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Quick Guide to setup your React + Typescript Storybook Design System
a no-bs guide to set up your new React and Typescript Design System powered by Storybook!
over a year ago
a no-bs guide to set up your new React and Typescript Design System powered by Storybook!
Tech + Economics +...
The responsibility of AI titans in a post-work society.
Advocates of AI (and yes, before the pedants chime in, I'm aware that LLMs
are not technically AI,...
a year ago
Advocates of AI (and yes, before the pedants chime in, I'm aware that LLMs
are not technically AI, but for the purposes of popular debate and
perception – we'll go with it) will tell you that automation will create
new jobs and generate broad societal value such that it...
Rest of World -...
WhatsApp vigilantes in India are converting Christians by force
How far-right Hindu nationalists use WhatsApp to target Christian families when they’re most...
2 months ago
How far-right Hindu nationalists use WhatsApp to target Christian families when they’re most vulnerable — by preventing them from burying their dead.
Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Put Up Or Shut Up
I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance...
5 months ago
I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance I've ever seen — more so than the metaverse, even — as company after company simply lies about their intentions and the power of AI.
I get it. Everybody wants
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Investment
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Kicking myself for not having AI balloons in the...
5 months ago
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Kicking myself for not having AI balloons in the SMBC store right this second.
Today's News:
The Honest Broker
13 Observations on Ritual
And other responses to my 'dopamine culture' article
10 months ago
And other responses to my 'dopamine culture' article
Rest of World -...
Ride-hailing drivers in Nigeria are suffering after government triples fuel prices
Uber and Bolt drivers say the fuel subsidy removal has put them at risk of losing their livelihoods.
a year ago
Uber and Bolt drivers say the fuel subsidy removal has put them at risk of losing their livelihoods.
diamond geezer
Premature poppying
We can all agree that the Royal British Legion does excellent work supporting ex-service personnel...
a year ago
We can all agree that the Royal British Legion does excellent work supporting ex-service personnel and their families, and that their annual Poppy Appeal is an inspirational fund-raising exercise. We can all agree that the Royal British Legion does excellent work supporting...
TokyoDev
Web Accessibility in Japan: What Developers Need to Know
Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways...
a year ago
Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways different from most people. People who are blind, for example, use screen readers to convert website content into audio. Some use braille displays. There are also people who use...
Diaries of Note
There is no human being in the world whom he loves and trusts
Biographer and historian Iris Origo was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1902 to an American...
a year ago
Biographer and historian Iris Origo was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1902 to an American multi-millionaire and an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, and spent much of her adult life in Italy after her mother’s remarriage to an Italian nobleman. In 1924, she and her husband bought La...
Noahpinion
The debt ceiling deal: What was the whole point?
A manufactured crisis leads to an ineffectual "solution"
a year ago
A manufactured crisis leads to an ineffectual "solution"
Bartosz Ciechanowski
Mechanical Watch
In the world of modern portable devices, it may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the...
over a year ago
In the world of modern portable devices, it may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the most convenient way to keep track of time was a mechanical watch. Unlike their quartz and smart siblings, mechanical watches can run without using any batteries or other...
journal – Winnie Lim
learning to be physically stronger
After thinking about it for more than three years, I’ve finally signed up for personal training so I...
a year ago
After thinking about it for more than three years, I’ve finally signed up for personal training so I can learn how to strength-train. We start to have muscle loss as we age:...
Maggie Appleton
Google Chrome Speedometer
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Whipping file inputs into shape with Bootstrap
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all...
over a year ago
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all browsers. There's even a pretty slick plugin to help get the job done. Unfortunately, most of these solutions are cumbersome, prone to cross-browser issues, and require...
devonzuegel.com
The new city in California
A new city has been proposed in California, and the plan is going to a vote in Solano County’s...
10 months ago
A new city has been proposed in California, and the plan is going to a vote in Solano County’s November election. The proposed location is in Solano County, about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento, and the group behind the proposal is named California Forever.
As a...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Using Pearl Ex Metallic Pigments to Enhance Screen Prints
Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments are metallic pigments that can be mixed into printing inks, acrylics,...
6 months ago
Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments are metallic pigments that can be mixed into printing inks, acrylics, oils, encaustics and loads more. As printmakers we were keen to see how they could be used in various printmaking applications. We've tested them for relief printing and had some...
The Perry Bible...
Us
The post Us appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
2 months ago
The post Us appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
Julia Evans
Dealing with diverged git branches
Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is
when a local branch...
10 months ago
Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is
when a local branch (like main) and a remote branch (maybe also called
main) have diverged.
There are two things that make this situation hard:
If you’re not used to interpreting git’s error messages,...
Nela Dunato Art &...
My new mixed media portrait painting process: more ease, confidence & fun
In this episode of Nela’s Art Chat I share a watercolor & mixed media drawing and painting process...
3 weeks ago
In this episode of Nela’s Art Chat I share a watercolor & mixed media drawing and painting process that I’ve developed in recent months, which enabled me to create the kind of paintings I want with more ease and confidence. I’ll be talking about the challenges with the "ugly...
TheCollector
What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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a year ago
Wanderingspace
Enter Prometheus
“Here's a view of Saturn's moon Prometheus, made from images captured with the narrow-angle camera...
2 weeks ago
“Here's a view of Saturn's moon Prometheus, made from images captured with the narrow-angle camera on Cassini on December 6, 2015. Cassini was about 37,400 km from Prometheus when the images were acquired. Part of the F ring is visible in the background at the top.” — Jason Major
journal – Winnie Lim
random scenes from busan
I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the...
2 months ago
I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the archive from my korea trip a couple months ago. It is an...
Neil Panchal
Isomatic Typeface Rev 6 WIP
This is a ton of work. But not many things in the world could be more satisfying.
Isomatic Type Rev...
over a year ago
This is a ton of work. But not many things in the world could be more satisfying.
Isomatic Type Rev 6 WIP
Also added Western and Central European language support.
Stay tuned. This concept has been brewing for a few years now. I'll post some lower case specimens
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AAAAAAAAAAA
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Have you tried tuning out all your coping...
a year ago
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Have you tried tuning out all your coping mechanisms and focusing entirely on your unresolvable problems?
Today's News:
Artificial Ignorance
How Shopify is making AI Magic
A case study on turning competitive advantages into useful AI.
a year ago
A case study on turning competitive advantages into useful AI.
Seth's Blog
Tricked (again)
If you knew then what you know now, would you have made the same decision? In the last fifty years,...
a year ago
If you knew then what you know now, would you have made the same decision? In the last fifty years, more than 25,000,000 Americans have died prematurely due to cigarette smoking. Worldwide, it’s significantly higher. That’s fifty times as many U.S. citizens as died in World War...
nanoscale views
Some interesting recent papers - lots to ponder
As we bid apparent farewell to LK99, it's important to note that several other pretty exciting...
a year ago
As we bid apparent farewell to LK99, it's important to note that several other pretty exciting things have been happening in the condensed matter/nano world. Here are a few papers that look intriguing (caveat emptor: I have not had a chance to read these in any real depth, so...
Dan Slimmon
Podcast: Small Batches with Adam Hawkins
I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We...
4 months ago
I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We discussed a huge variety of topics. Here is the full episode, and on that page you’ll find meticulously timestamped links to specific topics. Check out the rest of Adam’s podcast, it’s...
Rest of World -...
Why Africa’s tech talent makes it an attractive investment destination
Joseph Nsengimana of the Mastercard Foundation says global companies are starting to recognize the...
5 months ago
Joseph Nsengimana of the Mastercard Foundation says global companies are starting to recognize the value of Africa’s talent.
HTMHell
#26 HTMHell special: tasty buttons
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end...
over a year ago
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end development:
🔥 the burger button. 🔥
The burger button and his tasty friends (kebab, meatball and bento) usually reveal a list of links when activated. According to our studies, these buttons...
Arduino Blog
Discover the new Arduino UNO SPE Shield: the quick and easy way to advanced connectivity
Arduino and Microchip are excited to open electronica – the “world’s leading trade fair and...
a month ago
Arduino and Microchip are excited to open electronica – the “world’s leading trade fair and conference for electronics” – by introducing the Arduino UNO SPE Shield, a powerful ally to bring advanced connectivity to new and existing projects, with Single-Pair Ethernet (SPE) and...
Spoon & Tamago
Keep Cool This Summer With the Komorebi Uchiwa
Komorebi (木漏れ日) is one of those uniquely untranslatable Japanese words. It means “sunlight filtering...
6 months ago
Komorebi (木漏れ日) is one of those uniquely untranslatable Japanese words. It means “sunlight filtering through the tree leaves” and embodies a poetic appreciation for nature and its changing seasons. Capturing that aesthetic, and embedding it into a beautiful handheld fan (uchiwa),...
TheCollector
5 Military Geniuses From History
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9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Forever
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Better than the stoic genies who just tell you to...
a year ago
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Better than the stoic genies who just tell you to appreciate that your current situation is in line with the nature of things.
Today's News:
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
The (free!) Classic Boat Festival is back at St Katharine Docks.
Louwrentius
Thunderbolt, a cheap high-speed storage interconnect?
Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace...
over a year ago
Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace both USB and Firewire. It is mainly targeted at end-user systems allowing to connect peripherals with just a single cable to a computer. Thunderbolt devices, like external hard...
ntietz.com blog
Estimates are about time, so let's cut to the chase
As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work.
Our most common brush with estimates is when...
a year ago
As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work.
Our most common brush with estimates is when we estimate individual tasks within a sprint.
Usually, we do that with abstract points, and that's the wrong way about it.
We should be cutting to the chase and estimating directly...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Very Close to the Caliber of Mark Twain'
I found a 2001 interview with Shelby Foote in The
American Enterprise. The author of the
three...
3 months ago
I found a 2001 interview with Shelby Foote in The
American Enterprise. The author of the
three volumes of The Civil War: A Narrative (1958-1974) was asked by Bill
Kauffman about the scarcity of politicians who are today capable of formulating their
own coherent let alone eloquent...
Londonist
Review: Fashion City At Museum Of London Docklands
New exhibition traces fashion history from the Jewish East End.
a year ago
New exhibition traces fashion history from the Jewish East End.
Unpacked
Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act
On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which...
a year ago
On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which will force tech giants (predominantly Meta and Google) to pay news organizations in Canada for content that is shared on these platforms. The foundational premise of the law is...
TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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10 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Prominence of Prejudice and Social Justice Rhetoric in UK News Media
I have recently published a report with Matthew Goodwin about the increasing prominence of prejudice...
over a year ago
I have recently published a report with Matthew Goodwin about the increasing prominence of prejudice and social justice rhetoric in UK news media. Recent years have seen considerable debate about the rise of political polarization in British society. Specifically, over the last...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Past Is Alive and Stirring With Objects'
Published in
the January 1821 issue of London Magazine
are thematically linked essays by two...
11 months ago
Published in
the January 1821 issue of London Magazine
are thematically linked essays by two friends, Charles Lamb and William
Hazlitt: “New Year’s Eve” and “On the Past and Future,” respectively. Lamb’s is
better known, and I'm aware of several readers who, like me, read it...
The Modern House
Nick Hill’s no frills approach to materials recasts a 1930s house in south-east London as a...
8 months ago
Home on Erik...
Presentations about Spotify music recommendations
A couple of people in my old team have been around talking about how Spotify does music...
over a year ago
A couple of people in my old team have been around talking about how Spotify does music recommendations and put together some quite good presentations.
First one is Neville Li's presentation about Scala Data Pipelines @ Spotify:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Twin
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The cape cost three dollars, but it's an...
a year ago
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The cape cost three dollars, but it's an investment.
Today's News:
Diaries of Note
Mr. Daniels took a picture just as it left the tracks
At 10:35 a.m. on 17th December 1903, Orville Wright, alongside his brother Wilbur, embarked on a...
a year ago
At 10:35 a.m. on 17th December 1903, Orville Wright, alongside his brother Wilbur, embarked on a historic journey that would change the course of human history. They achieved the first powered, controlled flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina....
Math Is Still...
The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds
Russell Impagliazzo studies hard problems, the limits of cryptography, the nature of randomness and...
9 months ago
Russell Impagliazzo studies hard problems, the limits of cryptography, the nature of randomness and more.
The post The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blogging & Listening
When you read a great blog post, the feeling you often get is: “I already knew this, I just hadn’t...
3 months ago
When you read a great blog post, the feeling you often get is: “I already knew this, I just hadn’t been able to express it!”
In this sense, writing a great blog post is about listening.
If you’re listening — to others, your coworkers, the people you follow, your own experiences,...
nanoscale views
Generative AI and scientific images/diagrams
Generative AI for image generation is a controversial topic for many reasons. Still, as someone who...
11 months ago
Generative AI for image generation is a controversial topic for many reasons. Still, as someone who doesn't have a staff of graphic artists on hand to help make scientific illustrations, it has certainly been tempting to see whether it might be a useful tool. My brief...
Herbert Lui
Serious writing
In Impro, Keith Johnstone describes how his teachers taught him to write, “They wanted me to reject...
2 weeks ago
In Impro, Keith Johnstone describes how his teachers taught him to write, “They wanted me to reject and discriminate, believing that the best artist was the one who made the most elegant choices. They analysed poems to show how difficult ‘real’ writing was, and they taught that I...
Adventures In...
North Arrow Necessity
Can a map still be considered a map if it doesn’t have a north arrow? Yes. A north arrow is an...
4 months ago
Can a map still be considered a map if it doesn’t have a north arrow? Yes. A north arrow is an optional map accompaniment and you should think critically about your map to determine for yourself if it needs a north arrow or not. For what it’s worth, often a map should not have a...
TheCollector
Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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21 hours ago
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Snapshot Testing
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
9 months ago
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
David Heinemeier...
Learning to accept defeat against reality
A great many smart people terminably hamper their ability to better understand the world by refusing...
a year ago
A great many smart people terminably hamper their ability to better understand the world by refusing to accept defeat when reality proves them wrong. Armed with an intellect that's at once both too proud to recognize it's own failings and cunningly capable of producing...
Paolo Amoroso's...
My ChromeOS to Linux migration: requirements and setup
<![CDATA[I'm going back to Linux after nine years of ChromeOS.
In 2015 I had been using Linux for a...
5 months ago
<![CDATA[I'm going back to Linux after nine years of ChromeOS.
In 2015 I had been using Linux for a couple of decades. Exasperated by the frequent maintenance issues, that year I migrated to ChromeOS. I was living in the browser anyway and ChromeOS seemed like a stable...
The Ruffian
Why Does Donald Trump Keep Happening?
Notes On The Election
a month ago
Left To Write
№ 71: You Had A Sh*t Day But Tomorrow Is A New Day
I didn’t have the greatest start to 2023. My emails were being ignored, offers rescinded, a bout of...
a year ago
I didn’t have the greatest start to 2023. My emails were being ignored, offers rescinded, a bout of writer’s block, and I struggled to complete any climbing projects. Pipe in a layer of never feeling enough, feeling behind, and financial struggles and what you’ve got is a...
TheCollector
The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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9 months ago
Liz Denys
Better with Star Wars, baking is
Isn't everything?
Star Wars partnered with Williams-Sonoma to make pancake molds and some rather...
over a year ago
Isn't everything?
Star Wars partnered with Williams-Sonoma to make pancake molds and some rather insanely high quality cookie cutters:
The set of four includes a Yoda face and helmets from each of Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and a stormtrooper. I knew that if I ever got my hands on...
Nelson's Weblog
Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at
Reed College. It was a fun...
over a year ago
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at
Reed College. It was a fun project, studying
a discrete dynamic system that was an extension of the
Ising
model. Sort of cellular automata meets statistical mechanics.
It's the only significant thing I've...
Londonist
Panto In London - Where To Watch The Best Pantomimes This Festive Season
Panto is back for 2023 - oh yes it is!
a year ago
Panto is back for 2023 - oh yes it is!
Nat Eliason's...
Kickstarting TikTok: 55,500 Followers & 7m views in 6 Weeks
No hired help, no gimmicks, no fancy gear. Just vibes.
a year ago
No hired help, no gimmicks, no fancy gear. Just vibes.
Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
a month ago
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
The Modern House
Jonny Gent: music, martinis and mayhem from the founder of Sessions Arts Club
The line between art and food is a fine one. Both are sensory, emotive and experiential; both are...
10 months ago
The line between art and food is a fine one. Both are sensory, emotive and experiential; both are fundamentally creative endeavours. But for Jonny Gent, painter and founder of Sessions Arts Club and Boath House, two new stars in the British hospitality firmament, the line […]
Anecdotal Evidence
'Their Thoughts, Their Longings, Hopes, Their Fate'
A new
record: stopped three times at train crossings in a single day without leaving
the city,...
10 months ago
A new
record: stopped three times at train crossings in a single day without leaving
the city, driving only to the university library and back, twenty-two miles. Because
of its sprawling, unplanned nature, Houston is a dense web of train tracks, as
John Bainbridge, a staff writer...
Entrepreneur's Edge
Your Name is an Ad Creative that is Everywhere, All at Once
Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
a year ago
Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
mtlynch.io
An Unsuccessful Experiment with Nemotron
A few weeks ago, NVIDIA released Nemotron, a large language model that they derived from Meta’s...
a month ago
A few weeks ago, NVIDIA released Nemotron, a large language model that they derived from Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B.
NVIDIA claimed at release that Nemotron outperformed GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on certain benchmarks. That was exciting news, as my experience with self-hostable AI...
Business Brainstorms
Helping dementia patients, Family Heirloom as a Service, Figma for architecture, asking for what you...
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities The CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund
Letters of Note
I’m amputating you
It was when she joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 that Frida Kahlo first met Diego Rivera,...
over a year ago
It was when she joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 that Frida Kahlo first met Diego Rivera, a fellow artist 21 years Kahlo’s senior who soon became her mentor and husband. Kahlo’s life up until then had been a struggle due to polio as a child and a serious traffic...
Civic Hax
That Time the City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32m Emails for 40 Dollars
Background
In my last post, I wrote about my adventure of requesting metadata for both phone calls...
over a year ago
Background
In my last post, I wrote about my adventure of requesting metadata for both phone calls and emails from the City of Chicago Office of the Mayor. The work there - and its associated frustration - sent me down a path of sending requests throughout the US to both learn...
bt RSS Feed
Open Source Typeface Pairings
Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-25
I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
over a year ago
Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-25
I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost).
So, I’ve...
TheCollector
William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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4 months ago
diamond geezer
Mayoral hustings
In precisely two weeks' time Londoners get their chance to vote for a new Mayor. They won't, they'll...
8 months ago
In precisely two weeks' time Londoners get their chance to vote for a new Mayor. They won't, they'll vote for the old Mayor because Sadiq Khan is so far ahead in the polls he's effectively unstoppable. But we do know the 12 people who won't replace him, most of whom are destined...
PromptArmor Blog
Announcing LASEC: LLM Application Security Executive Certification
Including a never before seen exploit from PromptArmor's cutting edge threat intelligence team.
9 months ago
Including a never before seen exploit from PromptArmor's cutting edge threat intelligence team.
Archinect - Features
‘In the Climate Context, Architects Need to Push a New Frontier’; A Conversation with Mario...
When TECLA was unveiled to the world at the beginning of 2021, it captured the attention of both the...
a year ago
When TECLA was unveiled to the world at the beginning of 2021, it captured the attention of both the architectural community and the imagination of the mainstream media. The world's first 3D-printed house made from raw earth, TECLA was one of 17 projects showcased at COP26 in an...
The Marginalian
Comet & Star: A Cosmic Fable about the Rhythms and Consolations of Friendship
People pass through our lives and change us, tilting our orbit with their own. Sometimes, if the...
2 months ago
People pass through our lives and change us, tilting our orbit with their own. Sometimes, if the common gravitational center is strong enough, they return, they stay. Sometimes they travel on. But they change us all the same. The great consolation of the cosmic order is the...
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
Making software...
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
2021-11-25
As you can most likely tell by looking at...
over a year ago
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts
2021-11-25
As you can most likely tell by looking at your browser's URL - I've swapped over to a new domain for my personal website: tdarb.org. I'm a fickle person and this is a random change - but it is one I've been planning to do...
TheCollector
10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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7 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Write HTML Like It's 1999
Write HTML Like It’s 1999
2019-06-06
I am sure it’s safe to say that most developers love to use the...
over a year ago
Write HTML Like It’s 1999
2019-06-06
I am sure it’s safe to say that most developers love to use the latest and greatest web tools available. Helpful resources such as preprocessors, template engines, syntax formatters - you name it - can all make a developer’s life easier....
TheCollector
20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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7 months ago
Noahpinion
Indiamerica
A new quasi-alliance is born, but there are still some challenges to overcome.
a year ago
A new quasi-alliance is born, but there are still some challenges to overcome.
Steve Klabnik
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
When you give a Claude a mouse
Some quick impressions of an actual agent
2 months ago
Some quick impressions of an actual agent
Posts on Made of...
Suggestion time: What should I blog about?
I haven’t been feeling very motivated to blog lately – I’ve missed the last two weeks of Iron...
over a year ago
I haven’t been feeling very motivated to blog lately – I’ve missed the last two weeks of Iron Blogger, and I’m not totally enthusiastic about any of the items on my “to blog” list.
But, I do enjoy blogging when I actually get into posts, and I’d like to keep updating this blog....
Moneyness
Coinbase: "What if we call them rewards instead of interest payments?"
Here's a question for you: which U.S. financial institutions are legally permitted to pay interest...
a year ago
Here's a question for you: which U.S. financial institutions are legally permitted to pay interest to retail customers?
We can get an answer by canvassing the range of entities currently offering interest-paying dollar accounts to U.S. retail customers. It pretty much boils...
The Marginalian
The Science of Tears and the Art of Crying: An Illustrated Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Deepest...
“All the poems of our lives are not yet made. We hear them crying to us,” Muriel Rukeyser writes in...
a month ago
“All the poems of our lives are not yet made. We hear them crying to us,” Muriel Rukeyser writes in her timeless ode to the power of poetry. “Cry, heart, but never break,” entreats one of my favorite children’s books — which, at their best, are always philosophies for living. It...
HTMHell
#9 Cookie Consent from Hell
Bad code
<body>
<header>…</header>
<main>…</main>
<footer>…</footer>
<div...
over a year ago
Bad code
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In search of a faster SQLite
Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge attempted to build a faster SQLite using...
a week ago
Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge attempted to build a faster SQLite using modern programming paradigms like io_uring and disaggregated storage. They demonstrate up to a 100x reduction in tail latency. These are my notes.
TheCollector
Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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4 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
How does Michelin Guide's business work?
The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is...
4 months ago
The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is 0.1% of sales. An incredible marketing deal.
The Rational Walk
The Digest #206
The Trust Deficit, EU Regulations, Medicare Advantage scams, Munger soldiered on, The cult of...
5 months ago
The Trust Deficit, EU Regulations, Medicare Advantage scams, Munger soldiered on, The cult of Silicon Valley, Self-esteem and outer scorecards, MMT's founder is worried about deficits
Seth's Blog
The natural size
No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few....
a year ago
No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few. And no matter how big the crowd in the arena, the musicians can only see the faces of a few hundred. An investor can only be engaged and smart about a very small number of […]
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
9 months ago
Rest of World -...
Rest of World’s 2024 reading guide
Global tech leaders share 12 books to add to your must-read pile.
6 months ago
Global tech leaders share 12 books to add to your must-read pile.
Probably...
Have the Nones Leveled Off?
Last month Ryan Burge published “The Nones Have Hit a Ceiling“, using data from the 2023 Cooperative...
5 months ago
Last month Ryan Burge published “The Nones Have Hit a Ceiling“, using data from the 2023 Cooperative Election Study to show that the increase in the number of Americans with no religious affiliation has hit a plateau. Comparing the number of Atheists, Agnostics, and “Nothing in...
Maps Mania
2½ Half Weeks with Mrs Rauer
11 months ago
The Marginalian
Time and the Soul: Philosopher Jacob Needleman on Our Search for Meaning
"The real significance of our problem with time... is a crisis of meaning... The root of our modern...
10 months ago
"The real significance of our problem with time... is a crisis of meaning... The root of our modern problem with time is neither technological, sociological, economic nor psychological. It is metaphysical. It is a question of the meaning of human life itself."
computers are bad
2024-09-08 private lines
I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching
arrangements (CCSAs)....
3 months ago
I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching
arrangements (CCSAs). These could be considered an early form of products like
"virtual private ethernet:" a private telephone network that was served by the
same switching machines that handled the...
Epic Web Dev
Professional Web Forms (workshop)
The Professional Web Forms Workshop will equip you for building complex, fully accessible forms that...
a year ago
The Professional Web Forms Workshop will equip you for building complex, fully accessible forms that handle validation and file uploads while preventing spam.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#14)
Commercial real estate doom, education polarization vs. racial polarization, China's dodgy GDP...
a year ago
Commercial real estate doom, education polarization vs. racial polarization, China's dodgy GDP numbers, phonics, and Russian nationalism
Arduino Blog
Seaside Sweeper keeps beaches pristine
Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That...
7 months ago
Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That care is necessary to maintain the beautiful sandy havens that we all want to enjoy, but it requires a lot of labor. A capstone team of students from the University of Colorado...
Londonist
The London Of Doctor Who, Mapped
All the key locations from Hartnell onwards.
a year ago
All the key locations from Hartnell onwards.
Seth's Blog
The friendly professional
Friendly doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, or changing every policy, or giving up our...
a year ago
Friendly doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, or changing every policy, or giving up our principles. Friendly is how it feels, not what it does.
History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
a month ago
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
Maps Mania
Create an AI Poster for Your Location
3 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to make your own SplitPane React component with 0 dependencies
A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that...
over a year ago
A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that separates them. Based on its layout, a SplitPane can be horizontal or vertical. If you've ever used the Chrome dev tools, you probably came across both versions of the SplitPane. For...
Daniel Miessler
Your Experience is Your Creativity
Creativity is usually described as an external force that graces you with inspiration. Something...
a year ago
Creativity is usually described as an external force that graces you with inspiration. Something that you have to open yourself to—that you have to allow in. But creativity is more like an inner forge of your past, perspectives, and passions. It’s not something you let in; it’s...
Diaries of Note
Lenin’s tomb is remarkable
In January of 1924, a week after the death of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, his embalmed...
a year ago
In January of 1924, a week after the death of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, his embalmed body was placed on display in a temporary wooden tomb in Moscow’s Red Square—an ideological shrine that was visited by hundreds of thousands of onlookers over the next few months....
Handprinted - Blog
Testing your Copper Sulphate Solution
When you’ve mixed a fresh batch of copper sulphate mordant, or if you have an old batch that you...
a year ago
When you’ve mixed a fresh batch of copper sulphate mordant, or if you have an old batch that you haven’t used for a few months, it’s good practice to test the strength of your solution.
By creating some test strips for both line and tones, you’ll create yourself a reference point...
TheCollector
Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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3 months ago
Matt Blewitt
Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics
A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that...
2 weeks ago
A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that are not super comfortable with extracting and interpreting data from stores, be it databases, CSV files in an object store, or even just a spreadsheet. We’re going to cover SQL &...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Maternity Care and Payer Contracting with Marta Bralic Kerns | Out-Of-Pocket
and some good tips for consultants working at startups
a year ago
and some good tips for consultants working at startups
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Guest Appearance on JS Party #288
My frequent ramblings on this blog garnered enough of the attention of Jerod Santo that he...
a year ago
My frequent ramblings on this blog garnered enough of the attention of Jerod Santo that he graciously invited me to come on the JS Party podcast to talk about, well, my blog posts.
Which ones? To name a few:
Language-Level Toll Roads
The Art of Knowing When to Quit
Subscribe...
samwho.dev
Having a Baby
During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like...
over a year ago
During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like I have much to say in them. This was different. The whole experience was new, and there was a lot to learn.
This post is a cleaning up and stitching together of that journal. It...
Nat Eliason's...
40 Lessons from 30 Years
Why keep it to 30
a year ago
elementary Blog
Getting in shape for summer
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future...
a year ago
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild May because this summer is going to get hot!
Calculator
Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,...
Seth's Blog
The long walk
Before buying a house, it makes sense to spend a day on foot, walking around the neighborhood....
3 weeks ago
Before buying a house, it makes sense to spend a day on foot, walking around the neighborhood. You’ll notice things you might have missed in a car. Before starting a business, spend a few shifts working the cash register at a similar establishment. And before going into...
Coffee with an...
How to be a better architect
Ask yourself, “Is this needed?” Remove everything that isn’t. Study the function of the building...
a year ago
Ask yourself, “Is this needed?” Remove everything that isn’t. Study the function of the building well, but don’t let it drive the design. Connect the spaces with nature. Master the use of natural light. Create a balance between public and private spaces. Organize the Floorplan....
TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Plans are nothing, but planning is indispensable
It is widely believed that writing a business plan is a waste of time, because: 1) very few people...
over a year ago
It is widely believed that writing a business plan is a waste of time, because: 1) very few people will read it, and 2) you’ll end up…
Seth's Blog
There are no stupid mistakes
There are mistakes. These are moments when reality teaches us something. And there’s stupid. This is...
a year ago
There are mistakes. These are moments when reality teaches us something. And there’s stupid. This is what happens when we refuse to learn from our mistakes. “Don’t be stupid” is a fine mantra. It’s particularly apt when talking about cultural forces, political agendas and our...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The future of self-driving
Modern self-driving technology still has a way to go before it becomes generally safe, and useful...
10 months ago
Modern self-driving technology still has a way to go before it becomes generally safe, and useful enough for broader adoption. While I do believe that at some point in my lifetime I'll be able to hail an eTaxi, it'll really depend on where I am, the road infrastructure, and the...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#25)
Maternal mortality, "living paycheck to paycheck", media negativity, diffusion of the tech industry,...
11 months ago
Maternal mortality, "living paycheck to paycheck", media negativity, diffusion of the tech industry, and the effect of corporate tax cuts
TheCollector
Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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a week ago
The Architectural...
Fake Views – The Contrast Between Renderings and Reality
A shining sun, playful children, overwhelming greenery and new neighborhoods with a richer wildlife...
11 months ago
A shining sun, playful children, overwhelming greenery and new neighborhoods with a richer wildlife than a Zoo. We have all seen them, the vision images that promise an idyll but result in a visual nightmare. Here‘s a few examples. Renderings are a visual representation of a...
Charles Chen
I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but...
2 months ago
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but really, gen AI is just getting started.
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...
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...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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3 months ago
Noahpinion
Did immigration bring down inflation?
I'm highly skeptical of this theory, but it's still quite interesting.
9 months ago
I'm highly skeptical of this theory, but it's still quite interesting.
Code Of Honor
Uh-oh: was the company site hacked?
Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your...
over a year ago
Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your log files to know that hackers running site-scanners are constantly hitting your servers looking for unpatched vulnerabilities to exploit. One of the servers I wrote for Guild...
99% Invisible
Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is [EPISODE]
A few years ago, at the very start of the pandemic, Roman Mars wrote an episode of 99pi in which he...
11 months ago
A few years ago, at the very start of the pandemic, Roman Mars wrote an episode of 99pi in which he simply talked about design details in his house — realizing that he, like the audience, didn’t have many other places to go. )You should check it out — it’s a real time capsule,...
The Berkeley...
Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks
Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks
TLDR: We propose the asymmetric...
a year ago
Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks
TLDR: We propose the asymmetric certified robustness problem, which requires certified robustness for only one class and reflects real-world adversarial scenarios. This focused setting allows us to introduce...
NeuroLogica Blog
Spider-Man’s Web Shooter
I have to admit that my favorite superhero as a kid, and still today, is Spider-Man (and yes, that’s...
2 months ago
I have to admit that my favorite superhero as a kid, and still today, is Spider-Man (and yes, that’s the correct spelling). There are a number of narrative reasons for this that I grew to appreciate more as I aged. First, Spider-Man is in the sweet spot of super abilities – he is...
Old Vintage...
Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One
I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my...
2 weeks ago
I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my literal first game console: the Tandyvision One, Tandy Radio Shack's label variant of the Mattel Intellivision Master Component.
The Mattel Intellivision proper originally hails...
Wuthering...
Middle period Plato - He’s garbage, he cares about nothing but the truth.
Assembling yesterday’s post I saw that I was only missing one dialogue from Plato’s early period, so...
a year ago
Assembling yesterday’s post I saw that I was only missing one dialogue from Plato’s early period, so I knocked off Greater Hippiaslast night. The early dialogues are generally short; the three in the “death of Socrates” group are only fifty pages total, for example.
Hippias is...
Abstruse Goose
The Most Powerful Person in the World - part 2
over a year ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Hot Dogs In A Temple
Above, a somewhat pathetic villain threatens the people of Gotham City, while Batgirl muses. Below,...
a year ago
Above, a somewhat pathetic villain threatens the people of Gotham City, while Batgirl muses. Below, the stair connecting the train shed at the old Penn Station with the concourse: And zoomed in: And another angle:
mtlynch.io
Why does a extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster?
For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and...
9 months ago
For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and Ethereum cryptocurrency. To learn more about both, I’ve been using Zig to write a bytecode interpreter for the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
Zig is a great language for performance...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How and Why to Un-Reset Tailwind's CSS Reset
> 2021 edit: note that [tailwind typography now comes with a `not-prose`...
over a year ago
> 2021 edit: note that [tailwind typography now comes with a `not-prose` class](https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-typography-v0-5#undo-prose-styles) that unsets typography styles
Ognjen Regoje •...
Paying for content after you've consumed it
Platforms like Patreon created a new paradigm. By billing periodically they created predictability...
a year ago
Platforms like Patreon created a new paradigm. By billing periodically they created predictability for content creators allowing them to switch to full-time.
But, might it be better for content creators, and consumers, if they were paid a flexible amount after the content was...
The American Scholar
“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry appeared first on...
6 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry appeared first on The American Scholar.
A small freedom area...
Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a
perceptually uniform...
over a year ago
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a
perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn
Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is.
But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
Rest of World -...
Gig drivers in South Africa clash over Bolt’s low-priced Indian cars
Bolt introduced the cars to bring down fares. Now, other drivers see them as a threat.
a year ago
Bolt introduced the cars to bring down fares. Now, other drivers see them as a threat.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Good
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Who's a morally relativist boy? It's you!
Today's...
3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Who's a morally relativist boy? It's you!
Today's News:
TheCollector
What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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4 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Even
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The really distressing part is that he keeps saying...
5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The really distressing part is that he keeps saying names for approximately 6 hours.
Today's News:
Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 3: Fool Me Three Times
This will be a short one. Barry’s summer vacation has started, and Shawn is deflated after the...
over a year ago
This will be a short one. Barry’s summer vacation has started, and Shawn is deflated after the Warr…iors... sob… It’s just one game, right?
1. No One Likes a Giveaway
Who doesn’t love a good pickle?
Well that didn’t happen. There were no entries to last week’s giveaway. If you...
Ognjen Regoje •...
As silly as it sounds, system design interviews are about systems and design
Over the past year or so I’ve done about two dozen systems design interviews (as an interviewer) and...
11 months ago
Over the past year or so I’ve done about two dozen systems design interviews (as an interviewer) and have two somewhat subtle observations that would help some candidates.
1. The word system has two meanings
The definition most engineers reach for immediately is the one relating...
bunnie's blog
Control and Autofocus Software for Chip-Level Microscopy
This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through...
8 months ago
This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through non-destructive IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) inspection. Here’s the previous posts: This post will discuss the control software used to drive IRIS. Above is a screenshot of the IRIS machine...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Family-Friendly Travel Guide to Minneapolis, MN
7 months ago
Seth's Blog
Niching up
Along the way, folks have talked about “niching down” as a way to help a project find focus. But...
10 months ago
Along the way, folks have talked about “niching down” as a way to help a project find focus. But that’s backward. When we identify and embrace the smallest viable audience, we’re moving up. Up the quality hierarchy. Up in responsibility. Up in the likelihood that we’ll make an...
99% Invisible
Courtroom Sketch [EPISODE]
Earlier this year, the city of New York closed off several blocks around the Manhattan Criminal...
a year ago
Earlier this year, the city of New York closed off several blocks around the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse. Instead of early morning commuters, the sidewalks around the building were flooded with reporters, photographers, and camera people. They were there to capture the...
Old Structures...
Examples Illustrated
I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was,...
10 months ago
I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was, as expected, informative and interesting. Obviously, that’s not what I’m going to write about here. The conference was at Convene (a place where you can rent space for conferences)...
Jonas Hietala
My book 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' is done
My first commit on my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is from Dec 19, 2018, and now about 17 months later...
over a year ago
My first commit on my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is from Dec 19, 2018, and now about 17 months later and 1006 more commits I’m finally done!
Well, I’m done with the online version at least. I still plan to create an e-book, a PDF and a paperback and who knows how long that will...
Tony Dinh's...
Aug 2022: One year since I quit my job
Reached $10K MRR, launched Xnapper (#1 of the week), went on Indie Hackers podcast (😱), and other...
over a year ago
Reached $10K MRR, launched Xnapper (#1 of the week), went on Indie Hackers podcast (😱), and other updates in Aug 2022...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Top Thing of the World'
John Keats’
meditation on a reader’s paradise:
“I had an
idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant...
2 months ago
John Keats’
meditation on a reader’s paradise:
“I had an
idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner. Let him on a
certain day read a certain Page of full Poesy or distilled Prose, and let him
wander with it, and muse upon it and reflect from it, and dream...
TheCollector
The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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a month ago
The American Scholar
“What a Strange Path”
Three new prompts
The post “What a Strange Path” appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 days ago
Three new prompts
The post “What a Strange Path” appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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9 months ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
What is a react component, anyways?
I used to teach a class on React. There’s no better way to start a hands-on course than “Let’s write...
over a year ago
I used to teach a class on React. There’s no better way to start a hands-on course than “Let’s write a simple component!”. But time after time I hear — “Vladimir, what’s a component, anyways?”. Bah, what a question! It’s a react thingie. React apps are made of components. Why do...
Archinect - Features
3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, and Space Habitats: A Conversation with ICON’s Melodie...
As a ‘Space Architect’ working on the design and delivery of 3D printed habitats on the Moon and...
9 months ago
As a ‘Space Architect’ working on the design and delivery of 3D printed habitats on the Moon and Mars, Melodie Yashar is aware that, even in space, 3D printing does not exist in a vacuum. Like any construction methodology, it requires a confluence of design intent, delivery...
CONTEMPORIST
Cork Was Used As The Exterior Siding On This Home Extension
Mitchell + Corti Architects has designed a new rear ground floor extension for a home in England,...
a year ago
Mitchell + Corti Architects has designed a new rear ground floor extension for a home in England, that’s clad in cork. The architect mentions, “We chose to clad the extension in something a little different a dark patterned cork, in order to use a sustainable material and test...
Seth's Blog
Cheating at golf
Someone who cheats at a friendly game of golf when nothing much is at stake–how can you possibly...
a year ago
Someone who cheats at a friendly game of golf when nothing much is at stake–how can you possibly trust them with something important? And yet, organizations and individuals “cheat at golf” all the time. They put clever clauses in the fine print. Spam a media list. Conceal the...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The eHMI: How Autonomous Cars Will Communicate With the Outside World
Even if you may not be aware of it, a lot of non-verbal communication takes place when you walk down...
over a year ago
Even if you may not be aware of it, a lot of non-verbal communication takes place when you walk down the street. You observe the behavior…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Mocking and Using CRUD APIs with MirageJS and React-Query
This is how to pair two newcomers on the React scene for mocking and using CRUD APIs, for a great...
over a year ago
This is how to pair two newcomers on the React scene for mocking and using CRUD APIs, for a great developer experience.
Laetitia@Work
Cognition & care: pay attention!
Laetitia@Work #58
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 065: The gpt2-chatbot mystery
May 3, 2024.
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Has YC hit peak AI? (F24)
The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
2 weeks ago
The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
Epic Web Dev
Inverse Assertions (article)
Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives...
2 months ago
Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives in time-dependent tests without using sleep.
diamond geezer
Preparing rail fares for contactless
The cost of travelling by train between London and Southend is changing.
In today's post I'm going...
a year ago
The cost of travelling by train between London and Southend is changing.
In today's post I'm going to focus on fares between Southend Central and Fenchurch Street to keep things simple but similar changes apply to other journeys. Also this kind of model is rolling out on other...
Louwrentius
Lustre and the risk of Serious Data Loss
Personally I have a weakness for big-ass storage. Say 'petabyte' and I'm
interested. So I was...
over a year ago
Personally I have a weakness for big-ass storage. Say 'petabyte' and I'm
interested. So I was thinking about how you would setup a large, scalable
storage infrastructure. How should such a thing work?
Very simple: you should be able just to add hosts with some bad-ass huge...
TheCollector
7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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9 months ago
Old Structures...
Not Much Of A Mystery
There floors of apartments over two floors of commercial space: If you’ve spent enough time in...
5 months ago
There floors of apartments over two floors of commercial space: If you’ve spent enough time in Manhattan, the immediate thought is that this was a house with a stoop, and the extension to the front lot line is an alteration that removed the stoop and raised the basement to street...
Letters of Note
You would be so proud
Uhuru Houston was born in Brooklyn in 1969. He joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey...
over a year ago
Uhuru Houston was born in Brooklyn in 1969. He joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department in 1993, and three years later married Sonya, whom he had met when they were both students at Norfolk State University. In 1999, he was assigned to the World...
NeuroLogica Blog
Giant Eels, Loch Ness, and Probability
At this point it is pretty clear that the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) does not exist. I know,...
a year ago
At this point it is pretty clear that the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) does not exist. I know, logically it is impossible to prove a negative, so if we want to be technical we can say that the probability of a large creature similar to that believed to be Nessie approaches zero....
Common Edge
What Los Angeles Transit Could Learn From Charlotte
On accidentally discovering the Queen City’s wonderful light rail system.
a year ago
On accidentally discovering the Queen City’s wonderful light rail system.
Joel Gascoigne
Acting with incomplete information in a startup
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over a year ago
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As a fledgling entrepreneur in the midst of a growing startup, I try to read
quite a lot around the subject. I’ve been deeply involved in startup culture for
around two years now and I often find...
Mark Manson
Why Skills Matter More Than Goals
Welcome to the first Monday of the new year. It’s 2022 and if you’re like me, it still feels like...
over a year ago
Welcome to the first Monday of the new year. It’s 2022 and if you’re like me, it still feels like 2019 was last year. Talk about a mindfuck.
This is that time of year where most productive and growth-minded people sit down and focus on their goals, their identity, and who they...
Many Worlds
Preparing For The Habitable Worlds Observatory, Our Best Shot at Finding ET Life
In a solar system far, far away, life of some sort is just waiting to be found. Or so the world of...
a year ago
In a solar system far, far away, life of some sort is just waiting to be found. Or so the world of astrobiology sure hopes it is. The new player in the astrobiology world, now called the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), is planned to launch in the 2040s if all goes well. ...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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4 months ago
Seth's Blog
Nice bike
A well-designed bicycle is efficient, inexpensive and delightful. If you use your bike on the right...
a year ago
A well-designed bicycle is efficient, inexpensive and delightful. If you use your bike on the right paths, with appropriate goals, it can deliver exactly what you need, while also allowing you to go at your own pace, see what’s going on around you and feel grounded. Until, of...
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The Part Time Creator Manifesto
Why we need more people creating Part Time and how you can do it too.
over a year ago
Why we need more people creating Part Time and how you can do it too.
alexwlchan
Writing a Mac app to review my photos
I take a lot of photos.
When I’m trying to get a particular shot, I’ll often take multiple pictures...
a year ago
I take a lot of photos.
When I’m trying to get a particular shot, I’ll often take multiple pictures in the hope of getting at least one that’s good – and then my camera roll is full of similar images.
I always intend to go back and clean up my pictures afterwards – pick the best...
Seth's Blog
Better at being better
In most competitive markets, when an organization offers a new benefit, others will quickly move to...
a week ago
In most competitive markets, when an organization offers a new benefit, others will quickly move to match it. This means that it’s hard to justify the hard work of creating something better, because it’s just going to become a new standard. It doesn’t pay for a credit card...
This Space
39 Books: 2019
So much for this blog being labelled "the best resource in English on European modernist...
6 months ago
So much for this blog being labelled "the best resource in English on European modernist literature": this year's choice is a collection of lectures delivered in the early 1960s at the University of Zürich, published in English translation in 1970, with this edition being...
the singularity is...
nuke/acc
I wrote a tweet about this but deleted it, since it’s a much more nuanced topic than can be...
3 weeks ago
I wrote a tweet about this but deleted it, since it’s a much more nuanced topic than can be discussed there. Nuclear weapons are the Chekhov’s gun on the world stage.
When, if ever, are they going to be fired? When should they be?
I suspect this is not a question a lot of people...
TheCollector
The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Cobot Proxie
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
4 weeks ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
Humanoids Summit: 11–12 December...
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Amazon launched a program for Indian handicrafts. Local artisans say it’s not working
Makers say Amazon Karigar has failed to distinguish their crafts from mass-produced items.
a month ago
Makers say Amazon Karigar has failed to distinguish their crafts from mass-produced items.
Musings on Markets
The School Bell Rings: Time for Class!
Continuing an annual ritual of long standing, ahead of starting my spring teaching at NYU starting...
11 months ago
Continuing an annual ritual of long standing, ahead of starting my spring teaching at NYU starting in a couple of weeks, I would like to invite you, if you are interested, to come along for the ride. I know! I know! Most of you are not enrolled at NYU, paying nosebleed prices,...
The Codist
Good Programmers Can Be Anyone, But Not Everyone
In my four decades as a programmer, I've worked with hundreds of programmers, and I can say that no...
a year ago
In my four decades as a programmer, I've worked with hundreds of programmers, and I can say that no single type of person is good at programming.
I've seen young people who could do amazing work and those without a clue. I've seen programmers
Common Edge
The Sphere in Las Vegas: A Placeless Object in a Placeless City
The latest Sin City spectacle is just that—spectacle. Pure, crystalline spectacle.
11 months ago
The latest Sin City spectacle is just that—spectacle. Pure, crystalline spectacle.
Nat Eliason's...
The Scariest Day of My Life
What the hell am I supposed to do?
5 months ago
What the hell am I supposed to do?
TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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7 months ago
Rest of World -...
The Chinese app where women socialize over their menstrual cycles
On Meet You, women track, discuss, and pray for their periods.
a year ago
On Meet You, women track, discuss, and pray for their periods.
Map of the Week
The Whataburger Power Outage Map
When Hurricane Beryl struck Texas last week it left nearly 2 million Houston area residents and...
5 months ago
When Hurricane Beryl struck Texas last week it left nearly 2 million Houston area residents and businesses without power. Local power company Center Point Energy's online power outage map has been unavailable since May. Social media user BBQBryan noted that Texas based...
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates: "The quality is giving us a bad name"
I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it...
8 months ago
I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it works is still less than 50%.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Making Ethereum alignment legible
2 months ago
Citation Needed
Video: The charges against Binance
In December, not long after the Department of Justice announced charges against cryptocurrency giant...
11 months ago
In December, not long after the Department of Justice announced charges against cryptocurrency giant Binance and its CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, I started writing up an overview of everything that had happened to the company over the past few years. I'd written separately about a...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 061: The AI innovator's dilemma
April 5, 2024.
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - DNA
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a week ago
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Acko.net
On Headaches and Aspirin
"A computer is an educational device. It is in fact a direct reflection of your own imagination,...
over a year ago
"A computer is an educational device. It is in fact a direct reflection of your own imagination, your own intelligence. Once you're given the freedom in which to create things and see the immediate response on the screen, then it becomes a very enjoyable experience. You go on to...
Left To Write
Fresh&Thick
Exploring Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity in the age of social media
a year ago
Exploring Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity in the age of social media
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
Seth's Blog
It’s Mac Day (#40)
A lot shifted when the Apple Macintosh was introduced, and it wasn’t about the RAM, the chips or the...
11 months ago
A lot shifted when the Apple Macintosh was introduced, and it wasn’t about the RAM, the chips or the processor speed. Our world changed forty years ago today. Marketing, technology, commerce, luxury brands, communities, communication and our expectations for how we might spend...
Old Structures...
Social Commentary In A Map
Above, David Burr’s 1834 map of New York. I guess 190 years make a bit of a difference. This is, in...
5 months ago
Above, David Burr’s 1834 map of New York. I guess 190 years make a bit of a difference. This is, in some ways, more of a map-like graphic than an actual map. The shaded areas are not the only places where there were buildings, but rather the areas that were solidly built up....
The American Scholar
The Source
The post The Source appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 months ago
The post The Source appeared first on The American Scholar.
Diaries of Note
Humility
Dag Hammarskjöld was en route to negotiate peace in Congo when, in 1961, the plane in which he was...
a year ago
Dag Hammarskjöld was en route to negotiate peace in Congo when, in 1961, the plane in which he was travelling crashed, ending the lives of all its passengers. Born in 1905, Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United...
Epic Web Dev
Fully Typed Web Apps
The main thing that makes end-to-end type safety difficult is simple: boundaries. The secret to...
over a year ago
The main thing that makes end-to-end type safety difficult is simple: boundaries. The secret to fully typed web apps is typing the boundaries.
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 11
On building table-stakes features, and breaking through a plateau.
a year ago
On building table-stakes features, and breaking through a plateau.
TheCollector
Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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a year ago
Irrational...
Notes on The Value Flywheel Effect
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into...
a year ago
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into real-world application of Wardley mapping, and a rare view of a company’s engineering strategy.
I’m currently diving into the topic of engineering strategy,
and a sub-topic that I’ve not...
Rest of World -...
Online extremism linked to rise in school shootings in Brazil, researchers find
After a rise in shootings, an all-woman group is advising the new Brazilian government on how to...
a year ago
After a rise in shootings, an all-woman group is advising the new Brazilian government on how to deal with radicalization online.
Julia Evans
Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering
Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never
really understood...
3 weeks ago
Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never
really understood until a few weeks ago. Let’s say you’re running this command
to watch for some specific output in a log file:
tail -f /some/log/file | grep thing1 | grep thing2
If log lines are...
Math Is Still...
Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge
How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking...
a year ago
How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results has started to deliver answers.
The post Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge...
Wanderingspace
Europa Seen by Juno
Citizen scientist Björn Jónsson processed the image to enhance the color and contrast.
over a year ago
Citizen scientist Björn Jónsson processed the image to enhance the color and contrast.
CONTEMPORIST
Natural Stone Provides A Base For This Modern Home
Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of...
a year ago
Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of Canada’s Québec province between Montréal and Québec City. The home’s design is inspired by the region’s industrial heritage and the natural elements that surround it. The unusually...
History Today Feed
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
a month ago
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
On Life and Lisp
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release!
We’ve been working hard over the past...
over a year ago
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release!
We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 027: Challenge accepted
August 11, 2023
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Family-Friendly Vacations on Alabama's Gulf Shores and Orange Beach
a year ago
The Marginalian
Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality
How to "include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided,...
a year ago
How to "include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border."
Ruud van Asseldonk
AI alignment starter pack
6 months ago
Letters of Note
Live a life worth living
On 19 March 2018, almost five years after being diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer,...
over a year ago
On 19 March 2018, almost five years after being diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, thirty-eight-year-old Julie Yip-Williams died, leaving behind a husband and two daughters. Her early years had been anything but easy. Born blind in Vietnam, at two months of age she was almost...
Citation Needed
Privacy, human rights, and Tornado Cash
I am more worried about privacy than crypto crime.
7 months ago
I am more worried about privacy than crypto crime.
nanoscale views
Moiré and making superlattices
One of the biggest condensed matter trends in recent years has been the stacking of 2D materials and...
7 months ago
One of the biggest condensed matter trends in recent years has been the stacking of 2D materials and the development of moiré lattices. The idea is, take a layer of 2D material and stack it either (1) on itself but with a twist angle, or (2) on another material with a slightly...
TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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a year ago
Society's Backend
Machine Learning Infrastructure: The Bridge Between Software Engineering and AI
What makes machine learning infra so important and why I find it so interesting
a year ago
What makes machine learning infra so important and why I find it so interesting
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Guitar?
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10 months ago
Diaries of Note
I found myself nervous and tense to the point of tears
On 21st March 1960, the South African Police opened fire on thousands of black protestors in what...
a year ago
On 21st March 1960, the South African Police opened fire on thousands of black protestors in what came to be known as the Sharpeville Massacre, a shocking event which saw 69 people killed, triggered a state of emergency, and led to mass detentions—including that of Hilda...
The Map is Mostly...
Small Spaces
notes on building blocks
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Karma
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I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I...
9 months ago
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I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I were an elephant seal* I would be. Don't act weirded out.
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Map of the Week
Icelandic Glacier Web Portal
This web portal is a collaborative effort by Icelandic institutes, agencies, companies, societies...
a year ago
This web portal is a collaborative effort by Icelandic institutes, agencies, companies, societies and private persons to display an overview of glaciological research and variations of Icelandic glaciers. The portal provides access to measurements, observations and photographs...
Dan Slimmon
Incident, Inçident, Incidënt
When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And...
9 months ago
When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And don't forget to create an incident so customers can stay informed!
Retail Design Blog
RE5.5 by Lana Burlachuk
Company RE5.5 is a company with a focus solely on the delicate art of eye care, that stood out as...
a month ago
Company RE5.5 is a company with a focus solely on the delicate art of eye care, that stood out as...
bunnie's blog
IRIS (Infra-Red, in situ) Project Updates
A goal of mine is to give everyday people tangible reasons to trust their hardware. Betrusted is a...
9 months ago
A goal of mine is to give everyday people tangible reasons to trust their hardware. Betrusted is a multi-year project of mine to deliver a full-stack verifiable “from logic gates to Rust crates” supply chain for security-critical applications such as password managers. At this...
Diaries of Note
I have especially enjoyed this autumn
Born in 1819 in rural Warwickshire, George Eliot was a towering figure in Victorian literature known...
a year ago
Born in 1819 in rural Warwickshire, George Eliot was a towering figure in Victorian literature known for her detailed portraits of English life. Christened Mary Ann Evans, she adopted her male pen name to ensure her works were judged by their merit rather than her gender; her...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Parenting & Children: Ask Marcus Aurelius
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
a year ago
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Seth's Blog
The gap between impossible and normal
It keeps getting shorter and shorter. This video couldn’t have been made, at any price, 18 months...
a year ago
It keeps getting shorter and shorter. This video couldn’t have been made, at any price, 18 months ago. 18 weeks ago, it would have required a thousand hours of work. Now, here it is. This impossible is going to happen faster and faster and faster.
Londonist
Guess What Our Most-Read Article Of 2023 Was...
You love Christmas and the tube - but what was numero uno?
12 months ago
You love Christmas and the tube - but what was numero uno?
journal – Winnie Lim
surprising myself with my self
I have always thought of myself as an open-minded person, but in recent years due to increasing self...
a year ago
I have always thought of myself as an open-minded person, but in recent years due to increasing self awareness I realised I can be very set in some patterns of my thinking,...
Londonist
Multicultural Soho Shines In This AI-Enhanced Video From The 1950s
Super-sharp footage of 50s Soho.
9 months ago
Super-sharp footage of 50s Soho.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free
Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free....
over a year ago
Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering…
TheCollector
Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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a week ago
Val Sopi
blogstatic numbers for November
<p>Coming from <a href="https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-numbers-october-2022">October</a>, November...
over a year ago
<p>Coming from <a href="https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-numbers-october-2022">October</a>, November was again another solid month.<a href="https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-numbers-october-2022"></a></p>
<table><tbody><tr><td><b>blogstatic</b></td><td><b>October...
Aaron's Essays
Carts without horses
Investing in emerging markets such as India, Kenya, and Nigeria isn’t quite what I naively thought...
over a year ago
Investing in emerging markets such as India, Kenya, and Nigeria isn’t quite what I naively thought it would be. Before I started, I thought that finding a good company in an emerging market would just mean copying models that worked in developed markets. All I’d have to do is...
Louwrentius
The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may
be dumb, but the people...
over a year ago
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may
be dumb, but the people who make them are maybe even dumber. Because they
can't seem to figure out how to create a computer that the majority of people
understand.
When the original macintosh arrived at...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Oh yes
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Ten points if you try this. Fifteen if it ruins...
7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Ten points if you try this. Fifteen if it ruins your relationship. Sixteen if it ruins your life.
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alexwlchan
What mammal is that?
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva.
I like to take...
11 months ago
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva.
I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot:
No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held...
The American Scholar
Bony Ramirez
Beautiful parasites
The post Bony Ramirez appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 months ago
Beautiful parasites
The post Bony Ramirez appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do In London On Christmas Eve 2023
Ice skating, festive films and Christmas carols.
a year ago
Ice skating, festive films and Christmas carols.
Alice GG
Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform
In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD.
This showed a way to...
over a year ago
In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD.
This showed a way to implement a GitOps workflow, which means using a Git repository as the source of truth for the state of your cluster.
Flux introduces multiple new objects in your Kubernetes...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2022 California general election
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While
preparing for this election, I...
over a year ago
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While
preparing for this election, I consulted:
San Francisco Chronicle voter guide
SPUR endorsements
GrowSF voter guide, which links to questionnaires from many local candidates that are far more detailed than their...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Only one
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After about 3 slayings they just sit in a chair,...
a year ago
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After about 3 slayings they just sit in a chair, look out the window, and shake their heads from time to time.
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Seth's Blog
What if they’re right?
We spend a lot of time in our own heads, certain that our path and our method make sense. We often...
2 weeks ago
We spend a lot of time in our own heads, certain that our path and our method make sense. We often become more certain in the face of criticism or even suggestions. This confidence is essential, as it allows us to lean into our project. Once in a while, though, it might help to...
Retail Design Blog
Alain Milliat – Les Concentrés by Studio Boam
Today, this well known brand of natural fruit nectars and gourmet fruit juices is launching Nolow....
4 months ago
Today, this well known brand of natural fruit nectars and gourmet fruit juices is launching Nolow. Alain Milliat fruit concentrates...
AVC
What Happened In 2023
I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending...
11 months ago
I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending (What Happened) and one looking forward to the year ahead (What Will Happen). This is the first of these two posts. The second one will run tomorrow. I ended my What Will Happen In...
Rest of World -...
Elon Musk said he’d eliminate bots from X. Instead, election influence campaigns are running wild
In a year of global elections, X is making it easy to meddle.
4 months ago
In a year of global elections, X is making it easy to meddle.
Stoic Simple
Uncovering the Historical Origins of Stoicism
. Stoicism is a philosophy that has been studied and practiced for centuries. Though the modern...
a year ago
. Stoicism is a philosophy that has been studied and practiced for centuries. Though the modern understanding of Stoicism is associated with the Roman Empire, its roots can be traced back to Ancient Greece. This article will explore the historical origins of Stoicism, its core...
TheCollector
Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
Noahpinion
Japan isn't quite "back", but it has a fighting chance
Here are some ideas for what it can do to be truly "back".
10 months ago
Here are some ideas for what it can do to be truly "back".
NeuroLogica Blog
Flow Batteries – Now With Nanofluids
Battery technology has been advancing nicely over the last few decades, with a fairly predictable...
10 months ago
Battery technology has been advancing nicely over the last few decades, with a fairly predictable incremental increase in energy density, charging time, stability, and lifecycle. We now have lithium-ion batteries with a specific energy of 296 Wh/kg – these are in use in existing...
Electronics etc…
Installing Linux GPIB Drivers for the Agilent 82357B
Introduction
Other Installation Instructions
Agilent 82357B Initialization Process
Installing the...
a year ago
Introduction
Other Installation Instructions
Agilent 82357B Initialization Process
Installing the Agilent 82357B GPIB Driver on an Ubuntu Linux Distribution
References
Introduction
I’ve started to grow a collection of older test equipment from the eighties, the
nineties, and the...
diamond geezer
Liverpool Street
LIVERPOOL
STREET
STATION
🚂
£200
London's Monopoly Streets
LIVERPOOL STREET STATION
Group:...
3 weeks ago
LIVERPOOL
STREET
STATION
🚂
£200
London's Monopoly Streets
LIVERPOOL STREET STATION
Group: British Railways
Purchase price: £200
Rent: £25
Annual passengers: 95 million
Borough: City of London
Postcode: EC2
busiest station in the UK, a great contrast to mere Marylebone and...
Moneyness
Are flatcoins a good idea?
I'll start with the conclusion. I don't think flatcoins are a good idea.
The idea for flatcoins has...
a year ago
I'll start with the conclusion. I don't think flatcoins are a good idea.
The idea for flatcoins has been around for a while, but it got a wider airing when it popped up in a Coinbase marketing piece from earlier this year. Now, arch-crypto hater Nouriel Roubini has undergone a...
Luxagraf:...
Fly Navy
The one upside to getting kicked out of Fort Pickens for a storm that never hit, was meeting the...
10 months ago
The one upside to getting kicked out of Fort Pickens for a storm that never hit, was meeting the pilot.
The bus, wherever it goes, is conspicuous. It is especially conspicuous in the middle of an otherwise empty parking lot. Next to the parking lot was a collection of condos,...
Londonist
Explore Love In The Animal Kingdom After-Hours At The Natural History Museum
A special Valentine's Day celebration.
10 months ago
A special Valentine's Day celebration.
Retail Design Blog
La Villa Angeli – Corsican Liqueur by 2S Global Design
This estate, located on the lands of Antiparti, was created by Albert Mizael in the 1960s. Since...
6 months ago
This estate, located on the lands of Antiparti, was created by Albert Mizael in the 1960s. Since 2000, it has...
HTMHell
Page by Page: How Pagination Makes the Web Accessible
by Kristin Rohleder
Imagine you’re reading a book that seems perfect for cozy winter evenings. But...
a week ago
by Kristin Rohleder
Imagine you’re reading a book that seems perfect for cozy winter evenings. But as soon as you turn the page, you suddenly find yourself somewhere else, rather than on the next page of the story. Now, you have to painstakingly search through the book to find...
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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4 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unity
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The header of the second panel really should be...
11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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The header of the second panel really should be above most comic panels.
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Spoon & Tamago
A Spoon & Tamago Guide to Ishikawa Prefecture
this post was sponsored by the Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau This travel guide originally...
11 months ago
this post was sponsored by the Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau This travel guide originally appeared in February 2023 and ever since Covid restrictions were lifted, Ishikawa prefecture has seen a steady climb in tourism. However, the tragic Noto Earthquake at the beginning of...
TheCollector
What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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a year ago
Rest of World -...
What global investors need to know about funding Pakistani startups
Hasib Malik is the co-founder and CEO of Tiger Global-backed financial services startup CreditBook.
6 months ago
Hasib Malik is the co-founder and CEO of Tiger Global-backed financial services startup CreditBook.
TheCollector
Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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a year ago
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