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TheCollector
What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism? undefined
6 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Four categories of Bitcoin-related projects New Bitcoin-related software projects are launching every day. From what I can tell these projects...
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over a year ago
New Bitcoin-related software projects are launching every day. From what I can tell these projects fall into four main categories: Bitcoin…
Math Is Still...
What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. The post What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images first...
Koos Looijesteijn
Who is responsible for the impact of innovative products?
a year ago
Copper • A blog...
Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store? Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10...
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over a year ago
Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10 different apps, some with 3-4 windows, while trying to patch bugs in Lunar faster than the users can submit the reports. I’m definitely failing. I feel my brain pulsing and my ring...
TheCollector
What Is First Corinthians About? undefined
a month ago
Mind Mine
Discussing King, Warrior, Magician, Lover with Co-Author Douglas Gillette masculine archetypes, understanding our shadow, and how we can raise the collective consciousness
2 weeks ago
Spoon & Tamago
Oyane-san Blending Tradition with Modern Technology In Shikokumura Welcome to Oyane-san, affectionately known as "Honorable Roof," standing proudly at the foot of...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Welcome to Oyane-san, affectionately known as "Honorable Roof," standing proudly at the foot of Mount Yashima on Shikoku Island. Related posts: Buddhist Monks are Getting All the Love Now Open: The New Oita Prefectural Art Museum Designed by Shigeru Ban SANAA’s New Sublime River...
The Changelog
Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all sorts of hassles and problems, from hangs on suspend to pure failure to boot. I still worry a bit about suspend on unknown hardware, but by and large, the picture of Linux on laptops...
UX Collective
Creativity is the only thing Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2 weeks ago
Common Edge
Why Does America Provide More Space for Storing Cars Than Housing People? Paved Paradise recounts parking’s pivotal history, exposing its environmental, economic, and social...
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Update on Self-Driving Cars The story has become a classic of failed futurism – driverless or self-driving cars were supposed...
a year ago
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a year ago
The story has become a classic of failed futurism – driverless or self-driving cars were supposed start taking over the roads as early as 2020. But that didn’t happen – it turned that the last 5% of capability was about as difficult to develop as the first 95%. Around 2015 I...
Farnam Street
Focus to Win Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas. Focus is about...
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over a year ago
Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas. Focus is about saying no. When talking about one of the biggest lessons he learned from Steve Jobs, Jonny Ive said it was focus. This sounds really simplistic, but it still shocks me how few...
The Marginalian
The Necessity of Our Illusions: Oliver Sacks on the Mind as an Escape Artist from Reality "We need detachment... as much as we need engagement in our lives... transports that make our...
a year ago
UX Collective
The split decision: IC or manager? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a month ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How (and why) to track your website with PostHog PostHog may have been built for product analytics, but that doesn’t mean you can only deploy it on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog may have been built for product analytics, but that doesn’t mean you can only deploy it on your core product — you can also use it to gather…
mtlynch.io
My First Impressions of Nix Nix is a tool for configuring software environments according to source files. I’ve been hearing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Nix is a tool for configuring software environments according to source files. I’ve been hearing more and more about Nix on Hacker News and Twitter. The idea of it appeals to me, so I’ve been tinkering with it over the past few weeks. My history with infrastructure as code Ten...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Behind the syntax: let and const variables Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more...
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over a year ago
Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more colloquially known as ES6 – was released…
Simply Explained
ESP32: Keep WiFi connection alive with a FreeRTOS task I have a few ESP32's running in my house. A few of them are running 24/7 and require an always-on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have a few ESP32's running in my house. A few of them are running 24/7 and require an always-on WiFi connection. That's been quite tricky to implement. I used to include various checks throughout my code, but that's not scalable.What I need is something running in the...
Chris Grossack's...
Talk -- What is Factorization Homology? I was recently invited to speak at the AMS Sectional in Tallahassee, Florida. In particular, at the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I was recently invited to speak at the AMS Sectional in Tallahassee, Florida. In particular, at the special session on Homotopy Theory and Category Theory in Interaction. The conference was this weekend, and I’m typing this up on my plane ride home. I had a great time, and...
TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism undefined
3 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Troublesome Error, a Pernicious Foppery'' Let’s be grateful to our troubled age for making it necessary to revive such formerly dormant words...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Let’s be grateful to our troubled age for making it necessary to revive such formerly dormant words as cant and foppery, so as to avoid the more precise but less polite bullshit. For foppery, the OED offers among its definitions “foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, folly.” It’s...
Daniel Miessler
Would You Put AI Art In Your House? I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I immediately faced some internal resistance. Like, I wasn’t (and still am not) sure whether this is the right way to “do” art. And that got me thinking what that really means. What...
./techtipsy
The minimum viable fan control script I’ve always been a fan of tinkering with cooling setups on my computers. I’ve even went as far as...
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over a year ago
I’ve always been a fan of tinkering with cooling setups on my computers. I’ve even went as far as writing crappy solutions to make up for deficiencies on the hardware level. After years of dumb experiments I’ve seen how little you can get away with in cooling and how to run your...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Wha? From a 25-years-old Avengers story: a man sees some news on televsion: The Verrazano Narrows Bridge,...
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2 months ago
From a 25-years-old Avengers story: a man sees some news on televsion: The Verrazano Narrows Bridge, huh? It sure looks like something else…
History Today Feed
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review ‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review JamesHoare Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
3 weeks ago
Tony Finch's blog
More random floating point numbers I got some interesting comments about my previous notes on random floating point numbers on...
a year ago
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a year ago
I got some interesting comments about my previous notes on random floating point numbers on Lobsters, Dreamwidth, and from Pete Cawley on Twitter. Here’s an addendum about an alternative model of uniformity. There are 2^62 double precision floats between 0.0 and 1.0, but as...
Paolo Amoroso's...
A single package Common Lisp workflow for Medley <![CDATA[My exploration of Medley as a Common Lisp development environment proceeds with setting up...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
<![CDATA[My exploration of Medley as a Common Lisp development environment proceeds with setting up a workflow for writing and saving code. The workflow consists of a series of steps in a specific order using appropriate Lisp REPLs and tools. It supports writing the simplest...
The Modern House
A hidden warehouse apartment in the heart of east London
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered” undefined
2 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to design an accessible carousel (part 1) This series of articles is made out of two parts: In this first article, we provide a comprehensive...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This series of articles is made out of two parts: In this first article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally accessible carousel for any web project. In the second part, we'll focus on the development approach, walking you through...
TheCollector
10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia undefined
4 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'About As Approachable As a Porcupine' The large bay window facing the garden in front of our house is better than television....
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a month ago
The large bay window facing the garden in front of our house is better than television. No commercials, no dependency on internet whims, no bills to pay. That’s where I do most of my reading (best lighting in the house). From the couch I watch the show in the garden. Butterflies,...
Maps Mania
Dutchify Your Street
a year ago
Rest of World -...
23 Rest of World stories that defined 2023 This year, Rest of World published around 500 articles from more than 50 countries. Here are our...
12 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Back Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The eyelashes suddenly appear as part of a rapid...
a month ago
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a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The eyelashes suddenly appear as part of a rapid transition to being an anime character. Today's News:
TheCollector
What Was the Third Council of Constantinople? undefined
a week ago
Home on Erik...
I already found the best gifs Just search for “hackers gif“. There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just search for “hackers gif“. There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From the awesome movie Hackers. That movie together with The Warriors convinced me that I wanted to live in NYC when I was like… 14 years old.
diamond geezer
Langley Vale WW1 Centenary Wood Yesterday a 12 mile walk from Redhill to Epsom morphed abruptly into a 13 mile walk from Redhill to...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Yesterday a 12 mile walk from Redhill to Epsom morphed abruptly into a 13 mile walk from Redhill to Leatherhead. And so I found myself blundering unexpectedly through Langley Vale, England's WW1 Centenary Wood. a mile to the south of Epsom racecourse. It's one of four Centenary...
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #21: Avoiding the "Product Death Cycle" Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
a year ago
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a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Anecdotal Evidence
"The Pensive Citadel" My review of The Pensive Citadel by Victor Brombert is published in the December issue of The New...
a year ago
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a year ago
My review of The Pensive Citadel by Victor Brombert is published in the December issue of The New Criterion.
Diaries of Note
The sea was alive with great hunchback whales On 28th February, seven years before his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, was to appear in...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 28th February, seven years before his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, was to appear in print, Arthur Conan Doyle left Peterhead on S. S. Hope, a whaling ship led by Captain John Gray that was heading for the Arctic Ocean. Aged twenty and still studying medicine at...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Experience Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also what if this IS the experience machine and the...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also what if this IS the experience machine and the real world is way worse? Today's News:
The Changelog
KDE: A Nice Tiling Envieonment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a path of trying out some different options before finally landing at an unexpected place: KDE. I say “unexpected” because I find tiling window managers are just about a necessity....
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Lobo MAX-80 The Computer Tandy Should Have Built (at least according to the ad).
9 months ago
Alex Meub
Fun with IE7 and the Zoom Property This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any invalid numbers. It replaces .my_class{ zoom:1; } with .my_class{ zoom:1px; } Those two characters (“px”) on the zoom property will blow up IE7 as it tries to zoom to a value in...
The Ruffian
Notes on Radiohead The weirdest success story in pop
11 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
Nov 2024: My first million! $1M in annual revenue, B2B sales, SOC 2, resellers, grow team, and other updates in November 2024.
a month ago
Drew Ex Machina
The Dream: The First Probe to the Moon The past decade or so has seen a marked increase in interest to reach the Moon for exploration as...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The past decade or so has seen a marked increase in interest to reach the Moon for exploration as well as the potential exploitation of its […]
Diaries of Note
The Jewish police have been ordered to erect the gallows Avraham Tory (born Avraham Golub in 1909) was a Lithuanian Jew who played a significant role during...
a year ago
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a year ago
Avraham Tory (born Avraham Golub in 1909) was a Lithuanian Jew who played a significant role during one of history’s most harrowing periods. As the secretary of the Jewish Council of Elders in the Kovno Ghetto during World War II, he was privy to the inner workings of the...
A Beautiful Site
Component Machines Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them. Every now...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them. Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work. And work, they do. Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Have Less Energy to Do Wrong' On his thirtieth birthday – February 22, 1894 – Jules Renard writes in his journal: “Thirty years...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
On his thirtieth birthday – February 22, 1894 – Jules Renard writes in his journal: “Thirty years old! Now I’m convinced I shall not escape death.”  At thirty I was still immortal, blundering through life, plan-less but confident I could transcend mere death. I don’t remember my...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Name Things > There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - [Leon Bambrick](https://twitter.com/secretgeek/status/7269997868?lang=en)
Weighty Thoughts
News Roundup: May 15, 2024 Open AI announcements, DeepSeek-v2, and TSMC Arizona
7 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
An Architecture Lover’s Dream Tour Through Germany’s UNESCO Sites and Beyond
6 months ago
One from Nippon
The Surprising Roots of Japan's Indian Curry It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached out! We are now restarting our articles, though we might not always write once a week. If we don't think it's interesting, we
diamond geezer
Wanding Juniors #10004 ✅ Oddities What the hell is wanding? Why does it need to be done to juniors? Who is the...
a year ago
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a year ago
#10004 ✅ Oddities What the hell is wanding? Why does it need to be done to juniors? Who is the creepy character on the left? Is that a grinning CCTV camera? And why does that teddy bear look so pleased? This is our surveillance society gone mad! young supporters of West Ham...
Londonist
Easter 2024 Transport In London: Which Train And Tubes Are Running, And Which Stations Are Closed? Got an egg hunt to go to? Read this first
9 months ago
Seth's Blog
The color-coded wires Have you ever wondered what the wiring layout behind the control panels at Abbey Road studios was...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Have you ever wondered what the wiring layout behind the control panels at Abbey Road studios was like? Neither have I. The Beatles recorded some of their best work there, and I have no idea if it was a rat’s nest of tangled wires, or if each wire was labeled, coded and perfectly...
Luxagraf:...
Photo Shoot After shining up the bus in Rocky Bayou we headed back over to Fort Pickens where we were scheduled...
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a year ago
After shining up the bus in Rocky Bayou we headed back over to Fort Pickens where we were scheduled to meet up with a photographer who was shooting the bus for an article I wrote for Wired magazine. Both Wired and I wanted us to be out west for the photo shoot, but that didn't...
Nat Eliason's...
You Can Handle Much More Than You Think Big changes take time
a year ago
Raptitude.com
How to Avoid Getting Lost in Thought Say you’re walking through Death Valley, trying to find your way back to the highway. Luckily you’ve...
2 days ago
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2 days ago
Say you’re walking through Death Valley, trying to find your way back to the highway. Luckily you’ve got a good paper map. As you walk, you scan the territory around you for landmarks. You see some large-scale details: hills, rock formations, and gullies. Also some minute ones:...
Society's Backend
Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful viruses, and more
Tech + Economics +...
OpenSea slashes NFT marketplace staff by 50% OpenSea, the prominent NFT marketplace startup, has laid off about half of its staff, the...
a year ago
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a year ago
OpenSea, the prominent NFT marketplace startup, has laid off about half of its staff, the company confirmed to Decrypt on Friday. A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company. The company would not ...
CONTEMPORIST
A Large Pergola Helps This Home Seamlessly Blends Indoor And Outdoor Spaces Architecture firm Studio Saxe, together with interior design studio Sofía Interiorismo, has shared...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Architecture firm Studio Saxe, together with interior design studio Sofía Interiorismo, has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, that seamlessly blends indoor and outdoor living. This home embodies sustainable living, generating its energy from the sun while...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787? undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco undefined
a week ago
Seth's Blog
The clamp and the mallet While building a project, I found that a key part was stuck. I tapped it with a mallet, then harder,...
a year ago
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a year ago
While building a project, I found that a key part was stuck. I tapped it with a mallet, then harder, and eventually whacked at it. No luck. Then I got smart and put three clamps around the part, gently turning each one, increasing the pressure, until it simply popped out....
CONTEMPORIST
A Slide Is A Fun Alternative To The Stairs Inside This Home Indee Design has recently completed a renovation in Montreal, Canada, that transformed a duplex into...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Indee Design has recently completed a renovation in Montreal, Canada, that transformed a duplex into a single-family home, and included in the interior, is a slide that travels between floors. Stepping inside the home, there’s a glass-front area with floor-to-ceiling windows that...
Irrational...
Interviewing engineering executives. Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more...
a year ago
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a year ago
Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more important to discuss the opposite question: how should you interview and evaluate Engineering executives? As an Engineering executive, you may not directly run one of these searches, but...
Retail Design Blog
Parkway Clinic by AsNow The interior design of the Parkway office project with a small area 85 square meters and an...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The interior design of the Parkway office project with a small area 85 square meters and an amorphous geometry was...
Joel on Software
Making the web better. With blocks! You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"
Wanderingspace
We don’t post enough Mars Scenic Views I mean… we don’t post enough in general.
over a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
10 Reasons why bicycles can't replace cars I live in Germany. The land of automakers. The land of auto lobbyists and auto marketeers. They’re...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I live in Germany. The land of automakers. The land of auto lobbyists and auto marketeers. They’re doing well convincing...
NeuroLogica Blog
UK Building More Nuclear The nuclear debate seems never-ending, which I guess is to be expected. Every large technology has...
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a year ago
The nuclear debate seems never-ending, which I guess is to be expected. Every large technology has tradeoffs. But the need to transition our energy infrastructure to carbon neutral has shifted the equation, and it is now arguable that we cannot afford to ignore the option of...
Ink & Switch
Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers. Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is changing.
TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory undefined
3 months ago
Retail Design Blog
The Visitor by Altavia ODG The Visitor is a groundbreaking addition to the retail landscape at the King Abdulaziz International...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The Visitor is a groundbreaking addition to the retail landscape at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia....
Greg Brockman
It's time to become an ML engineer AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and DALL-E 2 are actually useful and can perform tasks computers cannot do any other way. The act of producing these models is an exploration of a new frontier, with the discovery of...
Matt Mullenweg
RIP Quincy Jones Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is...
a month ago
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a month ago
Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is amazing. I feel so lucky to have met him in 2012 when I was much earlier in my career, and he didn’t have any reason to give me time, but he treated everyone as if they were...
A Beautiful Site
Installing Shoelace in a React App Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library idiomatically in React. This video shows you how to install Shoelace in a brand new Create React App. If you found this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube...
Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies. And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
Just two things Hello everyone! Tony here 👋 This is not a typical monthly update, I just want to quickly let you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hello everyone! Tony here 👋 This is not a typical monthly update, I just want to quickly let you know about 2 important things I’m working on that are time-sensitive! 1. DevUtils Black Friday Deal: 30% OFF Once a year, I run a promotion for DevUtils on Black Friday and Cyber...
Common Edge
How Might We Talk About the Shoreline of San Francisco? Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can enable better conversations about them.
Old Structures...
A Thomas Nast Holiday – 2 of 3 Santa looks a bit like Horace Greeley in this one.
12 months ago
Tech + Economics +...
Elon Musk’s childishness knows no bounds. Taylor Lorenz on Threads: At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Taylor Lorenz on Threads: At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the room, Elon Musk just told advertisers — including Disney CEO Bob Iger — to go fuck themselves."Don't advertise... If somebody did try to blackmail me with...
The Modern House
Inside two carbon-negative zero-waste homes in Walthamstow
a year ago
PHD Comics
09/10/21 PHD comic: 'Insult to injury' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "Insult to injury" - originally published 9/10/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
Tinloof - Blog
Images and videos on Sanity This article is outdated. You can read the Managing Tinloof-powered websites article...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is outdated. You can read the Managing Tinloof-powered websites article instead. - Images and videos have to be properly configured to rank in search engine result pages and not impact negatively page speed.
Josh Comeau's blog
My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single tag.
Maps Mania
A Year of CO2
10 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Icon Finder: an awesome search engine for icons I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I came across a really awesome icon resource awhile back, but never got a chance to write anything about it. If you're a web designer or developer who always has use for quality icons — especially ones with GPL or similar licenses — this is the website for you. It's essentially a...
Home on Erik...
Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
haseeb qureshi
Ethereum is now unforkable, thanks to DeFi By Haseeb Qureshi and Leland Lee After the DAO hack of 2016, the Ethereum community was faced with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
By Haseeb Qureshi and Leland Lee After the DAO hack of 2016, the Ethereum community was faced with an existential quandary: should the community roll back the chain to revert the DAO hack, or let the hacker get away? Those who said yes forked away to what is now called Ethereum....
Old Structures...
Travelog: Advertising Claims It’s truly embarassing how much time I spent looking at this old ad painted on a building in Bath...
9 months ago
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It’s truly embarassing how much time I spent looking at this old ad painted on a building in Bath and wondering what “richestin cream” was. As a slight consolation, note the drain branch directly left of the word “richest”: if you’re putting interior plumbing drains on the...
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I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu. Bought the album as soon as I got home. It is, crudely explained, like if Zoë Keating dialed up the synths and pedals and rhythm, and it was also a remarkable live show. Distant Intervals by MIZU Reading I...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ding Dong Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really weird part is he's been talking about it...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really weird part is he's been talking about it non-stop for 50 years. Today's News:
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Part Of The Northern Line Is Closing From Spring 2024 Edgware to Golders Green not running on various dates.
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Industrial Production Decreased 0.1% in November Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial production (IP)...
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Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial production (IP) moved down 0.1 percent in November after declining 0.4 percent in October. In November, manufacturing output rose 0.2 percent, boosted by a 3.5 percent increase in the index for motor...
Citation Needed
Issue 62 – Grassroots Coinbase’s Stand With Crypto Alliance fudges the numbers, a (former) crypto industry CEO has a...
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Coinbase’s Stand With Crypto Alliance fudges the numbers, a (former) crypto industry CEO has a meltdown, and another exchange suffers a nine-figure hack.
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London's Free Buses BL1: Bedfont Lakes - Feltham BL2: Bedfont Lakes - Hatton Cross Length of journey: 2 miles, 12 minutes It's a strange place, a 1990s commercial development built across former gravel pits, originally with IBM as the lead tenant. It's a bit like Stockley Park...
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Generating ideas So I got a fairly fun assignment from the game design course I’m taking for once. I should come up...
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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...
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Don't lose your unreasonable sense of urgency Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to...
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Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to launch something  from nothing into reality without being incredibly impatient for progress. Thus most founders begin 🎶Their Journey🎶 sprinting from one pressing problem to the...
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Limitations of sleep tracking using a wearable Limitations of heart rate analyses during sleep, why you should reconsider tracking your sleep.
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Magpie marketing We believe we work in turbulent times. A quick skim of the industry press and you’ll learn that...
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We believe we work in turbulent times. A quick skim of the industry press and you’ll learn that ecommerce is upending retail. Social media is uprooting advertising. Private labels are replacing brands. Advertising is dying. And TV is dead. We believe change is the new...
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War Is Complicated. And not just the fighting bit.
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The Indian EV startup navigating short-lived government subsidies Prashant Vashishtha is the founder and chairman of Sokudo Electric India.
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Society's Backend
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Deaf Unto the Suggestions of Tale-bearers' “Though the Quickness of thine Ear were able to reach the noise of the Moon, which some think it...
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“Though the Quickness of thine Ear were able to reach the noise of the Moon, which some think it maketh in it rapid revolution; though the number of thy Ears should equal Argus his Eyes . . .”  The first surgery on my left ear was fifty years ago, prompted by a perpetually...
The Rational Walk
Pilot’s Founders vs. Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett's reputation as a straight shooter is called into question by the Haslam family in a...
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Warren Buffett's reputation as a straight shooter is called into question by the Haslam family in a dispute over the valuation of their remaining 20% interest.
Seth's Blog
Productivity week: Bonus In an economy built on skill, knowledge, and attitude, the single most powerful way to improve your...
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In an economy built on skill, knowledge, and attitude, the single most powerful way to improve your productivity is to learn something. You put in the effort once and it pays off for decades. There are more ways for an adult to learn now than at any time in our history, and all...
Daniel Miessler
AI Art Just Opened The Threat to Human Work We Were Expecting from AGI Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get...
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over a year ago
Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get replaced by artificial intelligence. I’m not professionally educated or trained in AI, but I’ve read probably 30 books and spent thousands of hours thinking about it. I am not talking...
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 1 This is a semi-daily check-in. Experimental; likely to not actually be daily. Regular and...
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This is a semi-daily check-in. Experimental; likely to not actually be daily. Regular and short. The kids are in the bath, listening to the Yoto Daily, which aptly describes itself as a “morsel.” The host offers stray thoughts, short learnings, words of the day, fascinating...
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A Bald Man Chooses His Favourite Bald Spots In London The O2, the huge Hitchcock head - which is your fave?
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Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams? Should we pay attention to them?
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Mazdak
Canada's Retail Pulse: Holiday Shopping Season Navigates Mixed Signals Canada's retail landscape is offering a mixed bag of signals heading into the critical holiday...
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Canada's retail landscape is offering a mixed bag of signals heading into the critical holiday season. While October saw a surprising 0.7% increase in retail sales, exceeding economist expectations, concerns linger about the sustainability of this trend in the face of rising...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Larkin Was a Larrikin' At age ten or so I had a pen pal, a girl from New South Wales, Australia. We both wrote in pencil on...
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At age ten or so I had a pen pal, a girl from New South Wales, Australia. We both wrote in pencil on lined paper, and we met through our respective newspapers in Cleveland and Sydney. The correspondence lasted for a year or so and I don’t remember what either of us ever said to...
Retail Design Blog
FENDI store Little over two years after first setting up shop in Madrid, an event we’ve covered in a previous...
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Little over two years after first setting up shop in Madrid, an event we’ve covered in a previous post, FENDI...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Caring for Aging & Elderly Parents: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
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Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Making software...
Sharing The Things We Use Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
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Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a "uses" page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
History Today Feed
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[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This...
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NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This guide walks you through these concepts one by one.
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Remix Icon - Open source icon library "Remix Icon is a set of open source neutral style system symbols elaborately crafted for designers...
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"Remix Icon is a set of open source neutral style system symbols elaborately crafted for designers and developers. All of the icons are free to use for both personal and commercial. "
Christian Selig
Table of Contents Selector View I wrote a new little view for a future version of Apollo that makes some changes to the default iOS...
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I wrote a new little view for a future version of Apollo that makes some changes to the default iOS version (that seems to be a weird trend in my recent programming, despite me loving built-in components). Here’s some details about it! It’s also available as a library on GitHub...
Spoon & Tamago
Breeze Bird Cafe & Bakery in Kamakura is Situated Along the Enoden Train Line photos by Katsuhiro Aoki courtesy Same Picture Company For all that’s written and said about the...
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photos by Katsuhiro Aoki courtesy Same Picture Company For all that’s written and said about the difficulty of starting a business in Japan, there is one exception. The country’s lax zoning laws make it particularly easy to convert a section of your home into a cafe or eatery....
Anecdotal Evidence
'Craft Is Perfected Attention' The campiness can get a little thick when the poet/publisher/photographer Jonathan Williams...
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The campiness can get a little thick when the poet/publisher/photographer Jonathan Williams (1929-2008) is in the neighborhood, but he’s always festive, the sort of fellow you could hire to turn around tedious parties or staff meetings. A reader says she is enjoying Williams’...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 080: Grok 2 August 16, 2024.
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Another Free Quentin Blake Exhibition In April The master illustrator is back.
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The Fastest Way To Ruin Your Life 8 easy steps
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Volumer I've always wanted a good USB volume control, so I decided to design one.
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Sean Carroll
New Course: The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics In past years I’ve done several courses for The Great Courses/Wondrium (formerly The Teaching...
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In past years I’ve done several courses for The Great Courses/Wondrium (formerly The Teaching Company): Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Mysteries of Modern Physics:Time, and The Higgs Boson and Beyond. Now I’m happy to announce a new one, The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics....
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Noahpinion
Give us your ideas on how to deal with Chinese chips! A policy competition from the Federation of American Scientists, Chris Miller, ChinaTalk, and me
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The Marginalian
Between Encyclopedia and Fairy Tale: The Wondrous Birds and Reptiles of 18th-Century Artist Dorothea... Imagine a world of constant wars and deadly plagues, a world without eyeglasses, bicycles, or...
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Imagine a world of constant wars and deadly plagues, a world without eyeglasses, bicycles, or sanitation. Imagine being a gifted child in that world, knowing you are born into a body that will never be granted the basic rights of citizenship in any country, into a mind that will...
On the Arts
The Paradox of the Garden of Eden An Interview with Professor David Fenner
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws? And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
Probably...
Political Alignment, Affiliation, and Attitudes Is there a growing gender gap in the U.S? Alignment A recent article in the Financial Times suggests...
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Is there a growing gender gap in the U.S? Alignment A recent article in the Financial Times suggests that among young people there is a growing gender gap in political alignment on a spectrum from liberal to conservative. In last week’s post, I tried to replicate this result...
Drew Ex Machina
GOES Video of Solar Eclipse – October 14, 2023 Solar eclipses have fascinated humanity since ancient times and the annular eclipse of October 14,...
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Solar eclipses have fascinated humanity since ancient times and the annular eclipse of October 14, 2023 was no different. Unlike a total solar eclipse where the […]
diamond geezer
River Wogebourne THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON River Wogebourne Shooters Hill → East Wickham → Abbey Wood → Thamesmead...
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THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON River Wogebourne Shooters Hill → East Wickham → Abbey Wood → Thamesmead (5 miles) The Wogebourne is a five mile tributary of the River Thames in the southeast London boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley, that flows generally in a northeasterly direction,...
Atoms vs Bits
It's Hard To Hit First You don't want to hit someone unjustifiably. But the upshot is, you lose.
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Musings on Markets
Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table! In my last post, I talked about the ritual that I go through every year ahead of my teaching each...
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a year ago
In my last post, I talked about the ritual that I go through every year ahead of my teaching each spring, and in this one, I will start on the first of a series of posts that I make at the start of each year, where I look at data, both macro and company-level. In this post, I...
Louwrentius
Buying a new computer *** Desktop or Laptop *** When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
*** Desktop or Laptop *** When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to make is about whether to go for a desktop or a laptop. There was a time that many believed that the desktop would become a niche product. Most people want a laptop because they can...
computers are bad
2024-08-31 ipmi I am making steady progress towards moving the Computers Are Bad enterprise cloud to its new home,...
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3 months ago
I am making steady progress towards moving the Computers Are Bad enterprise cloud to its new home, here in New Mexico. One of the steps in this process is, of course, purchasing a new server... the current Big Iron is getting rather old (probably about a decade!) and here in...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#34) Woke capital, university rigidity, social media toxicity, SUVs and pedestrians, and crime and...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Sheltered Space Beneath The Sloping Roof Of This Home Makes Space For A Hot Tub Batay-Csorba Architects has designed a home in Toronto, Canada, that takes advantage of the small...
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a year ago
Batay-Csorba Architects has designed a home in Toronto, Canada, that takes advantage of the small 65’x20’ pie-shaped corner lot, and includes a sheltered outdoor balcony. The sloping roof partially covers the balcony, with an opening above the Japanese soaking tub. The home’s...
Old Vintage...
The spawn of AtariLab and the Universal Lab Interface We were a Commodore 64/128 household growing up, and Apple IIe systems at school, but that doesn't...
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a year ago
We were a Commodore 64/128 household growing up, and Apple IIe systems at school, but that doesn't mean I was unaware of Atari 8-bits. There was a family at church who had an 800XL and later a 130XE — and a stack of COMPUTE!'s I used to read through for hours — and it was...
Spoon & Tamago
Cherry Blossom Trees Sprout From Terunobu Fujimori’s ‘Kodamari Fuji’ Lodge The quaint village of Fujimi is located near the border of Nagano and Yamanashi Prefectures. Time...
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a year ago
The quaint village of Fujimi is located near the border of Nagano and Yamanashi Prefectures. Time tends to pass a bit more slowly here where rice paddies overlook the Southern Alps, Mt. Yatsugatake, and Mt. Fuji. It’s here that architect-extraordinaire Terunobu Fujimori decided...
Josh Comeau's blog
Lessons Learned Speaking at Conferences Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes...
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Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes look at what the experience is like, and shares tips for getting started as a conference speaker.
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Many Jobs of JS Build Tools A discussion of why JS developers use build tools like Webpack and what we do with them, for new JS...
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over a year ago
A discussion of why JS developers use build tools like Webpack and what we do with them, for new JS developers.
Anecdotal Evidence
'As a Whole It Is a Gallimaufry' “[O]ne is tempted—though it might be dangerous—to maintain that the best books in the world were...
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9 months ago
“[O]ne is tempted—though it might be dangerous—to maintain that the best books in the world were written chiefly for pleasure and with an after-hope to please.”  Things get sticky when you start plumbing a writer’s intentions. Let’s just say that a dwindling species of serious...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Put Up Or Shut Up I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance...
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I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance I've ever seen — more so than the metaverse, even — as company after company simply lies about their intentions and the power of AI.  I get it. Everybody wants
Josh Comeau's blog
What The Heck, z-index?? The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the number, the element never rises to the top! In this article, we explore stacking contexts, and see how they can thwart our efforts to use z-index. We'll also learn how to use this...
Marco.org
Overcast 4.1 now available Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually...
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over a year ago
Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually two features: It jumps back by up to a few seconds after having been paused to help remind you of the conversation. It slightly adjusts resumes and seeks to fall in the silences...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Arid Interrogation' As boys, in our imaginations we tested ourselves. Would we prove courageous in combat? Our fathers...
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As boys, in our imaginations we tested ourselves. Would we prove courageous in combat? Our fathers had, so we believed, during World War II. Could we withstand torture? These virtues, touched with Hollywood melodrama, seemed like essential aspects of maturity. We wanted to be...
Paul Graham: Essays
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Seth's Blog
The list of compromises All the no-compromise solutions have failed. If there was a way to solve our problem without giving...
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All the no-compromise solutions have failed. If there was a way to solve our problem without giving something up, we would have done that already. So, if a persistent problem important, the question is not: Should we compromise or not? The question is: Which changes are we going...
Flashbak
Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime “Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime  ...
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime     Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
TheCollector
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Londonist
Celebrate The Bicentenary Of This Great Gothic Revival Architect G E Street tours, talks and more.
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Rest of World -...
Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned Creators use euphemisms and emojis to get around what they say are arbitrary moderation...
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David Perell
The Paradox of Abundance Information abundance, like all markets of abundance, is bad for the average person but great for a...
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over a year ago
Information abundance, like all markets of abundance, is bad for the average person but great for a small number of people. Abundance is a paradox. Environments of abundance are bad for the median consumer but extremely good for a small number of conscious ones. Average consumers...
TheCollector
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Londonist
10 London Buildings Added To Heritage At Risk Register Historic England's annual list gains 10 more entries.
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Good Enough
PEOs are Good Enough (for us) Hi, I’m Patrick. Good Enough brought me on as a part-time Operations Manager who basically does all...
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a year ago
Hi, I’m Patrick. Good Enough brought me on as a part-time Operations Manager who basically does all the things that Shawn and Barry don’t want to do! My first task was to set up payroll for Good Enough’s three employees, something we thought would maybe be worth talking about! If...
Both Are True
Beautiful Disasters “you can’t get addicted to weed.” wanna bet?
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HTMHell
Swallowing camels by Ida Franceen I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Ida Franceen I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been experimenting with different kinds of markup to get it to read better, like injecting spans to force it to make proper pauses… Reflecting on my tendency to obsess over small, but maybe not...
Explorations of an...
A Quest Nature Tours Adventure To Sulawesi The island of Sulawesi must be on the bucket list for any naturalist with a strong interest in...
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The island of Sulawesi must be on the bucket list for any naturalist with a strong interest in biogeography. Though Borneo is situated only a few hundred kilometers to the west, and the Moluccas are not far to the east, the species composition of Sulawesi is significantly...
Passing Time
Manufactured Data Scarcity All your information is under the hood even if you’re be interested in seeing what is driving the...
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All your information is under the hood even if you’re be interested in seeing what is driving the engine.
Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite The Great Migration to Bluesky
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Diaries of Note
WROTE ‘YOUR SONG’ When he wrote this diary entry in October 1969, Elton John was yet to become the superstar we now...
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When he wrote this diary entry in October 1969, Elton John was yet to become the superstar we now know. Still only twenty-two, his debut album had been out in the wild for four months, and it would be another three years until he legally changed his name from Reginald Dwight....
Londonist
Plunge Into An Icy Brockwell Lido For Charity This Christmas The Icebreaker challenge is back.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Range and Liveliness of Poetry' I heard from a high-school classmate who remembered the time in A.P. English our senior year when...
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9 months ago
I heard from a high-school classmate who remembered the time in A.P. English our senior year when the teacher had us form small groups, select a poem and prepare a discussion. At my suggestion, our group picked “The Groundhog” (1934) by Richard Eberhart (1904-2005). Note its...
The DESK Magazine
"Good things come to those who wait." As a designer, one of the most useful skills you can have is patience. Even if you're not a...
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As a designer, one of the most useful skills you can have is patience. Even if you're not a designer, patience is one of the best yet hardest skills to learn.
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust error handling: Option & Result The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these gracefully and safely in our...
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6 months ago
The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these gracefully and safely in our Rust programs? Let’s introduce two of every Rust programmer’s favourite types: Option and Result.