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ribbonfarm
Going Sessile One of the biggest changes in my personality with middle age is that I no longer really enjoy travel...
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One of the biggest changes in my personality with middle age is that I no longer really enjoy travel beyond local weekend getaways. Almost no destination has a pain/novelty ratio that makes it worth it. On the one hand, I’ve traveled enough that few places hold the promise of...
Matt Blewitt
Everything I Know About Operations, I Learned From NHS 111 Ever heard someone say “It’s only software/money/<trivial thing>, not life or death”, in the context...
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Ever heard someone say “It’s only software/money/<trivial thing>, not life or death”, in the context of incidents at your company? Although mostly true, I want to talk about a time in my career when sometimes, just sometimes, it was the latter, and how it shaped my approach to...
Good Enough
TIL: Victory Symbol We noticed that the victory symbol at the bottom of our homepage looked different in Chrome than...
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over a year ago
We noticed that the victory symbol at the bottom of our homepage looked different in Chrome than Safari––it was playing smart and rendered the unicode character as an emoji. Lettini found a fix though! Append this string of code to the symbol: &#xFE0E;. So &#9996;&#xFE0E; renders...
Noahpinion
Who cares about the Ivy League? (repost) Too much of our education discourse focuses on a handful of tiny elite schools.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable...
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I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable computer. An ideal home server. Until the Pi 4, the Pi was not that capable, and only with the relatively recent Pi 5 (fall 2023) do I feel the Pi is OK performance wise, although...
Grow With Less
The unexpected end of the slow, ramp of death 6 months ago, I had just finished creating my first SaaS: the French Together app. My goal was...
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6 months ago, I had just finished creating my first SaaS: the French Together app. My goal was simple: launch it and reach $20k MRR. Writing this, I can’t help but laugh. $20k MRR for a first SaaS? Really? Only 2 types of people would set such an ambitious goal: Someone who never...
Uncharted...
Wind and Solar, a Perfect Match Also, why solar will beat wind, why they are so complementary, the nuclear renaissance, the poor...
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8 months ago
Also, why solar will beat wind, why they are so complementary, the nuclear renaissance, the poor state of German energy, and more.
Essays - Benedict...
Apple innovation and execution It matters that Apple’s new Siri will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn’t realise. Is...
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3 months ago
It matters that Apple’s new Siri will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn’t realise. Is it more than that?
Noahpinion
Bad and good arguments for industrial policy Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
11 months ago
Josh Thompson
A Small Goal is Better than a Grand Plan We all have grand plans. Who’s future projection of themselves goes something like this: “One day,...
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We all have grand plans. Who’s future projection of themselves goes something like this: “One day, when I’m rich (goal one), location independent (goal two), and married to a fabulous woman (goal three), I will travel the world (goal four) while exploring my hobby of ___ (goal...
Louwrentius
'A Moment Of Silence: OpenSolaris Is Dead' The last release of OpenSolaris dates back to July 2009. The next release was scheduled for March...
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The last release of OpenSolaris dates back to July 2009. The next release was scheduled for March 2010, but Oracle did not release anything. It is dead silent around OpenSolaris. On 12 July 2010, the OpenSolaris Government Board sent out an ultimatum to Oracle: "please...
Epic Web Dev
Stop Lying to Your Users
a year ago
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...
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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...
Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979 When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 100: CES January 10, 2025.
5 months ago
Abort Retry Fail
The History of OS/2 Getting a Divorce
a year ago
The Elysian
Writing Prompt: How do we create the next Renaissance? Something I’ve been thinking a lot about is: How can we fund the next Renaissance? How can we create...
a year ago
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a year ago
Something I’ve been thinking a lot about is: How can we fund the next Renaissance? How can we create a world where artists are better funded and…
Ben Borgers
Pluto was 2006??
over a year ago
Flashbak
Émile-Allain Séguy’s Insectes, 1925 – A Hymn To Nature In 20 Beautiful Illustrated Plates “Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no...
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“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible...
Don't Worry About...
Go Grok Yourself That title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
4 months ago
Mazdak
OpenAI Launches Codex: The Future of AI-Powered Software Engineering OpenAI has officially launched Codex, its most advanced AI coding agent to date, within ChatGPT....
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OpenAI has officially launched Codex, its most advanced AI coding agent to date, within ChatGPT. Designed for developers, teams, and enterprises, Codex represents a major step forward in agentic AI systems purpose-built for software engineering.
One from Nippon
A peek into the world of Japan's electric rice cookers It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached out! We are now restarting our articles, though we might not always write once a week. If we don't think it's interesting, we
Contraption Co.
How I built a chatbot with my dog Lessons for AI prompting and retrieval
a month ago
Seth's Blog
Uncomfortable ideas The ideas aren’t uncomfortable, we are. You don’t have to like the weather to acknowledge that it’s...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The ideas aren’t uncomfortable, we are. You don’t have to like the weather to acknowledge that it’s raining.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Answers: Too much money in digital health? | Out-Of-Pocket Here's what some of you had to say
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
This Home Renovation Made More Use Of The Basement And Outdoor Space Best Practice Architecture has shared photos of a contemporary home renovation they completed in...
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a year ago
Best Practice Architecture has shared photos of a contemporary home renovation they completed in Seattle, Washington. Before – The Exterior The single-story, mid-century home had two doors at the front of the home, with steps leading to each one. After – The Exterior The updated...
Calculated Risk
Wednesday: CPI, NY Fed Mfg, Beige Book Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
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5 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. Consumer Price Index for December from the BLS. The consensus is for 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.2% increase in core CPI.  The consensus is for CPI to be...
Vadim Kravcenko
Security at Startup In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets focused on until […] The post Security at Startup appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Jennie Ing Describe your printmaking process. I make linocut prints by the reduction method. This is where all...
a year ago
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a year ago
Describe your printmaking process. I make linocut prints by the reduction method. This is where all the colours come from the same piece of lino with the successive cutting away of the lino block and printing a new colour over the top of the last. The edition size has to be...
The New Oil
Hooked 2.0: How Scams are Evolving & How to Avoid Them
4 months ago
Rest of World -...
Meet the mothers in small-town Hungary leading a fight against Chinese EV battery plants Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s goal to turn Hungary into a global EV battery hub is facing...
8 months ago
Seth's Blog
Where does your mind go when it wanders? My friend Jason points out that this might be where your heart is. What would have to change for you...
a year ago
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a year ago
My friend Jason points out that this might be where your heart is. What would have to change for you to actually follow the wandering and make it real? Or for your mind to choose to wander somewhere else? Somewhere you’re already going.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Behold Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any resemblance to any sitting official is a trick...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any resemblance to any sitting official is a trick of the eye - this is in fact a 2D cartoon drawing. Today's News:
Platformer
Meta seeks to hide harms from teens But to change the conversation, the company will have to do more than tweak its settings
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 3: The Scourge
8 months ago
Stephen Wolfram...
Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳 ::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture...
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::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture RootTree ImplicitD “ExprStruct” ChemicalConvert UniqueElements ReplaceAt TypeEvaluate TreeLeafCount QuestionSelector IncludeSingularSolutions KernelConfiguration PhongShading...
Quanta Magazine
How Is Science Even Possible? How are scientists able to crack fundamental questions about nature and life? How does math make the...
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How are scientists able to crack fundamental questions about nature and life? How does math make the complex cosmos understandable? In this episode, the physicist Nigel Goldenfeld and co-host Steven Strogatz explore the deep foundations of the scientific process. The...
axio.ms
Axio.ms site refresh This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4...
over a year ago
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This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4 years, I’m still alive”. The original axio.ms site was a very HTML1.0 affair and while this was kind of intentional-tongue-in-cheek-chic, it was also a PITA to update. It wasn’t...
Louwrentius
Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years....
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over a year ago
Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years. This pace is great for progress, but there is a serious problem. This problem is related to their support for older Debian stable versions. If you read the quote below from the...
Evan Hahn's blog
Notes from "Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement" I just finished James Vincent’s Beyond Measure, a 2023 book about the history of measurement and its...
4 months ago
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I just finished James Vincent’s Beyond Measure, a 2023 book about the history of measurement and its impact on our lives. The book reveals how the meter’s length is tied to the French Revolution. It highlights many scientific discoveries linked to advances in measurement. It...
Stat Significant
What Are the Greatest Sequels of All Time? A Statistical Analysis What are the best movie sequels, and why?
5 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 056: Data deals March 1, 2024.
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it,...
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My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it, this website is now generated with pure HTML & CSS. Although, generated isn’t the proper way to describe it anymore. Written is a better description. No more Markdown files. No...
David Heinemeier...
Apple approves the HEY Calendar I’ll admit it was a bit cheeky to make our new HEY Calendar app “do something” by including Apple’s...
a year ago
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I’ll admit it was a bit cheeky to make our new HEY Calendar app “do something” by including Apple’s own history as a preview for people who don’t have an account. And I didn’t give the gambit better than 30% odds of succeeding, but lo and behold, it did! Apple has approved our...
Words and Buttons...
The Real C++ Killers (Not You, Rust) All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D,...
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All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D, help you write more features with fewer bugs, but they don't much help when you need to squeeze the very last FLOPS from the hardware you rent. As such, they don’t have a...
Map of the Week
Tracking the Disappeared The United States Disappeared Tracker is a new Tableau visualization from Danielle Harlow. It shows...
2 months ago
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The United States Disappeared Tracker is a new Tableau visualization from Danielle Harlow. It shows where people have been taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This map is part of a dashboard that “visualizes person brought into ICE custody when the...
TheCollector
Alix of Hesse, the Tragic German Princess Who Became the Last Tsarina Princess Alexandra led a privileged childhood in the German Empire, close to her cousins in the...
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2 weeks ago
Princess Alexandra led a privileged childhood in the German Empire, close to her cousins in the British royal family. Her charmed upbringing led to a teenage romance with the future tsar of Russia, Nicholas Romanov. She became the empress of the Russian Empire when her husband...
Adventures In...
Blend Mode Helper Blend modes can be a complex thing to wrap one’s head around. Experimentation is the best teacher,...
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Blend modes can be a complex thing to wrap one’s head around. Experimentation is the best teacher, but even then there are lots of variabilities involved, depending on the layer you use to experiment. The Blend Mode Helper Map (and its constituent Blend Mode Helper layer) reduces...
A Beautiful Site
CSS reset with box-sizing fix For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset....
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over a year ago
For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset. And since I'm not a glutton for punishment, I also throw in the tried and tested box-sizing fix popularized by Paul Irish. Instead of searching for and combining these...
Wuthering...
Please read Greek philosophy with me - Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, dog men, people jumping in... Greek philosophy, readalong #2. This idea got more interesting the more I thought about it, but...
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over a year ago
Greek philosophy, readalong #2. This idea got more interesting the more I thought about it, but had more organizational problems, plus the greater problem that I do not think of philosophy as a strength of mine.  My solution has been to convert the project into literature. Is...
David Heinemeier...
System tests have failed When we introduced a default setup for system tests in Rails 5.1 back in 2016, I had high hopes. In...
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When we introduced a default setup for system tests in Rails 5.1 back in 2016, I had high hopes. In theory, system tests, which drive a headless browser through your actual interface, offer greater confidence that the entire machine is working as it ought. And because it runs in...
Open Culture
See Albert Camus’ Historic Lecture, “The Human Crisis,” Performed by Actor Viggo Mortensen Back in 2016, New York City staged a month-long festival celebrating Albert Camus’ historic visit to...
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Back in 2016, New York City staged a month-long festival celebrating Albert Camus’ historic visit to NYC in 1946. One event in the festival featured actor Viggo Mortensen giving a reading of Camus’ lecture,“La Crise de l’homme” (“The Human Crisis”) at Columbia University–the very...
Eric Bailey
Tech metaphors Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors to drop at your next sprint planning meeting: Winchester Mystery House A mansion in San Jose, California that was once occupied by Sarah Winchester, widow of the eponymous firearms...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Notes on raising seed financing Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how...
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Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how to raise a seed round.  After a long…
TheCollector
10 Best Places to Visit in Mexico for History Buffs Mexico might be renowned as a beach lover’s ideal destination, yet the allure for history lovers is...
2 months ago
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Mexico might be renowned as a beach lover’s ideal destination, yet the allure for history lovers is even greater. With a capital city built atop the ruins of ancient empires, a head-spinning array of sensational pre-Columbian ruins, world-famous pyramids, enchanting colonial...
Noahpinion
Blue states don't build. Red states do. A timely repost, with some updates.
3 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Want to join the Rust docs team?
over a year ago
Machine Learning for...
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
3 months ago
TheCollector
Was Belisarius Byzantium’s Greatest General? Belisarius arrived in Constantinople around 520, serving in the military and joining Emperor...
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Belisarius arrived in Constantinople around 520, serving in the military and joining Emperor Justinian’s personal bodyguard. By 526, he had achieved a senior rank but had already commanded troops in battles for Emperor Justin. Upon Justin’s death, the new Emperor Justinian I gave...
Yale e360
I'm scared, and hopeful, and you can help Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event. It's my first time flying since 2018, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event. It's my first time flying since 2018, and I'm excited to meet all my coworkers in person. The travel is, on whole, going to be a good experience. But there is a lot surrounding the travel that is stressful and scary. I'm...
Open Culture
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Creative Process: A Look Inside the Books & Techniques That Allowed His Art... The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat has its unfortunate aspects: not just his premature death, but...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat has its unfortunate aspects: not just his premature death, but also the aggressive marketing of his work and persona in the years leading up to it. He became a vogue artist of the eighties in part because he could be taken as an unfiltered voice...
Diaries of Note
You must be looking for Stuart Kevin Bentley was twenty-one when, in July of 1977, he left El Paso and headed for the bustling...
a year ago
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a year ago
Kevin Bentley was twenty-one when, in July of 1977, he left El Paso and headed for the bustling streets of San Francisco—one of thousands of young gay men flocking to this vibrant city in search of acceptance, community, and hedonism. San Francisco offered an enticing allure of...
Articles
How to plan a remote team retreat Here are six of our recommendations for planning remote team retreats
over a year ago
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ There's a Banksy in Park City, Utah Day 4: Sept 13, 2023 — Yesterday’s overstimulation resonates throughout the night, so neither of us...
a year ago
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a year ago
Day 4: Sept 13, 2023 — Yesterday’s overstimulation resonates throughout the night, so neither of us sleep well. A truck with an RV trailer shows up at 2:30 a.m. While they are on the other end of the campground, there’s enough noise to make me poke my head out of the tent. Given...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Turning Conversations Into Documentation Automagically 🪄 with Abridge | Out-Of-Pocket How to get more value out of the rich data of patient-provider conversations
a year ago
Ben Borgers
A Design Improvement for Our Communal Showers
over a year ago
Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
a year ago
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
Josh Collinsworth
Alfred vs. Raycast: my constant debate After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make...
a year ago
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a year ago
After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred. This is what prompted me to make that decision, and why I may or may not stick with it.
TokyoDev
TokyoDev supports the legalization of same-sex marriage in Japan Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect people I care about. So when I saw Business for Marriage Equality, a campaign that highlights 500+ companies and organizations that support legalization of same-sex marriage, I...
Tony Dinh's...
$322 → $2K MRR in 60 days by building in public Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 Today is a special day. I want to share with you all this post I...
over a year ago
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Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 Today is a special day. I want to share with you all this post I originally posted on Indie Hackers, but I think you all will also be interested! It’s a long post about my journey growing Black Magic to $2K MRR in the last 2 months.
One Useful Thing
What AI can do with a toolbox... Getting started with Code Interpreter Democratizing data analysis with AI
a year ago
Fatih Arslan
I was wrong about AI Coding I'm mostly anti-AI person since the AI hype started years ago. However with time I realized that I...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I'm mostly anti-AI person since the AI hype started years ago. However with time I realized that I misjudged AI Coding — Here’s Why.
Uncharted...
Why Do We Like Concerts? It's not what you think
3 months ago
Londonist
The Gingerbread City 2023: London's Tastiest Exhibition Returns For Christmas Buildings made of biscuits, decorated with icing and sweets.
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
happiness is a difficult thing to bear I am an unhappy person in general. But once in a while, an acute sense of awareness strikes me and I...
a year ago
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I am an unhappy person in general. But once in a while, an acute sense of awareness strikes me and I experience the totality of that particular moment – I catch a...
The American Scholar
“The Horses” by Edwin Muir Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Horses” by Edwin Muir appeared first on The American...
6 months ago
Platformer
How Facebook does (and doesn’t) shape our political views Four long-awaited studies paint a muddy picture of social media’s impact on public opinion
a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for...
a year ago
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a year ago
A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for jobs, applying, interviewing, and all those fun things. For whatever it's worth.
NeuroLogica Blog
Microbes Aboard the ISS As I have written many times, including in yesterday’s post, people occupying space is hard. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
As I have written many times, including in yesterday’s post, people occupying space is hard. The environment of space, or really anywhere not on Earth, is harsh and unforgiving. One of the issues, for example, rarely addressed in science fiction or even discussions of space...
Citation Needed
Polling: Are Democratic voters really “increasingly gravitating towards crypto”? Paradigm has polled some Democratic voters about crypto and released a summary of their results. How...
10 months ago
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Paradigm has polled some Democratic voters about crypto and released a summary of their results. How does it stack up to other industry polls, which are often heavily manipulated to paint a deceptively rosy picture?
Liz Denys
Understanding GNU Screen's captions I love screen. I know all the cool kids are using tmux now, but screen keeps it simple and does...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I love screen. I know all the cool kids are using tmux now, but screen keeps it simple and does everything I really need. One of the things I (possibly mistakenly) want is lots of windows. The problem with having lots of windows is they quickly become hard to keep track of,...
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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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.
Platformer
How the Brazil riots change Facebook's Trump equation After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former president's account
Matt Blewitt
Riding the Risk Railway When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is important to consider the riskiness of a user, which can also be characterised as trustworthiness. These will typically be negatively correlated, with low trust indicating high risk...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Work Hard
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Contemporary Makeover For A Home Built In 1907 Best Practice Architecture has designed the contemporary remodel of a 1907 home in Seattle,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Best Practice Architecture has designed the contemporary remodel of a 1907 home in Seattle, Washington, that measures just 16-and-a-half feet wide. Surrounded by old-growth trees in Seattle’s Phinney Ridge neighborhood, the cozy gambrel roof dwelling is dubbed “Phinney Mini” for...
AI Snake Oil
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem. Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
6 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Rosanna Reade I am a printmaker and illustrator from Northern Ireland, living and working in Edinburgh. I studied...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am a printmaker and illustrator from Northern Ireland, living and working in Edinburgh. I studied History of Art at University but have reverted back to creating art rather than talking or writing about it! As a self-taught printmaker, there is quite a lot of trial and error...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Intelligent Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is gonna be the most upsetting part about...
9 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is gonna be the most upsetting part about first alien contact. Today's News:
Classical Wisdom
The Spider's Web An Overlooked Myth
2 months ago
Quanta Magazine
How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how...
8 months ago
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Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing. The post How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero first appeared on Quanta Magazine
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Things to Know Before Seeing a Broadway Show in New York City
a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Curiosity + Obsession + Clarity = Quality Why the Business of Building Websites Generates So Much Garbage
over a year ago
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Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
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Exploding offers are bullshit I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I...
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I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I've often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers...
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I Have a Design Portfolio For the longest time, I’ve shared my work through blog posts or social media, rather than having a...
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For the longest time, I’ve shared my work through blog posts or social media, rather than having a typical portfolio. But I’ve decided it’s time to pull together a more cohesive collection of my work, focusing on product design and creative direction. My projects are usually...
The Marginalian
How the Octopus Came to Earth: Stunning 19th-Century French Chromolithographs of Cephalopods The art-science that captured the wonder of some of "the most brilliant productions of Nature."
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🔗 Knowledge workers Perhaps it’s even better to acknowledge that there never were any knowledge workers. There have only...
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Perhaps it’s even better to acknowledge that there never were any knowledge workers. There have only ever been workers. — Mandy Brown Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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Washington State has a history as expansive and layered as its landscapes. Long before statehood in 1889, the region was home to numerous Indigenous tribes who shaped its identity and geography. The arrival of explorers, traders, and pioneers brought about a new chapter, marked...
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CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different...
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Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different kernel vulnerabilities I reported recently. This post is about CVE-2010-4258, the most interesting of them, and, as Dan writes, the reason he wrote the exploit in the first place. In...
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Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming...
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As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.
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“Hymn” by A. R. Ammons Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Hymn” by A. R. Ammons appeared first on The American...
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Challenge: Create a private label for the legendary sixth-floor Food Hall at KaDeWe — also known as the culinary heaven...
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Brazil in World War II: The Forgotten Ally In the 1930s, Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas pushed to expand and industrialize his country’s...
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In the 1930s, Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas pushed to expand and industrialize his country’s economy—until the outbreak of World War II upended his plans. In response to repeated Axis attacks on Brazilian shipping, Brazil joined the Allies in 1942 and made significant, though...
Applied Cartography
Use Rails I have a good number of people ask me what software stack they should use. I always have a two-part...
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I have a good number of people ask me what software stack they should use. I always have a two-part answer: Use what you're familiar with. If there's something that you've spent a good amount of time using, stick with that one. Rails. People are usually surprised when I say this...
Jonas Hietala
MenuCity This game is called MenuCity and it’s a numbers game. Well that’s the theme anyway. The game pretty...
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This game is called MenuCity and it’s a numbers game. Well that’s the theme anyway. The game pretty much held to what I planned for - except that it deviated from the theme -again- a bit. My game is very reminiscent of the old calculator classic Block Dude made by Brandon...
TheCollector
Who (or What) Was Ma’at in Ancient Egypt? Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness...
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Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness of things” and was a mixture of order, harmony, and justice. As with many important concepts in the Egyptian world, Ma’at was considered to be a divine force fundamental within...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 What Listening Does — An Untaught Life Skill Simply put, listening is hard; it’s work. Our minds, much like our bodies are rarely still or at...
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Simply put, listening is hard; it’s work. Our minds, much like our bodies are rarely still or at ease — a condition that leads to listening poorly, which is one step away from equally poor thinking and decision making. — Scott Boms Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
Open Culture
The Romans Stashed Hallucinogenic Seeds in a Vial Made From an Animal Bone What’s popular in the metropolis sooner or later makes its way out into the provinces. This...
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What’s popular in the metropolis sooner or later makes its way out into the provinces. This phenomenon has become more difficult to notice in recent years, not because it’s slowed down, but because it’s sped way up, owing to near-instantaneous cultural diffusion on the internet....
Business Brainstorms
Reference checks as a service, the need for more competition everywhere, GPT travel planning,... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
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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 “Business idea: Reference checks as a service. Do...
The Prism
The Pathologization Pandemic Why youth mental illness is surging
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A flash of light in the darkness I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of...
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I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of the default background texture. I like giving my website a subtle bit of texture, which I think makes it stand out from a web which is mostly solid-colour backgrounds. Both my...
Both Are True
wait no that last email wasn't supposed to get cut off !!! this one has the May schedule for the BATCAVE 🦇🦇 Hey also should teach a workshop in how to send...
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this one has the May schedule for the BATCAVE 🦇🦇 Hey also should teach a workshop in how to send emails good and how you definitely should send a follow up immediately after that is KEY
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A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of...
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As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of metrics, analytics, retention and gro...
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The DBCFT; Construction productivity and regulation; Rationality and complexity; U.S. productivity growth; Demand-side inflation; Health care monopsony and innovation
Explorations of an...
Monsoon Season In Arizona, Part 5: Portal Back To Phoenix September 4, 2024 Our day began with coffee and breakfast on the deck, watching the bird feeders hum...
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September 4, 2024 Our day began with coffee and breakfast on the deck, watching the bird feeders hum with activity. It was, sadly, our final morning in this region and we packed up and headed out. It would have been nice to have an extra night or two here, though you could say...
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The Artificiality of Alignment This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk”...
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This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Artistic From a stand-alone comic about the Penguin, a museum in Gotham City: From the Look Around feature in...
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From a stand-alone comic about the Penguin, a museum in Gotham City: From the Look Around feature in Apple Maps, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fifth Avenue facade: From 1900, when the main facade of the center block was complete, but the wings not yet constructed: The rough...
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AI #107: The Misplaced Hype Machine The most hyped event of the week, by far, was the Manus Marketing Madness. Manus wasn’t entirely...
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The most hyped event of the week, by far, was the Manus Marketing Madness. Manus wasn’t entirely hype, but there was very little there there in that Claude wrapper.
Blog - Mac Pierce
Bits and bobs, some of the small projects I've been working on. Rounding up a few smaller projects I’ve been working on here and there.
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Sometimes It Works...
2024: Just the Start 2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023...
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2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023 was tough, but 2024 went some way to redressing the balance and I am even more positive about 2025 because of it. Here are a few highlights: We went to Japan! My first time in...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/the-universe-abridged-beyond-the-point-of-usefulness?ref=6vghse Today's News: Thank you!
The Map is Mostly...
Careful technology Dear friends, There is a commonplace opinion that technology and the natural world, or that...
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Dear friends, There is a commonplace opinion that technology and the natural world, or that technological pursuits and natural pursuits, are at odds. An example: I think this is a false position. But if this kind of sentiment is so often repeated, its worth thinking about why it...
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The Global Trade Game: Jokers Are Wild There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination (tm), and that is likely the best outcome....
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There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination (tm), and that is likely the best outcome. Okay, players: jokers are wild, but with a twist: the entire deck is jokers. Since everyone at the table will have five Aces, nobody wins. Welcome to the Trade War Poker...
Noahpinion
Why America betrayed Europe There are lots of reasons, actually.
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Calculated Risk
Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-February 2025 Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market;...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-February 2025 A brief excerpt: Earlier this week, in Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-February 2025 I reviewed home inventory, housing...
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Reclaimed Wood Finds New Life In This Coastal Home Set beneath the branches of towering Messmate Gums in Torquay, Australia, Winkler Residence is a...
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Set beneath the branches of towering Messmate Gums in Torquay, Australia, Winkler Residence is a sustainable, timber-framed home designed by Peter Winkler Architects. Conceived as both a family residence and an architectural studio, the project is shaped by decades of coastal...
blag
What I want to do at Recurse Center Projects I want to work on at RC
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Construction Physics
Boeing Reading List Unlike most topics that I write about, the aircraft industry is an industry that has enthusiasts:...
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Unlike most topics that I write about, the aircraft industry is an industry that has enthusiasts: lots and lots of people are interested in following various aspects of the commercial aircraft world for fun (example: not only are there extremely accurate flight simulators, but...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have I told you about my Pop Sci extravaganza A City on Mars? Today's News:
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 16: The Art of War In week 16 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the Tao Te Ching and The Art of War. I just...
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In week 16 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the Tao Te Ching and The Art of War. I just re-read the Tao Te Ching last year, so I only revisited my notes now. I’ve also read The Art of War a few times, but decided to re-visit it now anyway. Readings Both books are...
The Ruffian
Five Myths About Trump Why We Keep Underestimating Him
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Delivery riders are fighting each other over bike-shares in Brazil Almost half the riders from Brazil’s largest delivery app now use city bikes to get around.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
We're Watching Facebook Die In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was...
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In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was pure profit. Though the company no longer reports daily active users, it now uses another metric: “family daily active people.” This number refers to “registered and logged-in
Retail Design Blog
phenom israel Phenom is a global HR technology company that delivers a single-platform solution and...
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Phenom is a global HR technology company that delivers a single-platform solution and hyper-personalized experiences for candidates, recruiters, and employees....
blag
It is becoming difficult for me to be productive in Python It’s harder to refactor a large Python codebase. Type hints won’t save you, and you need a lot of...
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It’s harder to refactor a large Python codebase. Type hints won’t save you, and you need a lot of unit tests. But how does that work in practice? Is Python fast to ship?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Plutarch and Pleasure
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What Can We Learn about Engineering and Innovation from Half a Century of the Game of Life Cellular... Metaengineering and Laws of Innovation Things are invented. Things are discovered. And somehow...
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Metaengineering and Laws of Innovation Things are invented. Things are discovered. And somehow there’s an arc of progress that’s formed. But are there what amount to “laws of innovation” that govern that arc of progress? There are some exponential and other laws that purport to...
Internal Tech Emails
Instagram cofounder on Mark Zuckerberg will he go into destroy mode if I say no
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Rest of World -...
Ethiopians are struggling to keep up with the new “EV or nothing” policy Ethiopia became the first country in the world to ban the import of gas and diesel cars. But the...
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Ethiopia became the first country in the world to ban the import of gas and diesel cars. But the country has only around 50 charging stations.
samwho.dev
Move Your Bugs to the Left We all want to ship bug-free software. No-one wants to be the person that introduced a show-stopping...
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over a year ago
We all want to ship bug-free software. No-one wants to be the person that introduced a show-stopping bug the week before release. To help with this, I’ve come up with a simple way to visualise the points in the development process that you can find bugs. The further to the left...
Anecdotal Evidence
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Had I been more clever or alert I might have heard and recorded my brother’s last words before he died last August in hospice. A reader asks about this, and I admit I blew it. For the last week or so of his life, Ken was unconscious, occasionally moaning when the nurses shifted...
mtlynch.io
Should I Invest in iBonds? In a recent Hacker News thread about preparing financially for a possible recession, a commenter...
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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...
Res Obscura
Kikkuli! Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Londonist
Things To Do In London On Christmas Eve 2023 Ice skating, festive films and Christmas carols.
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Profiling Rust programs the easy way Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just...
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Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just gives you the control to eke out whatever performance you need. So if your program is still slow, how do you fix that? Profiling your program is one of the best options for figuring...
TheCollector
The Dogs of War: Genghis Khan’s 4 Legendary Generals During Genghis Khan’s rise to power and subsequent conquests, he gathered many men to his side who...
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During Genghis Khan’s rise to power and subsequent conquests, he gathered many men to his side who became his trusted confidants and most able commanders. Four of them came to be known as his notorious “Four Dogs of War.” In this article, we shall explore the extraordinary...
Open Culture
Simone de Beauvoir Explains “Why I’m a Feminist” in a Rare TV Interview (1975) In Simone de Beauvoir’s 1945 novel The Blood of Others, the narrator, Jean Blomart, reports on his...
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In Simone de Beauvoir’s 1945 novel The Blood of Others, the narrator, Jean Blomart, reports on his childhood friend Marcel’s reaction to the word “revolution”: It was senseless to try to change anything in the world or in life; things were bad enough even if one did not meddle...
Articles
Jason Fried wants to delete my backlog
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symmetry magazine
A call to cite Black women and gender minorities Theoretical astrophysicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein recently unveiled the Cite Black Women+ in...
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Theoretical astrophysicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein recently unveiled the Cite Black Women+ in Physics and Astronomy Bibliography.
NeuroLogica Blog
Managing Plastic Waste The world produces 350-400 million metric tons of plastic waste. Less than 10% of this waste is...
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The world produces 350-400 million metric tons of plastic waste. Less than 10% of this waste is recycled, while 25% is mismanaged or littered. About 1.7 million tons ends up in the ocean. This is not sustainable, but whose responsibility is it to deal with this issue? The debate...
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols They are quite serious, actually.
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Londonist
Behind The Blue Doors Of Brixton's Georgian Almshouse Free exhibition comes to Lambeth Archives.
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One Useful Thing
Scaling: The State of Play in AI A brief intergenerational pause...
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Ink & Switch
02 · Group Key Agreement with BeeKEM How Beehive groups can agree on keys over time
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Calculated Risk
AIA: Architecture Billings "Flat" in November; Multi-family Billings Turn Slightly Positive Note: This index is a leading indicator primarily for new Commercial Real Estate (CRE)...
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Note: This index is a leading indicator primarily for new Commercial Real Estate (CRE) investment. ABI November 2024: Architecture firm billings remain flat Despite the AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score dipping slightly below 50 for the month, it remains close...
Sometimes It Works...
Streaming & Recording I started streaming on Twitch a while ago. My plan was to do it regularly, but you know how life...
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I started streaming on Twitch a while ago. My plan was to do it regularly, but you know how life gets in the way. I'm going to make a concerted effort to do more tho going forwards. Streams are going to be focused on my side projects and open source work I stream on Twitch...
99% Invisible
Backfired: The Vaping Wars [EPISODE] For decades, people have been trying to figure out how to create a cigarette without many of the...
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For decades, people have been trying to figure out how to create a cigarette without many of the downsides. Cigarettes sans the things that make smoking the biggest cause of preventable death in America like tar, carcinogens, etc. Cigarette companies tried to create “safe,”...
Josh Comeau's blog
Hands-Free Coding Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately,...
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over a year ago
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Where to Learn About Jewish History in Germany
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Rest of World -...
The Indian company forcing Uber to change its business model Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now...
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Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now other ride-hailing apps are rethinking their strategy.
Rest of World -...
Using automation to fight misinformation, starting with a menstrual health chatbot Swapneel Mehta is the founder of the Simppl research collective, a group of students and...
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Swapneel Mehta is the founder of the Simppl research collective, a group of students and professional programmers working on automated social media tools.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Needed Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I draw hands so poorly I worry I'll be...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I draw hands so poorly I worry I'll be accused of being an AI. Today's News: THANK YOU! We are just over a day in and past 250% of our goal. WOOHOO! If you check out the page, you'll see we now have Phil Plait as an...
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Pseudocode for Intentionality I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my...
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I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my working definition of how to be more intentional.
Londonist
Win Tickets To The Glowing Land Of Lights Lantern Festival This Winter Free entry for up to six people!
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The Works in...
A review of Charles Piller’s Doctored How fraud and bad research derailed years of Alzheimer's progress
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Grow With Less
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As someone who has been blogging for 10 years, I find most articles designed to encourage people to start blogging infuriating. They paint blogging as this wonderful activity that will free you from your 9 to 5 job and solve all your problems. They show you pictures of happy...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Pricing to the demand curve Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students...
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Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students an imaginary trip to Hawaii, and asks…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 087: DevDay SF October 4, 2024.
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The Marginalian
Milan Kundera on Animal Rights and What True Human Goodness Really Means "True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient...
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"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true mortal test, its fundamental test... consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals."
Basta’s Notes
The rough edges of Terraform that I awkwardly stumble over First and foremost, thanks to everyone who has subscribed recently. I know I’ve been quieter than...
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over a year ago
First and foremost, thanks to everyone who has subscribed recently. I know I’ve been quieter than usual. I actually have a number of nearly-complete drafts ready to go, but each is waiting on something. Two of them are posts that I think y’all will hopefully enjoy very much!
Anecdotal Evidence
'Death, Indeed, Continually Hovers About Us' A high-school friend writes to ask what I remember of May 4, 1970. We would graduate in a month and...
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A high-school friend writes to ask what I remember of May 4, 1970. We would graduate in a month and go to university in the fall. The fear and excitement of that symbolic step toward adulthood was blunted by the killing of four students by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State...
Arduino Blog
This DIY standing desk controller provides luxury car-style memory settings One of the best features you’ll find on a fancy luxury car is seat position memory. Typically, there...
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One of the best features you’ll find on a fancy luxury car is seat position memory. Typically, there are at least two profiles that “save” the position of the seat. When switching drivers, the new seat occupant can simply push the button for their profile and the seat will...
Louwrentius
ZFS: Performance and capacity impact of ashift=9 on 4K sector drives Update 2014-8-23: I was testing with ashift for my new NAS. The ashift=9 write performance...
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Update 2014-8-23: I was testing with ashift for my new NAS. The ashift=9 write performance deteriorated from 1.1 GB/s to 830 MB/s with just 16 TB of data on the pool. Also I noticed that resilvering was very slow. This is why I decided to abandon my 24 drive RAIDZ3...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Understanding PLONK
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Retail Design Blog
Knoll flagship showroom American design brand Knoll has opened a new flagship showroom on New York’s Park Avenue, where...
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American design brand Knoll has opened a new flagship showroom on New York’s Park Avenue, where metal mesh curtains serve...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders. "With mix-blend-mode finally gaining wide browser-support, we now have access to many of most common...
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"With mix-blend-mode finally gaining wide browser-support, we now have access to many of most common shading techniques in CSS. With some choice images and a bit of careful layering it’s possible to build some surprisingly high-quality effects without the need for introducing any...
Seth's Blog
All of it, all at once The smartphone is the most expensive device most people own, and the one they use the most. Here’s...
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The smartphone is the most expensive device most people own, and the one they use the most. Here’s everything you can’t have, can’t afford and won’t get, right here. Here’s everyone you want to have an argument with, one click away. Here is every piece of bad news we can imagine,...
Contemporist...
A Small Cabin-Like Structure That Can Be Compressed When Not In Use Architects Juan Ruiz and Amelia Tapia have shared some photos of their latest design, a small...
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Architects Juan Ruiz and Amelia Tapia have shared some photos of their latest design, a small cabin-like room that expands when needed.
The Ruffian
How Did Politics Get So Weird? James Kanagasooriam Explains Everything
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Stoic Simple
A Stoic Perspective on Achieving Happiness In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges and...
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In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges and pressures of daily life. Many of us are constantly searching for ways to achieve happiness and inner peace amidst the chaos. While some turn to meditation and mindfulness, others...
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David’s slaying of Goliath is one of the Bible’s most well-known stories. But the story’s plot line in the Hebrew Bible contains three confusing wrinkles. First, the reader is introduced to David twice in the narrative. Second, David meets Saul, the king of Israel, twice in the...
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In Homer’s Odyssey, composed in the 7th century BCE, Odysseus is a king. As such, he obviously has a palace of sorts on Ithaca, his home island. Ithaca was a real place, as were most of the places described by Homer. However, does this mean that Homer was describing a real place...
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I have never contributed to nginx. My C skills are 1/10. But downloading the source, hacking it up, compiling it, and running it doesn't scare me. This post is to help you overcome your own fears about doing so. Not necessarily because you should be running out-of-tree diffs in...
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Getting server-side rendering to work in React is quite a hassle if you don't know what you're doing. Let's make it easier.
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The global energy sector defied expectations this year, in ways both good and bad for the climate. Four charts highlight key trends in the transition to clean energy. Read more on E360 →
Both Are True
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HTMHell
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As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught. So, for example, we may think it would be a good idea to put some restrictions in an input field for a name: <label for="name">First name:</label> <input type="text" minlength="3" maxlength="20"...
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Go 1.23 adds iterators. An iterator is a way to provide values that can be used in for x := range iter loops. People are happy the iterators were added to the language. Not everyone is happy about HOW they were implemented. This person opined that they demonstrate “typical Go...
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Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll through a timeline of past screen recordings. Rewind also recognizes text, including text in videos and Zoom calls, allowing the user to perform full-text search on anything that has...
Noahpinion
The "corporate feudalism" thing won't work Warrenite progressives are not going to catch populist fire by bashing corporations.
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Two very brief items of interest: This article is a nice popular discussion of the history of fiber optics and the remarkable progress it's made for telecommunications.  If you're interested in a more expansive but very accessible take on this, I highly recommend City of...
The Rational Walk
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It’s not an understatement when I say no-code practically changed my life and my career. In 2018, I was a different KP. Stuck at a corporate job where I felt like I was a tiny cog in a huge wheel, surrounded by uninspiring peers who I didn’t resonate with, bringing home a...
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IEEE Spectrum
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By Colin Wren, Co-founder of Reciprocal.dev . It took me until I built my second product, Reciprocal.dev , to really understand the value of…
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Is Bluesky REALLY decentralized? Join us as we analyze Bluesky's architecture and discuss whether it truly lives up to the hype.
Saturday Morning...
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I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced across multiple machines. I also want to keep the history with git. And, I want to use end-to-end encryption (no storing a plain git repo on a remote server), have a serverless...
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The Marginalian
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Last Sunday I needed to make a decision. I was debating leaving my job, unsure which way to go. So I went for a run in search of clarity. I hit the trail dressed in black, only my white head exposed to the winter wind.
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Save The Chewing Gum Art Trail On The Millennium Bridge Ben Wilson's art is threatened.
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All those readers that Substack shows you as a positive thing on your dashboard are worth very little. Upon leaving Substack authors have found that users acquired via the Substack recommendation engine have higher churn than organic growth and are less likely to open your...
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Seth's Blog
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Thanks to everyone who has read, talked about and taken action around my new book, The Song of Signficance. If you have a chance to post a review, that would be great. And you can find the podcasts here. The first step in making things better is talking about it.
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This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing award winners from 139 different design disciplines. A’ Design Award-winning...
The Marginalian
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The necessities of survival make our lives livable, but everything that makes them worth living partakes of the art of the unnecessary: beauty (the cave was no warmer or safer for our paintings, and what about the bowerbird?), love (how easily we could propagate our genes without...
Grow With Less
A Day in the Life of a Full-Time Blogger Search “blogger working” in Google Image and you will see thousands of smiling bloggers working on...
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Search “blogger working” in Google Image and you will see thousands of smiling bloggers working on their laptop while drinking coffee in a trendy coffee shop. And while these things can definitely be part of a blogger’s day, they are only the visible part of the iceberg. Blogging...
Maggie Appleton
Metaphors We Web By A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web
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Open Source Typeface Pairings Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
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Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost). So, I’ve...
journal – Winnie Lim
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The other day I caught myself thinking: my partner is the greatest contributor to my happiness. It is not only because I am a recipient of her generous love, but what is...
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Devmoh
The Fall of Stack Overflow, Explained Stack Overflow's decline is partly self-imposed, but also somewhat out if its control.
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Seth's Blog
The reality of meliorism Nearly 150 years ago, George Eliot gave us a name for our project. She pointed out that we could...
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Nearly 150 years ago, George Eliot gave us a name for our project. She pointed out that we could ameliorate the problems of the human condition, day by day, year by year, toward better. Max Roser highlighted three sentences that seem like they can’t all be true: “The world is...
Left To Write
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Anarchy Unfolds
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On the Arts
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