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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth j.hoare Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Dream Xi'an, Tower Hill There are lots of good Chinese restaurants in the Holborn/Bloomsbury area of London. Most seem to...
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There are lots of good Chinese restaurants in the Holborn/Bloomsbury area of London. Most seem to have popped up in the last decade or so, I assume alongside an influx of Chinese students attending the many nearby high-profile universities and colleges, because I'm fairly sure...
The Works in...
The ultra-selfish gene Genetically modifying malaria-carrying mosquitoes could allow us to wipe out humanity’s most deadly...
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Genetically modifying malaria-carrying mosquitoes could allow us to wipe out humanity’s most deadly killer.
Math Is Still...
‘Entropy Bagels’ and Other Complex Structures Emerge From Simple Rules Simple rules in simple settings continue to puzzle mathematicians, even as they devise intricate...
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Simple rules in simple settings continue to puzzle mathematicians, even as they devise intricate tools to analyze them. The post ‘Entropy Bagels’ and Other Complex Structures Emerge From Simple Rules first appeared on Quanta Magazine
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware November, 2022 The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most...
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over a year ago
The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most sensitive analog traces; I would love it if someone could teach me why the soldermask is removed for these guard rings. I imagine there must be some motivation to retain this motif...
Vadim Kravcenko
Going live with your SaaS: The Launch day This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Going live with your SaaS: The Launch day appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
macwright.com
Placemark is now open source Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions...
a year ago
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a year ago
Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions welcome Placemark is the map editor software-as-a-service that I built for several years. It’s a website where you can import, create, edit, export, publish, and visualize geospatial data. I’m...
TheCollector
Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation? undefined
7 months ago
Londonist
TfL Moves To A Bigger Lost Property Office The network's only getting bigger, after all.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
If Zara Home rebrands as luxury Imagine a complete transformation of Zara Home. Stepping through the threshold, you’re no longer...
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7 months ago
Imagine a complete transformation of Zara Home. Stepping through the threshold, you’re no longer greeted by the familiar retail layout....
Mazdak
Inflation is Cooling Off: A Glimpse of Economic Stability ☀️ 📰 Highlights Inflation is finally starting to show signs of easing on both sides of the Atlantic....
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a year ago
📰 Highlights Inflation is finally starting to show signs of easing on both sides of the Atlantic. The moderation of inflation is a significant development that alleviates pressure on consumers and provides central banks with some breathing room. Core PCE, the Federal Reserve's...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Ins and Outs of Fundraising Today | Out-Of-Pocket Some stuff I’ve learned doing a little healthcare startup investing
a year ago
devonzuegel.com
Situated Software Written by Clay Shirky First published March 30, 2004 on the "Networks, Economics, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Written by Clay Shirky First published March 30, 2004 on the "Networks, Economics, and Culture" mailing list. Subscribe to the mailing list. I teach at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where the student population is about evenly divided between...
Open Culture
T. S. Eliot’s Classic Modernist Poem The Waste Land Gets Adapted into Comic-Book Form The phrase “April is the cruelest month” was first printed more than 100 years ago, and it’s been in...
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3 months ago
The phrase “April is the cruelest month” was first printed more than 100 years ago, and it’s been in common circulation almost as long. One can easily know it without having the faintest idea of its source, let alone its meaning. This is not, of course, to call T. S. Eliot’s The...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety? Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
11 months ago
FIRE v London
Jan ’23: Mr Market defuses my tax bombshell January is always a miserable month to be in London. Thankfully I managed to get away a bit during...
a year ago
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a year ago
January is always a miserable month to be in London. Thankfully I managed to get away a bit during the month (not to Davos, no), and enjoy myself in London despite the wintry weather. What you’re paying for in Mayfair these days Market movements in January The markets on the...
Josh Thompson
2020 Annual Review please note: i’m publishing this far after it was drafted, which was in January 2021. It’s being...
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over a year ago
please note: i’m publishing this far after it was drafted, which was in January 2021. It’s being published in June 2022 - I’m trying to back-fill ‘annual reviews’, I never finished this one or published it, until now. Is it even possible to mention a 2020 review without somehow...
Common Edge
What Would a Code of Ethics Look Like for Architecture Schools? Some simple guidelines would help clarify issues.
a year ago
Made by Ollin
Game Emulation via Neural Network
over a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
New linkblog website I launched a new website for my linkblog; go check it out! I'm proud of how it looks. My linkblog...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I launched a new website for my linkblog; go check it out! I'm proud of how it looks. My linkblog is a collection of links I find interesting. I write it for an audience, a few links a day of general interest. I've been doing this for 19 years now and I think it's one of the...
Londonist
Competition! Win Two Hospitality Tickets To Chelsea F.C. Women v Spurs The luxurious Harris Suite awaits...
a year ago
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Logical Fallacies, Biases, and Useful Heuristics A list of logical fallacies and biases I found useful for a better understanding of human behavior...
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Buttons and Cursors There's a post from 2016 entitled Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor that's been making its way...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's a post from 2016 entitled Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor that's been making its way around social media this week. While the author is correct in his statement that operating system buttons don't have hand cursors, the pattern has become ubiquitous and somewhat...
Seth's Blog
Don’t steal the revelation Learning is a journey of incompetence. First, we realize that there’s something we don’t know. Then...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
Learning is a journey of incompetence. First, we realize that there’s something we don’t know. Then we see that we’re going to be better at it, and we’re not good at it yet. Then we figure it out and we’ve succeeded. Repeat. When we pre-process the information and simply test...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: An Alternate Past Comic books are essentially a fantasy medium, which makes it easy for the writers to create...
a year ago
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a year ago
Comic books are essentially a fantasy medium, which makes it easy for the writers to create alternate pasts and futures. Above, a panel from “Gotham By Gaslight” in which a nineteenth-century version of Batman searches for Jack the Ripper. Note the building in the center...
The Pragmatic...
Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least...
a year ago
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a year ago
Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation.
Escaping Flatland
Ethos and imagination Milk Drop Coronet, an ultra-high-speed photograph of the splash of a drop of milk, Harold Edgerton,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Milk Drop Coronet, an ultra-high-speed photograph of the splash of a drop of milk, Harold Edgerton, 1957
Blog - Amy Goodchild
Distributing Randomness A good pseudorandom number generator gives an even distribution of results from 0 to 1 but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A good pseudorandom number generator gives an even distribution of results from 0 to 1 but sometimes in generative art we might want something different.
davidyat.es
The many (bad) interfaces of Substack
9 months ago
The Honest Broker
Why Is Music Getting Sadder? Songs are a cultural indicator—so what are they telling us right now?
a year ago
Blog - Practical...
Every Construction Machine Explained in 15 Minutes [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] We talk about a lot of big...
a year ago
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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] We talk about a lot of big structures on this channel. But, it takes a lot of big tools to build the roads, dams, sewage lift stations, and every other part of the constructed environment. To me, there’s almost...
Working Theorys
The Creator Search Fund Don't buy a company, commercialize a creator.
11 months ago
Willem's Blog
Art of visualisation You learn from experts if you have the privilege to work with them, this month I had a chance to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You learn from experts if you have the privilege to work with them, this month I had a chance to help a professional food photographer.
Maps Mania
The Privatisation of East Germany
a year ago
Luxagraf:...
Stop Breaking Down I had a bad feeling pulling out of Washburn. The bus had sat for nearly four months. The bus hates...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had a bad feeling pulling out of Washburn. The bus had sat for nearly four months. The bus hates sitting. I had time to drive it to the upholstery shop and back and that was the extent of my test driving. I was hoping, whatever was going to break, would do it in a populous area...
Engineer’s Codex
How Google writes clean, maintainable code Google's SWE Book explains their readability process and style guides
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Tell Us What You're Doing? Today is open mic day at The Honest Broker—and you can promote your own projects
4 months ago
Both Are True
and baby makes four??? lauren and baby are healthy, i am unwell!
11 months ago
TheCollector
4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration undefined
12 months ago
Seldo.com
Biographies of every US president as audiobooks
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision Rubrics are often used to select the best option in a multi-dimensional decision space. However,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Rubrics are often used to select the best option in a multi-dimensional decision space. However, they often do not clearly identify a winner, nor do they result in an explanation of the decision that is easily communicated to others, especially those whose favorite option was...
Math Is Still...
Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes....
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Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes. Researchers have now proved that it’s “universally optimal.” The post Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph first appeared on Quanta Magazine
nanoscale views
Items of interest The time since the APS meeting has been very busy, hence the lack of posting.  A few items of...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The time since the APS meeting has been very busy, hence the lack of posting.  A few items of interest: The present issue of Nature Physics has several articles about physics education that I really want to read.  This past week we hosted N. Peter Armitage for a really fun...
99% Invisible
Power Broker #01: Robert Caro [EPISODE] In our first official episode of this year’s epic mini-series breaking down The Power Broker, the...
a year ago
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a year ago
In our first official episode of this year’s epic mini-series breaking down The Power Broker, the author himself, Robert Caro, joins to talk about his book, process, and the problematic man himself: Robert Moses. On today’s show, Elliott Kalan and Roman Mars will cover the...
Passing Time
FEEDBACK REQUEST: Making Meaning on Mt. Adams Alt title: "Mt. Adams or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Dismiss the Plan"
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
That Model S Plaid I've owned a lot of great cars in my time. It's been one of the few places where hitting it big has...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've owned a lot of great cars in my time. It's been one of the few places where hitting it big has allowed for something that wouldn't otherwise be possible. From Lamborghini to Pagani, Porsche to Ferrari, Aston Martin to Bentley, I have owned and loved them all. A+ use of...
TheCollector
4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated undefined
4 months ago
Diaries of Note
O God is there no redress, no peace, no justice in this land for us? Ida B. Wells was a trailblazing African American journalist, civil rights activist, and suffragist...
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a year ago
Ida B. Wells was a trailblazing African American journalist, civil rights activist, and suffragist who courageously fought against racial injustice and gender inequality throughout her life. Born into slavery in 1862, she grew up to become a vocal advocate for the rights of Black...
The Ruffian
Winners and Losers How the Zero Sum Mindset Shapes Society
a year ago
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Philip K. Dick paperback covers (Panther Science Fiction) Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by  citizen3xx24j....
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over a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by  citizen3xx24j. License: All Rights Reserved. Now Wait for Last Year (1975). Cover art by Chris Foss. [More info on ISFDB] Roslyn Gothic arguably saw its most extensive and iconic use on the...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried...
a month ago
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a month ago
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest&
Noahpinion
EVs are just going to win Because they're a superior technology, and superior technologies win.
3 months ago
The Changelog
Joyful is the Dark “Joyful is the dark   coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder   of the morning. Never was that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Joyful is the dark   coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder   of the morning. Never was that midnight   touched by dread and gloom; darkness was the cradle   of the dawning.” – Brian Wren Most of us are not personally experiencing symptoms of a pandemic virus, but with all...
xkcd.com
Supergroup
10 months ago
The Codist
Why Are People Still Using C? C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand...
a year ago
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a year ago
C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand why, unless there is a lot of existing code to support, I can't fathom why anyone would start something new in 2023 in C. I first learned C in
Arduino Blog
A Game Boy is the worst and best option for a car’s dash If your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
If your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and indicator lights. But how many of those do you actually look at on a regular basis? Likely only one or two, like the speedometer and gas gauge. Knowing that, John Sutley embraced...
Maggie Appleton
A Collection of Design Engineers Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is
Artificial Ignorance
What are logprobs? Something to do with logs and probabilities.
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Wood Screens Wrap Around This Home To Create Shade And Privacy Koichi Takada Architects has completed a new home in Sydney, Australia, whose design was inspired by...
a year ago
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a year ago
Koichi Takada Architects has completed a new home in Sydney, Australia, whose design was inspired by palm fronds, specifically the way the leaves provide dappled light and shelter to the fruit its tree bears. Applying the same principles, the home was cocooned with symmetrical...
Scott Jenson
Design can be free (part 2) My last post was on how ‘smart devices’ create overly complex designs by throwing in too many...
a year ago
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a year ago
My last post was on how ‘smart devices’ create overly complex designs by throwing in too many features and misusing their hardware. It showed how great design doesn’t need to be fancy. Design, in fact, can be free. This post wants to push those assumptions a bit, redesigning a...
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies undefined
6 months ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Athletic Greens used to be a sketchy looking affiliate offer in 2011. Ranked #1 on Clickbank...
a year ago
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a year ago
#1 💡 Athletic Greens used to be a sketchy looking affiliate offer in 2011. Ranked #1 on Clickbank and was promoted by every direct response marketer. Always inspiring to see humble beginnings like this and a good reminder that most businesses are not sexy from day 1.
Jonas Hietala
Swelling with New Shiny Books So I read the wonderful Design for Hackers and I managed to win some money for books from a course…...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I read the wonderful Design for Hackers and I managed to win some money for books from a course… So I ran away and ordered some new books, and they just arrived today. Yay! First off I ordered Introduction to Algorithms which is the de facto book about algorithms and it seemed...
A Smart Bear
The only way to guarantee startup success What is it like to reach the pinnacle of success? Is that where you attain happiness and...
a year ago
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What is it like to reach the pinnacle of success? Is that where you attain happiness and fulfillment? Or are those found right here, right now.
Fatih Arslan
My feelings about X (formerly Twitter) This will be short, but I just wanted to rant and vent here because this is my space. I'll use X or...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
This will be short, but I just wanted to rant and vent here because this is my space. I'll use X or Twitter interchangeably throughout the post, but they represent the same entity. Loss of integrity Since Elon's takeover of Twitter, a lot has changed. But
Greg Brockman
Leaving Stripe I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
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over a year ago
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup. Startups # Throughout college, I...
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI predictions for 2024 Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
a year ago
Daniel Marino
Using the p5play JavaScript Game Engine I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use. It was designed to be intuitive for beginners, such as students. In under a half hour I had created some common basic mechanics! Check it out: See the...
The Works in...
History is in the making It's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect...
a month ago
Seth's Blog
Thinking about jobs Since I was born, the planet has invented 6 billion jobs. Technology is said to threaten the...
a month ago
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a month ago
Since I was born, the planet has invented 6 billion jobs. Technology is said to threaten the replacement of human labor, yet, somehow we’ve found useful activities for a rapidly growing population. Coordinated without a coordinator, people go to work each day, often doing...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also rationality developed entirely to rationalize...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also rationality developed entirely to rationalize your own behavior. Its use in mathematics is incidental. Today's News:
The Marginalian
The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning One September dawn on the verge of a significant life change, sitting on my poet friend’s dock, I...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
One September dawn on the verge of a significant life change, sitting on my poet friend’s dock, I watched a great blue heron rise slow and prehistoric through the morning mist, carrying the sky on her back. In the years since, the heron has become the closest thing I have to what...
Liz Denys
Striped pitcher, 2024 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, denim satin glaze
8 months ago
Avestura's Blog
Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them What are the problems of C, and how Zig addresses them?
a year ago
Data Boutique
Urgency Factor: Why Timing is as Critical as Cost The Issues of Planning Web Data Projects
a year ago
Uncharted...
100 Billion Humans The world can carry them!
2 months ago
Uncharted...
Interesting News & Game Theory of Sex | Q3 2024 Trans & bathrooms, the end of nation states, woke pendulum, trigger warnings, is breastfeeding...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Trans & bathrooms, the end of nation states, woke pendulum, trigger warnings, is breastfeeding actually good for IQ, are differences in household work justified, and more
xkcd.com
Light Leap Years
11 months ago
sbensu
Payments vs Transfers Transfer means to move money but payment means "exchanging goods or services". A payment system has...
a year ago
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a year ago
Transfer means to move money but payment means "exchanging goods or services". A payment system has a lot more requirements than a transfer system and I rarely see the crypto ecosystem acknowledge these when building "payment" products.
Rest of World -...
The IITs remain undefeated They took up seven out of the top 10 slots in a recent government ranking.
a year ago
ben-mini
Commoditize Your Complements To the man who coined the phrase, “nothing in life is free”… have you been on GitHub...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
To the man who coined the phrase, “nothing in life is free”… have you been on GitHub lately? Open-source is software that anyone can freely view, use, modify, and share because its code is publicly available on sites like Github and Huggingface. My last coding project alone was...
Joel Gascoigne
50 books that transformed my business and my life As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books completely. I even remember...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books completely. I even remember a time where I couldn't imagine reading books at all. After I graduated and started to be interested in business and startups, I realized the immense power and knowledge contained...
Math Is Still...
Dogged Dark Matter Hunters Find New Hiding Places to Check Perhaps dark matter is made of an entirely different kind of particle than the ones physicists have...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Perhaps dark matter is made of an entirely different kind of particle than the ones physicists have been searching for. New experiments are springing up to look for these ultra-lightweight phantoms. The post Dogged Dark Matter Hunters Find New Hiding Places to Check...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs undefined
3 months ago
Home on Erik...
Welcome Echo Nest! In case you missed it, we just acquired a company called Echo Nest in Boston. These people have been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In case you missed it, we just acquired a company called Echo Nest in Boston. These people have been obsessed with understanding music for the past 8 years since it was founded by Brian Whitman and Tristan Jehan out of MIT Medialab.
Steve Klabnik
"C is how the computer works" is a dangerous mindset for C programmers
over a year ago
Londonist
Buy A Toy For One Of The 5,000 Poorest London Kids In London This Christmas Winter Toy Appeal back for 10th year.
a year ago
Blog System/5
Links: January 2024 edition Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
11 months ago
Seth's Blog
Success is not an option In any creative endeavor, it’s possible to define success as the big win, the moment when your...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In any creative endeavor, it’s possible to define success as the big win, the moment when your dreams match reality. Success is the end of imposter syndrome, stability and finally making it to the other side. By this definition, it’s clear that success isn’t going to happen. It’s...
Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
Open Culture
When Kris Kristofferson (RIP) Stood by Sinéad O’Connor at the Height of Her Controversy One would have imagined Sinéad O’Connor impervious to any reaction from a hostile audience, no...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
One would have imagined Sinéad O’Connor impervious to any reaction from a hostile audience, no matter how vitriolic. But even for a public figure as outspoken and unapologetic as her, it could all get to be a bit much at times. Take the 1992 concert Columbia Records put on for...
One Useful Thing
Change blindness 21 months later
5 months ago
TheCollector
Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union undefined
7 months ago
The American Scholar
Dottie Lo Bue House and home The post Dottie Lo Bue appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections? undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports undefined
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Shoelace.style — A back to the basics CSS starter kit I spent some time last week working on a free CSS boilerplate I'm calling Shoelace.css. It's kinda...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spent some time last week working on a free CSS boilerplate I'm calling Shoelace.css. It's kinda like Bootstrap, but a lot leaner and pure CSS. You don't need a preprocessor like Sass or Less to use it, but it's still highly customizable with CSS variables. I'm calling Shoelace...
Retail Design Blog
Pyunkangyul flagship store by Sherpa Pyunkangyul Cosmetic is an herbal medicine skincare brand that minimizes artificial ingredients and...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Pyunkangyul Cosmetic is an herbal medicine skincare brand that minimizes artificial ingredients and uses ingredients from nature to find the...
Wuthering...
Read and To Read, in 2024 and 2025 What did I read in 2024? The best book I read last year was Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE).  Best...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
What did I read in 2024? The best book I read last year was Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE).  Best books, really, in translations by Arthur Golding and Charles Martin.  My “best book of the year” answer will never be interesting.  America’s librarian Nancy Pearl asked, somewhere on...
A Beautiful Site
Better Buttons with color-mix() and Custom Properties Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically....
a year ago
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a year ago
Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically. For this experiment, we'll use CSS Custom Properties, color-mix(), and OKLCH to ensure that tints and shades are perceptually uniform. To keep things simple, we'll follow today's...
Epic Web Dev
Web Application Testing (workshop) Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing covers unit testing, E2E, integration testing, and more!
TheCollector
What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy? undefined
a year ago
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 18-24 September 2023 A tube map for planes, a street with four names - plus a really silly interview.
a year ago
Mazdak
The Unexpected Saviour of Journalism In a digital landscape drowning in AI-generated noise, an unlikely hero emerges: generative AI...
a month ago
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a month ago
In a digital landscape drowning in AI-generated noise, an unlikely hero emerges: generative AI itself.
Astral Codex Ten
Subscrive Drive '25 + Free Unlocked Posts ...
a week ago
Sam Altman
The United Slate I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also to find someone to run a ballot initiative focused on affordable housing in the state.  A team of aligned people has a chance to make a real change. I believe in creating prosperity...
Josh Thompson
Whole Messages in Slack I use Slack at work. And used it in Turing. And am in a few programming-related Slack groups. (Ahoy,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I use Slack at work. And used it in Turing. And am in a few programming-related Slack groups. (Ahoy, #DenverDevs). My last job, I used Slack. The job before that, I got the whole company on Slack. I’ve used it for years. Slack delivers value to me, and induces little anxiety, and...
AI Snake Oil
Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
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NeuroLogica Blog
What to Make of Havana Syndrome I have not written before about Havana Syndrome, mostly because I have not been able to come to any...
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I have not written before about Havana Syndrome, mostly because I have not been able to come to any strong conclusions about it. In 2016 there was a cluster of strange neurological symptoms among people working at the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba. They would suddenly experience...
Cheese and Biscuits
Crispin at Studio Voltaire, Clapham Common Although my useless photos hardly do it justice (let's just get that out of the way from the start),...
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Although my useless photos hardly do it justice (let's just get that out of the way from the start), Crispin at Studio Voltaire is a lovely space to eat in. The candles on each table aren't the only source of light, but provide a romantic accessory to the tealights dangling above...
TheCollector
Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle undefined
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Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Joshua Xu Lessons from building HeyGen from 0 to $1m ARR in 7 months
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Escaping Flatland
Thinking about perceptiveness links
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A Smart Bear
Moats: Durable competitive advantage Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low...
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Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low profit. Like entropy, this is the inevitable fate of a company, unless it exerts intentional force to the contrary. Moats are this force, and your strategy must identify how to create...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Layer 2s as cultural extensions of Ethereum
7 months ago
Josh Thompson
Feedback pt. 2 Traditional Feedback is Explicit Feedback is the means by which any system makes changes. From the...
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over a year ago
Traditional Feedback is Explicit Feedback is the means by which any system makes changes. From the gene pool to the swimming pool, feedback works to eliminate the insufficient and improve the sufficient. (See what I did with the “pool” thing?) Your car gives you feedback if the...
TheCollector
Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor undefined
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Nudo Salvaje Mezcal by Hi estudio From the union of essential elements like earth, agave, and fire emerges the concept of NUDO, a...
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From the union of essential elements like earth, agave, and fire emerges the concept of NUDO, a representation that evokes...
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Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from,...
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The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking. The post Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Tech + Economics +...
Another 3 men raise another few million From Relevance AI (emphasis mine) We're thrilled to announce our USD$10M raise by leading...
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From Relevance AI (emphasis mine) We're thrilled to announce our USD$10M raise by leading investors from around the world including King River Capital, Peak XV Partners, Insight Partners and Galileo Ventures supporting Relevance’s mission to enable any...
Steve Blank
What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many This post previously appeared in the Proceedings of the Naval Institute. One of the most audacious...
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This post previously appeared in the Proceedings of the Naval Institute. One of the most audacious and bold manifestos for the future of Naval innovation has just been posted by the Rear Admiral who heads up the Office of Naval Research. It may be the hedge we need to deter China...
Blog posts of...
🇮🇳 India in 2024 In February I made my first business trip to India. Three weeks deep in the Indian tech ecosystem....
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In February I made my first business trip to India. Three weeks deep in the Indian tech ecosystem. My summary is simple: I feel like the world needs an update how we view India
watchTowr Labs
Exploitation Walkthrough and Techniques - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282) As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote...
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As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in their Connect Secure (VPN) appliance. Specifically, we analyzed CVE-2025-0282. Today, we’re going to walk through exploitation. Once again, however,...
One from Nippon
The shoe that became a sock. And then a shoe again. Stockholm, 1912 At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the...
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Stockholm, 1912 At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the start line of the marathon in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Shizo was carrying the hopes, dreams, and pride of Japan, a country attempting to become a “modern” nation. There
Louwrentius
I switched my blog from Blogofile to Pelican This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile but I switched to Pelican. Blogofile has seen almost no updates over the years and I consider the project dead. Realising that blogofile is dead, I decided to look around for...
The Rational Walk
The Magic of Compounding The magic of compounding was evident when I recently compared my lifetime gross wage income to my...
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The magic of compounding was evident when I recently compared my lifetime gross wage income to my current net worth.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
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Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
Cremieux Recueil
Grading the World's Shortest Manifesto It gets an F and the student has earned the death penalty
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Teleporter Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just a few more and I can do a book of teleporter...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just a few more and I can do a book of teleporter humor. Today's News: I've spent the last month promoting stuff here, so this is just a reminder to you that it's just me over here and I hate having to promote products. Please...
Josh Thompson
2019 Annual Review It’s that time of the year. I always really enjoy reading other people’s annual reviews, and I find...
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over a year ago
It’s that time of the year. I always really enjoy reading other people’s annual reviews, and I find value in writing my own. Previous reviews: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 My review breaks down into a few broad categories: Travel Relationships & Community Leadville Trail...
The Tao Of Wealth
The Meaning Of “Om” With the help of “Om” one can realize the Divine. “Om” has a transformative power. “Om” represents...
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With the help of “Om” one can realize the Divine. “Om” has a transformative power. “Om” represents the Divine. They say that all the aspirations of the world when going towards the Divine make “Om”, like that. I was in France, some, I think 60 years ago. There was a Frenchman who...
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Networking Essentials: DNS Domain names, you buy them, you sell them, but how do they work?
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The Funniest Things You've Heard Tube Drivers Say - Vol. 4 "Anyone know where the brakes are on this thing?"
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Entrepreneur's Edge
Understanding the Importance of Operating Leverage in the Age of Efficiency Amazon grew it's revenue per employee from $50K to $1M over its first fifteen years.
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London's St Patrick's Day Parade And Festival 2024: When, Where And How To Get Involved Dust off your shamrock sunglasses and head for Trafalgar Square this March.
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Dan Slimmon
5 production surprises worth investigating As an SRE, I’m a vocal believer in following one’s nose: seeking out surprising phenomena and...
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As an SRE, I’m a vocal believer in following one’s nose: seeking out surprising phenomena and getting to the bottom of them. By adopting this habit, we can find and fix many classes of problems before they turn into incidents. Over time, this makes things run much smoother. But...
TheCollector
Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist undefined
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Max Rozen
Getting your own good enough laptop for under $500 I recently bought a cheap, used Thinkpad T480, replaced a bunch of parts. Some folks were asking how...
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I recently bought a cheap, used Thinkpad T480, replaced a bunch of parts. Some folks were asking how they could do the same thing, so I figured I'd write about it
The Elysian
A grassroots political party for the middle The Forward Party, citizen's assemblies, and a creating better independence movement in the US.
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Old Structures...
Different Types of Commercial Use From 1880, a view of Broadway looking north from Morris Street to Trinity Church. Given how deserted...
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From 1880, a view of Broadway looking north from Morris Street to Trinity Church. Given how deserted it is, it’s either early in the morning on a weekend or a holiday. Wm. M Fleiss & Co, on the left, is at 47 Broadway. Broadway is lined with office and loft buildings which are...
The Honest Broker
How the Music Business Can Tame the Dangerous AI Dragon Here's a five point plan that makes a difference (and not just for music)
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Common Edge
What Do You Say to a Naked Architect? An architectural fiction.
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The Honest Broker
Half of Waking Hours Are Now Devoted to Entertainment An Executive Briefing Paper on Arts, Media & Culture
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brr
Pressure Altitude Day-to-day variability at the South Pole.
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Refragmentation
over a year ago
Maps Mania
China vs America - World Influence Map
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - App Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There needs to be a meta-app that just takes all...
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5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There needs to be a meta-app that just takes all the apps and converts them back into Internet. Today's News:
GitButler
The Future of Open Source A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating...
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A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating on software in awesome ways.
TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics? undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
The Olympics in the 2020s Versus 1912: See Side-by-Side Comparisons of the Athletes’ Performance... The Olympic Games have their origins in antiquity, but their modern revival has also been going on...
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The Olympic Games have their origins in antiquity, but their modern revival has also been going on longer than any of us has been here. Even the fifth Summer Olympics, which took place in Stockholm in 1912, has passed out of living memory. But thanks to the technology of the...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies VC returns over the last decade have been poor. The cause is widely agreed to be an excess of...
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over a year ago
VC returns over the last decade have been poor. The cause is widely agreed to be an excess of venture capital dollars to worthy startups…
Anecdotal Evidence
'Aesthetically They Are Still Delightful' “Early Ellington records are like vintage cars. They are not as he or anyone else would make them...
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“Early Ellington records are like vintage cars. They are not as he or anyone else would make them nowadays, but historically they are still important and aesthetically they are still delightful.”  Let's not confine Philip Larkin’s conclusion exclusively to Duke Ellington’s early...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Anatomy of a bad search result In a post last week, Paul Kedrosky noted his frustration when looking for a new dishwasher using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a post last week, Paul Kedrosky noted his frustration when looking for a new dishwasher using Google.  I thought it might be interesting…
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Human mind at its deepest and highest' Vladimir Nabokov is speaking in 1965 to Robert Hughes for the Television 13 Educational Program in...
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a year ago
Vladimir Nabokov is speaking in 1965 to Robert Hughes for the Television 13 Educational Program in New York:  “One of the saddest cases is perhaps that of Osip Mandelshtam--a  wonderful  poet, the  greatest poet among those trying to survive in Russia under the...
Seth's Blog
The positive auction In 2023, I developed a new idea that transforms an old way of doing commerce. In traditional...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In 2023, I developed a new idea that transforms an old way of doing commerce. In traditional auctions, there are rounds of bidding and the high bidder pays to get the prize. The last bid is the amount paid, and no one else is charged anything. This is an interesting ‘game’ in...
Construction Physics
Machine Tool Reading List For those interested in reading more about the machine tool industry, the sources I found useful are...
a year ago
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a year ago
For those interested in reading more about the machine tool industry, the sources I found useful are listed below. The machine tool industry has been studied quite extensively, if sporadically (lots of sources talk about its decline in the 1980s, fewer ones talk about its...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Safest Countries for LGBTQ Travelers
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Great New Broadway Shows to See in NYC in 2023-2024
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diamond geezer
Christmas Rooms Through Time
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computers are bad
2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring...
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Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring topic: implementation details of telephone lines. The conventional "copper pair" analog telephone line is fading away. The FCC has begun to authorize abandonment of copper outside...
Home on Erik...
Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club”....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club”. But I read something about COVID-19 deaths that I thought was interesting and wanted to see if I could replicated it through data.
Londonist
The Best Places To Find Bluebells In And Near London This Spring You can walk your dog in some of these spots, too.
10 months ago
Ryan Mulligan
Migrating to Eleventy Hello, world! The time has come. I've finally decided to explore the wonderful world of 11ty! The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hello, world! The time has come. I've finally decided to explore the wonderful world of 11ty! The migration process for my personal website was dead simple. Not that moving a tiny one-pager over to a static site generator is really a big deal, but getting started was just so...
blag
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
3 weeks ago
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New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast Illustrations made for a set of episodes of the Cultivated Meat podcast
over a year ago
Lighthouse Blog
How to manage tags
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TheCollector
Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption undefined
6 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
Metal Cladding Wraps Around The Large Gable Roof Of This House BLA Design Group has shared photos of their latest project, a unique modern home that marries the...
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a year ago
BLA Design Group has shared photos of their latest project, a unique modern home that marries the West and the East, linking a Chinese-Canadian family’s present lifestyle to their past memories. Located in Vancouver, Canada, the home has a prominent gable form that floats atop...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Best Practice Open Source Repo Setup Quick and simple ways to set up Open Source Repos with Best Practices
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #4 Four months of major roadworks were supposed to begin at the Bow Roundabout on Monday. So how's that...
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Four months of major roadworks were supposed to begin at the Bow Roundabout on Monday. So how's that going? Monday 30th September Tuesday 1st October I popped up to Old Ford to see what's happened with route 8 terminating one stop early. A temporary stand has been created...
the singularity is...
The Soul ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you...
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ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you wish there was a deep state that came for me. then at least there would be some adults in the room. I used to fantasize about being or kissing Skrillex the whole album is bangers...
A Beautiful Site
JSON Feed JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec, introduced just last week, but it's been getting some major coverage and a number of applications have already started supporting it. Since Postleaf was built for the modern...
Mind Mine
why i quit status games stumbling towards trusting myself
4 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to integrate Fathom Analytics into your Remix App When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your website visitors in order to enhance their experience. In this guide, we will go over the steps of integrating Fathom Analytics into a Remix application. Creating a site in Fathom...
Seth's Blog
All species are invasive species Human beings as we know them have only been around for 70,000 years or so. Honeybees got to North...
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a year ago
Human beings as we know them have only been around for 70,000 years or so. Honeybees got to North America around the time Columbus did. And the same is true for technologies and companies. Western Union was an interloper, telegrams were the scary new tech that was going to change...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Mothers of the Ancient World
8 months ago
Rest of World -...
Lithium is only as dirty as we make it We’re building a new supply chain for electric vehicles. Are we building the right one?
a year ago
Londonist
Myra DuBois Takes Us On Her Perfect Day Out In London "Look at St Paul's! An icon in the capital! Much like myself."
a year ago
Electronics etc…
Measuring the HP 11720A Pulse Modulator and Coax Cables Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse...
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Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse Modulator Inside the HP 11720A Measurement Setup for a Quick Testing Session Pin Modulator Power Measurements with HP 432A Cable Loss Measurements with HP 432A Cable Power Measurements with...
Mazdak
Canada Tax Brackets 2025 🇨🇦 As we head into 2025, understanding Canada's tax brackets is crucial for both individuals and...
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As we head into 2025, understanding Canada's tax brackets is crucial for both individuals and businesses.
Copper • A blog...
A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible? Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
diamond geezer
My review of 2024 It's the time of year for looking back so here are some of the unblogged places I've been in...
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a year ago
It's the time of year for looking back so here are some of the unblogged places I've been in 2024. Beddington: the view from that bench is truly miserable Biggin Hill: I powered up Polesteeple Hill for nothing Blackwall Tunnel: wow, just look at the new one Bounds Green: every...
TheCollector
7 Works by Yves Tanguy You Should Know undefined
a week ago
Marcus on AI
Sora still appears to have trouble with physics Exactly as I warned in February
a month ago
The Gradient
Car-GPT: Could LLMs finally make self-driving cars happen? Exploring the utility of large language models in autonomous driving: Can they be trusted for...
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Exploring the utility of large language models in autonomous driving: Can they be trusted for self-driving cars, and what are the key challenges?
Making software...
HTML Dark Mode HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode...
a year ago
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a year ago
HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode where I explained how to implement a very basic "dark mode" by using the prefers-color-scheme CSS attribute. This stills works perfectly fine, and in fact there is a cleaner variation...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Remember Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I was in a train station a few years ago and all...
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I was in a train station a few years ago and all the women were dressed like it was the eighties. Went back to my farm and emerged a year later to see all the men had developed mustaches as a kind of reflexive mating...
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2023 Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
a year ago
Moneyness
Crypto adoption in America Source: America Loves Crypto You may have recently come across the America Loves Crypto...
a year ago
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a year ago
Source: America Loves Crypto You may have recently come across the America Loves Crypto marketing campaign, sponsored by Coinbase, the U.S.'s largest crypto exchange. In an attempt to promote the voting power of crypto owners, the website makes the claim that 52 million...
HTMHell
Web Components FTW! by Chris Ferdinandi Web Components are a collection of technologies that you can use to create...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Chris Ferdinandi Web Components are a collection of technologies that you can use to create reusable custom elements, with built-in interactivity, automatically scoped (or encapsulated) from the rest of your code. They have a wide range of features and functionality (some...
Good Enough
How We Made A Good Enough Zine We made a zine! The first issue was released in August, and I finished the second issue just last...
a year ago
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a year ago
We made a zine! The first issue was released in August, and I finished the second issue just last week. Right now, a hundred copies are on their way from the printer to me (update: they've just arrived!). Today I'd like to share the story of how this zine came about. (Sorry for...
Rozado’s Visual...
Define Wokeness! Or how you shall know a word by the company it keeps Visualizing what words often appear in the vicinity of woke/wokeness in news media content...
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Visualizing what words often appear in the vicinity of woke/wokeness in news media content illustrates why communication is almost impossible between red and blue America
TheCollector
Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views undefined
8 months ago
Archinect - Features
How Do We Teach AI? In Florida, One Architecture School Offers a Precedent As our recent Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series demonstrated, AI will inevitably...
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As our recent Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series demonstrated, AI will inevitably play a sizeable role in the future of the architectural profession. For architecture schools tasked with equipping students for the future of practice, the advent of AI poses...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bad Ways to Get Data In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very peculiar problem: my pages were being generated a lot more slowly than expected:
Diaries of Note
It instantaneously stopped the bleeding Born in Somerset, England in 1740, James Woodforde was an English clergyman posthumously celebrated...
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a year ago
Born in Somerset, England in 1740, James Woodforde was an English clergyman posthumously celebrated for the insightful and witty diaries—68 handwritten volumes in total–that he kept meticulously from the age of 19 through to 1803, ten weeks before his death. Peppered amongst the...
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in June 2024 20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in June 2024 1) Whatever 16 members of the public have...
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20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in June 2024 1) Whatever 16 members of the public have said, no occurrences of bedbugs have been identified on TfL services over the past two years. 2) London's least busy bus stop is at Dysart Avenue (I blogged about this in some...
Good Enough
Cosmic Maelstrom As Barry wrote in his recent blogpost, we're busy building prototypes here at Good Enough. It's...
a year ago
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a year ago
As Barry wrote in his recent blogpost, we're busy building prototypes here at Good Enough. It's weird to be in this situation. Most of the Good Enough team are used to working on just one software at a time, focusing on steadily improving it. But right now we're doing the...
blag
Staying Ahead of Amazon, in Amazon Treasure Hunt Contest With a simple Man In The Middle (MITM) attack, I tried to cheat(?) one of Amazon India’s contest.
over a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Money Throughout World History undefined
10 months ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, July 2024 The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last...
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The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last two images might be killer clues that give away the ware, but they are also so cool I couldn’t not include them as part of the post.
PostHog's RSS Feed
We ship whenever PostHog ships every two weeks, unless it makes more sense not to. Why? Iterating frequently helps...
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over a year ago
PostHog ships every two weeks, unless it makes more sense not to. Why? Iterating frequently helps improve our product. We get features in users’ hands…
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Continue Reading
Old Vintage...
The Living Computers Museum finally isn't First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are...
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First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are now on a better footing (more articles are in the hopper). Unfortunately, the same apparently can't be said for the once-great Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle,...
ntietz.com blog
A few weird ways of displaying git hashes I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement. While talking...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement. While talking about why hashes are often represented in hexademical, the author states (emphasis mine): There are other ways to encode binary data for human consumption, but the two most widely...
Steve Klabnik
Fast Rails tests with CanCan
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Should Tech Companies Be Liable for Content The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is hearing a case that will have profound effects on social media – is...
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The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is hearing a case that will have profound effects on social media – is Google liable for a terrorist killing? The family of Nohemi Gonzalez is suing Google, because she was shot by an Islamic terrorist in 2015 and the family alleges this act was abetted...
Irrational...
Safe defaults. Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice...
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Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice rankled a colleague. He wanted to spin up a new engineering team of two people, which I thought was a bad idea. It would be a fragile team that would fall apart quickly if it...
Vadim Kravcenko
Getting your Idea to the MVP This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Getting your Idea to the MVP appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History? undefined
3 months ago
Math Is Still...
Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better Neuroscientists recently discovered that small numbers have a different neural signature than larger...
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Neuroscientists recently discovered that small numbers have a different neural signature than larger ones, offering a new look into the brain’s number system and its connections to memory and mathematics. The post Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better...
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The history of aluminum, and what is now happening in the artificial diamond market, may tell us something about a post-scarcity world. Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust. However, it like to form with other elements and therefore it was very difficulty to...
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Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages like C++ should not be used anymore. But claiming that Rust would have prevented the massive outage that the world went through last Friday is misleading and actively harmful to...
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Consider this post a guide on how to avoid the most common mistakes young designers make when assembling their portfolios.
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Since coming to Japan, I've incorporated three companies. Although creating a company isn't a walk in the park, I think it is easier than the general perception is. Part of the problem is the lack of English-language information about it. I hope by sharing my experiences I can...
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Ian Dyball Our bodies are designed such that we need to lose consciousness, entirely, for a full third of every day. This is evidently necessary for some kind of regular brain maintenance, maybe forming long term memories, who knows what else. If we don’t sleep, we quickly become...
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Customer Success - what is it? When I tell people I work in “Customer Success”, they immediately think I do either Customer Support, or sales. In a way, they are correct. I do both. Today, and more in the future, I’ll dig deep into this particular industry. A traditional...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On Jun 11, 2023, a fuel tanker truck caught fire on an exit underneath Interstate 95 in Northeast Philadelphia. The fire severely damaged the northbound bridge, eventually causing it to collapse. Sadly, the...
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I like to think deeply about informal logical fallacies. I write about them a lot, and even have an occasional segment of the SGU dedicated to them. They are a great way to crystalize our thinking about the many ways in which logic can go wrong. Formal logic deals with arguments...
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“Though most of the teachers followed Erasmus in seeking to make learning palatable, Montaigne considers himself fortunate to have avoided getting 'nothing out of school but a hatred of books, as do nearly all our noblemen,’” writes Donald Frame in his 1965 biography of the...
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I managed the engineering team at Digg as we ran out of money, and were eventually acquired. It was an eye opening experience, and I learned a great deal about the reality and the optics of selling a company, particularly one with no money and a shrinking user base. Humbling was...
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Since George Orwell published his landmark political fable 1984, each generation has found ample reason to make reference to the grim near-future envisioned by the novel. Whether Orwell had some prophetic vision or was simply a very astute reader of the institutions of his...
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In my recent travels around Asia [http://instagram.com/joelgascoigne], I’ve had the great opportunity to meet a lot of local founders and aspiring entrepreneurs. One of the things that seems to come up many times is that people will ask me “what triggered you to become...
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On December 6, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2023 Conference in Silicon Valley. Here is a transcript of my remarks. Toward quantum value The theme of this year’s Q2B meeting is “The Roadmap to Quantum Value.” I … Continue reading →
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I’m in Nova Scotia this week in places with poor internet so I was not planning on posting anything. Then I saw this fantastic mural on the side of a building in Annapolis Royal so I just had to share it. Enjoy!
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“Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the… “Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License: All Rights Reserved. Book jacket (second edition by Niggli, Teufen, 1964) Dan Reynolds, esteemed friend of the site, writes on Mastodon: 125 years ago today – at exactly...
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The inevitable showdown between Twitter and Twitter apps People usually think of business competition as occurring between substitutes – products that serve...
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People usually think of business competition as occurring between substitutes – products that serve similar functions for the user.   Famous…
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I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even worth […] The post Process Debt appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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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.
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When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they lean heavily on their testing in simulation. Common talking points take the form of “we made our car drive X billion miles in simulation.” From these vague statements, it’s...
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Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling with. It’s one […] The post Is development the right career for me? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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One common question that’s on everyone’s minds as we fiercely scrub our hands, pool our resources, conserve our consumption, stock up (but not hoard), invent calculus or write King Lear is: when will this end? Nobody knows what the answer to that question is but we
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One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure their own status, rank or value by the number of teams and people “under” them. Everyone knows you aren’t supposed to do this, but most of us secretly, sheepishly do it anyway to some...
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There’s been a lot in the news recently about the implementation of the Shark Cull (or, as the Government put it, the “shark protection measures”) here in Western Australia.  Just as I am not a climate scientist, I am not a shark biologist, and cannot claim to be a shark expert....
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There are 50 public universities in Spain. The majority of Spanish students end up attending the closest school to their family home. A particular degree not being taught nearby, or not getting in (mostly due to the limited number of seats) are the main exceptions for traveling...
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In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their local government. They were wearing yellow vests and chanting slogans about the municipality’s new traffic policies. But most notably, many of them were vocally angry about a new...
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Since I moved out of the startup world I've exclusively worked on small projects. Niche, simple tools packed with love and attention to detail. I've written about my approach to building, and how it impacts my life and outlook. Today, however, I want to write about a less-obvious...
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The empty part of the drawer is what makes it a useful tool. Same goes for a filing cabinet, a toolbox and a calendar. Slack is underrated.
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Respectable heads of state rarely admit to keeping company with gangsters. But in April 1927, about 15 years after the collapse of the last imperial dynasty, Chiang Kai-shek and China were at a crossroads. Chiang had followed a murky path to leadership of the Chinese Nationalist...
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by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism (referenced in the diagram above), and I wanted to use this opportunity to go over each of these in a little more detail. Hopefully you’ll get an understanding of what they mean,...
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Day Three at Río Bigal: A Rainout, Another Snake, And More Mothing Adventures Part of the reason why I gave myself five nights to spend at Río Bigal was to mitigate in case I had...
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Part of the reason why I gave myself five nights to spend at Río Bigal was to mitigate in case I had a couple of days washed out by heavy rain. The eastern Andes of Ecuador receive a high amount of precipitation. Moisture-laden air from the Amazon basin drifts westwards to the...
Musings on Markets
Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO! A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering, and noted that the...
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A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering, and noted that the reception that the stock gets will be a good barometer of where risk capital stands in the market, right now. After a buzzy open, when the stock jumped from its offering price of $30 a...
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The eHMI: How Autonomous Cars Will Communicate With the Outside World Even if you may not be aware of it, a lot of non-verbal communication takes place when you walk down...
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Even if you may not be aware of it, a lot of non-verbal communication takes place when you walk down the street. You observe the behavior…
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Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and...
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A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. The post Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making first appeared on...
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The shift to music streaming has led to songs getting shorter, music getting less melodically diverse and lyrics getting more repetitive. Or to put it another way, just as our visual culture has become more homogeneous, so too has the music that accompanies it. Let’s run...
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Recently I heard the word “chartist” for the first time in my life (that I recall). And then later the same day, I heard it again. So that raises two questions: To answer the second question first, it’s someone who supported chartism, which was “a working-class movement for...
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Using Pigment Colours and Binder, you can mix your own bespoke colours for screen printing and block printing. Experimenting with different ratio amounts of binder to pigment can create some lovely subtle pale shades and some strong bold colours too.   Keeping a note of your...
Open Culture
The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929) The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which...
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The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which “skeletons hoof and frolic,” the peak of whose hilarity “is reached when one skeleton plays the spine of another in xylophone fashion, using a pair of thigh bones as hammers.” The...
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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that...
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It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers…
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<![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about their background and motivations, tools, and workflows. It is a variation by Kev Quirk of a challenge originally created by Ava at Bear Blog. I have accepted this fun challenge and...
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If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". Oftentimes, the two phrases are used interchangeably by someone who is not familiar with the industry. Perhaps the concept is irrelevant to a...
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In the days when hunting was a more common pursuit than it is today, those involved in the job cultivated a taxonomy for the various droppings they might encounter and use for tracking. Thus, rather than merely looking out for scat, those stalking deer would keep an eye peeled...
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Contribution and abundance Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent:...
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Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent: In my experience there are really two things that lead to happiness and everything else is mostly noise. The two things are contribution and abundance. Contribution is basically...
The Honest Broker
The Hottest Drummer You've Never Heard A new book pays tribute to the amazing Chick Webb, the hardest swinging jazz drummer of his day
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To all the newspapers I loved The decline and fall of the print media.
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How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins Proteins are often visualized as cascades of curled ribbons and twisted strings, which both reveal...
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Proteins are often visualized as cascades of curled ribbons and twisted strings, which both reveal and conceal the mess of atoms that make up these impossibly complex molecules. The post How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins first appeared on Quanta...
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The weather is starting to get better. Listening Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands I am still really loving the constellation of bands around Mammal Hands. They just released a new album, “Gift from the Trees”, and it’s really excellent. RETURN by tAKX Their guitarist,...
CONTEMPORIST
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Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they renovated in London, that included opening up the walls to connect the interior spaces with the garden. The designers removed the whole ground floor, including the external walls to the rear, the stairs, most of the interior,...