Arduino Blog
Arduino Cloud is now natively supported on tablets
We’re excited to announce the release of IoT Remote v3.0.0, featuring a native tablet version...
7 months ago
We’re excited to announce the release of IoT Remote v3.0.0, featuring a native tablet version (available for both Android and iOS platforms) optimized for unlocking the full potential of larger screen sizes. What is the Arduino IoT Remote app? The Arduino IoT Remote app allows...
Josh Collinsworth
Impressions of the ZSA Moonlander at one month
My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal...
a year ago
My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal and work projects for a full month
fast.ai
Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI
Following the thread of any seemingly quantitative issue in AI ethics (such as determining if...
over a year ago
Following the thread of any seemingly quantitative issue in AI ethics (such as determining if software to rate loan applicants is racially biased or evaluating YouTube’s recommendation system) quickly leads to a host of qualitative questions. Unfortunately, there is often a large...
Epic Web Dev
Motion Safe and Motion Reduce Modifiers (tip)
11 months ago
Rest of World -...
Self-checkout is putting elderly grocery baggers out of work in Mexico
Volunteer packers at stores like Walmart say they’re receiving 50% fewer tips than before the...
a year ago
Volunteer packers at stores like Walmart say they’re receiving 50% fewer tips than before the pandemic.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
“There Are Too Many Entrenched Interests” | Out-Of-Pocket
The Six Stages Of Health Tech Grief Part 3
a year ago
The Six Stages Of Health Tech Grief Part 3
Oykun
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
You don't need the perfectly systemized plan to have a successfull business. Focus on giving the...
a year ago
You don't need the perfectly systemized plan to have a successfull business. Focus on giving the best service possible to the small number of people and improve/invent as you get feedback. Don't fear to be casual and human in the process.
Notes:
Success comes
TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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12 months ago
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Why some engineers get trusted with high-impact work
It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go...
14 hours ago
It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go around. Worse still, the chances to work on…
Spoon & Tamago
Komaeyu: Redesigning the Public Bath to Preserve Traditional Sento Culture
all photos by Ju Yeon Lee courtesy Schemata Architects The number of public baths, or sento as...
a year ago
all photos by Ju Yeon Lee courtesy Schemata Architects The number of public baths, or sento as they’re referred to in Japan, have been in chronic decline since the late 1960s. As the number of homes with their own private bath proliferated, public bathhouses shrank from over...
TheCollector
The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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3 months ago
Math Is Still...
The Best Neighborhoods for Starting a Life in the Galaxy
Some neighborhoods in the Milky Way may be better suited for making habitable planets than others. ...
11 months ago
Some neighborhoods in the Milky Way may be better suited for making habitable planets than others.
The post The Best Neighborhoods for Starting a Life in the Galaxy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
mtlynch.io
Resurrecting a Dead Library: Part Three - Rehabilitation
I love refactoring. Nothing satisfies me more than untangling spaghetti code to reveal its...
over a year ago
I love refactoring. Nothing satisfies me more than untangling spaghetti code to reveal its underlying logic in a clear, intuitive way.
I’ve learned that refactoring requires diligence. In my younger and more reckless days, I would rush into a legacy codebase and tear apart the...
Epic Web Dev
Making Use of Code Coverage (article)
Dive into the contentious world of code coverage. Learn its nuances, pitfalls, and practical...
10 months ago
Dive into the contentious world of code coverage. Learn its nuances, pitfalls, and practical applications for modern web app testing
Liz Denys
ZRH
Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
over a year ago
Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Grinch
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9 months ago
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 030: OpenAI's $1B revenue
September 1, 2023
a year ago
diamond geezer
Six free exhibitions in north central London
Six free temporary exhibitions in north central London
(I'll rank these at the end, but the best...
2 weeks ago
Six free temporary exhibitions in north central London
(I'll rank these at the end, but the best one comes first)
Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds
at: RIBA, Portland Place
from: 10am to 5pm (not Sunday)
until: 29 March
cottage melded into a rocky Leicestershire...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
2018: A year in review
It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I...
over a year ago
It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I didn’t, as well as what I can do better next…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Theodicy
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a year ago
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
Londonist
London Overground Strikes Announced For February And March
Plan ahead if you use the Ginger Line.
10 months ago
Plan ahead if you use the Ginger Line.
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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9 months ago
The American Scholar
Teach the Conflicts
It’s natural—and right—to foster
The post Teach the Conflicts appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
It’s natural—and right—to foster
The post Teach the Conflicts appeared first on The American Scholar.
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Gratitude: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases
Previous Next https://youtu.be/9GQ1QTVVeNk Did you know that gratitude is actually considered to be...
a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/9GQ1QTVVeNk Did you know that gratitude is actually considered to be one of the most important, positive emotions that the ancient Stoics believed human beings should develop? In fact, it's such an important emotion that it's even been said that the...
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...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A perspective shift on automated market makers through MEV
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Nonviolent Communication describes a communication style centered around sharing vulnerability and...
over a year ago
Nonviolent Communication describes a communication style centered around sharing vulnerability and offering empathy. One of its biggest strengths is in how it highlights common patterns of lazy communication that exclude personal feelings or critical thinking. I also found its...
MMapped blog
Designing error types in Rust
over a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
How to Get Over the Fear of Creating Things
One answer, and 5 tricks to help
a year ago
One answer, and 5 tricks to help
Daniel Miessler
NO. 361 | GPT++, Apple Security, CISA Cuba…
SECURITY NEWS South Korean authorities are warning that North Koreans are disguising themselves and...
over a year ago
SECURITY NEWS South Korean authorities are warning that North Koreans are disguising themselves and getting jobs in South Korea. The saddest part is that it appears to be just another income generation scheme, meaning they use the salaries to fund the North Korean nuclear...
Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
6 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2024
Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware,...
3 weeks ago
Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware, and congratulations to marcan for nailing it. Ping me if you want a prize!
The Marginalian
Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being
An invitation to "a certain, forgotten way of seeing the world" and an exultation at "earthly life,...
a year ago
An invitation to "a certain, forgotten way of seeing the world" and an exultation at "earthly life, with its duration so short it obliges us to surpass ourselves."
The Elysian
The Cooperatist Manifesto that inspired Mondragon
Father José María Arizmendiarrieta didn’t just imagine a better economic system, he built it.
2 months ago
Father José María Arizmendiarrieta didn’t just imagine a better economic system, he built it.
James Vaughan's blog
The smallest (useful) HTTP responses possible
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Amused
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6 months ago
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Castles in the Sky
Do the weirdest thing that feels right.
From "what to write" to "how to live"
a year ago
From "what to write" to "how to live"
A Smart Bear
Moats: Durable competitive advantage
Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low...
over a year ago
Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low profit. Like entropy, this is the inevitable fate of a company, unless it exerts intentional force to the contrary. Moats are this force, and your strategy must identify how to create...
Josh Collinsworth
Creating dynamic bar charts with CSS grid
How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library...
over a year ago
How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library required!
FIRE v London
June ’24: Election fever
June was busy. I travelled more than usual in June. Partly in the UK – visiting Glasgow, the west...
5 months ago
June was busy. I travelled more than usual in June. Partly in the UK – visiting Glasgow, the west country, the south coast and the Isle of Wight; partly overseas – I visited Ibiza for a few days of R&R. Meanwhile, the election campaigns were in full swing. Nigel Farage did his...
journal – Winnie Lim
obsessively compulsively thinking about death, loss and existence
Some time ago while reading a blog post on autism I learnt about the concept of existential OCD...
3 months ago
Some time ago while reading a blog post on autism I learnt about the concept of existential OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder): Existential OCD involves intrusive, repetitive thinking about questions which cannot possibly...
diamond geezer
Changing bus routes
Every bus route serving bus stop M has changed over the last 20 years.
8 used to go to Victoria,...
a year ago
Every bus route serving bus stop M has changed over the last 20 years.
8 used to go to Victoria, then was cut back to Oxford Circus in 2009, then to Tottenham Court Road in 2013.
25 originally came from Oxford Circus but was cut back to Holborn Viaduct in 2018.
108 never used...
Diaries of Note
It was so horribly fascinating that I felt spellbound
During World War I, the skies over Britain were periodically lit up by German Zeppelins in what...
a year ago
During World War I, the skies over Britain were periodically lit up by German Zeppelins in what would become known as “The First Blitz.” These enormous airships seemed almost invincible as they loomed over cities, striking terror into the hearts of civilians below, and between...
Both Are True
You ask me anything / me ask you anything (yama/maya) #5
plus a look at everything I accomplished last year
2 months ago
plus a look at everything I accomplished last year
Beautiful Public...
Visualizing Rivers and Floodplains with USGS Data
Using USGS elevation data to visualize stunning views of the flow of water through rivers and...
over a year ago
Using USGS elevation data to visualize stunning views of the flow of water through rivers and floodplains.
TheCollector
How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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7 months ago
Seth's Blog
99 vs 0
If you get a 99% quality haircut or a 99% close-to-perfect meal, it’s better than good. On the other...
a year ago
If you get a 99% quality haircut or a 99% close-to-perfect meal, it’s better than good. On the other hand, if the scrub nurse only does a 99% job of disinfecting the tools in the operating room, you’re still going to die of an infection. Some projects respond very well to...
Retail Design Blog
Smalltalks Rosé Artistic Wine by the Labelmaker
Background: Oriachovitza, a family-owned winery and a living icon of Bulgarian winemaking, stands...
7 months ago
Background: Oriachovitza, a family-owned winery and a living icon of Bulgarian winemaking, stands proudly near Stara Zagora. Originally built in...
Internal Tech Emails
Microsoft execs on Apple's music store
We were smoked.
a year ago
TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
a month ago
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
Noahpinion
Don't be a decel
Technological progress must be harnessed, not fought
a year ago
Technological progress must be harnessed, not fought
TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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10 months ago
There are two types...
DONALD TRUMP & EVIL – A Post-Halloween / Election-Eve Story
Almost forty years ago, I owned a small house in the Greenwich “backcountry” just a few miles from...
a month ago
Almost forty years ago, I owned a small house in the Greenwich “backcountry” just a few miles from the Westchester County Airport. One morning, I was talking on the phone with a friend whom I would see later in the … Continue reading →
The post DONALD TRUMP & EVIL – A...
The Thinking Cap
The Future of No Code is Low Code
Or why we should write more programming languages instead of trying to build virtual legos.
over a year ago
Or why we should write more programming languages instead of trying to build virtual legos.
TheCollector
7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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9 months ago
Sam Altman
Helion Needs You
Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q >...
over a year ago
Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design a mass-producible fusion generator.
The goals of the company are quite ambitious—clean, continuous energy for 1...
Londonist
Which Tube Station Is Furthest From Its Namesake?
How far is it from Kew Gardens to Kew Gardens?
a year ago
How far is it from Kew Gardens to Kew Gardens?
TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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7 months ago
RhysTranter.com
“In these dark times…”
In these dark times
we look for the light
over a year ago
In these dark times
we look for the light
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Half-Buried Sense for Poetry'
It’s easy to
mistake geniality for prevarication. So rare a quality seems suspicious or...
6 days ago
It’s easy to
mistake geniality for prevarication. So rare a quality seems suspicious or naively
unprofessional, a mask worn to conceal the shark within, especially among
literary types. Of course, critics are born to be severe, nobody’s pal. How
many critics can you name whose...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Positive?
The children’s coughs are almost gone. Our youngest was supposed to get her first swimming lesson....
over a year ago
The children’s coughs are almost gone. Our youngest was supposed to get her first swimming lesson. But because I wasn’t...
Liz Denys
Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home'
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
over a year ago
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
Commoncog
What To Think When Looking at a Chart
In a business context, what should you think when presented with a time series? Or: a really dumb...
a year ago
In a business context, what should you think when presented with a time series? Or: a really dumb question that nobody seems to talk about.
haseeb qureshi
DeFi in Eth2: Cities, suburbs, and farms
Ethereum today is incredibly congested—it’s even more congested now than it was during the height of...
over a year ago
Ethereum today is incredibly congested—it’s even more congested now than it was during the height of the ICO bubble.
This is impressive, but also worrying! Ethereum 2.0 is still a ways away, but the tiny island of Ethereum 1.0 is already populated to the point of...
Both Are True
the thoughts that think me
i'm not aware of almost anything I am thinking on a daily basis, surely that's not good doc???
4 months ago
i'm not aware of almost anything I am thinking on a daily basis, surely that's not good doc???
Old Structures...
Originality Is Not Easy, Part 3
The first two parts of this series looked at patents that involved odd details that were not really...
3 months ago
The first two parts of this series looked at patents that involved odd details that were not really part of the metal-frame revolution that was taking place in the 1890s but rather adjacent to it. Neither of those patents reflected actual structure that I’ve ever seen in an old...
Retail Design Blog
24 Festival calendar box by TOP BLUE PACKAGING
a month ago
bt RSS Feed
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
2016-11-15
A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
over a year ago
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
2016-11-15
A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it’s parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout).
This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
TheCollector
William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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4 months ago
Coding Horror
The Great Filter Comes For Us All
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe...
2 weeks ago
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now?
teaching the aliens how to exit Vim
(Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don't stop there - read the Story of
TheCollector
Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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5 months ago
Blog System/5
Rust doesn't solve the CrowdStrike outage
Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages...
5 months ago
Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages like C++ should not be used anymore. But claiming that Rust would have prevented the massive outage that the world went through last Friday is misleading and actively harmful to...
Joel Gascoigne
Why you should start marketing early
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over a year ago
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about when the right time is to start
marketing a startup. In my previous startup [http://myonepage.com], we were
hesitant to attempt to get press early. We were...
Open Culture
How Édouard Manet Became “the Father of Impressionism” with the Scandalous Panting, Le Déjeuner sur...
Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) caused quite a stir when it made its public debut in...
7 months ago
Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) caused quite a stir when it made its public debut in 1863. Today, we might assume that the controversy surrounding the painting had to do with its containing a nude woman. But, in fact, it does not contain a nude woman — at least...
IEEE Spectrum
Smalltalk Blew Steve Jobs’s Mind
Late in 1979, Steve Jobs and other colleagues from Apple visited the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center...
a year ago
Late in 1979, Steve Jobs and other colleagues from Apple visited the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). There they were introduced to the experimental Alto computer and the Smalltalk language and computing environment, developed by Alan Kay’s Learning Research Group....
Christopher Butler
Link – Gemma Copeland's personal website
gemmacope.land is a really cool digital garden.
I love the simplicity of the main page — it...
11 months ago
gemmacope.land is a really cool digital garden.
I love the simplicity of the main page — it manages to fit in just about everything in one vertical pane. But the real surprise is on the right side of the page, where Gemma stacks blocks pulled in from her Are.na account. It’s...
bt RSS Feed
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
2020-09-16
I recently came across the...
over a year ago
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
2020-09-16
I recently came across the incredibly cool design for an “ultimate Raspberry Pi computer” by NODE and was inspired to create my own “portable” Pi device. Although, with my concept, I decided to set a few restrictions...
Londonist
The Must-See London Exhibitions To Look Forward To In 2024
A glance ahead to the capital's upcoming blockbuster exhibitions.
a year ago
A glance ahead to the capital's upcoming blockbuster exhibitions.
Citation Needed
Video: The Cryptocurrency Industry's Unprecedented Election Spending
Let's talk about where the money came from, where it went, the cryptocurrency industry's political...
a month ago
Let's talk about where the money came from, where it went, the cryptocurrency industry's political goals, and what’s next.
Moneyness
Another Indian payments idea: a lightweight portable payments system for catastrophes
India is so far ahead of most of the world when it comes to payments technology that when a new...
a year ago
India is so far ahead of most of the world when it comes to payments technology that when a new Indian payments idea emerges, we should probably pay attention.
In its recent annual report, the Reserve Bank of India, the country's central bank, put forward the idea of a...
The American Scholar
The Fair Fields
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous...
2 weeks ago
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil
The post The Fair Fields appeared first on The American Scholar.
swyx's site RSS Feed
What drives Optimal Overhead?
The biggest unanswered question in the study of systems.
over a year ago
The biggest unanswered question in the study of systems.
The Modern House
A slender space-savvy home in Clerkenwell, inspired by the City’s skyscrapers
a year ago
Society's Backend
Machine Learning Infrastructure: The Bridge Between Software Engineering and AI
What makes machine learning infra so important and why I find it so interesting
a year ago
What makes machine learning infra so important and why I find it so interesting
Diaries of Note
The Last of England
Ford Madox Brown was a British artist born in Calais in 1821, widely recognised though never...
a year ago
Ford Madox Brown was a British artist born in Calais in 1821, widely recognised though never officially part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. It was in 1852 that he started work on two of his most famous paintings: Work, which took thirteen years to complete, and The Last of...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Duh
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3 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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MacLynx beta 5: UTF-8, pull-down menus and more dialogue boxes, oh my!
I've been working off and on doing further Mac-ification to my updated fork of MacLynx, the System...
a year ago
I've been working off and on doing further Mac-ification to my updated fork of MacLynx, the System 7-compatible port of the venerable text browser Lynx for classic 68K Macintoshes (and Power Macs) running A/UX 3.x or System 7.x and later. There's still more to do, but a lot has...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Moïra Swann
Bonjour everyone! Moïra Swann is an English and Proustian adaptation from my real name Anne-Marie:...
over a year ago
Bonjour everyone! Moïra Swann is an English and Proustian adaptation from my real name Anne-Marie: while Anne-Marie lives in France and works full-time in a wonderful museum dedicated to the French painter Anne-Louis Girodet, Moïra Swann does lino printing whenever she can, as an...
Tech and Tea
On the path to thriving
In this post-post-partum period, I'm starting to feel like myself again. But what does that even...
2 months ago
In this post-post-partum period, I'm starting to feel like myself again. But what does that even mean?
Raw Thought (from...
What are the optimal biases to overcome?
over a year ago
Making software...
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts
2023-03-14
I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
a year ago
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts
2023-03-14
I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it's relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
TheCollector
Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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5 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Vialto Partners office by Woodalls
The space portrays Vialto Partners passion for new ideas, different perspectives, and collaboration....
3 months ago
The space portrays Vialto Partners passion for new ideas, different perspectives, and collaboration. These core values were the inspiration and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s Something You Need to Know About Web Design and Development
You’re doing great at it.
(❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race)
Email, Twitter,
Mastodon
a year ago
You’re doing great at it.
(❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race)
Email, Twitter,
Mastodon
Steve Klabnik
The culture war at the heart of open source
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
The Psychology of Disneyland
From Walt Disney's original vision to Imagineering to pricing strategy.
a year ago
From Walt Disney's original vision to Imagineering to pricing strategy.
Old Structures...
Begging The Question
The title refers to one of the classic logistical fallacies, where an argument is made that assumes...
6 months ago
The title refers to one of the classic logistical fallacies, where an argument is made that assumes its conclusion. The specific instance of this fallacy that often bothers me concerns code updates and existing buildings. Every time a code – for example, the New York City...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Grateful: Colors in console.log()
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every...
2 months ago
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values.
I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 50%...
./techtipsy
They make USB-C cables with displays now!
I’ve reached a point in my setup where most of the devices that I use are
based around the coveted...
6 months ago
I’ve reached a point in my setup where most of the devices that I use are
based around the coveted USB-C port. This meant that I had a valid reason to get
a few extra because I didn’t yet have a stockpile of good USB-C cables.
That’s when I found out that there exist cables that...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Nick Morley (with giveaway!)
Nick Morley, aka Linocutboy, is an artist, illustrator, author and educator specialising in linocut....
a year ago
Nick Morley, aka Linocutboy, is an artist, illustrator, author and educator specialising in linocut. His prints have been bought by people all over the world and his illustrations have appeared on book covers and in magazines. Nick teaches regular linocut workshops at Hello Print...
Platformer
How the Brazil riots change Facebook's Trump equation
After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former...
a year ago
After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former president's account
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.
Construction Physics
Fusion Power Reading List
The challenge with reading about a topic like fusion is balancing the tradeoff between technical...
5 months ago
The challenge with reading about a topic like fusion is balancing the tradeoff between technical detail and readability. A book or article should give enough detail to provide some understanding of what’s actually going on, what progress has been made, what the challenges are,...
The Marginalian
Cordyceps, the Carpenter Ant, and the Boundaries of the Self: The Strange Science of Zombie Fungi
"It is likely that fungi have been manipulating animal minds for much of the time that there have...
9 months ago
"It is likely that fungi have been manipulating animal minds for much of the time that there have been minds to manipulate."
TheCollector
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Saturday Morning...
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a year ago
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The weird thing is he uses the money to get a flight back south to buy more pens.
Today's News:
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Trick or Treat, Atlas
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
Arduino Blog
UNO Rev3 or UNO R4? Choosing the perfect Arduino for your project
The Arduino UNO is legendary among makers, and with the release of the UNO R4 in 2023, the family...
4 days ago
The Arduino UNO is legendary among makers, and with the release of the UNO R4 in 2023, the family gained a powerful new member. But with two incredible options, which UNO should you pick for your project? Here’s a breakdown of what makes each board shine, depending on your needs,...
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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10 months ago
Map of the Week
Seoul Maps
I found this nice collection of maps of Seoul, South Korea's largest city and capital from...
a year ago
I found this nice collection of maps of Seoul, South Korea's largest city and capital from theSEOULlive. This is a website/magazine of Korean culture that "focuses on unraveling the hidden jewels of Seoul that can only be found with rumination."
Unfortunately these maps are...
bt RSS Feed
Easy Custom Radio Inputs
Easy Custom Radio Inputs
2019-01-21
Default radio inputs are notoriously horrible looking and are...
over a year ago
Easy Custom Radio Inputs
2019-01-21
Default radio inputs are notoriously horrible looking and are something designers tend to over-think when trying to customize them. Let’s walk through how to create custom radio buttons with pure CSS, while still preserving performance and...
The Marginalian
Leaning Toward Light: A Posy of Poems Celebrating the Joys and Consolations of the Garden
“Gardening is like poetry in that it is gratuitous, and also that it cannot be done on will alone,”...
a year ago
“Gardening is like poetry in that it is gratuitous, and also that it cannot be done on will alone,” the poet and passionate gardener May Sarton wrote as she contemplated the parallels between these two creative practices — parallels that have led centuries of beloved writers to...
FIRE v London
July ’24: New UK government
July has been quite a busy month. I’ve been getting about a bit. Some South Coast action, some...
4 months ago
July has been quite a busy month. I’ve been getting about a bit. Some South Coast action, some Mediterranean fun, a trip up to Oxford, a visit to one of England’s great Cathedrals, and more. And July saw some fine times in London. Both outdoors and inside. And of course we had...
Diaries of Note
Now is the winter…
When 35-year-old Anthony Sher took on the role of Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Company in...
a year ago
When 35-year-old Anthony Sher took on the role of Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, two years after playing the Fool to Michael Gambon’s King Lear, he delivered a transformative performance. Using crutches to evoke a spider-like figure, Sher crafted a...
Londonist
That Time Lord Onslow's Monkey Escaped Onto The Tube
Simian crisis at Barbican.
a year ago
Simian crisis at Barbican.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Adding an Exec command and File Browser support to Insphex
<![CDATA[I implemented the last features originally planned for Insphex, my hex dump tool in Common...
6 months ago
<![CDATA[I implemented the last features originally planned for Insphex, my hex dump tool in Common Lisp for Medley Interlisp.
The first new feature is an Exec command for invoking the program. The command HD works the same way as the function INSPHEX:HEXDUMP and accepts the...
Joel Gascoigne
Exercise: a requirement for sleep?
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over a year ago
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Recently I have struggled to get to sleep at night. When I need to be up at 8
and working away on either my own projects or exciting client projects by 9 it
is vital that I wake up refreshed
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Safely surfing the web
Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about safely browsing the web:
The...
over a year ago
Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about safely browsing the web:
The history of the Web and an introduction to browser security
The web can be a scary place - but once you get to know it a little better, it doesn't feel as scary. Liz and Geoffrey go...
Blog - Bitfield...
Shameless green: TDD in Go
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start
with quick-and-dirty...
6 months ago
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start
with quick-and-dirty solutions, without worrying about whether the code is
elegant and readable—yet. Let’s see how to use the TDD technique called
“Shameless Green”.
Spoon & Tamago
Pioneering Japan’s Zero-Energy Hospitality, ‘ITOMACHI HOTEL 0’
Ito-Machi, launched in 2020, is an urban development in Saijo, featuring a master plan by the...
10 months ago
Ito-Machi, launched in 2020, is an urban development in Saijo, featuring a master plan by the esteemed Kengo Kuma Laboratory at the University of Tokyo.
Related posts:
Stay in Artist Designed Hotel Rooms at the Park Hotel Tokyo
Hotel NUTS by Upsetters Architects
Kamikatsu in...
SatPost by Trung...
8 Lessons from "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
What Larry David's legendary sitcom can teach about creativity and work.
10 months ago
What Larry David's legendary sitcom can teach about creativity and work.
99% Invisible
Chambre de Bonne [EPISODE]
For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of...
8 months ago
For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of apartment, called a “chambre de bonne.” Literally, a maid’s room. A chambre de bonne is usually one small room, on the top floor of a five- or six-story apartment building, and...
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #6
The first full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen lengthy queues and a bit more...
2 months ago
The first full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen lengthy queues and a bit more drilling. The queues were at their worst on Wednesday when an additional set of roadworks temporarily afflicted Tredegar Road, at one point stretching over three quarters of a mile along...
Farza's Newsletter
i got suitcases full of matcha tea don't mess with me punk
Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a...
a year ago
Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a live gameshow I hosted and gave away $100,000, had 225 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in SF, and then the following week had 125 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in...
NeuroLogica Blog
Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Solar Power
Solar power is on the upswing. In 2023, 407–446 GW of solar power was installed globally, bringing...
4 months ago
Solar power is on the upswing. In 2023, 407–446 GW of solar power was installed globally, bringing the total to 1.6 TWdc. To put this into perspective, this was 55% of new power capacity added to energy production. For the first time, a renewable energy source contributed the...
Diaries of Note
It’s almost impossible to know what to say
In 1990, the Royal National Theatre embarked on an ambitious international tour featuring two...
a year ago
In 1990, the Royal National Theatre embarked on an ambitious international tour featuring two towering Shakespearean plays, King Lear and Richard III, with groundbreaking lead performances from Brian Cox and Ian McKellen, respectively. Their first destination beyond the UK was...
Vadim Kravcenko
What does a CTO actually do?
In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small...
a year ago
In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small […]
The post What does a CTO actually do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The American Scholar
“The Last Words of My English Grandmother”
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Last Words of My English Grandmother” appeared first on...
5 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Last Words of My English Grandmother” appeared first on The American Scholar.
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
Londonist
Things To Keep You Busy For LGBT+ History Month 2024 In London
Museums, guided walks, cabaret and kids events.
11 months ago
Museums, guided walks, cabaret and kids events.
Artificial Ignorance
The ideologies fighting for the soul (and future) of AI
EAs, e/accs, decels, and doomers.
a year ago
EAs, e/accs, decels, and doomers.
Both Are True
How close we got to having an 8th day of the week (and other new truths learned during E1 and E2 of...
Season One, Week One: A Recap
a year ago
Season One, Week One: A Recap
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sim
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2 months ago
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The characters in the comic are, however, absolutely in a simulation.
Today's News:
Global Inequality...
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
a year ago
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
Christopher Butler
object – OMNI Magazine, Issue 1
This is a publication very much of its time and ahead of its time.
I briefly subscribed to OMNI...
a year ago
This is a publication very much of its time and ahead of its time.
I briefly subscribed to OMNI magazine in the late ’80s and early ’90s. It was the sort of magazine that thoroughly suited my interests but was often a bit over my head and clearly not meant for a kid to read....
diamond geezer
Hyperlocal History Month
August is often Local History Month on diamond geezer. I thought this year I might go hyperlocal and...
4 months ago
August is often Local History Month on diamond geezer. I thought this year I might go hyperlocal and bring you historical details of objects and places particularly close to home. We'll see how it goes.
HYPERLOCAL HISTORY MONTH: My fridge
My fridge is four years old, having...
Epic Web Dev
Replace Remix's unstable_parseMultipartFormData with @mjackson/form-data-parser (tip)
Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or...
3 months ago
Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or @mjackson/form-data-parser with custom file size validation.
./techtipsy
The IPv6 situation on Docker is good now!
Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now!
I’ve recently...
2 days ago
Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now!
I’ve recently started reworking my home server setup to be more IPv6 compatible, and as part of that I learned that
during
the summer of 2024 Docker shipped an update that eliminated a
lot of the...
CONTEMPORIST
Bi-Fold Windows Connect The Inside And Outside Spaces Of This Home Extension
Ben Callery Architects has shared photos of a rear home extension they completed in Victoria,...
a year ago
Ben Callery Architects has shared photos of a rear home extension they completed in Victoria, Australia, that includes a deck for indoor/outdoor living. The deck has been designed with a shaded area that’s home to built-in seating and a couch. The other end of the deck has...
History Today Feed
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
2 days ago
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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6 months ago
Londonist
Londonist: Time Machine Opens Its Archive For Easter
"It's so damned good!"
9 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Is Some Twentie Sev’rall Men at Least'
Whitman “contained multitudes,” of course, while George Herbert says of a man: “He is some...
7 months ago
Whitman “contained multitudes,” of course, while George Herbert says of a man: “He is some twentie
sev’rall men at least / Each sev’rall houre.” What sounds self-dramatizing in
the American simply acknowledges our inconstancy, our fickle nature, in Herbert’s
poem “Giddinesse.” In...
NeuroLogica Blog
New Asteroid Probably Won’t Hit Earth
NASA recently discovered a 50 meter wide asteroid whose orbit will come close to Earth. They...
a year ago
NASA recently discovered a 50 meter wide asteroid whose orbit will come close to Earth. They estimate a close approach in 2046, which will likely bring the asteroid within 1.1 million miles of the Earth, about four times the distance of the moon. However, there is always...
Calculated Risk
Industrial Production Decreased 0.1% in November
Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Industrial production (IP)...
5 days ago
Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Industrial production (IP) moved down 0.1 percent in November after declining 0.4 percent in October. In November, manufacturing output rose 0.2 percent, boosted by a 3.5 percent increase in the index for motor...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Early
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a month ago
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The worst part is you can't source any pumpkins because there's been no first contact with the Americas.
Today's News:
Cheese and Biscuits
Roti King, Battersea Power Station
Many moons ago I made a short-lived attempt to do some shorter-form reviews of sandwich shops,...
10 months ago
Many moons ago I made a short-lived attempt to do some shorter-form reviews of sandwich shops, street food joints, delis and the like, places that are perhaps noteworthy but for which the usual 1000+ words could be considered overkill. This resolution didn't last long, partly...
Both Are True
24 super genuine resolutions for 2024
+ one important thing at the end sort of
11 months ago
+ one important thing at the end sort of
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The new heroes of design
I used to have several design heroes I looked up to. But when I changed from industrial design to...
over a year ago
I used to have several design heroes I looked up to. But when I changed from industrial design to digital...
nanoscale views
Items of interest
The time since the APS meeting has been very busy, hence the lack of posting. A few items of...
9 months ago
The time since the APS meeting has been very busy, hence the lack of posting. A few items of interest:
The present issue of Nature Physics has several articles about physics education that I really want to read.
This past week we hosted N. Peter Armitage for a really fun...
Making software...
Better Box Shadows
Better Box Shadows
2019-01-08
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over a year ago
Better Box Shadows
2019-01-08
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position: relative;
z-index: 1;
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.box-container,
.box-container-depth {
background: white;
box-shadow: 0 4px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
border: 1px solid #eee;
border-radius: 10px;
margin: 2rem auto;
...
TheCollector
What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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a year ago
Posts on Nikita...
Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
Andrej Karpathy blog
Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity.
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The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind...
over a year ago
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The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind for a while. This post is my first ever half-serious attempt at a story, and what better way to kick things off than with a story on AI and what that might look like if you...
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 1)
ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to...
over a year ago
ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to JavaScript. ReasonReact is Reason bindings for ReactJS (aka the translated ReasonML version of the ReactJS). It has improved a lot lately and even added support for hooks in a...
TheCollector
7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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TheCollector
Who Were the Landsknechts?
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8 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom
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over a year ago
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Frequently startups pop up and take over the press, framed as an “overnight
success” taking just a year or two to reach some incredible milestone. For some
time I’ve had a slight intuition that...
A small freedom area...
Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a
perceptually uniform...
over a year ago
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a
perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn
Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is.
But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
The Modern House
The Modern House: a potted history
Twenty years ago, The Modern House was a mere kernel of an idea; today, it is widely recognised as...
7 months ago
Twenty years ago, The Modern House was a mere kernel of an idea; today, it is widely recognised as the UK’s leading design-led estate agency. How did we get here? Today, co-founders Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill were asked this very question on BBC Radio 4’s Gap […]
Max Rozen
Using Tailwind CSS with React and CSS-in-JS
If you're already using a CSS-in-JS library, trying out Tailwind CSS with your existing app might be...
over a year ago
If you're already using a CSS-in-JS library, trying out Tailwind CSS with your existing app might be much easier than you think.
diamond geezer
PR bumf roundup
I haven't whinged about unsolicited PR emails for a while because I don't get as many as I used to....
a year ago
I haven't whinged about unsolicited PR emails for a while because I don't get as many as I used to. But they still come, generally from hopeful marketeers with a press release to regurgitate or a plea to amplify some sponsored content. We don't do that here, thanks.
Emily got...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
More weird rules in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket
3 liters of blood, sequential billing, COBRA, and more
6 months ago
3 liters of blood, sequential billing, COBRA, and more
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
TheCollector
German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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a year ago
Open Culture
How the Hugely Acclaimed Shōgun TV Series Makes Translation Interesting
Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their...
3 months ago
Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their owners ever actually got through James Clavell’s famously hefty novel of seventeenth-century Japan is open to question, but they may well have seen the first television adaptation,...
Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
Handprinted - Blog
Using Pearl Ex Metallic Pigments to Enhance Screen Prints
Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments are metallic pigments that can be mixed into printing inks, acrylics,...
6 months ago
Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments are metallic pigments that can be mixed into printing inks, acrylics, oils, encaustics and loads more. As printmakers we were keen to see how they could be used in various printmaking applications. We've tested them for relief printing and had some...
TheCollector
The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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macwright.com
Recently: Cycling and Autumn
I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog...
a month ago
I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog updates humming. If you want more content in your RSS reader, you can subscribe to those posts, which are shorter, more scattered, and even less copyedited. It feels bad to have...
Archinect - Features
'AI Is Both Incredible and Terrifying'; A Conversation with Neil Leach
Neil Leach is a British professor and licensed architect currently based in California. He has...
a year ago
Neil Leach is a British professor and licensed architect currently based in California. He has worked for NASA developing a 3D printer for the Moon and Mars, and is co-founder of DigitalFUTURES. Having authored over 40 books on architecture and digital design, and taught at some...
mtlynch.io
Hiring Content Writers: Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description
Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job...
over a year ago
Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description (this section) Part Three: Screening Candidates Part Four - Working with Writers Part Five - Terminating Writers A clear, concise job description shows candidates that you’re...
Alex Meub
Dealing with Dropbox Link Overages
Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the...
over a year ago
Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the fact that I can give public links to others as an easy way to send large files.
Recently though, a few links of mine were getting pretty popular and I received the following very...
Kagi Blog
Kagi search introduces Team plan
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
over a year ago
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
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.
TheCollector
Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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a year ago
macwright.com
Hawbuck wallets
There are a lot of companies pitching new kinds of wallets, with lots of ads - Ridge is one of the...
8 months ago
There are a lot of companies pitching new kinds of wallets, with lots of ads - Ridge is one of the most famous. An option that never seems to come up in internet listicles but I’ve sworn by for years is the Hawbuck wallet.
My personal preferences for this kind of thing...
I Have No Idea What...
A Summary of My Learnings On How To Find Startup Ideas
I’ve been searching for new startup ideas and problem areas to tackle. It’s quite difficult to do,...
over a year ago
I’ve been searching for new startup ideas and problem areas to tackle. It’s quite difficult to do, especially when you begin adding constraints to the criteria such as “Am I excited about this problem space?”. The internet is filled with helpful ways to come up with startup ideas...
Londonist
The Next London Borough Of Culture Will Be Wandsworth, Followed By...
Next two boroughs announced.
9 months ago
Next two boroughs announced.
Noahpinion
Bank weakness is how our economy cools off
Not polycrisis, but stabilization.
a year ago
Not polycrisis, but stabilization.
Max Rozen
Start your own app with React, GraphQL and Serverless architecture: Part 3 - Let's build a GraphQL...
Start your own app with React, GraphQL and Serverless architecture: Part 3 - Let's build a GraphQL...
over a year ago
Start your own app with React, GraphQL and Serverless architecture: Part 3 - Let's build a GraphQL backend!
Christian Selig
Trials and tribulations of 360° video in Juno
In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is...
10 months ago
In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is whether it supports 360° and 180° videos (for the unfamiliar, it’s an immersive video format that fully surrounds you). The short answer is no, it’s sort of a niche feature without...
abdz.do - Have you...
Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design
Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design
...
a year ago
Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design
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For over a decade, Monterra has been creating top-of-the-line wines sourced from picturesque vineyards in South Australia. But in recent times, the...
The Marginalian
But We Had Music: Nick Cave Reads an Animated Poem about Black Holes, Eternity, and How to Bear Our...
How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through...
8 months ago
How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have together on this lonely, perfect planet. The seventh annual Universe in Verse — a...
Steve Klabnik
A 30 minute introduction to Rust
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Using Next.js and Vercel to instantly load a data-heavy website
A React application is JavaScript code that gets transformed into static HTML. This transformation...
over a year ago
A React application is JavaScript code that gets transformed into static HTML. This transformation is called "rendering".
Whenever you build a React application, you're inevitably making a decision on when to render it and you usually have 3 choices:
Client-side rendering: the...
Noahpinion
Why skilled immigration (usually) benefits both countries
When to worry about brain drain, and when not to worry.
a year ago
When to worry about brain drain, and when not to worry.
TheCollector
Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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9 months ago
macwright.com
Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by ()
ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror...
a year ago
ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view.
You use a Facet. Great example in JupyterLab. Like everything in CodeMirror, this lets you be super flexible with how configuration works - it is designed with multiple...
Charles Chen
TypeScript is not a Programming Language
If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
a year ago
If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
Seth's Blog
The seduction of grad school
For a certain cohort of high-performing students at famous colleges, graduate school feels...
a year ago
For a certain cohort of high-performing students at famous colleges, graduate school feels irresistible. If you’re good at school, the challenge and offer of law school, med school or a famous business school means you get to do more of what you’re good at. You’re offered a...
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding the Difference Between Image and Vector File Types
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences...
over a year ago
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences between various popular format types commonly used for graphic design applications. So I decided I’d create a resource that’s hopefully a handy reference on the matter of discerning...
Londonist
Things To Do In London On Christmas Day
Guided tours, river trips and Christmas lunch.
a year ago
Guided tours, river trips and Christmas lunch.
Old Structures...
Probably Not Realistic
The “Vue de la Nouvelle Yorck” is listed at the New York Public Libarry as being probably from 1775....
a year ago
The “Vue de la Nouvelle Yorck” is listed at the New York Public Libarry as being probably from 1775. It’s definitely from that era, just based on the ships, which are far more accurately drawn than the buildings are. A lot of these illustrations appear to have been made by...
The Marginalian
A Victorian Visionary’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and Vegetarianism
"Once upon a time your fore-fathers made no scruple about not only killing, but also eating their...
a year ago
"Once upon a time your fore-fathers made no scruple about not only killing, but also eating their relations."
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.29.0
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New...
over a year ago
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New features include multivariate feature flags, private projects and DAU/WAU/MAU graphs.
Londonist
Bits Of London That Aren't In The Bit Of London They Say They Are In, But In Another Bit Of London
If you see what we mean.
8 months ago
Kagi Blog
Kagi raises $670K
Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our...
a year ago
Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date.
The Great Discontent...
Sofía Gallisá Muriente
Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed...
over a year ago
Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now Can you share a little bit about where and how you grew up and what...
Retail Design Blog
Dover Street Market
Although Paris was initially considered too bourgeois as a location for Rei Kawakubo‘s brilliantly...
6 months ago
Although Paris was initially considered too bourgeois as a location for Rei Kawakubo‘s brilliantly forward Dover Street Market store concept,...
History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
HTMHell
Improving SEO without knowing where to start
Summary
Introduction
What is SEO ?
Web quality with Opquast
SEO-related Opquast...
over a year ago
Summary
Introduction
What is SEO ?
Web quality with Opquast
SEO-related Opquast rules
Conclusion
Introduction ↑
Colleagues sometimes ask me: “Hey Alex, I would like to learn a bit about search engine optimisation (SEO) but I don't really know where to start. Do you have tips for...
Platformer
What I learned in year three of Platformer
Has the Substack revolution come and gone? PLUS: What's changing in year four
a year ago
Has the Substack revolution come and gone? PLUS: What's changing in year four
swyx's site RSS Feed
Your Site's Calling Card
> Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added...
over a year ago
> Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added too much time to my builds
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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2 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Shortcodes vs MDX
Comparing the two popular custom dynamic content solutions!
over a year ago
Comparing the two popular custom dynamic content solutions!
Ink & Switch
Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software
Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
over a year ago
Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Warp
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Today's News:
Explorations of an...
Parque Nacional Calilegua
Parque Nacional Calilegua protects around 76,000 hectares of east-slope yungas forest, making it the...
a year ago
Parque Nacional Calilegua protects around 76,000 hectares of east-slope yungas forest, making it the largest national park in northwestern Argentina. It would, therefore, feature prominently on our trip. Laura and I arrived in the general area during the afternoon of January 25,...
Vadim Kravcenko
Contracts you should never sign
When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part...
a year ago
When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. […]
The post Contracts you should never sign appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Handprinted - Blog
Making an Aluminium Plate Etching
We recently covered in our blog how to make marks on etching plates using tools and resists. Now...
3 months ago
We recently covered in our blog how to make marks on etching plates using tools and resists. Now we’re going to put together what we’ve learnt to create a print!
This blog is part of a series featuring tips and techniques to get you started with aluminium or zinc plate etching....
TheCollector
Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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a year ago
Seth's Blog
Everything costs
But not all costs are the same. There are three kinds of costs that people get confused about, but...
2 months ago
But not all costs are the same. There are three kinds of costs that people get confused about, but understanding them, really understanding them–in your bones–unlocks opportunity. Opportunity cost: If you eat the cupcakes, you can’t also eat the brownies. Every time we choose to...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed
I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days.
I like the concept of “now...
a month ago
I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days.
I like the concept of “now pages” but I felt like it would be better if it had an RSS feed. The feed would give interested parties a way to subscribe to life changes.
The problem is that RSS feeds aren’t...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
How We Got To Now
I really enjoyed Steven Johnson's How We Got To Now. I read a lot of history and science books, but...
over a year ago
I really enjoyed Steven Johnson's How We Got To Now. I read a lot of history and science books, but this book stood out because 1) the…
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to run a transparent startup
There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's...
over a year ago
There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's advantage. Most companies seem to share when necessary but…
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Two eras of the internet: pull and push
The evolution of the internet is an extremely complex topic. Sometimes it is helpful to find broad...
over a year ago
The evolution of the internet is an extremely complex topic. Sometimes it is helpful to find broad patterns that make it easier to…
weird medieval guys
Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
Style over Substance
How I made HA-meural: a Meural Canvas integration for Home Assistant
One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the...
over a year ago
One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the Home Assistant home automation software that lets you control a NETGEAR Meural Canvas digital frame. It’s the result of a few months of work, lots of trial and error, and many...
Computer Things
Paradigms succeed when you can strip them for parts
I'm speaking at DDD Europe about Empirical Software Engineering!1 I have complicated thoughts about...
7 months ago
I'm speaking at DDD Europe about Empirical Software Engineering!1 I have complicated thoughts about ESE and foolishly decided to update my talk to cover studies on DDD, so I'm going to be spending a lot of time doing research. Newsletters for the next few weeks may be light.
The...
Coffee with an...
Design Paths 2
Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there...
9 months ago
Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there were another handful of clear diagrams to explain the process. This still isn’t that: More Design Paths HERE
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.
Computer Things
What if the spec doesn't match the code?
Whenever I talk about formal methods, I get the same question:
Can I use the spec to generate my...
9 months ago
Whenever I talk about formal methods, I get the same question:
Can I use the spec to generate my code?
People are worried about two things. One, that they'll make a mistake implementing the specification and have bugs. Two, that over time the implementation will "drift" and...
Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
Maggie Appleton
A Naive Exploration of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
On giving AI eyes and ears
AI can listen and see, with bigger implications than we might realize.
a year ago
AI can listen and see, with bigger implications than we might realize.
The Berkeley...
FIGS: Attaining XGBoost-level performance with the interpretability and speed of CART
FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by...
over a year ago
FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by simultaneously growing an ensemble of decision trees in competition with one another.
Recent machine-learning advances have led to increasingly complex predictive models, often at the cost...
Making software...
Avoiding Featurism
Avoiding Featurism
2022-10-14
I rather enjoy the term "featurism". I came across this term while...
over a year ago
Avoiding Featurism
2022-10-14
I rather enjoy the term "featurism". I came across this term while reading the wonderful article Why I don't use Netscape, which the author credits to Bernd Paysan. Although it sums up the current "digital product" industry quite well the more...
Max Rozen
Frustrated by Formik? Here's a simpler way to do forms in React
Do you find yourself struggling for hours to solve problems with Formik? I've started using a...
over a year ago
Do you find yourself struggling for hours to solve problems with Formik? I've started using a different library that's much simpler.
TheCollector
Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an...
over a year ago
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls…
Map of the Week
Harry Beck's Famous Subway Map Goes Airborne
This map was published a month ago in the Londonist. Just about every other map blog has already...
a year ago
This map was published a month ago in the Londonist. Just about every other map blog has already picked up on it and I am late to the game. However, I've spent so much time looking at it that I think it's worth a visit even if you've already seen it. It was drawn by Harry Beck,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 034: Meta Connect
September 29, 2023
a year ago
Construction Physics
What Progress Has Icon Made on 3D-Printed Homes?
We last looked at 3D-printed buildings about three years ago. At the time, the technology was still...
8 months ago
We last looked at 3D-printed buildings about three years ago. At the time, the technology was still nascent. Although there was a lot of enthusiasm, many efforts were academic, with little commercial deployment, and practitioners were experimenting with a wide range of...
The Berkeley...
Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to...
over a year ago
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to a technology with real-world applications. Notable examples include DeepMind’s work on controlling a nuclear reactor or on improving Youtube video compression, or Tesla attempting...
Liz Denys
An update on Keybase verification
Keybase updated their verification methods to include a command line method that relies on echo,...
over a year ago
Keybase updated their verification methods to include a command line method that relies on echo, gpg, perl, and curl. I really like this so-called "hardcore mode" because it uses only tools I already trust - I don't have to install anything from Keybase. The process involves...
Open Culture
Discover Hannah Arendt’s Syllabus for Her 1974 Course on “Thinking”
If you’ve read one work of Hannah Arendt’s, it’s probably Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the...
2 weeks ago
If you’ve read one work of Hannah Arendt’s, it’s probably Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of the eponymous Nazi official — and the source of her much-quoted phrase “the banality of evil.” That book came out in 1963, at which time Arendt still had a dozen...
Math Is Still...
Celebrated Cryptography Algorithm Gets an Upgrade
Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new...
a year ago
Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics.
The post Celebrated Cryptography Algorithm Gets an Upgrade first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 13-19 November 2023
The very best of Londonist from the past week.
a year ago
The very best of Londonist from the past week.
Rest of World -...
At home with Asia’s shopping influencers
In Vietnam, Pakistan, and Indonesia, three livestreamers build well-paid but precarious careers.
a year ago
In Vietnam, Pakistan, and Indonesia, three livestreamers build well-paid but precarious careers.
The Modern House
Good Start: the best breakfasts in London
a year ago
Platformer
Here come the ChatGPT bans
Blocked in schools, forbidden at a machine learning conference. What should OpenAI do about it?
a year ago
Blocked in schools, forbidden at a machine learning conference. What should OpenAI do about it?
Londonist
Spotted These Circular Tube Maps Doing The Rounds?
At last! The Circle line makes sense.
10 months ago
At last! The Circle line makes sense.
Copper • A blog...
The complex simplicity of my static websites
It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
a year ago
It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions.
I had no idea what that...
Maggie Appleton
A Collection of Design Engineers
9 months ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Call for Entries: Finding Forte
Contributed by Fonts In Use Staff
Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved....
over a year ago
Contributed by Fonts In Use Staff
Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved.
The call for entries is now open! Forte in use for a shop sign, spotted by Tom Koch in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved....
Open Culture
Watch a Japanese Artisan Hand-Craft a Cello in 6 Months
Cellists unwilling to settle for any but the finest instrument must, sooner or later, make a...
5 months ago
Cellists unwilling to settle for any but the finest instrument must, sooner or later, make a pilgrimage to Cremona — or rather, to the Cremonas. One is, of course, the city in Lombardy that was home to numerous pioneering master luthiers, up to and including Antonio Stradivari....
The DESK Magazine
The only deals we'll do this year for mymind, Semplice & Carbonmade
Today, I'd like to focus entirely on the projects I'm working on and the special deals we prepared...
a year ago
Today, I'd like to focus entirely on the projects I'm working on and the special deals we prepared for only this week as a way to say THANK YOU to our community.
Musings on Markets
Tesla in 2023: A Return to Reality, The Start of the End or Time to Buy?
I am not much of a car person and view cars primarily as a mode of transportation. I drive a 2010...
a year ago
I am not much of a car person and view cars primarily as a mode of transportation. I drive a 2010 Honda Civic, a perfectly serviceable vehicle that is never going to get oohs and ahas from onlookers, but I feel no urge to value Honda. I don't own a Tesla, and have only driven...
Willem Pennings
ClockSquared Mini, a word clock wristwatch
About a year ago, I had some time to spare over the summer and decided to challenge myself with a...
over a year ago
About a year ago, I had some time to spare over the summer and decided to challenge myself with a project that I call “Clocksquared Mini”. It is Clocksquared, but in a tiny wristwatch package. This gives rise to a major challenge, as everything has to be shrunk down approximately...
Retail Design Blog
Villa y Zapata Tequila by Helix Branding
Villa y Zapata Tequila is a revolutionary, handcrafted spirit crafted for those with discerning...
a month ago
Villa y Zapata Tequila is a revolutionary, handcrafted spirit crafted for those with discerning palates. It pays tribute to individuals...
Musings on Markets
Catastrophic Risk: Investing and Business Implications
In the context of valuing companies, and sharing those valuations, I do get suggestions from readers...
10 months ago
In the context of valuing companies, and sharing those valuations, I do get suggestions from readers on companies that I should value next. While I don't have the time or the bandwidth to value all of the suggested companies, a reader from Iceland, a couple of weeks ago, made a...
Josh Collinsworth
My Essential Tools for WordPress Development
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
over a year ago
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily development-related; some have to do with productivity or just make life a little easier. That’s by design. Part of being a developer is learning to work and use your tools as...
computers are bad
2024-02-25 a history of the tty
It's one of those anachronisms that is deeply embedded in modern technology.
From cloud operator...
10 months ago
It's one of those anachronisms that is deeply embedded in modern technology.
From cloud operator servers to embedded controllers in appliances, there
must be uncountable devices that think they are connected to a TTY.
I will omit the many interesting details of the Linux terminal...
TheCollector
10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
Sam Altman
Project Covalence
Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support...
over a year ago
Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support with clinical trials—for companies focusing on developing novel drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, rapidly spinning up trials is one of their biggest bottlenecks.
Science remains the...
diamond geezer
RM70
Every 10 years the Routemaster Association likes to take over Finsbury Park with a mass line-up of...
5 months ago
Every 10 years the Routemaster Association likes to take over Finsbury Park with a mass line-up of London's favourite heritage vehicle, the RM bus. Unfortunately this year Haringey council made things difficult so the 70th anniversary bash, RM70, had to find a different home....
Chris Nicholas
A new blog for 2024
It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024,...
11 months ago
It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024, it’s time for a complete refresh.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Dark But Festive'
I grew up in
the Age of Magazines. My parents, who were not book readers, subscribed at
various...
7 months ago
I grew up in
the Age of Magazines. My parents, who were not book readers, subscribed at
various times to Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Time, Life, Look, Saturday Evening Post and National Geographic, not to mention those periodicals subscribed to by my
mother (McCall’s,...
Open Culture
Free: Download Over 33,000 Sounds from the BBC Sound Effects Archive
There may be a few young people in Britain today who recognize the name Ludwig Koch, but in the...
2 months ago
There may be a few young people in Britain today who recognize the name Ludwig Koch, but in the nineteen-forties, he constituted something of a cultural phenomenon unto himself. He “started recording sounds and voices in the 1880s when he was still a child” in his native Germany,...
TheCollector
10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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TheCollector
A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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TheCollector
What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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a year ago
Londonist
The Top Exhibitions To See In London In November 2023
David Hockney, Antony Gormley and some strange creatures.
a year ago
David Hockney, Antony Gormley and some strange creatures.
Londonist
Stooky Bill: The Sinister Puppet From Doctor Who Was Real
And where to see him in London.
a year ago
And where to see him in London.
SatPost by Trung...
Taylor Swift, Johnny Cash and AI Art
Context matters more than content in the age of AI-generated audio, images and videos.
a year ago
Context matters more than content in the age of AI-generated audio, images and videos.
Mark Manson
Why You’re So Unhappy
This isn't going to be your typical pep talk about how the universe works in mysterious ways, or how...
a year ago
This isn't going to be your typical pep talk about how the universe works in mysterious ways, or how everything will fall into place if you're patient.
Spoiler alert: it won’t.
The cold hard truth is this: the universe doesn’t care about your happiness. You do.
Maybe you've...
Rest of World -...
Fake Russian influencers are going viral on Chinese social media
They are bolstered by growing pro-Russia, nationalist sentiment on the Chinese internet.
a year ago
They are bolstered by growing pro-Russia, nationalist sentiment on the Chinese internet.
tonsky.me
Local, first, forever
So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught...
6 months ago
So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught my attention:
Specifically, this part:
But first, some context.
What is local-first?
For the long version, go to Ink & Switch, who coined the term. Or listen for Peter van...
TheCollector
Who Were the Allied Powers?
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11 months ago
Epic Web Dev
Why I Won't Use Next.js
From the perspective of web standards to concerns about increasing complexity, Kent C. Dodds shares...
a year ago
From the perspective of web standards to concerns about increasing complexity, Kent C. Dodds shares his opinions on why he won't use Next.js.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Making Ethereum alignment legible
2 months ago
Style over Substance
Using the Olympus XA as an everyday carry camera
The Olympus XA has been my EDC camera this year and I gotta say – it’s a ton of fun. The concept of...
over a year ago
The Olympus XA has been my EDC camera this year and I gotta say – it’s a ton of fun. The concept of EDC – Every Day Carry – is that a piece of equipment should be light and compact enough to have with you every day, yet still versatile enough to be useful in […]
The post Using...
alexwlchan
How I name my computers
I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac.
I’ve already done most of the...
a month ago
I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac.
I’ve already done most of the setup, and this blog post is one of the first things I’ll make with it.
I’m quite pleased with how quickly I can get up and running with a new machine.
There’s one hard part of...
Adventures In...
Detect and measure wildfires with Sentinel-1 Explorer
Our human visual systems collect light from a pretty narrow slice of the electromagnetic spectrum....
4 months ago
Our human visual systems collect light from a pretty narrow slice of the electromagnetic spectrum. But there is so much more light to see. Radar systems use photons with much longer wavelengths that can break through clouds and smoke, and because the energy is sent from the...
NeuroLogica Blog
Betavoltaic Batteries
In 1964 Isaac Asimov, asked to imagine the world 50 years in the future, wrote: “The appliances of...
11 months ago
In 1964 Isaac Asimov, asked to imagine the world 50 years in the future, wrote: “The appliances of 2014 will have no electric cords, of course, for they will be powered by long- lived batteries running on radioisotopes. The isotopes will not be expensive for they will be by-...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Apple Vision Pro: A Review
I’ve spent a lot of time with the Vision Pro, turning my experience into both the newsletter you’re...
10 months ago
I’ve spent a lot of time with the Vision Pro, turning my experience into both the newsletter you’re reading and one of the first two episodes of my upcoming iHeartRadio podcast Better Offline. I wrote the majority of this newsletter on the Vision Pro itself, though
TheCollector
Who Was Eusebius?
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11 months ago
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