TheCollector
10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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TokyoDev
Recruiters and Human Traffickers: A Short History of Employment Agencies in Japan
Japan's [Employment Security...
over a year ago
Japan's [Employment Security Act](http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail_main?id=10&vm=2&re=) requires a recruitment business to obtain a license. Failure to do so can result in imprisonment of up to a year. While I've met sleazy recruiters, sending them to prison...
TheCollector
6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Wait But Why
The Second Presidential Debate
In case you missed it, here's what happened.
The post The Second Presidential Debate appeared first...
over a year ago
In case you missed it, here's what happened.
The post The Second Presidential Debate appeared first on Wait But Why.
Noahpinion
Will there be a Millennial Big Chill?
Millennials are finally doing OK economically. Will their politics moderate?
a year ago
Millennials are finally doing OK economically. Will their politics moderate?
The Diff
How High Does AI's Revenue Per User Get?
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On Life and Lisp
AAA gaming on Asahi Linux
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi
game playing toolkit, which...
2 months ago
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi
game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86
emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL
3.0.
Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®,
OpenCL™,
and...
Mazdak
Reddit CEO: Third-Party App Developers Have Made Millions, So They Should Pay for API Access
The Future of Third-Party Reddit Apps: Will They Survive the API Changes? Binance.US Lays Off 50...
a year ago
The Future of Third-Party Reddit Apps: Will They Survive the API Changes? Binance.US Lays Off 50 Employees After SEC Charges. Google Bans AI Chatbots to Protect Sensitive Information. The Future of Third-Party Reddit Apps: Will They Survive the API Changes?
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.42.0: Get beta features via our roadmap!
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
over a year ago
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! 1.42.0 update guide for self-hosted…
nanoscale views
The need for energy-efficient computing
Computing is consuming a large and ever-growing
fraction of the world's energy capacity.
I've seen...
over a year ago
Computing is consuming a large and ever-growing
fraction of the world's energy capacity.
I've seen the essential data in this figure several times over the last few months, and it has convinced me that the need for energy-efficient computing hardware is genuinely pressing. This...
The DESK Magazine
The illusion of productivity
"Productivity" is dead.
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
TheCollector
Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Astral Codex Ten
The Early Christian Strategy
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Joel Gascoigne
3 reasons you shouldn't outsource your startup, and what to do instead
One of my favorite things to do is to help others who are at an earlier...
over a year ago
One of my favorite things to do is to help others who are at an earlier stage
[https://joel.is/why-im-helping-startup-founders/] of the startup journey. I had a
lot of false starts before Buffer. I enjoy sharing my lessons from those failed
attempts, and I also enjoy getting my...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Interior Decoration Doesn't Count"
Just last
week, and not for the first time, I had a dream set in Kay’s Books in downtown
Cleveland,...
8 months ago
Just last
week, and not for the first time, I had a dream set in Kay’s Books in downtown
Cleveland, where I visited often as a kid and worked in 1975. I was in the
basement in the general hardback fiction section where I saw the copy of Under the Volcano I bought there
forty-nine...
Quantum Frontiers
Can Thermodynamics Resolve the Measurement Problem?
At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of...
a year ago
At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of Maryland!), during an expert panel Q&A session, one member of the audience asked “can quantum thermodynamics address foundational problems in quantum theory?” That stuck with …...
The Ruffian
Seven Underrated Forms of of Diversity
Different Kinds of Difference At Work
7 months ago
Different Kinds of Difference At Work
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Pivoting into a new corporate structure
This hasn’t happened to me, but I keep hearing stories about situations like the following: 1)...
over a year ago
This hasn’t happened to me, but I keep hearing stories about situations like the following: 1) startup raises a seed financing round while…
ToughSF
Nuclear Reactor Lasers: from Fission to Photon
Nuclear reactor lasers are devices that can generate lasers from nuclear energy with little to no...
over a year ago
Nuclear reactor lasers are devices that can generate lasers from nuclear energy with little to no intermediate conversion steps.
We work out just how effective they can be, and how they stack up against conventional electrically-powered lasers. You might want to re-think your...
Old Structures...
Baseball in New York 4
After old teams, old Brooklyn ballparks, and old Manhattan ballparks, it’s time for ballparks in...
2 months ago
After old teams, old Brooklyn ballparks, and old Manhattan ballparks, it’s time for ballparks in Queens. Despite the modern use of a numbered street system, Queens has street naming that drives outsiders mad, so it is fitting that three of the four old ballparks in the borough...
Uncharted...
The Latest on Healthcare Research
Cancer research, AI in healthcare, aging research, and much more
a month ago
Cancer research, AI in healthcare, aging research, and much more
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Reverse Interview Investors
I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it...
a year ago
I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
Society's Backend
Why MLX is Important for the ML Community
And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
7 months ago
And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
Londonist
Things To Do In London On Boxing Day 2023
There's more to Twixtmas than Monopoly and mulled wine.
a year ago
There's more to Twixtmas than Monopoly and mulled wine.
ntietz.com blog
TIL: enabling features on transitive dependencies (Rust)
While pairing on a small Rust program with a friend, I ran into a problem: to compile to WASM, one...
11 months ago
While pairing on a small Rust program with a friend, I ran into a problem: to compile to WASM, one of my dependencies needed one of its dependencies to turn on a feature.
A variation of this that I've run into in other projects is where a transitive dependency has a bug/CVE and I...
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
4 months ago
Moneyness
How my views on financial privacy have evolved over a decade
I began exploring the topic of financial privacy and payment anonymity in the early days of this...
3 weeks ago
I began exploring the topic of financial privacy and payment anonymity in the early days of this blog. Over the past decade, my views have shifted significantly—here's how and why.
Rereading my earliest mentions of financial privacy, they now seem a bit... idealistic? extreme?...
99% Invisible
The 15 Minute City
In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their...
2 weeks ago
In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their local government. They were wearing yellow vests and chanting slogans about the municipality’s new traffic policies. But most notably, many of them were vocally angry about a new...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 22
Highlights TinyPilot generates $58k/month in revenue yet somehow loses money. It’s more important...
over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot generates $58k/month in revenue yet somehow loses money. It’s more important than I thought to have low-latency insight into developers’ hours. I’m trying paid advertising again for the first time in almost two years. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
Map of the Week
Middle Earth Transit Map
Hard to believe that those dumb hobbits risked their lives walking all the way to Mordor when they...
7 months ago
Hard to believe that those dumb hobbits risked their lives walking all the way to Mordor when they could have just taken the Orange Line.
Oh wait, the tunnel under the mountain is closed
so they would have had to switch to the Red Line at Bree and then made another...
Steve Blank
The Secret History of Polaroid CEO Edwin Land – part 1
The connections between the world of national security and commercial companies still has surprises....
7 months ago
The connections between the world of national security and commercial companies still has surprises. December 1976 – Vandenberg Air Force Base, U.S. military space port on the coast of California As a Titan IIID rocket blasted off, it carried a spacecraft on top that would change...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Your Bit
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
An interesting future question is whether...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
An interesting future question is whether artificial wombs will displace stork-work or lead to increased prosperity.
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Open Culture
See Albert Camus’ Historic Lecture, “The Human Crisis,” Performed by Actor Viggo Mortensen
Back in 2016, New York City staged a month-long festival celebrating Albert Camus’ historic visit to...
5 months ago
Back in 2016, New York City staged a month-long festival celebrating Albert Camus’ historic visit to NYC in 1946. One event in the festival featured actor Viggo Mortensen giving a reading of Camus’ lecture,“La Crise de l’homme” (“The Human Crisis”) at Columbia University–the very...
diamond geezer
The Limit
I have not yet faced the coming of The Limit. It comes to most of us, some sooner than others, a...
a year ago
I have not yet faced the coming of The Limit. It comes to most of us, some sooner than others, a one-way, permanent restriction after which life is never quite so free again.
I'm not trying to be maudlin here, nor am I building up to the revelation that The Limit has come to...
Classical Wisdom
Important Notification
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
Retail Design Blog
Sihe Whisky&Cocktail Bar by Hooold Design
Sihe is located on Xiangyang North Road in Shanghai, within the bustling Jing’an district. This...
4 months ago
Sihe is located on Xiangyang North Road in Shanghai, within the bustling Jing’an district. This street connects Nanjing West Road...
Neil Madden
XSS doesn’t have to be game over
There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game...
over a year ago
There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game over” event for defence: there is no effective way to recover if an attacker can inject code into your site. Brian Campbell refers to this as “XSS Nihilism”, which is a great...
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap, June 2021 (Almost Post-Pandemic Edition)
I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the...
over a year ago
I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the last 8 months the number of tech startups worth $1B or more ("unicorns") has grown by 43% from 487 Unicorns to 701. This is almost double the 361 unicorns in June 2019
The American Scholar
A Poet of the Soil
The legacy of a writer who struggled with his celebrity
The post A Poet of the Soil appeared first...
2 months ago
The legacy of a writer who struggled with his celebrity
The post A Poet of the Soil appeared first on The American Scholar.
Society's Backend
Allen AI and DeepSeek are Taking Off, Professional Advice for Working in AI, Agentic Web Design, and...
Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
a year ago
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
The Berkeley...
How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark
When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could...
3 months ago
When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could jailbreak frontier LLMs simply by translating forbidden prompts into obscure languages. Excited by this result, we attempted to reproduce it and found something unexpected.
The...
David Heinemeier...
X marks the motivated reasoning
I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down...
a year ago
I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down by now. Scarcely a month goes by without some action triggering the incessant bells of doom, ringing from the bellies of bloviating ding dongs. And the ringing seemingly never stops...
Seth's Blog
Dreams, plans and contradictions
Dreams are fine. And dreams involve contradictions. We want this AND that, but both can’t happen....
8 months ago
Dreams are fine. And dreams involve contradictions. We want this AND that, but both can’t happen. That’s what keeps them from being plans. Plans embrace boundaries and reality, they don’t ignore them. Plans thrive on scarcity and constraints. Plans are open for inspection, and a...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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a year ago
Unpacked
Tech's Pledge To Fight AI Election Interference & Twillio’s woes with Segment | EP 6
Last week, 20 tech companies across Big Tech, social networks and AI providers signed a voluntary...
10 months ago
Last week, 20 tech companies across Big Tech, social networks and AI providers signed a voluntary pledge to fight election interference from AI-generated content going through 2024. We dive into the timing of the announcement (2024 is a big election year across the globe), some...
Noahpinion
The best-case scenario for Trump's second term
An optimistic Thanksgiving post.
3 weeks ago
An optimistic Thanksgiving post.
Scott DeLong
Weeks 31-34: Banned
Sometimes business can be boring and sometimes you see set backs, but this is where you...
a year ago
Sometimes business can be boring and sometimes you see set backs, but this is where you perservere.
The post Weeks 31-34: Banned appeared first on Scott DeLong.
TheCollector
5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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10 months ago
Tech and Tea
Is crocheting a stuffy a creative endeavor?
Hierarchy of needs in action, sooner than I expected
a year ago
Hierarchy of needs in action, sooner than I expected
TheCollector
How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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10 months ago
Arduino Blog
Hey Google! Meet Arduino Cloud
We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now...
7 months ago
We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now interact with your devices, simply through your Google Home Assistant: use voice commands, the Google Home app, or create new routines integrating Arduino solutions. This new...
Patrick Kayongo
Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends
The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...
a year ago
The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...
journal – Winnie Lim
my favourite things in hanoi
I thought I’ll document my favourite things in hanoi in case some internet stranger finds it useful,...
a year ago
I thought I’ll document my favourite things in hanoi in case some internet stranger finds it useful, else I’ll just drown in nostalgia some time later when I look back upon this...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stretch
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I think you could write a pretty good comedy novel...
5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I think you could write a pretty good comedy novel about Lamarckian evolution, e.g. where parents find out about a secret tattoo when Junior is born with it.
Today's News:
Mazdak
Unplugging Australia: Kids vs. Social Media
Australia is going offline!
3 weeks ago
Australia is going offline!
Seth's Blog
Indifferent overhead
Every business and individual has overhead. The bills we have to pay and the costs we incur that...
7 months ago
Every business and individual has overhead. The bills we have to pay and the costs we incur that aren’t directly related to our income. You pay them whether or not you’re busy. But there are two kinds of overhead, worth differentiating: Different overhead … the investments that...
Working Theorys
The Co-Sign That Changes Everything
Ascendancy in any domain is a game of two moves: self-made wins and high-status vouches. You...
3 months ago
Ascendancy in any domain is a game of two moves: self-made wins and high-status vouches. You alternate between the two, taking leaps from one step to the next, aiming for that mythical high point (before either crashing down or fading away under the same community’s judgment or,...
TheCollector
10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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2 months ago
Diaries of Note
I need solitude. I need space. I need air.
English novelist Virginia Woolf was fifteen when she began her first diary; by the time of her death...
a year ago
English novelist Virginia Woolf was fifteen when she began her first diary; by the time of her death in 1941, she had filled more than thirty handwritten volumes with reflections, observations, and personal struggles that offer a window into her complex mind. When she wrote the...
Open Culture
How Audrey Hepburn Risked Death to Help the Dutch Resistance in World War II
Audrey Hepburn may not have had the most prolific Hollywood career, but a fair few of her characters...
3 months ago
Audrey Hepburn may not have had the most prolific Hollywood career, but a fair few of her characters still feel today like roles she was born to play. Perhaps the same could have been true of the part of Anne Frank, had she not refused to take it up. When Anne’s father Otto Frank...
Tech + Economics +...
Elon Musk’s freedom from consequences is once again denied.
Elon Musk's X Corp. has hit a snag trying to block California's AB 587, a
law that aims to clean...
11 months ago
Elon Musk's X Corp. has hit a snag trying to block California's AB 587, a
law that aims to clean up the online environment by requiring transparency
in content moderation.
Peter Blumberg and Malathi Nayak in Bloomberg
In an eight-page ruling Thursday, a federal...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Passing Tribute of a Sigh'
“The
cemetery lives an intense, passion-filled life.”
Anyone who
has walked a cemetery and paid...
a year ago
“The
cemetery lives an intense, passion-filled life.”
Anyone who
has walked a cemetery and paid respectful attention -- and I mean as a tourist,
when the visit is not obligatory – will understand. Once I tramped the
beautifully landscaped Vale Cemetery (1857) in downtown...
TheCollector
The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
The Color And Material Palette Of This New Home Allows It To Blend Into The Desert Setting
Multidisciplinary creative studio mxtad has designed a home in Mexico, with a natural and earthy...
a year ago
Multidisciplinary creative studio mxtad has designed a home in Mexico, with a natural and earthy color palette that complements its surroundings. The home, designed for an architect and graphic designer, was built on a site with an irregular shape, however, from the street, it...
TokyoDev
Calculating your growth ceiling
When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers...
over a year ago
When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers signing up every month, it feels like your revenue will keep growing forever. However, as customers will also cancel their subscriptions (churn), eventually your growth will...
TheCollector
Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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10 months ago
Maggie Appleton
A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Maximum Canada is happening
Canada has a nation-building population strategy. Does America?
a year ago
Canada has a nation-building population strategy. Does America?
Citation Needed
Privacy, human rights, and Tornado Cash
I am more worried about privacy than crypto crime.
7 months ago
I am more worried about privacy than crypto crime.
Grow With Less
64 Weak Words and Flabby Expressions That Clog up Your Writing
Weak words are everywhere.
Like ants invading your home in summer, they slip through the cracks and...
over a year ago
Weak words are everywhere.
Like ants invading your home in summer, they slip through the cracks and slowly distract your reader.
They turn fascinating ideas into never-ending articles people can’t wait to run away from.
Worse, they undermine you and make you sound...
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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a year ago
Open Culture
Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future of Online Education in 1988–and It’s Now Coming True
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Though that line probably originated...
7 months ago
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Though that line probably originated with a Canadian novelist called Grant Allen, it’s long been popularly attributed to his more colorful nineteenth-century contemporary Mark Twain. It isn’t hard to understand why it...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Victoria, Oxshott
More often than not, any given world-class gastropub is a good journey away from London. There are...
a year ago
More often than not, any given world-class gastropub is a good journey away from London. There are exceptions, of course - the Drapers Arms, the Pelican, and the Baring are all brilliant places to enjoy a pie and a pint within the M25 - but these are rare. Usually, to find that...
Liz Denys
Where books travel
i
I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen...
over a year ago
i
I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen years ago, but at a higher premium," and deeply internalize my physical constraints for the next six hours. A small box outlined by my seat, the side of the plane with its tiny...
Math Is Still...
Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons
For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new...
a year ago
For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new experiment has found that in at least one strange material, this understanding falls apart.
The post Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons first...
ntietz.com blog
Your app doesn't need to know my gender
So often when we sign up for an application, it asks us for our gender, sex, or title.
For example,...
a year ago
So often when we sign up for an application, it asks us for our gender, sex, or title.
For example, there is a cycling app called Zwift which I use to ride indoors.
When you sign up, you enter your gender.
On the app, they say that you need to be honest because it impacts...
TheCollector
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Gose by Bala
Bala was invited to design the label for GOSE for Cerveza Cru Cru, a beer where the main ingredient...
3 months ago
Bala was invited to design the label for GOSE for Cerveza Cru Cru, a beer where the main ingredient is...
Quantum Frontiers
Quantum Frontiers salutes an English teacher
If I ever mention a crazy high-school English teacher to you, I might be referring to Mr. Lukacs....
6 months ago
If I ever mention a crazy high-school English teacher to you, I might be referring to Mr. Lukacs. One morning, before the first bell rang, I found him wandering among the lockers, wearing a white beard and a mischievous grin. … Continue reading →
The Works in...
The value of family
Traditional values don't deliver babies
a year ago
Traditional values don't deliver babies
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Motorcycles, Cars, Websites, and Seams
In high school, I had a friend named Joe who owned a Honda Trail 110, a small motorcycle with enough...
7 months ago
In high school, I had a friend named Joe who owned a Honda Trail 110, a small motorcycle with enough history for its own Wikipedia page.
It didn’t go very fast (40MPH tops if you’re going downhill) but Joe rode that thing to school every day — or at least he tried, it often...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Exits & Outcomes Is Good | Out-Of-Pocket
moar newsletters
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The best open-source analytics tools you can self-host
Author: Andy Vandervell There's no shortage of powerful open-source analytics tools. In this guide...
a year ago
Author: Andy Vandervell There's no shortage of powerful open-source analytics tools. In this guide we've split them into two categories: Self-hosted…
fast.ai
AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in...
a year ago
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways
ntietz.com blog
RSA is deceptively simple (and fun)
While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack".
This is an attack...
11 months ago
While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack".
This is an attack that Daniel Bleichenbacher demonstrated in 1998, which effectively broke RSA with a particular encoding function called PKCS #1.
It was only mentioned briefly, so I dug in and...
Stat Significant
The Rise of Nicole Kidman, Pop Culture Folk Hero: A Statistical Analysis
Charting Nicole Kidman's recent career renaissance and rejection of industry norms.
a month ago
Charting Nicole Kidman's recent career renaissance and rejection of industry norms.
Diaries of Note
We mutually agreed to call it The First World War
Born in South West England in 1858, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington was forced to...
a year ago
Born in South West England in 1858, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington was forced to retire from the British Army in 1902 due to a scandalous affair with the wife of a fellow officer. Returning to London, he quickly pivoted to journalism and rose to prominence as one of...
Liz Denys
xoxo
You and I meeting
Places to experiment, learn,
failure.
But you and I -
Places and spaces...
over a year ago
You and I meeting
Places to experiment, learn,
failure.
But you and I -
Places and spaces into
moments and memories and
bonds to hold onto
beyond those polygons,
yellow, orange, and red.
Rest of World -...
How AI shook the world in 2023
With commercial tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney becoming widely available, AI was used for all...
11 months ago
With commercial tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney becoming widely available, AI was used for all things wonderful … and worrying.
TokyoDev
How to screen developers
When screening developers at a startup, you have competing goals. On the one hand, you have limited...
over a year ago
When screening developers at a startup, you have competing goals. On the one hand, you have limited resources to dedicate to the hiring process, so you want a process that minimizes the work for you and your team. On the other hand, you have a challenging time attracting talented...
The Marginalian
A Stone Is a Story: An Illustrated Love Letter to Deep Time and Earth’s Memory
We are denizens of an enormous pebble drifting through the cosmic ocean of pure spacetime — a planet...
a year ago
We are denizens of an enormous pebble drifting through the cosmic ocean of pure spacetime — a planet made a world largely by its rockiness. Rock gave us mountains and beaches, bridges and kitchen countertops, gave us the first Promethean fire that sparked civilization. A rock is...
abdz.do - Have you...
Branding for Fluxus: where coffee meets art
Branding for Fluxus: where coffee meets art
abduzeedo0220—23
...
a year ago
Branding for Fluxus: where coffee meets art
abduzeedo0220—23
Fluxus is the newest coffee project from one of the biggest coffee roasters in Turkey. Inspired by the international community of artists, composers, and designers that was Fluxus,...
A Beautiful Site
IE8 burns the Acid 2 test
An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as...
over a year ago
An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as Microsoft is showing more and more progress towards incorporating web standards into Internet Explorer, even though IE7 has remained dormant since it's release back in October 2006.
The...
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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a year ago
Old Structures...
Caught In The Act
This October 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto is titled “Aerial view of Manhattan” but it most obviously...
8 months ago
This October 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto is titled “Aerial view of Manhattan” but it most obviously shows the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. Like a lot of Rizzuto’s photos, it catches the East River waterfront and adjacent areas in the process of changing, even if it was not...
Making software...
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2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website's accessibility...
over a year ago
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2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website's accessibility is the "keyboard-only" audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
Escaping Flatland
Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing
I began emailing essays into the void on 30 May 2021, 53 days before Rebecka, our youngest daughter...
6 months ago
I began emailing essays into the void on 30 May 2021, 53 days before Rebecka, our youngest daughter was born. This writing experiment has followed roughly the same trajectory as the baby. In 2021, Escaping Flatland's prime achievement was putting a few toys in its mouth (a...
A Beautiful Site
Why developers hate being interrupted
I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that...
over a year ago
I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that I had written it myself. Many of the points in it hit home, so I hope it helps people better understand how developers think and what they go through when interruptions arise.
One...
swyx's site RSS Feed
[Newbie Tip] What to do when you 403 during pypi twine upload
I'm pretty new to the pypi packaging ecosystem so recently ran into some trouble pushing a python...
a year ago
I'm pretty new to the pypi packaging ecosystem so recently ran into some trouble pushing a python package:
AFAR Media - Travel...
You Can See the 2024 Solar Eclipse During This 22-Day Cruise
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Don't lose your unreasonable sense of urgency
Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to...
a year ago
Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to launch something from nothing into reality without being incredibly impatient for progress. Thus most founders begin 🎶Their Journey🎶 sprinting from one pressing problem to the...
Drew Ex Machina
Top Ten Posts of 2023
Now that we are at the end of 2023, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on...
11 months ago
Now that we are at the end of 2023, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
David Heinemeier...
Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line
I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They...
9 months ago
I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They are:
1. Chart the course
Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone...
TheCollector
What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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a year ago
Hixie's Natural Log
Indexing into a string
I propose the following aphorism:
Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into...
a year ago
I propose the following aphorism:
Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into an integer type.
Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
The Beauty of...
R.I.P. W.C. (1930s Southern Railway toilets, Havant station, Hampshire, UK)
So farewell then, Havant station’s 1930s railway toilets. It is doubtful whether many passengers...
a year ago
So farewell then, Havant station’s 1930s railway toilets. It is doubtful whether many passengers will mourn their loss, but they are another piece of railway heritage that has slipped beyond grasp. If you care about the story of our railways, expressed through their built...
Retail Design Blog
Purlieu Single Vineyard Wines by CF Napa Brand Design
Purlieu Wines came to CF Napa to create a design system for their Single Vineyard wines. While the...
a month ago
Purlieu Wines came to CF Napa to create a design system for their Single Vineyard wines. While the wines needed...
History Today Feed
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
Noahpinion
The positive case for Joe Biden
It's not just about being anti-Trump.
7 months ago
It's not just about being anti-Trump.
Seth's Blog
Better pockets
Every coat needs better pockets. There are categories of products or services where there’s a...
3 months ago
Every coat needs better pockets. There are categories of products or services where there’s a universal area for improvement. When in doubt, make the pockets better. The interesting work is in realizing that you might offer a product or service where there are non-universal...
Herbert Lui
Just do the real thing (again)
If you want to get good at something, just start by doing it. Today. Sam Altman writes an important...
a week ago
If you want to get good at something, just start by doing it. Today. Sam Altman writes an important reminder on this: don’t outsmart yourself and spend precious time and energy working on fake prerequisites. Here’s an example, from my life, that I write about in Creative Doing:...
Arduino Blog
Arduino and Truesense partner to bring UWB technology to millions
We are excited to announce our latest partnership with Truesense, a leader in ultra-wideband (UWB)...
a month ago
We are excited to announce our latest partnership with Truesense, a leader in ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, known for its innovative software and hardware solutions. This collaboration enhances our ecosystem of hardware products, software solutions, and cloud services,...
Dominik Sobe's...
Feedback, acquisition offer and the journey to product-market fit
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Seamless Terrazzo Flows From The Wall To The Countertop In This Kitchen
Studio Modijefsky has shared photos of a project where they transformed a 17th-century inn into a...
a year ago
Studio Modijefsky has shared photos of a project where they transformed a 17th-century inn into a modern family home in Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands. As part of the renovation, they designed a new inviting, and open-plan kitchen with a cooking island and a terrazzo countertop....
Math Is Still...
An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe
Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves...
a year ago
Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves pervading the cosmos.
The post An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Personalized Health Insurance and the Payer Stack | Out-Of-Pocket
Stacks on stacks on stacks
a year ago
Stacks on stacks on stacks
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Natural
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I'm just saying, going by the usual arguments,...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I'm just saying, going by the usual arguments, cockroaches are way better explorers.
Today's News:
TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
The Convivial...
The Ambling Mind
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 6
7 months ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 6
NeuroLogica Blog
Should You Get a Heat Pump?
Starting around 1550 and lasting through the 1600s, England had an energy crisis. They were running...
a year ago
Starting around 1550 and lasting through the 1600s, England had an energy crisis. They were running out of wood, which was the main source of fuel for residential and commercial heating. England also needed a lot of wood for their massive navy – it took about 2,000 trees to build...
TheCollector
Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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3 months ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2023
The Ware for October 2023 is a Seiko DS-250 keyboard synthesizer. Nobody guessed the exact make and...
a year ago
The Ware for October 2023 is a Seiko DS-250 keyboard synthesizer. Nobody guessed the exact make and model of the keyboard, but it was really entertaining to see the comment thread puzzle through the design. The dual 8049’s caught my attention too, as well as the lack of obvious...
Daniel Bourke
Those days when nothing gets done
A lie.
a year ago
julian.digital
Media Consumption (Apr 2021)
>_ Summary Read 4 books (671 min, -60% MoM) and 33 articles (-23%) Listened to 613 songs (+3%) and...
over a year ago
>_ Summary Read 4 books (671 min, -60% MoM) and 33 articles (-23%) Listened to 613 songs (+3%) and 11 podcasts (704 min, -6%) Watched 6 movies (752 min, +199%), 12 soccer games (1395 min, +105%) and 0 TV episodes (0 min, -100%) Played 1 board game (50 min, + ∞) and 0 video games...
Old Structures...
One Way It Began
It’s hard to over-emphasize how rail-centric New York City was before, say, 1920. In addition to the...
3 months ago
It’s hard to over-emphasize how rail-centric New York City was before, say, 1920. In addition to the subway, there were the commuter railroads, which had many more stations within the city then than they do now, and a vast street-car network. The streetcars are entirely gone,...
Retail Design Blog
Neptune Energy Offices by Parella
Parella designed innovative, collaborative workspaces for Neptune Energy in The Hague, reflecting...
2 days ago
Parella designed innovative, collaborative workspaces for Neptune Energy in The Hague, reflecting the company’s culture with open areas, communal spaces,...
TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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8 months ago
Christopher Butler
Blogging Is Not Publishing It's Therapy
I keep a NOTES.txt document as a catch-all for any ideas I jot down that don’t have an immediate...
a year ago
I keep a NOTES.txt document as a catch-all for any ideas I jot down that don’t have an immediate place elsewhere. It is a digital container that is at least 15 years old at this point. I’ve carried it from machine to machine. Every now and then I go back through it to see if...
Open Culture
An Introduction to The Babylonian Map of the World–the Oldest Known Map of the World
Taking a first glance at the Babylonian Map of the World, few of us could recognize it for what it...
4 months ago
Taking a first glance at the Babylonian Map of the World, few of us could recognize it for what it is. But then again, few of us are anything like the British Museum Middle East department curator Irving Finkel, whose vast knowledge (and ability to share it compellingly) have...
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...
4 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".
Spoon & Tamago
Yoko Tada Began Painting in her 80s. At 100 She’s Publishing Her First Book
“natsu no prelude” (prelude of the summer) by Yoko Tada won honorable mention last year from the...
a year ago
“natsu no prelude” (prelude of the summer) by Yoko Tada won honorable mention last year from the Japan Watercolor Association The painter Yoko Tada is having what some would call “a moment.” Last year her work was recognized by the Japan Watercolor Association, an organization...
computers are bad
2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods
Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some
strange places. There are...
a year ago
Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some
strange places. There are conspiracy theories, of course, and there are people
who insist on their version of events so incessantly that details of dates and
places can become heated arguments. There is also...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Ordinary, Helpless, Moody Human Talk'
Long ago I came
to accept that certain writers will never be enjoyed by certain readers. I’m...
a year ago
Long ago I came
to accept that certain writers will never be enjoyed by certain readers. I’m no
matchmaker and don’t have the soul of a proselytizer. I resent people telling
me what I ought to like. On Wednesday two young missionaries came to the front
door. One launched his...
TheCollector
What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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2 months ago
Wuthering...
Philoctetes by Sophocles - Let me suffer what I must suffer
Philoctetes by Sophocles (409 BCE), performed when the author was 87, which is perhaps why he is in...
over a year ago
Philoctetes by Sophocles (409 BCE), performed when the author was 87, which is perhaps why he is in a mood of reconciliation and healing.
Literal healing. Philoctetes possesses the bow of Hercules. Either the bow, or Philoctetes himself, or both – prophecies are ambiguous...
The Changelog
Asynchronous Email: Exim over NNCP (or UUCP)
Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with...
over a year ago
Following up to yesterday’s article about how NNCP rehabilitates asynchronous communication with modern encryption and onion routing, here is the first of my posts showing how to put it into action. Email is a natural fit for async; in fact, much of early email was carried by...
Maps Mania
The Money Mountains of Los Angeles
3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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8 months ago
diamond geezer
Leicester Square
LEICESTER
SQUARE
£260
London's Monopoly Streets
LEICESTER SQUARE
Colour group: yellow
Purchase...
3 months ago
LEICESTER
SQUARE
£260
London's Monopoly Streets
LEICESTER SQUARE
Colour group: yellow
Purchase price: £260
Rent: £22
Area: 2 acres
Borough: Westminster
Postcode: WC2
And so to the yellows, the 'entertainment' corner of the Monopoly board. One theory has it that their ordered...
The Ruffian
My Book of the Year
Yes, I'm Calling It Early
3 months ago
Yes, I'm Calling It Early
mtlynch.io
Paternity Leave: Month 2
Highlights I’m finding it surprisingly difficult not to work. Sleep is getting a little better. I...
2 months ago
Highlights I’m finding it surprisingly difficult not to work. Sleep is getting a little better. I used Nix to create a slick and reusable fuzz testing workflow. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those...
Kevin Chen
Why we still can’t stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science
Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed
checkout clerk, you...
over a year ago
Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed
checkout clerk, you soon realize that half the patrons leave without actually
checking out their books! This leaves everyone else scratching their heads when
the catalog doesn’t match the shelves....
Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events
A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since -...
over a year ago
A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since - Get Good at Events.
Steve Klabnik
Moving from Sinatra to Rails
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 42
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
11 months ago
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
TheCollector
How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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a year ago
Irrational...
The Engineering executive’s role in hiring.
Everyone in an engineering organization contributes to the hiring process. As an engineer, you may...
a year ago
Everyone in an engineering organization contributes to the hiring process. As an engineer, you may have taken pride in being an effective interviewer. As an engineering manager, you may have prioritized becoming a strong closer, convincing candidates to join your team. As a more...
Seth's Blog
All customers are the same
[and all customers are different.] Customers are why you’re here. They pay the bills and they are...
10 months ago
[and all customers are different.] Customers are why you’re here. They pay the bills and they are the primary driver of your growth. But each adds a different amount of value to your organization and the journey you’re on. The customer who spends 100x as much as the average...
Rest of World -...
When disaster strikes, the world opens WhatsApp
Meta's messaging app has transformed communication in conflict and crisis areas.
a week ago
Meta's messaging app has transformed communication in conflict and crisis areas.
The Universe of...
A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix
Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that
worked surprisingly well. But...
3 months ago
Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that
worked surprisingly well. But it had one big bug that took me a day
to track down.
One reason I find the bug interesting is that it exemplifies the sort
of challenges that come up in systems programming. The...
The DESK Magazine
When our persona becomes our prison
You stand out online by having a “thing.” A certain style, a specific voice, a schtick or a skill...
a year ago
You stand out online by having a “thing.” A certain style, a specific voice, a schtick or a skill that catches the eye of a few people and eventually snowballs you into notoriety.
African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 8
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A Kitchen And Bathroom Remodel For This 1970s Home
SHED Architecture & Design has shared their latest project, the contemporary interior remodel of a...
a year ago
SHED Architecture & Design has shared their latest project, the contemporary interior remodel of a 1970s home on Seattle’s Mercer Island that was originally designed by William Rutledge. The house met the functional needs of its new owners but did not quite suit their...
Archinect - Features
Discussing Paid Research Opportunities for M.Arch Students at UW-Milwaukee SARUP
In November 2022, we connected with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture &...
a year ago
In November 2022, we connected with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) to unpack its Mellows Graduate Research Positions (formerly called the Mellowes Master’s Research Assistantships).
For the 2024-2025 school year, SARUP is...
Math Is Still...
How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It
Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold pulled off the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in...
5 months ago
Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold pulled off the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in science to date, accelerating molecular research and kindling deep questions about why we do science.
The post How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It...
Old Structures...
History From Afar
This is a fantastic, if weirdly inaccurate, map from 1840. It was, according to the text at the...
9 months ago
This is a fantastic, if weirdly inaccurate, map from 1840. It was, according to the text at the bottom, “Published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge”, located in London. I am all for the diffusion of useful knowledge, but the problem with this map is that its...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Don’t be creative about the wrong things
When founding a tech startup, there are certain areas where you should spend time trying to be...
over a year ago
When founding a tech startup, there are certain areas where you should spend time trying to be creative/innovative. Generally these should…
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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8 months ago
AVC
Flooding
I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday...
a year ago
I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday with photos of the flooding at West Point. My dad and brother used to work in that grey stone building called Mahan Hall. And the same storms that did this to West Point did worse...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Conversation Gets it Wrong on GMOs
Even high quality media outlets will get it wrong from time to time. I notice this tends to happen...
a year ago
Even high quality media outlets will get it wrong from time to time. I notice this tends to happen when there is a mature and sophisticated propaganda campaign that has had enough time and reach to essentially gaslight a major portion of the public, and further where a particular...
The Marginalian
Louise Erdrich on the Deepest Meaning of Resistance
"Resist loss of the miraculous by lowering your standards for what constitutes a miracle. It is all...
a month ago
"Resist loss of the miraculous by lowering your standards for what constitutes a miracle. It is all a fucking miracle."
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Art and Practice of Reading Aloud to Others'
A longtime reader in Philadelphia, a retired attorney, tells
me that since the start of the COVID-19...
11 months ago
A longtime reader in Philadelphia, a retired attorney, tells
me that since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown he has been reading books
aloud to his wife, most recently The Wife
of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis. His list of more than a dozen titles includes
Moby-Dick (“our overall...
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...
8 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...
samwho.dev
A Commitment to Art and Dogs
.dog-line {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
flex-direction: row;
width: 100%;
height:...
6 months ago
.dog-line {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
flex-direction: row;
width: 100%;
height: 10rem;
margin-top: 2rem;
margin-bottom: 2rem;
}
.dog-line img {
flex-grow: 1;
height: auto;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
object-fit: contain;
}
.dog-grid {
display:...
diamond geezer
21 gun salute
It struck me I'd never seen a 21 gun salute, and what better occasion than this blog's 21st...
a year ago
It struck me I'd never seen a 21 gun salute, and what better occasion than this blog's 21st birthday? So I headed to the Tower of London to watch the Honourable Artillery Company bang their big guns, officially to celebrate the first anniversary of the succession of the...
weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
TheCollector
3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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a month ago
Seth's Blog
The long walk
Before buying a house, it makes sense to spend a day on foot, walking around the neighborhood....
3 weeks ago
Before buying a house, it makes sense to spend a day on foot, walking around the neighborhood. You’ll notice things you might have missed in a car. Before starting a business, spend a few shifts working the cash register at a similar establishment. And before going into...
A Smart Bear
You're a little company, now act like one
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the...
2 months ago
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#21)
Saudi oil, delayed economic optimism, the EV revolution, U.S. education performance, Indian...
a year ago
Saudi oil, delayed economic optimism, the EV revolution, U.S. education performance, Indian industrialization, and Chinese urbanism
Citation Needed
Issue 69 – Nice
Coinbase threatens me that continuing to report on their activities would be “.... unwise”. Also,...
a month ago
Coinbase threatens me that continuing to report on their activities would be “.... unwise”. Also, election spending hits a fever pitch, with several new crypto PACs coming out of the woodwork.
Arduino Blog
Save 20% on Arduino Cloud Maker Plan this May!
Enhance your IoT projects with our special offer! Get 20% off a yearly subscription to the Arduino...
7 months ago
Enhance your IoT projects with our special offer! Get 20% off a yearly subscription to the Arduino Cloud Maker Plan using code CLOUD20MAY. Valid until the end of May, this deal saves you $14.38, reducing the price from $71.88 to $57.50. Benefits of the Maker Plan: What is Arduino...
TheCollector
Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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8 months ago
diamond geezer
The Taylor Swift tube map
The most important event of the summer, if publicity is to be believed, is the arrival of Taylor...
6 months ago
The most important event of the summer, if publicity is to be believed, is the arrival of Taylor Swift to play eight gigs at Wembley Stadium. Taylor, as you'll be aware, is a billionaire singer from West Pennsylvania whose hit canon includes Shake It Off and several lesser known...
The Convivial...
The One Best Way Is a Trap
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 9
a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 9
The Changelog
Fast, Ordered Unixy Queues over NNCP and Syncthing with Filespooler
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces...
over a year ago
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces ordered execution of jobs that may arrive out of order. After writing this for the nth time in bash, I decided it was time to do it properly. But first, a word on the why of it all....
TheCollector
Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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11 months ago
The Honest Broker
The Ugly Truth About Spotify is Finally Revealed
A year-long investigation by an independent journalist is very alarming
3 days ago
A year-long investigation by an independent journalist is very alarming
TheCollector
Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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6 months ago
Seth's Blog
The strategy sessions
I’m workshopping a new book. For the last few months, I’ve been feverishly writing a book about...
7 months ago
I’m workshopping a new book. For the last few months, I’ve been feverishly writing a book about strategy. Strategy for individuals, small organizations and large ones as well. Strategy for someone seeking to make a difference, and strategy for people who do projects. Starting...
David Perell
Imitate, then Innovate
Imitate, then Innovate is my motto for improving at any skill.
It’s counterintuitive, but the more...
over a year ago
Imitate, then Innovate is my motto for improving at any skill.
It’s counterintuitive, but the more we imitate others, the faster we can discover our unique style.
The post Imitate, then Innovate appeared first on David Perell.
SatPost by Trung...
Jim Simons and the Making of Renaissance Technologies
The philosophy and lessons behind "a moneymaking machine like no other" (with a cumulative trading...
7 months ago
The philosophy and lessons behind "a moneymaking machine like no other" (with a cumulative trading profit of $100B +).
Acko.net
The GPU Banana Stand
Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream
I recently rolled out version 0.7 of Use.GPU, my...
over a year ago
Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream
I recently rolled out version 0.7 of Use.GPU, my declarative/reactive WebGPU library.
This includes features and goodies by itself. But most important are the code patterns which are all nicely slotting into place. This continues to be...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Power of Personal Podcasting
Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
over a year ago
Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
On the Arts
Plastic palm trees and inflatable pineapples
An Interview with Max Ryynänen on the Tropical Kitsch
a year ago
An Interview with Max Ryynänen on the Tropical Kitsch
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Doesn't Want to Read'
In a comment
on last Friday’s post, my friend John Dieffenbach asks about bibliophile:
“Is that a...
a year ago
In a comment
on last Friday’s post, my friend John Dieffenbach asks about bibliophile:
“Is that a ‘lover
of books’ because they are books? A lover of reading books? A lover of reading
certain books? What makes one bibliophile more of a bibliophile than another?
Size of the...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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2 months ago
diamond geezer
Planned closures
An extraordinary number of Underground lines are closed this morning.
By my calculations that's...
a year ago
An extraordinary number of Underground lines are closed this morning.
By my calculations that's 67 stations with no train service of any kind, or 25% of the entire tube network. What's more only 23 of these are getting a replacement bus service. Residents of Stanmore, Turnham...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 15-21 January 2024
Things to do for under a fiver.
11 months ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Londonist
The Great Exhibition Road Festival Returns This June
One street, hundreds of free events.
9 months ago
One street, hundreds of free events.
99% Invisible
Player Piano [EPISODE]
The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of...
a year ago
The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of archives. Manuscripts, photographs, letters and diaries, government documents. Facebook posts, Youtube videos, DVDs. Oral histories. This stuff is known as the “historical record,” but of...
Melting Asphalt
Here Be Sermons
I've long turned up my nose at sermons and related forms of mass moralizing. One reason, quite...
over a year ago
I've long turned up my nose at sermons and related forms of mass moralizing. One reason, quite simply, is that they bore me. Honesty good. Violence bad. My eyes glaze over. Empathy, rah! Racism, boo! Please, don't we know this…
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Where Its Masters’ Love Is'
The late
D.G. Myers and I once talked about the tendency to pigeonhole writers according
to some...
6 months ago
The late
D.G. Myers and I once talked about the tendency to pigeonhole writers according
to some aspect of their subject matter. Melville is your
go-to cetology guy and Edith Wharton took care of sleds. Or, as Nabokov said of
Hemingway’s books: “something about bells, balls and...
Liz Denys
Notes on cone 6 clay bodies, part 2
I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've...
5 months ago
I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've used.
Note that I currently practice in a community studio that glaze fires to cone 6 in oxidation, so my observations reflect that.
Standard 420 Sculpture:
Cone 6: average shrinkage...
Data Boutique
Urgency Factor: Why Timing is as Critical as Cost
The Issues of Planning Web Data Projects
a year ago
The Issues of Planning Web Data Projects
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"The Future of Reading Depends on the Future of Learning Difficult to Learn Things"
Socrates’ complaints about writing included “Writing removes the need to remember”. He meant that a...
over a year ago
Socrates’ complaints about writing included “Writing removes the need to remember”. He meant that a prosthetic brace on a healthy limb will…
Diaries of Note
I am glad to be on planet Earth with you
It was in 2008 that famed British neurologist Oliver Sacks sent a letter to American writer and...
a year ago
It was in 2008 that famed British neurologist Oliver Sacks sent a letter to American writer and photographer Bill Hayes, giving rise to a friendship that ultimately evolved into a deeply affectionate partnership, one that endured until Sacks’s death from cancer in 2015. With a...
Rest of World -...
This Indian state wants to be a tech hub. But the government keeps shutting down the internet
Manipur’s startup community is struggling to survive, with tech professionals moving to Bengaluru or...
a month ago
Manipur’s startup community is struggling to survive, with tech professionals moving to Bengaluru or Hyderabad.
Anecdotal Evidence
"The Saint’s Strange Way to Practice Death"
Among the road
kill I’ve tallied on Houston streets, the most common casualty is the...
9 months ago
Among the road
kill I’ve tallied on Houston streets, the most common casualty is the strangely
spelled opossum (from the Powhatan). The least common, incidentally, is the
armadillo, with two KIAs sighted in twenty years, both being pecked at by
crows. Natives here seem uncommonly...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 047: NYT v. OpenAI
Friday, December 29.
11 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Kate Maxwell
Hello! I’m Kate Maxwell from Design and Draw. I’m a printmaker and freelance Illustrator. I make...
a year ago
Hello! I’m Kate Maxwell from Design and Draw. I’m a printmaker and freelance Illustrator. I make colourful screen prints, risographs and other handprinted goods. You can also find my freelance illustrations on wooden toys and in children’s publishing.
Describe your printmaking...
ntietz.com blog
Coding with LLMs can lead to more and better software
We are in the early days with a new technology.
There is a lot of hype around LLMs, and takes on...
a year ago
We are in the early days with a new technology.
There is a lot of hype around LLMs, and takes on every end of the spectrum.
Some predict that programmers will be out of a job sooner than later.
Others predict that these will just contribute to spam.
Today I'd like to focus on one...
On Life and Lisp
Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today –
with our release of full...
10 months ago
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today –
with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest
M1/M2-series drivers.
Already installed? Just dnf –refresh
upgrade.
Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Myth
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Sometimes I save a rant for 10 years and finally...
7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Sometimes I save a rant for 10 years and finally decide it's not a thinkpiece, it's a stupid joke.
Today's News:
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Ways to Get Outside at Iberostar Hotels, Dominican Republic
a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Austria 2022
Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We
had a lovely time although...
over a year ago
Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We
had a lovely time although we did get a little worn out and ready for home
after a couple of weeks. Along the way we stayed in Vienna, Graz, the
Wörthersee, Zell am See, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Hallstatt,...
Computer Ads from...
Vote for the Topic of the March 2024 Plus Post
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9 months ago
If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
balajis.com
Global Crypto Regulation: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not?
Global crypto regulation is confusing. So I surveyed the information available and created a...
over a year ago
Global crypto regulation is confusing. So I surveyed the information available and created a heatmap.
TheCollector
Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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a month ago
Both Are True
Let go AND let god?
seems like a lot no?
3 months ago
TheCollector
6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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7 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Stationery Award Offers a Return to the Primitive
Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably...
8 months ago
Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably Japan’s most-influential stationery design award, which this year asked designers to look to the past. “If we return to the idea of ‘primitive’ in order to create the future,”...
A Beautiful Site
$.postJSON() for jQuery
$.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response....
over a year ago
$.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response. Alas, the jQuery documentation lacks a sister function that should be named $.postJSON(). Why not just use $.getJSON() and be done with it? Well, perhaps you want to send a large...
computers are bad
2024-08-12 a pedantic review of the las vegas loop
Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention
Center?
I think it is pretty...
4 months ago
Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention
Center?
I think it is pretty universally known by now that the "Las Vegas Loop" is
impractical, poorly thought out, and generally an embarrassment to society and
industry. I will spare an accounting of the...
The American Scholar
“I Have Had My Vision”
Three prompts
The post “I Have Had My Vision” appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
Three prompts
The post “I Have Had My Vision” appeared first on The American Scholar.
Londonist
Check Out This Hand-Drawn Culture Map Of London
ALL the culture. Well, a lot of it.
a year ago
ALL the culture. Well, a lot of it.
Jason Crawford
What I still want out of time management tools
I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system...
over a year ago
I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system for tracking tasks, managing time, and improving productivity.
A personal productivity toolbox is a very personal and contextual thing. I find that my own systems have to be revised...
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, April 2023
A monthly feature. Note that I generally don’t include very recent writing here, such as the latest...
a year ago
A monthly feature. Note that I generally don’t include very recent writing here, such as the latest blog posts (for those, see my Twitter digests); this is for my deeper research.
AI
First, various historical perspectives on AI, many of which were quite prescient:
Alan Turing,...
mtlynch.io
Building My First Homelab Server Rack
Seven years ago, I built my first home server. It made my software development work faster and more...
8 months ago
Seven years ago, I built my first home server. It made my software development work faster and more enjoyable, so I’ve gotten more into the home server scene. I built a custom storage server, another development server, and a dedicated firewall.
At some point, my wife gently...
The Honest Broker
Are There Alternating Cycles of Hot and Cool in American Cultural History? (Part 1 of 2)
And are we midway through a hot cycle right now?
a year ago
And are we midway through a hot cycle right now?
Seth's Blog
Wearing the costume
There’s a huge difference between carrying a stethoscope and being a doctor. And being a clown...
a month ago
There’s a huge difference between carrying a stethoscope and being a doctor. And being a clown requires far more than getting a clown suit. Entrepreneurs with business cards, slick websites and mission statements are confused. That’s not the hard part. If the costume puts you in...
Common Edge
In Warsaw, a Student-Designed Architectural Response to Dark Times
The Freedom Pavilion offers a beautiful way to contemplate peace, freedom, and solidarity with...
a year ago
The Freedom Pavilion offers a beautiful way to contemplate peace, freedom, and solidarity with Ukraine.
Retail Design Blog
Den Helder City Hall by Office Winhov and Van Hoogevest Architecten
At the former Royal Naval Shipyard Willemsoord, Office Winhov and Van Hoogevest Architecten...
a week ago
At the former Royal Naval Shipyard Willemsoord, Office Winhov and Van Hoogevest Architecten repurposed two historic buildings – a neoclassical...
Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
4 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "Ship the app"
I think it's a really big deal that we ship this photos app quickly.
2 months ago
I think it's a really big deal that we ship this photos app quickly.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Can we useRef, but without the .current? Let's try!
Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've...
over a year ago
Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've used it instead of useState to optimize re-renders. But typing ref.current over and over is just annoying. Come on, Vladimir, startX.current is just the same as this.startX in a...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1982/08 Commodore Computing International Mag
Time for some humor
5 months ago
Seth's Blog
The grid of inquiry
Expertise and firmly held beliefs don’t always go together. Here’s a simple XY grid to help us...
8 months ago
Expertise and firmly held beliefs don’t always go together. Here’s a simple XY grid to help us choose where to sit at whatever table we’re invited to: Plenty of well-trained professionals have earned the right to have strongly held beliefs. These convictions save them time and...
TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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7 months ago
Tech + Economics +...
Bitcoin ETFs will make greater fools of us all.
Reuters: US SEC approves bitcoin ETFs in watershed for crypto market
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Jan...
11 months ago
Reuters: US SEC approves bitcoin ETFs in watershed for crypto market
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. securities regulator
on Wednesday approved the first U.S.-listed exchange traded funds
(ETFs) to track bitcoin, its Chair Gary Gensler said, in a...
Uncharted...
The Earth Is Better with More People
A world with 2 billion people would be decaying, poor, brutal, violent, hopeless. With 100B, it...
3 weeks ago
A world with 2 billion people would be decaying, poor, brutal, violent, hopeless. With 100B, it would be rich, beautiful, vibrant, peaceful, hopeful.
TheCollector
Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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8 months ago
Common Edge
Our Cities Aren’t Dead Yet!
Forget the “doom loops,” there are plenty of indicators that urban centers are recovering.
a year ago
Forget the “doom loops,” there are plenty of indicators that urban centers are recovering.
Infinite Scroll
JOB - A theatrical review
A Broadway play about Content Moderation
a month ago
A Broadway play about Content Moderation
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 16-17 September 2023
Comedy, podcasts, fashion exhibitions, Open House and the Great River Race.
a year ago
Comedy, podcasts, fashion exhibitions, Open House and the Great River Race.
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
a month ago
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
The Pragmatic...
Inside Pollen's Software Engineering Salaries
What was the compensation philosophy of the events tech startup, and how much were devs, EMs and PMs...
a year ago
What was the compensation philosophy of the events tech startup, and how much were devs, EMs and PMs paid?
TheCollector
Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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a year ago
Nothing Human
Tolkien on Machines, Power, Language, Love, War, and Everything Else
passages I highlighted in my copy of Tolkien's Letters
3 weeks ago
passages I highlighted in my copy of Tolkien's Letters
Quantum Frontiers
A (quantum) complex legacy
Early in the fourth year of my PhD, I received a most John-ish email from John Preskill, my PhD...
a year ago
Early in the fourth year of my PhD, I received a most John-ish email from John Preskill, my PhD advisor. The title read, “thermodynamics of complexity,” and the message was concise the way that the Amazon River is damp: “Might … Continue reading →
PostHog's RSS Feed
How PostHog built an app server (from MVP to billions of events)
PostHog's mission is to increase the number of successful products in the world. To achieve it,...
over a year ago
PostHog's mission is to increase the number of successful products in the world. To achieve it, we're building a comprehensive suite of analytics and…
Matt Mazur
Friday Updates: Smart Icons, Automatic Suggestions, Dealing with Spammers, Better Icon Colors
Preceden Lots of updates to Preceden this week: Improving the UX for the AI Suggestions When we...
a year ago
Preceden Lots of updates to Preceden this week: Improving the UX for the AI Suggestions When we rolled out the AI Suggestions feature last week, the typical experience for the user would go something like this: Lots of UX issues there though: To remedy this, I updated Preceden to...
Electronics etc…
$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown
Introduction
What is a thermocouple
The GM1213 Thermometer
A few...
a year ago
Introduction
What is a thermocouple
The GM1213 Thermometer
A few tests
Internals
Conclusion
References
Introduction
I’ve been doing a bunch of measurements on oven-controlled oscillators lately,
including their temperature. There are multiple ways to measure...
Making software...
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
2019-05-29
Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users...
over a year ago
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
2019-05-29
Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users have decided to consume information elsewhere. Why? Because the news industry has become a cesspool of anti-consumer and blackhat practices that has eroded trust for the sake of...
Engineer’s Codex
How Airbnb Scaled by Moving Away From a Monolith
4 lessons from Airbnb's scaling strategy, with comparisons to other big tech companies
a year ago
4 lessons from Airbnb's scaling strategy, with comparisons to other big tech companies
Seth's Blog
Widespread resistance
Steve Pressfield defines Resistance as the inertia, stories and excuses we manage to create to avoid...
a year ago
Steve Pressfield defines Resistance as the inertia, stories and excuses we manage to create to avoid powerful or creative work. Writer’s block, procrastination, overconfidence, or a belief in un-delivered talent are all symptoms of resistance. Knowing that it has a name helps us...
abdz.do - Have you...
Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs
Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs
abduzeedo0428—23
...
a year ago
Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs
abduzeedo0428—23
Hungarian graphic designer KissMiklós has created a stunning series of typography compositions that showcase the beauty of serif fonts, letters and ligatures. While they may...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology
“The strongest force propelling human progress has been the swift advance and wide diffusion of...
over a year ago
“The strongest force propelling human progress has been the swift advance and wide diffusion of technology.” — The Economist In the year…
samwho.dev
Turing Machines
body {
text-wrap: pretty;
}
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* {
...
2 days ago
body {
text-wrap: pretty;
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
* {
transition: none;
animation: none;
}
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width: 100%;
display: block;
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 1em;
}
turing-machine...
NeuroLogica Blog
Hunter-Gatherers and Childcare
What is “natural” for humans? It’s often hard to say, and in my opinion this is a highly overused...
a year ago
What is “natural” for humans? It’s often hard to say, and in my opinion this is a highly overused concept. Primarily this is because humans are adaptable – we adapt to our environment, our situation, and our culture. So it is “natural” for us not to have a natural state. But this...
David Heinemeier...
Optimize for bio cores first, silicon cores second
A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it...
3 months ago
A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it might materially lower their payroll for programmers. If a company currently needs 10 programmers to do a job, each have a cost of $200,000/year, then that's a $2m/year problem. If AI...
The Gradient
A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI
A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
8 months ago
A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #20: Why do startups fail?
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Posts on Made of...
Iron Blogger: Blogging for Beer
So, you may have noticed that I suddenly started updating this blog for the first time in a while....
over a year ago
So, you may have noticed that I suddenly started updating this blog for the first time in a while. The reason is that I’ve recently started an ongoing event with a whole bunch of friends around here to encourage us to blog more.
Like so many good ideas, it all started with a...
Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
Rest of World -...
A local ride-hailing service can’t beat Uber and Bolt, so its drivers are beating up their rivals
Shesha was launched as a fair-minded local competitor to Western companies in South Africa. It has...
2 months ago
Shesha was launched as a fair-minded local competitor to Western companies in South Africa. It has acquired an ugly reputation for intimidating drivers and passengers.
A Beautiful Site
Subtle Patterns: hundreds of free backgrounds that tile
I've been using Subtle Patterns for quite some time now. All the patterns are great, and their...
over a year ago
I've been using Subtle Patterns for quite some time now. All the patterns are great, and their Photoshop plugin is incredibly useful.
I can't remember when it first launched, but I do remember when there was only one or two pages to browse on the site. Now it has over 380 images...
Open Culture
Beautiful 19th Century Maps of Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise & More
Even the least religious among us speak, at least on occasion, of the circles of hell. When we do...
2 weeks ago
Even the least religious among us speak, at least on occasion, of the circles of hell. When we do so, we may or may not be thinking of where the concept originated: Dante’s Divina Commedia, or Divine Comedy. We each imagine the circles in our own way — usually filling them with...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 3
Marketing week? More like reliability week
a year ago
Marketing week? More like reliability week
Seth's Blog
Finding the others
Consider purple.space a new community for professionals to connect without hustle. Peer-to-peer...
a year ago
Consider purple.space a new community for professionals to connect without hustle. Peer-to-peer support, brainstorming, community workshops, coaching, dailies and more. Distributed work doesn’t have to be disconnected work. Freelancing, creating, and leading can feel solitary,...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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12 months ago
Noahpinion
Can unions and industrial policy coexist?
They had better learn how to, and quickly.
a year ago
They had better learn how to, and quickly.
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
5 months ago
Wars and ideology simplified
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Demand
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Normally you don't get a flat price, but have to bid at an auction.
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Rest of World -...
The most popular payment app in the Philippines has a side bet: online gambling
The GCash app is ubiquitous in the Philippines, and is being blamed for rising gambling addiction in...
2 months ago
The GCash app is ubiquitous in the Philippines, and is being blamed for rising gambling addiction in the country, particularly among women.
haseeb qureshi
Another decade
I recently turned 30. When the decade began in 2010, I was still 20, a professional poker player, a...
over a year ago
I recently turned 30. When the decade began in 2010, I was still 20, a professional poker player, a college dropout, and deeply unhappy. What did I believe I’d be doing a decade later? I don’t think I knew, only that I definitely wouldn’t be playing poker anymore. I’d be doing...
Seth's Blog
The swag is here
To celebrate the new book, here are some limited edition swag options to benefit good causes and...
a year ago
To celebrate the new book, here are some limited edition swag options to benefit good causes and independent craftspeople. You can find them all at seths.store. I went to Brooklyn and worked with Dan at the Arm to create a set of five handmade letterpress posters. They’re 12...
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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7 months ago
mtlynch.io
Sia-Minio Integration Postmortem
One of the best things I learned from working at Google is the practice of blame-free postmortems....
over a year ago
One of the best things I learned from working at Google is the practice of blame-free postmortems. When something goes wrong, you wait until the dust settles, then write a report analyzing what happened. The report explains how the problem occurred and defines concrete steps the...
Left To Write
Trust Me, I’m A Lying Social Media Performer
The early 2010’s internet used to be so simple. Facebook was used for connecting with friends....
a year ago
The early 2010’s internet used to be so simple. Facebook was used for connecting with friends. Instagram for sharing our pictures. Twitter for our thoughts. And LinkedIn to network. Everything was shown in chronological order. Fast forward to today, and the internet has become...
TheCollector
What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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10 months ago
Seth's Blog
Bob Dobalina
I considered myself someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of a narrow range of mid-1960s TV and...
a year ago
I considered myself someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of a narrow range of mid-1960s TV and certain strains of pop music as well. I was stunned, then, to hear the song Zilch for the first time recently. Mr. Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina. It’s unforgettable. And it’s from the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to turn your engineers into product people
Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our...
over a year ago
Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our engineers are encouraged to think about the what and…
A Beautiful Site
Success Requires Luck
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and...
over a year ago
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and vision don't play a role in success, but nobody — literally nobody — can guarantee that a product or service will be successful. Think about some of the major corporations that...
Math Is Still...
The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences
Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling...
a year ago
Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians.
The post The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences first appeared on Quanta...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
How my pets see me
I created a little animation about how I see my pets versus how they see me.
View on my website
a year ago
I created a little animation about how I see my pets versus how they see me.
View on my website
nanoscale views
Recent papers to distract....
Time for blogging has continued to be scarce, but here are a few papers to distract (and for readers...
a month ago
Time for blogging has continued to be scarce, but here are a few papers to distract (and for readers who are US citizens: vote if you have not already done so!).
Reaching back, this preprint by Aharonov, Collins, Popescu talks about a thought experiment in which angular...
Julia Evans
How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
Hello! I was trying to explain to someone how git cherry-pick works the other
day, and I found...
a year ago
Hello! I was trying to explain to someone how git cherry-pick works the other
day, and I found myself getting confused.
What went wrong was: I thought that git cherry-pick was basically applying a
patch, but when I tried to actually do it that way, it didn’t work!
Let’s talk...
TheCollector
Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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a year ago
Diaries of Note
At dusk it takes on a life of its own
Born in Keswick in 1905, Enid J. Wilson grew up surrounded by the majestic beauty of the Lake...
a year ago
Born in Keswick in 1905, Enid J. Wilson grew up surrounded by the majestic beauty of the Lake District. As the daughter of both a climber and a botanist, Enid developed a deep understanding and appreciation for the natural world. Her love for the environment, combined with her...
Rest of World -...
How RRR’s success brought a wave of Telugu-language movies to Netflix
Netflix in the U.S. now has more content in Telugu than in German, Russian, or any dialect of...
8 months ago
Netflix in the U.S. now has more content in Telugu than in German, Russian, or any dialect of Chinese.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Random Uncontrolled Trials/Tweets | Out-Of-Pocket
I need to deactivate my Twitter smh
a year ago
I need to deactivate my Twitter smh
Rest of World -...
How Prime Video failed so spectacularly in Africa
Filmmakers, critics, and users blame the platform’s struggle in Africa on poor user experience, a...
9 months ago
Filmmakers, critics, and users blame the platform’s struggle in Africa on poor user experience, a lack of local content, and mediocre publicity.
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