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AI Video Editing, MLX vs PyTorch, AI in Space, and More [Comprehensive ML Resource List for 6/28/24]
Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank...
5 months ago
Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank you for supporting Society's Backend! Don't forget to also follow me on X. Claude 3.5 Sonnet Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More?
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NFL In London 2023: When Are The Games, Who's Playing, And How To Get Tickets?
Game dates, teams, and locations.
a year ago
Game dates, teams, and locations.
Londonist
Rude Tube: 160 Years Since First Naughty Graffiti On The Underground
What *did* he write?
9 months ago
samwho.dev
API Design: Errors
Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems...
over a year ago
Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems from time to time, and an error is the first thing they're going to see when they do. It's worth spending time on them to make using your API a more pleasant experience.
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Guiding...
Common Edge
Leslie Lokko’s 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale: New Stories to Tell
Although the event is lacking in actual architecture, it does introduce urgent and important new...
a year ago
Although the event is lacking in actual architecture, it does introduce urgent and important new narratives.
Spoon & Tamago
Japan Quietly Shines at Milan Design Week
Milan Design Week—Coachella, but for furniture—is running this week from April 16-21. All the...
8 months ago
Milan Design Week—Coachella, but for furniture—is running this week from April 16-21. All the biggest names and brands in the design world descend upon the Italian city, which sees its population swell by nearly 25%. Now in its 62nd iteration, the design extravaganza is an...
Louwrentius
Finding a good blu-ray player for Mac OS X
I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these...
over a year ago
I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these free open-source products are all a usability nightmare.
To play a Blu-ray movie, you have to perform these steps:
right-click on the BDMV file
choose 'show packet contents'
go to...
journal – Winnie Lim
42
Last year, I wrote I wanted to learn how to cope. I don’t think I have learnt to cope well yet, but...
a year ago
Last year, I wrote I wanted to learn how to cope. I don’t think I have learnt to cope well yet, but I do think I have made some progress compared to...
Math Is Still...
Topologists Tackle the Trouble With Poll Placement
Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places where it’s hard to vote. ...
9 months ago
Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places where it’s hard to vote.
The post Topologists Tackle the Trouble With Poll Placement first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Seth's Blog
Other people’s problems
It’s surprisingly easy to be generous and find solutions to our friend’s problems. Much easier than...
8 months ago
It’s surprisingly easy to be generous and find solutions to our friend’s problems. Much easier than it is to do it for ourselves. Why? There are two useful reasons, I think. FIRST, because we’re unaware of all the real and imaginary boundaries our friends have set up. If it were...
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How I Approach First Principles Thinking
An explanation of First Principles via comparing Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning, and thoughts on...
over a year ago
An explanation of First Principles via comparing Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning, and thoughts on Applications
Ian Betteridge
Weeknote, Sunday 10th November 2024
It’s been a while since I wrote a weeknote, although I’ve kept up with the other kinds of writing...
a month ago
It’s been a while since I wrote a weeknote, although I’ve kept up with the other kinds of writing that I do. But: I work now. I’m working at a small B2B publisher helping them sort out a few things. This was originally going to be an in-and-out job which would take nine months,...
Diaries of Note
Getting shot hurts
On 30th March 1981, as he emerged from a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel and...
a year ago
On 30th March 1981, as he emerged from a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel and headed towards a waiting limousine, U.S. President Ronald Reagan was hit by a bullet from the gun of would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr. The President, initially unaware that he had...
Notes on software...
SMTP protocol basics from scratch in Go: receiving email from Gmail
I've never run my own mail server before. Before today I had no clue
how email worked under the hood...
over a year ago
I've never run my own mail server before. Before today I had no clue
how email worked under the hood other than the very few times I've set
up mail clients.
I've heard no few times how hard it is to send mail from a
self-hosted server (because of spam filters). But how hard can...
Spoon & Tamago
Fender’s First Ever Flagship Store by Klein-Dytham Architecture
Fender, the iconic guitar brand, has opened its first-ever flagship store in Harajuku, Tokyo, riding...
a year ago
Fender, the iconic guitar brand, has opened its first-ever flagship store in Harajuku, Tokyo, riding on the wave of soaring demand of Guitars during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Two Ridiculous Snippets
First, Batman at the plate as a bat man: Second, the National League standings:
2 months ago
First, Batman at the plate as a bat man: Second, the National League standings:
Tinloof - Blog
How to create & manage a Postgres database in NodeJS from scratch
Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a...
over a year ago
Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a tutorial you'd read while sitting in public transportation or on your toilet seat. You might want to find a nice place to sit for an hour and follow the tutorial.
We have 1 goal: set up...
Grow With Less
Journorequest, Snowmaker and 20 other Link Building Strategies That Work Great in 2022
Creating awesome content is not enough.
If you want traffic, you need to build high-quality...
over a year ago
Creating awesome content is not enough.
If you want traffic, you need to build high-quality backlinks. But how do you do that?
There are hundreds of articles listing the best link building strategies but the reality is that you don’t need 100 strategies that make you feel pushy...
TheCollector
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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The Marginalian
The Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Love and the Meaning of Respect
"Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of...
5 months ago
"Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness."
Stephen Wolfram...
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
a year ago
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
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...
Spoon & Tamago
Mountain Villa in Yamanashi Integrates Landscape and Living Room
photos by Daici Ano courtesy Keiji Ashizawa Architects We have a serious case of real estate envy...
a year ago
photos by Daici Ano courtesy Keiji Ashizawa Architects We have a serious case of real estate envy here. House in Saiko is a holiday home that overlooks Mount Fuji on the shore of Lake Saiko, one of the five Fuji Lakes. Designed by architect Keiji Ashizawa, and completed in 2017,...
Construction Physics
Born Sleeping
A personal post about the loss of our son
3 months ago
A personal post about the loss of our son
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 11-17 March 2024
Things to do for under a fiver.
9 months ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
bunnie's blog
The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A...
a year ago
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A lot has changed in the world since then, and Shenzhen is no exception. There’s a new maintainer of the guide, Naomi Wu (@realsexycyborg), and she is crowdfunding an updated, new...
alexwlchan
“Fixing” the rules of division
Yesterday evening, Kate posted this tweet:
Kate
@thingskatedid
i don't...
over a year ago
Yesterday evening, Kate posted this tweet:
Kate
@thingskatedid
i don't *care* how maths works, half of zero should be 0.5
6:33 PM - 22 Sep 2022
This tweet promptly crawled inside my brain and sat there until I figured out how to make it work.
I...
RhysTranter.com
Cultivating Silence
Saturday afternoon. Revisiting Merton, Newman, and this from Madeleine Delbrêl…
7 months ago
Saturday afternoon. Revisiting Merton, Newman, and this from Madeleine Delbrêl…
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My Text Edtior is Not Open Source
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source
2024-01-02
I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than...
11 months ago
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source
2024-01-02
I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than I can remember. I think Sublime has been around since the start of my “real” career over 10 years ago, but I could be mistaken1. It certainly feels that long. And in that time I...
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Allocation investing and the social premium
The rational way to invest in something – a startup, public company, venture capital firm, real...
over a year ago
The rational way to invest in something – a startup, public company, venture capital firm, real estate project, etc. – is to base your…
99% Invisible
Home on the Range [EPISODE]
In a lot of ways, Lincoln Heights, Ohio, sounds just like any other suburb. If you walk around town,...
a year ago
In a lot of ways, Lincoln Heights, Ohio, sounds just like any other suburb. If you walk around town, you’ll hear kids playing outside the local elementary school. You’ll hear the highway that takes commuters down to Cincinnati. At the woods on the edge of town, the birdsong is...
Maggie Appleton
How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I
over a year ago
Charles Chen
On Bakers, Ovens, and AI Startup Moats
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
a month ago
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a baker?
Ink & Switch
End-user Programming
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
over a year ago
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
Daniel Bourke
ZTM 2023 State of AI Tools & Coding Report
How are developers using AI tools?
a year ago
How are developers using AI tools?
Flashbak
Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5...
3 months ago
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
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Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
2020-12-08
I recently published a new open source...
over a year ago
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
2020-12-08
I recently published a new open source project, Flexbox Bar Graphs, and wanted to share a simple breakdown of how it was built. It isn’t anything mind-blowing, but I like the idea of placing bar graphs in a web page...
The Berkeley...
Rethinking Human-in-the-Loop for Artificial Augmented Intelligence
How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the...
over a year ago
How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the evaluation of AI methods involves a training-validation-testing process. The experiments usually stop when the models have good testing performance on the reported datasets because...
RhysTranter.com
“When you seek from almost nothing”: Arvo Pärt’s Musical Diaries
In a 30-minute documentary produced in collaboration with the Arvo Pärt Centre, the composer...
over a year ago
In a 30-minute documentary produced in collaboration with the Arvo Pärt Centre, the composer discusses the significance of his personal diaries to the formation and development of his music.
Both Are True
A link to my daily log as a person who is offline
here it is
a year ago
Musings on Maps
Maps and Metaphors
The war around Gaza is not for territory, but rather for the destruction of the presence of a terror...
10 months ago
The war around Gaza is not for territory, but rather for the destruction of the presence of a terror network that has entrenched its power base deep underground. In many case, deeper than thought. While Israel has been pretty clear about … Continue reading →
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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3 months ago
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Evolving Themes of Absence and Presence in the Paintings of Minoru Nomata
Still-28 1986 Painting is an escapist world, but I would like it to be a place to become energized...
10 months ago
Still-28 1986 Painting is an escapist world, but I would like it to be a place to become energized Minoru Nomata Over the past four decades, Minoru Nomata has developed a distinctive painting style characterized by imaginary architectonic and topographical forms. His works...
The DESK Magazine
Our favorite portfolios launched with Semplice in August 2022
Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are...
over a year ago
Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are the best of the best, chosen by yours truly from hundreds of beautiful submissions
FIRE v London
Oct ’23: Terror erupts from Gaza
It’s the Middle East again. I don’t have any perspective on it, sadly, other than that I hear of...
a year ago
It’s the Middle East again. I don’t have any perspective on it, sadly, other than that I hear of some nasty low level youth violence/intimidation/vandalism in North London in Jewish neighbourhoods by pro-Palestinian, dare-I-say-it pro-Hamas hotheads. But in most of London life...
The American Scholar
Agent 37
The post Agent 37 appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 months ago
The post Agent 37 appeared first on The American Scholar.
Old Structures...
Subtle Design and Not
Two buildings on a single block, separated by about 110 years and a huge difference in design...
2 weeks ago
Two buildings on a single block, separated by about 110 years and a huge difference in design philosophy… First up, how do you turn the corner from a busy avenue to a quiet side street? The one-story red-brick building on the far left is a modern replacement for an old commercial...
Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
10 months ago
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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To change a norm
How the war on drunk driving was won
6 months ago
How the war on drunk driving was won
SatPost by Trung...
Jim Simons and the Making of Renaissance Technologies
The philosophy and lessons behind "a moneymaking machine like no other" (with a cumulative trading...
7 months ago
The philosophy and lessons behind "a moneymaking machine like no other" (with a cumulative trading profit of $100B +).
On Life and Lisp
Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications
Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact...
over a year ago
Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth, implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available here in Toronto.
Wait –...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clippy
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a year ago
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Have you noticed nobody has ever explained *why* it's supposedly bad if human beings are converted to paperclips?
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Diaries of Note
Would it be possible to live every minute attentively?
Polish poet, novelist, and intellectual Czesław Miłosz was born in Lithuania in 1911 and lived...
a year ago
Polish poet, novelist, and intellectual Czesław Miłosz was born in Lithuania in 1911 and lived through some of the most significant events of the 20th century, including World War II and the Cold War. A giant in the world of poetry and literature, Miłosz garnered numerous awards...
Nat Eliason's...
Kickstarting TikTok: 55,500 Followers & 7m views in 6 Weeks
No hired help, no gimmicks, no fancy gear. Just vibes.
a year ago
No hired help, no gimmicks, no fancy gear. Just vibes.
Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
Rest of World -...
The World’s Last Internet Cafes
For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.
a year ago
For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.
Seth's Blog
Why tell the others?
Every internet success works because the network effect kicked in. There’s no other way for an idea...
8 months ago
Every internet success works because the network effect kicked in. There’s no other way for an idea to reliably and economically reach a big enough audience to be sustained. That’s why Super Bowl ads make so little sense in 2024. Ideas that spread win. I wrote a bestseller about...
Cheese and Biscuits
Bouchon Racine, Farringdon
Such is the cyclical nature of these things, trends in food or clothing or plenty of other areas...
a year ago
Such is the cyclical nature of these things, trends in food or clothing or plenty of other areas besides will, given long enough, find themselves fading in and out of favour. There was a time, within living memory, when French cuisine was considered the gold standard of...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Making Ethereum alignment legible
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Social Media Dilemma
Australia is planning a total ban on social media for children under 16 years old. Prime Minister...
a month ago
Australia is planning a total ban on social media for children under 16 years old. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese argues that it is the only way to protect vulnerable children from the demonstrable harm that social media can do. This has sparked another round of debates about...
David Heinemeier...
I could have been happy with Windows
After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple....
7 months ago
After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple. I've simply not been in the market for another computing platform in decades. Sure, I've dabbled a bit here and there, but never with true commitment. It wasn't until Cupertino...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stare
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2 months ago
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I expect this comic to be amusing until roughly 2029.
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Terrible things are going down
Shit hits the fan
View on my website
11 months ago
Shit hits the fan
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alexwlchan
Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
a year ago
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library.
I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space.
(My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
Flashbak
The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
10 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
The American Scholar
Mortal Coils
We aren’t alone in facing the inevitable
The post Mortal Coils appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
We aren’t alone in facing the inevitable
The post Mortal Coils appeared first on The American Scholar.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Cured
The official test earlier this week was negative too. Most of the symptoms are gone, but some days I...
over a year ago
The official test earlier this week was negative too. Most of the symptoms are gone, but some days I cough...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Optimal
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It's not you, it's me. Statistically. Like 40% you,...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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It's not you, it's me. Statistically. Like 40% you, 60% me.
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Another review for A City on Mars, this one in Scientific American!
Rest of World -...
Forget a U.S. ban — TikTok is thriving in its second-biggest market
TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is...
a year ago
TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is truly the year of TikTok,” says one seller.
TheCollector
What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Seth's Blog
Thoughts on the manual
We have more ways to offer instructions than ever before, but it’s not obvious that we’re getting...
a year ago
We have more ways to offer instructions than ever before, but it’s not obvious that we’re getting better at it. Not just the operator’s manual, but every way we have to teach and offer instructions… Some (uncategorized) things to consider: The first manual I created, in 1983, was...
Neil Panchal
Overkill Objects for Everyday Life
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair...
over a year ago
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I'
On Test Automation
On life as an independent contractor right now
Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in...
a month ago
Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in response to people both from the Netherlands and from abroad who have shown interest in working as an independent contractor over here.
As Google Analytics tell me only a small portion...
Steve Klabnik
Community Versions for Rust
over a year ago
Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Home on Erik...
I already found the best gifs
Just search for “hackers gif“.
There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From...
over a year ago
Just search for “hackers gif“.
There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From the awesome movie Hackers. That movie together with The Warriors convinced me that I wanted to live in NYC when I was like… 14 years old.
elementary Blog
OS 7 Updates and More OS 8 News
It’s a new year and that means we’re back from the holidays with new updates!
We’re now shipping the...
11 months ago
It’s a new year and that means we’re back from the holidays with new updates!
We’re now shipping the latest GNOME Web which includes a new Tab Overview mode. Plus we’re shipping some updated icons for things like the animated downloads icon in the Headerbar and hardware access...
Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
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High Signal
How to make a $200k a year business - Mike Cardona interview
Mike Cardona is a solo founder who has managed to build a $200k online business by specialising in...
a year ago
Mike Cardona is a solo founder who has managed to build a $200k online business by specialising in automation content and consulting
Jonas Hietala
December Theme: New World Order
The The Experimental Gameplay Project drives on with the Art Game theme which will last the rest of...
over a year ago
The The Experimental Gameplay Project drives on with the Art Game theme which will last the rest of this year but that’s something we can’t accept! I’ve done my game and I didn’t force myself out from the Haskell world just to do nuthin so here’s a new little theme for me :)
What...
TheCollector
What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Old Structures...
Obvious In Restrospect
The first real commuter rail in New York was the New York and Harlem Railroad, which eventually...
11 months ago
The first real commuter rail in New York was the New York and Harlem Railroad, which eventually served, through a combination of horse-drawn street cars and heavy rail, from lower Manhattan to Chatham, New York, not far south of Albany. The portion in Manhattan south of 23rd...
Castles in the Sky
The map is clear but the road is bumpy.
Castles in the Sky | October 27 - November 2, 2024
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Castles in the Sky | October 27 - November 2, 2024
Map of the Week
The New Acadian Heritage Room
On my recent trip to Nova Scotia, I stumbled upon the grand opening of the New Acadian Heritage Room...
a year ago
On my recent trip to Nova Scotia, I stumbled upon the grand opening of the New Acadian Heritage Room at the O’Dell House Museum in Annapolis Royal. I had not known anything about it, but was in the right place on the right day. The room is primarily a collection of maps from the...
TheCollector
Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI & The Science of Creativity
In an effort to better understand how all this AI stuff works, I’ve been chipping away at Stephen...
a year ago
In an effort to better understand how all this AI stuff works, I’ve been chipping away at Stephen Wolfram’s meticulous piece, “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?”.
As you likely know, ChatGPT works by guessing at the next word. Here’s Stephen:
when ChatGPT does...
Explorations of an...
A Quest Nature Tour To Borneo: Kota Kinabalu, Mount Kinabalu, Sepilok And The Kinabatangan River
Our Quest Nature Tours group assembled in Kota Kinabalu on the evening of October 3 and the...
a month ago
Our Quest Nature Tours group assembled in Kota Kinabalu on the evening of October 3 and the following morning we were off. Kota Kinabalu is situated on the coast, but is only a two hour drive from the mountains that form the spine of Borneo and its highest peak, Mount Kinabalu....
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
a month ago
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
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...
TheCollector
Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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8 months ago
Seth's Blog
Self restaint vs systemic restraint
It’s not hypocritical to help yourself at a buffet at the same time you counsel the owner of the...
a year ago
It’s not hypocritical to help yourself at a buffet at the same time you counsel the owner of the restaurant to limit the number of trips that people take so that the restaurant can become sustainable. It’s possible to argue for systemic changes to cultural systems while also...
Jonas Hietala
A small LED Cube
As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I...
over a year ago
As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I got started a little with soldering by constructing a small 3x3x3 LED cube.
Although extremely hard to see in this picture it actually worked without a hitch! It’s not the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'And Here the Nothingness Shows Through'
I watched an
old favorite, Laurel and Hardy’s 1933 short Me and My Pal. It’s Oliver’s wedding day...
8 months ago
I watched an
old favorite, Laurel and Hardy’s 1933 short Me and My Pal. It’s Oliver’s wedding day and his best man, Stanley, gives him
a jigsaw puzzle as a wedding gift. Oliver dismisses it at first as “childish
balderdash” and promptly gets hooked putting it together along with,...
Wait But Why
The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate
Jeez
The post The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate appeared first on Wait But Why.
5 months ago
Jeez
The post The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate appeared first on Wait But Why.
TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Places to Visit in Asheville that Cater to Dogs
11 months ago
The Great Discontent...
Taekyeom Lee
Taekyeom Lee is a graphic designer with an artist’s sensibility. As a researcher, educator, and...
a year ago
Taekyeom Lee is a graphic designer with an artist’s sensibility. As a researcher, educator, and maker — born and raised in South Korea, now living and teaching in Madison, Wisconsin he works in the space where tactility and technology meet, combining ancient materials and...
The American Scholar
“I Have Had My Vision”
Three prompts
The post “I Have Had My Vision” appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
Three prompts
The post “I Have Had My Vision” appeared first on The American Scholar.
Ink & Switch
07 · AI bots in version control
Co-creating with AI can use version control to make bot-suggested changes easier to see and manage.
9 months ago
Co-creating with AI can use version control to make bot-suggested changes easier to see and manage.
Herbert Lui
Worth the wait
Late is better than never, and it’s never too late. Even if the line is long, and you missed a...
a week ago
Late is better than never, and it’s never too late. Even if the line is long, and you missed a chance to join earlier. If the best time to start was yesterday, the second best time is today. Being patient is much easier than it looks. Some lines don’t need you to be present, so...
diamond geezer
Green Link Walk 4
I've now completed London's newest official walkway, the Green Link Walk, which was launched on 1st...
9 months ago
I've now completed London's newest official walkway, the Green Link Walk, which was launched on 1st March. If you need a map try here, if you need an app try here, if you want 45 pages of walking instructions try here, and if you're reading this several months in the future try...
A Beautiful Site
Hashing Passwords with Node.js and bcrypt
The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're...
over a year ago
The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're coming from a PHP background, these are roughly equivalent to password_hash() and password_verify().
Bcrypt is the de facto way to hash and store passwords. For a brief explanation of...
Math Is Still...
In a Monster Star’s Light, a Hint of Darkness
Astronomers are scouring the cosmos for fingerprints of the invisible — tiny clumps of pure dark...
a year ago
Astronomers are scouring the cosmos for fingerprints of the invisible — tiny clumps of pure dark matter that might solve a long-standing cosmic mystery.
The post In a Monster Star’s Light, a Hint of Darkness first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Blog - Practical...
Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is not smoke. And this...
a month ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is not smoke. And this isn’t a smoke stack (at least not the kind we normally think of). It serves a totally different purpose at a power plant than smoke stacks whose job is moving combustion products...
TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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5 months ago
Darek Kay
My personal one-pager
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to...
a year ago
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to pronounce, so I've been mostly using it in a formal context. Last year, I changed my legal name, which also influenced my online presence. Due to the change, looking up my new name via...
Archinect - Features
'Instead of Living in Fear of AI, Designers Should Engage With It'; A Conversation with...
Amanda Talbot did not come from a technological background. Her career path through architecture,...
a year ago
Amanda Talbot did not come from a technological background. Her career path through architecture, interiors, journalism, and fashion nonetheless instilled in her a commitment to heart-centric design, which she believes is crucial to conversations on the relationship between...
Willem's Blog
Replacing a Shimano shift cable
After some adventure with our cargo bike, the Shimano Nexus 7-speed shifter cable got damaged and...
over a year ago
After some adventure with our cargo bike, the Shimano Nexus 7-speed shifter cable got damaged and needed replacement. Read my blog post to learn how to do this yourself.
TheCollector
What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Dividing equity between founders
A friend asked me recently if I knew of any good guidelines for dividing up equity between founders,...
over a year ago
A friend asked me recently if I knew of any good guidelines for dividing up equity between founders, and specifically what to do in the case…
Retail Design Blog
LinkedIn Office Design, Bengaluru
LinkedIn’s Bengaluru office underwent a dynamic redesign to elevate the workplace experience,...
3 months ago
LinkedIn’s Bengaluru office underwent a dynamic redesign to elevate the workplace experience, blending the company’s culture with a focus on...
Weighty Thoughts
Most AI startups are doomed
Just because it matters doesn’t mean it’s defensible or profitable
a year ago
Just because it matters doesn’t mean it’s defensible or profitable
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't be clever, be clear
I love plain language. (the last one is a pdf)
So it’s no surprise that one of my (many) pet peeves...
a year ago
I love plain language. (the last one is a pdf)
So it’s no surprise that one of my (many) pet peeves is when a title of an article tries to be clever. Consider, for example:
It Can Happen to You
This can be about anything from cancer to, as in this case, a very arcane piece of...
NeuroLogica Blog
Hunter-Gatherers and Childcare
What is “natural” for humans? It’s often hard to say, and in my opinion this is a highly overused...
a year ago
What is “natural” for humans? It’s often hard to say, and in my opinion this is a highly overused concept. Primarily this is because humans are adaptable – we adapt to our environment, our situation, and our culture. So it is “natural” for us not to have a natural state. But this...
Retail Design Blog
Xiaoshi Restaurant by Longterm Design
Located in the bustling coastal city of Wenzhou in the southeast of China, known for its mild...
5 months ago
Located in the bustling coastal city of Wenzhou in the southeast of China, known for its mild subtropical climate, Xiaoshi...
Diaries of Note
Adolf Hitler is said to be dead
On 1st September 1939, Friedrich Kellner, a German justice inspector and committed Social Democrat,...
a year ago
On 1st September 1939, Friedrich Kellner, a German justice inspector and committed Social Democrat, embarked upon a courageous mission that would continue until 1945. In defiance of the Nazi regime, he secretly documented the brutal realities of life under Hitler’s rule,...
Diaries of Note
My heroic composure was wasted
Philip Toynbee, born in Oxford in 1916, was an English journalist and author best known for his...
11 months ago
Philip Toynbee, born in Oxford in 1916, was an English journalist and author best known for his insightful and often controversial reviews in the The Observer—including, most famously, his 1961 critique of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “dull, ill-written, whimsical and childish” Hobbit novels...
The Marginalian
The Ant, the Grasshopper, and the Antidote to the Cult of More: A Lovely Vintage Illustrated Poem...
“Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily...
a year ago
“Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily Dickinson lamented in a love letter. In his splendid short poem about the secret of happiness, Kurt Vonnegut exposed the taproot of our modern suffering as the gnawing sense that what we...
NeuroLogica Blog
Marmosets Call Each Other By Name
Humans identify and call each other by specific names. So far this advanced cognitive behavior has...
3 months ago
Humans identify and call each other by specific names. So far this advanced cognitive behavior has only been identified in a few other species, dolphins, elephants, and some parrots. Interestingly, it has never been documented in our closest relatives, non-human primates – that...
Handprinted - Blog
Glossary of Printmaking Terminology
Scroll through the list below to find definitions and explanations of common printmaking...
a year ago
Scroll through the list below to find definitions and explanations of common printmaking terms:
Acid-free – refers to papers that are made with an alkaline pulp, usually with calcium carbonate added. Acids contribute to the deterioration of paper and therefore of prints.
Aisuki –...
Lighthouse Blog
How to combine multiple RSS feeds in one view
6 months ago
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “I’m sorry about the politics” edition
1. The Reach saga rumbles on I’ve banged on about the parlous strategy of Reach plc before, but the...
a month ago
1. The Reach saga rumbles on I’ve banged on about the parlous strategy of Reach plc before, but the departures from its senior editorial ranks will continue to make a bad strategy worse. What makes this situation more difficult for the company is its board, which is free of any...
Working Theorys
The Rise of the Software Creator
In the age of AI, software creators, like content creators, will emerge as the industry’s...
6 months ago
In the age of AI, software creators, like content creators, will emerge as the industry’s non-professional creative class.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Nuance of “Domain”
I love visualizations like this:
That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links...
a year ago
I love visualizations like this:
That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links and realized there’s more to “domain” than initially meets the eye.
What is a “Domain”?
Let’s say you have a URL like this:
https://example.com
Put it in the URL constructor and...
A Beautiful Site
Icon Finder: an awesome search engine for icons
I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything...
over a year ago
I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything about it. If you're a web designer or developer who always has use for quality icons — especially ones with GPL or similar licenses — this is the website for you. It's essentially a...
AI Snake Oil
The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools
Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry....
over a year ago
Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry. The developer claimed the tool achieved over 90% accuracy in predicting when beaches would be safe to swim in. But the tool did much worse: on a majority of the days when the...
Seth's Blog
The grid of inquiry
Expertise and firmly held beliefs don’t always go together. Here’s a simple XY grid to help us...
8 months ago
Expertise and firmly held beliefs don’t always go together. Here’s a simple XY grid to help us choose where to sit at whatever table we’re invited to: Plenty of well-trained professionals have earned the right to have strongly held beliefs. These convictions save them time and...
Simply Explained
I Built a CO2 Sensor and It Terrifies Me
Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is...
over a year ago
Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is equally important for our health and even our cognitive performance.In this blog post we'll look at a DIY CO2 sensor: how it runs ESPHome, how it integrates with Home Assistant, how it...
Louwrentius
The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS
Introduction
Update December 2023:
In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor...
over a year ago
Introduction
Update December 2023:
In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor implementing the VDEV expansion feature. A new pr has been created for this effort. The feature was merged into the code base, but may not be available to the general public before the end...
Wuthering...
On the greatness of The Story of the Stone - it is in a vigorous, somewhat staccato style
Some notes on The Story of the Stone, Volume 1: The
Golden Days (c. 1760 or maybe 1792) by Cao...
2 months ago
Some notes on The Story of the Stone, Volume 1: The
Golden Days (c. 1760 or maybe 1792) by Cao Xueqin, the first of the five
volumes of the Penguin edition of the greatest Chinese novel.
I don’t like writing about a book before I have finished it,
but in a sense I did finish a...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2023
The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like...
10 months ago
The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like the ATOMSTACK Laser Engraver (link without affiliate code), and the module itself is produced by Shenzhen Xinghan Laser Technology Co, Ltd.. I don’t have an exact part number for...
TheCollector
Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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9 months ago
Society's Backend
The Problem with American Emergency Alerts
In a world of self-driving cars and human-like chatbots, shouldn't the best technologies would be...
a year ago
In a world of self-driving cars and human-like chatbots, shouldn't the best technologies would be used for life-saving applications?
TheCollector
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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Society's Backend
Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources
The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful...
7 months ago
The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful viruses, and more
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Wuthering...
Readalongs I wish someone else would organize - Cuban literature, August Wilson plays, and many more
The glory days of book blogs were full of “challenges.” I hosted several: Scottish literature,...
over a year ago
The glory days of book blogs were full of “challenges.” I hosted several: Scottish literature, Italian, Austrian, Scandinavian, Portuguese, always limited to the 19th century and earlier to keep the scope manageable. The idea was that I read a lot, while others were invited to...
Daniel Miessler
NO. 366 | T-Breach, Siri++, Conception Ages…
🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your...
a year ago
🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your favorite client! APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS Another T-Mobile Breach T-Mobile has had another security breach, this one affecting at least 37 million accounts. They...
Contemporist...
The Ultimate Gift Guide With Over 50 Ideas For Interior Designers, Architects, And Design Lovers
Finding a gift for an interior designer, architect, or design lover can sometimes be a difficult...
a year ago
Finding a gift for an interior designer, architect, or design lover can sometimes be a difficult task, so we’ve put together a collection of more than 50 gift ideas to make your life easier.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to get the first 10 paying customers for your devtool company (and other customer acquisition...
Creating a product that people need and are willing to pay for is hard. At PostHog, it took us...
over a year ago
Creating a product that people need and are willing to pay for is hard. At PostHog, it took us months to get to 10 paying customers — this after…
Anecdotal Evidence
"The Test of a Reader'
“. . . to
say a word or two about the improvable reader. The gift of reading, as I have
called it,...
6 months ago
“. . . to
say a word or two about the improvable reader. The gift of reading, as I have
called it, is not very common, nor very generally understood. It consists,
first of all, in a vast intellectual endowment—a free grace, I find I must call
it—by which a man rises to understand...
Seth's Blog
“I don’t learn that way”
If you’re sitting on the dock, watching the swim class without getting wet, it’s more accurate to...
7 months ago
If you’re sitting on the dock, watching the swim class without getting wet, it’s more accurate to say, “I’m just watching.” There are plenty of theories on how different people learn. Online, we’re in the middle of the biggest learning experiment in history, with countless...
CONTEMPORIST
A Boldly Colored Pasta Shop Brightens Up The Street In Athens
Design firm Studio Materiality has shared photos of Macaroni, a pasta shop they completed that’s...
a year ago
Design firm Studio Materiality has shared photos of Macaroni, a pasta shop they completed that’s located in the heart of Athens, Greece. The designers drew inspiration from the 1970s, with a boldly colored design, complete with a font from that era to create the logo. The...
mtlynch.io
Noah Bragg's First Stoke Fire Livestream
I’ve been interested in Ethereum the past year, especially the Base ecosystem. The problem is that...
3 months ago
I’ve been interested in Ethereum the past year, especially the Base ecosystem. The problem is that after hours of reading about Base, I still don’t get what Base is.
Every few months, I check back in on the Base website’s developer section to see if there’s a path to building on...
Society's Backend
Bridging the Gap from Simple Algebra to Machine Learning
You probably know more about machine learning math than you think
10 months ago
You probably know more about machine learning math than you think
Maggie Appleton
Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace!
We’re excited to announce that Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace, making it easier...
2 months ago
We’re excited to announce that Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace, making it easier than ever for developers and businesses worldwide to integrate our powerful IoT platform into their AWS infrastructure. This development is particularly relevant for those in...
Maps Mania
Crowdsourcing Neighborhood Borders
3 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
On "the OSI deprogrammer"
Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled
“That OSI model refuses...
9 months ago
Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled
“That OSI model refuses to die”,
in reaction to Robert Graham’s “OSI Deprogrammer”
published in September. I had discussed the OSI Deprogrammer on Lobsters,
and George’s blog post prompted me to write an...
The Marginalian
The Great Blind Spot of Science and the Art of Asking the Complex Question the Only Answer to Which...
“Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you,” says the Skin Horse — a stuffed toy...
a month ago
“Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you,” says the Skin Horse — a stuffed toy brought to life by a child’s love — in The Velveteen Rabbit. Great children’s books are works of philosophy in disguise; this is a fundamental question: In a reality of matter,...
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...
11 months 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...
Retail Design Blog
The White Company Office x Millennium Contracts
Commissioned by Household, Millennium Contracts had the opportunity to transform The White Company’s...
a month ago
Commissioned by Household, Millennium Contracts had the opportunity to transform The White Company’s 32,000 sq ft office based in Shepherd’s...
Making software...
Happily Paying For macOS Apps
Happily Paying For macOS Apps
2022-06-29
It's no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source...
over a year ago
Happily Paying For macOS Apps
2022-06-29
It's no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS[^0] systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Off to Welter and Waste'
The
Russian-Jewish poet Boris Slutsky (1919-86) was thirty-three years old on the
Night of the...
a year ago
The
Russian-Jewish poet Boris Slutsky (1919-86) was thirty-three years old on the
Night of the Murdered Poets, and he wasn’t among them. In the final stanza of his
poem “About the Jews” (trans. G.S. Smith), dating from the 1950s, Slutsky
writes:
“From the
war I came back safe
So...
MMapped blog
IC internals: XNet protocol
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Draw-Off
For a few weeks every November the water level in the Thames in west London is deliberately...
a month ago
For a few weeks every November the water level in the Thames in west London is deliberately lowered.
Draw-Off and it exposes more of the riverbed than usual.
In order to carry out essential maintenance works on Richmond lock, weirs and sluices, it is necessary to hold up the...
Nelson's Weblog
Overhead shower drips
Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you
when you’re not using it? It...
a year ago
Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you
when you’re not using it? It may be water trapped in the pipes and a
plunger will temporarily fix it.
We have a fancy shower with an overhead rain shower and a ordinary
wall sprayer both controlled by the...
Seth's Blog
You’ve already failed
No project is going to exactly match every hope you have for it. And even before you ship the work,...
2 weeks ago
No project is going to exactly match every hope you have for it. And even before you ship the work, you’ve already succeeded. No project is totally worthless. So, given that failure and success are on a spectrum, at least partly out of our control, the real question is: Now that...
alexwlchan
A day out at the Bure Valley Railway
Last October, I had a day trip to the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway in north...
over a year ago
Last October, I had a day trip to the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway in north Norfolk.
I came across it quite by chance – I was driving through Aylsham to get to a B&B, and I spotted a sign pointing to the railway.
I checked the website for a timetable,...
Diaries of Note
I have woken fairly early to think about human life
Frances Partridge was a remarkable British diarist born in 1900 whose long life was interwoven with...
a year ago
Frances Partridge was a remarkable British diarist born in 1900 whose long life was interwoven with the illustrious Bloomsbury Group. By 1967, when she wrote the following entry, she had already lost two of her nearest and dearest: her husband, Ralph, in 1960, and then tragically...
Londonist
Vintage Football Shirts: The Best And Oddest From Every Big London Club
New book delves deep into the world of vintage collectables.
a year ago
New book delves deep into the world of vintage collectables.
TheCollector
Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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computers are bad
2024-10-26 buy payphones and retire
PAYPHONES at High Volume
Existing sites! Earn BIG $$. Money Back Guarantee!
Dropshipping AliExpress...
a month ago
PAYPHONES at High Volume
Existing sites! Earn BIG $$. Money Back Guarantee!
Dropshipping AliExpress watches, AI-generated SEO spam websites... marginally
legal and ethical passive income schemes, that serve to generate that income
mostly for their promoters, can feel like a...
CONTEMPORIST
A Large Green Roof Covers This Riverside Home
Architect Pawel Naduk of 77STUDIO in Warsaw, Poland, has designed a modern house with a green roof...
a year ago
Architect Pawel Naduk of 77STUDIO in Warsaw, Poland, has designed a modern house with a green roof that’s located on the bank of the Vistula River. The home has been designed to subtly integrate into the natural shape of the land and allows for a usable green roof. A sloped ramp...
Commoncog
What Rigorous Process Improvement in Education Looks Like
What an rigorous trial and error looks like when applied to improving disadvantaged student outcomes...
2 months ago
What an rigorous trial and error looks like when applied to improving disadvantaged student outcomes ... and why you should do this in your own organisational contexts.
Jonas Hietala
The ASIC pit of despair
Monero has once again changed the POW to brick ASICs following confirmation that 85% of Monero’s...
over a year ago
Monero has once again changed the POW to brick ASICs following confirmation that 85% of Monero’s hashrate were ASICs.
Recurring hard forks to brick ASICs is a very dangerous game and what better to illustrate this than with an xkcd-style plot?
You’re safe on the edges but how do...
Stephen Diehl
Congressional Letter Campaign
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to make and share custom GPTs
They're not going to disrupt everything (yet), but they're a ton of fun.
a year ago
They're not going to disrupt everything (yet), but they're a ton of fun.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Planning the next steps for WebCard
<![CDATA[Over the past days I ran WebCard a bit, reviewed the code, and checked my notes and I'm...
2 months ago
<![CDATA[Over the past days I ran WebCard a bit, reviewed the code, and checked my notes and I'm satisfied with what the system does. Since WebCard is nearly feature complete it's a good time to chart the next steps for wrapping up my RetroChallenge 2024 project.
Aside from some...
Londonist
Sh!t Show: Exhibition Of Toilet Graffiti Comes To London In January
Not your bog standard art outing.
a year ago
Not your bog standard art outing.
Damn Interesting
The Mount St. Helens Trespasser
The Washington state deputy sheriff looked suspiciously at the motorcycle strapped to the back of...
over a year ago
The Washington state deputy sheriff looked suspiciously at the motorcycle strapped to the back of the odd little French car. The motorcycle was a recently repaired Honda 90, sporting a fresh coat of grey spray paint. The driver, Robert Rogers, kept a neutral expression as the...
Words and Buttons...
Lagrange polynomial as a gateway drug to basis splines
This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis...
over a year ago
This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis polynomial, and how come it's a polynomial in the first place.
CONTEMPORIST
This Lakehouse Hovers Above The Natural Sloped Terrain
Building Arts Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they recently completed in Dorset,...
8 months ago
Building Arts Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they recently completed in Dorset, Ontario, that hovers above the natural sloped terrain close to the water’s edge of Kawagama Lake. The building, which sits lightly on the rugged site, invites expansive sky and...
TheCollector
8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Calculated Risk
The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3
A brief...
a week ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3
A brief excerpt:
During the housing bubble, many homeowners borrowed heavily against their perceived home equity - jokingly calling it the “Home ATM” - and this contributed to the subsequent...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Great American Beer Festival (and More)
I hinted at ulterior motives in the last article about my long weekend in Denver. I didn’t travel...
a month ago
I hinted at ulterior motives in the last article about my long weekend in Denver. I didn’t travel all the way out there just to casually tour around. Indeed, I had a very specific purpose in mind — checking off a bucket list item in fact — attending the Great American Beer...
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Joel Gascoigne
The exercise habit
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over a year ago
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This morning, my alarm sounded at precisely 5:50am. Within a few minutes, I was
up and had my running shoes, shorts and a t-shirt on. Minutes later at 6am, I
opened my MacBook Air, switched to the...
Left To Write
Nashing Out
How Playing Good Poker Connects With Behavioural Economics
a year ago
How Playing Good Poker Connects With Behavioural Economics
Retail Design Blog
Moas Group Offices by Perkins&Will
Perkins&Will designed a sophisticated and versatile headquarters in São Paulo for Moas Group,...
3 weeks ago
Perkins&Will designed a sophisticated and versatile headquarters in São Paulo for Moas Group, combining office and showroom spaces with a...
Vadim Kravcenko
Is coding bootcamp better than university?
Thanks for the question. Navigating the crossroads of your budding tech career is no small feat, and...
a year ago
Thanks for the question. Navigating the crossroads of your budding tech career is no small feat, and the decision between […]
The post Is coding bootcamp better than university? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The Modern House
Heading out? Here’s how to do it with people and the planet in mind
a year ago
Light from Space
Vaporwave Crescent
Shooting space with a monochrome camera means using various filters—when choosing narrowband filters...
over a year ago
Shooting space with a monochrome camera means using various filters—when choosing narrowband filters (those with only a few nanometers of bandpass) one can limit the sensor capturing only very specific wavelengths of light, namely the emissions of certain gasses (basically,...
The Modern House
Lessons in Lateral Living: five singular single-storey dwellings
Once the perceived preserve of the retiree, there is more to low-level living than meets the eye. A...
8 months ago
Once the perceived preserve of the retiree, there is more to low-level living than meets the eye. A well-conceived, single-storey dwelling can accommodate all ages and – unlike loftier homes – has the potential to offer wraparound indoor-outdoor living. Here, we have gathered...
Rest of World -...
China shows a glimmer of hope for Western business
Think of it as "conscious decoupling."
a year ago
Think of it as "conscious decoupling."
The Elysian
How would anarchist societies protect themselves?
Letters to an anarchist, part three.
a month ago
Letters to an anarchist, part three.
Retail Design Blog
Dior store
Dior has stepped up its retail presence in the Land of the Rising Sun, not only one of its most...
2 months ago
Dior has stepped up its retail presence in the Land of the Rising Sun, not only one of its most...
Bits about Money
Credit cards as a legacy system
Credit cards have been in use for almost 75 years. Some long-ago decisions still cause consequences...
over a year ago
Credit cards have been in use for almost 75 years. Some long-ago decisions still cause consequences in the present day. But change is possible.
David Heinemeier...
Le Mans 2024
This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some...
8 months ago
This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some five years after I had first driven a real race car, and even less time since I made participating in the world's greatest endurance race the ultimate goal. But it almost didn't...
Irrational...
Video of Developing Eng Leadership Styles.
The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering...
3 months ago
The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering leadership styles.
It’s an interesting chapter to me peronally, precisely because it’s not something I would have agreed with or written five years ago.
This past Friday I gave a...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 082: System prompts
August 30, 2024.
3 months ago
TheCollector
Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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a year ago
Jibran’s Perspective
Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box
I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively...
over a year ago
I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively to manage my knowledge base. I started the day by dumping my thoughts into Logseq. Here they are.
These are open questions for now. I plan to investigate this further and try out...
TheCollector
7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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2 months ago
TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
undefined
7 months ago
devonzuegel.com
Making is Show Business now – alexdanco.com
Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may...
over a year ago
Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may not have been on your short list of books to read this year. It’s admittedly a nerdy topic: it’s about open source projects, roles and responsibilities; the rise of GitHub as a...
Londonist
Fitzrovia Chapel - Gloriously Golden Church Is Now Open 3 Days A Week
What. A. Ceiling.
10 months ago
Seth's Blog
Tom Peters
Tom announced his retirement today, at 80 years old, after 45 years of Excellence and perhaps...
a year ago
Tom announced his retirement today, at 80 years old, after 45 years of Excellence and perhaps 10,000,000 miles flown. I remember a photo of him sleeping on a bench in an airport in Siberia. I remember him holding my young son just before we went on stage in Florida together...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week
#1 💡 Phil is the founder of my favorite email software and he’s 100% correct here. Google sucks for...
11 months ago
#1 💡 Phil is the founder of my favorite email software and he’s 100% correct here. Google sucks for recommendations. The algorithm has been gamed to death. Just in the past two days I’ve asked GPT for recommendations on 2 high ticket decisions (job board in specific region,...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build remote teams properly
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
over a year ago
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […]
The post How to build remote teams properly appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
alexwlchan
My custom <picture> plugin for Jekyll
About seven months ago, I did a complete rewrite of how I handle images on this site.
It’s working...
a year ago
About seven months ago, I did a complete rewrite of how I handle images on this site.
It’s working well and nothing seems to have broken, so I thought it might be good to explain what I’m doing.
For readers: I want images to load quickly and look good.
That means looking sharp on...
Epic Web Dev
What is a Superset (in programming?) (article)
Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency,...
9 months ago
Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency, scalability, and improved tooling for devs.
TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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a year ago
Basta’s Notes
Don't make me read your PR description
I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s...
a year ago
I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s been a net positive. There are more than a handful of problems that make me slower: Sometimes it suggests a closing quote or paren that isn’t needed. Removing the duplicate character...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 April 13 - April 19
The faces are back, a new book, calm, beauty, civil war.
The faces are back. Feels like...
8 months ago
The faces are back, a new book, calm, beauty, civil war.
The faces are back. Feels like something is happening here.
This ^ is the start of a new book.
“We need more calm companies.” — Justin Jackson
What is beautiful?
Another...
Vadim Kravcenko
My coworker rewrote all my code, what should I do?
Dear Robert, The short answer is — stop getting attached to your code. Now lets continue to a more...
10 months ago
Dear Robert, The short answer is — stop getting attached to your code. Now lets continue to a more detailed […]
The post My coworker rewrote all my code, what should I do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
McMansion Hell
In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors -...
Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis
In my latest column for The Nation, I...
a year ago
Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis
In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors - I think single stair is wonderful! - But I also don’t think it’s some kind of panacea for the housing crisis.
mtlynch.io
Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
For the past four years, I’ve worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It...
over a year ago
For the past four years, I’ve worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present.
Well, I guess it’s a little more complicated than that.
The first two years Two years in, I loved Google.
When the annual...
Luxagraf:...
Wagoneer
My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved.
As we've slowed...
a year ago
My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved.
As we've slowed down our travels though, spending more time in an area makes it nice to have a car to go exploring, run errands, and get to places the bus can't. For that reason we bought a 2006...
TheCollector
What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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3 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Updating my blog: a quick GPT chatbot coding experiment
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Hacker News Clones
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News).
I...
a month ago
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News).
I find out about it because my analytics digest will get a yuge uptick in page views.
What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. The Hacker News is...
Anecdotal Evidence
'How It Sounds When Read Out Loud'
Our
eighth-grade English teacher, Miss Clymer, had us open the textbook to a poem
written...
a month ago
Our
eighth-grade English teacher, Miss Clymer, had us open the textbook to a poem
written seventy-five years earlier and picked students to read aloud each of
its four, eight-line stanzas. She suggested we pay attention to who is
speaking, as the poem is written as a dialogue...
Cremieux Recueil
Evaluating a Sitting Senator's Healthcare Claims
If you're a public official who wants to to use numbers, use correct numbers, and if you're going to...
4 days ago
If you're a public official who wants to to use numbers, use correct numbers, and if you're going to speculate, try not so speculate wildly, lest you end up telling brazen lies to the American people
TheCollector
Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
undefined
3 months ago
Neil Madden
Multiple input MACs
When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a...
over a year ago
When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a single string, but multiple fields of data. For example, when creating an authenticated encryption mode by composing a cipher and a MAC (like AES-CBC and HMAC), you need to ensure the...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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a week ago
Society's Backend
How to Know if Your Data is Being Used Maliciously
The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
a year ago
The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
The Modern House
A handsome mid-century house designed by a Hepworth in Glastonbury
a year ago
TheCollector
Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
undefined
a year ago
The American Scholar
Caprock
Adventures worth the silence
The post Caprock appeared first on The American Scholar.
8 months ago
Adventures worth the silence
The post Caprock appeared first on The American Scholar.
Florian Bellmann |...
Every product needs an architecture vision
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
10 months ago
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture vision can prevent that from happening.
Seth's Blog
“Please create more tension”
This rarely comes up in focus group data. It doesn’t come up when a school talks to students, or a...
2 months ago
This rarely comes up in focus group data. It doesn’t come up when a school talks to students, or a conductor asks the orchestra. It doesn’t come up when the gym owner surveys potential members or when a chef or playwright thinks about building something new. But of course, that’s...
Tony Finch's blog
Where does my computer get the time from?
This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting.
On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called...
a year ago
This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting.
On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called where does my
computer get the time from?
The RIPE meeting website has a copy of my slides and a video of the
talk; this is a blogified low-res version of the slides with a rough
and...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
JokeBomb - Series One
This is a series of animated shorts about tortillas, butts, and a hit TV show called Gene's Jeans...
10 months ago
This is a series of animated shorts about tortillas, butts, and a hit TV show called Gene's Jeans starring a handsome man named Gene.
View on my website
abdz.do - Have you...
Thought-provoking series of 3D numbers for the Imperial Business School
Thought-provoking series of 3D numbers for the Imperial Business School
...
a year ago
Thought-provoking series of 3D numbers for the Imperial Business School
abduzeedo0428—23
OPX Studio recently created a series of 3D numbers for an education-focused publication, designed by Made Up Studio, that is both visually stunning and...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 29 January-4 February 2024
The best Londonist articles from the past week.
10 months ago
The best Londonist articles from the past week.
TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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10 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Frequency of Terms Denoting Political Extremism in U.S. and U.K. News Media
Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with...
over a year ago
Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with Eric Kaufmann where we examine longitudinally the prevalence of terms denoting far-right and far-left political extremism in more than 30 million written news and opinion articles...
Christopher Butler
4 Levels of Grids for Web Designers
Grids are very, very useful.
I just published an essay on how anchoring the most important...
a year ago
Grids are very, very useful.
I just published an essay on how anchoring the most important information on a web page to the Y-axis will help viewer’s focus on it and pay closer attention. It’s a pretty basic idea, really, but somehow I found myself writing over 1,000 words to...
The Convivial...
Amulets Against the Spirits of the Age
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 12
a month ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 12
Jonas Hietala
The eBook for 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' is now available for free
The eBook for my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is now available for free.
It’s been almost 4 years...
10 months ago
The eBook for my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is now available for free.
It’s been almost 4 years since the web version was done, and 3 since the physical copy was available…
Which can hardly be called a success.
Things happened, so let’s do a quick retrospective to, maybe, learn...
Noahpinion
The George Floyd protests were not a civil war (repost)
And the less we collectively remember them as one, the better.
a year ago
And the less we collectively remember them as one, the better.
Construction Physics
The Long Road to Fiber Optics
Over the past six decades, advances in computers and microprocessors have completely reshaped our...
3 months ago
Over the past six decades, advances in computers and microprocessors have completely reshaped our world.
The Ruffian
A Brief History of Suburban Creativity
The power of not being with the in-crowd
a year ago
The power of not being with the in-crowd
bt RSS Feed
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
2020-03-18
An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
over a year ago
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
2020-03-18
An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
Tinloof - Blog
Tinloof design principles
Tinloof focuses on key principles to consistently create pleasant and practical designs.
We're not...
a year ago
Tinloof focuses on key principles to consistently create pleasant and practical designs.
We're not tied to any specific style - Swiss, Linear-like, neobrutalism, a certain typography or color palette.
Instead, we stick to basics that make our process smooth, please our users,...
alexwlchan
Making alt text more visible
I add alt text to every image on this site.
I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text...
2 months ago
I add alt text to every image on this site.
I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text before I publish the site, but that means alt text has often been an afterthought – something I’d dash out at the very end of writing a post.
I wanted to give it more attention, and...
Ryan Mulligan
Web Components for Password Input Enhancements
So there I was, experimenting with HTML password inputs and Web Components. I'm not sure why the...
3 months ago
So there I was, experimenting with HTML password inputs and Web Components. I'm not sure why the idea even came up but it quickly snowballed into a curious expedition. The result from the journey was a set of custom elements that provide extra functionality and information about...
Noahpinion
Nobody knows how many jobs will "be automated"
Whatever that even means.
a year ago
Whatever that even means.
Londonist
A Farewell To Wilko
"I thought this was the new Woolworths to be honest."
a year ago
"I thought this was the new Woolworths to be honest."
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - App
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
There needs to be a meta-app that just takes all...
4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
There needs to be a meta-app that just takes all the apps and converts them back into Internet.
Today's News:
haseeb qureshi
Launching the Introduction to Cryptocurrency
Today I’m launching Introduction to Cryptocurrency, an online course teaching the basics of...
over a year ago
Today I’m launching Introduction to Cryptocurrency, an online course teaching the basics of programming cryptocurrencies. The first two modules are already released, and the remainder of the course will be coming out over the next few months.
Introduction to Cryptocurrency is a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Persisting State to localStorage in Recoil Across Browser Tabs
I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React.
I needed to persist some...
a month ago
I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React.
I needed to persist some state to localStorage, and there’s some info on how to do it in Recoil’s docs.
That works; however it doesn’t respond to state changes from other instances of your app in multiple...
journal – Winnie Lim
the ability to our selves as who we are
My tcm (traditional chinese medicine) appointment a couple of weeks ago was postponed because my...
4 weeks ago
My tcm (traditional chinese medicine) appointment a couple of weeks ago was postponed because my physician was sick. I thought it would be fine to go a couple of weeks without, but...
Daniel Miessler
My Mom Died on Saturday
My mom died on Saturday. My biological mother became unable to function when I was around five due...
over a year ago
My mom died on Saturday. My biological mother became unable to function when I was around five due to mental illness, which left my dad and me on our own. Sometime after we were blessed with a strong, beautiful soul named Rhonda. My dad and I were like rescue dogs, and she saved...
Julia Evans
New zine: How Integers and Floats Work
Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work!
You can get it for $12...
a year ago
Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work!
You can get it for $12 here:
https://wizardzines.com/zines/integers-floats, or get
an 13-pack of all my zines here.
Here’s the cover:
the table of contents
Here’s the table of contents!
Now let’s...
Londonist
At The Smithfield Memorial To Scottish Hero William Wallace
Still receiving flowers over 700 years on.
a year ago
Still receiving flowers over 700 years on.
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
swyx's site RSS Feed
Blogpost Annealing
Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
over a year ago
Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
The Modern House
The big blue: a striking sculptural staircase forms the focus of this converted coach house in...
2 months ago
computers are bad
2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of
pre-planning, perhaps...
a year ago
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of
pre-planning, perhaps spurred by boredom, I looked through the schedule to see
what's in store in the world of telephony. There is a workshop on SS7, of
course [1], plenty of content on cellular, but...
Diaries of Note
It is so difficult to keep track of the days
Born in Illinois in 1886, Minnie Vautrin became an unlikely hero in 1937 during one of history’s...
a year ago
Born in Illinois in 1886, Minnie Vautrin became an unlikely hero in 1937 during one of history’s darkest episodes. As a missionary and educator, she turned Ginling College into a sanctuary for over 10,000 Chinese women and children as the Imperial Japanese Army unleashed a wave...
NeuroLogica Blog
Nadir Crater – A Double Tap for Dinosaurs?
It is now generally accepted that 66 million years ago a large asteroid smacked into the Earth,...
2 months ago
It is now generally accepted that 66 million years ago a large asteroid smacked into the Earth, causing the large Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico. This was a catastrophic event, affecting the entire globe. Fire rained down causing forest fires across much of the globe,...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#48)
Information war; Chinese VC; land reform; India's garment industry; degrowth research; Trump vs....
3 months ago
Information war; Chinese VC; land reform; India's garment industry; degrowth research; Trump vs. Harris on deficits; good news
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2024
The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of...
9 months ago
The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of reporting both wind speed and direction. Thanks again to FETguy and Renew Computers for the contribution! The coil on the left hand side is a brushless resolver, which determines...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“We’re All Just Temporarily Abled”
That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s...
a year ago
That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s course and it’s been on repeat in my mind ever since June 6th.
June 6th I was on vacation at the beach with my family and tried something that, looking back now, maybe I’m too old for....
Retail Design Blog
2050 coffee by TEKI Design
“2050 coffee problem” ,which is a concern that by the year 2050, we may not be able to enjoy...
2 months ago
“2050 coffee problem” ,which is a concern that by the year 2050, we may not be able to enjoy coffee...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lalala
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
After 10 minutes of DuoLingo, my daughter and I...
9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
After 10 minutes of DuoLingo, my daughter and I were able to have entire conversations in Greek just by inflecting the word karoto.
Today's News:
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Prompt Engineering for Claude
Watch now | If you’ve ever wanted to level up your AI prompting skills, this is the workshop for...
2 months ago
Watch now | If you’ve ever wanted to level up your AI prompting skills, this is the workshop for you.
alexwlchan
Drawing a better bandwidth graph for Netlify
I currently host this site on Netlify’s Starter plan, which means I can serve 100GB of bandwidth per...
3 months ago
I currently host this site on Netlify’s Starter plan, which means I can serve 100GB of bandwidth per month.
That’s usually plenty, and I’ve only exceeded it a few times – this site is mostly text, and I only have a modest audience.
I can see how much bandwidth I’ve used in the...
TokyoDev
How I obtained a J-FIND visa in Japan
The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business...
10 months ago
The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business startup, and other income-generating endeavors within Japan — opportunities that were previously inaccessible to do so. I was one of the first recipients of this visa, which provided me...
HTMHell
#30 Bullet “list”
Bad code
<p>
• HTML
<br>
• CSS
<br>
• JavaScript
</p>
Issues and how to fix them
Use <p>...
over a year ago
Bad code
<p>
• HTML
<br>
• CSS
<br>
• JavaScript
</p>
Issues and how to fix them
Use <p> for paragraphs, not lists. The standard way for creating basic lists is <ul> (when the order doesn't matter) or <ol> (when the order matters), and <li> for each item.
The “list”...
Londonist
Get Free Entry To The London Dungeon This Monday
To cheer you up on 'Blue Monday'.
11 months ago
To cheer you up on 'Blue Monday'.
TheCollector
Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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10 months ago
Beautiful Public...
Wild Horses
The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has...
a year ago
The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has been criticized by animal rights advocates and subject to scrutiny by Congress.
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding easing and cubic-bezier curves in CSS
The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS...
a year ago
The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS cubic-bezier curves, and the art of using them to make the best web animations possible.
Moneyness
Memecoins are the point
Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins.
Our story begins with some very...
a month ago
Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins.
Our story begins with some very smart and idealistic developers, known as cypherpunks, creating a new technology know as a blockchain. Blockchains are databases, but decentralized. Advertised as being...
diamond geezer
Sharpenhoe Clappers
Over the weekend I went to Sharpenhoe Clappers.
The Canine Activity paragraph
memorial stone at...
8 months ago
Over the weekend I went to Sharpenhoe Clappers.
The Canine Activity paragraph
memorial stone at Sharpenhoe Clappers because just before I reached it I encountered a group of young people with two dogs. I wasn't at all pleased when the bull terrier looked up and started running...
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....
The Marginalian
Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing Change in Relationships and the Key Pattern for Nourishing Love
"All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building...
10 months ago
"All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms."
TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
undefined
7 months ago
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
ToughSF
The Lofstrom Loop: A Bridge to Space
Imagine you could take a train ride to space. Tracks that slope up into the sky, higher and higher,...
a year ago
Imagine you could take a train ride to space. Tracks that slope up into the sky, higher and higher, until you reach a plateau above the planet where it’s a straight line up to orbital velocity.
That’s what’s possible with a Lofstrom Loop. But sending you into orbit is just one...
somethingaboutmaps
An Educational Experiment
(Edit: sign-ups are now closed. I received over 150 responses for 4 available slots, which has been...
a year ago
(Edit: sign-ups are now closed. I received over 150 responses for 4 available slots, which has been great but overwhelming. I may offer this again in the future if it goes well, so make sure to follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the blog, to be notified of when this happens.)...
Seth's Blog
Digital shortcuts and cognitive load
I used to drive 200 miles to Boston once a week or so. After a few trips on the highway, my...
a year ago
I used to drive 200 miles to Boston once a week or so. After a few trips on the highway, my subconscious figured out that getting behind a few trucks for the entire ride enabled me to spend four hours without using much conscious effort on driving. Every day, we make decisions....
SOCKS
Fragments of an Unknown Civilization: Works by James Lipnickas
James Lipnickas is a New Haven-based artist and graphic designer. He creates highly evocative scenes...
over a year ago
James Lipnickas is a New Haven-based artist and graphic designer. He creates highly evocative scenes representing small architectural stages in axonometric projection. Suspended stairwells, excavated blocks, and plinths separated, or all combined are located in deserted...
Marco.org
The 2018 iPad Pro
Watch my video review of the new iPad Pro in both sizes.
Rather than try to be comprehensive, I...
over a year ago
Watch my video review of the new iPad Pro in both sizes.
Rather than try to be comprehensive, I focused on what matters most to me: size choice between the 11” and 12.9”, the Smart Keyboard Folio from my perspective as a frequent 10.5” Smart Keyboard user, the new Pencil, and why...
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