diamond geezer
In the shadow of
We often say somewhere is "in the shadow of" something without it necessarily being true.
The sun...
10 months ago
We often say somewhere is "in the shadow of" something without it necessarily being true.
The sun does not cast a shadow from the first location to the second, that's not how daylight works, so these places are not "in the shadow of".
Let's start with something familiar in...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
Castles in the Sky
Foom Anxiety
Castles in the Sky #41
a year ago
latest projects -...
Simsim Pendant
[Concept] Mercurial Medallion
9 months ago
[Concept] Mercurial Medallion
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Cool Malignity of Othello'
“As Shakespeare
went on, however, he became interested in why people like evil, not for their
own...
a year ago
“As Shakespeare
went on, however, he became interested in why people like evil, not for their
own advantage but for its own sake.”
In his
lecture on Othello, W.H. Auden understands,
as a growing number of our contemporaries do not, that evil is autonomous and
self-justifying....
Retail Design Blog
Mooncake gift box set 1: Tianyun Yayue by BXL Packaging Design
Grand Skylight Hotel and BXL have collaborated creatively to launch a mooncake gift box for the...
3 months ago
Grand Skylight Hotel and BXL have collaborated creatively to launch a mooncake gift box for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncake gift...
The Ruffian
The Renaissance Redux
'Notes On the Florentine Renaissance' Free To Read This Time
6 months ago
'Notes On the Florentine Renaissance' Free To Read This Time
fast.ai
nbdev+Quarto: A new secret weapon for productivity
Our favorite tool for software engineering productivity–nbdev, now re-written with Quarto
over a year ago
Our favorite tool for software engineering productivity–nbdev, now re-written with Quarto
The American Scholar
A Giant of a Man
The legacy of Willie Mays and the Birmingham ballpark where he first made his mark
The post A Giant...
2 months ago
The legacy of Willie Mays and the Birmingham ballpark where he first made his mark
The post A Giant of a Man appeared first on The American Scholar.
Rest of World -...
Uber’s big plan for India: buses
Uber Shuttle, a shared bus ride service, is available in two Indian cities. The company plans to...
2 weeks ago
Uber Shuttle, a shared bus ride service, is available in two Indian cities. The company plans to launch in three more cities soon.
Londonist
Street Art Hopscotch Appears In London, With A Potent Anti-War Message
“Stop talking about the politics of war and think more about the children suffering from conflict."
a year ago
“Stop talking about the politics of war and think more about the children suffering from conflict."
Wanderingspace
Uranus is not as boring as we thought
“An animation of three near-infrared images of Uranus captured by the JWST Space Telescope with...
4 weeks ago
“An animation of three near-infrared images of Uranus captured by the JWST Space Telescope with assigned representative colors. During processing, I aligned the rings separately to reduce the bubbling effect caused by different inclinations, making the planet appear to rotate on...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Loss Not to Be Repaired'
“We dined at
our inn, and had with us a Mr. Jackson, one of Johnson’s schoolfellows, whom he
treated...
a year ago
“We dined at
our inn, and had with us a Mr. Jackson, one of Johnson’s schoolfellows, whom he
treated with much kindness, though he seemed to be a low man, dull and
untaught. He had a coarse grey coat, black waistcoat, greasy leather breeches,
and a yellow uncurled wig; and his...
Map of the Week
Countries with Women Leaders
Here is a map from the Washington Post, via Reddit showing countries past & present with women as...
a month ago
Here is a map from the Washington Post, via Reddit showing countries past & present with women as heads of state. Click it (and then again) for higher resolution.
We in the United States like to think we are the most advanced country in the world but by this metric we are well...
Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
2 weeks ago
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
TheCollector
What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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a year ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: TRAM d’Alacant Fare Zones, 2023
Submitted by Roberto, who says: I would like to share the TRAM d’Alacant fare zone map. It describes...
a year ago
Submitted by Roberto, who says: I would like to share the TRAM d’Alacant fare zone map. It describes the different zones and stops of this tramway/narrow gauge train in the Spanish province of Alacant (Alicante). It’s been reopened recently after six years of renovation works....
Steve Klabnik
Beware subclassing Ruby core classes
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Software eats software development
Software is eating the world, and doing so using smaller and smaller teams. WhatsApp was able to...
over a year ago
Software is eating the world, and doing so using smaller and smaller teams. WhatsApp was able to disrupt the global SMS industry with only a…
Blog - Practical...
How To Install a Pipeline Under a Railroad
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is the Union Pacific...
10 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is the Union Pacific Railroad’s Austin Subdivision in central Texas. It’s a busy corridor that moves both freight and passengers north and south between Austin and San Antonio… But it’s mostly freight....
TheCollector
Who Were the Pilgrims?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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6 months ago
The Honest Broker
My 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023
Number one will surprise you
11 months ago
Number one will surprise you
Retail Design Blog
Old London Way gin by Andranik Ovsepian
Explore “Old London Way”: a captivating journey through the diverse world of gin, where each variant...
7 months ago
Explore “Old London Way”: a captivating journey through the diverse world of gin, where each variant unveils its own captivating...
Diaries of Note
Every lie pronounced is accepted as high truth itself
William Shirer was an American journalist who found himself at the heart of unfolding history in...
a year ago
William Shirer was an American journalist who found himself at the heart of unfolding history in Nazi Germany, both in print and on the radio for CBS. In September of 1934, just one month after Hitler assumed the title of Führer, Shirer attended the Nuremberg rally, where an...
David Heinemeier...
We need a Right To Compute
The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If...
11 months ago
The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If it’s a computer, we ought to have the right to compute. Like consumers have won the right to repair. If it’s a computer, it ought to be yours, and you ought to have the right to...
Maps Mania
Who are Your Neighbors Donating to?
a month ago
Maps Mania
Battles of World War II & American Wars
5 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
10 Shopify SEO best practices with Sanity and Remix
Ecommerce competition keeps increasing - for each product you now have dozens of alternatives.
As a...
a year ago
Ecommerce competition keeps increasing - for each product you now have dozens of alternatives.
As a result, CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) increases, pushing ecommerce business owners to look for more affordable lead generation strategies.
SEO is one of them. Online store...
Londonist
New Barbie Exhibition To Open In London Next Year
Hi Barbie!
a year ago
Old Structures...
Old-Fashioned Spelling
From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us...
10 months ago
From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us “The Willams [sic] Street Cañon”. The drawing seems pretty accurate. Here’s a similar view in a photo from 1928: I am a little suspicious of an article that misspells a street name...
The Modern House
Four at the Fore: London’s most innovative creatives on pushing things forward
a year ago
TheCollector
8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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5 months ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
useEffect sometimes fires before paint
useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really...
over a year ago
useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really guaranteed to fire after paint? Updating state in useLayoutEffect makes every useEffect from the same render run before paint, effectively turning them into layout effects....
bt RSS Feed
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and...
over a year ago
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and implementing a grid layout is no different.
Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language
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a month ago
Renegade Otter
AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You
.highlight pre {
background-color: #efecec;
border-color:...
8 months ago
.highlight pre {
background-color: #efecec;
border-color: var(--theme-secondary-background-color);
border-radius: 10px;
}
The firehose of data is turned on
In the beginning, the Internet was a small, cozy place. Most people weren’t online, and most businesses...
The Honest Broker
When a Single Person Controlled the Copyright on All Music (Even Blank Music Paper)
Music copyright law is a mess today—but it's always been that way
a year ago
Music copyright law is a mess today—but it's always been that way
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Vacuum with American Light'
Edward Hopper
is often a favorite painter of literary-minded people because, I suspect, so
many of...
7 months ago
Edward Hopper
is often a favorite painter of literary-minded people because, I suspect, so
many of his works suggest in-media-res excerpts from larger narratives. Looking
as his paintings is like opening a novel to a memorable scene,
without access to backstory or subsequent...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Book
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Thanks for supporting this book -- it has succeeded...
10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Thanks for supporting this book -- it has succeeded all expectations.
Today's News:
Computer Ads from...
Applied Analytics' MicroSPEED
Test-Fly A $20 Million Jet On An Apple? Yes. With MicroSPEED
6 months ago
Test-Fly A $20 Million Jet On An Apple? Yes. With MicroSPEED
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
The DESK Magazine
The case for being ignorant
I am sure you know this feeling. You find a new book that you absolutely love. A new movie, a new TV...
7 months ago
I am sure you know this feeling. You find a new book that you absolutely love. A new movie, a new TV series or even a new hobby such as cycling or designing. It can be anything and everything.
History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
7 months ago
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
The Thinking Cap
Please Build More Silly Things
Hacking on fun things with curious co-conspirators is a superpower
a year ago
Hacking on fun things with curious co-conspirators is a superpower
swyx's site RSS Feed
Slack is Fumbling Developers
Reflecting on the sudden switch away from Slack for Developer communities
over a year ago
Reflecting on the sudden switch away from Slack for Developer communities
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week
#1 💡 While alcohol is becoming less and less nicotine is having a comeback. Even Einstein...
8 months ago
#1 💡 While alcohol is becoming less and less nicotine is having a comeback. Even Einstein reportedly believed that Nicotine contributed to a calm and objective judgment. But while there are thousands of “premium” options when it comes to consuming alcohol, all Nicotine...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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a month ago
One Useful Thing
Thinking companion, companion for thinking
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
a year ago
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
cdixon.org RSS Feed
What’s the relationship between cost and price?
What’s the relationship between price – the ability to charge for your product – and cost – how much...
over a year ago
What’s the relationship between price – the ability to charge for your product – and cost – how much it costs you to produce it? Price is a…
Maps Mania
Guess This City - Daily Challenge
7 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Screen Printing a Repeat Pattern
Printing a length of your own designed fabric is so exciting but most of us do not have the luxury...
a year ago
Printing a length of your own designed fabric is so exciting but most of us do not have the luxury of a fabric registration table. Here's an easy step by step guide to printing a repeat pattern on a length of fabric using an A4 43T screen.
Draw the design motifs onto...
Rest of World -...
Clickwork in Brazil: A mom balancing endless gigs with childcare
Through platforms like UHRS, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Appen, a clickworker takes on a job...
a year ago
Through platforms like UHRS, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Appen, a clickworker takes on a job consisting of hundreds of quick, repetitive tasks.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image, Part II: As Little JS As Possible
This is part two of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image.
Project...
a week ago
This is part two of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image.
Project Announcement
Pt. I: Design Iterations
Pt. II: As Little JS As Possible
One of my goals when making this project was to use as little JavaScript as possible.
In retrospect, I have to...
Both Are True
A study of the heart (guest post)
cardiology and a dream rendezvous
7 months ago
cardiology and a dream rendezvous
The Marginalian
Poetry as Prayer: The Great Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva on Reclaiming the Divine
"In our age, to have the courage for direct speech to God (for prayer) we must either not know what...
5 months ago
"In our age, to have the courage for direct speech to God (for prayer) we must either not know what poems are, or forget."
Daniel Miessler
GPT and Search
There’s a lot of talk about how GPT is going to take over search. Meaning, compete with or take down...
over a year ago
There’s a lot of talk about how GPT is going to take over search. Meaning, compete with or take down Google. I get the excitement there, but there are some pretty serious barriers to having this happen immediately. First, GPT is non-deterministic, meaning you can ask it the same...
Benny Kuriakose
A Guide to Interior Photography of Historic Buildings - Part III
Interior views add valuable information to the documentation of a historic building. To capture the...
a year ago
Interior views add valuable information to the documentation of a historic building. To capture the true essence of the building, the...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Making semantic sidenotes without JavaScript
One of the first things I learned about professional writing is that it’s best to remove all...
over a year ago
One of the first things I learned about professional writing is that it’s best to remove all unnecessary words. Problem...
Seth's Blog
Trying harder
Or trying better? Fast runners aren’t the same as slow runners, but with more effort. And great...
11 months ago
Or trying better? Fast runners aren’t the same as slow runners, but with more effort. And great chefs or violinists or actors… it’s not about doing what you did yesterday, but more of that. It’s something different.
TheCollector
How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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6 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
The agent principal problem
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
a year ago
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
TheCollector
Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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a year ago
Epic Web Dev
The True Purpose of Testing (article)
Discover the true essence of automated testing and the difference between an implementation and...
11 months ago
Discover the true essence of automated testing and the difference between an implementation and intention.
Old Structures...
Four Views For Advertising
From 1909, we’ve got some amazing sketches of the view from the Singer Building, created to show how...
9 months ago
From 1909, we’ve got some amazing sketches of the view from the Singer Building, created to show how wonderful it would be to have an office there. South: West: North: East: I’m not going to go into detail about all the buildings you can see, as I’ve done so many times before....
Rest of World -...
South Africans are using a power outage notification app to sell weed, find odd jobs
With blackouts devastating the country’s economy, EskomSePush’s AskMyStreet feature has become a...
a year ago
With blackouts devastating the country’s economy, EskomSePush’s AskMyStreet feature has become a rare bright spot for gig workers.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Does a VC’s brand matter?
Suppose you are in the enviable position of choosing between offers from multiple VC firms. How...
over a year ago
Suppose you are in the enviable position of choosing between offers from multiple VC firms. How much should you weigh the brand of the VCs…
Blog - Practical...
How Railroad Crossings Work
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
If you’ve ever ridden a bike,...
11 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
If you’ve ever ridden a bike, driven a car, or operated pretty much any other vehicle on earth, there’s a fact you’ve probably taken for granted: you can see farther than it takes to stop. Within the span...
Weighty Thoughts
Why ChatGPT Strawberry o1 (and other LLMs) will Never be Good at Diagnosis
“Connectionist” vs. Knowledge-Based AI
2 months ago
“Connectionist” vs. Knowledge-Based AI
Seth's Blog
Toward stickiness
Getting the word out is easy to measure and exciting as well. Focusing on this misses the point. You...
a year ago
Getting the word out is easy to measure and exciting as well. Focusing on this misses the point. You might be able to get a song played on the radio, but will the song motivate listeners to show up at the concert? The math is simple: You can’t build a freelance career or a...
Society's Backend
JAX is for More Than Just Machine Learning
What JAX is and its potential applications
6 months ago
What JAX is and its potential applications
CONTEMPORIST
A Rusty Exterior For A Home In A Rustic Setting
CLB Architects has shared photos of the ‘Paintbrush Residence’, a modern home they designed in...
a year ago
CLB Architects has shared photos of the ‘Paintbrush Residence’, a modern home they designed in Jackson, Wyoming, that has a weathered steel exterior. Located in a dappled Aspen grove, the home incorporates slow-weathering materials such as oxidized steel and cedar, allowing it to...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
11 months ago
TheCollector
Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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2 months ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, September 2023
The Ware for September 2023 is shown below. Thanks to FETguy for contributing this ware!
a year ago
The Ware for September 2023 is shown below. Thanks to FETguy for contributing this ware!
The Honest Broker
We Have Entered the Self-Loathing Stage of the Internet
Or why web platforms keep changing their names like criminals in the Witness Protection Program
a year ago
Or why web platforms keep changing their names like criminals in the Witness Protection Program
Patrick Kayongo
Can I Speak To Someone?
On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from...
a year ago
On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from Heathrow Airport, London. After boarding, the flight remained on the runway for over an hour without taking off. Eventually, the pilot told us that due to the coup in Niger, the...
Old Structures...
Tiny and Cute, But Purposeful
This is the lighthouse at the northern tip of Roosevelt Island. The island is two miles long and a...
6 months ago
This is the lighthouse at the northern tip of Roosevelt Island. The island is two miles long and a tenth of a mile wide, cutting the East River into two roughly-equal half-channels. That alone makes the need for lighthouses at its tip reasonably clear, but the conditions are...
Open Culture
Explore and Download 14,000+ Woodcuts from Antwerp’s Plantin-Moretus Museum Online Archive
We appreciate illuminated manuscripts and historical books here on Open Culture, adhere though we do...
3 weeks ago
We appreciate illuminated manuscripts and historical books here on Open Culture, adhere though we do to a much more restrained aesthetic style in our own texts. But that’s not to deny the temptation to start this paragraph with one of those oversized initial letters that grew...
Grow With Less
Is Your Article's Date Destroying Your Rankings?
Having a recent date associated with your article could be the difference between a page 1 ranking...
over a year ago
Having a recent date associated with your article could be the difference between a page 1 ranking and a page 5 ranking.
This means that you should not only keep your content up-to-date but also make sure that Google knows it’s up-to-date.
This article will show you how to find...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty...
a year ago
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone
wants.
Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have
no idea when it’ll be back.
So, driven by the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Solar
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
At the very least, I feel this would be a good dual...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
At the very least, I feel this would be a good dual use of photovoltaics.
Today's News:
TheCollector
Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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2 months ago
Arduino Blog
This nature-inspired display reacts to ambient sounds
We all need ways to calm down and relax, and few things are as effective as nature itself. Taking...
a week ago
We all need ways to calm down and relax, and few things are as effective as nature itself. Taking inspiration from organic patterns and smooth, flowing waves, dzeng on Instructables has built an LED wall light that responds in real-time to the sounds within a room. The project...
Old Structures...
The Skull Beneath The Feathers
I like birds to begin with; this hummingbird sculpture in Montreal seems designed specifically for a...
4 weeks ago
I like birds to begin with; this hummingbird sculpture in Montreal seems designed specifically for a structural engineer who likes birds.
Seth's Blog
The braid out of balance
There are three strands, present for most everyone: Power (sometimes seen as status, or the...
a year ago
There are three strands, present for most everyone: Power (sometimes seen as status, or the appearance of status) Safety (survival and peace of mind) Meaning (hope and the path forward) The changes in our media structure, public health and economy have pushed some people to...
Steve Klabnik
Getting started with chruby
over a year ago
TheCollector
Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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3 weeks ago
nanoscale views
Condensed matter on the public stage, and not in a good way
This week, condensed matter physics has been getting far more broad public attention than usual, and...
a year ago
This week, condensed matter physics has been getting far more broad public attention than usual, and while in the abstract I like our discipline getting noticed, this is definitely not how I’d have preferred it to happen.
First, more fun re Ranga Dias. Fresh off renewed...
The Modern House
Furnishing Futures: the charity improving the lives of domestic abuse survivors – one piece of...
When a domestic abuse victim is given the keys to their new home, many will find that it comes...
3 weeks ago
When a domestic abuse victim is given the keys to their new home, many will find that it comes unfurnished, often without even carpets on the floors. It can be the cause of much stress for these women, who have recently fled an abusive home […]
Rest of World -...
Meta is training its AI with public Instagram posts. Artists in Latin America can’t opt out
Latin America lacks robust data protection laws that would allow Meta users in the region to...
5 months ago
Latin America lacks robust data protection laws that would allow Meta users in the region to prohibit the company from using their content.
Christopher Butler
What happens when the computers disappear?
The computer has become a primary dependency of civilization without being nearly as enmeshed in...
a year ago
The computer has become a primary dependency of civilization without being nearly as enmeshed in daily life as it will be.
What happens when the computers disappear? Not, of course, when there are no more computers, but when they are so ubiquitous and omnipresent that we can...
Roberto Vitillo's...
How distributed systems fail
At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes,...
over a year ago
At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…
Seth's Blog
Who pays?
Supply and demand are always in a dance, with one outpacing the other from time to time. In the last...
11 months ago
Supply and demand are always in a dance, with one outpacing the other from time to time. In the last three years, the green tech revolution has accelerated dramatically. Countless companies are being created to change how food is grown, people are transported and energy is...
Noahpinion
Why not put TSMC and Samsung fabs in Canada?
A solution that's almost too perfect.
a year ago
A solution that's almost too perfect.
The Ruffian
Five Bad Motivations With Good Outcomes
Plus a Rattle Bag of Juicy Links
5 months ago
Plus a Rattle Bag of Juicy Links
TheCollector
Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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11 months ago
Words and Buttons...
Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infinite
With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it...
over a year ago
With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it but the whole function.
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Author Who Inspires Such Perennial Affection'
“This
impossibly erudite, overbearing, tender, and anguished man lived in a perpetual
state of...
a week ago
“This
impossibly erudite, overbearing, tender, and anguished man lived in a perpetual
state of dissatisfaction with himself which only disciplined labor could allay
but never completely still.”
In their moral
and emotional complexity, certain lives resemble the finest novels –...
Last Place Comics
Low Battery
The post Low Battery appeared first on Last Place Comics.
3 months ago
The post Low Battery appeared first on Last Place Comics.
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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a month ago
Old Structures...
Familiar Yet Not
I’ve been playing around with 1940s.nyc. That site is a really nice front-end interface for the...
5 months ago
I’ve been playing around with 1940s.nyc. That site is a really nice front-end interface for the 1940s tax photos of every building in the city that can be found with a much less nice interface at the city archive website. My way of testing a site like this is to look at locations...
A Weekly Dose of...
Book Briefs #35 Revisited
Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago,...
a year ago
Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago, in an effort to write a "Better Late Than Never" installment of "Book Briefs," something I had done back in April 2018 with Book Briefs #35. But, sensing I would not be able to...
Sam Altman
How To Invest In Startups
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder. But there isn’t very much about...
over a year ago
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder. But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor.
Before going any further, I should point out that this is a particularly hard time to invest in startups—it’s easier right now to be a...
Arduino Blog
5 ways to use Arduino with kids
One of the great things about making is that it really is for everyone — every budget, every skill...
7 months ago
One of the great things about making is that it really is for everyone — every budget, every skill level, and every age group. Children are one of the groups that can benefit the most from Arduino. Getting exposed to making and home automation from an early age can be enormously...
Words and Buttons...
Lagrange polynomial as a gateway drug to basis splines
This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis...
over a year ago
This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis polynomial, and how come it's a polynomial in the first place.
Contemporist...
The Exposed Wood Ceiling Of This Home Shows Off Its Structure
Eva Hinds Arquitectura has shared photos of a modern home they have completed in La Libertad, El...
10 months ago
Eva Hinds Arquitectura has shared photos of a modern home they have completed in La Libertad, El Salvador, that has exposed structural elements.
Retail Design Blog
John Hardy Boutique by Blancostudio & Kalpa Taru
Designed by Blanco Studio & crafted by Kalpa Taru, interior design at John Hardy’s workshop in...
a month ago
Designed by Blanco Studio & crafted by Kalpa Taru, interior design at John Hardy’s workshop in Mambal, Bali, is a...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
over a year ago
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
nanoscale views
The 2022 Welch Conference
The last couple of weeks have been very full.
One event was the annual Welch Foundation conference...
over a year ago
The last couple of weeks have been very full.
One event was the annual Welch Foundation conference (program here). The program chair for this one was W. E. Moerner, expert (and Nobel Laureate) on single-molecule spectroscopy, and it was really a great meeting. I'm not just...
beep.blog
.io considered harmful
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their...
a year ago
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
The Ruffian
The Google Gemini Debacle Shows Us Why Office Politics Matters More Than Ever
On the Real Alignment Problem
9 months ago
On the Real Alignment Problem
IEEE Spectrum
This Wearable Computer Made a Fashion Statement
Google Glass debuted, the artist Lisa Krohn designed a prototype wearable computer that looked like...
5 months ago
Google Glass debuted, the artist Lisa Krohn designed a prototype wearable computer that looked like no other. The Cyberdesk was an experiment in augmented reality. At a time when computers were mostly beige and boxy, Krohn envisioned a pliable, high-tech garment that fused...
A Beautiful Site
How to get the dominant colors of an image with Color Thief
You know how Dribbble shows a color palette for each shot users upload? They always look perfect...
over a year ago
You know how Dribbble shows a color palette for each shot users upload? They always look perfect right? Here's a tool that can give you the same quality results using pure JavaScript.
I played with Color Thief a few months ago but surprisingly never posted about it. For me,...
Mazdak
Walmart Goes All-In on AI: Building the Retail Future, One Personalized Shopping Spree at a Time
Forget the days of aimlessly wandering Walmart's aisles, clutching a crumpled grocery list and...
11 months ago
Forget the days of aimlessly wandering Walmart's aisles, clutching a crumpled grocery list and battling for the last box of Oreos. The retail giant is about to revolutionize your shopping experience with a generative AI makeover. Imagine this: You're planning a Super Bowl bash,...
TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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a year ago
Farnam Street
Why Write
Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one for you? Why write an...
a year ago
Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one for you? Why write an email when AI can auto-respond for you with all the typical pleasantries and talking-points? While AI doing these things for you is likely to happen, it’s not necessarily a good thing....
The Honest Broker
Terry Gibbs Celebrates His 100th Birthday—but Why Isn't He a NEA Jazz Master?
A newly-discovered recording from 1959 reminds us of this artist's greatness
2 months ago
A newly-discovered recording from 1959 reminds us of this artist's greatness
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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6 months ago
Computer Things
How to argue for something without any scientific evidence
Last week I got this interesting question:
I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
9 months ago
Last week I got this interesting question:
I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
TheCollector
Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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a year ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
10 Years of Fonts In Use
Contributed by Nick Sherman
License: All Rights Reserved.
Fonts In Use officially launched 10...
over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman
License: All Rights Reserved.
Fonts In Use officially launched 10 years ago today, on December 21, 2010. The site, which started as just the Blog before opening up to public contributions in 2012, has grown far beyond our expectations when we...
Flashbak
Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
a year ago
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
42!
I got booted from one of my own company’s Slack channels...
So, last week I got removed from one of my company’s Slack channels… and it was probably the best...
a year ago
So, last week I got removed from one of my company’s Slack channels… and it was probably the best thing that could have happened for me, and my company.
You see, like most companies, we have ‘global’ chat channels that everyone participates in, plus each team has distinct...
The Ruffian
Movies as Discourse Generators
Notes on Recent Films
a year ago
Society's Backend
Founder Mode, How AI Impacts Education, Diffusion Models As Real-Time Game Engines, and More
Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
3 months ago
Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
diamond geezer
The circular tube map
Is there no limit to the number of tube map variants?
It prioritises the Circle line whose...
10 months ago
Is there no limit to the number of tube map variants?
It prioritises the Circle line whose traditional loop has been manipulated into a perfect circle, but it distorts the hell out of all the other tube lines. Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus are on opposite sides of the...
Seth's Blog
Fooled
Now it’s a business model. People are regularly fooled by crypto scams, NFT hype, opioid felons,...
a year ago
Now it’s a business model. People are regularly fooled by crypto scams, NFT hype, opioid felons, algorithmic spam at scale, health claims, illogical political arguments, fundraising pitches, overnight shortcuts on the road to riches or happiness and MLM hustle. Your account has...
Maps Mania
China vs America - World Influence Map
3 months ago
TheCollector
3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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a year ago
Diaries of Note
Come ennui
When he wrote the following diary entry in September of 1918, John Dos Passos was already a veteran...
a year ago
When he wrote the following diary entry in September of 1918, John Dos Passos was already a veteran of the ambulance service, having served in the battlefields of Verdun and Mort Homme in 1917, as well as on Italy’s Mt. Grappa. But he now found himself entangled in the...
Retail Design Blog
CroWn Chocolate by Camo Creative
The CroWn Chocolate packaging design is a visual treat that really knows how to stand out while...
a month ago
The CroWn Chocolate packaging design is a visual treat that really knows how to stand out while keeping things simple...
charity.wtf
The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering
First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two...
over a year ago
First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: The reality is that jack-of-all-trades systems infrastructure jobs are slowly...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
It takes hard work. Do the hard work.
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over a year ago
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Something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is the idea of simply trying
harder with everything I choose to spend my time on. It seems like an elusive
thing, the idea of optimal focus and...
This Space
39 Books: 2014
One could say that Mallarmé, through an extraordinary effort of asceticism, opened an abyss in...
7 months ago
One could say that Mallarmé, through an extraordinary effort of asceticism, opened an abyss in himself where his awareness, instead of losing itself, survives and grasps its solitude in a desperate clarity.
This is from The Silence of Mallarmé, an essay in Blanchot's first...
Blog System/5
Windows NT: Peeking into the cradle
A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
a year ago
A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
Noahpinion
Putin is a rest stop on the road of post-Soviet collapse
The narrative of Russian revitalization is more hype than reality.
a year ago
The narrative of Russian revitalization is more hype than reality.
The Modern House
Designer Sue Minter’s colourful country house in the Cotswolds
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
./techtipsy
About the time I used Google Drive as a CMS for a web app
Near the beginning of my software development career, I worked on a pretty
standard web application....
over a year ago
Near the beginning of my software development career, I worked on a pretty
standard web application. The project was not a commercial success, but it did
give me a good technical foundation that turned out to be very useful for my
career so far.
For those interested, the tech...
HTMHell
#14 not my type
Bad code
<a type="button" class="button" href="/signup" tabindex="-1">Sign up</a>
Issues and how to...
over a year ago
Bad code
<a type="button" class="button" href="/signup" tabindex="-1">Sign up</a>
Issues and how to fix them
The type attribute has no effect on the semantics of an <a> element.
An anchor may have the type attribute, but the value should be a valid MIME type. Browsers may...
Seth's Blog
Good businesses solve real problems
But not all real problems lead to good businesses. There are problems all around us. People need...
a year ago
But not all real problems lead to good businesses. There are problems all around us. People need housing, health care and food. They want delight, belonging and status. When a company shows up in the marketplace with a product or service that people eagerly choose to buy, it’s...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Anatomy of a bad search result
In a post last week, Paul Kedrosky noted his frustration when looking for a new dishwasher using...
over a year ago
In a post last week, Paul Kedrosky noted his frustration when looking for a new dishwasher using Google. I thought it might be interesting…
Noahpinion
The case of the angry history postdoc
Elite overproduction spotted in the wild.
6 months ago
Elite overproduction spotted in the wild.
Noahpinion
Progressives need to learn to take the W
Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.
3 months ago
Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Not At All Reliable for Climbing On'
Decades ago
I interviewed a guy who had climbed all forty-six of the high peaks in New...
8 months ago
Decades ago
I interviewed a guy who had climbed all forty-six of the high peaks in New York’s
Adirondack Mountains in his bare feet. Surprisingly, he completed the shoeless stunt
without serious injury. It was one of those Ripley’s-Believe-It-or-Not
accomplishments that seems...
TheCollector
What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Salty
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
TheCollector
What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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TheCollector
Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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6 months ago
Math Is Still...
Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making
A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and...
2 months ago
A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture.
The post Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making first appeared on...
Anecdotal Evidence
'In Constant Repair'
“In the streets I saw two men meet after a long separation, it
was plain. They came forward with a...
2 months ago
“In the streets I saw two men meet after a long separation, it
was plain. They came forward with a little run and LEAPED at each other’s
hands. You never saw such bright eyes as they both had. It put one in a good
humour to see it.”
Yet again I’ve heard the small-minded slur that...
Rest of World -...
How we’re tracking AI incidents around global elections
Rest of World is collecting examples of AI being used for campaigning, misinformation, and memes in...
8 months ago
Rest of World is collecting examples of AI being used for campaigning, misinformation, and memes in a regularly updated tracker.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Life Which Is Spent in a Kind of Limbo'
A reader has
taken my suggestion that she read the fiction of the English writer Francis
Wyndham...
a year ago
A reader has
taken my suggestion that she read the fiction of the English writer Francis
Wyndham (1924-2017), and reports she’s enjoying herself. “I see a little Henry
James in his stories,” she writes, “but he’s really not like anybody else.” Exactly
right.
Wyndham’s
writing...
devonzuegel.com
Markets in everything at the Duomo
You're not allowed inside the Duomo with your shoulders uncovered. We learned this the hard way. I...
over a year ago
You're not allowed inside the Duomo with your shoulders uncovered. We learned this the hard way. I was wearing a spaghetti strap dress (it's 92℉/33℃ and humid here in Milan), so they stopped my little group at the entrance, after we'd already purchased 3 tickets.
Luckily, we...
Strange Loop Canon
The age of access
the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
a year ago
the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bang
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a year ago
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The weirdest thing is when the conscious minds start inventing reasons for all of this.
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Psst - I'm told Bea Wolf will be highly discounted on Amazon tomorrow and the next day. Stay tuned.
Ferd.ca
Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops
2023/06/20
Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops
This post contains a transcript of the...
a year ago
2023/06/20
Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops
This post contains a transcript of the talk I wrote for and gave at QCon New York 2023 for Vanessa Huerta Granda's track on resilience engineering.
The official talk title was "Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback...
macwright.com
Recently
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
3 months ago
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories.
Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
RhysTranter.com
Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints
In 'A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints', Mark Cooprider offers an accessible analysis of...
over a year ago
In 'A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints', Mark Cooprider offers an accessible analysis of Terrence Malick's 2019 biopic of the Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter—executed in 1943 for his refusal to swear allegiance to National Socialism. Cooprider explores...
Rest of World -...
Why Southeast Asia became a spyware hotspot
A new Amnesty International report raises difficult questions.
7 months ago
A new Amnesty International report raises difficult questions.
Charles Chen
End-to-End Type Safety with .NET7, TypeScript, and OpenAPI -- with Hot Rebuild
Supercharge your dev workflow with end-to-end type safety and hot rebuild!
a year ago
Supercharge your dev workflow with end-to-end type safety and hot rebuild!
Louwrentius
Distributed Parallel Processing Shell Script (PPSS) released
I'd like to announce the release of the distributed version of the Parallel
Processing Shell Script...
over a year ago
I'd like to announce the release of the distributed version of the Parallel
Processing Shell Script (PPSS). PPSS is a bash script that allows you to
run commands in parallel. It is written to make use of current multi-core
CPUs.
The new distributed version of PPSS allows you to...
Retail Design Blog
union.bistro
The union.bistro project combines functionality, aesthetics, and an atmosphere inspired by culinary...
4 days ago
The union.bistro project combines functionality, aesthetics, and an atmosphere inspired by culinary art. Its design integrates materials, colors, textures, and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The importance of dogfooding - Why product managers should use their product as much as their users
Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction...
over a year ago
Product testing is essential, but your testing won’t always pick up the small sources of friction which build up over time and frustrate your users…
Escaping Flatland
Things I learned working with artists
As I said in “Lessons I learned working at an art gallery,” I had several observations that I...
3 days ago
As I said in “Lessons I learned working at an art gallery,” I had several observations that I couldn’t fit into that post—so lets continue today.
The Marginalian
The Universe and the Soul: Richard Jefferies on Nature as Prayer for Presence
How to grow "absorbed into the being or existence of the universe."
a year ago
How to grow "absorbed into the being or existence of the universe."
diamond geezer
2024 fares
TfL's annual fare rise was announced last yesterday. And it's no fare rise at all.
"The Mayor of...
11 months ago
TfL's annual fare rise was announced last yesterday. And it's no fare rise at all.
"The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today announced bold action to freeze TfL fares this year, to support Londoners struggling with the cost of living and London’s recovery from the pandemic....
Moneyness
The magnificent Swiss 10-centime coin
The Swiss 10-centime coin has a lot to teach us about monetary economics.
On its face, the Swiss...
2 months ago
The Swiss 10-centime coin has a lot to teach us about monetary economics.
On its face, the Swiss 10-centime (rappen in German) looks like a pretty unremarkable coin. It's the second-lowest value Swiss coin, the Swiss version of America's lowly nickel, the sort of coin that many...
TheCollector
5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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10 months ago
./techtipsy
Back to roots
This blog is running on a home server again.
I have once again gained access to a competent internet...
6 months ago
This blog is running on a home server again.
I have once again gained access to a competent internet connection1, and
I think I have figured out the IPv6 setup as well2, leading to this change.
The IP address is dynamic, there are occasional power outages and I might just
mess up...
Nelson's Weblog
Obsidian
Obsidian is good software for
taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task,...
a year ago
Obsidian is good software for
taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task, Obsidian
is my current favorite. In the past I’ve used a text file, SimpleNote,
Standard Notes, Joplin. I never used emacs org-mode nor
Evernote. Obsidian works reliably and is simple...
Citation Needed
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy
The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the...
3 months ago
The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes to Self on Mastodon
Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to...
a year ago
Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to articulate what I do understand in a way that helps me better understand the differences — and similarities — between Twitter and Mastodon, especially when it comes to owning more of...
The Map is Mostly...
[subscribers only] Ask Me Anything about My Home (or Yours)
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
The AI artist who used Bad Bunny’s voice — and shot to fame
Meet the Chilean artist who made it big using others’ voices.
5 months ago
Meet the Chilean artist who made it big using others’ voices.
Rozado’s Visual...
Out-of-office Donald Trump still more prominent in news media content than the current U.S....
In 2019, I helped my colleague Musa al-Gharbi document the extraordinary prominence of Donald Trump...
a year ago
In 2019, I helped my colleague Musa al-Gharbi document the extraordinary prominence of Donald Trump in news media content (see here). I have recently updated that previous analysis. Briefly stated, no U.S. president in recent history has received a similar amount of media...
Many Worlds
The Evolving Science of Technosignatures
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) began decades ago as an effort to pick up radio...
a year ago
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) began decades ago as an effort to pick up radio signals from distant civilizations. The effort was centered at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia and was by today’s standards quite rudimentary. A much broader search...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.17.0
Having launched major features in our previous release such as Session Recording and apps ,...
over a year ago
Having launched major features in our previous release such as Session Recording and apps , over the past two weeks we worked extremely hard to…
The Rational Walk
The Thirty Second Mind
Minds capable of deep concentration may soon be extinct.
11 months ago
Minds capable of deep concentration may soon be extinct.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Trusting platforms
In response to my post yesterday about how an internet of people has enabled a new wave of web-based...
over a year ago
In response to my post yesterday about how an internet of people has enabled a new wave of web-based marketplaces, Nick Mango commented…
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week
#1 💡 Phil is the founder of my favorite email software and he’s 100% correct here. Google sucks for...
11 months ago
#1 💡 Phil is the founder of my favorite email software and he’s 100% correct here. Google sucks for recommendations. The algorithm has been gamed to death. Just in the past two days I’ve asked GPT for recommendations on 2 high ticket decisions (job board in specific region,...
TheCollector
What Was Organization Todt?
undefined
5 months ago
Making software...
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll
2019-11-01
After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
over a year ago
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll
2019-11-01
After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Team Up on Robots
Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to...
2 months ago
Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” Committing to working towards a general purpose...
Londonist
More Train Strikes Announced For January-February 2024
Members of the ASLEF union are striking, with several train companies affected.
11 months ago
Members of the ASLEF union are striking, with several train companies affected.
A Beautiful Site
CSS reset with box-sizing fix
For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset....
over a year ago
For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset. And since I'm not a glutton for punishment, I also throw in the tried and tested box-sizing fix popularized by Paul Irish. Instead of searching for and combining these...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥
I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to
sign things in the repository in...
a year ago
I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to
sign things in the repository in the repository itself
– Junio C Hamano, git@vger.kernel.org:
expired key in junio-gpg-pub
Git ships with the maintainer’s public key.
But you won’t find it in your worktree—it’s...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Domain Sins of My Youth
I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project.
At the...
a year ago
I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project.
At the checkout screen, I realized it would cost me $105 to renew this domain for 5 years.
Why 5 years?
Right now my disposition is: if I plan on keeping a domain for as long as possible I...
Maps Mania
The Best Graphics Team in the World
4 months ago
Explorations of an...
Araucaria Forests near San Pedro
February 9 - 11, 2023
The Brazilian Araucaria is a tree that seems more suited to the pages of a Dr....
a year ago
February 9 - 11, 2023
The Brazilian Araucaria is a tree that seems more suited to the pages of a Dr. Seuss book than the rolling hills of the Atlantic forests of southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina. Stands of Araucaria angustifolia are peculiar looking, with massive trunks...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sheep
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a year ago
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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8 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Apple's M&A Strategy, Explained
PLUS: Chick-fil-A, Duolingo, Bitcoin rally.
a month ago
PLUS: Chick-fil-A, Duolingo, Bitcoin rally.
Arduino Blog
Transform trash into treasure with the DIY Bottle Plotter
Manufacturers put a lot of effort into their packaging (there is an entire engineering discipline...
3 months ago
Manufacturers put a lot of effort into their packaging (there is an entire engineering discipline just for that) and some of it can be quite beautiful. But it usually still ends up in the landfill or, at best, in a recycling center. However, if you’re the type of person who can...
Eukaryote Writes...
Internet Harvest (2024, 1)
Free covid treatment for everyone in the US, a novel orthopox virus, a really big machine, cameras...
9 months ago
Free covid treatment for everyone in the US, a novel orthopox virus, a really big machine, cameras used for good and evil, ant heaven now, and more.
Rest of World -...
U.S tech giants are building dozens of huge data centers in Chile. Locals are fighting back
Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of...
6 months ago
Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.
Folklore.org:...
Revolution in the Valley
The story of how this site turned into a book
a year ago
The story of how this site turned into a book
Spoon & Tamago
Noma’s New Pop Up by OEO Studio in Kyoto
All images ©Kotaro Tanaka courtesy OEO Studio OEO Studio, a Copenhagen-based design firm, has...
a year ago
All images ©Kotaro Tanaka courtesy OEO Studio OEO Studio, a Copenhagen-based design firm, has recently completed the interiors of Noma Kyoto, a pop-up dining in Japan in collaboration with Ace Hotel. The 250 sqm existing dining space has been transformed under the guidance of...
alexwlchan
Some experiments with circle-based art
The header of this site is made of tiling squares in slightly varying shades of red.
It’s meant to...
over a year ago
The header of this site is made of tiling squares in slightly varying shades of red.
It’s meant to be subtle, but I think it still gives the site a unique look:
I think of this as the “new” header, even though my screenshot library tells me I added it in 2016 (!), as does the...
CONTEMPORIST
Lighting Highlights The Alternating Curvilinear Balconies Of This New Apartment Building
Omniview Design has completed the Golf Apartments, a high-end residential development adjacent to a...
a year ago
Omniview Design has completed the Golf Apartments, a high-end residential development adjacent to a famous golf course in Glyfada, Greece. Key to the design of the building are the curvilinear balconies that alternate directions creating a lively facade. In the evening, lighting...
Noahpinion
What are the checks and balances on the power of Elon Musk?
The question we'll all be asking over the next year or more.
yesterday
The question we'll all be asking over the next year or more.
Stephen Wolfram...
Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language
Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately...
8 months ago
Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately compute eclipses. But now—as a tiny part of making “everything in the world” computable—computation about eclipses is just a built-in feature of the Wolfram Language. The core...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 3
Are you keeping up with the Commodore?
a year ago
Are you keeping up with the Commodore?
Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is React Suspense?
over a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Start your healthcare company outside of the US | Out-Of-Pocket
Gotta start somewhere...else?
10 months ago
Gotta start somewhere...else?
Londonist
A Map Of Westminster Place Names And Where They Come From
From Maida Vale to Covent Garden.
8 months ago
From Maida Vale to Covent Garden.
Mazdak
The ChatGPT Revolution: A Year Later
On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) that quickly captured...
a year ago
On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) that quickly captured the attention of the world. ChatGPT's ability to generate human-quality text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer questions in an informative...
Aaron's Essays
VCs are Scared When They Should be Greedy
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022.
I've...
over a year ago
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022.
I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the markets. Most of that advice focuses on how founders need to adjust to survive the...
TheCollector
5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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3 months ago
Rest of World -...
Can a church exist exclusively on the internet?
Inside the emerging virtual-preaching economy in internet-obsessed Kenya.
4 months ago
Inside the emerging virtual-preaching economy in internet-obsessed Kenya.
Dustin Curtis
Blocked
A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture...
2 months ago
A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions.
Today, X engineering announced...
NeuroLogica Blog
Did They Find Amelia Earhart’s Plane
Is this sonar image taken at 16,000 feet below the surface about 100 miles from Howland island, that...
10 months ago
Is this sonar image taken at 16,000 feet below the surface about 100 miles from Howland island, that of a downed Lockheed Model 10-E Electra plane? Tony Romeo hopes it is. He spent $9 million to purchase an underwater drone, the Hugan 6000, then hired a crew and scoured 5,200...
Math Is Still...
Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On
The Joy of Why podcast returns for a third season, with two co-hosts, 24 brilliant guests and 24...
11 months ago
The Joy of Why podcast returns for a third season, with two co-hosts, 24 brilliant guests and 24 all-new episodes.
The post Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Max Rozen
How do you use variables in the HTML webpack outputs?
Looking to inject variables from CI into the HTML your webpack build outputs? It's relatively simple...
over a year ago
Looking to inject variables from CI into the HTML your webpack build outputs? It's relatively simple to do.
Handprinted - Blog
Introduction to Linocut Tools
As printmakers, we know that having good tools can be a game changer when it comes to your...
10 months ago
As printmakers, we know that having good tools can be a game changer when it comes to your printmaking practice. There are lots of lino and wood cutting tools to choose from so read on for a breakdown of the different options available.
All our linocut tools can be found here.
We...
The Honest Broker
How Coffee Became a Joke
The crisis at Starbucks is a sign of our un-serious times
7 months ago
The crisis at Starbucks is a sign of our un-serious times
TheCollector
Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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3 months ago
Open Culture
When the CIA Studied Psychic Techniques to Alter Human Consciousness & Unlock Time Travel: Discover...
By now, it’s widely known that the Central Intelligence Agency ran a decades-long program of...
6 months ago
By now, it’s widely known that the Central Intelligence Agency ran a decades-long program of experiments involving LSD and other psychoactive drugs called MKUltra from the nineteen-fifties to the seventies. As one might suspect, that wasn’t the only research project into the...
Math Is Still...
Tracing the Hidden Hand of Magnetism in the Galaxy
Susan Clark is helping to unravel the mysterious workings of the Milky Way’s magnetic field, a...
5 months ago
Susan Clark is helping to unravel the mysterious workings of the Milky Way’s magnetic field, a critical missing piece of the galactic puzzle.
The post Tracing the Hidden Hand of Magnetism in the Galaxy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Only use GET and POST (tip)
Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and...
a year ago
Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and how it can affect the user experience.
TheCollector
Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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3 months ago
This Space
Kafka's great fire
The centenary of Kafka's death was marked twelve years late. His diary records it in September...
6 months ago
The centenary of Kafka's death was marked twelve years late. His diary records it in September 1912:
This story, The Judgment, I wrote at one sitting during the night of the 22nd-23rd, from ten o'clock at night to six o'clock in the morning. I was hardly able to pull my legs...
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap & Industry Towns, 2020
In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas,...
over a year ago
In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas, capital, service providers, and companies tend to have strong network effects that support startup formation and success in a given industry. For example, Silicon Valley, London,...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink
2024-07-24
A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a...
5 months ago
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink
2024-07-24
A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a standard pi-hole server with eero WiFi but since that time I have swapped out my “cell tower” internet for Starlink. The speed improvement has been incredible and there is no looking...
Open Culture
How to Potty Train Your Cat: A Handy Manual by Jazz Musician Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus, the innovative jazz musician, was known for having a bad temper. He once got so...
a month ago
Charles Mingus, the innovative jazz musician, was known for having a bad temper. He once got so irritated with a heckler that he ended up trashing his $20,000 bass. Another time, when a pianist didn’t get things right, Mingus reached right inside the piano and ripped the strings...
Seeking Wisdom
Modeling Life: Equilibrium
This is my 2nd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I...
8 months ago
This is my 2nd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I recommend reading my earlier post first to get a good grounding on the foundations covered in the book. A system can exhibit three different types of behavior: equilibrium, oscillation,...
Maps Mania
Canada's Hidden Subterranean Rivers
8 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #163
Corporate taxes, Berkshire's clean energy investments, Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk, ESPN's...
a year ago
Corporate taxes, Berkshire's clean energy investments, Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk, ESPN's future, Nvidia, AI, Interpreting medical studies, Why Doomberg left Twitter, Jimmy Buffett, and more...
Making software...
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of...
a year ago
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
TheCollector
Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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9 months ago
The Modern House
Glenn Adamson: the curator on why a New York ‘love shack’ stole his heart
As a curator, perhaps there’s no space that better encapsulates Glenn Adamson than his own...
a year ago
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 […]
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
I sold Big Timer
Five months ago I sold my countdown timer web app, Big Timer! I never really announced that, so...
over a year ago
Five months ago I sold my countdown timer web app, Big Timer! I never really announced that, so here’s what...
Vadim Kravcenko
Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way
As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it...
over a year ago
As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it wrong, […]
The post Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The Honest Broker
Are There Alternating Cycles of Hot and Cool in American Cultural History? (Part 2 of 2)
I grew up in a cool culture. But that era has now ended. Right now, we are clearly sizzling in the...
a year ago
I grew up in a cool culture. But that era has now ended. Right now, we are clearly sizzling in the hot zone.
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
a month ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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5 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Evidence Suggests Lunar Cave
Astronomers have discovered multiple “pits” on the surface of the moon – these look superficially...
5 months ago
Astronomers have discovered multiple “pits” on the surface of the moon – these look superficially like craters, but on closer inspection are actually vertical pits. There has been considerable speculation that these pits might be cave openings. Now, an analysis of data from the...
NeuroLogica Blog
Accusation of Mental Illness as a Political Strategy
I am not the first to say this but it bears repeating – it is wrong to use the accusation of a...
3 months ago
I am not the first to say this but it bears repeating – it is wrong to use the accusation of a mental illness as a political strategy. It is unfair, stigmatizing, and dismissive. Thomas Szasz (let me say straight up – I am not a Szaszian) was a psychiatrist who made it his...
The Convivial...
On Two Ways of Relating to the World
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 18
over a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 18
Both Are True
i guess i wrote a song???
a guest post from Alex Gobrenko
8 months ago
a guest post from Alex Gobrenko
Data Boutique
How To Monitor Retailer's Prices
A Practical Data Boutique Use Case
a year ago
A Practical Data Boutique Use Case
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 April 13 - April 19
The faces are back, a new book, calm, beauty, civil war.
The faces are back. Feels like...
8 months ago
The faces are back, a new book, calm, beauty, civil war.
The faces are back. Feels like something is happening here.
This ^ is the start of a new book.
“We need more calm companies.” — Justin Jackson
What is beautiful?
Another...
The American Scholar
“What a Strange Path”
Three new prompts
The post “What a Strange Path” appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 days ago
Three new prompts
The post “What a Strange Path” appeared first on The American Scholar.
A small freedom area...
Invert a function using Newton iterations
Newton's method is probably one of the most popular algorithm for finding the
roots of a function...
over a year ago
Newton's method is probably one of the most popular algorithm for finding the
roots of a function through successive numeric approximations. In less cryptic
words, if you have an opaque function f(x), and you need to solve f(x)=0
(finding where the function crosses the x-axis),...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Rise of Immer in React
> 2018: _Published on the Netlify Blog as [The Rise of Immer in...
over a year ago
> 2018: _Published on the Netlify Blog as [The Rise of Immer in React](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/09/12/the-rise-of-immer-in-react/)_
TheCollector
What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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a year ago
Castles in the Sky
CATHEDRAL | Chapter One - Four Years Out
Cathedral | Castles in the Sky #60
9 months ago
Cathedral | Castles in the Sky #60
diamond geezer
The best value London sightseeing bus
The best value London sightseeing bus
It's hard to get an objective opinion. If you head to the...
4 months ago
The best value London sightseeing bus
It's hard to get an objective opinion. If you head to the Visit London website it turns out they have an affiliate deal with Golden Tours and promote them heavily at the top of their list, with two other operators tucked a long way down and...
Maps Mania
Mapping the Political Landscape
2 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Dental Insurance, Value-Based Dental, and Beam Benefits | Out-Of-Pocket
Why doesn’t dental have value-based care?
a year ago
Why doesn’t dental have value-based care?
Flashbak
Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
3 weeks ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
Laetitia@Work
Why AI can make work painful: see customer service
Laetitia@Work #71
6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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11 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free
Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free....
over a year ago
Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering…
Open Culture
How the Ancient Greeks & Romans Made Beautiful Purple Dye from Snail Glands
Much has been written about the loss of color in the twenty-first century. Our environments offered...
6 months ago
Much has been written about the loss of color in the twenty-first century. Our environments offered practically every color known to man not so very long ago — and in certain eras, granted, it got to be a bit much. But now, everything seems to have retreated to a narrow palette...
Calculated Risk
Realtor.com Reports Active Inventory Up 23.5% YoY
What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active...
a week ago
What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active inventory and new listings. On a monthly basis, they report total inventory. For November, Realtor.com reported inventory was up 26.2% YoY, but still down 21.5% compared to the 2017 to...
journal – Winnie Lim
did i just do my first pull-up?
Wanted to write a note but I guess this warrants a proper post since I’ve completed my main...
7 months ago
Wanted to write a note but I guess this warrants a proper post since I’ve completed my main aspiration for 2024! Today while trying our home pull-up bar I realised I could...
Common Edge
What L.A. 2028 Can Learn From the Paris Olympics
Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to...
3 months ago
Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to take a cue from the City of Lights’ embrace of the local.
TheCollector
A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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5 months ago
The Modern House
A Day Well Spent with Rahel Stephanie
a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #217
Berkshire Hathaway Acquires BHE Minority Interests, Measuring Competence, Greg Abel Interview, The...
2 months ago
Berkshire Hathaway Acquires BHE Minority Interests, Measuring Competence, Greg Abel Interview, The Fed's Inflationary Bias, Jimmy Carter at 100, Sam Altman, Bruno Leoni, Thermopylae
Epic Web Dev
Use Isolation to Solve Complex Problems (tip)
When faced with a complex problem, try isolating it by creating a minimal example in a temporary...
a year ago
When faced with a complex problem, try isolating it by creating a minimal example in a temporary project directory.
Londonist
120 Teens Are Walking The Entirety Of The Tube This Sunday
(Not through the tunnels, though.)
10 months ago
(Not through the tunnels, though.)
Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
Blog posts of...
How i make investment decisions 🏝
The goal of this article is to break down how i make investment decisions in the hope that it helps...
over a year ago
The goal of this article is to break down how i make investment decisions in the hope that it helps founders to see their fundraising effort from the “other side”.
TokyoDev
The 2022 International Developers in Japan survey results are live!
In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
over a year ago
In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2022-developer-survey), please check them out!
This year's survey had 42 questions, up from 24 questions for [2021's...
42!
Trusting third parties with our information
Photo by Sergiu Nista on Unsplash
We’ve noticed a disturbing trend here at our startup in the past...
a year ago
Photo by Sergiu Nista on Unsplash
We’ve noticed a disturbing trend here at our startup in the past 12 months or so. We’ve been growing and adding new team members, and almost without fail, almost all our new starters are getting hit with a scam email within a few days of...
bt RSS Feed
Clickable Links Inside XML
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I...
over a year ago
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
CONTEMPORIST
A Fireplace Divides This Long Living Room Creating A Separate Home Office Area
Toronto-based interior design firm Level Studio has shared photos of a living room that they...
a year ago
Toronto-based interior design firm Level Studio has shared photos of a living room that they transformed to include a dedicated area for a home office. The long and narrow design of the living room enabled them to divide the space into two separate defined areas, the living room,...
Noahpinion
Bad and good arguments for industrial policy
Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
5 months ago
Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Summit
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I will never close that paren. Never. In fact,...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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