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bt RSS Feed
Very Basic Form Styling Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I...
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Very Basic Form Styling

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

over a year ago
Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I love tinkering with pre-existing logins / sign up pages and I’ve also open sourced a minimal CSS form-styling plugin: Normform. While simple CSS plugins like these can be helpful, I...
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Flashbak
Beatrix Potter’s Illustrated Peter Rabbit Letters The Peter Rabbit letters were written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter on 4th September 1893. What...
2 months ago
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Beatrix Potter’s Illustrated Peter Rabbit Letters

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
The Peter Rabbit letters were written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter on 4th September 1893. What would become The Tale of Peter Rabbit was first told in a letter to Noel Moore, the five-year-old son of Beatrix’s former governess Annie Moore (née Carter). Noel was ill in bed...
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Seth's Blog
The grid of inquiry Expertise and firmly held beliefs don’t always go together. Here’s a simple XY grid to help us...
a year ago
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The grid of inquiry

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

a year ago
Expertise and firmly held beliefs don’t always go together. Here’s a simple XY grid to help us choose where to sit at whatever table we’re invited to: Plenty of well-trained professionals have earned the right to have strongly held beliefs. These convictions save them time and...
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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....
7 months ago
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Easy and fun block-based coding with the Alvik robot is here, now Chromebook compatible!

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

7 months 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...
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Quanta Magazine
Invisible ‘Demon’ Discovered in Odd Superconductor Physicists have long suspected that hunks of metal could vibrate in a peculiar way that would be all...
a year ago
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Invisible ‘Demon’ Discovered in Odd Superconductor

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Physicists have long suspected that hunks of metal could vibrate in a peculiar way that would be all but invisible. Now physicists have spotted these “demon modes.” The post Invisible ‘Demon’ Discovered in Odd Superconductor first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Marginalian
Owl Lake: A Vintage Treasure from Japanese Artist Keizaburo Tejima That we will never know what it is like to be another — another person, another creature — is one of...
a month ago
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Owl Lake: A Vintage Treasure from Japanese Artist Keizaburo Tejima

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

a month ago
That we will never know what it is like to be another — another person, another creature — is one of the most exasperating things in life, but also one of the most humbling, the most catalytic to our creative energies: the great calibrator of our certainties, the ultimate...
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Jonas Hietala
Bugger Ahhh… Finally another game! Theme of this beauty is Failure and your mission here is to avoid the...
over a year ago
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Bugger

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

over a year ago
Ahhh… Finally another game! Theme of this beauty is Failure and your mission here is to avoid the bugs. As a programmer the fight with those nasty bugs are a daily occurrence and now I’ve brought you a chance to kill those nasties too! The gameplay wasn’t what I was planning on -...
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Seth's Blog
Project resistance In Steven Pressfield’s classic The War of Art, he introduces the idea of Resistance. It’s the...
a year ago
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Project resistance

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

a year ago
In Steven Pressfield’s classic The War of Art, he introduces the idea of Resistance. It’s the internal force that keeps us from doing our most important creative work. If an instinct, a habit or a feeling gets in the way of the work, it’s Pressfield’s Resistance. Things we would...
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Londonist
Part Of The Northern Line Is Closing From Spring 2024 Edgware to Golders Green not running on various dates.
a year ago
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Part Of The Northern Line Is Closing From Spring 2024

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Edgware to Golders Green not running on various dates.
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The Turn Signal RSS...
Overcoming Automotive Overconsumption Through Design The average car consists of around 30,000 parts. They are built up from many different resources...
over a year ago
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Overcoming Automotive Overconsumption Through Design

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

over a year ago
The average car consists of around 30,000 parts. They are built up from many different resources that come from all over the world. These…
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CONTEMPORIST
A’ Design Awards & Competition – Early Call for Entries This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award &...
a year ago
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A’ Design Awards & Competition – Early Call for Entries

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award & Competition is the world’s leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing more than 1600 winners in over 150 different design disciplines. Hone Shelf...
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Seth's Blog
The friendly professional Friendly doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, or changing every policy, or giving up our...
a year ago
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The friendly professional

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

a year ago
Friendly doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, or changing every policy, or giving up our principles. Friendly is how it feels, not what it does.
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Applied Cartography
Is cool enough? Via HN I ran into not one but two extremely neat and pleasant-looking libraries for URL...
a year ago
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Is cool enough?

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
Via HN I ran into not one but two extremely neat and pleasant-looking libraries for URL manipulation. They look like great libraries, and a prior version of me would have taken a brief set of cursory glances at the hodgepodge of janky URL manipulation code that I wrote for...
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Tech + Economics +...
The block button is the ultimate source of dopamine. Use it. I’m seeing this debate pop up on Threads and Mastodon, and I’ve speed-run the whole discourse so...
a year ago
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The block button is the ultimate source of dopamine. Use it.

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
I’m seeing this debate pop up on Threads and Mastodon, and I’ve speed-run the whole discourse so many times from Twitter to Bluesky that I’m exhausted. But let me be clear. It's perfectly okay to use the block function on any and every single platform. Block whoever you...
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journal – Winnie Lim
knowing how to be, when ill is also a skill I had the second sitting of my root canal last tuesday, and while the procedure itself went pretty...
5 months ago
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knowing how to be, when ill is also a skill

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

5 months ago
I had the second sitting of my root canal last tuesday, and while the procedure itself went pretty well, I developed some pain after a few hours had passed. I asked the...
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macwright.com
Playing with ActivityPub ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter. It’s...
over a year ago
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Playing with ActivityPub

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

over a year ago
ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter. It’s anyone’s guess how this all shakes out. As an active user of Twitter, it’ll be sad if it goes away. But in the meantime, let’s have some fun with ActivityPub. ActivityPub Under the...
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Seth's Blog
Optimized or maximized? Engineers can optimize a bridge. There are some bridge designs that satisfy aesthetic, financial,...
a year ago
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Optimized or maximized?

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

a year ago
Engineers can optimize a bridge. There are some bridge designs that satisfy aesthetic, financial, durability, safety and efficiency needs better than others. The work of optimization is finding the best set of tradeoffs. Maximization, on the other hand, seeks the solution that...
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Yale e360
Why U.S. Geothermal May Advance, Despite Political Headwinds The Trump administration is outwardly hostile to clean energy sourced from solar and wind. But...
a week ago
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Why U.S. Geothermal May Advance, Despite Political Headwinds

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in science

a week ago
The Trump administration is outwardly hostile to clean energy sourced from solar and wind. But thanks to close ties to the fossil fuel industry and new technological breakthroughs, U.S. geothermal power may survive the GOP assaults on support for renewables and even thrive. Read...
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James Vaughan's blog
Systemd Timers as a Cron Alternative
over a year ago
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Systemd Timers as a Cron Alternative

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over a year ago
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The Marginalian
The Grammar of Fantasy and the Fantastic Binomial: Beloved Italian Children’s Book Author Gianny... "The mind forms a whole. Its creativity must be cultivated in all directions."
a month ago
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The Grammar of Fantasy and the Fantastic Binomial: Beloved Italian Children’s Book Author Gianny Rodari on Creativity and the Key to Great Storytelling

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

a month ago
"The mind forms a whole. Its creativity must be cultivated in all directions."
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The Marginalian
The Dictionary Story: A Love Letter to Language Tucked Into a Delightful Fable about the Difficult... “Words belong to each other,” Virginia Woolf rasped in the only surviving recording of her voice — a...
7 months ago
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The Dictionary Story: A Love Letter to Language Tucked Into a Delightful Fable about the Difficult Question of How to Be Yourself

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

7 months ago
“Words belong to each other,” Virginia Woolf rasped in the only surviving recording of her voice — a love letter to language as an instrument of thought and a medium of being. “Words are events, they do things, change things,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote a generation after her. To...
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The Marginalian
The Warblers and the Wonder of Being: Loren Eiseley on Contacting the Miraculous "The time has to be right; one has to be, by chance or intention, upon the border of two worlds. And...
a year ago
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The Warblers and the Wonder of Being: Loren Eiseley on Contacting the Miraculous

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
"The time has to be right; one has to be, by chance or intention, upon the border of two worlds. And sometimes these two borders may shift or interpenetrate and one sees the miraculous."
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Words and Buttons...
Why did I write Geometry for programmers This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons...
over a year ago
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Why did I write Geometry for programmers

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons has been stagnant for a while though. I have been writing a book. Why? Well, visit and see.
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Archinect - Features
Archinect Celebrates Canada Day by Highlighting 15 Architecture Firms That Are Defining the... July 1, also known as Canada Day, is a time when Canadians come together to commemorate the union of...
over a year ago
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Archinect Celebrates Canada Day by Highlighting 15 Architecture Firms That Are Defining the Future of Canadian Architecture

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
July 1, also known as Canada Day, is a time when Canadians come together to commemorate the union of what were once three separate colonies — New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada (contemporary Ontario and Quebec). Canada isn't just one of the largest countries in the world, but...
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Blog - Practical...
Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On April 20, 2023, SpaceX...
over a year ago
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Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad?

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

over a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On April 20, 2023, SpaceX launched it’s first orbital test flight of its Starship spacecraft from Boca Chica on the gulf coast of Texas. You probably saw this, if not live, at least in the stunning videos that...
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A Weekly Dose of...
Learning from the 2023 Book Fair This year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is my third, following the 2022 book...
over a year ago
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Learning from the 2023 Book Fair

from A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
This year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is my third, following the 2022 book fair and, just days before lockdown, the 2020 book fair. Three hardly makes me an expert, even in my specialization of architecture books, but it does help with gauging the value given...
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journal – Winnie Lim
looking back at 2023 I write these every year for the purpose of documenting my life. The caveat is that this is written...
a year ago
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looking back at 2023

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
I write these every year for the purpose of documenting my life. The caveat is that this is written with some recency bias and that the act of recollection is always faulty:...
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Calculated Risk
MBA Survey: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases to 0.38% in February From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases Slightly to 0.38% in February The...
3 months ago
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MBA Survey: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases to 0.38% in February

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases Slightly to 0.38% in February The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey revealed that the total number of loans now in forbearance decreased by 2 basis points from 0.40% of servicers’...
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The Marginalian
Darwin on How to Evolve Your Imagination The year the young Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809–April 19, 1882) boarded The Beagle, Mary...
5 months ago
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Darwin on How to Evolve Your Imagination

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

5 months ago
The year the young Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809–April 19, 1882) boarded The Beagle, Mary Shelley contemplated the nature of the imagination in her preface to the most famous edition of Frankenstein, concluding that creativity “does not consist in creating out of void, but...
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HTMHell
Page by Page: How Pagination Makes the Web Accessible by Kristin Rohleder Imagine you’re reading a book that seems perfect for cozy winter evenings. But...
6 months ago
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Page by Page: How Pagination Makes the Web Accessible

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
by Kristin Rohleder Imagine you’re reading a book that seems perfect for cozy winter evenings. But as soon as you turn the page, you suddenly find yourself somewhere else, rather than on the next page of the story. Now, you have to painstakingly search through the book to find...
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Contemporist...
This Home Looks Minimal, But It’s Full of Subtle Emotion Natural light pours across stone, wood, and ceramic in this modern Mediterranean home, where...
a month ago
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This Home Looks Minimal, But It’s Full of Subtle Emotion

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a month ago
Natural light pours across stone, wood, and ceramic in this modern Mediterranean home, where simplicity is anything but empty. On Spain’s Costa Blanca, interior designer Maria Jose Aunon Cabrera and architect Pasqual Giner explore how geometry, material, and atmosphere can shape...
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Both Are True
Thank you, and remember, the universe is in your basement a few words on David Lynch
5 months ago
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Thank you, and remember, the universe is in your basement

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5 months ago
a few words on David Lynch
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Good Enough
All About CSS: Alphabetize, Normalize, and Dark-mode-itize Hello reader, I’m Matthew, the newest member of Good Enough (LLC). The rest of the team are avid...
over a year ago
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All About CSS: Alphabetize, Normalize, and Dark-mode-itize

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over a year ago
Hello reader, I’m Matthew, the newest member of Good Enough (LLC). The rest of the team are avid writers and sharers… I’m not. But they keep chanting “One of us. One of us.” so I suppose you’ll see me around here sometimes. For my inaugural post, I thought I’d quickly share what...
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Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.1 released I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and...
a year ago
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nsnotifyd-2.1 released

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

a year ago
I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and runs a script when one of your zones changes. This nsnotifyd-2.1 release includes a few bugfixes: more lenient handling of trailing . in domain names on the command line avoid...
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Gwern.net Newsletter
October 2020 news October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization &...
over a year ago
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October 2020 news

from Gwern.net Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization & improvement.
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The Turn Signal RSS...
The Process Behind the Touch Interaction Concept If you haven't yet seen the concept I created, click here Below is the rough design process that I...
over a year ago
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The Process Behind the Touch Interaction Concept

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

over a year ago
If you haven't yet seen the concept I created, click here Below is the rough design process that I followed. One of the main reasons…
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Diaries of Note
His tiny tadpole body… When she wrote this diary entry in April of 1890, Beatrice Potter could not have imagined that a...
over a year ago
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His tiny tadpole body…

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

over a year ago
When she wrote this diary entry in April of 1890, Beatrice Potter could not have imagined that a mere two years later, this man with the “tiny tadpole body,” Sidney Webb, would become her husband. Nor could she have foreseen the powerful intellectual partnership that would...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Continuum From Static to Dynamic Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and...
4 weeks ago
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The Continuum From Static to Dynamic

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

4 weeks ago
Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and “dynamic” don’t have to be binaries that describe an entire application architecture. As Dan describes in his post, “static” or “dynamic” it’s all just computers doing stuff. Computer A...
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Grow With Less
How to Write a SEO Title Google and Your Visitors Love Writing a SEO title (also called page title or Google title) is considered difficult because you are...
over a year ago
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How to Write a SEO Title Google and Your Visitors Love

from Grow With Less [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Writing a SEO title (also called page title or Google title) is considered difficult because you are writing for 3 main audiences. Visitors coming from search engines. Search engines. Visitors from social media. And writing a SEO title that ranks high on Google and gets shared on...
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Matt Mazur
When you ship a major bug before signing off for the day For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help...
a year ago
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When you ship a major bug before signing off for the day

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help (thanks Liesl!), but these days support takes at most an hour per week, and all requests fall into two buckets: As a result, there hasn’t been a pressing need to outsource support. But...
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Willem's Blog
Tips for Long-Distance Cycling Embark on your own long-distance cycling adventure by learning from my post-COVID...
over a year ago
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Tips for Long-Distance Cycling

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

over a year ago
Embark on your own long-distance cycling adventure by learning from my post-COVID Fietselfstedentocht experience, packed with invaluable tips and tricks.
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Best of the Best
over a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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over a year ago
The Best of the Best
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Business Brainstorms
Pets as Kids, Affiliate Fraud Prevention, Theory X vs. Theory Y, Conviction Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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Pets as Kids, Affiliate Fraud Prevention, Theory X vs. Theory Y, Conviction

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

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 “We may have reached peak “pets as kids”… Jolly Dog, an...
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Noahpinion
It's OK not to be fat Instead of moral problems, let's think of things like obesity as technological problems.
a month ago
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It's OK not to be fat

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

a month ago
Instead of moral problems, let's think of things like obesity as technological problems.
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xkcd.com
Professional Oaths
a year ago
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Professional Oaths

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a year ago
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 LOW←TECH MAGAZINE This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline. In the same vein as the...
9 months ago
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🔗 LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

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

9 months ago
This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline. In the same vein as the aforementioned link (Hundred Rabbits), this online magazine (also available offline) is powered by solar. There's a beauty in committing to sustainable methods of your online footprint...
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Retail Design Blog
ESTRO coffee capsules by Anna Galsanova ESTRO is a new brand of coffee capsules, the main advantage of which is new technologies that allow...
10 months ago
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ESTRO coffee capsules by Anna Galsanova

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

10 months ago
ESTRO is a new brand of coffee capsules, the main advantage of which is new technologies that allow you to...
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The American Scholar
In the Mushroom True foraging isn’t the domain of the weekend warrior; it’s serious, serious business The post In...
7 months ago
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In the Mushroom

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7 months ago
True foraging isn’t the domain of the weekend warrior; it’s serious, serious business The post In the Mushroom appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
You're making me buy a new phone My iPhone SE 2016 is a good one. It’s easy to handle with one hand. The screen is more than...
over a year ago
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You're making me buy a new phone

from Koos Looijesteijn - Everything [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
My iPhone SE 2016 is a good one. It’s easy to handle with one hand. The screen is more than...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
A World Without Plugins What happens if we did away with plugins altogether? The case for Imperative Recipes
over a year ago
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A World Without Plugins

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

over a year ago
What happens if we did away with plugins altogether? The case for Imperative Recipes
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
In / Out 2025 for me, will be: In blogging 3D modelling prototyping experimental design endurance...
7 months ago
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In / Out

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

7 months ago
2025 for me, will be: In blogging 3D modelling prototyping experimental design endurance climbing single session training days swimming saving self-care selling investing uniform long hair house + techno sound design Out comparison shyness dishes in sink trends (especially...
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
There will be the next Quantum Game with Photons More photons, an electron, so you can play with entanglement. We got invited by Artur Ekert to CQT...
over a year ago
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There will be the next Quantum Game with Photons

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
More photons, an electron, so you can play with entanglement. We got invited by Artur Ekert to CQT in Singapore.
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Platformer
Reddit goes dark As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it
over a year ago
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Reddit goes dark

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it
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Words and Buttons...
Honeycomb texture generator It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if...
over a year ago
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Honeycomb texture generator

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if you need more, there is some changeable code too. If you need more freedom, just get this thing on Github.
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Society's Backend:...
Why MLX is Important for the ML Community And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
a year ago
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Why MLX is Important for the ML Community

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a year ago
And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
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Open Culture
Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa Now Appears on Japanese Banknotes If you’ve lived or traveled in Japan, you know full well how much of daily life in that...
a year ago
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Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa Now Appears on Japanese Banknotes

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
If you’ve lived or traveled in Japan, you know full well how much of daily life in that cash-intensive society involves the use of thousand-yen bills. Once considered the equivalent of the American ten-spot, the yen’s lately having fallen to its lowest value in decades means that...
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Matt Mazur
Running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts on a Macbook Below are the steps I used to get Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model running locally on my...
a year ago
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Running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts on a Macbook

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
Below are the steps I used to get Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model running locally on my Macbook (with its Apple M2 chip and 24 GB of memory). Here’s a great overview of the model for anyone interested in learning more. Short version: The Mistral “Mixtral” 8x7B 32k...
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Quanta Magazine
Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates Electrons have been seen uniting into entities with fractions of electric charge, this time without...
a year ago
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Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Electrons have been seen uniting into entities with fractions of electric charge, this time without a magnetic field coaxing them into it. The post Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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A Beautiful Site
Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to...
over a year ago
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Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons. Issues with leap years # A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
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Josh Collinsworth
If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best...
9 months ago
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If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.
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Charlie Becker
Move over New York Times. These are the 44 Best Books of the 21st Century. A completely objective list based on only the finest criteria
11 months ago
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Move over New York Times. These are the 44 Best Books of the 21st Century.

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

11 months ago
A completely objective list based on only the finest criteria
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
a year ago
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue

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

a year ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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The Forney Flyer
Congratulations Hannah! Congratulations Hannah! We are so proud of you!
over a year ago
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Congratulations Hannah!

from The Forney Flyer [alt+shift+b] in travel

over a year ago
Congratulations Hannah! We are so proud of you!
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Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
a year ago
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Recidivism in Norway

from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Articles
What's on your hard drive?
over a year ago
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What's on your hard drive?

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over a year ago
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Ben Borgers
Am I a Gym Bro Now?
over a year ago
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Am I a Gym Bro Now?

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over a year ago
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mtlynch.io
KetoHub Update: Month 3 In early October, I launched a new website, KetoHub, a recipe aggregator for keto meals. Each month,...
over a year ago
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KetoHub Update: Month 3

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

over a year ago
In early October, I launched a new website, KetoHub, a recipe aggregator for keto meals. Each month, I’ve evaluated the site’s progress to decide how it’s doing and what areas need improvement. I’m doing my evaluation of December publicly. Here’s what was good, bad, and learnable...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ 2023 in the Rearview End-of-year recaps and reviews haven't been something I do. Generally, my mindset is about embracing...
a year ago
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✏️ 2023 in the Rearview

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

a year ago
End-of-year recaps and reviews haven't been something I do. Generally, my mindset is about embracing the present, with a gentle forward momentum towards what comes next. Years ago, I heard an Imam once speak about not having regrets. I took that to heart at the time and have...
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Retail Design Blog
Words, Sounds, Colours & Shapes store As a veritable jack of all trades, Ramdane Touhami has not only created a legacy in retail, but also...
a month ago
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Words, Sounds, Colours & Shapes store

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

a month ago
As a veritable jack of all trades, Ramdane Touhami has not only created a legacy in retail, but also in...
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Roberto Vitillo's...
What every developer should know about TCP Why do you need to place your servers geographically close to your users? One of the reasons is to...
over a year ago
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What every developer should know about TCP

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Why do you need to place your servers geographically close to your users? One of the reasons is to achieve lower latencies. That makes a lot…
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Basta’s Notes
Things nobody taught me about money When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different...
over a year ago
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Things nobody taught me about money

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different education from previous generations. I grew up under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policies. Classes teaching important life skills like home economics and...
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Don't Worry About...
You Better Mechanize Or you had better not.
2 months ago
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You Better Mechanize

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2 months ago
Or you had better not.
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The American Scholar
Writer on Board The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart The post Writer on Board appeared first on The American...
10 months ago
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Writer on Board

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

10 months ago
The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart The post Writer on Board appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Calculated Risk
Wednesday: FOMC Minutes Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
3 months ago
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Wednesday: FOMC Minutes

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. FOMC Minutes, Meeting of March 18-19
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The Marginalian
Awakened Cosmos: Poetry as Spiritual Practice "Poetry is the cosmos awakened to itself."
a year ago
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Awakened Cosmos: Poetry as Spiritual Practice

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a year ago
"Poetry is the cosmos awakened to itself."
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Charles Chen
TypeScript Conditional Types for Type Safety (Without Assertions) Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
3 weeks ago
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TypeScript Conditional Types for Type Safety (Without Assertions)

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

3 weeks ago
Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
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alexwlchan
The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser → As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to...
a year ago
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The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser →

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to parse Flickr URLs. For example: $ flickr_url_parser 'https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727552068/' {"type": "single_photo", "photo_id": "4727552068"} This started...
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Jonas Hietala
Food vacation in Japan Me and my friend spent 2 weeks in Japan and had a great time. I wasn’t planning on taking a lot of...
over a year ago
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Food vacation in Japan

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

over a year ago
Me and my friend spent 2 weeks in Japan and had a great time. I wasn’t planning on taking a lot of pictures, but I ended up sending a bunch back home as a ways of keeping my family up to date. When I look back most of them are about food… So I’ll turn this into a post about the...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
6 months ago
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Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm. A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
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This Space
The Opposite Direction, a book Please use a link below to download an ebook of posts selected from over the last seven years of...
over a year ago
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The Opposite Direction, a book

from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
Please use a link below to download an ebook of posts selected from over the last seven years of this blog.  This is the second collection after This Space of Writing and the title comes from the adolescent Thomas Bernhard's phrase repeated to an official at the labour exchange...
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Charlie Becker
For Richer or Poorer A Love Letter to Weddings
a year ago
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For Richer or Poorer

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
A Love Letter to Weddings
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Quanta Magazine
Why Mathematicians Re-Prove What They Already Know It’s been known for thousands of years that the primes go on forever, but new proofs give fresh...
over a year ago
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Why Mathematicians Re-Prove What They Already Know

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
It’s been known for thousands of years that the primes go on forever, but new proofs give fresh insights into how theorems depend on one another. The post Why Mathematicians Re-Prove What They Already Know first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2025 The Ware from last month is the main board from a Lego Duplo Steam Train. As predicted, this was a...
3 months ago
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Winner, Name that Ware February 2025

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

3 months ago
The Ware from last month is the main board from a Lego Duplo Steam Train. As predicted, this was a much easier one to guess. Congrats to MJS for naming it (with a margin of just half an hour ahead of Will), email me for your prize! And again, thanks to spida for contributing yet...
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TheCollector
Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily Since the fall of Phoenician Tyre, the Mediterranean, once interconnected by vast trade networks...
4 days ago
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 days ago
Since the fall of Phoenician Tyre, the Mediterranean, once interconnected by vast trade networks running from southern Iberia to the Levantine coast, was in flux. Sicily was perfectly positioned to serve as a central commercial hub for the two halves of the sea. But who would...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Grandfather Paradox Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel three is my contribution to World...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Grandfather Paradox

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel three is my contribution to World Literature. Today's News: We hit 2000 backers! Announcement of new free stuff incoming.
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Christopher Butler
Link – Scott Boms's personal website scottboms.com is a beautifully-designed personal website.
a year ago
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Link – Scott Boms's personal website

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
scottboms.com is a beautifully-designed personal website.
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History Today Feed
The Hidden Death in the Victorian Wallpaper The Hidden Death in the Victorian Wallpaper JamesHoare Wed, 05/07/2025 - 08:50
2 months ago
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The Hidden Death in the Victorian Wallpaper

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2 months ago
The Hidden Death in the Victorian Wallpaper JamesHoare Wed, 05/07/2025 - 08:50
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The Marginalian
The Power of a Thin Skin "To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that...
a year ago
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The Power of a Thin Skin

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
"To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that others might prefer not to notice."
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Open Culture
Hōshi: A Short Documentary on the 1300-Year-Old Hotel Run by the Same Japanese Family for 46... Hōshi, a traditional Japanese inn in Komatsu, Japan, holds the distinction of being the second...
2 months ago
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Hōshi: A Short Documentary on the 1300-Year-Old Hotel Run by the Same Japanese Family for 46 Generations

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

2 months ago
Hōshi, a traditional Japanese inn in Komatsu, Japan, holds the distinction of being the second oldest hotel in the world—and “the oldest still running family business in the world.” Built in 718 AD, Hōshi has been operated by the same family for 46 consecutive generations. Count...
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Christopher Butler
object – Cylinder Lamp Twenty years ago, I needed a lamp. So I made this one. In the spring of 2003, I graduated from...
over a year ago
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object – Cylinder Lamp

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Twenty years ago, I needed a lamp. So I made this one. In the spring of 2003, I graduated from college and moved in to my first apartment. After my housemate and I had moved all our things in, I made a list of the things I needed. a bed a desk a lamp I had lived in...
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Birchtree
You did not put a lot of time into this Chris has an external drive faster than you’ve ever seen, Matt has a new email app he swears isn’t...
3 months ago
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You did not put a lot of time into this

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
Chris has an external drive faster than you’ve ever seen, Matt has a new email app he swears isn’t his new favorite cult, and the whole gang does their best to redesign iOS and iPadOS. Check it out in audio or video! Weekly Topics ACASIS 80Gbps
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David Crawshaw
Reasoning with Regret Reasoning with Regret 2018-07-16 I avoid looking to biographies for advice, most of all for anyone...
over a year ago
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Reasoning with Regret

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Reasoning with Regret 2018-07-16 I avoid looking to biographies for advice, most of all for anyone in the business world who is focused on spinning an origin story. There is one however which I read by accident years ago that I keep returning to: … From the .Princeton 2010...
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Wuthering...
Andrey Platonov's "Soul" - the universal happiness of the unhappy I read Andrey Platonov’s novel Chevengur (1929) not too long ago and the collection of stories Soul...
3 months ago
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Andrey Platonov's "Soul" - the universal happiness of the unhappy

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

3 months ago
I read Andrey Platonov’s novel Chevengur (1929) not too long ago and the collection of stories Soul (1935-46) last month.  Here we will have some notes.  These are the Robert and Elizabeth Chandler translations (four additional translators assist with Soul).  Those dates are for...
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Old Structures...
Very Urban Angelo Rizzuto’s title for this photo is “Cityscape – New York City”. Don’t feel embarrassed if you...
a year ago
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Very Urban

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Angelo Rizzuto’s title for this photo is “Cityscape – New York City”. Don’t feel embarrassed if you can’t recognize anything New Yorkish in it – it took me a minute. The arch bridge in the background is the Henry Hudson Bridge, carrying the Henry Hudson Parkway (the northern...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why you Might Want to Extend React Components Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs....
over a year ago
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Why you Might Want to Extend React Components

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs. Use state managers (and their connector HOCs). Use render props. Do not inherit. Remember, composition over inheritance! Obey your guru. Once upon a time, a developer extended his...
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AVC
The Cleanse I’ve never done a cleanse. But many of my friends and family members have done them. There are...
over a year ago
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The Cleanse

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over a year ago
I’ve never done a cleanse. But many of my friends and family members have done them. There are various flavors of cleanses but the basic idea is you cut back your consumption of food and drink and replace it with mostly liquid nutrition for anywhere from a day to a month. I...
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Calculated Risk
Fannie and Freddie: Single Family Serious Delinquency Rates Increased in December Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Fannie and Freddie: Single Family Serious...
5 months ago
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Fannie and Freddie: Single Family Serious Delinquency Rates Increased in December

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5 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Fannie and Freddie: Single Family Serious Delinquency Rates Increased in December Freddie Mac reported that the Single-Family serious delinquency rate in December was 0.59%, up from 0.56% November. Freddie's rate is up...
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Articles
Why I don't read at work
over a year ago
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Why I don't read at work

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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ For our fathers Day 17: Sept 26, 2023 — Jen’s father, Michael Schuetz, passed away on Father’s Day, June 20, 2010....
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✏️ For our fathers

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a year ago
Day 17: Sept 26, 2023 — Jen’s father, Michael Schuetz, passed away on Father’s Day, June 20, 2010. My father, Abdul Hamid Hussain, passed away on Father’s Day, June 18, 2017. It’s another occurrence of similarity and coincidence that feels cosmic to us. Today, we’re in...
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Stoic Simple
What Does Stoicism Teach About Death & Mortality? Stoicism, an ancient philosophy that dates back to the third century BC, has become increasingly...
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What Does Stoicism Teach About Death & Mortality?

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over a year ago
Stoicism, an ancient philosophy that dates back to the third century BC, has become increasingly popular in modern times. This philosophy, which focuses on self-control, rational thinking, and acceptance of the inevitability of life's ups and downs, has much to offer those who...
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bunnie's blog
Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible...
a year ago
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Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge

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a year ago
IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible reason to trust their hardware. Above: example of IRIS imaging a chip mounted on a circuit board. When I set out to research this technique, there were many unknowns, and many skills...
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Open Culture
This Is What a Nuclear Strike Would Feel Like: The New York Times Creates a Precise Simulation Though certain generations may have grown up trained to take cover under their classroom desks in...
3 months ago
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This Is What a Nuclear Strike Would Feel Like: The New York Times Creates a Precise Simulation

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3 months ago
Though certain generations may have grown up trained to take cover under their classroom desks in the case of a nuclear showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union, few of us today can believe that we’d stand much chance if we found ourselves anywhere near a detonated...
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Rubenerd
South Park got big-box retail mostly wrong I watched a lot of South Park as a kid growing up, because it’s what you did at the time. I think...
2 months ago
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South Park got big-box retail mostly wrong

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2 months ago
I watched a lot of South Park as a kid growing up, because it’s what you did at the time. I think I’d cringe if I saw much of it today, but at the time it was side-splitting. For every dreadful episode, there was a Tugger and Russel Crowe. The stuff of legend. But they did get...
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Louwrentius
Why the iPad will be a breakthrough in human computing The fact is that computers aren't made for humans. Computers are just made, and humans have to...
over a year ago
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Why the iPad will be a breakthrough in human computing

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
The fact is that computers aren't made for humans. Computers are just made, and humans have to adjust to them. The problem is that most people that are not into technology just don't understand how computers work. Should I single click of double click? Click left or right? The...
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CONTEMPORIST
A New Home Designed As Three Cascading Glass Boxes Efficiency Lab for Architecture has designed a modern home nestled into the steep hillside of the...
a year ago
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A New Home Designed As Three Cascading Glass Boxes

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a year ago
Efficiency Lab for Architecture has designed a modern home nestled into the steep hillside of the Telluride Box Canyon in Colorado. The plan for the home focused on the architectural expression of three cantilevered glass boxes. Each glass box is positioned in a moment of...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Insta Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please don't email - I am already filled with...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Insta

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please don't email - I am already filled with regret about the votey. Today's News:
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Old Structures...
Adelaide House, Part 2 – Structure Continuing my discussion (part 1 is here) of London’s maybe-first skyscraper, the Adelaide House,...
a year ago
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Adelaide House, Part 2 – Structure

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Continuing my discussion (part 1 is here) of London’s maybe-first skyscraper, the Adelaide House, let’s talk about structure. There’s a big difference between trying to build the first skyscraper in your city in the 1870s or 80s or 90s (depending on how you want to define...
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Marc Astbury
Osaka Team Retreat Recap We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where...
2 months ago
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Osaka Team Retreat Recap

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2 months ago
We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where nobody on the team is a local. With our team now at ~10 people, gone are the days of just a handful of us meeting up and figuring out what to do on the fly. Ensuring […] The post...
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Common Edge
Should NYC’s Housing Authority Demolish Public Housing in Manhattan? Plans for a phased demolition and rebuilding of the Fulton and Chelsea-Elliott Houses should be...
7 months ago
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Should NYC’s Housing Authority Demolish Public Housing in Manhattan?

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7 months ago
Plans for a phased demolition and rebuilding of the Fulton and Chelsea-Elliott Houses should be viewed with skepticism.
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A Beautiful Site
Semantic version numbers Gone are the days of arbitrarily assigning version numbers to every new software release. With...
over a year ago
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Semantic version numbers

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over a year ago
Gone are the days of arbitrarily assigning version numbers to every new software release. With semantic versioning, the question of how and when to bump versions is made simple. According to semver.org, the syntax for version numbers should go like this: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH When...
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Retail Design Blog
2gethr Hub Private Limited Offices Innovative and sustainable workplace design at 2gethr Hub in Bengaluru prioritizes natural light,...
11 months ago
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2gethr Hub Private Limited Offices

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11 months ago
Innovative and sustainable workplace design at 2gethr Hub in Bengaluru prioritizes natural light, comfort, functionality, inclusivity, and sustainability certifications, creating...
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Bartosz Ciechanowski
Mechanical Watch In the world of modern portable devices, it may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the...
over a year ago
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Mechanical Watch

from Bartosz Ciechanowski [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
In the world of modern portable devices, it may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the most convenient way to keep track of time was a mechanical watch. Unlike their quartz and smart siblings, mechanical watches can run without using any batteries or other...
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Old Structures...
Nothing New For the end of the year, we’ve been doing some file reorganization – all digital, as our paper files...
6 months ago
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Nothing New

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6 months ago
For the end of the year, we’ve been doing some file reorganization – all digital, as our paper files are only a memory – and it’s worth remembering that issues of logisitics and organization are nothing new. One of the sources for our filing system is the 1917 file classification...
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Astral Codex Ten
Open Thread 377 ...
2 months ago
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Open Thread 377

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2 months ago
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 The Myth of “Do What You Love” The most striking point, to me, from Tokumitsu’s book is how easily the myth of ’do what you love’...
10 months ago
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🔗 The Myth of “Do What You Love”

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

10 months ago
The most striking point, to me, from Tokumitsu’s book is how easily the myth of ’do what you love’ cracks when you press on it. The underlying message of such a myth, she writes, is that ‘each individual’s specialness will guide him or her to work that he or she enjoys and that...
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mtlynch.io
Sia-Minio Integration Postmortem One of the best things I learned from working at Google is the practice of blame-free postmortems....
over a year ago
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Sia-Minio Integration Postmortem

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

over a year ago
One of the best things I learned from working at Google is the practice of blame-free postmortems. When something goes wrong, you wait until the dust settles, then write a report analyzing what happened. The report explains how the problem occurred and defines concrete steps the...
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The Marginalian
How to Get Out of Your Own Way: John Berryman on Defeating the Three Demons of Creative Work John Allyn Smith, Jr. was eleven when, early one morning in the interlude between two world wars,...
3 months ago
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How to Get Out of Your Own Way: John Berryman on Defeating the Three Demons of Creative Work

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3 months ago
John Allyn Smith, Jr. was eleven when, early one morning in the interlude between two world wars, not long after his parents had filed for divorce, he was awakened by a loud bang beneath his bedroom window. He looked to see his father dead by his own gun. Within months, his...
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Patrick Kayongo
Disenchantment Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her...
over a year ago
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Disenchantment

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her phone after recharging at her parents’ home earlier in the day. In addition to that, there had been no water since the morning. Joburg Water had promised restoration by 2pm, but 48...
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Cremieux Recueil
"Yes, and..." Urbanism What can the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth teach us about effective zoning law?
2 months ago
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"Yes, and..." Urbanism

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2 months ago
What can the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth teach us about effective zoning law?
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diamond geezer
Route R6 RIP London's next dead bus R6: Orpington to St Mary Cray Location: southeast London, outer Length of...
3 months ago
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Route R6 RIP

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

3 months ago
London's next dead bus R6: Orpington to St Mary Cray Location: southeast London, outer Length of journey: 4 miles, 25 minutes 347, 118 and 414 have already been extinguished and at the end of this week it's time for the R6 to join them at the big terminus in the sky. You won't...
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Londonist
Plans For Redevelopment Of Waterloo Station Revealed New entrances and concourses are among the ideas.
a year ago
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Plans For Redevelopment Of Waterloo Station Revealed

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a year ago
New entrances and concourses are among the ideas.
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There are two types...
My Muck Rack MUCK RACK automatically creates lists of articles written by individuals (like me). To this I’ve...
a year ago
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My Muck Rack

from There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
MUCK RACK automatically creates lists of articles written by individuals (like me). To this I’ve added some articles about me, and reviews of books I’ve written. My Muck Rack The post My Muck Rack appeared first on There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
over a year ago
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Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering

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over a year ago
a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
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Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 22 Here I Come The time has finally come. After more than three hours of exam writing, and almost double spent on...
over a year ago
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Ludum Dare 22 Here I Come

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over a year ago
The time has finally come. After more than three hours of exam writing, and almost double spent on studying for it, I am now ready to declare my entry into Ludum Dare 22! I’ve been away far too long, with my entries for the 17th and the 20th dare being almost a century away, the...
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Hixie's Natural Log
Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to...
a year ago
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Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to learn more about our experience with the WHATWG. I thought some of my responses might have broader interest, and saved them for publication at some later date, and then promptly...
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Last Place Comics
Made of Fractals The post Made of Fractals appeared first on Last Place Comics.
2 months ago
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Made of Fractals

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2 months ago
The post Made of Fractals appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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The Diff
Two Kinds of News Business Plus! AI as an Interface; Post-Post; Meta-Moderation; Custom Finance; Voice and Search
4 months ago
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Two Kinds of News Business

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4 months ago
Plus! AI as an Interface; Post-Post; Meta-Moderation; Custom Finance; Voice and Search
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Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of March 23, 2025 The key reports scheduled for this week include February New Home sales, the 3rd estimate of Q4 GDP,...
3 months ago
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Schedule for Week of March 23, 2025

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3 months ago
The key reports scheduled for this week include February New Home sales, the 3rd estimate of Q4 GDP, February Personal Income & Outlays, and January Case-Shiller house prices. ----- Monday, March 24th ----- 8:30 AM ET: Chicago Fed National Activity Index for February. This is a...
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Infinite Scroll
JOB - A theatrical review A Broadway play about Content Moderation
8 months ago
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JOB - A theatrical review

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8 months ago
A Broadway play about Content Moderation
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The Works in...
Computers of the future How to process information without waste
a month ago
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Computers of the future

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a month ago
How to process information without waste
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Elad Blog
MegaCycles in Tech & Crypto Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology...
over a year ago
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MegaCycles in Tech & Crypto

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology or platform would emerge, there would be rampant investment and speculation, a few strong hypergrowth survivors would emerge and most of the rest of the new startups would...
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Escaping Flatland
Living 80 years, you can have 8 lives Highlights from the cutting room floor, pt. 2
7 months ago
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Living 80 years, you can have 8 lives

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7 months ago
Highlights from the cutting room floor, pt. 2
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Old Structures...
Elsewhere in the Archipelago After more than 30 years, it will soon be possible for the public to again visit Hart Island, at...
a year ago
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Elsewhere in the Archipelago

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
After more than 30 years, it will soon be possible for the public to again visit Hart Island, at least on some days and as part of guided tours. Given the nature of the island – it’s been the potter’s field for New York City for over 150 years – it’s a slightly weird place to go,...
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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.
7 months ago
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Nov 2024: My first million!

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

7 months ago
$1M in annual revenue, B2B sales, SOC 2, resellers, grow team, and other updates in November 2024.
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devonzuegel.com
Chautauqua: an idea embedded in a place I want to tell you about the place I spent summers growing up. It's called Chautauqua Institution,...
over a year ago
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Chautauqua: an idea embedded in a place

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
I want to tell you about the place I spent summers growing up. It's called Chautauqua Institution, and it's one of the most special places in the world — and not just because I spent my childhood there. Chautauqua is special because it is an idea embedded in a place. The place...
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Society's Backend:...
Reasoning is here to stay AI Engineering resources 02-21-25
4 months ago
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Reasoning is here to stay

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4 months ago
AI Engineering resources 02-21-25
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History Today Feed
Did Charles I Have to Die? Did Charles I Have to Die? JamesHoare Thu, 03/27/2025 - 09:06
3 months ago
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Did Charles I Have to Die?

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3 months ago
Did Charles I Have to Die? JamesHoare Thu, 03/27/2025 - 09:06
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Solving the decision...
The unfortunate truth of software for technologists It's all about the money, baby
5 months ago
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The unfortunate truth of software for technologists

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5 months ago
It's all about the money, baby
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Noahpinion
The Taiwan posts Three classics from the Noahpinion archive
6 months ago
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The Taiwan posts

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6 months ago
Three classics from the Noahpinion archive
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Acko.net
Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side...
over a year ago
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Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams

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over a year ago
Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side project to come up with a composable and incremental way of driving WebGPU and GPUs in general. #pragma import { getColor } from 'path/to/color' void main() { gl_FragColor =...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Fatal Side Effects of Specialization What is the opposite of specialization? It's not generalization. We don’t need more general...
over a year ago
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Fatal Side Effects of Specialization

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

over a year ago
What is the opposite of specialization? It's not generalization. We don’t need more general knowledge, more generic solutions, or more oatmeal. We need to transcend the silos of specialization.
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Retail Design Blog
Smalltalks Rosé Artistic Wine by the Labelmaker Background: Oriachovitza, a family-owned winery and a living icon of Bulgarian winemaking, stands...
a year ago
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Smalltalks Rosé Artistic Wine by the Labelmaker

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

a year ago
Background: Oriachovitza, a family-owned winery and a living icon of Bulgarian winemaking, stands proudly near Stara Zagora. Originally built in...
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Irrational...
Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis. A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy...
a year ago
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Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis.

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

a year ago
A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis, which I gave at QCon last week. They’ll have the conference video up in a few weeks, but I also decided to do a recording of the final version (albeit a few weeks after the talk, so...
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Articles
Don't follow your heroes As creators, there's a temptation to seek out our heroes and ask them how they achieved their...
over a year ago
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Don't follow your heroes

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
As creators, there's a temptation to seek out our heroes and ask them how they achieved their success. We think if we follow their instructions, we'll be able to reproduce their winning magic.
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Global Inequality...
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development? On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
a year ago
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Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?

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a year ago
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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Steve Klabnik
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
over a year ago
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Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?

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TokyoDev
Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a...
2 weeks ago
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Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad

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2 weeks ago
It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a result, Japan needs more international developers. However, most Japanese companies aren’t interested in hiring new graduates from overseas. While it’s easier than in some countries,...
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The Works in...
A review of Charles Piller’s Doctored How fraud and bad research derailed years of Alzheimer's progress
4 months ago
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A review of Charles Piller’s Doctored

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4 months ago
How fraud and bad research derailed years of Alzheimer's progress
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History Today Feed
How the Roman Empire Lost its Gods How the Roman Empire Lost its Gods JamesHoare Thu, 04/24/2025 - 09:19
2 months ago
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How the Roman Empire Lost its Gods

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2 months ago
How the Roman Empire Lost its Gods JamesHoare Thu, 04/24/2025 - 09:19
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Working Theorys
Status Limbo | Theory No. 27 To get status, you have to give up status.
a year ago
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Status Limbo | Theory No. 27

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a year ago
To get status, you have to give up status.
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computers are bad
2025-01-05 pairs not taken So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories...
6 months ago
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2025-01-05 pairs not taken

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6 months ago
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port video, because they often fail to address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network cabling. Well, I...
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Yale e360
In Test, A.I. Weather Model Fails to Predict Freak Storm Artificial intelligence is powering weather forecasts that are generally more accurate than...
a month ago
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In Test, A.I. Weather Model Fails to Predict Freak Storm

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a month ago
Artificial intelligence is powering weather forecasts that are generally more accurate than conventional forecasts and are faster and cheaper to produce. But new research shows A.I. may fail to predict unprecedented weather events, a troubling finding as warming fuels new...
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David Heinemeier...
You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories:...
a year ago
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You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation

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a year ago
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories: competency or engagement. If it's a problem with engagement – their style of collaboration, their communication, their approach – there's a good chance you can fix it with some...
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This Space
The way of arrival Two intellectual memoirs dominated my reading over Spring, three if WG Sebald's Silent Catastrophes...
2 days ago
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The way of arrival

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2 days ago
Two intellectual memoirs dominated my reading over Spring, three if WG Sebald's Silent Catastrophes can be included given that its analysis of the careers of various Austrian writers illuminates Sebald's own literary trajectory.1 Peter Brown's Journeys of a Mind: A Life in...
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Left To Write
Why? and Why Not? Thoughts on behaviour change, risk, faith and love.
over a year ago
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Why? and Why Not?

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over a year ago
Thoughts on behaviour change, risk, faith and love.
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The Honest Broker
How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop Let's look at the warning signs
11 months ago
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How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop

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11 months ago
Let's look at the warning signs
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Rest of World -...
Argentina’s dictatorship abducted babies in the 1970s. An AI project imagines them today “Our search is real, but these images aren’t.”
a year ago
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Argentina’s dictatorship abducted babies in the 1970s. An AI project imagines them today

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a year ago
“Our search is real, but these images aren’t.”
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Willem's Blog
For the love of mini The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love...
over a year ago
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For the love of mini

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over a year ago
The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love of mini!
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Commoncog
Data is an Added Sense A useful operating principle to sidestep the biggest misconception with becoming data driven in...
11 months ago
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Data is an Added Sense

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11 months ago
A useful operating principle to sidestep the biggest misconception with becoming data driven in business.
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Notes on software...
RFCs and asynchronous-first culture I hated writing documentation before working on features. But after a while I realized I couldn't...
over a year ago
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RFCs and asynchronous-first culture

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over a year ago
I hated writing documentation before working on features. But after a while I realized I couldn't communicate well enough, even with folks I had a good connection with. It took me a number of mistaken deliveries to get the message. Sketches and mockups Designers solve this by...
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bt RSS Feed
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires News Websites Are Dumpster Fires 2019-05-29 Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users...
over a year ago
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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires

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

over a year ago
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires 2019-05-29 Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users have decided to consume information elsewhere. Why? Because the news industry has become a cesspool of anti-consumer and blackhat practices that has eroded trust for the sake of...
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IEEE Spectrum
A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea:...
a year ago
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A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

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a year ago
In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public? It was such a novel concept that when von Miller approached...
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Steve Klabnik
Implementing HATEOS with presenters
over a year ago
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Implementing HATEOS with presenters

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over a year ago
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Seth's Blog
Demanding certainty The defenders of the status quo often demand certainty when facing decisions about the future. It...
a year ago
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Demanding certainty

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a year ago
The defenders of the status quo often demand certainty when facing decisions about the future. It sets up the conditions for doing nothing, because certainty never happens until the future arrives. It’s much more useful to look at probabilities. Flipping a fair coin has a 50%...
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Basta’s Notes
I ask three questions When I'm interviewing for a job, these are the questions I ask
over a year ago
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I ask three questions

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over a year ago
When I'm interviewing for a job, these are the questions I ask
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Jonas Hietala
MenuCity: Level 0 Walkthrough It hasn’t even been a week since I released my latest game MenyCity and already so much positive...
over a year ago
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MenuCity: Level 0 Walkthrough

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over a year ago
It hasn’t even been a week since I released my latest game MenyCity and already so much positive feedback! I’m so thrilled :) However, all isn’t blue skies and nice sunshine. A lot of times the first question is: How do you play it? or How do you get past the first level? I admit...
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Retail Design Blog
Doğuş Çay Packaging Redesign by katkagraphics Last semester at university we were given a really cool task. We had to choose an existing company...
4 months ago
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Doğuş Çay Packaging Redesign by katkagraphics

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4 months ago
Last semester at university we were given a really cool task. We had to choose an existing company that distributes...
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Rest of World -...
The deepfake election nightmare hasn’t happened. Singapore still wants to ban them Following South Korea’s lead, Singapore intends to ban deepfakes ahead of upcoming elections,...
10 months ago
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The deepfake election nightmare hasn’t happened. Singapore still wants to ban them

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10 months ago
Following South Korea’s lead, Singapore intends to ban deepfakes ahead of upcoming elections, despite concerns of curbing freedom of speech.
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The Elysian
We're writing a better future into existence A media collective imagining the future of nation-states, capitalism, and humanity.
6 months ago
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We're writing a better future into existence

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6 months ago
A media collective imagining the future of nation-states, capitalism, and humanity.
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Both Are True
TALK TO STRANGERS! WATCH MOVIES! MAKE WEIRD ART GOOD! SAME ART BORING! talking w Eliza McLamb about stealing from WiSpa, leaving LA, and reading what ppl say about you in...
2 months ago
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TALK TO STRANGERS! WATCH MOVIES! MAKE WEIRD ART GOOD! SAME ART BORING!

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2 months ago
talking w Eliza McLamb about stealing from WiSpa, leaving LA, and reading what ppl say about you in the snark communities
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Archinect - Features
A Conversation with Bjarke Ingels on AI, 3D Printing, and the Future of the Architectural... It has been almost ten years since Archinect last spoke with Bjarke Ingels. Back then, the topic of...
a year ago
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A Conversation with Bjarke Ingels on AI, 3D Printing, and the Future of the Architectural Profession

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a year ago
It has been almost ten years since Archinect last spoke with Bjarke Ingels. Back then, the topic of conversation was BIG's 'Hot to Cold' exhibition at the National Building Museum. Today, after a decade that has included award-winning Manhattan skyscrapers, floating cities, a...
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Artificial Ignorance
Introducing the Model Memo Welcome to a new experiment - the first ever Model Memo!
4 months ago
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Introducing the Model Memo

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4 months ago
Welcome to a new experiment - the first ever Model Memo!
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Retail Design Blog
Yohji Yamamoto store by OSO Following last year’s store openings in Shanghai and Beijing, fashion brand Yohji Yamamoto has...
5 months ago
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Yohji Yamamoto store by OSO

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5 months ago
Following last year’s store openings in Shanghai and Beijing, fashion brand Yohji Yamamoto has inaugurated a new boutique in another...
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s Life, Family, and Personal Traits While in exile on the island of Saint Helena, Napoleon remarked to a loyal follower, “What a novel...
2 months ago
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Napoleon’s Life, Family, and Personal Traits

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2 months ago
While in exile on the island of Saint Helena, Napoleon remarked to a loyal follower, “What a novel my life has been!” (Gueniffey, 1). Indeed, many aspects of Napoleon’s biography read like fiction. For example, by his mid-twenties, Napoleon was already a successful commanding...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
The 4 best HIPAA-compliant analytics tools Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal...
over a year ago
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The 4 best HIPAA-compliant analytics tools

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over a year ago
Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal requirements for securing and handling health…
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Odds and Ends of...
DeepSeek isn't a victory for the AI sceptics Am I mad... or is everyone else?
5 months ago
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DeepSeek isn't a victory for the AI sceptics

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5 months ago
Am I mad... or is everyone else?
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand...
a year ago
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You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It

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a year ago
Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking. I have to constantly remind myself of this. Especially in an environment that prioritizes optimizing and maximizing personal productivity, where it seems if you...
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Wanderingspace
Europa Seen by Juno Citizen scientist Björn Jónsson processed the image to enhance the color and contrast.
over a year ago
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Europa Seen by Juno

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over a year ago
Citizen scientist Björn Jónsson processed the image to enhance the color and contrast.
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Old Structures...
Differences Real and Metaphorical There’s a nice piece in the Times about the Long Path, a very long hiking trail through New Jersey...
9 months ago
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Differences Real and Metaphorical

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9 months ago
There’s a nice piece in the Times about the Long Path, a very long hiking trail through New Jersey and New York running roughly parallel to the Hudson River: “Walking From Manhattan to the Catskills on the ‘Long Path’.” As it happens, I’ve walked a small piece of the path, from...
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Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
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The Mystery of Morpheus

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a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
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NeuroLogica Blog
Hybrid Bionic Hand If you think about the human hand as a work of engineering, it is absolutely incredible. The level...
3 months ago
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Hybrid Bionic Hand

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3 months ago
If you think about the human hand as a work of engineering, it is absolutely incredible. The level of fine motor control is extreme. It is responsive and precise. It has robust sensory feedback. It combines both rigid and soft components, so that it is able to grip and lift heavy...
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Construction Physics
How to Build an AI Data Center This piece is the first in a new series from the Institute for Progress (IFP), called Compute in...
a year ago
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How to Build an AI Data Center

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a year ago
This piece is the first in a new series from the Institute for Progress (IFP), called Compute in America: Building the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure at Home. In this series, we examine the challenges of accelerating the American AI data center buildout. Future pieces will...
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A Beautiful Site
Getting proportionally-resized dimensions of an image This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of...
over a year ago
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Getting proportionally-resized dimensions of an image

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over a year ago
This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of dimensions. get_resized_dimensions() # Parameters # $width - The width of the image to be resized $height - The height of the image to be resized $max_width - The maximum allowed width of the...
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Noahpinion
2023 is when the empires strike back Cold War 2 won't be decided by the opening moves.
over a year ago
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2023 is when the empires strike back

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over a year ago
Cold War 2 won't be decided by the opening moves.
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Joel Gascoigne
We spent $3.3M buying out investors: Why and how we did it Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about...
over a year ago
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We spent $3.3M buying out investors: Why and how we did it

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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about half of all the cash we had in the bank – to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors. Starting the conversations, negotiations, and process of this buy out was one
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Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play. But they forget the people and the Street.
a year ago
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Games Nations Play.

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a year ago
But they forget the people and the Street.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
“Mission-driven” should be more specific | Out-Of-Pocket everything is a set of tradeoffs, let's be honest about that
a year ago
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“Mission-driven” should be more specific | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
everything is a set of tradeoffs, let's be honest about that
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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...
a year ago
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Travelog: Advertising Claims

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a year ago
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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Louwrentius
Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 on Debian howto Get the 'open source' driver from www.highpoint-tech.com. (It's not open source, it uses a closed...
over a year ago
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Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 on Debian howto

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over a year ago
Get the 'open source' driver from www.highpoint-tech.com. (It's not open source, it uses a closed binary driver.) http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr2320.htm Install the kernel headers if you haven't already - apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-6-k7 - extract the...
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The Diff
What moves the Efficient Frontier Between PE and SaaS for Improving Small Companies' Financial... Plus! Reindustrialization as a Financial Engineering Problem; How the Tariffs Happened; Meanwhile,...
3 months ago
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What moves the Efficient Frontier Between PE and SaaS for Improving Small Companies' Financial Performance?

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3 months ago
Plus! Reindustrialization as a Financial Engineering Problem; How the Tariffs Happened; Meanwhile, in Europe; Lead Generation; The Platform
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The Honest Broker
Tell Us About Your Worst (or Best) Day Gig It's Open Mic Day at 'The Honest Broker'
10 months ago
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Tell Us About Your Worst (or Best) Day Gig

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10 months ago
It's Open Mic Day at 'The Honest Broker'
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Maps Mania
An Extremely Distorted Map of the US Election
5 months ago
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An Extremely Distorted Map of the US Election

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5 months ago
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Maps Mania
The 2025 Australian Election Map
3 months ago
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The 2025 Australian Election Map

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3 months ago
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Thirty Madison and Condition-Specific Care | Out-Of-Pocket I wanted to use this as an opportunity to talk a little bit about scalable telemedicine + specialist...
a year ago
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Thirty Madison and Condition-Specific Care | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
I wanted to use this as an opportunity to talk a little bit about scalable telemedicine + specialist care.
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Threat of Technology In my second book (shameless plug alert) – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors and I...
a year ago
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The Threat of Technology

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a year ago
In my second book (shameless plug alert) – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors and I try to imagine both the utopian and dystopian versions of the future, brought about by technology, either individually or collectively. This topic has come up multiple times recently...
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Seth's Blog
Closed/open I’m told that the hardest part of being a teaching golf pro isn’t helping adult golfers develop a...
a year ago
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Closed/open

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a year ago
I’m told that the hardest part of being a teaching golf pro isn’t helping adult golfers develop a good swing. It’s getting them to stop using a bad one. Our position feels so fragile, we hold on very tightly. Competence, status and connection are fleeting yet hard-won. We can...
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Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844 A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
a year ago
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844

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a year ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844.     “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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Articles
How to run a mastermind group Thinking about starting a business mastermind group? Here are resources for finding members, running...
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How to run a mastermind group

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Thinking about starting a business mastermind group? Here are resources for finding members, running your meetings, and getting the most out of it.
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Rest of World -...
Japan’s sleepy tech scene is ready for a comeback After decades of slumber, the country that brought us bullet trains and Nintendo has mustered some...
over a year ago
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Japan’s sleepy tech scene is ready for a comeback

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After decades of slumber, the country that brought us bullet trains and Nintendo has mustered some momentum.
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Retail Design Blog
Hakerem office by Anderman Architects More than a hundred years ago, “Hakerem Spirits” was founded. A little over ten years ago, we...
9 months ago
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Hakerem office by Anderman Architects

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9 months ago
More than a hundred years ago, “Hakerem Spirits” was founded. A little over ten years ago, we designed their offices....
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Louwrentius
The impact of the MDADM bitmap on RAID performance Introduction I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads...
over a year ago
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The impact of the MDADM bitmap on RAID performance

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Introduction I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads on hard drives anymore, that ship has sailed a long time ago. SSDs have taken their place (or 'the cloud'). For those few left who do use hard drives in Linux software RAID setups...
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mtlynch.io
Increase Your Reply Rate on Cold Emails to Me The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before. There are lots...
5 months ago
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Increase Your Reply Rate on Cold Emails to Me

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5 months ago
The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before. There are lots of guides on writing cold emails. This one is a bit niche, as it’s about cold emailing a particular person: me. But I guarantee you that it’s the best guide you can find on this...
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UX Collective
Are physical buttons going extinct? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
8 months ago
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Are physical buttons going extinct?

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Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Herbert Lui
Talking myself away from the fear of being seen Some people who have a lot to offer the internet feel too much doubt to write and publish it. Ashley...
2 months ago
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Talking myself away from the fear of being seen

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2 months ago
Some people who have a lot to offer the internet feel too much doubt to write and publish it. Ashley Willis wrote a great post about this. Even though I publish here every day, I identify with this group of people. I’ve written for over 1,000 days now. Sometimes, for me, it feels...
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Yazin Alirhayim
Part 2: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain’s economy? 👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first. In the last post, I discussed the question of access...
over a year ago
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Part 2: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain’s economy?

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over a year ago
👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first. In the last post, I discussed the question of access to capital and why’s important to verify that we do in fact have a problem before we attempt to “solve” it. Now, we’re going to talk about the method for measuring the extent of...
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Common Edge
An Architect’s Life in a Diehard Profession Scott Johnson surveys his impressive career—and designs—in a new book.
a month ago
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An Architect’s Life in a Diehard Profession

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a month ago
Scott Johnson surveys his impressive career—and designs—in a new book.
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Notes on software...
Writing a document database from scratch in Go: Lucene-like filters and indexes In this post we'll write a rudimentary document database from scratch in Go. In less than 500 lines...
over a year ago
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Writing a document database from scratch in Go: Lucene-like filters and indexes

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over a year ago
In this post we'll write a rudimentary document database from scratch in Go. In less than 500 lines of code we'll be able to support the following interactions, inspired by Elasticsearch: $ curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name": "Kevin", "age": "45"}'...
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Epic Web Dev
TypeScript: What’s the Point?! (article) TypeScript elevates JavaScript with static typing, offering scalable, maintainable code despite...
a year ago
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TypeScript: What’s the Point?! (article)

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a year ago
TypeScript elevates JavaScript with static typing, offering scalable, maintainable code despite initial challenges.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Why The Sagamore Pendry Baltimore is The City's Best Hotel
over a year ago
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Why The Sagamore Pendry Baltimore is The City's Best Hotel

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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Pound, rub, pound It’s something like midnight. A four-and-a-half-pound senior Chihuahua is tucked into her blanket...
over a year ago
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✏️ Pound, rub, pound

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over a year ago
It’s something like midnight. A four-and-a-half-pound senior Chihuahua is tucked into her blanket and snuggled up next to my left rib cage inside my sleeping bag. Jen is asleep beside us. It’s 35°F. We have myriad layers happening: Jen wears a down jacket inside her sleeping bag...
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Posts on Made of...
Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash Suppose we have a large collection of documents, and we wish you identify which documents are...
a year ago
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Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash

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a year ago
Suppose we have a large collection of documents, and we wish you identify which documents are approximately the same as each other. For instance, we may have crawled the web over some period of time, and expect to have fetched the “same page” several times, but to see slight...
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Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Divorce, Separations & Breakups: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
over a year ago
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Stoic Advice on Divorce, Separations & Breakups: Ask Marcus Aurelius

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over a year ago
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...
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Steve Klabnik
Moving from Sinatra to Rails
over a year ago
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Moving from Sinatra to Rails

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over a year ago
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3 Tips from Kent C Dodds for People Just Getting Started advice for beginners from a podcast
over a year ago
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3 Tips from Kent C Dodds for People Just Getting Started

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over a year ago
advice for beginners from a podcast
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diamond geezer
Walking London's boroughs WALK LONDON London borough walks (on London borough websites) who else will? 2008, then again in...
2 weeks ago
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Walking London's boroughs

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2 weeks ago
WALK LONDON London borough walks (on London borough websites) who else will? 2008, then again in 2012, then again in 2016, then again at the start of 2021. Four years on, the majority of these borough websites have upgraded. A few have merely reorganised, breaking previous links....
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The personal website...
What google search shows us about the future of product design You can read this article on UX Booth.
over a year ago
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What google search shows us about the future of product design

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over a year ago
You can read this article on UX Booth.
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Rest of World -...
The hidden cost of cyberwarfare Digital Peace Now is working to raise awareness of the damage done by cyberattacks.
over a year ago
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The hidden cost of cyberwarfare

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over a year ago
Digital Peace Now is working to raise awareness of the damage done by cyberattacks.
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xkcd.com
Room Temperature
over a year ago
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Room Temperature

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over a year ago
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Christopher Butler
Gestalt Principles of Design – Symmetry We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not. The Gestalt...
over a year ago
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Gestalt Principles of Design – Symmetry

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over a year ago
We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not. The Gestalt Principles of Design are a set of concepts and guidelines drawn from gestalt psychology, which theorizes that the mind tends to process organized groups of things as a whole,...
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CONTEMPORIST
Scalloped Ceilings Are The Elegance Overhead In This New York Apartment Frederick Tang Architecture has designed the interior of an apartment on the Upper West Side of...
10 months ago
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Scalloped Ceilings Are The Elegance Overhead In This New York Apartment

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10 months ago
Frederick Tang Architecture has designed the interior of an apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for a couple and their three children. Inspired by their Indian heritage, the family wanted to incorporate stone into their home, and they were also drawn toward color and...
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mtlynch.io
Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam The idea of social capital has interested me for a long time, but when I finally sat down to read...
over a year ago
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Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam

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over a year ago
The idea of social capital has interested me for a long time, but when I finally sat down to read this book, it was painfully dry. It offers an eye-opening investigation into the many ways that civic engagement has declined in the US, but it was a real slog to get through.
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Notes on software...
Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust By the end of this guide we'll have a minimal, working implementation of a small part of Lua from...
over a year ago
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Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust

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over a year ago
By the end of this guide we'll have a minimal, working implementation of a small part of Lua from scratch. It will be able to run the following program (among others): function fib(n) if n < 2 then return n; end local n1 = fib(n-1); local n2 = fib(n-2); ...
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Computer Things
Nondeterminism in Formal Specification Just an unordered collections of thoughts on this. In programming languages, nondeterminism tends to...
a year ago
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Nondeterminism in Formal Specification

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a year ago
Just an unordered collections of thoughts on this. In programming languages, nondeterminism tends to come from randomness, concurrency, or external forces (like user input or other systems). In specification languages, we also have nondeterminism as a means of abstraction. Say...
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Seán Barry
Quitting the Rat Race I'm leaving a comfortable job in a big city because there's more to life than whatever this is.
over a year ago
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Quitting the Rat Race

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over a year ago
I'm leaving a comfortable job in a big city because there's more to life than whatever this is.
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Atoms vs Bits
It's Hard To Hit First You don't want to hit someone unjustifiably. But the upshot is, you lose.
a year ago
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It's Hard To Hit First

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a year ago
You don't want to hit someone unjustifiably. But the upshot is, you lose.
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Acko.net
I is for Intent Why your app turned into spaghetti "I do not like your software sir, There's a...
a year ago
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I is for Intent

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a year ago
Why your app turned into spaghetti "I do not like your software sir, There's a certain kind of programmer. Let's call him Stanley. Stanley has been around for a while, and has his fair share of war stories. The common thread is that poorly conceived and specced...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Using AI To Create Virtual Environments Generative AI applications seem to be on the steep part of the development curve – not only is the...
a year ago
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Using AI To Create Virtual Environments

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a year ago
Generative AI applications seem to be on the steep part of the development curve – not only is the technology getting better, but people are finding more and more uses for it. It’s a new powerful tool with broad applicability, and so there are countless startups and researchers...
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Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Diagram of Victorian Ferry Routes, 2024 by Bushland Maps Submitted by Bushland Maps, who say: Ferries are a bit of a forgotten mode of transport in...
7 months ago
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Submission – Unofficial Diagram of Victorian Ferry Routes, 2024 by Bushland Maps

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7 months ago
Submitted by Bushland Maps, who say: Ferries are a bit of a forgotten mode of transport in Melbourne. With no integration into the fare system or journey planners, and with overarching public transport body PTV only “overseeing” three of the routes (which doesn’t have any...
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Making software...
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
over a year ago
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Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog

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over a year ago
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
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Cognitive...
dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b I get a lot of questions about...
a year ago
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dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b

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a year ago
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b I get a lot of questions about dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b and I wanted to address some of them on my blog. Dolphin got a nice video review from Prompt Engineering What's this about? Friday December 8, MistralAI released a...
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journal – Winnie Lim
my multi-decade journey with migraines Writing some of my recent posts made me reflect on how far I’ve come with regards to my chronic...
10 months ago
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my multi-decade journey with migraines

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10 months ago
Writing some of my recent posts made me reflect on how far I’ve come with regards to my chronic migraines so far, so I thought it’ll be fun (to nobody except myself)...
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Rest of World -...
Influencers are getting young Nigerians hooked on online gambling While sports betting is legal in Nigeria, experts say the government should have more oversight on...
a year ago
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Influencers are getting young Nigerians hooked on online gambling

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a year ago
While sports betting is legal in Nigeria, experts say the government should have more oversight on the influencer culture.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sorry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is like a time machine to SMBC circa...
7 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sorry

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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is like a time machine to SMBC circa 2005. Today's News:
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Remains of the Day
Revisionist commentary I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a...
over a year ago
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Revisionist commentary

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over a year ago
I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a sucker for the union of political and film satire as embodied in alternate film commentaries. I was reminded of it when seeing The People's History of Tattooine which was first one...
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Maps Mania
Your Local Business Chatbots
5 months ago
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Your Local Business Chatbots

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5 months ago
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Calculated Risk
Newsletter: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.8% year-over-year in November Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up...
5 months ago
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Newsletter: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.8% year-over-year in November

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5 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.8% year-over-year in November S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for November ("November" is a 3-month average of September, October and November closing...
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mtlynch.io
Adventures in Outsourcing: Cooking with TaskRabbit Overview For the past few years, I’ve been outsourcing tasks from my daily life whenever possible. I...
over a year ago
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Adventures in Outsourcing: Cooking with TaskRabbit

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over a year ago
Overview For the past few years, I’ve been outsourcing tasks from my daily life whenever possible. I tend to be more limited in time than money, so if paying $30 can save me an hour, I consider that a good deal. I recently started experimenting with the keto diet, which focuses...
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Koos Looijesteijn
Are design ethics useless?
a year ago
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Are design ethics useless?

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a year ago
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Open Culture
NYU Professor Answers Your Burning Questions About Authoritarianism From WIRED comes this: NYU professor and “authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to...
3 months ago
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NYU Professor Answers Your Burning Questions About Authoritarianism

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3 months ago
From WIRED comes this: NYU professor and “authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about dictators and fascism. Why do people support dictators? How do dictators come to power? What’s the difference between a dictatorship, an...
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Tony Dinh's...
Jan 2021: I got a $500K acquisition offer! ...and other updates in January 2022 from me
over a year ago
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Jan 2021: I got a $500K acquisition offer!

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over a year ago
...and other updates in January 2022 from me
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks JavaScript Tooling is just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.
over a year ago
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Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks

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over a year ago
JavaScript Tooling is just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.
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Retail Design Blog
Blue Bottle Coffee by Schemata Architects We still remember when Blue Bottle Coffee, the niche American coffee brand, first arrived in Japan a...
a month ago
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Blue Bottle Coffee by Schemata Architects

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a month ago
We still remember when Blue Bottle Coffee, the niche American coffee brand, first arrived in Japan a decade ago, opening...
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #54: Voters in 2019 and 2024 were (mostly) the same – it was the parties that changed Plus can Trump revive the British left's patriotism? And some quick wins for growth, and the...
5 months ago
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Odds and Ends #54: Voters in 2019 and 2024 were (mostly) the same – it was the parties that changed

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

5 months ago
Plus can Trump revive the British left's patriotism? And some quick wins for growth, and the collapse of local government.
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Irrational...
Culture vs systems. Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
over a year ago
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Culture vs systems.

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over a year ago
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
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Blog of Simple...
Why Meta subscriptions are under attack, and why it matters for privacy
a year ago
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Why Meta subscriptions are under attack, and why it matters for privacy

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a year ago
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Louwrentius
Why security is all about defense in depth Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing...
over a year ago
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Why security is all about defense in depth

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing could be further from the truth. Keeping your systems up-to-date only protects you against exploits for publicly known vulnerabilities. Your systems are still not protected...
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
England, Day 1 (Do-Over) This was the trip we wanted to take last summer before our plans abruptly changed. Instead we went...
a year ago
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England, Day 1 (Do-Over)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a year ago
This was the trip we wanted to take last summer before our plans abruptly changed. Instead we went to Costa Rica for reasons I talked about before, and all of us had a wonderful time. Even so, I still felt bad that the younger kid lost out on the original destination. He wanted...
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mtlynch.io
What Got Done - Month 2 Highlights What Got Done received 32 new user sign-ups (growth of about 5x since May) Zestful may be...
over a year ago
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What Got Done - Month 2

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

over a year ago
Highlights What Got Done received 32 new user sign-ups (growth of about 5x since May) Zestful may be rising from the dead, with four new inbound customer inquiries. Is It Keto earned $184, and Zestful earned $26, making it my highest revenue month since quitting my job. Goal...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
You May Not Need Controlled Form Components A common design pattern for forms in React is using Controlled Components - but involves a lot of...
over a year ago
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You May Not Need Controlled Form Components

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

over a year ago
A common design pattern for forms in React is using Controlled Components - but involves a lot of boilerplate code. Here's another way.
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pcloadletter
Impact-based performance evaluation in big tech is terrible My theory is that some performance consultants got paid a lot of money one day for a single word:...
a year ago
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Impact-based performance evaluation in big tech is terrible

from pcloadletter [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
My theory is that some performance consultants got paid a lot of money one day for a single word: "impact." If you have worked in big tech, you're probably all too familiar with this word because your annual performance evaluations are based on your impact. As an employee,...
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Grow With Less
The Best Way to Come up with Catchy Blog Post Titles Copywriting legend David Ogilvy once said that “on the average, five times as many people read the...
over a year ago
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The Best Way to Come up with Catchy Blog Post Titles

from Grow With Less [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Copywriting legend David Ogilvy once said that “on the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.” That’s great news because it means a great blog post title has...
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David Heinemeier...
Closing the borders alone won't fix the problems Denmark has been reaping lots of delayed accolades from its relatively strict immigration policy...
4 months ago
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Closing the borders alone won't fix the problems

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 months ago
Denmark has been reaping lots of delayed accolades from its relatively strict immigration policy lately. The Swedes and the Germans in particular are now eager to take inspiration from The Danish Model, given their predicaments. The very same countries that until recently...
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Mind Mine
in defence of pleasure yin, yang
7 months ago
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in defence of pleasure

from Mind Mine [alt+shift+b] in life

7 months ago
yin, yang
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The Works in...
The San Diego infinite housing glitch How a bonus ADU program allows 'granny towers' in gardens
9 months ago
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The San Diego infinite housing glitch

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

9 months ago
How a bonus ADU program allows 'granny towers' in gardens
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The Ruffian
Rattle Bag History, learning, screw-ups, and suitcase-packing
a year ago
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Rattle Bag

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a year ago
History, learning, screw-ups, and suitcase-packing
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Key to Happiness? Do You Agree with Aristotle?
4 months ago
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What is the Key to Happiness?

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4 months ago
Do You Agree with Aristotle?
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Archinect - Features
Inside the Multidimensional Worlds of Squint/Opera and Journey In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow...
5 months ago
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Inside the Multidimensional Worlds of Squint/Opera and Journey

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5 months ago
In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow studios ICRAVE, 59, and VMI Studio under the banner of Journey, a "superpowered organization" bridging physical and digital design. Long before the merger, Squint/Opera had...
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TheCollector
What Is the Second Epistle of John About? Tradition held that the Johannine Epistles (1, 2, and 3 John) were the work of John, the beloved...
3 months ago
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What Is the Second Epistle of John About?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
Tradition held that the Johannine Epistles (1, 2, and 3 John) were the work of John, the beloved apostle. These works discuss similar themes to those of the Gospel of John and, at times, allude to what the Gospel of John proclaimed. The Second Epistle of John addresses Docetism,...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Julio-Claudians
11 months ago
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Weekend Roundup

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

11 months ago
The Julio-Claudians
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Contemporist...
Central Bark: A Desk Designed for You and Your Dog Central Bark, designed by Chrissy Fehan for DARRAN, is a workspace solution that quietly rethinks...
4 weeks ago
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Central Bark: A Desk Designed for You and Your Dog

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4 weeks ago
Central Bark, designed by Chrissy Fehan for DARRAN, is a workspace solution that quietly rethinks what office furniture can be, especially in pet-friendly workplaces.
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns? A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
over a year ago
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Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?

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

over a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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Wait But Why
The Big and the Small I have a surprise for you. The post The Big and the Small appeared first on Wait But Why.
over a year ago
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The Big and the Small

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

over a year ago
I have a surprise for you. The post The Big and the Small appeared first on Wait But Why.
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Seth's Blog
But where are the secret recipes? Over the years, I’ve been sharing recipes as pages here on the blog, but never posting about them…...
4 months ago
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But where are the secret recipes?

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

4 months ago
Over the years, I’ve been sharing recipes as pages here on the blog, but never posting about them… you only got the link if I sent it to you. Well, your wait is over. For those seeking non-obvious but delicious and light-on-their-feet recipes, here you go: (two new ones added,...
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PHD Comics
07/12/21 PHD comic: 'James Webb Telescope' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
over a year ago
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07/12/21 PHD comic: 'James Webb Telescope'

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

over a year ago
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "James Webb Telescope" - originally published 7/12/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
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Solving the decision...
guitars and javascript - the case for jank worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
2 months ago
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guitars and javascript - the case for jank

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 months ago
worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
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IEEE Spectrum
Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says? In 1976, Ralph Baer and Howard Morrison, two game designers, happened to see a trade show...
a year ago
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Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says?

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
In 1976, Ralph Baer and Howard Morrison, two game designers, happened to see a trade show demonstration of an Atari arcade game called Touch Me. The game’s waist-high cabinet featured four large buttons on the top, which lit up in random sequence; the player had to push the...
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Seth's Blog
More vs. better If every building in the shopping district in a big city was owned by one landlord, rents would go...
a year ago
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More vs. better

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

a year ago
If every building in the shopping district in a big city was owned by one landlord, rents would go up. So would the prices of everything sold. The landlord would keep a significant percentage of each store’s profits and innovation would suffer as well. Google’s monopoly is real....
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Good Enough
Barry is Good Enough We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know...
2 months ago
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Barry is Good Enough

from Good Enough [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know much about us. So we’re continuing our Q&A column to introduce ourselves, one-at-a-time. Today, we’re meeting the biggest Pika fan, Barry Hess… Who are you? (Who, who, who,...
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
I made some animated shorts Watch the very first Oatmeal cartoons. View on my website
over a year ago
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I made some animated shorts

from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago
Watch the very first Oatmeal cartoons. View on my website
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Herbert Lui
Free lunches Early in my life, I learned the motto, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” The implied lesson...
4 months ago
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Free lunches

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

4 months ago
Early in my life, I learned the motto, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” The implied lesson is to be careful around somebody offering you something for free—because there’s usually a hidden cost. They must have something to gain from it, and that’s why they’re giving it to...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'So a Fool Returneth to His Folly' Grownups seldom credit children with insight into human psychology, thus treating them as smaller,...
3 months ago
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'So a Fool Returneth to His Folly'

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

3 months ago
Grownups seldom credit children with insight into human psychology, thus treating them as smaller, more annoying versions of themselves. My father had an acquaintance even he knew was a fool. By admitting such knowledge, he was violating adult solidarity. His friend's customary...
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Yale e360
RC Week 10: Thankful for Family, Missing my Family As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold. I wasn't sure what I'd...
over a year ago
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RC Week 10: Thankful for Family, Missing my Family

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold. I wasn't sure what I'd write this week for the RC week 10 recap, since it's a short week. This week I didn't get a whole lot of coding done, so it's time for the trope: the Thanksgiving post. Of course,...
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HTMHell
#34 a button is not a link Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target...
7 months ago
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#34 a button is not a link

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

7 months ago
Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target description</button> Issues and how to fix them A button opening a link will be unexpected behavior for screen reader users. No matter how it is styled. Links disguised as buttons...
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Both Are True
locker room talk all of us different, all of us same
2 months ago
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locker room talk

from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life

2 months ago
all of us different, all of us same
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Midlife Malaise Part II It’s been an interesting year so far. Overall, I can’t overtly complain: I find my work gratifying,...
over a year ago
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✏️ Midlife Malaise Part II

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

over a year ago
It’s been an interesting year so far. Overall, I can’t overtly complain: I find my work gratifying, and have been fortunate to take some great trips this year both internationally (Mexico City and Kuala Lumpur), as well as some off-roading and camping locally. But there’s a...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
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Summary of changes for October 2024

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

8 months ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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Rest of World -...
How AI shook the world in 2023 With commercial tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney becoming widely available, AI was used for all...
a year ago
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How AI shook the world in 2023

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
With commercial tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney becoming widely available, AI was used for all things wonderful … and worrying.
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Old Structures...
Gain Some, Lose Some This is the Bradbury Building, an 1893 office building in downtown Los Angeles: It’s a nice enough...
a year ago
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Gain Some, Lose Some

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
This is the Bradbury Building, an 1893 office building in downtown Los Angeles: It’s a nice enough facade but really nothing special. A lot of people are familiar with the building because of its inside: The office space is a rectangle donut around the atrium, connected by...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Touch Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The deepest cut is when he pets his cat, raised...
a year ago
36

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Touch

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The deepest cut is when he pets his cat, raised from kittenhood for 10 years, and nothing happens. Today's News:
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NeuroLogica Blog
Deepfake Doctor Endorsements This kind of abuse of deepfake endorsements was entirely predictable, so it’s not surprising that a...
11 months ago
69

Deepfake Doctor Endorsements

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
This kind of abuse of deepfake endorsements was entirely predictable, so it’s not surprising that a recent BMJ study documents the scale of this fraud. The study focused on the UK, detailing instances of deepfakes of celebrity doctors endorsing dubious products. For example,...
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The Elysian
If you have a social mission, go into business An interview with Frederick Freundlich about working at Mondragon, participating in a cooperative,...
4 months ago
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If you have a social mission, go into business

from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature

4 months ago
An interview with Frederick Freundlich about working at Mondragon, participating in a cooperative, and building social companies.
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Calculated Risk
Thursday: GDP, Unemployment Claims, Pending Home Sales Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly...
3 months ago
28

Thursday: GDP, Unemployment Claims, Pending Home Sales

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for 225 initial claims up from 223 thousand last week. Gross Domestic Product, 4th Quarter and Year 2024 (Third...
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Computer Things
Some notes on for loops New Blogpost Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a...
a year ago
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Some notes on for loops

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
New Blogpost Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a lot of Alloy). Patreon link here. Some notes on for loops I sometimes like to sharpen the axe by looking at a basic programming concept and seeing what I can pull out. In this...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Capabilities and sensibilities “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the...
over a year ago
27

Capabilities and sensibilities

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability…
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Open Culture
Watch the Earliest-Known Charles Dickens Film: The Death of Poor Joe A little over a decade ago, a curator at the British Film Institute (BFI) discovered the oldest...
a year ago
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Watch the Earliest-Known Charles Dickens Film: The Death of Poor Joe

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
A little over a decade ago, a curator at the British Film Institute (BFI) discovered the oldest surviving film featuring a Charles Dickens character, “The Death of Poor Joe.” The silent film, directed by George Albert Smith in 1900, brings to life Dickens’ character Jo, the...
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TheCollector
10 Historic Sites in Miami You Should Visit Florida’s history stretches from early Spanish colonization and the Seminole Wars to its role in the...
a month ago
9

10 Historic Sites in Miami You Should Visit

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
Florida’s history stretches from early Spanish colonization and the Seminole Wars to its role in the Civil War and the Cuban exile era. But no city within the state reflects this layered past quite like Miami. Founded in 1896, Miami quickly grew from a swampy frontier town into a...
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Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built!...
9 months ago
33

How I Built My Blog

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built! We’ll examine the tech stack and see how all of the pieces fit together, as well as dig into some of the details to see how they work.
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99% Invisible
One Year: The Day the Music Stopped [EPISODE] On Aug. 1, 1942, the nation’s recording studios went silent. Musicians were fed up with the new...
over a year ago
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One Year: The Day the Music Stopped [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
On Aug. 1, 1942, the nation’s recording studios went silent. Musicians were fed up with the new technologies threatening their livelihoods, so they refused to record until they got their fair share. Evan Chung explores one of the most consequential labor actions of the 20th...
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Common Edge
Kelp Farming May Help Clean New York’s Polluted Waterways and Fight Climate Change The seaweed found in Newtown Creek, Gowanus Bay, and the East River could suck up carbon and...
over a year ago
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Kelp Farming May Help Clean New York’s Polluted Waterways and Fight Climate Change

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

over a year ago
The seaweed found in Newtown Creek, Gowanus Bay, and the East River could suck up carbon and pollutants, bolstering marine ecosystems.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - War Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why I don't let my wife purchase ricin....
a year ago
41

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - War

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why I don't let my wife purchase ricin. Today's News:
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Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI, Q4 Flow of Funds Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly...
3 months ago
21

Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI, Q4 Flow of Funds

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for 225 initial claims up from 221 thousand last week. Producer Price Index for February from the BLS. The consensus...
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Mind Prison: Notes...
Grok 3 - Signs of Intelligence or Dementia? Notes From the Desk: No. 38 - 2025.02.21
4 months ago
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Grok 3 - Signs of Intelligence or Dementia?

from Mind Prison: Notes From the Desk [alt+shift+b] in AI

4 months ago
Notes From the Desk: No. 38 - 2025.02.21
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Taking a Step Back from Minimalissimo I recently wrote about bandwidth and how I've been struggling to balance my day job as a product...
a year ago
13

Taking a Step Back from Minimalissimo

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

a year ago
I recently wrote about bandwidth and how I've been struggling to balance my day job as a product designer with several side projects and businesses. Reflecting deeply this year, I've decided to make a few changes, one of which is the difficult decision to step back from...
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Engineers Need Art
Jigsaw Puzzle Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big...
over a year ago
88

Jigsaw Puzzle

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

over a year ago
Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big jigsaw puzzle.
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981 In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit.1 But before I discuss the chip,...
11 months ago
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Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

11 months ago
In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit.1 But before I discuss the chip, I need to give some background on mainframes. (I didn't completely analyze the chip, so don't expect a nice narrative or solid conclusions.) Die photo of the Motorola/IBM SC81150...
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Quanta Magazine
Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of...
a year ago
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Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in a stream of data. The post Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Vadim Kravcenko
Aging Code In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted...
a year ago
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Aging Code

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

a year ago
In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted conversations blended into a […] The post Aging Code appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Max Rozen
How do you make relay-compiler run automatically? Getting tired of running the relay-compiler every time you change your GraphQL schema/resolvers?...
over a year ago
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How do you make relay-compiler run automatically?

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Getting tired of running the relay-compiler every time you change your GraphQL schema/resolvers? There's a plugin in webpack for that!
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Yale e360
Paper review: Concurrency Control Performance Modeling Another week, another paper! This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control...
over a year ago
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Paper review: Concurrency Control Performance Modeling

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Another week, another paper! This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control Performance Modeling" by Rakesh Agrawal, Michael J. Carey, and Miron Livny. It was 46 pages, and I had a little trouble finding the whole paper—many of the Google Scholar links had...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 113: Liberation Day April 11, 2025.
2 months ago
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AI Roundup 113: Liberation Day

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 months ago
April 11, 2025.
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