Classical Wisdom
James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
a year ago
Louwrentius
Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source....
over a year ago
If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source. I used this version of PAR2 with multicore support.
Update 2015: the original link is dead, I foud a copy of the source and put it on my own site here for you to download.
First,...
Common Edge
Near Ground Zero, Joshua Ramus Fails His Audition for Starchitect Status
The Perelman Performing Arts Center is a pricey bauble, but its over mechanized interiors suggest...
a year ago
The Perelman Performing Arts Center is a pricey bauble, but its over mechanized interiors suggest the building’s hype is unwarranted.
Math Is Still...
A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity
The pathbreaking geneticist Cassandra Extavour pursues the secrets of multicellular life while...
10 months ago
The pathbreaking geneticist Cassandra Extavour pursues the secrets of multicellular life while balancing careers in both science and singing.
The post A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Honest Broker
Give Me Your Best Suggestions for Movies and TV Shows
It's open mic day at The Honest Broker
a year ago
It's open mic day at The Honest Broker
Platformer
How the Brazil riots change Facebook's Trump equation
After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former...
over a year ago
After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former president's account
Liz Denys
A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Side Street Blanket
Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket,...
over a year ago
Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket, so I figured I'd make another color picking tool for the new Side Street Blanket. The varied blocks in this blanket are also made by holding different pairs of yarns together, so...
Josh Comeau's blog
How To Learn Stuff Quickly
As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can...
over a year ago
As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, we'll become so much more effective at our job. It's sort of a superpower.
Odds and Ends of...
Christmas Mailbag!
Is Elon Musk actually smart? Will HS2 ever be properly finished? Do I like Dominic Cummings? And...
3 weeks ago
Is Elon Musk actually smart? Will HS2 ever be properly finished? Do I like Dominic Cummings? And more!
Maps Mania
The Worldwide Breaking News Map
6 months ago
Florian Bellmann |...
Why I blog
The reasons why I started blogging.
a year ago
The reasons why I started blogging.
Londonist
Four Westminster Gas Street Lamps Get Protected Status
Victory for campaigners preserving London's lambent heritage.
11 months ago
Victory for campaigners preserving London's lambent heritage.
Internal Tech Emails
Inside Google's negotiations with Apple
I would let them try someone else for search if they don’t like our last offer.
a year ago
I would let them try someone else for search if they don’t like our last offer.
Applied Cartography
Pytest: test for print statements
Inspired by Adam Johnson's test for pending migrations, and of course in conversation with my own...
6 months ago
Inspired by Adam Johnson's test for pending migrations, and of course in conversation with my own love of weird tests, I offer a similar concept: a test for finding stray print statements in your codebase, with a ratchet array for stuff to ignore.
import glob
PATH =...
Matt Mullenweg
On with Theo / T3.gg
On Thursday, a prominent developer, YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and journalist posted a video titled...
3 months ago
On Thursday, a prominent developer, YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and journalist posted a video titled This might be the end of WordPress. It was very harsh. In that video you’ll hear him say about me, “he’s a chronic hater” (7:55), “seems like he’s been a pretty petty bastard for a...
McMansion Hell
texas gothic revival
Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages...
7 months ago
Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages but surely will soon be something else. (Please hyperfixation gods, make it financial literacy.) Anyway, I meandered around the nation (online) in search of another opportunity to...
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
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...
99% Invisible
Planet Money: Zombie 2nd Mortgages [EPISODE]
Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her...
3 months ago
Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her Quincy, Massachusetts home—until one day, a group of strangers appeared on her lawn, claiming her house was up for foreclosure. What followed was a surreal discovery of “zombie...
Seth's Blog
Busy-ness and leverage
When I made breakfast this morning, I didn’t begin by making the blender. Someone else, a team with...
3 days ago
When I made breakfast this morning, I didn’t begin by making the blender. Someone else, a team with more skills, resources and scale, built the blender. I simply bought it. That seems obvious–no one expects a from-scratch baker to make their own baking powder. And yet, our...
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...
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...
journal – Winnie Lim
gyeongju, the city of beautiful tombs
Spent a few days in gyeongju. I knew there were going to be tombs, but what I didn’t expect was them...
5 months ago
Spent a few days in gyeongju. I knew there were going to be tombs, but what I didn’t expect was them to be everywhere, not just concentrated in one area. I didn’t...
FIRE v London
Feb ’24: Envyidia
I’ve had quite a lot of culture to enjoy in February. Aside from some travel for the Six Nations...
10 months ago
I’ve had quite a lot of culture to enjoy in February. Aside from some travel for the Six Nations rugby, I’ve been to two shows – one in London’s Royal Opera House and one on the south coast. Both events were either full or practically full. Covid feels fully behind us now. But...
Willem's Blog
Impact of training
Join me on an intriguing journey as I explore the transformative impact of effective training and...
a year ago
Join me on an intriguing journey as I explore the transformative impact of effective training and data analysis on my performance in the Fietselfstedentocht 2023.
Identity Designed
Pilo
Designed by 5.5, Paris.
a year ago
Dan Slimmon
Podcast: Small Batches with Adam Hawkins
I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We...
4 months ago
I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We discussed a huge variety of topics. Here is the full episode, and on that page you’ll find meticulously timestamped links to specific topics. Check out the rest of Adam’s podcast, it’s...
TheCollector
The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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a year ago
Londonist
Where To Watch The Six Nations 2024 In London
Watch rugby greats battle it out at these pubs and bars.
a year ago
Watch rugby greats battle it out at these pubs and bars.
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
a month ago
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to run Python and Portray on Netlify
How to deploy Python projects to Netlify
over a year ago
How to deploy Python projects to Netlify
The Perry Bible...
Clicked
The post Clicked appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
a month ago
The post Clicked appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
Beautiful Public...
Visualizing Ship Movements with AIS Data
Explore the beautiful, intricate paths of ships over a year—tracked from America's busiest ports to...
3 months ago
Explore the beautiful, intricate paths of ships over a year—tracked from America's busiest ports to the open ocean via AIS marine tracking data.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Schedule
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The real mystery is whether the last panel is right...
9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The real mystery is whether the last panel is right before or right after.
Today's News:
diamond geezer
2024 anniversary quiz
2024 anniversary quiz
a) launched Jan 1999 (25 years): no marks
b) contracted Jan 1974 (50 years):...
a year ago
2024 anniversary quiz
a) launched Jan 1999 (25 years): no marks
b) contracted Jan 1974 (50 years): two days fewer
c) appointed Jan 1924 (100 years): induced Labour
d) heard Jan 1924 (100 years): Dogger Fisher
e) died Jan 1924 (100 years): Union leader
f) launched Jan 1924 (100...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
Commoncog
Marvel Studios’s Origin Story
The creation of Marvel Studios was contingent on some very creative financial dealmaking. A story of...
a year ago
The creation of Marvel Studios was contingent on some very creative financial dealmaking. A story of superb capital expertise in action.
Rozado’s Visual...
Is the Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part I: Some Multifaceted Evidence from Twitter Content
There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham...
a year ago
There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham and Musa Al Gharbi as to whether The Great Awokening is winding down. I’m going to write a series of blog entries about this topic to contribute to the discussion. In order to do...
Math Is Still...
Fossilized Molecules Reveal a Lost World of Ancient Life
A new analysis of ancient sediments fills a gap in the fossil record — revealing a massive dynasty...
a year ago
A new analysis of ancient sediments fills a gap in the fossil record — revealing a massive dynasty of ancient eukaryotes, which may have reigned for 800 million years and shaped the history of life of Earth.
The post Fossilized Molecules Reveal a Lost World of Ancient...
Londonist
Plans For Redevelopment Of Waterloo Station Revealed
New entrances and concourses are among the ideas.
10 months ago
New entrances and concourses are among the ideas.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Subliminal git commits
Luckily, I speak Leet.
– Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama
There’s an episode of the CBS...
3 months ago
Luckily, I speak Leet.
– Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama
There’s an episode of the CBS prime-time drama Numb3rs that plumbs
the depths of Dr. Joel Fleischman’s1 knowledge of IRC.
In one scene, Fleischman wonders, “What’s ‘leet’”?
“Leet” is writing that replaces letters...
Liz Denys
Better with Star Wars, baking is
Isn't everything?
Star Wars partnered with Williams-Sonoma to make pancake molds and some rather...
over a year ago
Isn't everything?
Star Wars partnered with Williams-Sonoma to make pancake molds and some rather insanely high quality cookie cutters:
The set of four includes a Yoda face and helmets from each of Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and a stormtrooper. I knew that if I ever got my hands on...
Diaries of Note
We are in the grip of Watergate
American journalist Edward Robb Ellis was sixteen when he began to keep a diary; by the time of his...
a year ago
American journalist Edward Robb Ellis was sixteen when he began to keep a diary; by the time of his death 71 years later, he had written approximately 22 million words—an incredible feat which, until it was surpassed in 1994, earned him a world record for the “longest published...
Wrong Side of...
The Scottish Play
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
2 months ago
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
Londonist
Bush Hall: Live Music At Historic West London Venue Under Immediate Threat
Four months to save the Shepherd's Bush icon.
10 months ago
Four months to save the Shepherd's Bush icon.
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
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 Modern House
‘The girl from elsewhere’: designer India Mahdavi on her struggle for acceptance, and how a rented...
Our guest on this episode of Homing In – our podcast on which our co-founder Matt Gibberd asks...
a year ago
Our guest on this episode of Homing In – our podcast on which our co-founder Matt Gibberd asks cultural tastemakers about a home from their past, present and future – is the French-Iranian architect India Mahdavi. Known as the Queen of Colour, she has designed […]
The American Scholar
Ups and Downs
The post Ups and Downs appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
The post Ups and Downs appeared first on The American Scholar.
IEEE Spectrum
How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah
Animation has come a long way since 1900, when J. Stuart Blackton created The Enchanted Drawing, the...
a year ago
Animation has come a long way since 1900, when J. Stuart Blackton created The Enchanted Drawing, the earliest known animated film. The 90-second movie was created using stop-motion techniques, as flat characters, props, and backgrounds were drawn on an easel or made from...
GitButler
Why GitHub Actually Won
How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.
4 months ago
How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.
Paul Graham: Essays
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Play fair & work hard
Two of the building blocks of a resilient society. And the opposite of the lazy shortcut. The...
7 months ago
Two of the building blocks of a resilient society. And the opposite of the lazy shortcut. The meanings of both clauses change over time… Play fair: Work hard: Social media and politics have done a great job of celebrating people who seek selfish shortcuts, simply because it’s...
David Gerrells
all the ways to css
I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was...
over a year ago
I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was bunches of fun doing but recently I looked back on the code and work and had to come to terms with something....my code was bad...really bad.
Old Structures...
Bones Beneath The Skin
A peek behind the surface at the 68th Street station on the Lexington Avenue (6) train. This station...
4 months ago
A peek behind the surface at the 68th Street station on the Lexington Avenue (6) train. This station was part of the Dual Contracts expansion of the subway system, and opened in 1918. I’m pretty sure the platforms were lengthened at some point after that, probably in the 1950s or...
Jonas Hietala
Why make games
Why did I start making games? Because I like to play them of course. Think of all the fantastic...
over a year ago
Why did I start making games? Because I like to play them of course. Think of all the fantastic games; Super Mario, Lemmings, Tetris, GTA, The Sims, Counterstrike, Theme Hospital, SimCity and Rollercoaster Tycoon… Damn - when you count them like this you’ll see how many great...
Artificial Ignorance
Stop begging for JSON
How OpenAI's Structured Outputs makes building with AI much more reliable.
4 weeks ago
How OpenAI's Structured Outputs makes building with AI much more reliable.
Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0.beta2 release
over a year ago
TheCollector
New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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11 months ago
The Architectural...
Join the Architectural Competition to Reimagine Gran Vía’s Iconic Façade
We invite all readers to contribute to an architectural competition to reimagine the façade of a...
6 months ago
We invite all readers to contribute to an architectural competition to reimagine the façade of a significant building on Madrid’s famous Gran Vía. This competition focuses on number 19, the Court of Contentious-Administrative No. 10 headquarters, originally built in 1921 and...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 5-11 February 2024
Do cool stuff for under a fiver.
11 months ago
Do cool stuff for under a fiver.
nanoscale views
Items of interest
The time since the APS meeting has been very busy, hence the lack of posting. A few items of...
9 months ago
The time since the APS meeting has been very busy, hence the lack of posting. A few items of interest:
The present issue of Nature Physics has several articles about physics education that I really want to read.
This past week we hosted N. Peter Armitage for a really fun...
AVC
AIVC
I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog...
a year ago
I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog posts I have written here at AVC. There are 9059 of them for those that are counting. They wanted to offer me a chat bot called “ask Fred.” I told them no thanks. Let me […]
blag
Now
This is a /now page.
Work
I work at Turso Database.
Learning
Rust and C.
10 months ago
This is a /now page.
Work
I work at Turso Database.
Learning
Rust and C.
Steve Blank
Lean Meets Wicked Problems
This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College...
a year ago
This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this case Wicked doesn’t mean morally evil, but refers to really complex problems, ones with multiple moving parts, where...
The Elysian
Am I an anarchist?
Letters to an anarchist, part seven.
a month ago
Letters to an anarchist, part seven.
Cheese and Biscuits
Tuétano Taqueria, San Diego
On the shortest day of the year, in the middle of the gloomiest and wettest of England's gloom and...
2 weeks ago
On the shortest day of the year, in the middle of the gloomiest and wettest of England's gloom and wet, I thought it might be fun to review a taco shop in southern California, because it's days like this you need to remind yourself that there are places in the world where the sun...
Retail Design Blog
Gol Gav Zaban herbal tea by Mohsen Zeinali
Gol Gav Zaban herbal tea is a popular herbal product used for relaxation and health promotion . In...
3 days ago
Gol Gav Zaban herbal tea is a popular herbal product used for relaxation and health promotion . In the design...
99% Invisible
The Bottom of the Bowl [EPISODE]
Reporter Emmett Fitzgerald was used to hearing people call his home state of Vermont a “climate...
4 months ago
Reporter Emmett Fitzgerald was used to hearing people call his home state of Vermont a “climate haven.” But last summer, he got a wake up call in the form of a devastating flood. All throughout the United States, people are watching the places they love change in unpredictable...
The Architectural...
Can We Afford More Modernist Buildings?
A common myth suggests that the unattractiveness of new buildings over the last century is due to...
a year ago
A common myth suggests that the unattractiveness of new buildings over the last century is due to rational or economic reasons, implying that building beautifully is too costly. In this article, I’ll debunk this idea and uncover the real reason behind the prevalence of...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Used to Stand in Front of the Windows'
In my dream I
was staring through the window of a bookstore, worried that sunlight would
bleach the...
12 months ago
In my dream I
was staring through the window of a bookstore, worried that sunlight would
bleach the color from the cover of a book. At the center of a display that
seemed to be made of cotton gauze was not just any book but a first edition of Ulysses. In the rare books collection...
TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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8 months ago
Rest of World -...
The hidden cost of cyberwarfare
Digital Peace Now is working to raise awareness of the damage done by cyberattacks.
a year ago
Digital Peace Now is working to raise awareness of the damage done by cyberattacks.
Blog -...
Book Review - King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
This book is a timeless classic that had a significant impact on deepening
my understanding of the...
over a year ago
This book is a timeless classic that had a significant impact on deepening
my understanding of the masculine. Published in 1990, King, Warrior,
Magician, Lover introduces readers to the concept of mature masculine
archetypes and their immature shadows. The authors, Robert...
CONTEMPORIST
A Waterfront A-frame House Renovated With Contemporary Finishes
Joe Herrin, Principal at Heliotrope Architects, has shared photos of an A-Frame cabin he completed...
7 months ago
Joe Herrin, Principal at Heliotrope Architects, has shared photos of an A-Frame cabin he completed as an idyllic little home on Orcas Island, set within the San Juan Island Archipelago of Washington state. The cabin structure is a modest late-60’s era kit A-frame, built by the...
HTMHell
Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API
by Schepp
Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed...
a week ago
by Schepp
Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed significantly contributes to the overall user experience (UX), determining whether it feels positive or negative. To ensure the fastest possible page load times, it’s crucial to design...
Copper • A blog...
Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing)
Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1
Exactly 3 months and a day...
over a year ago
Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1
Exactly 3 months and a day after placing an order through a Romanian Apple reseller, I finally got my 14-inch M1 Max.
Well, actually.. I first got the wrong configuration (base model instead of CTO), had to...
A Beautiful Site
Find and replace hyperlinks and email addresses in PHP
These two PHP functions use regular expressions to add the appropriate HTML anchor tags around...
over a year ago
These two PHP functions use regular expressions to add the appropriate HTML anchor tags around hyperlinks and email addresses in $string.
PHP code #
function parseHyperlinks($string) {
// Add tags around all hyperlinks in $string
return...
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Politics Yet Again
GOP 4channers, more Twitch drama, and a Very Mad Laptop Company
2 months ago
GOP 4channers, more Twitch drama, and a Very Mad Laptop Company
The Forney Flyer
Still Here... Again.
Folks, I'm still alive! I don't just mean that figuratively, I mean it literally. It seem like I've...
over a year ago
Folks, I'm still alive! I don't just mean that figuratively, I mean it literally. It seem like I've made a lot of excuses on this blog over the past year, for the chunks of time where I seem to disappear for a while. Well, this time I really had a good excuse!
Last October I...
Seth's Blog
The search tax
Amazon took in more than $30 billion in ad revenue last year, money spent to elevate some products...
a year ago
Amazon took in more than $30 billion in ad revenue last year, money spent to elevate some products over others in the hierarchy of attention. It’s probably true that someone shopping on Amazon is going to either buy something or not… the purpose of the “ads” isn’t to amplify...
Castles in the Sky
Living the Questions, Reading the Clown-Arounds
Embracing the Trivial in a World Obsessed with Takeaways
5 months ago
Embracing the Trivial in a World Obsessed with Takeaways
Marco.org
The Overcast Redesign: Part One
Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus...
over a year ago
Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. I’m pretty proud of this one.
For this first and largest phase of the redesign, I focused...
Archinect - Features
Archinect Celebrates 20 Must-Watch Emerging U.S.-Based Architecture Practices
In celebration of July 4th, Archinect recognizes the work of U.S.-based architecture firms by...
a year ago
In celebration of July 4th, Archinect recognizes the work of U.S.-based architecture firms by bringing attention to a selection of emerging studios establishing themselves as changemakers and design leaders within the industry.
From coast to coast, we've explored several...
TheCollector
Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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4 months ago
Steven Scrawls
Against Confidence
Against Confidence
I hope I never make a habit of writing stuff that makes me feel
confident.
If my...
a year ago
Against Confidence
I hope I never make a habit of writing stuff that makes me feel
confident.
If my writing makes me feel confident, it probably has a title like
“Look At My Cleverly Constructed Argument/Insight” (subtitle: “Also Look
At My Pretty Words”). If I release writing...
The Marginalian
How We Become Ourselves: Erik Erikson’s 8 Stages of Human Development
It never ceases to stagger that some stroke of chance in the early history of the universe set into...
3 months ago
It never ceases to stagger that some stroke of chance in the early history of the universe set into motion the Rube Goldberg machine of events that turned atoms born in the first stars into you — into this temporary clump of borrowed stardust that, for the brief interlude between...
IEEE Spectrum
Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter
zombie mysteries, historical fiction, pirate adventure tales, and westerns.
science fiction. The...
9 months ago
zombie mysteries, historical fiction, pirate adventure tales, and westerns.
science fiction. The publishers of Astounding Science Fiction approached Hubbard to write stories that focused on people, rather than robots and machines. His first story, “The Dangerous Dimension,” was...
Joshua Smith
Quickstop Groceries
Based on the Quickstop Groceries and RST Video shopfronts from the 1994 Kevin Smith film Clerks....
over a year ago
Based on the Quickstop Groceries and RST Video shopfronts from the 1994 Kevin Smith film Clerks. Created for the Culture 4 Cult Exhibition at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, December, 2018. Scratchbuilt 1:25 Scale Miniature created from MDF, Wood, cardboard, plastic card, chalk...
Irrational...
Running your engineering onboarding program.
Most companies say that it takes three to six months for newly hired engineers to fully ramp...
a year ago
Most companies say that it takes three to six months for newly hired engineers to fully ramp up.
Engineering leaders know it’s impolitic to admit that it takes their team longer than three to six months to onboard new engineers,
so that’s what they say out loud, but they...
TheCollector
Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Avoid multitasking to write better code
Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a...
over a year ago
Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a second thing done? Why not fill those five seconds while your code compiles with reading an article about the latest web frameworks?
In fact, multitasking is hiding everywhere in...
Diaries of Note
Ran through Ritz, walked miles, drank in Dorchester
On 15th August of 1945, three months after Nazi Germany’s surrender in Europe, the world rejoiced as...
a year ago
On 15th August of 1945, three months after Nazi Germany’s surrender in Europe, the world rejoiced as Japan announced its unconditional surrender, bringing an end to World War II. Streets from New York to London, Sydney to Shanghai, were flooded with jubilant crowds celebrating...
Old Structures...
It’s Not Blue
That’s a drawing from 1837 of the new Customs House – now Federal Hall – being constructed at the...
a year ago
That’s a drawing from 1837 of the new Customs House – now Federal Hall – being constructed at the northeast corner of Wall and Nassau Streets. John Frazee is listed as the architect and superintendent, which is not quite accurate: he was working from an architectural design by...
Computer Ads from...
Ampere WS-1
A cool Japanese clamtop
9 months ago
Business Brainstorms
API for simple manual online tasks, pickleball for surfing, freelancer laptop stickers, ...
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “I want an AI companion that I can share my goals with...
Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
a year ago
What's it going to be, then?
NeuroLogica Blog
More On Electric Vehicles
I recently wrote about electric vehicles, which sparked a lively discussion in the comments. There...
a year ago
I recently wrote about electric vehicles, which sparked a lively discussion in the comments. There was enough discussion that I wanted to pull my responses together into a new post. Before I get to the details, some general observations. The conversation, in my opinion, nicely...
Wuthering...
Books Read in May 2024 – Some are certainly knowing what they are meaning, some are certainly not...
A month without writing anything. Plenty of reading, though.
FICTIONS
The Autobiography of an...
7 months ago
A month without writing anything. Plenty of reading, though.
FICTIONS
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), James
Weldon Johnson
The Making of Americans (1925), Gertrude Stein – read
over the course of months. The quotation
up above is from p. 783. I will write
about...
Max Rozen
2019: Further reflections on trying to start an internet business
A review of what I said I would do in 2019, and what I actually did.
over a year ago
A review of what I said I would do in 2019, and what I actually did.
High Signal
Making $1m ARR with social media scheduling
Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of...
11 months ago
Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and many more. The business is now doing over $1m in annual revenue! Davis joined me for an interview about joining the...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 March 17 - March 23
Every page is a time capsule.
9 months ago
Every page is a time capsule.
Liz Denys
'First' thoughts on git
I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git;...
over a year ago
I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git; I've certainly already been exposed to git in a variety of ways. I'd always been told that my love of graph theory would convert me over to this different type of version control.
I...
TokyoDev
Paid Leave and Vacations in Japan
Japan has a reputation for being a country of overworked people who never take holidays. While this...
7 months ago
Japan has a reputation for being a country of overworked people who never take holidays. While this has been true in the past, the government has been trying to incentivize people to take more vacations and enjoy better work-life balance. Some challenges remain from a cultural...
mtlynch.io
Reset Month
No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am...
6 months ago
No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am taking some time to figure out my next project.
Retrospectives will resume in July.
Making software...
Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)
Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)
2020-03-31
In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I...
over a year ago
Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)
2020-03-31
In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I showed how you could create a basic menu dropdown with only 121 bytes of CSS. While this demo is great for simple text-based menu dropdowns, it doesn't show just how complex (in a...
TokyoDev
Progress and Challenges: Reflections of a Working Mother in Japan
The result of [TokyoDev's International Developers in Japan Survey...
a year ago
The result of [TokyoDev's International Developers in Japan Survey 2022](/insights/2022-developer-survey) revealed that the country is still struggling to close the gender gap in the workplace in the tech industry.
As a Japanese woman and a mother of two children, I was very...
Ian's Blog
Securing Your GitHub Account
Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account...
over a year ago
Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account security.
There's plenty of good reasons why you should try to keep any online account safe, but I feel that GitHub deserves special attention among developers. With automation...
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #10: Clara Jeffery [EPISODE]
This is the tenth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
2 months ago
This is the tenth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Clara Jeffery, the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones and the Center for...
Irrational...
Notes on The Software Engineer's Guidebook
The Software Engineer’s Guidebook by Gergely Orosz is a broad reference book for software engineers...
a year ago
The Software Engineer’s Guidebook by Gergely Orosz is a broad reference book for software engineers that will be particularly valuable for new software engineers and those who’ve worked most of their career in a small number of companies. It doesn’t go deep everywhere, but leaves...
Essays - Benedict...
Back to the trend line?
The Covid Rotation turns, and ecommerce penetration is back to the trend
line. But which trend...
over a year ago
The Covid Rotation turns, and ecommerce penetration is back to the trend
line. But which trend line, and which penetration?
Anecdotal Evidence
'Larkin Was a Larrikin'
At age ten
or so I had a pen pal, a girl from New South Wales, Australia. We both wrote in
pencil on...
11 months ago
At age ten
or so I had a pen pal, a girl from New South Wales, Australia. We both wrote in
pencil on lined paper, and we met through our respective newspapers in
Cleveland and Sydney. The correspondence lasted for a year or so and I don’t
remember what either of us ever said to...
The Pragmatic...
Big Tech job-switching stats
Which companies grew their software engineering headcount, which ones shrank, and how has the...
a year ago
Which companies grew their software engineering headcount, which ones shrank, and how has the “open-to-new-opportunities” ratio shifted across Big Tech? I collaborated with a recruiter to find out, and the data is in.
Contemporist...
A’ Design Awards And Competition – The Winners
A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts in...
8 months ago
A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts in over 114 countries.
CONTEMPORIST
This Cafe In Austria Has a Cycling Inspired Design
Architecture and interior design studio Archisphere collaborated with Carbone & Kacerovsky to design...
a year ago
Architecture and interior design studio Archisphere collaborated with Carbone & Kacerovsky to design a ‘Cyclist’, a modern cafe at the Hotel Andaz am Belvedere Vienna. Archisphere drew inspiration from the movement, freedom, and enjoyment associated with cycling. In addition to...
Home on Erik...
The hardest challenge about becoming a manager
Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff!
I...
over a year ago
Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff!
I became a manager back in 2009. Being a developer is fun. You have this very tangible way to measure yourself.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Pia Bramley
I’m an artist, illustrator and printmaker. Having left London after a decade of city life I now live...
a year ago
I’m an artist, illustrator and printmaker. Having left London after a decade of city life I now live and work in The New Forest, squeezing in drawing and printing around caring for a three year old.
How and where did you learn to print?
I did my foundation at KIAD (formerly...
HTMHell
#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt
Context: A list of images that link to detail pages.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0">
<div alt="Browser...
over a year ago
Context: A list of images that link to detail pages.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0">
<div alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" aria-label="Browser Wars: The Last Engine">
<div>
<img alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" src="thumbnail.jpg">
</div>
</div>
</a>
Issues and...
TheCollector
10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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a week ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 14
Highlights A redesign of TinyPilot’s website seems to have increased sales. TinyPilot now has a...
over a year ago
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...
Math Is Still...
Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness
The French mathematician spent decades developing a set of tools now widely used for taming random...
9 months ago
The French mathematician spent decades developing a set of tools now widely used for taming random processes.
The post Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness first appeared on Quanta Magazine
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The future of self-driving
Modern self-driving technology still has a way to go before it becomes generally safe, and useful...
11 months ago
Modern self-driving technology still has a way to go before it becomes generally safe, and useful enough for broader adoption. While I do believe that at some point in my lifetime I'll be able to hail an eTaxi, it'll really depend on where I am, the road infrastructure, and the...
Diaries of Note
When in my hand thy pulse is prest, I feel it alter mine
Born in Yorkshire in 1791, Anne Lister was a landowner famed for keeping detailed diaries that...
a year ago
Born in Yorkshire in 1791, Anne Lister was a landowner famed for keeping detailed diaries that totalled over four million words, a sixth of which was written in a code she devised to conceal her sexuality and intimate encounters. Discovered and deciphered by a descendant in the...
ntietz.com blog
"Help, I see a problem and no one is prioritizing it!"
A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring.
The...
10 months ago
A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring.
The specific problem doesn't matter, so don't focus on the technical details here.
Hey Nicole!
At $DAYJOB, we have some big problems and it's frustrating, I keep pointing them out and...
Good Enough
Adding Social Preview Images To Our 11ty Blog
Twitter X recently removed headlines and descriptions from link previews, in the name of...
a year ago
Twitter X recently removed headlines and descriptions from link previews, in the name of “esthetics.” Inspired by Steph Ango, while we try not to run our business on the whims of a social media platform, this change did push us into making a change we’ve been meaning to for...
mtlynch.io
How I Hired a Freelance Editor for My Blog
A year in blogging I started this blog in May of last year. I don’t mean to brag, but by last April,...
over a year ago
A year in blogging I started this blog in May of last year. I don’t mean to brag, but by last April, after less than a year of blogging, I was pulling in upwards of 20 visitors per day, several of whom were not spam bots. That number reached as high as 50 visitors on days when I...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Next Step in Space Travel
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced they are developing their own commercial space...
a year ago
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced they are developing their own commercial space capsule. This will be used initially for cargo, but then eventually for crew as well. They anticipate a maiden voyage in 2028. I think this is a positive development. It seems we are...
The American Scholar
Bards Behind Bars
Reading Sartre aloud inside a maximum-security prison
The post Bards Behind Bars appeared first on...
7 months ago
Reading Sartre aloud inside a maximum-security prison
The post Bards Behind Bars appeared first on The American Scholar.
Daniel Miessler
AI Art Just Opened The Threat to Human Work We Were Expecting from AGI
Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get...
over a year ago
Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get replaced by artificial intelligence. I’m not professionally educated or trained in AI, but I’ve read probably 30 books and spent thousands of hours thinking about it. I am not talking...
A Weekly Dose of...
On Awards
When Arata Isozaki died at the end of 2022 at the age of 91, nearly all of the news stories and...
a year ago
When Arata Isozaki died at the end of 2022 at the age of 91, nearly all of the news stories and obituaries mentioned that he was a Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, and quite a few also included mention of the Pritzker Prize in the headline. Although the Pritzker has long...
Max Rozen
Demystifying useEffect's clean-up function
useEffect's clean-up function can be pretty confusing, especially if you're still trying to think in...
over a year ago
useEffect's clean-up function can be pretty confusing, especially if you're still trying to think in lifecycle methods. Let's clarify the clean-up function in this article.
Daniel Miessler
Stadia is Google’s Product Strategy
Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it...
over a year ago
Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it came out: Here’s what I said about it in 2021. And here’s my analysis of why this keeps happening: How I Knew Stadia Would Fail The overall reason for this is UI/UX in my opinion,...
TheCollector
How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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7 months ago
PHD Comics
07/12/21 PHD comic: 'James Webb Telescope'
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
...
over a year ago
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
title:
"James Webb Telescope" - originally published
7/12/2021
For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
Koos Looijesteijn -...
LOADMORE
"loadmo.re is a mobile-websites showcase initiated by DVTK. The curation was initially based on our...
over a year ago
"loadmo.re is a mobile-websites showcase initiated by DVTK. The curation was initially based on our own selection and is now meant to grow through submissions from our online community. From its earliest days, digital design practice has been focused on creating interfaces for...
Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
Irrational...
Notes on The Value Flywheel Effect
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into...
a year ago
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into real-world application of Wardley mapping, and a rare view of a company’s engineering strategy.
I’m currently diving into the topic of engineering strategy,
and a sub-topic that I’ve not...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 043: Happy birthday, ChatGPT
December 1, 2023.
a year ago
Both Are True
you don't need everyone to like your work (2018)
revisiting something i wrote years ago
8 months ago
revisiting something i wrote years ago
DYNOMIGHT
The real data wall is billions of years of evolution
Say you have a time machine. You can only use it once, to send a single idea back to 2005. If you...
3 months ago
Say you have a time machine. You can only use it once, to send a single idea back to 2005. If you wanted to speed up the development of AI, what would you send back? Many people suggest attention or transformers. But I’m convinced that the answer is “brute-force”—to throw as much...
CONTEMPORIST
Tree-like Columns Show The Craftsmanship Inside This Riverside Pavilion
Design practice firm JK-AR has shared photos of a riverside pavilion in Gyeongsangnam-do, South...
a year ago
Design practice firm JK-AR has shared photos of a riverside pavilion in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, which they recently completed that aims to reinvent East Asian timber architecture. Before the city was urbanized, the riverside was surrounded by bamboo forests. Inspired by...
Beautiful Public...
The Naughty Words the FAA Removed From the Sky
New FOIA records from the FAA shed light on the frantic effort in 2015 to rename navigation...
7 months ago
New FOIA records from the FAA shed light on the frantic effort in 2015 to rename navigation waypoints related to Donald Trump and reveal the list of naughty waypoint names that were changed over the years.
Open Culture
Buckminster Fuller Tells the World “Everything He Knows” in a 42-Hour Lecture Series (1975)
History seems to have settled Buckminster Fuller’s reputation as a man ahead of his time. He...
5 months ago
History seems to have settled Buckminster Fuller’s reputation as a man ahead of his time. He inspires short, witty popular videos like YouTuber Joe Scott’s “The Man Who Saw The Future,” and the ongoing legacy of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI), who note that “Fuller’s...
TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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a month ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Human Impulse, the Human Aspiration'
The upstairs
neighbor, a diffident graduate student in English, knocked on the door to tell me W.H....
a year ago
The upstairs
neighbor, a diffident graduate student in English, knocked on the door to tell me W.H. Auden had died. He was close to
tears and couldn’t stop shaking his head in disbelief. This was half a century ago, late September
1973. We talked books almost daily and a few...
Society's Backend
I Enjoy Technical Interviews and You Can Too
A simple change in mindset that completely changed the way I interview
a year ago
A simple change in mindset that completely changed the way I interview
HTMHell
My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
by Declan Chidlow
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving...
3 weeks ago
by Declan Chidlow
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving whipping it out the good ol' CSS color property. But this is HTMHell, dammit. None of that wishy-washy CSS nonsense here. No siree. We use HTML as the good lord intended and shalln't...
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
AngloThai at Outcrop, the Strand
Part of the vast, shiny new 180 Strand development, AngloThai at Outcrop is an entirely outside -...
a year ago
Part of the vast, shiny new 180 Strand development, AngloThai at Outcrop is an entirely outside - albeit thankfully mainly covered - restaurant designed to make the most of the summer months. Unfortunately on Friday the weather was a bit more traditionally Anglo than Thai,...
Retail Design Blog
Moment Boutique Store by Modum Atelier
Moment boutique store is located in Cinnalane, Nanjing, where surrounded by a historic architectural...
3 days ago
Moment boutique store is located in Cinnalane, Nanjing, where surrounded by a historic architectural complex, with the famous Ganxi Mansion...
Home on Erik...
Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model
Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is...
over a year ago
Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cult
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Just because Scandinavians do it doesn't mean it's...
11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Just because Scandinavians do it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
Today's News:
Anecdotal Evidence
'At Least When Practised By a Master'
I know
several industrious readers who read nothing but novels, not even short stories
and certainly...
a year ago
I know
several industrious readers who read nothing but novels, not even short stories
and certainly not biographies, poetry or other forms of nonfiction. Some are
devoted to genre fiction – mysteries, science fiction – and at least one sticks
to the “classics” -- Austen and...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Quantum Software Systems Ltd's QNX
Operating Systems Come in Many Flavors But QNX Can Take the Heat
9 months ago
Operating Systems Come in Many Flavors But QNX Can Take the Heat
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cuffed
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The weird part is how she's levitating 6 feet off...
11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The weird part is how she's levitating 6 feet off the ground.
Today's News:
The Marginalian
Terror, Tenderness, and the Paradoxes of Human Nature: How a Marmoset Saved Leonard and Virginia...
The most discomposing thing about people capable of monstrous acts is that they too enjoy art, they...
a year ago
The most discomposing thing about people capable of monstrous acts is that they too enjoy art, they too read to their children, they too can be moved to tears by music. The dissident poet Joseph Brodsky captured this as he contemplated the greatest antidote to evil, observing...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Old Collections Persist Somewhere'
Speaking of
anthologies, I again picked up Books and
Libraries (2021), published as part of the...
a year ago
Speaking of
anthologies, I again picked up Books and
Libraries (2021), published as part of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Series. I’ve browsed in several of these attractively compact volumes and they are
a very mixed bag, as any thematic anthology must be. You can sense...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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TheCollector
What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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a year ago
Jonas Hietala
A Vacation Filled with Obsession
A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to...
over a year ago
A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to our dear home village Övertorneå and spent two weeks celebrating Christmas and New Years Eve. What did we do? I practiced some obsessive behavior with Power Grid and Minecraft (and...
A Beautiful Site
Success Requires Luck
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and...
over a year ago
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and vision don't play a role in success, but nobody — literally nobody — can guarantee that a product or service will be successful. Think about some of the major corporations that...
Josh Thompson
Why schedule something that doesn't exist?
The first thing I did when making this post is I set it to be published tomorrow.
Then, I left the...
over a year ago
The first thing I did when making this post is I set it to be published tomorrow.
Then, I left the room for a bit. I didn’t have anything to say. Or, I didn’t think I did.
Yet, all over my computer, and in various list trackers and note-taking apps, I’ve got dozens of ideas to...
TheCollector
Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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a year ago
Marcus on AI
Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus says AI must be regulated. He has a plan.
Fantastic writeup of my views today at The Wall Street Journal:
a month ago
Fantastic writeup of my views today at The Wall Street Journal:
Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
a month ago
The Great Migration to Bluesky
Calculated Risk
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Decrease to 220,000
The DOL reported:
seasonally adjusted initial claims was 220,000, a decrease of
22,000 from the...
3 weeks ago
The DOL reported:
seasonally adjusted initial claims was 220,000, a decrease of
22,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 242,000. The 4-week moving average was 225,500, an increase of
1,250 from the previous week's unrevised average of 224,250.
emphasis added
The...
the singularity is...
The Soul
ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you...
a month ago
ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you wish there was a deep state that came for me. then at least there would be some adults in the room.
I used to fantasize about being or kissing Skrillex
the whole album is bangers...
Drew Ex Machina
First Pictures: Views of Mars from NASA’s Mars Observer – July 27, 1993
Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s,...
a year ago
Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s, the lack of any new NASA missions to Mars during the 1980s […]
TheCollector
How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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9 months ago
Londonist
The Best London Pubs With Private Function Rooms To Hire
Looking to party? We've got the pub for you.
a year ago
Looking to party? We've got the pub for you.
Computer Ads from...
Two Interviews with Ken Kaplan, One of the Creators of OS-9
Two interview from two different time periods
4 months ago
Two interview from two different time periods
Retail Design Blog
Mooncake gift box set 1: Tianyun Yayue by BXL Packaging Design
Grand Skylight Hotel and BXL have collaborated creatively to launch a mooncake gift box for the...
3 months ago
Grand Skylight Hotel and BXL have collaborated creatively to launch a mooncake gift box for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncake gift...
Epic Web Dev
Fixing a form validation bug in the Epic Stack (tip)
Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step...
a year ago
Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step guide and find out how they addressed the issue.
TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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a year ago
The Marginalian
Let the Last Thing Be Song
"When I die, I want to be sung across the threshold."
6 months ago
"When I die, I want to be sung across the threshold."
The Marginalian
The Sunflower and the Soul: Wendell Berry on the Collaborative Nature of the Universe and the Cure...
"We are not the authors of ourselves. That we are not is a religious perception, but it is also a...
6 months ago
"We are not the authors of ourselves. That we are not is a religious perception, but it is also a biological and a social one. Each of us has had many authors, and each of us is engaged, for better or worse, in that same authorship. We could say that the human race is a great...
Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
6 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
Seth's Blog
Chasing cool
The cool thing is always a little out of reach. And for most of us, once we get it, it’s not seen as...
a year ago
The cool thing is always a little out of reach. And for most of us, once we get it, it’s not seen as cool any more. This is not an accident. One definition of cool are things that are just out of reach.
Mark Manson
Mark Manson’s 3 Rules for Life
Hey party people! It's Mark Manson, and today I want to talk about Dr. Jordan Peterson and his...
a year ago
Hey party people! It's Mark Manson, and today I want to talk about Dr. Jordan Peterson and his books, "12 Rules for Life" and "12 More Rules for Life."
I've had the pleasure of chatting with him on his podcast and even got some F-bombs out of him. But what really stuck with me...
Platformer
Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
Is this the Twitter replacement we've been waiting for?
a year ago
Is this the Twitter replacement we've been waiting for?
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.42.0: Get beta features via our roadmap!
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
over a year ago
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! 1.42.0 update guide for self-hosted…
Noahpinion
America's semiconductor policy is missing a key piece
A guest post by Steven Glinert.
8 months ago
A guest post by Steven Glinert.
Escaping Flatland
Ethos and imagination
Milk Drop Coronet, an ultra-high-speed photograph of the splash of a drop of milk, Harold Edgerton,...
2 months ago
Milk Drop Coronet, an ultra-high-speed photograph of the splash of a drop of milk, Harold Edgerton, 1957
Londonist
5 Historic Castles To Visit In Essex
Including one that's a fake.
9 months ago
Including one that's a fake.
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Metropolitan Line
The world's first underground railway.
a year ago
The world's first underground railway.
Math Is Still...
Math That Goes On Forever but Never Repeats
Simple math can help explain the complexities of the newly discovered aperiodic monotile. ...
a year ago
Simple math can help explain the complexities of the newly discovered aperiodic monotile.
The post Math That Goes On Forever but Never Repeats first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Diaries of Note
A greater public calamity could not have occurred
On 6th November 1817, the British public was plunged into deep mourning following the unexpected...
a year ago
On 6th November 1817, the British public was plunged into deep mourning following the unexpected death of Princess Charlotte of Wales. The only child of the Prince Regent (later King George IV) and Caroline of Brunswick, Princess Charlotte was admired for her spirited personality...
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Bedrock programming
“Bedrock programming” is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code...
over a year ago
“Bedrock programming” is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code from the ground up versus reusing…
TheCollector
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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3 weeks ago
Construction Physics
The grid part II - the golden age of the power industry
Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the...
a year ago
Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the US was using 114 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, generated by more than 4000 power plants. Most electricity was generated by coal (56%) and hydroelectric (34%)...
Passing Time
UPPERCASE lowercase Andinbetvveen
On stylized titling: the expanding canvas of musical expression
over a year ago
On stylized titling: the expanding canvas of musical expression
Cheese and Biscuits
The Hightown Inn, Liverpool
Despite spending the first 20 years of my life about 100m up the road from the Hightown Inn (then...
a week ago
Despite spending the first 20 years of my life about 100m up the road from the Hightown Inn (then the Hightown Hotel), I never really considered this grand old Victorian building to be much of a "local". I was far more likely to get the train to the Railway in Formby where most...
Daniel Miessler
Would You Put AI Art In Your House?
I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I...
over a year ago
I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I immediately faced some internal resistance. Like, I wasn’t (and still am not) sure whether this is the right way to “do” art. And that got me thinking what that really means. What...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Strangford (Jo Pearson)
Hi! I’m Jo, working as a printmaker under the name 'Strangford' in Northern Ireland - though I’m...
7 months ago
Hi! I’m Jo, working as a printmaker under the name 'Strangford' in Northern Ireland - though I’m originally from South London.
Describe your printmaking process.
I make large, bright, unusual relief prints from my home studio; mostly of animals. I carve into flooring lino - it’s...
Josh Thompson
2018 Reading Review & Recommendations
I read many books in 2018. I’m listing them out here, along with recommendations. Here’s the...
over a year ago
I read many books in 2018. I’m listing them out here, along with recommendations. Here’s the recommendation “key”:
👍 = I recommend this book. (This metric is intentionally fuzzy.)
😔 = This book influenced my mental model of the world/reality/myself
🏢 = Book topic is...
Explorations of an...
Araucaria Forests near San Pedro
February 9 - 11, 2023
The Brazilian Araucaria is a tree that seems more suited to the pages of a Dr....
a year ago
February 9 - 11, 2023
The Brazilian Araucaria is a tree that seems more suited to the pages of a Dr. Seuss book than the rolling hills of the Atlantic forests of southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina. Stands of Araucaria angustifolia are peculiar looking, with massive trunks...
Citation Needed
Issue 49 – And so the Lord says "give them a 10x"
Bitcoin ETP approval, God-sent crypto scammers, and more trouble in Justin Sun's world.
11 months ago
Bitcoin ETP approval, God-sent crypto scammers, and more trouble in Justin Sun's world.
Liz Denys
Notes on cone 6 clay bodies, part 1
One of the things I love most about working in a community studio is hearing about other...
8 months ago
One of the things I love most about working in a community studio is hearing about other ceramicists' experiences with new-to-me clay bodies. This has helped me feel confident in trying out many different clay bodies, and I now use a bunch of different clay bodies in my...
Computer Ads from...
Apple IIe and IIc Design Manager Peter Quinn Interviewed by BYTE's Gregg Williams
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of the Apple IIe and IIc.
10 months ago
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of the Apple IIe and IIc.
Good Enough
TIL: Managing Raspberry Pi software with a bit less pain
For the printer project I'm working on, most of the software behind it runs "in the cloud", but...
a year ago
For the printer project I'm working on, most of the software behind it runs "in the cloud", but there's some software that needs to run beside each printer, to check for new things to print and manage the process of downloading and sending those things to the printer component...
Home on Erik...
Meta-blogging
(This is not a very relevant/useful post for regular readers – feel free to skip. I thought I would...
over a year ago
(This is not a very relevant/useful post for regular readers – feel free to skip. I thought I would share it so people can find it on Google.)
My blog blew up twice in a week earlier this year when I landed on Hacker News.
Joshua Smith
10 Payneham Road
Based on the Old Gas Fitter workshop, 10 Payneham Road, Adelaide. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature...
over a year ago
Based on the Old Gas Fitter workshop, 10 Payneham Road, Adelaide. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from MDF, Wood, cardboard, chalk pastels, spraypaint, plastruct Created for Emma Hack Art Prize, February 2017. Photo Credit: Andrew Beveridge/ASB Creative
The post 10...
mtlynch.io
Go Programming Blueprints by Mat Ryer
I’m a fan of Mat Ryer’s work, and his blog posts have had a significant impact on the way I program...
over a year ago
I’m a fan of Mat Ryer’s work, and his blog posts have had a significant impact on the way I program in Go. I found the book hit or miss. Some chapters were fascinating and taught me valuable Go lessons, while others felt boring and got too bogged down in the minutiae of...
diamond geezer
24 things to see in SE24
Only one London postcode area reaches the heady heights of 24 (because N tops out at N22). Come with...
a year ago
Only one London postcode area reaches the heady heights of 24 (because N tops out at N22). Come with me to Herne Hill SE24.
24 things to see in SE24
1) Visit Brockwell Park
finest parks perfectly plonked on a small hill with commanding views across much of central London. It...
Nat Eliason's...
How We Designed a FUN Nonfiction Book Cover
Every step and cover along the way
7 months ago
Every step and cover along the way
Darek Kay
Building a photography website
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of...
a year ago
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of my work, without any attention-driven algorithms dictating the terms. Here's a technical write-up of my journey.
Table of...
The Last...
Who Bullies The Bullies?
but they're welcome to buy an iphone
Pacific Standard. Get it? It's like The Atlantic,...
over a year ago
but they're welcome to buy an iphone
Pacific Standard. Get it? It's like The Atlantic, but it's Pacific. Totally different. So unlike The Atlantic, it will "attack the conventional wisdom from a west coast perspective." That's a quote. "But didn't the editors come from...
Julia Evans
What helps people get comfortable on the command line?
Sometimes I talk to friends who need to use the command line, but are
intimidated by it. I never...
a year ago
Sometimes I talk to friends who need to use the command line, but are
intimidated by it. I never really feel like I have good advice (I’ve been using
the command line for too long), and so I asked some people on Mastodon:
if you just stopped being scared of the command line in...
Max Rozen
Starting a Cloudflare Worker from scratch
We don't need no fancy tooling!
a year ago
We don't need no fancy tooling!
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL
Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL
The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of...
over a year ago
Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL
The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Retail Design Blog
OEZER Showroom by CUN DESIGN
From Confucianism’s belief that “the benevolent man regards all things as one,” to the Tang and Song...
4 months ago
From Confucianism’s belief that “the benevolent man regards all things as one,” to the Tang and Song poetry that finds...
Arduino Blog
A pair of Arduino UNO R4 boards power this Tron-inspired, decked-out shop room
Bob Clagett of the “I Like to Make Stuff” YouTube channel has recently undertaken an extensive shop...
6 months ago
Bob Clagett of the “I Like to Make Stuff” YouTube channel has recently undertaken an extensive shop renovation project where he is rearranging tools, tidying up various spaces, and even creating a dedicated “clean” room for his collection of 3D printers/electronics work. With its...
Londonist
Delightful Literary Days Out Near London That All Book Lovers Should Do
Immerse yourself in the worlds of famous authors, from Charles Dickens to AA Milne.
a year ago
Immerse yourself in the worlds of famous authors, from Charles Dickens to AA Milne.
TokyoDev
Which countries are overrepresented in Japan's foreigner population?
As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our...
over a year ago
As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our American neighbours. While the US's population is about nine times of ours, their population in Japan was only five times ours. This got me curious, and so I did some number crunching,...
bt RSS Feed
Easy Toggle Switches
Easy Toggle Switches
2019-02-18
Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
over a year ago
Easy Toggle Switches
2019-02-18
Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles.
This is overkill. You can...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we raised $3M for an open source project
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have...
over a year ago
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
HTMHell
Makeshift hot reload
by Evan Hahn
In short: put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> in your <head> element to refresh...
a month ago
by Evan Hahn
In short: put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> in your <head> element to refresh your page every second. This is a makeshift "hot reload" for development. It's not perfect, but it can be a quick solution!
Hot reloading automatically reloads parts of your page...
Willem Pennings
ClockSquared Mini, a word clock wristwatch
About a year ago, I had some time to spare over the summer and decided to challenge myself with a...
over a year ago
About a year ago, I had some time to spare over the summer and decided to challenge myself with a project that I call “Clocksquared Mini”. It is Clocksquared, but in a tiny wristwatch package. This gives rise to a major challenge, as everything has to be shrunk down approximately...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Day Jennifer Smiled
In order for a guy to get the girl he has to do something heroic. My chance came in a basketball...
over a year ago
In order for a guy to get the girl he has to do something heroic. My chance came in a basketball game in eighth grade. She was a cheerleader named Jennifer.
nanoscale views
Faculty positions at Rice, + annual Nobel speculation
Trying to spread the word:
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University in Houston,...
a year ago
Trying to spread the word:
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University in Houston, Texas invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions, one experimental and one theoretical, in the area of quantum science using atomic, molecular, or optical methods....
Math Is Still...
The Lawlessness of Large Numbers
Mathematicians can often figure out what happens as quantities grow infinitely large. What about...
a year ago
Mathematicians can often figure out what happens as quantities grow infinitely large. What about when they are just a little big?
The post The Lawlessness of Large Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
diamond geezer
November 2024 in summary
I'd like to apologise to readers who don't like trains and railways because all of this week's posts...
a month ago
I'd like to apologise to readers who don't like trains and railways because all of this week's posts have been about trains and railways. I'm aware that many people do like trains and railways, including The Men Who Leave Comments When I Write About Trains And Railways, and their...
Blog - Amy Goodchild
Using ChatGPT to implement Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings
Sol LeWitt‘s Wall Drawings aren’t actually drawings but, rather,
instructions for drawings. I...
a year ago
Sol LeWitt‘s Wall Drawings aren’t actually drawings but, rather,
instructions for drawings. I asked ChatGPT to implement them in p5js
The American Scholar
The Fair Fields
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous...
a month ago
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil
The post The Fair Fields appeared first on The American Scholar.
Seth's Blog
Bottom of the funnel
It’s easy to get focused on the public-facing mouth of the funnel. More followers. More impressions....
8 months ago
It’s easy to get focused on the public-facing mouth of the funnel. More followers. More impressions. More buzz, hype, promotion. Get the word out. Just about all the time people who call themselves “marketers” spend is on this. Don’t worry about what happens later, just pour more...
TheCollector
How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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11 months ago
Applied Cartography
Keeping a technical edge
Someone emailed me in response to Two years as an independent technologist, in which I wrote:
I miss...
4 months ago
Someone emailed me in response to Two years as an independent technologist, in which I wrote:
I miss of being at a large company, which is dealing with deeply cutting-edge technical problems, but my ability to analyze information, make decisions, and perform at a high-level has...
samwho.dev
Life Skills Learned Playing World of Warcraft
Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft...
over a year ago
Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft (WoW).
In the first half of this post I'm going to explain the game and how I played it. In the second half I'll talk about the skills I learned and how they've helped me.
If you played a...
Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
2 months ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL
The post Happy New Year: 3D picture...
over a year ago
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL
The post Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Amuse and Gratify Her Own Self'
In her first
collection, A Good Time Was Had By All
(1937), Stevie Smith includes a couplet already...
a year ago
In her first
collection, A Good Time Was Had By All
(1937), Stevie Smith includes a couplet already suggesting themes that would go on preoccupying her:
“All things
pass
Love and
mankind is grass”.
In scripture,
grass is the default metaphor for the transience of life. In the...
alexwlchan
Getting alerts about flaky ECS tasks in Slack
At work, we use Amazon ECS to run some of our Docker-based services.
ECS is a container...
a year ago
At work, we use Amazon ECS to run some of our Docker-based services.
ECS is a container orchestrator, similar to Kubernetes: we tell it what Docker images we want to run in what configuration, and it stops or starts containers to match.
If a container stops unexpectedly, ECS...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Khe Hy
Lessons from building RadReads and helping over 40,000 professionals in public
a year ago
Lessons from building RadReads and helping over 40,000 professionals in public
Seth's Blog
The obligations of the Town Hall
A few hundred years ago, small towns in New England embraced the idea of the town hall. Citizens (at...
7 months ago
A few hundred years ago, small towns in New England embraced the idea of the town hall. Citizens (at the time, just the white men) came together and worked through the town’s agenda. Each person could speak, each person could vote, it was direct and sometimes effective. Part of...
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
over a year ago
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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9 months ago
TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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a year ago
TheCollector
British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
undefined
a year ago
Notes on software...
Bootloader basics
I spent a few days playing around with bootloaders for the first
time. This post builds up to a text...
over a year ago
I spent a few days playing around with bootloaders for the first
time. This post builds up to a text editor with a few keyboard
shortcuts. I'll be giving a virtual talk based on this work at Hacker
Nights on Jan 27.
There are a definitely bugs. But it's hard to find...
Seth's Blog
Unforced errors
In hospitality and customer service, perfect is elusive. Someone is going to miss a shift, have a...
a month ago
In hospitality and customer service, perfect is elusive. Someone is going to miss a shift, have a bad day, or fail to understand a situation. But there’s a second kind of error, the one that’s far more common. When management makes bad choices, or underinvests in systems,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some thoughts on SEO
“SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via...
over a year ago
“SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via organic search traffic.” I don’t like…
diamond geezer
Dull Saturday
Dull Saturday
07:30 Crumpet
08:00 Paper shop
6 months ago
Dull Saturday
07:30 Crumpet
08:00 Paper shop
Ognjen Regoje •...
Remote job sites need a "Timezone overlap" filter
There are plenty of remote jobs out there, but nearly all require you to be be “within n hours” of a...
a year ago
There are plenty of remote jobs out there, but nearly all require you to be be “within n hours” of a timezone. (n often seems to be 2).
But I have not come across a remote job site that has a filter that supports this.
Most allow you to choose your timezone and then filter jobs...
One Useful Thing
Working with AI: Two paths to prompting
Don't overcomplicate things
a year ago
Don't overcomplicate things
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sit Down
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I do check to see what became of the PLiF guys...
8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I do check to see what became of the PLiF guys every six months or so.
Today's News:
Grow With Less
10 Proven Meta Descriptions Templates Top Blogs Use to Get More Clicks
I face the same problem every time I need to write a meta description.
I have no idea where to...
over a year ago
I face the same problem every time I need to write a meta description.
I have no idea where to start.
Should I first mention the problem the article is solving? Should I use a call-to-action? Is it bad to repeat what I already wrote in the headline?
To find out, I analyzed...
Map of the Week
New Orleans Slave Revolt
Despite what some officials in Florida want to teach, not all enslaved people appreciated the job...
10 months ago
Despite what some officials in Florida want to teach, not all enslaved people appreciated the job training they were getting from their benevolent overseers. In fact there were numerous rebellions. The largest one was in 1811 outside of New Orleans.
The map above is from a...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ethics
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I honestly don't know how this became AI week. If...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I honestly don't know how this became AI week. If you want an answer, ask bing
Today's News:
Big announcement in 12 days!
Irrational...
Trying Tailscale.
Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp...
over a year ago
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...
General Robots
So You Want To Do Robots, Step 4: Profit?
About this series I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and...
a year ago
About this series I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until me and my team was impacted by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of...
TokyoDev
The Difficulties of Getting a Software Developer Job in Japan in 2023
Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan...
a year ago
Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan is. Overall, my impression is that it is nowhere as bad as places like the US, but nevertheless I have been hearing stories of developers struggling to get jobs here. In this...
Stephen Wolfram...
Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳
::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture...
over a year ago
::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture RootTree ImplicitD “ExprStruct” ChemicalConvert UniqueElements ReplaceAt TypeEvaluate TreeLeafCount QuestionSelector IncludeSingularSolutions KernelConfiguration PhongShading...
Daniel Miessler
Summary: Andrej Kaparthy on Lex Fridman’s Podcast (Late 2022)
9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My...
a year ago
9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My One-Sentence Summary/Highlight The future of programming is not humans writing code, but neural nets creating weights. Capture Neural networks are mathematical expressions with many...
Rest of World -...
Japan’s digital ID program is a complicated mess
The “My Number” card program, initially hopeful, is now making more headaches than headway.
a year ago
The “My Number” card program, initially hopeful, is now making more headaches than headway.
Stoic Simple
Using Stoicism to Develop a Rational Perspective on Life
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for thousands of years, yet its teachings remain as...
a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for thousands of years, yet its teachings remain as relevant today as they were in ancient times. At its core, Stoicism is about developing a powerful, rational perspective on life that can help us navigate even the most challenging...
TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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2 months ago
Seth's Blog
Compared to what?
Emotions are often tied to events and events feel absolute. But events are rarely absolute. They’re...
a month ago
Emotions are often tied to events and events feel absolute. But events are rarely absolute. They’re almost always relative. How does this compare to what I was expecting? How does it compare to what others like me are experiencing? How does it compare to yesterday? When we change...
Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
2 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The World Is Your Toilet
Today I am going to share some design advice that you aren’t going to get anywhere else. They don’t...
over a year ago
Today I am going to share some design advice that you aren’t going to get anywhere else. They don’t teach you this at the university. You won’t find articles about it in the glossy magazines. The design blogs won’t touch the subject. Research would inevitably show that there...
Irrational...
Numbers go up.
There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be...
4 months ago
There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be summarized as, “numbers go up.” These games focus on the fundamental gaming loop rather than plot, characterization or anything beyond the foundational satisfaction of numbers...
99% Invisible
Breaking Down The Power Broker [EPISODE]
In 1974, two very significant things happened, if you are a fan of 99% invisible. Number one is that...
a year ago
In 1974, two very significant things happened, if you are a fan of 99% invisible. Number one is that 99pi host Roman Mars was born. And number two, The Power Broker by Robert Caro was published. Roman learned about the power broker when he first started to cover cities and...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Unmistakable
The Shadow returns home: R.M.S Olympic at sea: (It is surprisingly difficult to find a good view of...
7 months ago
The Shadow returns home: R.M.S Olympic at sea: (It is surprisingly difficult to find a good view of the ship from the rear. The front three-quarter view is the dramatic cutting-through-the-waves view, as well as being somehow less creepy.) Given how similar Olympic was to...
Tinloof - Blog
Learn ESLint concepts, not rules
What is ESLint and why is it useful?
A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's...
over a year ago
What is ESLint and why is it useful?
A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's start with the problems we have when writing JavaScript code.
Problem #1: JavaScript is not compiled while you write it
Applied Cartography
Against Against Innovation Tokens
Glyph (whose writing and contributions to the Python ecosystem I am deeply grateful for) wrote...
6 months ago
Glyph (whose writing and contributions to the Python ecosystem I am deeply grateful for) wrote Against Innovation Tokens yesterday:
In 2015, Dan McKinley laid out a model for software teams selecting technologies. He proposed that each team have a limited supply of “innovation...
TheCollector
When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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Fathy Boundjadj
Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG
I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork...
over a year ago
I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork of Chromium to support modern web standards. This post explains most patches.
Take a picture
Chromium is built on top of Blink: an HTML engine forked from WebKit, and Skia: a 2D...
TheCollector
Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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a year ago
HTMHell
#34 a button is not a link
Bad code
<button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target...
a month ago
Bad code
<button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target description</button>
Issues and how to fix them
A button opening a link will be unexpected behavior for screen reader users. No matter how it is styled.
Links disguised as buttons...
Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
Castles in the Sky
Relatable Flaws | Review of Ask the Dust by John Fante
Ask the Dust is a great book that captures a specific feeling unlike anything else I’ve ever read....
a year ago
Ask the Dust is a great book that captures a specific feeling unlike anything else I’ve ever read. The protagonist is a deeply flawed, almost perverse daydreamer, but it is his flaws that make him relatable in a way I’ve encountered in very few other places.
Classical Wisdom
Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
An Exterior Of Vertical Wood Siding Helps This House Blend Into The Surrounding Forest
77 Architecture Studio has shared photos of a home they designed on the edge of a housing estate...
11 months ago
77 Architecture Studio has shared photos of a home they designed on the edge of a housing estate near the forest in central Poland, near Warsaw. The house with its vertical wood facade, gives way to the natural beauty of its surroundings, discreetly immersing its architecture...
TheCollector
The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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a year ago
Good Enough
Cool Songs Don’t Die
Earlier this week, I watched the pilot episode of Alias. Yes, that Alias – the one that began airing...
a year ago
Earlier this week, I watched the pilot episode of Alias. Yes, that Alias – the one that began airing 22 years ago and ran for 5 seasons and was a pretty big hit and launched the careers of two bonafide movie stars and featured a cast of very well known supporting actors. So yeah,...
TheCollector
Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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a year ago
The Ruffian
20 Observations On Friendship
Plus a Rattle Bag of Juicy Links
5 months ago
Plus a Rattle Bag of Juicy Links
The Turn Signal RSS...
The 8 Guidelines for Good Automotive UX Design
The primary goal of a designer is to ensure the safety of the driver. Non-driving-related...
a year ago
The primary goal of a designer is to ensure the safety of the driver. Non-driving-related activities, like interacting with an…
Vitalik Buterin's...
What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition)
This year, I decided to build my first ever home storage server. It’s a 32 TB system that stores my...
over a year ago
This year, I decided to build my first ever home storage server. It’s a 32 TB system that stores my personal and business data using open-source software.
The server itself cost $531, and I bought four disks for $732, bringing the total cost to $1,263. It’s similar in price to...
Posts on Made of...
Suggestion time: What should I blog about?
I haven’t been feeling very motivated to blog lately – I’ve missed the last two weeks of Iron...
over a year ago
I haven’t been feeling very motivated to blog lately – I’ve missed the last two weeks of Iron Blogger, and I’m not totally enthusiastic about any of the items on my “to blog” list.
But, I do enjoy blogging when I actually get into posts, and I’d like to keep updating this blog....
TheCollector
Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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a year ago
The Modern House
Angus and Sarah Shepherd on putting down roots and reviving a 1960s home in Dulwich
a year ago
TheCollector
Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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6 months ago
Noahpinion
The U.S. must not ignore Indonesia
We have the opportunity to befriend an Asian country with a huge population, a large and growing...
a year ago
We have the opportunity to befriend an Asian country with a huge population, a large and growing economy, and a strategic location.
Gwern.net Newsletter
February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter
links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
over a year ago
links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 045: Google's just getting started
December 15, 2023.
a year ago
Irrational...
Navigating Private Equity ownership.
In 2020, you could credibly argue that ZIRP explains the world,
but that’s an impossible argument to...
a month ago
In 2020, you could credibly argue that ZIRP explains the world,
but that’s an impossible argument to make in 2024 when zero-interest rate policy is only a fond memory.
Instead, we’re seeing a number of companies designed for rapid expansion learning to adapt
to a world that...
TheCollector
What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Exposed Wood Posts & Beams Add A Warm Rustic Touch To This Small Cabin
Still Architects has shared photos of a small contemporary cabin they completed in the Muskoka...
2 weeks ago
Still Architects has shared photos of a small contemporary cabin they completed in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada, where the Rosseau River flows into the lake. The 800-square-foot (74-sqm) cabin has a wood exterior with black accents. Its wood deck, with steps down to the...
Old Structures...
One Event, Two Views
On July 9, 1776, a bunch of New Yorkers – who maybe or maybe were not part of an organized group...
a year ago
On July 9, 1776, a bunch of New Yorkers – who maybe or maybe were not part of an organized group called the Sons of Freedom – celebrated the publication of the Declaration of Independence by pulling down a six-year-old equestrian statue of King George III at Bowling Green and...
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