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Part 6: Is the proposed new city in California climate resilient?
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
8 months ago
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal.
One of the biggest questions I had when I first learned about this...
TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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6 months ago
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The importance of dogfooding - Why product managers should use their product as much as their users
Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction...
over a year ago
Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction which build up over time and frustrate your users…
cdixon.org RSS Feed
What’s Next in Computing?
The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles....
over a year ago
The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing…
Tony Dinh's...
My Best Month Ever: $23,109 revenue (+ November 2021 updates)
Hello everyone! This is Tony 👋 I just had my best month ever in my entire indie hacking journey,...
over a year ago
Hello everyone! This is Tony 👋 I just had my best month ever in my entire indie hacking journey, and I’m excited to share it with you all! 🤑 I made $23K in November 2021 as a solo dev Here is the full breakdown: Revenue: $23,109.02 Sales Tax: $1,726.13
Anecdotal Evidence
'Those Move Easiest Who Have Learned to Dance'
Hugh Kenner glosses
a well-known couplet in Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” (1711) by...
a year ago
Hugh Kenner glosses
a well-known couplet in Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” (1711) by reference to Newton’s
second law of motion (published in 1687 in his Principia Mathematica, one year before Pope’s birth) and “numerous
points of disequilibrium”:
“True ease
in writing...
Posts on Made of...
Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work...
over a year ago
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago...
journal – Winnie Lim
my strange relationship with time
I have a strange relationship with time. On one hand, I have time anxiety: the fear that time will...
a year ago
I have a strange relationship with time. On one hand, I have time anxiety: the fear that time will pass too quickly and I’ll run out of time. On the other hand,...
This Space
39 Books: 1988
This is one of my most surprising discoveries in second-hand bookshop trawls in the far off days...
7 months ago
This is one of my most surprising discoveries in second-hand bookshop trawls in the far off days when they existed, especially because it was found in Portsmouth, not the most literary of cities despite Dickens and Conan-Doyle (or perhaps because of Dickens and Conan-Doyle)....
Spoon & Tamago
Kirie Artist Lito Celebrates Tanabata with Handcut Leaves
Today is Tanabata (七夕, meaning “Evening of the seventh”), a Japanese festival celebrating the...
5 months ago
Today is Tanabata (七夕, meaning “Evening of the seventh”), a Japanese festival celebrating the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi. According to legend, the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh...
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Swyx Interview on Daily Dev Tips
I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
over a year ago
I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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a year ago
Florian Bellmann |...
Processes don't create ownership, people do
Creating a sense of ownership in the team is crucial for the success of a project. What's the right...
7 months ago
Creating a sense of ownership in the team is crucial for the success of a project. What's the right angle?
Elad Blog
Fireside chat with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Video and transcript of our fireside chat at Stripe from Monday
a year ago
Video and transcript of our fireside chat at Stripe from Monday
Old Structures...
Credit Where Due
I was in the meatpacking district last week and noticed this building at 837 Washington Street. It’s...
10 months ago
I was in the meatpacking district last week and noticed this building at 837 Washington Street. It’s been around for a while, but I guess I never looked up: the facades of the first two floors are an old building, while the upper floors (and, I assume, the interiors) are new....
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
Contemporist...
The client asked for "a hotel-like bedroom and bathroom in their home, so they could feel as if they...
Studio Kloek has shared images of a bedroom and bathroom suite they designed for their client who...
7 months ago
Studio Kloek has shared images of a bedroom and bathroom suite they designed for their client who desired "a hotel-like bedroom and bathroom in their home, so they could feel as if they were on vacation every day."
Asterisk
The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google
Over the past two decades, Google has hosted two different internal platforms for predictions. Why...
a month ago
Over the past two decades, Google has hosted two different internal platforms for predictions. Why did the first one fail — and will the other endure?
Both Are True
omg we missed AI Appreciation Day?????
+ a new holiday that you won't want to miss (sincere)
5 months ago
+ a new holiday that you won't want to miss (sincere)
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Matt Mullenweg
Inc Hit Piece
When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a...
3 days ago
When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn’t a magazine I have read much since I was a teenager, David seemed like a legit journalist who usually writes for better publications...
blag
Introducing CaskDB – a project to teach you writing a key-value store
CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable...
over a year ago
CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable database from scratch.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspire
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a year ago
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Hovertext:
Panel 4 is the greatest prose I'm capable of.
Today's News:
Hey geeks, after years of holding out, I'm finally getting engaged with social media. I post a lot of favorite old comics plus news about NEW BOOKS. You can follow me on...
CONTEMPORIST
Planter Boxes Were Designed To Help This House To Blend Into Its Tropical Setting
Architecture firm Studio Saxe has designed a new home for their clients from Canada, who were...
a year ago
Architecture firm Studio Saxe has designed a new home for their clients from Canada, who were looking to get away from the winter season and enjoy the tropical weather of Costa Rica. The home is surrounded by a tropical landscape, with the seasonal creek and wildlife of the...
Common Edge
Bill McKibben on COP28, Maintaining Hope, and Walking in the Woods
The activist and author offers some perspective on the recently concluded UN Climate summit.
a year ago
The activist and author offers some perspective on the recently concluded UN Climate summit.
Herbert Lui
Serious writing
In Impro, Keith Johnstone describes how his teachers taught him to write, “They wanted me to reject...
2 weeks ago
In Impro, Keith Johnstone describes how his teachers taught him to write, “They wanted me to reject and discriminate, believing that the best artist was the one who made the most elegant choices. They analysed poems to show how difficult ‘real’ writing was, and they taught that I...
Ian Betteridge
Weeknote, Sunday 15th December
a week ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job?
Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of...
10 months ago
Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of not being considered […]
The post How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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5 months ago
Retail Design Blog
RACKS café by Kidz
Online gaming is an integral part of lifestyle for the Millennial and Gen Z demographics, providing...
5 days ago
Online gaming is an integral part of lifestyle for the Millennial and Gen Z demographics, providing both a level of...
Old Structures...
Heat Wave
Unlike a lot of other weather conditions, heat waves are easy to see coming. Modern weather...
6 months ago
Unlike a lot of other weather conditions, heat waves are easy to see coming. Modern weather forecasting is quite good and I’m writing this on Sunday knowing that it will be getting steadily hotter through Friday and that even after the high-temperature peak passes, the lows will...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size
When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser...
over a year ago
When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser as small as possible.
I write in ES6 or TypeScript then use browserify to combine all JavaScript code into a single bundle file. For production builds I use uglify to make the...
abdz.do - Have you...
Digitalized - futuristic illustrations
Digitalized - futuristic illustrations
abduzeedo0216—23
We have...
a year ago
Digitalized - futuristic illustrations
abduzeedo0216—23
We have posted projects from RETOKA, but we’re always amazed with the work they produce, exploring where digital art meets futuristic design! This innovative studio has recently unveiled a...
Louwrentius
Blu Ray is dead
HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical
media is dead....
over a year ago
HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical
media is dead. Honestly, who is still burning CD's or DVD's nowadays? (If you
are, why for Christ sake? I can't think of a single good reason) And at 10
euros ($100) for a single Blu Ray disk, you must...
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OSI Layers for Coding Careers
Let's think about the value chain of humans that code and how we interact.
over a year ago
Let's think about the value chain of humans that code and how we interact.
Atoms vs Bits
Intuitions for Georgism
Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite...
4 months ago
Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite from deep in our archive. You can unsubscribe from Reissues but continue receiving our new posts by updating your preference here.
Last year, Atvbt’s bloggers published a piece...
abdz.do - Have you...
Aerial Geometric Landscapes
Aerial Geometric Landscapes
abduzeedo0206—23
Meet Vipurva...
a year ago
Aerial Geometric Landscapes
abduzeedo0206—23
Meet Vipurva Parikh, a seasoned photographer hailing from India with 20+ years of snapping stunning shots under his belt. He's traveled the world capturing everything from portraits to automobiles...
Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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4 months ago
Society's Backend
Why Machine Learning Terminology is So Confusing
And definitions for the most important terms you should know
10 months ago
And definitions for the most important terms you should know
the singularity is...
Disrupt the Government
I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan.
You disrupt the government by...
a year ago
I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan.
You disrupt the government by providing 10x better versions of all of the services that it provides.
The key thing the government is supposed to be able to do is infrastructure. Most of the wealth that we give to...
AVC
Open Office Hours at NYC Tech Week
NYC Tech Week is next week. It will be a week filled with events for the tech sector to engage and...
a year ago
NYC Tech Week is next week. It will be a week filled with events for the tech sector to engage and connect with each other. A particularly great part of tech week is VC Open Office Hours. There are over 100 VC investors signed up to participate next week. Here is how it works: 1/...
99% Invisible
The Bottom of the Bowl [EPISODE]
Reporter Emmett Fitzgerald was used to hearing people call his home state of Vermont a “climate...
4 months ago
Reporter Emmett Fitzgerald was used to hearing people call his home state of Vermont a “climate haven.” But last summer, he got a wake up call in the form of a devastating flood. All throughout the United States, people are watching the places they love change in unpredictable...
TheCollector
What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
undefined
a month ago
latest projects -...
3D Model Viewer Improvements
[Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
a year ago
[Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
Artificial Ignorance
How to reverse engineer the Substack (or any!) web API
Building an unauthorized Substack client with Claude.
4 months ago
Building an unauthorized Substack client with Claude.
elementary Blog
GTK 4 Porting And A Bit Of Whimsy
I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for...
9 months ago
I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for helping us reach 20% of our monthly funding goal! I’ve been seeing a ton of demand for Early Access which is super exciting. If you’re not already in Early Access, you can be among...
Artificial Ignorance
Why now?
What's behind our current AI boom?
a year ago
What's behind our current AI boom?
Nelson's Weblog
Noom is exploitative
I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy
program. The app is more like CBT...
a year ago
I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy
program. The app is more like CBT for upselling customers than CBT for
weight loss. Now I’m hoping they’ll delete my sensitive medical data and
refund the $3 they tricked me out of. (They did, quickly in...
TheCollector
Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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9 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Silly predictions
Okay, just because it may be fun to look back at this in 2025, here’s what I believe will happen:...
over a year ago
Okay, just because it may be fun to look back at this in 2025, here’s what I believe will happen:...
The Ruffian
James Marriott on Jordan Peterson
The inaugural episode of The Ruffian's podcast
2 weeks ago
The inaugural episode of The Ruffian's podcast
Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
Anecdotal Evidence
'This Refined, White-Sheeted Torture'
My tutelary
spirit of recent days has been the American poet L.E. Sissman, dead from
Hodgkin...
4 months ago
My tutelary
spirit of recent days has been the American poet L.E. Sissman, dead from
Hodgkin lymphoma at age forty-eight. Out in the hall I spoke with three
oncologists after they had yet again examined
my brother. I asked the question no one had yet asked: How much time does...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of OS/2
Getting a Divorce
a year ago
Diaries of Note
I declare private war
Alfred Wintle was living in Dunkirk when the First World War began—sixteen years old and fiercely...
a year ago
Alfred Wintle was living in Dunkirk when the First World War began—sixteen years old and fiercely patriotic. Desperate to join the army, in 1915 he entered the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich to begin his training, and within months was on the front line. At the Third Battle...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Calque
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Oddly enough, the hard part was picking jargon NOT...
3 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Oddly enough, the hard part was picking jargon NOT to use.
Today's News:
Musings on Maps
Along Narnia’s Enchanted Shores
As we face an age when the norms of legal conduct in the United States stand to be shredded, we have...
3 weeks ago
As we face an age when the norms of legal conduct in the United States stand to be shredded, we have been suggested to benefit from looking, both for perspective and solace, if only for relief, to fantasy literature as … Continue reading →
Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
Londonist
That Time Lord Onslow's Monkey Escaped Onto The Tube
Simian crisis at Barbican.
a year ago
Simian crisis at Barbican.
TheCollector
Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
undefined
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Forlorn Hope'
Published in
the February 1950 issue of Partisan
Review was a “symposium” -- always a feature...
a month ago
Published in
the February 1950 issue of Partisan
Review was a “symposium” -- always a feature beloved by editors and loquacious
respondents – this one titled “Religion and the Intellectuals.” Such things
tend to be heavy on posturing and vast generalizations. I might have been...
Seth's Blog
Getting AI to do your work
That’s the first step, certainly. If you don’t, your boss will. The second step is to take the time...
3 months ago
That’s the first step, certainly. If you don’t, your boss will. The second step is to take the time you’ve freed up and do work that the AI can’t do.
Maps Mania
How big are London, New York & Tokyo?
a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Hazel McNab
Hi I’m Hazel, I live in Cornwall. I moved down just before Covid, very lucky me! And spent lockdown...
a year ago
Hi I’m Hazel, I live in Cornwall. I moved down just before Covid, very lucky me! And spent lockdown cutting Cornish Landscapes and really getting into my printing. My background is Fashion and Textiles, St Martins School of Art and I think my love of pattern shows in my...
History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sorry
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You can see why there'd be an uptick in people...
a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
You can see why there'd be an uptick in people taking 30 pieces of silver in exchange for betrayal.
Today's News:
Seth's Blog
Avoiding the trap questions
A trick question is designed to fool us into proposing the wrong answer (example below). A trap...
5 months ago
A trick question is designed to fool us into proposing the wrong answer (example below). A trap question, on the other hand, stops the train completely. A trap question demands an answer, and the answer will paralyze us and keep us from the work at hand. “Yes, but how many...
Open Culture
How Rasputin Inspired the “Fictitious Persons” Disclaimer Commonly Seen in Movies
“This is a work of fiction,” declares the disclaimer we’ve all noticed during the end credits of...
3 weeks ago
“This is a work of fiction,” declares the disclaimer we’ve all noticed during the end credits of movies. “Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.” In most cases, this may seem so trivial that it hardly merits a mention, but the...
HTMHell
What is the Difference Between Alternative Text, Long Description, and Caption?
When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and...
over a year ago
When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and understandable to everyone.
Which means you need to include text alternatives to describe the image information or function.
Three options are:
Alternative Text
Long...
Seth's Blog
The friendly professional
Friendly doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, or changing every policy, or giving up our...
a year ago
Friendly doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, or changing every policy, or giving up our principles. Friendly is how it feels, not what it does.
Seth's Blog
Two sides of “a big deal”
Many businesses thrive by helping people deal with projects that feel like they have high stakes. A...
a year ago
Many businesses thrive by helping people deal with projects that feel like they have high stakes. A kid’s first haircut, the offsite storage of data backup, an upcoming family reunion, a medical procedure or the inscription on a sentimental piece of jewelry or watch. But, if the...
Max Rozen
Books every developer should read
Whether you want to start a career as a developer, or have been a developer for 20 years, you should...
over a year ago
Whether you want to start a career as a developer, or have been a developer for 20 years, you should check out these books.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Should Social Determinants Come From Payers and Providers? | Out-Of-Pocket
I've got some questions
a year ago
TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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a year ago
Sam Altman
The Strength of Being Misunderstood
A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and...
over a year ago
A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question.
Almost everyone cares what someone thinks (though caring what everyone thinks is definitely a mistake), and it's...
Diaries of Note
I hear some funny noise
Born in Alaska in 1898, Ada Blackjack was an Iñupiaq woman who found fame in the 1920s after...
a year ago
Born in Alaska in 1898, Ada Blackjack was an Iñupiaq woman who found fame in the 1920s after surviving a doomed two-year expedition to Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean. Hired as a seamstress and cook, Ada, who had no survival skills to speak of, was the sole female in a...
TheCollector
What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
undefined
4 months ago
Math Is Still...
Physicists Observe ‘Unobservable’ Quantum Phase Transition
Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are...
a year ago
Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are harnessing that nonlocality to probe the spread of quantum information and control it.
The post Physicists Observe ‘Unobservable’ Quantum Phase Transition first appeared on...
diamond geezer
The Ivers
Today is Buckinghamshire Day, a celebration of all things Northwest Home Counties, or at least it is...
4 months ago
Today is Buckinghamshire Day, a celebration of all things Northwest Home Counties, or at least it is if you're a flagpole fetishist or a features writer with a gap to fill. It might sound historic but was actually conjured up in 2015 for no better reason than that on 29th July...
Coffee with an...
A simple description
The structural exploration reflects the dichotomy of the diametrically opposed forces creating...
7 months ago
The structural exploration reflects the dichotomy of the diametrically opposed forces creating intrinsic tension within the interstitial forms which have been bifurcated and articulated throughout the design exploration phases resulting from the pedological rigor employed...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates November 4: Free newsletter to RSS tool
a month ago
TheCollector
The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
undefined
9 months ago
diamond geezer
Leicester Square
LEICESTER
SQUARE
£260
London's Monopoly Streets
LEICESTER SQUARE
Colour group: yellow
Purchase...
3 months ago
LEICESTER
SQUARE
£260
London's Monopoly Streets
LEICESTER SQUARE
Colour group: yellow
Purchase price: £260
Rent: £22
Area: 2 acres
Borough: Westminster
Postcode: WC2
And so to the yellows, the 'entertainment' corner of the Monopoly board. One theory has it that their ordered...
Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
AI Snake Oil
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went.
Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
a year ago
Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
Moneyness
The long arm of OFAC and its reach into the Ethereum network
Coinbase, the U.S.'s largest crypto exchange, is openly processing Ethereum transactions involving...
a year ago
Coinbase, the U.S.'s largest crypto exchange, is openly processing Ethereum transactions involving Tornado Cash, a piece of blockchain infrastructure that was sanctioned by the U.S. government last year for providing mixing services to North Korea.
Over the last two weeks...
Notes on software...
SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions
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over a year ago
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How to Be a Stoic
Stoic advice: can a salesperson be a Stoic?
[Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org....
over a year ago
[Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org. However, consider that I have a significant backlog, and I may not get to your question for some time, or at all.] D. writes: How should a practising Stoic ethically approach their...
Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
Citation Needed
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world
A simple technique offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still...
2 months ago
A simple technique offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party platforms.
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – An Extension Adds New Living Space For This Home In London
Bradley Van Der Straeten Architects has designed the contemporary renovation and addition for a...
a year ago
Bradley Van Der Straeten Architects has designed the contemporary renovation and addition for a Grade II listed terrace home in the London borough of Islington. The original house, which is spread over three floors, was in poor condition and had lost its charm and original...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Amid Tremendous History, New Pity'
Oscar Williams (1900-4) was a middling poet with a gift for compiling excellent anthologies,
thirty...
9 months ago
Oscar Williams (1900-4) was a middling poet with a gift for compiling excellent anthologies,
thirty of which he published during his lifetime. Early on, several of them
were my primers, an inviting way to learning the poetic tradition in English on
the cheap. One of them, the...
diamond geezer
Wyncham Stream
THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON
Wyncham Stream
Chislehurst → Longlands → Blackfen (2½ miles)
Eight...
a year ago
THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON
Wyncham Stream
Chislehurst → Longlands → Blackfen (2½ miles)
Eight years ago when I walked the River Shuttle, a proper unlost river, I apologised that I wouldn't be walking its tributary the Wyncham Stream. It's only a mile long, I said, and only...
Ferd.ca
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
2023/01/01
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
When I first started my forever project, a peer to...
a year ago
2023/01/01
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
When I first started my forever project, a peer to peer file sync software using Interval Tree Clocks, I wanted to build it right.
That meant property-based testing everything, specifying the protocol fully, dealing with error...
The American Scholar
The Fair Fields
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous...
2 weeks ago
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil
The post The Fair Fields appeared first on The American Scholar.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Wallet
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5 months ago
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You ever reflect that if Thoreau lived today he'd be instagramming from Walden Pond?
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Louwrentius
Why you should not use IPsec for VPN connectivity
IPsec is a well-known and widely-used VPN solution. It seems that it's not widely known that Niels...
over a year ago
IPsec is a well-known and widely-used VPN solution. It seems that it's not widely known that Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier performed a detailed security analysis of IPsec and that the results were not very positive.
We strongly discourage the use of IPsec in its current form...
TheCollector
Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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./techtipsy
I looked at this site on the Wayback Machine
Yesterday was election day in Estonia and the results are in, which is why
I remembered that one...
a year ago
Yesterday was election day in Estonia and the results are in, which is why
I remembered that one time I looked at my website on the Wayback Machine.
This domain used to point to a Wordpress site that hosted
content for a candidate in the local elections,
at least around...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rich
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The second-floor problem remains difficult for...
a year ago
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The second-floor problem remains difficult for him.
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A Smart Bear
Reputation isn't as powerful as you imagine
Blogger with tens of thousands of subscribers launches a new venture… and gets only 2 signups. Not...
a year ago
Blogger with tens of thousands of subscribers launches a new venture… and gets only 2 signups. Not the advantage you thought it was.
Archinect - Features
Meet Tulane School of Architecture's New Faculty Hires
Tulane School of Architecture (TuSA), one of Archinect’s School Partners, welcomes nine full-time...
a year ago
Tulane School of Architecture (TuSA), one of Archinect’s School Partners, welcomes nine full-time incoming faculty members who will hold permanent positions at the school starting in the 2023/24 school year.
TuSA Dean Iñaki Alday shared that the aim for this new round of faculty...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Take One Thing and Become Insanely Obsessed with It for 6 Months
This is how it'll change your life
a month ago
This is how it'll change your life
The Marginalian
How to Miss Loved Ones Better: The Psychology of Waiting and Withstanding Absence
On "the capacity to bear frustration without turning against one’s needy self, or against the person...
3 months ago
On "the capacity to bear frustration without turning against one’s needy self, or against the person one needs."
Open Culture
Monty Python’s Michael Palin Presents His Favorite Painting, J. M. W. Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed
Of all the English comedians to have attained worldwide fame over the past half-century, Sir Michael...
7 months ago
Of all the English comedians to have attained worldwide fame over the past half-century, Sir Michael Palin may be the most English of them all. It thus comes as no surprise that the National Gallery would ring him up and invite him to make a video about his favorite painting, nor...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Exit games for EVM validiums: the return of Plasma
a year ago
Inverted Passion
Review of 2023
Time is strange – 2023 simultaneously felt too long and too short. It was short because I remember...
11 months ago
Time is strange – 2023 simultaneously felt too long and too short. It was short because I remember recently writing my 2022 review, and it was long because I ended up packing a lot of stuff into it. ✅ Train 5 days a week (including Mixed Martial Arts) I did manage to train 5...
Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
9 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Fourteen years
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my...
3 weeks ago
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my apartment in Birmingham, in the UK. The launch came seven weeks after I started working on the project on the side as a contract web developer. For a few weeks, I called it bfffr...
Old Structures...
A Survivor
From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is...
2 months ago
From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is given as 1763-1769 Townsend Avenue, in the Bronx, which is good because it’s not like I could ever have identified this just from the photo. The site is less isolated than the photo...
Epic Web Dev
Exploring the has Utility in Tailwind CSS (tip)
11 months ago
Contemporist...
Before & After - The Complete Renovation Of A Small Loft Apartment
New York City-based design studio beda (Brad Engelsman Design Architecture), has shared photos of a...
a month ago
New York City-based design studio beda (Brad Engelsman Design Architecture), has shared photos of a renovation project they completed of a small 500-square-foot (46 sqm) loft apartment.
Making software...
Disabling Comments in WordPress
Disabling Comments in WordPress
2020-12-28
I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and...
over a year ago
Disabling Comments in WordPress
2020-12-28
I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down.
Back...
Adventures In...
How to add mist to terrain in ArcGIS Online
There are lots of reasons to cloak your terrain in a fluffy ephemeral layer of mist. It gives an...
a year ago
There are lots of reasons to cloak your terrain in a fluffy ephemeral layer of mist. It gives an overall sense of the slope and elevation trends in your view, it showcases meandering river valleys in a charming realism, hilltops peak through with clarity and drama…and it just...
Epic Web Dev
What does “Full Stack” mean for Epic Web
a year ago
TheCollector
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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a month ago
Tom Blomfield
Startup Series Part 1: Interviewing Engineers
There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and...
over a year ago
There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and philosophies. This is a positive thing for the ecosystem - just as new software tools mean it’s simpler and cheaper to start a company, these methodologies allow first-time entrepreneurs...
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Headless CMS
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand.
In this post, we explain in a few minutes what Headless CMS is and show you how it's used. So, what is a headless CMS, what are the use cases and...
UX Collective
Lamenting about good design
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a month ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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12 months ago
Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
9 months ago
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
8 months ago
Adventures In...
Tolkien Style Maps in a GIS: part 2, Mountains
“I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains. And then find somewhere where I can rest.” In...
10 months ago
“I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains. And then find somewhere where I can rest.” In this 4-part series we’ll walk through the reckoning of a Lord of the Rings style fantasy map, right in ArcGIS Pro. We map-makers get to breathe honest to goodness geographic life...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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8 months ago
Christian Selig
Beware UserDefaults: a tale of hard to find bugs, and lost data
Excuse the alarmist title, but I think it’s justified, as it’s an issue that’s caused me a ton of...
2 months ago
Excuse the alarmist title, but I think it’s justified, as it’s an issue that’s caused me a ton of pain in both support emails and actually tracking it down, so I want to make others aware of it so they don’t similarly burned.
Brief intro
For the uninitiated, UserDefaults (née...
Noahpinion
Industrial policy doesn't have to succeed right away
Progressive approaches need to fail before they can change.
a year ago
Progressive approaches need to fail before they can change.
HTMHell
Mini-guide to add an image
Adding an image with HTML is pretty easy, it’s just a simple tag, after all, right?
<img...
over a year ago
Adding an image with HTML is pretty easy, it’s just a simple tag, after all, right?
<img src="path/to/image.jpg" />
But when you start taking into consideration topics such as performance, screen sizes, accessibility, pixel density, or user preferences, you might ask yourself at...
TheCollector
Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Happiness
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12 months ago
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Why do people keep choosing autonomy over animal pleasure in movies?! It makes no sense!
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TheCollector
What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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5 months ago
Seth's Blog
Which team?
Culture seeks shortcuts. The oldest shortcut is: “Friend or foe?” If we know the answer to that, a...
a year ago
Culture seeks shortcuts. The oldest shortcut is: “Friend or foe?” If we know the answer to that, a whole bunch of time gets saved, and fear is reduced as well. The labeling goes beyond which team, cadre, tribe or village someone is part of. It extends to the ways we demonstrate...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Perhaps the Most Impressive of All'
Spices meant
salt and pepper. For my family like others in the American working class, there
was no...
3 months ago
Spices meant
salt and pepper. For my family like others in the American working class, there
was no cardamom or turmeric. When I was a kid those would have sounded vaguely
like medical conditions. We never heard of such things until decades later.
For some baked goods, breakfast...
One Useful Thing
Now is the time for grimoires
It isn't data that will unlock AI, it is human expertise
a year ago
It isn't data that will unlock AI, it is human expertise
History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
9 months ago
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
NeuroLogica Blog
AI Designed Drugs
On a recent SGU live streaming discussion someone in the chat asked – aren’t frivolous AI...
8 months ago
On a recent SGU live streaming discussion someone in the chat asked – aren’t frivolous AI applications just toys without any useful output? The question was meant to downplay recent advances in generative AI. I pointed out that the question is a bit circular – aren’t frivolous...
bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage
This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
8 months ago
This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
Seth's Blog
Bottom of the funnel
It’s easy to get focused on the public-facing mouth of the funnel. More followers. More impressions....
8 months ago
It’s easy to get focused on the public-facing mouth of the funnel. More followers. More impressions. More buzz, hype, promotion. Get the word out. Just about all the time people who call themselves “marketers” spend is on this. Don’t worry about what happens later, just pour more...
Old Structures...
That Certain Something
About a dozen years ago, the Republic of Tanzania bought this building on East 53rd Street to serve...
a year ago
About a dozen years ago, the Republic of Tanzania bought this building on East 53rd Street to serve as, among other things, the Permanent Mission of Tanzania to the United Nations. Looking at the building I felt sure that it was constructed before 1900 and that it was industrial...
Noahpinion
Decoupling is just going to happen
Chinese policy and geopolitical risk are doing a lot of the work here.
a year ago
Chinese policy and geopolitical risk are doing a lot of the work here.
TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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5 months ago
The American Scholar
“Daybreak in Alabama” by Langston Hughes
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Daybreak in Alabama” by Langston Hughes appeared first on...
5 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Daybreak in Alabama” by Langston Hughes appeared first on The American Scholar.
Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
11 months ago
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
TheCollector
The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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TheCollector
Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
Construction Physics
How We Got the Lithium-ion Battery
It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was...
3 weeks ago
It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was possible.
Rest of World -...
What the AI boom is getting wrong (and right), according to Hugging Face’s policy chief
Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI...
6 months ago
Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI girlfriends.
AFAR Media - Travel...
U.S. Launches Passport Fairs to Help Speed Up Applications
a year ago
DYNOMIGHT
Consciousness will slip through our fingers
I guess life makes sense: For some reason there’s a universe and that universe has lots of atoms...
3 months ago
I guess life makes sense: For some reason there’s a universe and that universe has lots of atoms bouncing around and sometimes they bounce into patterns that copy themselves and then those patterns go to war for billions of years and voilà—you.
But consciousness is weird. Why...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 30
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
TheCollector
The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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4 months ago
The Honest Broker
Tell Us About Your Worst (or Best) Day Gig
It's Open Mic Day at 'The Honest Broker'
4 months ago
It's Open Mic Day at 'The Honest Broker'
Miguel Carranza
How NOT to apply to Y Combinator
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also...
over a year ago
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
Londonist
The Legendary India Club Is Closing Next Month
Restaurant owners are "heartbroken".
a year ago
Restaurant owners are "heartbroken".
Rest of World -...
Self-checkout is putting elderly grocery baggers out of work in Mexico
Volunteer packers at stores like Walmart say they’re receiving 50% fewer tips than before the...
a year ago
Volunteer packers at stores like Walmart say they’re receiving 50% fewer tips than before the pandemic.
Old Structures...
Three Dimentionality
I was in Minneapolis a few months ago and took some pictures of the Lumber Exchange, one of the...
9 months ago
I was in Minneapolis a few months ago and took some pictures of the Lumber Exchange, one of the first tall buildings constructed there. Here’s an overall view of the original wing (the building is L shaped, with the wings constructed at different times): It’s not deserted – the...
Home on Erik...
Why conversion matters: a toy model
There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well...
over a year ago
There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well known that retention has a super strong impact on the valuation of a subscription business. Or that the % of occupied seats is super important for an airline.
Mazdak
5 Must-Read Finance Books for Building Wealth
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Discrete
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a year ago
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Anyone know if there's a case of partial application of law of the sea?
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Come see me! BAHFest London, this Saturday, one night only.
SOCKS
“One Can No Longer Distinguish the Sun’s Outline”: Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky (1930)
A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification...
9 months ago
A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification and nomenclature. Cloud atlases were primarily developed starting in the 19th century and utilised for training weather forecasters and meteorologists. The 1930’s International...
TheCollector
Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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8 months ago
Alice GG
Plaid Layoffs and beyond
Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people).
Today I signed my...
over a year ago
Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people).
Today I signed my termination agreement, which makes this week my last week as part of Plaid’s infrastructure team.
Kelly Sikkema
Moving forward
While being laid off and having to leave a very talented...
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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11 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
The Conversation Gets it Wrong on GMOs
Even high quality media outlets will get it wrong from time to time. I notice this tends to happen...
a year ago
Even high quality media outlets will get it wrong from time to time. I notice this tends to happen when there is a mature and sophisticated propaganda campaign that has had enough time and reach to essentially gaslight a major portion of the public, and further where a particular...
Mazdak
Finance News Roundup - Wednesday, 29th November
😢 Investing Legend Charlie Munger Passes Away Charlie Munger, a longtime vice chairman of Berkshire...
a year ago
😢 Investing Legend Charlie Munger Passes Away Charlie Munger, a longtime vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and a close associate of Warren Buffett, has passed away at the age of 97. Munger was known for his wit, wisdom, and contrarian investment style.
Words and Buttons...
Yet another alternative to floating point numbers
This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input...
over a year ago
This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input error but keep computational error under control as well.
Liz Denys
Has Baby Yoda been engaging in Twitter 'platform manipulation?' and the broad brush of Twitter's...
Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and...
over a year ago
Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and spam" according to their Instagram. Twitter's policy on platform manipulation and spam allows for "using Twitter pseudonymously or as a parody, commentary, or fan account," as...
TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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a month ago
Londonist
When You Start Seeing Roundels Everywhere
One you spot, you just can't stop...
a year ago
One you spot, you just can't stop...
The Marginalian
Bunny & Tree: A Tender Wordless Parable of Friendship and the Improbable Saviors That Make Life...
Traversing the landscape of life on the wings of trust.
a year ago
Traversing the landscape of life on the wings of trust.
Charles Chen
Vue 3x3 - A Mental Model for Building Fast
A mental model for helping you get oriented with with Vue3 and Composition API
a year ago
A mental model for helping you get oriented with with Vue3 and Composition API
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Actually good 2024 healthcare predictions | Out-Of-Pocket
I know, enough predictions. But these are good!
a year ago
I know, enough predictions. But these are good!
Nela Dunato Art &...
Motivate Yourself to Create More Art + Fantasy Watercolor Portrait Painting Process
In this episode of Nela’s Art Chat I'm showing the mixed media drawing and painting process of a...
8 months ago
In this episode of Nela’s Art Chat I'm showing the mixed media drawing and painting process of a forest fae portrait, while sharing lots of tips that can help you create more art. I often struggle finding motivation, energy, and time to create elaborate pieces of art, so I’ve...
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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3 months ago
AVC
Etsy Lens
I am the Chair of the Etsy Board and have been an investor and board member at Etsy since the...
a year ago
I am the Chair of the Etsy Board and have been an investor and board member at Etsy since the mid-2000s. It is a company that I love and get great joy from being part of. Last year Etsy quietly launched a feature that has completely changed the way I use Etsy. It is called […]
The Modern House
Mark Bonskek and Sabba Khan’s playful Maryland home is a masterclass in materiality
a year ago
TokyoDev
How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in Japan
At [Oedo Ruby Kaigi 04](http://regional.rubykaigi.org/oedo04/), [Leonard...
over a year ago
At [Oedo Ruby Kaigi 04](http://regional.rubykaigi.org/oedo04/), [Leonard Chin](https://twitter.com/lchin) gave a presentation entitled "How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in a Foreign Land". Although the presentation is for a Japanese audience, it is based on his experience...
Seth's Blog
We probably can’t buy our way out of it
That’s what we usually try to do. When technology, comfort, convenience, efficiency and price line...
a year ago
That’s what we usually try to do. When technology, comfort, convenience, efficiency and price line up, the market takes care of itself. On the other hand, seatbelts would never have happened if they weren’t required. But pizza grew to dominate our diets with no centralized...
./techtipsy
Fairphone 5: my heavily biased overview after 58 days of use (and counting)
After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself
a Fairphone 5. The...
9 months ago
After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself
a Fairphone 5. The fact
that iPhone X stopped receiving major iOS updates certainly helped make that decision.
“But why? My Xiaomi/Oneplus/Samsung/other glued-together device is like so much cheaper and...
diamond geezer
London Countries - Afghanistan
London Countries (an A-Z)
1. Afghanistan 🇦🇫
In this new series I'll be visiting all the...
7 months ago
London Countries (an A-Z)
1. Afghanistan 🇦🇫
In this new series I'll be visiting all the countries in the world but without leaving London. Their people, their geography, their history, their culture, their cuisine, that kind of thing. I'm kicking off with Afghanistan because...
The Modern House
The power of post-war design in Regent’s Park, north-west London
a year ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile
The Minuteman missile was introduced in 1962 as a key part of America's nuclear deterrent.
The...
4 months ago
The Minuteman missile was introduced in 1962 as a key part of America's nuclear deterrent.
The Minuteman III missile is currently the only US land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), with
400 missiles ready for launch, spread across five central states.1
The missile...
Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of the London Accent Over 660 Years: From 1346 to 2006
Read a novel by Charles Dickens, and you’ll still today feel transported back to the London of the...
4 months ago
Read a novel by Charles Dickens, and you’ll still today feel transported back to the London of the eighteen-twenties. Some of that experience owes to his lavishly reportorial descriptive skills, but even more to his way with dialogue. Dickens faithfully captured the vocabulary of...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
over a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
axio.ms
Pickle plus mains
Back in February 2014, it was a cold (but dry) winter’s night and we decided to warm our hearts with...
over a year ago
Back in February 2014, it was a cold (but dry) winter’s night and we decided to warm our hearts with some science.
Our experiment was to observe the conduction of electricity through a pickle, using salt ions. We connected a pickle to the mains supply. Pickles have a strong...
Joel Gascoigne
How to gain traction in two sided markets
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Startup ideas...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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Startup ideas that involve two sided markets are notoriously difficult to get
off the ground. It’s the age-old chicken and egg problem. You need lots of
buyers for the sellers to be interested,...
Londonist
Photos Of The London Tube In The 1940s And Ukraine's Metros In The 2020s
Echoes of the Blitz comes to LTM.
9 months ago
Echoes of the Blitz comes to LTM.
Passing Time
How to improve traffic efficiency and save time
Why merging early when there is a lane closure makes YOU the asshole
over a year ago
Why merging early when there is a lane closure makes YOU the asshole
Maps Mania
The 3rd Hour of the 1 Hour AI Map Challenge
11 months ago
Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 7: The Marvelous Spatuletail (February 9, 2024)
There are several bird species that are near the top of the wish-list for any birdwatcher visiting...
8 months ago
There are several bird species that are near the top of the wish-list for any birdwatcher visiting Peru for the first time. The enigmatic Long-whiskered Owlet is one, as it is a recently described species of owl that is only known from the stunted cloud forests in a very small...
Mazdak
The Unexpected Saviour of Journalism
In a digital landscape drowning in AI-generated noise, an unlikely hero emerges: generative AI...
3 weeks ago
In a digital landscape drowning in AI-generated noise, an unlikely hero emerges: generative AI itself.
Diaries of Note
Excrement is the thread of life
Salvador Dalí, born in Spain in 1904, was the mustachioed maestro of surrealism, with a flair for...
a year ago
Salvador Dalí, born in Spain in 1904, was the mustachioed maestro of surrealism, with a flair for the fantastical in both his life and art. His paintings, like The Persistence of Memory with its melting clocks, are playful explorations of the dream world, but this love of the...
Josh Comeau's blog
My experience as a remote worker
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a...
over a year ago
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
Jonas Hietala
Generating ideas
So I got a fairly fun assignment from the game design course I’m taking for once. I should come up...
over a year ago
So I got a fairly fun assignment from the game design course I’m taking for once. I should come up with 50 ideas using my own idea generation technique.
I used a sort of “notes in the basket” approach where you placed some notes with words in a basket and randomly drew two and...
Londonist
How To Spend A (Relatively Cheap) Weekend In Florence
We did say relatively.
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
Wuthering...
Books I read in October 2024 - the old, care-free days of Wuthering Heights
I should do one of these “what I read” bits before October becomes
too distant.
I should also...
a month ago
I should do one of these “what I read” bits before October becomes
too distant.
I should also mention my health. A little over a year ago a surgeon of genius
removed a cancerous tumor from my liver, taking much of my liver along with
it. My recovery went well, and my liver
grew...
Maps Mania
The 46 States of America & Each State Flower
6 months ago
alexwlchan
Finding a mystery IAM access key
Recently I had an issue with some IAM keys.
Somebody was trying to use an IAM access key to download...
a year ago
Recently I had an issue with some IAM keys.
Somebody was trying to use an IAM access key to download some objects from S3, and it wasn’t working – it was giving a “permission denied” error.
I wanted to inspect the permissions, but first I had to find where this IAM key came...
Folklore.org:...
The Father Of The Macintosh
Who is the father of the Macintosh?
a year ago
Who is the father of the Macintosh?
Epic Web Dev
Anatomy of a Test (article)
Explore the analogy between learning human anatomy and writing code tests, emphasizing a universal...
11 months ago
Explore the analogy between learning human anatomy and writing code tests, emphasizing a universal three-step structure: Setup, Action, and Assertion.
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – An Old Warehouse Was Turned Into A Contemporary Home
Brengues Le Pavec architects have shared photos of a modern warehouse conversion they completed in...
8 months ago
Brengues Le Pavec architects have shared photos of a modern warehouse conversion they completed in the south of France, between Montpellier and the sea. The ‘Before’…the run-down warehouse, which was still being used to store products, was dark and filled with shelves. The...
Open Culture
The Fake Buildings of New York: What Happens Inside Their Mysterious Walls
You can’t go on a walk with a serious enthusiast of New York history without hearing the stories...
2 months ago
You can’t go on a walk with a serious enthusiast of New York history without hearing the stories behind at least a few notable, beautiful, or downright strange buildings. Yet most longtime New Yorkers, famed for tuning out their surroundings to better strive for their goals of...
David Heinemeier...
Visions of the future
Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of...
6 months ago
Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of realizing that something is simply better, and the only reason it hasn't taken off yet is because the world hasn't realized it. It's amazing, and it's how I'm feeling about Linux...
James Vaughan's blog
Putting the Casio F-91W band on an Apple Watch
over a year ago
Drew Ex Machina
Top Ten Posts of 2023
Now that we are at the end of 2023, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on...
11 months ago
Now that we are at the end of 2023, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
blag
Scraping Javascript page using Python
Simple code example to illustrate scraping a javascript driven website, using Python and Dryscape.
over a year ago
Simple code example to illustrate scraping a javascript driven website, using Python and Dryscape.
Wuthering...
Books I read in November 2023
Recovery from surgery leads to a long list of books.
(Everything is going well, by the way,...
a year ago
Recovery from surgery leads to a long list of books.
(Everything is going well, by the way, thanks).
My idea of a “comfort read” is a book on a subject about which I do not
know much – start me over at the beginning – thus my enthusiastic Indian
literature project, which is...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Twitter and third-party Twitter developers
I can’t remember the last time the tech world was so interesting. First, innovation is at an all...
over a year ago
I can’t remember the last time the tech world was so interesting. First, innovation is at an all time high. Apple, Google, Facebook…
Matt Blewitt
Software Sprezzatura
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says...
over a year ago
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”, coined by Castiglione in 1528’s The Book of the Courtier.
A small freedom area...
From roots to polynomials
Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are
those I call the "sum of...
over a year ago
Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are
those I call the "sum of powers" (for example f(x)=ax³+bx²+cx+d) and the
"root factors" (for example f(x)=(x-r)(x-s)(x-t), where r, s and t are
the roots). The process of transforming the former into the...
TheCollector
The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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9 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Black and White
All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not...
over a year ago
All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not suck. My spirit wasn’t high, just check this post and this but now when it’s done it’s like night and day, or like black and white! I’m damn happy I got it done!! Aah I’ll try to...
Passing Time
The Highest Impact Thing You Can Do in Your Everyday Life
Making friends is hard; introducing others is easy.
11 months ago
Making friends is hard; introducing others is easy.
Quantum Frontiers
Now published: Building Quantum Computers
Building Quantum Computers: A Practical Introduction by Shayan Majidy, Christopher Wilson, and...
2 months ago
Building Quantum Computers: A Practical Introduction by Shayan Majidy, Christopher Wilson, and Raymond Laflamme has been published by Cambridge University Press and will be released in the US on September 30. The authors invited me to write a Foreword for … Continue reading →
TheCollector
Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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5 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Caveman
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This caption works for most comics, and makes them...
9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This caption works for most comics, and makes them a lot nicer.
Today's News:
I'll be at CulpeperCon today, if you're in central Virginia and want to say hi.
Seth's Blog
The seduction of grad school
For a certain cohort of high-performing students at famous colleges, graduate school feels...
a year ago
For a certain cohort of high-performing students at famous colleges, graduate school feels irresistible. If you’re good at school, the challenge and offer of law school, med school or a famous business school means you get to do more of what you’re good at. You’re offered a...
journal – Winnie Lim
eating hot and cold in fukuoka
Today we managed to find a cafe with some outdoor seating for breakfast. It was 12 degrees celsius,...
a year ago
Today we managed to find a cafe with some outdoor seating for breakfast. It was 12 degrees celsius, and I was half-expecting to see no tables outside despite the google listing showing...
Retail Design Blog
Sartorius Offices by Conexus Studio
Conexus Studio designed Sartorius’ regional office in Singapore, integrating agility, innovation,...
3 months ago
Conexus Studio designed Sartorius’ regional office in Singapore, integrating agility, innovation, biophilic elements, and collaborative spaces, prioritizing a vibrant yet...
Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
Seth's Blog
x1000
The future creeps up on us slowly. But when it leaps dramatically, we notice. One spam phone call a...
a year ago
The future creeps up on us slowly. But when it leaps dramatically, we notice. One spam phone call a day is an irritation. 1,000 of them destroy the utility of the phone. One photographer undercutting our rates is a threat. 1,000 of them means we can’t make a living at it any...
The Elysian
Founders will get much richer by exiting to employees
This is how we create a wave of employee ownership.
4 months ago
This is how we create a wave of employee ownership.
Joel Gascoigne
Want to be happy and successful? Bring happiness to others
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For the last 3...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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For the last 3 months I’ve regularly been meeting startup founders here in Hong
Kong to try and help them with the biggest challenges they have. It’s been truly
enjoyable and fascinating. I feel...
Seth's Blog
If it were really important…
Could we change our minds? When was the last time new information caused you to walk away from an...
a year ago
Could we change our minds? When was the last time new information caused you to walk away from an idea you were confident in? It gets harder and harder to do, and more and more important.
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with nanosecond sorting
If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about...
over a year ago
If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about algorithmic complexity probably wouldn't apply. The most effective algorithms become mediocre while the useless rise from the oblivion to shine and amaze. One of these algorithms is the...
CONTEMPORIST
This Bedroom With A Partial Glass Floor Looks Down To The Living Room Below
Fenda Arquitetura has shared photos of their project, a modern one-bedroom apartment in Sao Paulo,...
a year ago
Fenda Arquitetura has shared photos of their project, a modern one-bedroom apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that features a partial glass floor in the bedroom. The apartment has been designed with the living space on the lower floor, while the bedroom is located upstairs. One...
Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
Handprinted - Blog
How to Design and Print a Straight Repeating Pattern
Here’s an easy way to design a repeat pattern (without using a computer) and to block print it on to...
over a year ago
Here’s an easy way to design a repeat pattern (without using a computer) and to block print it on to fabric. We used MasterCut for our block because it’s an easy to cut stamping material that prints beautifully.
Draw around your block onto a piece of paper.
Draw part of your...
Liz Denys
A meeting of mindsets
This spring, I finally had time in the right places in my schedule to incorporate teaching into my...
over a year ago
This spring, I finally had time in the right places in my schedule to incorporate teaching into my semester. I'm a Learning Assistant (LA) for 6.042: Mathematics for Computer Science, which offers an introduction to discrete mathematics oriented towards computer science and...
TheCollector
The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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6 months ago
Remains of the Day
Invisible asymptotes
"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred...
over a year ago
"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single...
Business Brainstorms
No agenda cold emails, dealership visits as a service, prompt money, the doing game.
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities Prompt Base has a list of the
Diaries of Note
THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
Woody Guthrie was a folk pioneer, social activist, and restless wanderer who journeyed across the...
a year ago
Woody Guthrie was a folk pioneer, social activist, and restless wanderer who journeyed across the country, connecting with the struggles and aspirations of the American people during the trying times of the Great Depression. He filled innumerable notebooks with lyrics, prose,...
Basta’s Notes
All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?)
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
11 months ago
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
Society's Backend
Know Your Benchmarks
How the Chatbot Arena leaderboard for LLMs works and why it’s important to understand
8 months ago
How the Chatbot Arena leaderboard for LLMs works and why it’s important to understand
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
4 months ago
Construction Physics
The dream of deregulation - the grid part III
For most of the industry’s history, electric power in the US had largely been provided by vertically...
a year ago
For most of the industry’s history, electric power in the US had largely been provided by vertically integrated utility companies that handled every part of the electricity supply: generating it, transmitting it, distributing it to customers, and managing the overall system....
Paolo Amoroso's...
Raspberry Pi 400: first impressions
< has pointed out to me this...
over a year ago
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this bug has now been fixed.*
Safari 12.1.1 has a strange issue with certain ruby tags. Specifically, something like
ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ）
which renders as
ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ）
If you control click...
Jonas Hietala
I, Robot
Here are the results of the big robot construction course we had before christmas! The whole process...
over a year ago
Here are the results of the big robot construction course we had before christmas! The whole process went smooth and our group was amazing. The design and building of the robot went well even though in hindsight I would’ve changed a lot of stuff. The ending competition didn’t go...
The Marginalian
The Heart of Matter: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Bridging the Scientific and the Sacred
"Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by...
a year ago
"Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth."
Grow With Less
My SEO traffic collapsed so I built a SaaS (Early 2022 retrospective)
Sometime last year, I decided to turn the French Together course (a self-study French course for...
over a year ago
Sometime last year, I decided to turn the French Together course (a self-study French course for English speakers) into a language learning app.
This was done in 3 steps:
Learning how to code Building the French Together app Launching Here is how I went about each step and what I...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Phil Leggetter, our new head of Developer Relations
We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog....
over a year ago
We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog. Developer relations sits at the intersection of…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.0.8
Welcome to our second PostHog Array which comes with a new naming convention. We’re going to be...
over a year ago
Welcome to our second PostHog Array which comes with a new naming convention. We’re going to be doing weekly tagged releases from now on so the…
Grow With Less
How to Get Interviewed (Even If You Are Not Well-Known in Your Niche)
When people talk about interview link building, they mostly talk about expert interviews, you...
over a year ago
When people talk about interview link building, they mostly talk about expert interviews, you interview experts on your blog in the hope that they will then share your interview and link to it.
But doing the opposite also works. If you have interesting hobbies or any kind of...
The Marginalian
The Warblers and the Wonder of Being: Loren Eiseley on Contacting the Miraculous
"The time has to be right; one has to be, by chance or intention, upon the border of two worlds. And...
10 months ago
"The time has to be right; one has to be, by chance or intention, upon the border of two worlds. And sometimes these two borders may shift or interpenetrate and one sees the miraculous."
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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10 months ago
Map of the Week
Guided Across Switzerland by Hand Drawn Maps
The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland...
4 months ago
The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland guided only by hand drawn maps from the people he met along the way. I love a nice hand drawn map and this article provides lots of good examples.
These maps illustrate the things...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
“Incalculable Loss” front page of The New York Times for May 24th, 2020
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights...
over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights Reserved.
The front page of The New York Times for Sunday, May 24th, 2020, was a stark wall of type, and only type: a long and somber list of Americans who have lost their lives...
99% Invisible
Orange Alternative [EPISODE]
In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across...
a year ago
In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across Russia. People started writing out the phrase “no war” using asterisks instead of the various letters in order to disguise the meaning of the message. Then back in September, a...
CONTEMPORIST
A Bathroom Renovation Where Adding A Vanity That Wraps Around The Corner Added Much Needed...
Designer Ana Dahlman has shared photos of a bathroom renovation she completed that included...
a year ago
Designer Ana Dahlman has shared photos of a bathroom renovation she completed that included replacing the vanity with a floating L-shaped corner vanity. Before we see the renovated bathroom, here’s what it looked like originally, with cream-colored walls and a small vanity with...
Rozado’s Visual...
Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España
Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post...
over a year ago
Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post Verification of integrity of frequency counts: https://zenodo.org/record/5674590
Seth's Blog
Assume lack of context
The person you’re working with might not know what you know, might not see what you see. It’s...
6 months ago
The person you’re working with might not know what you know, might not see what you see. It’s tempting to begin where we are. But it’s more useful to begin where they are.
Seth's Blog
Crispiness
Crisp faces many opponents: entropy, laziness, time, compromise and false shortcuts. And fear. Most...
a year ago
Crisp faces many opponents: entropy, laziness, time, compromise and false shortcuts. And fear. Most of all, fear. Things rarely become crispy on their own. Instead, it requires care and effort. An ume shiso hand roll begins with a crisp piece of nori, but within a minute or two,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sit Down
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I do check to see what became of the PLiF guys...
7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I do check to see what became of the PLiF guys every six months or so.
Today's News:
Liz Denys
Denim hexagonal teacups, 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
5 months ago
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
A Weekly Dose of...
From the Mouths of Architects
I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point I went from disliking interviews — preferring texts...
a year ago
I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point I went from disliking interviews — preferring texts written by architects, much of it in the vein of theory — to gravitating to them. Now I find myself opting to read interviews, be they online or in printed matter, over other...
Londonist
Brixton Academy Is Reopening In April
First gigs announced since December 2022.
9 months ago
First gigs announced since December 2022.
./techtipsy
What I've learned running Linux and Windows off of USB flash drives
I’ve recently made an effort to reduce the amount of tech stuff that I own. Lack of space, lack of...
2 weeks ago
I’ve recently made an effort to reduce the amount of tech stuff that I own. Lack of space, lack of time and the guilt
of storing perfectly functional hardware unused in a box were the main motivators.
This has resulted in experiments with my assortment of USB flash storage that...
swyx's site RSS Feed
8 Q&A's for Bootcamp Students in 2020
I did a Q&A for Fullstack Academy Bootcamp Prep students - copying out my answers here!
over a year ago
I did a Q&A for Fullstack Academy Bootcamp Prep students - copying out my answers here!
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How we made our pre-commit check 7x faster
As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our...
over a year ago
As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our company, I've spent the last couple of months woried about the performance of our pre-commit checks. We have around 50 projects on a standard react + typescript stack, and a...
TheCollector
What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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6 months ago
A Smart Bear
How to measure the accuracy of forecasts
How do you assess forecasts, when the forecast is only a probability? It's not just about accuracy....
11 months ago
How do you assess forecasts, when the forecast is only a probability? It's not just about accuracy. Let's dive into the math.
The Architectural...
The bigotry of Modernism
We know that history tends to repeat itself, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse....
7 months ago
We know that history tends to repeat itself, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Unfortunately, the architecture world, including academics and practitioners, is often unaware that it perpetuates backward and bigoted attitudes, stifling the creativity of architects and...
Retail Design Blog
SONGZIO Galerie Noir
The SONGZIO fashion brand was founded in 1993 by designer and ESMOD graduate Zio Song and was one of...
7 months ago
The SONGZIO fashion brand was founded in 1993 by designer and ESMOD graduate Zio Song and was one of the...
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