The Rational Walk
Warren Buffett on Inflation — Part 3
During periods of high inflation, capital-light businesses have important advantages. See's Candies...
a year ago
During periods of high inflation, capital-light businesses have important advantages. See's Candies during the Great Inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s is a perfect case study.
Saturday Morning...
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diamond geezer
Six free exhibitions in north central London
Six free temporary exhibitions in north central London
(I'll rank these at the end, but the best...
a month ago
Six free temporary exhibitions in north central London
(I'll rank these at the end, but the best one comes first)
Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds
at: RIBA, Portland Place
from: 10am to 5pm (not Sunday)
until: 29 March
cottage melded into a rocky Leicestershire...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 042: sama drama
November 24, 2023.
a year ago
Ryan Mulligan
Some Things About Keyframes
Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself as a...
2 weeks ago
Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself as a seasoned pro, I suggest reading An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations. Josh (as always) does an impeccable deep dive that includes interactive demos for multi-step animations,...
alexwlchan
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany
I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that...
11 months ago
I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that there’s a maximum size for a PDF document:
Terrible Maps
@TerribleMaps
Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381...
GitButler
The Future of Open Source
A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating...
5 months ago
A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating on software in awesome ways.
Epic Web Dev
Good Code, Testable Code (article)
Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for...
7 months ago
Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for effective testing.
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 2-3 September 2023
A vintage sale, a David Bowie club night, and a wealth of festivals to kickstart September.
a year ago
A vintage sale, a David Bowie club night, and a wealth of festivals to kickstart September.
Prolost
Red Giant & Maxon, Sitting in a Tree
Red Giant, where I’ve been Chief Creative Officer for a couple of years now, but making filmmaking...
over a year ago
Red Giant, where I’ve been Chief Creative Officer for a couple of years now, but making filmmaking tools for you for 17 years, is merging with Maxon, makers of Cinema 4D.
From the Red Giant blog:
Hi folks — by now you’ve probably heard the news that Maxon and Red Giant are...
Londonist
15 Things You Never Knew About Wembley Park
Steeped in history.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 043: Happy birthday, ChatGPT
December 1, 2023.
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Flow Proof Helps Mathematicians Find Stability in Chaos
A series of new papers describes how to fully characterize key dynamical systems with relatively...
a year ago
A series of new papers describes how to fully characterize key dynamical systems with relatively little data.
The post Flow Proof Helps Mathematicians Find Stability in Chaos first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Renegade Otter
AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You
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8 months ago
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The firehose of data is turned on
In the beginning, the Internet was a small, cozy place. Most people weren’t online, and most businesses...
HTMHell
#13 link or label
Bad code
<input type="checkbox" id="accept" required>
<label for="accept">
<a href="/legal"> I...
over a year ago
Bad code
<input type="checkbox" id="accept" required>
<label for="accept">
<a href="/legal"> I accept the confidentiality policy and data… </a>
</label>
Issues and how to fix them
It’s bad practice to nest elements with activation behavior (e.g. click).
Users don’t expect a new...
Open Culture
How Rome Began: The History As Told by Ancient Historians
Much attention has been paid to the fall of the Roman Empire, by everyone from august historians...
6 months ago
Much attention has been paid to the fall of the Roman Empire, by everyone from august historians like Edward Gibbon to modern-day observers wringing their hands over the fate of the United States of America. But as every Rome enthusiast knows, that long collapse constitutes just...
The Works in...
Degrowth and the monkey's paw
Fifteen years ago, when I worked in the “social innovation” field, there was a world-view that was...
a year ago
Fifteen years ago, when I worked in the “social innovation” field, there was a world-view that was very popular among my colleagues about what was wrong with society and how to fix it. The idea was that people and governments needed to stop seeing economic growth as a good thing,...
TheCollector
Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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4 months ago
Marco.org
Low Power Mode for Mac laptops: making the case again
In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite...
over a year ago
In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite direction,1 I wanted to re-make the case for a Low Power Mode on macOS — and explain why now is the time.
Modern hardware constantly pushes thermal and power limits, trying to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Anxious
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a year ago
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Seth's Blog
Conversations, an early review… (and the free class)
“I have trained companies to treat people better, and SONG is the guidebook I wished I had when...
a year ago
“I have trained companies to treat people better, and SONG is the guidebook I wished I had when doing this work. Now, I will now give it to the enlightened and brutes alike, with a recommendation to take immediate action. Seth Godin has been carefully documenting the end of the...
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
3 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
Map of the Week
30 Day Map Challenge 2024-Part 2
Here is the second half of the 30 Day Map Challenge. The one where I don’t make anything but just...
a month ago
Here is the second half of the 30 Day Map Challenge. The one where I don’t make anything but just sit back and enjoy the work of others. The first half of the month was reviewed here.
I will start on Day 23 where the prompt was memory. There were quite a few good entries for this...
Ink & Switch
08 · History and diffs with Automerge
Version control capabilities like history, branching, and diffs are enabled by the Automerge CRDT...
9 months ago
Version control capabilities like history, branching, and diffs are enabled by the Automerge CRDT library.
mtlynch.io
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Nonviolent Communication describes a communication style centered around sharing vulnerability and...
over a year ago
Nonviolent Communication describes a communication style centered around sharing vulnerability and offering empathy. One of its biggest strengths is in how it highlights common patterns of lazy communication that exclude personal feelings or critical thinking. I also found its...
Jonas Hietala
Soda
These quotes are from hacker news and I found them all too funny.
It’s hard for me to understand the...
over a year ago
These quotes are from hacker news and I found them all too funny.
It’s hard for me to understand the whole soda phenomenon in Canada and the US. Is it as addictive as cigarettes? Does it make you crave for more? Or it simply tastes so good that you can’t get enough of it? Why not...
Noahpinion
Some thoughts on where the war in Ukraine is headed
And some perspective on what's happened already.
a year ago
And some perspective on what's happened already.
Noahpinion
Nobody knows how many jobs will "be automated"
Whatever that even means.
a year ago
Whatever that even means.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Amsterdam Plans to Ban Large Cruise Ships: What to Expect
a year ago
Evan Jones -...
How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput?
The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a...
a year ago
The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a simplified model, the time for the system call should be some constant "per-call" time, plus time directly proportional to the number of bytes in the array. That is, the time for each call...
Daniel Miessler
GPT and Search
There’s a lot of talk about how GPT is going to take over search. Meaning, compete with or take down...
over a year ago
There’s a lot of talk about how GPT is going to take over search. Meaning, compete with or take down Google. I get the excitement there, but there are some pretty serious barriers to having this happen immediately. First, GPT is non-deterministic, meaning you can ask it the same...
History Today Feed
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
10 months ago
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
computers are bad
2023-02-14 something up there pt I
Over the last few weeks, there has been an astounding increase in the number of
objects shot down by...
a year ago
Over the last few weeks, there has been an astounding increase in the number of
objects shot down by North American air defense. Little is yet known about some
of these objects, but it is clearly one of the more dramatic UFO turns in
recent memory. Some of the mystery is simply...
Londonist
Burns Night 2024 In London: Parties, Suppers And Ceilidhs To Celebrate This Year
Kilt up and raise a dram to Robert Burns on 25 January.
a year ago
Kilt up and raise a dram to Robert Burns on 25 January.
The Rational Walk
The Digest #179
Guard your time, Tributes to Charlie Munger, Social media traps, The margin of illusion, AI...
a year ago
Guard your time, Tributes to Charlie Munger, Social media traps, The margin of illusion, AI colonoscopies, Advice on tipping, Alcohol and cardiovascular risks, Nicomachean ethics
Probably...
Think Stats 3rd Edition
I am excited to announce that I have started work on a third edition of Think Stats, to be published...
2 months ago
I am excited to announce that I have started work on a third edition of Think Stats, to be published by O’Reilly Media in 2025. At this point the content is mostly settled, and I am revising chapters to get them ready for technical review. If you want to start reading now, the...
Essays - Benedict...
When big tech buys small tech
‘Big tech’ buys hundreds of startups, but what are they, what does that
mean for competition, and...
over a year ago
‘Big tech’ buys hundreds of startups, but what are they, what does that
mean for competition, and how does this fit into the broader market? How
many more Instagrams are there, and how many DAOs?
Making software...
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-10-18
I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
over a year ago
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-10-18
I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website.
Nowadays companies and...
Spoon & Tamago
This Halloween, a Zombie Shinkansen Will Travel Between Tokyo and Osaka
Want a taste of the frights but too busy to go to a haunted house? How about a haunted train? This...
3 months ago
Want a taste of the frights but too busy to go to a haunted house? How about a haunted train? This year, a Tokaido shinkansen, in what is being called the world’s first zombie bullet train, will travel between Tokyo and Osaka. The stage will be set in car 16 of the “Nozomi 435”...
TheCollector
The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Kawazu Cherry Blossoms in Shizuoka Now in Full Bloom
The Kawazu-Zakura cherry blossoms If you’re sick of winter and ready for spring, head to Shizuoka’s...
11 months ago
The Kawazu-Zakura cherry blossoms If you’re sick of winter and ready for spring, head to Shizuoka’s Kawazu City, the host of one of Japan’s earliest cherry blossom festivals. The Kawazu-zakura cherry blossoms are known for blossoming early and some trees are already beginning to...
Paul Cudenec
The British population is under attack
The illusion that their government has their best interests at heart is rapidly fading for millions...
a week ago
The illusion that their government has their best interests at heart is rapidly fading for millions of people in Britain, particularly since the arrival in power of Keir Starmer, longstanding member of the criminocrats’ Trilateral Commission and ardent proponent of their chilling...
Open Culture
Bringing Tsarist Russia to Life: Vivid Color Images from 1905–1915
History escapes us. Events that changed the world forever, or should have, slide out of collective...
4 months ago
History escapes us. Events that changed the world forever, or should have, slide out of collective memory. If we’re pointing fingers, we might point at educational systems that fail to educate, or at huge historical blind spots in mass media. Maybe another reason the recent past...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
useEffect sometimes fires before paint
useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really...
over a year ago
useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really guaranteed to fire after paint? Updating state in useLayoutEffect makes every useEffect from the same render run before paint, effectively turning them into layout effects....
Rest of World -...
Teaching inmates in Argentina to make video games in prison
“Gaming studios need employees, and the formerly incarcerated need a place to work once they’re...
a year ago
“Gaming studios need employees, and the formerly incarcerated need a place to work once they’re released.”
The Honest Broker
How Picasso Turned Me into a Strategy Consultant
I share a shameful incident from my student days
7 months ago
I share a shameful incident from my student days
Tinloof - Blog
How to Create a PWA Game using Preact in 5 steps (Tutorial)
In this article, we will create a Progressive Web Application! Don’t worry, we won’t make another...
over a year ago
In this article, we will create a Progressive Web Application! Don’t worry, we won’t make another todo list. Instead, we will build a fun game that satisfies Google’s checklist for building a PWA.
Final result
You can play it here and check the final source code on Github.
Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes...
over a year ago
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ism
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a year ago
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St. Peter just taps the crudely drawn No Girls Allowed sign made by God.
Today's News:
Whoever made the A City on Mars wikipedia entry, bless you. Now when people argue against stuff that we didn't actually say, I'm just linking...
Making software...
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero
2022-03-14
For the past few years, I've been using a set of...
over a year ago
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero
2022-03-14
For the past few years, I've been using a set of Eero routers as my home mesh network. It's worked fairly great in that time and even seamlessly transitioned without any hiccups when my family moved house. During the initial setup,...
Josh Thompson
2015: The year I didn't think much?
I generally think that if I write what I am thinking about, I can think about it a lot better....
over a year ago
I generally think that if I write what I am thinking about, I can think about it a lot better. Writing has a clarifying effect (or is it affect?) on thought.
If that’s the case, I just didn’t think much in 2015:
I wrote about 45 things in 2013 and 2014. I wrote 8 in 2015.
I’m...
Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
2 months ago
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
tomcritchlow.com
The roadmap is not the territory
Most of my consulting work connects to “marketing strategy” in some way - clients come wanting to...
a year ago
Most of my consulting work connects to “marketing strategy” in some way - clients come wanting to talk about growing their business. But the funny thing about growth and marketing is that each component is like a thread that, once pulled, unravels the whole spool.
A Beautiful Site
Business cards
VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist...
over a year ago
VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist playing with them.
I decided to go conservative with the design, relying a bit on curiosity to draw attention to the business. Nevertheless, I am pleased with the way they turned...
TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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8 months ago
Home on Erik...
Benchmark of Approximate Nearest Neighbor libraries
Annoy is a library written by me that supports fast approximate nearest neighbor queries. Say you...
over a year ago
Annoy is a library written by me that supports fast approximate nearest neighbor queries. Say you have a high (1-1000) dimensional space with points in it, and you want to find the nearest neighbors to some point.
Elad Blog
AI Safety: Technology vs Species Threats
There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The...
a year ago
There are at least two ways to think about potential threats coming from advanced AI. The conventional view is that AI is just yet another of many tool-based technological advances. Like all technologies, the main threat of AI in this scenario is if a human were to use it for...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an...
over a year ago
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls…
AFAR Media - Travel...
These Are the 7 Best Hotels for Watching the Perseid Meteor Shower—and You Can Still Book Them
a year ago
Asterisk
The Fault in Our Forecasts
It’s impossible to predict when an earthquake will strike. This puts seismologists in a nearly...
7 months ago
It’s impossible to predict when an earthquake will strike. This puts seismologists in a nearly impossible bind: how can they convince the public to take earthquakes seriously without crying wolf?
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2023
2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately.
It was only in...
a year ago
2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately.
It was only in December that I had meaningful time for writing.
In the 2022 review I set a few targets for the blog in 2023:
Targets for 2023
❎ Publish at least 40 posts
14
✅ Reach at least 150k...
Build In Public...
Build In Public: Spotlight Edition (Nate Washington)
Hi everyone, welcome to the latest spotlight edition of the Build In Public newsletter. Every week,...
over a year ago
Hi everyone, welcome to the latest spotlight edition of the Build In Public newsletter. Every week, I interview one prolific creator or founder and unpack insights, strategies, and actionable advice from their story that can be helpful in your own journey.
Common Edge
Election 2024: Revisiting the Duck and the Decorated Shed
How the Statue of Liberty and the Hollywood Sign frame the nation’s inherent tensions.
4 months ago
How the Statue of Liberty and the Hollywood Sign frame the nation’s inherent tensions.
AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Great New Broadway Shows to See in NYC in 2023-2024
a year ago
Flashbak
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
a month ago
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
Citation Needed
Issue 61 – Soft war by the enemy
How will recent Supreme Court decisions affect the crypto world? Also, more absurdity from the...
6 months ago
How will recent Supreme Court decisions affect the crypto world? Also, more absurdity from the crypto lobby, and some new regulatory actions.
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs emails Adobe's CEO
One of us must change our policy. Please let me know who.
a year ago
One of us must change our policy. Please let me know who.
blag
Disaggregated Storage - a brief introduction
a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems
2 months ago
a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems
Beautiful Public...
Mapping the Sea Floor
USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of...
over a year ago
USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of the sea floor off Cape Ann, MA.
Jonas Hietala
Speeding Ahead
Life is slowly settling down over here. School has started with some pretty interesting stuff this...
over a year ago
Life is slowly settling down over here. School has started with some pretty interesting stuff this year. Firstly we have a math analysis course in multiple variables which is ok. I’m not a fan of the previous analysis courses but maybe this will be a bit different. We’re...
Alex MacCaw
Unshackling Artificial Minds
Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product...
a year ago
Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product of Entropy, the law of nature that dictates it is easier to destroy than to create.
And here we are, on the cusp of creating not just something new, but
The DESK Magazine
My anti-New Year’s resolutions
I suck at New Year's Resolutions. Most of them are boring which is one reason we don't really stick...
11 months ago
I suck at New Year's Resolutions. Most of them are boring which is one reason we don't really stick with them.
TheCollector
13 English Words with Greek Origins
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a year ago
Blog - Practical...
What Really Happened at the New Harbor Bridge Project?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
In July of 2022, the Texas...
over a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
In July of 2022, the Texas Department of Transportation issued an emergency suspension of work on the half-finished Harbor Bridge project in Corpus Christi, citing serious design flaws that could cause the main...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Art and Practice of Reading Aloud to Others'
A longtime reader in Philadelphia, a retired attorney, tells
me that since the start of the COVID-19...
a year ago
A longtime reader in Philadelphia, a retired attorney, tells
me that since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown he has been reading books
aloud to his wife, most recently The Wife
of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis. His list of more than a dozen titles includes
Moby-Dick (“our overall...
TheCollector
How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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7 months ago
Wait But Why
The Big and the Small
I have a surprise for you.
The post The Big and the Small appeared first on Wait But Why.
over a year ago
I have a surprise for you.
The post The Big and the Small appeared first on Wait But Why.
TheCollector
What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
undefined
6 months ago
Notes on software...
Generating a REST API from a database
I recently published an alpha version of a code generation tool,
DBCore, that reads a...
over a year ago
I recently published an alpha version of a code generation tool,
DBCore, that reads a database
schema from PostgreSQL or MySQL and generates an entire Go API with
CRUD operations, pagination, filtering, and authentication.
But more than just generating code like
xo/xo or...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Old Collections Persist Somewhere'
Speaking of
anthologies, I again picked up Books and
Libraries (2021), published as part of the...
a year ago
Speaking of
anthologies, I again picked up Books and
Libraries (2021), published as part of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Series. I’ve browsed in several of these attractively compact volumes and they are
a very mixed bag, as any thematic anthology must be. You can sense...
The Codist
My Address Doesn't Fit, And Other Complaints
So today, I decided to renew my driver's license online, like any modern person would.
I started the...
7 months ago
So today, I decided to renew my driver's license online, like any modern person would.
I started the process by going to my state's driver's license website. The first page is to verify my home and mail addresses. Since nothing changed, I hit "
swyx's site RSS Feed
Organizing State of Diffusion++
I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed...
9 months ago
I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed up! Here are some photos!
Josh Collinsworth
Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac)
Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an...
over a year ago
Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an iPhone. Here are a few options to get around that problem.
Opsbros
Debug Header
After watching a livestream by UnexpectedMaker struggling to put probe pins on his Stepper Motor...
over a year ago
After watching a livestream by UnexpectedMaker struggling to put probe pins on his Stepper Motor driver connected to a Raspberry Pi, I thought a breakout header might help; so I whipped up this little board.
Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
What’s not evil: ranking content fairly *and* letting public content get indexed
Please see update at bottom Most websites spend massive amounts of time and money to get any of...
over a year ago
Please see update at bottom Most websites spend massive amounts of time and money to get any of their pages index and ranked by Google’s…
Josh Thompson
`ls` command to show directory contents
I like to use the tree command on my local machine when trying to peek into the structure and...
over a year ago
I like to use the tree command on my local machine when trying to peek into the structure and contents of a given directory.
tree -L 2
will [L]ist recursively everything [2] levels deep from your current directory. The output is nicely formatted like this:
> tree -L 2
.
├──...
FIRE v London
Feb ’24: Envyidia
I’ve had quite a lot of culture to enjoy in February. Aside from some travel for the Six Nations...
10 months ago
I’ve had quite a lot of culture to enjoy in February. Aside from some travel for the Six Nations rugby, I’ve been to two shows – one in London’s Royal Opera House and one on the south coast. Both events were either full or practically full. Covid feels fully behind us now. But...
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
The Modern House
Jacqueline Rabun: the jewellery designer on leaving home aged 17 to chart her own course through...
It was 1989 when a 17-year-old Jacqueline Rabun left home in California to seek her fortune in...
a year ago
It was 1989 when a 17-year-old Jacqueline Rabun left home in California to seek her fortune in London. It didn’t take long: the following year, she’d opened a jewellery studio (having taught herself how to make) and had debuted her first collection of sculptural pieces. […]
Diaries of Note
I have myself lost recollection of much that was interesting
On 20th November 1825, shortly after reading the diaries of Samuel Pepys and Lord Byron for the...
a year ago
On 20th November 1825, shortly after reading the diaries of Samuel Pepys and Lord Byron for the first time, Scottish poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott began his own diary by way of the following opening entry. Fifty-four at the time, Scott had already established himself as a...
TheCollector
Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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9 months ago
High Signal
Making $6k MRR from a Notion website builder
Noah Bragg is the founder of Potion, a website builder based on Notion. It lets you simply publish a...
a year ago
Noah Bragg is the founder of Potion, a website builder based on Notion. It lets you simply publish a website straight from Notion without any coding skills! Noah has done a great job growing Potion to $6k MRR. I interviewed him about how he created Potion, his best marketing...
NeuroLogica Blog
Deep South – A Neuromorphic Supercomputer
Australian researchers at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) at Western Sydney...
a year ago
Australian researchers at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) at Western Sydney University have announced they are building what they are calling Deep South (based on IBM’s Deep Blue). This will be the world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer, with 228...
Computer Things
A brief introduction to interval arithmetic
You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet,...
6 months ago
You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet, then you measure the couch and get 7 feet. Can you fit the couch against that wall?
Maybe. If the two measure is exactly 7 feet than sure, 7 ≤ 7. But you probably didn't line your...
The Ruffian
The Ruffian's Greatest Hits 2023
This Year's Top Ten Posts As Voted On By Me
a year ago
This Year's Top Ten Posts As Voted On By Me
CONTEMPORIST
A Pair Of Wellness Cabins Perched Among The Trees
Thirtyone Design + Management has shared photos of a pair of green wellness cabins that they have...
a year ago
Thirtyone Design + Management has shared photos of a pair of green wellness cabins that they have completed for the Grand Hotel Timeo in Taormina, Italy. Designed as part of the hotel’s celebration of the iconic property’s 150-year anniversary, the cabins unveil a partnership...
Retail Design Blog
AP House by Lissoni & Partners
Swiss ultra luxury watch maker Audemars Piguet continues to raise its profile in Europe‘s leading...
8 months ago
Swiss ultra luxury watch maker Audemars Piguet continues to raise its profile in Europe‘s leading shopping destinations by opening flagship...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Study Human Psychology, Then Make Money Doing Whatever You Want
The way to legitimately influence people without being manipulative
a month ago
The way to legitimately influence people without being manipulative
Retail Design Blog
McCarthy Tétrault Law Offices by ACDF Architecture and BVN Architecture
ACDF Architecture and BVN Architecture transformed McCarthy Tétrault law firm’s Montreal offices...
5 months ago
ACDF Architecture and BVN Architecture transformed McCarthy Tétrault law firm’s Montreal offices into open, collaborative spaces with standardized workstations, flexible...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 15-21 January 2024
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Arduino Blog
This belt grinder uses an Arduino Opta micro PLC
A mainstay in most machine shops, the belt grinder assists in greatly increasing the speed at which...
3 months ago
A mainstay in most machine shops, the belt grinder assists in greatly increasing the speed at which parts can be ground down in a safer, more controlled manner compared to an angle grinder. As an effort to build a tool like this one for the first time, Julien Alexandre chose to...
Society's Backend
The Unfortunate Truth Regarding AI Regulation
And the impact it'll have for decades to come
7 months ago
And the impact it'll have for decades to come
Musings on Maps
“He Could Easily Destroy Us”
Tucker Carlson's move to Twitter led him to celebrate it as the last preserve of free speech. But...
a year ago
Tucker Carlson's move to Twitter led him to celebrate it as the last preserve of free speech. But his relation to speech was long slippery, best reflected on the heuristic display of the 2016 electoral map that was the logo of the pundit's nightly show's and its guiding...
This Space
The Opposite Direction, a book
Please use a link below to download an ebook of posts selected from over the last seven years of...
over a year ago
Please use a link below to download an ebook of posts selected from over the last seven years of this blog.
This is the second collection after This Space of Writing and the title comes from the adolescent Thomas Bernhard's phrase repeated to an official at the labour exchange...
Willem's Blog
Measuring cholesterol levels in blood
This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know...
over a year ago
This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know your LDL, HDL and Triglycerides numbers with a simple test.
The Marginalian
What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization
"Self-knowledge... is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous...
a year ago
"Self-knowledge... is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous growth. In this sense, to work at ourselves becomes not only the prime moral obligation, but... the prime moral privilege."
TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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a year ago
Simply Explained
Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTube
For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the...
over a year ago
For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the new year. This year is no exception, but now I try to set better goals while reflecting on some personal things in life.
Rest of World -...
Portraits of gig workers in rare moments off the clock
Rest of World shadowed workers in São Paulo, Lagos, Dhaka, and Jakarta to get an intimate look at...
10 months ago
Rest of World shadowed workers in São Paulo, Lagos, Dhaka, and Jakarta to get an intimate look at how they spend their breaks between orders.
Vadim Kravcenko
Exit. Selling your SaaS
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post Exit. Selling your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Retail Design Blog
Simi Mama Birtoka Chutneys and Jams by Corvin Art School
Simi Mama Birtoka is a small family business selling high-quality organic products such as jams,...
6 months ago
Simi Mama Birtoka is a small family business selling high-quality organic products such as jams, chutneys, syrups and juices. The...
TheCollector
The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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a year ago
Londonist
Metro Memory: The Addictive Tube Game You're Going To Be Playing All Week
"Just five more minutes..."
a year ago
"Just five more minutes..."
The American Scholar
The Power of the Common Soul
Ives, music-making, and hope
The post The Power of the Common Soul appeared first on The American...
4 months ago
Ives, music-making, and hope
The post The Power of the Common Soul appeared first on The American Scholar.
Darek Kay
Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts
As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion...
a year ago
As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion around subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions and transcripts. In this post, I use interactive examples to show the difference. I also provide related success criteria from...
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer in 2024
The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously...
a month ago
The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously unshared details like what Stripe's engineering culture is like, The architecture evolution of Bluesky, How the ChatGPT scaled to meet demand, How Anthropic builds products, How and...
Both Are True
An important reminder about all social media including Substack Notes
The truths they don’t want you to know about
8 months ago
The truths they don’t want you to know about
The Forney Flyer
From the Flight Line
Here's some random shots from the flight line. First, one of our Cessna 208B Grand Caravans taking...
over a year ago
Here's some random shots from the flight line. First, one of our Cessna 208B Grand Caravans taking off from our home airstrip in Kajjansi, Uganda. This aircraft is now serving in Liberia.
I've always loved watching the sky and the weather. Last week I was out of the city and...
Steve Klabnik
Why I'm partnering with Balanced
over a year ago
macwright.com
How I write and publish the microblog by ()
This microblog, by the way… I felt like real blog posts on macwright.com were becoming too...
a year ago
This microblog, by the way… I felt like real blog posts on macwright.com were becoming too “official” feeling to post little notes-to-self and tech tricks and whatnot.
The setup is intentionally pretty boring. I have been using Obsidian for notetaking, and I store micro blog...
TheCollector
Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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8 months ago
sbensu
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
Notes from reading the book by Zubok
11 months ago
Notes from reading the book by Zubok
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Loose Screws
These screws, they build up over years of odd jobs and weekend projects. I can't use them but I...
over a year ago
These screws, they build up over years of odd jobs and weekend projects. I can't use them but I can't throw them out, either. So they collect in little piles here and there. Why now should I have the urge to organize them?
TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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6 months ago
Both Are True
bad hair day (terrible, horrible, no good, very bad tbh)
a new, never-before-seen haircut for Alexander
3 months ago
a new, never-before-seen haircut for Alexander
TheCollector
Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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8 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Just Build Websites
Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of...
5 months ago
Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of golf-related brands on social media as a guilty pleasure.
The other day an image surfaced on Taylormade’s account which showcases Tommy Fleetwood playing some of their newest...
TokyoDev
You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech
You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know...
11 months ago
You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know it. The trick is knowing what you’re up against, why these obstacles persist, who might be able to help, and how far you may be required to shift your perspective from where it...
Old Vintage...
Reversing the Web-@nywhere Watch: browse fragments of the Web on your wrist
In the halcyon days of analogue modems and POTS dialup Internet, when the only wireless connection...
12 months ago
In the halcyon days of analogue modems and POTS dialup Internet, when the only wireless connection in your house was between the cordless phone and the wall, anything having to do with the Web was best consumed in small bites (pun intended). If you wanted to take data with you,...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Subprime AI Crisis
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of...
4 months ago
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a
Wuthering...
The Best Books of 2024
For the last year and a half I read short books,
mostly, which was psychologically satisfying and...
a year ago
For the last year and a half I read short books,
mostly, which was psychologically satisfying and anyway necessary to fit the
available energy and concentration. Now,
though, back on my feet, I hope, I am ready to read long books again.
Long, and I mean it, like Rebecca West’s...
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Cantor was Wrong: debunking the infinite set hierarchy
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
Deep Work by Cal Newport
This was my favorite book of 2018. It profoundly impacted the way I approach my work and organize my...
over a year ago
This was my favorite book of 2018. It profoundly impacted the way I approach my work and organize my time. After reading it, I find it easier to maintain concentration and to prioritize important tasks. It was also the final push I needed to un-addict myself from social media.
sbensu
Love's Executioner (book)
Countertransference applies to regular conversation.
a month ago
Countertransference applies to regular conversation.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Organizations are ant colonies
After I had played Universal Paperclips for a couple of hours, I thought I understood the game’s...
a year ago
After I had played Universal Paperclips for a couple of hours, I thought I understood the game’s message. I put...
Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works #1: Data Auctions
The data auction system explained
10 months ago
The data auction system explained
Jonas Hietala
The great Hochstapler
Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here.
I’m now a pretty...
over a year ago
Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here.
I’m now a pretty happy student at Linköpings university and I’m reading something similar to Computer Science or Computer engineering, but I guess it’ll become whatever you make it to be. For...
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway Energy’s Uncertain Future
Warren Buffett's concerns about the regulatory climate for the utility industry has negative...
10 months ago
Warren Buffett's concerns about the regulatory climate for the utility industry has negative implications for PacifiCorp and BHE's other subsidiaries.
Handprinted - Blog
Drypoint with Aluminium Plates
Drypoint is an intaglio printmaking method that involves scratching an image into a plate with a...
a year ago
Drypoint is an intaglio printmaking method that involves scratching an image into a plate with a pointed tool. These lines create a burr that holds ink, meaning that the print reveals the drawing.
Drypoint is an easy technique to get to grips with and is a great method if you...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
Math Is Still...
Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines Win Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
a year ago
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to mRNA vaccines, such as those that protect against COVID-19.
The post Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines Win Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023 first appeared on...
The Ruffian
My Book of the Year
Yes, I'm Calling It Early
4 months ago
Yes, I'm Calling It Early
balajis.com
The Network State Conference
Come to Amsterdam on October 30 to build the parallel establishment.
a year ago
Come to Amsterdam on October 30 to build the parallel establishment.
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
a month ago
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
The DESK Magazine
Let's talk about AI
Many of you have asked me to write an essay with my thoughts on AI (Artificial Intelligence). So in...
a year ago
Many of you have asked me to write an essay with my thoughts on AI (Artificial Intelligence). So in the spirit of things, I've tasked ChatGPT to write this article for me.
bt RSS Feed
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File
2021-04-22
This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I...
over a year ago
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File
2021-04-22
This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I have switched back to Jekyll for performance reasons. I’ll be leaving this post up as a point of reference though :)
This is my personal blog (if that wasn’t already obvious). I...
Sean Carroll
Thanksgiving
This year we give thanks for one of the very few clues we have to the quantum nature of spacetime:...
over a year ago
This year we give thanks for one of the very few clues we have to the quantum nature of spacetime: black hole entropy. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s Law, the Spin-Statistics Theorem, conservation of momentum, effective field theory,...
The Pragmatic...
Apple: The Only Big Tech Giant Going Against the Job Cuts Tide
Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can...
a year ago
Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can we now expect it to follow suit by shedding workers?
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
11 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
Dominik Sobe's...
Five videos that shaped my life so far
over a year ago
Transit Maps
Unofficial Map: High-Speed Rail of France, 2023 by Lars’ Transport Maps
Well, this is just beautiful. Having made my own diagram on the same subject matter way, way back in...
a year ago
Well, this is just beautiful. Having made my own diagram on the same subject matter way, way back in 2011, I think I’m qualified to say that this is a rousing success. The maps have some similarities – routes are colour-coded either by their Paris origin station or operator...
diamond geezer
It's all downhill from here
It's all downhill from here.
This set of freak circumstances is never going to happen again. A...
6 months ago
It's all downhill from here.
This set of freak circumstances is never going to happen again. A Conservative party proven long-term incompetent by a sequence of abysmal Prime Ministers, a last minute intervention by Nigel Farage draining support away from the right, the Lib Dems...
Daniel Marino
Why I Still Prefer to Prototype Using Code
There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of...
9 months ago
There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of them over the years. I think these days, most everyone is using Figma, but whatever app you’re using—most of them typically have some sort of prototyping feature. Typically they have...
Seth's Blog
The digital barback
A barback supports the bartending staff. There are always clean glasses and fresh ingredients, ready...
9 months ago
A barback supports the bartending staff. There are always clean glasses and fresh ingredients, ready to go. Having someone else do your mise en place can dramatically improve your productivity. And now, with a bit of effort, you can train an AI and a few systems to do it for you....
TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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a year ago
The Marginalian
On Change and Denial
"It’s strange to feel change coming. It’s easy to ignore. An underlying restlessness seems to...
7 months ago
"It’s strange to feel change coming. It’s easy to ignore. An underlying restlessness seems to accompany it like birds flocking before a storm."
Avestura's Blog
Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser
This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like...
over a year ago
This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like Telegram...
A Smart Bear
Never say "no," but rarely say "yes."
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes"...
a year ago
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
Steve Blank
The 6th Lean Innovation Educators Summit – Education and Innovation in the Age of Chaos and...
Join Jerry Engel, Pete Newell, and Steve Weinstein for the sixth edition of the Lean Innovation...
over a year ago
Join Jerry Engel, Pete Newell, and Steve Weinstein for the sixth edition of the Lean Innovation Educators Summit December 14, 1-4 pm Eastern Time, 10 am-1 pm Pacific Time. Register here. — This virtual gathering will bring together entrepreneurship educators from around the world...
TheCollector
7 African Myths About Animals
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5 months ago
Calculated Risk
December 27th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Increasing
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm...
2 weeks ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly.
Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
Old Structures...
Happy Presidents’ Day
The cover of the dinner menu for Washington’s Birthday from the SS Columbia of the Hamburg-Amerika...
11 months ago
The cover of the dinner menu for Washington’s Birthday from the SS Columbia of the Hamburg-Amerika Line. That’s a portrati of the Columbia on the right, apparently about to run down a sailboat. Columbia had a weird history, having served as a liner between Germany and the US,...
Confessions of a...
Recording: How Hyper-Threading Works — A Microarchitectural Perspective
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous...
6 months ago
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous multithreading) implementation in Intel’s x86 processors.
Oxide Computer...
Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of
us being born in a...
over a year ago
We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of
us being born in a garage and
Bryan’s on the soul of our new computer
company. Also, see the perspectives of some of our founding engineers:
Robert Mustacchi on
joining Oxide,
Joshua Clulow on the need...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Five Things I Learned After I Left the Marketing Agency World
After about 8 years of working at advertising/marketing/design companies I hit a wall. I was...
over a year ago
After about 8 years of working at advertising/marketing/design companies I hit a wall. I was disappointed in the work I was doing. This is the story of why I became an in-house designer.
Benny Kuriakose
General Points on Photographing Historic Buildings - Part IV
The photographic recording should be done for posterity. Photographing a historic building must aim...
a year ago
The photographic recording should be done for posterity. Photographing a historic building must aim to convey information about it. It...
Maps Mania
The EJAtlas: A Map for Environmental Justice
4 months ago
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, March 2023
A new monthly feature, let me know what you think.
Books
Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works (2020)....
a year ago
A new monthly feature, let me know what you think.
Books
Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works (2020). About halfway through, lots of interesting case studies, very readable.
Vaclav Smil, Creating the Twentieth Century (2005). I read the first chapter; saving the rest of it for when...
ribbonfarm
Sons of the Soil, Migrants, and Civil War,
We read an interesting paper today (ht Sachin Benny with an assist from ChatGPT) in the Yak...
8 months ago
We read an interesting paper today (ht Sachin Benny with an assist from ChatGPT) in the Yak Collective weekly governance study group (Fridays at 9 AM Pacific). Sons of the Soil, Migrants, and Civil War, by James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin (World Development, V 39, No. 2,...
Diaries of Note
To Nobody, then, will I write my Journal!
Born in Norfolk in 1752, Frances Burney was fifteen when she began to keep a journal, and this...
a year ago
Born in Norfolk in 1752, Frances Burney was fifteen when she began to keep a journal, and this entry, in which she identifies her audience, was the first she ever wrote. For 72 years she continued, by which time she was a famous novelist—most notably as the author of Evelina, or...
RhysTranter.com
Rereading The Brothers Karamazov
It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park,...
6 months ago
It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park, sitting under a tree overlooking the river. I remember that it was the Penguin Classics edition translated by David McDuff, and that I couldn’t put it down.
journal – Winnie Lim
learning to be physically stronger
After thinking about it for more than three years, I’ve finally signed up for personal training so I...
a year ago
After thinking about it for more than three years, I’ve finally signed up for personal training so I can learn how to strength-train. We start to have muscle loss as we age:...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Reading Recursion via Pascal
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