Wrong About the Live Music Resurgence? Am I crazy? Let's find out...
2 months ago
Castles in the Sky
Small Oven Syndrome A New Name for an Old Problem
a year ago
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five Finals Intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI...
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over a year ago
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI beat the world champions at Dota 2: “Welcome everyone. This is an exciting day. First, this is an historic moment: this will be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play...
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #06: Mike Schur [EPISODE] This is the sixth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
6 months ago
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This is the sixth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott sit down with Mike Schur, who created the critically acclaimed NBC comedy The Good Place, and...
Wait But Why
A Short History of My Last Six Years On June 18, 2016, I slipped and fell down a deep, deep hole. The post A Short History of My Last Six...
a year ago
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a year ago
On June 18, 2016, I slipped and fell down a deep, deep hole. The post A Short History of My Last Six Years appeared first on Wait But Why.
The Marginalian
The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind "Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants."
7 months ago
A Beautiful Site
External popup links using jQuery With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has become a bit trivial, if not annoying, to standardize. I always look for a consistent, unobtrusive approach that degrades gracefully; and since I use jQuery quite frequently, this is...
SOCKS
A Building to Tell the Time: The Toghrol Tower in Rey, Iran (1063) The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and...
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over a year ago
The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and Sarooj, a water-resistant mortar. It was erected in 1063, and according to some sources, it was conceived as the tomb of Tuğrul Beg, the founder of the Seljuk dynasty. Other scholars...
diamond geezer
London's highest High Street London's highest High Street High Street (Downe) [155m] High Street should be in Downe. Downe is...
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6 months ago
London's highest High Street High Street (Downe) [155m] High Street should be in Downe. Downe is a proper village surrounded by fields, not far from Biggin Hill airport. It used to be in Kent but is now in the outer orbit of the London borough of Bromley. It has two village...
Steve Klabnik
New Beginnings
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Metrics, Logs, and Traces in JavaScript Tools The DX of JavaScript Developer Tools could be better if we added Metrics, Logs, and Traces
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Turning from Peril to Possibility: Ecological Superhero Christiana Figueres on the Spirituality of... Few things have maimed the spirit of Western civilization more than the myth of our expulsion from...
a year ago
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a year ago
Few things have maimed the spirit of Western civilization more than the myth of our expulsion from the Garden of Eden — a deeply damaging story about human nature, damning us and our relationship to nature. Unthinkingly, we have perpetuated this story in our present narrative...
Stephen Wolfram...
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
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This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
nanoscale views
Large magnetic fields as a scientific tool When I was at Berkeley at the beginning of the week to give a seminar, I was fortunate enough to...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
When I was at Berkeley at the beginning of the week to give a seminar, I was fortunate enough to overlap with their departmental physics colloquium by Greg Boebinger, an accomplished scientist who is also an extremely engaging and funny speaker.  Since 2004 he has been the...
Noahpinion
Western leftists have lost the plot Gleeful support for the massacre of innocents is simply inhumane.
a year ago
Val Sopi
The downsides of building in public <p>I first started "building in public"&nbsp;back in 2017.</p> <p>Not sure if the term existed back...
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a year ago
<p>I first started "building in public"&nbsp;back in 2017.</p> <p>Not sure if the term existed back then, but I started talking about my newest product at the time (Claritask), which I ended up <a href="https://bootstrapping-saas.transistor.fm/episodes/claritask-sold"...
Contemporist...
This Elevated Home Allows Plants To Be Grown Underneath Bates Masi + Architects has sent us photos of a new home they recently completed in Bridgehampton,...
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11 months ago
Bates Masi + Architects has sent us photos of a new home they recently completed in Bridgehampton, New York, that has its living spaces elevated above the ground.
The Marginalian
The Art of Allowing Change: Neurobiologist Susan R. Barry’s Moving Correspondence with Oliver Sacks... There is a thought experiment known as Mary’s Room, brilliant and haunting, about the abyss between...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
There is a thought experiment known as Mary’s Room, brilliant and haunting, about the abyss between felt experience and our mental models of it, about the nature of knowledge, the mystery of consciousness, and the irreducibility of aliveness: Living in a black-and-white chamber,...
99% Invisible
The Wilderness Tool [EPISODE] Imagine one of those old-timey lumberjack photos. The kind where two men in plaid are working away...
a year ago
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a year ago
Imagine one of those old-timey lumberjack photos. The kind where two men in plaid are working away at a tree, holding opposite ends of a huge, human-length saw. That is a vintage crosscut saw. Some avid crosscut seekers spend hours mining websites like eBay and Craigslist. But...
Blog - Mac Pierce
Creating art out of a weapon. Using the Stuxnet Virus. How and why I made Portrait of a Digital Weapon, a piece of electronic art made from the Stuxnet...
over a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving. One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
CONTEMPORIST
A Sculptural Ceiling Inspired By Flowing Chocolate Can Be Seen Inside This Store Architectural studio Arch&Type has shared photos of Blue Table Chocolates, a new retail chocolate...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Architectural studio Arch&Type has shared photos of Blue Table Chocolates, a new retail chocolate store in Buffalo, New York. Key to the intriguing interior design is the custom parametric ceiling tiles that were inspired by an image of golden, silky, and flowing untempered...
TheCollector
Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift undefined
7 months ago
Confessions of a...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Profilers in Python Learn what profilers are, when to use them and quick demo of few profilers for Python
6 months ago
TheCollector
Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met undefined
12 months ago
Seth's Blog
Bullies Bullies use intimidation and power to force others to act against their best interests. Bullies...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Bullies use intimidation and power to force others to act against their best interests. Bullies blame the victim, assuring everyone that they wouldn’t have to use force if people would simply go along with what they want. Effective bullies organize a small mob to enforce their...
David Gerrells
how to use web workers with typescript A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and...
over a year ago
Bits about Money
BAM's Early Adopter discount ends soon Bits about Money's Early Adopter discount ends on January 31st, 2023.
a year ago
Nadia Asparouhova
The New American University I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president, earlier this year, and I so enjoyed his thoughts on knowledge production that I immediately wondered how his philosophy would translate to ASU as an organization. Turns out,...
Willem Pennings
Fixing my heating system The heating system in my apartment building consists of a group of heat pumps that deliver warm...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The heating system in my apartment building consists of a group of heat pumps that deliver warm water to the underfloor heating system of about a dozen apartments, including mine. During the warm summer months, the system supplies cool water instead. The heat pumps figure out...
TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say? undefined
7 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence.
Commoncog
Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it....
a year ago
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a year ago
Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.
TheCollector
Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo? undefined
9 months ago
UX Collective
The frantic race to push out half-baked AI features Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
4 months ago
diamond geezer
Prince Henry's Room Open House is here again, indeed it kicked off earlier than the first official weekend which is how...
a year ago
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a year ago
Open House is here again, indeed it kicked off earlier than the first official weekend which is how yesterday I managed to visit an unvisitable tourist attraction. Open House: Prince Henry's Room (17 Fleet Street) Prince Henry's Room is a first-floor Jacobean chamber...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Forever Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Better than the stoic genies who just tell you to...
a year ago
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a year ago
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:
TheCollector
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference? undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions undefined
11 months ago
Diaries of Note
All through the long night those big guns flashed and growled The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was the deadliest campaign for the American Expeditionary Forces in...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was the deadliest campaign for the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, a nightmarish period that began on 26th September and lasted forty-seven days. Corporal Alvin C. York (later Sergeant) was just one of 1.2 million American soldiers...
computers are bad
2023-02-17 something up there pt II As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of...
a year ago
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As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017: the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to very little. I...
The Map is Mostly...
Sketches of Beauty, Shades of Remoteness A little moth asked the other day, what makes something beautiful? I wonder and doubt if I could...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A little moth asked the other day, what makes something beautiful? I wonder and doubt if I could ever give a fulfilling answer. As a topic it is almost too monumental to touch. Certainly to write about all at once. But maybe we can glance at it from time to time. So, a short...
TheCollector
Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China undefined
2 days ago
Arduino Blog
Turning a desk mat into a MIDI drum kit Playing drums is a lot of fun, but drum sets are very big and very loud. They also aren’t cheap....
a month ago
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a month ago
Playing drums is a lot of fun, but drum sets are very big and very loud. They also aren’t cheap. Those factors keep them from being an option for many people who would otherwise be interested. Conventional electronic drum sets are much quieter and a bit more compact, but they...
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers? undefined
10 months ago
Working Theorys
Weekend Theorys No. 2 Crypto social games, work "trials," and meeting your creations in the wild.
10 months ago
Quantum Frontiers
Crossing the quantum chasm: From NISQ to fault tolerance On December 6, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2023 Conference in Silicon Valley. Here is a...
a year ago
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a year ago
On December 6, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2023 Conference in Silicon Valley. Here is a transcript of my remarks. Toward quantum value The theme of this year’s Q2B meeting is “The Roadmap to Quantum Value.” I … Continue reading →
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spot On Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This will be written one day when a traveler comes...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This will be written one day when a traveler comes upon the ruins of Ohio. Today's News:
alexwlchan
Parsing CloudFront logs with Python I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do this, and I normally reach for Python inside a Jupyter Notebook because those are tools I’m very familiar with. I’ve done this a few times now, so I thought it’d be worth pulling...
Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge What is True?
8 months ago
TheCollector
Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time undefined
7 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
2 weeks ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Lufthansa Strives to for More Eco-Friendly Air Travel
2 months ago
Acko.net
Headless React Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things - Memoization, Data Flow and reconciliation Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU Live It is actually pretty easy to build a mediocre headless React today, i.e. an...
Good Enough
TIL: Use randomness to prevent email trimming With conversation threading (which almost everyone has enabled), Gmail was trimming the bottom of...
a year ago
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a year ago
With conversation threading (which almost everyone has enabled), Gmail was trimming the bottom of the emails we send with our new app because they were too similar to the other emails in the conversation thread. They’re similar because that’s just the link to get back into the...
Londonist
40+ Rather Splendid Things To Do In London This Month: December 2023 From the first day of advent, through to New Year's Eve.
a year ago
The Marginalian
Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace "Self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel...
10 months ago
The Marginalian
Favorite Books of the Year: Art, Science, Poetry, Psychology, Children’s, and More Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my living — looking back...
6 days ago
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6 days ago
Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my living — looking back on a year of life has always been looking back on a year of reading. This year was different — a time of such profound pain and profound transformation that it fused reading and...
TheCollector
Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius? undefined
3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Digest Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am not tholin' this colon? Today's News: PSSST....
a year ago
Unpacked
Apple Watch pulls blood oxygen feature, and how big a deal is the GPT Store really? Listen now | In the second episode of this year, we peel a few layers beneath Apple's decision to...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Listen now | In the second episode of this year, we peel a few layers beneath Apple's decision to pull the blood oxygen feature after losing a patent battle against Massimo. We then pivot to understanding the GPT Store and our analyses / hot takes on how big a deal this really...
Probably...
Have the Nones Leveled Off? Last month Ryan Burge published “The Nones Have Hit a Ceiling“, using data from the 2023 Cooperative...
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Last month Ryan Burge published “The Nones Have Hit a Ceiling“, using data from the 2023 Cooperative Election Study to show that the increase in the number of Americans with no religious affiliation has hit a plateau. Comparing the number of Atheists, Agnostics, and “Nothing in...
Weighty Thoughts
I'm writing a book! Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
3 weeks ago
the jsomers.net blog
Most book clubs are doing it wrong The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
Londonist
Why The Hammersmith & City Is (Arguably) London's Newest Tube Line It's only been around since 1990 (sort of).
10 months ago
The Honest Broker
How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult? Tech leaders once gave us coolness, but now it's just Kool-Aid
5 months ago
Making software...
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can't help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won't go...
The Modern House
Cover Stories: five new architecture, art and design books for your shelf Inspiration may come in many forms but it’s flighty and hard to find. That said, one place you can...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Inspiration may come in many forms but it’s flighty and hard to find. That said, one place you can be quite sure to pin it down it is on a bookshelf. And while those at TMH HQ are already groaning, we can’t resist the allure […]
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 11 – What Could Have Been In his Substack this week, Dave Karpf concludes that the trajectory of any emerging technology bends...
a year ago
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a year ago
In his Substack this week, Dave Karpf concludes that the trajectory of any emerging technology bends toward money. Of course it does. Because, capitalism. Karpf is in the midst of a chronological reread of the entire WIRED magazine corpus — of great interest to me, of...
This Space
The withdrawal of the novel We are subjected to that which does not exist        Simone Weil When an old friend who...
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over a year ago
We are subjected to that which does not exist        Simone Weil When an old friend who has drunk deep from the puddle of the New Atheism complained on social media that religious people believe things that are “inventions, fairy stories, not real, made up", I was...
Liz Denys
Podcast submission notes Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to. You need to generate podcast-specific RSS: start by reading Apple's requirements and looking at the RSS feeds of other podcasts. Some specific RSS fields <itunes:type>: You need...
Epic Web Dev
Epic Workshop Test Tab Demo (tip)
3 months ago
Unpacked
2024 Predictions: AI, Media, Advertising & more They say predictions is a bad business - You get it right, people say "duh". You get it wrong, you...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
They say predictions is a bad business - You get it right, people say "duh". You get it wrong, you are terribly wrong. So, of course we are kicking off with 2024 tech predictions. Listen in for hot takes across AI, Media, Advertising & more.
Vadim Kravcenko
Dealing with complexity This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the problems they […] The post Dealing with complexity appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
essay – snarfed.org
Content negotiation considered harmful Matilda, 1996 Content negotiation is a feature of HTTP that lets clients ask for, and servers...
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a year ago
Matilda, 1996 Content negotiation is a feature of HTTP that lets clients ask for, and servers return, different content types based on the request’s Accept header. Sounds great, right? Well, no. Content negotiation is the classic example of an idea that sounds good in theory, but...
Arduino Blog
Repurposing an automatic train control unit as a car speedometer We’re just now getting semi-autonomous self-driving capabilities in cars, which let them adhere to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We’re just now getting semi-autonomous self-driving capabilities in cars, which let them adhere to posted speed limits and maintain their lanes. But trains have been doing the same thing for a long time — well before machine learning and computer vision became ubiquitous. How did...
Stephen Diehl
Dive into GHC: Pipeline
over a year ago
TheCollector
Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover undefined
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Metaphors We Web By
over a year ago
Wuthering...
My cancer - "It can’t be true! It can’t, but it is." Liver cancer.  That was a surprise.  I knew something was wrong, but I was not expecting that. Since...
a year ago
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a year ago
Liver cancer.  That was a surprise.  I knew something was wrong, but I was not expecting that. Since the diagnosis last summer, since it was known for a fact that I had something serious, things have moved fast.  It has been like boarding a train.  Once in motion there is no way...
diamond geezer
Poohsticks Bridge In deepest East Sussex, on the edge of Ashdown Forest, is a famous bridge where a six year-old boy...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In deepest East Sussex, on the edge of Ashdown Forest, is a famous bridge where a six year-old boy and a fictional bear invented a waterborne race. There was a broad track, almost as broad as a road, leading from the Outland to the Forest, but before it could come to the...
Musings on Markets
The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023! I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at...
10 months ago
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I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. While I will use the "Magnificent Seven" moniker attached by these...
FIRE v London
Mar ’24: A towering influence I’ve enjoyed March. I managed to enjoy a few days’ skiing, despite less snow than any of us would...
8 months ago
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I’ve enjoyed March. I managed to enjoy a few days’ skiing, despite less snow than any of us would like, in the Austrian alps. Back at home, the sun has been getting stronger, and the evenings have been getting lighter – and now with Summer Time we will enjoy lovely late evenings...
Steve Klabnik
Book review: New Programmer's Survival Manual
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Friendcatchers Patrick McKenzie's simple concept for making friends on the Internet.
over a year ago
On the Arts
Do biographies need to start at the beginning? Alternatives to the predictably linear narratives of most biographies.
a year ago
The Roots of...
What does it mean to “trust science”? And this, my children, is why we do not say things like “I believe in science”. I mean, don’t get me...
a year ago
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a year ago
And this, my children, is why we do not say things like “I believe in science”. I mean, don’t get me wrong, science definitely exists—I’ve seen it. But not everything that calls itself science is science, and even good science sometimes gets wrong results. –Megan McArdle Should...
The Modern House
Hans Ulrich Obrist: the celebrated curator on why home has always been a place of artistic discovery Hans Ulrich Obrist is the artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington, west London,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hans Ulrich Obrist is the artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington, west London, and is universally acknowledged as one of the most important and prolific art curators of our time. He’s known for his broad, cross-disciplinary approach, in which subjects such as...
Retail Design Blog
NS–2 / ESTUDIO–PELO by toro arquitectos We’ve talked about ESTUDIO–CAFE, a cool coffee parlour in Montevideo, in a previous post. The café...
4 months ago
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Amazon Go is a grocery store that does away with checkout lines by using computer vision to figure out what you purchased. What happens if you… Take an item off the shelf and give it to someone else. Go shopping with your identical twin. Use the restroom to put on a face...
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by Ahmad El-Alfy The hidden attribute allows us to hide HTML elements from the page. When it was introduced, it worked in a very simple way: it set the CSS display property to none. Many people voiced concerns because here we are, mixing styles with markup again. To be fair, this...
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At LIU we use timeedit to track our schedules. Recently they updated their interface and improved some parts. It’s now possible to create a prenumeration of a collection of courses exported as csv which can then be imported to other calendar apps. But they also started to...
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The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time...
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My guest today is Li Jin, the founder and managing partner at an early-stage venture capital firm called Atelier. Before recording this introduction, I didn’t know what an atelier was, so I looked it up and it’s right on brand for Li: it’s defined as a workshop or a studio,...
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“My mood is like the weather,” Chekhov writes on April 8, 1889. “I’m not doing any work, just reading or pacing up and down. However, I don’t really mind having the time to read. It’s more enjoyable than writing. I feel that if I could live another forty years and spend the whole...
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In November 2022, we connected with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) to unpack its Mellows Graduate Research Positions (formerly called the Mellowes Master’s Research Assistantships).  For the 2024-2025 school year, SARUP is...
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Those default box shadows that appear inside of your input elements on iOS can be pretty annoying, especially if you're going for a flat or subtle look. Here's how to remove them. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as setting the box-shadow property to none. Instead, you have to...
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The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people are generally interested in is my experience of remote work. As I put it [recently](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1154916667606130689):
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Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Shadows on the Hudson is a novel of endless conversation, much of it passionate and grief-stricken, spoken by well-educated, middle-class Jewish characters in New York City shortly after World War II. Chief among the title’s Shadows are the victims of the...
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Fully unattended deployment of Windows clients using limited resources Introduction Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution...
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Introduction Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution that automate this task. It's just waiting a lot and pressing a button now and then. But installing the operating system itself is only the beginning. Once installed, you need to...
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> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - [Leon Bambrick](https://twitter.com/secretgeek/status/7269997868?lang=en)
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Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up “dynamic” navigation in Jekyll. The problem I’ve noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
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I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The Science of Success by Charles Koch himself a couple of years ago. Charles Koch inherited a tiny company in 1967 and turned it into one of the world's largest ones.
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Coordination is expensive as it reduces the availability and performance of distributed applications (PACELC theorem). I have extended…
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I recently visited Próspera, a Honduran startup city. I had a ton of questions and figured others might too, so I wrote an FAQ to share what I learned: Próspera FAQ This FAQ is intended as a reference, covering the basic facts and current status of the project. My hope is that...
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My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also pick up on best of the best from 2020.
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Just in case there are any blog readers out there who haven’t heard from other channels: I have a new book out! The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion is Volume One of a planned three-volume series. It grew out of the videos that I did in 2020, trying to offer...
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Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed back to the client. A simple button color change? Bill them. Additional links added to an existing menu? Send that invoice over. Some basic typeface changes? Don’t do it for...
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Just like most people out there, I have some files that are irreplaceable, such as cat pictures. At one point I had a few single-board computers sitting idle, namely the Orange Pi Zero and the LattePanda V1, and a few 1TB SSD-s. I hate idle hardware, so I did the most sensible...
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Has anyone made a good AI tool yet where I can load in...
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Previous Next There are more quotes available for us to read from the Stoics about pain and illness than nearly any other topic. That's not because Stoicism teaches that we should like discomfort, but rather because the Stoics are concerned with how to NOT let pain and sickness...
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A while ago I published this article about building an accessible and reusable modal/dialog component in React. The component achieves the following requirements: A reusable component API: we should be able to easily use our accessible modal anywhere and populate it with...
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It’s classic linkbait. Headlines that explain why something is happening. Questions to AI about why something happens. Even kids, asking their parents. Why is easy to sell. Why is hard to deliver. Consultants make a good living explaining the why. And media companies try to. But...
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This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and some spare time I was able to resurrect it from the death!
Anecdotal Evidence
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“We should hesitate to name any writings which would afford so large and so various a selection of detached passages complete in themselves. . . . We should be at a loss to name the writer of English prose who is his superior, or, setting Shakespeare aside, the writer of English...
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The most recent numbered installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog, was #48, back in December. I wasn't planning on continuing the...
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Regular readers of Construction Physics know that I formerly worked for the construction startup Katerra, which raised several billion dollars in venture capital in the hopes of revolutionizing the construction industry, and then went bankrupt. In fact, it was my experiences at...
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The internet is inundated with countless videos and advice columns promising to teach you how to become more successful than 99% of the world's population. Most of these claims revolve around setting goals, developing discipline, and eliminating distractions. But let's face it:...
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An article in a recent issue of The Economist suggests, right in the title, “Investors should avoid a new generation of rip-off ETFs”. An ETF is an exchange-traded fund, which holds a collection of assets and trades on an exchange like a single stock. For example, the SPDR S&P...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about half of all the cash we had in the bank – to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors. Starting the conversations, negotiations, and process of this buy out was one
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TLDR: Most conversations about “top talent” assume Pareto distribution; however, a closer examination suggests that different corporate cultures benefit from different types of talent distribution (normal, Pareto, and a third option – bimodal) according to the problem they’re...
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Convenience is the enemy of memory. Today I connected a twenty-year-old minidisc player to my computer and used even older software that Stefano Brilli reverse-engineered and made into a web app to transfer an hour’s worth of audio files to a blank minidisc in about 15...
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A prophecy expressed frequently in engineering circles at the present day is that turbines actuated by hot gases, other than steam, will eventually come to the front as prime movers. — A Scientific Investigation Into the Possibilities of Gas-Turbines,
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Consciousness, our experience of being in the world, is one of the mind’s greatest mysteries, but as the neuroscientist Anil Seth explains to Steven Strogatz, research is making progress in understanding this elusive phenomenon. The post What Is the Nature of...
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Our good friend Sue Brown has recently released her new book Paper Lithography! In this step-by-step guide Sue takes us through the process of making paper lithography prints using the humble photocopy as your plate. Paper lithography is a quick and straightforward process that...
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If you're used to class components and setState, the useState Hook might be confusing at first. Let's learn more about it in this article.
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Bad code <a href="#" onclick="modal.open()">Login</a> Issues and how to fix them If the a element has an href attribute, it represents a link to another resource like a page or a PDF document. The purpose of the element in this example is to trigger an action on the same page...
Flashbak
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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In recent years, the word 'organizing' has taken on a heightened power in architectural discourse, most notably through grassroots efforts by architectural workers across the United States to organize for better workplace conditions. For Tessa Forde, organizing centers on a vast...
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Feedback is essential for business success. It can help you identify areas for improvement, get new ideas, and stay ahead of the competition. But not all feedback is created equal. If you want to get the most out of feedback, you need to ask the right people.
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American playwright Tennessee Williams shared a deep bond with his beloved sister, Rose, whose life began in 1919, two years before his. In 1937, her increasingly erratic behaviour was seemingly explained by a diagnosis of dementia praecox—now known as schizophrenia—and six years...
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In the mid-1960s, Robert Kahn began thinking about how computers with different operating systems could talk to each other across a network. He didn’t think much about what they would say to one another, though. He was a theoretical guy, on leave from the faculty of the...
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Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
Notes on software...
How do databases execute expressions? Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not...
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a year ago
Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not seem practical in life as a developer. For example, every database with a query language is also a programming language implementation of some caliber. That doesn't include all...
Willem's Blog
Traffic shaping using iptables and tc This month I responded to an automated alert indicating excessive bandwidth usage on a server,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This month I responded to an automated alert indicating excessive bandwidth usage on a server, requiring me to apply traffic shaping to mitigate the traffic.
The Marginalian
Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life Somewhere along the way of life, we learn that love means very different things to different people,...
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Somewhere along the way of life, we learn that love means very different things to different people, and yet all personal love is but a fractal of a larger universal love. Some call it God. I call it wonder. Dante called it “the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.”...
Escaping Flatland
Things I learned working with artists As I said in “Lessons I learned working at an art gallery,” I had several observations that I...
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As I said in “Lessons I learned working at an art gallery,” I had several observations that I couldn’t fit into that post—so lets continue today.
This Space
39 Books: 2023 This is the 39th and final post of this series. As the introduction explains, I began seeking a...
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This is the 39th and final post of this series. As the introduction explains, I began seeking a return to the short-form of the early days of blogging. And it started off well, with each entry written in no time, sometimes stirring up the sediment of initial enchantment. As I got...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 9-10 September 2023 30+ events, including a new food festival, beautiful boats and Open House London.
a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Upfront Pricing Phenomenon | Out-Of-Pocket Imagine actually knowing what things cost in advance lmao
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'We Are So Lucky Having English' “We are lucky that English is our language because it’s better than, say, French for poetry. All...
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“We are lucky that English is our language because it’s better than, say, French for poetry. All those millions of words and all those different ways of saying the same, or similar, things. And new words all the time.”  It’s fashionable in some quarters to distrust language, to...
Blog - Practical...
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4 This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's...
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a year ago
This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
Fonts In Use: Blog...
März book covers, 1969–1987 Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.booklooker.de katzensohn (edited). License: All Rights...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.booklooker.de katzensohn (edited). License: All Rights Reserved. März Texte 1, 1969. Compilation of texts by Bazon Brock, Peter O. Chotjewitz, William S. Burroughs, LeRoi Jones, Uve Schmidt, Hermann Nitsch, and others. Among German...
Both Are True
You ask me anything / me ask you anything (yama/maya) #5 plus a look at everything I accomplished last year
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A Beautiful Site
SimpleImage 3.0 Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for working with images. Today, version 3.0 has landed, and there's a lot to love about it. Overview # Here's how it works at a glance: try { // Create a new SimpleImage object $image =...
Irrational...
Trying Tailscale. Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp...
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Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp whitepaper. My foremost personal interest was grounded in the fact that Uber’s contemporaneous security implementation didn’t include a VPN, so it was interesting to see a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'His Empty Heart is Full at Length' Two-hundred-fifty years ago, in the late summer and fall of 1773, Dr. Johnson and Boswell made their...
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a year ago
Two-hundred-fifty years ago, in the late summer and fall of 1773, Dr. Johnson and Boswell made their grand tour of Scotland, including the Hebrides, and both would publish accounts of their adventures. Johnson’s A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland appeared in...
The Honest Broker
Judgment Day Has Arrived for the Journalism Business From Upworthy to Buzzfeed, all the click chasing gimmicks have failed—but there is one sure option...
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Scheduling visits from the muse Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively...
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a year ago
Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively inactive. And then, I just started pumping out a lot more blog posts in 2022 while attending the Recurse Center. What changed? I stopped relying on visits from the muse, and started...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Somehow it came the week of jokes about dissociating from reality with VR. Today's News:
The American Scholar
In Reprise: Next, Line Please A new poetry prompt for players new and old The post In Reprise: Next, Line Please appeared first on...
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A new poetry prompt for players new and old The post In Reprise: Next, Line Please appeared first on The American Scholar.
somenice
Familiar Lines of Nostalgic Proportions A mixed tape was once a personal show of expression. An arrangement of songs purposefully set to...
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10 months ago
A mixed tape was once a personal show of expression. An arrangement of songs purposefully set to invoke an emotion. Happy, sad, psych-up workouts, breakups, love making… all depends. Spending time to record a deliberate mix of songs in order for someone else was devotion. When...
diamond geezer
McDonald's in Woolwich at 50 50 years ago today England's first McDonald's restaurant opened. There's a brilliant plaque...
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a month ago
50 years ago today England's first McDonald's restaurant opened. There's a brilliant plaque outside. The three signatories were big names in the American company - Robert Rhea, Fred Turner and Ray Kroc - but none of them turned up. Instead the ribbon was cut by the dynamic...
Math Is Still...
Quanta Relaunches Hyperjumps Math Game Explore a universe of numbers and arithmetic in our new and improved interactive math game,...
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10 months ago
Explore a universe of numbers and arithmetic in our new and improved interactive math game, Hyperjumps! The post Quanta Relaunches Hyperjumps Math Game first appeared on Quanta Magazine
xkcd.com
Exclusion Principle
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Liz Denys
gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
Maps Mania
The Interactive Murder Map
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99% Invisible
The Double Kick [EPISODE] Watch a skate video today, and you’ll notice how similarly shaped the boards are. It’s called the...
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11 months ago
Watch a skate video today, and you’ll notice how similarly shaped the boards are. It’s called the “popsicle” design, because the deck is narrow in the middle and rounded off at both ends, like a popsicle stick. This may seem stupid simple, but that basic, clean popsicle shape is...
TheCollector
7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know undefined
a year ago
The American Scholar
Parque de la Música The post Parque de la Música appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
Rest of World -...
These women fell in love with an AI-voiced chatbot. Then it died An AI-voiced virtual lover called users every morning. Its shutdown left them heartbroken.
a year ago
Hixie's Natural Log
How big is the Flutter team? I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter. It's a hard question to answer because...
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10 months ago
I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter. It's a hard question to answer because "contribute" is a very vague concept. There's tens of thousands of packages on pub.dev, all of which are written by contributors to the community. There's over 100,000 of issues...
Ferd.ca
Hiding Theory in Practice 2022/11/23 Hiding Theory in Practice I'm a self-labeled incident nerd. I very much enjoy reading...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
2022/11/23 Hiding Theory in Practice I'm a self-labeled incident nerd. I very much enjoy reading books and papers about them, I hang out with other incident nerds, and I always look for ways to connect the theory I learn about with the events I see at work and in everyday life....
A Beautiful Site
There's a reason that Bootstrap 3 has ugly buttons It's true. Everyone loves Bootstrap's buttons...at least they did until 3.0 came out. But before you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's true. Everyone loves Bootstrap's buttons...at least they did until 3.0 came out. But before you get upset at @mdo and @fat for what many mistake to be a move towards the anti-skeuomorphic design trend, you should realize there's more than meets the eye behind the decision to...
Seth's Blog
Graceful Long after people forget the details, they’ll remember your kindness. There are many forms of...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Long after people forget the details, they’ll remember your kindness. There are many forms of hospitality, but resilience, goodwill and gratitude are often the ones that matter. PS here’s a short ebook I published almost a decade ago.
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and...
over a year ago
History Today Feed
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest The Conservative Party Popularity Contest JamesHoare Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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Giant Dancing Virtual Geoglyphs
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Bryan Braun - Blog
Links #11 Here are some more links to things that I keep thinking about. I shared a bit more detail on these...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Here are some more links to things that I keep thinking about. I shared a bit more detail on these ones than I usually do—there were so many good quotes to include. Enjoy! Selfishness & Therapy Culture Earlier this year, there was a post in the New York Times called “Sometimes,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Words Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Breaking: Slamming 'Slam' SLAMMED Today's...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Breaking: Slamming 'Slam' SLAMMED Today's News: Just 10 days till the big new thing!
The DESK Magazine
mymind updates you might have missed We've released so many improvements and updates for mymind recently, these are old news by now.
a month ago
TheCollector
7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays undefined
a year ago
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927. Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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AVC
The Blackbird Platform The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends...
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The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends and family program at a restaurant in Williamsburg Brooklyn called Gertie. Blackbird wrote about it today on their excellent Supersonic blog: Throughout, when you tap Gertie’s...
Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Elad Blog
**Signup Now** Fireside- Dylan Field: Design, AI, School & Careers Sign up now for new fireside chat
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Ode to An Event Apart I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career. The...
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a year ago
I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career. The event I remember most fondly is An Event Apart: Austin in 2013. In my memory (which, granted, might be fuzzy) that conference was more about ideas than any specific technology. What I...
A Beautiful Site
Is it possible to be an introverted entrepreneur? A tweet by Remy Sharp sparked my thoughts about being an introvert and starting a company. I don't...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A tweet by Remy Sharp sparked my thoughts about being an introvert and starting a company. I don't hate human beings, but I do tend to keep to myself. How has this impacted my ability to run a successful business? Launching a product is hard # If you don't have a good network,...
Londonist
London Gets A New Station As Brent Cross West Opens Handy for Brent Cross shopping centre.
a year ago
TheCollector
The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution undefined
a week ago
diamond geezer
My Saturday My Saturday diamond geezer 5am  I awake early because there's not a moment to be wasted. I'll read...
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10 months ago
My Saturday diamond geezer 5am  I awake early because there's not a moment to be wasted. I'll read for a while - the latest by Tess Gerritsen is a proper page turner - then leap purposefully out of bed and find a grapefruit to slice, perhaps a handful of berries. The cafetière...
Retail Design Blog
New Location in Frankfurt – Feature Opportunity Dear Retail Design Blog Team, In June 2023, you featured our Hamburg location ( link:...
3 months ago
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year 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...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bigger Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A patreon subscriber asked why the speech bubbles...
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A patreon subscriber asked why the speech bubbles don't slowly become crabs and I'm kicking myself no. Today's News:
TheCollector
How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool undefined
9 months ago
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 8-14 January 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
11 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Noise The build is going well and the printer is printing tons of random stuff and I’m generally in awe of...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The build is going well and the printer is printing tons of random stuff and I’m generally in awe of how cool the printer is. But there’s one thing that sucks: it’s damn loud. I knew that it wouldn’t be silent, but I wasn’t prepared for this kind of noise. Silent controller...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 13-19 November 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Identity Designed
Alon Shabo Designed by Ark, Tel Aviv.
a year ago
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2024, Day 1 There is no question that the meeting venue in Minneapolis is superior in multiple ways to last...
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9 months ago
There is no question that the meeting venue in Minneapolis is superior in multiple ways to last year's meeting in Las Vegas.  The convention center doesn't feel scarily confining, and it also doesn't smell like a combination of cigarettes and desperation. Here are a few...
Ralph Ammer
The Book of Change Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book. The post The Book...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book. The post The Book of Change appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
swyx's site RSS Feed
4 Things I Learned from Mastering Mongoose.js A quick book review of the new Mongoose.js book from Val Karpov
over a year ago
nanoscale views
Thoughts on undergrad solid-state content Figuring out what to include in an undergraduate introduction to solid-state physics course is...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Figuring out what to include in an undergraduate introduction to solid-state physics course is always a challenge.   Books like the present incarnation of Kittel are overstuffed with more content than can readily fit in a one-semester course, and because that book has grown...
Seth's Blog
The worst person on our team A common shortcut to cultural divisiveness is to find the single worst person in a different group...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
A common shortcut to cultural divisiveness is to find the single worst person in a different group and highlight and attack their behavior. By making it clear and obvious that this is what THEY (the plural) want and who THEY are, it’s easy to walk away from a larger we. Their...
Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic? Which Playwright did it better?
5 months ago
TokyoDev
Venture Cafe ![Venture...
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over a year ago
![Venture Cafe](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBZzRsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--ba1e65f25bf034abe1e412b48d5578aafd57c2af/venture_cafe.jpg) [Venture Cafe] had its first event, はたらくモチベーション...
Joel Gascoigne's...
The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have...
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4 months ago
The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have introduced support for Bluesky in Buffer. This is an important moment for us as a company, and there are a number of reasons that adding Bluesky is personally meaningful for me. With...
ntietz.com blog
Distractions Cause Bad Code We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our digital society now is set up to allow us to focus for mere minutes at a time, since we are in an attention economy and the sole objective of companies is to capture more of our time....
TheCollector
10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis undefined
a year ago
The Roots of...
Can submarines swim? Did any science fiction predict that when AI arrived, it would be unreliable, often illogical, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Did any science fiction predict that when AI arrived, it would be unreliable, often illogical, and frequently bullshitting? Usually in fiction, if the AI says something factually incorrect or illogical, that is a deep portent of something very wrong: the AI is sick, or turning...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 11-17 September 2023 Doctor Who, a child called Hyde Park, and some ace Ian Nairn quotes.
a year ago
Irrational...
Safe defaults. Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice rankled a colleague. He wanted to spin up a new engineering team of two people, which I thought was a bad idea. It would be a fragile team that would fall apart quickly if it...
Math Is Still...
Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the standard picture of how particles move. The post Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time first appeared on...
Spoon & Tamago
Tamatsukuri Kindergarten’s Renewed Circular Campus Fosters Inquisitive Learning and an Appreciation... Tamatsukuri Kindergarten is a school for early-learning that is located in a forested region of...
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a year ago
Tamatsukuri Kindergarten is a school for early-learning that is located in a forested region of Japan’s Chiba prefecture. For over 40 years the school has dedicated itself to nourishing the souls, minds and bodies of its pupils. In 2022, the school decided to renew its main...
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign? undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter? undefined
10 months ago
Archinect - Features
Quilian Riano at Pratt: 'Believing in the Power of an Architectural Education' for the Next... Archinect's Deans List series offers readers an exclusive glimpse into the minds shaping the future...
a year ago
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a year ago
Archinect's Deans List series offers readers an exclusive glimpse into the minds shaping the future of architectural education. This series not only delves into the unique programming of each school but also uncovers the philosophies and approaches that define their educational...
Matt Mazur
Sharing small, incremental updates with users I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway...
a year ago
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a year ago
I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway provides a widget I have installed on Preceden to let users know when there have been updates. Users will see a bell with a count of unread items (which Headway keeps track of in...
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history. There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
a month ago
Tech and Tea
Creativity isn't just for painters and poets Making space and time for nurturing the inner artist in all of us
a year ago
Max Rozen
How to style react-select with styled-components or emotion Styling react-select can be annoying. Here's a quick guide on how to do it with popular CSS-in-JS...
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Are people more willing to pay for digital goods on mobile devices? Mary Meeker’s [ ](images/screen-shot-2009-12-27-at-11-51-18-am.png) The assertion seems to be that...
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over a year ago
Mary Meeker’s [ ](images/screen-shot-2009-12-27-at-11-51-18-am.png) The assertion seems to be that there is something special about the…
alexwlchan
Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts as a way to keep two separate watch histories. I was watching videos about gender and trans stuff before I came out, and I didn’t want them appearing in my main account – say, when...
diamond geezer
BustopMas Now that December's here the festivity in London is palpable! And as Christmas grows closer our...
a year ago
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a year ago
Now that December's here the festivity in London is palpable! And as Christmas grows closer our appetite for seasonal treats grows ever stronger. It can mean only one thing: winter is upon us and Christmas has officially arrived. This year's big ticket event is BustopMas, a...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
2022 Healthcare Predictions | Out-Of-Pocket Nikstradamus strikes again
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra Overall, this was an interesting read, but I found it hard to apply the lessons to my product. The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Overall, this was an interesting read, but I found it hard to apply the lessons to my product. The book contains compelling case studies and ideas from the field of meta-learning, but most of the ideas were either too theoretical or too specific to large companies.
TheCollector
How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry? undefined
11 months ago
Open Culture
When Leonard Cohen Guest Starred on Miami Vice (1986) Leonard Cohen was Canada’s answer to Bob Dylan. While best known perhaps as a singer-songwriter who...
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2 months ago
Leonard Cohen was Canada’s answer to Bob Dylan. While best known perhaps as a singer-songwriter who penned the tune “Hallelujah” — which was covered by Jeff Buckley, John Cale and just about everyone else under the sun — he was also at varying points in his colorful life a poet,...
Left To Write
Fresh&Thick Exploring Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity in the age of social media
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Josh Collinsworth
Building accessible toggle buttons (with examples for Svelte, Vue, and React) Toggle buttons might be the biggest missing native HTML element. This post will help you code them...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Toggle buttons might be the biggest missing native HTML element. This post will help you code them right, for all users, in any (or no) framework.
Patrick Kayongo
Fourways Mall It’s Saturday at 1:37pm. I’ve been sitting in the 2nd floor parking trying to muster the energy to...
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a year ago
It’s Saturday at 1:37pm. I’ve been sitting in the 2nd floor parking trying to muster the energy to walk in there to do everything on my to-do list: buy bread rolls for the kids’ lunch, new school shoes for Khanyi, check on the price of a new iron, and maybe just maybe upgrade my...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Plain text journaling The new/old way of keeping a digital journal
6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
The Industrial Content Revolution A fundamental change in the structure the internet.
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism Remind me what it was, exactly ....
a year ago
Old Structures...
Winding This 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto is titled “Bdwy winding all thru T-Sq.” and it definitely shows...
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8 months ago
This 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto is titled “Bdwy winding all thru T-Sq.” and it definitely shows Broadway and Times Square, although I have some quibbles about “winding.” This view is looking north and a little bit west, probably taken from a window on a high floor of 1450...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #45: Deliverism, blasphemy and selfies from space Plus the best Minecraft-themed political deepfake you'll see today
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Both Are True
i went mostly offline and then all this happened without the internet, my family steps into it; our wild and crazy offline Friday night
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Just looking Lots of people go to the beach but very few get in the water. 3,000 students go to the football game...
a year ago
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a year ago
Lots of people go to the beach but very few get in the water. 3,000 students go to the football game to watch 20 of their peers play. And we go to a conference to meet people and connect, and then spend most of our time hoping someone else will see us and care enough […]
Math Is Still...
The S-Matrix Is the Oracle Physicists Turn To in Times of Crisis Particle physicists in search of the next theory of reality are consulting a mathematical structure...
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7 months ago
Particle physicists in search of the next theory of reality are consulting a mathematical structure that they know will never fail: a table of possibilities known as the S-matrix. The post The S-Matrix Is the Oracle Physicists Turn To in Times of Crisis first appeared...
Londonist
Grown-Up Events To Take Your Baby To In London Baby-friendly events, designed with adults in mind.
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Maggie Appleton
Growing the Evergreens
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mtlynch.io
Stripe is Silently Recording Your Movements On its Customers' Websites Among startups and tech companies, Stripe seems to be the near-universal favorite for payment...
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over a year ago
Among startups and tech companies, Stripe seems to be the near-universal favorite for payment processing. When I needed paid subscription functionality for my new web app, Stripe felt like the natural choice. After integration, however, I discovered that Stripe’s official...