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[instagram] there will still be 125 pieces of my love lingering somewhere on the internet i used to be one of those people who would say, marriage is just a piece of paper. but after being...
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i used to be one of those people who would say, marriage is just a piece of paper. but after being with her for years and years through all the tears and laughter it is starting to make me sad that if anything were to happen to me she wouldn’t be able to do things like make...
A Nice (Almost Total) Eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27 How to get information about viewing the eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27 The post A Nice (Almost Total)...
22nd Aug 2026
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A Nice (Almost Total) Eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science

22nd Aug 2026
How to get information about viewing the eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27 The post A Nice (Almost Total) Eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27 appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
My favorite type of designers There are many types of GREAT designers I've had the pleasure of working with over the past two...
16th Dec 2025
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My favorite type of designers

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

16th Dec 2025
There are many types of GREAT designers I've had the pleasure of working with over the past two decades and what I learned is that they are all not measured equally. Below are some of my favorites for the various circumstances. (FYI: very rarely does a designer inherit
Guix for development This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange...
23rd Sep 2022
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Guix for development

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Sep 2022
This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange website front page recently. I left a comment to the effect of “hell yeah I use it for all my projects!” and someone asked me for an example of what I do. I sent them some links...
Consequentialism Consequentialism became the most popular approach to ethics following the Age of Enlightenment....
10th May 2020
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Consequentialism

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

10th May 2020
Consequentialism became the most popular approach to ethics following the Age of Enlightenment. Writers in the late 18th and early 19th century saw how strict, rule-based, duty-bound theories of ethics resulted in contradictory and often destructive behavior. After Napoleon’s...
Rough Experiments with Llamafile and LLaVA 1.5 I read Simon Willison’s post about using Llamafile to experiment with open-source chatbots / LLMs....
2nd Dec 2023
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Rough Experiments with Llamafile and LLaVA 1.5

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

2nd Dec 2023
I read Simon Willison’s post about using Llamafile to experiment with open-source chatbots / LLMs. He made it sound so easy, so I decided to try it out. One of my longtime hobby projects is WanderJest, a site for finding live comedy. One of the challenges of that site is that the...
The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
3rd Dec 2024
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The Assassination of Malcolm X

from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Dec 2024
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
Policy Debt: The Missing Massive Strong Towns says "yes" to big buildings near transit stations. However, it's a debt coming due, not...
3rd Aug 2026
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Policy Debt: The Missing Massive

from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3rd Aug 2026
Strong Towns says "yes" to big buildings near transit stations. However, it's a debt coming due, not a victory.
Nuances of Minimalism Minimalism can be perceived in different ways, as it should be, because there are in fact many...
3rd Aug 2021
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Nuances of Minimalism

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Aug 2021
Minimalism can be perceived in different ways, as it should be, because there are in fact many nuances to the movement. Is it even a movement? It’s perhaps better described as a guiding principle. Some of these nuances are highly commercial, some are focused on personal wellbeing...
8th Mar 2026
Tilting my mirror (motivation is delicate) Motivation is delicate. An hour outside my city, there’s a little mountain range. The other side...
5th Dec 2016
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Tilting my mirror (motivation is delicate)

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Dec 2016
Motivation is delicate. An hour outside my city, there’s a little mountain range. The other side is gorgeous. But the road that crosses the mountains is very twisted, with sharp turns every few seconds. The first two times I drove across, my kid threw up in the back...
Programmable Notes Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
18th Mar 2022
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Programmable Notes

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Mar 2022
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
Automated Prosper Investing with ProsperBot Overview I started investing in peer to peer lending in 2014 through a site called Prosper. I...
26th Nov 2016
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Automated Prosper Investing with ProsperBot

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

26th Nov 2016
Overview I started investing in peer to peer lending in 2014 through a site called Prosper. I thought peer to peer lending was a neat idea and could potentially earn lucrative returns. When I began, I chose each of my loan investments manually, but over time, I have automated...
I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It In 2020, I built my first side project. I scratched my own itch, then started selling it, and since...
19th Aug 2024
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I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Aug 2024
In 2020, I built my first side project. I scratched my own itch, then started selling it, and since then, the project has earned me over $15,000. But a few months after releasing it, I was so tired of the maintenance that I wanted to shut it down. Here is a story about my short...
Pregnancy taught me a lot about healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket A personal story and a patient journey
3rd Aug 2026
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Pregnancy taught me a lot about healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd Aug 2026
A personal story and a patient journey
The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts A bit of a rant about Apple
25th Jan 2023
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The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jan 2023
A bit of a rant about Apple
A boxed set of DR DOS 6! I feel like I righted a wrong in some small way recently. It also gives me an excuse to write...
1st Sep 2026
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A boxed set of DR DOS 6!

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Sep 2026
I feel like I righted a wrong in some small way recently. It also gives me an excuse to write another of my shaggy dog posts about old computers, which I’ll never pass up the opportunity to do. Behold, our boxed copy of Digital Research DOS 6.0 from 1992: The first OS I ever...
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
28th Dec 2024
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Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Dec 2024
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm. A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You Posted on May 12, 2025 This post is from a legacy...
12th May 2025
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Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You

from videah.net [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th May 2025
Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You Posted on May 12, 2025 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No changes have been made to the content in the migration, so things might read weird. Plex has this Relay feature that basically pipes your traffic through...
Singing Style Transfer Initial Experiments
22nd Mar 2017
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Singing Style Transfer

from Made by Ollin [alt+shift+b] in AI

22nd Mar 2017
Initial Experiments
A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning I've never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What's my purpose? or What...
11th Jul 2016
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A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning

from Melting Asphalt [alt+shift+b] in science

11th Jul 2016
I've never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What's my purpose? or What does it all mean? Growing up I was a very science-minded kid — still am — and from an early age I learned… Read more ›
What Is A Good Programmer? Am I a good programmer? The short answer is: I don’t know what that means. I have been programming...
27th Jul 2025
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What Is A Good Programmer?

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jul 2025
Am I a good programmer? The short answer is: I don’t know what that means. I have been programming for 52 years now, having started in a public high school class in 1973, which is pretty rare because few high schools offered such an opportunity back then. I
Welcome, Prashanth! Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
24th Sep 2019
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Welcome, Prashanth!

from Joel on Software [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Sep 2019
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
Projection Connections: A Very Nerdy Poster Friends, I’m excited to offer to you a new poster. Not a map this time around, but something...
19th Dec 2022
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Projection Connections: A Very Nerdy Poster

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

19th Dec 2022
Friends, I’m excited to offer to you a new poster. Not a map this time around, but something map-related. A 16 × 24-inch tangled web showing how 100+ different map projections are all related to each other: Projections are a niche topic even among cartographers, so I don’t...
Luko's World Last week we lost our dog, Luko (a shortened version of an overly long-winded name he came with.)...
5th Feb 2025
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Luko's World

from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography

5th Feb 2025
Last week we lost our dog, Luko (a shortened version of an overly long-winded name he came with.) Lots of people will tell you they have the best dog but he was truly one of a kind. Completely sweet and a delight to all who have known him. A few years ago I made a colored...
17 Reasons NOT To Be A Manager Yesterday we had a super fun meetup here at Intercom in Dublin.  We split up into small discussion...
8th Sep 2019
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17 Reasons NOT To Be A Manager

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Sep 2019
Yesterday we had a super fun meetup here at Intercom in Dublin.  We split up into small discussion groups and talked about things related to managing teams and being a senior individual contributor (IC), and going back and forth throughout your career. One interesting question...
Stay in the driver's seat (AI as co-pilot, not autopilot) Meet Raydian, a full-stack AI platform that keeps you in control while bringing ideas to life
25th Nov 2025
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Stay in the driver's seat (AI as co-pilot, not autopilot)

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

25th Nov 2025
Meet Raydian, a full-stack AI platform that keeps you in control while bringing ideas to life
The “const” Deception The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change....
24th Apr 2023
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The “const” Deception

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Apr 2023
The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the incredibly-important distinction between...
Decisions and Dollars Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 yesterday, the first Mythos-class model the public can use.
12th Jun 2026
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Decisions and Dollars

from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Jun 2026
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 yesterday, the first Mythos-class model the public can use.
The subtle shade of the clouds Garlic takes six to seven months to grow. I’m still working it out. I planted my garlic too...
27th Nov 2023
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The subtle shade of the clouds

from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life

27th Nov 2023
Garlic takes six to seven months to grow. I’m still working it out. I planted my garlic too late. Not the farm garlic though. They’ve had practice. Over a thousand bulbs this year, maybe more. Tens of thousands of cloves. Garlic is the biggest harvest of
Make it invisible Our approach to building products may seem counterintuitive. Our goal is to make a product so good,...
5th Oct 2022
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Make it invisible

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

5th Oct 2022
Our approach to building products may seem counterintuitive. Our goal is to make a product so good, you don't think about the product at all.
It's All Smiles The production is too glitchy & clever to be pleasant or interesting, which in of itself is not a...
1st Dec 2021
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It's All Smiles

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2021
The production is too glitchy & clever to be pleasant or interesting, which in of itself is not a huge deal except that the lyrics & vocals are so featherweight that it's not worth the effort of digestion.
Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
4th Jun 2019
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Using User-Select

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2019
Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property? Introducing the CSS property Simply put, the...
What it's like to make and launch a product, for me. <p>I've been making Saas products since 2013. My very first product was a project management tool...
19th Apr 2021
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What it's like to make and launch a product, for me.

from Val Sopi [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

19th Apr 2021
<p>I've been making Saas products since 2013. My very first product was a project management tool that included invoicing, time-tracking, and a plethora of other functions.</p> <p>The idea was to be better than others at cheaper prices. Whatever "better" and "cheaper"...
Copper and Green Energy The United States Department of Energy has updated its list of critically important materials. The...
1st Jul 2024
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Copper and Green Energy

from Tikalon Blog by Dev Gualtieri [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Jul 2024
The United States Department of Energy has updated its list of critically important materials. The current list of 54 materials includes elements that are presently critical to a transition to green energy, such as the rare earth elements important to turbine generators, and...
How to think about evals Today was the first session of Hamel + Shreya’s course, “AI Evals for Engineers and PMs”. The first...
19th May 2025
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How to think about evals

from Alex Strick van Linschoten [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th May 2025
Today was the first session of Hamel + Shreya’s course, “AI Evals for Engineers and PMs”. The first session was all about mental models for thinking about the topic as a whole, mixed in with some teasers of practical examples and advice. I’ll try to keep up with blogging about...
New London bus maps Unbelievably it's been 10 years since TfL last bothered to print a set of London bus maps. Ten whole...
1st Apr 2026
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New London bus maps

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

1st Apr 2026
Unbelievably it's been 10 years since TfL last bothered to print a set of London bus maps. Ten whole years. they just stopped. No good reason was ever given, although saving money probably had a lot to do with it. the 2016 quadrant maps when travelling around London, they're...
Veeam Backup & Response - RCE With Auth, But Mostly Without Auth (CVE-2024-40711) Every sysadmin is familiar with Veeam’s enterprise-oriented backup solution, ‘Veeam Backup &...
9th Sep 2024
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9th Sep 2024
Every sysadmin is familiar with Veeam’s enterprise-oriented backup solution, ‘Veeam Backup & Replication’. Unfortunately, so is every ransomware operator, given it's somewhat 'privileged position' in the storage world of most enterprise's networks. There's no point deploying...
Albert's Nature Reserve Spring is here. Time to get radio active.
22nd Apr 2025
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Albert's Nature Reserve

from OH8HUB’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Apr 2025
Spring is here. Time to get radio active.
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Why Vacation to Corpus Christi, TX in the Fall

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

3rd Jul 2024
#13: GoogleWhacking It has blocked a total of 2.337 Million network requests in the last 3 years for me. That is an...
5th Mar 2022
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#13: GoogleWhacking

from Pea Bee [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Mar 2022
It has blocked a total of 2.337 Million network requests in the last 3 years for me. That is an astonishing no. of ads and trackers. The 21% here means that for every 5 network requests made on a webpage I opened, roughly one of them was for an ad or a tracker. 1 in 5!!!
The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe" What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources...
1st Feb 2025
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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2025
What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources agree that the term is related to the frames that held early computers, but the details are vague.1 It turns out that the history is more interesting and complicated than you'd...
Twitter in 2007: The Open Platform That Wasn't The first wave of people to join Twitter was in March 2007, when it became the trendy app at the...
25th May 2023
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Twitter in 2007: The Open Platform That Wasn't

from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history

25th May 2023
The first wave of people to join Twitter was in March 2007, when it became the trendy app at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. I hadn’t gone to SXSW that year, but I arrived in San Francisco the month after for Web 2.0 Expo. I don’t recall who told me about Twitter (it...
How often should you send your newsletter? Consistency, timing, psychology, resources.. everything you need to make your decision on how often...
4th Mar 2024
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How often should you send your newsletter?

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2024
Consistency, timing, psychology, resources.. everything you need to make your decision on how often to publish.
Everything Is a Spy Device and OpenAI’s New o1 Model Notes From the Desk: No. 35 - 2024.10.03
4th Oct 2024
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Everything Is a Spy Device and OpenAI’s New o1 Model

from Mind Prison: Notes From the Desk [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Oct 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 35 - 2024.10.03
Before and after Almost Perfect At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in...
8th Jul 2024
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Before and after Almost Perfect

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2024
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in Tokyo, run by Luis and Yuka. This week Luis and Yuka published a podcast we recorded during my resi...
The Machu Picchu of Japan—and Other Sites that Compare Themselves to World-Famous Destinations See the World Without Ever Leaving Japan There are several remote corners of Japan that have been...
1st Jun 2025
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1st Jun 2025
See the World Without Ever Leaving Japan There are several remote corners of Japan that have been comparing themselves to world-famous tourist destinations. Whether it’s out of pride, a bid to attract tourists, or just a good sense of humor, their reasons vary. But that’s not to...
The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
14th Sep 2026
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The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents

from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Sep 2026
A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
Refactoring won't save you from a layoff With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the...
1st Mar 2025
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Refactoring won't save you from a layoff

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Mar 2025
With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the Trump-voting federal employees who are just now…
Drawing the Future The ingenuity of industrial designers like Jerry Nichols helped Silicon Valley embrace mass...
16th Jan 2026
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Drawing the Future

from CHM [alt+shift+b] in history

16th Jan 2026
The ingenuity of industrial designers like Jerry Nichols helped Silicon Valley embrace mass production in the 1960s and early 1970s, transforming the Valley and the world. The post Drawing the Future appeared first on CHM.
15th May 2023
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How to get (micro) acquired?

from Leteyski's blog [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

15th May 2023
Introduction
Power Cut A week ago, analyst TD Cowen revealed that Microsoft had canceled leases "totalling a couple hundred...
3rd Mar 2025
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Power Cut

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Mar 2025
A week ago, analyst TD Cowen revealed that Microsoft had canceled leases "totalling a couple hundred MWs," with "at least two private data center operators across multiple US markets." The report also details how Microsoft "pulled back on converting negotiated and signed...
The grief when AI writes most of the code When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? There is grief involved for us...
7th Jan 2026
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The grief when AI writes most of the code

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jan 2026
When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? There is grief involved for us developers, that's for sure.
Software is Polluting the World Sustainable UX: A design approach to reducing carbon emissions
29th Apr 2020
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Software is Polluting the World

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Apr 2020
Sustainable UX: A design approach to reducing carbon emissions
Vision of the Womb and Vision of the Brain: H.D. on the Two Kinds of Seeing and the Key to Over-mind... “One must be a seer, make oneself a seer,” Arthur Rimbaud wrote, “by a long, gigantic and rational...
2nd Jul 2025
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2nd Jul 2025
“One must be a seer, make oneself a seer,” Arthur Rimbaud wrote, “by a long, gigantic and rational derangement of all the senses.” As more and more of our senses are being amputated by the blade of our image-centric culture, reducing the vast and delicate sensorium of human...
Habits, Milestones, and Climbing Since April 9th, I have spent exactly 70 minutes training for climbing. Prior to April 27th, I have...
1st May 2013
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Habits, Milestones, and Climbing

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st May 2013
Since April 9th, I have spent exactly 70 minutes training for climbing. Prior to April 27th, I have climbed exactly seven times in the last five months. I just spent two days at the New River Gorge and exceeded my expectations, considering my almost half-year hiatus from regular...
New GeoCurrents Series on Elementary Geography As regular readers probably noticed, GeoCurrents abruptly ceased posting at the end of July, 2025,...
15th Oct 2025
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New GeoCurrents Series on Elementary Geography

from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography

15th Oct 2025
As regular readers probably noticed, GeoCurrents abruptly ceased posting at the end of July, 2025, just after having promised a new series on the Druze. Family considerations figured prominently in this cessation. A few months earlier, my son and daughter-in-law announced that...
Recent forays into developer productivity I've written before about my posture around LLMs being mostly summarizable as design your systems...
1st Feb 2026
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Recent forays into developer productivity

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2026
I've written before about my posture around LLMs being mostly summarizable as design your systems and abstractions to accommodate an infinite number of junior engineers.
Publish Your Drafts When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating...
2nd Mar 2023
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Publish Your Drafts

from Max Countryman [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2023
When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating at times to share unfinished work because it hasn't reached a level of polish that satisfies me. But the truth is, our unpublished work has no value to anyone.
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
9th Jan 2023
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jan 2023
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor’s suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
15th Oct 2024
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Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Oct 2024
finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
A Simple Thought I wrote that we where doing some microprogramming, making the processor work etc. We had a lab about...
2nd Feb 2012
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A Simple Thought

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Feb 2012
I wrote that we where doing some microprogramming, making the processor work etc. We had a lab about that yesterday and I was very, very nervous. The preparations weren’t that hard, but they where very bothersome. Converting the instructions to binary/hex by hand is never nice....
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework that is widely adopted in large software companies. I...
11th Dec 2023
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I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC

from Dylan Huang Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Dec 2023
gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework that is widely adopted in large software companies. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on gRPC to understand what developers think about it. Here is what I found.
The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero? I lost my position as global minister for future generations because I spent my effort points to...
5th May 2022
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The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero?

from Koos Looijesteijn - Everything [alt+shift+b] in design

5th May 2022
I lost my position as global minister for future generations because I spent my effort points to fast to reach net zero.
Pilo Designed by 5.5, Paris.
30th Jun 2023
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Pilo

from Identity Designed [alt+shift+b] in design

30th Jun 2023
Designed by 5.5, Paris.
Let ChatGPT generate your newsletter... Let ChatGPT generate your newsletter...
1st May 2023
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Let ChatGPT generate your newsletter...

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2023
Let ChatGPT generate your newsletter...
Did Israel's War Kill Zionism? I recently stumbled upon an analysis of the Iran-Israel war that I found to be one of the most...
1st Jul 2025
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Did Israel's War Kill Zionism?

from Arnaud Bertrand [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Jul 2025
I recently stumbled upon an analysis of the Iran-Israel war that I found to be one of the most thought-provoking I’d heard to date.
The Overhang Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
18th Sep 2026
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The Overhang

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

18th Sep 2026
Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
Password Rules Are Bullshit Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If...
10th Mar 2017
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Password Rules Are Bullshit

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Mar 2017
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost pic.twitter.com/Tf9EnwgoZv — Jeff Atwood
TikTok and the Sorting Hat I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people...
4th Aug 2020
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2020
I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent. It’s more that in many situations when people ascribe causal power to something other than culture, I’m...
Designing a New Old Home: Light In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have...
12th Apr 2023
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Designing a New Old Home: Light

from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life

12th Apr 2023
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. — Robert Louis Stevenson, Bed in Summer This post is part of a series about building a house that looks and feels traditional in New Hampshire. However, this...
January, 2025 Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
5th Jan 2025
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January, 2025

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Jan 2025
Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
First, Do Harm It’s doubly tragic that just days before Easter there’s need to address the appalling fact that more...
2nd Apr 2026
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First, Do Harm

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2026
It’s doubly tragic that just days before Easter there’s need to address the appalling fact that more and more countries in the world, and a dozen states, now have laws that allow the killing of killing their citizens and residents.
Setting the Business Expertise Series Free Removing the paywall on The Business Expertise Series, which covers the work of Lia DiBello and her...
6th Jun 2023
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Setting the Business Expertise Series Free

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

6th Jun 2023
Removing the paywall on The Business Expertise Series, which covers the work of Lia DiBello and her collaborators.
Activist Investing in Asian Conglomerates How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators?...
3rd Mar 2025
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Activist Investing in Asian Conglomerates

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

3rd Mar 2025
How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators? We examine the career of one activist investor, to see what that tells us about the Asian tycoons we’ve been studying.
A Few Minor Niceties I recently finished up a first draft of a piece for a client, a map that gave me a chance to try...
4th Aug 2026
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A Few Minor Niceties

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

4th Aug 2026
I recently finished up a first draft of a piece for a client, a map that gave me a chance to try some new things and also exercise some cartographic muscles that I haven’t for a while. So, today, I wanted to just highlight a few interesting odds and ends that came up during the …...
Supposedly-Deceased Intellectuals Found Living at Resort ‘Small Village’ of Supposedly-Deceased Intellectuals Found Alive, Thriving at Caribbean...
8th Aug 2024
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Supposedly-Deceased Intellectuals Found Living at Resort

from Steven Scrawls [alt+shift+b] in literature

8th Aug 2024
‘Small Village’ of Supposedly-Deceased Intellectuals Found Alive, Thriving at Caribbean Resort Gabriel Martinez, a 35-year-old confectioner living in the Cayman Islands, thought he was posting a simple promotional photo when he snapped a picture of his ‘cocoa-banana-surprise’ and...
Opsmas 2025 Day 1: haproxy & mpreg Opsmas 2025 Day 1: new haproxy config system & mpreg TOC: haproxy-translate mpreg merry opsmas...
12th Dec 2025
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Opsmas 2025 Day 1: haproxy & mpreg

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Dec 2025
Opsmas 2025 Day 1: new haproxy config system & mpreg TOC: haproxy-translate mpreg merry opsmas 2025. this year i’ve created (somehow) more code than ever before including both new projects and cleaning up existing/abandoned projects. I’d like to announce/release about 20 new...
Offline Music People sometimes act suprised when I tell them about my music hobby, manually converting CD's to...
16th Jul 2022
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Offline Music

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Jul 2022
People sometimes act suprised when I tell them about my music hobby, manually converting CD's to lossless audio files; there is some reason to this madness however!
Cognition: The Devin is in the Details My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a...
8th Sep 2025
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Cognition: The Devin is in the Details

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Sep 2025
My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a lot of sleep, so pardon poor pacing and structure and typos and mistakes but just getting it out there.
Trump-proofing Canada means ditching MasterCard and Visa We're all busy doing our best to boycott U.S. products. I can't buy Special K cereal anymore,...
14th Mar 2025
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Trump-proofing Canada means ditching MasterCard and Visa

from Moneyness [alt+shift+b] in finance

14th Mar 2025
We're all busy doing our best to boycott U.S. products. I can't buy Special K cereal anymore, because it's made in the U.S. by Kellogg's. But I'm still buying Shreddies, which is made in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Even that's a grey area, since Shreddies is owned by Post, a big...
Full Time Indie Hacking: First 3 Months in Review At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS...
10th Apr 2023
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Full Time Indie Hacking: First 3 Months in Review

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Apr 2023
At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker tool that I had been running mostly as a side project since 2010. It’s April now so I figured I’d share an update on how things are going. My periodic Friday updates cover...
Google Analytics vs AWStats Comparing Google Analytics with AWStats to find out where they differ and which is better.
19th Aug 2018
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Google Analytics vs AWStats

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Aug 2018
Comparing Google Analytics with AWStats to find out where they differ and which is better.
Backup PostgreSQL to cloud This post will help you with easy, cost-effective and secure way to backup your PostgreSQL database...
9th Sep 2020
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Backup PostgreSQL to cloud

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Sep 2020
This post will help you with easy, cost-effective and secure way to backup your PostgreSQL database to cloud. Create local scheduled backup of PostgreSQL database Login as postgres user on the console (tmux is recommended). Create .pgpass file to access database without entering...
Roger Kennedy: The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD ### Ancient American politics Roger Kennedy, the former head of the Smithsonian National Museum of...
26th Feb 2005
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26th Feb 2005
### Ancient American politics Roger Kennedy, the former head of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and former Director of the US National Park Service, is so eloquent that Walt Kelly based a "Pogo" character on him (the bear P.T. Bridgeport, whose speech...
These Vintage Alcohol Ads Are as Bizarre as They Are Fascinating There is a certain kind of discomfort that comes from flipping through old magazines from the 1960s...
1st May 2026
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These Vintage Alcohol Ads Are as Bizarre as They Are Fascinating

from Rare Historical Photos [alt+shift+b] in history

1st May 2026
There is a certain kind of discomfort that comes from flipping through old magazines from the 1960s and 1970s. Not because they feel foreign, but because they don’t, entirely. The clothes changed. The hairstyles changed. The alcohol ads, though, reveal something rawer about that...
Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence? Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s talk took us on a journey through What is Intelligence?, his groundbreaking...
9th Oct 2025
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence?

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

9th Oct 2025
Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s talk took us on a journey through What is Intelligence?, his groundbreaking new work connecting the evolutionary dots between life, computation, and symbiogenesis. He explores how, in our symbiotic world, things combine to make larger things all the...
Why does AI slop feel so bad to read? I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI...
1st Feb 2025
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Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Feb 2025
I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI “slop”, which means something like “AI…
Telling mechanize how to find local issuer certificates I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize,...
7th Dec 2023
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Telling mechanize how to find local issuer certificates

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2023
I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize, the Python library I use to simulate a web browser. I’d upgraded my version of Python and mechanize, and now I wasn’t able to connect to HTTPS sites. If I tried a simple...
5th Jan 2026
Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders: Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm...
3rd Mar 2026
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Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2026
In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders: Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm implementing (kinda) a C-compiler in Rust, but desktop Claude is an Electron app. If code is free, why aren’t all apps native? And then argues that the answer is that LLMs are not good...
Coaching and feedback within startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in...
14th Jul 2013
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Coaching and feedback within startups

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jul 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in the past about the evolution of our culture at Buffer [https://joel.is/post/37639846554/the-evolution-of-culture-at-a-startup]. One of the things we started to do at around 6-7...
Design-by-wire There’s a lot of fear in the air. As AI gets better at design, it’s natural for designers to be...
2nd Mar 2023
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Design-by-wire

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Mar 2023
There’s a lot of fear in the air. As AI gets better at design, it’s natural for designers to be worried about their jobs. But I think the question — will AI replace designers? — is a waste of time. Humans have always invented technology to do their work for them and will continue...
2nd Nov 2014
Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated ### The Terawatt World Engineer Griffith said he was going to make the connection between personal...
17th Jan 2009
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Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

17th Jan 2009
### The Terawatt World Engineer Griffith said he was going to make the connection between personal actions and global climate change. To do that he's been analyzing his own life in extreme detail to figure out exactly how much energy he uses and what changes might reduce the...
Managing people 🤯 I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps...
6th Feb 2022
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Managing people 🤯

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Feb 2022
I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this
Vibes vs. data It's asymmetric warfare out there.
3rd Dec 2023
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Vibes vs. data

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Dec 2023
It's asymmetric warfare out there.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey Before reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I thought of it as the canonical cliché...
4th Aug 2020
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

4th Aug 2020
Before reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I thought of it as the canonical cliché self-help book. But as the saying goes, clichés become clichés because they’re true. The book’s insightfulness surprised me, and I found many of its ideas useful in my everyday...
Media Consumption (Feb 2021) >_ Summary Read 3 books (2202 min, -10% MoM) and 22 articles (-15%) Listened to 364 songs (+38%) and...
4th Mar 2021
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Media Consumption (Feb 2021)

from julian.digital [alt+shift+b] in design

4th Mar 2021
>_ Summary Read 3 books (2202 min, -10% MoM) and 22 articles (-15%) Listened to 364 songs (+38%) and 15 podcasts (749 min, same) Watched 8 movies (885 min, +727%), 7 soccer games (965 min, +16%) and 7 TV episodes (405 min, -62%) Played 0 board games (0 min, same) and 1 video game...
Dealing with Pathological Anxiety in Japan My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The...
10th Jul 2026
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Dealing with Pathological Anxiety in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jul 2026
My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The opportunity to break away from my comfort zone, brave new horizons, and immerse myself in new cultures has probably been the greatest joy I’ve found during my time on this Earth....
Jonathan Rose: The Well Tempered City ### Coherent cities What holds a city together? Rose noted that the earliest cities were built...
21st Sep 2016
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Jonathan Rose: The Well Tempered City

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

21st Sep 2016
### Coherent cities What holds a city together? Rose noted that the earliest cities were built around a temple and the spirituality it embodied. As the early communities became larger and more diverse and complex, their economic activity intensified. To be effective in trade...
Cats to Blame for Octopus Deity Enshrinement Delay Hayasuhime Shrine in Oita prefecture is a rarity in Japan because it is dedicated to the octopus....
2nd Feb 2026
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Cats to Blame for Octopus Deity Enshrinement Delay

from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel

2nd Feb 2026
Hayasuhime Shrine in Oita prefecture is a rarity in Japan because it is dedicated to the octopus. When local sculptor Kousei Hashimoto was tasked with creating a new deity to be enshrined, he expected for it to be completed by the end of the year. But the neighborhood cats had...
The history of album art Album art didn’t always exist. In the early 1900s, recorded music was still a novelty, overshadowed...
2nd May 2025
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The history of album art

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd May 2025
Album art didn’t always exist. In the early 1900s, recorded music was still a novelty, overshadowed by sales of sheet music. Early vinyl records were vastly different from what we think of today: discs were sold individually and could only hold up to four minutes of music per...
a home for pino We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
11th Aug 2019
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a home for pino

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

11th Aug 2019
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
13th Oct 2025
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What if distraction IS the distraction?

from Anarchy Unfolds [alt+shift+b] in creative

13th Oct 2025
Red Round-up Oct '25
Dorothy Pulis Lathrop’s Illustrations For Walter de la Mare’s The Three Mulla-Mulgars “Long long is Time, though books be brief: Adventures strange ay, past belief…” – Walter de la Mare,...
1st May 2025
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1st May 2025
“Long long is Time, though books be brief: Adventures strange ay, past belief…” – Walter de la Mare, The Three Mulla-Mulgars illustrated by Dorothy Pulis Lathrop   Soon after Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (April 16, 1891–December 30, 1980) was hired to illustrate a book of experimental...
I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is...
30th Jan 2017
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I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jan 2017
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992,
Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right...
20th Sep 2012
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Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Sep 2012
Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right click on the My Computer icon > Click Properties > Click on the Remote tab Check the box that says “Allow Users to Connect Remotely to this Computer” Add your username to the list of...
Transforming Healthcare Data with Tuva Health | Out-Of-Pocket The nitty, gritty, and shitty of working with health data
1st Nov 2023
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Transforming Healthcare Data with Tuva Health | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Nov 2023
The nitty, gritty, and shitty of working with health data
The IndieHackers podcast has ended - the 10 best episodes The IndieHackers podcast, which celebrated founders who hadn't raised venture capital, has now ended
2nd Jan 2025
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The IndieHackers podcast has ended - the 10 best episodes

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

2nd Jan 2025
The IndieHackers podcast, which celebrated founders who hadn't raised venture capital, has now ended
My first year since coming back to Linux <![CDATA[It has been a year since I set up my System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint. In July of 2024 I...
6th Jul 2025
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My first year since coming back to Linux

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2025
<![CDATA[It has been a year since I set up my System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint. In July of 2024 I migrated from ChromeOS and the Merkaat has been my daily driver on the desktop. A year later I have nothing major to report, which is the point. Despite the occasional unplanned...
Another vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered...
23rd Mar 2022
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Another vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Mar 2022
Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered an undocumented hardware block in the LPC55S69 (our chosen part for our product’s Root of Trust implementation) that could be used to violate security boundaries. This issue...
Marathon Last Sunday I completed my first full marathon, covering a distance of 42KM in and around Amsterdam....
19th Oct 2024
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Marathon

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Oct 2024
Last Sunday I completed my first full marathon, covering a distance of 42KM in and around Amsterdam. An idea that started in a bar with some beers and concluded with a finish in the Olympic Stadium. What a journey, what an experience, well worthy of a blog post. About a year ago,...
We Built a Dangerous System. Then We Made a PSA About It. How public safety messaging shifts responsibility away from the systems that cause harm.
4th May 2026
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We Built a Dangerous System. Then We Made a PSA About It.

from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4th May 2026
How public safety messaging shifts responsibility away from the systems that cause harm.
Logs vs Structured Events I got an interesting tweet the other day from @evntdrvn in response to this thread of mine....
5th Feb 2019
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Logs vs Structured Events

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2019
I got an interesting tweet the other day from @evntdrvn in response to this thread of mine. Paraphrasing, “So I’ve almost got our group at work up to Step 1 in your observability maturity model, but some of the devs that I work with want to turn OFF our lovely structured logging...
Redis Quicklist - From a More Civilized Age Adventures in Encodings [Short attention span? Jump to graphs.] Redis is a data structure...
18th Nov 2014
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Redis Quicklist - From a More Civilized Age

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

18th Nov 2014
Adventures in Encodings [Short attention span? Jump to graphs.] Redis is a data structure server. One of the data structures it servers is a doubly linked list. The Redis lists have two representations: regular and and ziplist. Regular linked lists are CS 101 lists with each node...
Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage. We used tools like a...
5th Feb 2024
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Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2024
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage. We used tools like a code coverage ratchet to ensure that the test coverage always went up and never down. This had a few effects. One of them was the intended effect: we wrote more tests. Another was...
The Unreasonable Fight for Municipal Broadband I love Longmont’s municipal broadband, but we had to fight Comcast every step of the way to get...
20th Apr 2022
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The Unreasonable Fight for Municipal Broadband

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Apr 2022
I love Longmont’s municipal broadband, but we had to fight Comcast every step of the way to get it. NextLight—Longmont’s Broadband As a gracious person, I’ll dutifully pretend that the problem might be on my side of the Zoom call. But the problem is never me—my internet is just...
Fireworks Midsummer heat with no air conditioning. Cars packed full of paddleboards and floats. Sunscreen...
16th Jul 2025
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Fireworks

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

16th Jul 2025
Midsummer heat with no air conditioning. Cars packed full of paddleboards and floats. Sunscreen slicks trail swimmers through the shallows. Afternoons are a haze of Canadian wildfire skies, a world seen through gauze, prematurely pink and orange in the evenings. Summer here...
An edgy intro to graphs of interpersonal relationships CW: human sexuality, maths, LaTeX, spoilers for the Game of Thrones
2nd Mar 2019
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An edgy intro to graphs of interpersonal relationships

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Mar 2019
CW: human sexuality, maths, LaTeX, spoilers for the Game of Thrones
Japan Needs International Developers No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe...
11th Oct 2024
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Japan Needs International Developers

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Oct 2024
No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe labor shortage. A report by the Teikoku Databank states that across all industries, 52.6% of Japanese companies say they don’t have the workers they need. 260 bankruptcies in 2023...
Interfaces for logical migrations This post explains how you can use interfaces to make data model and database migrations easier.
4th Aug 2023
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Interfaces for logical migrations

from sbensu [alt+shift+b] in literature

4th Aug 2023
This post explains how you can use interfaces to make data model and database migrations easier.
Is an AI company buying up all the used books? (I don’t think so, not this time.) | #103 But no matter what, the Library of Alexandria is still burning.
10th May 2026
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10th May 2026
But no matter what, the Library of Alexandria is still burning.
My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi -...
19th May 2023
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My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th May 2023
In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi - escalated into a full-blown off-grid solar setup, large enough to power the computer I use at the moment to write this update1. In this update, I want to discuss my battery...
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025 Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children...
2nd Jan 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2025
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children just won’t stop being sick for more than 4 days at a time. Win some, lose some.
Should you take the startup offer? The Kelly criterion for your next career bet
3rd Aug 2026
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Should you take the startup offer?

from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Aug 2026
The Kelly criterion for your next career bet
There are no stupid mistakes There are mistakes. These are moments when reality teaches us something. And there’s stupid. This is...
18th Jan 2023
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There are no stupid mistakes

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

18th Jan 2023
There are mistakes. These are moments when reality teaches us something. And there’s stupid. This is what happens when we refuse to learn from our mistakes. “Don’t be stupid” is a fine mantra. It’s particularly apt when talking about cultural forces, political agendas and our...
Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals You know those people whose lives are transformed by meditation or yoga or something like...
28th Jan 2019
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Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

28th Jan 2019
You know those people whose lives are transformed by meditation or yoga or something like that? After 20+ years of doing this, here’s what I do and recommend: A daily diary If digital, use only plain text. It’s a standard format not owned by any company. It will be...
Star Wars movie posters from Hungary Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: movieposters.ha.com Image: Heritage Auctions. License: All...
4th May 2025
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Star Wars movie posters from Hungary

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

4th May 2025
Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: movieposters.ha.com Image: Heritage Auctions. License: All Rights Reserved. Csillagok háborúja (Star Wars), 1979. The custom acute accents are simple squares. The secondary typeface is ITC Avant Garde Gothic. More info on...
Connecting my fish tank to the Internet of Things – Part 1: Hacking an automatic fish feeder I bought a used automatic fish feeder from ebay. This device is completely mechanic and very old...
30th Jun 2014
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30th Jun 2014
I bought a used automatic fish feeder from ebay. This device is completely mechanic and very old (older than 1989). It has 27 containers for fish food and a disc that does one rotation per day. By sticking pins into that disc one can trigger one or more feedings per day. A pin...
A Building to Tell the Time: The Toghrol Tower in Rey, Iran (1063) The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and...
11th Dec 2022
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A Building to Tell the Time: The Toghrol Tower in Rey, Iran (1063)

from SOCKS [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11th Dec 2022
The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and Sarooj, a water-resistant mortar. It was erected in 1063, and according to some sources, it was conceived as the tomb of Tuğrul Beg, the founder of the Seljuk dynasty. Other scholars...
Five Words That Might End Your Design Career It is rare to be confronted with a truth so obvious, so devastating, that it causes you to abandon...
6th Jan 2018
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Five Words That Might End Your Design Career

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

6th Jan 2018
It is rare to be confronted with a truth so obvious, so devastating, that it causes you to abandon your belief system, to walk away from the thing that defines you as a person. My design career ended when I read five words.
Create a Course on Boot.dev We create most of our courses at Boot.dev in-house, but we also love to collaborate with talented...
4th Sep 2025
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Create a Course on Boot.dev

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Sep 2025
We create most of our courses at Boot.dev in-house, but we also love to collaborate with talented authors! If you’re interested in creating a course for Boot.dev, here’s some preliminary info about how we work:
A Zombie Gene Protects Elephants From Cancer Elephants did not evolve to become huge animals until after they turned a bit of genetic junk into a...
12th Apr 2018
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A Zombie Gene Protects Elephants From Cancer

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

12th Apr 2018
Elephants did not evolve to become huge animals until after they turned a bit of genetic junk into a unique defense against inevitable tumors. The post A Zombie Gene Protects Elephants From Cancer first appeared on Quanta Magazine
16th Jun 2024
The VR winter continues Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices...
8th Jul 2024
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The VR winter continues

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Jul 2024
Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices aren’t good enough or cheap enough and the user base is flat. But no matter how good the devices get, how many people will care?
A Galois Field Arithmetic Primer Introduction A Galois Field Introduction by Example Base Galois Fields A Real World Example of a...
14th Jun 2026
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A Galois Field Arithmetic Primer

from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Jun 2026
Introduction A Galois Field Introduction by Example Base Galois Fields A Real World Example of a Base Galois Field GF(2) Extended Galois Fields Extended Galois Field Addition Extended Galois Field Multiplication A Field Defining Irreducible Polynomial A Primitive Polynomial From...
Leaving Wave, joining Anthropic Last Friday was my last day as CTO at Wave, capping an incredible ~8 years filled with more...
1st Feb 2023
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Leaving Wave, joining Anthropic

from benkuhn.net [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Feb 2023
Last Friday was my last day as CTO at Wave, capping an incredible ~8 years filled with more professional and personal growth, joy, and meaning than I could have hoped for. This was the hardest decision I’ve made. I’m still just as excited about Wave’s mission and trajectory. And...
Do you want it the most? Figure out what you actually want. Find a game that's worth winning. Then be honest with yourself:...
2 weeks ago
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Do you want it the most?

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

2 weeks ago
Figure out what you actually want. Find a game that's worth winning. Then be honest with yourself: are you going to be the person who wants it the most?
Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
9th Apr 2023
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Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Apr 2023
Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
How to make your own SplitPane React component with 0 dependencies A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that...
1st Jul 2019
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How to make your own SplitPane React component with 0 dependencies

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2019
A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that separates them. Based on its layout, a SplitPane can be horizontal or vertical. If you've ever used the Chrome dev tools, you probably came across both versions of the SplitPane. For...
WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time...
26th Feb 2018
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WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Feb 2018
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time for running “baby” software and the “baby” internet. He was right. Developers weren’t given access to make native apps until the iPhone’s second year. Before the native development...
13th Aug 2008
Updating Snake '97 Few years ago my brother threw a beer on my iPhone in an Amsterdam bar. The poor thing didn't like...
20th Feb 2018
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Updating Snake '97

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Feb 2018
Few years ago my brother threw a beer on my iPhone in an Amsterdam bar. The poor thing didn't like the Dutch brew as much as I do: it died. While waiting for a new phone to arrive, I used an old one that couldn't do anything but texting, calling and... Snake! The idea for Snake...
Reverse Outlining with Language Models Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts
8th Jan 2023
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Reverse Outlining with Language Models

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jan 2023
Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts
2024-10-12 commercial HF radio According to a traditional system of classification, "high frequency" or HF refers to the radio...
12th Oct 2024
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2024-10-12 commercial HF radio

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Oct 2024
According to a traditional system of classification, "high frequency" or HF refers to the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 MHz. The label now seems anachronistic, as HF is among the lowest ranges of radio frequencies that see regular use. This setting of the goalposts in the early...
Best LittleCo of 2011: Dropbox This post as it looked in 2011. Every year since 2004, ReadWriteWeb has selected a best "little...
19th Dec 2011
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Best LittleCo of 2011: Dropbox

from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history

19th Dec 2011
This post as it looked in 2011. Every year since 2004, ReadWriteWeb has selected a best "little company." These are small companies (loosely defined as less than 100 employees) that have had a big effect on the Web over the calendar year. Last year we chose Tumblr, which...
Web We Want Web Apps Survey Results I've started to run initial validation surveys on Web We Want submissions to help determine which of...
5th Oct 2020
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Web We Want Web Apps Survey Results

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Oct 2020
I've started to run initial validation surveys on Web We Want submissions to help determine which of the submissions are worth continuing to investigate. Note that despite some of the scores being negative, this doesn't necessarily mean the submission is invalidated, taking into...
Looking for vulnerabilities is the last thing I do There’s a common misconception among developers that my job, as a (application) Security Engineer,...
20th Feb 2026
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Looking for vulnerabilities is the last thing I do

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Feb 2026
There’s a common misconception among developers that my job, as a (application) Security Engineer, is to just search for security bugs in their code. They may well have seen junior security engineers doing this kind of thing. But, although this can be useful (and is part of the...
The cold war maps that can help us rethink today’s Arctic conflict The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such...
2nd Feb 2026
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The cold war maps that can help us rethink today’s Arctic conflict

from James Cheshire [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2nd Feb 2026
The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and Fortune commissioned a generation of famous cartographers – who had come of age in the second world war – to explain the new geopolitics to a mass audience that...
2nd Oct 2024
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Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Oct 2024
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
All About the Telescope (1980) Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo, E., B. Kalaushin, and B. Starodubtsev. All About the...
2 weeks ago
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All About the Telescope (1980)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

2 weeks ago
Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo, E., B. Kalaushin, and B. Starodubtsev. All About the Telescope. Translated by Jan Butler. Moscow: Progress Publishers. (70 p.) 1980 This book was a translation of the 1972 Russian book: Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo,...
The Death of Personality The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
1st Nov 2017
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The Death of Personality

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2017
The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it’s fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple’s iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
AI, networks and Mechanical Turks How far do LLMs give us a step change in how good a search and recommendation system can be? Do...
23rd Nov 2025
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AI, networks and Mechanical Turks

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Nov 2025
How far do LLMs give us a step change in how good a search and recommendation system can be? Do they let you build one without needing a vast user base of your own?
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
5th Dec 2024
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Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2024
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
Repurpose gadgets as Arduino-ready modules Most people have a general awareness of how economies of scale play into the cost of products; a...
5th Sep 2025
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Repurpose gadgets as Arduino-ready modules

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Sep 2025
Most people have a general awareness of how economies of scale play into the cost of products; a bespoke, handcrafted vase is going to cost a lot more than a mass-produced vase sold in the millions. But the ramifications of that concept can be really counterintuitive when it...
Progress can be slow We can spend a lifetime working on the same things, and that's ok
10th Jul 2024
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Progress can be slow

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

10th Jul 2024
We can spend a lifetime working on the same things, and that's ok
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority? The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
31st May 2023
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Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority?

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

31st May 2023
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode...
9th Mar 2025
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Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Mar 2025
About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode interpreter. The initial headline results were very impressive, showing a 10-15% performance improvement on average across a wide range of benchmarks across a variety of...
Convert arrays to CSV with PHP The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values)...
3rd Oct 2007
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Convert arrays to CSV with PHP

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Oct 2007
The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values) format. function csv($array) { $csv = ""; for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) { $csv .= '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $array[$i]) . '"'; if ($i < count($array) - 1) $csv .= ","; ...
AIVC I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog...
4th May 2023
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AIVC

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th May 2023
I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog posts I have written here at AVC. There are 9059 of them for those that are counting. They wanted to offer me a chat bot called “ask Fred.” I told them no thanks. Let me […]
Dorie Clark: The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world Personal goals need a long-term strategy too. Dorie Clark offers concrete practices to sharpen...
18th May 2022
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18th May 2022
Personal goals need a long-term strategy too. Dorie Clark offers concrete practices to sharpen strategic thinking and incorporate a long-term perspective within a personal time scale. By reorienting ourselves to focus on the big picture, and using the power of small but...
Neural network training makes beautiful fractals window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
12th Feb 2024
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Neural network training makes beautiful fractals

from Jascha’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Feb 2024
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); .md h2 { font-size: 20px; } .vimeo-player { position: relative; width: 444px; height: 444px; ...
Sweatshop Labor and the Exploitation Problem Labor faces a coordination problem: the actors involved can’t reach a better moral position via...
23rd Jul 2022
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Sweatshop Labor and the Exploitation Problem

from Passing Time [alt+shift+b] in life

23rd Jul 2022
Labor faces a coordination problem: the actors involved can’t reach a better moral position via unilateral action.
How Waymo Uses Design to Create Trust in Driverless Cars In regular taxi rides, there is a form of trust between the passenger and the driver. Most of it is...
1st Feb 2020
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How Waymo Uses Design to Create Trust in Driverless Cars

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Feb 2020
In regular taxi rides, there is a form of trust between the passenger and the driver. Most of it is established through communication, both…
Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend...
1st Feb 2020
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Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2020
Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend Eleventy to use it.
Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I...
17th Apr 2018
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Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Apr 2018
This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I debuted as amateur actor!
The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like...
5th Mar 2026
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The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Mar 2026
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
Twitter Was An Awesome Idea But Never A Viable Business Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry...
21st Apr 2023
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Twitter Was An Awesome Idea But Never A Viable Business

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Apr 2023
Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry communications in real-time to people worldwide, creating self-organizing circles of common interests, allowing for easy discovery, and supporting an instant source of information. But, there...
People are talking about me, and I started it People talk about you the way you talk about yourself.
12th Jul 2023
181

People are talking about me, and I started it

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

12th Jul 2023
People talk about you the way you talk about yourself.
Too Late Smart My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively...
3 weeks ago
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Too Late Smart

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 weeks ago
My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively with two houses and two very different sets of parents, were lovely people.
iOS 27 has some weird Dynamic Island behavior Thought I’d make a quick blog post about some weird behavior I’m seeing on iOS 27 and Dynamic Island...
yesterday
1

iOS 27 has some weird Dynamic Island behavior

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

yesterday
Thought I’d make a quick blog post about some weird behavior I’m seeing on iOS 27 and Dynamic Island live activities, that I initially thought was restricted to the Duo, but turns out affects everything. Yay. Maybe this post can save some others some time, and hopefully Apple can...
The good life For Peter and Laura, having a business was a means to an end, and they always kept their life...
19th Feb 2022
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The good life

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Feb 2022
For Peter and Laura, having a business was a means to an end, and they always kept their life priorities in sight.
Foundations of Biological Evolution: More Results & More Surprises This is a follow-on to Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution...
5th Dec 2024
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Foundations of Biological Evolution: More Results & More Surprises

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Dec 2024
This is a follow-on to Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive Processes [May 3, 2024]. Even More from an Extremely Simple Model A few months ago I introduced an extremely simple “adaptive cellular automaton” model that...
Unleash the bololô: Masses of delivery workers set off horns and fireworks at bad customers’ homes In Brazil, workers protest nasty customers with bikes, horns and fireworks.
4th Dec 2023
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4th Dec 2023
In Brazil, workers protest nasty customers with bikes, horns and fireworks.
My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this...
12th Aug 2019
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My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Aug 2019
Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this moment, it's replaced by a cluster of four 1L PCs which use about a third of the idle power usage and boot within 20 seconds. The single-core performance of these low-power 1L PCs...
Proving that every program halts One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely...
23rd Jun 2025
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Proving that every program halts

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Jun 2025
One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely thought[1] that you cannot write a program that will, for any arbitrary program as input, tell you correctly whether or not it will terminate. This is written from the framing of...
Be someone who does things I wrote last month that what you want to do is one of the most useful motivations in life. I want to...
23rd Sep 2024
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Be someone who does things

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Sep 2024
I wrote last month that what you want to do is one of the most useful motivations in life. I want to follow that up by saying that the only thing more important than wanting to do something is to actually do something. The most valuable trait you can develop for yourself is to...
Rudolph with your nose so bright Won't you guide my sleigh tonight? View on my website
21st Sep 2024
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Rudolph with your nose so bright

from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics

21st Sep 2024
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight? View on my website
Wood stove installation It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
22nd Apr 2021
1

Wood stove installation

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

22nd Apr 2021
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks. Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
1st Dec 2023
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