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Trump-proofing Canada means ditching MasterCard and Visa We're all busy doing our best to boycott U.S. products. I can't buy Special K cereal anymore,...
14th Mar 2025
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Trump-proofing Canada means ditching MasterCard and Visa

from Moneyness [alt+shift+b] in finance

14th Mar 2025
We're all busy doing our best to boycott U.S. products. I can't buy Special K cereal anymore, because it's made in the U.S. by Kellogg's. But I'm still buying Shreddies, which is made in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Even that's a grey area, since Shreddies is owned by Post, a big...
Cognition: The Devin is in the Details My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a...
8th Sep 2025
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Cognition: The Devin is in the Details

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

8th Sep 2025
My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a lot of sleep, so pardon poor pacing and structure and typos and mistakes but just getting it out there.
The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025 Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from...
7th Mar 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025

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

7th Mar 2025
Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from scratch is just around the corner, and the TypeScript track couldn’t be closer.
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
4th Jul 2023
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns

from weird medieval guys [alt+shift+b] in history

4th Jul 2023
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
Oct 2023: side project, interview on Indie Hackers Going viral, my thoughts, and updates from me in October 2023.
6th Nov 2023
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Oct 2023: side project, interview on Indie Hackers

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

6th Nov 2023
Going viral, my thoughts, and updates from me in October 2023.
Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A...
23rd Mar 2024
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Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod

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

23rd Mar 2024
The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A variant? References The Symmatricom 58532A As part of a package deal, I got my hands on a Symmetricom 58532A L1 GPS antenna. Microchip, which acquired Symmetricom in 2013, doesn’t...
The Internet Economy We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook,...
13th Mar 2016
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The Internet Economy

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Mar 2016
We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have moved far beyond their original product lines ...
Substack Should Integrate Native Payments Featuring 0xDesigner Design Everydays S2 109
9th May 2024
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Substack Should Integrate Native Payments

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th May 2024
Featuring 0xDesigner Design Everydays S2 109
Misreading Milei: The American press can only see Argentina through US-colored glasses It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. They are deeply...
12th Dec 2023
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12th Dec 2023
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. They are deeply misunderstanding (or misrepresenting?) what's going on. It seems the American press can only understand Argentine politics through the lens of the US, when really it's just a totally...
Print Sales, Costs, And Profit: 2025 Apparently the bottom is falling out of the art market, at least for those in the high-end segment1....
1st Nov 2025
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Print Sales, Costs, And Profit: 2025

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2025
Apparently the bottom is falling out of the art market, at least for those in the high-end segment1. That market of investors, speculators, and dealers who are working with mind-boggling prices. This isn’t surprising. The buyers in this market aren’t interested in art, they’re...
Fluent Visitors: revisiting a classic design pattern It’s been a while since I’ve written a pure programming post. I was recently implementing a...
4th Nov 2025
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Fluent Visitors: revisiting a classic design pattern

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

4th Nov 2025
It’s been a while since I’ve written a pure programming post. I was recently implementing a specialist collection class that contained items of a number of different types. I needed to be able to iterate over the collection performing different actions depending on the specific...
Esther Dyson: The Short Now: What Addiction, Day Trading, and Most of Society’s Ills Have in Common Long Now board member Esther Dyson shares her ongoing work to move communities away from short-term...
9th Jan 2020
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9th Jan 2020
Long Now board member Esther Dyson shares her ongoing work to move communities away from short-term thinking and into health. In conversation with previous Interval speaker [Kara Platoni](http://www.karaplatoni.com/), she discusses how short-term desire is addiction, affecting...
Burton Grad: A Tribute CHM offers a tribute to a special computing pioneer who worked with CHM for decades, sharing his...
8th Jul 2025
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Burton Grad: A Tribute

from CHM [alt+shift+b] in history

8th Jul 2025
CHM offers a tribute to a special computing pioneer who worked with CHM for decades, sharing his passion for the history of software with the world. The post Burton Grad: A Tribute appeared first on CHM.
What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately? I’m going to be the weirdo who complains about literally getting free stuff.
18th Jul 2026
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18th Jul 2026
I’m going to be the weirdo who complains about literally getting free stuff.
The 9 Delusions From the Halo Effect You’re being lied to. Well, not intentionally. We’re constantly being pinged with stories of...
31st May 2015
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The 9 Delusions From the Halo Effect

from Comments for Lars Lofgren [alt+shift+b] in technology

31st May 2015
You’re being lied to. Well, not intentionally. We’re constantly being pinged with stories of companies that have rocketed to success. Especially in tech, there’s always another $1 billion unicorn around the corner. Uber, Facebook, Airbnb, Slack, Zenefits, Box, Shopify, yadda...
The Case for Use.GPU Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of...
13th Jun 2022
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The Case for Use.GPU

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jun 2022
Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of exactly why GPU programming is so foreign and weird. In this post I will explain why, because it's a microcosm of the issues that lead me to build Use.GPU, a WebGPU rendering...
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal...
19th May 2021
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design

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

19th May 2021
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol' Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
Ballad of The Lean Startup An ode to validated learning.
26th Sep 2011
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Ballad of The Lean Startup

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Sep 2011
An ode to validated learning.
Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work Using Claude Code and other agentic coding tools has become all the rage. Not only is it getting...
30th Jul 2025
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Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work

from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI

30th Jul 2025
Using Claude Code and other agentic coding tools has become all the rage. Not only is it getting millions of downloads, but these tools are also gaining features that help streamline workflows. As you know, I got very excited about agentic coding in May, and I’ve tried many of...
getentropy() vs RAND_bytes() A couple of notable things have happened in recent months: There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024....
1st Oct 2024
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getentropy() vs RAND_bytes()

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

1st Oct 2024
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months: There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024. There’s lots of good stuff in it, but today I am writing about getentropy() which is the first officially standardized POSIX API for getting cryptographically secure random...
Complex Heterodynes Explained Introduction Some Common DSP Notations Sampling with 1 ADC Creates a Real Signal Heterodyning the...
7th Feb 2026
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Complex Heterodynes Explained

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

7th Feb 2026
Introduction Some Common DSP Notations Sampling with 1 ADC Creates a Real Signal Heterodyning the Signal to Baseband the Wrong Way Complex Heterodyne to the Rescue Filtering Away the Old Negative Image Decimation Final Block Diagram Conclusion Afterthought: the Fourier Transform...
Adornment "Form follows function" is a maxim that an object's shape and appearance should be defined only by...
2nd Sep 2024
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Adornment

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

2nd Sep 2024
"Form follows function" is a maxim that an object's shape and appearance should be defined only by its purpose or function. A quick perusal of any antique shop will show that this maxim is generally ignored. Humans (Homo sapiens) have been called "naked apes," but we and our...
15 Years of Loving Curation In my previous post, I mentioned that Minimalissimo was coming to an end and that I'd be embarking...
1st Oct 2024
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15 Years of Loving Curation

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

1st Oct 2024
In my previous post, I mentioned that Minimalissimo was coming to an end and that I'd be embarking on a new adventure with FormFeelingFunction®. Well, I think it's worth explaining the site's journey, impact, and inevitable sunset. Because it has played a significant role in my...
Black Bag There's a (likely apocryphal) quote from Soderbergh about Ocean's Eleven, one of the greatest movies...
14th Jun 2025
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Black Bag

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Jun 2025
There's a (likely apocryphal) quote from Soderbergh about Ocean's Eleven, one of the greatest movies about America:
Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] I love the periodic table of...
2 weeks ago
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Every US Electrical Outlet Explained

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

2 weeks ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] I love the periodic table of the elements. I love it because it reveals the deeper order of what seems like an otherwise wildly disparate collection of atoms with different physical forms, chemical properties,...
2025-02-02 residential networking over telephone Recently, I covered some of the history of Ethernet's tenuous relationship with installed...
2nd Feb 2025
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2025-02-02 residential networking over telephone

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

2nd Feb 2025
Recently, I covered some of the history of Ethernet's tenuous relationship with installed telephone cabling. That article focused on the earlier and more business-oriented products, but many of you probably know that there have been a number of efforts to install IP...
Using GitButler With Multiple GitHub Accounts Working across multiple GitHub accounts can get messy fast. GitButler removes a lot of that friction...
15th Dec 2025
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Using GitButler With Multiple GitHub Accounts

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Dec 2025
Working across multiple GitHub accounts can get messy fast. GitButler removes a lot of that friction with built-in GitHub integration.
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32e -- Interventions: the learning rate I'm still working on improving the test loss for a from-scratch GPT-2 small base model, trained on...
10th Mar 2026
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10th Mar 2026
I'm still working on improving the test loss for a from-scratch GPT-2 small base model, trained on code based on Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)". In my training code, I have this code to create the optimiser: optimizer =...
Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since -...
8th Nov 2021
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Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events

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

8th Nov 2021
A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since - Get Good at Events.
3rd May 2024
A list of 100 opinions I hold A list of 100 opinions I hold
5th Sep 2022
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A list of 100 opinions I hold

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Sep 2022
A list of 100 opinions I hold
Comic for 2025.12.01 - Casper 2 New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
1st Dec 2025
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Comic for 2025.12.01 - Casper 2

from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics

1st Dec 2025
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has...
5th Aug 2025
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HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Aug 2025
Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has succeeded, even on the server, the client still feels largely the same as it did 10 years ago. Enthusiasts will tell you that accessing native web APIs via WASM is a solved...
Reading About the Dreyfus Affair One of my 2024 projects is to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time at the rate of about 10...
27th May 2024
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Reading About the Dreyfus Affair

from Charles Petzold [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th May 2024
One of my 2024 projects is to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time at the rate of about 10 pages a day, and so far it’s been successful: I’m currently heading towards the end of the 3rd volume, The Guermantes Way. During a long dinner party in this novel, seemingly...
World66.ai Relaunch of an Internet-based travel guide, this one using AI to help people keep travel guides...
2nd Jul 2026
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World66.ai

from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2026
Relaunch of an Internet-based travel guide, this one using AI to help people keep travel guides updated
Vision models New vision models are now available: LLaVA 1.6, in 7B, 13B and 34B parameter sizes. These models...
2nd Feb 2024
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Vision models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Feb 2024
New vision models are now available: LLaVA 1.6, in 7B, 13B and 34B parameter sizes. These models support higher resolution images, improved text recognition and logical reasoning.
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm I’m a little late to the party, but I just finished the wonderfully imaginative There Is No...
3rd May 2024
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There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

from ribbonfarm [alt+shift+b] in literature

3rd May 2024
I’m a little late to the party, but I just finished the wonderfully imaginative There Is No Antimemetics Division (2020) by qntm. The premise is that our world is full of things with antimemetic properties. An antimeme is “an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by...
Fighting subscription fatigue with vibe-coding Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own...
16th Aug 2025
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Fighting subscription fatigue with vibe-coding

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Aug 2025
Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own workout app instead of paying another SaaS. Two weeks ago, I decided to get serious about my workouts again and start logging them. I looked for an existing solution that has the...
Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add...
26th Dec 2018
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity

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

26th Dec 2018
Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add authentication and serverless functionality and get up and running incredibly quickly with Netlify - here's how.
SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short...
6th May 2024
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices

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

6th May 2024
I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short authentication tags (e.g., 64 bits) using universal hashing. For example, there’s a proposal in CFRG at the moment for a version of AES-GCM with short tags for this kind of use-case. In my...
Deep piano Roberto Chignoli I started playing piano again recently, after a 20 year hiatus. Our 6 year old...
12th Nov 2020
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Deep piano

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Nov 2020
Roberto Chignoli I started playing piano again recently, after a 20 year hiatus. Our 6 year old Brooke started learning, and we suddenly had a keyboard in the house again, so I joined her. It’s been great! I’m playing scales and exercises, diving into Rachmaninoff and Debussy,...
The Struggle to Find Out How Cars Manage Your Personal Data The incredible difficulty of finding out what happens with your data
1st Jun 2021
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The Struggle to Find Out How Cars Manage Your Personal Data

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

1st Jun 2021
The incredible difficulty of finding out what happens with your data
The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024 Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The...
5th Nov 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024

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

5th Nov 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots’ aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
The Real Divorcees of Facebook Marketplace For sale: wife shoes, hardly worn
9th Jan 2024
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The Real Divorcees of Facebook Marketplace

from escape the algorithm [alt+shift+b] in creative

9th Jan 2024
For sale: wife shoes, hardly worn
On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop JamesHoare Mon, 03/17/2025 - 08:24
17th Mar 2025
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On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop

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

17th Mar 2025
On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop JamesHoare Mon, 03/17/2025 - 08:24
Why Healthcare Is in a Death Spiral: Follow the Money If each of these is not a part of any 'reform,' than all that is being done is pouring money into a...
1st Dec 2025
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Why Healthcare Is in a Death Spiral: Follow the Money

from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance

1st Dec 2025
If each of these is not a part of any 'reform,' than all that is being done is pouring money into a monopolizing cartel, just in a slightly different way. Unbeknownst to those of us with little inside knowledge of the complex financial plumbing of the US healthcare system,...
Mapping out the tribes of climate Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent...
30th Nov 2022
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Mapping out the tribes of climate

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Nov 2022
Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent in the same way? Why isn’t everyone dropping everything to work on homelessness, or global poverty, or curing cancer? With many peers in tech now working on climate issues, I tried...
Doing some online Personality tests For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own...
11th Dec 2016
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Doing some online Personality tests

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

11th Dec 2016
For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own curiosity. The Braverman Test Inspired by Charles Poliquin’s visit on The Tim Ferriss Show I tried out the Braverman test to determine my neurotransmitter type. The point Charles...
Designing a New Old Home: Light In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have...
12th Apr 2023
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Designing a New Old Home: Light

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

12th Apr 2023
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. — Robert Louis Stevenson, Bed in Summer This post is part of a series about building a house that looks and feels traditional in New Hampshire. However, this...
The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps
1st Oct 2025
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The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill

from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Oct 2025
How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 2 In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the...
5th Jan 2022
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DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 2

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

5th Jan 2022
In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the server-side components as well as coding and launching the first iteration of the site along with some of the limitations I encountered when programming on such an old system. Server...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff! Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
1st Nov 2024
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Nov 2024
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
1st Jul 2024
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July 2024

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

1st Jul 2024
Identifying Counterfeit AirPods Pro 2 Turns out buying Air Pods from eBay is risky, who knew? Well, clearly I didn't because I totally...
14th May 2025
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Identifying Counterfeit AirPods Pro 2

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

14th May 2025
Turns out buying Air Pods from eBay is risky, who knew? Well, clearly I didn't because I totally fell for one. I was looking to pick up some used AirPods Pro 2 to use while out on walks or whenever my usual over-ears wouldn't be comfortable. I found a decent-enough looking...
yt-browse: a powerful youtube search TUI yt-browse: a powerful youtube search TUI I made a TUI for searching a specific youtube channel. I...
4th Mar 2026
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yt-browse: a powerful youtube search TUI

from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Mar 2026
yt-browse: a powerful youtube search TUI I made a TUI for searching a specific youtube channel. I think it's much nicer than the experience of searching a channel on youtube's website. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...
Which Construction Tasks Have Gotten Cheaper? We spend a lot of time around here looking at construction costs, and whenever we do the same story...
7th Dec 2023
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Which Construction Tasks Have Gotten Cheaper?

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

7th Dec 2023
We spend a lot of time around here looking at construction costs, and whenever we do the same story emerges: construction never gets cheaper. Construction costs tend to rise at or above the level of overall inflation. A square foot of building costs as much or more to build today...
Hitting pause for a month! A brief programming note.
1st Jan 2026
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Hitting pause for a month!

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2026
A brief programming note.
1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year. The post 1995 Was...
8th Apr 2025
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1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2025
The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year. The post 1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
Gzip hates your DRY code How to remove code and still increase your library weight.
13th Mar 2017
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Gzip hates your DRY code

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Mar 2017
How to remove code and still increase your library weight.
Why do Policy Gradient Methods work so well in Cooperative MARL? Evidence from Policy Representation In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy...
10th Jul 2022
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Why do Policy Gradient Methods work so well in Cooperative MARL? Evidence from Policy Representation

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Jul 2022
In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy gradient (PG) methods are typically believed to be less sample efficient than value decomposition (VD) methods, which are off-policy. However, some recent empirical studies demonstrate...
2018 In Review & Thoughts on 2019 I find a lot of value in other people’s reviews of their years. It’s the time of year to be...
5th May 2019
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2018 In Review & Thoughts on 2019

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

5th May 2019
I find a lot of value in other people’s reviews of their years. It’s the time of year to be contemplative and reflective on the last 12 months, so here we are. Note to reader: I’m posting this in May, 2019. I wrote it in late December, 2018, didn’t get around to finishing it up...
A Defense of Weird Research Government-funded scientific research may appear strange or impractical, but it has repeatedly...
5th Feb 2025
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A Defense of Weird Research

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Feb 2025
Government-funded scientific research may appear strange or impractical, but it has repeatedly yielded scientific breakthroughs — and continues to pay for itself many times over.
3rd Feb 2024
What I'm up to - September 2026 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York....
1st Sep 2026
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What I'm up to - September 2026

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

1st Sep 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York. I have been busy bouncing between hotels and touring potential homes. I visited Copenhagen for an event at noma.
Plan du réseau du métro de Toronto La plus grande ville d’un pays bilingue mérite le transport en commun bilingue. Vu l’intérêt...
10th Mar 2026
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Plan du réseau du métro de Toronto

from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Mar 2026
La plus grande ville d’un pays bilingue mérite le transport en commun bilingue. Vu l’intérêt prolongé pour la francisation de la ville reine, voici enfin un plan du réseau traduit. Il y a plusieurs ans, un internaut traduisit le plan du réseau de la Société de transport de...
The King and the Hermit Dear friends, there is a tale, Long ago there lived a king who had two sons. Both children were...
6th Oct 2022
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The King and the Hermit

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

6th Oct 2022
Dear friends, there is a tale, Long ago there lived a king who had two sons. Both children were overindulgent in spending and habits, and the king was much vexed by this careless nature. Being very old, he worried that after his death they would shortly blunder away their...
The Afterlife AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
2nd Mar 2025
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The Afterlife

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Mar 2025
AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future In _The Clock of the Long Now_, Long Now founder Stewart Brand wrote, in response to Zen poet Gary...
15th Dec 2022
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Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future

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

15th Dec 2022
In _The Clock of the Long Now_, Long Now founder Stewart Brand wrote, in response to Zen poet Gary Snyder, the following musing on the nature of time: >THIS PRESENT MOMENT USED TO BE THE UNIMAGINABLE FUTURE Interdisciplinary artist Alicia Eggert’s work uses neon, steel, and...
Sharing The Things We Use Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
24th Jul 2021
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Sharing The Things We Use

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

24th Jul 2021
Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a "uses" page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
CNC & Active Offices by Studio Reaktor The new office spaces of Czech News Center and Active Radio were built within the new Hagibor...
4th Aug 2026
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CNC & Active Offices by Studio Reaktor

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

4th Aug 2026
The new office spaces of Czech News Center and Active Radio were built within the new Hagibor administrative complex on...
20th Feb 2020
Norbert's, East Dulwich They're like the buses, these rotisserie places. You wait years for a decent, affordable spit-roast...
4th Jun 2025
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Norbert's, East Dulwich

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

4th Jun 2025
They're like the buses, these rotisserie places. You wait years for a decent, affordable spit-roast chicken in the capital, and then two come along at once. one in Holborn closed (where I would go at least once every couple of weeks back in the day), then Kentish Town, then...
The Pulse: Antigravity 2.0 takes ‘IDE’ out of its new IDE Feedback about the redesigned IDE is overwhelmingly negative due to bugs, poor UX & model support,...
11th Jun 2026
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The Pulse: Antigravity 2.0 takes ‘IDE’ out of its new IDE

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

11th Jun 2026
Feedback about the redesigned IDE is overwhelmingly negative due to bugs, poor UX & model support, and eating through Gemini token quotas. Also: a clue that Antigravity’s own devs use other tools for their work?
📈 The Toxic Grind There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
6th Jun 2022
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📈 The Toxic Grind

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

6th Jun 2022
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […] The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
[RIDGELINE] Overtourism in Japan, and How it Hurts Small Businesses Ridgeline subscribers — I’m Craig Mod and I’ve been buuuuuuurnt out this last month following my...
10th Jul 2025
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[RIDGELINE] Overtourism in Japan, and How it Hurts Small Businesses

from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature

10th Jul 2025
Ridgeline subscribers — I’m Craig Mod and I’ve been buuuuuuurnt out this last month following my epic Things Become Other Things mega book tour. Finally, I’m gingerly emerging from my recovery cave. (But reserve the right to retreat again.) Here’s a fresh dispatch — in praise of...
Longreads + Open Thread Radio, Startups, History, Bally's, Dead Internet, Caesars
1st Feb 2025
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Longreads + Open Thread

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

1st Feb 2025
Radio, Startups, History, Bally's, Dead Internet, Caesars
Why Amateur Radio? I always had a diffuse idea of why people are spending so much time and money on amateur radio. Once...
29th Aug 2025
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Why Amateur Radio?

from Lennart Koopmann (KJ5KRF) [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Aug 2025
I always had a diffuse idea of why people are spending so much time and money on amateur radio. Once I got my license and started to amass radios myself, it became more clear to me. It always seemed like amateur radio was an extremely practical endeavor. The goal appeared to be...
No Socials November November seems to be a ripe month for challenges. Some people grow facial hair. Some people write...
1st Nov 2025
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No Socials November

from I am BARRY HESS [alt+shift+b] in travel

1st Nov 2025
November seems to be a ripe month for challenges. Some people grow facial hair. Some people write many words daily hoping to come out with a novel on the other side. I’m sure there are five other such efforts that I’m not aware of. For me, I’m going to continue my push away from...
Agency and Agents From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
31st Aug 2026
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Agency and Agents

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

31st Aug 2026
From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
RGB Input Range Sliders R0 G20 B0 A fun little challenge to myself this week was putting together these HTML input range...
2nd Aug 2024
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RGB Input Range Sliders

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Aug 2024
R0 G20 B0 A fun little challenge to myself this week was putting together these HTML input range type sliders to control the color of an LED.Each color channel change triggers an update to read the value, convert it to a hex code (eg. #FF0000), update the output element value,...
What I'm up to - January 2026 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jan 2026
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What I'm up to - January 2026

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

1st Jan 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Visited Boulder - Launched a print edition of Contraption Company, which was a fun ...
The Network State Book A new book on starting new countries. Available on Kindle and for free at thenetworkstate.com.
19th Mar 2022
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The Network State Book

from balajis.com [alt+shift+b] in finance

19th Mar 2022
A new book on starting new countries. Available on Kindle and for free at thenetworkstate.com.
What caused the large AWS outage? On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game....
23rd Oct 2025
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What caused the large AWS outage?

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

23rd Oct 2025
On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game. An overview of what caused this high-profile, global outage
Hamster Wheel Upgrades It is either the most beautiful song I have ever heard or something else. It’s one of those rare...
13th Oct 2018
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Hamster Wheel Upgrades

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

13th Oct 2018
It is either the most beautiful song I have ever heard or something else. It’s one of those rare moments where you shed all the pessimism and your soul fills with peace and clarity until it leaks out of the corner of your eye.
My Addressbook? Keep it. Telephone numbers are a disgrace to our generation. There is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I...
9th Feb 2012
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My Addressbook? Keep it. Telephone numbers are a disgrace to our generation.

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

9th Feb 2012
There is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I understand the fact that Star...
Meet The Maker: Ian Burke Ian Burke is a Painter Printmaker based in the North Yorkshire Moors. He was born in Saltburn and...
11th Jan 2024
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Meet The Maker: Ian Burke

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

11th Jan 2024
Ian Burke is a Painter Printmaker based in the North Yorkshire Moors. He was born in Saltburn and grew up in Redcar before studying Fine Art at Newcastle University. Having completed a Master's at Goldsmith's College, London he established a career in teaching art.  Ian now...
How To Live Slowly and Simply In A Frantic World This post is about how you can choose to slow down, how you can step off the ever-revolving carousel...
25th Dec 2020
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How To Live Slowly and Simply In A Frantic World

from The Tao Of Wealth [alt+shift+b] in life

25th Dec 2020
This post is about how you can choose to slow down, how you can step off the ever-revolving carousel of want-buy-want upgrade, opt out of the comparison games, stop cramming a month’s worth of engagements into a weekend, refuse to live your life according to trends, tread lighter...
Why I refrain from infosec punditry If you know about my professional background, the most puzzling aspect of this Substack must be that...
16th Apr 2026
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Why I refrain from infosec punditry

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science

16th Apr 2026
If you know about my professional background, the most puzzling aspect of this Substack must be that I don’t use it to talk about my primary field of expertise: information security.
"Thoughts on OpenAI" To: Satya Nadella; Bill Gates
5th May 2024
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"Thoughts on OpenAI"

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

5th May 2024
To: Satya Nadella; Bill Gates
All the Demand Ideas from The Heart of Innovation, Simply Stated All the ideas of the Heart of Innovation, compressed into one piece.
3rd Mar 2026
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3rd Mar 2026
All the ideas of the Heart of Innovation, compressed into one piece.
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025 Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing....
1st Oct 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025

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

1st Oct 2025
Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing. Also, my children and those of half my employees are sick with the flu… I hope you’ve all been able to avoid it!
Focus on the line, not the dot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I...
2nd Jan 2013
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Focus on the line, not the dot

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

2nd Jan 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I noticed the Who’s Hiring? [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half a...
The Gentle Singularity We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital...
10th Jun 2025
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The Gentle Singularity

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

10th Jun 2025
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots are not yet walking the streets, nor are most of us talking to AI all day. People...
Chromecast Backgrounds I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the...
28th Jan 2014
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Chromecast Backgrounds

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

28th Jan 2014
I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the background images that cycle through the home screen are pretty awesome. I looked into it and was able to find the URL that this page uses and pull all the images using a Node...
Bloated It used to happen sporadicly but now it is a daily experience.
23rd Sep 2018
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Bloated

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Sep 2018
It used to happen sporadicly but now it is a daily experience.
Why Would You Want to Teach Architecture? Opening minds and defining a way of working is the ultimate payoff.
4th Jan 2024
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Why Would You Want to Teach Architecture?

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4th Jan 2024
Opening minds and defining a way of working is the ultimate payoff.
NCCCIAP 2025 - Photos + A photo gallery showcasing images taken at the 2025 National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron...
8th Apr 2025
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NCCCIAP 2025 - Photos +

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

8th Apr 2025
A photo gallery showcasing images taken at the 2025 National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices.
MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn Again (1995) Khan talks about his post-Borland work at Starfish and competition with Lotus and Microsoft
3rd Mar 2026
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MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn Again (1995)

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

3rd Mar 2026
Khan talks about his post-Borland work at Starfish and competition with Lotus and Microsoft
A primer on dopamine 1/ I recently made notes on the book “Hooked” but wasn’t satisfied by the depth of explanation in...
22nd Jan 2024
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A primer on dopamine

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Jan 2024
1/ I recently made notes on the book “Hooked” but wasn’t satisfied by the depth of explanation in it. 2/ I wanted to get down into neuroscience of habit-forming products and that inevitably lead me to the (in)famous neurotransmitter dopamine. 3/ Before we dive into what dopamine...
AI and Internet Hygiene we are going to have to re-learn how to use the computer
1st Oct 2024
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AI and Internet Hygiene

from the late review [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Oct 2024
we are going to have to re-learn how to use the computer
Do we get better or worse at adapting to change? Verner Vinge, in a classic 1993 essay, described “the Singularity” as an era where progress becomes...
6th Apr 2023
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Do we get better or worse at adapting to change?

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

6th Apr 2023
Verner Vinge, in a classic 1993 essay, described “the Singularity” as an era where progress becomes “an exponential runaway beyond any hope of control.” The idea that technological change might accelerate to a pace faster than we can keep up with is a common concern. Almost three...
What AI can tell us about microscope slides The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer...
15th Jan 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Jan 2025
The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer using these images: They could want to know whether there are tumors present or not. If there is a tumor, doctors would want to classify its stage, make predictions about how...
Vernor Vinge: What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen? ### Non-Singularity scenarios Vinge began by declaring that he still believes that a Singularity...
16th Feb 2007
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Vernor Vinge: What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?

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

16th Feb 2007
### Non-Singularity scenarios Vinge began by declaring that he still believes that a Singularity event in the next few decades is the most likely outcome-- meaning that self-accelerating technologies will speed up to the point of so profound a transformation that the other side...
44 I read last year’s post before writing this. Writing is a strange phenomenon. Though I am reading my...
6th Apr 2025
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from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

6th Apr 2025
I read last year’s post before writing this. Writing is a strange phenomenon. Though I am reading my own writing, it feels like I am reading the writing of another person. Perhaps...
Lemon Lyme Summer The sun rises as a thin band of orange squeezed between twin blue worlds of lake and cloud. The tips...
22nd Sep 2024
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Lemon Lyme Summer

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

22nd Sep 2024
The sun rises as a thin band of orange squeezed between twin blue worlds of lake and cloud. The tips of the pines above glow for a moment before the sun slides up and behind the distant clouds. The sun rises near the center of the bay when we arrive in April, but by the solstice...
Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make...
2nd Jun 2020
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Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup

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

2nd Jun 2020
AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make it work with Rollup with a few tweaks.
A rationalist’s guide to manifestation. Or, how to live a magical life
2nd Jan 2026
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A rationalist’s guide to manifestation.

from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Jan 2026
Or, how to live a magical life
Issue 50 – Bitcoin busts Governments seize huge quantities of bitcoin, and a few people seem to be yearning for the days of...
2nd Feb 2024
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Issue 50 – Bitcoin busts

from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance

2nd Feb 2024
Governments seize huge quantities of bitcoin, and a few people seem to be yearning for the days of peak crypto mania.
Vibecoding a production app TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m...
21st Mar 2025
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Vibecoding a production app

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

21st Mar 2025
TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m a startup founder turned investor. I taught myself (bad) PHP in 2000, and picked up Ruby on Rails in 2011. I’d guess 2015 was the last time I wrote a line of Ruby professionally....
Game Engine Black Book update The Game Engine Black Books have been updated. Free pdfs, high-quality prints, and source code are...
17th May 2019
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Game Engine Black Book update

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th May 2019
The Game Engine Black Books have been updated. Free pdfs, high-quality prints, and source code are available.
Introducing Mikochi: a minimalist remote file browser Like many people working in DevOps, I have taken the bad habit to keep playing with servers and...
9th Jun 2023
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Introducing Mikochi: a minimalist remote file browser

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jun 2023
Like many people working in DevOps, I have taken the bad habit to keep playing with servers and containers in my free time. One of the things I have running is a Media Server, which I use to access my collection of movies and shows (that I evidently own and ripped myself). To...
Building a photography website Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of...
25th Oct 2023
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Building a photography website

from Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Oct 2023
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of my work, without any attention-driven algorithms dictating the terms. Here's a technical write-up of my journey. Table of...
8th Feb 2024
Building software for podcasters –\_Josh Nielsen from Zencastr Josh started out trying to build a "GitHub for music." When that idea didn't pan out, he still...
6th Jan 2018
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Building software for podcasters –\_Josh Nielsen from Zencastr

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

6th Jan 2018
Josh started out trying to build a "GitHub for music." When that idea didn't pan out, he still wanted to do something with Web Audio and WebRTC. So he started building Zencastr, which gives podcasters the ability to record "double-ender" interviews in the browser.
Notes on Progress: An Englishman in New York Reflections on the revolution in Manhattan
7th Oct 2022
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Notes on Progress: An Englishman in New York

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

7th Oct 2022
Reflections on the revolution in Manhattan
nested folders @ sketch hola! 〜  ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ ) i hope it is not very cold at the moment you’re reading this post 〜 although...
21st Nov 2025
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nested folders @ sketch

from ramsés cabello [alt+shift+b] in design

21st Nov 2025
hola! 〜  ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ ) i hope it is not very cold at the moment you’re reading this post 〜 although here is  freezing and dark-ish, i wanted to write a few words about something i designed at sketch a while back and recently released + some other misc 〜  let’s start with a photo...
“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
1st Sep 2023
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“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies

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

1st Sep 2023
The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. Software is a lot like life — probably because it models our lives — in that it’s constantly changing. The biggest threat to the economic value of code is...
High Speed at High Speed (Tianjin West station, China) In scale and speed of construction, Tianjin West seems almost impossible – especially when viewed...
4th Oct 2023
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High Speed at High Speed (Tianjin West station, China)

from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4th Oct 2023
In scale and speed of construction, Tianjin West seems almost impossible – especially when viewed from Britain. It is, therefore, the perfect embodiment of China’s high speed rail network, on which the station can be found. It is also, I am sorry to say, the antithesis of the...
Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9) Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
5th May 2025
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Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9)

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

5th May 2025
Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
Third Stage Engineering The real performance of any computer hardware in production is the result of the hardware, software,...
16th Nov 2025
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Third Stage Engineering

from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Nov 2025
The real performance of any computer hardware in production is the result of the hardware, software, and tuning; the investment and sequence of these efforts can be pictured as a three-stage rocket: I recently presented this embarrassingly simple diagram to Intel's executive...
Books I read in 2020 Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books....
3rd Jan 2021
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Books I read in 2020

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jan 2021
Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books. But that was about it. Even reading The Lord of the Rings or easier to digest books like Harry Potter would be a struggle. It was not until I started getting access to technical...
Should I Invest in iBonds? In a recent Hacker News thread about preparing financially for a possible recession, a commenter...
16th Oct 2022
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Should I Invest in iBonds?

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

16th Oct 2022
In a recent Hacker News thread about preparing financially for a possible recession, a commenter suggested investing in iBonds. iBonds are one of those investments I’ve seen in passing every time I read a personal finance book, but I’ve never paid much attention to them. When I...
The rules and how to break them: Your socks should match your trousers Well, hello there. Welcome back to our series on the menswear ‘rules’, where we explain why these...
2nd Feb 2026
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The rules and how to break them: Your socks should match your trousers

from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Feb 2026
Well, hello there. Welcome back to our series on the menswear ‘rules’, where we explain why these conventions exist and as a result how they should be broken.  The key is not to follow any rule blindly. Instead, see these rules as advice fr... > Read more
Summary of changes for March 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
31st Mar 2023
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Summary of changes for March 2023

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

31st Mar 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March. Summary Of Changes Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom. 100r.ca, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
Is Gesture Interaction a Valid Alternative To Touch Interaction in Cars? Are air gestures a valid alternative to existing interaction modes or is it just a gimmick?
1st Dec 2021
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Is Gesture Interaction a Valid Alternative To Touch Interaction in Cars?

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

1st Dec 2021
Are air gestures a valid alternative to existing interaction modes or is it just a gimmick?
A small ask, and an open invitation Two things going on right now
13th Jan 2026
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A small ask, and an open invitation

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

13th Jan 2026
Two things going on right now
Book Update Plus My Thoughts on ChatGPT and Generative AI This month I finished the first draft of my “Web 2.0 memoir,” which weighed in at 153,000 words....
23rd Jun 2023
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Book Update Plus My Thoughts on ChatGPT and Generative AI

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

23rd Jun 2023
This month I finished the first draft of my “Web 2.0 memoir,” which weighed in at 153,000 words. I’ve been working on this book for the past eight months; every weekday, before breakfast in the early morning. My plan is still to serialize the book here on Cybercultural, which I’m...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
4th Feb 2024
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a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

4th Feb 2024
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
Green flags for investable founders Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and...
2nd Jan 2024
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Green flags for investable founders

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2024
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and dedication. Elevator pitch in LinkedIn tagline A founder who is all in is constantly selling. That means their tagline will: a) be for their company, not for them b) be the sales pitch, not a...
Recently I missed last month’s Recently because I was traveling. I’ll be pretty busy this weekend too, so...
29th Aug 2025
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Recently

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Aug 2025
I missed last month’s Recently because I was traveling. I’ll be pretty busy this weekend too, so I’ll publish this now: a solid double-length post to make up for it. Listening It’s been a really good time for music: both discovering new albums by bands I’ve followed, and finding...
Aldous Huxley's world of perceptions You may already know of this novel called 1984, and its author George Orwell. Aldous Huxley wrote a...
18th Jul 2021
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Aldous Huxley's world of perceptions

from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Jul 2021
You may already know of this novel called 1984, and its author George Orwell. Aldous Huxley wrote a dystopian classic called Brave New World…
Pain I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He...
17th Sep 2024
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Pain

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

17th Sep 2024
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He shared an excellent insight about dealing with pain that I believe everyone should hear. So here it is: We all experience pain caused by others. Perhaps even earlier today
PEP8Speaks - Now helping 5,000 open source projects write neat and clean Python What is this project? 🐍 PEP8Speaks = PEP 8 + Speaks GitHub:...
5th Apr 2020
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PEP8Speaks - Now helping 5,000 open source projects write neat and clean Python

from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Apr 2020
What is this project? 🐍 PEP8Speaks = PEP 8 + Speaks GitHub: https://github.com/OrkoHunter/pep8speaks PEP 8 is Python's recommended coding…
Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss...
16th May 2023
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Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast

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

16th May 2023
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&...
V&A East Storehouse This is Blythe House, a monumental Edwardian office block round the back of the Olympia exhibition...
1st Jun 2025
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V&A East Storehouse

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

1st Jun 2025
This is Blythe House, a monumental Edwardian office block round the back of the Olympia exhibition centre. Swindon, the British Museum are off to Reading and the V&A shifted their repository to the Olympic Park... opening yesterday. New in E20: V&A East Storehouse Location:...
Spinning significance out of a senseless slog Contributing to a chosen culture via running
9th May 2025
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Spinning significance out of a senseless slog

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

9th May 2025
Contributing to a chosen culture via running
On having more interesting ideas, pt. 2 Cutlery designed by Salvador Dalí
11th Aug 2026
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On having more interesting ideas, pt. 2

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

11th Aug 2026
Cutlery designed by Salvador Dalí
Facebook and Google "at Defcon 2" From: Sheryl Sandberg We really want a deep relationship – or at this point any relationship – with...
9th Jun 2024
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Facebook and Google "at Defcon 2"

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

9th Jun 2024
From: Sheryl Sandberg We really want a deep relationship – or at this point any relationship – with Google
Dear PendingKetchup PendingKetchup comments on my recent post on what it means for something to be heritable: The...
11th Sep 2025
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Dear PendingKetchup

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

11th Sep 2025
PendingKetchup comments on my recent post on what it means for something to be heritable: The article seems pretty good at math and thinking through unusual implications, but my armchair Substack eugenics alarm that I keep in the back of my brain is beeping. Saying that variance...
30 Ways to Revitalize Arts & Culture I can dream, can't I?
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Bits from Boulder Three true stories from the People's Republic
5th Aug 2024
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Bits from Boulder

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

5th Aug 2024
Three true stories from the People's Republic
A Simple Guide for Calm UI Read the post here.
2 weeks ago
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A Simple Guide for Calm UI

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

2 weeks ago
Read the post here.
Reconsidering "Self-Made" I have a strong memory arguing with a friend at 2am in SF, close to 10 years ago now, that someone...
4th Dec 2025
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Reconsidering "Self-Made"

from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Dec 2025
I have a strong memory arguing with a friend at 2am in SF, close to 10 years ago now, that someone could be “self-made.”
WW1’s Togoland Campaign Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River...
1st Sep 2026
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WW1’s Togoland Campaign

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

1st Sep 2026
Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River Bridge in Togoland, photo from Wiki Commons. In the later half of the 19th century, Germany and Great Britain became global rivals. The British already had an empire which stretched...
Why Open Source AI Will Win You shouldn't bet against the bazaar or the GPU p̶o̶o̶r̶ hungry.
15th Sep 2023
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Why Open Source AI Will Win

from Varun's Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Sep 2023
You shouldn't bet against the bazaar or the GPU p̶o̶o̶r̶ hungry.
What's in, what's out, how it tells your story, and failing to parallel Hamilton's subversive... Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an...
11th Aug 2016
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Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an embarrassingly big grin - after all, I had just experienced Hamilton. Like many others, I'd listened to the soundtrack many times before even acquiring tickets to the musical, and I'd...
Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise You've most likely heard about gradient noise through the name Perlin noise, which refers to one...
6th Jun 2025
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Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2025
You've most likely heard about gradient noise through the name Perlin noise, which refers to one particular implementation with various CPU optimizations. Because it's an incredible tool for creative work, it's used virtually everywhere: visual effects, video games, procedural...
12/14/21 PHD comic: 'To Touch The Sun' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
14th Dec 2021
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12/14/21 PHD comic: 'To Touch The Sun'

from PHD Comics [alt+shift+b] in comics

14th Dec 2021
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "To Touch The Sun" - originally published 12/14/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
Work in progress: Location based online game This is a game prototype I’m currently working on. The game is played online, on a real world map...
12th Sep 2015
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Work in progress: Location based online game

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

12th Sep 2015
This is a game prototype I’m currently working on. The game is played online, on a real world map and the location of the player is also the location ingame, just like in Ingress. I know that making an online game like this is an ambitious goal and it will probably never be...
He looks like a blimp An Important Announcement from the US President
6th Feb 2026
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He looks like a blimp

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

6th Feb 2026
An Important Announcement from the US President
Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious...
4th Jan 2025
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Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks

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

4th Jan 2025
Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it
Prescription Form UI Improvements Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
13th Mar 2019
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Prescription Form UI Improvements

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

13th Mar 2019
Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn’t bad per se, but it could certainly be improved. Current design of the...
1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices Commoncog is increasing membership prices on 1st September 2026. If you’d like to lock in the old...
11th Aug 2026
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1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

11th Aug 2026
Commoncog is increasing membership prices on 1st September 2026. If you’d like to lock in the old prices, you should probably sign up before then.
Array 1.8.0 What's box-fresh in PostHog? Cumulative graphs, better paths, and an upgrade to our actions. If...
3rd Jun 2020
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Array 1.8.0

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2020
What's box-fresh in PostHog? Cumulative graphs, better paths, and an upgrade to our actions. If you're self hosting and want these features - update…
24th Dec 2025
Putting a meaningful dent in your error backlog We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand....
15th Aug 2024
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Putting a meaningful dent in your error backlog

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Aug 2024
We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand. After all, we've got shit to do. Deadlines to hit. By the time we decide to get serious about error management, a huge, impenetrable, meaningless backlog of errors has already...
Everyday It&#x27;s 1984 Nostalgia is commonly used pejoratively. As if the very idea of looking backward in time and saying,...
9th Aug 2023
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Everyday It&#x27;s 1984

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

9th Aug 2023
Nostalgia is commonly used pejoratively. As if the very idea of looking backward in time and saying, hmm, maybe we lost something between then and now were... bad? The American Psychological Association considers nostalgia a subset of depression, which is, ahem, depressing. But...
1st May 2024
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Privacy Monthly May

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

1st May 2024
The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app a.k.a. “The long way” ¶The 10 (ok, 15)...
16th Apr 2016
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The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Apr 2016
The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app a.k.a. “The long way” ¶The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app ¶a.k.a. “The long way” Edit: Since writing this, Laravel Valet has been launched. I haven’t tried it yet, but if you use a Mac it looks...
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The Best Things to Do in Abu Dhabi

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

11th May 2023
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Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker...
20th Sep 2024
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Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Sep 2024
Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker reactions. ChatGPT does amazingly well at communicating with people in English. But whose English? Only 15% of ChatGPT users are from the US, where Standard American English is the default. But...
The Good Enough Trap How Technology Can Get Us Stuck In Place
4th May 2024
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The Good Enough Trap

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

4th May 2024
How Technology Can Get Us Stuck In Place
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bio Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid...
2nd Oct 2023
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bio

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

2nd Oct 2023
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid appropriate, and I don't know. Today's News:
✏️ The Work Is Never Done I went for a run. I’ve been running consistently for over a year and a half now. It’s a panacea for...
7th Nov 2024
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✏️ The Work Is Never Done

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

7th Nov 2024
I went for a run. I’ve been running consistently for over a year and a half now. It’s a panacea for me. I run outside. I like to feel the cool wind on my skin, my pores open and sweating, the legs rhythmically turning over in pursuit of flow. In the beginning, I kept my head...
Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins Modern humans and more ancient hominins interbred many times throughout Eurasia and Africa, and the...
13th Aug 2020
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Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins

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

13th Aug 2020
Modern humans and more ancient hominins interbred many times throughout Eurasia and Africa, and the genetic flow went both ways. The post Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins first appeared on Quanta Magazine
OpenClaw is my new coworker What happens when you give AI its own laptop
2nd Feb 2026
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OpenClaw is my new coworker

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2026
What happens when you give AI its own laptop
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and...
12th Jan 2025
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How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

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

12th Jan 2025
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
Mailbag #2 We have a whole lot to talk about. The post Mailbag #2 appeared first on Wait But Why.
14th Apr 2021
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Mailbag #2

from Wait But Why [alt+shift+b] in life

14th Apr 2021
We have a whole lot to talk about. The post Mailbag #2 appeared first on Wait But Why.
Klute A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should...
2nd Sep 2023
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Klute

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2023
A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should be called Bree!" here.) I think some of the noir aspects felt a little more obvious than in The Conversation, but the pair of performances and the deep sense of sonic dread that...
musk twitter quitter, bitter? I've been a big Twitter user since 2008. In nearly 14 years on the platform, Twitter's had a...
1st Nov 2022
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musk twitter quitter, bitter?

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

1st Nov 2022
I've been a big Twitter user since 2008. In nearly 14 years on the platform, Twitter's had a net-positive effect on my life. But now with Elon’s takeover, Twitter is in the hands of a man whose behavior I find reprehensible.
Roundup #89: It isn’t X, it’s Y AI risk; Reindustrialization; The rent crisis; AI and jobs; Mass deportation; Chinese investment;...
3 days ago
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Roundup #89: It isn’t X, it’s Y

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

3 days ago
AI risk; Reindustrialization; The rent crisis; AI and jobs; Mass deportation; Chinese investment; Cyber risk
Pardon the Corruption Trump’s justification for invading American cities and other countries is to reduce the crime he is...
2nd Dec 2025
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Pardon the Corruption

from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Dec 2025
Trump’s justification for invading American cities and other countries is to reduce the crime he is actively encouraging through his pardons
Introducing Pebble - Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android Our first Kickstarter launch! Check out the Hacker News thread for some lively discussion
11th Apr 2012
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Introducing Pebble - Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Apr 2012
Our first Kickstarter launch! Check out the Hacker News thread for some lively discussion
Beginning 3D printing A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks...
28th May 2025
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Beginning 3D printing

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

28th May 2025
A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks as a complete beginner.
Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs). Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the...
3rd Sep 2023
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Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs).

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

3rd Sep 2023
Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the individuals top 3 strengths, and top 3 weaknesses, and share the feedback with them directly in person. There was a prolonged fight against even documenting the feedback, which was viewed...
This Arduino Nano R4-controlled hourglass simulates sand with LEDs Outside of playing board games, hourglasses are almost entirely pointless these days. And yet,...
1st Oct 2025
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This Arduino Nano R4-controlled hourglass simulates sand with LEDs

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

1st Oct 2025
Outside of playing board games, hourglasses are almost entirely pointless these days. And yet, they’re still incredibly satisfying. Watching the sand fall in a steady and consistent stream is downright mesmerizing. Sadly, you probably can’t make your own hourglass unless you...
How to build a simple HTML landing page using Tailwind CSS The easiest way to configure Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI so you can build a simple HTML site
12th Feb 2021
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How to build a simple HTML landing page using Tailwind CSS

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

12th Feb 2021
The easiest way to configure Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI so you can build a simple HTML site
Can AI Solve Science? Note: Click any diagram to get Wolfram Language code to reproduce it. Wolfram Language code for...
5th Mar 2024
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Can AI Solve Science?

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

5th Mar 2024
Note: Click any diagram to get Wolfram Language code to reproduce it. Wolfram Language code for training the neural nets used here is also available (requires GPU). Won’t AI Eventually Be Able to Do Everything? Particularly given its recent surprise successes, there’s a somewhat...
Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of...
1st Oct 2023
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Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua

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

1st Oct 2023
This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of things to do; clean the bathrooms, prototype an idea for a SaaS and ponder world peace. So naturally the procrastination took over and I rewrote my Neovim configuration in...
Sanding UI One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks,...
3rd Sep 2024
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Sanding UI

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

3rd Sep 2024
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I finally consider it done. The clicking around a ton is the important part. If it’s a page transition, that means going back...
affinity how to know if you actually really like something
7th Aug 2025
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affinity

from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Aug 2025
how to know if you actually really like something
Op-Amp Helper PCB A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
8th Nov 2023
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Op-Amp Helper PCB

from Engineers Need Art [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Nov 2023
A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
TinyPilot: Month 28 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
15th Nov 2022
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TinyPilot: Month 28

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

15th Nov 2022
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 $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Christmas break So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and...
18th Dec 2010
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Christmas break

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

18th Dec 2010
So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and I really enjoy studying here. We had lisp the whole time which is a pretty sweet little language and if you haven’t, give it a shot. Then we had math and I do like math, although I...
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