alexwlchan
Cats, cross-stitch, and copyright
I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually...
a year ago
I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually lived with) is the cheetah.
This probably goes back to a school project about cheetahs I did when I was nine years old – I had to write about an endangered species for science...
Rest of World -...
Google turns to AI in the race to dub YouTube
YouTube’s new automatic dubbing system is competing with with human firms to help creators scale the...
a year ago
YouTube’s new automatic dubbing system is competing with with human firms to help creators scale the language barrier.
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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6 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
For Movies – Animals Don’t Sound Real Enough
What does a majestic eagle sound like, or the hoot of a spider monkey, or the roar of a bear? Unless...
a year ago
What does a majestic eagle sound like, or the hoot of a spider monkey, or the roar of a bear? Unless you have an interest in movie tropes, or listen regularly to the SGU, you may have a complete misconception about the sounds these and many other animals make. Eagles, for...
Maps Mania
Alternatives to Google Maps Street View
a year ago
The Modern House
A mid-century renovation project overlooking the water in south Cornwall
a year ago
The American Scholar
The Baritone as Democrat
How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today
The post The Baritone as...
2 months ago
How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today
The post The Baritone as Democrat appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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12 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Trick or Treat, Atlas
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
2 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
Seth's Blog
Variety and the long tail
In a We Are All Weird universe, there are two sorts of cultural disappointments. The first has been...
a year ago
In a We Are All Weird universe, there are two sorts of cultural disappointments. The first has been around since the dawn of cable: We don’t all watch the same thing. We don’t all talk about it, hits aren’t really hits, not like they used to be. There’s no comparison in the reach...
Retail Design Blog
LAPH Cafe by 3fconcept
“Café-Cóc” – in Vietnamese, this term refers to a budget-friendly coffee shop with low seating that...
6 months ago
“Café-Cóc” – in Vietnamese, this term refers to a budget-friendly coffee shop with low seating that can be easily folded...
Retail Design Blog
Luca Faloni Store by PlaC
This store is part of a wider re-thinking of Luca Faloni’s boutiques worldwide. Alongside this...
5 months ago
This store is part of a wider re-thinking of Luca Faloni’s boutiques worldwide. Alongside this store, the team worked on...
TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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7 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Blue Table Chocolates by Arch&Type
Tasked to imagine a ~900 square foot space for an artisan chocolatier, Arch&Type asked how built...
6 months ago
Tasked to imagine a ~900 square foot space for an artisan chocolatier, Arch&Type asked how built space can enhance the...
Both Are True
i figured out why nothing is ever enough (science)
its dopamine all the way down babe
a year ago
its dopamine all the way down babe
SatPost by Trung...
The Dorito-fication of Media
How the evolution of media created ultra-processed junk food for our mind.
2 months ago
How the evolution of media created ultra-processed junk food for our mind.
Retail Design Blog
Jianliang Liquor Store by Riverside Design Studio
Brand Identity for Jianliang Liquor Store Jianliang Liquor Store is a franchised personalized...
7 months ago
Brand Identity for Jianliang Liquor Store Jianliang Liquor Store is a franchised personalized service store under Jianli Grain and Liquor...
Rest of World -...
Riders in the smog
Rest of World equipped gig riders across South Asia with pollution monitors. The readings were off...
10 months ago
Rest of World equipped gig riders across South Asia with pollution monitors. The readings were off the charts.
Londonist
12 Spring Day Trips From London: March 2024
Daffodils, dinosaurs and British fashion icons.
10 months ago
Daffodils, dinosaurs and British fashion icons.
TheCollector
Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
11 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
Cognitive...
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
2 months ago
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
I Have No Idea What...
The Path to a Better Slack
Building a unified experience with Slack instead of trying to replace it all at once
over a year ago
Building a unified experience with Slack instead of trying to replace it all at once
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?
diamond geezer
Westminster 25
Silver Jubilee: Westminster
Westminster's Jubilee line platforms opened 25 years ago today on 22nd...
4 weeks ago
Silver Jubilee: Westminster
Westminster's Jubilee line platforms opened 25 years ago today on 22nd December 1999.
Westminster station - a clickable choose-your-own adventure
(it is genuinely clickable - give it a go!)
(1) You have arrived on the westbound Jubilee line...
Louwrentius
Debian Lenny and Dell S300 H200 and H700 RAID controllers
update november 2010: it is reported in the comments that the next release
will support these...
over a year ago
update november 2010: it is reported in the comments that the next release
will support these controllers. However, which controllers are supported is
not clear. Also, we may have to wait for quite some time before squeeze will
be released.
Just a quick note: it seems that the...
Noahpinion
All the arguments against EVs are wrong
EVs are just going to win.
a year ago
EVs are just going to win.
Stephen Diehl
The Non-Innovation of Cryptocurrency
over a year ago
TheCollector
Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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2 months ago
TheCollector
4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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a year ago
Josh Thompson
Workflow for developers (AKA My current tools)
I’m a huge fan of “a good workflow”. Makes you think better.
This is still under construction, but...
over a year ago
I’m a huge fan of “a good workflow”. Makes you think better.
This is still under construction, but I’m fleshing out all the tools, tidbits, and other things that serve me well every day as I build my skills as a developer. It will always be a work in progress, but will hopefully...
Christopher Butler
The Two Most Important Skills for Interaction Designers
They are almost certainly not what you think they are.
Good interaction design depends upon a...
2 months ago
They are almost certainly not what you think they are.
Good interaction design depends upon a very long list of skills, from a practical understanding of formal design concepts to the speed and efficiency with which you wield digital design tools and navigate a variety of...
Working Theorys
Agency in the Age of AI | Theory No. 10
In the age of AI, where do I fit in? It’s a conversation permeating dinners, group chats, and honest...
a year ago
In the age of AI, where do I fit in? It’s a conversation permeating dinners, group chats, and honest online discourse.
Last Place Comics
Spin the Bottle
The post Spin the Bottle appeared first on Last Place Comics.
5 months ago
The post Spin the Bottle appeared first on Last Place Comics.
CONTEMPORIST
A Contemporary Gable Roof Runs The Length Of This Home
Architecture firm JURY!, has shared photos of a renovation project they completed for a home in...
6 months ago
Architecture firm JURY!, has shared photos of a renovation project they completed for a home in Maasland, The Netherlands, that enhanced an existing dike house with a modern barn-inspired design. The original dike house includes a basement partially built into the dike, which is...
Roberto's blog
From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey
I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that...
8 months ago
I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that all I need is Markdown rendering. Trying to update Gatsby and its dependencies to the latest version was painful enough to motivate me to jump ship. After looking at what’s out...
The American Scholar
Imperfecta
Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the...
7 months ago
Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the emerging era of gene editing
The post Imperfecta appeared first on The American Scholar.
The American Scholar
Part of the Parade
The post Part of the Parade appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 months ago
The post Part of the Parade appeared first on The American Scholar.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Remix Icon - Open source icon library
"Remix Icon is a set of open source neutral style system symbols elaborately crafted for designers...
over a year ago
"Remix Icon is a set of open source neutral style system symbols elaborately crafted for designers and developers. All of the icons are free to use for both personal and commercial.
"
The Rational Walk
The Digest #169
Apple Watch, Musical Chairs at Dollar General, IPOs, Impact Investing, Buffett in 1988, Mapping the...
a year ago
Apple Watch, Musical Chairs at Dollar General, IPOs, Impact Investing, Buffett in 1988, Mapping the human brain, Interviews of Nassim Taleb, Jensen Huang, John and Patrick Collison, and more ...
Uncharted...
GeoHistory News | Q3 2024
Longshoremen strike, Mexico – Spain conflict, how Islam propelled Europe more than Protestantism,...
3 months ago
Longshoremen strike, Mexico – Spain conflict, how Islam propelled Europe more than Protestantism, and more
Josh Collinsworth
How to Connect Local with CodeKit
Enjoy all the convenience of easy local WordPress development with Local, plus build tools with...
over a year ago
Enjoy all the convenience of easy local WordPress development with Local, plus build tools with CodeKit, without any of the tricky command line setup.
The Pragmatic...
Domain Registrars which Developers Recommend
I asked software engineers to recommend domain registrars and more than 250 people responded. The...
a year ago
I asked software engineers to recommend domain registrars and more than 250 people responded. The most popular are Cloudflare, Namecheap and Porkbun. Why do devs like them?
TheCollector
Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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7 months ago
diamond geezer
Taking the piss
In an ideal world every TfL station would have toilet facilities but the truth is you're more likely...
2 months ago
In an ideal world every TfL station would have toilet facilities but the truth is you're more likely to be caught short.
announce "bold plans to grow and improve toilet provision" because that'd be a very good thing. The press release promised "investment totalling £3m per year...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Time Is Tight'
My brother is
dying as he lived – stubbornly. He has been in hospice for two weeks and is...
5 months ago
My brother is
dying as he lived – stubbornly. He has been in hospice for two weeks and is failing
incrementally. On Monday we were swapping memories and he stopped talking on
Tuesday, the same day he stopped eating. He lies on his back on the hospice
bed, mouth open, eyes staring...
elementary Blog
New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of...
a year ago
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of our office productivity apps, including several new features in Mail, a much more personal Login & Lock Screen experience with improved accessibility, and a couple of large redesigns...
Jibran’s Perspective
Failure 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post.
This is...
7 months ago
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post.
This is a good failure. It has taught me things, lessons I can use in the future to avoid failing this way again.
But first a bit of context. What did I fail at?
In February of 2024 I...
Working Theorys
Baseline Fame
When privilege becomes a pre-requisite.
8 months ago
When privilege becomes a pre-requisite.
The Roots of...
Who regulates the regulators?
IRBs
Scott Alexander reviews a book about institutional review boards (IRBs), the panels that review...
a year ago
IRBs
Scott Alexander reviews a book about institutional review boards (IRBs), the panels that review the ethics of medical trials: From Oversight to Overkill, by Dr. Simon Whitney. From the title alone, you can see where this is going.
IRBs are supposed to (among other things)...
bt RSS Feed
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-12-03
With the recent domain switch that took place on...
over a year ago
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-12-03
With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like “URL forwarding” through your domain provider could work,...
TheCollector
Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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6 months ago
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
5 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
Anecdotal Evidence
'Why Not Get Out of This Rut?'
"Books offer
what may be called a standing solution to the eternal and infernal
Christmas-present...
a month ago
"Books offer
what may be called a standing solution to the eternal and infernal
Christmas-present problem.”
Well, yes
and no. I’m a graceless gift giver and receiver, especially when it comes to
books. People like my middle son are inspired and have a knack for...
Aaron's Essays
Conflicted Capital
I’ve spent a long time wrestling with how to advise founders about investors and the conflicts of...
over a year ago
I’ve spent a long time wrestling with how to advise founders about investors and the conflicts of interest generated by opposing incentives.[1] These considerations are especially important when a founder thinks about fundraising. The founder needs to figure out how to treat...
Left To Write
A Slight Change In Cadence
A small tweak in the essay newsletter for a better creative future
a year ago
A small tweak in the essay newsletter for a better creative future
Calculated Risk
December 13th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Increasing
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm...
a month ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly.
Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
Londonist
The Boat Races 2024: How, Where And When To Watch Oxford Vs Cambridge
Plenty of riverside pubs to choose from.
10 months ago
Plenty of riverside pubs to choose from.
bt RSS Feed
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
2020-11-09
I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about...
over a year ago
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
2020-11-09
I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It’s a very good article overall, and I suggest...
Blog - Amy Goodchild
Curved Line Jellyfish
I had pictured something quite bold, graphical and geometric but I ended
with gradients and...
over a year ago
I had pictured something quite bold, graphical and geometric but I ended
with gradients and floatiness.
Quanta Magazine
What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt 2)
If plaques of amyloid protein in the brain aren’t the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease, what is?...
a year ago
If plaques of amyloid protein in the brain aren’t the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease, what is? Researchers investigating alternative possibilities have faced resistance from the biomedical establishment for decades, but intriguing theories about the role of defects in protein...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
2 months ago
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
Arduino Blog
You can now work in collaboration in Arduino Cloud
In today’s busy world, getting students or engineers to work together is key to tackling complex IoT...
4 months ago
In today’s busy world, getting students or engineers to work together is key to tackling complex IoT projects. Traditional code sharing and editing methods, like using offline IDEs or swapping files manually, often slow down projects and lead to mistakes. This can be a hassle and...
99% Invisible
Meet Me at Riis
There’s a particular slice of beach along the New York City shoreline, that, for the past 80 years,...
2 months ago
There’s a particular slice of beach along the New York City shoreline, that, for the past 80 years, has been a pivotal site for queer liberation. It’s called the People’s Beach at Jacob Riis Park, also known, simply, as Riis. This history is deeply connected to an abandoned,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Puzzle
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Really, you should just think of every moment of...
10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Really, you should just think of every moment of your life as a series of escape rooms. It's healthy.
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HTMHell
#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt
Context: A list of images that link to detail pages.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0">
<div alt="Browser...
over a year ago
Context: A list of images that link to detail pages.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0">
<div alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" aria-label="Browser Wars: The Last Engine">
<div>
<img alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" src="thumbnail.jpg">
</div>
</div>
</a>
Issues and...
TheCollector
What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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4 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
The $650m+ Spirit Halloween business
Spirit Halloween has over 1,450 pop-up shops and makes all its money in only 2 months (September,...
a year ago
Spirit Halloween has over 1,450 pop-up shops and makes all its money in only 2 months (September, October)
McMansion Hell
Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m doing a stint at The Nation this month writing...
Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex
Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m...
a year ago
Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex
Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m doing a stint at The Nation this month writing biweekly design columns. In this first one, I’ve done my best to expand on an earlier McMansion Hell post in order to answer the...
The Modern House
Step Outside: six top-tier terraces in London homes for sale
With the sun hanging around until the early hours of the evening and the daffodils’ golden trumpets...
a year ago
With the sun hanging around until the early hours of the evening and the daffodils’ golden trumpets heralding that spring is in full swing, it finally feels like we’re properly coming out of hibernation. And where better to admire the return of the rays than […]
The Modern House
A Day Well Spent with Isabella Burley
a year ago
The Marginalian
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name
"Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined."
9 months ago
"Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined."
Seth's Blog
Naming is part of marketing
A name is a hook for us to hang a story on. We need to begin with empathy and a useful story… useful...
10 months ago
A name is a hook for us to hang a story on. We need to begin with empathy and a useful story… useful to the people who want to believe it, spread it, and use it to accomplish their goals. But then, the story needs firm footing and a way to stick with us. Patagonia […]
journal – Winnie Lim
different realities under the same blue sky
My partner and I were were surprised we had radically different interpretations of a particular...
a year ago
My partner and I were were surprised we had radically different interpretations of a particular scene of a kdrama we had just watched. She had thought the lines were full of hope...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Growth curves of startups
Pick whatever metric you want for gauging the success of a particular startup: profits, revenues,...
over a year ago
Pick whatever metric you want for gauging the success of a particular startup: profits, revenues, pageviews, etc. A graph I’d love to see is…
Asterisk
Cows vs. Chemists: The Health Debates Over Plant-Based Meat
Everyone wants to know if plant-based meats are good for you. Despite what you might read, no one...
a year ago
Everyone wants to know if plant-based meats are good for you. Despite what you might read, no one has a definitive answer.
Ralph Ammer
What is a picture?
This article gives a phenomenological definition of what a picture is.
The post What is a picture?...
over a year ago
This article gives a phenomenological definition of what a picture is.
The post What is a picture? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
TheCollector
Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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5 months ago
Avestura's Blog
What is the type of Type?
Should type of `Type` be also `Type`? Or is there an alternative?
over a year ago
Should type of `Type` be also `Type`? Or is there an alternative?
TheCollector
Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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6 months ago
Common Edge
Architects Must Resist the AI “Revolution”
No technological advance can match the power, memory, and creativity of the human brain.
a year ago
No technological advance can match the power, memory, and creativity of the human brain.
Josh Collinsworth
WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the...
over a year ago
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the style.css file included with your theme and begin making alterations. And that will work—at least for a while—but it won’t be a good idea…
Retail Design Blog
Art Vessels by OPEN Architecture
In 2018, OPEN was commissioned to transform a commercial complex under construction located in...
3 months ago
In 2018, OPEN was commissioned to transform a commercial complex under construction located in central Beijing into an art center....
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...
Londonist
Get Toasty In This King's Cross Sauna For Just £6 A Session
Slow Motion Sauna is in town for three weeks.
a year ago
Slow Motion Sauna is in town for three weeks.
Steve Klabnik
Random Ruby Tricks: Class.new
over a year ago
HTMHell
Reading the meter
The <meter> element is a little known and rarely used semantic element. It's a non-interactive form...
over a year ago
The <meter> element is a little known and rarely used semantic element. It's a non-interactive form element that renders as a partially filled horizontal bar. Browsers provide user-agent styles, but the <meter> element can also be styled.
<meter min="10" max="200"...
Construction Physics
The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines
Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only...
a year ago
Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only reasonable way to create a direct path between two points. When the Hoosac tunnel was completed in 1875, it turned a difficult, 20-mile railroad route along “
Scarlet Ink
Senior Engineer or Senior Citizen? How Can Vintage Tech Workers Age Like Fine Wine?
Experience in some careers is viewed as universally positive, but that's not necessarily the case in...
5 months ago
Experience in some careers is viewed as universally positive, but that's not necessarily the case in tech. Why is that, and what can you do about it?
Anecdotal Evidence
'How Much Can Be Accomplished'
Cleveland is
traditionally divided between East Side and West Side. I’m a West-Sider, though
I...
5 months ago
Cleveland is
traditionally divided between East Side and West Side. I’m a West-Sider, though
I haven’t lived in the city since 1977. The designation suggests working-class
neighborhoods, many of them Slavic. Ethnicity was important, and not usually in
the sense of bigotry. I was...
sbensu
But I want to turn people into dinosaurs
Beware of what you actually want.
6 months ago
Beware of what you actually want.
Dominik Sobe's...
The Six Best Practices for launching on Product Hunt in 2021
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
3 months ago
Dan Slimmon
Incident, Inçident, Incidënt
When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And...
10 months ago
When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And don't forget to create an incident so customers can stay informed!
David Heinemeier...
Why I retired from the tech crusades
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer...
7 months ago
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the...
HTMHell
PSA: Stop using the title attribute as tooltip!
by Daniela Kubesch
It's almost 2025, so it's time to stop using the title attribute everywhere....
a month ago
by Daniela Kubesch
It's almost 2025, so it's time to stop using the title attribute everywhere. Images, text, buttons, ... you name it, devs really like to put it on any element in sight. Most of the time, people actually want to create a tooltip. You know, that little bubble of...
Retail Design Blog
Ferragamo shop-in-shop
Since British-born Maximilian Davis took the creative reigns at Ferragamo in 2022, the...
6 months ago
Since British-born Maximilian Davis took the creative reigns at Ferragamo in 2022, the Florence-based fashion house has gradually regained the...
Map of the Week
Mid 1900's Urban Planning in Philadelphia
Here are a few urban planning items to close out Philadelphia month. Hope you have enjoyed the...
a year ago
Here are a few urban planning items to close out Philadelphia month. Hope you have enjoyed the journey.
Cathedral Road:
There are many discontinued highways and roads to nowhere throughout the United States, including Woodhaven Road, a dead end expressway in Northeast...
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
a year ago
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
Cheese and Biscuits
AngloThai at Outcrop, the Strand
Part of the vast, shiny new 180 Strand development, AngloThai at Outcrop is an entirely outside -...
a year ago
Part of the vast, shiny new 180 Strand development, AngloThai at Outcrop is an entirely outside - albeit thankfully mainly covered - restaurant designed to make the most of the summer months. Unfortunately on Friday the weather was a bit more traditionally Anglo than Thai,...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This...
over a year ago
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This guide walks you through these concepts one by one.
TheCollector
13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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4 months ago
diamond geezer
The exclaves of Sutton
This is Saffron Close, one of the exclaves* of Sutton.
exclave, noun (plural exclaves)
A portion...
5 months ago
This is Saffron Close, one of the exclaves* of Sutton.
exclave, noun (plural exclaves)
A portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part.
It's a very ordinary late 20th century cul-de-sac, not far from the tram stop at Therapia Lane in the vicinity of Mitcham...
Applied Cartography
Mass renaming files in fish on macOS
One of many two-liners to come as I migrate things from the old site onto Obsidian:
brew install...
a year ago
One of many two-liners to come as I migrate things from the old site onto Obsidian:
brew install rename
rename "s/.mdx/.md/" **.md
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Actually Structured Journaling (Jan 2025)
I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was...
2 weeks ago
I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was disappointed by the recommendations:
diamond geezer
Replacing Overground signage
The renaming of the Overground lines draws closer, indeed should be taking place next month. The...
4 months ago
The renaming of the Overground lines draws closer, indeed should be taking place next month. The original intention was for the changeover to be in August in conjunction with a new tube map, but that's not happened so technically it's late. That said, an awful lot of signage on...
Flashbak
Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
a month ago
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
A Beautiful Site
A clever way to style the <mark> element
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in...
over a year ago
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials:
Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
Josh Thompson
Dizzying but Invisible Depth
The following is from https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/dfydM2Cnepe, but Google+ is...
over a year ago
The following is from https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/dfydM2Cnepe, but Google+ is shutdown, so it’s not easily sharable. I’m reposting here because this is such a useful post.
Dizzying but invisible depth
You just went to the Google home page.
Simple, isn’t...
TheCollector
Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Saving
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Hovertext:
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a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Make sure to refrigerate, or it's a little too scary.
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'The Prejudice Against Humor?'
“What is the
origin of the prejudice against humor? Why is it so dangerous, if you would
keep the...
11 months ago
“What is the
origin of the prejudice against humor? Why is it so dangerous, if you would
keep the public confidence, to make the public laugh? Is it because humor and
sound sense are essentially antagonistic? Has humanity found by experience that
the man who sees the fun of life...
Applied Cartography
Content debt
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
6 months ago
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
Flashbak
Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” –...
2 months ago
“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
Joel Gascoigne
It takes hard work. Do the hard work.
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over a year ago
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Something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is the idea of simply trying
harder with everything I choose to spend my time on. It seems like an elusive
thing, the idea of optimal focus and...
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
diamond geezer
100 tuts and a sigh
100 tuts and a sigh
beside the litter bin? Why is your basket on wheels completely blocking the...
8 months ago
100 tuts and a sigh
beside the litter bin? Why is your basket on wheels completely blocking the aisle? Why did you set the ringer on your phone to maximum volume? Who rotated the Cyclists Beware sign so traffic can't read it? Why has nobody rotated the sign back to where it...
diamond geezer
Thames Water
"Sorry, we might go bust next year," is not what you want to hear from your water company. Ideally...
a year ago
"Sorry, we might go bust next year," is not what you want to hear from your water company. Ideally we wouldn't have water companies at all, we'd have one competent publicly owned authority, but we are where we are and this is the shitshow we've ended up with. So I wondered, how...
anderegg.ca
Using WordPress is risky
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about WordPress. Stuff’s been happening in the...
2 months ago
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about WordPress. Stuff’s been happening in the background, but I’ve been trying to ignore it. This morning I read a story that bothered me enough to require another round of therapy-by-blog-post.
First up, a couple of things that...
TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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a year ago
Maps Mania
The Money Mountains of Los Angeles
4 months ago
Rest of World -...
What languages dominate the internet?
The one you’re reading this in, for starters.
a year ago
The one you’re reading this in, for starters.
blag
SQLite Slaps
why SQLite is cracked
7 months ago
HTMHell
#2 div with button role
Bad code
<div tabindex="-1">
<div role="button">
<svg width="28" height="24"> … </svg>
...
over a year ago
Bad code
<div tabindex="-1">
<div role="button">
<svg width="28" height="24"> … </svg>
</div>
</div>
Issues and how to fix them
Setting button semantics explicitly using the role attribute isn’t necessary, there’s an element for that (button).
You don’t need the tabindex...
Quentin Santos
Git Super-Power: The Three-Way Merge
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one...
8 months ago
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one true way to merge MRs in a git workflow. The answer is obviously to rebase for conflicts, and a merge commit for posterity of the MR. What I did not talk about is that there is a...
The Marginalian
I Touched the Sun: A Tender Illustrated Parable About How to Find and Bear Your Inner Light
“One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives...
a year ago
“One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light,” James Baldwin wrote in one of his finest, least known essays. In his exquisite memoir of the search for inner light, the blind resistance hero...
Mazdak
Meta's Fake AI Profiles, the TikTok Ban, Telegram Updates, and Microsoft's $80 Billion AI Investment...
Meta's AI Experiment: What Went Wrong?
2 weeks ago
Meta's AI Experiment: What Went Wrong?
Spoon & Tamago
Spoon & Tamago’s Most-Popular Posts of 2023
It’s an annual tradition at casa Spoon & Tamago to reflect on the year that was by taking a look...
a year ago
It’s an annual tradition at casa Spoon & Tamago to reflect on the year that was by taking a look back at the posts that resonated the most with our readers. In doing so, we try to make sense of the year which, for Japan, was very much a year of homecoming. Japan felt like...
diamond geezer
Ten apologies
I'd like to apologise for the ten posts I could have brought you today but haven't written.
1)...
2 months ago
I'd like to apologise for the ten posts I could have brought you today but haven't written.
1) Visit London have opened a temporary Ticket Shop in Covent Garden
flogging stuff, mainly tickets to attractions and shows, and it looks hugely superfluous but it's not aimed at...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Lisbon's Culinary Scene Rivals Europe's Best Food Cities
2 months ago
Quanta Magazine
The Year in Biology
Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and...
a month ago
Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA.
The post The Year in Biology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
diamond geezer
nonetheless
In January 2020 I wrote a post listing all the places I'd bought a new Pet Shop Boys album. It...
8 months ago
In January 2020 I wrote a post listing all the places I'd bought a new Pet Shop Boys album. It started with me buying Please on cassette from Our Price in Watford High Street on 24th March 1986, and ended as follows.
Hotspot (24th January 2020)
Bought from: Sister Ray, Berwick...
Identity Designed
LiveKit
Designed by The Collected Works, New York.
11 months ago
Designed by The Collected Works, New York.
diamond geezer
847
London's Free Buses
847: Stratford to Here East
Length of journey: 1 mile, 7 minutes
shuttle bus...
3 months ago
London's Free Buses
847: Stratford to Here East
Length of journey: 1 mile, 7 minutes
shuttle bus that runs up and down the Olympic Park and has done since May 2017. It may therefore come as a surprise to hear that I've never previously ridden it, especially as it's very close to...
RhysTranter.com
Rereading The Brothers Karamazov
It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park,...
6 months ago
It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park, sitting under a tree overlooking the river. I remember that it was the Penguin Classics edition translated by David McDuff, and that I couldn’t put it down.
One Useful Thing
How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide
Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023
a year ago
Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023
Nelson's Weblog
APIs for content sites must be free
Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company
like Reddit or Twitter derives...
a year ago
Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company
like Reddit or Twitter derives most of its value from content that users
write for free then it must provide APIs for anyone to download and
manipulate that content. While an interactive API that enables...
Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.3% to 3.1%
From Goldman:
We lowered our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter...
3 weeks ago
From Goldman:
We lowered our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). Our Q4 domestic final sales forecast stands at +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). [Dec 27th estimate]
emphasis added
And from the Atlanta Fed: GDPNow
The GDPNow model...
Retail Design Blog
Linktel Technologies New Campus by ATDESIGNOFFICE
ATDESIGNOFFICE focused on creating innovative communal spaces in the Linktel Technologies building...
4 months ago
ATDESIGNOFFICE focused on creating innovative communal spaces in the Linktel Technologies building in Wuhan, connecting employees with nature, promoting collaboration,...
History Today Feed
The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
a year ago
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
Louwrentius
My experiences with DFS replication on Windows 2008 R2
If you are considering implementing DFS replication, consider using Windows 2012 R2 because DFS...
over a year ago
If you are considering implementing DFS replication, consider using Windows 2012 R2 because DFS replication has been massively improved. It supports larger data sets and performance has dramatically been improved over Windows 2008 R2.
I've implemented DFS replication to keep two...
diamond geezer
Mildmay Weaver Windrush
We're still a couple of weeks away from the renaming of the Overground lines.
On the left is the...
4 months ago
We're still a couple of weeks away from the renaming of the Overground lines.
On the left is the list of Overground line closures displayed at every station this week...
It may look unfamiliar, and the line names may not mean much to you yet.
But I'd hope we can agree it's...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 6-12 November 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Diaries of Note
The prop department are about to fuck up the spacecraft
Released in 1979, the groundbreaking film Alien is indelibly associated with H. R. Giger, the Swiss...
a year ago
Released in 1979, the groundbreaking film Alien is indelibly associated with H. R. Giger, the Swiss artist who brought a unique blend of horror and beauty to its alien species and environments. For much of 1978, beginning in February, Giger could be found in his workshop at...
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: X-ocracy Now
The government is now run by Elon Musk's X
3 weeks ago
The government is now run by Elon Musk's X
Overcoming Bias
Feels Gone Wrong
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me...
2 weeks ago
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me the huge emotional appeal of becoming a musician like them.
Open Culture
A New 3D Scan, Created from 25,000 High-Resolution Images, Reveals the Remarkably Well-Preserved...
Photos on this page courtesy of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Few who hear the story of the...
2 months ago
Photos on this page courtesy of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Few who hear the story of the Endurance could avoid reflecting on the aptness of the ship’s name. A year after setting out on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, it got stuck in a mass of drifting ice...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 2-3 September 2023
A vintage sale, a David Bowie club night, and a wealth of festivals to kickstart September.
a year ago
A vintage sale, a David Bowie club night, and a wealth of festivals to kickstart September.
Louwrentius
Why security is all about defense in depth
Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing...
over a year ago
Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing could be further from the truth. Keeping your systems up-to-date only protects you against exploits for publicly known vulnerabilities.
Your systems are still not protected...
99% Invisible
The Big Dig [EPISODE]
Over its more than 40 year journey from conception to completion, Boston’s Big Dig massive...
a year ago
Over its more than 40 year journey from conception to completion, Boston’s Big Dig massive infrastructure project, which rerouted the central highway in the heart of the city, encountered every hurdle imaginable: ruthless politics, engineering challenges, secretive contractors,...
Spoon & Tamago
Tomohiro Inaba Invites Viewers to Complete the Story of His Sculptures
“To the promised land” (2024) | installation view at YukikoMizutani Tomohiro Inaba is an artist who...
5 months ago
“To the promised land” (2024) | installation view at YukikoMizutani Tomohiro Inaba is an artist who creates sculptures that engage the viewer through their own imagination. Depending on your point of view, Inaba’s works look like they’re either disintegrating into mid-air or or...
Jonas Hietala
2014 in Review
Previous reviews: 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
2014 Geek Achievements
Solved 73 UVa problems.
Won a...
over a year ago
Previous reviews: 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
2014 Geek Achievements
Solved 73 UVa problems.
Won a turn in IMPA and solved a bunch of problems.
Completed a doctorand course about algorithmic problem solving.
Finished my 4 first years in University.
Became a contributor to rust and...
Essays - Benedict...
The problem of AI ethics, and laws about AI
Should you try to write laws, or lay down ethical principles, about a
technology that will be used...
10 months ago
Should you try to write laws, or lay down ethical principles, about a
technology that will be used in entirely different ways, for different
purposes, in different industries? How about if it’s changing entirely
every 18 months?
Eric Bailey
Yes, accessibility is also a backend concern
There is a prevailing notion in web development that the frontend—the discipline of creating what...
over a year ago
There is a prevailing notion in web development that the frontend—the discipline of creating what someone can see and do on a website or web app—is the only place you need to consider accessibility.
This simply isn’t true. Accessibility is a holistic practice that touches every...
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a month ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 7 best free and open-source feature flag tools
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than...
a year ago
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than maintaining multiple feature branches in your…
Luxagraf:...
Wagoneer
My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved.
As we've slowed...
a year ago
My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved.
As we've slowed down our travels though, spending more time in an area makes it nice to have a car to go exploring, run errands, and get to places the bus can't. For that reason we bought a 2006...
Asterisk
The Wrong Kind of City?
How much can the way cities grow tell us about the economic trajectory of their countries? According...
4 months ago
How much can the way cities grow tell us about the economic trajectory of their countries? According to the father of modern sociology, quite a lot.
TheCollector
The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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4 months ago
diamond geezer
Bus timetables are rubbish
TfL run all their services to timetable, but increasingly hide these from the public on the...
5 months ago
TfL run all their services to timetable, but increasingly hide these from the public on the assumption we don't need to know.
"The timetable redesign follows research that shows people want even more simplistic bus information than already exists. People want larger type and...
Farnam Street
Focus to Win
Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas. Focus is about...
over a year ago
Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas. Focus is about saying no. When talking about one of the biggest lessons he learned from Steve Jobs, Jonny Ive said it was focus. This sounds really simplistic, but it still shocks me how few...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Mobile Robot Upgrades
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
3 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
ROSCon 2024: 21–23 October 2024,...
Notes on software...
Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust
By the end of this guide we'll have a minimal, working implementation
of a small part of Lua from...
over a year ago
By the end of this guide we'll have a minimal, working implementation
of a small part of Lua from scratch. It will be able to run the
following program (among others):
function fib(n)
if n < 2 then
return n;
end
local n1 = fib(n-1);
local n2 = fib(n-2);
...
Diaries of Note
France has capitulated
On 22nd June 1940, just six weeks after German forces began their assault on western Europe, France...
a year ago
On 22nd June 1940, just six weeks after German forces began their assault on western Europe, France surrendered to Hitler’s ferocious regime and life changed irrevocably for its millions of inhabitants. One of the affected was Virginia d’Albert-Lake, an American woman who had...
SOCKS
90-Degree Axonometric’s by Auguste Merle (Late 19th – Early 20th C.)
Auguste Merle was an Art Brut artist living in France at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries....
9 months ago
Auguste Merle was an Art Brut artist living in France at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. His works depict imaginary buildings with meticulous detailing, using graphite on notebook paper. The rigorous yet inventive forms are depicted in 90-degree axonometric projections,...
Retail Design Blog
July James Street Store by In Addition
July draws inspiration from the breezy outdoor spirit of Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, where leisure,...
4 months ago
July draws inspiration from the breezy outdoor spirit of Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, where leisure, lifestyle, and experience enrich the built...
Map of the Week
Humpback Whale Migration
The Arctic University of Norway leads the Whaletrack program to map Humpback and Killer Whale...
a year ago
The Arctic University of Norway leads the Whaletrack program to map Humpback and Killer Whale migrations.
Whales are tracked as they travel thousands of miles from the Barents Sea in the Arctic where they feed to winter breeding breeding grounds in the Caribbean Sea. The map...
The Honest Broker
The Most Powerful Sound in the World Is Just One Syllable
And it comes from you
7 months ago
Joshua Smith
Big Bang Fireworks Company
Based on 15 Pell Street, Chinatown, NYC. Beauty of Decay Solo Exhibition, DEW, Adelaide....
over a year ago
Based on 15 Pell Street, Chinatown, NYC. Beauty of Decay Solo Exhibition, DEW, Adelaide. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from Wood, MDF, Plastruct, Cardboard, Paper, Plastic Card, Wire, LED Lighting Spraypaint, Chalk pastels. January 2016. SOLD. Private Collection....
Wuthering...
Daryl Hine's Ovid's Heroines - I, who could a dragon hypnotize
An anti-Valentine’s Day book now, Ovid’s Heroides
(25-16 BCE, somewhere in there), a collection of...
11 months ago
An anti-Valentine’s Day book now, Ovid’s Heroides
(25-16 BCE, somewhere in there), a collection of fictional letters in verse written
by mythical heroines to their no-good boyfriends and husbands. Many end in suicide. Dido castigating Aeneas, Phaedra mourning...
The Marginalian
Making Space: An Illustrated Ode to the Art of Welcoming the Unknown
It is the silence between the notes that distinguishes music from noise, the stillness of the soil...
4 months ago
It is the silence between the notes that distinguishes music from noise, the stillness of the soil that germinates the seeds to burst into bloom. It is in the gap of absence that we learn trust, in the gap between knowledge and mystery that we discover wonder. Every act of making...
McMansion Hell
texas gothic revival
Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages...
7 months ago
Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages but surely will soon be something else. (Please hyperfixation gods, make it financial literacy.) Anyway, I meandered around the nation (online) in search of another opportunity to...
Jonas Hietala
Going to University
I mentioned in the last post that I’m going to the university, which might explain my lack of...
over a year ago
I mentioned in the last post that I’m going to the university, which might explain my lack of activity here and for that I’m sorry. It’s not as hard as I had imagined, and I don’t have that much in school but there’s still a lot that’s going on. For example now how to make...
computers are bad
2023-10-03 overheard overhead
Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging,
public address, even...
a year ago
Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging,
public address, even intercom, although the accuracy of the latter term can be
questionable. It's probably one of the aspects of business telephone systems
that gets the most public attention, on account...
diamond geezer
Rooms Through TIme
The Museum of the Home in Hoxton has evolved again. It used to be the Geffrye Museum, a linear...
6 months ago
The Museum of the Home in Hoxton has evolved again. It used to be the Geffrye Museum, a linear celebration of historic middle-class interiors. In 1998 it extended beyond the almshouses into a loopy extension with cafe and gift shop. In 2021 they added a thematic basement, shifted...
A Smart Bear
For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and...
a year ago
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
TheCollector
What Languages Are on the Verge of Disappearing?
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a week ago
David Perell
Saving the Liberal Arts
We start with their history by returning to the origins of Western thought. We argue that splitting...
over a year ago
We start with their history by returning to the origins of Western thought. We argue that splitting education into two halves — Professional and Civilized — is the only way to think about education clearly. We then outline the evolution of the Liberal Arts, from the ancients to...
The Works in...
The value of family
Traditional values don't deliver babies
a year ago
Traditional values don't deliver babies
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How LLMs work
Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is...
a year ago
Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is basically a simple one-file C…
Posts on Made of...
Stripe's monorepo developer environment
I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed...
8 months ago
I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed to many generations of Stripe’s developer environment – the tools that engineers used daily to write and test code. I think Stripe did a pretty good job designing and building that...
Common Edge
Away From Old Architecture: What Corbu Really Meant
Rethinking the meaning of Le Corbusier’s groundbreaking manifesto.
a year ago
Rethinking the meaning of Le Corbusier’s groundbreaking manifesto.
TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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a year ago
Ink & Switch
Tablet Platform Showdown
Comparison of Android, iPad, Surface, and Chrome OS for research prototypes
over a year ago
Comparison of Android, iPad, Surface, and Chrome OS for research prototypes
Open Culture
The Night When Luciano Pavarotti & James Brown Sang “It’s a Man’s World” Together (2002)
Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown are remembered as larger-than-life performers with an almost...
3 months ago
Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown are remembered as larger-than-life performers with an almost mythical-seeming presence and distinctiveness. But it wasn’t so very long ago that both of them were active — and even active onstage together. In the video above, the King of the High...
nanoscale views
Getting light out of plasmonic tunnel junctions - the sequel
A couple of years ago I wrote about our work on "above threshold" light emission in planar metal...
over a year ago
A couple of years ago I wrote about our work on "above threshold" light emission in planar metal tunnel junctions. In that work, we showed that in a planar tunnel junction, you can apply a bias voltage \(V\) and get lots of photons out at energies quite a bit greater than...
Left To Write
What A Bottle of Coke In A Luxury Five Star Resort Taught Me About Selling
Where Is Just As Important As What
a year ago
Where Is Just As Important As What
The Tao Of Wealth
The Bird In The Golden Cage
A boy buys a bird and they are having a conversation: The boy says, “My dear bird, you live with me....
over a year ago
A boy buys a bird and they are having a conversation: The boy says, “My dear bird, you live with me. I shall give you very nice fruits. I shall talk with you,” and so many things. But the bird says, “No, I want to go away. I want to go away.” The boy replies,Continue reading "The...
This Space
"A mighty, contagious absence"
The number of obituaries, tributes, backhanded compliments and overt smears in the corporate news...
10 months ago
The number of obituaries, tributes, backhanded compliments and overt smears in the corporate news media following the death of John Pilger reveal the state of journalism in our time. [1] Can you name one living Anglophone journalist whose loss would prompt such widespread notice?...
IEEE Spectrum
This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win
The Mechanical Turk was a fraud. The chess-playing automaton, dressed in a turban and elaborate...
a year ago
The Mechanical Turk was a fraud. The chess-playing automaton, dressed in a turban and elaborate Ottoman robes, toured Europe in the closing decades of the 18th century accompanied by its inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen. The Turk wowed Austrian empress Maria Theresa, French emperor...
TheCollector
What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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a month ago
Map of the Week
Pictorial Bird's Eye Map of Banff
Here is a really nice pictorial map of Banff, showing the mountains, rivers, railroads and...
a year ago
Here is a really nice pictorial map of Banff, showing the mountains, rivers, railroads and hotels.
Mountains are listed with their elevations.
A quiet corner at the end of Lake Minnewanka,
and some sky above the ice field.
Browse the whole map here.
The Ruffian
Why Are Americans Growing Less Comfortable With Speaking Up?
The Paradox of the Internet
5 months ago
The Paradox of the Internet
Josh Collinsworth
New Site, New Theme for 2018
Building a WordPress theme (and a new brand) from scratch.
over a year ago
Building a WordPress theme (and a new brand) from scratch.
Max Rozen
2018: Reflections on trying to start an internet business
A review post on what I've done this year in terms of trying to start an Internet business
over a year ago
A review post on what I've done this year in terms of trying to start an Internet business
The Pragmatic...
Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies
Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least...
a year ago
Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation.
Blog - Bitfield...
Iterators in Go
Iterators in Go are a neat way to write “lazy loops”, where we never
generate more results than we...
5 months ago
Iterators in Go are a neat way to write “lazy loops”, where we never
generate more results than we actually use. Let’s see what that would look
like in Go programs, and what new facilities it gives us in the standard
library.
elementary Blog
One Last Bug Fix Update Before The Big One
It turns out we have one more updates blog before OS 7.1 and it brings a number of fixes and a few...
a year ago
It turns out we have one more updates blog before OS 7.1 and it brings a number of fixes and a few small features. We’re hard at work resolving your reported issues to make this release as smooth and shiny as it possibly can be! So read ahead and find out what was new last...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Poet's Hope'
Erica Light
is the daughter of my late friend Helen Pinkerton (1927-2017), the poet and
Melville...
8 months ago
Erica Light
is the daughter of my late friend Helen Pinkerton (1927-2017), the poet and
Melville scholar. We exchange emails several times each year, usually devoted
to what we are reading. This week she reported reading some of the writers and books I’ve
mentioned recently at...
TheCollector
10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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2 months ago
ribbonfarm
Stack Map of the World
I’ve been buried neck deep in work stuff this week, but I did find time to make this stack diagram...
9 months ago
I’ve been buried neck deep in work stuff this week, but I did find time to make this stack diagram of the world, inspired by the xkcd Dependency cartoon. Randall Munroe draws better than me, but in my favor, I use more colors. Did you know most of the high-purity quartz needed...
Beautiful Public...
Design for the People: The US Web Design System and the Public Sans Typeface
The United States has an official web design system and a custom typeface that belongs to the...
6 months ago
The United States has an official web design system and a custom typeface that belongs to the people. This thoughtful public design system aims to make government websites not only look good, but to make them accessible and functional for all.
Posts on Nikita...
P99 Conf 2024
This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but...
a month ago
This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but hats off to the organisers as it went very smooth for me. I presented a talk with the following abstract:
Low-Latency Mesh Services Using Actors
We’re transforming elfo, our Rust...
TheCollector
The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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5 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs Snowflake
Two years ago, Snowflake versus ClickHouse was a straightforward comparison. Back then, Snowflake...
a year ago
Two years ago, Snowflake versus ClickHouse was a straightforward comparison. Back then, Snowflake was fully managed, expensive, and broadly featured…
Londonist
London's Smallest Art Gallery Is In A Phone Box Outside The British Museum
You can buy the art, too.
a year ago
You can buy the art, too.
anderegg.ca
Trying out GoodLinks
The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering...
3 weeks ago
The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering Christmas-mode, and have been looking for a better way to capture things I want to look at later. I’ve had this issue before, but solved it in an ad-hoc way. Previously I’d made...
alexwlchan
My custom <picture> plugin for Jekyll
About seven months ago, I did a complete rewrite of how I handle images on this site.
It’s working...
a year ago
About seven months ago, I did a complete rewrite of how I handle images on this site.
It’s working well and nothing seems to have broken, so I thought it might be good to explain what I’m doing.
For readers: I want images to load quickly and look good.
That means looking sharp on...
swyx's site RSS Feed
If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
over a year ago
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
Josh Thompson
Benefits of helplessness
The last few days were rough, strangely enough. I live in beautiful Golden, Colorado with my best...
over a year ago
The last few days were rough, strangely enough. I live in beautiful Golden, Colorado with my best friend (who I happen to be married to), and I’ve got a pretty cool job to boot. That’s the “big three”, right? (Relationships, work, location.)
Yep. Except from Thursday through...
TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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2 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Sacrifice and Doom'
Scholars of
Russian literature tell us the edition of Anton Chekhov’s letters published
between 1944...
3 months ago
Scholars of
Russian literature tell us the edition of Anton Chekhov’s letters published
between 1944 and 1951 was heavily censored by Soviet editors, filled with
ellipses that signify an excised word, phrase or sentence. Nothing surprising
here. Censorship is an obligatory tool...
Maggie Appleton
Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data
Everything you need to know about what API's are and how they work
over a year ago
Everything you need to know about what API's are and how they work
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Partner
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Humans are the only social animal that is creating...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Humans are the only social animal that is creating fake partners so they don't have to be social anymore.
Today's News:
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
undefined
3 months ago
History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
4 months ago
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
James Cheshire
Being creative is reason enough to try different data visualization
A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not...
over a year ago
A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not be given a second glance. Getting the viewer to work a little harder to interpret and think about a graphic can be a very effective way of generating engagement. This is where the...
Wuthering...
Books I read in March 2024 - Literature was a game of pillaging, and this book showed it.
A nice little run at Persian literature this month. And I am reading in Portuguese again,...
9 months ago
A nice little run at Persian literature this month. And I am reading in Portuguese again, slowly,
slowly.
PERSIAN LITERATURE, MOSTLY CLASSICAL
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (1110), Abolqasem Ferdowsi – See here for notes on this
big epic in Dick Davis’s translation.
The...
swyx's site RSS Feed
BHAGs
Recently, [I asked tweeple](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1158902677289472001):
over a year ago
Recently, [I asked tweeple](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1158902677289472001):
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nitrogen
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
If we survive long enough, most of the atoms in...
4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
If we survive long enough, most of the atoms in everyone's body will have at some point been involved in a murder.
Today's News:
Sean Carroll
What I Look for in Podcast Guests
People often suggest guests to appear on Mindscape — which I very much appreciate! Several of my...
over a year ago
People often suggest guests to appear on Mindscape — which I very much appreciate! Several of my best conversations were with people I had never heard of before they were effectively suggested by someone. Suggestions could be made here (in comments below), or on the subreddit, or...
A Beautiful Site
Don't hate on PHP
It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like...
over a year ago
It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like this:
I [...] immediately drop interest in a project when I see that it is implemented in PHP.
A lot of people have been hating on PHP in recent years, and frankly, they have every...
The Marginalian
Some Blessings to Begin with
It is good, I feel, to begin a new year, or a new day, with a little reservoir of gladness. Here are...
2 weeks ago
It is good, I feel, to begin a new year, or a new day, with a little reservoir of gladness. Here are some gladnesses I have gathered, and two new bird divinations I have made, as a conscious way of consecrating our days with the blessed fact that we weren’t promised any of this —...
Seth's Blog
Revisiting stamps for email
I started agitating for this in 1997 and wrote about it in 2006. The problem with the magical medium...
a year ago
I started agitating for this in 1997 and wrote about it in 2006. The problem with the magical medium of email is that it’s an open API. Anyone with a computer can plug into it, without anyone’s consent. This creates an asymmetric attention problem. The selfish,...
Archinect - Features
Being Laid off in Architecture Is Tough; So Is Waiting To Be
Findings from our recent Archinect Business Survey suggest that many architecture employees do not...
4 months ago
Findings from our recent Archinect Business Survey suggest that many architecture employees do not feel secure in their current roles. For those facing the looming prospect of layoffs in the coming weeks or months, the emotional strain can be as taxing as that experienced by...
The Modern House
How to be more mindful when working from home
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Winter Kit Tournament Linköping
After quite the hiatus from Netrunner I had a chance to join a tournament here in Linköping with 14...
over a year ago
After quite the hiatus from Netrunner I had a chance to join a tournament here in Linköping with 14 participants. The number of players has grown a lot since the previous tournament which is really great.
As I really wanted to win the wonderful Day Job playmat I went with two of...
High Signal
How Allison monetizes her programmatic SEO knowledge
Allison Seboldt is the founder of PageFactory, a service which helps websites grow their content and...
a year ago
Allison Seboldt is the founder of PageFactory, a service which helps websites grow their content and reach with programmatic SEO.
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Six (More) Healthcare Startup Ideas | Out-Of-Pocket
In collaboration with The Generalist, one of the few newsletters I read end-to-end every time
a year ago
In collaboration with The Generalist, one of the few newsletters I read end-to-end every time
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...
This Space
Favourite books 2021
If such things matter, and they don't, my book of the year is Peter Holm Jensen’s The Moment. As I...
over a year ago
If such things matter, and they don't, my book of the year is Peter Holm Jensen’s The Moment. As I wrote in April, it’s one in which the writer seeks “a modest, self-effacing place within the intersection of time and eternity” and can be read again and again for this reason, as...
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 6
Highlights Is It Keto’s user visits plateaued in February, but that still represents progress....
over a year ago
Highlights Is It Keto’s user visits plateaued in February, but that still represents progress. Revenues fell substantially and missed targets for the month. I’m going to shelve the project unless I achieve my targets for March. Goal Grades At the start of the month, I laid out...
Quanta Magazine
Physicists Discover ‘Unobservable’ Phase Transition in Quantum Entanglement
Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are...
a year ago
Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are harnessing that nonlocality to probe the spread of quantum information and control it.
The post Physicists Discover ‘Unobservable’ Phase Transition in Quantum Entanglement...
Londonist
A Chance To Visit The 'Roman' Bath In Strand Lane
One of London's most lied-about attractions.
a year ago
One of London's most lied-about attractions.
Seth's Blog
Holding on for dear life
That’s a cliche from the movies. Dangling from a railroad bridge, only determination and firm grip...
10 months ago
That’s a cliche from the movies. Dangling from a railroad bridge, only determination and firm grip can save the hero. In our modern world, we often end up holding on to ideas, to grievances or to our view of the world. Ironically, the harder we hold on to the things we’re hiding...
TheCollector
10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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4 months ago
Diaries of Note
I can’t find the words
Andy Horwitz had been sitting at his desk for a quarter of an hour when a loud bang shattered the...
a year ago
Andy Horwitz had been sitting at his desk for a quarter of an hour when a loud bang shattered the morning calm. The time was 8:46 a.m., and the first of two planes had just been flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center that stood two blocks from his office. But soon...
Beautiful Public...
Special Database 18: 3,248 Mugshots Used for Training Image Recognition Systems
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained a dataset of mugshot photos...
a year ago
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained a dataset of mugshot photos of 1,573 people for decades, including 175 minors, until we asked about them.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rich
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The second-floor problem remains difficult for...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The second-floor problem remains difficult for him.
Today's News:
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Jubilee Line
Including why they abandoned the name Fleet line.
a year ago
Including why they abandoned the name Fleet line.
devonzuegel.com
Traveling neighborhoods: a different kind of group trip
I've discovered a group trip format that I really love, and I wanted to share it with others because...
9 months ago
I've discovered a group trip format that I really love, and I wanted to share it with others because (a) you might find it fun to host or join something like this in the future and (b) selfishly, I would like more people to organize trips like this so that I can join them!
The...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The Early Days of GitLab - A Chat with Sid Sijbrandij
It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is...
over a year ago
It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is that many of the most successful founders will find…
TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
undefined
9 months ago
diamond geezer
Go To Jail
The square after Piccadilly on the Monopoly board is GO TO JAIL. The accompanying picture may show a...
3 months ago
The square after Piccadilly on the Monopoly board is GO TO JAIL. The accompanying picture may show a police officer blowing a whistle but the person who actually sends you to jail is a judge in a court room, so today's post is about criminal courts in London.
Criminal courts in...
alexwlchan
Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs
About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs.
I wrote...
a year ago
About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs.
I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing.
There’s a lot of spam in the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Watchmen
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The really tough part is when the company...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The really tough part is when the company consolidates and you have to do all the jobs at once.
Today's News:
Hey geeks! You can enter to win a free copy of my new book here!
The Forney Flyer
Congratulations Hannah!
Congratulations Hannah! We are so proud of you!
over a year ago
Congratulations Hannah! We are so proud of you!
Old Vintage...
The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s...
2 days ago
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s couldn't be used. If only there were a way to connect a Commodore 64's audio output directly to an RJ-11 plug ...
Convergent WorkSlate stuff I've got to catalogue. Officially...
Map of the Week
The Coaquannock Map
I will begin Philadelphia month at an early stage, just before European settlement.
via...
a year ago
I will begin Philadelphia month at an early stage, just before European settlement.
via Historical Society of Pennsylvania
This 1934 map showing the homeland of the Lenape people when the first white settlers arrived in Philadelphia, was funded by the Works Progress...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Cleaner ways to build dynamic JS arrays
Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you...
over a year ago
Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you need some items to appear based on a condition. So you add an if (condition) array.push(item). Then you need to shuffle things around and bring in an unshift or two, and maybe even...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Turkish Airlines Launches New Flights to Istanbul From Detroit
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
nostalgia in akihabara
I’ve been to akihabara twice – once in 2008ish and another in 2018 – but back then I was more...
a year ago
I’ve been to akihabara twice – once in 2008ish and another in 2018 – but back then I was more interested in looking at the massive electronic stores like yodabashi and bic....
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
A Smart Bear
Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds
Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead...
4 months ago
Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead you astray.
Retail Design Blog
Milpa whiskey by Monograf
Milpa is a distinctive Mexican 100% corn-based whiskey crafted in the highlands of Oaxaca, embodying...
8 months ago
Milpa is a distinctive Mexican 100% corn-based whiskey crafted in the highlands of Oaxaca, embodying a unique process rooted in...
Arduino Blog
Play rock-paper-scissors using a time-of-flight sensor and an Arduino UNO R4
Owing to its simplicity and fast-paced nature, rock-paper-scissors is a great game to play with...
6 months ago
Owing to its simplicity and fast-paced nature, rock-paper-scissors is a great game to play with friends, and when it comes to translating it into a digital format, many creative adaptations can be made. This version by madmcu forgoes the typical three-button input scheme in favor...
TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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8 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'He’s a Person of Joy, a Fanatic'
Unlike my
sons, I can’t listen to music while working – that is, writing. When the music
is good,...
a year ago
Unlike my
sons, I can’t listen to music while working – that is, writing. When the music
is good, that’s what I’m doing, listening. Otherwise, I don’t need a soundtrack
for my life. I would find that annoyingly attention-splitting. What I do
instead is periodically take a break...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
On goal-setting
2024 has arrived and with it aspirations to "do better". That isn't to say 2023 wasn't a good year....
a year ago
2024 has arrived and with it aspirations to "do better". That isn't to say 2023 wasn't a good year. Not by any means. But the earth has reached the specific point in its trajectory around the sun where we define the year as "new" again, and so we arbitrarily decide that it's the...
Archinect - Features
10 Ghost Towns With Unique Architecture
Cities are like living bodies, each one animated by the pulse of human life. People give a city...
2 months ago
Cities are like living bodies, each one animated by the pulse of human life. People give a city purpose, identity, and movement. When a city is abandoned, its soul departs, leaving behind only the silent architecture, a skeletal remnant of what once was.
While such environments...
Seth's Blog
Foibles
Our habits, preferences and idiosyncrasies make perfect sense. We each know that we have great...
a year ago
Our habits, preferences and idiosyncrasies make perfect sense. We each know that we have great reasons to embrace our ways and stick with them. Other people’s habits, though, show that they are simply picky, weird or too sensitive. The difference between a preference and a foible...
Vadim Kravcenko
Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations
First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for...
a year ago
First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for Developers”, but then who […]
The post Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
11 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
Steve Klabnik
Announcing security_release_practice
over a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
The social justice case for self-driving cars
Abundant mobility should be a moral crusade
a week ago
Abundant mobility should be a moral crusade
Kevin Chen
How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update)
Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience
stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple...
over a year ago
Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience
stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple added support for Suica to Apple Pay on iPhone 7
devices sold in Japan. In 2017, Apple added support to all iPhone 8/X and later, regardless of where they’re sold.1
Virtual Suica...
ribbonfarm
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
I started reading Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes while I was in Istanbul last...
9 months ago
I started reading Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes while I was in Istanbul last November and finally finished it last week. It’s a really solid and absorbing book, and far too dense and rich with detail to zip through, which is why I read it a dozen or so pages...
Quanta Magazine
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
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets
I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for...
over a year ago
I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of tracking on the reader, docks your lighthouse performance...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu
Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can...
6 months ago
Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you can insert an RSS feed.
Last week, I had the privilege of interviewing Daron Acemoglu — one of the world’s most
sancho.dev
Run yarn/npm scripts with fzf
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Yellow Butterfly: A Moving Wordless Story About War, Hope, and Keeping the Light Alive
In his little-known correspondence with Freud about war and human nature, Einstein observed that...
a year ago
In his little-known correspondence with Freud about war and human nature, Einstein observed that every great moral and spiritual leader in the history of our civilization has shared “the great goal of the internal and external liberation of man* from the evils of war” as Freud...
Joel Gascoigne
Use the happiness advantage
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Looking back to...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Looking back to the start of Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], one of the things I
think may have helped a lot with gaining traction fast was to involve users in
the validation process and tell these...
Ferd.ca
Carrots, sticks, and making things worse
This blog post originally appeared on the LFI blog but I decided to post it on my own as well.
Every...
3 months ago
This blog post originally appeared on the LFI blog but I decided to post it on my own as well.
Every organization has to contend with limits: scarcity of resources, people, attention, or funding, friction from scaling, inertia from previous code bases, or a quickly shifting...
Irrational...
Testing strategy: avoid the waterfall strategy trap with iterative refinement.
If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that
prematurely applying...
3 months ago
If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that
prematurely applying pressure to a strategy’s rollout prevents evaluating whether the strategy is effective.
Pressure changes behavior in profound ways, and many of those changes are intended to make...
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