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How I Use GitHub Issues I like using GitHub issues for actionable things such as bugs and backlog items I've committed to...
4th Aug 2025
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How I Use GitHub Issues

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2025
I like using GitHub issues for actionable things such as bugs and backlog items I've committed to doing. Non-maintainers are encouraged to open issues only for bugs, whereas everything else is a discussion. Bug Report 👉 Issue Help/support 👉 Discussion Ask a question 👉...
Buyers of first resort How do technologies get off the ground? As well as seed funding, many of the best technologies...
14th Sep 2021
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Buyers of first resort

from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science

14th Sep 2021
How do technologies get off the ground? As well as seed funding, many of the best technologies require Buyers of First Resort, which buy products until they improve enough to get to efficient scale.
act, rest, repeat on finding the right doing-being balance
11th Sep 2024
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act, rest, repeat

from Mind Mine [alt+shift+b] in life

11th Sep 2024
on finding the right doing-being balance
What I'm up to - April 2023 ✨ What I've been up to Wow, it's Q2 already! I spent a couple of weeks in Paris last month,...
1st Apr 2023
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What I'm up to - April 2023

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2023
✨ What I've been up to Wow, it's Q2 already! I spent a couple of weeks in Paris last month, where I worked remotely and found some amazing coffee. For Postcard - I rebuilt the post-writing ...
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019 Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
5th Dec 2019
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Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019

from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history

5th Dec 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.
22nd Sep 2023
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My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

22nd Sep 2023
Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.
✏️ The Amasa 25K, My First Trail Race Two years ago, I broke my elbow. A year ago, I put cycling on hold due to discomfort on the bike and...
29th May 2024
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✏️ The Amasa 25K, My First Trail Race

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

29th May 2024
Two years ago, I broke my elbow. A year ago, I put cycling on hold due to discomfort on the bike and soon after started running as a cardio and endurance-based complement to my longstanding passion for rock climbing. Trail running and ultras have captured my attention in recent...
Generative AI Builds Bridges Between Creative Mediums On architecting a new Internet paradigm for rapid content creation and sharing.
23rd Nov 2022
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Generative AI Builds Bridges Between Creative Mediums

from Varun's Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Nov 2022
On architecting a new Internet paradigm for rapid content creation and sharing.
Coming soon This is shani's mind, a newsletter on whatever I am thinking about lately .
15th Nov 2022
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Coming soon

from skin contact [alt+shift+b] in life

15th Nov 2022
This is shani's mind, a newsletter on whatever I am thinking about lately .
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2023 Happy All Hallow’s Eve. I hope you enjoy this month’s cover art. It might be my favorite so far.
1st Oct 2023
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2023

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2023
Happy All Hallow’s Eve. I hope you enjoy this month’s cover art. It might be my favorite so far.
The End of Egypt How the first cataract of the Nile has shaped millennia of history
4th Jan 2026
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The End of Egypt

from Looking Through the Past [alt+shift+b] in history

4th Jan 2026
How the first cataract of the Nile has shaped millennia of history
What Game Are You Playing? Remind yourself that you always have agency and can stop playing the game any time if you want to.
7th Jan 2026
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What Game Are You Playing?

from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jan 2026
Remind yourself that you always have agency and can stop playing the game any time if you want to.
New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning A new idea is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms...
1st Mar 2018
1

New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Mar 2018
A new idea is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms — and might also explain how human brains learn. The post New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning first appeared on Quanta Magazine
How to do the jhanas The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to...
13th Jun 2024
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How to do the jhanas

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Jun 2024
The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This...
Peter Schwartz: The Art Of The Really Long View ### The art of the really long view For such a weighty subject there was a lot of guffawing going...
13th Dec 2003
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Peter Schwartz: The Art Of The Really Long View

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

13th Dec 2003
### The art of the really long view For such a weighty subject there was a lot of guffawing going on in the Seminar Thursday night. The topic was "The Art of the Really Long View." Peter Schwartz chatted through his slides for tonight's lecture, then the discussion waded in....
Weekly Dose of Optimism #130 CT-179, Deep Research, NanoCas, Replit Agent, Go Birds
7th Feb 2025
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #130

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative

7th Feb 2025
CT-179, Deep Research, NanoCas, Replit Agent, Go Birds
The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics. ...
24th Mar 2023
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The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy

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

24th Mar 2023
Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics. The post The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Regular JSON For better or worse, depending on your perspective, JSON has become a dominant data format and shows...
31st May 2023
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Regular JSON

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

31st May 2023
For better or worse, depending on your perspective, JSON has become a dominant data format and shows no signs of being replaced any time soon. There are good reasons for that: on the face of it, it provides a very simple format with just enough features to cover a lot of...
soot, solar, sedimentation, sin, & 'centers Good evening, friends. Tonight I have a few loosely-knit stories. A couple years ago, my house was...
16th May 2026
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soot, solar, sedimentation, sin, & 'centers

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th May 2026
Good evening, friends. Tonight I have a few loosely-knit stories. A couple years ago, my house was heated by a . It was awful from both an environmental and a geopolitical perspective: environmental, as I would emit somewhere around 2.5 tons of CO2 equivalent per year to heat...
Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White...
6th Nov 2023
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Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V

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

6th Nov 2023
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White House and the Secretary of Commerce to place restrictions on Americans working with RISC-V (see also the initial request from the Senate) in order to prevent China from gaining...
How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part Two) This is the second half of my article about how to communicate well and avoid pitfalls in code...
9th Nov 2017
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How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part Two)

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

9th Nov 2017
This is the second half of my article about how to communicate well and avoid pitfalls in code reviews. Here, I focus on techniques to bring your code review to a successful close while avoiding ugly conflict. I laid the groundwork in Part One, so I recommend starting there. If...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
21st Jul 2023
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR

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

21st Jul 2023
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
Make these ornaments please It’s that time of year when geographers the world over gather together in, let’s be honest, just...
5th Dec 2024
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Make these ornaments please

from Adventures In Mapping | John Nelson Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

5th Dec 2024
It’s that time of year when geographers the world over gather together in, let’s be honest, just slightly awkward office holiday parties. We dedicate 82-86% of our mental capacities to socializing with our colleagues over deserts and drinks, while the remaining 14-16% remain...
Americans Are Richer Than Everyone Else The U.S. is the place to be if you're ambitious, but not necessarily if you're poor
7th Aug 2026
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Americans Are Richer Than Everyone Else

from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science

7th Aug 2026
The U.S. is the place to be if you're ambitious, but not necessarily if you're poor
Posting on the internet freightens me Posting on the internet freightens me
16th Apr 2026
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Posting on the internet freightens me

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Apr 2026
Posting on the internet freightens me
2nd Aug 2023
It took me seven months to get my baby an Australian passport I’m an Australian father of four, living in the US. Something of a corner case. Nevertheless,...
6 days ago
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It took me seven months to get my baby an Australian passport

from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science

6 days ago
I’m an Australian father of four, living in the US. Something of a corner case. Nevertheless, getting my kids Australian citizenship by descent, and then Australian passports so we can fly home legally, has kicked off a carnival of errors with a very dark side. Australia is...
'To Mold Clay, Fashion Men From It' Certain writers lay claim to a piece of geography. Think of Cavafy’s Alexandria and William...
1st Jun 2026
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'To Mold Clay, Fashion Men From It'

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Jun 2026
Certain writers lay claim to a piece of geography. Think of Cavafy’s Alexandria and William Kennedy’s Albany. Outsiders may visit but the deed is ironclad. When I hear something in the news about the Caucasus, that often-contested band of mountains between the Black Sea and the...
Spooky action nearby: Entangling logical qubits without physical operations Einstein and I have both been spooked by entanglement. Einstein’s experience was more profound: in a...
3rd Feb 2026
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Spooky action nearby: Entangling logical qubits without physical operations

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

3rd Feb 2026
Einstein and I have both been spooked by entanglement. Einstein’s experience was more profound: in a 1947 letter to Born, he famously dubbed it spukhafte Fernwirkung (or spooky action at a distance). Mine, more pedestrian. It came when I first … Continue reading →
CSS Grid Gap Behavior with Hidden Elements I was recently prototyping a component layout that included a way to toggle the visibility of...
14th Feb 2023
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CSS Grid Gap Behavior with Hidden Elements

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

14th Feb 2023
I was recently prototyping a component layout that included a way to toggle the visibility of sibling elements inside a grid display. What tripped me up was, while these elements were hidden, all of the container's gap gutters remained, leaving undesired extra visual spacing. I...
The Market for Contrarian Talent Doesn't Clear Plus! Bootstrapping a Consumer-Facing Negawatt Market; Real Estate; Aggregators; Training Data;...
1st May 2026
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The Market for Contrarian Talent Doesn't Clear

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

1st May 2026
Plus! Bootstrapping a Consumer-Facing Negawatt Market; Real Estate; Aggregators; Training Data; Supply Chains
To The Moon By Rocket Ship (1940) A bit of obscure ephemera today. In 1940 the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia had a program they...
8th Nov 2025
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To The Moon By Rocket Ship (1940)

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

8th Nov 2025
A bit of obscure ephemera today. In 1940 the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia had a program they called "To the Moon by Rocket Ship." It was a program for adults and children describing the science of what it would be like to go to the Moon. It also explored the formation of...
Write on the Boot.dev Blog We’ve just opened up the Boot.dev Blog to public contributions! We’re really excited to see all the...
2nd Sep 2022
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Write on the Boot.dev Blog

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2022
We’ve just opened up the Boot.dev Blog to public contributions! We’re really excited to see all the great stories that our readers and students will create.
My exits – a post mortem Readers will know that I dabble with active investing – I pick stocks. Lord, make me passive, but...
4th Feb 2025
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My exits – a post mortem

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

4th Feb 2025
Readers will know that I dabble with active investing – I pick stocks. Lord, make me passive, but not yet Rather like The Investor at Monevator, I firmly believe in the merits of low cost index tracking as an investment strategy, but I also enjoy the thrills / intellectual...
Silver Machine (Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station, Hanley, Staffordshire, UK) With a horrid shock of recognition, I suddenly realised what Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station reminded me...
9th Feb 2022
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Silver Machine (Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station, Hanley, Staffordshire, UK)

from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9th Feb 2022
With a horrid shock of recognition, I suddenly realised what Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station reminded me of. As a one-time public transport officer in a local authority I, like most others, often experienced the depressing feeling of being unable to source enough funding to keep an...
Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why? oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a...
26th Nov 2024
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Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why?

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

26th Nov 2024
oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a comfortable margin was Cursor. WindSurf and Zed also seem to be getting traction at the expense of Visual Studio, and JetBrains.
Token Anxiety Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
13th Feb 2026
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Token Anxiety

from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Feb 2026
Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
Spencer Beebe: Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry ### The rainforests of home Spencer Beebe is founder and head of Ecotrust, the Portland-based...
12th Mar 2005
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Spencer Beebe: Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

12th Mar 2005
### The rainforests of home Spencer Beebe is founder and head of Ecotrust, the Portland-based organization that is setting in motion a permanently prosperous conservation economy for the entire Pacific Coast from San Francisco north to Alaska-- the temperate rain forest also...
The time before YC I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company....
1st Sep 2019
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The time before YC

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2019
I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company. This is us (I'm on the right), just after we got…
How to Save Substack From Certain Peril The "One Weird Trick" to Real Growth and Success on Substack
8th Jul 2025
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How to Save Substack From Certain Peril

from Hickman's Hinterlands [alt+shift+b] in life

8th Jul 2025
The "One Weird Trick" to Real Growth and Success on Substack
Coffee in a Can Life’s inconveniences, when they happen to you and me, are just that. Inconveniences. When they...
10th Sep 2023
22

Coffee in a Can

from One from Nippon [alt+shift+b] in travel

10th Sep 2023
Life’s inconveniences, when they happen to you and me, are just that. Inconveniences. When they happen to some people though they end up becoming multi-billion dollar businesses. This is the story of Japan’s canned coffee. One finds at least one vending machine in almost every...
Mackinac’s Orbit, Part 11 (What’s Brewing?) Twelve Mile Circle readers don’t really care about my brewery visits. I get it. You won’t offend me...
28th Aug 2022
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Mackinac’s Orbit, Part 11 (What’s Brewing?)

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

28th Aug 2022
Twelve Mile Circle readers don’t really care about my brewery visits. I get it. You won’t offend me if you skip this article or scroll through the pictures without reading anything. I really do this more for myself to create a record of my visits that extend beyond the simplicity...
On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
13th Apr 2024
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On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Apr 2024
How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
Easy steps to start investing in the stock market Invest in long term, Diversify, Don't stress to time the market, Stay calm ... It is not that...
16th Jun 2024
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Easy steps to start investing in the stock market

from Oykun Yilmaz [alt+shift+b] in design

16th Jun 2024
Invest in long term, Diversify, Don't stress to time the market, Stay calm ... It is not that complicated.
[instagram] there will still be 125 pieces of my love lingering somewhere on the internet i used to be one of those people who would say, marriage is just a piece of paper. but after being...
3 weeks ago
1
3 weeks ago
i used to be one of those people who would say, marriage is just a piece of paper. but after being with her for years and years through all the tears and laughter it is starting to make me sad that if anything were to happen to me she wouldn’t be able to do things like make...
0.9999... ≊ 1 What is infinity, and why it's not trivial to show that 0.9999... is equal to 1.
1st Jun 2025
1

0.9999... ≊ 1

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Jun 2025
What is infinity, and why it's not trivial to show that 0.9999... is equal to 1.
Data science intro for math/phys background Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
15th Mar 2016
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Data science intro for math/phys background

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Mar 2016
Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
Your startup is a rocket ship * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When you’re...
1st Jul 2012
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Your startup is a rocket ship

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

1st Jul 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When you’re building a startup, the startup itself has a reputation and credibility around it. The startup has tremendous power. As the startup rocket ship takes off, the best thing you can do is...
30 Day Map Challenge 2024-Part 2 Here is the second half of the 30 Day Map Challenge. The one where I don’t make anything but just...
4th Dec 2024
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30 Day Map Challenge 2024-Part 2

from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography

4th Dec 2024
Here is the second half of the 30 Day Map Challenge. The one where I don’t make anything but just sit back and enjoy the work of others. The first half of the month was reviewed here. I will start on Day 23 where the prompt was memory. There were quite a few good entries for this...
My Weekly Reader and Gemini (1965,1966) As I got through boxes I found a couple of My Weekly Readers that I had not shared before. My Weekly...
1st Feb 2025
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My Weekly Reader and Gemini (1965,1966)

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

1st Feb 2025
As I got through boxes I found a couple of My Weekly Readers that I had not shared before. My Weekly Reader posts seem to be popular for their nostalgia effect and because as ephemera no one saved them from their youth. These particular ones are about the Gemini missions. At the...
The Rise and Fall of TV Sitcoms: A Statistical Analysis The decline of the sitcom: from mainstream television staple to nostalgic relic.
18th Jun 2025
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The Rise and Fall of TV Sitcoms: A Statistical Analysis

from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative

18th Jun 2025
The decline of the sitcom: from mainstream television staple to nostalgic relic.
Hunger Games Catching Fire: Badass Body Count sorry old man, I have a dress fitting to go to Number of people killed: 15 Number of...
1st Dec 2013
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Hunger Games Catching Fire: Badass Body Count

from The Last Psychiatrist [alt+shift+b] in creative

1st Dec 2013
sorry old man, I have a dress fitting to go to Number of people killed: 15 Number of people Katniss kills: 1 Number of times she is saved by someone else: 6 Number of times she saves someone else: 0 But boy oh boy, wasn't she spectacular at practice, 9 targets in 30...
Expectations, planning, and suffering Thoughts on planning and letting go of expectations
29th May 2024
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Expectations, planning, and suffering

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

29th May 2024
Thoughts on planning and letting go of expectations
Go maps vs switches Go maps vs switches
4th Mar 2021
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Go maps vs switches

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2021
Go maps vs switches
28 Pieces of Life Advice In honor of my 28th birthday, here are 28 pieces of life advice. The post 28 Pieces of Life Advice...
7th Oct 2022
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28 Pieces of Life Advice

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

7th Oct 2022
In honor of my 28th birthday, here are 28 pieces of life advice. The post 28 Pieces of Life Advice appeared first on David Perell.
Apocalyptic AI The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 5
7th Apr 2023
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Apocalyptic AI

from The Convivial Society [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Apr 2023
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 5
Going on maternity leave tl;dr summary # I'm heading out on maternity leave a little earlier than planned. I'm not sure where...
12th Dec 2025
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Going on maternity leave

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Dec 2025
tl;dr summary # I'm heading out on maternity leave a little earlier than planned. I'm not sure where the last eight and a half months have gone but here we are! It's a very weird feeling to be prepping and handing off projects. All of my co-workers have been so lovely and...
When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
5th Aug 2024
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When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions

from Push to Prod [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Aug 2024
In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
OSIRIS-REX Leaves Bennu The OSIRIS-REX mission in on a two year trajectory back to Earth after capturing fragments of the...
12th May 2021
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OSIRIS-REX Leaves Bennu

from Wanderingspace [alt+shift+b] in science

12th May 2021
The OSIRIS-REX mission in on a two year trajectory back to Earth after capturing fragments of the near Earth asteroid Bennu after successfully executing a sample touchdown last fall. [LINK] The sampling of of the asteroid’s surface is shown above.
I'm hopeful but wary of "empathic" AI A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume. I was primed to be...
6th May 2024
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I'm hopeful but wary of "empathic" AI

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th May 2024
A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume. I was primed to be skeptical, except that I trust this friend to have a somewhat balanced perspective on this topic. He'd talked to some people there and read their site and generally felt a good vibe...
43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips,...
3rd Feb 2023
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43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief

from Lennart Koopmann (KJ5KRF) [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2023
In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips, I finally embarked on a journey of my own: I took the Amtrak Southwest Chief train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Continue reading to learn more about it and why I’ll do it again on...
Pixar’s True Story The true story of Pixar's IPO and the Silicon Valley investment bankers who took a chance on Steve...
5th Dec 2025
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Pixar’s True Story

from CHM [alt+shift+b] in history

5th Dec 2025
The true story of Pixar's IPO and the Silicon Valley investment bankers who took a chance on Steve Jobs' passion project. The post Pixar’s True Story appeared first on CHM.
2nd Jun 2023
Winter at the Beach A couple more pictures from the Nikon FM with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4This time using Ilford Delta 100...
11th May 2025
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Winter at the Beach

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th May 2025
A couple more pictures from the Nikon FM with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4This time using Ilford Delta 100 film, developed in Ilfosol 3 for 5 minutes at 20°CFairly rare for snow in Vancouver to stick around very long. Trees really are the lungs of the earth. The negative I developed looked...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 3. indexes Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 2. binary expressions...
1st May 2020
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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 3. indexes

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

1st May 2020
Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 4. a database/sql driver In this post, we extend gosql to support indexes. We focus on the addition of PRIMARY KEY constraints on table creation and some easy...
Inflation propagates unevenly Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say...
2nd Jan 2022
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Inflation propagates unevenly

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2nd Jan 2022
Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say it, and yet the way pundits and academics talk about inflation glosses over this reality. As a result, most people who haven't had direct experience with high inflation have a flawed...
Bright Barley Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
22nd Apr 2022
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Bright Barley

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

22nd Apr 2022
Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
Vertigo I’m surprised that this movie is held in such high esteem relative to other Hitchcock films. I liked...
4th Jun 2022
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Vertigo

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

4th Jun 2022
I’m surprised that this movie is held in such high esteem relative to other Hitchcock films. I liked it, and I thought there were very good parts of it, and I thought it was better than Haley did. But it didn’t strike me as one of his best films beyond the dolly shot which is now...
Exploring the Immersive Web with Wolvic When I was interviewing for a role with Microsoft Edge in early 2016, I got to my final interview in...
1st May 2024
1

Exploring the Immersive Web with Wolvic

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2024
When I was interviewing for a role with Microsoft Edge in early 2016, I got to my final interview in the loop and I can still remember sitting across from my soon-to-be manager when he asked about the future of the web. HoloLens had been announced, so I must have had that in my...
Getting better at the New York Times crossword I started doing crossword puzzles sometime in 2019. After learning the basics of American crossword...
15th Apr 2021
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Getting better at the New York Times crossword

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

15th Apr 2021
I started doing crossword puzzles sometime in 2019. After learning the basics of American crossword puzzles, the best way to improve is to solve daily. As a budding cruciverbalist you develop a few key skills. The NYTimes website has an excellent guide on the basics of solving....
Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source....
15th Sep 2012
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Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Sep 2012
If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source. I used this version of PAR2 with multicore support. Update 2015: the original link is dead, I foud a copy of the source and put it on my own site here for you to download. First,...
Make tmux the OS I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX...
3 weeks ago
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Make tmux the OS

from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 weeks ago
I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AfAcQwLW0&t=445s. He's a great presenter, really articulate and concise. The kind of speaker that you'd
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from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

6th Dec 2023
Projects TinyPilot (2020 - present) TinyPilot is a small, inexpensive device that gives you remote access to...
1st Jan 2001
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Projects

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

1st Jan 2001
TinyPilot (2020 - present) TinyPilot is a small, inexpensive device that gives you remote access to servers before they even boot. Refactoring English (2021) Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers is my upcoming book that teaches developers practical tips...
Seth Lloyd: Quantum Computer Reality ### Quantum Computer Reality The 15th-century Renaissance was triggered, Lloyd began, by a flood of...
10th Aug 2016
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Seth Lloyd: Quantum Computer Reality

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

10th Aug 2016
### Quantum Computer Reality The 15th-century Renaissance was triggered, Lloyd began, by a flood of new information which changed how people thought about everything, and the same thing is happening now. All of us have had to shift, just in the last couple decades, from hungry...
Four one-sided test of significance (FOST). Dear reader, does this make sense? In this blog post I propose a four one-sided test of significance (FOST) that can be used to test...
24th May 2024
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In this blog post I propose a four one-sided test of significance (FOST) that can be used to test whether an effect is smaller than OR larger than OR equivalent to the smallest effect size of interest. I lay out the general setup and interpretation of FOST, and ask readers to...
26th Mar 2025
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What is RSS?

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

26th Mar 2025
Until the end of the internet It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and...
20th Jun 2023
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Until the end of the internet

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jun 2023
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're...
The Future of Open Source A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating...
6th Aug 2024
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The Future of Open Source

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Aug 2024
A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating on software in awesome ways.
Passive investing fueled a bull market — and could bring it down The growth of passive investing, through index funds found in the 401(k) accounts of average...
7th Nov 2025
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Passive investing fueled a bull market — and could bring it down

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Nov 2025
The growth of passive investing, through index funds found in the 401(k) accounts of average Americans, has propped up the stock market while also potentially setting it up for a nasty fall.
The bombing of Gaza Sky Geeks For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks built a tech future for the Gaza Strip. Then came war.
4th Nov 2025
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The bombing of Gaza Sky Geeks

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

4th Nov 2025
For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks built a tech future for the Gaza Strip. Then came war.
2025-03-01 the cold glow of tritium I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will...
1st Mar 2025
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2025-03-01 the cold glow of tritium

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2025
I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will probably eventually barely finish it and then post it here. But in the mean time, I will recount some stories which are related, but don't quite fit in. Today, we'll learn a bit...
The Alphabet as Technology Robin has an interesting post about the technology of words: Thinking of a language as a technology...
16th Mar 2023
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The Alphabet as Technology

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Mar 2023
Robin has an interesting post about the technology of words: Thinking of a language as a technology or a product is strange at first but the more you look at them the more they resemble microwaves or dishwashers; incredibly complicated under the hood but also sort of boring on...
How To Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory. Online here. Think of this PEO Directory as a...
10th Sep 2025
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How To Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory

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

10th Sep 2025
Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory. Online here. Think of this PEO Directory as a “Who buys in the government?” phone book. Finding a customer for your product in the Department of War is hard: Who should you talk to? How do you get their attention? What is the...
AI in organizations: Some tactics Meet the Lab and the Crowd
4th Oct 2024
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AI in organizations: Some tactics

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Oct 2024
Meet the Lab and the Crowd
Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a...
1st Apr 2015
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Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer

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

1st Apr 2015
One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a professional branding agency was how to properly handle color output. So I decided to write this post in the hope of saving you some from some of the pitfalls that I failed to avoid.
[RIDGELINE] Full Days and the Long Walk Ridgeline subscribers — Hello from the other side of my ~220 kilometer walk through the Kiso...
27th Oct 2025
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[RIDGELINE] Full Days and the Long Walk

from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature

27th Oct 2025
Ridgeline subscribers — Hello from the other side of my ~220 kilometer walk through the Kiso Valley. I sent a shorter version of this newsletter as the last issue of the (the entire walk is) Between Two Mountains pop-up newsletter. This version is quite expanded. The archives of...
How Data Boutique Works #3: Third Party Solutions Working with data? List your solution on Data Boutique
4th Apr 2024
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How Data Boutique Works #3: Third Party Solutions

from Data Boutique [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Apr 2024
Working with data? List your solution on Data Boutique
The creator economy I’ve had some lingering thoughts over the past year about what it means to be a “creator,” further...
17th Nov 2021
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The creator economy

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Nov 2021
I’ve had some lingering thoughts over the past year about what it means to be a “creator,” further accelerated by a recent conversation with a friend, and I want to try to unpack those feelings here. The “creator economy” popped into our vernacular with surprisingly little moral...
A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure...
17th Sep 2022
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A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library

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

17th Sep 2022
When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure out how to use Hashicorp's Raft implementation. There weren't any examples I could find in the Hashicorp repo itself. And the only example I could find was Philip O'Toole's hraftd. It's...
Why Your Belayer is Keeping You from Climbing Hard(er) Since climbing regularly again (!!!), I’ve observed lots of belaying in the gym. I can’t walk up to...
1st Oct 2014
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Why Your Belayer is Keeping You from Climbing Hard(er)

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Oct 2014
Since climbing regularly again (!!!), I’ve observed lots of belaying in the gym. I can’t walk up to a stranger and say “Excuse me, sir, I noticed that your poor belaying is totally crippling your climber’s ability to try hard, and actively eliminating any hope you had of...
My Answer to the “ChatGPT Isn’t Really Creative” Argument There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool...
2nd Jan 2023
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My Answer to the “ChatGPT Isn’t Really Creative” Argument

from Daniel Miessler [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Jan 2023
There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool stuff, but it’s really just a next-word-completion trick. It’s not doing real creativity like humans do. I get that argument, and it’s attractive to me as well, but I think it’s...
Smaller Go 1.7 binaries blog.golang.org/go1.7-binary-size
19th Aug 2016
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Smaller Go 1.7 binaries

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

19th Aug 2016
blog.golang.org/go1.7-binary-size
Routers, Apps, AGI Plus! Diff Jobs; Peripheral Bets; Fragmentation and Industry Maturity; Deepfakes as Pull Quotes;...
20th Oct 2025
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Routers, Apps, AGI

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

20th Oct 2025
Plus! Diff Jobs; Peripheral Bets; Fragmentation and Industry Maturity; Deepfakes as Pull Quotes; Benchmarks; Platforms
The Cosmogony of You We live in a state of perpetual dissociation from the almost unbearable wonder of being alive....
1st Dec 2024
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The Cosmogony of You

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

1st Dec 2024
We live in a state of perpetual dissociation from the almost unbearable wonder of being alive. Wonder is always an edge state, its edge so sharp it threatens to rupture the mundane and sever us from what we mistake for reality — the TV, the townhouse, the trauma narrative. If we...
The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of...
21st Aug 2024
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The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake

from Comments for Lars Lofgren [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Aug 2024
I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of dollars per month for doing nothing. Maybe tens of thousands. With a 100% real example. I’ve edited nothing. When you’re a Reddit mod, you have a TON of power in that subreddit. You...
OnlineOrNot Diaries 12 On failing customers, failing to ship a new feature, learning sales, and giving up on ads.
30th Jun 2023
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 12

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

30th Jun 2023
On failing customers, failing to ship a new feature, learning sales, and giving up on ads.
#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt Context: A list of images that link to detail pages. Bad code <a tabindex="0"> <div alt="Browser...
9th Feb 2020
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#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2020
Context: A list of images that link to detail pages. Bad code <a tabindex="0"> <div alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" aria-label="Browser Wars: The Last Engine"> <div> <img alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" src="thumbnail.jpg"> </div> </div> </a> Issues and...
How To Monitor Retailer's Prices A Practical Data Boutique Use Case
9th Jun 2023
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How To Monitor Retailer's Prices

from Data Boutique [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Jun 2023
A Practical Data Boutique Use Case
Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
2nd Dec 2023
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Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023

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

2nd Dec 2023
Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
Robert Fuller: Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future ### The culminating human right What does it take to change human habits of cruelty (such as...
13th Aug 2005
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Robert Fuller: Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

13th Aug 2005
### The culminating human right What does it take to change human habits of cruelty (such as slavery, genocide) and humiliation (racism, sexism)? What do past and present efforts for human rights tell about their future?… Robert Fuller is author of the ground-breaking...
Sea Surface Temperatures With global ocean surface temperatures shot way off the charts by mid-March, beyond forty years...
14th Aug 2023
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Sea Surface Temperatures

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

14th Aug 2023
With global ocean surface temperatures shot way off the charts by mid-March, beyond forty years satellites have monitored sea surface temperatures, we’ve been struggling to map the changes in sea-surface temperatures, both globally and locally, in satisfactory and meaningful...
Beard Fashions and Class Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
24th Feb 2021
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Beard Fashions and Class

from Dr Alun Withey [alt+shift+b] in history

24th Feb 2021
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
25th Apr 2022
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Joining Arcol

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

25th Apr 2022
4th Mar 2024
JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference? Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What...
6th Sep 2021
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JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference?

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Sep 2021
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is TypeScript?” and if you haven’t, it won’t be long before you do.
2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps...
7th Aug 2023
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2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Aug 2023
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps spurred by boredom, I looked through the schedule to see what's in store in the world of telephony. There is a workshop on SS7, of course [1], plenty of content on cellular, but...
Another Instinct Article It has been an insanely busy 2 weeks - and in the time it took me to have time to write this,...
18th Sep 2026
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Another Instinct Article

from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups

18th Sep 2026
It has been an insanely busy 2 weeks - and in the time it took me to have time to write this, Instinct went from raising a $250M Series B at a $2.5B valuation to reportedly raising $1B at $10B.
Happy Pride! Have Some Updates! This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big...
4th Jun 2024
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Happy Pride! Have Some Updates!

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

4th Jun 2024
This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big update for Mail. Plus Wayland is here, there’s a new way to manage Drivers, and we’re shipping Flathub by default! And don’t forget Platform 8 is now ready for developers. Read ahead...
Nothing beats having good references On this day in letters
3 weeks ago
Alone With Our Thoughts. Lost in the supermarket of opinions.
3rd Dec 2025
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Alone With Our Thoughts.

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

3rd Dec 2025
Lost in the supermarket of opinions.
Why I retired from the tech crusades When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer...
2nd Jun 2024
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Why I retired from the tech crusades

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2024
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the...
I Mostly Stopped Typing I built the dictation app I wanted. It's called TongueType, and my daughter did the voice over for...
25th Jun 2026
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I Mostly Stopped Typing

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jun 2026
I built the dictation app I wanted. It's called TongueType, and my daughter did the voice over for the video. (Family business.) It hasn't gotten much traction yet, and I think I know why: dictation has been bad for so long that most people stopped paying attention. I don't blame...
Tubular Belle (Køge Nord station, Køge, Denmark) Stuck on the E20 motorway heading for Copenhagen? Køge Nord station very much hopes you are...
9th Nov 2022
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Tubular Belle (Køge Nord station, Køge, Denmark)

from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9th Nov 2022
Stuck on the E20 motorway heading for Copenhagen? Køge Nord station very much hopes you are...
Repeat the obvious Bad things happen when we don't repeat the obvious. --> It's 9pm and I'm writing a post for the...
9th Nov 2015
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Repeat the obvious

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Nov 2015
Bad things happen when we don't repeat the obvious. --> It's 9pm and I'm writing a post for the company engineering blog. Every sentence is a slog. Not because I'm exacting and conciseness isn't my strong suit. My writing is slow because every word is obvious, almost...
Moving private repositories to Bitbucket Long overdue, I recently moved my private repositories from Github to Bitbucket. Github is great of...
10th Oct 2012
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Moving private repositories to Bitbucket

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Oct 2012
Long overdue, I recently moved my private repositories from Github to Bitbucket. Github is great of courseand they even gave me a free students account and I still host all my public repositories there. Still, Bitbucket has unlimited free private repositories for up to 5 users...
DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people...
7th Sep 2021
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DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Sep 2021
This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people that would have been good enough, but my goal with this setup was to have a powerful gaming setup that I could access from my living room PC with 20 meters of Ethernet cables...
The Lunar Tourist Attraction the Artemis Astronauts Will be Looking For I hope you are allowing the trip four humans are taking around the Moon to distract you a bit from...
7th Apr 2026
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The Lunar Tourist Attraction the Artemis Astronauts Will be Looking For

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science

7th Apr 2026
I hope you are allowing the trip four humans are taking around the Moon to distract you a bit from all the problems we are facing down here on Earth! Artemis II is mostly designed to test the engineering of the Orion spacecraft and all the systems that keep humans alive.  The...
Lessons on Leadership: Michael Abrashoff on Turning the Worst Ship in the Navy into the Best Michael Abrashoff was in his mid-thirties when he took command of the USS Benfold, a guided missile...
23rd Oct 2022
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23rd Oct 2022
Michael Abrashoff was in his mid-thirties when he took command of the USS Benfold, a guided missile destroyer and one of the worst-performing ships in the navy. Despite her potency, the “dysfunctional ship had a sullen crew that resented being there and could not wait to get out...
Earning Attention This is something I say in the course of nearly every conversation I have with every agency design...
6th Apr 2026
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Earning Attention

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

6th Apr 2026
This is something I say in the course of nearly every conversation I have with every agency design team I consult. I remind them, over and over again, that marketing is two kinds of persuasion: FIRST, persuading a person to actually pay attention, and THEN, persuading them of...
The book of discoveries Long before modern science, Europeans learned to see their own time as an age of invention rather...
5th Jan 2026
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The book of discoveries

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Jan 2026
Long before modern science, Europeans learned to see their own time as an age of invention rather than decline.
A Nice (Almost Total) Eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27 How to get information about viewing the eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27 The post A Nice (Almost Total)...
22nd Aug 2026
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A Nice (Almost Total) Eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science

22nd Aug 2026
How to get information about viewing the eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27 The post A Nice (Almost Total) Eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27 appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
Starting to understand epsilon-zero This post is going to be about what infinite ordinal numbers are, and about is in particular. I...
10th Jul 2026
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Starting to understand epsilon-zero

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in comics

10th Jul 2026
This post is going to be about what infinite ordinal numbers are, and about is in particular. I had a brainwave a while back (18 months now, wow, I have definitely not been blogging enough) and suddenly understood much better than I did before. I have several related ideas...
Website themes with uBlock Origin Browser extensions like Stylish, Stylus or Tampermonkey make it possible to create custom website...
1st Feb 2024
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Website themes with uBlock Origin

from Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2024
Browser extensions like Stylish, Stylus or Tampermonkey make it possible to create custom website themes/skins. At the same time, I try to lower the number of add-ons that I use, mostly due to security and performance reasons. Interestingly, the uBlock Origin ad blocker can...
Mixed Reality: The Future of Automotive UX Prototyping Can mixed reality make it easier to test and iterate on automotive user interfaces?
1st Mar 2024
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Mixed Reality: The Future of Automotive UX Prototyping

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Mar 2024
Can mixed reality make it easier to test and iterate on automotive user interfaces?
Introducing The 5-Year Compact Battery for AirTag There are few things worse than a dead AirTag when you need it. That's why we designed the The...
4th Dec 2025
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Introducing The 5-Year Compact Battery for AirTag

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Dec 2025
There are few things worse than a dead AirTag when you need it. That's why we designed the The 5-Year Compact Battery for AirTag.  It replaces the CR2032 coin cell for two uses AAA batteries for 5.5x more capacity. And does so in a small, lightweight form factor.  Discrete,...
Advent of Code in C++ Template Metaprogramming This December, the imp of the perverse struck me, and I decided to see how many days of Advent of...
8th Dec 2023
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Advent of Code in C++ Template Metaprogramming

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Dec 2023
This December, the imp of the perverse struck me, and I decided to see how many days of Advent of Code I could do purely in compile-time C++ metaprogramming. As of this writing, I’ve done two days, and I’m not sure I’ll make it any further. However, that’s one more day than I...
Podcast: Datomic: самая рок-н-рольная БД @ Тысяча фичей Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его...
6th Jul 2025
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Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его присутствие
What makes the perfect creative brief? And how to write a brief for yourself
7th Oct 2023
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What makes the perfect creative brief?

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

7th Oct 2023
And how to write a brief for yourself
Goals for Autumn 2016 Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read...
12th Aug 2016
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Goals for Autumn 2016

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Aug 2016
Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read the book 59 seconds which among other things presented a way of structuring goals I will try out. In short you should divide your main goal into 5 subgoals with a date of completion,...
Focus on the line, not the dot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I...
2nd Jan 2013
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Focus on the line, not the dot

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

2nd Jan 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I noticed the Who’s Hiring? [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half a...
Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work...
6th Jun 2010
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Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Jun 2010
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago...
Do App Store Rules Matter? After a decade of arguing, regulators will change Apple’s App Store rules. How much money is...
7th Jul 2021
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Do App Store Rules Matter?

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

7th Jul 2021
After a decade of arguing, regulators will change Apple’s App Store rules. How much money is involved, what might happen next and, most importantly, who cares? This is a big deal for Spotify, but does it matter to anyone else?
The macOS Apps I'm Using For a long time, the two most popular articles on my blog were lists of macOS apps and CLI tools,...
16th Nov 2024
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The macOS Apps I'm Using

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Nov 2024
For a long time, the two most popular articles on my blog were lists of macOS apps and CLI tools, which I've been using. Coincidentally, these kinds of lists are something I love to read myself. I can always find some cool, new tool in such articles. It doesn't matter that I will...
Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder &#8216;MrICQ&#8217; in U.S. Custody A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of...
2nd Nov 2025
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Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder &#8216;MrICQ&#8217; in U.S. Custody

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Nov 2025
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Italy and is now in custody in the United States, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say Yuriy...
Goodwill Read essay: Goodwill
1st Sep 2025
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Goodwill

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Sep 2025
Read essay: Goodwill
What Is To Be Done? — Fragments The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 14
31st Aug 2022
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What Is To Be Done? — Fragments

from The Convivial Society [alt+shift+b] in life

31st Aug 2022
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 14
Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a...
16th Apr 2024
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Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals

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

16th Apr 2024
One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a potential customer is, “We’re excited. When can you come back and show us a prototype?” This can be the beginning of a profitable customer relationship or a disappointing sinkhole of...
Vintage Color Photos Capture New York City Streets and Daily Life in 1980 New York City in 1980 had a look that can be surprisingly difficult to picture today. The buildings...
3 weeks ago
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Vintage Color Photos Capture New York City Streets and Daily Life in 1980

from Rare Historical Photos [alt+shift+b] in history

3 weeks ago
New York City in 1980 had a look that can be surprisingly difficult to picture today. The buildings are familiar, the streets are recognizable, and the crowds move with the same hurried energy, yet the details belong unmistakably to another time. Cars from another generation line...
The day I killed my LAN I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
30th Jul 2017
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The day I killed my LAN

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Jul 2017
I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
Not As Giants Love Not As Giants Love Short story, ~2000 words A week ago, when I asked you if you still loved me, I...
4th Jul 2024
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Not As Giants Love

from Steven Scrawls [alt+shift+b] in literature

4th Jul 2024
Not As Giants Love Short story, ~2000 words A week ago, when I asked you if you still loved me, I thought the most painful thing you could’ve said was no. I don’t know if you remember, but when you said “Of course I still love you” and asked if I still loved you, I started to...
Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t...
15th Jun 2023
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Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jun 2023
My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t remember many, which gave me the idea of creating a fridge magnet to display jokes in our kitchen. This is the finished product: I wanted a highly readable and battery-efficient...
To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love....
2nd Mar 2017
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To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd Mar 2017
The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them. The post To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023 Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
4th Aug 2023
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Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023

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

4th Aug 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
Jason Cohen: About the author Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
6th Feb 2023
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Jason Cohen: About the author

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

6th Feb 2023
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful! As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Equations Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That janitor just goes from building to building...
4 weeks ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Equations

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

4 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That janitor just goes from building to building helping people. Today's News:
Ray Kurzweil: Kurzweil's Law ### Escape velocity Attempts to think long term, Ray Kurzweil began, keep making the mistake of...
24th Sep 2005
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Ray Kurzweil: Kurzweil's Law

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

24th Sep 2005
### Escape velocity Attempts to think long term, Ray Kurzweil began, keep making the mistake of imagining that the pace of the future is like the pace of the past. Pondering the next ten years, we usually begin by studying the last ten years. He recommends studying the last...
Simple Accessibility Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
7th Sep 2018
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Simple Accessibility

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

7th Sep 2018
Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward: Basic design Test that your project has the proper...
My Temporary Enemy's Temporary Enemy... Can be my temporary friend.
6th May 2026
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My Temporary Enemy's Temporary Enemy...

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

6th May 2026
Can be my temporary friend.
Weekend trivia: your process' memory is a file The underappreciated gem of /proc/ /mem
1st Jun 2026
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Weekend trivia: your process' memory is a file

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Jun 2026
The underappreciated gem of /proc/ /mem
A view of the world After the Global Financial Crisis, the World Bank got more much involved in South-East Asian...
4th May 2025
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A view of the world

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

4th May 2025
After the Global Financial Crisis, the World Bank got more much involved in South-East Asian countries than before.
2nd Jan 2023
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Permission to Slow Down

from Nat Eliason's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Jan 2023
In... Out...
Keep The Scale In Mind Here’s a photo from yesterday of Shaquana getting a good look at a brownstone finial that’s been...
1st Feb 2024
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Keep The Scale In Mind

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

1st Feb 2024
Here’s a photo from yesterday of Shaquana getting a good look at a brownstone finial that’s been removed during restoration work. This is a minor decorative element for the church it was removed from. It’s visually important, of course, and we’re not removing it to throw it away,...
tried to buy some honey for my tea from wikipedia but they were sold out Life has been going pretty smoothly for the last month. Pretty much all my time is spent working on...
11th Apr 2021
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tried to buy some honey for my tea from wikipedia but they were sold out

from Farza's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

11th Apr 2021
Life has been going pretty smoothly for the last month. Pretty much all my time is spent working on Zip, which is what I want! And, all the other time is spent on either watching anime or running lol. In terms of running, been running 4-5 miles per day, 6 days a week pretty...
2015-01-10 what-if.xkcd.com/124/
10th Jan 2015
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2015-01-10

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

10th Jan 2015
what-if.xkcd.com/124/
Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively...
27th Jul 2022
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Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box

from Jibran’s Perspective [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jul 2022
I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively to manage my knowledge base. I started the day by dumping my thoughts into Logseq. Here they are. These are open questions for now. I plan to investigate this further and try out...
Devlog 001 This is a general devlog covering what I’ve been up to over the past few months! Haskell Hakyll is a...
13th Jul 2025
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Devlog 001

from seated.ro [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jul 2025
This is a general devlog covering what I’ve been up to over the past few months! Haskell Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static websites (yes, you do not, in fact, need Next.js for your personal site). The previous iteration of my website was written with Go + templ,...
The “Bluesky feels like early Twitter!” vibe Bluesky has the juice right now, and while it’s slowed down a bit this week, they were adding over 1...
27th Nov 2024
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The “Bluesky feels like early Twitter!” vibe

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Nov 2024
Bluesky has the juice right now, and while it’s slowed down a bit this week, they were adding over 1 million users a day for a bit last week. One sentiment I’m hearing a lot recently is that Bluely “feels like early Twitter,” which
Death to the Forum Well it was fun while it lasted, but now it’s gone and it’ll stay gone for a long time I think. It...
2nd Apr 2010
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Death to the Forum

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2010
Well it was fun while it lasted, but now it’s gone and it’ll stay gone for a long time I think. It was mainly a test to see if I could do it and I’m really proud of my styling of it but it’s deader than in a grave, which isn’t really surprising, and it bothered me that I didn’t...
A Modern Brick Home Designed Around The Original Placement Of Trees Exterio architects have shared photos of a new home they completed in Warsaw, Poland, that's...
9th Jul 2024
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A Modern Brick Home Designed Around The Original Placement Of Trees

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

9th Jul 2024
Exterio architects have shared photos of a new home they completed in Warsaw, Poland, that's surrounded by a pine tree forest.
James Holland Jones: The Science of Climate Fiction: Can Stories Lead to Social Action? The warming planet is increasingly the subject of all kinds of fiction. Beyond entertainment or...
4th Apr 2019
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4th Apr 2019
The warming planet is increasingly the subject of all kinds of fiction. Beyond entertainment or distraction could climate fiction (“Cli-Fi”) actually help us in solving the climate dilemma? Biological anthropologist and environmental scientist [James Holland...
Understanding the Baby Boom The West has been below replacement fertility once before. Then came the Baby Boom. Understanding...
7th Sep 2023
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Understanding the Baby Boom

from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science

7th Sep 2023
The West has been below replacement fertility once before. Then came the Baby Boom. Understanding that boom may help us deal with today’s bust.
SpaceX's 5-Step Design Process How rapid failure and iteration will get Starship to orbit and beyond.
22nd Apr 2023
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SpaceX's 5-Step Design Process

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

22nd Apr 2023
How rapid failure and iteration will get Starship to orbit and beyond.
From Customer Segmentation to Recommendation Systems AI Customer Targeting Levels – From Customer Segmentation to Recommendation Systems
29th Aug 2018
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From Customer Segmentation to Recommendation Systems

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

29th Aug 2018
AI Customer Targeting Levels – From Customer Segmentation to Recommendation Systems
The best SaaS boilerplates for founders If you want to find the best SaaS boilerplates, I've made a list of the 10 most popular ones. SaaS...
5th Aug 2024
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The best SaaS boilerplates for founders

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

5th Aug 2024
If you want to find the best SaaS boilerplates, I've made a list of the 10 most popular ones. SaaS boilerplates have exploded in popularity in the last couple of years. They are basically starter kits for creating Software as a Service web apps and reduce the time
[RODEN] A new Popup Walk, Lots of Books Roden Readers — Ahoy from Crisptown, population: Everyone in Japan. The summer is done. Thank...
2nd Sep 2025
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[RODEN] A new Popup Walk, Lots of Books

from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature

2nd Sep 2025
Roden Readers — Ahoy from Crisptown, population: Everyone in Japan. The summer is done. Thank glorious gods be, the summer is done. (Mostly.) I can feel my brain starting to solidify again, returning to its natural state after three months of relentless broiled liquefaction. In...
Colombia: Santa Marta Mountains And Caribbean Coast I have recently returned from an excellent tour of northern Colombia for Quest Nature Tours. This...
4th Apr 2026
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Colombia: Santa Marta Mountains And Caribbean Coast

from Explorations of an Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science

4th Apr 2026
I have recently returned from an excellent tour of northern Colombia for Quest Nature Tours. This was my fourth time guiding for Quest here, in the birdiest country in the world. Birdiest may be a bold claim, but eBird shows 1,956 species recorded for Colombia, while the...
Apologies and forgiveness The first in a series of posts about doing things the right way
5th Sep 2025
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Apologies and forgiveness

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Sep 2025
The first in a series of posts about doing things the right way
Give Yourself a Ripcord to Pull When you’re worked up over some dilemma, talking about it with someone else can give you a whoosh of...
18th Jul 2025
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Give Yourself a Ripcord to Pull

from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life

18th Jul 2025
When you’re worked up over some dilemma, talking about it with someone else can give you a whoosh of perspective, mostly because the other person’s mind isn’t stuck in a black cloud like yours is. The overwhelmed mind tends to regard everything as bad. The optimistic and...
IDA Summer of Code 2014 IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in...
11th Jun 2014
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IDA Summer of Code 2014

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Jun 2014
IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in a project of their choice and if selected they get paid to work on it for 4 weeks during the summer. In return the university get to show off the students and their projects in...
Comment on Why I’m Switching Web Hosts by Hitesh Sahni Great post Lars. I have had my fair share of issues with Godaddy, and then Bluehost. I finally found...
29th Sep 2019
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Comment on Why I’m Switching Web Hosts by Hitesh Sahni

from Comments for Lars Lofgren [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Sep 2019
Great post Lars. I have had my fair share of issues with Godaddy, and then Bluehost. I finally found satisfaction with SiteGround. The only reason GoDaddy is still in business is because of their heavy online and offline advertising. My WordPress website has not yet reached...
No, the war on Iran is not about China. Europe should be much more worried. The big talking point in the West these days to justify the illegal war of aggression against Iran...
11th Mar 2026
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No, the war on Iran is not about China. Europe should be much more worried.

from Arnaud Bertrand [alt+shift+b] in history

11th Mar 2026
The big talking point in the West these days to justify the illegal war of aggression against Iran is to say that it is, in fact, all about China - part of a strategy to encircle China energetically and deprive them of a geopolitical partner.
When a Drunken Charles Bukowski Walked Off the Prestigious French Talk Show Apostrophes (1978) Charles Bukowski didn’t do TV — or at least he didn’t do American TV. Like a Hollywood movie star...
3rd Jun 2024
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3rd Jun 2024
Charles Bukowski didn’t do TV — or at least he didn’t do American TV. Like a Hollywood movie star shooting a Japanese commercial, he did make an exception for a gig abroad. It happened in 1978, when the poet received an invitation from the popular French literary talk...
Disney World's New Theme Park: The White House and Congress A "Pirates of the Caribbean" themed experience is planned, where the taxpayers are repeatedly robbed...
1st Apr 2026
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Disney World's New Theme Park: The White House and Congress

from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance

1st Apr 2026
A "Pirates of the Caribbean" themed experience is planned, where the taxpayers are repeatedly robbed by a motley crew of miscreants. In a blockbuster deal, an obscure federal agency has granted Disney the rights to develop the White House and Congress as a new FantasyLand...
Making Money Online Is More Difficult Than Ever – Or Is It? Maybe we should all look to the story of LEGO to see how this next chapter unfolds. The post Making...
28th Oct 2025
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Making Money Online Is More Difficult Than Ever – Or Is It?

from Scott DeLong [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

28th Oct 2025
Maybe we should all look to the story of LEGO to see how this next chapter unfolds. The post Making Money Online Is More Difficult Than Ever – Or Is It? appeared first on Scott DeLong.
Deploying My Eleventy Site to GitHub Pages I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of...
2nd Mar 2020
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Deploying My Eleventy Site to GitHub Pages

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2020
I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of switching my site to Eleventy was getting deployments to GitHub pages set up. I suppose I could have built my site locally, and then push that to the gh-pages branch, but that felt...
Comics from July 1977 Issue of ROM Magazine Those were the early days.
7th May 2026
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Comics from July 1977 Issue of ROM Magazine

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

7th May 2026
Those were the early days.
South Pole Signage Please close doors quietly!
23rd Jul 2023
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South Pole Signage

from brr [alt+shift+b] in science

23rd Jul 2023
Please close doors quietly!
On PBKDF2 iterations There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to...
9th Jan 2023
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On PBKDF2 iterations

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jan 2023
There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to the number of PBKDF2 iterations applied to the master password to derive the vault encryption key. Other people have already dissected this particular breach, but I want to more...
What AI can tell us about microscope slides The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer...
15th Jan 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Jan 2025
The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer using these images: They could want to know whether there are tumors present or not. If there is a tumor, doctors would want to classify its stage, make predictions about how...
The Mystery of Mastery Laetitia@Work #64
20th Dec 2023
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The Mystery of Mastery

from Laetitia@Work [alt+shift+b] in life

20th Dec 2023
Laetitia@Work #64
NightStand at your local Apple Store NightStands now come in some beautiful new colors & new packaging - you can find them in Apple...
26th Aug 2015
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NightStand at your local Apple Store

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Aug 2015
NightStands now come in some beautiful new colors & new packaging - you can find them in Apple Stores around the globe beginning today. For any designer, to see something you made out in the wild is a special experience. So today is a real trip for our tiny little Portland...
One year on the ultimate commuter bike A year ago I tried to create the ultimate commuter bike, a modified Sensa Cintura with the Gates...
26th Feb 2019
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Feb 2019
A year ago I tried to create the ultimate commuter bike, a modified Sensa Cintura with the Gates CDN/CDX carbon belt drive. I received lots of messages from cyclists and commuters from all over the world. From the Swiss alps, France, Italy, Germany, United States and even "down...
Beth Noveck: Transparent Government ### Dot.Gov Noveck began with the example of patents, first devised in Renaissance Florence and...
5th Mar 2010
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Beth Noveck: Transparent Government

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Mar 2010
### Dot.Gov Noveck began with the example of patents, first devised in Renaissance Florence and Venice to protect techniques such as glass manufacture. In England, conferring a monopoly on a tool or technique became a prerogative of the king. In contemporary America, the process...
Unbundling and Abundance on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
13th Mar 2025
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Unbundling and Abundance

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Mar 2025
on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
Complicated History, Nice Backdrop From February 1946, a view of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn, with lower Manhattan in the...
1st Aug 2024
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Complicated History, Nice Backdrop

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

1st Aug 2024
From February 1946, a view of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn, with lower Manhattan in the background. It was a cold month: note the ice in the river past the train storage to the right of pier 15. This is the old pier 15, which was close to the foot of Montague Street. It...
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