journal – Winnie Lim
2024: one pull up
One of my biggest goals last year was to run 10km – for me it is not just a distance goal for the...
a year ago
One of my biggest goals last year was to run 10km – for me it is not just a distance goal for the sake of having a distance goal, but rather cultivating...
Josh Thompson
Everything I Do and Think I've Read in a Book (or, exploring the relationship between books and...
Here’s yet another big post on money and income and saving and reading. I tried to write everything...
over a year ago
Here’s yet another big post on money and income and saving and reading. I tried to write everything on my mind in one massive letter, so I could write a really detailed answer once, rather than a less-useful but less-thoughtful email that I can never reuse.
Hey there,
I’m...
Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
3 months ago
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pino
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I am prepared for your call Hollywood. It's...
3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I am prepared for your call Hollywood. It's time.
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diamond geezer
Littlehampton
Seaside postcard: Littlehampton
Littlehampton is a seaside town, I hesitate to say resort, midway...
8 months ago
Seaside postcard: Littlehampton
Littlehampton is a seaside town, I hesitate to say resort, midway along the coast of West Sussex. It has a Heatherwick cafe, a sort-of lighthouse, Britain's longest bench and a lot of crabs. I visited yesterday. [Visit Littlehampton] [12...
Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
***Now Enrolling: Starting January 15th, 2025
3 weeks ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting January 15th, 2025
NeuroLogica Blog
Hunter-Gatherers and Childcare
What is “natural” for humans? It’s often hard to say, and in my opinion this is a highly overused...
a year ago
What is “natural” for humans? It’s often hard to say, and in my opinion this is a highly overused concept. Primarily this is because humans are adaptable – we adapt to our environment, our situation, and our culture. So it is “natural” for us not to have a natural state. But this...
Open Culture
Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981)
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot...
5 days ago
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the movie Cat People. Before...
Mazdak
Apple’s Credit Card Shakeup: A Look at the Future of Fintech Partnerships
In 2019, Apple and Goldman Sachs partnered to launch the Apple Card, a bold move that combined...
5 days ago
In 2019, Apple and Goldman Sachs partnered to launch the Apple Card, a bold move that combined technology and finance to offer a seamless credit experience.
diamond geezer
Slowing the Bow Roundabout
(this is the last post written on my old laptop)
temporary timetables on bus routes 25, 205, 276,...
4 months ago
(this is the last post written on my old laptop)
temporary timetables on bus routes 25, 205, 276, 277 and 425 "to help with reliability during roadworks at the Bow Roundabout and displacement of traffic onto local roads". For example buses on route 25 usually run every 7-8...
Retail Design Blog
Pango office by Hagai Nagar Architects
We were excited to undertake the planning Office Design for the new headquarters of Pango, a company...
6 months ago
We were excited to undertake the planning Office Design for the new headquarters of Pango, a company synonymous with Israeli...
Oxide Computer...
A Tool for Discussion
At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design...
a year ago
At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design decisions. They document the processes, APIs, and tools that we use. The workflow for the RFD process is based upon those of the Golang proposal process, Joyent RFD process, Rust...
SatPost by Trung...
Beating the Auction Duopoly
Sotheby's and Christie's are a combined 538 years old. Can the 48-year old Heritage Auctions topple...
a year ago
Sotheby's and Christie's are a combined 538 years old. Can the 48-year old Heritage Auctions topple this duopoly?
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Five Things I Learned After I Left the Marketing Agency World
After about 8 years of working at advertising/marketing/design companies I hit a wall. I was...
over a year ago
After about 8 years of working at advertising/marketing/design companies I hit a wall. I was disappointed in the work I was doing. This is the story of why I became an in-house designer.
Noahpinion
Economic development is doing OK
Poor countries aren't catching up as fast as we'd like, but they're catching up faster than before.
a year ago
Poor countries aren't catching up as fast as we'd like, but they're catching up faster than before.
TheCollector
How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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4 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Winter Resorts and Activities in Central Minnesota
2 months ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 42
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Noahpinion
The danger of another American civil war is low
Re-upping some arguments I've made before.
a year ago
Re-upping some arguments I've made before.
Seth's Blog
Pleasant
We often use words like “beautiful” or “stunning” or “perfect” when we actually mean “popular” or...
a year ago
We often use words like “beautiful” or “stunning” or “perfect” when we actually mean “popular” or “pleasant.” Every day is beautiful in its own way. But the weather yesterday was pleasant. Hit songs are hits. But they’re rarely perfect. I’m a big fan of pleasant. And I often like...
Old Structures...
Structural Logic In An Older Form
From an 1880s building in Tribeca: the double beam supporting the front facade (sidewalk vault on...
5 months ago
From an 1880s building in Tribeca: the double beam supporting the front facade (sidewalk vault on the left, cellar on the right) where it meets the side wall at a pier. That’s a granite block directly below the beams, which can be a little hard to tell because of the paint on all...
IEEE Spectrum
Smellovision Gets a Refresh
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE...
a year ago
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.
Modern virtual reality is a feast for the eyes and ears—but coming in a distant fourth (behind haptic touch technologies), smell has been nearly completely ignored.
Earlier this...
diamond geezer
Open House (2)
Yesterday's Open House tally was six.
• The dazzling property where the volunteer arrived with a...
a year ago
Yesterday's Open House tally was six.
• The dazzling property where the volunteer arrived with a key one minute before the official opening time and asked if we wouldn't mind going somewhere else for quarter of an hour.
Let's do four of those in more detail (not necessarily...
TheCollector
How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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3 months ago
Blog - Amy Goodchild
What is Generative Art?
Randomness, rules and natural systems. Some non-restrictive definitions and
an exploration of the...
over a year ago
Randomness, rules and natural systems. Some non-restrictive definitions and
an exploration of the form.
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3
As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now...
a year ago
As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now everyone wants to see how Generative AI intersects with everything. The fits are not completely natural, as Generative AI like Chat GPT is more NLP type systems, but there are a...
TheCollector
Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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4 months ago
diamond geezer
Lambeth NEWS
Lambeth North
northernmost point in the borough of Lambeth. Which is here in the middle of Waterloo...
a year ago
Lambeth North
northernmost point in the borough of Lambeth. Which is here in the middle of Waterloo Bridge.
Officially it's quarter of a mile downstream in the middle of the River Thames, but you can't stand there. The furthest north you can go in Lambeth without resorting to...
Josh Thompson
Notes from 'Why We Sleep'
I first read Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams about two years ago. It...
over a year ago
I first read Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams about two years ago. It immediately led me to prioritize sleep over almost everything else.
Most of us don’t get enough sleep, and are worse for it. Usually when the topic of sleep comes up, I say
Hey, there’s...
Josh Thompson
The Housing Market Is Absolutely Insane: How To Fix It
I had a brief exchange with a good friend recently:
The housing market is indeed insane. This...
over a year ago
I had a brief exchange with a good friend recently:
The housing market is indeed insane. This problem that we’re both discussing is:
Unbelievable ($650,000 for a fixer upper)
Oppressive (“unjustly inflicting hardship and constraint, especially on a minority or other subordinate...
Maps Mania
The Worldwide Breaking News Map
7 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Pessimism in News Media Headlines
In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of...
a year ago
In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of American news media headlines between the years 2000 and 2019. Here, I extend that work by examining the attitudinal tone (pessimism, optimism or neutrality
ntietz.com blog
Throw away your first draft of your code
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then...
a year ago
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all.
Just throw it away.
I'm serious.
And you should probably have some of your best engineers doing this throwaway work.
It's going to save you time in the long run.
The...
Retail Design Blog
Stone Island store by OMA
There’s no denying that in recent years, Vienna has considerably amped up its allure as a shopping...
7 months ago
There’s no denying that in recent years, Vienna has considerably amped up its allure as a shopping destination, and the...
History Today Feed
What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
2 weeks ago
What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
NeuroLogica Blog
Are Electric Vehicles Worth It
One of the key components of the plan to get our civilization to net zero by 2050 is to transform...
a year ago
One of the key components of the plan to get our civilization to net zero by 2050 is to transform the motor vehicle fleet into all electric vehicles (EVs). This is a worthy goal, as it would eliminate burning gasoline for transportation. In fact it’s necessary if we want to get...
Both Are True
me saying the titular line in the film Holes (2003)
Many have asked to see the footage of my scene in Holes (2003) when I came out in the middle and...
4 months ago
Many have asked to see the footage of my scene in Holes (2003) when I came out in the middle and said "holes" - here it is
The Map is Mostly...
July 4, 2024
Happy Independence Day my dear American friends. We are very lucky to have this country. Let us...
6 months ago
Happy Independence Day my dear American friends. We are very lucky to have this country. Let us always be grateful for it. And let us always remember that good things are created not when people decide they have claims against an institution or a society, but when they have...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Owning equity in your company should be as common as owning equity in your home
What belongs in common to the most people is accorded the least care: they take thought for their...
over a year ago
What belongs in common to the most people is accorded the least care: they take thought for their own things above all, and less about…
Rest of World -...
How Prime Video failed so spectacularly in Africa
Filmmakers, critics, and users blame the platform’s struggle in Africa on poor user experience, a...
10 months ago
Filmmakers, critics, and users blame the platform’s struggle in Africa on poor user experience, a lack of local content, and mediocre publicity.
alexwlchan
Plates and states
I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child.
I...
5 months ago
I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child.
I was drawn to the license plates on passing cars, and how they look different to the cars I’m used to.
Whenever I visit new places, I enjoy looking for the tiny bits of infrastructure...
TheCollector
What Is First Thessalonians About?
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2 months ago
Society's Backend
Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option
Why everyone should learn about machine learning
a year ago
Why everyone should learn about machine learning
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
8 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
TheCollector
Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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5 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.20.0
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog...
over a year ago
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog…
Neil Madden
Making things
I made my daughter a toy tree house thing for Christmas out of old firewood (and a slice of cedar...
over a year ago
I made my daughter a toy tree house thing for Christmas out of old firewood (and a slice of cedar donated by a neighbour). It’s a bit clunky in places — “rustic” shall we say? But I probably enjoyed making this, over a few weeks of lunchtimes and evenings, more than anything I’ve...
TheCollector
The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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6 months ago
Seth's Blog
The commonweal
Thanks to everyone who has read, talked about and taken action around my new book, The Song of...
a year ago
Thanks to everyone who has read, talked about and taken action around my new book, The Song of Signficance. If you have a chance to post a review, that would be great. And you can find the podcasts here. The first step in making things better is talking about it.
Uncharted...
Where Geniuses Hide Today
Where are today’s Michelangelos?
a month ago
Where are today’s Michelangelos?
nanoscale views
Very brief end of the year round-up
It's hard to believe that it's already the end of 2023. It's been a busy year for condensed matter;...
a year ago
It's hard to believe that it's already the end of 2023. It's been a busy year for condensed matter; it's unfortunate that two of the biggest stories (problems with high pressure superconductivity papers; the brief excitement about LK99, the not-actually-a-superconductor) were...
A Smart Bear
When customers are "willing" to pay
This fresh take on "Willingness-to-Pay" analyzes three types of customer motivation, leading to...
a year ago
This fresh take on "Willingness-to-Pay" analyzes three types of customer motivation, leading to superior strategies for growth that also better the world.
ntietz.com blog
Impact of remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain
One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this...
a year ago
One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this morning:
Ooh, a high severity remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain?
On the one hand, I'm not entirely shocked that a framework that includes the ability to run LLM-generated code...
Home on Erik...
Running Theano on EC2
Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning...
over a year ago
Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning using Theano. Theano is this Python package that lets you define symbolic expressions (cool), does automatic differentiation (really cool), and compiles it down into bytecode to run...
TheCollector
6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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9 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Building an all-remote company from scratch
Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started...
over a year ago
Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started this way from scratch? PostHog has a team of 12, 1…
Melting Asphalt
A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
I've never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What's my purpose? or What...
over a year ago
I've never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What's my purpose? or What does it all mean? Growing up I was a very science-minded kid — still am — and from an early age I learned…
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The Modern House
Oscar Piccolo on the intriguing objects in his home in Hackney Wick
a year ago
Dominik Sobe's...
Feedback, acquisition offer and the journey to product-market fit
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Why African startups must invest in tech policy conversations
Oswald Osaretin Guobadia discusses the biggest challenge startups face when dealing with government...
a year ago
Oswald Osaretin Guobadia discusses the biggest challenge startups face when dealing with government policies and regulators.
Londonist
The London Marathon 2024: A Complete Guide To Watching And Taking Part
When, where, who and how of London's biggest run.
9 months ago
When, where, who and how of London's biggest run.
Strange Loop Canon
Symposium: On Building God
a year ago
TokyoDev
TokyoDev supports the legalization of same-sex marriage in Japan
Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect...
a month ago
Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect people I care about. So when I saw Business for Marriage Equality, a campaign that highlights 500+ companies and organizations that support legalization of same-sex marriage, I...
Sean Carroll
George B. Field, 1929-2024
George Field, brilliant theoretical astrophysicist and truly great human being, passed away on the...
5 months ago
George Field, brilliant theoretical astrophysicist and truly great human being, passed away on the morning of July 31. He was my Ph.D. thesis advisor and one of my favorite people in the world. I often tell my own students that the two most important people in your life who you...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Uneven, Irregular, and Multiform Movement'
“There are
readers—and I am one of them—whose reading is rather like a series...
3 months ago
“There are
readers—and I am one of them—whose reading is rather like a series of
intoxications.”
Driving while
reading is discouraged. Once, in Bellevue, Wash., while stopped at a red light,
I was intoxicated by the book propped against the wheel until a cop pulled up, rolled...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Doom Loop Triggers
Today I want to talk about the difference between unproductive mopes and highly successful people....
over a year ago
Today I want to talk about the difference between unproductive mopes and highly successful people. Imagine a spectrum with prolific artists at the top and ineffective slugs at the bottom.
Open Culture
Is Andrew Huberman Ruining Your Morning Coffee Routine?
Andrew Huberman–the host of the influential Huberman Lab podcast–has gotten a lot of mileage out of...
4 months ago
Andrew Huberman–the host of the influential Huberman Lab podcast–has gotten a lot of mileage out of his recommended morning routine. His routine emphasizes the importance of getting sunlight within 30–60 minutes of waking; also engaging in light physical activity; hydrating well;...
Epic Web Dev
The Web’s Next Transition
Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a...
over a year ago
Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a new and improved architecture for building web applications.
journal – Winnie Lim
chronic unease
Some people are good at denial, forgetting, and moving on. I am good at none of those. I accumulate...
a year ago
Some people are good at denial, forgetting, and moving on. I am good at none of those. I accumulate trauma, remember them deeply like they are etched into my bones helpless as...
TheCollector
J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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5 months ago
Londonist
300 Of Elton John's Photos Go On Display At V&A This Summer
Marilyn Monroe, the AIDS crisis and 9/11 feature.
10 months ago
Marilyn Monroe, the AIDS crisis and 9/11 feature.
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 11-17 March 2024
Things to do for under a fiver.
10 months ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Diaries of Note
It’s almost impossible to know what to say
In 1990, the Royal National Theatre embarked on an ambitious international tour featuring two...
a year ago
In 1990, the Royal National Theatre embarked on an ambitious international tour featuring two towering Shakespearean plays, King Lear and Richard III, with groundbreaking lead performances from Brian Cox and Ian McKellen, respectively. Their first destination beyond the UK was...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 5: motor/tachometers
The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC) is an electromechanical analog computer that uses
gears...
11 months ago
The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC) is an electromechanical analog computer that uses
gears and cams for its mathematics. It was a key part of military planes such as the F-101 and the F-111 fighters,
computing
airspeed, Mach number, and other "air data".
The rotating...
Journal and Links by...
🔗 Transitioning from the Attention Era to the Automation Era
This new era – the Automation Era – is marked by platforms managing the content and connections for...
2 months ago
This new era – the Automation Era – is marked by platforms managing the content and connections for you, so you can spend your attention elsewhere.
Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
Louwrentius
Benefits of hyper-threading on a Core 7i processor
I had some wave files that I wanted to encode to mp3. I wrote a small parallel
processing framework...
over a year ago
I had some wave files that I wanted to encode to mp3. I wrote a small parallel
processing framework for this job. It executes parallel jobs so I can benefit
from the 4 cores + 4 virtual cores of my new Core 7i 920 processor.
The framework is based on some shell scripts running...
High Signal
Living the digital nomad dream in Bangkok
Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle...
a week ago
Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle at a fraction of the price back in the US. I chatted to him about growing his DropInBlog business into a SaaS success story.
Why did you become a founder?
My brain doesn&
The DESK Magazine
How to build your secret repertoire
As a creative, your repertoire is your secret weapon.
6 months ago
As a creative, your repertoire is your secret weapon.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Algorithm
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
You are what we call a discontinuity at...
7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
You are what we call a discontinuity at zero.
Today's News:
Blog - Practical...
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 3
This is the third episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's...
a year ago
This is the third episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
TheCollector
Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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2 months ago
Retail Design Blog
VARIO Shanghai Flagship Store by Yuan Shi Design
Shanghai-based custom home brand VARIO embraces its brand philosophy of “Haipai Elegance,” with a...
a month ago
Shanghai-based custom home brand VARIO embraces its brand philosophy of “Haipai Elegance,” with a focus on Haipai culture. By blending...
Retail Design Blog
NUNU Hamburger
NUNU Hamburger is a new restaurant by chef Yuriy Nikityuk, the founder of the NUNU street food...
5 days ago
NUNU Hamburger is a new restaurant by chef Yuriy Nikityuk, the founder of the NUNU street food chain. Following our...
Retail Design Blog
MAIF
With branding and design agency Lonsdale’s help, MAIF is defining a new customer experience, with an...
9 months ago
With branding and design agency Lonsdale’s help, MAIF is defining a new customer experience, with an agile concept, aimed at...
TheCollector
Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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a month ago
Josh Thompson
Limitations of My Own Thinking
I sometimes make recommendations, or at least recount a story that has “actionable insights”....
over a year ago
I sometimes make recommendations, or at least recount a story that has “actionable insights”. Anytime this happens, I start tripping over myself with warnings and qualifying statements.
Here’s what would happen:
I would make a recommendation (“start a side project to help get a...
The Turn Signal RSS...
Is Voice Interaction a Solution to Driver Distraction?
In the '90s, the average new car came with simple climate controls, a radio, and a CD player. That...
over a year ago
In the '90s, the average new car came with simple climate controls, a radio, and a CD player. That is very different from a new car today…
Seth's Blog
Digital prepwork
It’s so tempting to simply begin painting a wall. After all, it’s pretty easy to lay down paint. But...
a year ago
It’s so tempting to simply begin painting a wall. After all, it’s pretty easy to lay down paint. But it turns out that masking and dropcloths, painstakingly put into place, save many hours compared to cleaning up a mess afterward. The same is true for what happens when we have a...
Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
2 months ago
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Strength: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases
Previous Next https://youtu.be/ELM6pYo76DQ For Stoics of antiquity, the most admirable and important...
a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/ELM6pYo76DQ For Stoics of antiquity, the most admirable and important kind of strength was the type that came from an inner fortitude that was nurtured with discipline and devotion to philosophy. The most difficult trials of our lives come not from...
Map of the Week
Make the Desert Bloom
Tomas Pueyo has an idea to help combat global warming and rising seas. His idea is to create new...
a year ago
Tomas Pueyo has an idea to help combat global warming and rising seas. His idea is to create new seas by flooding several below sea level basins, such as the Dead Sea or Death Valley with seawater to create or enlarge inland seas. Here is an image from his Substack pages showing...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Some ways to use ZK-SNARKs for privacy
over a year ago
Cremieux Recueil
Eliminating Distractions in Longevity Research
Longevity maximizers should invest in biotechnology, not modifiable lifestyle factors
3 months ago
Longevity maximizers should invest in biotechnology, not modifiable lifestyle factors
TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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a month ago
ribbonfarm
Decision Brownouts
In thinking about decision-making under stress, most people focus on fight-or-flight responses. Both...
8 months ago
In thinking about decision-making under stress, most people focus on fight-or-flight responses. Both fighting and fleeing are obvious courses of action that inherit a clear sense of direction from the characteristics of the threat itself, and are energized by the automatic...
CONTEMPORIST
A Laneway House With A Rotated Brick Facade
Architecture firm Williamson Williamson has shared photos of a laneway home they completed in...
7 months ago
Architecture firm Williamson Williamson has shared photos of a laneway home they completed in Toronto, Canada, that features a distinct rotated brick facade. Usually, laneway houses are small, however, this one is a four-bedroom home, designed for a family of five, providing...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Am Thinking This May Be My Last Summer'
I never
encountered the name Keith Douglas in school. We knew some of the English poets
of the first...
7 months ago
I never
encountered the name Keith Douglas in school. We knew some of the English poets
of the first war – Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon – but the
second seemed a blank. On my own, I learned of the Americans – Karl Shapiro,
Anthony Hecht, Howard Nemerov. Only...
Retail Design Blog
Matsumoto City Museum by KUME SEKKEI Co.
The project is to move and rebuild the city museum of Matsumoto from within the historical site of...
6 months ago
The project is to move and rebuild the city museum of Matsumoto from within the historical site of Matsumoto Castle...
IEEE Spectrum
RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV
addressed a small crowd outside the RCA pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. “Today we are on the...
a year ago
addressed a small crowd outside the RCA pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. “Today we are on the eve of launching a new industry, based on imagination, on scientific research and accomplishment,” he proclaimed. That industry was television.
RCA president David Sarnoff’s...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#40)
Europe's Greens; jobs and the Great Replacement; tariffs and development; rent control; service...
7 months ago
Europe's Greens; jobs and the Great Replacement; tariffs and development; rent control; service costs
Moneyness
China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia
I recently shared a chart on Twitter showing Chinese exports of ball bearings to Russia. Here it...
5 months ago
I recently shared a chart on Twitter showing Chinese exports of ball bearings to Russia. Here it is:
Having accelerated after Putin's invasion of Ukraine to a run-rate of around US$5-7 million per month in 2023, Chinese ball bearing exports to Russia have been ratcheted down...
The Honest Broker
My Search for Hidden Meanings in Beatles Songs
Before the Internet, we often had no idea what hit songs were about
a month ago
Before the Internet, we often had no idea what hit songs were about
Epic Web Dev
What Is A Test Boundary? (article)
Learn automated testing essentials: prepare code, execute actions, verify outcomes. Discover the...
7 months ago
Learn automated testing essentials: prepare code, execute actions, verify outcomes. Discover the importance of mocking and setting proper test boundaries.
Seth's Blog
Jargon comes and goes
Forty years ago in engineering class, it wasn’t unusual to talk about GIGO or FUBAR. These weren’t...
a year ago
Forty years ago in engineering class, it wasn’t unusual to talk about GIGO or FUBAR. These weren’t technical terms, they were mild complaints that signaled insider status and cultural cohesion. In a closed profession, like airplane pilots, the insider jargon lasts for...
TheCollector
L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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5 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sit Down
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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I do check to see what became of the PLiF guys every six months or so.
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Patrick Kayongo
The vastness of the ocean
The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl...
11 months ago
The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl of the breezehas nowhere to go. The pages of a bookcan’t fit in my phone.The texture of the pagesthe scent of the pressthe uncontested immersionhas nowhere to go. The tapestry of...
CONTEMPORIST
A Sheltered Space Beneath The Sloping Roof Of This Home Makes Space For A Hot Tub
Batay-Csorba Architects has designed a home in Toronto, Canada, that takes advantage of the small...
a year ago
Batay-Csorba Architects has designed a home in Toronto, Canada, that takes advantage of the small 65’x20’ pie-shaped corner lot, and includes a sheltered outdoor balcony. The sloping roof partially covers the balcony, with an opening above the Japanese soaking tub. The home’s...
Math Is Still...
Tiny Jets on the Sun Power the Colossal Solar Wind
A new analysis argues that ubiquitous eruptions in the sun’s corona explain the vast flow of charged...
a year ago
A new analysis argues that ubiquitous eruptions in the sun’s corona explain the vast flow of charged particles seen streaming out through the solar system.
The post Tiny Jets on the Sun Power the Colossal Solar Wind first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Modern House
How David Roy and Angel Perez carve out space for playtime and parties in their flexible Hackney...
a year ago
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What if your Index Page was Smart?
Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
over a year ago
Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
Classical Wisdom
Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
6 months ago
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
Notes on software...
Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker
In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker
running some custom rules...
over a year ago
In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker
running some custom rules against our code.
Existing linters
Linters like pylint for Python or
eslint for JavaScript are great for general,
broad language standards. But what about common nits in code review
like...
elementary Blog
New features and settings, improved performance, and fewer bugs
This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and...
a year ago
This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and even some performance improvements.
Mail
The headliner this month is Mail which does a better job handling newly added online accounts and includes fixes for a couple of potential...
The Marginalian
Grace Paley on the Countercultural Courage of Imagining Other Lives
“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real,” Iris...
5 months ago
“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real,” Iris Murdoch wrote in her superb investigation of the parallels between art and morality. There could be no such realization without imagination, which is our only instrument for fathoming...
CONTEMPORIST
This Kitchen Island Was Designed With Built-In Seating
C. Kairouz Architects has shared photos of a renovation and extension project they designed for a...
a year ago
C. Kairouz Architects has shared photos of a renovation and extension project they designed for a home in Melbourne, Australia. One of the design details in the new extension is the kitchen island that doubles as seating for the dining area. The design of the kitchen island has a...
David Heinemeier...
MEGA
Trump is back at the helm of the United States, and the majority of Americans are optimistic about...
16 hours ago
Trump is back at the helm of the United States, and the majority of Americans are optimistic about the prospect. Especially the young. In a poll by CBS News, it's the 18-29 demographic that's most excited, with a whopping two-thirds answering in the affirmative to being...
IEEE Spectrum
It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots
large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity, leading a number of companies to explore...
2 months ago
large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity, leading a number of companies to explore LLM-driven robots. However, a new study now reveals an automated way to hack into such machines with 100 percent success. By circumventing safety guardrails, researchers could...
This Space
A rare sort of writer
Today is Gabriel Josipovici's 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, I'll link to various posts I've...
over a year ago
Today is Gabriel Josipovici's 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, I'll link to various posts I've written over the years – after a brief interlude.
I read him first in July 1988 after borrowing The Lessons of Modernism from the second floor of Portsmouth Central Library because...
Open Culture
Stephen Fry Explains Why Artificial Intelligence Has a “70% Risk of Killing Us All”
Apart from his comedic, dramatic, and literary endeavors, Stephen Fry is widely known for his avowed...
5 months ago
Apart from his comedic, dramatic, and literary endeavors, Stephen Fry is widely known for his avowed technophilia. He once wrote a column on that theme, “Dork Talk,” for the Guardian, in whose inaugural dispatch he laid out his credentials by claiming to have been the owner of...
Commoncog
An Expertise Acceleration Experiment in Judo
I relocated for a three month expertise acceleration experiment in Judo. These are my notes from two...
a year ago
I relocated for a three month expertise acceleration experiment in Judo. These are my notes from two months in: what I learnt, what was hard, and what deliberate practice actually feels like.
Business Brainstorms
Podcast translations, Apple opportunity, being unreasonable, don't hire corporate executives, the...
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “When the Apple VR headset drops tomorrow, every social...
Noahpinion
Here...comes...INDIA!!!
The world has a new largest country, and it's on the move.
a year ago
The world has a new largest country, and it's on the move.
Common Edge
Bill McKibben on COP28, Maintaining Hope, and Walking in the Woods
The activist and author offers some perspective on the recently concluded UN Climate summit.
a year ago
The activist and author offers some perspective on the recently concluded UN Climate summit.
UX Collective
Meta: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a week ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
TheCollector
Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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5 months ago
A Smart Bear
You're a little company, now act like one
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the...
3 months ago
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
Handprinted - Blog
Fabric Painting - which fabric paint is right for my project?
When it comes to painting onto fabric, there are a few differences to consider. Does the paint need...
7 months ago
When it comes to painting onto fabric, there are a few differences to consider. Does the paint need to be opaque? Can it be diluted? Would you like metallics? Aimee has tested three different fabric paints: Jacquard Textile Colour, Lumiere Metallic Paint and Handprinted Fabric...
The Marginalian
The Secret Life of Chocolate: Oliver Sacks on the Cultural and Natural History of Cacao
Without chocolate, life would be a mistake — not a paraphrasing of Nietzsche he would have easily...
11 months ago
Without chocolate, life would be a mistake — not a paraphrasing of Nietzsche he would have easily envisioned, for he was a toddler in Germany when a British chocolatier created the first modern version of what we now think of as chocolate: a paste of sugar, chocolate liquor, and...
nanoscale views
Molecular electronics in 2023
This past week I was fortunate to attend this meeting, the most recent in an every-few-years series...
a year ago
This past week I was fortunate to attend this meeting, the most recent in an every-few-years series that brings together a group of researchers interested in electronic transport in molecular systems. This brings together physicists and chemists, and this was the first one I've...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Arc
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We need an arc of History that smashes BOOM right...
6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
We need an arc of History that smashes BOOM right into Justice.
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Roberto Vitillo's...
What every developer should know about TCP
Why do you need to place your servers geographically close to your users? One of the reasons is to...
over a year ago
Why do you need to place your servers geographically close to your users? One of the reasons is to achieve lower latencies. That makes a lot…
The Marginalian
You and the Universe: N.J. Berrill’s Poetic 1958 Masterpiece of Cosmic Perspective
"The universe is as we find it and as we discover it within ourselves."
4 months ago
"The universe is as we find it and as we discover it within ourselves."
Uncharted...
How to Beat Cancer with Viruses: An Interview with Beata Halassy
How viruses kill cancers, which viruses to use, how many injections, at what stage of the cancer,...
3 months ago
How viruses kill cancers, which viruses to use, how many injections, at what stage of the cancer, and much more
Wait But Why
All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro
Welcome to the 2030s.
The post All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro appeared first on...
11 months ago
Welcome to the 2030s.
The post All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro appeared first on Wait But Why.
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-28
After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for...
over a year ago
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-28
After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it.
Keeping Things...
Rest of World -...
How to become an #Influencer in India
Many middle-class Indians aspire to be the next Kusha Kapila or Ranveer Allahbadia. But there’s a...
a year ago
Many middle-class Indians aspire to be the next Kusha Kapila or Ranveer Allahbadia. But there’s a real struggle to monetize from Instagram.
Elad Blog
Capital Efficient Businesses
Many of the biggest companies in the world started off as capital efficient businesses. We discuss.
a year ago
Many of the biggest companies in the world started off as capital efficient businesses. We discuss.
Notes on software...
Reviewing the Surface Book 2
The first few paragraphs cover what I was looking for and what I
considered. Then the review.
Why...
over a year ago
The first few paragraphs cover what I was looking for and what I
considered. Then the review.
Why the Surface Book 2
I used a Macbook throughout my professional career until I had the
choice a few years ago when I started my current job. Here, I ran
Gentoo, then FreeBSD, then...
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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2 months ago
brr
McMurdo Postal Mail
How to mail things to and from Antarctica!
over a year ago
How to mail things to and from Antarctica!
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap, June 2021 (Almost Post-Pandemic Edition)
I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the...
over a year ago
I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the last 8 months the number of tech startups worth $1B or more ("unicorns") has grown by 43% from 487 Unicorns to 701. This is almost double the 361 unicorns in June 2019
Birchtree
Comfort Zone predicts tech in 2025
In this very special episode, the gang makes their "Pro" and "Pro Max" predictions for tech in 2025...
4 days ago
In this very special episode, the gang makes their "Pro" and "Pro Max" predictions for tech in 2025 and oh my, does it get wild! Who's best clued into the tech coming this year? Who is just wish-casting their way to third place? This
One from Nippon
A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs
Editor’s Note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a...
a year ago
Editor’s Note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a three-part article.
We thank our avid reader “S” who suggested this topic and graciously helped with our research.
Could a nation’s bathing culture be influenced by
Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
11 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
Maps Mania
The Best Graphics Team in the World
5 months ago
TheCollector
Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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a year ago
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
10 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2022
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years...
over a year ago
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years straight (see main [2019 list](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts), then my [2020](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2020) and [2021](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2021) diffs),...
The Rational Walk
The Berkshire Hathaway Playbook
Competition tends to eliminate high profits resulting from business models that have worked...
11 months ago
Competition tends to eliminate high profits resulting from business models that have worked spectacularly well. Will Berkshire's playbook continue to perform well in the future?
Light from Space
Bubble Nebula and Neighborhood
The constellation of Cassiopeia is full of rich gas clouds and a myriad of different Nebulas and...
over a year ago
The constellation of Cassiopeia is full of rich gas clouds and a myriad of different Nebulas and Star Clusters.
Click or tap to enlarge/double-tap to zoom
Total exposure time: 37h 20m (134,400s)
Image resolution: 4,784 × 6,840px (1.919″/px)
Shot from my driveway near
History Today Feed
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
Max Countryman
Taming AWS Costs
AWS costs are tricky: they can grow in seemingly unbounded ways and often represent significant...
a year ago
AWS costs are tricky: they can grow in seemingly unbounded ways and often represent significant portions of our engineering budgets. However there are techniques we can use to get them under control and even reduce overall spend significantly.
SatPost by Trung...
Psychology of Apple Packaging
Steve Jobs and Jony Ive prioritized packaging, which they said could be "theatre".
12 months ago
Steve Jobs and Jony Ive prioritized packaging, which they said could be "theatre".
Cheese and Biscuits
The Union, Rye
Over the last, I don't know, ten or fifteen or so years - certainly since the expansion of the St...
over a year ago
Over the last, I don't know, ten or fifteen or so years - certainly since the expansion of the St John universe but also since places like Lyle's and the Sportsman and the Draper's Arms spread their wings - a kind of consensus has appeared on what constitutes a Modern British...
Marco.org
The Overcast Redesign: Part One
Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus...
over a year ago
Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. I’m pretty proud of this one.
For this first and largest phase of the redesign, I focused...
Rest of World -...
The most surprising tech champions of 2024
From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions...
a month ago
From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions stood out for their impressive growth this year.
Joel Gascoigne's...
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer
Note: this was originally posted on the...
over a year ago
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
I’m happy to share that we’ve established a long-term goal that salaries at Buffer will not be based on location. We made our first step towards this last year, when we...
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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a year ago
The Marginalian
Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism
"Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so."
a year ago
"Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so."
David Heinemeier...
What you know that just ain't so
The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower...
2 months ago
The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower or leave it alone? Should we chase these customers over here or those customers over there? Should we add more features or polish the ones we have? There's endless variation in...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Philip K. Dick paperback covers (Panther Science Fiction)
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citizen3xx24j....
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...
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #04: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [EPISODE]
This is the fourth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
9 months ago
This is the fourth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the U.S. representative for New York’s 14th...
Math Is Still...
Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.
Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages...
a week ago
Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn.
The post Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way....
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Distraction-free writing: a failed experiment
This 2000-era word processor is the ultimate distraction-free writing
device.
Maybe that’s why I...
a year ago
This 2000-era word processor is the ultimate distraction-free writing
device.
Maybe that’s why I never use it.
AlphaSmart3000 in its Bondi-blue
glory
Before the term “distraction-free” made sense, there was AlphaSmart.
Oozing with early-aughts Apple aesthetics, the...
Seeking Wisdom
Few thoughts on Learning
I was learning how to program during the mid to late 90s. Finding learning material in a world...
a year ago
I was learning how to program during the mid to late 90s. Finding learning material in a world without the Internet, Google, and YouTube was incredibly challenging. I struggled to understand how pointers in C worked. Yashavant Kanetkar’s Understanding Pointers in C book helped me...
TheCollector
Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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6 months ago
Seth's Blog
The social media lottery
Someone is going to end up with 10,000,000 followers. Someone is going to post the next viral...
a year ago
Someone is going to end up with 10,000,000 followers. Someone is going to post the next viral TikTok. Someone is going to build a meme that spreads around the world. But it probably won’t be me and it probably won’t be you. Buying lottery tickets might be fun, but they’re a lousy...
ntietz.com blog
I'm scared, and hopeful, and you can help
Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event.
It's my first time flying since 2018, and...
a year ago
Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event.
It's my first time flying since 2018, and I'm excited to meet all my coworkers in person.
The travel is, on whole, going to be a good experience.
But there is a lot surrounding the travel that is stressful and scary.
I'm...
Platformer
How Google taught AI to doubt itself
Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search?
a year ago
Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search?
Joel Gascoigne
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team.
We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
6 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Quantified Self Destruction
It won't be long until we are surrounded by sensors that collect nearly infinite data, computers...
over a year ago
It won't be long until we are surrounded by sensors that collect nearly infinite data, computers that purify it to maximum potency, and invisible devices that pump the data into your brain.
Matt Blewitt
Software Sprezzatura
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says...
over a year ago
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”, coined by Castiglione in 1528’s The Book of the Courtier.
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Dec. 21 is Winter Solstice — Why We Have Seasons on Earth
Saturday, Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year, with...
a month ago
Saturday, Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year, with which we mark the beginning of the winter season in the Earth’s northern hemisphere. It’s interesting to note that the planets Venus and Jupiter do not have seasons like the...
The Codist
Learn Something New Every Day
You can't stay relevant for over 40 years without learning new things.
In my first job in the early...
a year ago
You can't stay relevant for over 40 years without learning new things.
In my first job in the early 80s, learning new things was a fundamental requirement to being a programmer—almost everything you did was new, both to you and often to everyone else. I started
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 events all teams should track with PostHog
It can be tricky to know which events you should start tracking first if you haven’t used product...
over a year ago
It can be tricky to know which events you should start tracking first if you haven’t used product analytics before. That’s why we recommend using…
Daniel Miessler
My Prediction For Twitter
I’m a bit Elon and Twittered out, but I want to capture a basic prediction about all the...
over a year ago
I’m a bit Elon and Twittered out, but I want to capture a basic prediction about all the shenanigans. As for my take on things, I will just say that Elon miscalculated a number of things in his handling of the transition. I think he thought his actions would be better received....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Routing
How the Internet cobbles together thousands of Autonomous Systems with the Border Gateway Protocol
over a year ago
How the Internet cobbles together thousands of Autonomous Systems with the Border Gateway Protocol
alexwlchan
Taking regular screenshots of my website
A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks...
9 months ago
A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks associated with their long-term preservation.
What formats need urgent attention before they’re lost forever, what mediums are already being well-preserved, and so on.
For example,...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Jackson Pollock Found in Dumpster
The world was beautiful before, back in my dumpster diving days. I remember standing knee-deep in...
over a year ago
The world was beautiful before, back in my dumpster diving days. I remember standing knee-deep in garbage in an alley behind a grocery store. There, splattered on the side of a dumpster was a Jackson Pollock.
Grow With Less
Is Your Article's Date Destroying Your Rankings?
Having a recent date associated with your article could be the difference between a page 1 ranking...
over a year ago
Having a recent date associated with your article could be the difference between a page 1 ranking and a page 5 ranking.
This means that you should not only keep your content up-to-date but also make sure that Google knows it’s up-to-date.
This article will show you how to find...
History Today Feed
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
11 months ago
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
Tinloof - Blog
Text with media background: practical solutions
Text over images or videos is common on websites, and when not done right, it can make the text hard...
a year ago
Text over images or videos is common on websites, and when not done right, it can make the text hard to read and cause accessibility and usability issues. Designers might not catch these problems early on because they use ideal settings to test designs.
The real problems show up...
NeuroLogica Blog
A Climate Debate Regarding Health Effects – Part I
This is the first entry in an exchange between me and Scott Hastings, who requested the exchange....
a year ago
This is the first entry in an exchange between me and Scott Hastings, who requested the exchange. This is his opening arguments. My response will be tomorrow’s post. Part I: Hi Steven, first of all, I am tremendously grateful to you for taking time to engage with me on this...
Rozado’s Visual...
Excess mortality during COVID pandemic, % of population vaccinated and Stringency Index of...
Please be mindful of potential confounds: population density, population behavior, virus virulence...
over a year ago
Please be mindful of potential confounds: population density, population behavior, virus virulence drift, herd immunity, etc.
Notes on software...
Interview With Phil of DataStation
This is an external interview. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
This is an external interview. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
On the Arts
What does Wabi-Sabi really mean?
Explaining an often misunderstood idea in Japanese aesthetics.
a year ago
Explaining an often misunderstood idea in Japanese aesthetics.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
5 months ago
Golden Age of Latin Literature
Jonas Hietala
HandCash handles require trust and are insecure
The HandCash wallet has recently become a popular Bitcoin Cash wallet in large part thanks to their...
over a year ago
The HandCash wallet has recently become a popular Bitcoin Cash wallet in large part thanks to their $handle concept. It’s basically a username you use instead of the normal Bitcoin Cash address, similar to how domain names abstract away IP addresses. For example instead of...
Londonist
Hammersmith Bridge Is Reopening To Cyclists... But Only For 10 Weeks
And it's got something to do with West Ham fans.
11 months ago
And it's got something to do with West Ham fans.
TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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3 months ago
Math Is Still...
Vacuum of Space to Decay Sooner Than Expected (but Still Not Soon)
One of the quantum fields that fills the universe is special because its default value seems poised...
6 months ago
One of the quantum fields that fills the universe is special because its default value seems poised to eventually change, changing everything.
The post Vacuum of Space to Decay Sooner Than Expected (but Still Not Soon) first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Map is Mostly...
Why Buy a House (or Land)?
A lesson in ignoring economics
9 months ago
A lesson in ignoring economics
Commoncog
The Secret at the Heart of Continuous Improvement
Continuous Improvement sounds simple, even obvious. And yet there's a profound secret at its heart...
9 months ago
Continuous Improvement sounds simple, even obvious. And yet there's a profound secret at its heart that doesn't seem to get talked about.
History Today Feed
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
Ralph Ammer
The perfect drawing tool
The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. ...
a year ago
The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. I want every single pen, every brush, every quill, and a sheet of every paper, ranging from crude cardboard to magnificent handcrafted Japanese washi. And yes, I need papyrus. And...
Wanderingspace
Triton Image from Voyager Colored
Nice update to an old Voyager image with colors added based on actual colors captured in other...
over a year ago
Nice update to an old Voyager image with colors added based on actual colors captured in other images. See original post here by Jason Major.
Maggie Appleton
Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse
8 months ago
Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse
IEEE Spectrum
The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet
CES) and the Game Developers Conference have become regular features of the digital world.
ARPANET...
a year ago
CES) and the Game Developers Conference have become regular features of the digital world.
ARPANET in 1972, or the mid-1980s conferences now known as Interop, alerted experts to new technologies, and, in some cases, altered the balance between competing approaches.
Packet...
Frank’s Ramblings
Vision Transformers are Overrated
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
a year ago
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious upside: in a visual recognition setting, the receptive field of a pure ViT is effectively the entire image 1. In particular, vanilla ViTs maintain the quadratic time complexity...
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The McClusky Curve - Viral vs Evergreen Content
An insightful discussion on how to trade off aiming for viral or permanent posts.
over a year ago
An insightful discussion on how to trade off aiming for viral or permanent posts.
Adventures In...
Layout sandwich
Here’s how to make an ArcGIS Pro layout where certain elements of the map step over the neatline and...
a year ago
Here’s how to make an ArcGIS Pro layout where certain elements of the map step over the neatline and the graticule is relegated only to the oceans. Because that looks cool! Mapping has a long and handsome history of neatlines that are interrupted by bits of land spilling over it,...
The Modern House
Getting the most out of the least in a peaceful, strokable flat in north London
6 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Doing some online Personality tests
For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own...
over a year ago
For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own curiosity.
The Braverman Test
Inspired by Charles Poliquin’s visit on The Tim Ferriss Show I tried out the Braverman test to determine my neurotransmitter type. The point Charles...
David Heinemeier...
You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories:...
a year ago
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories: competency or engagement. If it's a problem with engagement – their style of collaboration, their communication, their approach – there's a good chance you can fix it with some...
diamond geezer
Walking With The Snowman
"Have you done the snowman sculpture trail yet?" my brother asked. He does like a good thematic...
a year ago
"Have you done the snowman sculpture trail yet?" my brother asked. He does like a good thematic painted fibreglass orienteering gadabout.
Walking With The Snowman and is spread across part of the City between Chancery Lane and St Paul's. There are a dozen snowmen altogether, and...
Arduino Blog
This Arduino-controlled Spin Meister helps spin up the perfect pizza
Dedicated pizza ovens are all the rage right now, as they provide a better-distributed and higher...
6 months ago
Dedicated pizza ovens are all the rage right now, as they provide a better-distributed and higher heat that many find more preferable than a conventional kitchen oven. But even a nice gas-powered pizza oven like the Ooni Koda 12 will have some hot spots and cold spots. To get an...
TheCollector
Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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9 months ago
The Modern House
Good Fellow: Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill join the RIBA as Honorary Fellows
a year ago
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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3 months ago
AVC
The 83b Election
First and foremost, this is not tax advice. I am not a tax advisor and you should never take...
a year ago
First and foremost, this is not tax advice. I am not a tax advisor and you should never take anything you read here as tax advice. If you read something here that makes you think you should take some tax-related action, please always consult your tax advisor. With that disclosure...
The American Scholar
Anchoring Shards of Memory
We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
The post Anchoring Shards of...
4 months ago
We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
The post Anchoring Shards of Memory appeared first on The American Scholar.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
“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...
over a year ago
“Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the next big thing — to listen for the…
diamond geezer
Fenchurch Street
FENCHURCH
STREET
STATION
🚂
£200
London's Monopoly Streets
FENCHURCH STREET STATION
Group:...
5 months ago
FENCHURCH
STREET
STATION
🚂
£200
London's Monopoly Streets
FENCHURCH STREET STATION
Group: British Railways
Purchase price: £200
Rent: £25
Annual passengers: 10 million
Borough: City of London
Postcode: EC3
Fenchurch Street was between 1923 and 1948. It's a small and mostly...
Sam Altman
The Strength of Being Misunderstood
A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and...
over a year ago
A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question.
Almost everyone cares what someone thinks (though caring what everyone thinks is definitely a mistake), and it's...
Noahpinion
EVs are just going to win
Because they're a superior technology, and superior technologies win.
3 months ago
Because they're a superior technology, and superior technologies win.
Old Structures...
A Very Specific Moment
I wrote before about the destruction of St. John’s Park, but I had not seen the photo below. The...
11 months ago
I wrote before about the destruction of St. John’s Park, but I had not seen the photo below. The photo shows St. John’s Chapel, an out-chapel of Trinity Church, which was constructed in 1807 and which eventually gave the park its name. This was originally an almost suburban...
A Beautiful Site
Is it possible to be an introverted entrepreneur?
A tweet by Remy Sharp sparked my thoughts about being an introvert and starting a company. I don't...
over a year ago
A tweet by Remy Sharp sparked my thoughts about being an introvert and starting a company. I don't hate human beings, but I do tend to keep to myself. How has this impacted my ability to run a successful business?
Launching a product is hard #
If you don't have a good network,...
Maps Mania
Mapping the Political Landscape
3 months ago
Posts on Made of...
6.170, CVS, and SVN
I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but...
over a year ago
I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but one of the most egregious, in my opinion, is that they force you to use CVS for your version control. Problem sets are distributed by the TAs importing them into your repository, and...
Math Is Still...
An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated
The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that...
a year ago
The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been disproved, the universe of shapes has exploded.
The post An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated first appeared on Quanta Magazine
blag
Recurse Center Day 5: Garbage Collection Algorithms
Learning the basics of GC, mark-sweep algorithm
over a year ago
Learning the basics of GC, mark-sweep algorithm
The American Scholar
“Stick the Landing” by David Gewanter
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Stick the Landing” by David Gewanter appeared first on The...
5 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Stick the Landing” by David Gewanter appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Every Public Engineering Career Ladder
A list of the public engineering career ladders I've found
over a year ago
A list of the public engineering career ladders I've found
abdz.do - Have you...
Digitalized - futuristic illustrations
Digitalized - futuristic illustrations
abduzeedo0216—23
We have...
a year ago
Digitalized - futuristic illustrations
abduzeedo0216—23
We have posted projects from RETOKA, but we’re always amazed with the work they produce, exploring where digital art meets futuristic design! This innovative studio has recently unveiled a...
Maggie Appleton
How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?
Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
over a year ago
Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
Josh Thompson
Full Copy of 'The Atlanta Zone Plan' from 1922
A Warning and a Request
In a moment, you will read the full text of a 1922 marketing pamphlet. This...
over a year ago
A Warning and a Request
In a moment, you will read the full text of a 1922 marketing pamphlet. This document is an important thread to understanding some very large political problems facing the world today, specifically housing, affordability, the growing wealth gap, and...
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
3 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
diamond geezer
Random Bexley Footpath
I worry sometimes that my content isn't niche enough. Things to do in Wood End. Roadworks at the Bow...
3 months ago
I worry sometimes that my content isn't niche enough. Things to do in Wood End. Roadworks at the Bow Roundabout. A walk along the Burnt Oak Brook. So today I'm going all-out niche in an attempt to dampen interest even further. Welcome to Random Bexley Footpath.
All Outer London...
blag
Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase
I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
11 months ago
I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
TheCollector
What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eternal shell history 🐢
XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5)
Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded...
11 months ago
XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5)
Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded ¾ million commands in my bash
history:
$ wc -l < ~/.muh_history
763075
My history accounts for every shell command I’ve run since 2016—all
saved in a 102MB file: ~/.muh_history.
$...
Seth's Blog
The cheap chocolate system
The first step in building a successful and elegant strategy is to see the systems that are part of...
3 months ago
The first step in building a successful and elegant strategy is to see the systems that are part of our lives. October is a fine month to take a moment to look closely at one: the system that brings us cheap chocolate. Like most systems, it’s largely invisible. The people in it...
The Modern House
An apartment with star quality in a converted recording studio in west London
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
The Color And Material Palette Of This New Home Allows It To Blend Into The Desert Setting
Multidisciplinary creative studio mxtad has designed a home in Mexico, with a natural and earthy...
a year ago
Multidisciplinary creative studio mxtad has designed a home in Mexico, with a natural and earthy color palette that complements its surroundings. The home, designed for an architect and graphic designer, was built on a site with an irregular shape, however, from the street, it...
tonsky.me
Podcast: Nikitonsky про современные редакторы кода @ Тысяча фичей
Каким должен быть редактор кода в 2024 году? Почему Vim морально устарел, а IDEA, кажется, сдает...
3 months ago
Каким должен быть редактор кода в 2024 году? Почему Vim морально устарел, а IDEA, кажется, сдает позиции? Популярность Zed, минимализм SublimeText, гибкость Emacs и многое другое в новом выпуске.
FIRE v London
10 year review
Wahoop! I have made it through ten years. In fact, I’ve had a trackable portfolio for over 20 years....
over a year ago
Wahoop! I have made it through ten years. In fact, I’ve had a trackable portfolio for over 20 years. But 10 years ago I started tracking my portfolio in a consistent, monthly way – unitising its performance so I could measure its return. It wasn’t until 2015 that I started this...
pcloadletter
The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape
Here we go again: I'm so tired of crypto web3 LLMs.
I'm positive there are wonderful applications...
8 months ago
Here we go again: I'm so tired of crypto web3 LLMs.
I'm positive there are wonderful applications for LLMs. The ChatGPT web UI seems great for summarizing information from various online sources (as long as you're willing to verify the things that you learn).
But a lot fo the "AI...
The Berkeley...
Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination
Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker...
4 months ago
Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker reactions.
ChatGPT does amazingly well at communicating with people in English. But whose English?
Only 15% of ChatGPT users are from the US, where Standard American English is the default. But...
TheCollector
7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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12 months ago
Journal and Links by...
🔗 Being Hired to Care
One of the biggest mistakes that I see people make as they start to dip their toes into advising is...
5 months ago
One of the biggest mistakes that I see people make as they start to dip their toes into advising is try to anchor their work to specific deliverables. Doing this is bad for a number of reasons, but the primary one is that when you’re being brought on as an advisor, you’re not...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why open-source projects are essential for large businesses
The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel...
over a year ago
The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel of modern technology’s canon and it continues to…
Arduino Blog
This Flip-Pelt wearable concept enables ultra-fast thermal feedback in VR
Wouldn’t it be great if, while playing a virtual reality game, you could feel the heat of a fire on...
2 months ago
Wouldn’t it be great if, while playing a virtual reality game, you could feel the heat of a fire on your arm? Or the cold of chilly water? Engineers around the world have been trying to make that happen, but there is a big problem: temperature changes are slow. The immersive...
Val Sopi
Year 2300
<p><i>From all that is currently happening to us, I want to believe that we’re at the dawn of a new...
6 months ago
<p><i>From all that is currently happening to us, I want to believe that we’re at the dawn of a new era </i>✊</p><hr><p>I am predicting year 2300 to be the one when we’re living the progressive dreams of today.<br></p><p>By then we have reached a new...
Business Brainstorms
No agenda cold emails, dealership visits as a service, prompt money, the doing game.
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities Prompt Base has a list of the
Anecdotal Evidence
'They Will Leave Behind Trenches'
“You wouldn’t
give up utopia it was too nourishing seductive / For mommy’s boys the heirs of
fortune...
2 months ago
“You wouldn’t
give up utopia it was too nourishing seductive / For mommy’s boys the heirs of
fortune heirs / To the bloody myths of the twentieth city.”
Today is the
centenary of Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert. The
Anglophone world has been fortunate. Herbert’s poems...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What is SSO and why you should enable it for PostHog
Existing at an intersection of convenience and security, single sign-on (SSO) authentication is used...
over a year ago
Existing at an intersection of convenience and security, single sign-on (SSO) authentication is used and appreciated by both IT teams and everyday…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Happiness
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
We should be measuring happiness of CATS.
Today's...
6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
We should be measuring happiness of CATS.
Today's News:
Common Edge
What L.A. 2028 Can Learn From the Paris Olympics
Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to...
4 months ago
Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to take a cue from the City of Lights’ embrace of the local.
Max Rozen
Keeping your sites fast with regular performance tests
You pride yourself on delivering fast websites to your clients, but do the websites stay fast as the...
over a year ago
You pride yourself on delivering fast websites to your clients, but do the websites stay fast as the months go by?
Ralph Ammer
How to draw ideas
Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process...
over a year ago
Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process drawing can play four different roles. Let’s say, we want to come up with ideas for a new flower pot. 1. Study: Fill your mind To prepare for our ideation we first draw what we want...
Making software...
First Letter Pseudo Element
First Letter Pseudo Element
2019-05-03
In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
over a year ago
First Letter Pseudo Element
2019-05-03
In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it's still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset.
The HTML
Like most...
Seeking Wisdom
Ruturaj Gaikwad, P-value, and Bayes’ Theorem
IPL is one of the greatest entertainments for a cricket lover like me. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) is...
8 months ago
IPL is one of the greatest entertainments for a cricket lover like me. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) is my favorite team. Ruturaj Gaikwad, the new CSK captain for the IPL 2024 season, lost 10 out of 13 tosses: LLLLWLLLLLLWL. The probability of seeing the sequence LLLLWLLLLLLWL is...
Seth's Blog
“I can’t go for that”
Culture has stability. “The way things are around here.” When we are pushed too far from our norms,...
2 months ago
Culture has stability. “The way things are around here.” When we are pushed too far from our norms, life gets stressful. Some of the people in the systems that used to keep things stable have discovered that they can make a profit or gain an edge by embracing extremism instead....
Willem's Blog
Traffic shaping using iptables and tc
This month I responded to an automated alert indicating excessive bandwidth usage on a server,...
over a year ago
This month I responded to an automated alert indicating excessive bandwidth usage on a server, requiring me to apply traffic shaping to mitigate the traffic.
TheCollector
10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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3 weeks ago
The Universe of...
A triviality about numbers that look like abbc
Looking at license plates the other day I noticed that if you have a
four-digit number with digits...
4 months ago
Looking at license plates the other day I noticed that if you have a
four-digit number with digits , and , then
will always be a multiple of . For example, and .
Mathematically this is uninteresting. The proof is completely
trivial. (Such a number is simply , and
.)
But I...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Benchmarking the impact of session recording on performance
The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session...
over a year ago
The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session recording – a screen-recording-like service that…
The Pragmatic...
I'm shutting down my job tech jobs board after two-and-a-half years
I started The Pragmatic Engineer Job Board in October 2021. 2.5 years later, I am shutting it down...
9 months ago
I started The Pragmatic Engineer Job Board in October 2021. 2.5 years later, I am shutting it down permanently, despite a reasonable success in traction. The shutdown was triggered by my vendor – Pallet – discontinuing their job board and talent collective approach. However, I ...
Calculated Risk
Tuesday: PPI
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Slightly Higher to Start New Week
The...
a week ago
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Slightly Higher to Start New Week
The more important consideration is the new round of potential volatility on the horizon. Whereas it was the jobs report last week, this week's critical data will be Wednesday's Consumer...
./techtipsy
How to build a fleet of networked offsite backups using Linux, WireGuard and rsync
Just like most people out there, I have some files that are irreplaceable, such as cat pictures.
At...
a month ago
Just like most people out there, I have some files that are irreplaceable, such as cat pictures.
At one point I had a few single-board computers sitting idle, namely
the Orange Pi Zero and
the LattePanda V1, and a few
1TB SSD-s.
I hate idle hardware, so I did the most sensible...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Novels as Prototypes of the Future
Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine):
A novel…is a prototype...
7 months ago
Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine):
A novel…is a prototype of the future. And if the ideas that the tech industry is pursuing feel stagnant…maybe it points to a shortage of compelling fictions for what the world could be.
I love that...
Words and Buttons...
[e-book] So You Think You Know C? And TenMore Short Essays on Programming Languages
Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most...
over a year ago
Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most productive way to create software. The journey, however, has taught me a few things so it was not a complete waste of time either.
This book is a reflection of these lessons. It...
The Marginalian
How to Say Goodbye: An Illustrated Field Guide to Accompanying a Loved One at the End of Life
"If you don't know what to say, start by saying that... That opens things up."
a year ago
"If you don't know what to say, start by saying that... That opens things up."
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are...
over a year ago
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are available on Vimeo but not well indexed. They have a better index (and another here) on their website, but also not great.
This is a list of videos and a bit of info about each...
Willem's Blog
Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors
Understanding the differences in common HR monitors used in wearables, smartwatches and fitness...
over a year ago
Understanding the differences in common HR monitors used in wearables, smartwatches and fitness trackers
Diaries of Note
Y’all are under arrest
On 4th May, 1961, a courageous group of activists, later known as the Freedom Riders, set off on an...
a year ago
On 4th May, 1961, a courageous group of activists, later known as the Freedom Riders, set off on an arduous journey during which they would protest the segregation laws of various states. Beginning in Washington, D.C. they headed for the South aboard two buses, their ultimate...
Irrational...
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer.
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
a year ago
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
Cheese and Biscuits
Toba, St James
It's a strange part of town, is St James. Essentially a lesser-known southern extension of Mayfair,...
a year ago
It's a strange part of town, is St James. Essentially a lesser-known southern extension of Mayfair, it's barely a half mile square and yet contains quite a high density of fancy hotels (Duke's, the Stafford, the Ritz), private members' clubs and the odd royal palace. Whereas some...
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2023, Day 2
I ended up spending more time catching up with people this afternoon than going to talks after my...
a year ago
I ended up spending more time catching up with people this afternoon than going to talks after my session ended, but here are a couple of highlights:
There was an invited session about the metal halide perovskites, and there were some interesting talks. My faculty colleague...
Herbert Lui
Rereading past work
One of the best things about writing this blog is rereading the posts. Here are some I’ve found...
a week ago
One of the best things about writing this blog is rereading the posts. Here are some I’ve found myself reading again lately: On creative work: On going direct:
The post Rereading past work appeared first on Herbert Lui.
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 3
Highlights TinyPilot generated $3,800 in revenue with zero marketing. I went from zero to a...
over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot generated $3,800 in revenue with zero marketing. I went from zero to a complete, custom manufactured product in 26 days. I’m still struggling to manage my inventory. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I...
Seth's Blog
Did we give up before AI arrived?
Plenty of creative pundits are decrying the speed and cost of creating pretty good work with an AI....
7 months ago
Plenty of creative pundits are decrying the speed and cost of creating pretty good work with an AI. It can often draw, write and compose as well as a mediocre freelancer, sometimes better. But why were there mediocre freelancers? The system that pushed us to turn our writing into...
Castles in the Sky
Thought Bananas (Castles in the Sky) 24
The Thousand Griefs of a Left-Behind Place
a year ago
The Thousand Griefs of a Left-Behind Place
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Gist That Keeps On Giving
I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo.
Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local...
8 months ago
I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo.
Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local branch with all my work and there’s no backup on GitHub.
“This is git. There has got to be a version of this things still on my computer somewhere, right? RIGHT?!”
So I start...
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Supervised Learning: VC Dimensions
It's not venture capital, that's for sure
over a year ago
It's not venture capital, that's for sure
ntietz.com blog -...
Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps)
My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about.
This has two effects: engineers1 ask me...
a month ago
My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about.
This has two effects: engineers1 ask me about it, and everyone else ignores me.
These effects are not undesirable, but further testing is required.
The main reason I have such an unusual setup, though, is more...
The DESK Magazine
"Good things come to those who wait."
As a designer, one of the most useful skills you can have is patience. Even if you're not a...
a year ago
As a designer, one of the most useful skills you can have is patience. Even if you're not a designer, patience is one of the best yet hardest skills to learn.
One from Nippon
The Surprising Roots of Japan's Indian Curry
It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached...
a year ago
It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached out!
We are now restarting our articles, though we might not always write once a week. If we don't think it's interesting, we
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