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TheCollector
Napoleon’s Life, Family, and Personal Traits While in exile on the island of Saint Helena, Napoleon remarked to a loyal follower, “What a novel...
2 months ago
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Napoleon’s Life, Family, and Personal Traits

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
While in exile on the island of Saint Helena, Napoleon remarked to a loyal follower, “What a novel my life has been!” (Gueniffey, 1). Indeed, many aspects of Napoleon’s biography read like fiction. For example, by his mid-twenties, Napoleon was already a successful commanding...
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Making software...
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
over a year ago
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Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0

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

over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up "dynamic" navigation in Jekyll. The problem I've noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Plato Vs Aristotle
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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a year ago
Plato Vs Aristotle
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nanoscale views
Foams! (or, why my split pea side dish boils over every Thanksgiving) Foams can be great examples of mechanical metamaterials.   Adapted from TOC figure of this...
7 months ago
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Foams! (or, why my split pea side dish boils over every Thanksgiving)

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

7 months ago
Foams can be great examples of mechanical metamaterials.   Adapted from TOC figure of this paper Consider my shaving cream.  You might imagine that the (mostly water) material would just pool as a homogeneous liquid, since water molecules have a strong attraction for one...
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TheCollector
What Were the Sociocultural Effects of the Iran-Iraq War? After the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the start of the Iran Hostage Crisis, Iran fought its...
3 months ago
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What Were the Sociocultural Effects of the Iran-Iraq War?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
After the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the start of the Iran Hostage Crisis, Iran fought its neighbor Iraq for eight years. This war—the largest industrialized war since World War II—demonstrated the tenacity and radicalism of Iran’s Islamist regime. In battle, it used...
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
A funeral for voicemail Is voicemail dead? View on my website
10 months ago
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A funeral for voicemail

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

10 months ago
Is voicemail dead? View on my website
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PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #21: Avoiding the "Product Death Cycle" Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
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HogMail #21: Avoiding the "Product Death Cycle"

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

over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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Roberto Vitillo's...
A martingale approach to detect changes in histograms If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect...
over a year ago
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A martingale approach to detect changes in histograms

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect various measures of Firefox performance…
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Open Culture
Watch the Original Nosferatu, the Classic German Expressionist Vampire Film, Before the New Remake... F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, far and away the most influential early vampire movie, came out 102 years...
7 months ago
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Watch the Original Nosferatu, the Classic German Expressionist Vampire Film, Before the New Remake Arrives This December

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7 months ago
F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, far and away the most influential early vampire movie, came out 102 years ago. For about ten of those years, Robert Eggers has been trying to remake it. He wouldn’t be the first: Werner Herzog cast Klaus Kinski as the blood-sucking aristocrat at the...
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Max Rozen
How do you make relay-compiler run automatically? Getting tired of running the relay-compiler every time you change your GraphQL schema/resolvers?...
over a year ago
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How do you make relay-compiler run automatically?

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Getting tired of running the relay-compiler every time you change your GraphQL schema/resolvers? There's a plugin in webpack for that!
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Cognitive...
dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b I get a lot of questions about...
a year ago
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dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b I get a lot of questions about dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b and I wanted to address some of them on my blog. Dolphin got a nice video review from Prompt Engineering What's this about? Friday December 8, MistralAI released a...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Lesser-Known Adventures to Explore in Greece
7 months ago
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7 Lesser-Known Adventures to Explore in Greece

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7 months ago
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Internal Tech Emails
Inside Google's negotiations with Apple I would let them try someone else for search if they don’t like our last offer.
a year ago
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Inside Google's negotiations with Apple

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

a year ago
I would let them try someone else for search if they don’t like our last offer.
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The Ruffian
The State of the Culture Is...Not Bad, Actually Reflections on a good year for the Oscars
a year ago
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The State of the Culture Is...Not Bad, Actually

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a year ago
Reflections on a good year for the Oscars
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Internal Tech Emails
Jeff Bezos on acquiring Ring To be clear, my view here is that we're buying market position – not technology.
over a year ago
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Jeff Bezos on acquiring Ring

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over a year ago
To be clear, my view here is that we're buying market position – not technology.
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Left To Write
The Power of Storytelling Seriously, this is the skill you want to learn
over a year ago
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The Power of Storytelling

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over a year ago
Seriously, this is the skill you want to learn
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Toni Lijic
On Design and Chemistry How I transitioned from chemistry to design, and back again.
9 months ago
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On Design and Chemistry

from Toni Lijic [alt+shift+b] in technology

9 months ago
How I transitioned from chemistry to design, and back again.
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UX Collective
When faces go virally wrong Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2 months ago
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When faces go virally wrong

from UX Collective [alt+shift+b] in design

2 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Articles
What's on your hard drive?
over a year ago
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What's on your hard drive?

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Jonas Hietala
Building my ultimate keyboard The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate...
7 months ago
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Building my ultimate keyboard

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

7 months ago
The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate keyboard”? There are many keyboards in this world; here are some that might fit the “ultimate” moniker: Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate mechanical keyboard DataHand Ergodox EZ Glove80 Happy...
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macwright.com
Year in Review The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old...
a year ago
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Year in Review

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old writing is nostalgic and horrific. By the numbers, 2023 was pretty normal: I read around 20 books, ran around 400 miles. It’s funny how the statistics even out to the same numbers...
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History Today Feed
Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery JamesHoare Tue, 05/06/2025 - 08:55
2 months ago
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Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery

from History Today Feed [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery JamesHoare Tue, 05/06/2025 - 08:55
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dthompson
Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1 The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from eBay. I loved that laptop,...
over a year ago
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Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from eBay. I loved that laptop, but time marches on and old hardware eventually becomes too slow for modern development needs. After a lot of indecision, I bought a 10th generation Thinkpad X1 with an Intel Core...
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Stoic Simple
Did Stoicism Have Any Influence on Ancient Rome? Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by...
over a year ago
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Did Stoicism Have Any Influence on Ancient Rome?

from Stoic Simple [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by philosopher Zeno of Citium and was quickly adopted and expanded upon by his successors, including the influential Roman philosopher, Seneca. Stoicism's focus on self-discipline,...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jung Science Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The best part of the book is his descriptions of...
8 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jung Science

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

8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The best part of the book is his descriptions of Freud fainting because Jung didn't believe sex was the cause of everything. Today's News:
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
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Summary of changes for March 2025

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3 months ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March. Summary Of Changes In the above illustration, little Ninj is going through a first-aid kit, looking through our supplies to see what needs to be topped off and what is...
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Cheese and Biscuits
Tarim Uyghur, Bloomsbury Quite often all you need to know about a restaurant is the smell that greets you as you walk through...
5 months ago
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Tarim Uyghur, Bloomsbury

from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel

5 months ago
Quite often all you need to know about a restaurant is the smell that greets you as you walk through the door. The smoke and fat of a busy ocakbaşı, The burned onions and masala spices that cling to your clothes after an evening at Tayyabs, the intoxicating mix of funky aged...
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The American Scholar
Visions From Jura What the world looked like to George Orwell during his final days The post Visions From Jura...
a month ago
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Visions From Jura

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

a month ago
What the world looked like to George Orwell during his final days The post Visions From Jura appeared first on The American Scholar.
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TheCollector
The Ottoman Empire in World War I: An Overview While much of the focus of World War I centers on the Western and Eastern Fronts where Germany is...
2 months ago
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The Ottoman Empire in World War I: An Overview

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2 months ago
While much of the focus of World War I centers on the Western and Eastern Fronts where Germany is seen as having played the biggest role of the Central Powers, to the southeast, the Ottoman Empire, controlling half of the Middle East, played a vital role in combating the Entente....
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Seth's Blog
Dreams, plans and contradictions Dreams are fine. And dreams involve contradictions. We want this AND that, but both can’t happen....
a year ago
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Dreams, plans and contradictions

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

a year ago
Dreams are fine. And dreams involve contradictions. We want this AND that, but both can’t happen. That’s what keeps them from being plans. Plans embrace boundaries and reality, they don’t ignore them. Plans thrive on scarcity and constraints. Plans are open for inspection, and a...
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TokyoDev
Paternity Leave in Japan If you're an expectant father in Japan, you may be considering taking paternity leave. Compared to...
a year ago
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Paternity Leave in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
If you're an expectant father in Japan, you may be considering taking paternity leave. Compared to many places in the world, Japan's policy is generous, on paper at least: you're legally entitled to take up to a year off, and be compensated during that time. However, you'll...
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Alex Baldwin
See, Think, Design, Produce Jonathan Corum, New York Times See Practice until your eyes can see it See what others have done See...
over a year ago
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See, Think, Design, Produce

from Alex Baldwin [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Jonathan Corum, New York Times See Practice until your eyes can see it See what others have done See what’s possible Look at more than you can use Think Find a clear thought and get it on paper Sketching is visual problem solving Sketches are not commitments What are you trying...
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Adventures In...
How to make this map of a melting glacier I’ve been to Columbia Glacier, just west of Valdez, Alaska, three times. The first was as a...
over a year ago
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How to make this map of a melting glacier

from Adventures In Mapping [alt+shift+b] in cartography

over a year ago
I’ve been to Columbia Glacier, just west of Valdez, Alaska, three times. The first was as a youngster in 1984, the second in 1987, and the final time in 2000. Each time, the ride by boat to the terminal edge of the ice where it calves into Prince William Sound, took a bit longer....
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Wanderingspace
Neptune from the James Webb Space Telescope Webb’s latest image is the clearest look at Neptune's rings in 30+ years, and our first time seeing...
over a year ago
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Neptune from the James Webb Space Telescope

from Wanderingspace [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Webb’s latest image is the clearest look at Neptune's rings in 30+ years, and our first time seeing them in infrared light. Take in Webb's ghostly, ethereal views of the planet and its dust bands, rings and moons: https://go.nasa.gov/3RXxoGq #IAC2022
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Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
7 months ago
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Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python

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7 months ago
I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
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The Marginalian
Yellow Butterfly: A Moving Wordless Story About War, Hope, and Keeping the Light Alive In his little-known correspondence with Freud about war and human nature, Einstein observed that...
a year ago
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Yellow Butterfly: A Moving Wordless Story About War, Hope, and Keeping the Light Alive

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a year ago
In his little-known correspondence with Freud about war and human nature, Einstein observed that every great moral and spiritual leader in the history of our civilization has shared “the great goal of the internal and external liberation of man* from the evils of war” as Freud...
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Londonist
A Brief History Of The Waterloo & City Line A very peculiar line.
a year ago
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A Brief History Of The Waterloo & City Line

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a year ago
A very peculiar line.
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HTMHell
#32 almost a proper close button Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13"...
over a year ago
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#32 almost a proper close button

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13" aria-hidden="true" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="15px" width="15px" fill="#000" name="close"> <title>Close dialog</title> <path d="…"> </path> </svg> </button> Issues and...
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Blog of Simple...
Google will start tracking all your devices (WTF?)
6 months ago
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Google will start tracking all your devices (WTF?)

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
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Old Structures...
Boarding Sometimes the degree to which the past was simultaneously similar to the present and different...
a year ago
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Boarding

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

a year ago
Sometimes the degree to which the past was simultaneously similar to the present and different catches me by suprise. I was in the far west Village a few days ago and this building caught my eye. It’s a nice 1890s semi-industrial building turned into apartments There’s a sign...
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Open Culture
How Stephen King Foretold the Rise of Trump in a 1979 Novel Nobody opens a Stephen King novel expecting to see a reflection of the real world. Then again, as...
4 months ago
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How Stephen King Foretold the Rise of Trump in a 1979 Novel

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4 months ago
Nobody opens a Stephen King novel expecting to see a reflection of the real world. Then again, as those who get hooked on his books can attest, never is his work ever wholly detached from reality. Time and time again, he delivers lurid visions of the macabre, grotesque, and...
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The Elysian
Hint #3 I'm publishing a new print collection in one week.
10 months ago
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Hint #3

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

10 months ago
I'm publishing a new print collection in one week.
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Notes on software...
The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility

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

over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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ntietz.com blog -...
Python is an interpreted language with a compiler After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted...
2 months ago
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Python is an interpreted language with a compiler

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

2 months ago
After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted languages in common usage," and that they "wish Python was more widely recognized as a compiled language." This got me thinking: what is the distinction between a compiled or...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Evidence Suggests Lunar Cave Astronomers have discovered multiple “pits” on the surface of the moon – these look superficially...
11 months ago
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Evidence Suggests Lunar Cave

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

11 months ago
Astronomers have discovered multiple “pits” on the surface of the moon – these look superficially like craters, but on closer inspection are actually vertical pits. There has been considerable speculation that these pits might be cave openings. Now, an analysis of data from the...
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Business Brainstorms
Podcast translations, Apple opportunity, being unreasonable, don't hire corporate executives, the... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
over a year ago
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Podcast translations, Apple opportunity, being unreasonable, don't hire corporate executives, the MVP of physical businesses.

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

over 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 “When the Apple VR headset drops tomorrow, every social...
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TheCollector
Why Nietzsche Considered Himself Ahead of His Time Untimely Meditations is one of the least read of Nietzsche’s works. In this article, we look at why...
a month ago
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Why Nietzsche Considered Himself Ahead of His Time

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a month ago
Untimely Meditations is one of the least read of Nietzsche’s works. In this article, we look at why more attention ought to be paid to the essays in this collection, but also why Nietzsche considered them to be “untimely.”   What Are the Untimely Meditations?   Nietzsche’s...
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Society's Backend:...
How much does a 10 million token context window actually cost? Some back-of-the-napkin math for Meta's Llama 4 Scout
2 months ago
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How much does a 10 million token context window actually cost?

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2 months ago
Some back-of-the-napkin math for Meta's Llama 4 Scout
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Where to Hike, Bike, and Relax in San Luis Obispo
3 weeks ago
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Where to Hike, Bike, and Relax in San Luis Obispo

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

3 weeks ago
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Ryan Hoover's...
Real friends
a year ago
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Real friends

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Blog System/5
SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right The SSH agent is a little daemon that holds your private keys in memory. This is particularly handy...
a year ago
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SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right

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

a year ago
The SSH agent is a little daemon that holds your private keys in memory. This is particularly handy when your keys are protected by a passphrase: you can unlock and add your keys to the agent once and, from then on, any SSH client such as ssh(1) can interact with the keys without...
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The Intimate Mirror
The Mother Wound and the Return to Love Finding Our Way Back to Sacred World
5 months ago
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The Mother Wound and the Return to Love

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5 months ago
Finding Our Way Back to Sacred World
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Tom Blomfield
Making something people want - The GoCardless story I’m a co-founder of GoCardless, a direct debit payments company in London. This is the story of our...
over a year ago
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Making something people want - The GoCardless story

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

over a year ago
I’m a co-founder of GoCardless, a direct debit payments company in London. This is the story of our first two years and the people we’ve met along the way. Making something no-one wants One startup I know very well in San Francisco was started by 3 ex-financiers. Their idea...
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Diaries of Note
The most sensual thing I’ve ever seen When Pamela Des Barres graduated from high school in 1966, she headed straight for the Sunset Strip...
a year ago
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The most sensual thing I’ve ever seen

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a year ago
When Pamela Des Barres graduated from high school in 1966, she headed straight for the Sunset Strip where the rock stars she had idolised from afar roamed—a path that led her to become one of the most celebrated groupies of the rock and roll era. She kept a diary throughout and...
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TheCollector
When Is Juneteenth and What Does It Celebrate? Also known as “Juneteenth Independence Day” or “Emancipation Day,” Juneteenth is a federal holiday...
2 weeks ago
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When Is Juneteenth and What Does It Celebrate?

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2 weeks ago
Also known as “Juneteenth Independence Day” or “Emancipation Day,” Juneteenth is a federal holiday marking the day when enslaved African Americans living in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom. While President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, it would...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Constraint System At the beginning of phase 2, we weren’t sure what to do about constraints. Based on past...
a year ago
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Constraint System

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a year ago
At the beginning of phase 2, we weren’t sure what to do about constraints. Based on past exploration, constraints seemed to hold a lot of promise but were notoriously unreliable. A good constraint system could unify and power a number of key aspects of the dynamic medium we seek.
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Retail Design Blog
The Visitor by Altavia ODG The Visitor is a groundbreaking addition to the retail landscape at the King Abdulaziz International...
8 months ago
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The Visitor by Altavia ODG

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8 months ago
The Visitor is a groundbreaking addition to the retail landscape at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia....
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary of changes for February

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Christopher Butler
The Productive Void What enabled us to create AI is the very thing it has the power to erase. I still have dozens...
4 months ago
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The Productive Void

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4 months ago
What enabled us to create AI is the very thing it has the power to erase. I still have dozens of sketchbooks, many filled with ideas for logos, layouts, and other designs. These pages don’t just capture fully realized images, albeit sketches. They capture an entire process...
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CONTEMPORIST
Steel Fins Create A Sculptural Facade For This Home Photography by KIE Arch Realrich Architecture Workshop has shared photos of a modern home they...
3 months ago
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Steel Fins Create A Sculptural Facade For This Home

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3 months ago
Photography by KIE Arch Realrich Architecture Workshop has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Jakarta, Indonesia, that features operable steel fins on the western and southern facades. Photography by KIE Arch To fins were included in the design of the house to...
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Applied Cartography
Bluesky is good Three months ago, I wrote Bluesky et al, in which I walked through the various platforms vying for...
6 months ago
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Bluesky is good

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6 months ago
Three months ago, I wrote Bluesky et al, in which I walked through the various platforms vying for the dubious title of "Twitter's successor" and landed on Bluesky as being my favorite, perhaps less out of its ostensible inherent virtues and more out of the size of its...
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Oykun
Letter to Young Designers Dear Young Designer, Yes, you can already call yourself a “Designer” Everybody in this world is a...
a year ago
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Letter to Young Designers

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a year ago
Dear Young Designer, Yes, you can already call yourself a “Designer” Everybody in this world is a designer. What you want to be is an “Excellent Designer”. To become that; Explore! Do not worry about specialising. You will have time for that. Take whatever comes your
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Blog - Guerrilla...
White Elephants in the State of Vermont This map, which originally appeared in the Community atlas, has been revised. The typeface has been...
over a year ago
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White Elephants in the State of Vermont

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
This map, which originally appeared in the Community atlas, has been revised. The typeface has been changed to Cornerstone, which is used in the logo for the Black Lives Matter movement. How did you decide to map what you mapped for the Community atlas?  That was the question...
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Londonist
Hello Brain! At The Crick Probes Secrets Of The Mind... With Knitting See the latest brain research while you wait for a train.
a year ago
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Hello Brain! At The Crick Probes Secrets Of The Mind... With Knitting

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a year ago
See the latest brain research while you wait for a train.
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Dustin Curtis
Block Carefully A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture...
8 months ago
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Block Carefully

from Dustin Curtis [alt+shift+b] in startups

8 months ago
A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions. Today, X engineering announced...
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Farza's Newsletter
me and george lucas just made a sound cloud hit Below are some of my thoughts on doing work you’re passionate about. If you don’t care about my...
over a year ago
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me and george lucas just made a sound cloud hit

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over a year ago
Below are some of my thoughts on doing work you’re passionate about. If you don’t care about my thoughts here, ignore this :). — I hear this really often from friends: I am currently doing X I really really want to do Y In order for me to leave X to do Y, I need to first do A, B,...
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Overcoming Bias
Should I Be Clearly Conservative? A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is...
2 months ago
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Should I Be Clearly Conservative?

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2 months ago
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it. ― William F.
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Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
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Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]

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over a year ago
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Irrational...
How should we control access to user data? At some point in a startup’s lifecycle, they decide that they need to be ready to go public in 18...
4 months ago
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How should we control access to user data?

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

4 months ago
At some point in a startup’s lifecycle, they decide that they need to be ready to go public in 18 months, and a flurry of IPO-readiness activity kicks off. This strategy focuses on a company working on IPO readiness, which has identified a gap in their internal controls for...
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TheCollector
What Are the Hidden Meanings of Dreams? (According to Carl Jung) The secrets of who you are and the key to your healing are encrypted in the rich symbols of your...
a month ago
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What Are the Hidden Meanings of Dreams? (According to Carl Jung)

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a month ago
The secrets of who you are and the key to your healing are encrypted in the rich symbols of your dream life. Conjoining the two most powerful methods of Jungian psychology, dream interpretation and active imagination, you can learn to decipher the letters your unconscious sends...
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TheCollector
Rome vs. the Alamanni at the Battle of Strasbourg (357 CE) In the mid-4th century CE, the Roman Empire found itself in a precarious position. While the emperor...
2 weeks ago
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Rome vs. the Alamanni at the Battle of Strasbourg (357 CE)

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2 weeks ago
In the mid-4th century CE, the Roman Empire found itself in a precarious position. While the emperor Constantius II had been entrenched in a protracted war against the Sassanids in the East, the other Augustus, Constans, was murdered by the Germanic usurper, Magnentius. The power...
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This Space
39 Books in one For anyone interested (you there in the phone box), here's a PDF of the 39 Books series. 39 Books:...
a year ago
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39 Books in one

from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
For anyone interested (you there in the phone box), here's a PDF of the 39 Books series. 39 Books: PDF As the introduction explained, the books were chosen from those on my books-read lists that I hadn't written about before. I thought it might be instructive to contrast the...
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Nat Eliason's...
TODAY'S THE DAY! This book is not what you think
12 months ago
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TODAY'S THE DAY!

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12 months ago
This book is not what you think
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TheCollector
12 Unexpected Facts About Samuel Johnson There are many basic but essential facts to be learned about Samuel Johnson. For example, he was...
2 months ago
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12 Unexpected Facts About Samuel Johnson

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2 months ago
There are many basic but essential facts to be learned about Samuel Johnson. For example, he was born in 1709 and died in 1784. His life spanned the reign of four British Monarchs: Queen Anne (1702-1714), King George I (1714-1727), King George II (1727-1760), and King George III...
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The Changelog
More Topics on Store-And-Forward (Possibly Airgapped) ZFS and Non-ZFS Backups with NNCP Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and...
over a year ago
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More Topics on Store-And-Forward (Possibly Airgapped) ZFS and Non-ZFS Backups with NNCP

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

over a year ago
Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and NNCP. In my previous post, I introduced a way to use ZFS backups over NNCP. In this post, I’ll expand on that and also explore non-ZFS backups. Use of nncp-file instead of nncp-exec...
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The Diff
How High Does AI's Revenue Per User Get? Plus! The Challenges of Scaling Challengers; The Reddit Loop; Scaling AI by Doing Things That Don't...
6 months ago
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How High Does AI's Revenue Per User Get?

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

6 months ago
Plus! The Challenges of Scaling Challengers; The Reddit Loop; Scaling AI by Doing Things That Don't Scale Yet; Complete Markets; Legitimacy and Growth
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macwright.com
Recently Busy month! In January, I wrote about the first four Val Town runtimes, and built a lot of features...
a year ago
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Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Busy month! In January, I wrote about the first four Val Town runtimes, and built a lot of features in Val Town. I also hacked around enough to make Placemark Play available again, the “free-as-in-beer” Placemark UI. It still has some warts, but it’s there. Want to improve...
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Arduino Blog
Adding proximity unlock to an old car with the Arduino Nano 33 BLE A lot of newer cars have a really nifty feature called “proximity unlock,” which automatically...
11 months ago
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Adding proximity unlock to an old car with the Arduino Nano 33 BLE

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11 months ago
A lot of newer cars have a really nifty feature called “proximity unlock,” which automatically unlocks the doors when the driver approaches while carrying their key fob. When paired with a push-to-start ignition switch, the driver never has to take their keys out of their pocket....
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Seth's Blog
A long time is not the same as never It might feel like an endless slog now, but when the innovation appears, people won’t remember how...
a year ago
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A long time is not the same as never

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

a year ago
It might feel like an endless slog now, but when the innovation appears, people won’t remember how long it took to get here. Often, we assume that today’s snapshot is actually the entire movie, but it rarely is.
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Londonist
A Major Festival Of Czech Culture Is Returning To London Made in Prague runs 3 Nov-10 Dec.
a year ago
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A Major Festival Of Czech Culture Is Returning To London

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a year ago
Made in Prague runs 3 Nov-10 Dec.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Browser Defaults We Throw Away Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a...
over a year ago
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Browser Defaults We Throw Away

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over a year ago
Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a JS approach that includes writing event.preventDefault all the time is kinda off. The browser defaults are great, and yet we're rollin' our own for years now. 🤔 I’ve been thinking...
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Arduino Blog
The end of Mbed marks a new beginning for Arduino As you might have heard, on July 9th, Arm announced that the Mbed platform and OS are officially...
11 months ago
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The end of Mbed marks a new beginning for Arduino

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11 months ago
As you might have heard, on July 9th, Arm announced that the Mbed platform and OS are officially destined to reach end of life in July 2026, and therefore will no longer be maintained. The news has sent ripples through the embedded development community, particularly affecting...
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Arduino Blog
Move Mario remotely with this online N64 controller system For obvious reasons, video game console controls provide input commands directly to the console....
6 months ago
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Move Mario remotely with this online N64 controller system

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

6 months ago
For obvious reasons, video game console controls provide input commands directly to the console. Modern consoles may do so wirelessly, but the effect is the same: direct input. But what if you connected a “controller” to the internet? Then you could play from anywhere and that is...
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Atoms vs Bits
Is This Anything? 3 1) I often get told I end phonecalls prematurely, as in, I hang up before the other person thinks...
a month ago
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Is This Anything? 3

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a month ago
1) I often get told I end phonecalls prematurely, as in, I hang up before the other person thinks we've finished the Goodbye Ritual. I think this may be because TV has seeped into my brain too much, and on telly they don't want to "
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from the Chrome Team’s “Blink principles of web compatibility” Following up on a previous article I wrote about backwards compatibility, I came across this...
a month ago
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Notes from the Chrome Team’s “Blink principles of web compatibility”

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

a month ago
Following up on a previous article I wrote about backwards compatibility, I came across this document from Rick Byers of the Chrome team titled “Blink principles of web compatibility” which outlines how they navigate introducing breaking changes. “Hold up,” you might say....
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Blog of Simple...
A/B Testing with Simple Analytics
a year ago
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A/B Testing with Simple Analytics

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a year ago
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The American Scholar
Splitting Our Sides A new biography of a comedy pioneer The post Splitting Our Sides appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
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Splitting Our Sides

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3 months ago
A new biography of a comedy pioneer The post Splitting Our Sides appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Ruud van Asseldonk
Building Elm with Stack
over a year ago
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Building Elm with Stack

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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The Ruffian
How I Use ChatGPT Getting the Most From LLMs
5 months ago
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How I Use ChatGPT

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5 months ago
Getting the Most From LLMs
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Arduino Blog
An Arduino-powered robotic ukulele that plays itself The ukulele has a bit of a reputation for being quaint, but it is a legitimate instrument like any...
10 months ago
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An Arduino-powered robotic ukulele that plays itself

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

10 months ago
The ukulele has a bit of a reputation for being quaint, but it is a legitimate instrument like any other and that means it takes a lot of practice to play competently. Zeroshot is too busy building cool stuff to bother with all of that, so he put his skills to use constructing...
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The Marginalian
What It’s Like to Be an Owl: The Strange Science of Seeing with Sound “We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals,” the great nature...
a year ago
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What It’s Like to Be an Owl: The Strange Science of Seeing with Sound

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

a year ago
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals,” the great nature writer Henry Beston wrote in his lovely century-old meditation on otherness and the web of life. “In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted...
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Sega logo (1976–present) Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Sega logo...
over a year ago
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Sega logo (1976–present)

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

over a year ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Sega logo used since 1976, in its official color for the Japanese market. Source: segaretro.org Image: Scarred Sun. License: All Rights Reserved. Sega logo used from the late 1950s to...
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Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 11: Fundo Alto Nieva (February 12 - 14, 2024) February 12, 2024 (continued) We found an area to park in the little village of Fundo Alto Nieva and...
5 months ago
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A Month In Northern Peru, Part 11: Fundo Alto Nieva (February 12 - 14, 2024)

from Explorations of an Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
February 12, 2024 (continued) We found an area to park in the little village of Fundo Alto Nieva and completed the short, five-minute walk in to the reserve. This particular site has become famous in recent years as a place where the enigmatic Long-whiskered Owlet can be...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Big Ring Challenges Cosmological Principle University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) PhD student Alexia Lopez, who two years ago discovered a...
a year ago
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Big Ring Challenges Cosmological Principle

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

a year ago
University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) PhD student Alexia Lopez, who two years ago discovered a giant arc of galaxy clusters in the distant universe, has now discovered a Big Ring. This (if real) is one of the largest structures in the observable universe at 1.3 billion light...
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Blog - Practical...
Why Are Rails Shaped Like That? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Maybe more than any other type...
a year ago
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Why Are Rails Shaped Like That?

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Maybe more than any other type of infrastructure, railways have a contingent of devoted enthusiasts. “Railfans” as they call themselves; Or should say “ourselves”? Maybe it's the nostalgia of an earlier era or...
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Musings on Markets
Data Update 5 for 2025: It's a small world, after all! If the title of this post sounds familiar, it is because is one of Disney’s most iconic rides, one...
4 months ago
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Data Update 5 for 2025: It's a small world, after all!

from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
If the title of this post sounds familiar, it is because is one of Disney’s most iconic rides, one that I have taken hundreds of times, first with my own children and more recently, with my grandchildren. It is a mainstay of every Disney theme park, from the original Disneyland...
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Basta’s Notes
Go fix your bugs An exploration of some bugs you might not have known that you had
over a year ago
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Go fix your bugs

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over a year ago
An exploration of some bugs you might not have known that you had
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Flashbak
Why The BBC Wanted To Keep George Orwell Off The Radio “I am quite seriously worried about the situation and about the wisdom of our keeping Orwell...
3 months ago
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Why The BBC Wanted To Keep George Orwell Off The Radio

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3 months ago
“I am quite seriously worried about the situation and about the wisdom of our keeping Orwell personally on the air.” – the BBC controller outlines his reasons for keeping George Orwell off the air     In his his lifetime, George Orwell (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was thought...
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Josh Collinsworth
If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best...
9 months ago
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If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed

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9 months ago
I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.
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TheCollector
Centuries-Old Buddhist Temple Destroyed by Wildfires Wildfires tearing through the southern regions of South Korea have killed at least 28 people and...
3 months ago
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Centuries-Old Buddhist Temple Destroyed by Wildfires

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3 months ago
Wildfires tearing through the southern regions of South Korea have killed at least 28 people and destroyed or threatened hundreds of historical sites. As of Thursday, the wildfires have burned at least 88,980 acres of land, according to the South Korean government’s disaster...
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Josh Thompson
RailsConf Presentation: 'Junior' Developers are a Solution to Many of your Problems Did this talk resonate and you want to implement some of the ideas at your company? I might be able...
over a year ago
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RailsConf Presentation: 'Junior' Developers are a Solution to Many of your Problems

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over a year ago
Did this talk resonate and you want to implement some of the ideas at your company? I might be able to help. Shoot me an email at joshthompson@hey.com or book some time to talk at https://calendly.com/joshthompson/coffee. This talk is available on railsconf.org, here:...
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Open Culture
Isaac Asimov Describes How Artificial Intelligence Will Liberate Humans & Their Creativity in His... Artificial intelligence may be one of the major topics of our historical moment, but it can be...
2 months ago
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Isaac Asimov Describes How Artificial Intelligence Will Liberate Humans & Their Creativity in His Last Major Interview (1992)

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2 months ago
Artificial intelligence may be one of the major topics of our historical moment, but it can be surprisingly tricky to define. In the more than 30-year-old interview clip above, Isaac Asimov describes artificial intelligence as “a phrase that we use for any device that does things...
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Jonas Hietala
My Dream Game: The RTS Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart:...
over a year ago
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My Dream Game: The RTS

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over a year ago
Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart: Supreme Commander. It’s not the game I’ve played the most and there might even be games which are better and more fun but supcom was the game that introduced me to competitive gaming...
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xkcd.com
Scream Cipher
4 months ago
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Scream Cipher

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4 months ago
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One Useful Thing
Working with AI: Two paths to prompting Don't overcomplicate things
a year ago
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Working with AI: Two paths to prompting

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a year ago
Don't overcomplicate things
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Flashbak
People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew “If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
11 months ago
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew

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11 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century)   What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
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Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent? It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
6 months ago
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What Priority The Innocent?

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6 months ago
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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tomcritchlow.com
(Another) Quick Riff on Narrative Strategy I’ve been ruminating on the idea of narrative strategy for a while now. The last time I wrote about...
a year ago
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(Another) Quick Riff on Narrative Strategy

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a year ago
I’ve been ruminating on the idea of narrative strategy for a while now. The last time I wrote about it was in 2020.
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computers are bad
2023-08-19 meanwhile elsewhere I had meant to write something today, but I'm just getting over a case of the COVID and had a hard...
a year ago
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2023-08-19 meanwhile elsewhere

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a year ago
I had meant to write something today, but I'm just getting over a case of the COVID and had a hard time getting to it. Instead I did the yard work, edited and uploaded a YouTube video, and then spewed out a Cohost thread as long as a blog post. So in lieu of your regularly...
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Louwrentius
Linux Software RAID benchmarking script Just a small post. To benchmark your Linux software RAID array as setup with MDADM, please use...
over a year ago
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Linux Software RAID benchmarking script

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over a year ago
Just a small post. To benchmark your Linux software RAID array as setup with MDADM, please use my new benchmark script. I used this script to create these results. You may need to configure some values within the header of this file to make it fit your enviroment. ...
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Open Culture
See Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Visualized in Colorfully Animated Scores Music is often described as the most abstract of all the arts, and arguably the least visual as...
4 months ago
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See Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Visualized in Colorfully Animated Scores

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4 months ago
Music is often described as the most abstract of all the arts, and arguably the least visual as well. But these qualities, which seem so basic to the nature of the form, have been challenged for at least three centuries, not least by composers themselves. Take Antonio Vivaldi,...
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xkcd.com
Good and Bad Ideas
a year ago
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Good and Bad Ideas

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a year ago
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Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg tries to buy Instagram The process began with you asking if we'd do this at $500m, but then you didn't want to end up doing...
10 months ago
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Mark Zuckerberg tries to buy Instagram

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10 months ago
The process began with you asking if we'd do this at $500m, but then you didn't want to end up doing it at that valuation. I am curious to know at what valuation you would do this, and then I can just let you know whether we'd do that.
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Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims, Durable Goods, Existing Home Sales Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly...
2 months ago
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Thursday: Unemployment Claims, Durable Goods, Existing Home Sales

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2 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. Initial claims were at 215 thousand last week. Durable Goods Orders for March from the Census Bureau. The consensus is for a 0.8%...
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Common Edge
What Does Midcentury Modern Even Mean These Days? When a style becomes historical, its meaning becomes slippery.
a year ago
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What Does Midcentury Modern Even Mean These Days?

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a year ago
When a style becomes historical, its meaning becomes slippery.
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Old Structures...
Building, Blocks I looked up a bit more than usual today on a street that I’m on three or four times per week, and...
7 months ago
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Building, Blocks

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

7 months ago
I looked up a bit more than usual today on a street that I’m on three or four times per week, and got this nice rear view of 75 Broad Street. The upper setbacks and tower are aligned with the overall cityscape; the lower base is aligned with ther curve of South William Street....
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wingolog
conservative gc can be faster than precise gc Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The prevailing wisdom is that precise is...
10 months ago
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conservative gc can be faster than precise gc

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10 months ago
Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The prevailing wisdom is that precise is always better. Conservative GC can retain more objects than strictly necessary, making GC slow: GC has to more frequently, and it has to trace a larger heap on each...
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Articles
How I would build a new startup if I had to do it all over I've been brainstorming how I would build a new indie startup if I had to do it again in 2023. Here...
a year ago
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How I would build a new startup if I had to do it all over

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a year ago
I've been brainstorming how I would build a new indie startup if I had to do it again in 2023. Here are 5 principles I’d use.
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Rest of World -...
This app makes sure dinner is halal The Indonesian app Momasa features recipes, cooking lessons, and restaurants that meet the standards...
9 months ago
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This app makes sure dinner is halal

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9 months ago
The Indonesian app Momasa features recipes, cooking lessons, and restaurants that meet the standards of Islamic law.
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Ink & Switch
Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and...
over a year ago
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Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration

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over a year ago
Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
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Code Of Honor
Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers...
over a year ago
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Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers — even good ones — seem to get terribly wrong! Then I’m going to share techniques (with source code) to make your game engine code simpler, faster, more memory efficient and more...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Paradise Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's okay, nobody finished the first book...
11 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Paradise

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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's okay, nobody finished the first book anyway. Today's News:
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bt RSS Feed
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
over a year ago
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Goodbye CSS Preprocessors

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

over a year ago
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I’ve most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome. But that all changes...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Busy Intersection Daredevil battles Stiltman – possibly the most ridiculous villain Marvel has invented – at the...
10 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: A Busy Intersection

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

10 months ago
Daredevil battles Stiltman – possibly the most ridiculous villain Marvel has invented – at the corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, with the Chrysler Building on the left and the Socony-Mobil Building on the right. Also, per the Landmarks Preservation Commission:
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Articles
The vague headline I see new startups emulating the vague, aspirational, "benefits-driven" headlines from established...
over a year ago
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The vague headline

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I see new startups emulating the vague, aspirational, "benefits-driven" headlines from established brands, and I think it's a mistake.
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Spoon & Tamago
Goldwin Set to Open Expansive Nature Park in Toyama in 2027 Goldwin, the Japanese outdoor apparel company, has unveiled plans for an ambitious new project: the...
2 months ago
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Goldwin Set to Open Expansive Nature Park in Toyama in 2027

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2 months ago
Goldwin, the Japanese outdoor apparel company, has unveiled plans for an ambitious new project: the Play Earth Park Naturing Forest. Set to open in the summer of 2027, this expansive nature-themed facility will be located in Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture, the birthplace of...
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Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 5: AI for Education is Bigger Than You Think Machine learning for software engineers 4-4-25
3 months ago
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ML for SWEs 5: AI for Education is Bigger Than You Think

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3 months ago
Machine learning for software engineers 4-4-25
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Netlify Year One - 360 Review I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year...
over a year ago
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Netlify Year One - 360 Review

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

over a year ago
I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) Recap. That post was entirely me looking back at myself. It's helpful to see what others said about me at my review.
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Luxagraf:...
California We didn't have long to settle into the cabin. A week later the kids and I flew out to California to...
8 months ago
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California

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

8 months ago
We didn't have long to settle into the cabin. A week later the kids and I flew out to California to visit my parents, trading the last of fall for some warmth and extra sunshine at the beach. I am a stranger in my hometown. The California of my youth is gone. Everything paved...
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Product Identity
Inside the dark forests of the internet This is the second part of a series on the identity of social networks:
4 months ago
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Inside the dark forests of the internet

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4 months ago
This is the second part of a series on the identity of social networks:
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Artificial Ignorance
The State of AI Engineering (2024) Notes from the AI Engineer World's Fair.
12 months ago
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The State of AI Engineering (2024)

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12 months ago
Notes from the AI Engineer World's Fair.
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Epic Web Dev
Adding a Shadow to an SVG Icon with Tailwind CSS (tip) Learn how to add a shadow that follows the edges of an SVG icon using Tailwind CSS DropShadow,...
a year ago
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Adding a Shadow to an SVG Icon with Tailwind CSS (tip)

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a year ago
Learn how to add a shadow that follows the edges of an SVG icon using Tailwind CSS DropShadow, giving your icons a smoother and more visually appealing look.
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UX Collective
The evolution of attention Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
10 months ago
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The evolution of attention

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10 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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TheCollector
What Were the Political Effects of the Iran-Iraq War? The Iranian Revolution and Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979 shocked the world and turned the West against...
3 months ago
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What Were the Political Effects of the Iran-Iraq War?

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3 months ago
The Iranian Revolution and Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979 shocked the world and turned the West against the new Islamic revolutionary government of Iran. Less than a year later, the neighboring nation of Iraq, a secular dictatorship under former army officer Saddam Hussein, invaded...
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #189 Fifteen years, Eisenhower's farewell, A tribute to Charlie Munger, A profile of Wang Chuanfu, Forty...
a year ago
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The Digest #189

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Fifteen years, Eisenhower's farewell, A tribute to Charlie Munger, A profile of Wang Chuanfu, Forty hours in the Vision Pro, Fairfax Financial, Parks America, Howard Marks, Danny Myer
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diamond geezer
One photo from each day last week One photo from each day last week Sunday 1st June - Carshalton Beeches This is a bakery in...
3 weeks ago
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One photo from each day last week

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3 weeks ago
One photo from each day last week Sunday 1st June - Carshalton Beeches This is a bakery in Beeches Avenue, Carshalton Beeches, called The Bakery. It looks old and if you were trying to guess how old it is you might well use the 0181 phone number to date it somewhere between...
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xkcd.com
Anachronym Challenge
2 months ago
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Anachronym Challenge

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2 months ago
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TheCollector
Who Were the Nicolaitans Condemned in the Book of Revelation? Revelation mentions the Nicolaitans twice without providing any context to who they were or what...
2 months ago
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Who Were the Nicolaitans Condemned in the Book of Revelation?

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2 months ago
Revelation mentions the Nicolaitans twice without providing any context to who they were or what they believed. The church in Ephesus hated their works, just like Jesus did, but the church of Pergamum, the third of the seven churches, tolerated it. The Bible presents tolerance of...
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orlp.net - Blog...
Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss...
over a year ago
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Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss the merits of the following snippet of C++ code implementing a binary search: template<typename It, typename T, typename Cmp> It lower_bound_skarupke(It begin, It end, const T&...
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The Honest Broker
Welcome to the Worldwide Wall Why are web platforms turning into bunkers and internment camps?
a month ago
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Welcome to the Worldwide Wall

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a month ago
Why are web platforms turning into bunkers and internment camps?
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Arduino Blog
Top Arduino Cloud IoT dashboard ideas with the new Image widget  Recently, we announced the exciting new Image widget for Arduino Cloud. This powerful feature opens...
9 months ago
83

Top Arduino Cloud IoT dashboard ideas with the new Image widget 

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

9 months ago
Recently, we announced the exciting new Image widget for Arduino Cloud. This powerful feature opens up a world of possibilities for enhancing your IoT dashboards. But the true potential of the Image widget lies in the applications that you create. Today, we’re excited to dive...
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
D3.js workshop at ICM for KFnrD Interactive data visualization for high-school students of KFnrD (24-29 Jan 2016) - materials,...
over a year ago
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D3.js workshop at ICM for KFnrD

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

over a year ago
Interactive data visualization for high-school students of KFnrD (24-29 Jan 2016) - materials, results.
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Matt Mullenweg
Radiohead It’s so funny that my random re-engagement with Radiohead re-emergence coincides with them doing a...
3 months ago
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Radiohead

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3 months ago
It’s so funny that my random re-engagement with Radiohead re-emergence coincides with them doing a new entity that might mean something. I did a poll on Twitter and people preferred OK Computer to Kid A 78%!
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David Crawshaw
2015-11-16 "Where the jury actually comes out on Go may take years to determine. There are no clear formal...
over a year ago
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2015-11-16

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
"Where the jury actually comes out on Go may take years to determine. There are no clear formal methods of measurement for how 'good' a language is, so it mostly happens by default as popular systems thrive and unpopular ones wither and...
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Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
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The Performance is Over

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a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
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FIRE v London
My 20 year property returns I was pleased to have reached the 10 year point of tracking my investment portfolio last month. But...
over a year ago
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My 20 year property returns

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
I was pleased to have reached the 10 year point of tracking my investment portfolio last month. But my net worth includes an important asset class – property – that I don’t normally track, but which I have held in some form for over 20 years. So, this post takes a look at how my…...
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Retail Design Blog
ROTATE flagship store by Thibault Allgayer Danish womenswear brand ROTATE, created in partnership with leading stylists Jeanette Madsen and...
10 months ago
45

ROTATE flagship store by Thibault Allgayer

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

10 months ago
Danish womenswear brand ROTATE, created in partnership with leading stylists Jeanette Madsen and Thora Valdimars, and part of forward fashion...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
How Does OpenAI Survive? Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of...
11 months ago
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How Does OpenAI Survive?

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11 months ago
Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and rapacious growth, and the speciousness of the latest hype cycle —...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 057: Claude 3 March 8, 2024.
a year ago
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AI Roundup 057: Claude 3

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March 8, 2024.
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The Roots of...
Event, Feb 29: “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” in Boston and on Zoom On Thursday, February 29, I’ll be giving my talk “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” to the New...
a year ago
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Event, Feb 29: “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” in Boston and on Zoom

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a year ago
On Thursday, February 29, I’ll be giving my talk “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” to the New England Legal Foundation, for their Economic Liberty Speaker Series. The talk will be held over breakfast at NELF’s offices in Boston, and will also be livestreamed over Zoom. See...
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Jonas Hietala
An update on my book 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' Five months ago I gloriously declared that “my book was done”. Since then I’ve been working hard to...
over a year ago
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An update on my book 'Why Cryptocurrencies?'

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

over a year ago
Five months ago I gloriously declared that “my book was done”. Since then I’ve been working hard to finish the book. Sorry that’s a bit of a lie, I’ve had a nice long vacation where I didn’t work on the book and I’m also on part-time parental leave. And believe me there’s not a...
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Stephen Wolfram...
When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillennium Tale of Computation Updated and expanded from a post for the eclipse of August 21, 2017. Preparing for April 8, 2024 On...
a year ago
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When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillennium Tale of Computation

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a year ago
Updated and expanded from a post for the eclipse of August 21, 2017. Preparing for April 8, 2024 On April 8, 2024, there’s going to be a total eclipse of the Sun visible on a line across the US. But when exactly will the eclipse occur at a given location? Being able to predict...
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Matt Blewitt
Death, and Utsuge This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and...
8 months ago
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Death, and Utsuge

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8 months ago
This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and Japanese visual novels.
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Construction Physics
Supersonic air travel recommended reading Aviation has a huge number of enthusiasts, which is why essentially every aircraft model ever...
a year ago
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Supersonic air travel recommended reading

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

a year ago
Aviation has a huge number of enthusiasts, which is why essentially every aircraft model ever produced has a book written about it. Supersonic aircraft are no exception. There’s a large number of books written about the Concorde, the Tu-144, and the American SST project. Many of...
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Arduino Blog
DIY micro lab analyzes ammonia levels in blood and urine Cirrhosis of the liver is an extremely serious condition that requires extensive medical monitoring...
4 months ago
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DIY micro lab analyzes ammonia levels in blood and urine

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4 months ago
Cirrhosis of the liver is an extremely serious condition that requires extensive medical monitoring and often intervention. Progression of the condition can be fatal, so even if caught early it must be monitored closely. But, like most things in medicine, that gets expensive....
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Aaron's Essays
Fundraising isn't predictable I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying...
over a year ago
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Fundraising isn't predictable

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying conversations with investors. The founder's company was growing well, had crossed $1mm ARR, but still couldn't raise money. According to conventional wisdom, that should have been enough to...
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xkcd.com
Parameterball
a year ago
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Parameterball

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a year ago
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Seth's Blog
Captives of memetic desire How much of what we want, really want, is due to the ideas that culture has given us, and how much...
over a year ago
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Captives of memetic desire

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

over a year ago
How much of what we want, really want, is due to the ideas that culture has given us, and how much is truly what we need? If memetic desire isn’t making us happy, perhaps we can find some new ideas.
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Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 17: White-sand Birding At RN Allpahuayo-Mishana and Muyuna Lodge... February 24, 2024 Just outside of the city of Iquitos lies an expansive area containing white-sand...
3 months ago
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A Month In Northern Peru, Part 17: White-sand Birding At RN Allpahuayo-Mishana and Muyuna Lodge (February 24-25, 2024)

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3 months ago
February 24, 2024 Just outside of the city of Iquitos lies an expansive area containing white-sand forest. The particular forest types that grow on white sand are somewhat uncommon in the Amazon, yet the stunted tree growth provides quite the contrast to "typical" Amazonian...
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charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “People Used To Take Me Seriously. Then I Became A Software Vendor” I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a...
over a year ago
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Questionable Advice: “People Used To Take Me Seriously. Then I Became A Software Vendor”

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

over a year ago
I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a conversation we had several years ago: “Hey, I’ve got a question for you. A long time ago I remember you talking about what an adjustment it was becoming a vendor, how all of a sudden...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods Don’t just take my word for it. Researchers have found that about half of urban noise is...
10 months ago
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🔗 The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods

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

10 months ago
Don’t just take my word for it. Researchers have found that about half of urban noise is attributable to motor vehicles. In some places the share is higher, such as in Toronto, where traffic produces about 60% of the background din. And silencing that cacophony can lead to...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
The Day I Became A Software Engineer A single mindset shift that changed my entire attitude to software.
over a year ago
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The Day I Became A Software Engineer

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

over a year ago
A single mindset shift that changed my entire attitude to software.
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Open Culture
What Is Kafkaesque?: The Philosophy of Franz Kafka It’s difficult to imagine that there was ever a time without the word “Kafkaesque.” Yet the term...
2 months ago
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What Is Kafkaesque?: The Philosophy of Franz Kafka

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

2 months ago
It’s difficult to imagine that there was ever a time without the word “Kafkaesque.” Yet the term would have meant nothing at all to anyone alive at the same time as Franz Kafka — including, in all probability, Kafka himself. Born in Prague in 1883, he grew up under a stern,...
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Astral Codex Ten
Open Thread 364 ...
5 months ago
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Open Thread 364

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5 months ago
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Quanta Magazine
Computer Scientists Inch Closer to Major Algorithmic Goal A new paper finds a faster method for determining when two mathematical groups are the same. ...
over a year ago
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Computer Scientists Inch Closer to Major Algorithmic Goal

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

over a year ago
A new paper finds a faster method for determining when two mathematical groups are the same. The post Computer Scientists Inch Closer to Major Algorithmic Goal first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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This Space
39 Books: 2014 One could say that Mallarmé, through an extraordinary effort of asceticism, opened an abyss in...
a year ago
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39 Books: 2014

from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
One could say that Mallarmé, through an extraordinary effort of asceticism, opened an abyss in himself where his awareness, instead of losing itself, survives and grasps its solitude in a desperate clarity. This is from The Silence of Mallarmé, an essay in Blanchot's first...
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 11-17 December 2023 Roundup of Londonist articles from the past week.
a year ago
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Best Of Londonist: 11-17 December 2023

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a year ago
Roundup of Londonist articles from the past week.
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Birchtree
Birchtree's new look Oh, hello. Something's different around here, huh? Yup, it's been a few years, and I decided it was...
4 months ago
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Birchtree's new look

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
Oh, hello. Something's different around here, huh? Yup, it's been a few years, and I decided it was time to refresh the look around these parts of the indie web. The main impetus for this change was the simple fact I have too many projects I
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Quanta Magazine
The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that...
9 months ago
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The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea

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

9 months ago
Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape under pressure. The post The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
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rainy with a chance of mosquitoes

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

over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas. Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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Quanta Magazine
Emmy Murphy Is a Mathematician Who Finds Beauty in Flexibility The prize-winning geometer feels most fulfilled when exploring the fertile ground where constraint...
over a year ago
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Emmy Murphy Is a Mathematician Who Finds Beauty in Flexibility

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

over a year ago
The prize-winning geometer feels most fulfilled when exploring the fertile ground where constraint meets creation. The post Emmy Murphy Is a Mathematician Who Finds Beauty in Flexibility first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Joel Gascoigne
5 varieties of remote working in companies I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the nature of a company...
over a year ago
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5 varieties of remote working in companies

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

over a year ago
I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the nature of a company where the team works from remote locations to accomplish our work. Scaling remote working has been a challenge as the team has grown. Remote companies are still relatively rare,...
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Seth's Blog
Signal and noise If the signal is very weak and the noise is large, it’s easy to imagine that there’s no signal at...
a year ago
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Signal and noise

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

a year ago
If the signal is very weak and the noise is large, it’s easy to imagine that there’s no signal at all. AI and computers can be used as lenses now, which means we can strip away the noise and see things that we certainly didn’t expect. Dina Katabi at MIT can point a radio antenna...
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The Marginalian
The Heart of Matter: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Bridging the Scientific and the Sacred "Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by...
over a year ago
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The Heart of Matter: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Bridging the Scientific and the Sacred

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

over a year ago
"Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth."
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Jonas Hietala
A Vacation Filled with Obsession A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to...
over a year ago
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A Vacation Filled with Obsession

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

over a year ago
A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to our dear home village Övertorneå and spent two weeks celebrating Christmas and New Years Eve. What did we do? I practiced some obsessive behavior with Power Grid and Minecraft (and...
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The Honest Broker
Two Robots Talk About Me Behind My Back And other updates on previous stories
3 months ago
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Two Robots Talk About Me Behind My Back

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3 months ago
And other updates on previous stories
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Willem's Blog
Fixed Gear Gran Fondo Taking a fixed gear road bike for a gran fondo! Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you!
over a year ago
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo

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

over a year ago
Taking a fixed gear road bike for a gran fondo! Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you!
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Artificial Ignorance
GPTs won't make you rich But they'll make you more productive.
a year ago
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GPTs won't make you rich

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a year ago
But they'll make you more productive.
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Construction Physics
How to Build a 50,000 Ton Forging Press In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a revolution took place in American military aircraft design.
10 months ago
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How to Build a 50,000 Ton Forging Press

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

10 months ago
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a revolution took place in American military aircraft design.
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Retail Design Blog
Polène store by WGNB Following the opening of a string of boutiques in Tokyo, New York City, Seoul and London, French...
2 months ago
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Polène store by WGNB

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

2 months ago
Following the opening of a string of boutiques in Tokyo, New York City, Seoul and London, French leather goods brand...
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Paul Cudenec
Adolf Hitler and the zio-imperialist mafia A book review
a month ago
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Adolf Hitler and the zio-imperialist mafia

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a month ago
A book review
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pcloadletter
RSS is still pretty great I think a lot about information and information consumption. The way the Internet made information...
a year ago
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RSS is still pretty great

from pcloadletter [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
I think a lot about information and information consumption. The way the Internet made information readily available is phenomenal. Sadly, the signal-to-noise ratio here is pretty low. For me, consuming RSS feeds[1] offers the best way to read the kind of high-quality information...
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Wuthering...
The sophists and their rehabilitation - they clearly cause the ruin and corruption of their... I have been pursuing the sophists, the great antagonists of Socrates and Plato.  Minimized for...
over a year ago
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The sophists and their rehabilitation - they clearly cause the ruin and corruption of their followers

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

over a year ago
I have been pursuing the sophists, the great antagonists of Socrates and Plato.  Minimized for centuries in the history of philosophy as, following Plato (but not Socrates), hucksters, they, or some of them, are now taken seriously as an intermediate step between the cosmological...
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Bartosz Ciechanowski
Moon In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial...
6 months ago
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Moon

from Bartosz Ciechanowski [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically filled with light and devoured by darkness, has an ever-changing, but dependable presence in our skies. In this article, we’ll learn about the Moon and its path...
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
a year ago
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Why I love etymologies

from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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Louwrentius
Why I still won't switch to Linux and keep my Mac The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to...
over a year ago
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Why I still won't switch to Linux and keep my Mac

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to admit that the Linux desktop is really becoming a nice, user-friendly environment. I'm truly starting to like what I see. I considered whiping Mac OS X from my macbook, but there...
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
arXiv vs MathOverflow - popularity of disciplines
over a year ago
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arXiv vs MathOverflow - popularity of disciplines

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over a year ago
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The macOS App Icon Book” IRL Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it...
a year ago
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“The macOS App Icon Book” IRL

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

a year ago
Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it anyway: The macOS App Icon Book. (If you didn’t catch it, I’ve written previously about my contribution to its prequel.) This one got funded on Kickstarter a few months back and,...
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fast.ai
AI and Power: The Ethical Challenges of Automation, Centralization, and Scale Moving AI ethics beyond explainability and fairness to empowerment and justice
a year ago
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AI and Power: The Ethical Challenges of Automation, Centralization, and Scale

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
Moving AI ethics beyond explainability and fairness to empowerment and justice
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Arduino Blog
A riddle wrapped in an enigma… made easy, with Arduino Plug and Make Kit The Arduino Plug and Make Kit was designed to open up infinite possibilities, breaking down the idea...
7 months ago
55

A riddle wrapped in an enigma… made easy, with Arduino Plug and Make Kit

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

7 months ago
The Arduino Plug and Make Kit was designed to open up infinite possibilities, breaking down the idea that technology is a “black box” reserved for experts. With its snap-together system, this kit gives everyone – beginners and seasoned makers alike – the power to create and...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sporting Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And the brain can be made into a fancy...
6 months ago
76

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sporting

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

6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And the brain can be made into a fancy candlewax! Today's News:
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Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
9 months ago
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook

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9 months ago
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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Quanta Magazine
Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Landscape of Cellular Sensors Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch...
2 months ago
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Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Landscape of Cellular Sensors

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

2 months ago
Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has spent his career cataloging the neurons beneath everyday sensations. The post Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Landscape of Cellular...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Pound, rub, pound It’s something like midnight. A four-and-a-half-pound senior Chihuahua is tucked into her blanket...
over a year ago
10

✏️ Pound, rub, pound

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

over a year ago
It’s something like midnight. A four-and-a-half-pound senior Chihuahua is tucked into her blanket and snuggled up next to my left rib cage inside my sleeping bag. Jen is asleep beside us. It’s 35°F. We have myriad layers happening: Jen wears a down jacket inside her sleeping bag...
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Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 5 In which I doubled my conversion rate without trying too hard.
over a year ago
99

OnlineOrNot Diaries 5

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
In which I doubled my conversion rate without trying too hard.
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Seth's Blog
Powerlessness Not a lack of power, but feeling as though we have none. Some people have been indoctrinated to...
2 months ago
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Powerlessness

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2 months ago
Not a lack of power, but feeling as though we have none. Some people have been indoctrinated to prefer a life with no agency, as it also brings no responsibility. At the other extreme, some folks have decided that they have more power than they actually do. Video games offer...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Baby Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Cetaceans evolved because they wanted to do it in...
11 months ago
52

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Baby

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

11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Cetaceans evolved because they wanted to do it in the water, secretly. Today's News:
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Koos Looijesteijn
Beautiful shadows have beautiful colors
11 months ago
51

Beautiful shadows have beautiful colors

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11 months ago
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Londonist
WrapUp London: Donate Your Unused Coat To Someone Who Needs It This Winter A small gesture goes a long way 🙂
a year ago
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WrapUp London: Donate Your Unused Coat To Someone Who Needs It This Winter

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a year ago
A small gesture goes a long way 🙂
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Left To Write
Getting Everything You Ever Wanted The two tragedies in life
over a year ago
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Getting Everything You Ever Wanted

from Left To Write [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
The two tragedies in life
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Four types of mobile apps If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app...
over a year ago
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Four types of mobile apps

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

over a year ago
If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app has enduring value, it is helpful to…
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The personal website...
Well-designed interfaces look boring 3 billion people used the internet for the first time in the past decade. Can you imagine what that...
over a year ago
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Well-designed interfaces look boring

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

over a year ago
3 billion people used the internet for the first time in the past decade. Can you imagine what that was like? When I began using the internet, the web was pretty much just text. Interface design required finagling websites from knots of spreadsheet-like tables, and even the most...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Soul None Dare Forgive' You know what you’re in for just by reading the title and acknowledging the author: “A Love Song in...
4 months ago
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'The Soul None Dare Forgive'

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

4 months ago
You know what you’re in for just by reading the title and acknowledging the author: “A Love Song in the Modern Taste” (1733) by Jonathan Swift. For once, the excremental stuff is absent. The poem amounts to a catalog of clichés about love, a sort of anti-Valentine’s Day card....
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Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.3% to 3.1% From Goldman: We lowered our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter...
6 months ago
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Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.3% to 3.1%

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

6 months ago
From Goldman: We lowered our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). Our Q4 domestic final sales forecast stands at +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). [Dec 27th estimate] emphasis added And from the Atlanta Fed: GDPNow The GDPNow model...
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Posts on Nikita...
P99 Conf 2024 This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but...
6 months ago
74

P99 Conf 2024

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but hats off to the organisers as it went very smooth for me. I presented a talk with the following abstract: Low-Latency Mesh Services Using Actors We’re transforming elfo, our Rust...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Implementing Netlify’s Image CDNz tl;dr I implemented Netlify’s new image transformation service on my icon gallery sites and saw a...
a year ago
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Implementing Netlify’s Image CDNz

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

a year ago
tl;dr I implemented Netlify’s new image transformation service on my icon gallery sites and saw a pretty drastic decrease in overall bandwidth. Here are the numbers: Page Requests Old New Difference Home 60 1.3MB 293kB ▼ 78% (1.01MB) Colors 84 1.4MB 371kB ▼ 74%...
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Weighty Thoughts
The Mystical Q OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
a year ago
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The Mystical Q

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
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Maggie Appleton
June 2023
over a year ago
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June 2023

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

over a year ago
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tongue Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hope this isn't confusing to the Swedish people who...
10 months ago
116

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tongue

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

10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hope this isn't confusing to the Swedish people who can already translate that bubble. Today's News:
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bt RSS Feed
Super Mario Blocks in CSS Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build...
over a year ago
21

Super Mario Blocks in CSS

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

over a year ago
Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks. What our final product will look like: Live CodePen Example The HTML The set of Mario blocks doesn’t require a huge...
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Computer Ads from...
Discwasher SpikeMaster Meet the Mighty SpikeMaster, Protector of Computers.
5 months ago
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Discwasher SpikeMaster

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
Meet the Mighty SpikeMaster, Protector of Computers.
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Calculated Risk
4th Look at Local Housing Markets in December Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 4th Look at Local Housing Markets in...
5 months ago
21

4th Look at Local Housing Markets in December

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

5 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 4th Look at Local Housing Markets in December A brief excerpt: Here are a few more local markets before the NAR releases December Existing Home sales tomorrow, Friday, January 24th at 10:00 AM. This will be the 3rd...
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Sam Altman
What I Heard From Trump Supporters After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country.  I went to the...
over a year ago
37

What I Heard From Trump Supporters

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country.  I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online. This was a surprisingly interesting and helpful experience—I highly recommend it.  With three exceptions,...
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Maggie Appleton
Teenage Skeuomorphic Desktop Designs An archive of my high school desktop designs, circa 2009
over a year ago
20

Teenage Skeuomorphic Desktop Designs

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

over a year ago
An archive of my high school desktop designs, circa 2009
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Seth's Blog
Appropriate tension Growth usually feels risky. The feeling is a protection mechanism, a way to avoid failure or even...
a year ago
22

Appropriate tension

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

a year ago
Growth usually feels risky. The feeling is a protection mechanism, a way to avoid failure or even the fear of failure. Of course, risk also feels risky (or at least it should). Differentiating between the two is difficult, which is why finding institutions, methods or coaches...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Nordstrom Anniversary Sale 2023: Best Deals for Travelers
a year ago
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Nordstrom Anniversary Sale 2023: Best Deals for Travelers

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

a year ago
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IEEE Spectrum
The Pioneer Behind Electromagnetism Without an understanding of the fundamental relationship between electricity and magnetism, it would...
a year ago
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The Pioneer Behind Electromagnetism

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

a year ago
Without an understanding of the fundamental relationship between electricity and magnetism, it would not have been possible to invent motors, telecommunications equipment, kitchen appliances and more. A key part of our understanding of that relationship, known as classical...
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TheCollector
Paul Delaroche’s Artistic Career: A Master of History Paintings Paul Delaroche was a 19th-century French painter who specialized in and earned his fame in history...
4 months ago
22

Paul Delaroche’s Artistic Career: A Master of History Paintings

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
Paul Delaroche was a 19th-century French painter who specialized in and earned his fame in history paintings. Most of his work focused on emotional tales taken from English history. Delaroche experienced massive success among his contemporaries, and his paintings continue to...
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Christopher Butler
Periodical – 2 Internet Intimacy Yesterday, I mentioned the Yoto Daily, a daily podcast for kids that loads up...
a year ago
35

Periodical – 2

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

a year ago
Internet Intimacy Yesterday, I mentioned the Yoto Daily, a daily podcast for kids that loads up automatically on the Yoto player. I just wanted to add that what makes it special is that it feels like a voicemail from a friend. Listening to it gives me (and I presume, my...
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Patrick Kayongo
The News So, the plan is to be in an out. Focus Tshidi. I don’t need anything from Dischem. I don’t need that...
a year ago
35

The News

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

a year ago
So, the plan is to be in an out. Focus Tshidi. I don’t need anything from Dischem. I don’t need that new dress in the Spring Collection at H&M. Just a tray of meat, garlic rolls and juice. Snap. It’s payday weekend and there are such long lines at this Checkers. I’m already late...
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Ben Borgers
JumboCode+
over a year ago
15

JumboCode+

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over a year ago
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Rest of World -...
The Genius Bar in a country where iPhones can’t legally be sold In the land of the U.S. embargo, Cuba’s Apple technicians are kings.
a year ago
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The Genius Bar in a country where iPhones can’t legally be sold

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

a year ago
In the land of the U.S. embargo, Cuba’s Apple technicians are kings.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jiffy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This whole time we could have been united. Today's...
a year ago
27

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jiffy

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This whole time we could have been united. Today's News:
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alexwlchan
Going between Finder and the Terminal Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the...
9 months ago
63

Going between Finder and the Terminal

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the Terminal’s command line and the Finder’s GUI. He has some neat ideas, and I particularly like his AppleScript sel for selecting multiple items in Finder. I’ve written a couple of similar...
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Londonist
Policing Brixton: An Insider's Account Book reveals what it's like to patrol the streets of Brixton, Clapham and Stockwell.
a year ago
35

Policing Brixton: An Insider's Account

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Book reveals what it's like to patrol the streets of Brixton, Clapham and Stockwell.
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Joel Gascoigne's...
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Note: this was originally posted on...
over a year ago
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Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it

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

over a year ago
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. We’ve dedicated the week of August 22nd to a brand new internal initiative called Build Week. We’ll all be putting aside our regular work for a single week to come...
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Atoms vs Bits
Dating Apps That Could Exist and wish I had the skills to make
3 weeks ago
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Dating Apps That Could Exist

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3 weeks ago
and wish I had the skills to make
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TokyoDev
Announcing the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey I've launched the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey. With this survey, I intend to paint...
over a year ago
20

Announcing the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I've launched the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey. With this survey, I intend to paint a picture of what life is like for international developers here, both to help people considering making the move here, and also for those already living here to better understand...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Why Proof of Stake (Nov 2020)
over a year ago
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Why Proof of Stake (Nov 2020)

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
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Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Housing Starts Down 3.9% in 2024 compared to 2023 At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. Housing...
5 months ago
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Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Housing Starts Down 3.9% in 2024 compared to 2023

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

5 months ago
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December Housing Discussion with Altos Research's Mike Simonsen Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in December Part 1: Current...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 058: Devin and SIMA March 15, 2023.
a year ago
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AI Roundup 058: Devin and SIMA

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
March 15, 2023.
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
4 days ago
5

Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 days ago
Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive. Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
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Open Culture
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Is Now a Retro Video Game The Rocky Horror Picture Show–it started first as a musical stage production in 1973, then became a...
9 months ago
34

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Is Now a Retro Video Game

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

9 months ago
The Rocky Horror Picture Show–it started first as a musical stage production in 1973, then became a cult classic film in 1975. Now, a half-century later, it gets reborn as a retro video game. Scheduled to be released by Halloween, the game features “8‑bit chiptune renditions of...
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Essays - Benedict...
The FTC versus tech M&A The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and...
over a year ago
36

The FTC versus tech M&A

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

over a year ago
The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and big tech buying startups. The FTC’s attempt to block Meta from buying Within is a test case for all of this. So, how many interesting problems can we count?
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 4 (Bug Loop) Sure, the southern United States has more than its fair share of pesky bugs that most people...
a year ago
67

Southern Heat, Part 4 (Bug Loop)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a year ago
Sure, the southern United States has more than its fair share of pesky bugs that most people actively avoid. Mosquitos, horseflies, and palmetto bugs probably top that list. So it probably sounds strange that we devoted an entire day to insects, particularly to the appreciation...
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TheCollector
Is Multitasking Even Possible? Exploring Our Neurological Limitations We’ve all tried juggling more than one task at a time. From working on several projects...
3 months ago
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Is Multitasking Even Possible? Exploring Our Neurological Limitations

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
We’ve all tried juggling more than one task at a time. From working on several projects simultaneously to driving while listening to music, multitasking has become an integral part of our daily lives. Instinctively, we assume that performing two or more activities concurrently...
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Old Structures...
A Sometimes Disagreeable Foreign Land, Part 1 My off-hand comment yesterday about a Baedeker guide made me think that I should look to see what a...
7 months ago
60

A Sometimes Disagreeable Foreign Land, Part 1

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

7 months ago
My off-hand comment yesterday about a Baedeker guide made me think that I should look to see what a nineteenth-century European guidebook had to say about New York and I was not disappointed. The guidebooks put out by the Baedecker company since the 1830s are famous for their...
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Mazdak
RRSP Guide for New Immigrants to Canada: Everything You Need to Know As a newcomer to Canada, one of the most important financial tools you'll encounter is the...
7 months ago
38

RRSP Guide for New Immigrants to Canada: Everything You Need to Know

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

7 months ago
As a newcomer to Canada, one of the most important financial tools you'll encounter is the Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP).
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip I've studied a lot of chips from the 1970s and 1980s, so I usually know what to expect. But an...
a year ago
16

Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip

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

a year ago
I've studied a lot of chips from the 1970s and 1980s, so I usually know what to expect. But an Ethernet chip from 1982 had something new: a strange layer of yellow wiring on the die. After some study, I learned that the yellow wiring is a second layer of resistive polysilicon,...
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Steve Klabnik
Write better cukes with the rel attribute
over a year ago
41

Write better cukes with the rel attribute

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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The Changelog
The Good, Bad, and Scary of the Banning of Donald Trump, and How Decentralization Makes It All... It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit...
over a year ago
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The Good, Bad, and Scary of the Banning of Donald Trump, and How Decentralization Makes It All Better

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

over a year ago
It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit for the moment. It may well save lives, perhaps lots of lives. But it raises quite a few troubling issues. First, as EFF points out, these platforms have privileged speakers with...
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The American Scholar
Burned The post Burned appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
41

Burned

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

5 months ago
The post Burned appeared first on The American Scholar.
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 40 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
131

TinyPilot: Month 40

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

a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
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Seth's Blog
But it’s included… Perhaps your wedding package includes a cake. It’s paid for, better eat it. Even if you’re allergic...
over a year ago
45

But it’s included…

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

over a year ago
Perhaps your wedding package includes a cake. It’s paid for, better eat it. Even if you’re allergic to wheat. Perhaps the amusement park includes as many rides as you like, even if you’re feeling sick or have had quite enough for today. The thing about included is that it’s free....
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TheCollector
Excalibur: The Legendary Sword of King Arthur In the Arthurian legends, King Arthur famously has a special sword named Excalibur. This is one of...
3 months ago
14

Excalibur: The Legendary Sword of King Arthur

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
In the Arthurian legends, King Arthur famously has a special sword named Excalibur. This is one of the constant aspects of the legend, seen in almost every version of the legend over the centuries. Nevertheless, the details about this mighty weapon changed as the Arthurian...
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SatPost by Trung...
Sculpting Ourselves Thoughts on Antoni Gaudí, Etsuro Sotoo, La Sagrada Família and finding the right ideas to work on.
a year ago
47

Sculpting Ourselves

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Thoughts on Antoni Gaudí, Etsuro Sotoo, La Sagrada Família and finding the right ideas to work on.
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Seth's Blog
The new reality of old media Cable TV was a perfect storm. The number of channels that needed old movies and TV series to fill...
11 months ago
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The new reality of old media

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11 months ago
Cable TV was a perfect storm. The number of channels that needed old movies and TV series to fill airtime almost exactly matched the number of worthwhile shows that were available. Which meant that A Wonderful Life, The Wizard of Oz, Seinfeld and MASH could be cornerstones of the...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
“Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform… “Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform...
over a year ago
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“Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform…

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over a year ago
“Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform Ethereum. It is a form of payment made by the…
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Chaos Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I really need to put together a book on how to...
4 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Chaos

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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I really need to put together a book on how to disappoint children. Today's News:
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Like A Movie Set First, a panel from “The Bat-Man – First Knight,” an alternate telling of the Batman story, set in...
a year ago
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It Looked Familiar: Like A Movie Set

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

a year ago
First, a panel from “The Bat-Man – First Knight,” an alternate telling of the Batman story, set in 1939: Second, a photo of Staple Street in lower Manhattan, from Unsplash: Note that the comic-book artist has flipped the image left-right – visible at the asymmetry in the bridge....
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The Honest Broker
How We Lost the Flow The flow state was our pathway to liberation—before it got taken over by profiteers
4 months ago
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How We Lost the Flow

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4 months ago
The flow state was our pathway to liberation—before it got taken over by profiteers
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bookbear express
I didn't text you back because I was trying to find you a date + matchmaking penpal option for people who live outside SF/NY!
3 months ago
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I didn't text you back because I was trying to find you a date

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3 months ago
+ matchmaking penpal option for people who live outside SF/NY!
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Calculated Risk
Q1 GDP Tracking: Wide Range, GDPNow Goes Negative From BofA: The second print of 4Q GDP came in at 2.3% q/q saar, unchanged from the advance print...
4 months ago
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Q1 GDP Tracking: Wide Range, GDPNow Goes Negative

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

4 months ago
From BofA: The second print of 4Q GDP came in at 2.3% q/q saar, unchanged from the advance print and a tenth higher than our tracking estimate. Meanwhile, our 1Q GDP tracking is unchanged at 2.3% q/q saar since our last weekly publication. [Feb 28th] emphasis added From Goldman:...
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Steve Klabnik
Announcing Rust Contributors
over a year ago
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Announcing Rust Contributors

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over a year ago
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The Works in...
Apply for Invisible College 2025 Our residential seminar for 18–22 year olds was such a success that we are running it again
3 months ago
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Apply for Invisible College 2025

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3 months ago
Our residential seminar for 18–22 year olds was such a success that we are running it again
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Calculated Risk
Vehicles Sales Increase to 16.80 million SAAR in December Wards Auto released their estimate of light vehicle sales for December: U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales End...
6 months ago
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Vehicles Sales Increase to 16.80 million SAAR in December

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6 months ago
Wards Auto released their estimate of light vehicle sales for December: U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales End 2024 With Long-Time High December, Q4 SAARs (pay site). December’s 6% year-over-year rise in the daily selling rate capped off a fourth quarter rebound after demand dropped in Q2...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
BHAGs Recently, [I asked tweeple](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1158902677289472001):
over a year ago
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BHAGs

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

over a year ago
Recently, [I asked tweeple](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1158902677289472001):
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Books Which Can Be Read Again and Again' “The great bulk of the world’s prose fiction, contemporary and past, does not wear well. Almost all...
a month ago
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'Books Which Can Be Read Again and Again'

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a month ago
“The great bulk of the world’s prose fiction, contemporary and past, does not wear well. Almost all of it is soon forgotten and of those books which survive the wear of time, only a few withstand the effects of time on the reader himself. Out of all the novels ever written there...
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Seth's Blog
Five lessons from week one of This is Strategy Once you decide to write a book about strategy, it raises the bar for having a strategy for the...
8 months ago
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Five lessons from week one of This is Strategy

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8 months ago
Once you decide to write a book about strategy, it raises the bar for having a strategy for the launch. People generally focus far too much on the launch of a project. Rocketships need a perfect launch, because just about everything after the launch is simply ballistic. But most...
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diamond geezer
Little Holland House London's Lovely Bits: LITTLE HOLLAND HOUSE Location: 40 Beeches Avenue, Carshalton SM5 3LW...
a month ago
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Little Holland House

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a month ago
London's Lovely Bits: LITTLE HOLLAND HOUSE Location: 40 Beeches Avenue, Carshalton SM5 3LW [map] Open: 11am-5pm (1st Sunday of the month ONLY) Admission: free Website: friendsofhoneywood.co.uk/little-holland-house.html Virtual visit: video/3D walkaround Four word summary:...
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Matt Blewitt
Control Loops and Rice Cookers Rice cookers are fascinating machines. I’ve owned one for years, as rice is a significant part of my...
over a year ago
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Control Loops and Rice Cookers

from Matt Blewitt [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Rice cookers are fascinating machines. I’ve owned one for years, as rice is a significant part of my regular diet, and it completely removes the stress of preparing rice. They also operate on a simple principle that can help us operate cloud infrastructure – the control loop.
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Ryan Hoover's...
How are you doing?
a year ago
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How are you doing?

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a year ago
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mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 8 Highlights The writing techniques I planned last month helped me publish faster and focus better. I...
a month ago
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Educational Products: Month 8

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a month ago
Highlights The writing techniques I planned last month helped me publish faster and focus better. I need to find more ways to talk to readers about my book. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those...
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Blog of Simple...
HIPAA and mental health
a year ago
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HIPAA and mental health

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a year ago
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 3 (Japan: Tokyo Temples and Tourists) I arrived in Japan on a Friday evening, having lost an entire day crossing the International Date...
over a year ago
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Asia-Pacific, Part 3 (Japan: Tokyo Temples and Tourists)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

over a year ago
I arrived in Japan on a Friday evening, having lost an entire day crossing the International Date Line from Honolulu. But it also meant I got a free weekend in Tokyo before resuming work on Monday. It’s easier and cheaper to stay in a hotel all weekend than go half way around the...
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David Heinemeier...
The 80s are still alive in Denmark I grew up in the 80s in Copenhagen and roamed the city on my own from an early age. My parents...
3 months ago
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The 80s are still alive in Denmark

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

3 months ago
I grew up in the 80s in Copenhagen and roamed the city on my own from an early age. My parents rarely had any idea where I went after school, as long as I was home by dinner. They certainly didn’t have direct relationships with the parents of my friends. We just figured things...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Promise Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is more commonly known as the median voter...
7 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Promise

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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is more commonly known as the median voter theorem. Today's News:
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Liz Denys
Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
a year ago
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Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023

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a year ago
Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
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Noahpinion
Don't be a decel Technological progress must be harnessed, not fought
a year ago
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Don't be a decel

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a year ago
Technological progress must be harnessed, not fought
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computers are bad
2023-01-16 huff-duff We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an...
over a year ago
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2023-01-16 huff-duff

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over a year ago
We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an extremely useful property of HF radio here is that HF frequencies can reflect off of the upper layers of the atmosphere, causing them to rebound towards earth at a range much further...
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TokyoDev
From Paperclip to Active Storage: An incremental, zero-downtime approach I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using...
over a year ago
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From Paperclip to Active Storage: An incremental, zero-downtime approach

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using [Paperclip](https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip) to [Active Storage](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html) for storing and processing uploaded files. The approach we took was a bit...
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Christopher Butler
The Bond Between Attention and Information Most communication is visual. Isn’t that fascinating? Think of how much a picture, a symbol, a...
over a year ago
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The Bond Between Attention and Information

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

over a year ago
Most communication is visual. Isn’t that fascinating? Think of how much a picture, a symbol, a facial expression, or a gesture can communicate on its own. As a child, I always felt a little strange that when I’d get close enough to read the small label next to a work of art in...
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The American Scholar
Ups and Downs The post Ups and Downs appeared first on The American Scholar.
7 months ago
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Ups and Downs

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7 months ago
The post Ups and Downs appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Willem's Blog
I see dead people This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old...
9 months ago
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I see dead people

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

9 months ago
This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old photos into lifelike representations.
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99% Invisible
The Double Kick [EPISODE] Watch a skate video today, and you’ll notice how similarly shaped the boards are. It’s called the...
a year ago
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The Double Kick [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Watch a skate video today, and you’ll notice how similarly shaped the boards are. It’s called the “popsicle” design, because the deck is narrow in the middle and rounded off at both ends, like a popsicle stick. This may seem stupid simple, but that basic, clean popsicle shape is...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2022 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
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My 2022 New Mac Setup

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over a year ago
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
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mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 1 Highlights I’m rebooting my blogging course from 2020. htmx is pretty good but not everything I wish...
11 months ago
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Educational Products: Month 1

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11 months ago
Highlights I’m rebooting my blogging course from 2020. htmx is pretty good but not everything I wish it could be. I’m looking for a buyer for Is It Keto, my old keto website. Rebooting Hit the Front Page In 2020, I created a video course about blogging called “Hit the Front Page...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Minimalissimo Shop V2 The second project of the year has successfully shipped: Minimalissimo Shop Version 2. I don’t know...
over a year ago
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Minimalissimo Shop V2

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

over a year ago
The second project of the year has successfully shipped: Minimalissimo Shop Version 2. I don’t know why I held WordPress in such high regard for so many years—it’s Starbucks of the CMS world. So migrating my sites over to Kirby is a great feeling. The latest of which was the...
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Home on Erik...
Waiting time, load factor, and queueing theory: why you need to cut your systems a bit of slack I've been reading up on operations research lately, including queueing theory. It started out as a...
over a year ago
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Waiting time, load factor, and queueing theory: why you need to cut your systems a bit of slack

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I've been reading up on operations research lately, including queueing theory. It started out as a way to understand the very complex mortgage process (I work at a mortgage startup) but it's turned into my little hammer and now I see nails everywhere.
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Tom Blomfield
Growth “When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.” - Creighton Abrams I was chatting with an...
over a year ago
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Growth

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

over a year ago
“When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.” - Creighton Abrams I was chatting with an investor a year or two ago, shortly after our Series A, and the subject of revenue goals came up. At the time, our revenue was pretty low - less than 10% of monthly costs. We estimated...
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Calculated Risk
Housing Jan 27th Weekly Update: Inventory Up 0.7% Week-over-week, Up 26.5% Year-over-year Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 1.2% week-over-week. Inventory always...
5 months ago
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Housing Jan 27th Weekly Update: Inventory Up 0.7% Week-over-week, Up 26.5% Year-over-year

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

5 months ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 1.2% week-over-week. Inventory always declines seasonally in the Winter and usually bottoms in late January or February. If two weeks ago was the seasonal bottom, that would be very early in the year, but that has...
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Both Are True
What does your stupid art even do for the world? asking for a friend asking for nick cave asking for my son asking for me
a year ago
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What does your stupid art even do for the world?

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a year ago
asking for a friend asking for nick cave asking for my son asking for me
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older...
over a year ago
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Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older generation of web scraping and spidering tools would grab and analyze HTML pages as returned by a web server. It doesn’t work well anymore because less and less website are static...
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Cognitive...
Playing with ChatGPT API I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code...
over a year ago
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Playing with ChatGPT API

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code is located here: I wanted it to be conversational, so it will remember your conversation history as you type. Similar to chatgpt-wrapper. ...
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Tech + Economics +...
AI does not produce reliable information. As Donald Trump's lawyer has fucked around and found out. Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, used an artificial...
a year ago
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AI does not produce reliable information. As Donald Trump's lawyer has fucked around and found out.

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

a year ago
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, used an artificial intelligence program to generate bogus legal citations in his motion for early termination of his supervised release. Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 for...
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Irrational...
Script for consistent linking within book. As part of my work on #eng-strategy-book, I’ve been editing a bunch of stuff. This morning I wanted...
3 months ago
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Script for consistent linking within book.

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

3 months ago
As part of my work on #eng-strategy-book, I’ve been editing a bunch of stuff. This morning I wanted to work on two editing problems. First, I wanted to ensure I was referencing strategies evenly across chapters (and not relying too heavily on any given strategy). Second, I wanted...
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A Beautiful Site
Democratizing publishing One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is...
over a year ago
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Democratizing publishing

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

over a year ago
One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is excellent. But the very same article states another objective is to "capture the 75 percent of the internet that WordPress doesn't already manage." In my opinion, these goals conflict...
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Quanta Magazine
The Physicist Who Glues Together Universes Renate Loll has helped pioneer a radically new approach to quantum gravity. She assumes that the...
over a year ago
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The Physicist Who Glues Together Universes

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

over a year ago
Renate Loll has helped pioneer a radically new approach to quantum gravity. She assumes that the fabric of space-time is a blend of all possible fabrics, and she has developed the computational tools needed to calculate the far-reaching implications of that assumption. ...
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mtlynch.io
Delete the Timestamps from your Static Blog I build this blog using Hugo, a popular static site generator. The way Hugo works is that when I...
7 months ago
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Delete the Timestamps from your Static Blog

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

7 months ago
I build this blog using Hugo, a popular static site generator. The way Hugo works is that when I create a new blog post, Hugo generates a default template that looks like this: --- title: "My New Post" date: 2024-11-16T20:33:09-04:00 --- The boilerplate for the post contains a...
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Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
a year ago
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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
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Matt Mullenweg
Inc Hit Piece When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a...
6 months ago
81

Inc Hit Piece

from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn’t a magazine I have read much since I was a teenager, David seemed like a legit journalist who usually writes for better publications...
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The Ruffian
It's Just a Rumour That Was Spread Around Town The Hipster-Military-Industrial Complex
3 months ago
24

It's Just a Rumour That Was Spread Around Town

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3 months ago
The Hipster-Military-Industrial Complex
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Bits about Money
Demystifying financial leverage Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for...
over a year ago
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Demystifying financial leverage

from Bits about Money [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for financial firms.
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Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates on "hard-core detractors" | Elon Musk responds to Tesla investor The key point is that they can't both be right. They share only one thing - saying negative things...
over a year ago
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Bill Gates on "hard-core detractors" | Elon Musk responds to Tesla investor

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over a year ago
The key point is that they can't both be right. They share only one thing - saying negative things about Microsoft.
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Joel Gascoigne
I have no idea what I am doing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a...
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I have no idea what I am doing

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a special thanks to my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] who listened to and discussed some of these thoughts with me before I turned them into a blog post. In the last few...
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IEEE Spectrum
Smellovision Gets a Refresh This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE...
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Smellovision Gets a Refresh

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over a year ago
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Modern virtual reality is a feast for the eyes and ears—but coming in a distant fourth (behind haptic touch technologies), smell has been nearly completely ignored. Earlier this...
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Open Culture
Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of... Image by Alan Light, via Wikimedia Commons It sounds like a third grade math problem: “If Ray...
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Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of $9.80

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a year ago
Image by Alan Light, via Wikimedia Commons It sounds like a third grade math problem: “If Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of Fahrenheit 451 (1953) on a coin-operated typewriter that charged 10 cents for every 30 minutes, and he spent a total of $9.80, how many hours did it...
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Grace Gillespie Hello! I’m Grace Gillespie, a printmaker specialising in reduction linocuts and based in Bristol....
a year ago
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Meet the Maker: Grace Gillespie

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a year ago
Hello! I’m Grace Gillespie, a printmaker specialising in reduction linocuts and based in Bristol. Most days you will find me in my teeny home studio, adding layers of colour to my prints, thinking about future designs or working on the never-ending administration side of running...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Next.js as a Static Site Generator for Netlify How to deploy a Static Next.js Site to Netlify, and then upgrade it to use Dynamic Route Segments to...
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Using Next.js as a Static Site Generator for Netlify

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over a year ago
How to deploy a Static Next.js Site to Netlify, and then upgrade it to use Dynamic Route Segments to become a full fledged Static Site Generator!
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Louwrentius
Finding a good blu-ray player for Mac OS X I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these...
over a year ago
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Finding a good blu-ray player for Mac OS X

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over a year ago
I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these free open-source products are all a usability nightmare. To play a Blu-ray movie, you have to perform these steps: right-click on the BDMV file choose 'show packet contents' go to...
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