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TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)? undefined
8 months ago
Open Culture
Watch Tom Waits For No One, the Pioneering Animated Music Video from 1979 Tom Waits For No One, above, is surely the only film in history to have won an Oscar for Scientific...
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Tom Waits For No One, above, is surely the only film in history to have won an Oscar for Scientific and Technical Achievement for its creator and a first place award at the Hollywood Erotic Film and Video Festival. Director John Lamb and his partner, Bruce Lyon also deserve...
diamond geezer
An A-Z of London post offices I wanted to buy a dozen stamps. For this alphabetical challenge I needed a list of London's post...
a year ago
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a year ago
I wanted to buy a dozen stamps. For this alphabetical challenge I needed a list of London's post offices, which is awkward because the Post Office's branch finder doesn't do lists, only "closest to"s. Thankfully this is a problem other people also have, and volunteers at...
Dominik Sobe's...
Launching HelpKit
over a year ago
Londonist
Take A Peek Inside The Royal Albert Hall's New Archive Collection From Queen Victoria to Beyonce, this place has seen them all.
a year ago
xkcd.com
Coordinate Plane Closure
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Speaking up For many, the imagined cost of speaking up is almost always higher than the actual cost. And we live...
a year ago
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a year ago
For many, the imagined cost of speaking up is almost always higher than the actual cost. And we live with the cost in our imagination daily, dying a little bit over time as we keep our insights to ourselves. Speaking up is a skill, and we can only improve it with practice.
MMapped blog
Extending HTTPS outcalls
7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Profile Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is a deepfake. The real comic was way...
10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters? undefined
4 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 072: The new new Claude June 21, 2024.
6 months ago
The Marginalian
John Gardner on the Key to Self-Renewal Across Life and the Art of Making Rather Than Finding... "The potentialities you develop to the full come as the result of an interplay between you and...
7 months ago
Maps Mania
Mapping Tree Shadows
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Ripples in Spacetime It’s always exciting when a scientific institution announces that they are going to make an...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s always exciting when a scientific institution announces that they are going to make an announcement. Earlier this week we were told that there was going to be a major announcement today (June 29th) regarding a gravitational wave discovery. The goal of the pre-announcement is...
essay – snarfed.org
Breakfast tour Like all of you, I got a little stir crazy over the last year. I made it outside plenty, but I still...
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over a year ago
Like all of you, I got a little stir crazy over the last year. I made it outside plenty, but I still felt cooped up now and then, and I dearly missed going new places and seeing new things. On another note, I really, really like breakfast. Like, a lot. So naturally, I put these...
NeuroLogica Blog
Reconductoring our Electrical Grid Over the weekend when I was in Dallas for the eclipse, I ran into a local businessman who works in...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Over the weekend when I was in Dallas for the eclipse, I ran into a local businessman who works in the energy sector, mainly involved in new solar projects. This is not surprising as Texas is second only to California in solar installation. I asked him if he is experiencing a...
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston undefined
a month ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Frequency of Terms Denoting Political Extremism in U.S. and U.K. News Media Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with...
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over a year ago
Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with Eric Kaufmann where we examine longitudinally the prevalence of terms denoting far-right and far-left political extremism in more than 30 million written news and opinion articles...
The Modern House
Book Preview: celebrating the architectural wonderland of London's suburbia I ❤️ Suburbia is the first book by Simon Pollock, based on his successful Instagram account,...
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3 months ago
I ❤️ Suburbia is the first book by Simon Pollock, based on his successful Instagram account, @londonsuburbia. The book celebrates the lives of people living on the outskirts of London and explores some of the often-overlooked architectural treasures of the ‘burbs, from houses to...
History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review ‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review j.hoare Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
Maps Mania
Text Search for Street View
3 months ago
TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts? undefined
10 months ago
David Heinemeier...
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete...
a year ago
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a year ago
Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set! A month...
TheCollector
William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum undefined
4 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
What It Takes To Let People Play With the Past Media Archaeology Lab is one of the largest public collections in the world of obsolete, yet...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Media Archaeology Lab is one of the largest public collections in the world of obsolete, yet functional, technology. Located on the University of Colorado Boulder campus, the MAL is where you can watch a magic lantern show, play Star Castle on a Vectrex games console, or check...
Paul Graham: Essays
Relentlessly Resourceful
over a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
My ChromeOS to Linux migration: requirements and setup <![CDATA[I'm going back to Linux after nine years of ChromeOS. In 2015 I had been using Linux for a...
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<![CDATA[I'm going back to Linux after nine years of ChromeOS. In 2015 I had been using Linux for a couple of decades. Exasperated by the frequent maintenance issues, that year I migrated to ChromeOS. I was living in the browser anyway and ChromeOS seemed like a stable...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2023 The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”....
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”. Congrats to jackw01 for arriving at the correct answer! congrats, email me for your prize. This one was surprisingly difficult to guess from just the PCB alone, but once the associated...
Epic Web Dev
Adding OpenID Connect Authentication to the Epic Stack (tip) Learn how to integrate OpenID Connect authentication into the Epic Stack with this comprehensive...
a year ago
TheCollector
J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany undefined
4 months ago
symmetry magazine
CERN opens Science Gateway About 1,400 people attended the grand opening of CERN’s new science education center.
a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust error handling: Option & Result The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these gracefully and safely in our...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these gracefully and safely in our Rust programs? Let’s introduce two of every Rust programmer’s favourite types: Option and Result.
The Rational Walk
Biden’s Withdrawal and the Limits of Gaslighting President Biden's withdrawal from the election is the culmination of months of gaslighting by the...
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President Biden's withdrawal from the election is the culmination of months of gaslighting by the Democratic Party and allies in the mainstream media.
Commoncog
The Limits of Operational Excellence An answer to a puzzle: why is that some businesses go down the Deming path, become data driven,...
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8 months ago
An answer to a puzzle: why is that some businesses go down the Deming path, become data driven, achieve operational excellence, and die, and others acquire Process Power and win?
Liz Denys
Starlit sky Brutalist planter with attached drip tray, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
7 months ago
A Beautiful Site
When To Create CSS Parts I was recently asked a really good question on Twitter: when shouldn't an element be a CSS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was recently asked a really good question on Twitter: when shouldn't an element be a CSS Part? I've spent a lot of time building web components, most of which are intended for design systems, and my answer is pretty straight-forward. Every part you expose is an API that you're...
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power undefined
8 months ago
Math Is Still...
What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. The post What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images first...
The American Scholar
From All Souls by Saskia Hamilton Poems read aloud, beautifully The post From <em>All Souls</em> by Saskia Hamilton appeared first on...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post From <em>All Souls</em> by Saskia Hamilton appeared first on The American Scholar.
Diaries of Note
Wonder, astonishment, and devotion In December of 1831, HMS Beagle embarked on a historic voyage that would shape the course of...
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a year ago
In December of 1831, HMS Beagle embarked on a historic voyage that would shape the course of scientific thought for generations to come. Aboard that ship, with a mere 22 years under his belt, was Charles Darwin, whose role would lead to remarkable discoveries about the natural...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 11-17 December 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Last day of shoot Emma Thompson spent five years crafting the screenplay for Sense and Sensibility, a period that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Emma Thompson spent five years crafting the screenplay for Sense and Sensibility, a period that might be described as part love affair with Jane Austen’s novel, part wrestling match with the challenge of adapting it for the big screen. When finally released in 1995, boasting a...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to seed, grow, and scale Developer Relations (and how we're doing it at PostHog) Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer Relations journey at PostHog has just begun, and…
Stephen Wolfram...
The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit Turning LLM Capabilities into Functions So far, we mostly think of LLMs as things we...
Engineers Need Art
Building Quarter-Cab - Phase I Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read undefined
2 months ago
Calculated Risk
2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in November Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in...
a week ago
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a week ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in November A brief excerpt: NOTE: The tables for active listings, new listings and closed sales all include a comparison to November 2019 for each local market (some 2019 data is not...
David Heinemeier...
Beware the leviathans I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for years now. Especially with those awful app store monopolies that have been choking out developers left, right, and center. But now that something finally looks to be happening, I'm...
DYNOMIGHT
Tactical parenting I'm so confused TACTICAL PARENTING Written by Dynomight INT TACTICAL HOME - DAY WE OPEN on...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
I'm so confused TACTICAL PARENTING Written by Dynomight INT TACTICAL HOME - DAY WE OPEN on TACTICAL GUY’s house. A small tree is visible in a window. We see TACTICAL GUY staring at TACTICAL BABY on the ground. CUT TO: INT DESK - SAME DAY TACTICAL GUY uses keyboard plugged...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Death Is Divestment, Death Is Communion' “Whenever in my dreams I see the dead, they always appear silent, bothered, strangely depressed,...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
“Whenever in my dreams I see the dead, they always appear silent, bothered, strangely depressed, quite unlike their dear, bright selves. I am aware of them, without any astonishment, in surroundings they never visited during their earthly existence, in the house of some friend of...
Seth's Blog
Bye now The difference between ‘buy now’ and ‘bye now’ is very thin. Sometimes, when we push very hard for a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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...
Coding Horror
I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992,
The Pragmatic...
Bun: lessons from disrupting a tech ecosystem If you use JavaScript or TypeScript for backend development, Node is the most popular choice of...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you use JavaScript or TypeScript for backend development, Node is the most popular choice of framework. A new runtime called “Bun” is taking this space by storm. Lessons from this sudden rise.
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission plans, weather reports, crew activity plans, and other documents. Needed for the first Shuttle launch in 1981, this printer was designed in just 7 months, built around an Army...
Devmoh
Programming transforms your brain. Here's how. Knowing how to program has a multitude of positive effects on the brain.
a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?
Working Theorys
Writer-Builders Theory #39 | The archetype of new kind of renaissance man
7 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
Why I run Black Friday deals (things I learned) I also curated 300+ Black Friday deals for you
a year ago
Archinect - Features
Archinect's 2023 Summer Reading List Summer is here, and whether you're on vacation or preparing for one or looking to lay low at home, a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Summer is here, and whether you're on vacation or preparing for one or looking to lay low at home, a summer must is a good book. The Archinect team has curated a list of reading essentials to explore.  Below is a collection of books organized into five categories – New Releases,...
Steve Blank
Is a Venture Studio Right for You? This post previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Three types of organizations –...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. Venture...
CONTEMPORIST
Operable Screens Cover The Exterior Of This Hawaiian Home Architecture firm OLSON KUNDIG has shared photos of a home they completed in Hanalei, Hawaii, that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Architecture firm OLSON KUNDIG has shared photos of a home they completed in Hanalei, Hawaii, that blurs the lines between indoor and outdoor living with the inclusion of a series of operable shutter screens that wrap most of the building facade. The custom shutter system,...
latest projects -...
Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion [Hardware] Army of Robot Slide Whistles
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Precarious Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: She's lucky I didn't stick a bow on. Today's News:
a year ago
Grow With Less
I was living the dream, then my dream collapsed Everything was going great. My blog French Together had just hit 357k monthly visitors, the French...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Everything was going great. My blog French Together had just hit 357k monthly visitors, the French Together course had exceeded $300k in sales. Then COVID happened. My traffic slowly started to decrease, conversions got worse. I ignored it at first, I guess I was in denial. I...
Tech + Economics +...
Real estate grifters are creating unlivable conditions. TikTok Real Estate Influencers and ‘Grifters’ Are in Deep Trouble, Short Seller Says Philip...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
TikTok Real Estate Influencers and ‘Grifters’ Are in Deep Trouble, Short Seller Says Philip Garboden, a professor of affordable housing at the University of Hawaii who has studied the rise of small real estate investors, said the effects of reckless lending on...
Rest of World -...
Global gig worker slang, explained Shapar and amagundane are two types of platform workers their peers can’t stand.
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM undefined
a year ago
David Perell
Beer Mode and Coffee Mode Creatives have two ways of working: beer mode and coffee mode.  Beer mode is a state of unfocused...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Creatives have two ways of working: beer mode and coffee mode.  Beer mode is a state of unfocused play where you discover new ideas. In contrast, coffee mode is a state of focus where you work towards a specific outcome.  The problem with traditional productivity advice is that...
Seth's Blog
Finding a more useful umwelt Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious that your dog has a different one than you do. They see fewer colors and smell far more intelligently. Sea slugs see a much wider range of colors, and bats can sense vibrations. Among...
TheCollector
10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece? undefined
8 months ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't thank Chat GPT In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not...
a year ago
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a year ago
In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not only is there no logical reason to add pleasantries to your chat with GPT, but it also takes tokens for it to remove them and get to the point of your message. Don't thank Chat...
Flashbak
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
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a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants.     Via University...
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2023, Day 4 + wrapup My last day at the March Meeting was a bit scattershot, but here are a few highlights: In a...
a year ago
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a year ago
My last day at the March Meeting was a bit scattershot, but here are a few highlights: In a session about spin transport, the opening invited talk by Jiaming He was a clear discussion of recent experimental results on spin Seebeck effects in the magnetic insulator LuFeO3. The...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Embark on island-hopping adventures and explore ancient wineries in Croatia
10 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Dynamic Checkboxes Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether you’re selecting a pricing plan during a site’s sign-up process or just simply selecting to opt-out from a newsletter, you have most likely interacted with some form of checkbox...
TheCollector
Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome undefined
4 days ago
Daniel Bourke
Placebo yourself If there’s something that you’d like to do or some condition you’d like to be true, let it...
a year ago
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a year ago
If there’s something that you’d like to do or some condition you’d like to be true, let it happen. Believe it’s going to happen. Write it down. Start talking about it with yourself. I’ve got this. You (I) can do
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Shoehorning startups into the VC model Tech startups go in an out of fashion. When they’re in fashion, as they are now, entrepreneurs and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tech startups go in an out of fashion. When they’re in fashion, as they are now, entrepreneurs and VCs get lots of attention. Most of this…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Frank Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I read a lot of Perry Bible Fellowship, desperately...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I read a lot of Perry Bible Fellowship, desperately afraid that somewhere I'd amnesia-stolen this script. Today's News:
Wuthering...
Metamorphoses, Books XI to XV - The whole of it flows I had better finish up Ovid’s Metamorphoses before I forget what was in it.  It is full of memorable...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I had better finish up Ovid’s Metamorphoses before I forget what was in it.  It is full of memorable things, but I have limits.  Books XI through XV, the last five, in this post. Book X ended with the songs of Orpheus, so he has to begin Book XI with Orpheus’s gruesome death,...
xkcd.com
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
9 months ago
Londonist
In Pictures: London's Tube Station Gardens Which is your fave?
a year ago
The Marginalian
From the Labor Camp to the Pantheon of Literature: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer "I have nothing, except for certain, and perhaps very minor, literary abilities."
3 months ago
Old Structures...
The Grenfell Report The “phase 2” report on the Grenfell has recently been published by the official inquiry panel:...
3 months ago
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The “phase 2” report on the Grenfell has recently been published by the official inquiry panel: here. The New Civil Engineer has a good short summary here: “Grenfell disaster: ‘culmination of decades of failure by government and construction industry’” In one sense there are few...
Old Structures...
A Different Configuration I almost didn’t recognize this photograph, even though I’ve been involved with the building since...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I almost didn’t recognize this photograph, even though I’ve been involved with the building since 2011. The New York Public Library digital archive has this labelled as the “Onderdonk Mill, Roslyn” and if they hadn’t mentioned the town name I wold have gone right by it. We’ve...
TheCollector
The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections undefined
2 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Wildstreak by Harcus Design ‘Wildstreak’ celebrates the maverick that is Peter Drayton. Though a 5th generation descendant of...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
‘Wildstreak’ celebrates the maverick that is Peter Drayton. Though a 5th generation descendant of the famed Hunter Valley Drayton wine...
Flashbak
SoHo And New York City In The 1980s Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
Seth's Blog
Meaningfully informed Community requires individuals to have the option of speaking up. If we’re in this together, we...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Community requires individuals to have the option of speaking up. If we’re in this together, we ought to be able to chime in. But while every member of the community can speak out, the ones that are heard also have something useful to say. Being informed is a requirement to be...
Irrational...
Modeling driving onboarding. The How should you adopt LLMs? strategy explores how Theoretical Ride Sharing might adopt LLMs. It...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The How should you adopt LLMs? strategy explores how Theoretical Ride Sharing might adopt LLMs. It builds on several models, the first is about LLMs impact on Developer Experience. The second model, documented here, looks at whether LLMs might improve a core product and business...
essay – snarfed.org
Possible futures for Bridgy Fed Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support...
a month ago
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a month ago
Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support more users. It’s a technical question, but their underlying motivation is usually broader: they believe in the social web, and the fediverse(s), and they want them to connect...
Vadim Kravcenko
Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that cost me […] The post Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
NeuroLogica Blog
Will AI Make Work Redundant? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming for your job. This, at least, is increasingly conventional...
a year ago
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a year ago
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming for your job. This, at least, is increasingly conventional wisdom, but I’m not so sure. In a recent interview, Elon Musk predicted that AI would “make paid work redundant.” I encountered the same opinion watching the latest season of...
Seth's Blog
Judgment AI pushes us to do what we actually get paid to do: make decisions. Craft used to drive our hours or...
a year ago
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a year ago
AI pushes us to do what we actually get paid to do: make decisions. Craft used to drive our hours or even days. Get the pen lines just right. Source the Letraset. Get your instrument in tune. Sweat the details, because the details are everything. Now, I can choose from 1,000...
Open Culture
Behold a Creative Animation of the Bayeux Tapestry In previous centuries, unless you were a member of the nobility, a wealthy religious order, or a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In previous centuries, unless you were a member of the nobility, a wealthy religious order, or a merchant guild, your chances of spending any significant amount of time with a Medieval tapestry were slim. Though “much production was relatively coarse, intended for decorative...
Platformer
How BeReal missed its moment To become the next big social app, competitors have to move faster
a year ago
Londonist
Which Tube Station Is Furthest From Its Namesake? How far is it from Kew Gardens to Kew Gardens?
a year ago
TheCollector
Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’? undefined
a year ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
The full trailer for my Netflix series just dropped! View on my website
10 months ago
Londonist
Where To Eat And Drink In Canary Wharf: The Best Restaurants, Cafes, Bars And Pubs Scran among the 'scrapers.
a year ago
TheCollector
8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory undefined
10 months ago
Bits about Money
The business of wallets How digital wallets work, and how payment costs drive a lot of product decisions inside and around...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
How digital wallets work, and how payment costs drive a lot of product decisions inside and around them.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Why content sites are getting ripped off A commenter on my blog the other day (Tim Ogilvie) mentioned a distinction that I found really...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A commenter on my blog the other day (Tim Ogilvie) mentioned a distinction that I found really interesting between intent generation and…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
over a year ago
TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC undefined
3 months ago
Notes on software...
What makes a great technical blog I want to explain why the blogs in My favorite technical blogs are my favorite. That page is solely...
8 months ago
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I want to explain why the blogs in My favorite technical blogs are my favorite. That page is solely about non-corporate tech blogs. So this post is too. I'll have to make another list for favorite corporate tech blogs. In short, they: Tackle hard and confusing topics Show working...
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I recently migrated my blog to Jekyll and wanted to use the s3_website gem to deploy it. Everything worked out-of-the-box extremely well until I wanted to actually run the s3_website push command to deploy my site to the live S3 bucket. The command would hang for a really long...
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Many architects look down upon residential areas built with the small town as a model, with new houses made in a traditional style. But this is exactly what the average person appreciates. “Why do many architects dislike the very thing that residents often enjoy?” asks architect...
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Austin is a mediocre city, but a great place to live.  The post What’s Up with Austin? appeared first on David Perell.
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I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their board. Digital currencies are still nascent, and my hopes for them remain unchanged. Particularly, we need digital currency protocols like Stellar that work with the existing...
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Architecture firms Sadar+Vuga, Arhipro, and Studio Kristof have collaborated to create an eye-catching residential building in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with undulating balconies. The building, which houses apartments, is situated at the edge of a triangularly shaped site and is...
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Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a certain pipeline seems to have a deadlock. I described tracing it into kernel code. Indeed, it appears to be kernel bug 212295, which has had a patch for over a year that has never...
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On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A technician’s failure […] The post Dealing with Failures and Postmortems appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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We saw Sophocles and Euripides end their long careers with masterpieces, but we do not have that luck with Aristophanes.  Wealth (388 BCE) is thin, scattershot, perhaps even a bit defeated or exhausted. The conceit is as usual excellent.  Plutus, the god of wealth, is freed...
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It is never pleasant to be in the midst of a market correction, but a market correction does operate as a cleanser for excesses that enter into even the most disciplined investors' playbooks in the good times. This correction has been no exception, as the threat of losing...
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Strang Design has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Miami, Florida, that’s designed to wrap around a swimming pool. The home has been organized into an “H-shape,” allowing the interiors to be flooded with natural light and to showcase views of the natural...
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I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast today](https://art19.com/shows/intercom-on-product/episodes/10ee6fbe-13ef-48c6-af5e-3477bdbe87e3). They discussed the rise of the `cmd+K` UI paradigm in apps like:
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I can't thank Honeypot and Carolina Cabral enough for the producing The Rails Documentary that was just released today. Looking back on those early, formative years of Ruby on Rails with Tobi, Jamis, Jeremy, and Jason was actually kind of profound. I usually don't spend much time...
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Bes mug by USF Institute for Digital Exploration (IDEx) on Sketchfab If ZZ Top have a favorite ancient Egyptian deity, that deity is surely Bes, whom the New York Times’ Alexander Nazaryan quotes curator and scholar Branko van Oppen de Ruiter as calling “a beer drinker and a...
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On 14th December 1911, after years of preparation and a gruelling journey in treacherous conditions, Roald Amundsen and his team reached the South Pole and raised the flag of Norway—an achievement that marked them as the first to stand at this geographical zenith having beaten...
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While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core Google is fighting battles on almost every front:  social networking, mobile operating systems, web...
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Google is fighting battles on almost every front:  social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on.  Much…
CONTEMPORIST
Clerestory Windows Add Natural Light Inside This New Addition To An Australian Home Architecture firm Bryant Alsop has shared photos of a contemporary renovation and extension of a...
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Architecture firm Bryant Alsop has shared photos of a contemporary renovation and extension of a typical free-standing timber period home in Australia. The view from the front door shows off the hallway that connects the original home with the new extension. The hallway...
alexwlchan
Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools...
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Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools to take screenshots, and I love them as a way to take quick snapshots and skim the history of a site, but bitmap images aren’t a great archival representation of a website. What...
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My Addressbook? Keep it. Telephone numbers are a disgrace to our generation. There is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I...
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A few months ago someone popped up on the Singapore reddit and started posting photos of old Singapore from the 1950s-1970s. He is the grandson of Ivan Polunin, a medical doctor who...
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This article has been brought to you by A’Design Awards. A’Design Award and Competition have released their World Design Rankings (WDR) in Arts, Architecture and Design, with China taking first place, followed by the USA, and Japan. The World Design Rankings ranks all the...
Cheese and Biscuits
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Since the closure of Le Gavroche, Pied à Terre is now the London restaurant which has held at least one Michelin star for the longest time. It first won the accolade shortly after it opened back in 1991, a time when fine dining meant French dining, and the term "gastropub" was...
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I Want to Suckless and You Can Too I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my...
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I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my previous desktop setup using Wayland on Alpine Linux, I just couldn’t shake the urge to fully embrace the suckless ecosystem. Although, this meant ditching Wayland and returning...
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Hendy designed a new office space for Pacific Companies in Irvine, emphasizing comfort and flexibility, creating a home-like environment with...
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This is it, the final stop on the Asia-Pacific series, and this one is especially for me. I always have mixed feelings about the brewery articles because they’re rather self-indulgent. So viewers should feel free to skip past this one and wait until the next series begins because...
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In today's tumultuous world, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the constant barrage of events, emotions, and distractions around us. Many of us seek a sense of inner peace, a place of refuge from the chaos of the outside world. While there are many paths to inner peace, one...
Both Are True
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“He was born in the jumbled catacombs of the stair-stepped port of Odessa, late in 1894. Irreparably Semitic, Isaac was the son of a rag merchant from Kiev and a Moldavian Jewess. Catastrophe has been the normal climate of his life.”  Though born within five years of each other,...
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Timing your startup I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would...
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I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would have passed (which of course would have…
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This is the phone I carried in my pocket when I went to see The Matrix. My first cellphone was the Qualcomm QCP-860. It was marketed at the time as a “thin phone.” By today’s standards, that might seem silly, but at the time, phones were generally much chunkier. Like this...
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In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and Remix. We’ll learn by following an existing example of a sitemap built for Heavybit’s website, a San Francisco-based VC whose website is built with both technologies. Remix is a React...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/opinion/space-billionaires-sex.html Today's News: Back to regular comics shortly, but the book comes out tomorrow. Opening week sales matter a lot, so wish me luck!
The Modern House
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As a curator, perhaps there’s no space that better encapsulates Glenn Adamson than his own rainbow-hued house, which looks more like something you’d find in Wonderland than Upstate New York. And, as our podcast host, Matt Gibberd, discovered when he met Glenn for this episode […]
Anecdotal Evidence
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A reader who enjoys the novels of Sinclair Lewis tells me she is put off by the length and dullness of Mark Schorer’s 1961 biography of the Nobel laureate. I haven’t read Lewis since high school and have never read Schorer’s 867-page behemoth but I sympathize. I remember reading...
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30 unblogged things I did in September (contains nine additional clickable photos) Fri 1: "Hi," said the email. "I hope this doesn't come across as too strange but here goes. I was recently browsing eBay for a few things and came across something that I think you might like. So...
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James McKinven is an entrepreneur who has succeeded in making money from podcasts - no easy feat. He earns money by editing podcasts for companies
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Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs: The original signs announcing this ban only stated it in English. I'm in Streetsblog today with a piece about why reversing this arbitrary ban is a matter of equity: Over Memorial Day...
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Dag Hammarskjöld was en route to negotiate peace in Congo when, in 1961, the plane in which he was travelling crashed, ending the lives of all its passengers. Born in 1905, Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United...
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It’s easier than ever. Solvents, power tools, market research, AI, committee meetings, online reviews and ennui are all aligned in one direction. To fit all the way in. Of course, once you sand off all the edges, it’s hard to get traction. Hard to find the texture or anything...
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In his journal on 25th March 1841, banker and renowned dandy Thomas Raikes wrote of someone who for three years had been fascinating Londoners. Known to most as ‘The Boy Jones,’ Edward Jones was a teenager who had repeatedly managed to break into Buckingham Palace, and on three...
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"We are not the authors of ourselves. That we are not is a religious perception, but it is also a biological and a social one. Each of us has had many authors, and each of us is engaged, for better or worse, in that same authorship. We could say that the human race is a great...
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I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon (along with the free web version). If you've read and enjoyed it, please Tweet about how it'
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious? I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Vote for our SXSW panel! If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and...
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If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and vote: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/24504 Algorithmic Music Discovery at Spotify ****Spotify crunches hundreds of billions of streams to analyze user's music taste and provide...
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Philip K. Dick paperback covers (Panther Science Fiction) Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by  citizen3xx24j....
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by  citizen3xx24j. License: All Rights Reserved. Now Wait for Last Year (1975). Cover art by Chris Foss. [More info on ISFDB] Roslyn Gothic arguably saw its most extensive and iconic use on the...
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He really wants me, as usual In 1991, three decades before she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, French author Annie...
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In 1991, three decades before she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, French author Annie Ernaux published Passion simple, a brief, semi-autobiographical novel in which its narrator recounts her intensely passionate, all-consuming two-year relationship with a married man....
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Easy Weekend Trips in California
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The Mexican senator building a plan for artificial intelligence Alejandra Lagunes leads Mexico’s National Artificial Intelligence Alliance.
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Max Rozen
Demystifying useEffect's clean-up function useEffect's clean-up function can be pretty confusing, especially if you're still trying to think in...
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useEffect's clean-up function can be pretty confusing, especially if you're still trying to think in lifecycle methods. Let's clarify the clean-up function in this article.
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century) undefined
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Old Structures...
Reuse, Not Really Adaptive From an elevated subway station in Queens: two generations of roof. Or, if you prefer, a palimpsest...
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From an elevated subway station in Queens: two generations of roof. Or, if you prefer, a palimpsest in steel. The roof over the rather wide platform is supported by two lines of columns. That’s a column in the lower left, with the curves of the lower flange of the built-up main...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Mandelstam Dances Barefoot in the Snow Alone' “In the end like all great poets he became a jester”  Not the usual encomium one expects for Osip...
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“In the end like all great poets he became a jester”  Not the usual encomium one expects for Osip Mandelstam, dead at age forty-seven in a Soviet camp, but the eulogist is Zbigniew Herbert, a congenitally ironic poet, ever aware of the comic in the appalling. For my birthday I...
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9 Must-Visit Religious UNESCO Sites in Germany
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Dan Slimmon
Explaining the fire When the firefighters arrive at the blazing building, they don't need to explain the fire. They need...
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When the firefighters arrive at the blazing building, they don't need to explain the fire. They need to put it out. It doesn't matter whether a toaster malfunctioned, or a cat knocked over a candle, or a smoker fell asleep watching The Voice. But when PagerDuty blows up and we...
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School is Not Enough Learning is a consequence of doing
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Simple Does Not Mean Ugly Simple Does Not Mean Ugly 2019-03-26 I see new blog posts popping up now and again advocating for...
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Simple Does Not Mean Ugly 2019-03-26 I see new blog posts popping up now and again advocating for designers to keep their products as simple as possible - and I couldn't agree more. A lot of designers tend to think they need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to UI concepts that...
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The problem with online “local” businesses One of the most popular areas for startups today is “local.”  I probably see a couple of business...
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One of the most popular areas for startups today is “local.”  I probably see a couple of business plans a week that involve local search…
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894) Urbanism in the forest region.
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Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much? Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
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Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
Weighty Thoughts
The Mystical Q OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
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Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel Peter and I have had a number of conversations about what we expect the world to look like in 2030...
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Peter and I have had a number of conversations about what we expect the world to look like in 2030 so we can plan and position our future work accordingly.
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Branding & Packaging Design for NAM Coffee AoiroStudio0508—23 Chochoi Creative, a dynamic branding studio based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and they published a recent collaboration with Nam Coffee, a brand dedicated to bringing Vietnam's...
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With the rolling South Downs on its doorstep, the award-winning Black Timber House by HAPA...
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Conkers In London: Where To Find Them, Where To Play Our hard-hitting guide.
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How to customize your Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards on the go The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage...
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The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage their IoT projects with ease. From tracking sensor data to automating smart devices, the cloud enables seamless connectivity. Complementing this, the Arduino IoT Remote mobile app...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tradition Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Tradition is whatever had just faded when I was...
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Moneyness
China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia I recently shared a chart on Twitter showing Chinese exports of ball bearings to Russia. Here it...
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I recently shared a chart on Twitter showing Chinese exports of ball bearings to Russia. Here it is: Having accelerated after Putin's invasion of Ukraine to a run-rate of around US$5-7 million per month in 2023, Chinese ball bearing exports to Russia have been ratcheted down...
Cartogrammar
Hachures and sketchy relief maps I’ve never been a terrain representation expert, but occasionally I get briefly super interested in...
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over a year ago
I’ve never been a terrain representation expert, but occasionally I get briefly super interested in some DIY technique for relief mapping, not using typical GIS tools or rendering software. Tom Patterson’s old (but still applicable) Photoshop tutorials were my introduction to the...
TheCollector
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety? Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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Seth's Blog
The magic of placebos One of two things is true: A placebo is a force beyond understanding, one that is capable of...
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One of two things is true: A placebo is a force beyond understanding, one that is capable of disappearing when we do the appropriate double-blind tests and has mechanisms that defy our knowledge of the laws of physics. Or… A placebo is a prompt for our subconscious to do the hard...
Joel Gascoigne
Coaching and feedback within startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in the past about the evolution of our culture at Buffer [https://joel.is/post/37639846554/the-evolution-of-culture-at-a-startup]. One of the things we started to do at around 6-7...
computers are bad
2024-12-21 something over New Jersey There were thousands of reports: strange aircraft, floating through the sky. A retrospective sum of...
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There were thousands of reports: strange aircraft, floating through the sky. A retrospective sum of press accounts finds that some 100,000 people were reported to have witnessed aerial intruders. Despite the scant details associated with most reports, an eager press repeated the...
TheCollector
What Is Solipsism? undefined
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Posts on Made of...
New reptyr feature: TTY-stealing Ever since I wrote reptyr, I’ve been frustrated by a number of issues in reptyr that I fundamentally...
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Ever since I wrote reptyr, I’ve been frustrated by a number of issues in reptyr that I fundamentally didn’t know how to solve within the reptyr model. Most annoyingly, reptyr fundamentally only worked on single processes, and could not attach processes with children, making it...
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Array 1.29.0 Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New...
over a year ago
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Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New features include multivariate feature flags, private projects and DAU/WAU/MAU graphs.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Media Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This has been episode 429 of Zach Personally...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This has been episode 429 of Zach Personally Antagonizes His Paying Customers Today's News:
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press JamesHoare Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing...
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Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing line between these two containers should be interactive so the user can drag to resize the respective containers on either side. Perhaps that note is all you get. Or perhaps the...
HTMHell
#4 link-also-button Bad code <a href="https://example.com"> <button>Example</button> </a> Issues and how to fix...
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over a year ago
Bad code <a href="https://example.com"> <button>Example</button> </a> Issues and how to fix them By nesting a button inside of a link, you’re sending two messages: this is a button, but also this is a link. If you’re not sure when to use <a> or <button>, watch The Links vs....
balajis.com
The Bitcoin ETF is the spiritual reversal of Executive Order 6102 Back in 1935, they seized the gold. But now, digital gold is back.
11 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Top Thing of the World' John Keats’ meditation on a reader’s paradise:  “I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant...
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John Keats’ meditation on a reader’s paradise:  “I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner. Let him on a certain day read a certain Page of full Poesy or distilled Prose, and let him wander with it, and muse upon it and reflect from it, and dream...
TheCollector
4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era undefined
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Louwrentius
Things you should consider when building a ZFS NAS ZFS is a modern file system designed by Sun Microsystems, targeted at enterprise environments. Many...
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ZFS is a modern file system designed by Sun Microsystems, targeted at enterprise environments. Many features of ZFS also appeal to home NAS builders and with good reason. But not all features are relevant or necessary for home use. I believe that most home users building their...
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Quadratic Arithmetic Programs: from Zero to Hero
over a year 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...
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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...
Maps Mania
The Best Real-Time Subway Maps
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Math Is Still...
Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help...
a year ago
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New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly haphazard magnetic fields swaddling our solar system’s planets. The post Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism first...
./techtipsy
The minimum viable fan control script I’ve always been a fan of tinkering with cooling setups on my computers. I’ve even went as far as...
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I’ve always been a fan of tinkering with cooling setups on my computers. I’ve even went as far as writing crappy solutions to make up for deficiencies on the hardware level. After years of dumb experiments I’ve seen how little you can get away with in cooling and how to run your...
Retail Design Blog
Dover Street Market Although Paris was initially considered too bourgeois as a location for Rei Kawakubo‘s brilliantly...
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Although Paris was initially considered too bourgeois as a location for Rei Kawakubo‘s brilliantly forward Dover Street Market store concept,...
The Changelog
A Maze of Twisty Little Pixels, All Tiny Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since...
a year ago
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a year ago
Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since I wrote that post, most of those issues have been resolved. But then you throw HiDPI into the mix and it all goes wonky. If you’re running X11, basically the story is that you can...
Platformer
Inside Discord’s reform movement for banned users Most platforms ban their trolls forever. Discord wants to rehabilitate them
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Snobbishness From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, a caption writer with an attitude: Here’s the original...
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From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, a caption writer with an attitude: Here’s the original photo: I agree that City Hall is a fine building. It’s unexpectedly small for the city, but its size made sense when it was completed in 1812. The city government would not today...
A Beautiful Site
Parsing a JSON string results in an 'Invalid Label' error Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred server-side language. I use JSON whenever I can to pass data between JavaScript and PHP. After all, $.get and $.post both process JSON easily, so it's my data type of choice. Sometimes,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Navigations on the Web When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of...
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a month ago
When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of thumb is: links are for navigation, buttons are not. That can take you pretty far. However, like most things, there’s nuance and that mental model can fall apart under certain...
Irrational...
Extract the kernel. As I’ve served longer in an executive role, I’ve started to notice recurring communication...
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As I’ve served longer in an executive role, I’ve started to notice recurring communication challenges between executives and the folks they work with. The most frequent issue I see is when a literal communicator insists on engaging in the details with a less literal executive. I...
Blog System/5
EndBASIC 0.11 is here Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
5 months ago
Math Is Still...
To Defend the Genome, These Cells Destroy Their Own DNA Under a microscope, cells in a worm embryo deliberately eliminated one-third of their genome — an...
a year ago
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Under a microscope, cells in a worm embryo deliberately eliminated one-third of their genome — an uncompromising tactic that may combat harmful genetic parasites. The post To Defend the Genome, These Cells Destroy Their Own DNA first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Cold Air
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Computer Ads from...
Vote for the Topic of the March 2024 Plus Post If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
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Aaron's Essays
In defense of exploding term sheets There’s a lot of content out there arguing that exploding term sheets—ones that expire after a set...
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There’s a lot of content out there arguing that exploding term sheets—ones that expire after a set amount of time, whether or not they’re accepted—are bad. Some of this comes from founders who do not appreciate the pressure; some if it comes from VCs who want to emphasize their...
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Who will control the software that powers the Internet? Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over...
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Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over its most important services has gradually…
Raw Thought (from...
What are the optimal biases to overcome?
over a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Detour to Ashtabula About two and a half years ago I planned to capture three unvisited counties at the far northeastern...
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About two and a half years ago I planned to capture three unvisited counties at the far northeastern corner of Ohio. Unfortunately it didn’t happen due to a snowstorm that dumped about a foot of snow on the target area. So instead I changed my plans and focused on Michigan’s...
TheCollector
Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols undefined
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Willem's Blog
Riding with Omata One If you're looking for an alternative for common cycling computers, the Omata One is something truely...
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over a year ago
If you're looking for an alternative for common cycling computers, the Omata One is something truely special: it indicates your speed, distance, ascent and time ridden using mechanical hands!
Alex Meub
IE 6,7,8 Warning with removeChild On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?”. This is a particularly obscure bug with IE that has caused me lots of grief. First of all, it is indeed a bug with IE. This behavior can be...
Open Culture
When Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson Debated Capitalism Versus Marxism Karl Marx was a German philosopher-historian (with a few other pursuits besides) who wrote in...
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Karl Marx was a German philosopher-historian (with a few other pursuits besides) who wrote in pursuit of an understanding of industrial society as he knew it in the nineteenth century and what its future evolution held in store. There are good reasons to read his work still...
Archinect - Features
USC Students Try a ‘Bottom-Up’ Approach To Sustainable Housing Delivery in the School of... Our latest Archinect Studio Pin-Ups takes a look at three studios at Archinect Partner School USC...
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Our latest Archinect Studio Pin-Ups takes a look at three studios at Archinect Partner School USC School of Architecture, offered as part of their one-year Master of Advanced Architectural Research Studies (M.AARS) postgraduate program. Led by instructors Julia Sulzer and Sascha...
CONTEMPORIST
A Wood-Lined Office That Used To Be A Parking Lot Ujigawa Ohzono Architects has shared photos of a small wood-lined office they designed in Kyoto,...
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Ujigawa Ohzono Architects has shared photos of a small wood-lined office they designed in Kyoto, Japan, that was once a parking lot. The owner of the land, who had been running a construction company in the local area for a long time, decided to create a place where dialogue can...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Important Medium'' I grew up in a place I’ve been told for most of my life should embarrass me. When I went to college...
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I grew up in a place I’ve been told for most of my life should embarrass me. When I went to college and someone asked where I came from, invariably I said “Cleveland” not “Parma Heights,” a suburb on the West Side of that city. By age seventeen I was already sensitive to the...
Posts on Made of...
Some notes on CVE-2010-3081 exploitability Most of you reading this blog probably remember CVE-2010-3081. The bug got an awful lot of publicity...
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over a year ago
Most of you reading this blog probably remember CVE-2010-3081. The bug got an awful lot of publicity when it was discovered an announced, due to allowing local privilege escalation against virtually all 64-bit Linux kernels in common use at the time. While investigating...
The Works in...
From MANUALS to YOUTUBE A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
a year ago
Open Culture
The Story of Lee Miller: From the Cover of Vogue to Hitler’s Bathtub In late-twenties Manhattan, a nineteen-year-old woman named Elizabeth “Lee” Miller stepped off the...
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In late-twenties Manhattan, a nineteen-year-old woman named Elizabeth “Lee” Miller stepped off the curb and into the path of a car. She was pulled back to safety by none other than the magnate Condé Nast, founder of the eponymous publishing company. Not long thereafter, Miller,...
Luxagraf:...
Ready to Start If you're not excited about where you're going, you're going the wrong way. Where you're going may...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you're not excited about where you're going, you're going the wrong way. Where you're going may be challenging, difficult, a real pain in the ass even, but come what may, you should be excited about getting there—both the getting, and the there. That's how you know you're on...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Peace Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the one hand there's data and on the other...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the one hand there's data and on the other there's the tiny angry man in my brain who is VERY persuasive. Today's News: Another lovely review for A City on Mars.
David Gerrells
journey before destination It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the accolades in the future.
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
over a year ago
Maps Mania
The Noisiest Cities in America
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Solve Long-Standing Coloring Problem A new result shows how much of the plane can be colored by points that are never exactly one unit...
a year ago
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a year ago
A new result shows how much of the plane can be colored by points that are never exactly one unit apart. The post Mathematicians Solve Long-Standing Coloring Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Marine Madness
Book Club: ‘How To Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea’ In this absolute must-have for all walkers, sailors, swimmers, divers, photographers, and nature...
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over a year ago
In this absolute must-have for all walkers, sailors, swimmers, divers, photographers, and nature lovers, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares his knowledge and skills to help you navigate and interpret the water around you. Combining elements of natural navigation history,...
Jonas Hietala
The first (worst) post Well, here it is: The opening post. What will come here? Here’s where I’ll outline what the blog...
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over a year ago
Well, here it is: The opening post. What will come here? Here’s where I’ll outline what the blog will be about and maybe, if I’m dedicated, it won’t die before Christmas you think. And sure, you’re right. I will run away to the corner in about two and a half months crying I never...
The American Scholar
Ground Truth A story of dirt, dollars, and death The post Ground Truth appeared first on The American Scholar.
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A story of dirt, dollars, and death The post Ground Truth appeared first on The American Scholar.
A Weekly Dose of...
On Hiatus Monday is when I would normally post a new book review, but instead, this blog and its related...
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a year ago
Monday is when I would normally post a new book review, but instead, this blog and its related newsletter are going on hiatus indefinitely due to a family emergency.
alexwlchan
Making the fish shell more forgetful For quite a few years, I’ve been using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as my shell. One of the cool...
a year ago
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a year ago
For quite a few years, I’ve been using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as my shell. One of the cool things it does is autosuggestions from my shell history. As I’m typing, it suggests (in light grey) a command I’ve run before. I can press the right arrow to accept the suggestion,...
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Twitter as Universal Meta-Commentary Layer Musing about how Twitter can enhance your Internet reading experience
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Cheap solution for putting an SSD in an iMac If you want to order a new iMac with an SSD there are two problems: An SSD of 256 gigabytes will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to order a new iMac with an SSD there are two problems: An SSD of 256 gigabytes will cost you a lot: 600 euros. The SSD is of medium quality, and does not justify the cost of 600 euros. Here you can find information about the Toshiba SSD that Apple provides. You can...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset 4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my...
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4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771 in 2024, and my backlog mounting to 43GB (according to this script, I have Outstanding Episodes: 11915 (played: 22451)), I am...
Retail Design Blog
Polene Paris Seoul Flagship Store by WGNB The design narrative of Polène’s Seoul flagship store is a sophisticated exploration of space...
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The design narrative of Polène’s Seoul flagship store is a sophisticated exploration of space through the metaphorical and practical use...
Open Culture
Hear the Isolated Vocals of Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush in “Don’t Give Up”: The Power of Perseverance Just by chance, could you use a song about perseverance and overcoming adversity? Something to give...
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Just by chance, could you use a song about perseverance and overcoming adversity? Something to give you a little encouragement and reassurance? Then we submit to you “Don’t Give Up,” featuring the isolated vocals of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. When he released the song on his...
Blog - Practical...
The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In March of 1989, Earth...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In March of 1989, Earth experienced one of its strongest geomagnetic storms in modern history. It all started when scientists observed a cluster of sunspots—active, magnetic areas on the sun's surface—emerging...
The Marginalian
The Fairy Tale Tree Creativity is at bottom the combinatorial work of memory and imagination. All of our impressions,...
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11 months ago
Creativity is at bottom the combinatorial work of memory and imagination. All of our impressions, influences, and experiences — every sight we have ever seen, every book read, every landscape walked, every love loved — become seeds for ideas we later combine and recombine,...
McMansion Hell
In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors -... Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis In my latest column for The Nation, I...
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a year ago
Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors - I think single stair is wonderful! - But I also don’t think it’s some kind of panacea for the housing crisis.
Good Enough
My Tears of the Kingdom Addiction I don’t know how big my internet social bubble really is, but it feels like everyone in the world...
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a year ago
I don’t know how big my internet social bubble really is, but it feels like everyone in the world that bubble has been playing a lot of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom lately. Me included! It’s amazing, and I’m thoroughly engrossed—I think I’ve stayed up playing until...
TokyoDev
RubyKaigi 2023 Recap It’s been more than 3 years since I attended a dev conference - the last time was pre-pandemic, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been more than 3 years since I attended a dev conference - the last time was pre-pandemic, and it was a [conference I helped organise](https://www.dddmelbourne.com). I didn’t know what to expect heading into Matsumoto for [RubyKaigi 2023](https://rubykaigi.org/2023/) this...
99% Invisible
The Memory Palace…Book! Back in 2008, Nate DiMeo started a podcast called The Memory Palace. Each episode of the show...
a month ago
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a month ago
Back in 2008, Nate DiMeo started a podcast called The Memory Palace. Each episode of the show wrapped a little known piece of history inside one of Nate’s poetic essays. His stories have a remarkable way of combining facts with insight to call to mind forgotten moments from the...
Blog - Mac Pierce
+ / - , Actualization Reposting some writing I did a while back on the subject of how additive manufacturing is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Reposting some writing I did a while back on the subject of how additive manufacturing is necessarily a destructive process.