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There are two broad philosophical approaches to explaining the forces that drive world events. The first one is sometimes called the Great…

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Max Rozen

Introducing PerfBeacon - Continuously Measure Site Speed via API or Schedule PerfBeacon was a wrapper around Google Lighthouse that lets you continuously measure your site's...

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Introducing PerfBeacon - Continuously Measure Site Speed via API or Schedule

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago

PerfBeacon was a wrapper around Google Lighthouse that lets you continuously measure your site's performance via API, or a schedule

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Seth's Blog

Choosing your pacemaker Roger Bannister ran a four-minute mile by having a relay race of pace runners next to him. If he...

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Choosing your pacemaker

over a year ago

Roger Bannister ran a four-minute mile by having a relay race of pace runners next to him. If he could keep up with his pacer, he’d finish the run in record time. If you work in an office where people are regularly shipping breakthrough work, it’s likely your work will ship as...

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CONTEMPORIST

A Tube Shaped Treehouse Wrapped In Diamond-Shaped Metal Tiles Artistree, a company that creates treehouses and tiny homes, has shared photos of their design named...

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A Tube Shaped Treehouse Wrapped In Diamond-Shaped Metal Tiles

a year ago

Artistree, a company that creates treehouses and tiny homes, has shared photos of their design named “The Spyglass Treehouse”, which provides a unique window into the surrounding environment. Inspired by old-fashioned spyglasses used to magnify what is in the distance, this...

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Flashbak

A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades “For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...

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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

8 months ago

“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...

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Sam Altman

The Merge A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if...

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The Merge

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago

A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075. People used to call this the...

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Classical Wisdom

Get Ready to Get Cynical Ancient Philosophy As a Way of Living: Cynicism

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Get Ready to Get Cynical

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Ancient Philosophy As a Way of Living: Cynicism

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Raw Thought (from...

Cherish mistakes

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Cherish mistakes

from Raw Thought (from Aaron Swartz) [alt+shift+b] in startups

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Jonas Hietala

It's Time for More School Today it’s finally starting again and it’s off with a flying start. We have 11 lectures this first...

over a year ago

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It's Time for More School

over a year ago

Today it’s finally starting again and it’s off with a flying start. We have 11 lectures this first week and an absolutely smacked schedule. If that wasn’t enough I also have a mentor time to prepare for and I need to start Taekwon-do again. On another note Ḯ’m currently plowing...

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Classical Wisdom

Weekend Roundup Plutarch and Pleasure

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Weekend Roundup

over a year ago

Plutarch and Pleasure

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Musings on Maps

“We Like Fighting Games” As he waited rather glumly for “the Feds” to arrive at his home, as his stepfather predicted, Airman...

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“We Like Fighting Games”

from Musings on Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

over a year ago

As he waited rather glumly for “the Feds” to arrive at his home, as his stepfather predicted, Airman First Class Jack Douglas Teixiera may have pondered why he had posted classified maps of heated battle fronts in the Ukraine War … Continue reading →

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Retail Design Blog

Casa LOEWE Following no less than eight shop-in-shops at leading department stores across Seoul, the time was...

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Casa LOEWE

11 months ago

Following no less than eight shop-in-shops at leading department stores across Seoul, the time was right for Spanish luxury brand...

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TheCollector

Newly Discovered Frescoes Reveal Ancient Ritual in Pompeii A century before the ancient city’s destruction, artists adorned the walls of a Pompeii banquet hall...

4 months ago

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Newly Discovered Frescoes Reveal Ancient Ritual in Pompeii

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 months ago

A century before the ancient city’s destruction, artists adorned the walls of a Pompeii banquet hall with a procession of Dionysian revelers. Brightly colored and nearly life-sized, the newly identified fresco figures dance, hunt, and imbibe in the name of the god of wine. ...

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Eric Bailey

Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall...

a year ago

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Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall “feature”. Talking to even one person who works in cybersecurity, political advocacy, domestic abuse prevention, LGBTQ+ support, etc. would reveal the full, naked horror this sort of...

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Christian Selig

Juno 1.1 If you’re new, Juno is a visionOS app for YouTube! Juno’s initial launch blew my socks off. It was...

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Juno 1.1

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago

If you’re new, Juno is a visionOS app for YouTube! Juno’s initial launch blew my socks off. It was such a cool feeling to release an app on day one of the Apple Vision Pro’s launch, and having people be so excited about it and have such great feedback made it that much better....

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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

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Generating a REST API from a database

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

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...

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latest projects -...

Ghetto soldering tweezers [Misc] And other 3D printed accessories

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Ghetto soldering tweezers

from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago

[Misc] And other 3D printed accessories

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Making software...

Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...

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Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser

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Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari. This switch back doesn't mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....

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Out-of-Pocket Blog

Special Edition - WoW | Out-Of-Pocket World Of Warcraft vs. COVID-19

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Special Edition - WoW | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

World Of Warcraft vs. COVID-19

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Ed Zitron's Where's...

Burst Damage Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in...

11 months ago

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Burst Damage

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

11 months ago

Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in every one of these articles for months. I am not upset, but just stating an obvious truth. The current state of affairs effectively pushes against the boundaries of good sense,...

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Essays - Benedict...

AI and the automation of work ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other...

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AI and the automation of work

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago

ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumption?

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Seeking Wisdom

How a Machine Learns – Part 2 I’m truly impressed by how accurately LLMs grasp natural language and consistently provide spot-on...

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How a Machine Learns – Part 2

from Seeking Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago

I’m truly impressed by how accurately LLMs grasp natural language and consistently provide spot-on answers. Through these posts, I’ll build a toy GPT from scratch using Python and unpack everything that goes inside the LLMs, including the math it uses. This is my third post on my...

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Contemporist...

This New Tiny Home Design Is Turning Heads For All The Right Reasons Could 194 square feet (18 m2) really be enough to feel at home? Gabriela Casagrande Arquitetura...

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This New Tiny Home Design Is Turning Heads For All The Right Reasons

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a month ago

Could 194 square feet (18 m2) really be enough to feel at home? Gabriela Casagrande Arquitetura seems to think so, and their newest project proves it.

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Working Theorys

Unbundling Cash & Equity | Theory No. 15 a heretical take on "total compensation"

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Unbundling Cash & Equity | Theory No. 15

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago

a heretical take on "total compensation"

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Kagi Blog

We moved mountains (of cotton) to deliver on our promise Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ?...

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We moved mountains (of cotton) to deliver on our promise

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10 months ago

Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ? Well, hold onto your search bars, because they’re finally ready to ship! TL;DR: Kagi Store ( https://store.kagi.com ).

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Wrong Side of...

Europe's absent-minded revolution Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on

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Europe's absent-minded revolution

from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago

Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on

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Identity Designed

CleanO2 Designed by Ordinary Things, San Francisco.

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CleanO2

from Identity Designed [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago

Designed by Ordinary Things, San Francisco.

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Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Care Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This accidentally became Bea Wolf for...

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Care

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This accidentally became Bea Wolf for teenagers. Today's News:

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Adrian Hanft, III:...

Why Leaders Should Never Back Their Car In The culture of a company is a hard thing to suss out from the outside. When you are thinking about...

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Why Leaders Should Never Back Their Car In

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago

The culture of a company is a hard thing to suss out from the outside. When you are thinking about switching jobs it can be hard to know what you are getting yourself into from interviews alone. Initial meetings are biased by employees who paint rosy pictures of the company in...

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Articles

How to choose an audience for your blog

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How to choose an audience for your blog

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

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Left To Write

Nashing Out How Playing Good Poker Connects With Behavioural Economics

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Nashing Out

from Left To Write [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago

How Playing Good Poker Connects With Behavioural Economics

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Open Culture

Igor Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944) In 1939, Igor Stravinsky emigrated to the United States, first arriving in New York City, before...

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Igor Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944)

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

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In 1939, Igor Stravinsky emigrated to the United States, first arriving in New York City, before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard during the 1939–40 academic year. While living in Boston, the composer conducted...

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Evan Jones -...

Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those...

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Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those functions modify global state, and can cause other threads calling getenv() to crash. This also causes crashes in other languages that use those C standard library functions, such as...

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Jonas Hietala

I Made It! It’s been over a year, but I haven’t lost (most) my touch yet! For the second time I’ve completed a...

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I Made It!

over a year ago

It’s been over a year, but I haven’t lost (most) my touch yet! For the second time I’ve completed a Ludum Dare! Not an easy feat and yet there are tons of games that look absolutely wonderful. I’m not there yet but now I have at least gotten back into game making again, long...

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Epic Web Dev

Why I Won't Use Next.js From the perspective of web standards to concerns about increasing complexity, Kent C. Dodds shares...

a year ago

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Why I Won't Use Next.js

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

From the perspective of web standards to concerns about increasing complexity, Kent C. Dodds shares his opinions on why he won't use Next.js.

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AVC

Fun Friday: Upside Pizza Club This is the second post in a row where I am bringing back an old tradition. This time it is Fun...

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Fun Friday: Upside Pizza Club

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago

This is the second post in a row where I am bringing back an old tradition. This time it is Fun Friday, something I haven’t done in about five years. Like last week, the catalyst is our portfolio company Blackbird Labs, which I posted about a few months ago. Blackbird is a...

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The Ruffian

How the Bud Light Debacle Predicted America's Corporate Vibe Shift Lessons In Navigating The Culture War

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How the Bud Light Debacle Predicted America's Corporate Vibe Shift

from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life

5 months ago

Lessons In Navigating The Culture War

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Tyler Cipriani: blog

Treats from git's contrib tools🍭 .title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here,...

a year ago

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Treats from git's contrib tools🍭

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

.title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones Junio C Hamano, git/contrib/README Git bundles handy tools along with its source repo. They live in a directory named contrib—short for contributed...

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Charlie Becker

Small Oven Syndrome A New Name for an Old Problem

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Small Oven Syndrome

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago

A New Name for an Old Problem

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Yale E360

Taiwan to Ramp Up Gas Imports After Shuttering Last Nuclear Plant Having shut down its last remaining nuclear plant Saturday, Taiwan is working to secure new imports...

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Taiwan to Ramp Up Gas Imports After Shuttering Last Nuclear Plant

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science

a month ago

Having shut down its last remaining nuclear plant Saturday, Taiwan is working to secure new imports of natural gas. Read more on E360 →

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Contemporist...

Round Windows Cover The Exterior Of This New Library Architecture firm fjcstudio has shared photos of Liverpool Civic Place and Yellamundie Library,...

2 months ago

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Round Windows Cover The Exterior Of This New Library

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2 months ago

Architecture firm fjcstudio has shared photos of Liverpool Civic Place and Yellamundie Library, recently completed in Sydney, Australia.

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Identity Designed

The Other House Designed by DesignStudio, London.

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The Other House

from Identity Designed [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago

Designed by DesignStudio, London.

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Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Child Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Ohh, you meant a romanticized well-behaved child in...

3 months ago

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Child

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

3 months ago

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Ohh, you meant a romanticized well-behaved child in a permanent state of the kind of wonder actual children achieve three or four times a year. Today's News:

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Spoon & Tamago

For the Next Month, Osaka will Transform into a Public Art Museum As the Osaka Expo draws the world’s attention to Osaka, the city is poised to add an additional...

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For the Next Month, Osaka will Transform into a Public Art Museum

from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel

a month ago

As the Osaka Expo draws the world’s attention to Osaka, the city is poised to add an additional attraction. Between May 28 and June 24, Osaka Art & Design 2025 (OAD2025) will run parallel to the Expo, transforming the city’s urban space into a public art museum. The event, which...

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SatPost by Trung...

11 Best Things of 2024 My favourite book, film, podcast, quote, meme, purchase and more for the year.

6 months ago

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11 Best Things of 2024

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

6 months ago

My favourite book, film, podcast, quote, meme, purchase and more for the year.

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The American Scholar

On Book August Wilson’s play just hit the big screen, but even greater rewards await on the page The post On...

7 months ago

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On Book

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

7 months ago

August Wilson’s play just hit the big screen, but even greater rewards await on the page The post On Book appeared first on The American Scholar.

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BLDGBLOG

Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis Recently, I’ve been looking back at a collaborative project with John Becker of WROT Studio. The...

a year ago

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Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis

from BLDGBLOG [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago

Recently, I’ve been looking back at a collaborative project with John Becker of WROT Studio. The “Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis” (2014) was a fictional design project we originally set in the vast limestone province of Australia’s Nullarbor Plain. [Image: A rock-acid...

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Dreams of Space -...

The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970) Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...

a year ago

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The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago

Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...

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Unfiltered by Tim...

Eight Ways to F*ck up Your Life Without Trying Toxic mindsets we all have that will unconsciously ruin your life

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Eight Ways to F*ck up Your Life Without Trying

from Unfiltered by Tim Denning [alt+shift+b] in life

5 months ago

Toxic mindsets we all have that will unconsciously ruin your life

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Londonist

Best Of Londonist: 2-8 October 2023 The best articles from the past week.

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Best Of Londonist: 2-8 October 2023

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The best articles from the past week.

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TheCollector

A Guide to 5 Virtual Russian Museums for Art & History Lovers Vibrant, traditional, and modern, Russia’s two major cultural centers represent centuries of the...

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A Guide to 5 Virtual Russian Museums for Art & History Lovers

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Vibrant, traditional, and modern, Russia’s two major cultural centers represent centuries of the country’s rich and turbulent history. If you want to explore streets packed with museums and galleries, an online tour of Russia’s top five museums offers armchair travelers a perfect...

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Dylan Huang Blog

I Reviewed 1,000s of GraphQL vs. REST perspectives Ask any developer: do you prefer GraphQL or REST? This often leads to opinionated conversations,...

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I Reviewed 1,000s of GraphQL vs. REST perspectives

from Dylan Huang Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago

Ask any developer: do you prefer GraphQL or REST? This often leads to opinionated conversations, sometimes even devolving into vulgar opinions rather than objective facts.

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99% Invisible

Roman Mars Describes Athens GA As It Is [EPISODE] This is the third and final episode in a three-part series of Roman Mars recording on-location...

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Roman Mars Describes Athens GA As It Is [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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This is the third and final episode in a three-part series of Roman Mars recording on-location guides to the design features and interesting spots in cities he loves. Roman moved to Athens, Georgia, to pursue a PhD in plant genetics, but dropped out and got into the local music...

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Daniel Bourke

Where’s the magic? I got asked once my favourite person from history in a job interview. I said Isaac Newton. An old...

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Where’s the magic?

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I got asked once my favourite person from history in a job interview. I said Isaac Newton. An old cricket coach told me about the laws of motion. And I never forgot. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. It helped fix my right arm leg spin. I later

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Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Elephant Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Elephants never forget, but they CAN be...

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Elephant

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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Elephants never forget, but they CAN be eradicated. Today's News:

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Cartogrammar

The rain on terrain If you poured water over the terrain somewhere in the world, where would it go? That’s perhaps one...

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The rain on terrain

from Cartogrammar [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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If you poured water over the terrain somewhere in the world, where would it go? That’s perhaps one way to think of the thing that distracted me in the evenings this week. [Edit: an interactive map should appear here, but there are some unresolved issues. Check out the...

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Naz Hamid — Journal...

🔗 Bad Apple Artworks Everything you see here is made by myself by hand. Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →

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🔗 Bad Apple Artworks

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a year ago

Everything you see here is made by myself by hand. Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →

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Elad Blog

Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?) Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what...

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Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?)

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over a year ago

Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what risks to assume for 2023

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macwright.com

SaaS exits by I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit...

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SaaS exits by

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit experiences: Loom is surprisingly hard to exit from. There’s no bulk export option, no way to export metadata. Webflow doesn’t support exporting sites with CMS collections (blogs, docs,...

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AFAR Media - Travel...

The 8 Best Things to Do in Belize

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The 8 Best Things to Do in Belize

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

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Retail Design Blog

Words, Sounds, Colours & Shapes store As a veritable jack of all trades, Ramdane Touhami has not only created a legacy in retail, but also...

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Words, Sounds, Colours & Shapes store

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

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As a veritable jack of all trades, Ramdane Touhami has not only created a legacy in retail, but also in...

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Roberto's blog

Conquer dev environments with Nix I regularly use different devices with different OSs, such as a MacBook, a Windows desktop with WSL,...

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Conquer dev environments with Nix

from Roberto's blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago

I regularly use different devices with different OSs, such as a MacBook, a Windows desktop with WSL, a couple of Raspberry PIs, and so on. I have a bunch of tools I like to have at my fingertips when I log into a machine, like fd and Neovim. Setting up and maintaining the same...

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PostHog's RSS Feed

Group Analytics is now available in PostHog Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale /...

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Group Analytics is now available in PostHog

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale / Enterprise users and those on PostHog Cloud…

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Mark Manson

14 of the Best Nonfiction Books You Should Read All ye readers, buckle up. Today, I'm giving you 14 non-fiction books I believe everyone should...

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14 of the Best Nonfiction Books You Should Read

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago

All ye readers, buckle up. Today, I'm giving you 14 non-fiction books I believe everyone should read. For each book, I've provided a brief summary. Now it's up to you to decide if it's worth your time. Let's dig in. This book dives deep into the world of trauma, discussing its...

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Unpacked

The EU's war on behavioral advertising Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by...

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The EU's war on behavioral advertising

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a year ago

Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by default, marking the end of an era. The regulators won, at least for now.

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History Today Feed

The Victorians, Creation, and the Dinosaur Problem The Victorians, Creation, and the Dinosaur Problem JamesHoare Mon, 05/19/2025 - 09:00

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The Victorians, Creation, and the Dinosaur Problem

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The Victorians, Creation, and the Dinosaur Problem JamesHoare Mon, 05/19/2025 - 09:00

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bt RSS Feed

The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...

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The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...

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Making software...

Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software...

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Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software

over a year ago

Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software has no business in any school environment. Educational institutions lean heavily on Windows systems in the name of "security" or "easier platform management". This approach forces...

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Twelve Mile Circle –...

Dayton, Ohio Part 3 (Museums) Sure, I visited the various Wright Brothers museums, historical sites, and memorials but they...

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Dayton, Ohio Part 3 (Museums)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a year ago

Sure, I visited the various Wright Brothers museums, historical sites, and memorials but they weren’t the totality of Dayton’s remarkable legacy. It wasn’t even the reason why we visited. I mentioned the younger kid’s interest in all things aeronautical earlier and it traced back...

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bunnie's blog

Winner, Name that Ware June 2023 The Ware for June 2023 is a Sony TR-733 “7-transistor radio” from the mid 1960’s. I’ll give the...

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Winner, Name that Ware June 2023

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

The Ware for June 2023 is a Sony TR-733 “7-transistor radio” from the mid 1960’s. I’ll give the prize to Pedro Rodrigues, because even though the model number isn’t correct, as far as I can tell the portion of the electronics shown is identical between the TR-729 and the TR-733....

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David Perell

How Should You Write? There are two ways to write: The Printer Method and the Pixel Method. With the Printer Method, you...

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How Should You Write?

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago

There are two ways to write: The Printer Method and the Pixel Method. With the Printer Method, you write and rewrite every sentence until it’s perfect. Nail the first sentence, then the second, and so on. Perfection is the name of the game so you don’t advance to a new sentence...

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Notes on software...

Writing a web server from scratch: 1. HTTP and sockets Say we have some HTML: <html> <body> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </body> </html> And say we'd...

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Writing a web server from scratch: 1. HTTP and sockets

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago

Say we have some HTML: <html> <body> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </body> </html> And say we'd like to be able to render this page in a web browser. If the server is hosted locally we may want to enter localhost:9000/hello-world.html in the address bar, hit enter, make a...

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Artificial Ignorance

States are racing ahead of Congress to regulate deepfakes Several states just banned deepfakes in political ads and porn.

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States are racing ahead of Congress to regulate deepfakes

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a year ago

Several states just banned deepfakes in political ads and porn.

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Calculated Risk

PCE Measure of Shelter Decreases to 4.5% YoY in January Here is a graph of the year-over-year change in shelter from the CPI report and housing from the PCE...

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PCE Measure of Shelter Decreases to 4.5% YoY in January

4 months ago

Here is a graph of the year-over-year change in shelter from the CPI report and housing from the PCE report this morning, both through January 2025. CPI Shelter was up 4.4% year-over-year in January, down from 4.6% in December, and down from the cycle peak of 8.2% in March...

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Construction Physics

The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only...

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The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago

Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only reasonable way to create a direct path between two points. When the Hoosac tunnel was completed in 1875, it turned a difficult, 20-mile railroad route along “

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The Rational Walk

What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the first quarter of 2024, most notably The Diary of...

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What I’ve Been Reading

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago

This post is a list of books that I read in the first quarter of 2024, most notably The Diary of Anne Frank, Endurance, Crime and Punishment, and the Iliad.

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The Marginalian

How to Live a Miraculous Life: Brian Doyle on Love, Humility, and the Quiet Grace of the Possible Suppose we agree that we are here to love anyway — to love even though the work is almost unbearably...

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How to Live a Miraculous Life: Brian Doyle on Love, Humility, and the Quiet Grace of the Possible

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

7 months ago

Suppose we agree that we are here to love anyway — to love even though the work is almost unbearably difficult, even though we know that everything alive is dying, that everything beautiful is perishable, that everything we love will eventually be taken from us by one form of...

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Jordan’s Substack

Coming soon This is Jordan’s Substack.

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Coming soon

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8 months ago

This is Jordan’s Substack.

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David Crawshaw

Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes 2018-04-02, David Crawshaw The Go standard library...

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Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes 2018-04-02, David Crawshaw The Go standard library includes , a generic SQL interface. It does a good job of doing exactly what it says it does, providing a generic interface to various SQL database servers. Sometimes that is what you want....

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TheCollector

What Does the Bible Say About Polygamy? Despite frequent references in popular Western culture to heterosexual monogamy as the traditional...

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What Does the Bible Say About Polygamy?

3 weeks ago

Despite frequent references in popular Western culture to heterosexual monogamy as the traditional (and sometimes even “biblical”) view of marriage, the Bible itself neither condemns polygamy nor enjoins monogamy. Christians or Jews interested in forming a theology of marriage...

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TokyoDev

A Win-Win: Multinational Development Teams at Givery There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan, and a growing number of Japanese companies...

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A Win-Win: Multinational Development Teams at Givery

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago

There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan, and a growing number of Japanese companies have responded by building new, multinational development teams. An in-house multinational team, which typically uses English as a first language, can allow a Japanese company to take...

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Rest of World -...

Why one of the world’s major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia Jürgen Schmidhuber says the whole world can benefit from the kingdom’s funding of futuristic AI...

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Why one of the world’s major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

4 months ago

Jürgen Schmidhuber says the whole world can benefit from the kingdom’s funding of futuristic AI initiatives, and lead to a new golden age for science.

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Retail Design Blog

Banshan Pine Forest Open Pine Nut by UEAGLE The fragrance of pine nuts contains the good mountains, waters and air of Changbai Mountain. It is...

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Banshan Pine Forest Open Pine Nut by UEAGLE

3 months ago

The fragrance of pine nuts contains the good mountains, waters and air of Changbai Mountain. It is the essence of...

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TokyoDev

A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...

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A Horrifying User Experience

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious one. Finding an apartment went smoother than I could have imagined, and in half-a-day, I had found a new apartment. The following day I set out to take care of the tasks surrounding...

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swyx's site RSS Feed

"No Code" vs RPA RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real...

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"No Code" vs RPA

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real differences and I am trying to note them down here.

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Seth's Blog

A labor of love That’s magical. To have the resources to expend labor on something that fills us with joy. If you’re...

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A labor of love

10 months ago

That’s magical. To have the resources to expend labor on something that fills us with joy. If you’re lucky enough to encounter this, perhaps it makes sense not to confuse the issue by also trying to turn it into labor for maximum profit. When we focus on one, we often decrease...

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Retail Design Blog

Zhi Chi Dental by WEDO DESIGN Teeth are the cubes in the oral cavity. What surprises are hidden in this cubic space? Zhi Chi...

a year ago

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Zhi Chi Dental by WEDO DESIGN

a year ago

Teeth are the cubes in the oral cavity. What surprises are hidden in this cubic space? Zhi Chi Dental provides...

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Joel Gascoigne

What is failure for you? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One thing I...

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What is failure for you?

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One thing I realised over the holiday period is that my definition of failure in a couple of things had changed considerably since the year before. In particular, in the year of 2012 I built up...

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Thu Le

My design process I came across Damien Newman’s story of the Design Squiggle some time ago. You can read more about it...

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My design process

from Thu Le [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago

I came across Damien Newman’s story of the Design Squiggle some time ago. You can read more about it at thedesignsquiggle.com. It has resonated with me since, and prompted me to document my own design process in the last five years collaborating with teams and businesses as a...

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Quanta Magazine

New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one...

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New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

6 days ago

After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems. The post New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Build In Public...

Still on the fence on learning no-code? What's stopping you? It’s not an understatement when I say no-code practically changed my life and my career. In 2018, I...

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Still on the fence on learning no-code? What's stopping you?

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago

It’s not an understatement when I say no-code practically changed my life and my career. In 2018, I was a different KP. Stuck at a corporate job where I felt like I was a tiny cog in a huge wheel, surrounded by uninspiring peers who I didn’t resonate with, bringing home a...

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Londonist

The Barbi-Ken Line? The Ickeypoo Line? What If All Tubes Were Named Like Bakerloo? Waterloo to Bank presents some options.

a year ago

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The Barbi-Ken Line? The Ickeypoo Line? What If All Tubes Were Named Like Bakerloo?

a year ago

Waterloo to Bank presents some options.

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The Elysian

You’d still work if you didn’t have to But it would feel more like play.

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You’d still work if you didn’t have to

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12 months ago

But it would feel more like play.

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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

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The great Hochstapler

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...

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Calculated Risk

ISM® Manufacturing index Decreased to 49.0% in March (Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated expansion. The PMI® was at 49.0%...

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ISM® Manufacturing index Decreased to 49.0% in March

3 months ago

(Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated expansion. The PMI® was at 49.0% in March, down from 50.3% in February. The employment index was at 44.7%, down from 47.6% the previous month, and the new orders index was at 45.2%, down from 48.6%. Manufacturing...

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TheCollector

7 Great Historical Places in Hong Kong Once sparsely dotted with small fishing and farming villages, Hong Kong is now one of the world’s...

2 months ago

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7 Great Historical Places in Hong Kong

2 months ago

Once sparsely dotted with small fishing and farming villages, Hong Kong is now one of the world’s largest financial centers. Walking on the crowded sidewalks among the skyscrapers, one feels particularly insignificant and anonymous. With a population of nearly 7.5 million, Hong...

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Vitalik Buterin's...

The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications

a year ago

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The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications

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Map of the Week

Bad News For Local News Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative released the latest State of Local News. It...

8 months ago

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Bad News For Local News

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8 months ago

Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative released the latest State of Local News. It highlights the dire state of print journalism with maps to illustrate the problems. This one highlights counties that are on the watch list to become news deserts. News deserts...

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The Honest Broker

How to Write Dana Gioia shares the secrets of his craft in this deep 3-hour conversation with David Perrell

4 months ago

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How to Write

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4 months ago

Dana Gioia shares the secrets of his craft in this deep 3-hour conversation with David Perrell

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Blog System/5

From 0 to 1 MB in DOS A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086

a year ago

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From 0 to 1 MB in DOS

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a year ago

A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086

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Retail Design Blog

Erbe Cilento by Paolo De Angelis Erbe Cilento is a company dedicated to enhancing the native medicinal herbs of Cilento, transforming...

3 months ago

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Erbe Cilento by Paolo De Angelis

3 months ago

Erbe Cilento is a company dedicated to enhancing the native medicinal herbs of Cilento, transforming them into high-quality herbal teas....

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Julia Evans

Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers) I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source....

a month ago

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Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)

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a month ago

I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the dependencies, run make, if it doesn’t work, either try to find a binary someone has...

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Elad Blog

The False Narrative Around Theranos One of the interesting aspects of the Theranos trial is the degree to which some folks are buying...

over a year ago

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The False Narrative Around Theranos

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over a year ago

One of the interesting aspects of the Theranos trial is the degree to which some folks are buying into part of the defense's narrative that "Theranos was just acting like every Silicon Valley startup". This is of course blatantly false, but it is being adopted as some form of...

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Articles

Why I'm building a new SaaS in 2018

over a year ago

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Why I'm building a new SaaS in 2018

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Cremieux Recueil

Sometimes Papers Contain Obvious Lies What you read in an abstract, a title, or even in the body of a paper might be the opposite of what...

3 months ago

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Sometimes Papers Contain Obvious Lies

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3 months ago

What you read in an abstract, a title, or even in the body of a paper might be the opposite of what papers actually show, and sometimes result are just made up

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symmetry magazine

Physics on tour A group called the Big Bang Collective sets up physics discovery stations at rather unexpected...

over a year ago

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Physics on tour

from symmetry magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago

A group called the Big Bang Collective sets up physics discovery stations at rather unexpected venues: music festivals.

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Vitalik Buterin's...

Soulbound

over a year ago

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Soulbound

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over a year ago

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Ian's Blog

What the heck is OCSP? The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web...

over a year ago

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What the heck is OCSP?

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over a year ago

The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web browser) to check if a certificate has been revoked or not. Certificate Revocation? With asymmetrical encryption, your encryption is only as good as long as your private key remains...

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Paul Graham: Essays

The Anatomy of Determination

over a year ago

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The Anatomy of Determination

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swyx's site RSS Feed

The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...

over a year ago

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The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators

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over a year ago

Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator journey.

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99% Invisible

Raccoon Resistance After Toronto unveiled its “raccoon-resistant” compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals...

7 months ago

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Raccoon Resistance

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7 months ago

After Toronto unveiled its “raccoon-resistant” compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals would be starved but many more celebrated the innovative design. Rolling out this novel locked bin opened a new battlefront in city’s ongoing “war on raccoons.” Toronto’s new...

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David Heinemeier...

Delusional dreams of excess freedom Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they...

6 months ago

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Delusional dreams of excess freedom

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6 months ago

Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of...

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Anecdotal Evidence

'Full of the Little Obscurities' “A man may profess to understand the President of the United States, but he seldom alleges, even...

3 weeks ago

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'Full of the Little Obscurities'

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3 weeks ago

“A man may profess to understand the President of the United States, but he seldom alleges, even to himself, that he understands his own wife.” Anecdotal Evidence attracts an admirably knowledgeable set of readers, mostly proud amateurs like its author. As best I can judge,...

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TheCollector

7 Historic Sites in Chiang Mai (Thailand’s “Rose of the North”) Chiang Mai, the second largest province in Thailand and the epicenter of education in Northern...

2 months ago

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7 Historic Sites in Chiang Mai (Thailand’s “Rose of the North”)

2 months ago

Chiang Mai, the second largest province in Thailand and the epicenter of education in Northern Thailand, is a mashup of captivating cultural experiences, mouthwatering food, and stunning architecture. As the capital of the Lanna Kingdom until 1558, Chiang Mai intermixes its...

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Rest of World -...

Latin Americans’ social feeds are being flooded with AI-generated ads Brands and politicians are getting mixed results.

a year ago

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Latin Americans’ social feeds are being flooded with AI-generated ads

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a year ago

Brands and politicians are getting mixed results.

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Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Automatic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think I finally hit a completely new theodicy. If...

a year ago

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Automatic

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a year ago

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think I finally hit a completely new theodicy. If I can draw this out to 200 pages, I could get a divinity degree. Today's News:

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The Ruffian

On not tolerating intolerance Why all companies, institutions and leaders should care about free speech

a year ago

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On not tolerating intolerance

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a year ago

Why all companies, institutions and leaders should care about free speech

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ByteofDev

A deep dive into distributed database architectures Learn about different strategies for delivering data from multiple servers

a year ago

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A deep dive into distributed database architectures

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a year ago

Learn about different strategies for delivering data from multiple servers

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Flashbak

Nights at The Fabulous Cabaret Fledermaus by the Wiener Werkstätte, 1907-1913 The Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop). saw the Cabaret Fledermaus as a place where the “boredom”...

a month ago

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Nights at The Fabulous Cabaret Fledermaus by the Wiener Werkstätte, 1907-1913

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago

The Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop). saw the Cabaret Fledermaus as a place where the “boredom” of contemporary life would be replaced by “ease, art and culture”. Opening on October 1907, on the corner of Kärntner Straße 33 and Johannesgasse 1 in Vienna, the club was housed in...

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Trying to Understand...

Politics Without Purpose. And its consequences.

a month ago

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Politics Without Purpose.

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a month ago

And its consequences.

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CONTEMPORIST

A New Home Inspired By The Verticality Of Neighboring Victorian Houses NEO Architecture Inc. has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Ontario, Canada,...

a year ago

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A New Home Inspired By The Verticality Of Neighboring Victorian Houses

a year ago

NEO Architecture Inc. has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Ontario, Canada, whose design was inspired by the verticality of neighboring Victorian homes. The extruded gable form is a tribute to the architectural motifs of the past while blending it with...

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DYNOMIGHT

Let’s stop counting centuries Here’s a sentence from Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: The Enlightenment is conventionally placed...

a year ago

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Let’s stop counting centuries

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a year ago

Here’s a sentence from Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: The Enlightenment is conventionally placed in the last two-thirds of the 18th century, though it flowed out of the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Reason in the 17th century and spilled into the heyday of classical...

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The Ruffian

Banishing The Inner Critic How Madison Keys Learned To Care Less and Win More

5 months ago

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Banishing The Inner Critic

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5 months ago

How Madison Keys Learned To Care Less and Win More

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Retail Design Blog

GUESS FLAGSHIP STORE – LAS VEGAS Located in the heart of Las Vegas at The Forum Shops within Caesars Palace, the 1,153 sqm Guess...

a month ago

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GUESS FLAGSHIP STORE – LAS VEGAS

a month ago

Located in the heart of Las Vegas at The Forum Shops within Caesars Palace, the 1,153 sqm Guess flagship store...

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Classical Wisdom

Athena Myths of Wisdom

a year ago

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Athena

a year ago

Myths of Wisdom

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Herbert Lui

A path to consistency An earlier blog post I wrote has been bouncing around my mind lately: consistency starts with...

5 months ago

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A path to consistency

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

5 months ago

An earlier blog post I wrote has been bouncing around my mind lately: consistency starts with inconsistency. If the fear of commitment—or the avoidance of hard, consistent work—prevents you from getting started on something, the best solution is to find another way to see it....

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Josh Thompson

Growing in your first software development job I started my first software developer role a year ago. (November 2017) This is tremendously...

over a year ago

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Growing in your first software development job

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over a year ago

I started my first software developer role a year ago. (November 2017) This is tremendously exciting, of course, but introduces its own set of challenges, like: I finished Turing and I’ve got a job! Oh snap. I just finished a grueling program, and my reward is I’m fit to sit at...

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Maggie Appleton

Speculative Calendar Events Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems

a year ago

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Speculative Calendar Events

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a year ago

Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems

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Matt Mullenweg

Michael Palmisano on Collier I’ve been obsessed with Jacob Collier since I first saw his Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing cover on...

8 months ago

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Michael Palmisano on Collier

from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago

I’ve been obsessed with Jacob Collier since I first saw his Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing cover on YouTube, and one of my favorite genres of videos is genius musicians breaking down the incredible musical stuff Jacob is doing. (He even has his own instrument now.) This reaction...

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mtlynch.io

Building a Homelab VM Server (2020 Edition) For the past five years, I’ve done all of my software development in virtual machines (VMs). Each of...

over a year ago

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Building a Homelab VM Server (2020 Edition)

over a year ago

For the past five years, I’ve done all of my software development in virtual machines (VMs). Each of my projects gets a dedicated VM, sparing me the headache of dependency conflicts and TCP port collisions. Three years ago, I took things to the next level by building my own...

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The History of the...

Beware the cloud of hype We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of...

a year ago

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Beware the cloud of hype

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web. The post Beware the cloud of hype appeared first on The History of the Web.

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Daniel De Laney

Network Engineering “My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in...

over a year ago

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Network Engineering

from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago

“My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in a comprehensible and usable way. Finally, I had to make it less ugly.” The Challenge When you type “google.com” into your browser and press the Enter key, what happens? How do you...

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Home on Erik...

I'm featured in Mashable This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with: Erik...

over a year ago

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I'm featured in Mashable

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago

This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with: Erik Bernhardsson is technical lead at Spotify, where he helped to build a music recommendation system based on large-scale machine learning algorithms, mainly matrix factorization of big...

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MMapped blog

IC internals: Internet Identity storage

over a year ago

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IC internals: Internet Identity storage

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over a year ago

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Seth's Blog

What does the world owe us? This question is a trap. It’s based on scarcity and entitlement, and most of all, the world isn’t...

a year ago

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What does the world owe us?

a year ago

This question is a trap. It’s based on scarcity and entitlement, and most of all, the world isn’t listening. When more and more people focus on this question, it simply pushes us apart. On the other hand, “what do I owe the world?” opens the door for endless opportunity. When...

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xkcd.com

RNA

4 months ago

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RNA

4 months ago

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xkcd.com

Factorial Numbers

a year ago

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Factorial Numbers

a year ago

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The Rational Walk

The Digest #183 Daily Journal, Apple, Costco, Moody's, Munger's wisdom, Tesla's narratives, Tim Urban on writing,...

a year ago

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The Digest #183

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a year ago

Daily Journal, Apple, Costco, Moody's, Munger's wisdom, Tesla's narratives, Tim Urban on writing, Rivian, AI's morality, AI bubble?, How James Longstreet defied the South after the war

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Old Structures...

Almost Unrecognizeable Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if...

a year ago

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Almost Unrecognizeable

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago

Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if their descriptions don’t say were they were taken. The 1957 picture above threw me. We’re looking towards midtown – the Empire State Building makes that obvious – but from what...

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Flashbak

When Sly Stone Traded His New Album For Cocaine Sly Stone (March 15, 1943 – June 9, 2025) was frontman for the brilliant Sly and the Family Stone...

a month ago

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When Sly Stone Traded His New Album For Cocaine

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago

Sly Stone (March 15, 1943 – June 9, 2025) was frontman for the brilliant Sly and the Family Stone (formerly Sly and the Stoners). The audacious and playful musician behind such infectious funk-rock-soul hits as the often-sampled hit Everyday People (1969), the gospel-influenced...

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Common Edge

Violent Trouble in Television Paradise The dystopian streaming shows that reflect our times—and that we can’t get enough of.

4 months ago

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Violent Trouble in Television Paradise

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4 months ago

The dystopian streaming shows that reflect our times—and that we can’t get enough of.

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Matt Mazur

Running Mistral 7B Instruct on a Macbook Similar to yesterday’s post on running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model, I wanted to...

a year ago

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Running Mistral 7B Instruct on a Macbook

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago

Similar to yesterday’s post on running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model, I wanted to document the steps I took to run Mistral’s 7B-Instruct-v0.2 model on a Mac for anyone else interested in playing around with it. Unlike yesterday’s post though, this 7B Instruct...

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Simply Explained

Home Energy Monitor: V2 My DIY home energy monitor has been running for almost a year now. It's been recording my...

over a year ago

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Home Energy Monitor: V2

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago

My DIY home energy monitor has been running for almost a year now. It's been recording my electricity consumption every second and everything is neatly archived in my AWS account.Still, though, there is room for improvement. It's time to look back, evaluate & improve the design....

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dthompson

Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...

over a year ago

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Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a co-host of the jam alongside technomancy but he did all the real work setting everything up. There were 30 submissions this time around, which I believe is a new record...

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Out-of-Pocket Blog

Physicians and Pharma Marketing | Out-Of-Pocket oh we getting that drug money

a year ago

22

Physicians and Pharma Marketing | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago

oh we getting that drug money

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abdz.do - Have you...

Lacoste 90th Anniversary web design refresh Lacoste 90th Anniversary web design refresh abduzeedo0505—23 ...

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Lacoste 90th Anniversary web design refresh

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Lacoste 90th Anniversary web design refresh abduzeedo0505—23 Bonhomme Studio is a Paris-based creative studio that specializes in design, brand identity, and interaction design including web design, UI and UX. They have worked with a wide range...

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The importance of institutional redundancy Every system built by a single institution has points of failure that can bring the entire system...

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The importance of institutional redundancy

over a year ago

Every system built by a single institution has points of failure that can bring the entire system down. Even in organizations that have…

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Aaron's Essays

Conflicted Capital I’ve spent a long time wrestling with how to advise founders about investors and the conflicts of...

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Conflicted Capital

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over a year ago

I’ve spent a long time wrestling with how to advise founders about investors and the conflicts of interest generated by opposing incentives.[1] These considerations are especially important when a founder thinks about fundraising. The founder needs to figure out how to treat...

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Seth's Blog

Further vs. faster Sprints and marathons are both foot races, but they have very little in common. The training is...

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Further vs. faster

7 months ago

Sprints and marathons are both foot races, but they have very little in common. The training is different, and so is the technique. Which one are you signing up for? What about the thing you sell? Are we trying to get there faster, or do we promise to go further?

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Old Structures...

Why People Cared This is remarkable, in a way: in a city full of apartment houses, the New York Sun newspaper felt...

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Why People Cared

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10 months ago

This is remarkable, in a way: in a city full of apartment houses, the New York Sun newspaper felt that a complex of mid-rise buildings in Queens was worthy of note: I can think of two reasons off the top of my head, one related to housing and the other related to general...

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Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Compliment Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time I see this it takes me a minute to...

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Compliment

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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time I see this it takes me a minute to realize it isn't an insult. Today's News:

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CONTEMPORIST

A Tree House That Feels Like It’s Floating Inside The Forest INTEGRA STUDIO ARQUITETURA has shared photos of a modern Tree House project they completed for the...

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A Tree House That Feels Like It’s Floating Inside The Forest

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INTEGRA STUDIO ARQUITETURA has shared photos of a modern Tree House project they completed for the NaCarapina accommodation complex, that’s located in Brazil. The Tree House which has the feeling of ‘floating inside the forest’, is fully integrated with the imposing Araucaria...

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TheCollector

Avalon: The Mysterious Island of Arthurian Legend One of the most famous locations in the Arthurian legends is the Isle of Avalon. This was the...

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Avalon: The Mysterious Island of Arthurian Legend

4 months ago

One of the most famous locations in the Arthurian legends is the Isle of Avalon. This was the mysterious island to which King Arthur was said to have been taken after he was severely wounded at the Battle of Camlann. It is shrouded in mystery, especially because it is a place...

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The American Scholar

All Talk Ease of communication will not save us The post All Talk appeared first on The American Scholar.

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All Talk

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7 months ago

Ease of communication will not save us The post All Talk appeared first on The American Scholar.

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Ink & Switch

Ink Note June 2023: Ink Studies Report This is a summary of what we think are the most salient studies that were done during this period.

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Ink Note June 2023: Ink Studies Report

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This is a summary of what we think are the most salient studies that were done during this period.

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Classical Wisdom

The Furies Vengeance or Justice?

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The Furies

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10 months ago

Vengeance or Justice?

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IEEE Spectrum

The Data Reveals Top Patent Portfolios Eight years is a long time in the world of patents. When we last published what we then called the...

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The Data Reveals Top Patent Portfolios

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a month ago

Eight years is a long time in the world of patents. When we last published what we then called the Patent Power Scorecard, in 2017, it was a different technological and social landscape—Google had just filed a patent application on the transformer architecture, a momentous...

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Josh Thompson

What I've learned from cooking in 36 kitchens in the last year Since we’ve been on the road full-time for the last year, Kristi and I have prepared meals for...

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What I've learned from cooking in 36 kitchens in the last year

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over a year ago

Since we’ve been on the road full-time for the last year, Kristi and I have prepared meals for (usually) ourselves and (sometimes) others in 36 (!!!) kitchens. Sometimes we’ve used a kitchen for just one night, sometimes it’s every night for two months. Needless to say, we’ve...

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bt RSS Feed

Designers Need Thicker Skin Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about...

over a year ago

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Designers Need Thicker Skin

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over a year ago

Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about “drama” within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...

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Platformer

Inside Discord’s reform movement for banned users Most platforms ban their trolls forever. Discord wants to rehabilitate them

a year ago

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Inside Discord’s reform movement for banned users

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a year ago

Most platforms ban their trolls forever. Discord wants to rehabilitate them

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Making software...

Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my...

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Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos

over a year ago

Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my Eero mesh network setup and replaced it with two Mango Mini Travel Routers (GL-MT300N-V2). There were some obvious reasons to make this switch but I was initially unsure how the...

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Londonist

London's Working Class History Celebrated With 8 Exciting New Projects Historic England announces new funding.

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London's Working Class History Celebrated With 8 Exciting New Projects

a year ago

Historic England announces new funding.

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Retail Design Blog

LAPACA Baturrocks by i g l o o studio LAPACA, a café and chocolate shop in Huesca, Spain, founded by Silvia Buil and Raúl Bernal, Spain’s...

5 months ago

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LAPACA Baturrocks by i g l o o studio

5 months ago

LAPACA, a café and chocolate shop in Huesca, Spain, founded by Silvia Buil and Raúl Bernal, Spain’s Best Chocolatier of...

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TheCollector

10 Masters of Art Nouveau: From Furniture to Architecture & Beyond Art Nouveau developed between the 1880s and World War I in Western Europe and the USA. It was...

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10 Masters of Art Nouveau: From Furniture to Architecture & Beyond

a month ago

Art Nouveau developed between the 1880s and World War I in Western Europe and the USA. It was inspired by nature and characterized by sinuous lines. It was a movement that developed across the visual arts that aimed to break away from traditional art. It was closely linked to the...

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Eric Bailey

All the user-facing states I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as...

over a year ago

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All the user-facing states

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over a year ago

I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as augmented memory—I’ll update it as I encounter more user-facing states in the wild. What user-facing state is User-facing state is what someone experiences when they interact with...

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Quantum Frontiers

A peek inside Northrop Grumman’s subatomic endeavors As the weather turns colder and we trade outdoor pools for pumpkin spice and then Christmas carols,...

over a year ago

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A peek inside Northrop Grumman’s subatomic endeavors

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago

As the weather turns colder and we trade outdoor pools for pumpkin spice and then Christmas carols, perhaps you’re longing for summer’s warmth. For me, it is not just warmth I yearn for: This past summer, I worked as a … Continue reading →

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Calculated Risk

ADP: Private Employment Increased 155,000 in March From ADP: ADP National Employment Report: Private Sector Employment Increased by 155,000 Jobs in...

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ADP: Private Employment Increased 155,000 in March

3 months ago

From ADP: ADP National Employment Report: Private Sector Employment Increased by 155,000 Jobs in March; Annual Pay was Up 4.6% “Despite policy uncertainty and downbeat consumers, the bottom line is this: The March topline number was a good one for the economy and employers of...

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The Pragmatic...

An educational side project What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand...

over a year ago

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An educational side project

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand out when looking for a new job? Analysis of an Uber simulation app, built from scratch.

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The Wandering...

Mapping Gottfried Merzbacher I’m wrapping up my work on Gottfried Merzbacher—a sort of back-burner project that’s been active and...

over a year ago

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Mapping Gottfried Merzbacher

from The Wandering Cartographer [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago

I’m wrapping up my work on Gottfried Merzbacher—a sort of back-burner project that’s been active and then dormant, on and off, for about seven years. It’s been a pleasure to learn about places like the Bayumkol valley, the relationship between the Saryzhaz and Kum-erik Rivers,...

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Old Structures...

Half Of A Grand Commercial Palace 380 Broadway has architecture above its station. It was built in 1860 with retail space at the base...

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Half Of A Grand Commercial Palace

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago

380 Broadway has architecture above its station. It was built in 1860 with retail space at the base and loft space above, but it’s got that grand marble-veneer facade on the upper floors and some very nice cast iron by Daniel Badger at the first floor. It’s fortunes have followed...

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Made by Ollin

World Emulation via Neural Network

2 months ago

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World Emulation via Neural Network

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2 months ago

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Idle Words

The Shape of a Mars Mission This post is the second in a series. Read part one here. p {line-height:1.6em; } p.caption {...

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The Shape of a Mars Mission

from Idle Words [alt+shift+b] in literature

4 months ago

This post is the second in a series. Read part one here. p {line-height:1.6em; } p.caption { margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;text-align:center;} a.fnote {text-decoration:none;color:red} img {margin-bottom:0px;} “From a mathematics and trajectory...

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Ink & Switch

Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions

over a year ago

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Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes

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over a year ago

Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions

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Dreams of Space -...

My Weekly Reader April 30, 1962 Here is your My Weekly Reader for April 30, 1962. This is stuffed full of cool articles so let's get...

2 weeks ago

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My Weekly Reader April 30, 1962

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

2 weeks ago

Here is your My Weekly Reader for April 30, 1962. This is stuffed full of cool articles so let's get started! Do you understand the mysteries of the Moho? Does the Moho exist? People want to know!

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Koos Looijesteijn

Businesses don’t hire designers for their good work

a year ago

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Businesses don’t hire designers for their good work

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a year ago

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Quantum Frontiers

Mo’ heights mo’ challenges – Climbing mount grad school My wife’s love of mountain hiking and my interest in quantum thermodynamics collided in Telluride,...

over a year ago

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Mo’ heights mo’ challenges – Climbing mount grad school

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago

My wife’s love of mountain hiking and my interest in quantum thermodynamics collided in Telluride, Colorado. We spent ten days in Telluride, where I spoke at the Information Engines at the Frontiers of Nanoscale Thermodynamics workshop. Telluride is a gorgeous … Continue reading...

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Tony Finch's blog

nsnotifyd-2.3 released D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the...

7 months ago

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nsnotifyd-2.3 released

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7 months ago

D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the heels of [the previous release][prev], here’s nsnotifyd-2.3. Sorry for causing extra work to my uncountably many users! The nsnotifyd daemon monitors a set of DNS zones and runs a...

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TheCollector

The Dark Side of Picasso: Unraveling the Secrets of the Cubist Master Pablo Picasso’s contributions to the development of art in the 20th century cannot be understated....

2 months ago

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The Dark Side of Picasso: Unraveling the Secrets of the Cubist Master

2 months ago

Pablo Picasso’s contributions to the development of art in the 20th century cannot be understated. However, in the last few decades, his treatment of women in his life has raised questions about his suitability as a revered historical figure. There is a large debate on whether we...

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Liz Denys

Notes on pandemic eats, March to mid-October 2020 I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian...

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Notes on pandemic eats, March to mid-October 2020

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian before the start of a pandemic was really convenient. Few things beat having a bunch of dried beans, lentils, and veggies plus a bunch of rice on in my pantry while you're figuring...

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Herbert Lui

Discovering the work that needs to be made I’m finally making good progress on the second draft of my next book. It feels good enough to...

4 months ago

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Discovering the work that needs to be made

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

4 months ago

I’m finally making good progress on the second draft of my next book. It feels good enough to actually discuss—and much less fragile than the first draft. To be precise, it actually feels more like the first draft of the book that it was actually meant to be. “Every block of...

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sbensu

Vibes are music, arguments are lyrics Losing My Religion is not about religion and Arguments are not about arguments

11 months ago

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Vibes are music, arguments are lyrics

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11 months ago

Losing My Religion is not about religion and Arguments are not about arguments

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Society's Backend:...

Reasoning is here to stay AI Engineering resources 02-21-25

4 months ago

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Reasoning is here to stay

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4 months ago

AI Engineering resources 02-21-25

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The Marginalian

Joy as a Force of Resistance and a Halo of Loss, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller Poem In this world heavy with robust reasons for despair, joy is a stubborn courage we must not...

10 months ago

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Joy as a Force of Resistance and a Halo of Loss, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller Poem

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10 months ago

In this world heavy with robust reasons for despair, joy is a stubborn courage we must not surrender, a fulcrum of personal power we must not yield to cynicism, blame, or any other costume of helplessness. “Experience of conflict and a load of suffering has taught me that what...

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Arduino Blog

Boring rice cooker becomes uruchimai powerhouse Rice cookers are staple appliances in about half of the world and basic models are very affordable....

11 months ago

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Boring rice cooker becomes uruchimai powerhouse

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

11 months ago

Rice cookers are staple appliances in about half of the world and basic models are very affordable. But those are simple machines that are about as “dumb” as electric kettles. The result is often rice that has been sitting in the warming stage for too long, making the bottom...

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Robert Caro

An Interview With Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut Kurt greeted us in his beautiful 19th century house and in his bare feet (of which more later). As...

over a year ago

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An Interview With Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut

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over a year ago

Kurt greeted us in his beautiful 19th century house and in his bare feet (of which more later). As the interview progressed it grew sort of

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cdixon.org RSS Feed

Software eats software development Software is eating the world, and doing so using smaller and smaller teams. WhatsApp was able to...

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Software eats software development

over a year ago

Software is eating the world, and doing so using smaller and smaller teams. WhatsApp was able to disrupt the global SMS industry with only a…

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A Beautiful Site

CSS Parts Inspired by BEM In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few...

over a year ago

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CSS Parts Inspired by BEM

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over a year ago

In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few restrictions in what you can call them. The purpose of that deep dive was to help identify a pattern for naming parts that lets me expose states and subparts, or parts exported as a...

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SatPost by Trung...

I want Apple's Vision Pro The Apple Vision Pro has a very appealing use case: "the workplace of your dreams".

over a year ago

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I want Apple's Vision Pro

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago

The Apple Vision Pro has a very appealing use case: "the workplace of your dreams".

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Londonist

Santa Steam Express: Meet Father Christmas On A Vintage Train In London The kids will be chuffed.

a year ago

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Santa Steam Express: Meet Father Christmas On A Vintage Train In London

a year ago

The kids will be chuffed.

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Steve Blank

Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit This article previously appeared in War on the Rocks. In the past, headlines about the Pentagon...

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Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago

This article previously appeared in War on the Rocks. In the past, headlines about the Pentagon failing its financial audit again would never have caught my attention. But having been in the middle of this conversation when I served on one of the Defense Department’s advisory...

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mtlynch.io

Resurrecting a Dead Library: Part Three - Rehabilitation I love refactoring. Nothing satisfies me more than untangling spaghetti code to reveal its...

over a year ago

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Resurrecting a Dead Library: Part Three - Rehabilitation

over a year ago

I love refactoring. Nothing satisfies me more than untangling spaghetti code to reveal its underlying logic in a clear, intuitive way. I’ve learned that refactoring requires diligence. In my younger and more reckless days, I would rush into a legacy codebase and tear apart the...

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TheCollector

Which Is the “Better” Sword? Katana vs Longsword Among martial arts enthusiasts and certain internet circles, a fierce debate rages: between the...

4 days ago

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Which Is the “Better” Sword? Katana vs Longsword

4 days ago

Among martial arts enthusiasts and certain internet circles, a fierce debate rages: between the knightly longsword and the Japanese katana, which is the better sword? Both two-handed swords were used by a warrior-noble class as their sidearm, both depicted at various times as the...

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CONTEMPORIST

A’ Design Awards & Competition – Last Call for Entries This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award &...

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A’ Design Awards & Competition – Last Call for Entries

over a year ago

This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing 16,000 award winners from 110 different design disciplines. A’ Design...

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OH8HUB’s Substack

Spring day ham radio activation in Hiastinlahti, Finland Hiastinlahti is a bay where river Iijoki flows into Bothnian Bay, the northernmost part of Gulf of...

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Spring day ham radio activation in Hiastinlahti, Finland

from OH8HUB’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago

Hiastinlahti is a bay where river Iijoki flows into Bothnian Bay, the northernmost part of Gulf of Bothnia. This area is a Nature 2000 nature reserve area and good spot for bird watching. The area has a two kilometer long nature trail with fireplace, lean-to and toilet. From the...

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Diaries of Note

ABBEY ROAD On the morning of 8th August 1969, as a policeman held back traffic, all four members of the Beatles...

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ABBEY ROAD

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a year ago

On the morning of 8th August 1969, as a policeman held back traffic, all four members of the Beatles made their way across a zebra crossing outside EMI Studios in London. As they walked in line, one after the other, with a ten minute window in which to get the job done,...

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Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Back away Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The hard part is keeping your nostrils motionless...

a year ago

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Back away

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a year ago

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The hard part is keeping your nostrils motionless until you hear the footsteps fade away. Today's News:

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Calculated Risk

CPI Preview The Consumer Price Index for December is scheduled to be released tomorrow. The consensus is for...

5 months ago

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CPI Preview

5 months ago

The Consumer Price Index for December is scheduled to be released tomorrow. The consensus is for 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.2% increase in core CPI. The consensus is for CPI to be up 2.9% year-over-year and core CPI to be up 3.3% YoY. We expect a 0.25% increase in December...

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Joel Gascoigne

Like anything else, we need to practice startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It is easy to...

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Like anything else, we need to practice startups

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over a year ago

* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It is easy to look at successful founders and see them as genuises, as people who were without a doubt going to be triumphant. When we look at people in that way, it is completely understandable...

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Open Culture

Launch Your Project Management Career with Google’s AI-Enhanced Professional Certificate ?si=TMflasoogRfSD14h Back in 2021, Google released a series of certificate programs, including one...

8 months ago

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Launch Your Project Management Career with Google’s AI-Enhanced Professional Certificate

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8 months ago

?si=TMflasoogRfSD14h Back in 2021, Google released a series of certificate programs, including one focused on Project Management. Designed to give students “an immersive understanding of the practices and skills needed to succeed in an entry-level project management role,” the...

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The Marginalian

Endling: A Poem I turned the corner one afternoon to find my neighborhood grocer gone. No warning, just gone —...

a year ago

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Endling: A Poem

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a year ago

I turned the corner one afternoon to find my neighborhood grocer gone. No warning, just gone — padlocked and boarded off, closed for good, a long chain of habit suddenly severed. We know that entropy drags everything toward dissolution, that life is a vector pointed at loss, but...

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Common Edge

Trump’s Economic Policies Will Likely Make the Housing Crisis Worse Stock market turmoil, tariffs, and high interest rates are some of the factors that will continue to...

2 months ago

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Trump’s Economic Policies Will Likely Make the Housing Crisis Worse

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2 months ago

Stock market turmoil, tariffs, and high interest rates are some of the factors that will continue to constrain production and affordability.

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xkcd.com

Orbital Argument

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Orbital Argument

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NeuroLogica Blog

The Other End of the Autism Spectrum In my previous post I wrote about how we think about and talk about autism spectrum disorder (ASD),...

2 months ago

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The Other End of the Autism Spectrum

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2 months ago

In my previous post I wrote about how we think about and talk about autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and how RFK Jr misunderstands and exploits this complexity to weave his anti-vaccine crank narrative. There is also another challenge in the conversation about autism, which exists...

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Spoon & Tamago

Kodansha Launches ‘Manga Manners’ to Educate Visitors on Japanese Etiquette Kodansha, one of Japan’s leading manga publishers, has launched an innovative campaign titled “MANGA...

2 months ago

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Kodansha Launches ‘Manga Manners’ to Educate Visitors on Japanese Etiquette

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2 months ago

Kodansha, one of Japan’s leading manga publishers, has launched an innovative campaign titled “MANGA MANNERS” to educate visitors about Japanese etiquette through beloved manga characters. Following the success of a similar initiative at Narita Airport in 2024, this new campaign...

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Irrational...

Talks

a year ago

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Talks

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a year ago

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The Works in...

How the world's first electric grid was built When Britain actually made something

a month ago

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How the world's first electric grid was built

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a month ago

When Britain actually made something

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Articles

Non-alcoholic drink choices If you've quit drinking, what do you order at the bar when you go out for drinks with friends?

over a year ago

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Non-alcoholic drink choices

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over a year ago

If you've quit drinking, what do you order at the bar when you go out for drinks with friends?

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The Intimate Mirror

The Sanity Crisis The Ahrimanic Dysfunction at the Heart of Rationalist Culture

3 months ago

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The Sanity Crisis

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3 months ago

The Ahrimanic Dysfunction at the Heart of Rationalist Culture

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Asterisk

Sins of the Children The circle of life on Chelicer 14d.

a year ago

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Sins of the Children

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a year ago

The circle of life on Chelicer 14d.

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Calculated Risk

Update: Lumber Prices Up 7% YoY This is something to watch again. Here is another monthly update on lumber prices. SPECIAL NOTE: The...

4 months ago

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Update: Lumber Prices Up 7% YoY

4 months ago

This is something to watch again. Here is another monthly update on lumber prices. SPECIAL NOTE: The CME group discontinued the Random Length Lumber Futures contract on May 16, 2023. I switched to a physically-delivered Lumber Futures contract that was started in August 2022. ...

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Eukaryote Writes...

Eukaryote in Asterisk Magazine + New Patreon Per-post setup Eukaryote elsewhere I have an article in the latest issue of Asterisk Magazine. After you get really...

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Eukaryote in Asterisk Magazine + New Patreon Per-post setup

from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago

Eukaryote elsewhere I have an article in the latest issue of Asterisk Magazine. After you get really deep into the weeds of invertebrate sentience and fish welfare and the scale of factory farming, what do you do with that information vis-a-vis what you feel comfortable eating?...

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Classical Wisdom

For the Love of the Classics Valentine's Gifts

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For the Love of the Classics

a year ago

Valentine's Gifts

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Archinect - Features

‘Scarcity Is Something We Have Learned To Thrive On’: A Conversation With League Prize... Archinect's latest Studio Snapshot features the New York/Madrid outfit salazarsequeromedina. Founded...

a month ago

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‘Scarcity Is Something We Have Learned To Thrive On’: A Conversation With League Prize Winners salazarsequeromedina

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a month ago

Archinect's latest Studio Snapshot features the New York/Madrid outfit salazarsequeromedina. Founded in 2020 by Laura Salazar, Pablo Sequero, and Juan Medina, the firm has emerged on the international scene, culminating in recognition as one of six Architectural League Prize for...

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Londonist

Frieze Sculpture 2023: Regent's Park Turns Into A Free Outdoor Art Gallery This Autumn 22 playful works of art sprinkled around the English Gardens.

a year ago

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Frieze Sculpture 2023: Regent's Park Turns Into A Free Outdoor Art Gallery This Autumn

a year ago

22 playful works of art sprinkled around the English Gardens.

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abdz.do - Have you...

Flore — A Collection of Digital Illustrations Flore — A Collection of Digital Illustrations AoiroStudio0508—23 ...

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Flore — A Collection of Digital Illustrations

from abdz.do - Have you given up on being inspired? [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago

Flore — A Collection of Digital Illustrations AoiroStudio0508—23 Laura Normand is a talented Paris-based artist whose work revolves around vibrant and captivating digital illustrations. With a particular focus on flowers, her series of colorful...

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charity.wtf

The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two...

over a year ago

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The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering

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over a year ago

First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: The reality is that jack-of-all-trades systems infrastructure jobs are slowly...

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Home on Erik...

Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Support Annoy is a C++/Python package I built for fast approximate nearest neighbor search in high...

over a year ago

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Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Support

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago

Annoy is a C++/Python package I built for fast approximate nearest neighbor search in high dimensional spaces. Spotify uses it a lot to find similar items. First, matrix factorization gives a low dimensional representation of each item (artist/album/track/user) so that every item...

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The Roots of...

Accelerating science through evolvable institutions This is the written version of a talk presented to the Santa Fe Institute at a working group on...

a year ago

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Accelerating science through evolvable institutions

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

This is the written version of a talk presented to the Santa Fe Institute at a working group on “Accelerating Science.” We’re here to discuss “accelerating science.” I like to start on topics like this by taking the historical view: When (if ever) has science accelerated in the...

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Josh Collinsworth

Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn...

a year ago

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Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.

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Retail Design Blog

Nomura Real Estate Development Offices by FCV FCV designed a nature-inspired office for Nomura Real Estate Development in Hanoi, incorporating...

6 months ago

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Nomura Real Estate Development Offices by FCV

6 months ago

FCV designed a nature-inspired office for Nomura Real Estate Development in Hanoi, incorporating elements like mountains and open spaces to...

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Don't Worry About...

On Writing #1 This isn’t primarily about how I write.

4 months ago

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On Writing #1

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4 months ago

This isn’t primarily about how I write.

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This Space

39 Books: 2009 The further I get into this series, the fewer books there are on my yearly lists that I haven't...

a year ago

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39 Books: 2009

from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago

The further I get into this series, the fewer books there are on my yearly lists that I haven't already written about and among those few that I feel able to write about. For 2009 there is one outstanding exception: another book about a writer exiled in Paris. Already in this...

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macwright.com

About Placemark.io Someone asked over email about why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source...

a year ago

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About Placemark.io

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

Someone asked over email about why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project. I have no qualms with sharing the answers publicly, so here they are: I stopped Placemark because it didn’t generate enough revenue and I lost faith that there was a...

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Adrian Hanft, III:...

Ridding the World of Talent One Child at a Time Do you believe in a talent fairy fluttering around blessing special folks with abilities and flying...

over a year ago

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Ridding the World of Talent One Child at a Time

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago

Do you believe in a talent fairy fluttering around blessing special folks with abilities and flying over the rest of us unlucky souls? I don’t believe it. I prefer to use the word _skill_ and give credit to the countless hours spent honing one’s craft.

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Stephen Diehl

Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms

over a year ago

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Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms

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over a year ago

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Applied Cartography

Bluesky is good Three months ago, I wrote Bluesky et al, in which I walked through the various platforms vying for...

7 months ago

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Bluesky is good

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago

Three months ago, I wrote Bluesky et al, in which I walked through the various platforms vying for the dubious title of "Twitter's successor" and landed on Bluesky as being my favorite, perhaps less out of its ostensible inherent virtues and more out of the size of its...

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journal – Winnie Lim

what we pay for wanting to be healthy We are in Gyeongju now, a place full of cute hanoks and rolling green hills that are actually tombs...

11 months ago

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what we pay for wanting to be healthy

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

11 months ago

We are in Gyeongju now, a place full of cute hanoks and rolling green hills that are actually tombs which are thousands of years old. The weather has been rather unpredictable: searing...

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Val Sopi

The downsides of building in public <p>I first started "building in public" back in 2017.</p> <p>Not sure if the term existed back...

over a year ago

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The downsides of building in public

from Val Sopi [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago

<p>I first started "building in public" back in 2017.</p> <p>Not sure if the term existed back then, but I started talking about my newest product at the time (Claritask), which I ended up <a href="https://bootstrapping-saas.transistor.fm/episodes/claritask-sold"...

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TokyoDev

How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan “Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s...

8 months ago

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How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

8 months ago

“Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. So I began my very first, brief and spontaneous trip to any Asian country, in February of 2024. I’m sure I wasn’t the first or last tourist with such ideas...

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Herbert Lui

Putting it out there Brett Goldstein worked as a writer for Ted Lasso. As he worked on the scripts, he realized that he...

3 months ago

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Putting it out there

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

3 months ago

Brett Goldstein worked as a writer for Ted Lasso. As he worked on the scripts, he realized that he really understood one of the characters. He wanted to put himself forward for the acting role. “I also knew no one was thinking of me for Roy, so right at the end of the writers’...

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The Works in...

Growing Forests As countries develop, deforestation drops

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Growing Forests

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a year ago

As countries develop, deforestation drops

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MMapped blog

When Rust hurts

over a year ago

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When Rust hurts

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over a year ago

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Luxagraf:...

Mobile Bay We maxed out our time at Fort Pickens. After six weeks, it was time to move on. We had planned to go...

a year ago

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Mobile Bay

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago

We maxed out our time at Fort Pickens. After six weeks, it was time to move on. We had planned to go to New Orleans, and then up into the Ozarks, before heading back up to Wisconsin for the summer, but given how mild the winter turned out to be, we decided to press north sooner...

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xkcd.com

Google Solar Cycle

a year ago

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Google Solar Cycle

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cdixon.org RSS Feed

Crypto token roundup Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens: Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred...

over a year ago

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Crypto token roundup

over a year ago

Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens: Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred Wilson — ICOs and VCs here, Ethereum in 2…

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Notes on software...

First month on a database team A little over a month ago, I joined EnterpriseDB on a distributed Postgres product (PGD). The...

a year ago

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First month on a database team

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago

A little over a month ago, I joined EnterpriseDB on a distributed Postgres product (PGD). The process of onboarding myself has been pretty similar at each company in the last decade, though I think I've gotten better at it. The process is of course influenced by the team, and my...

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Eric Bailey

The optics of pair programming If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with...

over a year ago

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The optics of pair programming

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with another person to work on a problem. You’ll often hear it in development contexts, but I've also encountered it with design. In the Before Times, we paired by walking over to a...

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Atoms vs Bits

There's a New Country Ranking and You're Not Going to Like it What makes Israel, Qatar, and the Faroe Islands so great?

7 months ago

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There's a New Country Ranking and You're Not Going to Like it

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7 months ago

What makes Israel, Qatar, and the Faroe Islands so great?

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mtlynch.io

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie As a big fan of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, I was interested in this...

over a year ago

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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

over a year ago

As a big fan of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, I was interested in this book. 70 years after it was published, I still see people recommending it, so I had high hopes. Sadly, the book fell short of my expectations. When I read How to Win Friends and...

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./techtipsy

I yearn for the perfect home server I’ve changed my home server setup a lot over the past decade, mainly because I keep changing the...

4 months ago

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I yearn for the perfect home server

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4 months ago

I’ve changed my home server setup a lot over the past decade, mainly because I keep changing the goals all the time. I’ve now realized why that keeps happening. I want the perfect home server. What is the perfect home server? I’d phrase it like this: The perfect home server uses...

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Stoic Simple

Stoic Quotes on Pain & Illness: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next There are more quotes available for us to read from the Stoics about pain and illness...

over a year ago

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Stoic Quotes on Pain & Illness: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases

from Stoic Simple [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago

Previous Next There are more quotes available for us to read from the Stoics about pain and illness than nearly any other topic. That's not because Stoicism teaches that we should like discomfort, but rather because the Stoics are concerned with how to NOT let pain and sickness...

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The Works in...

The fewer the merrier The merits of unified land ownership

2 months ago

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The fewer the merrier

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2 months ago

The merits of unified land ownership

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NeuroLogica Blog

AI and User Manuals About half of Americans, when asked, report that they don’t read the user manual for new technical...

11 months ago

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AI and User Manuals

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago

About half of Americans, when asked, report that they don’t read the user manual for new technical devices they acquire. Although I suspect that many people are like me – I read them sometimes, and then only partly. If there is a “quick user guide” I will often look at that....

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escape the algorithm

Have you tried unplugging and plugging yourself back in again? A conversation with David Zvi Kalman

3 months ago

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Have you tried unplugging and plugging yourself back in again?

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3 months ago

A conversation with David Zvi Kalman

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Marcus on AI

Sam Altman thinks that AGI is basically a solved problem. I don’t. Here’s why. Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we...

6 months ago

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Sam Altman thinks that AGI is basically a solved problem. I don’t. Here’s why.

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

6 months ago

Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”, alleging that OpenAI (which has not demonstrated AGI) was now on to new and better things.

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On the Arts

Winter as Reading Season David Foster Wallace on the necessity of quiet time in order to read.

a year ago

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Winter as Reading Season

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a year ago

David Foster Wallace on the necessity of quiet time in order to read.

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Hidden History

The 1914 Christmas Truce [NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...

6 months ago

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The 1914 Christmas Truce

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6 months ago

[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...

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xkcd.com

Only Serifs

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Only Serifs

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Retail Design Blog

Klim Coffee Roasting Co. by SuiL Located in a new boutique business development in the bustling southeastern suburb of Mount...

11 months ago

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Klim Coffee Roasting Co. by SuiL

11 months ago

Located in a new boutique business development in the bustling southeastern suburb of Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia, Klim Coffee Roasting...

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Londonist

Stunning Images At Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2023 National Maritime Museum shows off the cosmos.

a year ago

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Stunning Images At Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2023

a year ago

National Maritime Museum shows off the cosmos.

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diamond geezer

IKEA Oxford Circus Central London now has an IKEA, right beside Oxford Circus where Top Shop used to be. It opened on...

2 months ago

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IKEA Oxford Circus

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

2 months ago

Central London now has an IKEA, right beside Oxford Circus where Top Shop used to be. It opened on Thursday, a balloon-infested occasion attended by the Mayor because he's very keen to see Oxford Street full of successful businesses again. It brings the number of IKEA stores in...

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Joel on Software

Making the web better. With blocks! You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which...

over a year ago

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Making the web better. With blocks!

from Joel on Software [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"

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Classical Wisdom

Weekly Wisdom Quiz Aristotle and Happiness

3 months ago

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Weekly Wisdom Quiz

3 months ago

Aristotle and Happiness

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Carl Barenbrug RSS...

You Strapping? We always seem to be aware of time, or rather, we feel we must be aware of it. The time of year, the...

over a year ago

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You Strapping?

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago

We always seem to be aware of time, or rather, we feel we must be aware of it. The time of year, the time of day, and even how our time is spent. And for good reason—it helps us organise our lives, plan ahead, and be more efficient. I was thinking though—in an age when almost all...

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SatPost by Trung...

Disney's ~$4B Acquisition That (Probably) Saved The Company When Disney made an all-in bet on streaming to take on Netflix, it had to buy a little-known...

5 months ago

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Disney's ~$4B Acquisition That (Probably) Saved The Company

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

5 months ago

When Disney made an all-in bet on streaming to take on Netflix, it had to buy a little-known technology unit incubated within the MLB called BAMTech.

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Mark Manson

Why Skills Matter More Than Goals Welcome to the first Monday of the new year. It’s 2022 and if you’re like me, it still feels like...

over a year ago

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Why Skills Matter More Than Goals

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago

Welcome to the first Monday of the new year. It’s 2022 and if you’re like me, it still feels like 2019 was last year. Talk about a mindfuck. This is that time of year where most productive and growth-minded people sit down and focus on their goals, their identity, and who they...

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Blog - Guerrilla...

Pools and Populations in the SF Bay Area For many people, swimming in a pool on a hot July day with kids splashing and lifeguards hollering...

7 months ago

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Pools and Populations in the SF Bay Area

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

7 months ago

For many people, swimming in a pool on a hot July day with kids splashing and lifeguards hollering is the quintessential summer experience. Not only do pools provide a place for people to recreate and cool off in the summer heat, but access to pools is essential to making basic...

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Many Worlds

A Real ET Discovery With Promise, Amid Some Other Quite Questionable Claims Beware easy answers to the question of whether life exists beyond Earth. Be they “alien” skeletons...

a year ago

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A Real ET Discovery With Promise, Amid Some Other Quite Questionable Claims

from Many Worlds [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

Beware easy answers to the question of whether life exists beyond Earth. Be they “alien” skeletons in Mexico City, interstellar probes that briefly pass through our solar system, UFOs of all sorts and claims to have found “biosignature” chemical byproducts of life around planets...

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Sometimes It Works...

Job within a Job: Scheduling Inception with Laravel Queues Job within a Job: Scheduling Inception with Laravel Queues Queues & Jobs The Task Scheduler Dream...

over a year ago

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Job within a Job: Scheduling Inception with Laravel Queues

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Job within a Job: Scheduling Inception with Laravel Queues Queues & Jobs The Task Scheduler Dream within a dream ¶Job within a Job: Scheduling Inception with Laravel Queues This article originally appeared on LaravelUK. This may seem obvious to many of you, but I always think...

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Calculated Risk

Friday: Retail Sales, Industrial Production Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Retail sales for...

4 months ago

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Friday: Retail Sales, Industrial Production

4 months ago

Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Retail sales for January is scheduled to be released. The consensus is for a no change in retail sales. Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization for January. The consensus is for a 0.3%...

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Trying to Understand...

Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes." Here's the answer. What was the question again?

over a year ago

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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

over a year ago

Here's the answer. What was the question again?

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Yale E360

Meta Said A.I. Could Help Tackle Warming. An Early Experiment Underwhelmed Last year Meta identified 135 materials that could potentially be used to draw down carbon dioxide,...

a week ago

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Meta Said A.I. Could Help Tackle Warming. An Early Experiment Underwhelmed

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science

a week ago

Last year Meta identified 135 materials that could potentially be used to draw down carbon dioxide, work it described as "groundbreaking." But when scientists tried to reproduce the results, they found that none of the materials could perform as promised and that some did not...

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AI Snake Oil

Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype

a year ago

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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago

How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype

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Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Forecast Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That's the official International Sign system...

a year ago

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Forecast

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That's the official International Sign system imagine for in-the-butt. Today's News:

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Seth's Blog

At all costs Principles have a priority. Isaac Asimov’s three rules of robotics were: First LawA robot may not...

8 months ago

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At all costs

8 months ago

Principles have a priority. Isaac Asimov’s three rules of robotics were: First LawA robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second LawA robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would...

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Trying to Understand...

A Week Off And A New Language See you again soon

a year ago

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A Week Off And A New Language

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a year ago

See you again soon

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Working Theorys

caring about newness we don't create with the intent to recycle

a year ago

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caring about newness

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago

we don't create with the intent to recycle

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Jonas Hietala

Slackware update The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my...

over a year ago

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Slackware update

over a year ago

The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my installation and I decided to go through with a larger reinstallation once more. This is a log of some things I did differently. Kernel Before installing the kernel it’s nice to...

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xkcd.com

Drainage Basins

over a year ago

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Drainage Basins

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Commoncog

Tacit Expertise Extraction, Software Engineering Edition One software engineer's story of extracting expertise from the heads of 'a tiger team of senior...

a year ago

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Tacit Expertise Extraction, Software Engineering Edition

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago

One software engineer's story of extracting expertise from the heads of 'a tiger team of senior software engineers'. Useful to anyone who might want to accelerate their own skills.

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Mazdak

The Psychology of Investing: 5 Critical Traps That Can Destroy Your Wealth The path to investment success is riddled with psychological pitfalls that can turn promising...

7 months ago

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The Psychology of Investing: 5 Critical Traps That Can Destroy Your Wealth

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

7 months ago

The path to investment success is riddled with psychological pitfalls that can turn promising portfolios into cautionary tales.

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Tech and Tea

On gentle personal growth in 2024 Reflections on things I’m learning and continue to learn this year.

6 months ago

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On gentle personal growth in 2024

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

6 months ago

Reflections on things I’m learning and continue to learn this year.

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IEEE Spectrum

Where’s My Robot? See the interactive version of this story on our site →

8 months ago

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Where’s My Robot?

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI

8 months ago

See the interactive version of this story on our site →

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Computer Ads from...

Plus Post: VTech Laser MSX2 The exciting new MSX computer with more features for less money

3 months ago

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Plus Post: VTech Laser MSX2

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago

The exciting new MSX computer with more features for less money

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A Collection of...

Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...

11 months ago

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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

11 months ago

This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...

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The Map is Mostly...

What is Good Within Social Networks I think we are still in the early days of social networks. We are only just beginning to figure them...

over a year ago

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What is Good Within Social Networks

from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago

I think we are still in the early days of social networks. We are only just beginning to figure them out. We certainly underestimate how positive and useful they can be, partly from a careless pessimism, and partly because the owners of major social networks seem to lack vision....

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The Honest Broker

The World's Largest Search Doesn't Want You to Search Why is Google abandoning its core mission?

4 months ago

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The World's Largest Search Doesn't Want You to Search

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4 months ago

Why is Google abandoning its core mission?

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Calculated Risk

BLS: CPI Increased 0.4% in December; Core CPI increased 0.2% From the BLS: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a...

5 months ago

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BLS: CPI Increased 0.4% in December; Core CPI increased 0.2%

5 months ago

From the BLS: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in December, after rising 0.3 percent in November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index...

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Quanta Magazine

Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer. It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be...

6 months ago

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Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer.

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question. The post Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer. first...

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xkcd.com

What to Do

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What to Do

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Calculated Risk

1st Look at Local Housing Markets in December Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 1st Look at Local Housing Markets in...

6 months ago

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1st Look at Local Housing Markets in December

6 months ago

Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 1st Look at Local Housing Markets in December A brief excerpt: NOTE: The tables for active listings, new listings and closed sales all include a comparison to December 2019 for each local market (some 2019 data is not...

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Naz Hamid — Journal...

✏️ Dissocial Media I've been writing in my real handwritten journal in recent weeks that I've felt the weight of social...

a year ago

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✏️ Dissocial Media

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago

I've been writing in my real handwritten journal in recent weeks that I've felt the weight of social networks. And the manipulation and behavior patterning it's designed to do. I worked for a softer social network for almost two years and while we weren't as abhorrent as the huge...

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A Smart Bear

How startups beat incumbents A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will...

a year ago

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How startups beat incumbents

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will not do. Here are those things.

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Platformer

The people who want to end Section 230 may have botched their case But even a ruling against the plaintiffs in Gonzalez vs. Google could hurt internet freedoms,...

over a year ago

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The people who want to end Section 230 may have botched their case

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago

But even a ruling against the plaintiffs in Gonzalez vs. Google could hurt internet freedoms, observers say

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Rest of World -...

Japan’s news app unicorn was ready to take on the US market. Where did it go wrong? Former SmartNews employees point to failed product launches and far-right obsession of former CEO.

a year ago

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Japan’s news app unicorn was ready to take on the US market. Where did it go wrong?

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago

Former SmartNews employees point to failed product launches and far-right obsession of former CEO.

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Commoncog

You’re Always Selling to a Situation, Not an ICP One simple idea that falls out of the Heart of Innovation book — that you can use immediately — is...

3 weeks ago

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You’re Always Selling to a Situation, Not an ICP

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 weeks ago

One simple idea that falls out of the Heart of Innovation book — that you can use immediately — is this idea of selling into situations, not selling to ideal customer profiles. It’s what the pros do anyway.

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Home on Erik...

Nearest neighbor methods and vector models – part 1 This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning last week. It covers a...

over a year ago

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Nearest neighbor methods and vector models – part 1

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago

This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning last week. It covers a library called Annoy that I have built that helps you do (approximate) nearest neighbor queries in high dimensional spaces.

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The Honest Broker

Should We Get Angry When Artists Sell Out? Is it really okay to take the money and run?

8 months ago

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Should We Get Angry When Artists Sell Out?

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8 months ago

Is it really okay to take the money and run?

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Grow With Less

The Best Headline A/B Testing Tools (And Why You May Not Want to Use Them) What if you could bring 28% more visitors to your blog and get 75% more shares just by rewriting...

over a year ago

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The Best Headline A/B Testing Tools (And Why You May Not Want to Use Them)

from Grow With Less [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago

What if you could bring 28% more visitors to your blog and get 75% more shares just by rewriting your blog post titles? That’s exactly what content marketing agency Priceonomics did. And today, I would like to show you how you can do it too by reviewing the main AB testing...

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Atoms vs Bits

Voltaire on Vaccines In Voltaire's Letters on England, he writes up an interesting story on the pre-history of...

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Voltaire on Vaccines

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3 months ago

In Voltaire's Letters on England, he writes up an interesting story on the pre-history of vaccination. (Bear in mind this is written in 1733, and I haven't checked the accuracy of his claims). It begins: It is whispered in Christian Europe that the English are mad

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CONTEMPORIST

Creative Patterned Designs Cover The Facade Of This Brick House Manoj Patel Design Studio has shared photos of a home they’ve completed in Vadodara, India, that...

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Creative Patterned Designs Cover The Facade Of This Brick House

over a year ago

Manoj Patel Design Studio has shared photos of a home they’ve completed in Vadodara, India, that includes unique brick designs on its facade. Located in the middle of an urban area, the eye-catching facade showcases a brick accent section that has a variety of artistic patterns....

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Calculated Risk

Wednesday: CPI Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...

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Wednesday: CPI

5 months ago

Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. Consumer Price Index for January from the BLS. The consensus is for 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.3% increase in core CPI. The consensus is for CPI to be up...

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A Collection of...

Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...

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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography

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a year ago

One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...

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TheCollector

Traitors or Survivors? The Tlaxcalans and the Conquest of Mexico Many see the fall of the Aztec Empire and the subsequent conquest of Mexico as a result of the wit...

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Traitors or Survivors? The Tlaxcalans and the Conquest of Mexico

6 days ago

Many see the fall of the Aztec Empire and the subsequent conquest of Mexico as a result of the wit and boldness of Hernán Cortés and his conquistadors’ endeavors. However, without the help of Tlaxcalan warriors, the Spanish never would have taken the great city of Tenochtitlan....

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mtlynch.io

TinyPilot: Month 18 Highlights I’ve launched a new TinyPilot product and debuted a new logo. TinyPilot’s revenue...

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TinyPilot: Month 18

over a year ago

Highlights I’ve launched a new TinyPilot product and debuted a new logo. TinyPilot’s revenue finished the year strong at $55k for December. I’ve learned to manage design projects more aggressively. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....

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Retail Design Blog

HassiaGruppe office by Ippolito Fleitz Group HassiaGruppe, headquartered in Bad Vilbel in Hessen, is Germany’s largest brand manufacturer in the...

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HassiaGruppe office by Ippolito Fleitz Group