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Patrick Kayongo
Of Coups, Wars, and Corporate Digital Transformations In mid-April 2023, Sudan was plunged into civil war. The para-military group Rapid Support Forces...
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a year ago
In mid-April 2023, Sudan was plunged into civil war. The para-military group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was formed during the war in Darfur, outside the control of the national army for “special operations”. Because they weren’t under the leadership of the army, normal war...
Acko.net
Who Doesn't Go Nazi? The essay "Who goes Nazi" (1941) by Dorothy Thompson is a commonly cited classic. Through a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The essay "Who goes Nazi" (1941) by Dorothy Thompson is a commonly cited classic. Through a fictional dinner party, we are introduced to various characters and personalities. Thompson analyzes whether they would or wouldn't make particularly good nazis. Supposedly it comes down...
The Honest Broker
Stoicism in the Gioia Family My brother Dana tells how our LA childhood gave us a direct connection to an ancient Roman worldview
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
When and how to run group-targeted A/B tests A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However,...
a year ago
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a year ago
A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However, sometimes changing how one user interacts with your…
Stephen Diehl
The Explicit Choice by the SEC Not to Regulate Crypto
over a year ago
Quanta Magazine
The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space Eugenio Calabi, who died on September 25, conceived of novel geometric objects that later became...
a year ago
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a year ago
Eugenio Calabi, who died on September 25, conceived of novel geometric objects that later became fundamental to string theory. The post The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Vidjagames Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First Person Murder Spree VII was the high...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First Person Murder Spree VII was the high watermark, of course. Today's News:
TheCollector
Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art undefined
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Healing with a Tin Whistle Also a story about Dave Brubeck (and more)
10 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
"We Should Sell To Self-Insured Employers" | Out-Of-Pocket Six Stages Of Health Tech Grief Pt. 2
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Spire confusion When architects show off their work, or propose a bold new building complex or even ask for a zoning...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
When architects show off their work, or propose a bold new building complex or even ask for a zoning variance, the public sees the external photos. The tall spire, the innovative use of glass, the weird hole in the center of the building. And when a car company shows off a new...
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23 The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Crazy New Ideas
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Deliveroo Offices by Oktra Oktra redesigned Deliveroo’s office space at The River Building in London to integrate two floors,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Oktra redesigned Deliveroo’s office space at The River Building in London to integrate two floors, increase meeting rooms, and create...
TheCollector
Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction undefined
a year ago
The Rational Walk
Paid Subscriptions The reasons behind my decision to discontinue paid subscriptions.
8 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Manifest, Liverpool Some restaurants just make it all look so easy. From the moment you walk into the room to the moment...
a year ago
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a year ago
Some restaurants just make it all look so easy. From the moment you walk into the room to the moment you pay up and leave, everything about the experience at Manifest is just so effortlessly polished, professional and enjoyable, and pitched at such reasonable prices, that it's...
Platformer
The platforms give up on 2020 lies For a time, they fought the good fight — but not any more
a year ago
Good Enough
Cool URLs Don’t Die If you've been reading our newsletter (and you should be reading our newsletter) you will have seen...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you've been reading our newsletter (and you should be reading our newsletter) you will have seen that I've been building some printers. This is actually the resurrection of a project I began in 2012 with the help of some colleagues, and while I've been updating it, it's been...
Rest of World -...
Argentina’s OnlyFans stars are becoming coaches for a new generation of performers Lessons include tips to attract customers with provocative poses and seductive words, and how to...
6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Utopian Socialists? undefined
8 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
From startup to scaleup: What we’re changing as we make the transition > Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/from-startup-to-scaleup-what-were-changing-as-we-make-the-transition/] . In the past couple of months, I’ve had a number of thoughts around the growth Buffer has experienced in the last year and some...
Steve Klabnik
Create a more compelling experience for your users through game mechanics
over a year ago
Maps Mania
The History of the Ordnance Survey
a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours undefined
7 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Coffee Shop Inspired By The Spectral Allure Of The Aurora Borealis Design firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Uncloud Coffee, a new coffee shop they...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Design firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Uncloud Coffee, a new coffee shop they completed in Chonburi, Thailand, with a sculptural and eye-catching facade. Inspired by the spectral allure of the Aurora Borealis, the design abstractly interprets these atmospheric...
David Heinemeier...
Picking a purpose Victor Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning after surviving a concentration camp during World War...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Victor Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning after surviving a concentration camp during World War II. He observed the outer  extreme of what happens to people who no longer have a WHY to live for. They’d wither and die in the camp. Even the most dire rations and punishing labor...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 8: Life happens, and databases are hard I'm two-thirds of the way done with my RC batch now. Eight weeks down, four weeks to go. The last...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm two-thirds of the way done with my RC batch now. Eight weeks down, four weeks to go. The last two weeks have been difficult for me because of life happening. Week 7 was hard because I had some travel to help my parents, and that just takes me out of my routine and is...
Making software...
Stop Using Hamburger Menus Stop Using Hamburger Menus 2023-05-04 I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus...
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a year ago
Stop Using Hamburger Menus 2023-05-04 I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus which was met with a surprising amount of support from other users. It seems like most people don't actually like hamburger menus. So why do we, as developers, keep using them in...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Notes on raising seed financing Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how to raise a seed round.  After a long…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how to boost it even further, and faster
The Pragmatic...
Mentoring software engineers or engineering leaders Great mentors are useful for professional growth, and have benefitted both informal and formal...
a year ago
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a year ago
Great mentors are useful for professional growth, and have benefitted both informal and formal mentorship from experienced engineers and managers. A collection of free and paid resources where you can find mentors to help with your professional growth.
abdz.do - Have you...
Motion Design & Graphics Language - Deserve Cards Motion Design & Graphics Language - Deserve Cards abduzeedo0504—23 ...
a year ago
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a year ago
Motion Design & Graphics Language - Deserve Cards abduzeedo0504—23 Tendril Studio has collaborated with Deserve Cards to develop a Motion Graphics and 3D Visual Language that represents the core values of their brand. The project was aimed at...
Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do! But striking poses is fun and easy.
11 months ago
Wanderingspace
Europa Seen by Juno Citizen scientist Björn Jónsson processed the image to enhance the color and contrast.
over a year ago
Passing Time
On For Grantedness Finding secular thankfulness
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies" "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is...
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over a year ago
"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal…
Blog - Practical...
These Metals Destroy Themselves to Prevent Rust [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the old Howard...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the old Howard Frankland Bridge that carries roughly 180,000 vehicles per day across Old Tampa Bay between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida. A replacement for the bridge is currently under...
Epic Web Dev
Authentication Strategies & Implementation (workshop) Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more in the Authentication Strategies & Implementation Workshop!
Platformer
How BeReal missed its moment To become the next big social app, competitors have to move faster
a year ago
Commoncog
Executing on Becoming Data Driven Every analytics project consists of two parts. The technical part, and then the 'get the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Every analytics project consists of two parts. The technical part, and then the 'get the organisation on board' part. We talk about why the latter is the real challenge.
Louwrentius
Speeding up Linux MDADM RAID array rebuild time using bitmaps Update 2020: Please beware of the impact of random write I/O performance. Please note that with a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update 2020: Please beware of the impact of random write I/O performance. Please note that with a modern Linux distribution, bitmaps are enabled by default. They will not help speed up a rebuild after a failed drive. But it will help resync an array that got out-of-sync due to...
TheCollector
How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool undefined
9 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Rails World and Rails 8 in 2024 The first major Rails conference on the European continent in over a decade was a smashing success...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The first major Rails conference on the European continent in over a decade was a smashing success this past October in Amsterdam. Not only did the conference sell out more than 700 tickets in less than 40 minutes, but it was the atmosphere from those in attendance that really...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Norms Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I read my own comics and they seem like...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I read my own comics and they seem like they were written by aliens. Today's News:
Paul Graham: Essays
Schlep Blindness
over a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #161 Feynman on knowledge, TransDigm's controversial business model, Costco's history, The Ozempic/Wegovy...
a year ago
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a year ago
Feynman on knowledge, TransDigm's controversial business model, Costco's history, The Ozempic/Wegovy band-aid; Plus insights from Todd Combs, Michael Burry, Joel Tillinghast, and Lee Ainslie.
Making software...
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut 2022-11-14 It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut 2022-11-14 It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated, but I have finally started to port over all my personal open-source projects to sourcehut.org. I'll get into the why and how momentarily, but first let's take a look at all the...
TheCollector
What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period? undefined
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Life After Lifestyle One of the best and most inspiring articles I read this year.
over a year ago
Open Culture
Spin the 17th-Century Death Roulette Wheel & Find Out What Would Have Killed You in 1665 A common historical misconception holds that, up until a few centuries ago, everyone died when they...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A common historical misconception holds that, up until a few centuries ago, everyone died when they were about 40. In fact, even in antiquity, one could well make it to what would be considered an advanced age today — assuming one survived the great mortal peril of childhood, and...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I don't plan for holiday comics. Today's News:
Stat Significant
Does 'Avatar' Have No Cultural Footprint? A Statistical Analysis Investigating claims of Avatar's cultural irrelevance.
2 months ago
The Pragmatic...
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon? Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Coworking Offices – The Workshop YCK The Workshop is dedicated to creating versatile co-working spaces that invite professionals into a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The Workshop is dedicated to creating versatile co-working spaces that invite professionals into a dynamic environment that offers private workpods...
Home on Erik...
Everything I learned about technical debt I just made it to Sweden suffering from jet lag induced insomnia, but this blog post will not cover...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just made it to Sweden suffering from jet lag induced insomnia, but this blog post will not cover that. Instead, I will talk a little bit about technical debt. The concept of technical debt always resonated with me, partly because I always like the analogy with “real” debt.
Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue? Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
3 months ago
Seth's Blog
If it were really important… Could we change our minds? When was the last time new information caused you to walk away from an...
a year ago
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a year ago
Could we change our minds? When was the last time new information caused you to walk away from an idea you were confident in? It gets harder and harder to do, and more and more important.
mtlynch.io
How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part One) Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these articles focus on finding bugs to the exclusion of almost every other component of a review. Communicating issues you discover in a constructive and professional way? Irrelevant! Just...
Cheese and Biscuits
Kachori, Elephant and Castle There's a lot to be said about the redevelopment/regeneration/whitewashing (delete as applicable) of...
a year ago
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a year ago
There's a lot to be said about the redevelopment/regeneration/whitewashing (delete as applicable) of Elephant and Castle, and I am singularly unqualified to say it. I'm not trying to avoid the issue (honest), but am very aware that having nothing invested in the old place and...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Taking Risks: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/86mSy3jnSr0 For Stoics, taking risks is something that they feel we...
a year ago
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a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/86mSy3jnSr0 For Stoics, taking risks is something that they feel we should never fear to do . . . if, that is, the risk is actually something that will help us live a more virtuous life, fulfill our potentials, or help other people. However (and...
TheCollector
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca? undefined
11 months ago
Blog - Practical...
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 5 This is the fifth and final episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is the fifth and final episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
Seth's Blog
Knowing the territory There is always room for someone who really knows their way around an industry, a technology or a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
There is always room for someone who really knows their way around an industry, a technology or a problem. That’s what agents, agencies and organizers do. The hard part isn’t in finding people who will value true on-the-ground expertise. The hard part is actually earning it and...
Christopher Butler
A Pep Talk for those Who Work Bullshit Jobs How do you know if what you do is actually meaningful? do I work a bullshit job? Perhaps you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How do you know if what you do is actually meaningful? do I work a bullshit job? Perhaps you have already answered this question for yourself and are satisfied with the answer. You may want to read on still. My purpose is not to convince you that your job is or isn’t...
Commoncog
The Idea Maze is a Useless Idea Product market fit is a crapshoot. Here's what's actually useful in the hunt for a new business...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Product market fit is a crapshoot. Here's what's actually useful in the hunt for a new business idea.
Map of the Week
Nova Scotia Map Mural I’m in Nova Scotia this week in places with poor internet so I was not planning on posting anything....
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m in Nova Scotia this week in places with poor internet so I was not planning on posting anything. Then I saw this fantastic mural on the side of a building in Annapolis Royal so I just had to share it. Enjoy!
Noahpinion
Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system It's mostly the providers overcharging you, not the middlemen.
a week ago
ntietz.com blog
Resting is hard This post has been a struggle to write. Not just because it requires a lot of vulnerability, though...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
This post has been a struggle to write. Not just because it requires a lot of vulnerability, though that's part of it. And it's not just about finding the right words. Most of the struggle has been fatigue. It's hard to find the energy to open my text editor and when I do, my...
diamond geezer
On multiple OS maps This is the town of Purley. three OS Landranger maps. Landranger maps, each drawn to a scale of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
This is the town of Purley. three OS Landranger maps. Landranger maps, each drawn to a scale of 1:50000, and between them they cover the whole of Great Britain and its islands. maps tend to align precisely with their neighbours so places appear on one or the other. But...
xkcd.com
Easily Confused Acronyms
a year ago
somethingaboutmaps
The Projection Collection Returns About a year ago, I released The Projection Collection, a set of 77 trading cards based on map...
a year ago
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a year ago
About a year ago, I released The Projection Collection, a set of 77 trading cards based on map projections. Each card features a unique map produced by one of 65 different cartographers. While my colleagues and I did our best to let everyone know about these cards, some people...
Both Are True
be my (tired, aging) valentine? candy hearts for the over-30 crowd
10 months ago
A small freedom area...
Exploring intricate execution mysteries by reversing a crackme It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering work. Going through a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering work. Going through a difficult period currently, I needed to take a break from the graphics world and go back to the roots: understanding obscure or elementary tech stuff. One may argue that it was most...
the singularity is...
The Elon Swing Voter I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 37 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
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a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
Retail Design Blog
Smalltalks Rosé Artistic Wine by the Labelmaker Background: Oriachovitza, a family-owned winery and a living icon of Bulgarian winemaking, stands...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Background: Oriachovitza, a family-owned winery and a living icon of Bulgarian winemaking, stands proudly near Stara Zagora. Originally built in...
somenice
Mount Sproattember
over a year ago
Seán Barry
A Realisation About Fitness No matter how much I run, or how much I lift weights, it never gets easier. There's always a part of...
a year ago
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a year ago
No matter how much I run, or how much I lift weights, it never gets easier. There's always a part of me that wants to stop, and there's always another part of me fighting to push through. This is how I deal with that internal battle.
swyx's site RSS Feed
The End of Localhost > This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost
Oxide Computer...
RIP Khaled Bichara, 1971-2020 We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s angel investors, died in a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s angel investors, died in a car accident in Cairo on Friday night. Those of us who have known Khaled for years have known him to be a bold investor who appreciated hard technical problems – and also a profoundly...
Seth's Blog
The sixty-day staircase In the moment, it’s really difficult. L’espirit descalier means, “the spirit of the staircase.” That...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the moment, it’s really difficult. L’espirit descalier means, “the spirit of the staircase.” That thing you wished you had a said just a moment ago, the bon mot or the clever riposte. It only comes to us as we’re walking away. But this sort of quick comment is good for the...
Tech and Tea
Space to do whatever, Part II Insights from carving out space for creativity
a year ago
Wuthering...
The Nicomachean Ethics - moderate Aristotle - clarity within the limits of the subject matter I will borrow the quotation from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics I found on p. 186 of Gary Paul...
a year ago
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a year ago
I will borrow the quotation from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics I found on p. 186 of Gary Paul Morson’s extraordinary new study of the ethics if Russian literature: Our discussion will be adequate if it achieves clarity within the limits of the subject matter.  For precision...
TheCollector
Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings undefined
a year ago
julian.digital
List of Goals and Rules for 2021 Publish 6 long-form essays↳ Instead of publishing a new post each week, I want to focus on six...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Publish 6 long-form essays↳ Instead of publishing a new post each week, I want to focus on six in-depth essays this year. Quality over quantity. ████ ██ █████ ██ ████ ██████ Read 20 books ↳ You can follow my progress here Go for a swim at least once per week ↳ If covid rules...
Noahpinion
Progressives need to embrace progress Stasis won't lead to a prosperous or equitable society.
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Writing for developers As a founder, one of the most surprisingly important skills I've realized I have is hitting the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As a founder, one of the most surprisingly important skills I've realized I have is hitting the front page of Hacker News . Out of five posts that I…
ntietz.com blog
Running an Effective Book Club at Work Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for learning. And they're great for group learning, too! We've run a book club at work a few times. Some sessions were more successful than others. The main way our book clubs faltered...
Max Rozen
Frustrated by Formik? Here's a simpler way to do forms in React Do you find yourself struggling for hours to solve problems with Formik? I've started using a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Do you find yourself struggling for hours to solve problems with Formik? I've started using a different library that's much simpler.
The Marginalian
Joy as a Force of Resistance and a Halo of Loss, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller Poem In this world heavy with robust reasons for despair, joy is a stubborn courage we must not...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In this world heavy with robust reasons for despair, joy is a stubborn courage we must not surrender, a fulcrum of personal power we must not yield to cynicism, blame, or any other costume of helplessness. “Experience of conflict and a load of suffering has taught me that what...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Persisting State to localStorage in Recoil Across Browser Tabs I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React. I needed to persist some...
a month ago
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a month ago
I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React. I needed to persist some state to localStorage, and there’s some info on how to do it in Recoil’s docs. That works; however it doesn’t respond to state changes from other instances of your app in multiple...
Internal Tech Emails
"I don't want to create a paper trail" I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can...
a year ago
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a year ago
I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later? Not sure about this.. thanks Eric
The Changelog
So Many Caring People In This World When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” To this day, especially in times of “disaster,” I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that...
Farza's Newsletter
i got suitcases full of matcha tea don't mess with me punk Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a live gameshow I hosted and gave away $100,000, had 225 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in SF, and then the following week had 125 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in...
Diaries of Note
I distinctly saw the rising sun insignia on his wings On December 7, 1941, a tranquil Sunday morning transformed into a historic tragedy when hundreds of...
a year ago
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a year ago
On December 7, 1941, a tranquil Sunday morning transformed into a historic tragedy when hundreds of Japanese aircraft unexpectedly attacked Pearl Harbor—a cataclysmic event that would lead to the United States entering World War II. Fifteen miles away, Major Leonard D. Heaton, a...
Steve Klabnik
Ember Data: ‘DS’ is not defined
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Scanning many hosts in parallel with Nmap using PPSS Scanning a large number of hosts using Nmap often takes a lot of time. During this time, no output...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Scanning a large number of hosts using Nmap often takes a lot of time. During this time, no output is written to a file or disk. Only when Nmap is finished, is all output written to the output file. Often, I want to start processing results of hosts that have already been...
Rest of World -...
Global TikTok creators depend on U.S. viewers. A TikTok ban would be devastating Without Americans on the app, advertising dollars are at risk.
a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Localization with Sanity In this article, we describe how we make it possible to translate content from Sanity and publish...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this article, we describe how we make it possible to translate content from Sanity and publish content that is specific to languages/regions.
Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard? A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
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I recently noticed that the Bank of Jamaica, Jamaica's central bank, has implemented two new marketing strategies to drive adoption of its new central bank digital currency, Jam-Dex. Jam-Dex is one of only four operational central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in the world,...
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A simple technique offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party platforms.
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I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that it’s pretty close to what I want for managing wireless — closer than anything else I’ve found, at least. I figured I should document my setup and experiences. Some Background You...
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In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy gradient (PG) methods are typically believed to be less sample efficient than value decomposition (VD) methods, which are off-policy. However, some recent empirical studies demonstrate...
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I was delighted to share this short talk with my friend Sue. I thought it might resonate with you. I hope it’s helpful. More interviews and talks are here. And my books are here.
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I've been working on writing a Rust training course, and one of the things I struggled with explaining in there was the difference between references and pointers. Ultimately, the underlying representation is the same: both hold an address for some memory. The difference between...
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You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid, accessible components without any styles. A clean slate to style from scratch! But the structure (bones) and logic (head) are there. You're mostly adding styles. They should be called...
The Marginalian
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The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool for teaching and learning — and many ideas that are commonly presented in math notation can be more clearly presented in code. In the draft third edition of Think Stats there is...
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It’s a fascinating payment model. For digital goods and other transactions where the marginal cost of one more sale approaches zero, “pay what you want” exposes how complicated the story we tell about money can be. When we add in the charity component, it becomes even more...
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I was quite vain when I was younger due to a low self-esteem which led to a high level of insecurity. That insecurity made me feel ugly and that I was never...
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From AI.com to Chat.com, OpenAI is making big moves in the world of conversational AI. They've dropped a huge amount of cash – likely over $15.5 million – to snag the premium domain Chat.com.
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The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has been criticized by animal rights advocates and subject to scrutiny by Congress.
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I will be sending some emails shortly, but I wanted to point out postdoctoral opportunities here at Rice University. The Smalley-Curl Institute is having a competition for two two-year postdoctoral fellow slots.  Click on the link for the details.  The requirements for a...
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Last Friday the National Gallery made it harder for visitors to enjoy a look around. Revised security measures at the National Gallery Walk-through metal detectors have been a fixture here for years, ditto a perfunctory bag check. This did tend to create queues but nothing...
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… is almost as difficult as empathy up close. That person that’s not like you, from way over there, the one that’s on the other team–it’s hard to imagine what they’re dealing with. They don’t believe what you believe, they haven’t experienced what you’ve experienced. And the...
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What is product analytics? At the most basic level product analytics refers to the process of gathering data about how a product is used, then…
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Studio VARA has shared photos of a new home they’ve completed for a couple and their three children, who wanted a highly energy-efficient house that is also fire-resistant. Tucked away, down a windy road outside of Healdsburg, California, the home is positioned to take advantage...
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For Onur Yüce Gün, the study of computation is the study of the human condition itself. A mission to anchor humans at the center of AI and computational design brought Gün on an educational journey from Middle East Technical University in his native Turkey to the MIT Design and...
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#1 💡 Massviews Analysis is a super useful free tool to identify niche trends, whether you’re trying to research content ideas or doing research on business opportunities. You can put in any Wikipedia category, and it will show you what pages inside that category are most...
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We can agree that Isaac Newton didn’t invent gravity. It was here all along, but he gets some credit for naming it and describing it. And Columbus definitely didn’t discover North America. There had been people living here for tens of thousands of years before he arrived. After...
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In honor of my 28th birthday, here are 28 pieces of life advice. The post 28 Pieces of Life Advice appeared first on David Perell.
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AWS costs are tricky: they can grow in seemingly unbounded ways and often represent significant portions of our engineering budgets. However there are techniques we can use to get them under control and even reduce overall spend significantly.
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The difference between ‘buy now’ and ‘bye now’ is very thin. Sometimes, when we push very hard for a commitment, we break the trust we’ve earned. For a while, you might not notice the broken trust, because we’re encouraged to keep pushing, treating every individual as a walking...
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Time is running out! At least the more technical parts are mostly done. The ships have an acceptable AI, they have rechargeable shields and they can now even be killed. Currently the game is far too easy, but it’s starting to look a little cooler at least.
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I recommend very highly for anyone who has read or not read In Search of Lost Time Brian Nelson's The Swann Way, the first volume in a new translation of the entire novel by diverse hands, in this fine paperback from Oxford World's Classics. His translation of the chapter Swann...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is not smoke. And this isn’t a smoke stack (at least not the kind we normally think of). It serves a totally different purpose at a power plant than smoke stacks whose job is moving combustion products...
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A new year and a new decade: What does the future have in store for us? Information revolutions, medical advances, AI? How will humanity tackle its largest problems? I guess we shall just have to wait and see (or get busy inventing it!). I've jotted down some of
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Our brain waves can align when we work and play closely together. The phenomenon, known as interbrain synchrony, suggests that collaboration is biological. The post The Social Benefits of Getting Our Brains in Sync first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Somewhere, there is the ideal soil for growing mangoes. Or the best possible wave for surfing. Or the most romantic sunset for a proposal. But it’s not right here and it’s not right now. Our success has a lot to do with how we dance with conditions that aren’t quite perfect.
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It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements without direct business value are difficult to manage. In this post, we discuss some learnings from the battlefield on how improvements can be approached.
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The first day of cicada chasing exceeded expectations and we hoped for similar results on the second. However the weather began to change overnight with downpours possible during daylight hours. Local meteorologists predicted a line of thunderstorms rolling through the Midwest,...
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In a stunning turn of events, Sam Altman has been reinstated as CEO of OpenAI, just days after being fired by the company's board. The move comes after a whirlwind few days that saw Altman's supporters rally to his side, with many threatening to quit if he was not brought back.
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“It’s against his nature to be a critic—he is too grateful.”  That’s from one of Elias Canetti’s notebooks, collected in Notes from Hampstead (trans. John Hargraves, 1998). While I admire the work of a handful of critics – Dryden, Johnson, Winters, Cunningham, a few others –...
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This is a series of articles where we learn a few techniques to create scroll animations with just 1 React hook. In this first part, we will use the scroll event to achieve that. Here’s a preview of what we will achieve by the end of the article:
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If you know a bit about public key cryptography, you probably know that you don’t directly encrypt a message with a public key encryption algorithm like RSA. This is for many reasons, one of which being that it is incredibly slow. Instead you do what’s called hybrid encryption:...
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Voted for Sadiq; voted for a Labour London Assembly Member        Voted for Sadiq; voted for a Liberal Democrat London Assembly Member        Voted for Susan; voted for a Labour London Assembly Member        Voted for Susan; voted for a Conservative London Assembly...
nanoscale views
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This week is the 2023 DOE experimental condensed matter physics PI meeting - in the past I’ve written up highlights of these here (2021), here (2019), here (2017), here (2015), and here (2013).  This year, I am going to have to present remotely, however, because I am giving a...
A Smart Bear
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People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
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The AI Designer is a powerful notion, but it is incomplete. For creative craftspeople, AI is more of an imposed thought experiment than it is a utility. Yes, there are countless AI tools that can do parts of the job — make an image for you, create a layout, automate a...
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There are lots of useful, honest answers. Some might include: I do what I’m told I challenge the status quo I show up on time I solve complicated problems I absorb nonsense and create calm for others I raise our standards I help people feel seen I’m steady I don’t cause trouble I...
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Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your control. Everything except for one thing: what you produce. You might know that repeatedly posting on social media that you are looking for work is ineffective. That it looks (or...
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Many of us have put off a visit to Venice for fear of the hordes of tourists who roam its streets and boat down its canals day in and day out. To judge by the most visible of its economic activity, the once-mighty city-state now exists almost solely as an Instagramming...
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If you have an interest in robotics, then a robot arm is a great educational tool to start your journey. But professional robot arms are expensive and the DIY route is more informative anyway. That’s especially true if you take the time to design the arm yourself, as did Oliver...
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Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it accepts requests from the outside world, and takes some action in response. Maybe those requests are HTTP requests, or RPCs, or just incoming packets to be routed at the network layer....
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One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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Next week is April Cools! A bunch of tech bloggers will be writing about a bunch of non-tech topics. If you've got a blog come join us! You don't need to drive yourself crazy with a 3000-word hell essay, just write something fun and genuine and out of character for you. But I am...
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I needed to convert a URL object to a plain object yesterday. You might have used it before. It's pretty handy for working with URLs! const url = new URL('https://example.com/'); console.log(url); // URL {origin: 'https://example.com', protocol: 'https:', username: '',...
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A reminder: On Thursday I’ll be talking about the technological origins of skyscrapers and the New York contribution to that history, at the Institution of Structural Engineers. If you’re in London – as most of you are not – come in person; otherwise, the talk will be available...
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RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real differences and I am trying to note them down here.
Laetitia@Work
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