Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
7 months ago
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
Londonist
9 Excellent Events Near London: January 2024
Dogs and beer - what more do you need?
12 months ago
Dogs and beer - what more do you need?
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Judge
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a year ago
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TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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9 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Scaling Organizations, Patient Payments, and Collections with Lora Rosenblum | Out-Of-Pocket
Why am I getting bills 6 months later, Lora pls help
a year ago
Why am I getting bills 6 months later, Lora pls help
AI Snake Oil
Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias?
A new paper making this claim has many flaws. But the question merits research
a year ago
A new paper making this claim has many flaws. But the question merits research
Luxagraf:...
Going Up North
Eight days of travel. Six days driving. 1508 miles from the shores of St George Island to the shores...
a year ago
Eight days of travel. Six days driving. 1508 miles from the shores of St George Island to the shores of Lake Superior.
It was too fast. I knew it was too fast, but we wanted to get out of the heat. I was ready for the toll it takes on us, but I was not prepared for the toll it...
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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7 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Exploring Tokyo’s Hidden Shrines
According to statistics, Tokyo is home to over 1800 Shinto shrines. You have your major shrines like...
a year ago
According to statistics, Tokyo is home to over 1800 Shinto shrines. You have your major shrines like Meiji-Jingu and Hie Shrine but there are many other tiny shrines, often unstaffed and nestled in the depths of back streets and behind buildings. Tearing down a shrine would be...
Moneyness
Who should pay for scams? Victims or their banks?
Scam call centre on CCTV, via BBC.
Here's a question for you. Should banks be required to...
a year ago
Scam call centre on CCTV, via BBC.
Here's a question for you. Should banks be required to reimburse customers who have been scammed?
I was recently reading a CBC article about a 63-year old Toronto man who responded to a phone call from a scammer claiming to be a Bank of...
TheCollector
‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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5 days ago
Elad Blog
Substack: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 2)
This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products...
over a year ago
This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products that are most likely to have had society-level impact in 5 years. My first two posts are on Clubhouse and Substack [1]. Both are social network and media platforms of different...
the singularity is...
The Elon Swing Voter
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
2 weeks ago
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
A Smart Bear
Who's lying?
Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because...
over a year ago
Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
Mazdak
Twitter vs. Instagram Threads: The Battle for the Short-Form Social Media Crown
Twitter and Instagram are two of the most popular social media platforms in the world. They both...
a year ago
Twitter and Instagram are two of the most popular social media platforms in the world. They both offer users a way to share short-form content, but they have different approaches to how that content is displayed and consumed. Twitter is a more public platform, where anyone can...
TheCollector
Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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3 months ago
Steve Blank
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Wrap Up
This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just had our final session of...
over a year ago
This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just had our final session of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to give our students insights on how commercial technology (AI, machine...
The Pragmatic...
Is the strategy of joining late-stage startups for the financial upside, a dead end?
The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO...
over a year ago
The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO company issuing generous equity, then wait for the IPO. This strategy seems to be less profitable in 2022.
Blog System/5
End-to-end tool testing with Bazel and shtk
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate...
a year ago
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate size, it almost-certainly builds one or more binaries, at least one of which is a CLI tool. But let’s face it: you don’t have end-to-end testing for those tools, do you?
TheCollector
Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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5 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Efficiency trades off against resiliency
What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from...
a year ago
What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from a well-designed and well-run service, what CPU utilization should we hope to see, averaged over a day or two?
It’s a very general question, and it’s not clear it should have a...
The Roots of...
Do we get better or worse at adapting to change?
Verner Vinge, in a classic 1993 essay, described “the Singularity” as an era where progress becomes...
a year ago
Verner Vinge, in a classic 1993 essay, described “the Singularity” as an era where progress becomes “an exponential runaway beyond any hope of control.”
The idea that technological change might accelerate to a pace faster than we can keep up with is a common concern. Almost three...
Moneyness
The first round of U.S. secondary sanctions on Russia is working
Turkish banks halted transactions with Russian banks last month and are only slowly reintroducing...
10 months ago
Turkish banks halted transactions with Russian banks last month and are only slowly reintroducing payments for a narrow range of products that are on a so-called "green list," reports Ragip Soylu. This broad debanking of Russia by Turkey is part of the fallout from President...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
AI tutoring; what works?
It's 2024 and LLMs are still the "hot new thing". Looking back on 2023, I'm surprised how quickly I...
10 months ago
It's 2024 and LLMs are still the "hot new thing". Looking back on 2023, I'm surprised how quickly I went from, "Wow! My computer is speaking to me in fluent and comprehensible English," to, "Eh, that could have been phrased/executed/generated better."
Back in the early 2010s, my...
Rest of World -...
Our favorite Rest of World photos from 2023
39 photographers, 31 cities, 22 countries. This is what global tech looked like this year.
12 months ago
39 photographers, 31 cities, 22 countries. This is what global tech looked like this year.
essay – snarfed.org
Socket activation
I’ve spent some time over the last few weeks reading about the various *nix init systems: venerable...
over a year ago
I’ve spent some time over the last few weeks reading about the various *nix init systems: venerable SysV, interim replacement Upstart, controversial monolith systemd, Apple’s proprietary launchd, and niche variants like runit and Epoch. Lots of history, lots of flame wars. One...
Christopher Butler
Link – Approach Studio website
approach.studio is a really nice website.
There’s a sensibility shared by many small,...
10 months ago
approach.studio is a really nice website.
There’s a sensibility shared by many small, interdisciplinary design studios — especially those who have aesthetic standards as high as their technical capabilities. They’re the sort of group that can make even the simplest working...
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Skydio
I’m excited to announce today that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $3M financing of Skydio, a...
over a year ago
I’m excited to announce today that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $3M financing of Skydio, a startup developing artificial intelligence…
Dustin Curtis
iPad in 2020
A couple of months ago, I switched entirely to an iPad Pro for about two weeks. I did not use my...
over a year ago
A couple of months ago, I switched entirely to an iPad Pro for about two weeks. I did not use my MacBook Pro at all, and forced myself to do everything on the iPad. After that experience, I planned to write some kind of review, but it turned out that my conclusions were pretty...
The Convivial...
Apocalyptic AI
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 5
a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 5
One Useful Thing
"Do not fear AI, puny humans... that is not meant as a threat."
What we can learn from a completely AI written & illustrated lecture
a year ago
What we can learn from a completely AI written & illustrated lecture
Nat Eliason's...
How We Designed a FUN Nonfiction Book Cover
Every step and cover along the way
6 months ago
Every step and cover along the way
Blog posts of...
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...
over a year ago
As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of metrics, analytics, retention and gro...
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 3 (Cut & Paste)
Sound code is added in this third in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
8 months ago
Sound code is added in this third in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
Daniel Miessler
AI Art Hack: Combining Abstract Designs with Objects
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a year ago
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Spark best practices
Spark execution model Spark's simplicity makes it all too easy to ignore its execution model, and...
over a year ago
Spark execution model Spark's simplicity makes it all too easy to ignore its execution model, and still manage to write jobs that eventually…
Epic Web Dev
Replace Remix's unstable_parseMultipartFormData with @mjackson/form-data-parser (tip)
Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or...
3 months ago
Learn how to handle multi-part forms in Remix using unstable_parseMultipartFormData or @mjackson/form-data-parser with custom file size validation.
Posts on Made of...
Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey...
over a year ago
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey into interesting algorithms and high-performance parallel programming in Rust.
Backstory Starting around the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, I’ve gotten myself deeply nerdsniped...
Castles in the Sky
Foom Anxiety
Castles in the Sky #41
a year ago
Londonist
Delightful Literary Days Out Near London That All Book Lovers Should Do
Immerse yourself in the worlds of famous authors, from Charles Dickens to AA Milne.
a year ago
Immerse yourself in the worlds of famous authors, from Charles Dickens to AA Milne.
Probably...
Reject Math Supremacy
The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool...
a week ago
The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool for teaching and learning — and many ideas that are commonly presented in math notation can be more clearly presented in code. In the draft third edition of Think Stats there is...
the singularity is...
Where the Bitter Lesson ends
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the...
9 months ago
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the thing we built can do the engineering.
Clips have been making the rounds on Twitter from my second Lex about the “bishop guy” in a chess engine, or a “cone guy” in a self driving...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #164
Howard Marks on intelligent risks, Li Lu's amazing life story, Damodaran on streaming, Thompson on...
a year ago
Howard Marks on intelligent risks, Li Lu's amazing life story, Damodaran on streaming, Thompson on Charter vs. Disney, Taleb's favorite literary works, Buffett's Japanese investments, and more ...
Epic Web Dev
React Server Components: An Optimistic Future (article)
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once...
5 months ago
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
Spoon & Tamago
Take a Ride on the Yagi-Shingu Bus, Japan’s Longest Local Bus Route
all photos by Masamichi Kirihara courtesy Sankei Japanese trains often get all the love, but we’re a...
11 months ago
all photos by Masamichi Kirihara courtesy Sankei Japanese trains often get all the love, but we’re a fan of their buses too. And if you’re keen on living the slow life while also experiencing the Japanese countryside, boy do we have the perfect activity for you. The Yagi-Shingu...
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...
10 months ago
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...
Joel Gascoigne
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team.
We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
Flashbak
Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
Miguel Carranza
Technical debt isn't evil
Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the...
over a year ago
Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. There are multiple interpretations of what technical debt is, but I am going to focus on the financial debt metaphor. Like financial debt, technical debt is something...
TheCollector
Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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David Heinemeier...
Europe is half the cost for our company meet-ups
Since the pandemic ended, we've had the pleasure of organizing three different company meet-ups for...
a year ago
Since the pandemic ended, we've had the pleasure of organizing three different company meet-ups for 37signals. We got going again in Miami, then hopped to Amsterdam, and most recently we went to New Orleans. Next we're going to Barcelona in the fall. Would you have guessed that...
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Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds
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over a year ago
TheCollector
Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Pop Culture
A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too...
5 months ago
A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. And yes, that sound you hear is the slow deflation of
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 30 September-1 October 2023
A drag brunch, a mudlarking festival, art markets, Oktoberfest and more.
a year ago
A drag brunch, a mudlarking festival, art markets, Oktoberfest and more.
Rest of World -...
Riders in the smog
Rest of World equipped gig riders across South Asia with pollution monitors. The readings were off...
9 months ago
Rest of World equipped gig riders across South Asia with pollution monitors. The readings were off the charts.
Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
6 months ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Making software...
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2021-01-05
In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
over a year ago
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2021-01-05
In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user:
One-time payment
Recurring payment
Free tier...
TheCollector
Who Was Averroes?
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Astral Codex Ten
Take The 2025 ACX Survey
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2 days ago
Julia Evans
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes
I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and
one question I’ve...
a year ago
I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and
one question I’ve gotten a few times is – why does the x86 architecture use 8-bit bytes? Why not
some other size?
With any question like this, I think there are two options:
It’s a historical accident,...
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
a month ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
Jonas Hietala
The games that make me who I am
I read an article the other day where he met someone who didn’t read fiction:
He suggested that...
over a year ago
I read an article the other day where he met someone who didn’t read fiction:
He suggested that fiction was a waste of his time — he read to learn, not for "mere" entertainment
I don’t agree with this view and neither did he:
Fiction allows you to be part of situations that are...
Archinect - Features
A Guide to Salary Transparency Laws Across the United States
At present, there is no federal pay transparency law in the United States. However, as Archinect...
9 months ago
At present, there is no federal pay transparency law in the United States. However, as Archinect frequently reports on, several states and cities across the United States have enacted their own requirements for employers seeking to hire or promote within their...
Handprinted - Blog
Printing with Heat Stamps
If you haven’t tried printing with Heat Stamps yet, this is your new project. It’s really quick to...
a year ago
If you haven’t tried printing with Heat Stamps yet, this is your new project. It’s really quick to create a unique block that can be reused again and again to create different textures and patterns.
All you need is a heat gun and a variety of objects and surfaces to create your...
Londonist
BBC's Desert Island Discs Announces Live Palladium Shows
Celebrating 80 years of the hit radio programme.
11 months ago
Celebrating 80 years of the hit radio programme.
TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Painting
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a year ago
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That stick figure diagram is the most joy I've had making an illustration in years.
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Jason Crawford
“Ascend the Hierarchy”: Let’s improve online discourse
Many years ago Paul Graham wrote an essay, “How to Disagree”, that proposed a hierarchy of...
over a year ago
Many years ago Paul Graham wrote an essay, “How to Disagree”, that proposed a hierarchy of disagreement with seven levels, from DH0, “name-calling”, to DH6, “refuting the central point”. Someone then created a pyramid diagram based on this.
Recently when someone commented...
Matt Mazur
Updates: Preceden Trends, Training Help Scout’s New Analytics Engineer, Don’t Look Up, and Ray...
Preceden Recurring Revenue: In January 2021 I introduced automatically recurring annual plans to...
over a year ago
Preceden Recurring Revenue: In January 2021 I introduced automatically recurring annual plans to Preceden. Prior to that the annual plans did not renew automatically which was an intentional (but bad) choice I had made because most users did not user Preceden for more than a...
The Modern House
Tim Ross: the Australian broadcaster on the life-enhancing effect of modest, modernist buildings –...
Growing up in a 1960s house in the suburbs of Melbourne, the Australian broadcaster Tim Ross was...
6 months ago
Growing up in a 1960s house in the suburbs of Melbourne, the Australian broadcaster Tim Ross was often left to his own devices. A daydreamer with an eye for design, his passion for modernist buildings took root and caught up with him following his early […]
brr
Engineering for Slow Internet
How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica.
6 months ago
How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica.
Blog System/5
Bazel interview at Software Engineering Daily
A detailed summary of the many topics we discussed during this fun interview
a year ago
A detailed summary of the many topics we discussed during this fun interview
TheCollector
What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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David Perell
Hugging the X-Axis
I’ve always struggled with commitment. In a world as grand as ours, shouldn’t we try to experience...
over a year ago
I’ve always struggled with commitment. In a world as grand as ours, shouldn’t we try to experience it all? Change it up. Visit every country. Try a bunch of careers. The menu of life is vast, and it’d be a shame to only order a single entrée. When I say I was allergic to...
Both Are True
the thoughts that think me
i'm not aware of almost anything I am thinking on a daily basis, surely that's not good doc???
4 months ago
i'm not aware of almost anything I am thinking on a daily basis, surely that's not good doc???
Christopher Butler
Design for AI
If the majority of attention your webpage gets is from AI, not humans, what does it need to look...
7 months ago
If the majority of attention your webpage gets is from AI, not humans, what does it need to look like? How does it need to work?
When mobile device browsers first became a design problem, some people said that the best way to solve it was with two sets of markup — one for...
TheCollector
How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the...
over a year ago
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the “Lite” variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean.
Please note that while I...
diamond geezer
Trafalgar Square
TRAFALGAR
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£240
London's Monopoly Streets
TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Colour group: red
Purchase...
4 months ago
TRAFALGAR
SQUARE
£240
London's Monopoly Streets
TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Colour group: red
Purchase price: £240
Rent: £20
Area: 3 acres
Borough: Westminster
Postcode: WC2
four streets on the Monopoly board (all the pinks plus Strand) and is also a property in its own right. I've...
Retail Design Blog
Bear Capital office by Oktra
Oktra designed a purpose-built office space for Bear Capital in Richmond, transitioning from angular...
7 months ago
Oktra designed a purpose-built office space for Bear Capital in Richmond, transitioning from angular to curved architecture to enhance flow...
Wait But Why
Why I Lugged My 27-Pound Toddler to a Rocket Launch
So heavy but so worth it
The post Why I Lugged My 27-Pound Toddler to a Rocket Launch appeared first...
2 months ago
So heavy but so worth it
The post Why I Lugged My 27-Pound Toddler to a Rocket Launch appeared first on Wait But Why.
ntietz.com blog
A few weird ways of displaying git hashes
I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement.
While talking...
a year ago
I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement.
While talking about why hashes are often represented in hexademical, the author states (emphasis mine):
There are other ways to encode binary data for human consumption, but the two most widely...
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step…
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024.
This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
9 months ago
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024.
This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”.
I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance.
This...
Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
2 days ago
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
Simply Explained
Securely access home network with Cloudflare Tunnel and WARP
When Cloudflare announced that their Tunnel service would become free, I saw an opportunity to...
over a year ago
When Cloudflare announced that their Tunnel service would become free, I saw an opportunity to strengthen the security of my Home Assistant instance. Until now, I have been using Cloudflare's CDN to connect to my HA instance, but that required opening ports on my router and...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How Washington, D.C. is Leading the Way in Accessible Travel
a year ago
The Berkeley...
Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research
In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data...
a year ago
In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data gathered from the web. We describe the dataset curation and training process of our model, and also present the results of a user study that compares our model to ChatGPT and...
Diaries of Note
The Last of England
Ford Madox Brown was a British artist born in Calais in 1821, widely recognised though never...
a year ago
Ford Madox Brown was a British artist born in Calais in 1821, widely recognised though never officially part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. It was in 1852 that he started work on two of his most famous paintings: Work, which took thirteen years to complete, and The Last of...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Reachy 2
IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few...
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE
ICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK
Cybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024,...
Seán Barry
Getting Started With Docker (Part 1)
What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this...
over a year ago
What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this article is for you.
Neil Panchal
Teaching how to code is broken
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control...
over a year ago
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control structures
Chapter 5: Arrays
Chapter 6: Functions
Chapter 7: Structs
Chapter 8: Classes and Objects
Chapter 9: Methods
Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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RM70
Every 10 years the Routemaster Association likes to take over Finsbury Park with a mass line-up of...
5 months ago
Every 10 years the Routemaster Association likes to take over Finsbury Park with a mass line-up of London's favourite heritage vehicle, the RM bus. Unfortunately this year Haringey council made things difficult so the 70th anniversary bash, RM70, had to find a different home....
diamond geezer
London Heritage Quarter Summer Trail
What is this bolx?
London Heritage Quarter 'Journey Through Time' Summer Trail and it's bolx. It's...
6 months ago
What is this bolx?
London Heritage Quarter 'Journey Through Time' Summer Trail and it's bolx. It's been organised not to inspire and delight but to drive footfall to four commercial districts. It kicked off last week and runs all summer. It's lowest common denominator art. It's...
A Smart Bear
p-Hacking your A/B tests
Half of your "successful" A/B tests are false-positives. This is why, and how to fix it.
a month ago
Half of your "successful" A/B tests are false-positives. This is why, and how to fix it.
A Smart Bear
The Serengeti Plain: Fallacies that aren't fallacies
A contrarian look at logical "fallacies" that maybe aren't so illogical after all.
2 months ago
A contrarian look at logical "fallacies" that maybe aren't so illogical after all.
Cheese and Biscuits
The Barn at Moor Hall, Ormskirk
In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought...
4 months ago
In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought experiment. If there was no such separation of options, and if all the dishes available were priced evenly on the same list, which would I end up going for?
Set menus (usually,...
Math Is Still...
What Are Sheaves?
These metaphorical gardens have become central objects in modern mathematics.
The post...
5 months ago
These metaphorical gardens have become central objects in modern mathematics.
The post What Are Sheaves? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Spoon & Tamago
Manga Artist Hirohiko Araki Pays Tribute to Osaka Station’s History and Culture with New Public Art...
Osaka Station just got a little more bizzare. Manga artist Hirohiko Araki, known best for his epic...
4 months ago
Osaka Station just got a little more bizzare. Manga artist Hirohiko Araki, known best for his epic saga Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, has installed his first-ever public art piece at Osaka Station’s West Gate. Titled “Fountain Boy,” the circular, back-lit sculpture pays homage to the...
A Beautiful Site
Prevent white noise from appearing in images after fading
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were...
over a year ago
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were rotating on a page in the form of a slideshow, fading in and out for a nice, smooth transition. One problem, though: in Internet Explorer 7 (and 6, as it turned out), one of the images...
Tikalon Blog by Dev...
Tikalon Blog Archive
Tikalon Blog is now in archive mode. Here's a directory of links to easily printed and saved...
3 months ago
Tikalon Blog is now in archive mode. Here's a directory of links to easily printed and saved articles. If you're willing to wait a while for the download, a zip file of all the blog articles can be found at the link below. Note, however, that these articles are copyrighted and...
CONTEMPORIST
A Green And White Tiled Design Was Created For This Vegan Cafe
Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio has shared photos of a vegan cafe they have recently...
10 months ago
Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio has shared photos of a vegan cafe they have recently completed that has an eye-catching tiled facade and interior. The V-Spot Café, located in Chandigarh, India, has a common design aesthetic throughout, from the facade to the interior....
Matt Mullenweg
Disrupt Interview
On Wednesday I had a great chat with Connie Loizos, the editor in chief of TechCrunch, you can view...
a month ago
On Wednesday I had a great chat with Connie Loizos, the editor in chief of TechCrunch, you can view the video here: Then yesterday Automattic filed its legal responses to the spurious lawfare from WP Engine, Silver Lake, and Quinn Emanuel. It’s a bit long, but if you have time...
Arduino Blog
Easy and fun block-based coding with the Alvik robot is here, now Chromebook compatible!
At Arduino, we believe coding should be accessible to everyone – including the youngest learners....
a month ago
At Arduino, we believe coding should be accessible to everyone – including the youngest learners. With this in mind, we’re thrilled to announce that the Arduino Alvik robot now officially supports block-based coding! Coding has never been easier thanks to Alvik’s seamless...
Josh Thompson
On Scooters as a class of vehicle/tool
Introduction
Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of...
4 days ago
Introduction
Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of something different than what I mean. Here’s Denver’s Sportique Scooters, here’s one of their recent posts:
So that is the kind of vehicle I’m talking about when I say “scooter”.
I...
Alex Meub
A Great Bumper Sticker
I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago...
over a year ago
I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing:
It’s of course making fun of the Earth Stickers that are so common everywhere (especially in Portland):
If you’re curious, the original sticker was...
TheCollector
5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Math Is Still...
How Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering
New tools make it possible to detect hidden manipulation of maps.
The post How Math Has...
a year ago
New tools make it possible to detect hidden manipulation of maps.
The post How Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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My New Mac Setup (2018-2020)
quick checklist for setting up a new macbook
over a year ago
quick checklist for setting up a new macbook
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Teach
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a year ago
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Tony Dinh's...
Oct 2023: side project, interview on Indie Hackers
Going viral, my thoughts, and updates from me in October 2023.
a year ago
Going viral, my thoughts, and updates from me in October 2023.
This Space
The disappearance of criticism, part two
A friend mentioned to me that he felt alienated by the articulacy of a literary critical book he was...
over a year ago
A friend mentioned to me that he felt alienated by the articulacy of a literary critical book he was reading; by its neutrality of tone, by its calm. Unruffled was another word he used. We all might recognise this feeling while assuming it is admiration, respect, perhaps even...
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Chasing Performance
Chasing Performance
2017-11-20
Update
This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been...
over a year ago
Chasing Performance
2017-11-20
Update
This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been redesigned since. I’m keeping this article up as a point of reference.
So I decided to participate in Smashing Mag’s Front End Performance Challenge, not only for the potential of...
The American Scholar
American Horror Story
Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear
The post American Horror Story appeared first on The...
a month ago
Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear
The post American Horror Story appeared first on The American Scholar.
Old Structures...
Half Of A Grand Commercial Palace
380 Broadway has architecture above its station. It was built in 1860 with retail space at the base...
7 months ago
380 Broadway has architecture above its station. It was built in 1860 with retail space at the base and loft space above, but it’s got that grand marble-veneer facade on the upper floors and some very nice cast iron by Daniel Badger at the first floor. It’s fortunes have followed...
Maps Mania
One Million Screenshots. One Map!
4 months ago
Blog posts of...
Drafting your first investment round.
The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders...
over a year ago
The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders look for external funding. And i...
The Honest Broker
Why Did Social Media Go to War Against Writers?
And can we ever get along?
a year ago
And can we ever get along?
The Honest Broker
My 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023
Number one will surprise you
11 months ago
Number one will surprise you
mtlynch.io
Why does a extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster?
For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and...
9 months ago
For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and Ethereum cryptocurrency. To learn more about both, I’ve been using Zig to write a bytecode interpreter for the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
Zig is a great language for performance...
Diaries of Note
The most sensual thing I’ve ever seen
When Pamela Des Barres graduated from high school in 1966, she headed straight for the Sunset Strip...
a year ago
When Pamela Des Barres graduated from high school in 1966, she headed straight for the Sunset Strip where the rock stars she had idolised from afar roamed—a path that led her to become one of the most celebrated groupies of the rock and roll era. She kept a diary throughout and...
TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
So why write a blog?
I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass...
over a year ago
I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass when I’ve really needed to show off work…
There are two types...
A Short Discussion of Residential Building Heights in New York City
NOTE: The following was written for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Street Design, The Secret To...
a year ago
NOTE: The following was written for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Street Design, The Secret To Great Cities and Towns, where it will appear in a shorter version. This version still needs a little editing for its new context. Part … Continue reading →
The post A Short...
TheCollector
The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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AFAR Media - Travel...
The Highlights of New York Winter Jazzfest, January, 2025
a week ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Seven habits of bad interviewers
I’ve been to plenty of bad interviews. Sometimes, only some questions are bad, but usually it goes...
over a year ago
I’ve been to plenty of bad interviews. Sometimes, only some questions are bad, but usually it goes further than that. Bizarre questions like “what’s the difference between a number and an array” are just a symptom of deeper issues.
Let’s take a step back — why are we...
The Honest Broker
Is Rock Dead? (and Other Questions from Readers)
And I invite you to ask questions of your own
a year ago
And I invite you to ask questions of your own
CONTEMPORIST
Lighting Highlights The Alternating Curvilinear Balconies Of This New Apartment Building
Omniview Design has completed the Golf Apartments, a high-end residential development adjacent to a...
a year ago
Omniview Design has completed the Golf Apartments, a high-end residential development adjacent to a famous golf course in Glyfada, Greece. Key to the design of the building are the curvilinear balconies that alternate directions creating a lively facade. In the evening, lighting...
TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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3 months ago
This Space
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard
I began reading The Morning Star without any prior knowledge of the contents, just as I had begun...
over a year ago
I began reading The Morning Star without any prior knowledge of the contents, just as I had begun reading every other book of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s since receiving an ARC of the first volume of My Struggle long before he shone above us like the morning star in this novel. This...
Steve Klabnik
Resque 1.25.0.pre has been released
over a year ago
Seeking Wisdom
Neural Networks – Part 1
This is my 5th post on my journey to build a toy GPT. I’d recommend checking out my previous posts...
a year ago
This is my 5th post on my journey to build a toy GPT. I’d recommend checking out my previous posts before diving into this one. Take the statement, ‘I will only go for a walk if it’s nice outside AND I have free time.’ This can be neatly represented using a truth table. We can…
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Long web pages benefit from having a table...
4 months ago
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Long web pages benefit from having a table of contents.
Especially technical, reference documentation. As a reader you want a way to quickly navigate to a specific part of the documentation.
This article describes how I...
Josh Collinsworth
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React
The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will...
over a year ago
The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?
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Array 1.1.0
Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like...
over a year ago
Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your…
History Today Feed
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Your Father's
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a year ago
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Also you'll want to call this tech support number your father called before you.
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This is probably the right place to mention we made the thing people kept asking for.
A Smart Bear
Scars
Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
3 weeks ago
Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
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Cool Facts about Cuttlefish
This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short...
over a year ago
This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short lightning talk on any topic we wished. I picked cuttles. I actually saw one in real life diving in Fiji once!
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Super Mario Blocks in CSS
Super Mario Blocks in CSS
2019-02-15
Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build...
over a year ago
Super Mario Blocks in CSS
2019-02-15
Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks.
What our final product will look like:
Live CodePen Example
The HTML
The set of Mario blocks doesn’t require a huge...
Tom Blomfield
Startup Series Part 2: Attracting great engineers
This is the second in a series of articles on the operational side of running startup - once you’ve...
over a year ago
This is the second in a series of articles on the operational side of running startup - once you’ve found product-market fit and raised VC cash, how do you go about building a business?
The first post in this series, on the hiring process, assumes you have a sufficient number of...
NeuroLogica Blog
Bill Gates Backs Nuclear
No one ever said that nuclear power is simple or easy. It’s a tricky and expensive technology. But...
6 months ago
No one ever said that nuclear power is simple or easy. It’s a tricky and expensive technology. But it also has tremendous potential to create large amounts of reliable green low carbon energy, and many believe that we cannot ignore this potential if we are going to tackle climate...
Londonist
Things To Do In London In Half Term: October 2023
Family-friendly school holiday activities for all budgets.
a year ago
Family-friendly school holiday activities for all budgets.
Twelve Mile Circle –...
England, Day 9 (Atypical London)
Before we left on our trip to England I promised everyone in the family that we would visit at least...
4 months ago
Before we left on our trip to England I promised everyone in the family that we would visit at least one thing they absolutely wanted to see. We completed that for the younger kid at Tankfest. Two more bucket list destinations happened during our first full day in London. We’re...
AFAR Media - Travel...
4 Kessler Collection Hotels with Art in the Southern U.S.
4 months ago
TheCollector
6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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Londonist
The Great Fire Of London: 10 Key Sites To See
Monument, Pudding Lane, the Golden Boy and more.
a year ago
Monument, Pudding Lane, the Golden Boy and more.
Map of the Week
Map for Bloomsday
I have not read Ulysses by James Joyce, few people have. Even fewer have understood it. To honor the...
6 months ago
I have not read Ulysses by James Joyce, few people have. Even fewer have understood it. To honor the annual Bloomsday festival going on right now, here is a map showing the wanderings and locations within the book. The map about as easy to understand as the plot itself.
I have...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't write
Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most...
a year ago
Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most people.
We don’t need more good quality, niche, carefully crafted content.
So, if you are thinking about starting a blog, a Substack, a Twitter account or something similar, please know...
The Map is Mostly...
[subscribers only] Office Hours & Tidings
The Map is Mostly Water Office Hours are open For about 2 days. What do you need feedback or advice...
7 months ago
The Map is Mostly Water Office Hours are open For about 2 days. What do you need feedback or advice on, what questions do you have, what secret trouble stirs thy breast? Feel free to ask about house design, New Hampshire, philosophy, parenting, or anything else you want to...
TheCollector
Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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TheCollector
Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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a year ago
Prolost
Log is the “Pro” in iPhone 15 Pro
And I’ve got some free LUTs for you.
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature log video recording. This...
a year ago
And I’ve got some free LUTs for you.
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature log video recording. This is a big deal, but there’s already some confusion about it. Where consumer devices and pro video overlap, that’s where the Prolost Signal gleams brightest in the night sky. So...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 23-29 October 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bayesing
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10 months ago
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Leprechauns
Is there a rainbow underneath your pot of gold? Sometimes, we get it backwards.
6 months ago
Is there a rainbow underneath your pot of gold? Sometimes, we get it backwards.
TheCollector
Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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5 months ago
Making software...
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery
2022-10-03
This article was updated on October 11, 2022
I'm a big...
over a year ago
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery
2022-10-03
This article was updated on October 11, 2022
I'm a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of "brutalist" or minimalist design, so I'm always inspired...
This Space
39 Books: 1993
I've written about Gert Hofmann's novels a few times, most recently Veilchenfeld (Our Philosopher in...
7 months ago
I've written about Gert Hofmann's novels a few times, most recently Veilchenfeld (Our Philosopher in the US edition), but not his short stories. In the year Hofmann died aged only 62, I bought and read Balzac's Horse and other stories in the wonderful Minerva paperback imprint....
Anecdotal Evidence
'Dictionary of Dead Words'
How to
account for the enduring appeal of clichés? Why do we snub the riches of our language?...
a year ago
How to
account for the enduring appeal of clichés? Why do we snub the riches of our language? I’ve
always supposed it was laziness or the absence of imagination. Why work hard at
writing or speaking when a ready-made word, phrase or thought shows up automatically
like pain with a...
Both Are True
am i old now?
on committing to the bit and becoming a dad v2
11 months ago
on committing to the bit and becoming a dad v2
Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
3 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
And the Boundless Universe
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #6
The first full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen lengthy queues and a bit more...
2 months ago
The first full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen lengthy queues and a bit more drilling. The queues were at their worst on Wednesday when an additional set of roadworks temporarily afflicted Tredegar Road, at one point stretching over three quarters of a mile along...
Maps Mania
Tracking American Spies in Germany
5 months ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Dayton, Ohio Part 5 (Venturing West)
My second day of county counting focused west of Dayton, once again targeting five new counties....
8 months ago
My second day of county counting focused west of Dayton, once again targeting five new counties. This time I planned to capture Butler and Darke counties in Ohio; and Union, Fayette, and Randolph counties in Indiana. Hopefully this excursion would also take about three hours like...
Old Vintage...
Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future
In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking...
3 months ago
In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking to each other via speakerphone, and probably listening to Devo and New Order a lot. (Though that part isn't too different from my actual present.)
a computer whose manufacturer...
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5 Things I Learned from The DynamoDB Book
Reviewing Alex DeBrie's new the DynamoDB Book
over a year ago
Reviewing Alex DeBrie's new the DynamoDB Book
TheCollector
What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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3 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
Left To Write
#6 Writemas: The Intersection of Disparate Skills
My mother used to say to me, “Go work for a good company and build your career within it.” Her...
a year ago
My mother used to say to me, “Go work for a good company and build your career within it.” Her advice came from a good place. She didn’t want me to struggle and have the safety of a salary. As many of you know, I didn’t do that. However, when I look back and reflect on that...
The American Scholar
Up Close
The post Up Close appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 months ago
The post Up Close appeared first on The American Scholar.
orlp.net - Blog...
Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search
by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss...
a year ago
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search
by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss the merits of the following snippet of
C++ code implementing a binary search:
template<typename It, typename T, typename Cmp>
It lower_bound_skarupke(It begin, It end, const T&...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
How Tech Outstayed Its Welcome
Last week, Apple opened pre-orders for the Vision Pro, a $3500 “spatial computer” that is its first...
10 months ago
Last week, Apple opened pre-orders for the Vision Pro, a $3500 “spatial computer” that is its first real “new” thing since the Apple Watch, and arguably its most notable release since the iPad or iPhone. Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the few truly reliable Apple analysts, estimates
Vladimir Klepov as a...
7 things you may not know about useState
Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some...
over a year ago
Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some awesome features (and nasty pitfalls) useState offers. Since it's one of my favourite hooks, I decided to help spread a word. Don't expect any huge revelations, but here're the 7 facts...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Philosophy for Children
a year ago
Ancient Philosophy for Children
TheCollector
8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dust
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So you'll eat a chicken that does this but you...
a year ago
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So you'll eat a chicken that does this but you won't marry a HUMAN BEING who does? That's called hypocrisy.
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Math Is Still...
A ‘Lobby’ Where a Molecule Mob Tells Genes What to Do
Highly repetitive regions of junk DNA may be the key to a newly discovered mechanism for gene...
10 months ago
Highly repetitive regions of junk DNA may be the key to a newly discovered mechanism for gene regulation.
The post A ‘Lobby’ Where a Molecule Mob Tells Genes What to Do first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Commoncog
Is This a Moat: Mailchimp and PayPal’s Algorithmic Advantage
Two case studies of real world competitive advantage, followed by a question: was this a moat or...
over a year ago
Two case studies of real world competitive advantage, followed by a question: was this a moat or not?
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on September 19, 2016: Monday morning in New York and an emergency alert
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work,...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work, after watching two men of color have their bags searched at Grand Army Plaza:
I woke up today to my phone beeping in a pattern that wasn't my alarm:
WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami,...
Math Is Still...
How Is Flocking Like Computing?
Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. From chaotic assemblies of life, order somehow emerges. In...
8 months ago
Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. From chaotic assemblies of life, order somehow emerges. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz interviews the evolutionary ecologist Iain Couzin about how and why collective behaviors arise.
The post How Is Flocking Like...
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Signs that a Startup is Going Bad
All rocketship startups are alike, but every fading startup is fading in its own way.
a year ago
All rocketship startups are alike, but every fading startup is fading in its own way.
elementary Blog
Visualizing The Finish Line
First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already...
7 months ago
First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already aware, we build elementary OS releases from the Ubuntu software repositories, so we now have a stable upstream to work from. That means it’s time for us to focus in on finishing up...
Josh Collinsworth
Impressions of the ZSA Moonlander at one month
My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal...
a year ago
My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal and work projects for a full month
Diaries of Note
How easy it is to say the wrong thing!
Hugh Gaitskell found himself at the centre of an unintended media storm in November 1947, shortly...
a year ago
Hugh Gaitskell found himself at the centre of an unintended media storm in November 1947, shortly after being appointed as Britain’s Minister of Fuel and Power. In a speech addressing the stark realities of post-war austerity and fuel conservation, a comment about personal...
The Forney Flyer
View From My Office Window
I never cease to be awed by the beauty and diversity of God's creation. Over the years, I've...
over a year ago
I never cease to be awed by the beauty and diversity of God's creation. Over the years, I've flown/worked in quite a number of regions/countries, and had the unique privilege of enjoying many awesome landscapes in some of the most remote and isolated parts of the world... and...
The Modern House
House Style with Gennaro Leone and Tessa Vermeulen in Stoke Newington
a year ago
HTMHell
You don't need JavaScript for that
by Kilian Valkhof
Hello, my dear friend of RSS! This post contains interactive demos. You may want...
a year ago
by Kilian Valkhof
Hello, my dear friend of RSS! This post contains interactive demos. You may want to read it on the website.
Please don't feel antagonised by the title of this article. I don't hate JavaScript, I love it. I write bucketloads of it every single day. But I also...
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 3
In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first...
over a year ago
In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first prototype version of the site. I hit some speedbumps along the way and quickly reached the limits of what I could do with a pure client-only 1980s BASIC codebase. In this part, I’ll look...
Making software...
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
2019-06-14
When designing medium to large sized menu...
over a year ago
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
2019-06-14
When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
Home on Erik...
Missing the point about microservices: it's about testing and deploying independently
Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things:
I really struggle with the...
over a year ago
Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things:
I really struggle with the term microservices. I can't put my finger on exactly why. Maybe because the term is hopelessly ill-defined, maybe because it's gotten picked up by the hype train.
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mastery
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I get a lot of pleasure in bringing up a topical...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I get a lot of pleasure in bringing up a topical issue and then contributing nothing.
Today's News:
ntietz.com blog
I'm moving my projects off GitHub
It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge.
I'm not necessarily advocating...
over a year ago
It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge.
I'm not necessarily advocating for anyone else to do the same, but if my reasons resonate with you then you may want to consider it.
I also don't expect this post to... matter, if that makes sense1.
I'm not a...
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Ways to Experience Minnesota's Scandinavian Heritage
7 months ago
Stat Significant
What Are the Most Commonly Used Movie Clichés? A Statistical Analysis
Exploring the cliché phrases that dominate movies.
4 days ago
Exploring the cliché phrases that dominate movies.
Letters of Note
I would like to be paid like a plumber
Although they only existed for seven years and released just three albums, Nirvana were a band of...
a year ago
Although they only existed for seven years and released just three albums, Nirvana were a band of immeasurable influence in the music world thanks in no small part to Smells Like Teen Spirit, a single track on Nevermind, their second album. It was this song that brought them out...
Old Structures...
That Looks Old
I was on my way to a site in Greenwich Village and came across this group at 12th Street and Hudson...
10 months ago
I was on my way to a site in Greenwich Village and came across this group at 12th Street and Hudson Street: This is in the Greenwich Village Historic District, so I knew I could find a capsule history of the buildings with minimal effort, but I took a look at the usual fire maps....
Strange Loop Canon
Disruption starts at the margins, but doesn't stop there
Contra Hoel on AI and its supply paradox
a year ago
Contra Hoel on AI and its supply paradox
RhysTranter.com
“When you seek from almost nothing”: Arvo Pärt’s Musical Diaries
In a 30-minute documentary produced in collaboration with the Arvo Pärt Centre, the composer...
over a year ago
In a 30-minute documentary produced in collaboration with the Arvo Pärt Centre, the composer discusses the significance of his personal diaries to the formation and development of his music.
Retail Design Blog
Design Infinity Offices by Design Infinity
Design Infinity created a human-centric and sustainable design for their space in Dubai, displaying...
6 months ago
Design Infinity created a human-centric and sustainable design for their space in Dubai, displaying the quality, timeliness, and customer satisfaction...
SatPost by Trung...
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Pixar
Revisiting the studio’s early highs (one lunch led to $6B at the box office), creative struggles...
4 months ago
Revisiting the studio’s early highs (one lunch led to $6B at the box office), creative struggles (stale IP, original flops) and why "Inside Out 2" could trigger a renaissance.
TokyoDev
Good Design Sells Open Source
I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to
[Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a...
over a year ago
I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to
[Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a blogging framework backed by the
static site generator [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/). I first read about
Octopress a couple of weeks ago on Hacker News. Although Octopress
appealed...
TheCollector
Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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a month ago
TheCollector
10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
undefined
9 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
AI Copilots Are Coming
I’m going to do something I rarely do and make a straight-up prediction – I think we are close to...
2 months ago
I’m going to do something I rarely do and make a straight-up prediction – I think we are close to having AI apps that will function as our all-purpose digital assistants. That’s not really a tough call, we already have digital assistants and they are progressing rapidly. So I am...
Noahpinion
Don’t Rock the Vote
Democrats are the party that benefits from low voter turnout. They just don’t know it yet. (Guest...
5 months ago
Democrats are the party that benefits from low voter turnout. They just don’t know it yet. (Guest post by Wally Nowinski)
Old Structures...
Between Demolition and Redevelopment
Angelo Rizzuto, in 1959, was going for the same feeling as Berenice Abbott in her Changing New York...
7 months ago
Angelo Rizzuto, in 1959, was going for the same feeling as Berenice Abbott in her Changing New York photos twenty years earlier: contrast the new and the old. In this case we’ve got three eras represented: the mid- to late-1800s in the rowhouses and tenements along Third Avenue,...
Open Culture
Stephen King Names His Five Favorite Works by Stephen King
Stephen King has no doubt forgotten writing more books than most of us will ever publish. But even...
6 months ago
Stephen King has no doubt forgotten writing more books than most of us will ever publish. But even now, in his prolific “late career,” if you ask him to name his own most favored works, he can do it without hesitation. Stephen Colbert tried that out a few years ago on The Late...
Gwern.net Newsletter
May 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter
links on AI hardware, diffusion models, optogenetics, brain scanning.
over a year ago
links on AI hardware, diffusion models, optogenetics, brain scanning.
Grow With Less
Minimalist Seo: How to Save Time and Ditch the Overwhelm
What do you do when you spent hours writing awesome articles only to realize your mom and your best...
over a year ago
What do you do when you spent hours writing awesome articles only to realize your mom and your best friend Dave are the only people reading them?
That’s the question I asked myself 7 years ago after writing dozens of articles for my new blog French Together.
I followed 10,000...
Seth's Blog
Confronting consciousness
Everyone knows what it is to be conscious, and we imagine that other people are also aware. That we...
a year ago
Everyone knows what it is to be conscious, and we imagine that other people are also aware. That we have a voice in our heads, apparent agency and free will, a little person inside who is commenting, making decisions and in charge. We’re not sure if dogs have this, and we’re...
essay – snarfed.org
Policing misinformation
Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the...
a year ago
Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the demarcation problem: in the general case, there’s no shortcut to determining objective truth. It’s similar to the halting problem in computer science: if we want to know whether a...
Adventures In...
Detect and measure wildfires with Sentinel-1 Explorer
Our human visual systems collect light from a pretty narrow slice of the electromagnetic spectrum....
4 months ago
Our human visual systems collect light from a pretty narrow slice of the electromagnetic spectrum. But there is so much more light to see. Radar systems use photons with much longer wavelengths that can break through clouds and smoke, and because the energy is sent from the...
Math Is Still...
Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed
In all bilaterally symmetrical animals, from humans down to simple worms, nerves cross from one side...
a year ago
In all bilaterally symmetrical animals, from humans down to simple worms, nerves cross from one side of the body to the opposite side of the brain. Geometry may explain why.
The post Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed first appeared on Quanta...
IEEE Spectrum
Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air
“Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or...
2 weeks ago
“Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or jumped on obstacles, and jumped for take-offs,” says Won Dong Shin, a doctoral student at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. “What I consistently observed was that they always...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s Something You Need to Know About Web Design and Development
You’re doing great at it.
(❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race)
Email, Twitter,
Mastodon
a year ago
You’re doing great at it.
(❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race)
Email, Twitter,
Mastodon
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Collective knowledge systems
I think you could make a strong argument that the most important technologies developed over the...
over a year ago
I think you could make a strong argument that the most important technologies developed over the last decade are a set of systems that are…
Old Structures...
The Inspiration
The 14th Street station on the Eighth Avenue subway has an art installation by Tom Otterness called...
7 months ago
The 14th Street station on the Eighth Avenue subway has an art installation by Tom Otterness called “Life Underground” It consists of a series of brass figures, both human and animal, engaged in various pursuits. Everyone always focuses on the alligator climbing out of a sewer to...
A Beautiful Site
Down with the share widget!
In a world dominated by social media, it's natural to want visitors to share your content with...
over a year ago
In a world dominated by social media, it's natural to want visitors to share your content with friends and followers. This really isn't a bad thing, but how you go about encouraging them can actually be discouraging.
The rise of the "share" widget #
Six years ago, Twitter wasn't...
Atoms vs Bits
The "Rice Knuckle Rule" Rule
If you didn't actually follow the rule you said you followed, what use was the rule?
a week ago
If you didn't actually follow the rule you said you followed, what use was the rule?
Platformer
The regulators come for OpenAI
From data privacy to defamation, officials have questions
a year ago
From data privacy to defamation, officials have questions
TheCollector
Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
undefined
a year ago
Londonist
We Talk To John Rogers, Filmmaker And Author Of Welcome To New London
A true London legend.
a year ago
99% Invisible
Raccoon Resistance
After Toronto unveiled its “raccoon-resistant” compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals...
3 weeks ago
After Toronto unveiled its “raccoon-resistant” compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals would be starved but many more celebrated the innovative design. Rolling out this novel locked bin opened a new battlefront in city’s ongoing “war on raccoons.” Toronto’s new...
Posts on Made of...
A Cursed Bug
In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language...
over a year ago
In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language models. One of the joys of using a lot of computing resources, especially on somewhat niche software stacks, is that you spend a lot of time running into the long-tail of bugs which...
Diaries of Note
You can see the magic in him
Each weekday at 9 a.m., beginning in November 1976 and continuing until just days before his death...
a year ago
Each weekday at 9 a.m., beginning in November 1976 and continuing until just days before his death in 1987, Andy Warhol would engage in a lengthy phone call with Pat Hackett, a close friend who had initially started working for him as a typist in 1968. During his conversations...
A Beautiful Site
An icon converter that supports multiple sizes and transparency
If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's...
over a year ago
If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's one that does exactly that. It supports full transparency when converting 24-bit PNGs and even lets you combine multiple resolutions into one icon file — perfect for generating...
History Today Feed
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
11 months ago
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 May 06 - May 11
The Kali Yuga
Rumor is the Kali Yuga ends in March, 2025.
Thinking a lot about...
7 months ago
The Kali Yuga
Rumor is the Kali Yuga ends in March, 2025.
Thinking a lot about portals lately. Looking in, and through.
This last one was fun.
P.S. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Olesya Dzhurayeva
I am Olesya Dzhurayeva, Ukrainian artist. I was born in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, but I...
5 months ago
I am Olesya Dzhurayeva, Ukrainian artist. I was born in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, but I moved to Ukraine as a child. Now I live in Kyiv. Despite the war, I am staying in Ukraine and continue to work.
I am an active member of the international printmaking community,...
TheCollector
7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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9 months ago
Noahpinion
Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system
It's mostly the providers overcharging you, not the middlemen.
a week ago
It's mostly the providers overcharging you, not the middlemen.
Willem's Blog
Riding with a power meter on your bike
In this post I describe my experience with installing the 4iiii Precision Powermeter on my road...
over a year ago
In this post I describe my experience with installing the 4iiii Precision Powermeter on my road bike.
mtlynch.io
Using Nix to Fuzz Test a PDF Parser (Part Two)
This is the second half of a post about using Nix to automate a fuzz testing workflow.
At this...
2 months ago
This is the second half of a post about using Nix to automate a fuzz testing workflow.
At this point, I can run honggfuzz against pdftotext, but it takes a bit of manual effort to get things started. I promised in part one that I’d get all of the installation and fuzzing down to...
Commoncog
The Dangers of Expansion
A recurring pattern that seems to show up again and again in business: expansion is dangerous, and...
4 months ago
A recurring pattern that seems to show up again and again in business: expansion is dangerous, and everyone really only learns this through pain.
Identity Designed
CleanO2
Designed by Ordinary Things, San Francisco.
over a year ago
Designed by Ordinary Things, San Francisco.
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
undefined
a year ago
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Euclid Space Telescope Delivers Great Images
The first images are coming in from the new Euclid Space Telescope and they are spectacular.
The...
a year ago
The first images are coming in from the new Euclid Space Telescope and they are spectacular.
The post Euclid Space Telescope Delivers Great Images appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
./techtipsy
Life is maintenance, maintenance is life
Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building...
a year ago
Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building things.
When I was still an inexperienced junior developer who barely survived operating in a Linux
environment and saw backend development as a black box, I was happy to get...
Seth's Blog
The hard part first
If you’re trying to reduce risk, do the hard part first. That way, if it fails, you’ll have...
a year ago
If you’re trying to reduce risk, do the hard part first. That way, if it fails, you’ll have minimized your time and effort. On the other hand, if you’re looking for buy-in and commitment so you can through the hard part, do it last. People are terrible at ignoring sunk costs, and...
Contemporist...
20 Top A’ Architecture Design Award Winners
A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts...
a year ago
A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing the 18,000 award winners from 139 different design disciplines.
Cheese and Biscuits
Bossa, Marylebone
I don't know whether it's by design or sheer accident that Bossa, a brand new Brazilian restaurant...
a year ago
I don't know whether it's by design or sheer accident that Bossa, a brand new Brazilian restaurant from chef Alberto Landgraf, has landed right next door to the Brazilian embassy. But it felt very appropriate walking under a giant Brazilian flag up to the front steps of Bossa -...
Paul Graham: Essays
What You'll Wish You'd Known
over a year ago
TheCollector
Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
Transit Maps
Submission – Fantasy Map: New York Regional Rail Concept by James G
Submitted by James, who says: I created this map based on various concepts (mainly the work of Alon...
4 months ago
Submitted by James, who says: I created this map based on various concepts (mainly the work of Alon Levy) for through-running regional rail in the New York region. This network would integrate all of the current commuter rail networks, increasing frequencies to metro-like levels,...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 39
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 $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Unpacked
StackOverflow's pivot: From disruption to opportunity
OverFlowAI takes the company’s core asset, exposes answers in a highly usable interface, and in turn...
a year ago
OverFlowAI takes the company’s core asset, exposes answers in a highly usable interface, and in turn creates a loop using gen AI to fire up the content engine.
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 44
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
9 months ago
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Rest of World -...
The tech executive who believes AI needs more voice-based learning systems
Bayo Adekanmbi explains why voice-based learning is the best way to increase AI adoption across...
9 months ago
Bayo Adekanmbi explains why voice-based learning is the best way to increase AI adoption across Africa.
Maps Mania
Mapping a Global Coral Bleaching Event
8 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Why Not Get Out of This Rut?'
"Books offer
what may be called a standing solution to the eternal and infernal
Christmas-present...
2 days ago
"Books offer
what may be called a standing solution to the eternal and infernal
Christmas-present problem.”
Well, yes
and no. I’m a graceless gift giver and receiver, especially when it comes to
books. People like my middle son are inspired and have a knack for...
The History of the...
Filling gaps with a polyfill
In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 prompted new web standards, HTML5 and CSS3. Developers used 'shims' and...
10 months ago
In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 prompted new web standards, HTML5 and CSS3. Developers used 'shims' and 'polyfills' for browser compatibility, fostering innovation.
The post Filling gaps with a polyfill appeared first on The History of the Web.
Londonist
Christmas In London 2023: A Guide To Festive Events, Food And Drink In The Capital This Winter
Top tips for spending Christmas in the capital.
a year ago
Top tips for spending Christmas in the capital.
Common Edge
Letter From Asheville: The Aftermath of Helene
The road to recovery will be long.
a month ago
The road to recovery will be long.
The American Scholar
The Patron Subjects
Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings?
The...
a month ago
Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings?
The post The Patron Subjects appeared first on The American Scholar.
Platformer
Taylor Lorenz on her extremely online history of the internet
Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at...
a year ago
Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at shielding users from harassment
Seth's Blog
Hungry (vs. not full)
If consumption is the point (the engine of the economy, the focus of our marketing, the driver of...
5 months ago
If consumption is the point (the engine of the economy, the focus of our marketing, the driver of our status) then it’s easy to get confused about the difference between something that’s nearly empty (and must be refilled to ensure we keep going) and something that’s not quite...
./techtipsy
ThinkPad as a server: third time's the charm
This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic:
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable...
2 months ago
This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic:
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?
ThinkPad as a server: the follow-up
Since then, I’ve had quite a few changes to my home server setup:
I put my home server stuff on an IKEA pegboard
I tried the...
Josh Comeau's blog
Make Beautiful Gradients
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This...
over a year ago
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside an unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array
When I look inside a chip from the popular 7400 series, I know what to expect: a fairly simple...
9 months ago
When I look inside a chip from the popular 7400 series, I know what to expect: a fairly simple die,
implemented in a straightforward, cost-effective way.
However, when I looked inside a military-grade chip built by Integrated Device Technology (IDT)4
I found a very unexpected...
Business Brainstorms
Hard startups, importance of founder-led sales, Netflix for written content
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 “I wish I could pay per newspaper article, with only...
diamond geezer
Anorak corner (tube edition)
Anorak Corner (the annual update) [tube edition]
Hurrah, it's that time of year again when TfL...
3 months ago
Anorak Corner (the annual update) [tube edition]
Hurrah, it's that time of year again when TfL silently updates its spreadsheet of annual passenger entry/exit totals at every tube station.
To be honest they did this last month, that's how silently the data was updated, but at...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Little Towns Should Have Had Their Chroniclers'
Every St.
Patrick’s Day my mother pinned on my shirt before I walked to school a green
and white...
9 months ago
Every St.
Patrick’s Day my mother pinned on my shirt before I walked to school a green
and white knitted shamrock and reminded me of the origin of my first name. Her
father was born in County Cork, as were her mother’s parents. I waited until
the third grade to rebel against...
The Modern House
Designer Sue Minter’s colourful country house in the Cotswolds
a year ago
brr
Redeployment Part Two
Station opening, and my flight out of Pole!
11 months ago
Station opening, and my flight out of Pole!
Jason Crawford
My simple guide to life
I first made a version of this chart seven years ago today. It’s worth a re-up (and it’s never been...
over a year ago
I first made a version of this chart seven years ago today. It’s worth a re-up (and it’s never been on my blog).
The meaning of this chart is:
Everything you do should be justified either by being inherently enjoyable, or by being important for some other purpose. Absolutely...
David Heinemeier...
Wonderful Rails World Vibes
I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel...
2 months ago
I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel somewhere to save money. It's expensive to outfit a cool venue with the gear and operations needed to pull off a great experience for speakers, sponsors, and attendees. And while the cost...
diamond geezer
Stratford station has a new entrance
Stratford station has a new entrance.
Gibbins Road entrance and for most passengers it's of no use...
5 months ago
Stratford station has a new entrance.
Gibbins Road entrance and for most passengers it's of no use whatsoever.
Stratford station has a new entrance.
by the end of March but it didn't. It was due to open in May but it didn't. It's looked finished for ages but it clearly wasn't...
Rest of World -...
African universities are failing to prepare tech graduates for jobs in AI
Dozens of new AI training startups are filling the gap, offering online courses, hackathons, and job...
7 months ago
Dozens of new AI training startups are filling the gap, offering online courses, hackathons, and job placement help.
Retail Design Blog
AKILA store by 22RE
Although founded in Los Angeles in 2018 by seasoned designer Chris Mart, eyewear brand AKILA‘s first...
3 months ago
Although founded in Los Angeles in 2018 by seasoned designer Chris Mart, eyewear brand AKILA‘s first standalone store opened its...
The Marginalian
Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing
"No matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can’t possibly do this, somehow you...
a year ago
"No matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can’t possibly do this, somehow you do."
Roberto Vitillo's...
I am writing a book
I have released the first chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! "Wait, what? Weren't you...
over a year ago
I have released the first chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! "Wait, what? Weren't you working on a video class?" - I hear you…
Open Culture
Medieval Cats Behaving Badly: Kitties That Left Paw Prints … and Peed … on 15th Century Manuscripts
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” –Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–90) When...
7 months ago
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” –Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–90) When Emir O. Filipovic, a medievalist at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, visited the State Archives of Dubrovnik, he stumbled upon something that will hardly surprise...
TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
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8 months ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers
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11 months ago
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