The American Scholar
Indiana Absurd
Tiffany Tsao on translating a beguiling Indonesian short-story collection
The post Indiana Absurd...
7 months ago
Tiffany Tsao on translating a beguiling Indonesian short-story collection
The post Indiana Absurd appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Changelog
Facebook is Censoring Stories about Climate Change and Illegal Raid in Marion, Kansas
It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The...
8 months ago
It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change — deeming them “too controversial”. Facebook then censored the article about...
CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
David Perell
Hugging the X-Axis
I’ve always struggled with commitment. In a world as grand as ours, shouldn’t we try to experience...
over a year ago
I’ve always struggled with commitment. In a world as grand as ours, shouldn’t we try to experience it all? Change it up. Visit every country. Try a bunch of careers. The menu of life is vast, and it’d be a shame to only order a single entrée. When I say I was allergic to...
diamond geezer
The greatest sport
Why is football the world's greatest sport?
It might not be your favourite sport but that's not...
5 months ago
Why is football the world's greatest sport?
It might not be your favourite sport but that's not relevant here - on a global stage football dominates all.
One reason is that football's so simple to play. It's just you and a ball and all you have to do is kick it. Most other...
Scarlet Ink
Good Employees Follow the Rules. Great Employees Break Them.
Because the rules are meant for those who aren't as smart and brave as you. Seriously.
2 months ago
Because the rules are meant for those who aren't as smart and brave as you. Seriously.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eternal shell history 🐢
XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5)
Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded...
10 months ago
XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5)
Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded ¾ million commands in my bash
history:
$ wc -l < ~/.muh_history
763075
My history accounts for every shell command I’ve run since 2016—all
saved in a 102MB file: ~/.muh_history.
$...
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
4 months ago
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
Seth's Blog
Professionals are consistent
Authenticity is for amateurs. We want the surgeon, the broadcaster or the musician to show up fully,...
3 months ago
Authenticity is for amateurs. We want the surgeon, the broadcaster or the musician to show up fully, as the best version of themselves. We know you might be tired from an overnight shift, and authentically feel like phoning it in, but hey, this is the only aorta I’ve got, and I’d...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Founder/market fit
An extremely useful concept that has grown popular among startup founders is what eminent...
over a year ago
An extremely useful concept that has grown popular among startup founders is what eminent entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen calls…
Maps Mania
Europeans Profiting from American Deaths
5 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
over a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn
Businesses don’t hire designers for their good work
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Your own billboard
Large sections of Los Angeles are studded with billboards for minor TV shows. These billboards exist...
a year ago
Large sections of Los Angeles are studded with billboards for minor TV shows. These billboards exist nowhere else, even though there are televisions globally. Obviously, there’s ego at work here, but it’s sort of productive. First, there’s the ego of the producers/networks. They...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Sum of All the Losses'
Abraham Lincoln
was six feet, four inches tall, making him the tallest of U.S. presidents (LBJ
was...
a month ago
Abraham Lincoln
was six feet, four inches tall, making him the tallest of U.S. presidents (LBJ
was half an inch shorter). The crown of his trademark top hat – a stovepipe, it
was called -- measured twelve inches in height. Allowing for the silk hat settling on his head, the...
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Fiction as a lens into technological change
The world is changing right now.
We don't know just how much yet, but LLMs are having a major impact...
a year ago
The world is changing right now.
We don't know just how much yet, but LLMs are having a major impact on almost every field, and we could see anything from minor efficiency gains to catastrophic AI apocalypses to mass disruption of many jobs.
The cone of possibility is wide, and...
Max Rozen
Learn Integration Testing with React Hook Form
Testing is super important, and yet it's hard to find practical examples to show you what to do....
over a year ago
Testing is super important, and yet it's hard to find practical examples to show you what to do. This article intends to fix that, by teaching integration testing with React Hook Form.
TheCollector
7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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8 months ago
FIRE v London
10 year review
Wahoop! I have made it through ten years. In fact, I’ve had a trackable portfolio for over 20 years....
a year ago
Wahoop! I have made it through ten years. In fact, I’ve had a trackable portfolio for over 20 years. But 10 years ago I started tracking my portfolio in a consistent, monthly way – unitising its performance so I could measure its return. It wasn’t until 2015 that I started this...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Outdoor Locations in Toronto, Canada
7 months ago
TheCollector
Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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7 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: Could Facebook move faster?
In China there is this strong culture of cloning things quickly and building lots of different...
over a year ago
In China there is this strong culture of cloning things quickly and building lots of different products instead of just focusing on one thing at a time. This allows them to plant lots of seeds, and although it yields lower quality products in the short term as they're cloning and...
Folklore.org:...
First day with the Macintosh team
Rod Holt, who remember every technical detail in the world, forgot he hired me
a year ago
Rod Holt, who remember every technical detail in the world, forgot he hired me
The Marginalian
An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of the Art of...
"We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for...
a year ago
"We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship."
Louwrentius
A practical understanding of lead acid batteries
Introduction
The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries....
over a year ago
Introduction
The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries. We won't address the underlying chemistry, we'll treat them as a black-box and we will discover their characteristics and how to keep them healthy.
Disclaimer
I'm an amateur. I...
balajis.com
Network State Conference 2023
Come to Amsterdam on October 30, 2023 to build the parallel establishment.
a year ago
Come to Amsterdam on October 30, 2023 to build the parallel establishment.
Willem's Blog
Upgrading a 27-inch iMac 5K to 14 terabytes
This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and...
over a year ago
This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and some spare time I was able to resurrect it from the death!
Blog System/5
The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as...
2 months ago
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”. It's time to see how any of that carried over through the 16-bit to 64-bit evolution.
Open Culture
How the Oldest Company in the World, Japan’s Temple-Builder Kongō Gumi, Has Survived Nearly 1,500...
Image from New York Public Library, via Wikimedia Commons If you visit Osaka, you’ll be urged to see...
4 months ago
Image from New York Public Library, via Wikimedia Commons If you visit Osaka, you’ll be urged to see two old buildings in particular: Osaka Castle and Shitennō-ji (above), Japan’s first Buddhist temple. In beholding both, you’ll behold the work of construction firm Kongō Gumi...
Open Culture
Behold the Kräuterbuch, a Lavishly Illustrated Guide to Plants and Herbs from 1462
When Konrad von Megenberg published his Buch der Natur in the mid-fourteenth century, he won the...
4 months ago
When Konrad von Megenberg published his Buch der Natur in the mid-fourteenth century, he won the distinction of having assembled the very first natural history in German. More than half a millennium later, the book still fascinates — not least for its depictions of cats,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The World's Greatest Netlify Demo 2019
_Note: this was published as the Complete Intro to Netlify on [the Netlify...
over a year ago
_Note: this was published as the Complete Intro to Netlify on [the Netlify Blog](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/10/07/complete-intro-to-netlify-in-3.5-hours/) and [the FreeCodeCamp...
The Modern House
Tiny homes: six homes that prove good things come in at under 600 square feet
6 months ago
Ink & Switch
Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates
Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects...
2 months ago
Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects advancing the future of Automerge.
The American Scholar
Red Tide Warning
Living on Florida’s Gulf Coast means having to coexist with pervasive and toxic algal blooms—and...
7 months ago
Living on Florida’s Gulf Coast means having to coexist with pervasive and toxic algal blooms—and neighbors who don’t always believe what they see
The post Red Tide Warning appeared first on The American Scholar.
alexwlchan
Testing JavaScript without a (third-party) framework
Last week Julia Evans posted Writing Javascript without a build system, and it resonated with my own...
a year ago
Last week Julia Evans posted Writing Javascript without a build system, and it resonated with my own experience.
A lot of my websites (including this one) are content sites with just a bit of interactivity sprinkled on top, where I prefer writing vanilla JS over using complex...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The best open-source analytics tools you can self-host
Author: Andy Vandervell There's no shortage of powerful open-source analytics tools. In this guide...
a year ago
Author: Andy Vandervell There's no shortage of powerful open-source analytics tools. In this guide we've split them into two categories: Self-hosted…
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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4 months ago
Platformer
How you want me to cover artificial intelligence
Seven principles for journalism in the age of AI
a year ago
Seven principles for journalism in the age of AI
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
Rest of World -...
How Urban Company built an empire of female gig workers
By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare...
a year ago
By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare opportunity for social mobility. Now, they want more.
Spoon & Tamago
Kenji Yanobe’s BIG CAT BANG is Now on Display at Ginza Six
Space cats in astronaut suits, ultraman figurines reenacting the beginning of the universe, and a...
8 months ago
Space cats in astronaut suits, ultraman figurines reenacting the beginning of the universe, and a tribute to Taro Okamoto’s iconic Statue of the Sun sculpture. There’s a lot to love about artist Kenji Yanobe’s new installation, BIG CAT BANG, and it’s now on view to the public...
alexwlchan
Generating art from lattice graphs
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the...
over a year ago
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the Proms.
While I was on the train home, I had an idea for a fun art project.
I sketched it out on a napkin, got it working, posted a few pictures on Twitter, then put it down.
On Saturday I was...
Londonist
Metro Memory: The Addictive Tube Game You're Going To Be Playing All Week
"Just five more minutes..."
a year ago
"Just five more minutes..."
The Modern House
Pure 1970s glamour at an iconic modernist house, from sunken sofas to an indoor pool
a year ago
Common Edge
When Is Architectural Symbolism Hypocrisy?
Like or loathe it, symbolism over substance has a long tradition.
7 months ago
Like or loathe it, symbolism over substance has a long tradition.
the singularity is...
Wireheading City
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line:
There’s a fine line...
a year ago
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line:
There’s a fine line that defines civilization.
Several beggars approached me on the street, and I didn’t give them anything. I suspect they would be surprised to learn that we have worse beggars in...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2024
Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware,...
3 weeks ago
Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware, and congratulations to marcan for nailing it. Ping me if you want a prize!
RhysTranter.com
Notes on Blindness
Set in the summer of 1983,
Notes on Blindness
is a beautiful 2016 docudrama that explores the life...
over a year ago
Set in the summer of 1983,
Notes on Blindness
is a beautiful 2016 docudrama that explores the life of
writer and theologian John M. Hull.
Rest of World -...
Chip dreams: Young tech workers are flocking to Taiwan
Southeast Asians are heading to Taiwan to train for semiconductor jobs, which is helping to fill a...
8 months ago
Southeast Asians are heading to Taiwan to train for semiconductor jobs, which is helping to fill a talent gap at the world’s top producer.
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 9
I’ve done something brilliant.
A few years ago, we decided to sell our Sonos system and retreat...
a year ago
I’ve done something brilliant.
A few years ago, we decided to sell our Sonos system and retreat back to an old-school, wired stereo. I liked the idea of multi-room sound. I even used that feature from time to time. But over the years, I found that the benefit of being able to...
Anecdotal Evidence
'One Realises How Absolutely Modern the Best of the Old Things Are'
My late
father-in-law left me The Works of
Rudyard Kipling in twenty-three volumes, the American...
10 months ago
My late
father-in-law left me The Works of
Rudyard Kipling in twenty-three volumes, the American edition published by
Scribner’s in 1899 when the author was thirty-four years old. As a writer, Kipling
was a wonder of nature, as prodigious as Shakespeare and Dickens. To put...
xkcd.com
Moon Landing Mission Profiles
9 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Top ten activities that make me happy
Recently we finally moved out of our old apartment and into a new larger apartment and it’s awesome....
over a year ago
Recently we finally moved out of our old apartment and into a new larger apartment and it’s awesome. It’s no more than a year old and feels very fresh compared to the old one. It’s also larger with an extra room, dishwasher (!) and closer to the city centrum and everything is...
Trying to Understand...
The Newer World Order.
But can they get their heads round it?
10 months ago
But can they get their heads round it?
Spoon & Tamago
Kirie Artist Carves Playful Narratives Into Tree Leaves
“Aquarium of Leaves” A 37-year old Japanese artist who goes by the name Lito has been living with...
a year ago
“Aquarium of Leaves” A 37-year old Japanese artist who goes by the name Lito has been living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) his entire life. Lito had been searching for an outlet where he could channel his above-normal levels of concentration and...
TheCollector
Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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7 months ago
diamond geezer
Unofficial tube map news 1
Three weeks ago a pasta-delivery company announced they'd be giving away free pasta outside five...
a year ago
Three weeks ago a pasta-delivery company announced they'd be giving away free pasta outside five tube stations on October 25th to celebrate World Pasta Day. This is the kind of marketingbolx that various media platforms adore, and Time Out, Metro, Secret London, AOL, MSN and the...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The segmentation of the venture industry
Ford Motors dominated the auto market in the early 20th century with a single car model, the Model...
over a year ago
Ford Motors dominated the auto market in the early 20th century with a single car model, the Model T. At the time, customers were seeking…
Noahpinion
The New 1970s
The U.S. is a confused, unsettled nation. But green shoots are quietly sprouting.
a year ago
The U.S. is a confused, unsettled nation. But green shoots are quietly sprouting.
Hixie's Natural Log
Assertions
We're pretty aggressive about assertions in the Flutter framework.
There's several reasons for...
a year ago
We're pretty aggressive about assertions in the Flutter framework.
There's several reasons for this.
The original reason was that when I wrote a bunch of this code, I had nowhere for it to run. I literally wrote the first few thousand(?) lines of framework code before we...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Crisply, Pithily, and, Very Often, Cruelly'
Tom Disch on
Turner Cassity: “A poet so
consistently epigrammatic can be dismissed, by those...
5 months ago
Tom Disch on
Turner Cassity: “A poet so
consistently epigrammatic can be dismissed, by those incapable themselves of
wit, as unserious, as though to be serious one must always be in a fog. Cassity
never writes a poem without knowing exactly what he means to say—crisply,
pithily,...
abdz.do - Have you...
Bold art direction, UX and web design for GV
Bold art direction, UX and web design for GV
abduzeedo0501—23
...
a year ago
Bold art direction, UX and web design for GV
abduzeedo0501—23
GV, previously known as Google Ventures, recently underwent a rebranding and relaunch of their corporate website with a simpler UX. The new strategy and branding was created by the...
NeuroLogica Blog
New Whale Fossil – Possibly Heaviest Animal Ever
The largest and heaviest animal to ever live on the Earth, as far as we know, is the blue whale,...
a year ago
The largest and heaviest animal to ever live on the Earth, as far as we know, is the blue whale, which is extant today. The blue whale is larger than any dinosaur, even the giant sauropods. The average weight of a blue whale is 160 tons, with the largest specimen being 190 tons,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Replicant
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Scene taken from my forthcoming erotic replicant...
5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Scene taken from my forthcoming erotic replicant pirate romance series.
Today's News:
computers are bad
2024-11-09 iron mountain atomic storage
I have quipped before about "underground datacenters," and how they never
succeed. During the late...
a month ago
I have quipped before about "underground datacenters," and how they never
succeed. During the late decades of the Cold War and even into the '00s, the
military and (to a lesser extent) the telecommunications industry parted ways
with a great number of underground facilities....
Epic Web Dev
Be S.M.A.R.T. About Flaky Tests (article)
Flaky tests undermine trust. Use the S.M.A.R.T. framework: Skip, Mitigate, Assess, Rewrite, Throw...
5 months ago
Flaky tests undermine trust. Use the S.M.A.R.T. framework: Skip, Mitigate, Assess, Rewrite, Throw away, to manage and fix them effectively.
Infinite Scroll
Infinite Scroll Podcast: Worst Tweets ft. Andrew Heaton
It's possible that we might be too online
4 days ago
It's possible that we might be too online
Joel Gascoigne
Creating order from chaos in a startup
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
I’ve been...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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I’ve been pondering recently about how my latest venture has very much felt like
cycling between creating order from chaos and then ending up with chaos again. I
wanted to share my experiences and...
The Beauty of...
In Search of Perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow (Rail Symbol 2, Nick Job for Network Rail, 2022)
It takes some strange mixture of bravery, confidence, and the thickest of skins to take on the job...
over a year ago
It takes some strange mixture of bravery, confidence, and the thickest of skins to take on the job of redesigning a national icon. Once again, the rail industry’s “double arrow”, the symbol that has come completely to mean “railway” in Britain, has been given a facelift. Previous...
Daniel Miessler
My Philosophy and Recommendations Around the LastPass Breaches
If you follow Information Security at all you are surely aware of the LastPass breach situation. It...
a year ago
If you follow Information Security at all you are surely aware of the LastPass breach situation. It started back in August of 2022 as a fairly common breach notification on a blog, but it, unfortunately, turned into more of a blog series. The initial blog was on August 25th,...
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
a year ago
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
Anecdotal Evidence
'My Soul, Beyond Distant Death"
More than
any secular writer I can think of, Vladimir Nabokov hints at the existence of
an...
2 months ago
More than
any secular writer I can think of, Vladimir Nabokov hints at the existence of
an afterlife. He never preaches and makes no theological assertions. His frequent
use of the word “paradise” is often ambiguous, blurring its mundane,
metaphorical meaning – an earthly place...
diamond geezer
Unblogged May
31 unblogged things I did in May
Wed 1: The latest exhibition at The Curve gallery at the Barbican...
6 months ago
31 unblogged things I did in May
Wed 1: The latest exhibition at The Curve gallery at the Barbican is dark and almost empty apart from 20 scant full-frontal paintings. I completely missed the subtext ("The exhibition highlights how The Curve’s shape reflects the Arabic letter...
ntietz.com blog
If software engineering roles were chess pieces, what would they be?
Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground.
It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to...
a year ago
Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground.
It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to acquire the entire tech industry.
And when Chess acquires us, they'll replace us and take our software engineering jobs1.
Then we'll be stuck playing their game, and we'll be...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rite On
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Interestingly, SMBC is in fact an erotic fertility...
a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Interestingly, SMBC is in fact an erotic fertility behavior.
Today's News:
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
3 weeks ago
A Beautiful Site
Link to a specific page in a PDF file
Both Chrome and Firefox render PDF files in the browser, making them easier for users to view. Today...
over a year ago
Both Chrome and Firefox render PDF files in the browser, making them easier for users to view. Today I wanted to send someone a link to a certain page in a PDF user's manual. Here's how I did it.
In HTML, you can link to a specific part of the page this using anchors. For...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Amazon + One Medical Post | Out-Of-Pocket
I guess I should say something?
9 months ago
I guess I should say something?
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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11 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
my strange relationship with time
I have a strange relationship with time. On one hand, I have time anxiety: the fear that time will...
a year ago
I have a strange relationship with time. On one hand, I have time anxiety: the fear that time will pass too quickly and I’ll run out of time. On the other hand,...
Seth's Blog
“What’s next?”
The way we think about our priorities makes a huge difference. Leaders of every stripe make one...
a year ago
The way we think about our priorities makes a huge difference. Leaders of every stripe make one thing more than any other: decisions. In any environment with constraints (which is, actually, any environment), the decisions about time and resources–about what to do next–change...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Rate Limiting and Traffic Shaping
How Computer Networks shape, police, measure, and limit the traffic that flow across them.
over a year ago
How Computer Networks shape, police, measure, and limit the traffic that flow across them.
Archinect - Features
The People’s Place in the City of Bits and Atoms
The city of the 21st century represents a confluence of bits and atoms; an organism in its own right...
9 months ago
The city of the 21st century represents a confluence of bits and atoms; an organism in its own right that relentlessly spawns information and data about itself, its people, and the invisible flows that support them. What is the relationship between humans and the city in this new...
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Be at Home in Other Places'
At his day
job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol
and/or...
4 weeks ago
At his day
job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol
and/or drug problems. Like most in that field, he values his clients and
dislikes the bosses, who live by the dictates of bureaucracy. Barbers are like
bartenders. The good ones usually...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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TheCollector
The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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5 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
This is the Time of Year Bamboo Shoots Grow, Sometimes Wreaking Havoc
a triptych by Toyokuni Utagawa depicting an excursion to gather bamboo shoots (early 1800s)...
7 months ago
a triptych by Toyokuni Utagawa depicting an excursion to gather bamboo shoots (early 1800s) According to Japan’s ancient calendar of 72 microseasons, right now is microseason 21: the time of year when “Bamboo Shoots Sprout.” Known as takenoko in Japan, these voracious plants have...
devonzuegel.com
Misreading Milei: The American press can only see Argentina through a US lens
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. The American press...
a year ago
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. The American press seems to deeply misunderstand what's going on. It seems the US reporters can only understand Argentine politics through the lens of the US, when really it's just a totally...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Getting Senpai To Notice You
How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting...
over a year ago
How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting the leaders of that field to at least read your writing and know your name.
A Beautiful Site
Downloading a list of URLs automatically
I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to...
over a year ago
I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to the bucket — I only had a list of URLs.
There were too many to fetch one by one, so I wanted to fetch them automatically. Here are a couple ways I found to do that.
Using curl #
Curl...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
The Modern House
Listing of the Week: a Norfolk beauty that ushers the natural world in
8 months ago
The DESK Magazine
Breaking the algorithm
The world wants to tell you what to think about, what to be interested in, what to learn, what to...
a year ago
The world wants to tell you what to think about, what to be interested in, what to learn, what to pursue, what to worry about. And it's easier to let it.
Christopher Butler
The Last Time
Life has as many ends as it has beginnings. What can an end teach us about making our...
over a year ago
Life has as many ends as it has beginnings. What can an end teach us about making our world?
Bye, Chris” were the last words a friend said to me. We had been talking on the phone for about an hour, catching up as we did back then, a few times each year. He said his goodbye as...
Matt Blewitt
Software Sprezzatura
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says...
over a year ago
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”, coined by Castiglione in 1528’s The Book of the Courtier.
diamond geezer
Canteenlessness
I was out in the City at lunchtime, not far from St Paul's, and found myself amid a horde of...
2 months ago
I was out in the City at lunchtime, not far from St Paul's, and found myself amid a horde of businessfolk buying lunch. They were flocking to nearby shops, mainly specialist food outlets, for a calorific haul to tide them over into the afternoon. You could tell it was peak...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The Early Days of GitLab - A Chat with Sid Sijbrandij
It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is...
over a year ago
It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is that many of the most successful founders will find…
Londonist
The Golden Age Of Transatlantic Travel Hides In Plain Sight By Trafalgar Square
Cockspur Street was a cornucopia of cruise line companies.
a year ago
Cockspur Street was a cornucopia of cruise line companies.
diamond geezer
Advent Way
'Tis the season.
Advent Way N18
A country lane called Angel Road once headed east out of...
3 weeks ago
'Tis the season.
Advent Way N18
A country lane called Angel Road once headed east out of Edmonton following Pymme's Brook, ending at a sylvan bridge across the River Lea where anglers often gathered. Then in the 1920s the North Circular Road was built, the engineers choosing...
Both Are True
All Day I Dream About Substack (ADIDAS)
writing is the new sex
2 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Soulmate
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Someday the machine will give you everything you...
a year ago
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Someday the machine will give you everything you want, and the pretenses will be dropped so rapidly it'll be heartbreaking.
Today's News:
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Life After Lifestyle
One of the best and most inspiring articles I read this year.
over a year ago
One of the best and most inspiring articles I read this year.
Build In Public...
Build In Public - Community Edition (Sep 2021)
Hey everyone 👋 Let’s open this edition with a powerful quote: On that note, get ready for...
over a year ago
Hey everyone 👋 Let’s open this edition with a powerful quote: On that note, get ready for September’s round-up highlighting key launches and wins from founders, makers, and creators in the #buildinpublic community. Without further ado, let’s get rolling.
NeuroLogica Blog
Virtual Walking
When I use my virtual reality gear I do practical zero virtual walking – meaning that I don’t have...
9 months ago
When I use my virtual reality gear I do practical zero virtual walking – meaning that I don’t have my avatar walk while I am not walking. I general play standing up which means I can move around the space in my office mapped by my VR software – so I am physically walking to...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Troublesome Error, a Pernicious Foppery''
Let’s be
grateful to our troubled age for making it necessary to revive such formerly dormant
words...
7 months ago
Let’s be
grateful to our troubled age for making it necessary to revive such formerly dormant
words as cant and foppery, so as to avoid the more precise
but less polite bullshit. For foppery, the OED offers among its definitions “foolishness, imbecility,
stupidity, folly.” It’s...
nanoscale views
Reading material - orders of magnitude and difficult times
Over the past couple of weeks (and more) I have found a number of things to read that I wanted to...
a year ago
Over the past couple of weeks (and more) I have found a number of things to read that I wanted to pass on. First, if you'd like a break from the seemingly continual stream of bad news in the world and enjoy good "think like a physicist"/dimensional analysis/order of magnitude...
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
Remains of the Day
Catch up
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some...
over a year ago
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free time.
While I won't publish some Medium screed on how spending less time on social...
TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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6 months ago
TheCollector
“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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TheCollector
7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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2 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Making Fuel from Sunshine
When it comes to big problems it’s generally a good idea to remember some basic principles. One is...
a year ago
When it comes to big problems it’s generally a good idea to remember some basic principles. One is that there is no free lunch. This is a cliche because it’s true. Another way to put this is – there are no solutions, only trade offs. Sometimes there is a genuine advance that does...
Diaries of Note
Very many delightful things were shown
On 12th July 1520, German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer, accompanied by his wife, Agnes,...
a year ago
On 12th July 1520, German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer, accompanied by his wife, Agnes, embarked on a significant journey from Germany to the Netherlands, both to attend the coronation of Charles V in October and ensure the continuation of the pension he had received for...
Alex Meub
Upgrading the Weber Q Grill
I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up...
over a year ago
I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up to a 15 lb propane tank at home where it gets regular use. It is small, but it heats up quickly and cooks food better than any other grill I’ve tried.
However, I recently noticed...
The Marginalian
The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning
One September dawn on the verge of a significant life change, sitting on my poet friend’s dock, I...
3 months ago
One September dawn on the verge of a significant life change, sitting on my poet friend’s dock, I watched a great blue heron rise slow and prehistoric through the morning mist, carrying the sky on her back. In the years since, the heron has become the closest thing I have to what...
diamond geezer
DGD at 85
My Dad is 85 years old today, which is damned good going.
Thu 20th October 1938 (0): A first child...
a year ago
My Dad is 85 years old today, which is damned good going.
Thu 20th October 1938 (0): A first child is born to my grandparents. Home is a new-ish semi-detached house backing onto the canal. Born on the same day - long jumper Fred Alsop and singer Kathy Kirby.
Wed 20th October...
Seth's Blog
The right marketing question
The wrong question is, “our project isn’t catching on, how do we promote it better?” The right...
a year ago
The wrong question is, “our project isn’t catching on, how do we promote it better?” The right question is a little more nuanced and far more important, “We’re seeking to make a change in part of the world. How do we find the right people and tell them the right (true) story that...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 087: DevDay SF
October 4, 2024.
2 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
The Next Step in Space Travel
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced they are developing their own commercial space...
a year ago
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced they are developing their own commercial space capsule. This will be used initially for cargo, but then eventually for crew as well. They anticipate a maiden voyage in 2028. I think this is a positive development. It seems we are...
Castles in the Sky
Relatable Flaws | Review of Ask the Dust by John Fante
Ask the Dust is a great book that captures a specific feeling unlike anything else I’ve ever read....
a year ago
Ask the Dust is a great book that captures a specific feeling unlike anything else I’ve ever read. The protagonist is a deeply flawed, almost perverse daydreamer, but it is his flaws that make him relatable in a way I’ve encountered in very few other places.
Noahpinion
Does the notion of a "Global South" still make any sense?
There are really four Global Souths.
a year ago
There are really four Global Souths.
Cremieux Recueil
The Worst Argument Against Ozempic
Unfortunately, being skinny might require effort
3 months ago
Unfortunately, being skinny might require effort
Ink & Switch
End-user Programming
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
over a year ago
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
Londonist
Where On The Tube Can You See A WWII Gun Emplacement?
A defensive relic on the District line.
a year ago
A defensive relic on the District line.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2023
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I...
a year ago
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I suspect this one may be guessed quite quickly, but I’ll leave one hint anyways: there is more than one board in this assembly.
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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11 months ago
The Gradient
Neural algorithmic reasoning
In this article, we will talk about classical computation: the kind of computation typically found...
a year ago
In this article, we will talk about classical computation: the kind of computation typically found in an undergraduate Computer Science course on Algorithms and Data Structures [1]. Think shortest path-finding, sorting, clever ways to break problems down into simpler problems,...
TheCollector
The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Retail Design Blog
New Location in Frankfurt – Feature Opportunity
Dear Retail Design Blog Team, In June 2023, you featured our Hamburg location ( link:...
3 months ago
Dear Retail Design Blog Team, In June 2023, you featured our Hamburg location ( link:...
Seth's Blog
Two chicken jokes
“Why did the chicken cross the road” tells us a bit about jokes. It’s a joke about jokes. The first...
10 months ago
“Why did the chicken cross the road” tells us a bit about jokes. It’s a joke about jokes. The first half is a setup, reminding us that an absurd question creates tension, which is then relieved by the punchline. But the second half undoes this by refusing to release the tension....
The Honest Broker
The Strangest Hit Songwriter in History
He wrote one of my favorite songs, but was so much more than a composer
6 months ago
He wrote one of my favorite songs, but was so much more than a composer
The Honest Broker
How I Stopped Hating Steely Dan
I thought I was immune, but still became a Dan stan—this is my story
a year ago
I thought I was immune, but still became a Dan stan—this is my story
Blog - Practical...
What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
At around 7PM on the balmy...
a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
At around 7PM on the balmy evening of Saturday, December 3, 2022, nearly every electric customer in Moore County, North Carolina was simultaneously plunged into darkness. Amid the confusion, the power utility...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How Bear does analytics with CSS
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great...
a year ago
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there, but I wanted to build one native to Bear.
tldr;
One of my constraints for Bear is to not use client-side javascript. This...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Automating a software company with GitHub Actions
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs,...
over a year ago
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
Anecdotal Evidence
'Soothe the Soul and Nurture the Imagination'
“Among the
lessons we’ve learned during these past few difficult years of pandemic,
climate crisis...
a year ago
“Among the
lessons we’ve learned during these past few difficult years of pandemic,
climate crisis and political discord is that beauty and nature matter more than
ever, and that if our homes are to be sanctuaries from an often harsh outside
world, then we should fill them with...
The Marginalian
Stunning 200-Year-Old French Illustrations of Exotic, Endangered, and Extinct Birds
From peacocks to penguins, a winged menagerie of wonder.
a year ago
From peacocks to penguins, a winged menagerie of wonder.
The American Scholar
Betsy, Mary, and Trish
The post Betsy, Mary, and Trish appeared first on The American Scholar.
7 months ago
The post Betsy, Mary, and Trish appeared first on The American Scholar.
Tech + Economics +...
God is a crypto bro.
CoinTelegraph:
A Colorado-based online pastor who has been charged with fraud for
...
11 months ago
CoinTelegraph:
A Colorado-based online pastor who has been charged with fraud for
selling a “worthless” cryptocurrency says he only did it because “the
Lord” told him to give his followers a “10X.”
In a strange 9-minute video — posted to INDXcoin’s...
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
TheCollector
The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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7 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Named Blogs
I think it’s endearing when people name their blog.
I’m not talking about branding, like people do...
a month ago
I think it’s endearing when people name their blog.
I’m not talking about branding, like people do with professional blogs or newsletters.
I’m talking about personal blogs that people name out of care and idiosyncrasy.
It’s endearing, because you brand things you own, you name...
The Works in...
Two Assault Rifles
A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
a year ago
A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
Christopher Butler
Move Slow and Preserve Things
Haste has created waste. Someone please tell Zuckerberg to slow the hell down.
unfair. Funny,...
over a year ago
Haste has created waste. Someone please tell Zuckerberg to slow the hell down.
unfair. Funny, that.
There’s another saying, much older than Zuckerberg, and, to my middle-aged ears, even more enduringly punk: “You wouldn’t bring a bull to a china shop.” Its first recorded...
Christopher Butler
Negative Space Typography
Controlling the space between text styles is as important as differentiating the styles...
a year ago
Controlling the space between text styles is as important as differentiating the styles themselves.
Whenever I review design documentation, there are a few things I look for in the first few seconds. All of them have to do with how scannable a page or screen’s layout is. In...
Vadim Kravcenko
📈 The Toxic Grind
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
over a year ago
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […]
The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Seth's Blog
The problem with the movie version
There are lights, camera and action, but mostly there’s the unreality of making it fit. Happily ever...
a month ago
There are lights, camera and action, but mostly there’s the unreality of making it fit. Happily ever after, a climax at just the right moment, perfect heroes, tension, resolution and a swelling soundtrack. Every element is amplified and things happen right on schedule. Consume...
Wuthering...
Books I read in August 2024
My ambition this summer was to read extensively in Arabic literature. Eh, I did all right, but I...
3 months ago
My ambition this summer was to read extensively in Arabic literature. Eh, I did all right, but I will have to save
Ibn Battuta’s Travels and the second half of Leg over Leg for
some other time.
FICTION
The Arabian Nights (14th c.), many hands – In the
great Hassan Haddawy...
Lars Lofgren
Why I’m Switching Web Hosts
Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple....
over a year ago
Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple. This was before WP Engine was around. At the time, MediaTemple had carved out a nice niche for themselves as the premium web host. Tim Ferriss also raved about them back in the day....
Mazdak
The Weight-Loss Gold Rush
A Race to Develop Blockbuster Obesity Drugs
a year ago
A Race to Develop Blockbuster Obesity Drugs
Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios
If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of...
over a year ago
If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of behaviors you take mostly for granted without really thinking about them. If you press ^C or ^Z it kills or stops the foreground program – unless it’s something like emacs or vim, in...
The Map is Mostly...
quests, failure, desire
or: contra defensive postures
4 months ago
or: contra defensive postures
the jsomers.net blog
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's...
over a year ago
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time...
The Ruffian
Rattle Bag
Thoughts on the Boris brand, Biden's prospects, why the Brits got so good at pop, and what to read.
a year ago
Thoughts on the Boris brand, Biden's prospects, why the Brits got so good at pop, and what to read.
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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CONTEMPORIST
A Dark Wood Exterior Complements The Forest Surrounding This Modern Home
Design and build company Alloy Homes Incorporated, has sent us photos of a new home they completed...
4 months ago
Design and build company Alloy Homes Incorporated, has sent us photos of a new home they completed in Calgary, Alberta, that was artfully designed around its relationship with the mature urban forest across the street Stepping inside, we see a minimalist foyer with a bench and...
Wuthering...
Sōseki's Kokoro and two Tanizaki genre exercises - I resolved that I must live my life as if I were...
It is the 16th year of Dolce Bellezza’s remarkable Japanese Literature Challenge – in the old days...
a year ago
It is the 16th year of Dolce Bellezza’s remarkable Japanese Literature Challenge – in the old days for some reason we “challenged” people to read – which reminded me, as it often has, that I have never read anything by Natsumi Sōseki, the earliest of the greatest 20th century...
Flashbak
Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
Noahpinion
Why Americans fear the AI future
Five decades of rising inequality and slow growth have made us a less optimistic country.
a year ago
Five decades of rising inequality and slow growth have made us a less optimistic country.
TheCollector
Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sheep
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a year ago
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Issue 46 – Checkmate, crypto
Cheating chess-players, cursed mansions, and more defi centralization.
a year ago
Cheating chess-players, cursed mansions, and more defi centralization.
diamond geezer
Bonfire of the bonfires
Time was when bonfires and fireworks were the done thing on 5th November. Be it Jacobeans haranguing...
a year ago
Time was when bonfires and fireworks were the done thing on 5th November. Be it Jacobeans haranguing Catholics, Victorians burning effigies or Elizabethans lighting Roman Candles, the day has been celebrated for centuries. But it used to be hugely more important.
Monday,...
Weighty Thoughts
Today’s AI critics don’t understand the history of technology
But is AI different than other technologies?
9 months ago
But is AI different than other technologies?
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Metra tickets, 1990–1991
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas...
a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved.
January 1990, ft. an unidentified rounded sans
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved.
February...
Common Edge
Encounters With Damian: Columbia University’s Homeless Neighbor
Near and around campus, the juxtaposition between privilege and poverty is glaring.
a year ago
Near and around campus, the juxtaposition between privilege and poverty is glaring.
Herbert Lui
Serious writing
In Impro, Keith Johnstone describes how his teachers taught him to write, “They wanted me to reject...
2 weeks ago
In Impro, Keith Johnstone describes how his teachers taught him to write, “They wanted me to reject and discriminate, believing that the best artist was the one who made the most elegant choices. They analysed poems to show how difficult ‘real’ writing was, and they taught that I...
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Pensieve: 10 Mar 2024 - Band of Brothers
Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum...
9 months ago
Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum call where we made some concessions. I wish he were better able to take things off my hands but also I need to step up
TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Creative Computing Magazine Interviews Clive Sinclair (1980)
This British inventor speaking about his ZX-80 computer system
2 weeks ago
This British inventor speaking about his ZX-80 computer system
Kagi Blog
Kagi status update: First three months
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago (...
over a year ago
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ).
TheCollector
Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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China’s EV giant BYD is picking up speed in Jordan
How Jordan became a battleground for Chinese EVs.
a year ago
How Jordan became a battleground for Chinese EVs.
Mind Mine
gossip steals your sovereignty
talk is easy, action is hard
2 months ago
talk is easy, action is hard
Contemporist...
Before + After - A Mid-Century Modern Kitchen Renovation
Blaine Architects together with Marshall Interiors, have completed the renovation of a mid-century...
yesterday
Blaine Architects together with Marshall Interiors, have completed the renovation of a mid-century modern home in San Mateo, California, for a young couple who wanted to update the kitchen, living room, dining room, and family room.
Posts on Nikita...
P99 Conf 2024
This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but...
5 days ago
This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but hats off to the organisers as it went very smooth for me. I presented a talk with the following abstract:
Low-Latency Mesh Services Using Actors
We’re transforming elfo, our Rust...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Taking Your Time, Angel of Death'
I like plain
speaking when it comes to death. Not needlessly harsh but direct and above all...
a month ago
I like plain
speaking when it comes to death. Not needlessly harsh but direct and above all unvarnished,
no flowers, closer to a coroner’s report than a greeting card. A well-meaning
reader has sent belated condolences for my brother’s death in August without
once using any of...
TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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10 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Two Quick Tips When Building With React Router
I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I...
10 months ago
I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I had known when I started.
So I’m writing them down in case anyone else is about to start a React Router app.
1. Flat Action Data When Using JSON
If you’re submitting JSON,...
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
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...
Charles Chen
Thoughts on React vs Vue vs Everything Else in 2023
My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
over a year ago
My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Reflections on 2020
I feel kind of conflicted writing this, because 2020 was a horror of a year for most people around...
over a year ago
I feel kind of conflicted writing this, because 2020 was a horror of a year for most people around the world. Instead, for me, and my family, it was somewhat of a start of new beginnings and some huge wins.
I feel that I have finally stepped out of a decade long black tunnel,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn't mean they're optimal"
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic...
over a year ago
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with…
Diaries of Note
You can see the magic in him
Each weekday at 9 a.m., beginning in November 1976 and continuing until just days before his death...
a year ago
Each weekday at 9 a.m., beginning in November 1976 and continuing until just days before his death in 1987, Andy Warhol would engage in a lengthy phone call with Pat Hackett, a close friend who had initially started working for him as a typist in 1968. During his conversations...
Quanta Magazine
What Does Milk Do for Babies?
Human nutrition begins with milk, but the wondrous biofluid does much more than feed babies. In this...
8 months ago
Human nutrition begins with milk, but the wondrous biofluid does much more than feed babies. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with molecular nutritionist Elizabeth Johnson about her research into the impact of human milk on a healthy microbiome.
The...
Dustin Curtis
Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+
Apple TV is a hardware device.
Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy...
over a year ago
Apple TV is a hardware device.
Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way to tell which ones).
Apple TV is an app on iOS/iPadOS devices that...
Both Are True
24 super genuine resolutions for 2024
+ one important thing at the end sort of
11 months ago
+ one important thing at the end sort of
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Kindness: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases
Previous Next https://youtu.be/YzvbxsGNH0A There's an unfortunate mischaracterization of Stoic...
a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/YzvbxsGNH0A There's an unfortunate mischaracterization of Stoic philosophy that has recently sprung up that implies that Stoicism cares more about overcoming our feelings than it does about showing kindness to others. The truth is that a true Stoic...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 23, 2016: street harassment
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. Today was the first time I was street harassed on my commute since moving in November... memories relived on the following train ride:
Content warning:...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cell
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The best bike computer app: Cyclemeter
Collect advanced bike ride data using your smartphone connected to external Bluetooth sensors and a...
over a year ago
Collect advanced bike ride data using your smartphone connected to external Bluetooth sensors and a steer mounted display.
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APS March Meeting 2024 - coming soon
This week I'm going to be at the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis. As I've done in past years, I...
9 months ago
This week I'm going to be at the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis. As I've done in past years, I will try to write up some highlights of talks that I am able to see, though it may be hit-or-miss. If readers have suggestions for sessions or talks that they think will be...
TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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One from Nippon
A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 3)
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of...
a year ago
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of onsens and the science behind them. In this article we take a deep-dive into the business of onsens.
Onsen as a Business
Despite all the hype in Part 1
fast.ai
There’s no such thing as not a math person
Many cultural factors, misconceptions, stereotypes, and obstacles turn people off to math.
over a year ago
Many cultural factors, misconceptions, stereotypes, and obstacles turn people off to math.
mtlynch.io
Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra
Overall, this was an interesting read, but I found it hard to apply the lessons to my product. The...
over a year ago
Overall, this was an interesting read, but I found it hard to apply the lessons to my product. The book contains compelling case studies and ideas from the field of meta-learning, but most of the ideas were either too theoretical or too specific to large companies.
The Ruffian
How the World Failed Greta Thunberg
The Perils of Praising Teenagers
2 months ago
The Perils of Praising Teenagers
Val Sopi
High productivity in a workday
<p>On a given workday, you only have a few hours at your disposal to create.</p>
<p>Commit to...
over a year ago
<p>On a given workday, you only have a few hours at your disposal to create.</p>
<p>Commit to relaxed focused work in two blocks of 3-hours each.</p>
<p>Take a 1-hour break in between. Meditating 11 minutes. Walking the rest.</p>
<p>Drink plenty of water. Coffee and...
Platformer
Why TikTok's future has never been so cloudy
ByteDance thought it had a deal with the government in August. Then came the bans — and a spying...
a year ago
ByteDance thought it had a deal with the government in August. Then came the bans — and a spying scandal
Anecdotal Evidence
'O Deliquescence of Our Quartz-like Loves!'
A chemical
engineer describing his recent research to me used a lovely word: deliquescent. The word...
5 months ago
A chemical
engineer describing his recent research to me used a lovely word: deliquescent. The word entered English
in the eighteenth century and its original context was strictly scientific: deliquescence
occurs when a substance absorbs moisture from the air and becomes a...
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL
Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are...
over a year ago
Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are as similar as grapes and grapefruit. ClickHouse…
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6 Reasons Why Today’s Architecture Is Unsustainable
The so-called sustainable buildings of today often fall short of genuine sustainability. Instead,...
a year ago
The so-called sustainable buildings of today often fall short of genuine sustainability. Instead, the concept is reduced to mere clichés and greenwashing. In this article, we delve deeper into the underlying factors concealed behind the sometimes eco-friendly exteriors of...
David Heinemeier...
Until the end of the internet
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and...
a year ago
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're...
Archinect - Features
'Architect' is a Protected Title. What About 'Architectural?'
Our Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series continues with an examination of exceptions and nuances...
4 months ago
Our Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series continues with an examination of exceptions and nuances related to the protection of the title 'architect' in the United States. In particular, we ask how architect-adjacent titles such as 'architectural designer,' 'architectural intern,'...
Home on Erik...
Language pitch
Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain...
over a year ago
Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain languages are simply pronounced with lower or higher pitch. Whether this is a feature of the language or more a cultural thing is a good question, but there are some substantial...
TokyoDev
Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a...
a year ago
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a job (when I saw cover letter, these days this often refers to the body of an email or the text someone puts into a “message” field of an application form). For instance, I was able...
A Beautiful Site
Finding the Closest Element Through Shadow Roots
A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is...
over a year ago
A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is Element.closest().
// Starts at el and walks the DOM until it finds a parent element
// that matches the selector. In this case, it will return the
// <body>...
Artificial Ignorance
YC is now 80% AI startups (S24)
Analyzing the latest companies out of "AI Combinator"
2 months ago
Analyzing the latest companies out of "AI Combinator"
TheCollector
How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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The Uneven—but Important—Legacy of Prince Charles, Architecture Critic
While his design prescriptions were too narrow, his critique of modern planning principles still...
a year ago
While his design prescriptions were too narrow, his critique of modern planning principles still holds resonance.
Archinect - Features
Exploring Architecture’s Uncertain Nature With Schidlowski Fellow François Sabourin
Academic fellowships provide unique opportunities for designers and researchers to explore specific...
a year ago
Academic fellowships provide unique opportunities for designers and researchers to explore specific topics of interest while teaching. Archinect's Fellow Fellows series showcases individuals who are currently in or have recently finished an architecture fellowship.
For our...
Wanderingspace
Venus from Earth (with Stacking)
Image taken by @TheVastReaches. According to the photographer, “It takes just a few minutes to...
over a year ago
Image taken by @TheVastReaches. According to the photographer, “It takes just a few minutes to collect all the frames. This started as 6 video files, 45,000 frames total. Then they are stacked and combined.”
TheCollector
What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Zoom's AI policy backlash & customer data in model training
Listen now (27 mins) | Zoom came under fire recently for silently changing their terms of service in...
a year ago
Listen now (27 mins) | Zoom came under fire recently for silently changing their terms of service in a way that allows use of customer data (read your video and audio recordings) for training Zoom features. In this episode, we unpack the timeline of events that followed, Zoom's...
Daniel Marino
Deploying My Eleventy Site to GitHub Pages
I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of...
over a year ago
I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of switching my site to Eleventy was getting deployments to GitHub pages set up. I suppose I could have built my site locally, and then push that to the gh-pages branch, but that felt...
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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Noahpinion
EVs are just going to win
Because they're a superior technology, and superior technologies win.
2 months ago
Because they're a superior technology, and superior technologies win.
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This is "detreville"
It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
a year ago
It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
Grow With Less
The Overwhelmed Business Owner's Guide to SEO
What do you do when you spent hours writing awesome articles only to realize your mom and your best...
over a year ago
What do you do when you spent hours writing awesome articles only to realize your mom and your best friend Dave are the only people reading them?
That’s the question I asked myself 7 years ago after writing dozens of articles for my new blog French Together.
I followed 10,000...
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Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition)
This year, I decided to build my first ever home storage server. It’s a 32 TB system that stores my...
over a year ago
This year, I decided to build my first ever home storage server. It’s a 32 TB system that stores my personal and business data using open-source software.
The server itself cost $531, and I bought four disks for $732, bringing the total cost to $1,263. It’s similar in price to...
Jonas Hietala
Back to Training
Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool;...
over a year ago
Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool; we have linear algebra which is pretty interesting, we have a java course where we’re going to make a game (!) and one about structures and algorithms. Pretty promising but we’ll...
SOCKS
Stage Design as a Narrative Device: Norman Bel Geddes’ Stage Set for The Divine Comedy (1921)
American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked...
over a year ago
American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked on a theatrical staging of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy to be performed in Madison Square Garden in 1921 on the sexcentenary of Dante’s death. Geddes planned the...
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How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days
Building wc in the browser
From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to...
a year ago
Building wc in the browser
From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to see how much code I wrote.
For those not in the know: wc -l shows number of lines in files.
Actually, what I have to do is more like find -name "*.go" | xargs wc -l because wc isn’t...
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How WebP Images Reduced My Bandwidth Usage by 50%
Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP...
over a year ago
Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP images to save bandwidth and make this site even faster to load! This simple change reduced my bandwidth usage by 50% and is still backwards compatible with old devices and...
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Data Boutique
AI Depends Massively on Web Scraping
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a year ago
And web data sourcing is now a critical problem
Joel Gascoigne
Firing myself, again
I've written in the past about how I see the role of a...
over a year ago
I've written in the past about how I see the role of a CEO
[https://joel.is/post/42713179646/expert-of-nothing] to be one where you are
repeatedly firing yourself. Joe Kraus
[http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/28/first-fire-thyself/] brought my attention to
thinking about the role in...
Open Culture
How Marcel Duchamp Signed a Urinal in 1917 & Redefined Art
Marcel Duchamp didn’t sign his name on a urinal for lack of ability to create “real” art. In fact,...
3 months ago
Marcel Duchamp didn’t sign his name on a urinal for lack of ability to create “real” art. In fact, as explained by gallerist-Youtuber James Payne in the new Great Art Explained video above, Duchamp’s grandfather was an artist, as were three of his siblings; he himself attained...
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Netlify Year One
> Update: I have since [left Netlify](https://dev.to/swyx/farewell-netlify-1alo).
over a year ago
> Update: I have since [left Netlify](https://dev.to/swyx/farewell-netlify-1alo).
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 4-10 December 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
Open Culture
Honoré de Balzac Writes About “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee,” and His Epic Coffee Addiction
174 years after his death, Honoré de Balzac remains an extremely modern-sounding wag. Were he alive...
5 months ago
174 years after his death, Honoré de Balzac remains an extremely modern-sounding wag. Were he alive today, he’d no doubt be pounding out his provocative observations in a coffice, a café whose free wifi, lenient staff, and abundant electrical outlets make it a magnet for writers....
TheCollector
What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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Internal Tech Emails
Google considers buying stake in Epic
investment was the only way people could realistically think of to sway them on Epic's approach to...
11 months ago
investment was the only way people could realistically think of to sway them on Epic's approach to Android
Julia Evans
Some miscellaneous git facts
I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I
already knew Git pretty...
a year ago
I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I
already knew Git pretty well, but as usual when I try to explain something I’ve
been learning some new things.
None of these things feel super surprising in retrospect, but I hadn’t thought
about them...
Tech + Economics +...
A shared burden: rethinking cybersecurity post the 23andMe breach.
TechCrunch: 23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was
breached
But in a...
11 months ago
TechCrunch: 23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was
breached
But in a letter sent to a group of hundreds of 23andMe users who are
now suing the company, 23andMe said that “users negligently recycled
and failed to update their passwords...
The Honest Broker
8 Ways of Connecting Your Wi-Fi Can't Deliver
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2 months ago
They are the pillars of a happy life. So why are they under such fierce attack?
Liz Denys
Sometimes, the outside is inside
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the...
over a year ago
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic.
The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
Seth's Blog
Who pays?
Supply and demand are always in a dance, with one outpacing the other from time to time. In the last...
11 months ago
Supply and demand are always in a dance, with one outpacing the other from time to time. In the last three years, the green tech revolution has accelerated dramatically. Countless companies are being created to change how food is grown, people are transported and energy is...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for...
over a year ago
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for Windows.
Changes in this release:
2 page view for ebooks
new keybindings:
Ctrl+PgDn, Ctrl+Right : go to next page
Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+Left : go to previous page
10x faster ebook...
Christopher Butler
Know What You Need
Knowing what you need makes knowing what you want much easier.
It is often said about successful...
a month ago
Knowing what you need makes knowing what you want much easier.
It is often said about successful people that they “know exactly what they want.” I’m sure this is true, because in our modern culture, where we are constantly made aware of new choices and possibilities, knowing...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 044: Google Gemini
December 8, 2023.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Learning from the Amazon gift card snafu
Millions of people got this email last night: It’s legitimate, but it’s a mistake. A mistake...
a year ago
Millions of people got this email last night: It’s legitimate, but it’s a mistake. A mistake because: We can learn a lot about what not to do from this. First, if you make a mistake by email, fix it. Fix it by email AND fix it on your site. Let everyone who got the wrong […]
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Myrtle Beach’s Sensory-Friendly Hotels, Spots, Restaurants
3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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a week ago
dthompson
Haunt 0.3.0 released
Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years
since the last release, and many...
10 months ago
Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years
since the last release, and many fixes and improvements have been
accumulated so this is long overdue!
About Haunt
Haunt is a static site generator that uses the Guile Scheme as its
configuration language. It...
Old Structures...
A Modern and Maybe Over Building Type
“Death of the Department Store” by Rosemary Hill is a short review of an exhibition at the Musée des...
2 months ago
“Death of the Department Store” by Rosemary Hill is a short review of an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. As best as I can tell, having not seen the exhibit, it is not so much about the state of department stores today as it is about their entire history from...
Open Culture
How Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon Became the First Sci-Fi Film & Changed Cinema Forever (1902)
If you happen to visit the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, do take the time to see the Musée Méliès...
3 weeks ago
If you happen to visit the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, do take the time to see the Musée Méliès located inside it. Dedicated to la Magie du cinéma, it contains artifacts from throughout the history of film-as-spectacle, which includes such pictures as 2001: A Space Odyssey...
99% Invisible
Anything’s Pastable: Eat Sauté Love [EPISODE]
This week we’re featuring an episode from The Sporkful’s series on the creation of “Anything’s...
8 months ago
This week we’re featuring an episode from The Sporkful’s series on the creation of “Anything’s Pastable,” Dan Pashman’s new pasta cookbook. In part two of “Anything’s Pastable,” Dan embarks on an epic trip across Italy in search of lesser-known pasta dishes — and to learn about...
The Ruffian
What Does It Mean For a Brand To Be Radical?
Thoughts on Jaguar's Relaunch, Plus a Juicy Cultural Rattle Bag
4 weeks ago
Thoughts on Jaguar's Relaunch, Plus a Juicy Cultural Rattle Bag
Seth's Blog
The defensive arrogance of TL;DR
Every since there has been high school, there has been the instinct to read the Cliffs Notes. The...
7 months ago
Every since there has been high school, there has been the instinct to read the Cliffs Notes. The internet took this idea, added a gratuitous semicolon and perfected Too Long; Didn’t Read. This is the mistakenly proud assertion that we are far too busy and too important to read...
ntietz.com blog
Reflecting on 2022, Looking Ahead to 2023
This is one of those cliched posts:
Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals...
a year ago
This is one of those cliched posts:
Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals and whatnot for next year.
They're cliche, but they're also useful.
The planning and reflecting process is a useful one, and sharing openly means other people can come along and...
Joel on Software
Progress on the Block Protocol
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents...
over a year ago
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"
diamond geezer
Crisp packet colours
As you probably know, BBC local radio is currently engaged in rapid strategic contraction in an...
a year ago
As you probably know, BBC local radio is currently engaged in rapid strategic contraction in an attempt to save money. Dozens of much-loved programmes are being withdrawn, especially those broadcast in the evenings and at weekends, in favour of syndicated regional content...
wingolog
preliminary notes on a nofl field-logging barrier
When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part
of the object graph that has...
2 months ago
When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part
of the object graph that has been allocated recently. To do so, you
need to keep a : a set of old-to-new edges, used as
roots when performing a minor collection. A language run-time maintains this set...
Computer Things
New blog post: Composing TLA+ Specifications
Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers....
6 months ago
Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers. Patreon here.
Anyway, I'm off to get a bone graft. Proper newsletter will come later this week when I've got more time to write.
Mazdak
Finance News Roundup - Wednesday, 29th November
😢 Investing Legend Charlie Munger Passes Away Charlie Munger, a longtime vice chairman of Berkshire...
a year ago
😢 Investing Legend Charlie Munger Passes Away Charlie Munger, a longtime vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and a close associate of Warren Buffett, has passed away at the age of 97. Munger was known for his wit, wisdom, and contrarian investment style.
The American Scholar
“Snake” by D. H. Lawrence
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Snake” by D. H. Lawrence appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Snake” by D. H. Lawrence appeared first on The American Scholar.
Steve Klabnik
I'm making it dead simple to contribute to Ruby's documentation
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Travelog: Cleveland Bridge
While I was in England last week, I briefly visited the city of Bath. There’s a lot to look at...
9 months ago
While I was in England last week, I briefly visited the city of Bath. There’s a lot to look at there, but let me start with the Cleveland Bridge over the River Avon. The top view is a little boring except for the non-structural toll houses, little Greek temples over the walkways,...
Seth's Blog
The hard part first
If you’re trying to reduce risk, do the hard part first. That way, if it fails, you’ll have...
a year ago
If you’re trying to reduce risk, do the hard part first. That way, if it fails, you’ll have minimized your time and effort. On the other hand, if you’re looking for buy-in and commitment so you can through the hard part, do it last. People are terrible at ignoring sunk costs, and...
HTMHell
How to transfigure wireframes into HTML
Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands...
over a year ago
Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands over a wonderful web design in all its large-screen glory. Your mission now is to transform it into code to present a prototype as soon as possible, starting with nothing but an...
blag
Internet is wholesome: MVCC edition
This is a short story about how I hit a wall while implementing a database research paper, found a...
a year ago
This is a short story about how I hit a wall while implementing a database research paper, found a publication error and how people on the internet helped me.
Steve Blank
The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates
This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you watch...
a year ago
This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context. See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading. Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II...
TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen?
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5 months ago
Product Identity
#1: Are.na – The social network antithesis
In this world of distraction, Are.na presence is a bliss
a year ago
In this world of distraction, Are.na presence is a bliss
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Bad Ways to Get Data
In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very...
over a year ago
In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very peculiar problem: my pages were being generated a lot more slowly than expected:
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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7 months ago
somethingaboutmaps
A New Take on an Old Style
Gentle readers, I have some exciting things to share with you. After several months of tinkering and...
a month ago
Gentle readers, I have some exciting things to share with you. After several months of tinkering and toolmaking, I have created a series of posters of iconic peaks (and other terrain), illustrated in a sketch style inspired by old hachure drawings. There are 37 designs to choose...
Seth's Blog
The near future (and summer reads)
Near-future science fiction is a fine way to consider our now. Without the reality of today, we can...
6 months ago
Near-future science fiction is a fine way to consider our now. Without the reality of today, we can think hard about the tomorrow we’re about to live in. Summer reads are supposed to be a bit lighter. Technological change is making our near future a bit harder to dance with, and...
Tony Finch's blog
BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices
Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s
dnssec-policy that turned out not to be...
7 months ago
Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s
dnssec-policy that turned out not to be useful in my previous blog
posts, but which some readers might find informative. Some of them I
learned the hard way, so I hope I can make it easier for others!
contents of key...
Odds and Ends of...
Christmas Mailbag!
Is Elon Musk actually smart? Will HS2 ever be properly finished? Do I like Dominic Cummings? And...
3 days ago
Is Elon Musk actually smart? Will HS2 ever be properly finished? Do I like Dominic Cummings? And more!
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