Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 16-22 October 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?
a year ago
Marcus on AI
๐ผ๐ฏ โ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐โ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐บ ๐บ๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ: ๐๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ ๐ด๐ผ๐...
Kevin Roose, of Hard Fork and NYT, was so impressed with OpenAIโs rollout that he joked โof course...
2 weeks ago
Kevin Roose, of Hard Fork and NYT, was so impressed with OpenAIโs rollout that he joked โof course they have to announce AGI the day my vacation startsโ.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas
Iโve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps...
over a year ago
Iโve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps was a Visual Basic game - I was inโฆ
Sarah Parmenter
The New Macbook Pro with Touchbar
I purchased my new MacBook Pro on a flight from London to San Francisco in the Autumn. I felt all...
over a year ago
I purchased my new MacBook Pro on a flight from London to San Francisco in the Autumn. I felt all futuristic as I secured one of the new machines whilst on a poor internet connection, blazing through the sky. I felt even more nerdy when the Apple Store in Union Square was one of...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Where to Ski, Stay, & Explore Outdoors in Alberta's Winter
a month ago
This Space
"Every day I have to invoke the absent god again"*
I really enjoy this YouTube channel despite my general lack of interest in films. The presenterโs...
over a year ago
I really enjoy this YouTube channel despite my general lack of interest in films. The presenterโs restrained voice-over is ideal for one approaching its concerns; imagine a lullaby sung by Werner Herzog. I envy him the medium for its music, its visuals, even its potential for...
TheCollector
Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: Whatโs the Difference?
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a year ago
Louwrentius
Script that deletes old files to keep disk from filling up
When a disk has no free space left, all kinds of trouble can occur.
Therefore, I've created a...
over a year ago
When a disk has no free space left, all kinds of trouble can occur.
Therefore, I've created a script that monitors the used space of a volume
and deletes the oldest file if a certain threshold is reached.
The script will keep on deleting the oldest file present on disk until...
Londonist
Leadenhall Market Is Wrapped In Giant Purple Tentacles Again
And other Halloweeny fun to be had, too.
a year ago
And other Halloweeny fun to be had, too.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Coming
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Wishing I had just taken this job instead of joking...
6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Wishing I had just taken this job instead of joking about it.
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Lasting Vivification of a Word'
Iโve read
Walter de la Mareโs essay โA Book of Wordsโ (Pleasures and Speculations, 1940) for the...
10 months ago
Iโve read
Walter de la Mareโs essay โA Book of Wordsโ (Pleasures and Speculations, 1940) for the second time in a week,
and have decided one might easily write a book about it. The prose is dense
with interesting and useful ideas:ย
โThe
prevalent weakness, too, of many mindsโthe...
Retail Design Blog
Maison Diptyque Paris
Taking its retail presence at home base Paris to a new level, luxury home fragrance brand Diptyque...
6 months ago
Taking its retail presence at home base Paris to a new level, luxury home fragrance brand Diptyque has recently inaugurated...
Seth's Blog
When the committee decides
Theyโre almost always conservative. Whether itโs a governmental body, the strategy group at a big...
a year ago
Theyโre almost always conservative. Whether itโs a governmental body, the strategy group at a big company or the membership panel at the local country club, we can learn a lot by seeing what they approve and when they stall. Of course, each of us know a lot about our offering,...
TheCollector
Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
3 months ago
TheCollector
Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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11 months ago
Elad Blog
Transcript & Video: Fireside w/ Dylan Field
Figma, AI, Design, & Education
a year ago
Figma, AI, Design, & Education
Anecdotal Evidence
'Not At All Reliable for Climbing On'
Decades ago
I interviewed a guy who had climbed all forty-six of the high peaks in New...
9 months ago
Decades ago
I interviewed a guy who had climbed all forty-six of the high peaks in New Yorkโs
Adirondack Mountains in his bare feet. Surprisingly, he completed the shoeless stunt
without serious injury. It was one of those Ripleyโs-Believe-It-or-Not
accomplishments that seems...
TheCollector
Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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3 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 090: Computer Use
October 25, 2024.
2 months ago
Last Place Comics
Spin the Bottle
The post Spin the Bottle appeared first on Last Place Comics.
4 months ago
The post Spin the Bottle appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Open Culture
Tracking Pianist Yuja Wangโs Heartbeats During Her Marathon Rachmaninoff Performance
The Carnegie Hall YouTube Channel sets the scene: On January 28, 2023, pianist Yuja Wang joined The...
6 months ago
The Carnegie Hall YouTube Channel sets the scene: On January 28, 2023, pianist Yuja Wang joined The Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Yannick Nรฉzet-Sรฉguin at Carnegie Hall for a once-in-a-lifetime, all-Rachmaninoff marathon that featured the composerโs four piano concertos...
Londonist
The Superloop Loop Completes This Weekend - With The Launch Of SL2
(But yes, we know there's a gap in the loop.)
10 months ago
(But yes, we know there's a gap in the loop.)
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 3
This is day 3 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
over a year ago
This is day 3 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
IEEE Spectrum
Detachable Robotic Hand Crawls Around on Finger-Legs
When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some...
3 months ago
When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some sort. Because of course we doโthatโs how (most of us) are built, and thatโs the mindset with which we have consequently optimized the world around us. But one of the great things...
CONTEMPORIST
A Kitchen Wrapped In Textured Wood Defines The Boundary Of The Workspace
Barker Associates Architecture Office has shared photos of their Sackett Street Townhouse, a project...
a year ago
Barker Associates Architecture Office has shared photos of their Sackett Street Townhouse, a project delivered for clients, recent empty-nesters with their own consulting company, who were looking to refresh their townhouse following the departure of their daughter for college....
FIRE v London
Jan โ24: A giant tax bill lands
One of several highlights for me in January was visiting Salisbury cathedral, which I did on an...
11 months ago
One of several highlights for me in January was visiting Salisbury cathedral, which I did on an impulse while travelling back from the Coastal Folly. My main frame of reference to the cathedral being those notorious Russian nerve agent assassins citing it as their reason for...
Jim Nielsenโs Blog
Immeasurable Impact
Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact.
One way...
11 months ago
Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact.
One way to measure impact is breadth (i.e. virality):
Virality is all about breadth of impact: your content reaching as many people as possible as fast as possible. This feels great and is...
Louwrentius
Firewire: the forgotten security risk
The battle between Firewire and USB has been won by USB, but Firewire is still
arround. It is not...
over a year ago
The battle between Firewire and USB has been won by USB, but Firewire is still
arround. It is not that prevalent, cheap computers lack Firewire, but they often
have a PCMCIA slot.
The thing is this: Firewire allows direct access to all RAM of your computer.
An attacker...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 28 August-3 September 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Steve Klabnik
Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB
For my second project while learning Zig, I decided to port an
old, minimal SQL database project...
over a year ago
For my second project while learning Zig, I decided to port an
old, minimal SQL database project from Go to Zig.
In this post, in ~1700 lines of code (yes, I'm sorry it's bigger than
my usual), we'll create a basic embedded SQL database in Zig on top of
RocksDB. Other than the...
Confessions of a...
An Unreachable Hidden XKCD Easter Egg inside CPython
No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
a month ago
No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
Spoon & Tamago
150-Year Old Florist in Yanaka Blossoms with a New Cafe
all photos by Takuya Seki courtesy Maru Architects Founded in 1870, Hanaju is a florist that has...
3 months ago
all photos by Takuya Seki courtesy Maru Architects Founded in 1870, Hanaju is a florist that has served Tokyoโs Yanaka neighborhood for over 150 years. The flower shop is located near the entrance of Yanaka Cemetery and is surrounded by traditional homes and businesses, including...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Betwixt Reason and Result
I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling...
over a year ago
I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling International](https://reservations.hostellingtoronto.com/iqreservations/asp/IQHome.asp), highly recommend for solo travel, I have stayed in SF, LA, NY, PHL, TO, NZ and more I probably forget) where a cute...
A Beautiful Site
IE8 burns the Acid 2 test
An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as...
over a year ago
An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as Microsoft is showing more and more progress towards incorporating web standards into Internet Explorer, even though IE7 has remained dormant since it's release back in October 2006.
The...
Nelson's Weblog
The Transcantรกbrico Train
We recently took the Transcantรกbrico, a week
long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was...
a year ago
We recently took the Transcantรกbrico, a week
long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was great! Like a
cruise but on a train. We did something similar in India in
2015 and itโs an interesting way to travel. Some photos here.
The Transcantรกbrico goes across a part of...
Jonas Hietala
My first netrunner store championship
My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into...
over a year ago
My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into and about 1,5 months ago I discovered Netrunner, a very awesome card game. Check out this how to play or team covenantโs channel if you want to know more.
So this Sunday I went to...
Noahpinion
A vote for Trump is a vote for chaos
Let's leave the 2010s in the past where they belong.
11 months ago
Let's leave the 2010s in the past where they belong.
Grow With Less
7 Dangerous Meta Description Mistakes That Are Ruining Your CTR
I have some bad news.
Writing great content, building quality backlinks and having catchy blog post...
over a year ago
I have some bad news.
Writing great content, building quality backlinks and having catchy blog post titles is not enough.
You could have all this and still get very little traffic.
Why?
Because you need people to choose your article over competing articles in the search...
Map of the Week
Guided Across Switzerland by Hand Drawn Maps
The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland...
4 months ago
The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland guided only by hand drawn maps from the people he met along the way. I love a nice hand drawn map and this article provides lots of good examples.
These maps illustrate the things...
Noahpinion
Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program!
Fun!!
3 months ago
James Vaughan's blog
College Advice I Would Give My Freshman Self
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Emersonโs Vision for the American Scholar?
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11 months ago
Londonist
The Colony Room: Soho's Infamous Drinking Den is Back From The Dead... Sort Of
Drinks will be at 2008 prices too.
a year ago
Drinks will be at 2008 prices too.
Retail Design Blog
PEDRO flagship store
Part of the Singapore-based Charles & Keith Group since its inception in 2005, the fast-growing...
7 months ago
Part of the Singapore-based Charles & Keith Group since its inception in 2005, the fast-growing PEDRO shoe brand evolved from...
Probably...
Young Americans are Marrying Later or Never
Iโve written before about changes in marriage patterns in the U.S., and itโs one of the examples in...
3 weeks ago
Iโve written before about changes in marriage patterns in the U.S., and itโs one of the examples in Chapter 13 of the new third edition of Think Stats. My analysis uses data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Today they released the most recent data, from surveys...
Arduino Blog
Turning a desk mat into a MIDI drum kit
Playing drums is a lot of fun, but drum sets are very big and very loud. They also arenโt cheap....
a month ago
Playing drums is a lot of fun, but drum sets are very big and very loud. They also arenโt cheap. Those factors keep them from being an option for many people who would otherwise be interested. Conventional electronic drum sets are much quieter and a bit more compact, but they...
The American Scholar
โThe Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Fictionโ by Ai
The post โThe Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Fictionโ by Ai appeared first on The American...
2 months ago
The post โThe Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Fictionโ by Ai appeared first on The American Scholar.
Blog - Guerrilla...
TRANSitar Lima
THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: Who has the right to move freely through the city and who doesnโt?
Map of...
a year ago
THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: Who has the right to move freely through the city and who doesnโt?
Map of Lima, Peru
About the project
TRANSitar Lima is a project that seeks to create a visual record of transphobic violence, based on collective mapping sessions. Trans, transvestites, and...
Irrational...
Trying Tailscale.
Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Googleโs BeyondCorp...
over a year ago
Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Googleโs BeyondCorp whitepaper. My foremost personal interest was grounded in the fact that Uberโs contemporaneous security implementation didnโt include a VPN, so it was interesting to see a...
Open Culture
Destino: The Salvador Dalรญ โ Disney Collaboration 57 Years in the Making
In 2003, Disney released a six minute animated short called Destino, finally bringing closure to a...
2 months ago
In 2003, Disney released a six minute animated short called Destino, finally bringing closure to a project that began 57 years earlier. The story of Destino goes way back to 1946 when two very different cultural icons, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalรญ, decided to work together on a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Let Us See Them There in the Shadows'
A childhood
acquaintance has died. We were never close. In fact, I didnโt know he was still
alive...
6 months ago
A childhood
acquaintance has died. We were never close. In fact, I didnโt know he was still
alive until a friend told me he was dead. What I remember is his face, his
general demeanor, roughly the sort of behavior I could expect of him. I last
saw him more than half a century...
Cognitive...
dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b
I get a lot of questions about...
a year ago
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b
I get a lot of questions about dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b and I wanted to address some of them on my blog.
Dolphin got a nice video review from Prompt Engineering
What's this about?
Friday December 8, MistralAI released a...
Scott Jenson
The invisible problem
Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, Iโm usually met with blank stares...
a year ago
Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, Iโm usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile โEveryone can edit text on their phones, right? Whatโs the problem?โ Text editing on mobile isnโt ok. Itโs actually much worse than you think, an invisible...
The Ruffian
Why Giving Up On The Humanities Is Self-Destructive
The Economic Case For the Liberal Arts In the Age of AI
2 months ago
The Economic Case For the Liberal Arts In the Age of AI
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Perfect Restaurant
This is a *rant* of uninformed thoughts and theories about running a restaurant.
over a year ago
This is a *rant* of uninformed thoughts and theories about running a restaurant.
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1983/08 Today Mag
Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today...
10 months ago
Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your friends and relatives. Thank you.
Roberto Vitillo's...
I am back
It's been three years since my last post on my old Wordpress blog! You can still find my earlier...
over a year ago
It's been three years since my last post on my old Wordpress blog! You can still find my earlier posts there as I was too lazy to moveโฆ
Birchtree
Matt is a Mean Guy (hey!)
Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Nilรฉane refuses to admit she's created...
3 weeks ago
Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Nilรฉane refuses to admit she's created a sticky note-based task manager, and everyone gives the iPad some much needed love.
Or watch it on YouTube.
Weekly Topics
Raycast
CleanShot X
Final Cut Pro
Google...
History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
2 months ago
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
Daniel Bourke
Introducing Nutrify 1.2.3
Whole Food Streaks, Widgets, Quick Summaries and 41 New Foods.
2 months ago
Whole Food Streaks, Widgets, Quick Summaries and 41 New Foods.
balajis.com
The Fiat Crisis
This is not a financial crisis. Itโs a fiat crisis.
a year ago
This is not a financial crisis. Itโs a fiat crisis.
Christopher Butler
The Top Five Hitchcock Films
This is my personal ranking, subject to change at any time.
Rear Window
North by...
a month ago
This is my personal ranking, subject to change at any time.
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Vertigo
Rebecca
Rope
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Spellbound
Notorious
To Catch a Thief
Strangers on a Train
NeuroLogica Blog
SpaceX Tests Super Heavy Booster
Last Thursday SpaceX successfully conducted the most significant test firing of its Heavy Booster...
a year ago
Last Thursday SpaceX successfully conducted the most significant test firing of its Heavy Booster rocket to date. The rocket sports 33 Raptor 2 engines. During the test, 31 of them fired. One engine failed, and one was shut down. According to SpaceX, even with 31 engines the...
Josh Thompson
I Once Worked Hard
When I began working at my first job out of college, I knew I didnโt want to spend my whole career...
over a year ago
When I began working at my first job out of college, I knew I didnโt want to spend my whole career there. I was a college graduate (that means something, right?) working at a climbing gym, part time, teaching seven-year-olds how to climb at about $10 an hour.
I had no idea what I...
TheCollector
Whatโs the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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TheCollector
8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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4 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Wrap-up
Itโs finally doneโข.
Iโve built a VORON that prints reliably and Iโve modded it enough to be able to...
10 months ago
Itโs finally doneโข.
Iโve built a VORON that prints reliably and Iโve modded it enough to be able to leave it alone for a while, so I think itโs time to wrap up this build series with a little retrospective.
Building the printer was really fun and rewarding
Iโve always seen...
TheCollector
Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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a year ago
Jaschaโs blog
The hot mess theory of AI misalignment: More intelligent agents behave less coherently
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Many machine learning researchers worry about risks from building artificial intelligence...
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How to deal with fatal: bad object HEAD in git
as a cheapo who uses Apple iCloud (the world's worst sync service) as a sync service for my Obsidian...
a year ago
as a cheapo who uses Apple iCloud (the world's worst sync service) as a sync service for my Obsidian Second Brain, I have recently run into this issue a lot:
Roberto Vitillo's...
Scalability patterns of distributed systems
I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! It explores the different...
over a year ago
I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! It explores the different patterns at your disposal when designingโฆ
Working Theorys
Ping Minimalism
OR: "Personal firewalls" or "Few may disturb"
6 months ago
OR: "Personal firewalls" or "Few may disturb"
Society's Backend
New Evals for Better Models, AI Research Papers Made Easier to Understand, Train Your Own Flux LoRA,...
Machine learning highlights and resources 9-23-24
3 months ago
Machine learning highlights and resources 9-23-24
Adventures In...
Add Multiple Maps to One Layout
Of course Alaska and Hawaii are glorious places, beloved by all for their lovely inhabitants and...
3 months ago
Of course Alaska and Hawaii are glorious places, beloved by all for their lovely inhabitants and majestic natural environs. It would be an error of omission should they not appear in a map of the United States, but it would also be a shame to shoe-horn them in looking sad with an...
Math Is Still...
The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space
Eugenio Calabi, who died on September 25, conceived of novel geometric objects that later became...
a year ago
Eugenio Calabi, who died on September 25, conceived of novel geometric objects that later became fundamental to string theory.
The post The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Retail Design Blog
CASETiFY Dosan flagship store by Crosby Studios
Thereโs no denying, Seoul has the most exciting retail scene of the planet, and it has been like...
a month ago
Thereโs no denying, Seoul has the most exciting retail scene of the planet, and it has been like that for...
Old Structures...
Whatโs Not Stated
This newspaper clipping in one of the New York Public Libraryโs scrapbooks has no explanation, but...
2 months ago
This newspaper clipping in one of the New York Public Libraryโs scrapbooks has no explanation, but Iโm pretty sure I know what itโs about. The somewhat ominous caption โPark Avenue Tunnel Choked With the Debrisโ is probably describing the aftermath of the January 1902 crash...
Mark Manson
The Outrage Cycle
The Outrage Begins
First Hour: Journalists scramble to disseminate news of the Significant Event far...
over a year ago
The Outrage Begins
First Hour: Journalists scramble to disseminate news of the Significant Event far and wide. Most of this happens on Twitter, but placeholder web pages are thrown together on various news sites and cable news channels interrupt the latest car chase to give you...
Home on Erik...
Learning from users faster using machine learning
I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're...
over a year ago
I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're running an e-commerce site (I kind of do) and you want to optimize the number of purchases.
Let's also say we try to learn as much as we can from users, both using A/B tests but also...
TheCollector
Platoโs Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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10 months ago
Diaries of Note
Cowslips capriciously colouring meadows in creamy drifts
Although not widely acclaimed during his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844โ1889) is now...
a year ago
Although not widely acclaimed during his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844โ1889) is now recognised as one of the most brilliant poets of the Victorian era, celebrated for the masterful use of language, rhythm, and evocative imagery in his poetry. A committed Jesuit priest,...
Artificial Ignorance
LLMs are getting dumber and we have no idea why
Five theories that could explain how chatbots are getting worse.
4 months ago
Five theories that could explain how chatbots are getting worse.
Making software...
Open Source Typeface Pairings
Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-25
I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
over a year ago
Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-25
I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost).
So, I've...
Londonist
West End Tickets From ยฃ15 - London Theatre Week Has Launched
Slashed price seats available till 3 March.
10 months ago
Slashed price seats available till 3 March.
Diaries of Note
Good work, Clifton
Few writers bring humour to the page quite like David Sedaris. Born in Johnson City, New York in...
a year ago
Few writers bring humour to the page quite like David Sedaris. Born in Johnson City, New York in 1956, he has a singular talent for spotting and magnifying the absurdities of everyday life, and in 1997 that talent was recognised when Ira Glass, the host of This American Life,...
Open Culture
The Cramps Play a Mental Health Hospital in Napa, California in 1978: The Punkest of Punk Concerts
โWeโre The Cramps, and weโre from New York City, and we drove 3,000 miles to play for you...
5 months ago
โWeโre The Cramps, and weโre from New York City, and we drove 3,000 miles to play for you people.โย So begins one of the oddest but also the punkest of punk rock concerts in history, as Theย Cramps play for a crowd at a state mental hospital in Napa, California.ย The date was June...
Handprinted - Blog
Inking Methods for Etching
Once you've made an etching plate,ย you may be readyย to print an edition -ย orย you might want to proof...
a month ago
Once you've made an etching plate,ย you may be readyย to print an edition -ย orย you might want to proof it to decide on further edits. Taking a print is the only way youโll be able to see how your plate is progressing.
This blog is part of a series featuring tips and techniques to...
escape the algorithm
The New Turing Test
Changing the AI conversation
a year ago
Changing the AI conversation
Math Is Still...
Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons
For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new...
a year ago
For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new experiment has found that in at least one strange material, this understanding falls apart.
The post Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons first...
Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
10 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
somethingaboutmaps
The Unnecessary Peril of the Fuller Projection
Throughout my career, Iโve heard a variety of rumors and conflicting opinions about whether or not...
over a year ago
Throughout my career, Iโve heard a variety of rumors and conflicting opinions about whether or not you can get in trouble for using the Fuller projection. Let's find out if it's true.
TheCollector
The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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2 months ago
Folklore.org:...
The Father Of The Macintosh
Who is the father of the Macintosh?
a year ago
Who is the father of the Macintosh?
Matt Mazur
โMonthly Billed Annuallyโ is Cursed Copy
There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS...
a year ago
There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS for not refunding an accidental annual payment he made on their service. He intended to purchase the monthly plan, but due to an unclear UI and poor copy, he unintentionally...
Louwrentius
Why security is all about defense in depth
Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing...
over a year ago
Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing could be further from the truth. Keeping your systems up-to-date only protects you against exploits for publicly known vulnerabilities.
Your systems are still not protected...
Irrational...
Developing leadership styles
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would...
a year ago
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished...
TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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8 months ago
Confessions of a...
How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isnโt Really Equal
Another Python gotcha and an investigation into its internals to understand why this happens
7 months ago
Another Python gotcha and an investigation into its internals to understand why this happens
CONTEMPORIST
Large Travertine Slabs Were Used To Update This Homeโs Design
Architecture firm SWATT + PARTNERS has shared photos of the Kojima House, a home that has been...
8 months ago
Architecture firm SWATT + PARTNERS has shared photos of the Kojima House, a home that has been updated with an additional and a remodel. Located in Kentfield, California, the home boasts unobstructed views of San Francisco Bay, Kent-Woodlands Valley, and surrounding mountains....
TheCollector
Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexanderโs Achaemenid Armageddon
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6 months ago
diamond geezer
Route 24
A New Year means new digits, and new digits mean a series of posts about the number 24. I've chosen...
a year ago
A New Year means new digits, and new digits mean a series of posts about the number 24. I've chosen to start with London's oldest unchanged bus route, the 24's north/south run from Hampstead down to Pimlico. Rest assured I won't be writing a full travelogue because I did that...
The Codist
My Compensation Over Four Decades As A Programmer
It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job....
a year ago
It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job. Also, I never worked for a big tech company (other than Apple briefly, but that was when they were going out of business) and only a
AVC
My Year-End Playlist
Every year I put together a playlist at the end of the year with some of the new music I found and...
a year ago
Every year I put together a playlist at the end of the year with some of the new music I found and got into. Most of these songs are under the radar which is my favorite kind of music. So I hope you find something new that you like in here.
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is SaaS without the aaS
It hasnโt even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but weโve...
11 months ago
It hasnโt even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but weโve already sold more than quarter of a million dollars worth of this beautifully simple installable chat system. People are using it to replace existing systems costing tens of thousands...
Noahpinion
The dark vision of America
Persecuting groups of people to score political points is not OK.
3 months ago
Persecuting groups of people to score political points is not OK.
Blog -...
Book Review - Zen in the Art of Archery
Zen in the Art of Archery is described by John Stevens in his book Zen Bow,
Zen Arrow as likely...
over a year ago
Zen in the Art of Archery is described by John Stevens in his book Zen Bow,
Zen Arrow as likely being the most popular book about Japanese culture and
martial arts ever. This is a bold statement I cannot contest, having read
only three other books about Zen: the...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Travel to Coastal Germany's Historical UNESCO Sites
7 months ago
Platformer
Substack's new fundraising pitch
Venture capitalists wouldn't give the company the terms it wanted. Its writers might
a year ago
Venture capitalists wouldn't give the company the terms it wanted. Its writers might
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
Paolo Amoroso's...
Adding title bar menu items to WebCard cards
<![CDATA[A URL is associated with a WebCard card of type Web at creation time but it may later be...
2 months ago
<![CDATA[A URL is associated with a WebCard card of type Web at creation time but it may later be necessary to change or take action on the URL. For example, to correct a typo or visit the URL again if its web browser tab was closed since an earlier visit.
For such situations I...
TheCollector
Whatโs the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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5 months ago
Home on Erik...
More Luigi!
Elias Freider just talked about Luigi at PyData 2013:
The presentation above is much better than one...
over a year ago
Elias Freider just talked about Luigi at PyData 2013:
The presentation above is much better than one I put together a few weeks ago. In case anyone is interested I'll include it too:
swyx's site RSS Feed
Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes)
Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut content.
Paolo Amoroso's...
My Common Lisp setup on Linux
<![CDATA[Now that I'm back to Lisp I'm actively exploring Interlisp as a Common Lisp environment...
a year ago
<![CDATA[Now that I'm back to Lisp I'm actively exploring Interlisp as a Common Lisp environment too.
But to code in Common Lisp also on my Crostini Linux system, the Linux container of chromeOS I use on a Chromebox, I'm setting up a suitable development environment. In addition...
Words and Buttons...
Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics?
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat...
over a year ago
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat limited scope, this may be indeed an economical alternative to splines.
Marco.org
Overcast 5: Watch, Siri, search, and redesign!
I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day.
It all started with the watchOS volume...
over a year ago
I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day.
It all started with the watchOS volume widget.
You see, Overcastโs previous Apple Watch app really sucked. I did my best with the capabilities of watchOS 1โ4, but I couldnโt give people what they really wanted:
Standalone podcast...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Avoiding worry driven development
Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a...
over a year ago
Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a lack of technical skill. Engineersโฆ
NeuroLogica Blog
T-rex Had Lips
One of the challenges of paleontology is that we are trying to infer and entire animal just from the...
a year ago
One of the challenges of paleontology is that we are trying to infer and entire animal just from the hard parts that fossilize, mostly bones and teeth (and sometimes just teeth). But if we look at animals today there are a lot of details we could not guess from their bones alone...
Commoncog
Cultural Advantage is Counter Positioning
Competitive advantages in business that come from cultural differences tend to be...
over a year ago
Competitive advantages in business that come from cultural differences tend to be counter-positioning, not process power. Why this is surprising, and why it matters.
The Marginalian
The Universe in Verse Book
"We need science to help us meet reality on its own terms, and we need poetry to help us broaden and...
8 months ago
"We need science to help us meet reality on its own terms, and we need poetry to help us broaden and deepen the terms on which we meet ourselves and each other. At the crossing point of the two we may find a way of clarifying our experience and of sanctifying it."
Laetitia@Work
The Authority Gap
Laetitia@Work #47
over a year ago
The Modern House
Our guide to North Norfolk: spectacular wildlife, unspoiled beaches and stargazing
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Zoom Experience Centre and Offices by Unispace and Downstream
Zoom Video Communications in partnership with Unispace and Downstream, created an innovative London...
2 months ago
Zoom Video Communications in partnership with Unispace and Downstream, created an innovative London office showcasing cutting-edge technology, including a Next-Generation...
Posts on Made of...
Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. Itโs been a fun journey...
over a year ago
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. Itโs been a fun journey into interesting algorithms and high-performance parallel programming in Rust.
Backstory Starting around the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, Iโve gotten myself deeply nerdsniped...
African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
One from Nippon
The shoe that became a sock. And then a shoe again.
Stockholm, 1912
At 35ยฐ C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the...
a year ago
Stockholm, 1912
At 35ยฐ C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the start line of the marathon in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Shizo was carrying the hopes, dreams, and pride of Japan, a country attempting to become a โmodernโ nation.
There
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...
2 weeks 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 โColtrane circle,โ which resembles...
Ryan Mulligan
Full-bleed Table Scrolling on Narrow Viewports
I found the following to be a rather decent solution for having HTML tables overflow the inline...
a year ago
I found the following to be a rather decent solution for having HTML tables overflow the inline edges of smaller/tighter/narrow viewports. Try resizing the width of the browser window if viewing this page on a larger screen.
Open CodePen demo
Notice that the table...
Stoic Simple
Becoming a Better Leader with Stoicism: The Stoic Leadership Lessons
Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that originated in Greece in the 3rd century B.C. It is a...
a year ago
Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that originated in Greece in the 3rd century B.C. It is a philosophy that emphasizes the development of emotional resilience, personal ethics, and wisdom. Stoicism has gained popularity in recent years as an effective tool for personal growth,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Brand
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a year ago
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This is why smbc refuses to be about anything whatsoever, except maybe the idea that clowns are a species with interesting sexual customs.
Today's News:
Geeks of the UK! If you pre-order soon, you get a 20% discount on my new...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Entropy
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We're in this really awkward stage where sapient...
a year ago
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We're in this really awkward stage where sapient life is possible, but it'll pass.
Today's News:
Kagi Blog
Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta
*Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem.
over a year ago
*Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem.
TheCollector
Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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6 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
ntietz.com blog
Decaf is good, actually
We have made decaf a villain.
We often malign decaf coffee and those who drink it.
"No thanks, give...
9 months ago
We have made decaf a villain.
We often malign decaf coffee and those who drink it.
"No thanks, give me the good stuff."
"Death before decaf."
"Decaf isn't coffee."
It has this reputation that it's bad and that coffee people avoid it.
And yet, if you drink decaf, you're a true...
AI Snake Oil
AI safety is not a model property
Trying to make an AI model that canโt be misused is like trying to make a computer that canโt be...
10 months ago
Trying to make an AI model that canโt be misused is like trying to make a computer that canโt be used for bad things
Jibranโs Perspective
Failure 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post.
This is...
6 months ago
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post.
This is a good failure. It has taught me things, lessons I can use in the future to avoid failing this way again.
But first a bit of context. What did I fail at?
In February of 2024 I...
Luxagraf:...
Water Under The Bridge
Halfway through our stay on St. George we had a little problem called Friday night. The problem was...
a year ago
Halfway through our stay on St. George we had a little problem called Friday night. The problem was that the campground at St George was full for Friday night. One night missing in a string of twelve nights. We knew that when we came out here, but I was really hoping something...
Probably...
Should divorce be more difficult?
โThe Christian right is coming for divorce next,โ according to this recent Vox article, and โSome...
6 months ago
โThe Christian right is coming for divorce next,โ according to this recent Vox article, and โSome conservatives want to make it a lot harder to dissolve a marriage.โ As always when I read an article like this, I want to see data โ and the General Social Survey has just the data I...
TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Daniel Marino
Trying Out Eleventy
As I started to think about blogging again, I began looking at options for hosting, CMS frameworks,...
over a year ago
As I started to think about blogging again, I began looking at options for hosting, CMS frameworks, static site generators, etc. Eleventy has been in the mainstream for sometime now, and I've heard nothing but good things about it. I figured I should give it a shot.
There are no...
Drew Ex Machina
Pioneer 3: JPLโs First Moonshot Attempt
With the new push by the United States and other space faring powers to renew the exploration of the...
over a year ago
With the new push by the United States and other space faring powers to renew the exploration of the Moon, miniaturized spacecraft have been made part [โฆ]
Build In Public...
Build In Public - Community Edition #1 (Aug 2021)
Hey everyone ๐ Build In Public is no more just a hot trend, itโs a movement. Thousands of founders,...
over a year ago
Hey everyone ๐ Build In Public is no more just a hot trend, itโs a movement. Thousands of founders, creators, and builders are embracing the principles and building in public especially on Twitter. On that note, get ready for a quick community round-up highlighting launches and...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Martyr! book jacket
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Source:ย lithub.comย License: All Rights Reserved.
Martyr! is a...
10 months ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Source:ย lithub.comย License: All Rights Reserved.
Martyr! is a novel by Iranian-American writer Kaveh Akbar that combines modern situations with traditional imagery. For the jacket, prolific cover designer Linda Huang did what she does so well:...
nanoscale views
Large magnetic fields as a scientific tool
When I was at Berkeley at the beginning of the week to give a seminar, I was fortunate enough to...
11 months ago
When I was at Berkeley at the beginning of the week to give a seminar, I was fortunate enough to overlap with their departmental physics colloquium by Greg Boebinger, an accomplished scientist who is also an extremely engaging and funny speaker.ย Since 2004 he has been the...
The personal website...
Care ethics
Care ethics is closely related to the rise of feminist voices in philosophy starting in the 1970s....
over a year ago
Care ethics is closely related to the rise of feminist voices in philosophy starting in the 1970s. Writers at the time were inspired by the vanguard of feminismย โ Mary Astell in 1694, Mary Wollstonecraft in 1792, and Harriet Taylor Mill in 1869. They pointed out the dominance of...
Old Structures...
A Solution To An Intractable Problem
People usually like regular geometry, and Iโd argue that architects like it more than the general...
a year ago
People usually like regular geometry, and Iโd argue that architects like it more than the general public. That can create problems with buildings where the reality of construction and the reality of patterns can cause irregular geometry. The most famous example of the problem is...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies
How do engineers become higher-status or lower-status at large tech companies? In other words, what...
2 days ago
How do engineers become higher-status or lower-status at large tech companies? In other words, what determines who gets promoted and whoโฆ
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Be Made Out of Emotions, Colors, Life Itself'
โ[Robert
Conquest] and his two closest friends, Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, proved
their...
5 months ago
โ[Robert
Conquest] and his two closest friends, Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, proved
their vocation by playing the games with language and perception that poets
play, three Musketeers at a time when not much else was disturbing the quiet
little cemetery of English...
TheCollector
5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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TheCollector
How Did People React to Hitlerโs Death & Germanyโs Surrender?
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11 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Installing Shoelace in a React App
Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library...
over a year ago
Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library idiomatically in React. This video shows you how to install Shoelace in a brand new Create React App.
If you found this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube...
TheCollector
How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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8 months ago
Alex MacCaw
Sailing across the Atlantic
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Kinds of power
Thereโs the James Bond villian sort of power, based on division, dominance and destruction. This is...
2 months ago
Thereโs the James Bond villian sort of power, based on division, dominance and destruction. This is the short-term power of bullies, trauma and mobs. And then thereโs a more resilient form of power. This is power based on connection, discussion and metrics. A power based in...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Probity Was Perhaps the Highest Good'
As a
newspaper reporter I covered only one capital murder trial. This was in rural
Indiana in 1983....
8 months ago
As a
newspaper reporter I covered only one capital murder trial. This was in rural
Indiana in 1983. At the age of eighteen, William Spranger had fatally shot a
town marshal, William Miner, in the back with the officerโs service revolver. The
jury found Spranger guilty and Judge...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simpleโbut that...
over a year ago
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simpleโbut that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Requiem for Raghavan
Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming...
2 months ago
Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist."ย
An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is that if you can't tell what it means, it probably doesn&
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I...
a week ago
At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I switched jobs from Zendesk to GitHub. Inโฆ
diamond geezer
Summing up 2024
The last day of the year is an excellent time to tot up what you've been doing all year... assuming...
a week ago
The last day of the year is an excellent time to tot up what you've been doing all year... assuming you've been counting, which obviously I have. Cue my Counts of 2024.
(If you don't count these kinds of thing, look at all the fun you're missing out on)
the number of London...
Rest of World -...
The AI project pushing local languages to replace French in Maliโs schools
RobotsMali uses ChatGPT, Google Translate, and other AI tools in hopes of helping young students...
10 months ago
RobotsMali uses ChatGPT, Google Translate, and other AI tools in hopes of helping young students learn faster and stay in school.
The Marginalian
How You Relate to Anything Is How You Relate to Everything: Reclaiming the Spirit of the Christmas...
Because life is a cosmos of connection, because to be alive is to be in relationship with the world,...
2 weeks ago
Because life is a cosmos of connection, because to be alive is to be in relationship with the world, because (in the immortal words of John Muir) โwhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,โ how we relate to anything is how...
TheCollector
7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
2 months ago
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
The Universe of...
I DON'T KNOW
If you're an annoying know-it-all like me, I suggest that you try playing the
following game when...
3 months ago
If you're an annoying know-it-all like me, I suggest that you try playing the
following game when you attend a conference or a user group meetup or
even a work meeting. The game is:
If someone asks you a question, and you say
โI don't knowโ, you score a point.
That's it. ...
The American Scholar
This Womanโs Work
Susannah Gibson opens the parlor doors on 18th-century feminism
The post This Womanโs Work appeared...
3 months ago
Susannah Gibson opens the parlor doors on 18th-century feminism
The post This Womanโs Work appeared first on The American Scholar.
mtlynch.io
My Second Year as a Solo Developer
Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I...
over a year ago
Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I posted an update about my finances, happiness, and lessons learned. Today marks the end of my second year, so itโs time for another update.
How I made and spent money Metric 2018...
TheCollector
Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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a year ago
Making software...
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-05-19
Hey would you look at that - my personal...
over a year ago
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-05-19
Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol' Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
journal โ Winnie Lim
open-air dining in hong kong
When I wrote about open-air dining in seoul I thought nobody would care, but surprisingly I got...
7 months ago
When I wrote about open-air dining in seoul I thought nobody would care, but surprisingly I got quite a bit of comments and DMs from fellow covid-cautious travellers. I would keep on...
Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood โ A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
11 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Judge
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a year ago
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Simple Accessibility
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
over a year ago
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward:
Basic design
Test that your project has the proper...
Musings on Markets
The Siren Song of Sustainability: The Theocratic Trifecta's Third Leg!
You might know, by now, of my views on ESG, which I have described as an empty acronym, born in...
a month ago
You might know, by now, of my views on ESG, which I have described as an empty acronym, born in sanctimony, nurtured in hypocrisy and sold with sophistry. My voyage with ESG began with curiosity in my 2019 exploration of what it purported to measure, turned to cynicism as the...
Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by รdouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
5 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published inย shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
Melting Asphalt
Going Critical
Background: This is an interactive blog post. I wanted to host it here, but don't know how to make...
over a year ago
Background: This is an interactive blog post. I wanted to host it here, but don't know how to make it play nice with WordPress. So I decided to host it on another part of the site instead. Click here forโฆ
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Odds and Ends of...
Book now! Where we're going, we need roads (and trains)
My next in-person event/meet-up, with transport policy expert Michael Dnes!
a month ago
My next in-person event/meet-up, with transport policy expert Michael Dnes!
The Marginalian
Favorite Childrenโs Books of 2023
Tender and poetic reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, deep time, and the...
a year ago
Tender and poetic reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, deep time, and the interconnectedness of life.
Contemporist...
A House Design Inspired By The Idea of Turning Boxes
Architecture studio JMA has designed the Vistas House in Escobar, Buenos Aires, whose shape is based...
7 months ago
Architecture studio JMA has designed the Vistas House in Escobar, Buenos Aires, whose shape is based on the idea of turning boxes rotated to take advantage of the lake views and sun.
Blog - Bitfield...
Test names should be sentences
Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and
even our future selves....
9 months ago
Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and
even our future selves. Well-written tests focus on a single unit of
behaviour that can be described in a brief sentence, and we can use that
sentence as the name of the test.
Confused bit
Simply explained: Where do programming languages come from?
Our lives are surrounded by computers, from the smartphones to the elevator controller, from the...
a year ago
Our lives are surrounded by computers, from the smartphones to the elevator controller, from the plane to the game consoles. They can do so many things, but how do we tell them what to do? This involves programming, and people writing the program in specific languages made to...
Math Is Still...
Behold Modular Forms, the โFifth Fundamental Operationโ of Math
Modular forms are one of the most beautiful and mysterious objects in mathematics. What are they? ...
a year ago
Modular forms are one of the most beautiful and mysterious objects in mathematics. What are they?
The post Behold Modular Forms, the โFifth Fundamental Operationโ of Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Rational Walk
Thereโs Always a Reason
Enduring business models in competitive industries exist for good reasons. Dollar stores provide an...
a year ago
Enduring business models in competitive industries exist for good reasons. Dollar stores provide an important option for customers chronically short on cash.
bt RSS Feed
Basic Gulp Build for Sass
Basic Gulp Build for Sass
2019-01-15
Some designers might shy away from build tools when first...
over a year ago
Basic Gulp Build for Sass
2019-01-15
Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, Iโve decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
Open Culture
Behold the Codex Gigas (aka โDevilโs Bibleโ), the Largest Medieval Manuscript in the World
Bargain with the devil and you may wind up with a golden fiddle, supernatural guitar-playing...
7 months ago
Bargain with the devil and you may wind up with a golden fiddle, supernatural guitar-playing ability, or a room full of gleaming alchemized straw. Whoops, we misattributed that last one. Itโs actually Rumpelstiltskinโs doing, but the by-morning-or-else deadline that drives the...
Seeking Wisdom
Neural Networks โ Part 1
This is my 5th post on my journey to build a toy GPT. Iโd recommend checking out my previous posts...
a year ago
This is my 5th post on my journey to build a toy GPT. Iโd recommend checking out my previous posts before diving into this one. Take the statement, โI will only go for a walk if itโs nice outside AND I have free time.โ This can be neatly represented using a truth table. We canโฆ
Twelve Mile Circle โ...
Southern Heat, Part 7 (Hill Country)
The extended road trip finally arrived at its western terminus in the Texas Hill Country. This also...
a year ago
The extended road trip finally arrived at its western terminus in the Texas Hill Country. This also marked my first visit to Burnet County, a rural locale situated northwest of Austin. Locals pronounce it something like BURN-it, and thatโs how it felt as the mercury hit 103ยฐ...
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Stripe Goes No-Code โย Stripe Payment Links Explained
Stripe has entered the No Code market in a big way! I take a crack at explaining what it's doing and...
over a year ago
Stripe has entered the No Code market in a big way! I take a crack at explaining what it's doing and why.
Common Edge
Buildings Are Not Sacred, but We Can Find Beauty Through Them
Thereโs no design recipe for it.
5 months ago
Thereโs no design recipe for it.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: MintFlamingo
Hi - Iโm Alex! Iโm a freelance graphic designer by day, and a self-taught linocut printmaker by...
over a year ago
Hi - Iโm Alex! Iโm a freelance graphic designer by day, and a self-taught linocut printmaker by night. Although my day job is โcreativeโ I think I really fell in love with making/designing my own linocut prints as it allows me to create whatever I like, without being restricted...
Farza's Newsletter
imagine if birds were slices of pizza with wings
Chilling at Central Park. I usually hang out here on the same bench on Sunday mornings, blast some...
over a year ago
Chilling at Central Park. I usually hang out here on the same bench on Sunday mornings, blast some music, and do stuff :). Going to write this newsletter and then head to the office. Lots to do with Zip this week! Weโre finding tons of cool new teachers, making dope content,...
Ryan Mulligan
Detect JavaScript Support in CSS
I had been aware of the scripting CSS media feature but I was still under the impression that...
8 months ago
I had been aware of the scripting CSS media feature but I was still under the impression that cross-browser support was lacking. What a pleasant surprise to discover that it has been available in all modern browsers as of December 2023 according to caniuse.com. With this feature,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The next big thing will start out looking like a toy
One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet...
over a year ago
One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet properties today looks from the list tenโฆ
Val Sopi
My 2 lessons when it comes to pricing a Saas product
<p>I was listening to two founders on Twitter Spaces talking about both ends of the spectrum when it...
over a year ago
<p>I was listening to two founders on Twitter Spaces talking about both ends of the spectrum when it came charging for their Saas. One wanted to charge (and they are), the other one didn't care about it so much (for now). Then a discussion about the founder of <a...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
a year ago
exist
Turing Machine Halting in Lean
over a year ago
History Today Feed
โAge of Wolf and Windโ by Davide Zori review
โAge of Wolf and Windโ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
7 months ago
โAge of Wolf and Windโ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
Math Is Still...
The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria
Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans,...
12 hours ago
Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is far more interconnected than anyone realized.
The post The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria first appeared on Quanta...
The Architectural...
Can We Afford More Modernist Buildings?
A common myth suggests that the unattractiveness of new buildings over the last century is due to...
a year ago
A common myth suggests that the unattractiveness of new buildings over the last century is due to rational or economic reasons, implying that building beautifully is too costly. In this article, Iโll debunk this idea and uncover the real reason behind the prevalence of...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Songful, Tuneful Land'
"None
can care for literature in itself who do not take a special pleasure in the
sound of names;...
a year ago
"None
can care for literature in itself who do not take a special pleasure in the
sound of names; and there is no part of the world where nomenclature is so rich,
poetical, humorous, and picturesque as the United States of America.โย
Robert Louis
Stevenson means place names. Heโs...
Mazdak
Capital Gains Tax Hike: Sell Now or Hold On? A Canadian Investor's Guide
Canada's recent federal budget has sent ripples through the investment and real estate communities....
7 months ago
Canada's recent federal budget has sent ripples through the investment and real estate communities. A key change: a looming increase in capital gains tax on sizeable transactions. This has many wondering โ should I sell assets before June 25th, 2024, to avoid the taxman's bite?...
Old Structures...
Less Than The Original
Construction on LEGO Notre Dame has moved ahead but will pause while Iโm out of town. Weโve got the...
6 months ago
Construction on LEGO Notre Dame has moved ahead but will pause while Iโm out of town. Weโve got the apse built up to the vault level and the beginning of the crossing: Iโve been playing around to see if I can do a fly-through style photo, to give a sense of what the building...
Paul Graham: Essays
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
over a year ago
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathawayโs Q2 2023 Results
Thoughts on Berkshire Hathaway's second quarter results with a focus on GEICO, BNSF, HomeServices,...
a year ago
Thoughts on Berkshire Hathaway's second quarter results with a focus on GEICO, BNSF, HomeServices, Clayton Homes, Apple, and share repurchases.
Open Culture
Behold the Oldest Written Text in the World: The Kish Tablet, Circa 3500 BC
Image by Josรฉ-Manuel Benito, via Wikimedia Commons Some refer to the written Chinese language as...
a month ago
Image by Josรฉ-Manuel Benito, via Wikimedia Commons Some refer to the written Chinese language as ideographic: that is, structured according to a system in which each symbol represents a particular idea or concept, whether abstract or concrete. Thatโs true of certain Chinese...
The Ruffian
How the World Failed Greta Thunberg
The Perils of Praising Teenagers
3 months ago
The Perils of Praising Teenagers
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
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:
TheCollector
6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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3 months ago
Old Structures...
Fun With Framing
From a recent trip to Staten Island, a view looking north across the harbor to Manhattan and...
2 months ago
From a recent trip to Staten Island, a view looking north across the harbor to Manhattan and Brooklyn: New York looks, unfortunately, much like a chain-link fence. The catenaries that we see are some nearby power lines, not far-off suspension bridges. Cropping helps but not...
Stat Significant
Do People Actually Hate 'Forrest Gump'? A Statistical Analysis
Examining the legacy of 'Forrest Gump.'
a month ago
Examining the legacy of 'Forrest Gump.'
The Marginalian
The Living Wonder of Leafcutter Ants, in Mesmerizing Stop Motion
Alongside humans, leafcutter ants form some of natureโs vastest, most sophisticated societies โ a...
a year ago
Alongside humans, leafcutter ants form some of natureโs vastest, most sophisticated societies โ a single mature colony can contain as many ants as there are people on Earth, living with a great deal more social harmony and consonance of purpose than we do. They are also one of...
TheCollector
The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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a year ago
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 10: Thankful for Family, Missing my Family
As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold.
I wasn't sure what I'd...
over a year ago
As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold.
I wasn't sure what I'd write this week for the RC week 10 recap, since it's a short week.
This week I didn't get a whole lot of coding done, so it's time for the trope:
the Thanksgiving post.
Of course,...
Florian Bellmann |...
Why I blog
The reasons why I started blogging.
a year ago
The reasons why I started blogging.
TheCollector
Marxโs German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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a year ago
Old Structures...
Sort-Of Round
This is the 3333rd blog post published on the Old Structures web site. People are attracted to round...
6 months ago
This is the 3333rd blog post published on the Old Structures web site. People are attracted to round numbers, and I could just as easily have waited for the 4000th post to say something, but I like the โthird of ten-thousandโ aspect of the current number. Some housekeeping: some...
The Modern House
Knock on Wood: five homes making the best of natureโs most versatile material
Abundant, strong, durable โ not to mention beautiful โ wood has been used to build our homes for...
a year ago
Abundant, strong, durable โ not to mention beautiful โ wood has been used to build our homes for millennia. Itโs not surprising, really, when you think how easy it is to access and work with, to say nothing of the ways in which it provides [โฆ]
Seth's Blog
The absence of proof
Belief makes us human. Belief is our tool to dance with a possible future, confront our fears, and...
a year ago
Belief makes us human. Belief is our tool to dance with a possible future, confront our fears, and build community. Our personal taste and our preferences belong to us as well, helping us believe in ourselves. For millennia, belief thrived in most parts of our lives. We didnโt...
Steve Klabnik
Fire Mario not fire flowers
over a year ago
Blog posts of...
ADHD ๐ง
I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I donโt take any...
over a year ago
I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I donโt take any medication. I get regularly asked about...
Alex Meub
The Yoto Mini is Perfect
The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and...
7 months ago
The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and put just the right set of features into a brilliantly designed package.
I have no affiliation with Yoto, Iโm just a happy customer with kids who love it.
If you arenโt aware, Yoto...
Twelve Mile Circle โ...
England, Day 6 (Bournemouth)
We didnโt go far but it seemed like a world apart, traveling from an isolated corner of Dorset into...
5 months ago
We didnโt go far but it seemed like a world apart, traveling from an isolated corner of Dorset into its most populous area. That led us to Bournemouth (map), a coastal town along the English Channel. There are so many ancient places in the United Kingdom but this is not one of...
TheCollector
Yuruparรญ: Amazonโs Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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4 months ago
The Ruffian
How To Swear At Your Coworkers
Two Ways To Use Bad Language In The Workplace
a year ago
Two Ways To Use Bad Language In The Workplace
A Beautiful Site
DaFont: an excellent free font resource
I came across an excellent website for free fonts online. No annoying pop-ups, minimal banner ads,...
over a year ago
I came across an excellent website for free fonts online. No annoying pop-ups, minimal banner ads, and the best feature of all โ custom previews for all their fonts.
Check 'em out at dafont.com.
Blog - Practical...
What Really Happened During the Yellowstone Park Flood?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Every year, a deluge of...
over a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Every year, a deluge of tourists stream into Yellowstone National Park, Americaโs first and possibly most famous national park, and (I would argue) one of the most beautiful and geographically rich places on...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Where to Eat, Drink, and Unwind in Virginia Beach
2 weeks ago
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
a year ago
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background artists, web designers, print layout artists, or anybody who deals with incorrect aspect ratios or odd image dimentions will be thrilled by the output. The image below represents a...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
a year ago
somenice
Post-Twitter
Every so often Iโm motivated to move my online content in-house. With todays purchase of Twitter my...
over a year ago
Every so often Iโm motivated to move my online content in-house. With todays purchase of Twitter my intent to โownโ my content has been renewed. Iโm going to clean up my old Feedly RSS subscriptions and try posting here a bit more frequently.You can subscribe if you like โ...
Rest of World -...
Bringing the Philippinesโ beloved mom-and-pop stores into the 21st century
Local startups are working to digitize sari-sari shops, or convenience stores, which are a large...
6 months ago
Local startups are working to digitize sari-sari shops, or convenience stores, which are a large part of the Philippine retail industry.
Old Structures...
New And Improved Graphics!
Seven years ago [!] I spent some time looking at the Pearl Street overpass portion of the Manhattan...
2 months ago
Seven years ago [!] I spent some time looking at the Pearl Street overpass portion of the Manhattan approach of the Brooklyn Bridge. The short version is that itโs an 1880s steel truss reinforced in the mid-1900s with a steel arch below. The long discussion is: here and here and...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Reading Recursion via Pascal
<![CDATA[I read the book Recursion via Pascal by Jeffrey S. Rohl, Cambridge University Press, 1984....
9 months ago
<![CDATA[I read the book Recursion via Pascal by Jeffrey S. Rohl, Cambridge University Press, 1984. I discovered this rare, little known gem by chance and, although it's available online, I also bought a cheap printed copy.
The book Recursion via Pascal.
What makes this short...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How Value-Based Care Contracting Works with Accorded | Out-Of-Pocket
With calculators and contracts you can see yourself
a year ago
With calculators and contracts you can see yourself
A Beautiful Site
Five things I've learned about taking risks
I had a cush job at a university with great benefits, decent pay, and normal hours. Five years ago,...
over a year ago
I had a cush job at a university with great benefits, decent pay, and normal hours. Five years ago, I took a risk and gave it all up to start a company. Here are the five most important lessons I've learned about risk-taking.
1. There are good risks and bad risks #
People that...
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 29
Hot Streaks and Cohort-Based Courses
a year ago
Hot Streaks and Cohort-Based Courses
diamond geezer
The suddenest bank holidays
Had England won the Euros, our new PM said "we should certainly mark the occasion". He stopped short...
5 months ago
Had England won the Euros, our new PM said "we should certainly mark the occasion". He stopped short of confirming there'd be a bank holiday saying he didn't want to "jinx it", but an extra day off work was always a possibility. It didn't happen because Spain scored more goals...
Seth's Blog
Tricked (again)
If you knew then what you know now, would you have made the same decision? In the last fifty years,...
a year ago
If you knew then what you know now, would you have made the same decision? In the last fifty years, more than 25,000,000 Americans have died prematurely due to cigarette smoking. Worldwide, itโs significantly higher. Thatโs fifty times as many U.S. citizens as died in World War...
Working Theorys
How to Be Like Derek Guy
If you spend any time on Twitter, you know the handle @dieworkwear by heart. And you know itโs the...
7 months ago
If you spend any time on Twitter, you know the handle @dieworkwear by heart. And you know itโs the handle of Derek Guy, menswear expert extraordinaire. (Iโm still unsure if thatโs his real name, but I havenโt bothered to look it up because at this point I trust him implicitly.) I...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Lotus
The Hardest Working Software in the World
a year ago
The Hardest Working Software in the World
Stat Significant
How Are Hit Songs Rediscovered Decades Later? A Statistical Analysis
How does music undergo a cultural revival long after its original release?
4 months ago
How does music undergo a cultural revival long after its original release?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
devonzuegel.com
The road to hell is paved with asphalt
Most roads are paved with asphalt. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with asphalt. Bricks,...
11 months ago
Most roads are paved with asphalt. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with asphalt. Bricks, cobblestones, and pavers are often much better options, because:
1. Asphalt degrades fast, so once you account for maintenance, it's more expensive it first appears
Asphalt...
Seeking Wisdom
Attention is all you need โ Part 2
This is the 11th and final post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
Harry Potter and the Secret to Learning
We've Been Doing it Wrong
6 months ago
We've Been Doing it Wrong
devonzuegel.com
America's hidden urban laboratory: the South
America hasn't built many walkable places in the last few decades, but there are a few exceptions....
a year ago
America hasn't built many walkable places in the last few decades, but there are a few exceptions. While collecting a list of these special places, I was shocked to discover that most are in the Southeast.
My mental image of contemporary southern development did not include an...
The Wandering...
The Mathematics of the Pattern on the Sala de la Barca Ceiling
(This is the math geek part about the Sala de la Barca ceiling. For instructions on constructing the...
9 months ago
(This is the math geek part about the Sala de la Barca ceiling. For instructions on constructing the pattern with compass and straightedge, go over to Part 1.) In the process of figuring out how to draw this pattern, I ran into a lot of questions, and had to do more than a little...
Words and Buttons...
Simple image vectorization
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out...
over a year ago
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out of it. The algorithm describes shows how bilinear interpolation, polynomial approximation, differential analysis, and iterative algorithms work together to solve a practical...
Home on Erik...
What is your motivation?
I've been trying to learn Clojure. I keep telling people I meet that I really want to learn Clojure,...
over a year ago
I've been trying to learn Clojure. I keep telling people I meet that I really want to learn Clojure, but still every night I can't get myself to spend time with it. It's unclear if I really want to learn Clojure or just want to have learned Clojure?
macwright.com
Recently
I skipped Recently last month. This oneโs even more
of a grab-bag than usual!
The <video> element...
5 months ago
I skipped Recently last month. This oneโs even more
of a grab-bag than usual!
The <video> element and browser abstractions
I was reading Ivรกn Sรกnchez Ortegaโs thoughts on maps4html
(at the time of writing, his website is down, so thatโs an archive.org
link). The post is about a...
Londonist
Supperclub.Tube: The Tube Carriage Serving A Six-Course Tasting Menu
Definitely the best way to spend three hours on the tube.
a year ago
Definitely the best way to spend three hours on the tube.
Notes on software...
Intercepting and modifying Linux system calls with ptrace
How software fails is interesting. But real-world errors can be
infrequent to manifest....
a year ago
How software fails is interesting. But real-world errors can be
infrequent to manifest. Fault
injection
is a formal-sounding term that just means: trying to explicitly
trigger errors in the hopes of discovering bad logic, typically
during automated tests.
Jepsen
and ChaosMonkey...
Jonas Hietala
Weekend Tournaments
This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament...
over a year ago
This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament and on Sunday the local Netrunner community hosted a small summer kit tournament.
Game of Thrones
Weโve had a similar tournament once before when me and my girlfriend invited two of...
Making software...
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
2019-09-28
I recently began working on a small side...
over a year ago
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
2019-09-28
I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I'm writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
Both Are True
and baby makes four???
lauren and baby are healthy, i am unwell!
11 months ago
lauren and baby are healthy, i am unwell!
Notes on software...
Surveying SQL parser libraries in a few high-level languages
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
TokyoDev
TokyoDev has a new logo!
Over the last four years, Iโve been helping TokyoDev with UX, design, and frontend development. One...
11 months ago
Over the last four years, Iโve been helping TokyoDev with UX, design, and frontend development. One project Iโve been working on is improving our branding. Today, Iโm delighted to introduce the results of it: TokyoDevโs new logo.
![Our new...
TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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10 months ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design
Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design
...
a year ago
Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design
abduzeedo0217โ23
For over a decade, Monterra has been creating top-of-the-line wines sourced from picturesque vineyards in South Australia. But in recent times, the...
Jonas Hietala
Home office renovation
When we moved back to our childhood community and bought a house I had one pretty big requirement: I...
over a year ago
When we moved back to our childhood community and bought a house I had one pretty big requirement: I had to have a home office as I need to work remote. There simply isnโt any software development work for me here.
So the later part of 2018 and early 2019 weโve renovated an old...
TheCollector
Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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a year ago
Old Structures...
Randomness
When you study history, one of the things that takes a while to really accept is the random nature...
11 months ago
When you study history, one of the things that takes a while to really accept is the random nature of events. People think they are in control and shape, at least to some degree, the future. When some truly random event occurs, we often attribute it to someone elseโs will, unable...
On Life and Lisp
Clip control on the Apple GPU
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver
After a year in...
over a year ago
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver
After a year in development, the open source โAsahiโ driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. Thereโs more to do, but Neverball is already playable (and a lot of fun!).
Neverball uses legacy โfixed...
Stoic Simple
Stoicism Simplified: an Easy Overview of What Stoics Believe
by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism...
a year ago
by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism (referenced in the diagram above), and I wanted to use this opportunity to go over each of these in a little more detail. Hopefully youโll get an understanding of what they mean,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Online advertising is all about purchasing intent
A while ago I dug up this quote from Business Week from 2000: But how will Google ever make money?...
over a year ago
A while ago I dug up this quote from Business Week from 2000: But how will Google ever make money? Thereโs the rub. The companyโs adamantโฆ
Louwrentius
Eztables: simple yet powerful firewall configuration for Linux
I've created and released Eztables on Github. Anyone who ever has a need to setup a firewall on...
over a year ago
I've created and released Eztables on Github. Anyone who ever has a need to setup a firewall on Linux may be interested in this project.
It doesn't matter if you need to protect a laptop, server or want to setup a network firewall. Eztables supports it all.
If you're not afraid...
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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3 months ago
Business Brainstorms
Cubicles, boring first ideas, luck surface math, and spirituality has to go somewhere
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! ๐ก Opportunities โIs there anything a corp can do to break out of a...
Making software...
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-28
After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for...
over a year ago
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-28
After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it.
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