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AVC
The Newest Members of the USV Team Last Thursday, three new blog posts hit USV.com announcing our three new analysts: This is our...
over a year ago
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The Newest Members of the USV Team

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Last Thursday, three new blog posts hit USV.com announcing our three new analysts: This is our tradition at USV. When someone starts at USV, we ask them to write a post on the USV blog introducing themselves. This helps founders who come to talk to us about their companies...
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tomcritchlow.com
Work is a Place My buddy Luke recently started a band called Tattoo Mustache. While we were chatting, his eyes lit...
a year ago
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Work is a Place

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
My buddy Luke recently started a band called Tattoo Mustache. While we were chatting, his eyes lit up talking about jamming in the studio with his bandmates - his arms were flailing and you could feel the energy coming off him like steam from a hot pan. These weekly jam sessions...
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Marcus on AI
An AI rumor you won’t want to miss Converging evidence that the core hypothesis driving generative AI may be wrong
8 months ago
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An AI rumor you won’t want to miss

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

8 months ago
Converging evidence that the core hypothesis driving generative AI may be wrong
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Londonist
What's Open In London On Christmas Day 2023? Cafes, pubs and tourist attractions open on 25 December.
a year ago
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What's Open In London On Christmas Day 2023?

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Cafes, pubs and tourist attractions open on 25 December.
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981 In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
7 months ago
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
A case for stacked patches 📚 I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds,...
a year ago
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A case for stacked patches 📚

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

a year ago
I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds, 2005, git@vger.kernel.org Git branches are hard to think about. But “GitHub” forces you to think about branches. A lot. Instead of futzing with GitHub’s feature branches, many...
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Making software...
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My...
over a year ago
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
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The personal website...
Intuition vs. data At a time when data is king, product designers should place more trust in their intuition. Recently...
over a year ago
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Intuition vs. data

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

over a year ago
At a time when data is king, product designers should place more trust in their intuition. Recently I attended Front, a product management conference in Salt Lake City. There, Maggie Crowley, product manager for a company called Drift, presented a case study in redesigning a...
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Blog System/5
Links: January 2024 edition Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
a year ago
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Links: January 2024 edition

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
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Josh Thompson
2018 In Review & Thoughts on 2019 I find a lot of value in other people’s reviews of their years. It’s the time of year to be...
over a year ago
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2018 In Review & Thoughts on 2019

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

over a year ago
I find a lot of value in other people’s reviews of their years. It’s the time of year to be contemplative and reflective on the last 12 months, so here we are. Note to reader: I’m posting this in May, 2019. I wrote it in late December, 2018, didn’t get around to finishing it up...
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Yale E360
Facing High Tariffs in U.S., Chinese Solar Flows to Poorer Countries Facing high tariffs in the U.S. and Europe, Chinese solar and battery companies have been selling a...
2 months ago
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Facing High Tariffs in U.S., Chinese Solar Flows to Poorer Countries

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science

2 months ago
Facing high tariffs in the U.S. and Europe, Chinese solar and battery companies have been selling a growing share of their products to poorer countries, a new analysis finds. Read more on E360 →
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Lighthouse Blog
New feature: RSS feed export
7 months ago
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New feature: RSS feed export

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

7 months ago
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CONTEMPORIST
A New Home With Twin Gables Connected By A Glazed Breezeway Wheeler Kearns Architects has shared photos of a new home they have completed in Illinois, which is...
a year ago
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A New Home With Twin Gables Connected By A Glazed Breezeway

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Wheeler Kearns Architects has shared photos of a new home they have completed in Illinois, which is located on a one-acre wooded ravine site north of Chicago. The home, situated upward and slightly angled away from the street, includes twin-gabled volumes, one for sleeping and...
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Josh Thompson
Turing Prep Chapter 4: Arrays, Hashes, and Nested Collections Preparing for Turing Series Index What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up...
over a year ago
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Turing Prep Chapter 4: Arrays, Hashes, and Nested Collections

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

over a year ago
Preparing for Turing Series Index What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up useful information about a number of topics related to Ruby, specifically geared for students learning the Ruby programming language, as part of the Turing School’s Backend Software...
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Yale E360
I'm moving my projects off GitHub It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge. I'm not necessarily advocating...
over a year ago
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I'm moving my projects off GitHub

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge. I'm not necessarily advocating for anyone else to do the same, but if my reasons resonate with you then you may want to consider it. I also don't expect this post to... matter, if that makes sense1. I'm not a...
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diamond geezer
London's escalatoriest stations London's escalatoriest stations an FoI request last week which revealed all. We learnt that 89...
2 months ago
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London's escalatoriest stations

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

2 months ago
London's escalatoriest stations an FoI request last week which revealed all. We learnt that 89 stations maintained by London Underground have escalators, and we learned how many there are at each. Here's the Top 10. 1) BANK/MONUMENT (35 escalators) Also a lot of them are...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Compass Lately, I've been thinking about my inner compass — the one that guides me through work and daily...
8 months ago
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Compass

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

8 months ago
Lately, I've been thinking about my inner compass — the one that guides me through work and daily life. I've touched on my design ethos before, but this feels like something more personal. It's a lightweight breakdown of who I am, both as a designer and a human, shaped by the...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Prompting the Wrong Question So there I am, working on a bug exclusive to Safari (we’ve all been there). I can’t figure it out so...
9 months ago
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Prompting the Wrong Question

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
So there I am, working on a bug exclusive to Safari (we’ve all been there). I can’t figure it out so I ask AI, “Hey, this piece of code is not working in Safari, what’s wrong?” The issue might be related to how Safari handles keyboard events, especially for certain keys… It gives...
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Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and...
over a year ago
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Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and when?
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Ryan Mulligan
Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid A post about the layout you're looking at right now The previous structure of this page layout was...
over a year ago
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Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
A post about the layout you're looking at right now The previous structure of this page layout was virtually the same, the foundation of it expertly defined in the article Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid by Josh Comeau. It's a technique I've used on many projects. I've even...
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journal – Winnie Lim
thoughts after the 2024 US election Sometime midway through the pandemic I felt like if I had any hope or optimism for humanity prior, I...
8 months ago
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thoughts after the 2024 US election

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

8 months ago
Sometime midway through the pandemic I felt like if I had any hope or optimism for humanity prior, I had lost it all witnessing how we responded towards a disabling virus. If...
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Wuthering...
The Frogs by Aristophanes - Brilliant! Brilliant! Wish I knew what you were talking about! The Frogs by Aristophanes is this week’s play.  It was performed in what now look like the waning...
over a year ago
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The Frogs by Aristophanes - Brilliant! Brilliant! Wish I knew what you were talking about!

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
The Frogs by Aristophanes is this week’s play.  It was performed in what now look like the waning days of Athens, just before their conquest by Sparta, and in particular the last days of Athenian tragedy, with Euripides and Sophocles both recently dead.  In what may be the most...
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Open Culture
The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism It would hardly be notable to make the acquaintance of a Greek Buddhist today. Despite having...
4 months ago
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The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
It would hardly be notable to make the acquaintance of a Greek Buddhist today. Despite having originated in Asia, that religion — or philosophy, or way of life, or whatever you prefer to call it — now has adherents all over the world. Modern-day Buddhists need not make an arduous...
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Quanta Magazine
The ‘Elegant’ Math Model That Could Help Rescue Coral Reefs Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps...
4 months ago
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The ‘Elegant’ Math Model That Could Help Rescue Coral Reefs

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

4 months ago
Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a variety of coral shapes. The post The ‘Elegant’ Math Model That Could Help Rescue Coral Reefs first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Escaping Flatland
The newness of depth Fragments from the cutting room floor, vol 4
3 months ago
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The newness of depth

from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature

3 months ago
Fragments from the cutting room floor, vol 4
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CONTEMPORIST
Lighting Highlights The Alternating Curvilinear Balconies Of This New Apartment Building Omniview Design has completed the Golf Apartments, a high-end residential development adjacent to a...
a year ago
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Lighting Highlights The Alternating Curvilinear Balconies Of This New Apartment Building

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Omniview Design has completed the Golf Apartments, a high-end residential development adjacent to a famous golf course in Glyfada, Greece. Key to the design of the building are the curvilinear balconies that alternate directions creating a lively facade. In the evening, lighting...
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Irrational...
Notes on The Crux The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing...
a year ago
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Notes on The Crux

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing many of the same core ideas but in a more readable format, and a clearer target to take down: the incoherent outputs of process and goal-driven strategy. Recently, I’ve been looking...
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware April 2023 The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the...
over a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2023

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

over a year ago
The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the month without being guessed, but congrats to cpresser for figuring it out in the last week! email me for your prize. Here’s some more context images of the ware. The colored filter...
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Casey Handmer's blog
Anti-aging tech fixes demographic collapse With the latest studies on GLP-1 drugs showing not just a drop in all-cause mortality but also an...
10 months ago
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Anti-aging tech fixes demographic collapse

from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
With the latest studies on GLP-1 drugs showing not just a drop in all-cause mortality but also an apparent slowing of aging, I thought I’d write a quick note on how I think this technology, if it replicates, can drastically improve our lives. It’s hard to believe I’m writing...
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exist
A Tale of Two Technologies: Why Large Language Models are the Future and the Metaverse Isn't In the digital landscape of recent years, two major technologies have vied for the spotlight: the...
over a year ago
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A Tale of Two Technologies: Why Large Language Models are the Future and the Metaverse Isn't

from exist [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
In the digital landscape of recent years, two major technologies have vied for the spotlight: the Metaverse and Large Language Models (LLMs). Though the Metaverse, a virtual reality-based universe, initially garnered significant attention and expectations, it ultimately failed to...
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Classical Wisdom
How Calypso Helped Odysseus... Homer's Women: Podcast with Emily Hauser
a month ago
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How Calypso Helped Odysseus...

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
Homer's Women: Podcast with Emily Hauser
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Rest of World -...
Lithium is only as dirty as we make it We’re building a new supply chain for electric vehicles. Are we building the right one?
a year ago
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Lithium is only as dirty as we make it

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
We’re building a new supply chain for electric vehicles. Are we building the right one?
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Platformer
The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and ... LeBron?
over a year ago
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The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else

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over a year ago
Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and ... LeBron?
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TheCollector
An Overview of the Song, Liao, Jurchen Jin, and Yuan Chinese Dynasties The political fragmentation in China after the collapse of the Tang Dynasty was brought to an end by...
a week ago
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An Overview of the Song, Liao, Jurchen Jin, and Yuan Chinese Dynasties

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a week ago
The political fragmentation in China after the collapse of the Tang Dynasty was brought to an end by Zhao Kuangyin, a warlord who founded the Song Dynasty in 960. Northeastern China remained under the control of the Khitan Liao Dynasty, which was overthrown by the Jurchens early...
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The Perry Bible...
Pop The post Pop appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
a year ago
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Pop

from The Perry Bible Fellowship [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
The post Pop appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
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symmetry magazine
Muon g-2 doubles down with latest measurement, explores uncharted territory Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment brings particle physics closer to a showdown between theory and...
a year ago
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Muon g-2 doubles down with latest measurement, explores uncharted territory

from symmetry magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment brings particle physics closer to a showdown between theory and experiment.
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Diaries of Note
This must be a specially sad day Born Hermione Llewellyn in 1913, the life of Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly took a dramatic turn in...
a year ago
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This must be a specially sad day

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Born Hermione Llewellyn in 1913, the life of Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly took a dramatic turn in 1941 when her husband, a lieutenant in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, was captured by Rommel’s Afrika Korps, leading to his imprisonment as a prisoner of war in Italy. She wrote...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Job Screening Blog Post Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between...
8 months ago
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Job Screening Blog Post

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8 months ago
Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between them? Do you care? If not, we might not be a good fit. #designEngineering Email :: Mastodon :: Twitter #designEngineer
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blag
Installing Transmission (remote and CLI) client on Raspberry Pi This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
over a year ago
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Installing Transmission (remote and CLI) client on Raspberry Pi

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
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Lighthouse Blog
Lighthouse now integrates with mobile reader apps
a year ago
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Lighthouse now integrates with mobile reader apps

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a year ago
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Applied Cartography
Notes on ActivityPub By far the single most-fruitful tactic has been "just look at raw GET responses from Mastodon and...
a year ago
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Notes on ActivityPub

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

a year ago
By far the single most-fruitful tactic has been "just look at raw GET responses from Mastodon and see what things are shaped like." I know that "ActivityPub is under-specified" is a bit of a meme, but it's wild how little prior art there is. Something that gives distinctly bad...
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the singularity is...
The Elon Swing Voter I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
7 months ago
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The Elon Swing Voter

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

7 months ago
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
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TheCollector
Yoko Ono’s Tate Modern Retrospective Heads to US After a sell-out stint at London’s Tate Modern, a major Yoko Ono retrospective is hopping across the...
3 months ago
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Yoko Ono’s Tate Modern Retrospective Heads to US

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
After a sell-out stint at London’s Tate Modern, a major Yoko Ono retrospective is hopping across the pond. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announced it will be the only American institution to host Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind. The exhibition will open on October 18, 2025,...
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The American Scholar
Ho Ho Horror Why not make this Christmas a little darker? The post Ho Ho Horror appeared first on The American...
6 months ago
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Ho Ho Horror

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

6 months ago
Why not make this Christmas a little darker? The post Ho Ho Horror appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Computer Things
"Integration tests" are just vibes New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software...
a year ago
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"Integration tests" are just vibes

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software cause us to miss deadlines, and how we can address some of them. Patreon here. "Integration tests" are just vibes You should write more unit tests than integration tests. You should...
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Mazdak
Top 10 Finance News Headlines for Thursday, November 30th, 2023 📈📰 📈 Stocks Soar: The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped more than 500 points on Thursday, closing at...
a year ago
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Top 10 Finance News Headlines for Thursday, November 30th, 2023 📈📰

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
📈 Stocks Soar: The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped more than 500 points on Thursday, closing at its highest level of the year. The rally was fueled by optimism about the economy and a slowdown in inflation. 🚀 💼 Peltz Takes Aim at Disney: Activist investor Nelson Peltz is...
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Tech + Economics +...
The eternal victimhood of the right-wing mind. The right-wing has become obsessed with what they term the 'Victimhood Olympics.' Conservative...
a year ago
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The eternal victimhood of the right-wing mind.

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
The right-wing has become obsessed with what they term the 'Victimhood Olympics.' Conservative politicians and pundits have made a cottage industry out of the idea that progressives indulge in a competitive display of grievances, vying for the spotlight of sympathy and the...
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symmetry magazine
Collaboration builds fantastical stories from nuggets of truth What happens when you pair CERN scientists with science fiction writers to create short stories...
over a year ago
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Collaboration builds fantastical stories from nuggets of truth

from symmetry magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
What happens when you pair CERN scientists with science fiction writers to create short stories inspired by particle physics?
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The Works in...
Notes on Progress: Doing science backwards Preregistering research as a cure for scientific bias
over a year ago
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Notes on Progress: Doing science backwards

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over a year ago
Preregistering research as a cure for scientific bias
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Ryan Hoover's...
What Killed Turntable.fm?
over a year ago
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What Killed Turntable.fm?

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over a year ago
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Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.3% to 3.0% Range From BofA: Since our last weekly publication, our 4Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up two-tenths...
5 months ago
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Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.3% to 3.0% Range

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
From BofA: Since our last weekly publication, our 4Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up two-tenths to 2.3% q/q saar. [Jan 24th estimate] emphasis added From Goldman: We left our Q4 GDP tracking and domestic final sales estimates unchanged, each at +2.6% (quarter-over-quarter...
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Seth's Blog
Own it and label it This takes guts, and hustlers are afraid to do so. Thirty years ago, when the avalanche of email...
5 months ago
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Own it and label it

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

5 months ago
This takes guts, and hustlers are afraid to do so. Thirty years ago, when the avalanche of email spam was on the horizon, I proposed that any commercial email should have a $ in the subject line. A simple way for email programs to filter it out if you’re not looking for it....
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The Diff
IP Protection in the Era of Fast Copying and Watermark Removal Plus! Data and Outsourcing CoreWeave Fraud Realignment Local AI
3 months ago
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IP Protection in the Era of Fast Copying and Watermark Removal

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3 months ago
Plus! Data and Outsourcing CoreWeave Fraud Realignment Local AI
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A Smart Bear
Failure to face the truth This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across...
over a year ago
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Failure to face the truth

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over a year ago
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.
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Noahpinion
The elemental foe Lifting humanity out of poverty is Job #1.
a year ago
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The elemental foe

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a year ago
Lifting humanity out of poverty is Job #1.
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Engineer’s Codex
The most valuable trait of great software engineers A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable...
a year ago
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The most valuable trait of great software engineers

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a year ago
A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable software engineers.
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journal – Winnie Lim
crazy fall colours in tokyo
a year ago
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crazy fall colours in tokyo

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a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Gram Games office by Park Studio Park Studio collaborated with Üçadam to design Gram Games’ Istanbul office, incorporating industrial...
5 months ago
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Gram Games office by Park Studio

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5 months ago
Park Studio collaborated with Üçadam to design Gram Games’ Istanbul office, incorporating industrial elements like brick walls and wooden accents...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscience Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if anyone's dropped a 20 at an economics...
11 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscience

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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if anyone's dropped a 20 at an economics conference to see if nobody touches it. Today's News:
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The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway’s Q3 2023 Results — Manufacturing, Service, and Retailing A review of Berkshire's large collection of non-insurance operating businesses, with a focus on...
a year ago
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Berkshire Hathaway’s Q3 2023 Results — Manufacturing, Service, and Retailing

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a year ago
A review of Berkshire's large collection of non-insurance operating businesses, with a focus on results in Q3 2023 as well as a longer term view.
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Confessions of a...
Marine science, the environment, and the 2013 Australian election I’ve been a bit reluctant to write about the upcoming election in this blog; after all the point of...
over a year ago
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Marine science, the environment, and the 2013 Australian election

from Confessions of a Marine Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
I’ve been a bit reluctant to write about the upcoming election in this blog; after all the point of this blog has never been about anything political!  However, for better or worse the state of our  environment (including our oceans) are inextricably linked to politics, so here...
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The Pragmatic...
Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really? Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use...
11 months ago
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Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really?

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11 months ago
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use to eliminate 2/3rds of customer support positions. But is it as revolutionary, and as likely to replace jobs, as Klarna claims?
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Notes on software...
Exploring Postgres's arena allocator by writing an HTTP server from scratch This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
8 months ago
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Exploring Postgres's arena allocator by writing an HTTP server from scratch

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8 months ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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TheCollector
Idunn: The Norse Goddess of Eternal Youth & Her Magical Apples The Norse goddess Idunn was charged with the special task of tending to the orchards of golden...
2 months ago
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Idunn: The Norse Goddess of Eternal Youth & Her Magical Apples

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2 months ago
The Norse goddess Idunn was charged with the special task of tending to the orchards of golden apples in Asgard. It was these magical fruits that gave the gods their eternal youth and vigor. When she was kidnapped by the giant Thjazi, the gods began to suffer and age. While the...
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Contemporist...
Lighting Is Used To Create A Warm Glowing Atmosphere For This Restaurant FUNUN LAB has shared photos of a Japanese-inspired restaurant they designed in Beijing, China, that...
a year ago
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Lighting Is Used To Create A Warm Glowing Atmosphere For This Restaurant

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
FUNUN LAB has shared photos of a Japanese-inspired restaurant they designed in Beijing, China, that includes a variety of lighting that helps create a unique interior.
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Society's Backend:...
Stop Obsessing Over the Product and Start Thinking About the Bigger Picture The actual takeaways from the iPhone 15 event
a year ago
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Stop Obsessing Over the Product and Start Thinking About the Bigger Picture

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
The actual takeaways from the iPhone 15 event
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Knowledge Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You're saying, hey, the last panel has a...
a month ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Knowledge

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a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You're saying, hey, the last panel has a nonsensical perspective. Well, perspective is part of the post-Eden fallen world. Today's News:
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AFAR Media - Travel...
What to See and Do in California on Your First Visit
4 months ago
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What to See and Do in California on Your First Visit

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4 months ago
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Notes on software...
HTML event handler attributes: down the rabbit hole This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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HTML event handler attributes: down the rabbit hole

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over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Charlie Becker
Living the Questions, Reading the Clown-Arounds Embracing the Trivial in a World Obsessed with Takeaways
11 months ago
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Living the Questions, Reading the Clown-Arounds

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11 months ago
Embracing the Trivial in a World Obsessed with Takeaways
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
How To (Properly) Text Patients | Out-Of-Pocket Do’s and don’ts + tactical tips from an actual doctor
a year ago
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How To (Properly) Text Patients | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
Do’s and don’ts + tactical tips from an actual doctor
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weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like? Sexy? Scary? Both?
over a year ago
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What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?

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over a year ago
Sexy? Scary? Both?
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TheCollector
10 Beautiful Places in Florida Tourists Tend to Overlook Florida is filled with loads of activities to do ranging from the world class amusement parks down...
3 months ago
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10 Beautiful Places in Florida Tourists Tend to Overlook

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
Florida is filled with loads of activities to do ranging from the world class amusement parks down to local springs. If you are planning a visit to the Sunshine State don’t fret, we’re here to help. If you want to take a journey off the beaten path there is still an abundance of...
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Mazdak
Adobe Scraps $20 Billion Figma Deal Adobe's blockbuster $20 billion bid for Figma, the web-based design darling, is officially off the...
a year ago
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Adobe Scraps $20 Billion Figma Deal

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Adobe's blockbuster $20 billion bid for Figma, the web-based design darling, is officially off the table! This dramatic pivot throws a spotlight on the tightening grip of global regulators on tech mergers, leaving investors and industry players to wonder:
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Patrick Kayongo
River Flows Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...
a year ago
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River Flows

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and needed time out after yet another fight with his parents.  I really don’t belong here. They’ll never understand me. They’re so toxic and oppressive. I don’t know how much longer I can...
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Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.3% to 3.1% From Goldman: We lowered our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter...
6 months ago
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Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.3% to 3.1%

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

6 months ago
From Goldman: We lowered our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). Our Q4 domestic final sales forecast stands at +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). [Dec 27th estimate] emphasis added And from the Atlanta Fed: GDPNow The GDPNow model...
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Old Structures...
Fun With Framing From a recent trip to Staten Island, a view looking north across the harbor to Manhattan and...
8 months ago
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Fun With Framing

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

8 months ago
From a recent trip to Staten Island, a view looking north across the harbor to Manhattan and Brooklyn: New York looks, unfortunately, much like a chain-link fence. The catenaries that we see are some nearby power lines, not far-off suspension bridges. Cropping helps but not...
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TheCollector
6 Famous Land Artists You Should Know Land Art, also known as Earth Art, is a name applied to artworks that operate within the natural...
3 months ago
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6 Famous Land Artists You Should Know

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3 months ago
Land Art, also known as Earth Art, is a name applied to artworks that operate within the natural realm rather than in artistic studios, using earth, stones, and other natural materials. In some ways, Land Art was a category of art rather than a coherent movement. Artists who...
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99% Invisible
In Proximity: Roman Mars and Ryan Coogler [EPISODE] In Proximity is a podcast from Proximity Media about craft, career, and creativity. Proximity...
over a year ago
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In Proximity: Roman Mars and Ryan Coogler [EPISODE]

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over a year ago
In Proximity is a podcast from Proximity Media about craft, career, and creativity. Proximity founder Ryan Coogler talks all about podcasts with Roman Mars, host and creator of 99% Invisible, a sound-rich narrative podcast about architecture and design. They discuss holding...
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One Useful Thing
The Homework Apocalypse Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
over a year ago
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The Homework Apocalypse

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

over a year ago
Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
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Common Edge
How FEMA’s New “Resilience Zone” Program Works “The goal is to ensure that the most at-risk...communities have the support, resources, and...
a year ago
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How FEMA’s New “Resilience Zone” Program Works

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a year ago
“The goal is to ensure that the most at-risk...communities have the support, resources, and opportunities they need.”
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Passing Time
Season-Chasing Life is like the snow; it'll come and it will go
a year ago
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Season-Chasing

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a year ago
Life is like the snow; it'll come and it will go
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xkcd.com
Free Fallin'
a year ago
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Free Fallin'

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a year ago
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Probably...
Young Americans are Marrying Later or Never I’ve written before about changes in marriage patterns in the U.S., and it’s one of the examples in...
7 months ago
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Young Americans are Marrying Later or Never

from Probably Overthinking It [alt+shift+b] in science

7 months ago
I’ve written before about changes in marriage patterns in the U.S., and it’s one of the examples in Chapter 13 of the new third edition of Think Stats. My analysis uses data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Today they released the most recent data, from surveys...
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HTMHell
Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed...
6 months ago
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Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed significantly contributes to the overall user experience (UX), determining whether it feels positive or negative. To ensure the fastest possible page load times, it’s crucial to design...
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elementary Blog
The First Pride Was a Riot, and So Are These Updates Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these...
a month ago
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The First Pride Was a Riot, and So Are These Updates

from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these updates hand-made by real LGBTQIA+ community members from around the world!—and possibly some straight cis folks too. This rainbow of releases includes some important accessibility...
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haseeb qureshi
Ethereum is now unforkable, thanks to DeFi By Haseeb Qureshi and Leland Lee After the DAO hack of 2016, the Ethereum community was faced with...
over a year ago
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Ethereum is now unforkable, thanks to DeFi

from haseeb qureshi [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
By Haseeb Qureshi and Leland Lee After the DAO hack of 2016, the Ethereum community was faced with an existential quandary: should the community roll back the chain to revert the DAO hack, or let the hacker get away? Those who said yes forked away to what is now called Ethereum....
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Old Structures...
Travelog: Cleveland Bridge While I was in England last week, I briefly visited the city of Bath. There’s a lot to look at...
a year ago
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Travelog: Cleveland Bridge

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
While I was in England last week, I briefly visited the city of Bath. There’s a lot to look at there, but let me start with the Cleveland Bridge over the River Avon. The top view is a little boring except for the non-structural toll houses, little Greek temples over the walkways,...
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David Heinemeier...
Hating Apple goes mainstream This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything...
a year ago
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Hating Apple goes mainstream

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything everyone has ever hated about digitization. It celebrates a lossy, creative compression for the most flimsy reason: An iPad shedding an irrelevant millimeter or two. It's destruction...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Functional Depletion and the Pitfalls of Stress Transcendence Last weekend I took time off from writing to run a race. This week as I limped around reflecting on...
over a year ago
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Functional Depletion and the Pitfalls of Stress Transcendence

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

over a year ago
Last weekend I took time off from writing to run a race. This week as I limped around reflecting on the training that lead up to the marathon I wondered if we are wrong about stress.
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Abishek Muthian
Raspberry pi3 vs iPad2 for personal computing I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which...
over a year ago
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Raspberry pi3 vs iPad2 for personal computing

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

over a year ago
I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which could perform some of my routine tasks like browsing, social network, word processing, programming, gaming, videos, music & ocassional heavy computation. Though I would be needing a...
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ByteofDev
State of the Web: Static Site Generators Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about...
over a year ago
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State of the Web: Static Site Generators

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about the background of static site generators, why people use them, and the current state of them, with information on modern SSGs like Eleventy, Next.js, SvelteKit, and Astro.
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One Useful Thing
Post-apocalyptic education What comes after the Homework Apocalypse
10 months ago
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Post-apocalyptic education

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

10 months ago
What comes after the Homework Apocalypse
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
Why is open source software so badly designed? “It could have been so great, but why is it so ugly and difficult to use?” people trying open...
over a year ago
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Why is open source software so badly designed?

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

over a year ago
“It could have been so great, but why is it so ugly and difficult to use?” people trying open source...
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The Elysian
Are Democrats too liberal? Or too conservative? We're asking the wrong questions.
7 months ago
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Are Democrats too liberal? Or too conservative?

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7 months ago
We're asking the wrong questions.
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Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Summer Tournament Linköping There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs...
over a year ago
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Netrunner Summer Tournament Linköping

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

over a year ago
There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs with Old Hollywood and The Universe of Tomorrow so a lot of new things were tried. I heard a rumor that a full playset of both Aesop’s Pawnshop and Wyldside were available so I...
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Londonist
Things To Do In The Borough Of Bexley Sound baths, Pre-Raphaelites and a gorgeous sewage pumping station.
a year ago
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Things To Do In The Borough Of Bexley

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Sound baths, Pre-Raphaelites and a gorgeous sewage pumping station.
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Retail Design Blog
Cost per Kilo flagship store by CREATIVE STUDIO UNRAVEL [Architecture] The first offline store of Cost per Kilo was designed according to the principle of...
2 weeks ago
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Cost per Kilo flagship store by CREATIVE STUDIO UNRAVEL

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

2 weeks ago
[Architecture] The first offline store of Cost per Kilo was designed according to the principle of conservative regeneration, honoring the...
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Quentin Santos
How to use “real” UART I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This...
3 months ago
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How to use “real” UART

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3 months ago
I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This is just a recap of the basics to help put things in context. Many tutorials focus on using UART over USB, which adds many layers of abstraction, hiding what it actually is. Here,...
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Confused bit
Simply explained: how does GPT work? By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4,...
over a year ago
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Simply explained: how does GPT work?

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over a year ago
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Facebook’s LLaMa or even Google’s Bard. They are artificial intelligence programs that can participate in a conversation. Impressively smart, they can easily be...
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Abstruse Goose
medium rare
over a year ago
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medium rare

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Quanta Magazine
Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way. Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages...
6 months ago
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Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.

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6 months ago
Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn. The post Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way....
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Yale E360
Gaining depth perception In 2017, the way I see the world changed, literally. For the first time in my life, I had nearly...
a year ago
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Gaining depth perception

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a year ago
In 2017, the way I see the world changed, literally. For the first time in my life, I had nearly full depth perception. When I was a kid, I was always the one who was bad at ball sports. Not for lack of trying, either. I'd run after a ball to catch it, only to be off by a few...
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Krebs on Security
How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to...
3 months ago
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How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack

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3 months ago
In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the president has waged an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment rights of journalists, students, universities, government...
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Articles
Out of office
over a year ago
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Out of office

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Rest of World -...
Indonesia is trying to block LGBTQIA content from the internet A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially...
a year ago
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Indonesia is trying to block LGBTQIA content from the internet

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a year ago
A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially hurting content creators and broadcasters in Indonesia.
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Rest of World -...
In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data Brazil is piloting dWallet, that lets citizens earn money from their data, but experts warn it could...
a month ago
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In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data

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a month ago
Brazil is piloting dWallet, that lets citizens earn money from their data, but experts warn it could deepen inequality.
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A Collection of...
Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual) This week we’re going to do something a bit silly, in part because I have to prepare for and travel...
a month ago
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Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual)

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a month ago
This week we’re going to do something a bit silly, in part because I have to prepare for and travel to an invited workshop/talk event later this week and so don’t have quite the time for a more normal ‘full’ post and in part because it is fun to be silly sometimes (and we might …...
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wingolog
javascript weakmaps should be iterable Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be...
10 months ago
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javascript weakmaps should be iterable

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10 months ago
Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be iterable, and we should fix it.WeakMap A associates a key with a value, as long as the key is otherwise reachable in a program. (It is an .)WeakMapephemeron table When was added to...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Selection: Architecture I previously wrote about Minimalissimo's return to print and with it, a fresh art direction and...
over a year ago
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Selection: Architecture

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over a year ago
I previously wrote about Minimalissimo's return to print and with it, a fresh art direction and finish. A couple of months since we went to print, I have grown even more proud of this piece of work. It's probably because of the feedback we've received from folks around the globe....
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Ben Borgers
A Design Improvement for Our Communal Showers
over a year ago
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A Design Improvement for Our Communal Showers

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over a year ago
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High Signal
How Allison monetizes her programmatic SEO knowledge Allison Seboldt is the founder of PageFactory, a service which helps websites grow their content and...
over a year ago
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How Allison monetizes her programmatic SEO knowledge

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over a year ago
Allison Seboldt is the founder of PageFactory, a service which helps websites grow their content and reach with programmatic SEO.
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The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174? It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If...
a year ago
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The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?

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a year ago
It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If Section 174 tax changes stay, the US will be one of the least desirable countries to launch startups
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The Marginalian
What It’s Like to Be an Owl: The Strange Science of Seeing with Sound “We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals,” the great nature...
a year ago
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What It’s Like to Be an Owl: The Strange Science of Seeing with Sound

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a year ago
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals,” the great nature writer Henry Beston wrote in his lovely century-old meditation on otherness and the web of life. “In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted...
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nanoscale views
CHIPS and Science - the reality vs the aspiration I already wrote about this issue here back in August, but I wanted to highlight a policy statement...
9 months ago
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CHIPS and Science - the reality vs the aspiration

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9 months ago
I already wrote about this issue here back in August, but I wanted to highlight a policy statement that I wrote with colleagues as part of Rice's Baker Institute's Election 2024: Policy Playbook, which "delivers nonpartisan, expert insights into key issues at stake on the 2024...
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Quanta Magazine
Quanta Relaunches Hyperjumps Math Game Explore a universe of numbers and arithmetic in our new and improved interactive math game,...
a year ago
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Quanta Relaunches Hyperjumps Math Game

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a year ago
Explore a universe of numbers and arithmetic in our new and improved interactive math game, Hyperjumps! The post Quanta Relaunches Hyperjumps Math Game first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Rest of World -...
Apple’s biggest gamble isn’t the Vision Pro — it’s India Don’t be distracted by this week’s gadget hype cycle.
over a year ago
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Apple’s biggest gamble isn’t the Vision Pro — it’s India

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over a year ago
Don’t be distracted by this week’s gadget hype cycle.
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Contemporist...
Reclaimed Weathered Wood Siding Covers This Home Inspired By Farm Buildings Architecture and building company BIRDSEYE has shared photos of a home they completed in Sagaponack,...
a year ago
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Reclaimed Weathered Wood Siding Covers This Home Inspired By Farm Buildings

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a year ago
Architecture and building company BIRDSEYE has shared photos of a home they completed in Sagaponack, New York, that features an exterior clad in reclaimed weathered wood siding.
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The Ruffian
The Ruffian's Greatest Hits 2023 This Year's Top Ten Posts As Voted On By Me
a year ago
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The Ruffian's Greatest Hits 2023

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a year ago
This Year's Top Ten Posts As Voted On By Me
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somethingaboutmaps
Independent Study: A Reflection Earlier this summer, I decided to embark on an educational experiment: I wanted to create a version...
a year ago
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Independent Study: A Reflection

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a year ago
Earlier this summer, I decided to embark on an educational experiment: I wanted to create a version of the independent study groups that I used to co-teach when I was at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in which students would work on a mapping project, and meet weekly for...
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Lighthouse Blog
Rules improvement: filter based on content
7 months ago
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Rules improvement: filter based on content

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7 months ago
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AFAR Media - Travel...
4 Reasons to Visit Amelia Island, Florida
a year ago
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4 Reasons to Visit Amelia Island, Florida

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a year ago
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Scarlet Ink
The Art of Simplification: Why We (over) Build When We Should Simplify Removing things is often just as complex as adding things. It is a way to add value which is often...
4 months ago
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The Art of Simplification: Why We (over) Build When We Should Simplify

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4 months ago
Removing things is often just as complex as adding things. It is a way to add value which is often overlooked.
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Tech and Tea
Feelings on top of feelings feelings we resist and judge ourselves for
over a year ago
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Feelings on top of feelings

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over a year ago
feelings we resist and judge ourselves for
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Josh Thompson
Switching to Jekyll Why I switched to Jekyll A few days ago, I was really feeling the urge to write a short little blog...
over a year ago
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Switching to Jekyll

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over a year ago
Why I switched to Jekyll A few days ago, I was really feeling the urge to write a short little blog post. So, I put it in a gist on Github. I’m an advocate of writing publicly, and making it a habit, so why was I putting it in a gist, instead of here, on my website, where I...
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A Beautiful Site
Moving to Node.js The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of...
over a year ago
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Moving to Node.js

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over a year ago
The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of software that I'm very proud of, but I decided to move the project to Node.js for a few important reasons. This is by no means a knock on PHP, which will always have a special...
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Open Culture
How Zaha Hadid Revolutionized Architecture & Drew Inspiration from Russian Avant-Garde Art Zaha Hadid died in 2016, at the age of 65. She certainly wasn’t old, by the standards of our time,...
2 months ago
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How Zaha Hadid Revolutionized Architecture & Drew Inspiration from Russian Avant-Garde Art

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2 months ago
Zaha Hadid died in 2016, at the age of 65. She certainly wasn’t old, by the standards of our time, though in most professions, her best working years would already have been behind her. She was, however, an architect, and by age 65, most architects are still very much in their...
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Identity Designed
Contemporary Art Now Designed by Knom, Madrid.
over a year ago
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Contemporary Art Now

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over a year ago
Designed by Knom, Madrid.
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Open Culture
When Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson Debated Capitalism Versus Marxism Karl Marx was a German philosopher-historian (with a few other pursuits besides) who wrote in...
11 months ago
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When Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson Debated Capitalism Versus Marxism

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11 months ago
Karl Marx was a German philosopher-historian (with a few other pursuits besides) who wrote in pursuit of an understanding of industrial society as he knew it in the nineteenth century and what its future evolution held in store. There are good reasons to read his work still...
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Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
over a year ago
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Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]

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over a year ago
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David Crawshaw
2015-05-08 docs.google.com/document/d/1iNSQIyNpVGHeak6isbP6AHdHD50gs8MNXF1GCf08efg/pub
over a year ago
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2015-05-08

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over a year ago
docs.google.com/document/d/1iNSQIyNpVGHeak6isbP6AHdHD50gs8MNXF1GCf08efg/pub
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Open Culture
When Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the Nazis... Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
3 months ago
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When Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the Nazis (1942)

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3 months ago
Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader. Bonhoeffer’s anti-Nazism lasted...
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A Beautiful Site
The Future of Shoelace It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of...
over a year ago
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The Future of Shoelace

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over a year ago
It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of the project to ship Web Components. What started off as a fun side project has quickly grown to become one of the most recognized Web Component libraries in the world. As of...
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Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
over a year ago
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Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses

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over a year ago
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
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Louwrentius
Improving web application security by implementing database security Security is about defense-in-depth. It bogles my mind why it is so difficult to implement...
over a year ago
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Improving web application security by implementing database security

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over a year ago
Security is about defense-in-depth. It bogles my mind why it is so difficult to implement defense-in-depth security in web applications. 99.9% of applications use a single database account, with root-like privileges. Easiest for the developer of course, and the database is just a...
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Londonist
Dozens Of Vintage Boats Moor Up In Central London This September The (free!) Classic Boat Festival is back at St Katharine Docks.
a year ago
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Dozens Of Vintage Boats Moor Up In Central London This September

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a year ago
The (free!) Classic Boat Festival is back at St Katharine Docks.
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The Marginalian
How to Make a World: A Poem Like mathematics, the truest metaphors are not invented but discovered. In fact, they hardly feel...
a year ago
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How to Make a World: A Poem

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a year ago
Like mathematics, the truest metaphors are not invented but discovered. In fact, they hardly feel like metaphors — they feel like equations equating something previously unseen with something familiar in order to see more deeply into the nature of reality. One morning out on a...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
The things we do to ship desktop software I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in...
over a year ago
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The things we do to ship desktop software

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over a year ago
I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in under a second. It might surprise you that I spent more time on things that are not related to core functionality. Let’s call it a tax of shipping desktop software. Here are some of...
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The Codist
My Compensation Over Four Decades As A Programmer It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job....
over a year ago
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My Compensation Over Four Decades As A Programmer

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over a year ago
It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job. Also, I never worked for a big tech company (other than Apple briefly, but that was when they were going out of business) and only a
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Archinect - Features
Autonomous Algorithmic Architects: Wicked Problems of Machine Learning in Architecture How should the architectural profession consider and respond to futures made possible by advances in...
over a year ago
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Autonomous Algorithmic Architects: Wicked Problems of Machine Learning in Architecture

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over a year ago
How should the architectural profession consider and respond to futures made possible by advances in artificial intelligence? Can we propose a willful, designed route that acknowledges the inevitability of intelligent machines intersecting with every dimension of design and...
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Seth's Blog
Building a process culture Process is the investment we make in inefficiency now to prevent errors from costing us later. Jet...
5 months ago
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Building a process culture

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5 months ago
Process is the investment we make in inefficiency now to prevent errors from costing us later. Jet airlines are the safest form of travel ever created, largely because of the inefficient process that we put in place. They’re over tested and over staffed, with checklists and...
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Seth's Blog
Good advice The cult of consulting suggests that if you simply had better advice from someone who knew more than...
6 months ago
54

Good advice

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6 months ago
The cult of consulting suggests that if you simply had better advice from someone who knew more than you, your problems could be solved. Generally, the advice isn’t really the hard part. There’s endless good advice just a click away. The art is in creating the conditions for...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Trolls
over a year ago
42

Trolls

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over a year ago
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Home on Erik...
What's Erik up to? I joined Better in early 2015 because I thought the team was crazy enough to actually change one of...
over a year ago
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What's Erik up to?

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over a year ago
I joined Better in early 2015 because I thought the team was crazy enough to actually change one of the largest industries in the US. For six years, I ran the tech team, hiring 300+ people, probably doing 2,000+ interviews, and according to GitHub I added 646,941 lines of code...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 069: Project Greymatter May 31, 2024.
a year ago
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AI Roundup 069: Project Greymatter

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a year ago
May 31, 2024.
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A Beautiful Site
What are favicons? A favicon (pronounced "fave-icon") is a small, iconic image that represents your website. Favicons...
over a year ago
29

What are favicons?

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over a year ago
A favicon (pronounced "fave-icon") is a small, iconic image that represents your website. Favicons are most often found in the address bar of your web browser, but they can also be used in lists of bookmarks in web browsers and feed aggregators. Well-designed favicons are styled...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pain Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That one guy is actually a robot designed to look...
a year ago
110

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pain

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That one guy is actually a robot designed to look like a human, so it's cool. Today's News:
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Left To Write
Do The Verb To Become The Noun Chasing after who you want to become is hard
a year ago
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Do The Verb To Become The Noun

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a year ago
Chasing after who you want to become is hard
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IEEE Spectrum
James Wimshurst’s Electrostatic Immortality James Wimshurst did not invent the machine that bears his name. But thanks to his many refinements...
over a year ago
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James Wimshurst’s Electrostatic Immortality

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
James Wimshurst did not invent the machine that bears his name. But thanks to his many refinements to a distinctive type of electrostatic generator, we now have the Wimshurst influence machine. What does a Wimshurst machine do? Influence machines date back to the 18th century....
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TheCollector
Battle of the Milvian Bridge: The Battle That Shaped Christianity? The victory of Emperor Constantine during a civil war allowed for some of the most dramatic events...
3 months ago
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Battle of the Milvian Bridge: The Battle That Shaped Christianity?

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3 months ago
The victory of Emperor Constantine during a civil war allowed for some of the most dramatic events in Roman history. The emperor’s tale of divine intervention at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge proved to be the key event in the legalization of Christianity and its subsequent...
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lcamtuf’s thing
The Long Winter Interior of a vast cavern.
2 months ago
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The Long Winter

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2 months ago
Interior of a vast cavern.
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Mazdak
OpenAI is not becoming a for-profit company after all. In a significant reversal, OpenAI announced on May 5, 2025, that it will remain under the control of...
2 months ago
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OpenAI is not becoming a for-profit company after all.

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2 months ago
In a significant reversal, OpenAI announced on May 5, 2025, that it will remain under the control of its nonprofit entity, abandoning earlier plans to restructure as a for-profit company.
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Willem's Blog
Swimming and cycling with Apple Watch This month I tested the newest watchOS while swimming and cycling.
over a year ago
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Swimming and cycling with Apple Watch

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over a year ago
This month I tested the newest watchOS while swimming and cycling.
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This Space
"A mighty, contagious absence" The number of obituaries, tributes, backhanded compliments and overt smears in the corporate news...
a year ago
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"A mighty, contagious absence"

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a year ago
The number of obituaries, tributes, backhanded compliments and overt smears in the corporate news media following the death of John Pilger reveal the state of journalism in our time. [1] Can you name one living Anglophone journalist whose loss would prompt such widespread notice?...
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The American Scholar
Bards Behind Bars Reading Sartre aloud inside a maximum-security prison The post Bards Behind Bars appeared first on...
a year ago
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Bards Behind Bars

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a year ago
Reading Sartre aloud inside a maximum-security prison The post Bards Behind Bars appeared first on The American Scholar.
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xkcd.com
Weather Balloons
2 weeks ago
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Weather Balloons

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2 weeks ago
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Open Culture
Oh My God! Winston Churchill Received the First Ever Letter Containing “O.M.G.” (1917) Winston Churchill is one of those preposterously outsized historical figures who seemed to be in the...
a year ago
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Oh My God! Winston Churchill Received the First Ever Letter Containing “O.M.G.” (1917)

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a year ago
Winston Churchill is one of those preposterously outsized historical figures who seemed to be in the middle of every major event. Even before, as Prime Minister, he steeled the resolve of his people and faced down the Third Reich juggernaut; even before he loudly warned of the...
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Old Structures...
Loans I’m not sure why “Is a Library-centric Economy the Answer to Sustainable Living” by Philip Vachon...
9 months ago
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Loans

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9 months ago
I’m not sure why “Is a Library-centric Economy the Answer to Sustainable Living” by Philip Vachon surprised me, but it did. The basic argument is that the ideas that govern good libraries – making as many books available to as many readers as possible, fairly and efficiently, and...
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Rest of World -...
Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial... “These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”
10 months ago
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Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial waste

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10 months ago
“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”
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Yale E360
Paper review: The Gamma Database Project Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper...
over a year ago
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Paper review: The Gamma Database Project

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over a year ago
Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper for this group, this one was a lot more approachable in length: 19 pages. I'm putting up some of my notes here from reading the paper. If you read through to the end, there's...
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French And some bits and pieces of news.
a year ago
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Another Of My Essays in French

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a year ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
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Melting Asphalt
Here Be Sermons I've long turned up my nose at sermons and related forms of mass moralizing. One reason, quite...
over a year ago
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Here Be Sermons

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over a year ago
I've long turned up my nose at sermons and related forms of mass moralizing. One reason, quite simply, is that they bore me. Honesty good. Violence bad. My eyes glaze over. Empathy, rah! Racism, boo! Please, don't we know this… Read more ›
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Elad Blog
Transcript & Video: Claire Hughes Johnson Fireside Chat on Scaling People I interview Claire about her new book "Scaling People". Thanks to Stripe for hosting.
over a year ago
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Transcript & Video: Claire Hughes Johnson Fireside Chat on Scaling People

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over a year ago
I interview Claire about her new book "Scaling People". Thanks to Stripe for hosting.
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Articles
Why I bought your software
over a year ago
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Why I bought your software

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over a year ago
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The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, October 2023 A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots...
a year ago
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What I’ve been reading, October 2023

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots of Progress as a nonprofit organization, so I haven’t had as much time as I prefer for research and writing. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find...
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Programming in the...
Writing Video Games in a Functional Style When I started this blog in 2007, a running theme was "Can interactive experiences like video games...
over a year ago
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Writing Video Games in a Functional Style

from Programming in the 21st Century [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
When I started this blog in 2007, a running theme was "Can interactive experiences like video games be written in a functional style?" These are programs heavily based around mutable state. They evolve, often drastically, during development, so there isn't a perfect up-front...
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Birchtree
The vast nothingness of Threads For many years I've kept a spreadsheet with a few metrics on my online life. I don't check metrics a...
2 months ago
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The vast nothingness of Threads

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2 months ago
For many years I've kept a spreadsheet with a few metrics on my online life. I don't check metrics a ton, but I like to pop into them every month to just get an idea of how I'm doing. Some metrics in there are
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Articles
Think clearly about print advertising
over a year ago
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Think clearly about print advertising

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over a year ago
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Anecdotal Evidence
'To Guide Him in the Real World' In 1899, Edwin Arlington Robinson read Thoreau’s Walking, a work based on an 1851 lecture...
3 months ago
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'To Guide Him in the Real World'

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3 months ago
In 1899, Edwin Arlington Robinson read Thoreau’s Walking, a work based on an 1851 lecture published posthumously in 1862. Robinson was not impressed by his fellow New Englander. He condemned Thoreau’s “glorified world-cowardice” in a letter to his friend Daniel Gregory...
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Spoon & Tamago
RIP Kimiko Nishimoto: Japan’s Most-Creative Obachan We were saddened to learn that Kimiko Nishimoto, known for absurdist self-portraits, passed away on...
a month ago
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RIP Kimiko Nishimoto: Japan’s Most-Creative Obachan

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a month ago
We were saddened to learn that Kimiko Nishimoto, known for absurdist self-portraits, passed away on June 9, 2025. She was 97. Nishimoto’s creative journey began, unexpectedly, at the age of 72 when she decided to take a photography class. She immediately fell in love with the...
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TheCollector
John Smith: Champion of Jamestown or Tall-Tale Weaver? There is no denying that Captain John Smith led an extraordinary life. From humble beginnings on a...
a month ago
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John Smith: Champion of Jamestown or Tall-Tale Weaver?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
There is no denying that Captain John Smith led an extraordinary life. From humble beginnings on a farm to life as a soldier and later a founding member of Jamestown’s Virginia Colony, Smith’s existence was rife with adventure and accomplishments. Contemporary accounts, then...
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Retail Design Blog
Isle Of Mull Soap by My Creative Isle Of Mull Soap has been handmade in Tobermory by local couple Stu & Sophie since 2008. The shop...
6 months ago
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Isle Of Mull Soap by My Creative

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

6 months ago
Isle Of Mull Soap has been handmade in Tobermory by local couple Stu & Sophie since 2008. The shop sits...
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Quanta Magazine
Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed In all bilaterally symmetrical animals, from humans down to simple worms, nerves cross from one side...
over a year ago
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Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
In all bilaterally symmetrical animals, from humans down to simple worms, nerves cross from one side of the body to the opposite side of the brain. Geometry may explain why. The post Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed first appeared on Quanta...
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Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 2 In which I ship a CLI (for real this time), and improve a few things
over a year ago
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 2

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over a year ago
In which I ship a CLI (for real this time), and improve a few things
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Southern Hospitality: Unveiling 3 Fabulous Hotels in Historic Cities for Your Next Getaway
a year ago
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Southern Hospitality: Unveiling 3 Fabulous Hotels in Historic Cities for Your Next Getaway

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a year ago
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Bhutan Decreases Visa Fee for Longer-Term Stays
a year ago
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Bhutan Decreases Visa Fee for Longer-Term Stays

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a year ago
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Last Place Comics
Good Cop, Bad Cop The post Good Cop, Bad Cop appeared first on Last Place Comics.
9 months ago
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Good Cop, Bad Cop

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9 months ago
The post Good Cop, Bad Cop appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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brr
The Last Egg Five more months until freshies...
over a year ago
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The Last Egg

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over a year ago
Five more months until freshies...
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Joshua Smith
Republic Dumpster Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from cardboard, paper, chalk pastels, spraypaint, wire,...
over a year ago
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Republic Dumpster

from Joshua Smith [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from cardboard, paper, chalk pastels, spraypaint, wire, plastruct, paint markers. Created for VOLTA Art Fair, New York City, March 2017. Photo Credit: Andrew Beveridge/ASB Creative The post Republic Dumpster appeared first on Joshua...
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journal – Winnie Lim
thoughts on the suicidal mind [tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of...
a year ago
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thoughts on the suicidal mind

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
[tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of thoughts as someone who has struggled with my own existence my entire life. Though I am writing...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Java's Cover
over a year ago
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Java's Cover

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over a year ago
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Internal Tech Emails
"I don't want to create a paper trail" I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can...
over a year ago
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"I don't want to create a paper trail"

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later? Not sure about this.. thanks Eric
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Wrong Side of...
Technology indistinguishable from magic Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
6 months ago
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Technology indistinguishable from magic

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6 months ago
Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
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A Beautiful Site
I switched from tabs to spaces and haven't looked back Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would...
over a year ago
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I switched from tabs to spaces and haven't looked back

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

over a year ago
Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would never do, but I'm glad I finally did. Why I always preferred tabs # Tabs are sensible. They were made to indent things, and code needs to be indented, so it was a good relationship....
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Yale E360
A confusing lifetime error related to Rust's lifetime elision Earlier this week, I ran into a confusing situation with lifetimes and the borrow checker while...
over a year ago
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A confusing lifetime error related to Rust's lifetime elision

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Earlier this week, I ran into a confusing situation with lifetimes and the borrow checker while working on my Lox interpreter. It took me a little while to figure out, and it's an instructive situation. Here's a reduced-down version of what I was working on. It's an interpreter,...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Last Day Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please click the annoying ad so I can make more...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Last Day

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please click the annoying ad so I can make more books and then make more annoying ads. Today's News: <3
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bt RSS Feed
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
over a year ago
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Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll

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

over a year ago
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don’t think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
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NeuroLogica Blog
AI Designed Drugs On a recent SGU live streaming discussion someone in the chat asked – aren’t frivolous AI...
a year ago
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AI Designed Drugs

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
On a recent SGU live streaming discussion someone in the chat asked – aren’t frivolous AI applications just toys without any useful output? The question was meant to downplay recent advances in generative AI. I pointed out that the question is a bit circular – aren’t frivolous...
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Contraption Co.
Craft in the digital era The next iteration of Contraption Company
5 months ago
10

Craft in the digital era

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5 months ago
The next iteration of Contraption Company
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Blog - Mac Pierce
10 Billion Minus 1 - Making a 10 digit 7 segment display for Lovepop The process and steps of making a multi-digit display.
over a year ago
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10 Billion Minus 1 - Making a 10 digit 7 segment display for Lovepop

from Blog - Mac Pierce [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
The process and steps of making a multi-digit display.
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Noahpinion
What should China do to revive its economy? There are a couple of aces that the government hasn't yet played.
a year ago
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What should China do to revive its economy?

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a year ago
There are a couple of aces that the government hasn't yet played.
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Noahpinion
What drove Asian and Hispanic voters to the right in 2024 A guest post by Dhaaruni Sreenivas.
7 months ago
63

What drove Asian and Hispanic voters to the right in 2024

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7 months ago
A guest post by Dhaaruni Sreenivas.
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Quanta Magazine
Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models? Larger models can pull off greater feats, but the accessibility and efficiency of smaller models...
4 months ago
38

Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models?

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4 months ago
Larger models can pull off greater feats, but the accessibility and efficiency of smaller models make them attractive tools. The post Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Yale E360
Taiwan to Ramp Up Gas Imports After Shuttering Last Nuclear Plant Having shut down its last remaining nuclear plant Saturday, Taiwan is working to secure new imports...
a month ago
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Taiwan to Ramp Up Gas Imports After Shuttering Last Nuclear Plant

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science

a month ago
Having shut down its last remaining nuclear plant Saturday, Taiwan is working to secure new imports of natural gas. Read more on E360 →
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Retail Design Blog
Tokyo Node Cafe / Tokyo Node Lab by Schemata Architects TOKYO NODE cafe is a cafe with an attached lab located on the 8th floor of Toranomon Hills Station...
12 months ago
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Tokyo Node Cafe / Tokyo Node Lab by Schemata Architects

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

12 months ago
TOKYO NODE cafe is a cafe with an attached lab located on the 8th floor of Toranomon Hills Station Tower,...
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Jonas Hietala
Laying off Pintos Exam period is here which means all courses should be wrapping up and a week or so ago we finished...
over a year ago
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Laying off Pintos

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

over a year ago
Exam period is here which means all courses should be wrapping up and a week or so ago we finished up our lab series about pintos. The labs were among the best I’ve had yet and I learned a ton. We didn’t follow the official instructions but we had our own assigmnets....
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Retail Design Blog
Lingyin Cultural and Creative Pavilion by Ondo Studio At the initial stage of design, upon seeing the original store, we were moved by the lush branches...
11 months ago
85

Lingyin Cultural and Creative Pavilion by Ondo Studio

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

11 months ago
At the initial stage of design, upon seeing the original store, we were moved by the lush branches and interplay...
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Classical Wisdom
The Founding Fathers and the Classics How the Ancients influenced America
a week ago
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The Founding Fathers and the Classics

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a week ago
How the Ancients influenced America
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NeuroLogica Blog
Germany and Nuclear Power Germany has been thrown around a lot as an example of both what to do and what not to do in terms of...
over a year ago
51

Germany and Nuclear Power

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Germany has been thrown around a lot as an example of both what to do and what not to do in terms of addressing global warming by embracing green energy technology. It’s possible to look back now and review the numbers, to see what the effect was of its decision to embrace...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 Public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time so have the short form.
a year ago
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Pensieve: Mar 7 2024

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a year ago
Public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time so have the short form.
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watchTowr Labs
No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577) Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by...
a year ago
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No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577)

from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by default”, and we were curious to say the least. XAMPP is a very popular way for administrators and developers to rapidly deploy Apache, PHP, and a bunch of other tools, and
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Christopher Butler
Investing in Creativity Investing in creativity is incremental effort and cumulative reward. Investing in creativity is...
a year ago
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Investing in Creativity

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
Investing in creativity is incremental effort and cumulative reward. Investing in creativity is incremental effort and cumulative reward. I realized this in two ways this year. 1 — More Input > More Output I made a resolution as 2023 closed out to make more art. Rather...
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The personal website...
Optimize for learning Modern software development encourages us to build without learning. Here’s an example: I’m a...
over a year ago
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Optimize for learning

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

over a year ago
Modern software development encourages us to build without learning. Here’s an example: I’m a designer. My team expects me to know the right way to design things. But I don’t always know the right way to design things. It’s hard for me to say “I don’t know the right way to design...
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Confessions of a...
Invite your friends to read Confessions of a Code Addict Thank you for reading Confessions of a Code Addict — your support allows me to keep doing this work.
a year ago
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Invite your friends to read Confessions of a Code Addict

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Thank you for reading Confessions of a Code Addict — your support allows me to keep doing this work.
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Open Culture
When a Drunken Charles Bukowski Walked Off the Prestigious French Talk Show Apostrophes (1978) Charles Bukowski didn’t do TV — or at least he didn’t do American TV. Like a Hollywood movie star...
a year ago
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When a Drunken Charles Bukowski Walked Off the Prestigious French Talk Show Apostrophes (1978)

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
Charles Bukowski didn’t do TV — or at least he didn’t do American TV. Like a Hollywood movie star shooting a Japanese commercial, he did make an exception for a gig abroad. It happened in 1978, when the poet received an invitation from the popular French literary talk...
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The Marginalian
Something About the Sky: Rachel Carson’s Lost Serenade to the Science of the Clouds, Found and... A version of this essay appeared in The New York Times Book Review. A cloud is a spell against...
a year ago
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Something About the Sky: Rachel Carson’s Lost Serenade to the Science of the Clouds, Found and Illustrated by Artist Nikki McClure

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
A version of this essay appeared in The New York Times Book Review. A cloud is a spell against indifference, an emblem of the water cycle that makes this planet a living world capable of trees and tenderness, a great cosmic gasp at the improbability that such a world exists, that...
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Dominik Sobe's...
Launching ProductFlair
over a year ago
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Launching ProductFlair

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over a year ago
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Founder/market fit An extremely useful concept that has grown popular among startup founders is what eminent...
over a year ago
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Founder/market fit

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
An extremely useful concept that has grown popular among startup founders is what eminent entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen calls…
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Quanta Magazine
A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of...
a year ago
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A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of “Kirby’s list” — a compendium of the most important unsolved problems in the field. The post A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Archinect - Features
Archinect Meets: The Value Of Architecture When it comes to architecture, Brian Linder doesn't like to color inside the lines. Trained as an...
2 weeks ago
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Archinect Meets: The Value Of Architecture

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2 weeks ago
When it comes to architecture, Brian Linder doesn't like to color inside the lines. Trained as an architect at Carnegie Mellon and UCLA, he also worked in real estate, marketing, and management consulting before establishing himself as a licensed "Architecture Broker." Under the...
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High Signal
Productized service businesses - the ultimate guide Productized services are growing rapidly in popularity. For founders, they offer a way to make a six...
a year ago
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Productized service businesses - the ultimate guide

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

a year ago
Productized services are growing rapidly in popularity. For founders, they offer a way to make a six figure salary relatively quickly. For companies, it means paying top talent without the downsides of hiring an employee like paying for a recruiter, paying extra taxes etc. ...
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Ploum.net
Pérenniser ma numérique éphémérité Pérenniser ma numérique éphémérité J’écris mon journal personnel à la machine à écrire. De simples...
7 months ago
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Pérenniser ma numérique éphémérité

from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature

7 months ago
Pérenniser ma numérique éphémérité J’écris mon journal personnel à la machine à écrire. De simples feuilles de papier que je fais relier chaque année et dont le contenu n’est nulle part en ligne. Pourtant, j’ai le sentiment que ce contenu a beaucoup plus de chances d’être un jour...
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Noahpinion
My sci-fi novel recommendations A repost with some updates, just in time for the holidays.
a year ago
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My sci-fi novel recommendations

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a year ago
A repost with some updates, just in time for the holidays.
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nanoscale views
A science anecdote palate cleanser Apologies for slow posting.  Real life has been very intense, and I also was rather concerned when...
a month ago
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A science anecdote palate cleanser

from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science

a month ago
Apologies for slow posting.  Real life has been very intense, and I also was rather concerned when one of my readers mentioned last weekend that these days my blog was like concentrated doom-scrolling.  I will have more to say about the present university research crisis later,...
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Liz Denys
Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io. Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames...
over a year ago
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Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io.

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames than PGP and verified account linking to popular sites such as Twitter and GitHub. This is awesome because "PGP for humans" is long overdue and because I snatched up the namespace...
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devonzuegel.com
Why do home buyers look at price/sqft more than renters? A question that's puzzled me for a while is why home buyers focus on price/sqft so much more than...
over a year ago
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Why do home buyers look at price/sqft more than renters?

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
A question that's puzzled me for a while is why home buyers focus on price/sqft so much more than renters. I asked around for what other people thought and got some interesting answers, so I decided to write up my takeaways. I. Investments demand legibility Homeownership is...
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The Ruffian
Stories are bad for your intelligence How Historians (and Others) Make Themselves Stupid
a year ago
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Stories are bad for your intelligence

from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
How Historians (and Others) Make Themselves Stupid
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DYNOMIGHT
Limits of smart Take me. Now take someone with the combined talents of Von Neumann, Archimedes, Ramanujan, and...
3 months ago
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Limits of smart

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

3 months ago
Take me. Now take someone with the combined talents of Von Neumann, Archimedes, Ramanujan, and Mozart. Now take someone smarter again by the same margin and repeat that a few times. Say this Being is created and has an IQ of 300. Let’s also say it can think at 10,000× normal...
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Irrational...
A brief rant on converging compliance regimes. Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has...
over a year ago
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A brief rant on converging compliance regimes.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has touched on reconciling between product and compliance goals, and over that time I’ve developed something of a pet theory on the evolution of compliance over the next five to ten years:...
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Basta’s Notes
My event-driven life I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to...
over a year ago
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My event-driven life

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

over a year ago
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
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Calculated Risk
March Vehicle Forecast: Sales Increase to 16.6 million SAAR, Up 5.9% YoY From WardsAuto: U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Heading for Long-Time-High Gain in March (pay content). ...
3 months ago
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March Vehicle Forecast: Sales Increase to 16.6 million SAAR, Up 5.9% YoY

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
From WardsAuto: U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Heading for Long-Time-High Gain in March (pay content).  Brief excerpt: Deliveries appear to have accelerated sharply in the middle of the month, creating momentum that could cause sales to overshoot the forecast. Conversely, overall...
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ToughSF
Starship Lite: from rapid Interplanetary to Interstellar Elon Musk stated that a stripped-down SpaceX Starship could become an interplanetary boost vehicle...
over a year ago
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Starship Lite: from rapid Interplanetary to Interstellar

from ToughSF [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Elon Musk stated that a stripped-down SpaceX Starship could become an interplanetary boost vehicle able to push probes towards the farthest objects in our Solar System.  What other missions could the Starship ‘Lite’ do, and how quickly? Near SSTO Rockets performance scales...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Context Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Anyone taking this comic out of context will be...
8 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Context

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Anyone taking this comic out of context will be sent a prize. Today's News:
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NeuroLogica Blog
For Movies – Animals Don’t Sound Real Enough What does a majestic eagle sound like, or the hoot of a spider monkey, or the roar of a bear? Unless...
a year ago
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For Movies – Animals Don’t Sound Real Enough

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
What does a majestic eagle sound like, or the hoot of a spider monkey, or the roar of a bear? Unless you have an interest in movie tropes, or listen regularly to the SGU, you may have a complete misconception about the sounds these and many other animals make. Eagles, for...
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Confessions of a...
Marine Ecology or Marine Biology….what’s the difference!?!?!? A few of you may be wondering why the blog is called ‘Confessions of a Marine Ecologist” and not...
over a year ago
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Marine Ecology or Marine Biology….what’s the difference!?!?!?

from Confessions of a Marine Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
A few of you may be wondering why the blog is called ‘Confessions of a Marine Ecologist” and not ‘Confessions of a Marine Biologist”.  After all, if you ask a group of school kids what they want to be when they grow up, more than a handful would happily answer “marine biologist”,...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
New United Lounge in Newark Airport's Terminal A Now Open
a year ago
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New United Lounge in Newark Airport's Terminal A Now Open

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

a year ago
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Road Trip in Chile's Lake District with Hikes & Hot Springs
6 months ago
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Road Trip in Chile's Lake District with Hikes & Hot Springs

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

6 months ago
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Tony Finch's blog
Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch build howto main img { border: 1px solid var(--fg); width: 100%; } The Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch is a...
a year ago
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Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch build howto

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

a year ago
main img { border: 1px solid var(--fg); width: 100%; } The Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch is a working MX-style mechanical keyboard switch, but 4x larger in every dimension. I realised at the weekend that the Big Switch should fit nicely in a simple Lego enclosure. Because an...
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Christopher Butler
A New Kind of Wholeness Check out the light in my office right now 🤩 . AI effectively, but to understand how it fits into...
4 months ago
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A New Kind of Wholeness

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

4 months ago
Check out the light in my office right now 🤩 . AI effectively, but to understand how it fits into the larger patterns of human creativity and purpose. That’s a good thing — designers are good observers. No matter what the tech, we notice patterns we notice the lack of...
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976) Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
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Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)

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

a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic. Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Data Boutique
AI Depends Massively on Web Scraping And web data sourcing is now a critical problem
over a year ago
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AI Depends Massively on Web Scraping

from Data Boutique [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
And web data sourcing is now a critical problem
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Calculated Risk
ISM® Manufacturing index Increased to 50.9% in January (Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated expansion. The PMI® was at 50.9%...
5 months ago
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ISM® Manufacturing index Increased to 50.9% in January

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
(Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated expansion. The PMI® was at 50.9% in January, up from 49.2% in December. The employment index was at 50.3%, up from 45.4% the previous month, and the new orders index was at 55.1%, up from 52.1%. Manufacturing PMI®...
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Maps Mania
Air Tours of the World
4 months ago
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Air Tours of the World

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4 months ago
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Ben Borgers
Cheating on Field Notes
over a year ago
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Cheating on Field Notes

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over a year ago
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Truck Camping is Here to Eat Van Life's Lunch We’re reaching the tipping point of an oversaturated custom sprinter van market. There are hundreds...
12 months ago
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🔗 Truck Camping is Here to Eat Van Life's Lunch

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

12 months ago
We’re reaching the tipping point of an oversaturated custom sprinter van market. There are hundreds of brands all attempting to do very similar things at scale, as if they’re late to the overbuilt expensive van party. Customer interest feels like it is swinging back to simplicity...
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Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
a year ago
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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Trying to Understand...
No Way Out Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
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No Way Out

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a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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./techtipsy
My horrible Fairphone customer care experience Fairphone has bad customer support. It’s not an issue with the individual customer support agents, I...
3 weeks ago
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My horrible Fairphone customer care experience

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 weeks ago
Fairphone has bad customer support. It’s not an issue with the individual customer support agents, I know how difficult their job is1, and I’m sure that they’re trying their best, but it’s a more systematic issue in the organization itself. It’s become so bad...
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Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
over a year ago
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci

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

over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler's LLVM backend to support compiling conditionals such that we can support...
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One Useful Thing
On speaking to AI Voice changes a lot of things
11 months ago
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On speaking to AI

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11 months ago
Voice changes a lot of things
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Two Imaginary Cages One mouse, one bird, and two cages. A grim parable for modern workers.
over a year ago
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Two Imaginary Cages

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

over a year ago
One mouse, one bird, and two cages. A grim parable for modern workers.
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 14: Roman Decadence During week 14 of the humanities crash course, I explored foundational myths of Western Culture —...
3 months ago
41

Humanities Crash Course Week 14: Roman Decadence

from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
During week 14 of the humanities crash course, I explored foundational myths of Western Culture — written during the Roman Empire when decadence was setting in. I paired them with a classic film about social decadence set in mid-20th century Rome. Readings Gioa’s recommendations...
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xkcd.com
Exoplanet System
4 weeks ago
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Exoplanet System

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4 weeks ago
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Asterisk
Greening the Solar System A future where life flourishes beyond Earth is closer than you think. How, precisely, will we get...
4 months ago
22

Greening the Solar System

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

4 months ago
A future where life flourishes beyond Earth is closer than you think. How, precisely, will we get there?
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Construction Physics
The Birth of the Grid The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of...
over a year ago
112

The Birth of the Grid

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of heaven. It should not merely be supplied, but lavished, that men may use it at their will, as the air they breathe. - Emile Zola, “Travail”, 1901
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The Honest Broker
Why Are Music Fans Throwing Things at Pop Stars? The latest trend in music is injuring your favorite artist
a year ago
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Why Are Music Fans Throwing Things at Pop Stars?

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a year ago
The latest trend in music is injuring your favorite artist
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Eric Bailey
Using personas in the Product Design Sprint
over a year ago
18

Using personas in the Product Design Sprint

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over a year ago
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Vadim Kravcenko
📈 The Toxic Grind There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
over a year ago
24

📈 The Toxic Grind

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […] The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Tech and Tea
This world was not built for working parents and trying to find our way anyways in this season of life
a year ago
46

This world was not built for working parents

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a year ago
and trying to find our way anyways in this season of life
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Calculated Risk
Las Vegas in 2024: Visitor Traffic Up 2.1% YoY; Convention Traffic Unchanged YoY From the Las Vegas Visitor Authority: December 2024 Las Vegas Visitor Statistics Closing out the...
5 months ago
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Las Vegas in 2024: Visitor Traffic Up 2.1% YoY; Convention Traffic Unchanged YoY

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
From the Las Vegas Visitor Authority: December 2024 Las Vegas Visitor Statistics Closing out the year with Dec visitation of 3.4M visitors (+0.2% YoY), Las Vegas hosted approx. 41.7M visitors for the year, up 2.1% from last year’s 40.8M visitors. emphasis added Click on graph...
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Yale E360
What I tell people new to on-call The first time I went on call as a software engineer, it was exciting—and ultimately...
9 months ago
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What I tell people new to on-call

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
The first time I went on call as a software engineer, it was exciting—and ultimately traumatic. Since then, I've had on-call experiences at multiple other jobs and have grown to really appreciate it as part of the role. As I've progressed through my career, I've gotten to help...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
A Lambo for the People If you count eyeballs, the zombie-mobileis the most popular story I have written. This week instead...
over a year ago
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A Lambo for the People

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

over a year ago
If you count eyeballs, the zombie-mobileis the most popular story I have written. This week instead of my normal essay I want to simply point you to a show that will surely appeal to fans of car design and haters of the crossover.
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Louwrentius
Which file system for a large storage array under Linux? There are many file systems available under Linux, however only a few of them can be used for a...
over a year ago
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Which file system for a large storage array under Linux?

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
There are many file systems available under Linux, however only a few of them can be used for a large storage array. I am assuming that you want to create a single file system. I don't care if you use LVM or other layers beneath, this is about which file system to use. I will...
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alexwlchan
A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my...
2 months ago
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A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers

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2 months ago
I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my local machine for analysis or backup. When I’m starting a new project and the database is near-empty, this is a simple rsync operation: $ rsync --progress...
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Ben Borgers
Public Radio Stories
over a year ago
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Public Radio Stories

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over a year ago
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CONTEMPORIST
Reflecting Ponds And Concrete Lily Pads Help Create Tranquility At This Modern Home Kor Architects have shared photos of a home they completed in Indian Wells, California, for their...
a year ago
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Reflecting Ponds And Concrete Lily Pads Help Create Tranquility At This Modern Home

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a year ago
Kor Architects have shared photos of a home they completed in Indian Wells, California, for their clients who desired a contemporary residence with a thoughtfully designed entrance that seamlessly integrates indoor and outdoor areas. Upon arrival at the home, there’s a carefully...
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Tinloof - Blog
Managing Tinloof-powered websites If your website was built by Tinloof, you should be able to self-manage it without any guide. We...
a year ago
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Managing Tinloof-powered websites

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a year ago
If your website was built by Tinloof, you should be able to self-manage it without any guide. We wrote this article just to make sure you're not missing out on any feature that helps you manage your website more effectively. Navigating the CMS
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Wrong Side of...
Phantom Borders The past is never dead. It's not even past
4 months ago
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Phantom Borders

from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
The past is never dead. It's not even past
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Nelson's Weblog
Toto C5 Washlet power usage I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I...
a year ago
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Toto C5 Washlet power usage

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I don’t love some details, see notes below. Mostly I wanted to share how much power the thing uses. About 80 Watt-hours a day, or an average of 3 watts. Note this is without the seat...
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Open Culture
Édouard Manet Illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in a French Edition Translated by Stephane... Edgar Allan Poe achieved almost instant fame during his lifetime after the publication of The...
7 months ago
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Édouard Manet Illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in a French Edition Translated by Stephane Mallarmé (1875)

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

7 months ago
Edgar Allan Poe achieved almost instant fame during his lifetime after the publication of The Raven (1845), but he never felt that he received the recognition he deserved. In some respects, he was right. He was, after all, paid only nine dollars for the poem, and he struggled...
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Drew Ex Machina
Star Way of Humanity: American Space Art During the COVID-19 shutdown three years ago, I spent a lot of my time at home digging through my...
a year ago
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Star Way of Humanity: American Space Art

from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
During the COVID-19 shutdown three years ago, I spent a lot of my time at home digging through my archives discovering all sorts of items I […]
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CONTEMPORIST
A Mid-Century Modern Inspired Extension For An 1890s Sandstone Cottage Glasshouse Projects, an architecture, interior design, and building firm, has shared photos of a...
a year ago
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A Mid-Century Modern Inspired Extension For An 1890s Sandstone Cottage

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Glasshouse Projects, an architecture, interior design, and building firm, has shared photos of a mid-century modern inspired extension and renovation they completed for an original 1890 sandstone cottage in Prospect, South Australia. The extension can be accessed through the...
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Mark Manson
How to Conquer Your Biggest Fear What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all? In...
a year ago
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How to Conquer Your Biggest Fear

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all? In this article, I'm going to help you do exactly that by teaching you five tactics to conquer anything you might be afraid of. Heights, spiders, small spaces, strangely-shaped...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of… If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of...
over a year ago
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If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of…

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of spectacular superorganisms to choose from…
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Founder's blog
Reasons NOT to upgrade ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core (but you will have to anyway) I know, I know, .NET Core is the future of .NET, and "cross-platform blah-blah", and...
over a year ago
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Reasons NOT to upgrade ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core (but you will have to anyway)

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over a year ago
I know, I know, .NET Core is the future of .NET, and "cross-platform blah-blah", and "high-performance and scalable blah-blah", and also "microservices!!! containers!!!" etc. Even more - I understand that's it's inevitable. But still. Consider this an angry post on what's wrong...
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Archinect - Features
Inside the Multidimensional Worlds of Squint/Opera and Journey In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow...
6 months ago
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Inside the Multidimensional Worlds of Squint/Opera and Journey

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6 months ago
In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow studios ICRAVE, 59, and VMI Studio under the banner of Journey, a "superpowered organization" bridging physical and digital design. Long before the merger, Squint/Opera had...
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David Heinemeier...
Rails World and Rails 8 in 2024 The first major Rails conference on the European continent in over a decade was a smashing success...
a year ago
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Rails World and Rails 8 in 2024

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The first major Rails conference on the European continent in over a decade was a smashing success this past October in Amsterdam. Not only did the conference sell out more than 700 tickets in less than 40 minutes, but it was the atmosphere from those in attendance that really...
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Paul Graham: Essays
What Business Can Learn from Open Source
over a year ago
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What Business Can Learn from Open Source

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over a year ago
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Flashbak
Rewilding Humanity – Dougal Dixon’s Man After Man : An Anthropology of the Future (1990) Dougal Dixon’s Man After Man : An Anthropology of the Future (1990) begins with the impact of...
3 weeks ago
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Rewilding Humanity – Dougal Dixon’s Man After Man : An Anthropology of the Future (1990)

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3 weeks ago
Dougal Dixon’s Man After Man : An Anthropology of the Future (1990) begins with the impact of genetic engineering. “For 200 years modern humans morphed the genetics of other humans to create genetically-altered creatures. The aquamorphs and aquatics are marine humans with gills...
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Retail Design Blog
Louis Vuitton store by Peter Marino Following a three-year renovation, the Louis Vuitton store in Milan timely reopened its doors during...
3 months ago
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Louis Vuitton store by Peter Marino

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

3 months ago
Following a three-year renovation, the Louis Vuitton store in Milan timely reopened its doors during this year’s Salone del Mobile,...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Substack is at it again There is no such thing as a perfect place on the internet. But it’s possible to avoid the ones that...
6 months ago
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🔗 Substack is at it again

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

6 months ago
There is no such thing as a perfect place on the internet. But it’s possible to avoid the ones that aren’t even pretending to try to be better. The best time to leave Substack was a long time ago. The second best time is now. — Marisa Kabas Visit original link → or View on...
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Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap 2023: Rise of AI We analyze growth in unicorn market cap by region. We also compare # of Barry's Bootcamps to # of...
a year ago
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Unicorn Market Cap 2023: Rise of AI

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
We analyze growth in unicorn market cap by region. We also compare # of Barry's Bootcamps to # of unicorns for key cities.
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TheCollector
The Expulsion of Polish Jews From Nazi Germany: Polenaktion Explained In the early hours of October 28, 1938, Berlin resident Mendel Max Karp was still sleeping when...
4 months ago
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The Expulsion of Polish Jews From Nazi Germany: Polenaktion Explained

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
In the early hours of October 28, 1938, Berlin resident Mendel Max Karp was still sleeping when police officers burst into his apartment to order him to leave the territory of the German Reich. He was then arrested and deported to the German-Polish border on a special train. Mr....
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
Blogging or posting on social media—what's better? I wrote about the benefits of blogging before. That was four years ago. Now I have some things to...
over a year ago
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Blogging or posting on social media—what's better?

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

over a year ago
I wrote about the benefits of blogging before. That was four years ago. Now I have some things to add...
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Steve Blank
Quantum Computing – An Update In March 2022 I wrote a description of the Quantum Technology Ecosystem. I thought this would be a...
8 months ago
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Quantum Computing – An Update

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

8 months ago
In March 2022 I wrote a description of the Quantum Technology Ecosystem. I thought this would be a good time to check in on the progress of building a quantum computer and explain more of the basics. Just as a reminder, Quantum technologies are used in three very different and...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Techies and normals There are techies (if you are reading this blog you are almost certainly one of them) and there are...
over a year ago
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Techies and normals

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
There are techies (if you are reading this blog you are almost certainly one of them) and there are mainstream users – some people call them…
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Snapshot At the end of Phase 2 of our “Ongoing Ink” project, we shared a handful of small progress reports.
a year ago
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Snapshot

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
At the end of Phase 2 of our “Ongoing Ink” project, we shared a handful of small progress reports.
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Articles
When you can't win
over a year ago
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When you can't win

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over a year ago
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Old Structures...
Skyscrapers at the IStructE A reminder: On Thursday I’ll be talking about the technological origins of skyscrapers and the New...
a year ago
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Skyscrapers at the IStructE

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
A reminder: On Thursday I’ll be talking about the technological origins of skyscrapers and the New York contribution to that history, at the Institution of Structural Engineers. If you’re in London – as most of you are not – come in person; otherwise, the talk will be available...
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Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 11-17 December 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
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Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 11-17 December 2023

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a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
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Quantum Frontiers
The most steampunk qubit I never imagined that an artist would update me about quantum-computing research. Last year,...
a month ago
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The most steampunk qubit

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

a month ago
I never imagined that an artist would update me about quantum-computing research. Last year, steampunk artist Bruce Rosenbaum forwarded me a notification about a news article published in Science. The article reported on an experiment performed in physicist Yiwen Chu’s … Continue...
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Nat Eliason's...
Don't Work Faster. Transition Faster. A secret to creative output from endurance sports
9 months ago
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Don't Work Faster. Transition Faster.

from Nat Eliason's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

9 months ago
A secret to creative output from endurance sports
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Tom Blomfield
What is &ldquo;founder mode&rdquo;? We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk...
9 months ago
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What is &ldquo;founder mode&rdquo;?

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

9 months ago
We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk about his experience running Airbnb over the last 17 years. He believed that as Airbnb hired more professional managers, he lost a close connection with the details of the end product...
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Neocha – Culture &...
Spectacular Skin
over a year ago
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Spectacular Skin

from Neocha – Culture & Creativity in Asia [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
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Daniel Marino
Gamedev.js Jam 2021 Retrospective Recently, I participated in the Gamedev.js Jam 2021: a 13-day competition to build a game that can...
over a year ago
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Gamedev.js Jam 2021 Retrospective

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Recently, I participated in the Gamedev.js Jam 2021: a 13-day competition to build a game that can run on the Web in a browser without extra plugins. This year’s theme for the competition was “mirror”, which could interpreted however participants chose. I had an itch I wanted to...
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mtlynch.io
Building a Homelab VM Server (2020 Edition) For the past five years, I’ve done all of my software development in virtual machines (VMs). Each of...
over a year ago
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Building a Homelab VM Server (2020 Edition)

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

over a year ago
For the past five years, I’ve done all of my software development in virtual machines (VMs). Each of my projects gets a dedicated VM, sparing me the headache of dependency conflicts and TCP port collisions. Three years ago, I took things to the next level by building my own...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Partner Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Humans are the only social animal that is creating...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Partner

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Humans are the only social animal that is creating fake partners so they don't have to be social anymore. Today's News:
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AI Snake Oil
Evaluating LLMs is a minefield Annotated slides from a recent talk
a year ago
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Evaluating LLMs is a minefield

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a year ago
Annotated slides from a recent talk
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Steve Blank
Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster This article previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that...
over a year ago
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Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
This article previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that pre-seed and seed startups with employees showing up in a physical office have 3½ times higher revenue growth than those that are solely remote. Let the discussion begin. During the...
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Quanta Magazine
New Conversations, Deep Questions, Bold Ideas in Season Four of ‘The Joy of Why’ Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin return for a new season on major scientific and mathematical...
4 months ago
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New Conversations, Deep Questions, Bold Ideas in Season Four of ‘The Joy of Why’

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

4 months ago
Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin return for a new season on major scientific and mathematical questions of our time, with 12 all-new episodes and a new format. The post New Conversations, Deep Questions, Bold Ideas in Season Four of ‘The Joy of Why’ first appeared on...
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Civic Hax
Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization Intro Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking...
over a year ago
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Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization

from Civic Hax [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Intro Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking tickets in Chicago, but because I've spent so much time on the overall project, I figured I'd share the story that got me to this point. In many ways, this work is the foundation...
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Chris Grossack's...
A Cute Application of the Yoneda Lemma Every few weeks recently I’ve been putting a new fun problem on one of the whiteboards in the first...
3 months ago
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A Cute Application of the Yoneda Lemma

from Chris Grossack's Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

3 months ago
Every few weeks recently I’ve been putting a new fun problem on one of the whiteboards in the first year office. These are often inspired by something I saw on MSE, and I’m usually choosing problems that force you to understand something fundamental really well. Then I usually...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Four types of mobile apps If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app...
over a year ago
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Four types of mobile apps

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app has enduring value, it is helpful to…
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Londonist
29 Things To Do In London On 29 February Use your extra day of 2024 wisely.
a year ago
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29 Things To Do In London On 29 February

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a year ago
Use your extra day of 2024 wisely.
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Louwrentius
Determining smartphone market share using wireless sniffing I started a project to see if I could track smartphone users by sniffing for wifi-clients. Most...
over a year ago
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Determining smartphone market share using wireless sniffing

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I started a project to see if I could track smartphone users by sniffing for wifi-clients. Most smartphones support wifi and most people don't bother disabling wifi when they go outdoors1. If wifi is left on, it is possible to detect these smartphones and track their movement. To...
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Drew Ex Machina
NASA’s Explorer 18: The First Interplanetary Monitoring Platform Among the greatest scientific achievements of the opening years of the Space Age was the...
a year ago
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NASA’s Explorer 18: The First Interplanetary Monitoring Platform

from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Among the greatest scientific achievements of the opening years of the Space Age was the characterization of Earth’s magnetic field and the discovery of what became […]
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski “Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when...
over a year ago
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“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski

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

over a year ago
“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when a tyrant’s tall statues are shattered”
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The Marginalian
An Antidote to the Anxiety About Imperfection: Parenting Advice from Mister Rogers "It’s part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance and ultimate understanding — and...
over a year ago
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An Antidote to the Anxiety About Imperfection: Parenting Advice from Mister Rogers

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
"It’s part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance and ultimate understanding — and often far short."
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A Smart Bear
Why I feel like a fraud (Impostor Syndrome) Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause,...
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Why I feel like a fraud (Impostor Syndrome)

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a year ago
Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause, you can defeat it.
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Diaries of Note
She cured me of the disease of night fear Dawn Powell was a master of incisive, sharp-witted prose that dissected the intricacies and follies...
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She cured me of the disease of night fear

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a year ago
Dawn Powell was a master of incisive, sharp-witted prose that dissected the intricacies and follies of the human experience. Born in Ohio in 1896, she moved to New York City in her early twenties and quickly became an active member of the literary scene, writing novels, plays,...
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