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Oykun
Practising distraction-free creativity The design world is filled with exciting opportunities. We see Designers on X who are creating...
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The design world is filled with exciting opportunities. We see Designers on X who are creating Framer templates, experimenting with 3D, writing newsletters, starting design subscription agencies, selling icon packs and many more. I know it’s tempting to chase them all. I’ve given...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your personal finances Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your personal...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your personal finances: Credit and debit card security An important part of your personal digital security is making sure your credit and debit cards are secure. In this episode, Liz and Geoffrey take a...
Seán Barry
Getting Started With Docker (Part 1) What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this...
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over a year ago
What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this article is for you.
The Pragmatic...
Did Automattic commit open source theft? The maker of WordPress took 2M customers from its biggest rival: has a red line been crossed?
2 months ago
On the Arts
Gore Vidal Was Everywhere and Now He Is Nowhere The literary afterlife of "...an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and...
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a year ago
The literary afterlife of "...an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and he was probably right."
Mazdak
Anthropic's AI Breakthrough & Boeing's Q3 Disaster Boeing's Q3 earnings report reveals a massive loss, while Anthropic's Claude AI showcases...
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2 months ago
Boeing's Q3 earnings report reveals a massive loss, while Anthropic's Claude AI showcases mind-blowing new capabilities.
Anecdotal Evidence
'One of the Disadvantages of Wine' An offhand recounting of a conversation with Dr. Johnson:  “He has great virtue, in not drinking...
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An offhand recounting of a conversation with Dr. Johnson:  “He has great virtue, in not drinking wine or any fermented liquor, because, as he acknowledged to us, he could not do it in moderation. Lady M’Leod would hardly believe him, and said, ‘I am sure, sir, you would not carry...
xkcd.com
A Halloween Carol
a year ago
TheCollector
Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda undefined
12 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Hide the mouse cursor with CSS I know you can change the mouse cursor using CSS, but I never realized that you can actually hide it...
over a year ago
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I know you can change the mouse cursor using CSS, but I never realized that you can actually hide it altogether. .no-cursor { cursor: none; } Of course, that doesn't mean you should, it just means you can. Practical uses for this are definitely limited, but things like...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Divorce, Separations & Breakups: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
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Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Aaron's Essays
There Are No (Absolute) Red Flags in Venture Capital Let’s accept, for the purposes of this essay, that founders and venture capitalists are engaged in a...
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a year ago
Let’s accept, for the purposes of this essay, that founders and venture capitalists are engaged in a simple trade. Founders sell business risk for the cash they need to take bigger risks; venture capitalists buy that risk hoping it will one day transmute into reward. Each side...
devonzuegel.com
The silence is deafening Imagine you're at a dinner party, and you're getting into a heated argument. As you start yelling,...
over a year ago
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Imagine you're at a dinner party, and you're getting into a heated argument. As you start yelling, the other people quickly hush their voices and start glaring at you. None of the onlookers have to take further action—it's clear from their facial expressions that you're being a...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nitrogen Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If we survive long enough, most of the atoms in...
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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If we survive long enough, most of the atoms in everyone's body will have at some point been involved in a murder. Today's News:
The Changelog
Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network I’m going to lead with the technical punch line, and then explain it: Yggdrasil Network is an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m going to lead with the technical punch line, and then explain it: Yggdrasil Network is an opportunistic mesh that can be deployed privately or as part of a global-scale network. Each node gets a stable IPv6 address (or even an entire /64) that is derived from its public key...
dthompson
Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 has been released! This is a pretty slow...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 has been released! This is a pretty slow moving project but the last (and only) release was in 2018 so this release is long overdue. Guile-syntax-highlight is a general-purpose syntax highlighting library for GNU Guile. It...
Rest of World -...
When disaster strikes, the world opens WhatsApp Meta's messaging app has transformed communication in conflict and crisis areas.
2 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review ‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review JamesHoare Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
RhysTranter.com
Vivid Expression From distant Paris, Fr Huvelin offers spiritual advice to St Charles de Foucauld as he works as a...
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7 months ago
From distant Paris, Fr Huvelin offers spiritual advice to St Charles de Foucauld as he works as a gardener in Nazareth
Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish “The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
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8 months ago
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935     In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
wadertales
Counting breeding shorebirds using listening devices With more demands upon the space that is currently occupied by breeding waders, from developments...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
With more demands upon the space that is currently occupied by breeding waders, from developments such as wind turbines and monoculture forestry, conservationists are often asked to assess the potential effects of landscape change. Do passive acoustic devices have a role to play...
Math Is Still...
Math That Goes On Forever but Never Repeats Simple math can help explain the complexities of the newly discovered aperiodic monotile. ...
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a year ago
Simple math can help explain the complexities of the newly discovered aperiodic monotile. The post Math That Goes On Forever but Never Repeats first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Three Transitions
a year ago
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
a week ago
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a week ago
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
Alice GG
How to publish your Godot game on Mac Since 2019, Apple has required all MacOS software to be signed and notarized. This is meant to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Since 2019, Apple has required all MacOS software to be signed and notarized. This is meant to prevent naive users from installing malware while running software from unknown sources. Since this process is convoluted, it stops many indie game developers from releasing their Godot...
Wait But Why
A Short History of My Last Six Years On June 18, 2016, I slipped and fell down a deep, deep hole. The post A Short History of My Last Six...
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a year ago
On June 18, 2016, I slipped and fell down a deep, deep hole. The post A Short History of My Last Six Years appeared first on Wait But Why.
Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970) From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
The Map is Mostly...
Let the world dawn on you (influences pt. 2) I know the houses too. As I walk along they seem to run forward in the streets to look out at me...
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a year ago
I know the houses too. As I walk along they seem to run forward in the streets to look out at me from every window, and almost to say: "Good-morning! How do you do? I am quite well, thank God, and I am to have a new storey in May," or, "How are you? I am being redecorated...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Computer History Museum YouTube Channel I have been enjoying the CHM's YouTube Channel.
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Go slow to go fast A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long been an endurance athlete, and it's time to lean into my overall fitness and strength. Part of this is to be healthy and live a long life. But honestly? More of it is a desire to...
Londonist
Stooky Bill: The Sinister Puppet From Doctor Who Was Real And where to see him in London.
a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Preparing your paper and press for etching When you’ve created an aluminium or zinc plate etching, you’ll want to have a go at pulling your...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
When you’ve created an aluminium or zinc plate etching, you’ll want to have a go at pulling your first print. To do this, you’ll need to learn how to prepare your paper and how to set the correct pressure on your press. This blog is part of a series featuring tips and techniques...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I'm not a VC (yet) There is too much money chasing too few operators.
over a year ago
Commoncog
The Skill of Capital What, exactly, is the skill of capital? What does it consist of? How do you recognise it? We walk...
a year ago
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a year ago
What, exactly, is the skill of capital? What does it consist of? How do you recognise it? We walk through three stories, and then talk about the shape of the skill in practice.
Londonist
At The Smithfield Memorial To Scottish Hero William Wallace Still receiving flowers over 700 years on.
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital? undefined
a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?
Retail Design Blog
Ferragamo shop-in-shop Since British-born Maximilian Davis took the creative reigns at Ferragamo in 2022, the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Since British-born Maximilian Davis took the creative reigns at Ferragamo in 2022, the Florence-based fashion house has gradually regained the...
Seth's Blog
Avoid false proxies They’re toxic, wasteful and a tempting trap. It’s one of the most important topics in my new book....
a year ago
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a year ago
They’re toxic, wasteful and a tempting trap. It’s one of the most important topics in my new book. (And here’s a new podcast on it). We need proxies. You’re not allowed to read the book before you buy it or taste the ketchup before you leave the store. We rely on labels and...
mtlynch.io
Create Your Own Low-Cost Cloud Storage App with Sia and Nextcloud In today’s post, I’m going to show you how to set up your own cloud storage web app, similar to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In today’s post, I’m going to show you how to set up your own cloud storage web app, similar to Dropbox or Google Drive, but with substantially lower costs. This solution provides cloud storage at ~$0.60 per TB/month. By comparison, the same storage would cost $8.25 per month on...
Passing Time
Mixing Memory and Desire Rage & tranquility; decay & rebirth; memory and desire.
a year ago
devonzuegel.com
Inflation propagates unevenly Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say it, and yet the way pundits and academics talk about inflation glosses over this reality. As a result, most people who haven't had direct experience with high inflation have a flawed...
Retail Design Blog
White Bean Brand Identity by Aly Shrief White Bean is a cafe. It is an invitation-only cafe for the upper class of Jeddah’s society. The...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
White Bean is a cafe. It is an invitation-only cafe for the upper class of Jeddah’s society. The cafe will...
Atoms vs Bits
Intuitions for Georgism Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite from deep in our archive. You can unsubscribe from Reissues but continue receiving our new posts by updating your preference here. Last year, Atvbt’s bloggers published a piece...
The American Scholar
“water sign woman” by Lucille Clifton Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “water sign woman” by Lucille Clifton appeared first on The...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “water sign woman” by Lucille Clifton appeared first on The American Scholar.
bt RSS Feed
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I’m a big...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I’m a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of “brutalist” or minimalist design, so I’m always inspired...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Organizing Developer Writing Retreats One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS |...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS | RETREAT** in Miami!
devonzuegel.com
A libertarian just won the Argentinian presidency – how did that happen? If you're wondering how the heck a hardline libertarian just won the Argentinian presidential...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you're wondering how the heck a hardline libertarian just won the Argentinian presidential election, here's some background. First, a key fact is that the government is printing money at an accelerating rate, resulting in 143% annual inflation as of the most recent count....
TheCollector
Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy undefined
2 months ago
Flashbak
The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909 The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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a month ago
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding Gutenberg Full- and Wide-Width Image Support to Your WordPress Theme Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article talks about how to enable support for that feature in your theme, and one way to write the CSS that makes it work.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eternal shell history 🐢 XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded...
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10 months ago
XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded ¾ million commands in my bash history: $ wc -l < ~/.muh_history 763075 My history accounts for every shell command I’ve run since 2016—all saved in a 102MB file: ~/.muh_history. $...
SOCKS
“One Can No Longer Distinguish the Sun’s Outline”: Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky (1930) A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification...
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A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification and nomenclature. Cloud atlases were primarily developed starting in the 19th century and utilised for training weather forecasters and meteorologists. The 1930’s International...
The Turn Signal RSS...
Is Voice Interaction a Solution to Driver Distraction? In the '90s, the average new car came with simple climate controls, a radio, and a CD player. That...
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over a year ago
In the '90s, the average new car came with simple climate controls, a radio, and a CD player. That is very different from a new car today…
Ben Borgers
Class Council: “Brutally Honest”
over a year ago
nanoscale views
The wormhole kerfuffle, ER=EPR, and all that I was busy trying to finish off a grant proposal and paper revisions this week and didn't have the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was busy trying to finish off a grant proposal and paper revisions this week and didn't have the time to react in realtime to the PR onslaught surrounding the recent Nature paper by a team from Harvard, MIT, Fermilab, and Google.  There are many places to get caught up on this,...
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy. historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
The personal website...
Bottom Line Up Front: write to make decisions faster On April 2nd, 2020, Brett Crozier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s commanding officer, was relieved of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On April 2nd, 2020, Brett Crozier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s commanding officer, was relieved of command. The Navy’s decision to remove Crozier stemmed from a message that the commander wrote to his superiors. The message concerned a developing emergency aboard the Roosevelt:...
Coding Horror
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for
Vladimir Klepov as a...
10 Design Rules for Programmers For some reason, many developers disdain design. We are programmers, we are smart and rational, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For some reason, many developers disdain design. We are programmers, we are smart and rational, and we think technically. Designers are weird and artistic, they wear black sweaters and long scarves, they are no match to us. I never quite understood how you can ignore design if...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 7 best mobile app analytics tools 1. PostHog Best for: Engineering and product teams What is PostHog? PostHog (that's us 👋) is an...
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1. PostHog Best for: Engineering and product teams What is PostHog? PostHog (that's us 👋) is an all-in-one platform built to help engineers create…
diamond geezer
Tickets are being accepted on alternative services The tube was seriously disrupted in northwest London yesterday morning when a signal failure at...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The tube was seriously disrupted in northwest London yesterday morning when a signal failure at Wembley Park caused line closures and serious delays. And the advice which popped up is the advice which often pops up in such a situation, which is that tickets were being accepted on...
TheCollector
The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia undefined
a year ago
Simply Explained
Tuya IR Hub: control Daikin AC (Home Assistant + ESPHome) The release of ESPHome v1.15 brought better support for infrared climate control. This was enough to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The release of ESPHome v1.15 brought better support for infrared climate control. This was enough to finally make my YTF IR Hub useable. Here's how I flashed ESPHome onto it and how I configured it for my Daikin AC and Home Assistant.
Math Is Still...
Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On The Joy of Why podcast returns for a third season, with two co-hosts, 24 brilliant guests and 24...
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The Joy of Why podcast returns for a third season, with two co-hosts, 24 brilliant guests and 24 all-new episodes. The post Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91) undefined
2 months ago
Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
Posts on Made of...
Conkeror I’ve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension, but nowadays it’s a standalone app built on top of Mozilla’s xulrunner, so it uses the Gecko rendering engine. What it is, is an emacs implemented in Javascript, for the web. This...
Adventures In...
Throwing Shade In Wild Color I once heard someone say that standard hillshade (one-direction light source) ignores half of the...
a year ago
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a year ago
I once heard someone say that standard hillshade (one-direction light source) ignores half of the terrain. While this is an exaggeration, it makes a good point. Earth has an atmosphere and light diffuses, bounces, and wraps around a terrain in a manner that a single light...
Patrick Kayongo
Substack vs Africa The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging and online writing was dead, superseded by YouTube, Substack came along and solved the problems of discovery and monetisation. Their feed and recommendations have allowed many to...
Noahpinion
Japan isn't quite "back", but it has a fighting chance Here are some ideas for what it can do to be truly "back".
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness Event News
a year ago
The Marginalian
Between Encyclopedia and Fairy Tale: The Wondrous Birds and Reptiles of 18th-Century Artist Dorothea... Imagine a world of constant wars and deadly plagues, a world without eyeglasses, bicycles, or...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Imagine a world of constant wars and deadly plagues, a world without eyeglasses, bicycles, or sanitation. Imagine being a gifted child in that world, knowing you are born into a body that will never be granted the basic rights of citizenship in any country, into a mind that will...
The Modern House
Tim Ross: the Australian broadcaster on the life-enhancing effect of modest, modernist buildings –... Growing up in a 1960s house in the suburbs of Melbourne, the Australian broadcaster Tim Ross was...
6 months ago
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Growing up in a 1960s house in the suburbs of Melbourne, the Australian broadcaster Tim Ross was often left to his own devices. A daydreamer with an eye for design, his passion for modernist buildings took root and caught up with him following his early […]
Quantum Frontiers
Building a Visceral Understanding of Quantum Phenomena A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the...
4 months ago
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A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the early 90’s. For those not in the know, this is a physics-based puzzle game about building Rube Goldberg style contraptions to achieve … Continue reading →
Making software...
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own personal "reading list" of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
Diaries of Note
I am dead and, exactly as I foresaw, I still exist Born to American parents in Paris in 1900, Julian Green spent much of his life in France, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Born to American parents in Paris in 1900, Julian Green spent much of his life in France, and despite his American heritage he wrote exclusively in French, becoming the first non-French national to be inducted into the esteemed Académie Française. His prolific career spanned...
Tech + Economics +...
We’re in our 30’s. We’re not The Girls or The Boys. A busy morning café. A group of women in their 30s are laughing over lattes. One of them exclaims,...
a year ago
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a year ago
A busy morning café. A group of women in their 30s are laughing over lattes. One of them exclaims, "We girls need to do this more often!" Across town, a group of men clink their glasses in a pub, one of them chuckling, "It's always a good time with the boys." Adults...
TheCollector
7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa undefined
7 months ago
Christopher Butler
Outlines are IA When you create an outline, you are arranging ideas in relation to one another: a heading is a big...
a year ago
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a year ago
When you create an outline, you are arranging ideas in relation to one another: a heading is a big idea, a sub-heading is a smaller one related to it, a bulleted list is a group of even smaller ideas, and so on. Every indent suggests a sense of zooming in — of getting more...
Arduino Blog
Top Arduino Cloud IoT dashboard ideas with the new Image widget  Recently, we announced the exciting new Image widget for Arduino Cloud. This powerful feature opens...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Recently, we announced the exciting new Image widget for Arduino Cloud. This powerful feature opens up a world of possibilities for enhancing your IoT dashboards. But the true potential of the Image widget lies in the applications that you create. Today, we’re excited to dive...
Max Rozen
Examples of large production-grade, open-source React apps All of the to-do apps are great for starting to learn React, but what about real-life? Let's see...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
All of the to-do apps are great for starting to learn React, but what about real-life? Let's see what real production React apps are like.
Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome And Her Controversial Religion
7 months ago
TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know undefined
2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965) To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
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To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations. The Moon The Milky Way and The...
Many Worlds
Many Worlds Archive is Available I had the pleasure of reporting and writing the Many Worlds column — sponsored by NASA’s NExSS...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had the pleasure of reporting and writing the Many Worlds column — sponsored by NASA’s NExSS initiative and the Lunar & Planetary Institute — for almost eight years. But the run came to an end in October. Now an archive of the more than 400 columns is easily available at...
macwright.com
Homeownership Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house and they can’t, or...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house and they can’t, or they’ve bought a house. The desire to own ones own home is almost universal in the people I know in the US. It’s even stronger for folks who live outside of major cities. And people...
HTMHell
#1 button disguised as a link Bad code <button role="link" title="Name of website" tabindex="0"> <img alt="Name of website"...
over a year ago
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Bad code <button role="link" title="Name of website" tabindex="0"> <img alt="Name of website" src="logo.jpg" title="Name of website"> </button> Issues and how to fix them Wrong usage of the button element. There’s an element for linking to external sites (<a>). Do not change...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Design Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Literally everyone would be happy about this. We...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Literally everyone would be happy about this. We should be building NOW Today's News:
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"A standard protocol for machines to negotiate bitcoin payments for resources" Great idea from Brian Armstrong of Coinbase: 1/ Seems like there should be a standard protocol for...
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Great idea from Brian Armstrong of Coinbase: 1/ Seems like there should be a standard protocol for machines to negotiate bitcoin payments…
TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe undefined
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Kagi Blog
Kagi raises $670K Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our...
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Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date.
Seth's Blog
Can you draw it on a graph? Explain it with quadrants? Translate it into Spanish? It’s easy to memorize a few words that purport...
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Explain it with quadrants? Translate it into Spanish? It’s easy to memorize a few words that purport to explain something, but all they do is relabel it. If you truly understand something, you can use different modalities to help someone else understand it. The magic of a good...
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McDonald's in Woolwich at 50 50 years ago today England's first McDonald's restaurant opened. There's a brilliant plaque...
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50 years ago today England's first McDonald's restaurant opened. There's a brilliant plaque outside. The three signatories were big names in the American company - Robert Rhea, Fred Turner and Ray Kroc - but none of them turned up. Instead the ribbon was cut by the dynamic...
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What Does Stoicism Teach About Pleasure and Pain? Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that has gained increasing popularity in recent years. At the...
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Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that has gained increasing popularity in recent years. At the heart of this school of thought is the idea that we can achieve true happiness by living in accordance with nature, accepting what we cannot change, and focusing on developing our own...
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This North American City Is Basically A Big Old Copy-And-Paste Of London Copy our homework much, folks?
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 20-21 January 2024 Two words: cheese market.
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Luke Edward Hall: the artist and designer pulls back the curtain to reveal his colourful life story A boundless creative with a uniquely romantic, rainbow-hued aesthetic, Luke Edward Hall has...
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A boundless creative with a uniquely romantic, rainbow-hued aesthetic, Luke Edward Hall has reinvigorated our appetite for English Country House Style – and embroidered velvet slippers. For this week’s episode of Homing In, Matt Gibberd gets the invitation we’ve all been waiting...
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Max Rozen
How to handle server-side rendering in React Getting server-side rendering to work in React is quite a hassle if you don't know what you're...
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Getting server-side rendering to work in React is quite a hassle if you don't know what you're doing. Let's make it easier.
Old Structures...
This Time, The Famous One Seven years ago, I wrote a blog post called “No, Not The Famous One.” Guess what? On a site visit to...
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Seven years ago, I wrote a blog post called “No, Not The Famous One.” Guess what? On a site visit to Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday, I noticed a lot of nice cast-iron storefronts in the old shopping streets. Given that iron wasn’t a major industry there in the nineteenth...
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Demystifying styled-components For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses...
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For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses traditional CSS features under-the-hood, and that lack of clarity can cause real problems when things go awry. In this post, we'll learn exactly how styled-components works by...
Seeking Wisdom
Attention is all you need – Part 2 This is the 11th and final post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for...
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This is the 11th and final post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for better understanding. I concluded the previous post by explaining how Attention works. You can download the Excel sheet and Python code that explains how Attention from here and...
Paul Graham: Essays
Is It Worth Being Wise?
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024 Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
Calculated Risk
Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in November Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in November A brief excerpt: From housing economist Tom Lawler: seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million in November, up 3.3% from October’s preliminary pace and up 4.6% from...
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Beatie Wolfe Beatie Wolfe has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation, and...
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Beatie Wolfe has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation, and pioneered new formats for art that bridge the physical and digital. Wolfe's latest projects include a visualization of 800,000 years worth of climate data, a collective postcard art...
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McMansion Hell
Hi everyone: I&rsquo;ve written a long deep-dive on the present state of the McMansion, from... The McMansion as Harbinger of the American Apocalypse Hi everyone: I’ve written a long deep-dive on...
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The McMansion as Harbinger of the American Apocalypse Hi everyone: I’ve written a long deep-dive on the present state of the McMansion, from farmhouse chic to imminent environmental collapse. If you’ve been seeing an inordinate number of big ugly houses pop up in your...
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Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-December 2024 Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market;...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-December 2024 A brief excerpt: Earlier this week, in Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-December 2024 I reviewed home inventory, housing...
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars JamesHoare Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Emergent Mind in The Atlantic One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The...
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One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The Atlantic who asked Caroline Mimbs Nyce, one of their reporters, to look into it. Caroline interviewed me for the article they just published which focused on the challenges Google is...
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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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...
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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...
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Diaries of Note
We are like helpless animals Born in Paris in 1920, Benoîte Groult was nineteen when her beloved city fell under Nazi occupation...
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Born in Paris in 1920, Benoîte Groult was nineteen when her beloved city fell under Nazi occupation and the repressive rule of the Vichy regime. Throughout the war, she and her younger sister Flora kept a diary, chronicling the increasing constraints and daily indignities imposed...
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OpenAI Saga: The Best Links and Memes PLUS: Ridley Scott's directing secret sauce.
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Jonas Hietala
Widening the horizon This is a game making site but where are the games? What gives? I’ve been slightly less motivated in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a game making site but where are the games? What gives? I’ve been slightly less motivated in making games lately and I’ve been doing different things, just to get my ideas and my motivation up. As I said in an earlier post I wanted a break from Experimental Games and I...
Posts on Made of...
How is duct tape like the force? I’m at Dragon*Con this weekend, my second time here now. I decided that if I was going to Dragon*Con...
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over a year ago
I’m at Dragon*Con this weekend, my second time here now. I decided that if I was going to Dragon*Con again, I needed to do something in terms of costuming, and I wanted it to be something unique – I wasn’t going to come anywhere near as epic as some of the costumes people pull...
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I, Robot Here are the results of the big robot construction course we had before christmas! The whole process...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here are the results of the big robot construction course we had before christmas! The whole process went smooth and our group was amazing. The design and building of the robot went well even though in hindsight I would’ve changed a lot of stuff. The ending competition didn’t go...
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“Incalculable Loss” front page of The New York Times for May 24th, 2020 Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights...
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over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights Reserved. The front page of The New York Times for Sunday, May 24th, 2020, was a stark wall of type, and only type: a long and somber list of Americans who have lost their lives...
Contemporist...
A Re-Imagined Side Extension With A Slatted Wood Design YARD Architects has shared photos of a side extension they re-imagined for a home in Greater London,...
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YARD Architects has shared photos of a side extension they re-imagined for a home in Greater London, England, that creates an open and bright dining area and kitchen.
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A Black Brick Exterior Is Consistent With The Dark Forest Surrounding This Modern Home Architecture and interior design firm GO’C has shared photos of a home they recently completed...
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a year ago
Architecture and interior design firm GO’C has shared photos of a home they recently completed northwest of Seattle on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington. Located on a secluded wooded site, near a small beach town, the home has been designed with dark black brick walls with...
The Map is Mostly...
Building The Goose Palace The man who is most likely to ruin the place he loves is exactly the man who loves it with a reason....
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over a year ago
The man who is most likely to ruin the place he loves is exactly the man who loves it with a reason. The man who will improve the place is the man who loves it without a reason. — GK Chesterton Dear friends, In May I announced I was going to timber frame a 12x16 barn, though I...
Open Culture
How the Hugely Acclaimed Shōgun TV Series Makes Translation Interesting Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their...
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Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their owners ever actually got through James Clavell’s famously hefty novel of seventeenth-century Japan is open to question, but they may well have seen the first television adaptation,...
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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
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Art Vessels by OPEN Architecture In 2018, OPEN was commissioned to transform a commercial complex under construction located in...
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In 2018, OPEN was commissioned to transform a commercial complex under construction located in central Beijing into an art center....
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Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can...
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Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you can insert an RSS feed. Last week, I had the privilege of interviewing Daron Acemoglu — one of the world’s most
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Join us as we break down Cloudflare's groundbreaking report and expose fascinating trends in internet traffic, security, and adoption.
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Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967) Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space. This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space. This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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The Land of Endless Socialization
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cat and Mouse Read more about RSS Club. When we first moved in to our current house, we had a mouse...
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a year ago
Read more about RSS Club. When we first moved in to our current house, we had a mouse problem. Well, I should say “mice” problem because it was definitely plural and not just one solitary mouse chillin in the house. As a new homeowner, I was distraught. I tried all kinds...
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary. In...
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over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary. In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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The Power Of Absent Things. It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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How to fix ZFS pool not importing at boot Issue description You are running a Linux-based machine with an install of ZFS on Linux. Everything...
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Issue description You are running a Linux-based machine with an install of ZFS on Linux. Everything seems to work correctly, but after restarting your machine, the ZFS pool is not visible. You can still import your pool manually using zpool import poolname or zpool import -a. In...
Math Is Still...
New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills...
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Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing. The post New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Virtual tomb-sweeping keeps a Chinese tradition alive As Chinese migrants struggle to return home for traditional tomb-sweeping, virtual platforms are...
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As Chinese migrants struggle to return home for traditional tomb-sweeping, virtual platforms are helping them pay respects from afar.
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Meet Samantha https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-7b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-13b https://h...
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Common Edge
NYC’s ‘City of Yes’ Proposal Is a Free Pass for Big Real Estate It won’t create affordable housing, but instead lead to continued gentrification and displacement.
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What App is That?
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Arduino Blog
Seaside Sweeper keeps beaches pristine Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That...
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Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That care is necessary to maintain the beautiful sandy havens that we all want to enjoy, but it requires a lot of labor. A capstone team of students from the University of Colorado...
TheCollector
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Alex Meub
Automating Capacitive Buttons with a Modified Switchbot I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically...
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I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically based on whether or not I was in the room. A smart outlet wouldn’t work for this because the heater has a manual switch. My next thought was to use my Switchbot smart button pusher,...
Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
The Pragmatic...
Behind the Scenes with Two New Salary Transparency Websites On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have...
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On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have launched, built by the creators of Levels.fyi and Layoffs.fyi. I talked to both teams to learn how they were developed.
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Feel With Melancholy Wonder' I was introduced to the poet, critic and editor Stanley Burnshaw (1906-2005) in the mid-Seventies by...
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I was introduced to the poet, critic and editor Stanley Burnshaw (1906-2005) in the mid-Seventies by Edward Dahlberg, a difficult man who furthered my education. Collected in Epitaphs for Our Time: The Letters of Edward Dahlberg (George Braziller, 1967) are five letters to...
Map of the Week
Pittsburgh Week This week I am attending the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) meeting in...
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This week I am attending the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) meeting in Pittsburgh so I haven't had time for a proper blog post. There's lots of great stuff here that may make for future blog posts but in the meantime here are a few random maps I've come...
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...
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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
Alex Meub
Fixing the Prusa MINTEMP Error with Custom Firmware Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not...
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over a year ago
Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not watching the first layer of the print. This led to a large blob of PLA sticking to my heat block. In my attempts to remove it, I severely damaged the thermistor wires resulting in the...
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Sharding FAQ
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Regular, Fast, Very Fast Are you really an engineer if you don’t laugh out loud at this xkcd strip?
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Diaries of Note
ABBEY ROAD On the morning of 8th August 1969, as a policeman held back traffic, all four members of the Beatles...
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On the morning of 8th August 1969, as a policeman held back traffic, all four members of the Beatles made their way across a zebra crossing outside EMI Studios in London. As they walked in line, one after the other, with a ten minute window in which to get the job done,...
Irrational...
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Ben Borgers
Hash Tables [explained for anyone]
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Mazdak
ChatGPT vs. Google: The AI Search Wars The battle for the future of search is on! ChatGPT, the AI chatbot from OpenAI, can now search the...
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The battle for the future of search is on! ChatGPT, the AI chatbot from OpenAI, can now search the web, putting it in direct competition with Google.
devonzuegel.com
Uncharted waters: what startups can learn from pirates about compensation Pirate crews developed a surprisingly similar approach to compensation in the 17th century. Just...
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over a year ago
Pirate crews developed a surprisingly similar approach to compensation in the 17th century. Just like many startups, they also balanced equity incentives with other mechanisms that would be familiar to a startup employee today, such as bonuses. These surprising similarities...
David Heinemeier...
Tesla wins When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was...
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When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was spotty, brakes didn't match the performance, and handling was at best so-so. But it could carry seven, including luggage, was electric, and the dual-motor acceleration was a hoot. So...
Open Culture
Revisit Episodes of Liquid Television, MTV’s 90s Showcase of Funny, Irreverent & Bizarre Animation MTV stands for Music Television, and when the network launched in 1981, its almost entirely music...
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MTV stands for Music Television, and when the network launched in 1981, its almost entirely music video-based programming was true to its name. Within a decade, however, its mandate had widened to the point that it had become the natural home for practically any exciting...
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The importance of investor signaling in venture pricing Suppose there is a pre-profitable company that is raising venture financing. Simple, classical...
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over a year ago
Suppose there is a pre-profitable company that is raising venture financing. Simple, classical economic models would predict that although…
NeuroLogica Blog
How Substance Abuse Affects the Brain I will acknowledge up front that I never drink, ever. The concept of deliberately consuming a known...
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I will acknowledge up front that I never drink, ever. The concept of deliberately consuming a known poison to impair the functioning of your brain never appealed to me. Also, I am a bit of a supertaster, and the taste of alcohol to me is horrible – it overwhelms any other...
Anecdotal Evidence
'But Johnson Fought Back' Epigraphs to books are often superfluous. They can come off as cute or pretentious. They add...
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Epigraphs to books are often superfluous. They can come off as cute or pretentious. They add little or nothing to the manner in which we read the book and often amount to our author showing off, touting his own vast reading or giving himself an unearned endorsement. The most...
HTMHell
HTMHAIL by Léonie Watson Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... Can you give me the HTML for an...
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by Léonie Watson Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... Can you give me the HTML for an accessible button please? It was a simple enough question. Or it would have been, had I been asking another person. As it was, I was asking ChatGPT, and so of course there was nothing...
Making software...
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on...
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over a year ago
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on setting up Pi-Hole with Eero and it seemed to help out a few people having troubles. With AdGuard Home recently popping up on the frontpage of HackerNews, I thought now would be a...
Moneyness
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The next chapter in the Tornado Cash saga just dropped. Last week a court ruled last that Tornado Cash, a bot that can be used for obfuscating crypto, is safe from being sanctioned. I first wrote about Tornado Cash in 2021, before its legal troubles began, warning of the risks...
Throwable
AI is Coming for Software Engineers (I'm a Software Engineer) There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should...
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There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should worry as much as software engineers.
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Professorship Bias
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Quarantine Until this week, we have been lucky with our daycare. Apart from the occasional positive tests, I’m...
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Until this week, we have been lucky with our daycare. Apart from the occasional positive tests, I’m not aware of...
TheCollector
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
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485 MetaGalaxy is a designer cluster label dedicated to pushing the boundaries of design and leading future design trends. It...
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The betting app fueling fantasy cricket’s rise in India On Dream11, Indian sports fans create groups, participate in tournaments, and win millions by...
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Mapping Gaza's Destroyed Buildings
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mtlynch.io
How I Stole Your Siacoin A seedy reddit post The night was June 9th, 2017. It was a typical Friday night for me. I was...
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A seedy reddit post The night was June 9th, 2017. It was a typical Friday night for me. I was watching Netflix and checking reddit partying with cool kids. Suddenly, I saw this post on the “New” tab of the /r/siacoin subreddit: If you’re not familiar with Siacoin, it’s a...
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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...
Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Tiniest Botanical Garden is in Shibuya photos by Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office Walk south from Shibuya station and within...
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photos by Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office Walk south from Shibuya station and within 10 minutes you’ll stumble upon a glass dome-shaped building sandwiched between several nondescript buildings. Hidden in plain sight is the Shibuya City Botanical Garden, Japan’s...
diamond geezer
The Star Beast #10005 ✅ Observations The Star Beast, the return of David Tennant as Doctor Who in the 60th...
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#10005 ✅ Observations The Star Beast, the return of David Tennant as Doctor Who in the 60th anniversary special. It did the traditional thing and plonked an alien spaceship in the middle of London, and it also did all sorts of untraditional things because the series always has,...
Making software...
Using Multiple CSS Background Images Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn't something developers have a need to do very...
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Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn't something developers have a need to do very often, but you can set multiple background images on a single element. Example: .element { background: url('image_path') center repeat, linear-gradient(transparent 0%, #000...
HTMHell
A Theory of Web Relativity The rel attribute has the potential to take the Internet to the next level… and yet, we usually...
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over a year ago
The rel attribute has the potential to take the Internet to the next level… and yet, we usually forget about it. Imagine a city where people guided themselves by the landmarks and the stores, where there were no directional signs, and where streets and neighborhoods had no names....
Londonist
"£1 For A Return Fare Since 2003": Brockwell Park's Miniature Railway You can hire it for birthdays, too.
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TheCollector
What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome? undefined
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...