Full Width [alt+shift+f] Shortcuts [alt+shift+k]
Sign Up [alt+shift+s] Log In [alt+shift+l]
Top Categories > all
#all #programming #history #startups #technology #science #life #literature #architecture #travel #creative #design #comics #cartography #finance #AI #indiehacker Muted Categories [alt+←][alt+→]
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Open source starter pack for JS devs So you've decided to open-source your project. Amazing! Bad news first: writing code is only the...
over a year ago
4
over a year ago
So you've decided to open-source your project. Amazing! Bad news first: writing code is only the beginning. The information for library authors on the web is surprisingly fragmented, so I've decided to put together a list of things to keep in mind when open-sourcing a JS...
A Smart Bear
You're a real company when… What marks the moment when you become a "real" company?
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why TurboRepo Will Be The First Big Trend of 2022 TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on,...
over a year ago
12
over a year ago
TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on, bringing 85% faster build speeds and great architecture/docs/marketing.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Few Details About My Notes Website A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a...
a year ago
9
a year ago
A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a little more about some of my favorite parts of the site. First: It’s Really a Page, Not a Site I’m not sure I should call it a “website”, as I think of a website as a collection...
Irrational...
Rough notes on learning Wardley Mapping. In my ongoing efforts to draft a book on engineering strategy, I’ve finally reached the point where...
3 weeks ago
16
3 weeks ago
In my ongoing efforts to draft a book on engineering strategy, I’ve finally reached the point where I need to transition “Wardley Mapping” from a topic to consider including into a topic that I either do or do not include. The first step on that line is getting much deeper at...
Laetitia@Work
Rest is Resistance Laetitia@Work #59
a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
TypingMind is live It's my first product launch of the year!
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Modern apologies The AI driven voice mail system said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand you.” Of course, there is no...
3 months ago
34
3 months ago
The AI driven voice mail system said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand you.” Of course, there is no “I” and by most definitions of sorry, it’s not. But it made me feel better. The overworked and slightly bitter front desk person who was the frontline flotsam in a poorly designed...
abdz.do - Have you...
Dynamic animations and motion design — Nike, Just for Fun Dynamic animations and motion design — Nike, Just for Fun abduzeedo0501—23 ...
a year ago
62
a year ago
Dynamic animations and motion design — Nike, Just for Fun abduzeedo0501—23 Nike Kids is a live-action piece directed by MANSON and produced by CANADA, with support from R/GA Shanghai. The talented team at Studio Bliss was responsible for the...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
A Comet Visible in Our Evening Sky A newly discovered comet is now faintly visible in our skies soon after sunset, if you have clear...
2 months ago
34
2 months ago
A newly discovered comet is now faintly visible in our skies soon after sunset, if you have clear skies and a view low toward the west-southwest horizon. See our diagram from Sky & Telescope magazine, in which the yellow numbers show you the comet’s location in the evening sky...
Arduino Blog
DIY ECU controls Honda Insight’s Kubota diesel engine The Honda Insight was the first hybrid car released in North America and Honda put serious effort...
6 months ago
72
6 months ago
The Honda Insight was the first hybrid car released in North America and Honda put serious effort into making it as efficient as was practical at the time. That meant aerodynamic streamlining, which is why the first-generation Insight had very distinct covers over the rear...
Map of the Week
The Climate Impact of Your Neighborhood This latest New York Times interactive map shows how people who live closer in to city centers have...
over a year ago
24
over a year ago
This latest New York Times interactive map shows how people who live closer in to city centers have a relatively small carbon footprint, while those who live further out have some of the largest footprints in the nation. While that may not be surprising by itself there are some...
MMapped blog
Flat in-order binary trees
a year ago
Julia Evans
Some tactics for writing in public Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such...
a year ago
6
a year ago
Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such assholes!” I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve learned a huge amount from reading internet comments on my posts from strangers over the years,...
The Map is Mostly...
Careful technology Dear friends, There is a commonplace opinion that technology and the natural world, or that...
7 months ago
101
7 months ago
Dear friends, There is a commonplace opinion that technology and the natural world, or that technological pursuits and natural pursuits, are at odds. An example: I think this is a false position. But if this kind of sentiment is so often repeated, its worth thinking about why it...
devonzuegel.com
Book review: Against the Grain, by James C. Scott The book that etched the deepest grooves in my mind last year was Against the Grain by James C....
over a year ago
7
over a year ago
The book that etched the deepest grooves in my mind last year was Against the Grain by James C. Scott. It explores how the unique characteristics of grain-based agriculture shaped the early history of states. While I did learn many interesting historical facts and trends from...
TheCollector
What Is the Easiest Language to Learn? undefined
4 months ago
diamond geezer
SL10 Route SL10: Harrow - North Finchley Length of journey: 9 miles, 50 minutes London gained a new...
a year ago
8
a year ago
Route SL10: Harrow - North Finchley Length of journey: 9 miles, 50 minutes London gained a new outer orbital bus route yesterday, a peripheral dash connecting the boroughs of Harrow, Brent and Barnet. new Superloop service, the previous four merely being existing routes...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Its Super-Ego Has Gone AWOL' The American philosopher Brand Blanshard delivered the Riecker Memorial Lecture at the University of...
2 months ago
25
2 months ago
The American philosopher Brand Blanshard delivered the Riecker Memorial Lecture at the University of Arizona in 1962. It was published that year as a twenty-three-page pamphlet titled “On Sanity in Thought and Art.” For much of the text Blanshard reviews various twentieth-century...
TheCollector
Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife undefined
9 months ago
One Useful Thing
The Homework Apocalypse Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
box-sizing: border-box explained It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us...
over a year ago
12
over a year ago
It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us back to the days of early Internet Explorer. The good ol' days # You might remember how Internet Explorer 6 (quirks mode) and below did that whole box model thing wrong. If not,...
The Pragmatic...
Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to...
a year ago
32
a year ago
At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to go along with what looked like fraud. They obliged in two out of three cases, landed in hot water, and now face jail time. A reminder why it’s never a good idea to go along with...
Steve Klabnik
Introducing the rails-api project
over a year ago
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
6
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,...
TheCollector
Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects undefined
8 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
Safe memory reclamation for BIND At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two...
a year ago
6
a year ago
At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two different concurrency control mechanisms: A reader/writer lock This has poor read-side scalability, because every thread is hammering on the same shared location. But its write...
nanoscale views
Dye-sensitized solar cells - an idea whose time has finally come? Dyes are generally small molecules that have electronic transitions with energies corresponding...
11 months ago
11
11 months ago
Dyes are generally small molecules that have electronic transitions with energies corresponding to the visible spectrum of light (around 1-3 eV).  Around 35 years ago, the idea was put forward, particularly by Michael Grätzel and Brian O'Regan, to couple dye molecules to...
TheCollector
Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism undefined
5 months ago
Josh Collinsworth
Announcing Quina (My First App)! The story of building Quina, a word game Progressive Web App built with Nuxt, and launched on the...
over a year ago
5
over a year ago
The story of building Quina, a word game Progressive Web App built with Nuxt, and launched on the Google Play Store.
AFAR Media - Travel...
An Architecture Lover’s Dream Tour Through Germany’s UNESCO Sites and Beyond
6 months ago
Old Structures...
Little, Yet Big That’s 65 Phila Street in Saratoga Springs, an 1851 wood-frame house that had fallen on hard times....
8 months ago
30
8 months ago
That’s 65 Phila Street in Saratoga Springs, an 1851 wood-frame house that had fallen on hard times. People at the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation have been trying for a very long time to get the building repaired and re-occupied – the best way to ensure an old building’s...
Retail Design Blog
Luar Offices by Iram Boxwala Design Studio Iram Boxwala Design Studio in Mumbai designed Luar Beauty’s office as a transformative canvas...
6 months ago
29
6 months ago
Iram Boxwala Design Studio in Mumbai designed Luar Beauty’s office as a transformative canvas reflecting brand identity through curved walls,...
xkcd.com
University Commas
2 months ago
Irrational...
Onboarding peer executives. While many companies build out an elaborate Engineering onboarding program, the process for...
a year ago
25
a year ago
While many companies build out an elaborate Engineering onboarding program, the process for onboarding new executives tends to be an ad-hoc, chaotic affair. There usually is an executive onboarding process, but it’s used too infrequently to ever get excellent. Part of the problem...
Stephen Diehl
Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude
over a year ago
Data Boutique
How To Improve QA With Data Boutique For In-House Web Scraping Independent data help you get to 99% reliability
a year ago
Londonist
Review: Fantasy: Realms Of The Imagination At The British Library The genre finally gets the exhibition it deserves.
a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
Thoughts on Qutebrowser
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Nothing: The Illustrated Story of How John Cage Revolutionized Music Through Silence "We make our lives by what we love."
7 months ago
Willem Pennings
Home Assistant-compatible air quality sensor I recently moved and our new home is equipped with a ventilation system that distributes fresh...
over a year ago
5
over a year ago
I recently moved and our new home is equipped with a ventilation system that distributes fresh (outside) air through the house and recoups heat from the air that is exhausted. There is a problem with this system, though. Sometimes, for example when a neighbour lights their wood...
Commoncog
When Action Beats Prediction One of the great paradoxes of business is that management is prediction, but entrepreneurship ......
a year ago
112
a year ago
One of the great paradoxes of business is that management is prediction, but entrepreneurship ... isn't. What a theory of expertise in entrepreneurship tells us about creating new things in business.
Infinite Scroll
How Gay Marriage Ruined Democratic Activism The end of Moral Triumphalism
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of undefined
8 months ago
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 26 February-3 March 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
10 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Layer 2s as cultural extensions of Ethereum
6 months ago
computers are bad
2024-11-23 cablesoft As an American, I often feel an intense jealousy of Ceefax, one of several commercially successful...
a month ago
29
a month ago
As an American, I often feel an intense jealousy of Ceefax, one of several commercially successful teletext services in the UK and Europe. "Teletext" is sometimes a confusing term because of its apparent relation to telecom-industry technologies like the teletypewriter and...
Seth's Blog
Analyzing the last move When the deal falls apart, or the team loses the game, or a partnership hits the rocks, it’s easy to...
8 months ago
18
8 months ago
When the deal falls apart, or the team loses the game, or a partnership hits the rocks, it’s easy to focus our energy on what just happened. “What if they had called a different play?” This overlooks the real issue. It’s the first move, or the fifth, that led to this problem, not...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima? undefined
7 months ago
The American Scholar
The Creator’s Code Are humans alone in their ability to make art? The post The Creator’s Code appeared first on The...
2 weeks ago
4
2 weeks ago
Are humans alone in their ability to make art? The post The Creator’s Code appeared first on The American Scholar.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.18.0 Our primary goals for this release were to iron out bugs and improve the user experience of our Beta...
over a year ago
5
over a year ago
Our primary goals for this release were to iron out bugs and improve the user experience of our Beta features. As a result, we fixed a whole lot of…
swyx's site RSS Feed
OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪 a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
over a year ago
Charles Chen
3 Tips to Help Dev Teams Build Speed My observations on practices that help all teams build speed.
over a year ago
Transit Maps
15% Off All Prints in the “Transit Maps” Store Just a reminder that the best way to support the site is by buying a print from our online store,...
3 weeks ago
16
3 weeks ago
Just a reminder that the best way to support the site is by buying a print from our online store, because you get something awesome in return! We’re having a Thanksgiving/Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday sale with 15% off all prints. Choose from my original...
Stephen Diehl
The Case Against Crypto
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
over a year ago
13
over a year ago
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
Seth's Blog
The Strategy Questions My new book (out today) contains more than 500 questions. Here are some to get you started:
2 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Predicting Outcome in Severe Brain Injury One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical...
7 months ago
78
7 months ago
One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical medical condition and have to make life-or-death medical decisions for them. I have been in this situation many times as the consulting neurologist, and I have seen how weighty this...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Best Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Is it time? Is it time for a book of these? Today's...
10 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Our Instinctual Taste for Periodicity and Return' I got a kick out of Damian at A Sunday of Liberty reveling in a rhyme that seems...
a year ago
10
a year ago
I got a kick out of Damian at A Sunday of Liberty reveling in a rhyme that seems genetically implanted in American kids, regardless of age or geography:  “Greasy, grimy gopher guts! Little dirty birdie feet!”   As in any folk tradition, variants abound. This is the version I grew...
The Ruffian
The Sunak Question Why Has the Tory Party's Great Hope Been So Bad At the Job?
8 months ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Singula brand identity & website design Singula brand identity & website design abduzeedo0206—23 Singula...
a year ago
48
a year ago
Singula brand identity & website design abduzeedo0206—23 Singula builds teams to develop websites, services and applications, move products to the cloud, and turn a legacy-filled solution into a lean microservice architecture. They already have...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
A Tale of Three Songwriters: Duke Ellington, Joni Mitchell & Johnny Green Will Friedwald looks at popular composers who found fulfillment beyond commercial hits
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Black Swan Farming
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
This app makes sure dinner is halal The Indonesian app Momasa features recipes, cooking lessons, and restaurants that meet the standards...
2 months ago
13
2 months ago
The Indonesian app Momasa features recipes, cooking lessons, and restaurants that meet the standards of Islamic law.
Tinloof - Blog
Learn ESLint concepts, not rules What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's...
over a year ago
5
over a year ago
What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's start with the problems we have when writing JavaScript code. Problem #1: JavaScript is not compiled while you write it
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Estimating floating point error the easy way Unforeseen floating point error is the source of the most unpleasant bugs. The bugs that come and go...
over a year ago
11
over a year ago
Unforeseen floating point error is the source of the most unpleasant bugs. The bugs that come and go unpredictably. The bugs that don't reproduce on unit-tests and lay low through the integration phase only to be seen by your most important customer.
The American Scholar
In Reprise: Next, Line Please A new poetry prompt for players new and old The post In Reprise: Next, Line Please appeared first on...
a month ago
24
a month ago
A new poetry prompt for players new and old The post In Reprise: Next, Line Please appeared first on The American Scholar.
History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves JamesHoare Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
mtlynch.io
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez An insider’s story about Facebook in the years leading up to its IPO. It’s surprisingly candid — it...
over a year ago
29
over a year ago
An insider’s story about Facebook in the years leading up to its IPO. It’s surprisingly candid — it names names and exposes internal Facebook discussions that were never meant to be public. An engaging read, but the narrator is painfully obnoxious.
Society's Backend
Backend Biweekly #3: 97 Updates and Resources Huge Nvidia Updates, Gemini Hackathon for Money, and more
8 months ago
Diaries of Note
The dear old white bear saved me, that time Liane de Pougy was a socialite and diarist who shimmered through early 20th-century Paris with the...
a year ago
7
a year ago
Liane de Pougy was a socialite and diarist who shimmered through early 20th-century Paris with the sort of glamour and intrigue that novels are made of. Born Anne Marie Chassaigne in 1869, she lived many lives: an acclaimed dancer, a celebrated courtesan, and eventually an...
👋 Hello, I'm...
How to get (micro) acquired?
a year ago
Open Culture
Monty Python’s Michael Palin Presents His Favorite Painting, J. M. W. Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed Of all the English comedians to have attained worldwide fame over the past half-century, Sir Michael...
7 months ago
37
7 months ago
Of all the English comedians to have attained worldwide fame over the past half-century, Sir Michael Palin may be the most English of them all. It thus comes as no surprise that the National Gallery would ring him up and invite him to make a video about his favorite painting, nor...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Coaching and feedback within startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in...
over a year ago
10
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in the past about the evolution of our culture at Buffer [https://joel.is/post/37639846554/the-evolution-of-culture-at-a-startup]. One of the things we started to do at around 6-7...
Londonist
Conkers In London: Where To Find Them, Where To Play Our hard-hitting guide.
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Let’s play at the Maker Faire Rome 2024! We are excited to be back at Maker Faire Rome as a Gold Sponsor of the 12th edition (October 25-27,...
2 months ago
33
2 months ago
We are excited to be back at Maker Faire Rome as a Gold Sponsor of the 12th edition (October 25-27, 2024), with some exciting experiences lined up for all makers, innovators, and creators who attend! Learn by playing at our booth  Visit us at the fair for a playful, interactive...
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano undefined
3 months ago
Stephen Wolfram...
Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately...
8 months ago
31
8 months ago
Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately compute eclipses. But now—as a tiny part of making “everything in the world” computable—computation about eclipses is just a built-in feature of the Wolfram Language. The core...
History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial Putting Pirates on Trial JamesHoare Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Damn Interesting
Lofty Ambitions One summer day in 1933, in a brief pocket of time between the two World Wars, a British man named...
over a year ago
6
over a year ago
One summer day in 1933, in a brief pocket of time between the two World Wars, a British man named Maurice Wilson clutched the stick of his tiny, open air biplane and watched his fuel gauge dwindle. He had only learned to fly two months earlier, but inexperience was not his...
TheCollector
Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist undefined
4 months ago
Arduino Blog
DexteriSync lets you walk a mile in the gloves of a user with manual disability Good designers prioritize the user experience — particularly the experience of users with...
a month ago
14
a month ago
Good designers prioritize the user experience — particularly the experience of users with disabilities that affect their perception and fine motor skills. A young person without disabilities, for example, may feel that jars are easy to open, while an elderly person with reduced...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Salty Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We too have our seasons, Frosty. Today's News:
a year ago
Cognitive...
Uploading CSV to DynamoDB with Node JS So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB. Easy right? Not so fast. It turns out, you have to obey...
over a year ago
5
over a year ago
So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB. Easy right? Not so fast. It turns out, you have to obey your provisioned write capacity. Unlike S3, "Simple Storage Service" where you simply upload a file, DynamoDB isn't "Simple". There's no "upload CSV" button. You have to write a...
Londonist
An A-Z Of The London Underground X was tricky but we think we sorted it.
11 months ago
mtlynch.io
How I Tricked Myself into Shipping Too Late Many software founders fail for a simple reason: they ship too late. They spend years developing a...
over a year ago
42
over a year ago
Many software founders fail for a simple reason: they ship too late. They spend years developing a product in a vacuum only to see it crumble the first time a real customer touches it. The Indie Hackers podcast features many such stories. The show’s stated mission is to help...
TheCollector
10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore undefined
2 months ago
nanoscale views
AI/ML and condensed matter + materials science Materials define the way we live.  That may sound like an exaggeration that I like to spout because...
a year ago
10
a year ago
Materials define the way we live.  That may sound like an exaggeration that I like to spout because I'm a condensed matter physicist, but it's demonstrably true.  Remember, past historians have given us terms like "Stone Age", "Bronze Age", and "Iron Age", and the "Information...
Chris Nicholas
Integrate Twitter newsletters with API Routes Last week newsletters started popping up on Twitter profiles, using their recently purchased...
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 18-24 September 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Louwrentius
Difference of behavior in SATA Solid State Drives Introduction Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO....
over a year ago
3
over a year ago
Introduction Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO. After further investigation and additional testing, I've found the reason for the strange patterns in the graphs. The 'strange' test results are due to the fact that they were...
Build In Public...
I just announced an AI accelerator program Full story on my latest role at Paddle, the new AI program, and what it means for you
8 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Law of Conservation of Risk Risk cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be redistributed
over a year ago
History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act The Indian Citizenship Act JamesHoare Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages? undefined
a month ago
weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'There Is No Nothingness' Once asked about politics in a symposium portentously titled “The Writer’s Situation,”...
4 months ago
33
4 months ago
Once asked about politics in a symposium portentously titled “The Writer’s Situation,” J.V. Cunningham replied:  “You can write on politics or not. I do not. But is politics meant here? Or is it, rather, ideology? The latter is religious, not political, though religion...
diamond geezer
King's Cross Station KING'S CROSS  STATION 🚂 £200   London's Monopoly Streets KING'S CROSS STATION Group: British...
10 months ago
10
10 months ago
KING'S CROSS  STATION 🚂 £200   London's Monopoly Streets KING'S CROSS STATION Group: British Railways Purchase price: £200 Rent: £25 Annual passengers: 23 million Borough: Camden Postcode: N1 A (very) brief history: King's Cross station opened in 1852 to replace a temporary...
TheCollector
What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique undefined
a week ago
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
Diaries of Note
For twelve years we lied about it Kenneth Rose was a journalist and biographer famous for his access to high-profile British figures,...
a year ago
8
a year ago
Kenneth Rose was a journalist and biographer famous for his access to high-profile British figures, tales of whom are scattered through his extensive diaries. On the day he wrote the following entry in 1985, Rose had spent some time with Mary Soames, daughter of Winston...
Retail Design Blog
New Location in Frankfurt – Feature Opportunity Dear Retail Design Blog Team, In June 2023, you featured our Hamburg location ( link:...
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings? undefined
9 months ago
Nat Eliason's...
TODAY'S THE DAY! This book is not what you think
5 months ago
Math Is Still...
Can Information Escape a Black Hole? Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can be exceptions....
8 months ago
62
8 months ago
Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can be exceptions. The theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind speaks with co-host Janna Levin about the black hole information paradox and how it has propelled modern physics. The post Can...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Slowmad Q&A The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people...
over a year ago
13
over a year ago
The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people are generally interested in is my experience of remote work. As I put it [recently](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1154916667606130689):
Noahpinion
In which I rebut Nate Silver on the economy and Matt Yglesias on nuclear Bloggers love to argue.
2 months ago
Maps Mania
Real-Time Animated Wind Maps
2 months ago
Remains of the Day
Smoke and Mirrors “When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you’re not standing up to that guy,...
over a year ago
14
over a year ago
“When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you’re not standing up to that guy, you’re standing up to the robe that he’s wearing and the role that he’s going to play. What makes him worthy of that role is his integrity, as a representative of the principles of...
devonzuegel.com
OWD #3: Disney World & other underworlds Every place has some dirty secrets, even Disney World. We all have to get rid of waste somehow! In...
over a year ago
8
over a year ago
Every place has some dirty secrets, even Disney World. We all have to get rid of waste somehow! In this episode, the Bertauds and I discuss methods of sanitation and waste management from around the world, and how these hidden systems shape our cities. RSS · Apple Podcasts ·...
Coffee with an...
Design explained using venn diagrams Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple venn diagrams. Unfortunately,...
8 months ago
61
8 months ago
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple venn diagrams. Unfortunately, this isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice “The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
9
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin   Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
Londonist
Named: The First Person To Witness The Great Fire Of London New Museum of London research reveals who first discovered the blaze.
a year ago
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway Acquires BHE Minority Interests Berkshire Hathaway has acquired the remaining minority interests in BHE from the Scott family and...
2 months ago
25
2 months ago
Berkshire Hathaway has acquired the remaining minority interests in BHE from the Scott family and now is the sole owner of the energy company.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Shareholder Supremacy I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly,...
5 months ago
54
5 months ago
I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly profitable, or how Meta,...
Musings on Markets
Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023! I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six...
a year ago
13
a year ago
I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis. At...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Notebooks for PostHog Today we’ve released a major change, dubbed PostHog 3000, which updates the look and feel of PostHog...
a year ago
4
a year ago
Today we’ve released a major change, dubbed PostHog 3000, which updates the look and feel of PostHog dramatically. You can read all about what’s…
Commoncog
The Disaffected PhD Skunkworks: A Story About Process Improvement A concrete story of positive process improvement, deep from the trenches of early customer service...
over a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist? undefined
5 months ago
The American Scholar
Born to Be Wild One founding family’s centuries-long journey The post Born to Be Wild appeared first on The American...
6 months ago
30
6 months ago
One founding family’s centuries-long journey The post Born to Be Wild appeared first on The American Scholar.
Nelson's Weblog
Goodreads lost all of my reviews Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully...
over a year ago
14
over a year ago
Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I've never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their...
Mahmoud Felfel's...
The Phoenix project — Book Notes Book Notes From "The Phoenix project".
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Aesthetically They Are Still Delightful' “Early Ellington records are like vintage cars. They are not as he or anyone else would make them...
7 months ago
37
7 months ago
“Early Ellington records are like vintage cars. They are not as he or anyone else would make them nowadays, but historically they are still important and aesthetically they are still delightful.”  Let's not confine Philip Larkin’s conclusion exclusively to Duke Ellington’s early...
Arduino Blog
Giving a teenage pet turtle a synthetic pizza-ordering voice If B. F. Skinner’s famous research proved anything, it is that virtually all animals are capable of...
3 months ago
33
3 months ago
If B. F. Skinner’s famous research proved anything, it is that virtually all animals are capable of some degree of training. Training is really just taking advantage of an animal’s natural inclination to adapt for survival, which is something all living organisms do. With that in...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Why I cancelled my Replit subscription <![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of...
a year ago
4
a year ago
<![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of 2023. Replit is a popular and growing multi language development environment in the cloud. I've been subscribing to the Hacker plan for the past few years and it worked well for my...
./techtipsy
Your Wi-Fi might be terrible because of Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5...
a month ago
33
a month ago
For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5 GHz one would suddenly stop working and completely disappear from the available Wi-Fi networks. OpenWRT upgrades also didn’t improve the situation. This was very annoying. After...
Explorations of an...
Uruguay Part 1: Relaxed Birding In The Countryside Uruguay is one of the smallest countries in South America and the only one that is entirely situated...
a year ago
9
a year ago
Uruguay is one of the smallest countries in South America and the only one that is entirely situated south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Uruguay was first settled by hunter-gatherers around 13,000 years ago, while the predominate tribe when Europeans arrived was the Charrúa people....
The Modern House
Tangled up in blue: a diminutive urban cottage designed by fardaa
3 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: 10 Mar 2024 - Band of Brothers Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum...
9 months ago
19
9 months ago
Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum call where we made some concessions. I wish he were better able to take things off my hands but also I need to step up
swyx's site RSS Feed
Keyboard First I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast...
over a year ago
17
over a year ago
I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast today](https://art19.com/shows/intercom-on-product/episodes/10ee6fbe-13ef-48c6-af5e-3477bdbe87e3). They discussed the rise of the `cmd+K` UI paradigm in apps like:
Blog posts of...
Quick tips for hiring remotely You are most likely already experienced with hiring so think of this more as a quick FYI focusing on...
over a year ago
5
over a year ago
You are most likely already experienced with hiring so think of this more as a quick FYI focusing on hiring remotely… What issues...
Common Edge
What Happened to New York City Public Housing, and How Can We Fix It? The former chief architect for NYCHA on what ails the the system.
8 months ago
Ian Betteridge
Weeknote, Sunday 15th December
a week ago
Tony Finch's blog
Random floating point numbers Here are a couple of algorithms for generating uniformly distributed floating point numbers 0.0 <= n...
a year ago
5
a year ago
Here are a couple of algorithms for generating uniformly distributed floating point numbers 0.0 <= n < 1.0 using an unbiased random bit generator and IEEE 754 double precision arithmetic. Both of them depend on details of how floating point numbers work, so before getting into...
A Smart Bear
Easy to criticize, hard to create It's easy to explain why any given business will fail. So what? But neither is it wise to totally...
10 months ago
31
10 months ago
It's easy to explain why any given business will fail. So what? But neither is it wise to totally ignore the critics.
The Honest Broker
Stoicism in the Gioia Family My brother Dana tells how our LA childhood gave us a direct connection to an ancient Roman worldview
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
A Fundraising Survival Guide
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Auto Layout in Figma (tip) Figma's Auto Layout feature makes designing layouts feel more like building with Flexbox.
5 months ago
This Space
39 Books: 2020 It may be a sign of something that I read Louis-René des Forêts's Poems of Samuel Wood several years...
6 months ago
59
6 months ago
It may be a sign of something that I read Louis-René des Forêts's Poems of Samuel Wood several years after reading A Voice from Elsewhere in which Maurice Blanchot dedicates three unusually personal (and often bewildering) essays to them. The book's title is adapted from a line...
TheCollector
10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To undefined
a month ago
Stephen Diehl
The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger
over a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
From Skyline to Valley A family friend had a big round-number birthday recently and we drove down to Central Virginia for...
over a year ago
30
over a year ago
A family friend had a big round-number birthday recently and we drove down to Central Virginia for the celebration. Meanwhile, I’m always on the lookout for opportunities to add to my various travel lists so I wondered how might I combine the two. I thought about county counting...
mtlynch.io
Hiring: Freelance Blog Illustrator I’m a blogger, and I often commission custom illustrations for my blog posts like this one: An...
7 months ago
99
7 months ago
I’m a blogger, and I often commission custom illustrations for my blog posts like this one: An example of an illustration I commissioned for the blog, part of my year-in-review series The blog’s previous illustrator was the awesome Loraine Yow, who worked with me for six years....
RhysTranter.com
Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints In 'A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints', Mark Cooprider offers an accessible analysis of...
over a year ago
24
over a year ago
In 'A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints', Mark Cooprider offers an accessible analysis of Terrence Malick's 2019 biopic of the Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter—executed in 1943 for his refusal to swear allegiance to National Socialism. Cooprider explores...
A Beautiful Site
The Term "Headless Component" is a Misnomer You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid,...
a year ago
3
a year ago
You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid, accessible components without any styles. A clean slate to style from scratch! But the structure (bones) and logic (head) are there. You're mostly adding styles. They should be called...
Tinloof - Blog
Analytics with Sanity We’ll explain in this article the analytics possibilities with Sanity and how we enable them in our...
over a year ago
5
over a year ago
We’ll explain in this article the analytics possibilities with Sanity and how we enable them in our projects.
bt RSS Feed
Simple Does Not Mean Ugly Simple Does Not Mean Ugly 2019-03-26 I see new blog posts popping up now and again advocating for...
over a year ago
4
over a year ago
Simple Does Not Mean Ugly 2019-03-26 I see new blog posts popping up now and again advocating for designers to keep their products as simple as possible - and I couldn’t agree more. A lot of designers tend to think they need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to UI concepts that...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Discrete Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Anyone know if there's a case of partial...
a year ago
23
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Anyone know if there's a case of partial application of law of the sea? Today's News: Come see me! BAHFest London, this Saturday, one night only.
TheCollector
How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time? undefined
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A’ Design Awards & Competition – Call for Submissions This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award &...
a year ago
4
a year ago
This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing thousands of award winners from 139 different design disciplines. Line Series...
journal – Winnie Lim
osaka, and thoughts on travel blogging We were surprised to discover that Osaka has quite a number of outdoor dining options. Our first...
a year ago
27
a year ago
We were surprised to discover that Osaka has quite a number of outdoor dining options. Our first meal was okonomiyaki of course, and my partner found a okonomiyaki restaurant with outdoor seating:...
Rest of World -...
A beauty contest controversy turned Uber into an unlikely battlefield between Nigeria and South... Bolt has suspended inter-country requests between South Africa and Nigeria as users book hoax rides...
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war? Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Bluster (New Style) Invokes the Public Good' I write about money more often than ever before at my day job. I’m not naïve and understand that...
a year ago
10
a year ago
I write about money more often than ever before at my day job. I’m not naïve and understand that research can be costly and professors don’t work for the love of it, but money has become the barometer of worth. Small grants can be ignored regardless of the intrinsic worth of the...
The Pragmatic...
What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events...
a year ago
49
a year ago
Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events mean for the rest of the industry?
Lighthouse Blog
How to manually add content to read it later
6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
36
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
Nela Dunato Art &...
My policy on the use of generative AI in creative work I have never used generative AI software to produce original written content, images, code, audio,...
6 months ago
60
6 months ago
I have never used generative AI software to produce original written content, images, code, audio, or video, and do not intend to in the future. All of the art, design, photography, writing, video, and audio material published on NelaDunato.com and other websites I own have been...
Seth's Blog
Deadlines and tailgaters If the ferry is leaving in fifteen minutes, do you drive faster than normal to get to the dock on...
a year ago
11
a year ago
If the ferry is leaving in fifteen minutes, do you drive faster than normal to get to the dock on time? If someone is driving close behind you and pressuring you to turn when you don’t feel safe, are you more likely to go for it? We can do our work as fast as makes […]
CONTEMPORIST
Steel Symphony: A Madrid Home’s Unique Design With Weathered Elegance Borja Lomas of Voluar Arquitectura has designed a new home in Madrid, Spain, that’s covered in...
8 months ago
32
8 months ago
Borja Lomas of Voluar Arquitectura has designed a new home in Madrid, Spain, that’s covered in weathering steel and has a uniquely shaped design. The shape of the home showcases various areas that branch out in different directions, some of which are cantilevered away from the...
TheCollector
Who Was Eusebius? undefined
11 months ago
Applied Cartography
VC does not guarantee PMF Two companies that I started following (with no small amount of envy) back in 2021: Hype (fka Pico)...
a month ago
4
a month ago
Two companies that I started following (with no small amount of envy) back in 2021: Hype (fka Pico) sold to an MMA-themed holdco earlier this year. Raised a $4.5m seed from Stripe and Bloomberg Beta and a $10m Series A; crossed the finish line at $200K ARR after eight years. Stir...
ntietz.com blog
The phrase "good enough" isn't fit for purpose Words matter. First impressions matter. I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and...
a year ago
3
a year ago
Words matter. First impressions matter. I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and there's a section titled "Good-Enough Software". In it, the authors expand that "the phrase 'good enough' does not imply sloppy or poorly produced code" and that it must still meet...
Daniel Marino
Using the p5play JavaScript Game Engine I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly...
11 months ago
7
11 months ago
I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use. It was designed to be intuitive for beginners, such as students. In under a half hour I had created some common basic mechanics! Check it out: See the...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Garden Museum Café, Lambeth Beautiful 15th century Lambeth Palace is a strange London landmark - widely recognisable, with a...
10 months ago
50
10 months ago
Beautiful 15th century Lambeth Palace is a strange London landmark - widely recognisable, with a stately position Thames-side and passed by a number of busy bus routes, it is nevertheless very rarely visited, most of the main structures off-limits as the Archbishop of...
Tech + Economics +...
Why are we so obsessed with the multiverse? Why are we so drawn to the idea of multiple realities? More than a trend, it seems to come from a...
a year ago
9
a year ago
Why are we so drawn to the idea of multiple realities? More than a trend, it seems to come from a deep emptiness within us—a longing for a place where our world's limits don't exist, where anything is possible. From the alternate timelines and worlds of Scott Pilgrim Takes...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I write blog posts every month Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my...
over a year ago
5
over a year ago
Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my first post that my goal was to write one…
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
42
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...
Dominik Sobe's...
Stagnant MRR but experimenting in the background
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Healthy naivety * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I often like to...
over a year ago
9
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I often like to look back on when I was just getting into startups. I think there is a myth in entrepreneurship which not only do many newcomers believe, but could also be a key reason why many...
Anecdotal Evidence
'With Squeaky Wit the Light, Improper Verse' Without context or other clue, who do you think might have written this tart...
6 months ago
40
6 months ago
Without context or other clue, who do you think might have written this tart little couplet?:  “With squeaky wit the light, improper verse Falls on the heavy lunch and makes it worse.”   I first encountered him in the eighth grade, in English class. He was sold to us as the “poet...
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
6
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
From Stardust to Sapiens: A Stunning Serenade to Our Cosmic Origins and Our Ongoing Self-Creation We were never promised any of it — this world of cottonwoods and clouds — when the Big Bang set the...
a year ago
8
a year ago
We were never promised any of it — this world of cottonwoods and clouds — when the Big Bang set the possible in motion. And yet here we are, atoms with consciousness, each of us a living improbability forged of chaos and dead stars. Children of chance, we have made ourselves into...
Josh Comeau's blog
Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator” In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do...
over a year ago
3
over a year ago
In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do we come up with all of the parameters, though? I've built a tool that'll help.
Explorations of an...
Parque Provincial Caá Yarí Our swing through Misiones province of northeastern Argentina was coming to a close with just a...
a year ago
7
a year ago
Our swing through Misiones province of northeastern Argentina was coming to a close with just a couple of days remaining. When researching this part of Argentina, I kept noticing one particular area that had a number of interesting eBird reports, but very little information on...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't write Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most...
a year ago
6
a year ago
Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most people. We don’t need more good quality, niche, carefully crafted content. So, if you are thinking about starting a blog, a Substack, a Twitter account or something similar, please know...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Pure Essay' “A good deal that he wrote took the form of the ‘pure’ essay, written, as Lord David Cecil says,...
7 months ago
59
7 months ago
“A good deal that he wrote took the form of the ‘pure’ essay, written, as Lord David Cecil says, ‘not to instruct or edify but only to produce aesthetic satisfaction.’ I do not know why it should be so, but today the ‘pure’ essay is a literary genre to which no reader under sixty...
Musings on Maps
Fifteen Two-Hundred Pound Bombs Dropping at least fifteen two hundred pound bombs equipped with precision guidance systems–bunker...
2 months ago
39
2 months ago
Dropping at least fifteen two hundred pound bombs equipped with precision guidance systems–bunker busters that could penetrate deep underground and flatten built structures–that killed Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and much of his high command follows a terrifying explosion of...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Nick Morley (with giveaway!) Nick Morley, aka Linocutboy, is an artist, illustrator, author and educator specialising in linocut....
a year ago
49
a year ago
Nick Morley, aka Linocutboy, is an artist, illustrator, author and educator specialising in linocut. His prints have been bought by people all over the world and his illustrations have appeared on book covers and in magazines. Nick teaches regular linocut workshops at Hello Print...
History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead Arguing with the Dead JamesHoare Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
10 months ago
Liz Denys
Revised icebreakers for nicer New Yorkers You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet...
over a year ago
15
over a year ago
You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet someone new, and you're inevitably asking and being asked three questions: Where do you work? Where do you live? How much is your rent? Okay, you don't always encounter that last one,...
TheCollector
What to Expect from Art Market Budapest undefined
2 months ago
Max Countryman
Publish Your Drafts When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating...
a year ago
26
a year ago
When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating at times to share unfinished work because it hasn't reached a level of polish that satisfies me. But the truth is, our unpublished work has no value to anyone.
Devmoh
Protobufs Explained, and why Google, Apple, and LinkedIn use it over JSON Faster than JSON, clearer than XML, cross-language, type-safe, and backwards compatible.
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Google looks at acquiring YouTube can I get a quick analysis of the likely cost of acquiring youtube? Eric
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Infinite Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This remains for me one of the weirdest things that...
a year ago
18
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This remains for me one of the weirdest things that defies my ideas about math being prior to science. Today's News: Five more days till A City on Mars drops! If you plan to buy, buying as a preorder reallllly helps us. Thanks!
Left To Write
Who Am I? Hello new subscribers and what to expect from me
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
A Naive Exploration of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Subtle Patterns: hundreds of free backgrounds that tile I've been using Subtle Patterns for quite some time now. All the patterns are great, and their...
over a year ago
15
over a year ago
I've been using Subtle Patterns for quite some time now. All the patterns are great, and their Photoshop plugin is incredibly useful. I can't remember when it first launched, but I do remember when there was only one or two pages to browse on the site. Now it has over 380 images...
Map of the Week
The Ferraris Atlas of Belgium While I was at the British Library in May, I spent much time admiring and puzzling over this...
2 months ago
41
2 months ago
While I was at the British Library in May, I spent much time admiring and puzzling over this atlas. The Ferraris maps of the Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium) were created by Count (and cartographer) Joseph de Ferraris in the 1770's. He was commissioned by Austrian empress...
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, September 2023 A quasi-monthly feature. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them...
a year ago
262
a year ago
A quasi-monthly feature. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them in my links digests. I’ve been busy helping to choose the first cohort of our blogging fellowship, so my reading has been relatively light. All emphasis in bold in the quotes...
Tinloof - Blog
Using Next.js and Vercel to instantly load a data-heavy website A React application is JavaScript code that gets transformed into static HTML. This transformation...
over a year ago
6
over a year ago
A React application is JavaScript code that gets transformed into static HTML. This transformation is called "rendering". Whenever you build a React application, you're inevitably making a decision on when to render it and you usually have 3 choices: Client-side rendering: the...
Mazdak
Understanding Employment Insurance (EI) Employment Insurance (EI) is a social insurance program in Canada that provides temporary financial...
10 months ago
82
10 months ago
Employment Insurance (EI) is a social insurance program in Canada that provides temporary financial support to eligible individuals who lose their jobs through no fault of their own. While this is the most commonly understood purpose of EI, the program offers various benefits...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Buying a new computer *** Desktop or Laptop *** When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to...
over a year ago
3
over a year ago
*** Desktop or Laptop *** When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to make is about whether to go for a desktop or a laptop. There was a time that many believed that the desktop would become a niche product. Most people want a laptop because they can...
HTMHell
#26 HTMHell special: tasty buttons The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end...
over a year ago
4
over a year ago
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end development: 🔥 the burger button. 🔥 The burger button and his tasty friends (kebab, meatball and bento) usually reveal a list of links when activated. According to our studies, these buttons...
Working Theorys
Thoughts For Sale Mass-market intellectualism is an oxymoron, right? Ask Substack.
a month ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system Applying the Pew Research Political Typology Quiz to a state-of-the-art AI Language model
over a year ago
Making software...
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing[^1] software is a complex...
over a year ago
13
over a year ago
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing[^1] software is a complex thing. A great deal of real-world testing and user feedback is needed to create the best solution to the problem you are trying to fix. Obvious requirements are to keep things...
Nela Dunato Art &...
Art Day: How to make time for creative projects while busy with client work Self-employed creative professionals have significantly more control over our schedules than those...
a month ago
39
a month ago
Self-employed creative professionals have significantly more control over our schedules than those employed in other organizations, but finding time for our own art can still be a challenge. While I was writing and editing my first book, I started using a technique that helped me...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The new economy According to the Business Insider, Facebook is “‘Beating The S— Out Of Its Numbers’ Thanks To...
over a year ago
9
over a year ago
According to the Business Insider, Facebook is “‘Beating The S— Out Of Its Numbers’ Thanks To Zynga’s Virtual Goods.”  I wanted to try to…
Charles Chen
Using useMemo and useCallback to Save the Past from React Langoliers If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s...
a year ago
5
a year ago
If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s sci-fi? You came to the right place!
Roberto's blog
Conquer dev environments with Nix I regularly use different devices with different OSs, such as a MacBook, a Windows desktop with WSL,...
6 months ago
34
6 months ago
I regularly use different devices with different OSs, such as a MacBook, a Windows desktop with WSL, a couple of Raspberry PIs, and so on. I have a bunch of tools I like to have at my fingertips when I log into a machine, like fd and Neovim. Setting up and maintaining the same...
Rest of World -...
Building an app that uses AI to interpret dreams Pandemic isolation inspired Coco Chen to work on the spiritual health platform Dreamore.
a year ago
Noahpinion
The Democrats are a strong party, the Republicans are a weak party It's Boss Tweed vs. Boss Tweet.
2 months ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
A martingale approach to detect changes in histograms If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect...
over a year ago
7
over a year ago
If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect various measures of Firefox performance…
High Signal
Making a living from no-code Katt Risen is a no-code founder and the creator of the No-Code Exits newsletter and co-creator of...
6 months ago
58
6 months ago
Katt Risen is a no-code founder and the creator of the No-Code Exits newsletter and co-creator of Build the Keyword
alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
7 months ago
13
7 months ago
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
xkcd.com
Supergroup
9 months ago
History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War The Election That Caused the Boer War JamesHoare Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
6 months ago
Flashbak
William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings “And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
10 months ago
18
10 months ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible   The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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
33
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...
TheCollector
10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial undefined
9 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Fast Rails tests with CanCan
over a year ago
TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s undefined
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Freeing the chatbot Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
7 months ago
Flashbak
Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024 What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
13
2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
There are two types...
Take Back The City On a recent episode of Billions, the New York Attorney General stands on the roof a car in the...
over a year ago
18
over a year ago
On a recent episode of Billions, the New York Attorney General stands on the roof a car in the middle of a New York City street with a bullhorn. Why? Vecause he’s positioned himself near a meeting on the Highline … Continue reading → The post Take Back The City appeared first on...
Data Boutique
Case Study: MatchesFashion Inventory Outflows Web data for market insights
9 months ago
diamond geezer
Some transport news Some transport news Overground news It's only accessible via QR code so it's not that...
4 months ago
25
4 months ago
Some transport news Overground news It's only accessible via QR code so it's not that accessible, but I clicked through and discovered the URL is vin.cloud.gomedia.io/HOXTON so you can check it out too. The homescreen is a list of the next three departures and their expected...
Josh Comeau's blog
Data Binding in React As developers, we don't like working with forms, but they're a critical part of most web...
a year ago
3
a year ago
As developers, we don't like working with forms, but they're a critical part of most web applications! In this tutorial, you'll learn exactly how to wire up all of the different form controls in React. Never forget how to data-bind a checkbox or radio button again!
Lighthouse Blog
Updates May 24
7 months ago
Common Edge
Rice University Builds an Opera Theater It’s time to appreciate one of Allan Greenberg’s best works of architecture.
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Being who you are, while becoming better We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means...
6 months ago
38
6 months ago
We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means striving to become better? What is "yourself?"
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words: Póli Gynaikón – City of Women Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive,...
over a year ago
13
over a year ago
Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive, Athens. License: All Rights Reserved. Covers of the magazine Póli Ginaikón Marsha Rowe, editor of the groundbreaking feminist magazine Spare Rib, famously recalled: “Suddenly, words...
Birchtree
Squashing links on social media Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow Knife For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are...
2 weeks ago
6
2 weeks ago
Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow Knife For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning Facebook, Instagram’s increasingly-overbearing owner — tightly
NeuroLogica Blog
Are Animals Conscious? This is a great scientific question because it challenges how we ask and answer scientific...
6 months ago
50
6 months ago
This is a great scientific question because it challenges how we ask and answer scientific questions. Are animals conscious? This is a question discussed in a recent BBC article that peaked my interest. They eventually get to a question that they should have opened with – how do...
Naveen Arun's Blog
Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone A Graduate Student’s Attempt to Find Sunshine as the Cloud Reigns Summary: I tried doing my laundry...
a year ago
10
a year ago
A Graduate Student’s Attempt to Find Sunshine as the Cloud Reigns Summary: I tried doing my laundry without a smartphone. This proved to be difficult, since our laundry machines can only be operated with a smartphone app. After lots of struggle, I finally managed to do it,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Size markets using narratives, not numbers Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case...
over a year ago
10
over a year ago
Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case that you’re addressing a possible billion…
The Pragmatic...
Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in...
a year ago
38
a year ago
The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened.
./techtipsy
Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one...
over a year ago
32
over a year ago
After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one interesting thing. At least it was interesting to me. Background I had one goal: to try to see if I could turn it into a semi-passive PC by only turning the fan on when the PC was...
Seth's Blog
Who is undermining your brand? There’s a high-end grocer in a very expensive neighborhood of New York–and they focus all of their...
a year ago
22
a year ago
There’s a high-end grocer in a very expensive neighborhood of New York–and they focus all of their energy on Italian food. Everything is imported, and they spend a lot of time and money earning the premium they charge for an authentic Italian shopping experience. And then a lazy...
Christopher Butler
Attention Degrowth No one is entitled to anyone else’s attention. Sometimes I think that may be the most important...
a year ago
54
a year ago
No one is entitled to anyone else’s attention. Sometimes I think that may be the most important insight beneath any design decision. Not to be combatted with manipulations, tricks, or just being a nuisance — but to be respected. The attention economy needs degrowth, too. We...
Math Is Still...
What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics? Terence Tao, who has been called the “Mozart of Mathematics,” wrote an essay in 2007 about the...
10 months ago
31
10 months ago
Terence Tao, who has been called the “Mozart of Mathematics,” wrote an essay in 2007 about the common ingredients in “good” mathematical research. In this episode, the Fields Medalist joins Steven Strogatz to revisit the topic. The post What Makes for ‘Good’...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI Humor Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: OpenAI, hear me out: instead of nerfing the AI just...
a year ago
16
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: OpenAI, hear me out: instead of nerfing the AI just make it shame the user. Today's News:
A Beautiful Site
CSS shapes are here Here's something exciting from the CSS world: shapes! Ok, it may not sound all that exciting, but...
over a year ago
8
over a year ago
Here's something exciting from the CSS world: shapes! Ok, it may not sound all that exciting, but you haven't had a chance to see what can actually be done with CSS shapes yet. (Hint: check out the featured image above.) Razvan Caliman explains it like this: For a long time, web...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Creating Some Noise on Behalf of Silence How do you write about the value of silence? It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use...
5 months ago
29
5 months ago
How do you write about the value of silence? It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use words to extol the value of something whose essence is the very absence of words? It’s like making a painting of the invisible. Do you use visible means to depict something that...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Slack is Fumbling Developers Reflecting on the sudden switch away from Slack for Developer communities
over a year ago
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes. Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Mark Manson
5 Best Personal Traits for Life https://youtu.be/kDqQGogavmY What if I told you there's a hidden treasure trove of personal traits...
a year ago
83
a year ago
https://youtu.be/kDqQGogavmY What if I told you there's a hidden treasure trove of personal traits that could turn your life around? Are you curious? Are you dying to know what they are? Are you wondering why I'm asking so many questions instead of getting to the point? OK,...
Flashbak
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
4
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants.     Via University...
The Marginalian
Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being An invitation to "a certain, forgotten way of seeing the world" and an exultation at "earthly life,...
a year ago
30
a year ago
An invitation to "a certain, forgotten way of seeing the world" and an exultation at "earthly life, with its duration so short it obliges us to surpass ourselves."
Anecdotal Evidence
'The World's an End' In recent years John Dryden has become one of my reliable poets. He impresses me as a sane adult,...
4 months ago
36
4 months ago
In recent years John Dryden has become one of my reliable poets. He impresses me as a sane adult, with equal emphasis on both of those words. No dabbling in drugs and madness. I brought a volume of his poems with me to Cleveland where I’m visiting my brother in hospice. No...
TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich undefined
6 months ago
Home on Erik...
coin2dice Here's a problem that I used to give to candidates. I stopped using it seriously a long time ago...
over a year ago
3
over a year ago
Here's a problem that I used to give to candidates. I stopped using it seriously a long time ago since I don't believe in puzzles, but I think it's kind of fun. Let's say you have a function that simulates a random coin flip.
TokyoDev
自営業している開発者の事例 ![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVz...
over a year ago
5
over a year ago
![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBaFVsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--0fd0bbea7ce4fe8a41672eaf8df9cc22c297bbb0/itnomikainagoya.jpg) [IT飲み会名古屋](http://www.it-nomikai.jp/nagoya/before-info/...
The Rational Walk
Two Sides of the Same Coin Savings and consumption are joined at the hip. The more we consume during our working years, the...
11 months ago
62
11 months ago
Savings and consumption are joined at the hip. The more we consume during our working years, the longer it will take to achieve financial independence.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Why Not Get Out of This Rut?' "Books offer what may be called a standing solution to the eternal and infernal Christmas-present...
3 days ago
4
3 days ago
"Books offer what may be called a standing solution to the eternal and infernal Christmas-present problem.”  Well, yes and no. I’m a graceless gift giver and receiver, especially when it comes to books. People like my middle son are inspired and have a knack for...
Data Boutique
Expensive Data and Cannibalism Or.. Why some data products are priced so high
a year ago
Maps Mania
Mapping Tree Shadows
a year ago
diamond geezer
It's this blog's 22nd birthday It's diamond geezer's 22nd birthday. It's not an especially notable anniversary, not like 21 or...
3 months ago
14
3 months ago
It's diamond geezer's 22nd birthday. It's not an especially notable anniversary, not like 21 or 20, but it's still a big number.
diamond geezer
10,000 clicks Yesterday Google sent me an email. Congratulations! Your site reached 10K clicks from Google Search...
a year ago
5
a year ago
Yesterday Google sent me an email. Congratulations! Your site reached 10K clicks from Google Search in the past 28 days. This is because several people still turn up at diamond geezer via search engines rather than visiting deliberately - apparently over 300 people daily. They...
Melissa Penfold
2025 PREDICTIONS ARE IN: DESIGN FORECAST FOR THE WHOLE HOUSE Style manifested in many forms over the last 12 months, as well as in our homes and gardens with the...
3 weeks ago
5
3 weeks ago
Style manifested in many forms over the last 12 months, as well as in our homes and gardens with the way we decorate, entertain, and live. Of course style – and trends – are subjective, not to mention a subject of heated discussion – but each of the trends we discuss for the year...
Seth's Blog
Decoding ‘story’ Marketers like to talk about the story we tell. And non-marketers imagine that we’re referring to...
11 months ago
24
11 months ago
Marketers like to talk about the story we tell. And non-marketers imagine that we’re referring to Goldilocks and other ‘once upon a time’ moments. Because stories are the basic building block of culture, it’s difficult to see the nuance in this simple word. But one or two...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 067: GPT-4o and Google I/O May 17, 2024.
7 months ago
Noahpinion
China at the peak The country's rise is complete, but don't expect a rapid decline.
a year ago
Old Structures...
Like Looking Down A Well Trinity Church and its yard are surrounded on all four sides by tall buildings. In 1952, when Angelo...
7 months ago
30
7 months ago
Trinity Church and its yard are surrounded on all four sides by tall buildings. In 1952, when Angelo Rizzuto took this picture looking down from the roof of one of them, they were all of about 1900-1920 vintage. It’s a striking shot, but I’d guess not to everyone’s taste.
bt RSS Feed
HTML Dark Mode HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode...
a year ago
4
a year ago
HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode where I explained how to implement a very basic “dark mode” by using the prefers-color-scheme CSS attribute. This stills works perfectly fine, and in fact there is a cleaner variation...
Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961) Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
15
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
Open Culture
The Steampunk Clocks of 19th-Century Paris: Discover the Ingenious System That Revolutionized... A middle-class Parisian living around the turn of the twentieth century would have to budget for...
4 months ago
28
4 months ago
A middle-class Parisian living around the turn of the twentieth century would have to budget for services like not just water or gas, but also time. Though electric clocks had been demonstrated, they were still a high-tech rarity; installing one in the home would have been...
The Modern House
Heading out? Here’s how to do it with people and the planet in mind
a year ago
Mazdak
Google: Monopolized? Is Google too big? For years, the tech giant has dominated the search market, facing little...
3 weeks ago
12
3 weeks ago
Is Google too big? For years, the tech giant has dominated the search market, facing little competition.
Rest of World -...
Meta’s long-standing problem with “shaheed” An overdue ruling from the Oversight Board.
8 months ago
The American Scholar
Others Too many people in the world isn’t the problem—people are the problem The post Others appeared first...
3 months ago
27
3 months ago
Too many people in the world isn’t the problem—people are the problem The post Others appeared first on The American Scholar.
NeuroLogica Blog
A Climate Debate Regarding Health Effects – Part I This is the first entry in an exchange between me and Scott Hastings, who requested the exchange....
a year ago
33
a year ago
This is the first entry in an exchange between me and Scott Hastings, who requested the exchange. This is his opening arguments. My response will be tomorrow’s post.   Part I: Hi Steven, first of all, I am tremendously grateful to you for taking time to engage with me on this...
abdz.do - Have you...
By Wind — Printing By Wind By Wind — Printing By Wind abduzeedo0210—23 To meet future...
a year ago
36
a year ago
By Wind — Printing By Wind abduzeedo0210—23 To meet future demands on quality, specialization, and sustainability, two of Sweden’s (and Europe’s) foremost printing companies joined forces to create a unique and comprehensive offering:...
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 4 (Pet Sounds) Teacher's Pet gets new sounds in this post in a series about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
8 months ago
The Elysian
I'd like to open a Singapore franchise please? Franchise Cities as an alternative to Charter Cities.
9 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Stepped Brick Extension Makes Space For A Soft Warm Blush Kitchen Architecture and interior design firm Bradley Van Der Straeten, has shared photos of a home in...
8 months ago
65
8 months ago
Architecture and interior design firm Bradley Van Der Straeten, has shared photos of a home in England that received a new stepped brick extension with views of the garden. When the front door is open, you can see all the way through to the rear garden. A stepped form took shape...
Paul Graham: Essays
How You Know
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Diamond Batteries Again Why does news reporting of science and technology have to be so terrible at baseline? I know the...
a week ago
9
a week ago
Why does news reporting of science and technology have to be so terrible at baseline? I know the answers to this question – lack of expertise, lack of a business model to support dedicated science news infrastructure, the desire for click-bait and sensationalism – but it is still...
The Thinking Cap
Your Platform Is as Strong as Its Identity Layer Analyzing platforms through a layered cake of identity, social networking, and super apps.
over a year ago
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
10
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.
TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha? undefined
a year ago
The Solarchitecture...
Case study #2 - Sunbeam A-frame Let's start 2023 with presenting one of my dearest projects.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Horsley Bridge Partners Offices by Huntsman Architectural Group Huntsman Architectural Group designed a modern and collaborative workspace in a 1920’s Art Deco...
6 months ago
46
6 months ago
Huntsman Architectural Group designed a modern and collaborative workspace in a 1920’s Art Deco tower for Horsley Bridge in San...
The Modern House
Five uplifting things to do this February Well, we’ve made it through January. Spring is edging ever closer and the evenings are starting to...
a year ago
27
a year ago
Well, we’ve made it through January. Spring is edging ever closer and the evenings are starting to get just that little bit lighter. If February’s Latin meaning – from the verb ‘to cleanse’ – is anything to go by, this is a month for nourishing […]
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon? undefined
9 months ago
diamond geezer
The Overground renaming story The Overground renaming story Sep 2006: The Mayor announced yesterday that he's found a cunning way...
3 weeks ago
9
3 weeks ago
The Overground renaming story Sep 2006: The Mayor announced yesterday that he's found a cunning way of extending the tube network without forking out billions on new tunnels. He's taking a couple of existing rail services - namely Silverlink's North London line and TfL's East...
Sean Carroll
George B. Field, 1929-2024 George Field, brilliant theoretical astrophysicist and truly great human being, passed away on the...
4 months ago
46
4 months ago
George Field, brilliant theoretical astrophysicist and truly great human being, passed away on the morning of July 31. He was my Ph.D. thesis advisor and one of my favorite people in the world. I often tell my own students that the two most important people in your life who you...
TokyoDev
Discount coupons for babysitters in Japan via a government subsidy In 2016, the government started giving [financial support to parents who use...
a year ago
3
a year ago
In 2016, the government started giving [financial support to parents who use babysitters](https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/headline/taikijido/pdf/h28yosan_sankou5.pdf). Babysitters are very expensive in Japan for most families, so it’s usually not an option for many parents. But at...
Light from Space
Lunar Eclipse Triptych A total lunar eclipse is (next to the much rarer solar eclipses) a spectacle to behold and one of...
over a year ago
19
over a year ago
A total lunar eclipse is (next to the much rarer solar eclipses) a spectacle to behold and one of the few celestial events that happen in human timescales in the course of a few hours. In mid-May 2022 there was a beautiful eclipse visible from North America and I have
Joel Gascoigne
Making money with a product: A myth? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve realised...
over a year ago
9
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve realised there was a time I didn’t believe people would pay for a product. In my mind, it was a myth. As an entrepreneur, it’s so vital to overcome that. First, a coffee shop conversation I
NeuroLogica Blog
Tesla Demonstrated its Optimus Robot At a recent event Tesla showcased the capabilities of its humanoid autonomous robot, Optimus. The...
2 months ago
34
2 months ago
At a recent event Tesla showcased the capabilities of its humanoid autonomous robot, Optimus. The demonstration has come under some criticism, however, for not being fully transparent about the nature of the demonstration. We interviewed robotics expert, Christian Hubicki, on the...
The Modern House
Nick Hill’s no frills approach to materials recasts a 1930s house in south-east London as a...
9 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Brave Respect the Brave' In observance of Memorial Day, R.L. Barth sent me a poem by Ambrose Bierce, one I had never read...
6 months ago
54
6 months ago
In observance of Memorial Day, R.L. Barth sent me a poem by Ambrose Bierce, one I had never read before, “To E.S. Salomon” (Black Beetles in Amber, 1892). Here is the memorably pertinent third stanza:  “The brave respect the brave. The brave Respect the dead; but you -- you...
Neil Panchal
Introducing Berkeley Mono Now publicly available! Berkeley Mono Typeface Download a trial:...
over a year ago
11
over a year ago
Now publicly available! Berkeley Mono Typeface Download a trial: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono It will be available through Berkeley Graphics agency as a first release. Berkeley Mono Typeface Berkeley Mono is a love letter to the golden era of computing....
A Beautiful Site
CSS drop caps Traditionally found in printed media, drop caps are created by emphasizing the size, color, weight,...
over a year ago
10
over a year ago
Traditionally found in printed media, drop caps are created by emphasizing the size, color, weight, or style of the first letter in the first sentence of a paragraph. We can easily reproduce this effect on webpages by using the :first-letter pseudo element. Writing the styles...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves? Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Green Exterior Helps This Cabin Blend Into The Forest Scalar Architecture has completed a modern cabin in Connecticut that has a minimal ecological...
a year ago
6
a year ago
Scalar Architecture has completed a modern cabin in Connecticut that has a minimal ecological footprint. Designed as a 1200-square-foot retreat for a family of writers and producers, the cabin is only accessible via foot or light utility vehicle. The cabin is located in a hilly...
TheCollector
How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time? undefined
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
YCombinator's AI boom is still going strong (W24) Combing through all 158 YC AI startups (65% of the batch).
8 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #191 The dopamine loop, Berkshire Hathaway's annual report recap, Tom Gayner's letter to Markel...
9 months ago
65
9 months ago
The dopamine loop, Berkshire Hathaway's annual report recap, Tom Gayner's letter to Markel shareholders, Investing lessons from Earnest Shackleton, Google's Gemini AI goes off the rails
Maggie Appleton
What App is That?
over a year ago