Josh Thompson
How to take payments via Stripe on a Static Site
I’ve had rolling around my head an idea of selling small how-to guides and resources. Things that I...
over a year ago
I’ve had rolling around my head an idea of selling small how-to guides and resources. Things that I wish existed, but have never been able to find.
For example, I’ve read a bunch of books that talk about good Object-Oriented design, or refactoring code, or writing better tests....
Applied Cartography
Notes on buttondown.com
We spent $85,000 for buttondown.com in April; this was the biggest capital expenditure I've ever...
4 months ago
We spent $85,000 for buttondown.com in April; this was the biggest capital expenditure I've ever made, and though it was coming from cash flow generated by Buttondown rather than my own checking account it was by rough estimation the largest non-house purchase I've ever made.
As...
Rest of World -...
The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative
The microblogging platform — India’s first in over 10 languages — went from booming international...
7 months ago
The microblogging platform — India’s first in over 10 languages — went from booming international expansion to near closure in just four years.
CONTEMPORIST
Operable Screens Cover The Exterior Of This Hawaiian Home
Architecture firm OLSON KUNDIG has shared photos of a home they completed in Hanalei, Hawaii, that...
a year ago
Architecture firm OLSON KUNDIG has shared photos of a home they completed in Hanalei, Hawaii, that blurs the lines between indoor and outdoor living with the inclusion of a series of operable shutter screens that wrap most of the building facade. The custom shutter system,...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 16-22 October 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
99% Invisible
Courtroom Sketch [EPISODE]
Earlier this year, the city of New York closed off several blocks around the Manhattan Criminal...
a year ago
Earlier this year, the city of New York closed off several blocks around the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse. Instead of early morning commuters, the sidewalks around the building were flooded with reporters, photographers, and camera people. They were there to capture the...
Arduino Blog
Track the location history of your devices in Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards
Asset tracking has become increasingly crucial across various industries and applications. Whether...
7 months ago
Asset tracking has become increasingly crucial across various industries and applications. Whether you’re a logistics company monitoring your fleet, a conservation organization tracking wildlife, or an individual passionate about outdoor adventures, the ability to track and...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #183
Daily Journal, Apple, Costco, Moody's, Munger's wisdom, Tesla's narratives, Tim Urban on writing,...
a year ago
Daily Journal, Apple, Costco, Moody's, Munger's wisdom, Tesla's narratives, Tim Urban on writing, Rivian, AI's morality, AI bubble?, How James Longstreet defied the South after the war
TheCollector
How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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10 months ago
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
8 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
Posts on Made of...
Running Tensorflow on AWS GPUs
I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that...
over a year ago
I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that project I wanted to be able to train models using GPUs on EC2. This post contains some notes on what it took to get that working. As many people have commented, the environment setup...
Jonas Hietala
The Experimental Games
It’s been nine months since I started doing Experimental Games and I think it’s time to evaluate and...
over a year ago
It’s been nine months since I started doing Experimental Games and I think it’s time to evaluate and maybe go in a new direction.
At first I had been stuck for ages with my never-ending projects and I had literally nothing to show for all my coding. Well now things have changed a...
Nelson's Weblog
Linkblog feed update
I've got a new
feed for my
linkblog. It's at
https://www.somebits.com/linkblog/index.atom
old feed...
over a year ago
I've got a new
feed for my
linkblog. It's at
https://www.somebits.com/linkblog/index.atom
old feed at Pinboard
will still work but isn't as fancy.
Old Structures...
First-Mover Status
The Empire State Building gave up its title of “tallest” more than fifty years ago, but that’s not...
8 months ago
The Empire State Building gave up its title of “tallest” more than fifty years ago, but that’s not particularly important. It’s still a beautiful building and still loved by tourists and natives alike. The biggest change in its status over that period if time is the gradual...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Amused
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They'll go outside again later.
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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They'll go outside again later.
Today's News:
The Solarchitecture...
Circadian rhythm and solar home design
If our body is not tuned to our circadian rhythm, we can hardly be in flow with Life.
over a year ago
If our body is not tuned to our circadian rhythm, we can hardly be in flow with Life.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Using global memoization in React
When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a...
over a year ago
When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a hammer that often works well, and makes it hard to shoot yourself in the foot. But useMemo is not a silver bullet — sometimes it just introduces more useless work instead of making...
Matt Mazur
When you ship a major bug before signing off for the day
For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help...
a year ago
For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help (thanks Liesl!), but these days support takes at most an hour per week, and all requests fall into two buckets: As a result, there hasn’t been a pressing need to outsource support. But...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 049: Down the Rabbit hole
January 12, 2023.
a year ago
cabel.com
My GDC ’24 Talk: The Playdate Story
In January, I was invited to GDC, the Game Developers Conference, to give a talk about Playdate....
8 months ago
In January, I was invited to GDC, the Game Developers Conference, to give a talk about Playdate. That talk — “The Playdate Story: What Was it Like to Make Handheld Video Game System Hardware?” — has been made available free for all to view. Now, it’s been 10 years since my last...
Maps Mania
These are the Safest Cities in the World
7 months ago
Josh Thompson
Train Hard
When’s the last time you participated in a sporting event? (Football, Ultimate Frisbee, rock...
over a year ago
When’s the last time you participated in a sporting event? (Football, Ultimate Frisbee, rock climbing, running biking, wrestling, whatever)
When’s the last time you
trained for that activity?
Finally:
When is the last time you trained for that activity
with someone else?...
Vadim Kravcenko
Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return
Question:
Answer:
The post Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
8 months ago
Question:
Answer:
The post Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
fast.ai
Masks for COVID: Updating the evidence
Notes taken whilst preparing a paper on mask efficacy from Nov to Jan 2022. My previous paper on...
over a year ago
Notes taken whilst preparing a paper on mask efficacy from Nov to Jan 2022. My previous paper on this was written in April 2020 and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
Folklore.org:...
What Hath Woz Wrought
The first product I developed for Apple
a year ago
The first product I developed for Apple
The Marginalian
The Human Scale: Oliver Sacks on How to Save Humanity from Itself
"...or there will be genocide, atomic bombs, and we'll all perish and take the planet with us."
a year ago
"...or there will be genocide, atomic bombs, and we'll all perish and take the planet with us."
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
11 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
Musings on Markets
Earnings and Cash Flows: A Primer on Free Cash Flow
It is never pleasant to be in the midst of a market correction, but a market correction does operate...
over a year ago
It is never pleasant to be in the midst of a market correction, but a market correction does operate as a cleanser for excesses that enter into even the most disciplined investors' playbooks in the good times. This correction has been no exception, as the threat of losing...
Arduino Blog
You can now run Arduino and MicroPython side-by-side on multi-core microcontrollers
We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with...
7 months ago
We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with the MicroPython team! Starting with the upcoming release (v1.23), MicroPython will offer support for Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) on multi-core microcontrollers, based on the...
Irrational...
Manage your priorities and energy.
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I...
a year ago
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This “company, team, self” framework proved a helpful decision-making...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Probity Was Perhaps the Highest Good'
As a
newspaper reporter I covered only one capital murder trial. This was in rural
Indiana in 1983....
9 months ago
As a
newspaper reporter I covered only one capital murder trial. This was in rural
Indiana in 1983. At the age of eighteen, William Spranger had fatally shot a
town marshal, William Miner, in the back with the officer’s service revolver. The
jury found Spranger guilty and Judge...
Don Melton
Waiting four years to exhale
Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And...
over a year ago
Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And Kamala Devi Harris as our 49th vice president.
While they cannot immediately undo the American carnage inflicted upon us by the previous administration, at least the vindictive...
Daniel Bourke
30 years old
I remember sitting in the car on the way to drop my brother to preschool.
Being 9 years old and...
a year ago
I remember sitting in the car on the way to drop my brother to preschool.
Being 9 years old and telling my mum how excited I was to turn ten.
Double digits!
I feel the same way about 29 to 30.
I hardly even got used to saying I’
Flashbak
Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
a year ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
The DESK Magazine
Our favorite portfolios launched with Semplice in August 2022
Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are...
over a year ago
Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are the best of the best, chosen by yours truly from hundreds of beautiful submissions
The Marginalian
Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life
"Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our...
a year ago
"Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world."
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AAAAAA
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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I was actually screaming in agony, but now that you...
7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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I was actually screaming in agony, but now that you mention it they are lovely.
Today's News:
Renegade Otter
Your database skills are not ‘good to have’
A MySQL war story
It’s 2006, and the New York Magazine digital team set out to create a new search...
a year ago
A MySQL war story
It’s 2006, and the New York Magazine digital team set out to create a new search experience for its Fashion Week portal. It was
one of
those projects where technical feasibility was not even discussed with the tech team - a common occurrence back then. Agile...
Wuthering...
Books I read in December 2023 - No one’s worse than you, she says
Lots of short fantasy fiction this month, perhaps everything
in the first section except the May...
a year ago
Lots of short fantasy fiction this month, perhaps everything
in the first section except the May Sarton novel and Eugene O’Neill play,
balanced by a complementary pair of Holocaust memoirs.
NOVELS, STORIES & A PLAY
Ocean of Story, Vol. 1 (11th cent.), Somadeva, tr. C. H....
Ralph Ammer
The Book of Change
Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book.
The post The Book...
over a year ago
Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book.
The post The Book of Change appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s Something You Need to Know About Web Design and Development
You’re doing great at it.
(❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race)
Email, Twitter,
Mastodon
a year ago
You’re doing great at it.
(❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race)
Email, Twitter,
Mastodon
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Beautiful
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Just to be clear, I was dunking on humans and...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Just to be clear, I was dunking on humans and praising AI *before* it was a terrifying nearterm concern.
Today's News:
Acko.net
On Progress
The known unknown knowns we lost
When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to...
over a year ago
The known unknown knowns we lost
When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter.
Not me though. For whatever reason,...
The Modern House
A new chapter: seven creatively converted homes
It takes an especially skilled eye to see the potential of somewhere to call home in a space not...
2 months ago
It takes an especially skilled eye to see the potential of somewhere to call home in a space not designed with that in mind. But in this country, with its architectural tapestry of period buildings and premium on space, we have become adept at repackaging […]
Seth's Blog
PW 2: Productivity in community
We need you. But only if you need us. Purple.space is six months old, and there are about a thousand...
a year ago
We need you. But only if you need us. Purple.space is six months old, and there are about a thousand of us now. It was an experiment, now it’s a useful tool. The initiative hat is often ill-fitting. We rush to take it off and get back to doing chores. And that’s why a community...
TheCollector
7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
Jonas Hietala
8-puzzle in rust
I think rust is one of the most interesting upcoming programming languages out there. So I wrote a...
over a year ago
I think rust is one of the most interesting upcoming programming languages out there. So I wrote a solution to the 8-puzzle (see the 15-puzzle) using A*. It also has a breadth first search for solutions on a specific distance away from the goal.
The solution is not by any means a...
Electronics etc…
An In-Depth Look at the ICE-V Wireless FPGA Development Board
Introduction
The ICE-V Wireless FPGA Board
Preloading the PSRAM with User Data
The Overall Boot...
over a year ago
Introduction
The ICE-V Wireless FPGA Board
Preloading the PSRAM with User Data
The Overall Boot Process
UART Console
Getting Started with the ICE-V Wireless Board for Real
Reinstalling or Modifying the ESP32C3 Firmware
The RISC-V Example FPGA Design
Compiling the RISC-V Example...
The Honest Broker
The Dying Singer Who Cured Himself with Music
The strange case of Leo Kofler
4 months ago
The strange case of Leo Kofler
Map of the Week
Map of Endangered Languages - Part 2
Last week's post showed a huge number of indigenous languages throughout the world. Here is a...
12 months ago
Last week's post showed a huge number of indigenous languages throughout the world. Here is a summary (via the Living Tongues Institute) showing hotspots of endangered languages.
The above site has a companion living dictionaries site where you can find a language by...
Josh Thompson
Monthly Review: October
This is my first monthly review. I’ll spend some time fleshing out the why and the how, and then get...
over a year ago
This is my first monthly review. I’ll spend some time fleshing out the why and the how, and then get right to it. If you don’t want to read a lot of introspective Josh, stop reading. I use the word “I” dozens of times. Consider yourself warned.
For a long time I have feared life...
Citation Needed
Issue 68 – Opportunity agenda
Harris shouts out crypto in her “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men”, one crypto exec leaves prison as...
3 months ago
Harris shouts out crypto in her “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men”, one crypto exec leaves prison as another enters, and Stand With Crypto bets on the favorites.
TheCollector
History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
OpenAI's o1 is a misunderstood model
Are the latest "reasoning" breakthroughs all they're hyped up to be?
4 months ago
Are the latest "reasoning" breakthroughs all they're hyped up to be?
Dan Quach Blog
Software Estimations Using Reference Class Forecasting
18 years ago I’m sitting in my cubicle doing Java programming, and my tech lead comes up to me to...
a year ago
18 years ago I’m sitting in my cubicle doing Java programming, and my tech lead comes up to me to chat about my next project. We discuss the details, and then she asks me the dreaded questions programmers fear which is “how long will it take?”. I stumble with some guestimate...
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
High Signal
$30k a month from a bootstrapped B2C company
Thankbox is a successful B2C bootstrapped website created by Valentin Hinov which is now doing...
7 months ago
Thankbox is a successful B2C bootstrapped website created by Valentin Hinov which is now doing $30-35k a month.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
over a year ago
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
Rest of World -...
Instagram account hacked? “Ethical hackers” will get it back
Meta’s account recovery process is so complicated that people are paying experts to do it for them.
a year ago
Meta’s account recovery process is so complicated that people are paying experts to do it for them.
diamond geezer
45 squared
45
45 Squared
2025 = 45 × 45 = 452 which is why I'm visiting 45 of them.
n.b. I'm aware that a lot...
a week ago
45
45 Squared
2025 = 45 × 45 = 452 which is why I'm visiting 45 of them.
n.b. I'm aware that a lot of Squares aren't actually square, more rectangular, but so long as it's called Square and approximately quadrilateral that's fine.
n.b. I won't be doing squares I've blogged about...
The Modern House
A slender space-savvy home in Clerkenwell, inspired by the City’s skyscrapers
a year ago
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Peter Mick
Lessons from building and growing Copylime to 6 figures all in public
a year ago
Lessons from building and growing Copylime to 6 figures all in public
Map of the Week
My Favorite New Jersey Drone Map
Here is my favorite “map” showing the drone hysteria over New Jersey. It’s from Instagram...
a month ago
Here is my favorite “map” showing the drone hysteria over New Jersey. It’s from Instagram user wmh_x_0, aka Oona Harrigan.
It is based on these maps of drone sightings that have been going around the internet.
The “globe” text is there because she is known for designing sad...
The Modern House
Heading out? Here’s how to do it with people and the planet in mind
a year ago
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Metropolitan Line
The world's first underground railway.
a year ago
The world's first underground railway.
TheCollector
7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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10 months ago
Noahpinion
Did immigration bring down inflation?
I'm highly skeptical of this theory, but it's still quite interesting.
10 months ago
I'm highly skeptical of this theory, but it's still quite interesting.
NeuroLogica Blog
The Conversation Gets it Wrong on GMOs
Even high quality media outlets will get it wrong from time to time. I notice this tends to happen...
a year ago
Even high quality media outlets will get it wrong from time to time. I notice this tends to happen when there is a mature and sophisticated propaganda campaign that has had enough time and reach to essentially gaslight a major portion of the public, and further where a particular...
TheCollector
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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a year ago
bt RSS Feed
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
2024-04-11
OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220
With the recent...
9 months ago
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
2024-04-11
OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220
With the recent release of OpenBSD 7.5, I decided to run through my personal OpenBSD “installer” for laptop/desktop devices. The project is built off of the dwm tiling window manager and only...
Engineers Need Art
Move Fast and Abandon Things
For every shareware game I released in the 1990's, another four were partially written but put aside...
4 months ago
For every shareware game I released in the 1990's, another four were partially written but put aside and abandoned.
Josh Thompson
So you want to work remotely...
Josh’s “rules” for getting a sweet remote job
A few weeks ago, I met a fantastic guy who is...
over a year ago
Josh’s “rules” for getting a sweet remote job
A few weeks ago, I met a fantastic guy who is contemplating next steps for work. He is great at what he does, and is thinking about what direction to go in his life. He’s young, and thought working remotely sounded pretty cool. I...
Casey Handmer's blog
SLS is still a national disgrace
Four years ago, unable to find a comprehensive summary of the ongoing abject failure known as the...
3 months ago
Four years ago, unable to find a comprehensive summary of the ongoing abject failure known as the NASA SLS (Space Launch System), I wrote one. If you’re unfamiliar with the topic, you should read it first. It is hard to …
The Roots of...
Quote quiz answer
Here’s the answer to the recent quote quiz:
The author was Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. The...
a year ago
Here’s the answer to the recent quote quiz:
The author was Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. The quote was taken from his manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future.” Here’s a slightly longer, and unaltered, quote:
First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Back to Lisp
<. Today [my main blog...
over a year ago
2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog is on Github Issues](https://www.swyx.io/github-cms) and [I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1531330889535602688).
Noahpinion
Bad and good arguments for industrial policy
Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
6 months ago
Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
Anarchy Unfolds
May all roads lead to solarpunk
Letters to an anarchist - Part 8
a month ago
Letters to an anarchist - Part 8
tomcritchlow.com
Digital Bricolage & Web Foraging
When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme:...
over a year ago
When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme: digital bricolage. Bricolage is “the skill of using whatever is at hand and recombining them to create something new.”
History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
4 months ago
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
Seth's Blog
A finite ordered set of interesting objects
The alphabet is one. 26 letters, no more. One order, that’s it. The Beatles are another. John, Paul,...
a year ago
The alphabet is one. 26 letters, no more. One order, that’s it. The Beatles are another. John, Paul, George and then Ringo. The Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, The Supremes. The astrological zodiac gets us to twelve, but I’m having a really difficult time finding a memorable...
TheCollector
What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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4 months ago
sbensu
The Perfectionists (book)
A great book that covers the ideas and people behind modern industry.
5 months ago
A great book that covers the ideas and people behind modern industry.
Old Structures...
Raking Sunlight
Pro tip, as computer manuals said back when (a) everyone was not yet comfortable using a computer...
a year ago
Pro tip, as computer manuals said back when (a) everyone was not yet comfortable using a computer and (b) computer manuals still existed: environmental conditions can help in building investigation. For example, I like conducting facade inspections on very cold days because you...
Stoic Simple
Stoicism Simplified: an Easy Overview of What Stoics Believe
by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism...
a year ago
by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism (referenced in the diagram above), and I wanted to use this opportunity to go over each of these in a little more detail. Hopefully you’ll get an understanding of what they mean,...
diamond geezer
Inconsequential transport news
Inconsequential transport news
The graphic shows a child standing beside an adult, well away...
a year ago
Inconsequential transport news
The graphic shows a child standing beside an adult, well away from the teeth at the edge. But it also breaks the cardinal rule of "standing on the right", indeed if every parent chose to behave this way it'd block walker-uppers and...
Quentin Santos
Interactive Flamegraphs
In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are...
4 months ago
In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are visualizations of how much time is spent in each function in a program: ./write –write_with_vmsplice –huge_page –busy_loop | ./read –read_with_splice –busy_loop Profiling of ./write...
computers are bad
2024-07-31 just disconnect the internet
So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally
takes down most of...
5 months ago
So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally
takes down most of their Windows install base with a poorly tested content
update. Rough day at the office, huh? There are lots of things you could say
about this, lots of reasons it happens this way,...
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2024, Day 1
There is no question that the meeting venue in Minneapolis is superior in multiple ways to last...
10 months ago
There is no question that the meeting venue in Minneapolis is superior in multiple ways to last year's meeting in Las Vegas. The convention center doesn't feel scarily confining, and it also doesn't smell like a combination of cigarettes and desperation.
Here are a few...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Good News
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Hovertext:
The silver lining is due to cesium...
9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The silver lining is due to cesium contamination.
Today's News:
Both Are True
Like the mirror and the moon, let's reflect
some thoughts on season one and some kind words from paid subscribers!
a year ago
some thoughts on season one and some kind words from paid subscribers!
David Heinemeier...
Happiness is never having to ask for permission
If there’s one value Jason and I put above all else in business, it's independence. The freedom to...
a year ago
If there’s one value Jason and I put above all else in business, it's independence. The freedom to make our own choices, good or bad, without ever having to ask anyone for permission. Not from investors, not from naysayers, not from platform gatekeepers. It’s why we’ve built our...
Seth's Blog
The missing post
I had a great idea for a post, my best blogging of the year, in fact. I worked it all out when I was...
a year ago
I had a great idea for a post, my best blogging of the year, in fact. I worked it all out when I was driving, but when I arrived, it was gone. Vanished. So I went searching for it, trying out dozens of possible ideas. I never found it. But I did find five other […]
Open Culture
Google Launches a New Course Called “AI Essentials”: Learn How to Use Generative AI Tools to...
This week, Google announced the launch of Google AI Essentials, a new self-paced course designed to...
8 months ago
This week, Google announced the launch of Google AI Essentials, a new self-paced course designed to help people learn AI skills that can boost their productivity. Taught by Google’s AI experts, and assuming no prior knowledge of programming, the course ventures to show students...
Elad Blog
Back to the office
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first...
over a year ago
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first companies - Automattic, Gitlab, and Zapier [1]. During COVID companies were forced to work remote. Many companies are now going back into the office and companies are navigating this...
Open Culture
Free: Download Over 33,000 Sounds from the BBC Sound Effects Archive
There may be a few young people in Britain today who recognize the name Ludwig Koch, but in the...
3 months ago
There may be a few young people in Britain today who recognize the name Ludwig Koch, but in the nineteen-forties, he constituted something of a cultural phenomenon unto himself. He “started recording sounds and voices in the 1880s when he was still a child” in his native Germany,...
SatPost by Trung...
Taylor Swift, Johnny Cash and AI Art
Context matters more than content in the age of AI-generated audio, images and videos.
a year ago
Context matters more than content in the age of AI-generated audio, images and videos.
Making software...
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop
2023-05-01
I recently wrote about physically disabling...
a year ago
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop
2023-05-01
I recently wrote about physically disabling the WiFi toggle switch on my X201 which was a fun "hack" to an annoying issue I was running into. Since then, the laptop has been running flawlessly.
The only other minor issue I had...
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...
99% Invisible
Spirit Halloween [EPISODE]
Each fall, across the United States and Canada, around 1500 empty storefronts are taken up by the...
3 months ago
Each fall, across the United States and Canada, around 1500 empty storefronts are taken up by the signature yellow, orange and black signage of Spirit Halloween. The seasonal retailer sells Halloween masks, Halloween costumes, Halloween costumes for dogs, Halloween decorations,...
Engineer’s Codex
The Boolean Trap
Use enums instead
4 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Las Vegas, F1 and the sport's long history in America
PLUS: An unexpected Netflix hit and the world's most popular artist.
a year ago
PLUS: An unexpected Netflix hit and the world's most popular artist.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, June 2024
The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks,...
6 months ago
The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks, but the details of the design of this type of ware are interesting from an engineering standpoint. Some of the tricks used here are kind of mind blowing; on paper, I wouldn’t think...
ntietz.com blog -...
Terminology isn't universal
A little while back, I wrote that we shouldn't say "auth" but should use other terms instead.
I...
a month ago
A little while back, I wrote that we shouldn't say "auth" but should use other terms instead.
I stand by my argument in general, but it also has another side to it: my suggested terminology makes sense in some domains, but not in all domains.
And that's because terminology...
Adventures In...
Imagery basemap ready for data
Imagery is the most detailed, most literal of basemaps. You are actually seeing a picture of what...
a year ago
Imagery is the most detailed, most literal of basemaps. You are actually seeing a picture of what the ground looks like at any location. And while this sort of context can be incredibly useful, it can also wreck the way we see and understand thematic data that is draped over it....
TheCollector
When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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10 months ago
The Modern House
Mary Portas: the queen of the high street’s inspiring journey from homeless orphan to a London...
Our guest on this episode of our podcast, Homing In, is Mary Portas. As a retail consultant and...
a year ago
Our guest on this episode of our podcast, Homing In, is Mary Portas. As a retail consultant and broadcaster, Mary is best known for presenting TV shows such as Mary Queen of Shops, in which she came to the rescue of the UK’s failing high […]
99% Invisible
Chambre de Bonne [EPISODE]
For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of...
9 months ago
For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of apartment, called a “chambre de bonne.” Literally, a maid’s room. A chambre de bonne is usually one small room, on the top floor of a five- or six-story apartment building, and...
Maggie Appleton
Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS
Notes on how to use the position property in CSS to make scrollytelling stories
over a year ago
Notes on how to use the position property in CSS to make scrollytelling stories
Jonas Hietala
MenuCity: Level 0 Walkthrough
It hasn’t even been a week since I released my latest game MenyCity and already so much positive...
over a year ago
It hasn’t even been a week since I released my latest game MenyCity and already so much positive feedback! I’m so thrilled :) However, all isn’t blue skies and nice sunshine. A lot of times the first question is: How do you play it? or How do you get past the first level? I admit...
wadertales
UK waders: “Into the Red”
If you ask British birdwatchers to name the eleven wader species that are causing the most...
over a year ago
If you ask British birdwatchers to name the eleven wader species that are causing the most conservation concern in the UK, they would probably not include Dunlin. Curlew may well be top of their lists, even though the most recent population estimate is 58,500 breeding pairs, but...
History Today Feed
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
a year ago
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
Math Is Still...
Two Students Shoot Down a Widely Believed Math Conjecture
Mathematicians thought they were on the cusp of proving a conjecture about the ancient structures...
a year ago
Mathematicians thought they were on the cusp of proving a conjecture about the ancient structures known as Apollonian circles. But a summer project would lead to its downfall.
The post Two Students Shoot Down a Widely Believed Math Conjecture first appeared on Quanta...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 14
Highlights A redesign of TinyPilot’s website seems to have increased sales. TinyPilot now has a...
over a year ago
Highlights A redesign of TinyPilot’s website seems to have increased sales. TinyPilot now has a European distributor. After three years, I’ve earned back my investment in Zestful (and I might sell it). I’m still ruthlessly delegating every task I can. Goal Grades At the start of...
The Elysian
Week 5: Write one (pitchable) think piece
9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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11 months ago
Math Is Still...
A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology
This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of...
11 months ago
This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of “Kirby’s list” — a compendium of the most important unsolved problems in the field.
The post A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Perk
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I don't know if anyone else likes the etymology...
5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I don't know if anyone else likes the etymology jokes, but I am here for me.
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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4 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Power of Personal Podcasting
Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
over a year ago
Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
Musings on Maps
“We Like Fighting Games”
As he waited rather glumly for “the Feds” to arrive at his home, as his stepfather predicted, Airman...
a year ago
As he waited rather glumly for “the Feds” to arrive at his home, as his stepfather predicted, Airman First Class Jack Douglas Teixiera may have pondered why he had posted classified maps of heated battle fronts in the Ukraine War … Continue reading →
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows NT 3.1
A Highly Portable Future
a year ago
TokyoDev
Employer of Record (EOR) Services in Japan
EoR. Few employers seems to fully understand how it works, and even fewer working professionals have...
a year ago
EoR. Few employers seems to fully understand how it works, and even fewer working professionals have ever heard of it. So, what is this three-letter mystery acronym, and how can it help us swing the doors wide open on business building in Japan? Let’s have a look.
## What...
Tech + Economics +...
The patriarchy is a modern invention, not the natural order.
The "patriarchy", a male-dominated social order with entrenched hierarchies
giving power and...
a year ago
The "patriarchy", a male-dominated social order with entrenched hierarchies
giving power and authority to men over women, is pitched by masculinity
influencers and pop social scientists as humanity's natural state. They
argue patriarchy represents the primal hard-wiring of...
./techtipsy
My blog successfully survived a scheduled power outage
I had the opportunity to test the resiliency of my home server setup due to a scheduled power outage...
4 months ago
I had the opportunity to test the resiliency of my home server setup due to a scheduled power outage on 2024-09-13.
It was also Friday the 13th. I’m not superstitious, but I’m a little stitious.
My setup usually consists of the home server, a Wifi AP/router combo box, a converter...
The Turn Signal RSS...
Guidelines for Designing an In-Car Voice Assistant
I turned all the research that I did for my previous article, about the impact of voice interaction...
over a year ago
I turned all the research that I did for my previous article, about the impact of voice interaction on driver distraction, into concrete…
Ruud van Asseldonk
An API for my Christmas tree
over a year ago
TheCollector
Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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a month ago
Herbert Lui
Deliberate play
When I was a child, my parents enlisted me in piano class for the better half of a decade. Those...
4 weeks ago
When I was a child, my parents enlisted me in piano class for the better half of a decade. Those were long years. Every day, I was tasked with practicing two or three songs six times. During exam season, I would need to practice my exam songs ten times perfectly—which meant that...
TheCollector
Who Were the Maccabees?
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AFAR Media - Travel...
7 New Attractions in California Travelers Should Know About
11 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some cool AI healthcare projects | Out-Of-Pocket
What was built at the OOP hackathon?
5 months ago
What was built at the OOP hackathon?
CONTEMPORIST
Undulating Balconies And A Mint Green Tiled Exterior Give This New Building A Unique Look
Architecture firms Sadar+Vuga, Arhipro, and Studio Kristof have collaborated to create an...
4 months ago
Architecture firms Sadar+Vuga, Arhipro, and Studio Kristof have collaborated to create an eye-catching residential building in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with undulating balconies. The building, which houses apartments, is situated at the edge of a triangularly shaped site and is...
The Map is Mostly...
A lot with a little
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest — The Fool,...
a year ago
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest — The Fool, King Lear Some works are better for their brevity. Fan Ho needs very little: Most of the image is black, or blurry. You can scarcely tell what materials you’re looking at. But the...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 088: Movie magic
October 11, 2024.
3 months ago
TheCollector
12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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a year ago
Applied Cartography
Buttondown Analytics 3.0
Working on a new analytics engine — a scant eleven months after the previous 'new analytics...
11 months ago
Working on a new analytics engine — a scant eleven months after the previous 'new analytics engine'.
Calling this 3.0 is a bit of a misnomer: most of the code, design, and plumbing from the 2023 redesign is sticking around, just in a more modular format. The goal here is to...
Londonist
Week Of January Tube Strikes Set To Cause Severe Disruption
Happy New Year!
a year ago
somethingaboutmaps
On the Practice of Wobbling
We live in an era in which maps (and plenty of other graphics) are made with digital tools....
a year ago
We live in an era in which maps (and plenty of other graphics) are made with digital tools. Workflows vary, but the end result is that a lot of us base our cartography entirely on clean vector shapes and neat raster grids. For example, I talked earlier this year about a map I...
computers are bad
2023-07-15 underwater ears everywhere
Programming note: the subscribe link was broken for a while because I am
bad at computers (yet...
a year ago
Programming note: the subscribe link was broken for a while because I am
bad at computers (yet another case of "forgot to enable the systemd unit").
It's fixed now. The unsubscribe link was also broken and is now fixed but,
you know, maybe that was a feature. Did wonders for...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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4 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Power of Lampshading
How to turn Ignorance into Power
over a year ago
How to turn Ignorance into Power
Josh Comeau's blog
Common Beginner Mistakes with React
I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped...
a year ago
I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a...
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.
devonzuegel.com
Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes
I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea...
over a year ago
I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea is that I'll use the simpler append-only interface while on the go, and then use full-featured interface to review, edit, and organize those notes when I'm back at my computer.
I...
Old Structures...
Sic Transit
This photo by Angelo Rizzuto, from October 1952, is listed at the Library of Congress as “Bird’s eye...
9 months ago
This photo by Angelo Rizzuto, from October 1952, is listed at the Library of Congress as “Bird’s eye view of a building in New York City.” It’s the old Metropolitan Opera House at 40th Street and Broadway, the one that the Met left in 1966 to move to Lincoln Center. The Met had...
The American Scholar
Bastienne Schmidt
The fabric of life
The post Bastienne Schmidt appeared first on The American Scholar.
9 months ago
The fabric of life
The post Bastienne Schmidt appeared first on The American Scholar.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Wrapping up my RetroChallenge 2024 project
<, please check them out!
With 362 people responding, I...
Steve Klabnik
Protological Control: an introduction
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
The Musk Algorithm
Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book....
a year ago
Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book. And like all the best business books, it's not merely an instruction manual, but an inspirational guide too. Not since reading Ricardo Semler's Maverick in the early 2000s have I...
Josh Thompson
Save hundreds by being willing to spend $20
When you pack for a trip, you pack “just in case” items, right? Things that in a certain situation...
over a year ago
When you pack for a trip, you pack “just in case” items, right? Things that in a certain situation would be priceless. Think “umbrella” or “underpants”.
But then you think of all the possible situations you might encounter, and you’ll find your “just in case” items quickly...
Society's Backend
Bridging the Gap from Simple Algebra to Machine Learning
You probably know more about machine learning math than you think
11 months ago
You probably know more about machine learning math than you think
Artificial Ignorance
Jevons Paradox and the future of programming
Supply and demand in the Age of AI.
9 months ago
Supply and demand in the Age of AI.
lcamtuf’s thing
Electric chainsaws and the gorge of misery
Lithium batteries are great -- so why do mid-size electric power tools suck in 2024?
5 months ago
Lithium batteries are great -- so why do mid-size electric power tools suck in 2024?
Old Vintage...
With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General)
Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the...
8 months ago
Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the pandemic emergency, but speaking as someone with a day job in public health for almost two decades, it's always been a buzzword in certain corners of IT with enough money sloshing around...
Willem's Blog
Some thoughts on touch screen user interface design
I am working on a new app involving personal health that requires a natural intuitive interface that...
over a year ago
I am working on a new app involving personal health that requires a natural intuitive interface that works well on touch screens. It's good to check out some best practices for touch UI design
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.
Londonist
A Map Of Southwark Place Name Origins
The etymology of the London Borough Southwark.
a year ago
The etymology of the London Borough Southwark.
swyx's site RSS Feed
(incomplete) Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024
We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the...
6 months ago
We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the large, multi-track format of the AI Engineer series of conferences that my biz partner Ben and I are building. I am historically bad at writing down lessons and thoughts, so I am...
the singularity is...
The Elon Swing Voter
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
a month ago
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Art Is Wild As a Cat'
Nige tells me he attended
a reading at Cambridge given by Stevie Smith not long before her death in...
6 days ago
Nige tells me he attended
a reading at Cambridge given by Stevie Smith not long before her death in 1971.
“I remember [her],” he writes, “more for her extraordinary presence and her
eccentric, but very effective way of reading her work. . . . [A]t the time I
was a young...
Open Culture
Watch Patti Smith Read from Virginia Woolf, and Hear the Only Surviving Recording of Woolf’s Voice
In the video above, poet, artist, National Book Award winner, and “godmother of punk” Patti Smith...
7 months ago
In the video above, poet, artist, National Book Award winner, and “godmother of punk” Patti Smith reads a selection from Virginia Woolf’s 1931 experimental novel The Waves, accompanied on piano and guitar by her daughter Jesse and son Jackson. The “reading” marked the opening of...
symmetry magazine
India’s gem at CERN: Archana Sharma
The first Indian scientist to join CERN was recently recognized with the highest honor of India for...
a year ago
The first Indian scientist to join CERN was recently recognized with the highest honor of India for overseas citizens.
Blog posts of...
A model that’s mental
Maybe… This anxiety isn’t anxiety it’s just your raw excitement that you are misunderstanding. This...
over a year ago
Maybe… This anxiety isn’t anxiety it’s just your raw excitement that you are misunderstanding. This creeping imposter syndrome jus...
Rest of World -...
Indonesia’s e-bike shops are building their own batteries
Battery-pack builders chase maximum range, despite safety risks.
10 months ago
Battery-pack builders chase maximum range, despite safety risks.
escape the algorithm
howdidyoufind.me
a website about how people found this website
3 months ago
a website about how people found this website
Citation Needed
Issue 56 – What are you gonna do, arrest me?
The Binance CEO's sentencing draws near, and prosecutors have been busy chasing down other crypto...
9 months ago
The Binance CEO's sentencing draws near, and prosecutors have been busy chasing down other crypto criminals. Also, lawmakers take another stab at stablecoin regulation.
Essays - Benedict...
The VR winter continues
Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the
VR winter: the devices...
6 months ago
Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the
VR winter: the devices aren’t good enough or cheap enough and the user base
is flat. But no matter how good the devices get, how many people will care?
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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2 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Nodi Coffee by Office AIO
Introducing a Fresh Narrative to a Lobby Cafe In the heart of Shanghai’s bustling Jing’an district,...
7 months ago
Introducing a Fresh Narrative to a Lobby Cafe In the heart of Shanghai’s bustling Jing’an district, Nodi, a brand born...
TheCollector
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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a year ago
Londonist
Rare Chelsea Books: Memories Of A Bookshop On The King's Road
"We discouraged visitors from bringing in galettes, to prevent sticky fingers."
a year ago
"We discouraged visitors from bringing in galettes, to prevent sticky fingers."
Ben Borgers
Prototyping an AI-powered note-taking app
a year ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs
Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs
abduzeedo0428—23
...
a year ago
Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs
abduzeedo0428—23
Hungarian graphic designer KissMiklós has created a stunning series of typography compositions that showcase the beauty of serif fonts, letters and ligatures. While they may...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support
Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to...
a month ago
Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to figure out if they’re safe to use or not. We might know that a feature is available for 92% of users, but is that sufficient? Where do we draw the line? In this blog post, I’ll share...
devonzuegel.com
Misreading Milei: The American press can only see Argentina through US-colored glasses
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. They are deeply...
a year ago
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. They are deeply misunderstanding (or misrepresenting?) what's going on. It seems the American press can only understand Argentine politics through the lens of the US, when really it's just a totally...
Jonas Hietala
Slackware update
The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my...
over a year ago
The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my installation and I decided to go through with a larger reinstallation once more. This is a log of some things I did differently.
Kernel
Before installing the kernel it’s nice to...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Explore Patagonia's Untamed Beauty in Chile's Magallanes
4 weeks ago
diamond geezer
Beddington Farmlands
A Nice Walk: Beddington Farmlands (1 mile)
Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing...
2 months ago
A Nice Walk: Beddington Farmlands (1 mile)
Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, wildlife guaranteed, railway-adjacent, mostly dry underfoot, broad pylon vistas, binocular opportunities, possibility of lapwings, won't take long. So...
Rest of World -...
China’s bite-sized soap operas are peddling cheap plots for big profits
Sex scenes, revenge, and cliffhangers are jam-packed into minutes-long smartphone dramas.
a year ago
Sex scenes, revenge, and cliffhangers are jam-packed into minutes-long smartphone dramas.
The Berkeley...
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF
TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning...
a year ago
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF
TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning phase, which uses human preference in the form of comparisons, and the RL fine-tuning phase, which optimizes a single, non-comparative reward. What if we performed RL in a comparative...
Seth's Blog
Conversations, an early review… (and the free class)
“I have trained companies to treat people better, and SONG is the guidebook I wished I had when...
a year ago
“I have trained companies to treat people better, and SONG is the guidebook I wished I had when doing this work. Now, I will now give it to the enlightened and brutes alike, with a recommendation to take immediate action. Seth Godin has been carefully documenting the end of the...
Open Culture
RIP David Sanborn: See Him Play Alongside Miles Davis, Randy Newman, Sun Ra, Leonard Cohen and...
It’s late in the evening of Saturday, October 28th, 1989. You flip on the television and the...
8 months ago
It’s late in the evening of Saturday, October 28th, 1989. You flip on the television and the saxophonist David Sanborn appears onscreen, instrument in hand, introducing the eclectic blues icon Taj Mahal, who in turn declares his intent to play a number with “rural humor” and...
The Marginalian
Some Thoughts about the Ocean and the Universe
How to bear the gravity of being.
a year ago
How to bear the gravity of being.
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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a month ago
Mark Manson
My Response to Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock
Last weekend, Will Smith walked on stage at the Oscars and slapped Chris Rock for making a joke...
over a year ago
Last weekend, Will Smith walked on stage at the Oscars and slapped Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife. Since that moment, my phone and inbox have been inundated non-stop with people (friends, family, readers, journalists) wanting my “take” on the situation. After all, I...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What it's like working for American companies as an Australian
For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia....
a week ago
For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia. First I worked in a satellite office for…
the jsomers.net blog
Most book clubs are doing it wrong
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk...
over a year ago
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
Birchtree
The Vision Pro makes Touch ID more appealing
Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID...
4 days ago
Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID Back to iPhone
Because Face ID on iPhone does no good when Vision Pro is strapped to your face—an unfortunate detail I’m reminded of every time I
Tech + Economics +...
Apparently, Magic Leap still exists?
VentureBeat:
While Apple’s device will be tough to compete with, Magic Leap has a
slight...
a year ago
VentureBeat:
While Apple’s device will be tough to compete with, Magic Leap has a
slight pricing edge, with a price of $3,300 versus Apple’s $3,500
device. But it is interesting that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment
Fund, which is already the majority owner...
David Heinemeier...
We need a Right To Compute
The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If...
12 months ago
The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If it’s a computer, we ought to have the right to compute. Like consumers have won the right to repair. If it’s a computer, it ought to be yours, and you ought to have the right to...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Datasette for an ELT Personal Twitter Data Warehouse
EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple...
over a year ago
EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple ELT contract - You handle the Extract phase, it handles the Load, and exposes a standard UI for you to do dynamic Transforms.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Two eras of the internet: pull and push
The evolution of the internet is an extremely complex topic. Sometimes it is helpful to find broad...
over a year ago
The evolution of the internet is an extremely complex topic. Sometimes it is helpful to find broad patterns that make it easier to…
The Wandering...
Constructing Bourgoin’s Figure 171 – Part 2
Now that we know our way around the pattern (go back to Part 1), it should be fairly straightforward...
over a year ago
Now that we know our way around the pattern (go back to Part 1), it should be fairly straightforward to construct with a compass and straightedge. But be aware: any pattern that requires you to construct a pentagon is an advanced challenge. They are trickier to make than squares...
sancho.dev
query-json: jq written in Reason
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Width or Flex-Basis?
Width or Flex-Basis?
2018-11-28
Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be...
over a year ago
Width or Flex-Basis?
2018-11-28
Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be a little tricky depending on the desired outcome. Let’s breakdown how to solve this issue using both inline-block paired with width and flex-basis.
Width
Setting the width of the...
TheCollector
Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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TheCollector
Albert Einstein: The Greatest Scientist of the 20th Century
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a week ago
ntietz.com blog
Estimates are about time, so let's cut to the chase
As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work.
Our most common brush with estimates is when...
a year ago
As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work.
Our most common brush with estimates is when we estimate individual tasks within a sprint.
Usually, we do that with abstract points, and that's the wrong way about it.
We should be cutting to the chase and estimating directly...
Diaries of Note
I am dead and, exactly as I foresaw, I still exist
Born to American parents in Paris in 1900, Julian Green spent much of his life in France, and...
a year ago
Born to American parents in Paris in 1900, Julian Green spent much of his life in France, and despite his American heritage he wrote exclusively in French, becoming the first non-French national to be inducted into the esteemed Académie Française. His prolific career spanned...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Seven ways to increase stress
This week you have a homework assignment. Below is a list of seven stress-inducing exercises. Pick...
over a year ago
This week you have a homework assignment. Below is a list of seven stress-inducing exercises. Pick one.
Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: 1. Guantanamo City
Why we should turn Guantanamo Bay into Guantanamo City
6 days ago
Why we should turn Guantanamo Bay into Guantanamo City
PostHog's RSS Feed
Building an open source data science publishing platform - An interview with Datapane CEO, Leo...
(Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations where we chat to our contributors...
over a year ago
(Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations where we chat to our contributors and users.) Unlike most tech founders, Leo Anthias…
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Pain & Illness: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases
Previous Next There are more quotes available for us to read from the Stoics about pain and illness...
a year ago
Previous Next There are more quotes available for us to read from the Stoics about pain and illness than nearly any other topic. That's not because Stoicism teaches that we should like discomfort, but rather because the Stoics are concerned with how to NOT let pain and sickness...
Moneyness
UK's core payments settlement system fails... again. Some thoughts
As they increasingly forsake cash, regular folks are making dozens of digital payments every month....
a year ago
As they increasingly forsake cash, regular folks are making dozens of digital payments every month. What they don't realize is how this growing reliance on digital payments increasingly yokes their commercial lives to the fate of a single piece of infrastructure: their central...
Old Structures...
An Exotic Foreign Land
From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, what appears to be a page of illustrations from a...
a month ago
From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, what appears to be a page of illustrations from a European tourist guide to New York: Let’s start with the non-controversial item in the lower left: That is a decent engraving of Das Stadhaus / The City Hall / La maison de Ville as...
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
Working Theorys
The Brunch Test | Theory No. 16
A framework for building products that balance familiarity with freshness.
a year ago
A framework for building products that balance familiarity with freshness.
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Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen 4 (AMD): it doesn't suck under Linux
I’ve had the opportunity to try out another new laptop at work. I’ve used a brand new laptop...
9 months ago
I’ve had the opportunity to try out another new laptop at work. I’ve used a brand new laptop recently, and it was horrible.
But this time I’m pleasantly surprised.
The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen 4 has great specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U (8 cores, 16 threads, up to 5.1 GHz)
GPU:...
TheCollector
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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10 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Like that
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Trying to write more realistic dialog these...
6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Trying to write more realistic dialog these days.
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The American Scholar
Parque de la Música
The post Parque de la Música appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
The post Parque de la Música appeared first on The American Scholar.
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 18-24 September 2023
A tube map for planes, a street with four names - plus a really silly interview.
a year ago
A tube map for planes, a street with four names - plus a really silly interview.
Old Structures...
Photographic Tricks
That’s a 1911 panorama, taken from the east side of Fifth Avenue and 8th Street, looking south (on...
11 months ago
That’s a 1911 panorama, taken from the east side of Fifth Avenue and 8th Street, looking south (on the left), west (in the middle) and not-quite-north (on the right). I’m not sure how the photographer, Burton Welles, managed this, but it’s an impressive shot. On the left, we have...
Seán Barry
What is TypeScript and why should I use it?
A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
over a year ago
A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use it?
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 1
This is a semi-daily check-in. Experimental; likely to not actually be daily. Regular and...
a year ago
This is a semi-daily check-in. Experimental; likely to not actually be daily. Regular and short.
The kids are in the bath, listening to the Yoto Daily, which aptly describes itself as a “morsel.” The host offers stray thoughts, short learnings, words of the day, fascinating...
Maggie Appleton
Programmable Notes
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
over a year ago
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
Farza's Newsletter
just used a helium balloon as a standing desk and broke my apple newton
Minutes In the last 6 days, Zip has streamed a total of 277,000 minutes of live classes across all...
over a year ago
Minutes In the last 6 days, Zip has streamed a total of 277,000 minutes of live classes across all our students. Nice. 1,000,000 minutes soon! FB Group! Been working hard to get the FB Group rolling and create a community at Zip. Three learnings. First
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