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Workspace Setup Revisited I shared my workspace setup last year, but since then, I have changed a few things, so I felt it’s...
31st Dec 2021
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Workspace Setup Revisited

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

31st Dec 2021
I shared my workspace setup last year, but since then, I have changed a few things, so I felt it’s probably time to share an update on my current setup for both hardware and software. Given the continued Covid restrictions here in sunny Scotland, I am now working from home...
Zimaboard: the closest thing to my dream home server setup I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally...
9th Oct 2023
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Zimaboard: the closest thing to my dream home server setup

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Oct 2023
I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally bought one. In short, Zimaboard is a small single-board computer that is relatively affordable and comes with an interesting selection of ports, which includes an exposed PCI...
7th Apr 2024
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Year X

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2024
Testing and operating distributed systems I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally...
7th Feb 2021
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Testing and operating distributed systems

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

7th Feb 2021
I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally complete! First things first, I have…
Powering the Mars base This post is part of the series on space topics. This post is not the last word on this topic. The...
5th Nov 2024
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Powering the Mars base

from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Nov 2024
This post is part of the series on space topics. This post is not the last word on this topic. The usual caveats apply. I’m curious if you have strong opinions on different fuel mixes. A growing Mars base has a prodigious need for power. I’ve previously written two posts on...
18th Sep 2025
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Half Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hoping to be able to rematerialize your loved ones...
1st Oct 2024
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Half

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

1st Oct 2024
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hoping to be able to rematerialize your loved ones after the next funding round. Today's News:
12 (Stoic) Rules For Life: An Ancient Guide to the Good Life It’d be wonderful if life never tempted you, if you could just go day-to-day, winging it and always...
16th Feb 2022
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12 (Stoic) Rules For Life: An Ancient Guide to the Good Life

from Daily Stoic [alt+shift+b] in life

16th Feb 2022
It’d be wonderful if life never tempted you, if you could just go day-to-day, winging it and always do right. But that’s not how the world is. That’s not who you are. If left to our own devices, with enough opportunities, eventually we’ll mess up—we’ll drift, we’ll stray. That’s...
Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
24th May 2026
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Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2026
Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
4th Mar 2017
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धुआं (Dhuaan)

from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Mar 2017
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Starlit sky coffee pitcher, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
13th Apr 2024
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Starlit sky coffee pitcher, 2024

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Apr 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that...
22nd Aug 2008
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Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Aug 2008
I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that it’s pretty close to what I want for managing wireless — closer than anything else I’ve found, at least. I figured I should document my setup and experiences. Some Background You...
🔵 TREND RADAR #20 :: TECH DRIVERS Soft Optimization in a Surveillance State
3rd Aug 2026
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🔵 TREND RADAR #20 :: TECH DRIVERS

from WHAT'S ANU [alt+shift+b] in creative

3rd Aug 2026
Soft Optimization in a Surveillance State
Fresh X-Rays Reveal a Universe as Clumpy as Cosmology Predicts By mapping the largest structures in the universe in X-rays, cosmologists have found striking...
4th Mar 2024
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Fresh X-Rays Reveal a Universe as Clumpy as Cosmology Predicts

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

4th Mar 2024
By mapping the largest structures in the universe in X-rays, cosmologists have found striking agreement with their standard theoretical model of how the universe evolves. The post Fresh X-Rays Reveal a Universe as Clumpy as Cosmology Predicts first appeared on Quanta...
Is AI-based Root Cause Analysis a Real Thing? Logs, LLMs, AI, Decision Trees, and Root Causes
31st Mar 2025
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Is AI-based Root Cause Analysis a Real Thing?

from Push to Prod [alt+shift+b] in technology

31st Mar 2025
Logs, LLMs, AI, Decision Trees, and Root Causes
Correct vs Good What's the difference?
11th Feb 2025
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Correct vs Good

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Feb 2025
What's the difference?
What the Internet Was Like in 1999 1999 Napster software running on Windows 98; photo by Christiaan Colen. When AOL completed its...
3rd Sep 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 1999

from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Sep 2025
1999 Napster software running on Windows 98; photo by Christiaan Colen. When AOL completed its acquisition of Netscape in March 1999, a part of the old web died forever. By the end of the year (and the century), Netscape's share of the browser market had shrunk to about 20% and...
Crash and Burnout In the last year I have changed jobs, moved twice (one of those internationally) and traveled about...
10th Apr 2023
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Crash and Burnout

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2023
In the last year I have changed jobs, moved twice (one of those internationally) and traveled about 120,000 miles. I've been working on finishing my book, caught covid, and was diagnosed with bipolar depression and Hashimoto's disease. Additionally, with so much travel, I've had...
The ultra-selfish gene We now have the power to genetically modify entire species by inserting certain genes into them with...
3rd Sep 2024
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The ultra-selfish gene

from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd Sep 2024
We now have the power to genetically modify entire species by inserting certain genes into them with brute force. Doing this to malaria-carrying mosquitoes could allow us to wipe out humanity’s most deadly killer.
XL Flex Arms, posable mounting for cameras and lighting. Making a few custom mounts for cameras and camera accessories.
4th Nov 2019
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XL Flex Arms, posable mounting for cameras and lighting.

from Blog - Mac Pierce [alt+shift+b] in creative

4th Nov 2019
Making a few custom mounts for cameras and camera accessories.
You're invited to the ML for SWEs Discord server! I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can...
1st Aug 2025
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You're invited to the ML for SWEs Discord server!

from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Aug 2025
I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can have access to all of my curated feeds that I use to keep up with AI resources, news and jobs. This is also a private space for paid subscribers to chat, learn, network, and get...
3rd Oct 2026
State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3 As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now...
12th Sep 2023
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State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Sep 2023
As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now everyone wants to see how Generative AI intersects with everything. The fits are not completely natural, as Generative AI like Chat GPT is more NLP type systems, but there are a...
The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems AI caught everyone’s attention in 2023 with Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be instructed to...
18th Feb 2024
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The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

18th Feb 2024
AI caught everyone’s attention in 2023 with Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be instructed to perform general tasks, such as translation or coding, just by prompting. This naturally led to an intense focus on models as the primary ingredient in AI application development,...
Chuck E. Cheese’s Animatronics Band Bows Out That may have been the last time I entered a Chuck E. Cheese pizzeria. And yet, when I heard that...
2nd Dec 2024
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Chuck E. Cheese’s Animatronics Band Bows Out

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

2nd Dec 2024
That may have been the last time I entered a Chuck E. Cheese pizzeria. And yet, when I heard that the company was phasing out the animatronic bands from all but five locations by the end of this year, I felt a twinge of nostalgia. Much to my surprise, I was truly sad that the...
Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years I started writing this blog in late 2012, partly because I felt like it would help me improve my...
7th Mar 2018
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Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Mar 2018
I started writing this blog in late 2012, partly because I felt like it would help me improve my English and my writing skills, partly because I kept having a lot of random ideas in my head and I wanted to write them down somewhere.
Recently Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines,...
1st Jun 2023
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Recently

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

1st Jun 2023
Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines, and guest-starred on the enormous Chapo Trap House podcast. Reading It’s been a slow few weeks for books, but since I skipped Recently in May, I can still talk about Achieving...
Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last...
21st Dec 2016
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Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult

from Programming in the 21st Century [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Dec 2016
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last 30 seconds. Or the reverse, where a once speedy bar takes 50% of the time covering the last few pixels. And bars that occasionally jump backward in time are not the rarity you'd...
GPG Things Get your fingerprint: gpg --list-secret-keys --fingerprint Get someone elses key Using email gpg2...
3rd Dec 2015
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GPG Things

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2015
Get your fingerprint: gpg --list-secret-keys --fingerprint Get someone elses key Using email gpg2 --search-keys EMAIL Using keyid gpg2 --recv-key KEYID Sign keys gpg2 --recv-key KEYID gpg2 --sign-key KEYID gpg2 --send-key KEYID Photos View someone's photo gpg...
Understanding easing and cubic-bezier curves in CSS The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS...
22nd Feb 2023
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Understanding easing and cubic-bezier curves in CSS

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

22nd Feb 2023
The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS cubic-bezier curves, and the art of using them to make the best web animations possible.
Stop exploiting yourself One of the friends you grew up with is now a popular YouTuber. When they visit your city, they ask...
1st Jan 2026
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Stop exploiting yourself

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

1st Jan 2026
One of the friends you grew up with is now a popular YouTuber. When they visit your city, they ask if they can stay with you, and you oblige them. You get a glimpse into their life.  An employee might get a lunch break, but not a YouTuber; lunch is for filming. They constantly...
Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious...
4th Jan 2025
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Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2025
Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it
Friendship is the Whole of the Path This is not a metaphor
12th Apr 2026
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Friendship is the Whole of the Path

from The Intimate Mirror [alt+shift+b] in life

12th Apr 2026
This is not a metaphor
AI #114: Liars, Sycophants and Cheaters Gemini 2.5 Pro is sitting in the corner, sulking.
1st May 2025
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AI #114: Liars, Sycophants and Cheaters

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st May 2025
Gemini 2.5 Pro is sitting in the corner, sulking.
It’s Only When You Look Back I remember talking to my Grandfather shortly before he passed away about the changes he’d seen in...
17th Jun 2026
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It’s Only When You Look Back

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

17th Jun 2026
I remember talking to my Grandfather shortly before he passed away about the changes he’d seen in his lifetime. Born in 1911, the thing he said that really stuck with me was that when he was a child people were barely puttering around off the ground in aeroplanes; A few years...
The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit “The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe...
1st Jul 2026
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The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit

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

1st Jul 2026
“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public. Later that month, SpaceX filed an...
Practising distraction-free creativity The design world is filled with exciting opportunities. We see Designers on X who are creating...
21st Feb 2024
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Practising distraction-free creativity

from Oykun Yilmaz [alt+shift+b] in design

21st Feb 2024
The design world is filled with exciting opportunities. We see Designers on X who are creating Framer templates, experimenting with 3D, writing newsletters, starting design subscription agencies, selling icon packs and many more. I know it’s tempting to chase them all. I’ve given...
Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
3rd Mar 2022
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Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2022
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
Anthropic is making a huge mistake For context, Anthropic again blocked opencode from the Claude Code API. I wasn’t planning to try...
14th Jan 2026
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Anthropic is making a huge mistake

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Jan 2026
For context, Anthropic again blocked opencode from the Claude Code API. I wasn’t planning to try other models today, but now that’s all I’m going to be doing. I’m sure they have a massive influx of users on Claude Code since Opus 4.5, I’ve been recommending it to everyone. But...
So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common...
1st Oct 2024
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1st Oct 2024
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff. It’s the future! In my personal experience, Kubernetes is far from the...
More trouble than it’s worth This is the hallmark of projects that turn out to be worth doing. The trouble might be a symptom...
1st Feb 2026
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More trouble than it’s worth

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

1st Feb 2026
This is the hallmark of projects that turn out to be worth doing. The trouble might be a symptom that we’re onto something that others don’t care enough to do. And the things that are obviously worth doing are probably already being done.
Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award Materials scientist is honored for his academic leadership and innovative research that bridge...
3rd Mar 2025
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Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award

from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Mar 2025
Materials scientist is honored for his academic leadership and innovative research that bridge engineering and nature.
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
27th Apr 2023
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Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2023
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
The impact of management teams as a decision-making group, in startups and enterprise Ambitious companies form management teams at every level above you, sometimes including you....
11th Nov 2020
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The impact of management teams as a decision-making group, in startups and enterprise

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Nov 2020
Ambitious companies form management teams at every level above you, sometimes including you. Management teams meet periodically and have private chat rooms. They discuss customers, product and organizational direction. Sometimes discussions are well documented and...
This mouse droid knows how to party Not a lot of thought went into the “mouse droid” in the first Star Wars movie. It was just a bit of...
1st Oct 2026
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This mouse droid knows how to party

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

1st Oct 2026
Not a lot of thought went into the “mouse droid” in the first Star Wars movie. It was just a bit of cute world-building, created by putting a box on an RC car. But it became a fan favorite and that in-universe model, the MSE-6, appears throughout subsequent movies, TV shows, and...
Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
20th Feb 2025
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Humanity's Last Exam

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Feb 2025
Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time...
26th Feb 2018
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WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Feb 2018
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time for running “baby” software and the “baby” internet. He was right. Developers weren’t given access to make native apps until the iPhone’s second year. Before the native development...
Detecting Online Predatory Journals The World Wide Web has proven to be a transformative communication technology (we are using it right...
2nd Sep 2025
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Detecting Online Predatory Journals

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

2nd Sep 2025
The World Wide Web has proven to be a transformative communication technology (we are using it right now). At the same time there have been some rather negative unforeseen consequences. Significantly lowering the threshold for establishing a communications outlet has democratized...
29th Apr 2018
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Introduction

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

29th Apr 2018
Fox and Bear: A Tender Modern Fable About Reversing the Anthropocene, Illustrated in Cut-Cardboard... An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.
1st Jul 2023
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1st Jul 2023
An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.
Algorithms and Data structures books: One size doesn't fit them all Over the years running this moderately popular website, I have been asked many times what is the...
14th Feb 2014
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Algorithms and Data structures books: One size doesn't fit them all

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Feb 2014
Over the years running this moderately popular website, I have been asked many times what is the best book about Algorithms and Data Structures. The answer is always "It depends" ! It depends on how the programmer's brain works and what kind of notation he is comfortable with....
Mammoth Life - Wanna Be Loved Music Video Title: Wanna Be LovedArtist: Mammoth LifeYear: 2014 --
30th Aug 2017
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Mammoth Life - Wanna Be Loved

from John Reynolds - Designer & Creative Director [alt+shift+b] in creative

30th Aug 2017
Music Video Title: Wanna Be LovedArtist: Mammoth LifeYear: 2014 --
Find the others New years bring resolutions, but those resolutions rarely stick. Creating change is difficult, and...
1st Jan 2025
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Find the others

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

1st Jan 2025
New years bring resolutions, but those resolutions rarely stick. Creating change is difficult, and it’s hard to do it alone. New years remind us that we might need a better strategy. A philosophy of becoming, a clear vision on where we’re going (and why). Here’s an invitation to...
You're underusing Underscore Ten common mistakes people make when using Underscore, and a linting tool to detect them.
18th Feb 2016
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You're underusing Underscore

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Feb 2016
Ten common mistakes people make when using Underscore, and a linting tool to detect them.
IE 6,7,8 Warning with removeChild On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage...
14th Nov 2012
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IE 6,7,8 Warning with removeChild

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Nov 2012
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...
The Locker Room Talk of Mentors and Minions I saw myself at 22, lifting a wheel, struggling under its weight to attach it to a car. Behind me...
4th Nov 2017
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The Locker Room Talk of Mentors and Minions

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

4th Nov 2017
I saw myself at 22, lifting a wheel, struggling under its weight to attach it to a car. Behind me was an experienced mechanic who has mastered the heavier machinery. He worked with skill, with a quickness that hid the forces he was wielding, making the power required to rip tires...
Ways to bootstrap a startup: "working in waves" * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the...
5th Dec 2010
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Ways to bootstrap a startup: "working in waves"

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2010
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the last year and a half after graduating from the University of Warwick juggling working on startups and working as a contract web developer. I’d like to share some of my reflections...
27th Oct 2023
Mark Lynas: The Nine Planetary Boundaries ### The Quantified Planet “About 74,000 years ago,” Lynas began, “a volcanic event nearly wiped out...
7th Mar 2012
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Mark Lynas: The Nine Planetary Boundaries

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

7th Mar 2012
### The Quantified Planet “About 74,000 years ago,” Lynas began, “a volcanic event nearly wiped out humanity. We were down to just a thousand or so embattled breeding pairs. We’ve made a bit of a comeback since then. We’re over seven billion strong. In half a million years we’ve...
From Beatlemania to Taylor-mania How the meteoric rise of The Beatles helps to explain Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour, on pace to be the...
8th Jul 2023
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From Beatlemania to Taylor-mania

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Jul 2023
How the meteoric rise of The Beatles helps to explain Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour, on pace to be the first tour ever to gross $1B.
No more global micro-SaaS from India Reserve Bank of India has published draft regulatory guidelines for payment aggregators1 which...
31st Jul 2024
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No more global micro-SaaS from India

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

31st Jul 2024
Reserve Bank of India has published draft regulatory guidelines for payment aggregators1 which requires payment aggregators to perform physical KYC on small & medium sized merchants, verify their bank accounts among other regulations. Stripe, sighting the aforementioned...
9 years together To me, being in a relationship is like choosing to engage in a continuous power battle. I know it...
2nd May 2025
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9 years together

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

2nd May 2025
To me, being in a relationship is like choosing to engage in a continuous power battle. I know it sounds unromantic but age has taught me that the way to truly sustain...
'I Can't Quite Recall Your Name' My first high-school reunion was postponed for a year by the COVID-19 lockdown. We met in 2021 for...
1st Feb 2025
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'I Can't Quite Recall Your Name'

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

1st Feb 2025
My first high-school reunion was postponed for a year by the COVID-19 lockdown. We met in 2021 for the fifty-first at a supper club on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland. Lake Erie was a hundred yards to the north and when conversation lagged, I could watch the ore boats moving down...
Don't Major in Computer Science Or put less provocatively: college students should probably explore more than they currently do
30th Dec 2022
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Don't Major in Computer Science

from Varun's Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Dec 2022
Or put less provocatively: college students should probably explore more than they currently do
Is Hip-Hop in Decline? A Statistical Analysis Is hip-hop receding from the mainstream? And if so, why?
1st Apr 2026
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Is Hip-Hop in Decline? A Statistical Analysis

from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative

1st Apr 2026
Is hip-hop receding from the mainstream? And if so, why?
Spirograph fun in Kidz Fun Art For a long time I’ve wanted to add Spirographs to my (awesome ) drawing app for kids, Kidz Fun Art,...
12th Jun 2026
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Spirograph fun in Kidz Fun Art

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jun 2026
For a long time I’ve wanted to add Spirographs to my (awesome ) drawing app for kids, Kidz Fun Art, and today it’s ready! There was quite a bit of fun mathematics in getting it to feel natural and work with all sizes of circles, but it seems to have worked out very...
Oyler Wu Collaborative Wins International Competition for Taiwan's National Comic Museum Oyler Wu Collaborative, in partnership with SU mao ping Architecture Studio and JN Architects, has...
1st Jun 2026
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1st Jun 2026
Oyler Wu Collaborative, in partnership with SU mao ping Architecture Studio and JN Architects, has won the international competition to design The National Taiwan Museum of Comics in Taichung. As a centerpiece of a long-awaited national vision initiated in 2017, the new museum is...
“One Can No Longer Distinguish the Sun’s Outline”: Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky (1930) A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification...
24th Mar 2024
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24th Mar 2024
A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification and nomenclature. Cloud atlases were primarily developed starting in the 19th century and utilised for training weather forecasters and meteorologists. The 1930’s International...
Introducing TongueType I just launched my first macOS app called TongueType. It's voice dictation that runs entirely on...
14th May 2026
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Introducing TongueType

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

14th May 2026
I just launched my first macOS app called TongueType. It's voice dictation that runs entirely on your Mac. Hold a key, speak, release, and your words appear wherever your cursor happens to be. I build small, simple, stable software. TongueType fits that description, and it...
Efforts and Goals and Joy There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to...
31st Dec 2023
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Efforts and Goals and Joy

from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life

31st Dec 2023
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and...
#11: Searchable list of all the mistakes I have more than a decade old google account that I am no longer able to access even though I know...
13th Feb 2022
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#11: Searchable list of all the mistakes

from Pea Bee [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Feb 2022
I have more than a decade old google account that I am no longer able to access even though I know the correct password.
Are You Operating Out of Fear or Joy? Scarcity and survival keep you from being your best.
6 days ago
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Are You Operating Out of Fear or Joy?

from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups

6 days ago
Scarcity and survival keep you from being your best.
Release Valve Principles The choices you make when you can't make a choice.
11th Oct 2023
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Release Valve Principles

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

11th Oct 2023
The choices you make when you can't make a choice.
Why I’m Switching Web Hosts Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple....
5th Jul 2019
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Why I’m Switching Web Hosts

from Comments for Lars Lofgren [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Jul 2019
Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple. This was before WP Engine was around. At the time, MediaTemple had carved out a nice niche for themselves as the premium web host. Tim Ferriss also raved about them back in the day....
Test names should be sentences Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves....
5th Apr 2024
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Test names should be sentences

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2024
Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves. Well-written tests focus on a single unit of behaviour that can be described in a brief sentence, and we can use that sentence as the name of the test.
A Quarter Century of Investing Lessons learned from twenty-five years of enterprising investing
6th Jan 2025
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A Quarter Century of Investing

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

6th Jan 2025
Lessons learned from twenty-five years of enterprising investing
What I learned writing 100 essays Or more like ~130 but 100 decent ones anyway
17th Mar 2026
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What I learned writing 100 essays

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

17th Mar 2026
Or more like ~130 but 100 decent ones anyway
Should You Trust the Netflix Top 10? A Statistical Analysis Netflix’s Top 10 helps us choose faster. But does it help us choose better?
6th May 2026
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Should You Trust the Netflix Top 10? A Statistical Analysis

from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative

6th May 2026
Netflix’s Top 10 helps us choose faster. But does it help us choose better?
On-the-Fly Generalization Hack for ArcGIS Pro Generalization is one of the most important tools in a map maker’s tool kit. Sometimes the...
6th Feb 2024
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On-the-Fly Generalization Hack for ArcGIS Pro

from Adventures In Mapping | John Nelson Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

6th Feb 2024
Generalization is one of the most important tools in a map maker’s tool kit. Sometimes the complexity of our geometry needs to be smoothed out to best visually represent a place or appear best at various scales. Here is a way (complete hack, but surprisingly effective) to...
Organizational Design: Balancing Technology and Operations Understanding the Three Essential Roles for Scale
6th Feb 2023
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Organizational Design: Balancing Technology and Operations

from Entrepreneur's Edge [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Feb 2023
Understanding the Three Essential Roles for Scale
The ultimate horse Selective breeding has pushed horses to the limits of biology. But at what cost?
5th Aug 2026
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The ultimate horse

from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Aug 2026
Selective breeding has pushed horses to the limits of biology. But at what cost?
Understanding the Baby Boom The West has been below replacement fertility once before. Then came the Baby Boom. Understanding...
7th Sep 2023
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Understanding the Baby Boom

from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science

7th Sep 2023
The West has been below replacement fertility once before. Then came the Baby Boom. Understanding that boom may help us deal with today’s bust.
Got Very Big, Very Fast Yesterday, I mentioned two department stores in New York, the 1846 A. T. Stewart Store at Broadway...
1st Oct 2024
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Got Very Big, Very Fast

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

1st Oct 2024
Yesterday, I mentioned two department stores in New York, the 1846 A. T. Stewart Store at Broadway and Chambers Street that was the first real department store in the US, and the 1896 Siegel-Cooper Store at Sixth Avenue and 18th Street that was for a time the largest store in the...
6th Nov 2012
Swiping vs Tapping, What is Less Distracting to Drivers? I typically split in-car interactions into two groups. There are quick and frequent actions like...
1st Feb 2022
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Swiping vs Tapping, What is Less Distracting to Drivers?

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

1st Feb 2022
I typically split in-car interactions into two groups. There are quick and frequent actions like changing the volume or skipping a song…
The Reckoning So go ask your Chomsky 10 years ago, when I started comma and discovered the Professional Managerial...
2nd Apr 2026
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The Reckoning

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Apr 2026
So go ask your Chomsky 10 years ago, when I started comma and discovered the Professional Managerial Class, I used to talk about the reckoning. It was a nebulous concept, but it mostly involved the abrupt fall from grace of these people at the hands of machines. It’s kind of...
Scam applicants are an increasing problem in Japan この記事は日本語でもお読みいただけます。 Over the last six months, TokyoDev has received a handful of reports from our...
3rd Jun 2026
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Scam applicants are an increasing problem in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2026
この記事は日本語でもお読みいただけます。 Over the last six months, TokyoDev has received a handful of reports from our clients about fraudulent applications, in which candidates purport to be different people than they actually are. As a relatively niche job board that helped Japanese companies...
Solution, Name that Ware May 2026 The Ware for May 2026 is, in FETguy’s words: “one of many large pc boards of a Rodgers Instrument Co...
30th Jun 2026
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Solution, Name that Ware May 2026

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

30th Jun 2026
The Ware for May 2026 is, in FETguy’s words: “one of many large pc boards of a Rodgers Instrument Co church organ. The core memory was used to store and recall settings of the organ’s “stops”. There were 5 core memory boards in this instrument which differ in how many words were...
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...
1st Oct 2018
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I was living the dream, then my dream collapsed

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

1st Oct 2018
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...
If I Were A NIMBY What the devil on my shoulder whispers to me
1st Apr 2026
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If I Were A NIMBY

from The Deleted Scenes [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Apr 2026
What the devil on my shoulder whispers to me
Why the OAuth mTLS spec is more interesting than you might think I was catching up on the always excellent Security. Cryptography. Whatever. podcast, and enjoyed the...
20th Jan 2022
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Why the OAuth mTLS spec is more interesting than you might think

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Jan 2022
I was catching up on the always excellent Security. Cryptography. Whatever. podcast, and enjoyed the episode with Colm MacCárthaigh about a bunch of topics around TLS. It’s a great episode that touches a lot of subjects I’m interested in, so go ahead and listen to it if you...
UX Roundup: Email UX | Sora 2 | AI New Business Capabilities | AI Consumer Surplus | Latent... Email user experience | New video model Sora 2 compared with older models | AI offering new business...
6th Oct 2025
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6th Oct 2025
Email user experience | New video model Sora 2 compared with older models | AI offering new business capabilities instead of just replacing old jobs | Most of AI’s economic value is consumer surplus | Latent affordances for AI feature discovery | Simple ambient AI scribes help...
OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It) For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor...
12th Aug 2026
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OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)

from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Aug 2026
For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor specific SDK and onto OpenTelemetry is some variation of: "why does it seem like this isn't done yet?" Vendor SDKs for observability are, to put
Chinatown Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one...
4th Aug 2022
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Chinatown

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

4th Aug 2022
Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one so devoted to realism, or at least its brand of plausibility.)
My Dream Game: The Tycoon I’ve been playing Starcraft 2 a little this christmas. It wasn’t dead serious 1v1 which really is my...
5th Jan 2011
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My Dream Game: The Tycoon

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

5th Jan 2011
I’ve been playing Starcraft 2 a little this christmas. It wasn’t dead serious 1v1 which really is my favorite but I’ve played 2v2 with some friends and I actually played the campaign a bit and it was pretty fun! Usually I never play the campaign on RTS games but this one I liked....
Studying foreign languages with inbox zero The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language...
4th Apr 2020
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Studying foreign languages with inbox zero

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Apr 2020
The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language was through intensive language courses in college. I was forced to actively speak, read, and write Chinese for 6-8 hours a week (1-2 hours every day). Then study another 5-10 hours a...
Color Photos Capture Life and Pollution Along the Ohio River in the Early 1970s In the early 1970s, the Ohio River was both a vital economic artery and a stark reminder of the...
2nd Jul 2026
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Color Photos Capture Life and Pollution Along the Ohio River in the Early 1970s

from Rare Historical Photos [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Jul 2026
In the early 1970s, the Ohio River was both a vital economic artery and a stark reminder of the environmental costs of industrial growth. Barges carried coal, steel, chemicals, and other goods through the heart of the Midwest, while millions of people depended on the river for...
Externalizing Some Simple Topos Statements Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done...
13th Dec 2022
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Externalizing Some Simple Topos Statements

from Chris Grossack's Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

13th Dec 2022
Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done math in any serious capacity for almost the past month. It’s been a lot of hard work trying to get fair contracts out of the UC, but I had a lot of travel plans this December to...
Recently I am not going to repeat the news. But man, things are really, really bad and getting worse in...
4th Feb 2025
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Recently

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

4th Feb 2025
I am not going to repeat the news. But man, things are really, really bad and getting worse in America. It’s all so unendingly stupid and evil. The tech industry is being horrible, too. Wishing strength to the people who are much more exposed to the chaos than I am. Reading A...
My adventures hunting down a Ruby memory leak 🎢 In this article, I tell the story of a memory leak we had in our HEY app, the cool tools I could use...
7th Mar 2024
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My adventures hunting down a Ruby memory leak 🎢

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2024
In this article, I tell the story of a memory leak we had in our HEY app, the cool tools I could use to investigate and how I finally figured out the root cause. Memory leaks can be tricky to diagnose and having the right set of tools makes a huge difference. I hope my adventures...
The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails Neither the first nor the fastest international connection, it was the one that lasted.
3rd Jul 2025
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The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails

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

3rd Jul 2025
Neither the first nor the fastest international connection, it was the one that lasted.
Systems model of API deprecation In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a...
1st Apr 2025
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Systems model of API deprecation

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

1st Apr 2025
In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a significant cause of customer churn. While there is internal data that can be used to correlate deprecation with churn, it’s also valuable to build a model to help us decide if we...
Apollo A-002: Testing the Limits of the Launch Escape System One of the more dangerous parts of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed...
8th Dec 2024
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Apollo A-002: Testing the Limits of the Launch Escape System

from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science

8th Dec 2024
One of the more dangerous parts of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed spacecraft have had launch abort options to cover […]
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...
6th Nov 2021
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Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances

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

6th Nov 2021
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.
Markets Under Pressure: What Really Happens When the World Feels Unstable When global tension rises, investors instinctively reach for the exit.
19th Jan 2026
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19th Jan 2026
When global tension rises, investors instinctively reach for the exit.
The Boys in the Boat A friend of mine who's in finance told me that the book is a cult favorite in his office, as most of...
14th Jan 2019
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The Boys in the Boat

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Jan 2019
A friend of mine who's in finance told me that the book is a cult favorite in his office, as most of them did crew in college. There's gotta be a word for the narrative neatness that this book employs. Of course the UW folks are the young upstarts — of course they are portrayed...
That Inspiration Stuck in Your Teeth Remember the last time inspiration blessed you with its divine presence? The clouds parted, angels...
3rd Dec 2016
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That Inspiration Stuck in Your Teeth

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

3rd Dec 2016
Remember the last time inspiration blessed you with its divine presence? The clouds parted, angels sang, and an idea descended like a holy dove. What, it doesn't happen that way for you? Me neither.
the bravest thing you can do this 4th of july if america is so bold, why aren't you?
4th Jul 2025
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the bravest thing you can do this 4th of july

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

4th Jul 2025
if america is so bold, why aren't you?
No more talking to politicians I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant...
1st Nov 2023
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No more talking to politicians

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2023
I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined. Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller...
First Month at the Jules Team 没有简介, 请去看原文吧
1st Feb 2026
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First Month at the Jules Team

from laike9m's blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Feb 2026
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
9th Dec 2022
The Illogic of Nuclear Escalation How much is enough? It’s the most basic question in the nuclear arms race. For over sixty years, few...
1st Nov 2022
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The Illogic of Nuclear Escalation

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Nov 2022
How much is enough? It’s the most basic question in the nuclear arms race. For over sixty years, few have asked it, and even fewer have received an answer.
Your Deepest Value is Adaption You like some people, food, and TV shows more than you do others.
1st Feb 2026
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Your Deepest Value is Adaption

from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Feb 2026
You like some people, food, and TV shows more than you do others.
Tags now get auto-grouped Tags now get auto-grouped
5th Feb 2024
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Tags now get auto-grouped

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

5th Feb 2024
Tags now get auto-grouped
Inflation propagates unevenly Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say...
2nd Jan 2022
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Inflation propagates unevenly

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

2nd Jan 2022
Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say it, and yet the way pundits and academics talk about inflation glosses over this reality. As a result, most people who haven't had direct experience with high inflation have a flawed...
Copper and Green Energy The United States Department of Energy has updated its list of critically important materials. The...
1st Jul 2024
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Copper and Green Energy

from Tikalon Blog by Dev Gualtieri [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Jul 2024
The United States Department of Energy has updated its list of critically important materials. The current list of 54 materials includes elements that are presently critical to a transition to green energy, such as the rare earth elements important to turbine generators, and...
No, Wall Street, DeepSeek is not "far superior" I mean, it is! But the whole story about the stock market reacting to the news about DeepSeek V3...
30th Oct 2024
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No, Wall Street, DeepSeek is not "far superior"

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

30th Oct 2024
I mean, it is! But the whole story about the stock market reacting to the news about DeepSeek V3 and R1 is a fine example of the knee-jerk nature of mass consciousness in the era of clickbait economics. Briefly, by points: No, DeepSeek isn’t “head and shoulders...
In a git repository, where do your files live? Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does...
14th Sep 2023
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In a git repository, where do your files live?

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Sep 2023
Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does git store your files? We know that it’s in your .git directory, but where exactly in there are all the versions of your old files? For example, this blog is in a git repository, and...
The ultra-selfish gene We now have the power to genetically modify entire species by inserting certain genes into them with...
3rd Sep 2024
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The ultra-selfish gene

from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd Sep 2024
We now have the power to genetically modify entire species by inserting certain genes into them with brute force. Doing this to malaria-carrying mosquitoes could allow us to wipe out humanity’s most deadly killer.
Summary of changes for July 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Aug 2025
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Summary of changes for July 2025

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

1st Aug 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July. Catjam 2025, finished a small game called Polycat! 100r.ca, added Vancouver Island West Coast, Ucluelet, Port San Juan, Juan de Fuca Strait and Cadboro Bay. Theme Editor, made a...
Bangladesh has millions of e-rickshaws. They’re finally becoming legal Bangladesh’s EV industry will likely grow now, and drivers no longer have to worry about being fined...
1st Jul 2024
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Bangladesh has millions of e-rickshaws. They’re finally becoming legal

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

1st Jul 2024
Bangladesh’s EV industry will likely grow now, and drivers no longer have to worry about being fined or having their vehicles impounded.
The hidden costs of asking for quotations in the data market Working towards faster, cheaper and safer data projects
9th Feb 2024
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The hidden costs of asking for quotations in the data market

from Data Boutique [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Feb 2024
Working towards faster, cheaper and safer data projects
Let pedestrians define the walkways A new college campus was built, but one thing was still debated: Some people thought the walkways...
23rd Nov 2009
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Let pedestrians define the walkways

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Nov 2009
A new college campus was built, but one thing was still debated: Some people thought the walkways should go around the grass, to leave it green. Some thought the walkways should cut across diagonally. Brilliant. As time goes on, we get smarter. We learn more about...
Big questions for big data Big data is big news. Search for it and Google will return 75 million results. That’s a different...
26th Jun 2019
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Big questions for big data

from Articles - Alex Murrell [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Jun 2019
Big data is big news. Search for it and Google will return 75 million results. That’s a different article for every 100 people on earth. There are also 18 million videos on the topic. At 5 minutes each, it would take 170 years to watch them all. Then there’s the one million...
The Lunacy of Artemis In August 2020, the New York Times asked me to write an op-ed for a special feature on...
19th May 2024
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The Lunacy of Artemis

from Idle Words [alt+shift+b] in literature

19th May 2024
In August 2020, the New York Times asked me to write an op-ed for a special feature on authoritarianism and democracy. They declined to publish my submission, which I am sharing here instead. A little over 51 years ago, a rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying three...
Bizarre New Creatures Discovered 30,000 Feet Under the Sea The Titanic lies about 12,500 feet under the ocean. The pressure down there is so immense that even...
1st Aug 2025
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Bizarre New Creatures Discovered 30,000 Feet Under the Sea

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Aug 2025
The Titanic lies about 12,500 feet under the ocean. The pressure down there is so immense that even submersibles supposedly built for those conditions can, as we know, tragically fail. Now imagine taking a sub nearly three times deeper. Read more on E360 →
4 short stories of our attempts to be lean at our startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s no secret...
2nd Mar 2014
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4 short stories of our attempts to be lean at our startup

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2014
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s no secret that I’ve personally been hugely impacted by Eric Ries’ [https://twitter.com/ericries] work and the Lean Startup [http://theleanstartup.com/] movement. Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]...
9 Years on the Road October 24th is my indie-versary, the anniversary of quitting my last full time job. Every year I...
4th Jan 2024
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9 Years on the Road

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jan 2024
October 24th is my indie-versary, the anniversary of quitting my last full time job. Every year I write a set of reflections about this strange and magical journey.
The 15 Minute City In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their...
3rd Dec 2024
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The 15 Minute City

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

3rd Dec 2024
In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their local government. They were wearing yellow vests and chanting slogans about the municipality’s new traffic policies. But most notably, many of them were vocally angry about a new...
The Dystopia of Diagolon: Irrational Cartographies of Secession The quandary of our own abundant if not inexhaustible repertoire of mapping abilities and skills of...
31st Mar 2022
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The Dystopia of Diagolon: Irrational Cartographies of Secession

from Musings on Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

31st Mar 2022
The quandary of our own abundant if not inexhaustible repertoire of mapping abilities and skills of visualization are tried by the spread of COVID-19. As dashboards, news agencies, and media offered new maps and staked new skills of mapping, maps … Continue reading →
React without webpack: fast path to a working app from scratch This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
8th Jul 2021
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React without webpack: fast path to a working app from scratch

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Jul 2021
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
4th Dec 2020
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Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback

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

4th Dec 2020
Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require content to be “injected” via Javascript. I should mention that I am strongly against this practice - but often this kind of thing is out of one’s hands. So, the least I can do is...
Quarterly Author Update: October 2024 Book sales, next projects, and a blog update
8th Oct 2024
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Quarterly Author Update: October 2024

from Nat Eliason's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

8th Oct 2024
Book sales, next projects, and a blog update
The AI God Delusion Goes Mainstream Anthropic now treats the Pope as a competitor in a battle for souls
2nd Oct 2026
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The AI God Delusion Goes Mainstream

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Oct 2026
Anthropic now treats the Pope as a competitor in a battle for souls
13th Aug 2008
Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older...
18th Jul 2018
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Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jul 2018
Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older generation of web scraping and spidering tools would grab and analyze HTML pages as returned by a web server. It doesn’t work well anymore because less and less website are static...
Web Push Pitfall Web Push Pitfall Posted on March 30, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No...
30th Mar 2023
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Web Push Pitfall

from videah.net [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Mar 2023
Web Push Pitfall Posted on March 30, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No changes have been made to the content in the migration, so things might read weird. Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue...
Epicycles All The Way Down “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E.
26th Nov 2025
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Epicycles All The Way Down

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

26th Nov 2025
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E.
The Cure to Misinformation is More Misinformation Why we need fake news to know what's true
24th Apr 2023
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The Cure to Misinformation is More Misinformation

from The Prism [alt+shift+b] in life

24th Apr 2023
Why we need fake news to know what's true
What went wrong with the ventilator stockpile? The New York Times reports on how the federal government tried and failed to increase the stockpile...
1st Apr 2020
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What went wrong with the ventilator stockpile?

from Jason Crawford [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Apr 2020
The New York Times reports on how the federal government tried and failed to increase the stockpile of ventilators. Some are reading this as a story about the private sector, the profit motive, or “greed”. I think it’s a story about incompetent project management. The story in...
A Modern Brick Home Designed Around The Original Placement Of Trees Exterio architects have shared photos of a new home they completed in Warsaw, Poland, that's...
9th Jul 2024
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A Modern Brick Home Designed Around The Original Placement Of Trees

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

9th Jul 2024
Exterio architects have shared photos of a new home they completed in Warsaw, Poland, that's surrounded by a pine tree forest.
4th Aug 2011
You And Whose Army? NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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You And Whose Army?

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Mar 2023
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
The Height Enigma One of the most perplexing and befuddling things in CSS for me, for many years, was the behaviour of...
12th May 2025
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The Height Enigma

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

12th May 2025
One of the most perplexing and befuddling things in CSS for me, for many years, was the behaviour of percentage-based heights. Sometimes, seemingly at random, setting “height: 100%” would have no effect at all. When I finally figured out what was going on, it was like a puzzle...
✏️ Biblioteca Vasconselos In the Buenavista neighborhood resides this impressive library that spans 409,000 sq ft, designed by...
2nd Jan 2021
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✏️ Biblioteca Vasconselos

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

2nd Jan 2021
In the Buenavista neighborhood resides this impressive library that spans 409,000 sq ft, designed by Mexican architects Alberto Kalach and Juan Palomar. Adored by those that appreciate architecture, and those looking for Instagram fodder, the space feels like you’re in the...
Docker Deployment Best Practices Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use...
1st Aug 2024
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Docker Deployment Best Practices

from home automation - Tinker, Tamper, Alter, Fry [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2024
Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use self-hosted gitlab.Goal: Both initial and subsequent automated deployments to different environments (staging and production). Rejected ApproachesMost existing blog articles and...
A Debate Over the Physics of Time According to our best theories of physics, the universe is a fixed block where time only appears to...
8th Sep 2016
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A Debate Over the Physics of Time

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

8th Sep 2016
According to our best theories of physics, the universe is a fixed block where time only appears to pass. The post A Debate Over the Physics of Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
What I'm up to - December 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2023
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What I'm up to - December 2023

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Started writing some essays about online work, dependability, tools, and craft on t...
Iran's Many Ethnicities With all that is going on in Iran, it may be useful or at least interesting to see a map of the...
4th Mar 2026
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Iran's Many Ethnicities

from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography

4th Mar 2026
With all that is going on in Iran, it may be useful or at least interesting to see a map of the country’s ethnic diversity. As with many other countries, it is easy to think of today’s boundaries as reflecting homogeneous regions. This map shows a much more complicated...
Age and infertility Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
29th Dec 2024
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Age and infertility

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

29th Dec 2024
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
Another vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered...
23rd Mar 2022
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Another vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Mar 2022
Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered an undocumented hardware block in the LPC55S69 (our chosen part for our product’s Root of Trust implementation) that could be used to violate security boundaries. This issue...
2011 in Review It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek...
4th Jan 2012
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2011 in Review

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

4th Jan 2012
It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek Achievements Wrote three games this year: My Minions Grand Thief Arto Sat-E Bought a new computer! Bought a mechanical keyboard. Bought custom Starcraft 2 keycaps for the...
trading off love is freedom
1st Oct 2026
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trading off

from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Oct 2026
love is freedom
How Pakistan can join the South Asia growth boom A guest post by Murtaza Hussain
2nd May 2023
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How Pakistan can join the South Asia growth boom

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd May 2023
A guest post by Murtaza Hussain
From Slow House to Blue Dream Blue Dream is a house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Julia "Julie" Reyes Taubman and her...
2nd Oct 2023
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From Slow House to Blue Dream

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

2nd Oct 2023
Blue Dream is a house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Julia "Julie" Reyes Taubman and her husband Robert "Bobby" Taubman. The house, located in East Hampton, on the South Fork of Long Island, was completed in 2017, nearly 30 years after the architects were commissioned...
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Kickstarter 1 Campaign Updates

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Jun 2012
Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare Everything impacts everything.
1st Jun 2026
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Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jun 2026
Everything impacts everything.
The Dopamine Problem Every New Manager Face I recently wrote an internal Management 101 guide for new RevenueCat managers. It is not meant to be...
10th Jul 2026
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The Dopamine Problem Every New Manager Face

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jul 2026
I recently wrote an internal Management 101 guide for new RevenueCat managers. It is not meant to be a universal management guide. Most universal management advice is either too vague to be useful or too generic to survive contact with a real company. My goal was simpler: explain...
Three kinds of memory leaks So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can...
29th Apr 2018
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Three kinds of memory leaks

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Apr 2018
So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can immediately identify this as a likely symptom of a memory leak. But when we say “memory leak”, what do we actually mean? In my experience, apparent memory leaks divide into three broad...
Idea machines Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their...
12th May 2022
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Idea machines

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th May 2022
Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their ideologies. Where do these ideologies come from, and how do they influence what’s accomplished? One of the most visible ideologies in tech is effective altruism (or EA), a...
The Sting The Sting belongs in the pantheon of films I'm deeply embarrassed to have not watched earlier. Not...
8th Oct 2026
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The Sting

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

8th Oct 2026
The Sting belongs in the pantheon of films I'm deeply embarrassed to have not watched earlier. Not just because it's a great film — and it is — but because it is so incredibly my shit that I feel retroactively spurned for not having watched it sooner.
In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium John Nash’s notion of equilibrium is ubiquitous in economic theory, but a new study shows that it is...
12th Oct 2017
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In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

12th Oct 2017
John Nash’s notion of equilibrium is ubiquitous in economic theory, but a new study shows that it is often impossible to reach efficiently. The post In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium first appeared on Quanta Magazine
All Political Systems Die Philosophy for Rebels 23 - System Failure
7th Mar 2025
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All Political Systems Die

from Mind Prison [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Mar 2025
Philosophy for Rebels 23 - System Failure
A Twisty Maze of Ill-Behaved Bots Like many, bot traffic has been causing significant issues for my hosted server recently. I’ve been...
2nd Oct 2025
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A Twisty Maze of Ill-Behaved Bots

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Oct 2025
Like many, bot traffic has been causing significant issues for my hosted server recently. I’ve been noticing a dramatic increase in bots that do not respect robots.txt, especially the crawl-delay I have set there. Not only that, but many of them are sending user-agent strings...
Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market Looking back on the last four years, what worked, what didn't.
4th Apr 2025
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Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market

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

4th Apr 2025
Looking back on the last four years, what worked, what didn't.
A Commentary on Defining Observability 2024/03/19 A Commentary on Defining Observability Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great...
19th Mar 2024
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A Commentary on Defining Observability

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Mar 2024
2024/03/19 A Commentary on Defining Observability Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great article titled Redefining Observability. In it, she covers competing classical definitions observability, weaknesses they have, and offers a practical reframing of the concept in the...
Delight comes last Paul Adams put it bluntly: “Grid, font, colour, and aesthetic style are irrelevant if [outcomes]...
23rd Jun 2019
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Delight comes last

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

23rd Jun 2019
Paul Adams put it bluntly: “Grid, font, colour, and aesthetic style are irrelevant if [outcomes] haven’t been resolved first … [but] sometimes it’s just more fun to draw nice pictures and bury oneself in pixels than deal with complicated business decisions and people with...
Web Push Pitfall Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue...
30th Mar 2023
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Web Push Pitfall

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

30th Mar 2023
Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue that led to me being stumped for hours. I was successfully receiving notifications from my server when using Chrome, but no matter what Safari was not playing ball. Web Push requires...
At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life A new technique for finding and characterizing microbes has boosted the number of known bacteria by...
6th Aug 2015
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At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

6th Aug 2015
A new technique for finding and characterizing microbes has boosted the number of known bacteria by almost 50 percent, revealing a hidden world all around us. The post At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine
In Search of Dupree Bolton (Part 2 of 2) I conclude the story of my quest to find a legendary jazz musician who disappeared in the early...
3rd Apr 2024
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In Search of Dupree Bolton (Part 2 of 2)

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Apr 2024
I conclude the story of my quest to find a legendary jazz musician who disappeared in the early 1960s
How your choice of tech can help you grow How your choice of tech can help you grow Making architectural choices for scaling your...
29th Oct 2018
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How your choice of tech can help you grow

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Oct 2018
How your choice of tech can help you grow Making architectural choices for scaling your business Making architectural choices for securing your business We’re hiring! ¶How your choice of tech can help you grow I’ve been working at Elvie for almost 2 years. My remit has been to...
A Woodchuck's Daydream In Search of a Swamp
1st Apr 2026
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A Woodchuck's Daydream

from Hickman's Hinterlands [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Apr 2026
In Search of a Swamp
Ink Note Q2 2025: Scribble on your Google Calendar How would it feel if you could scribble on top of your Google Calendar events?
22nd May 2025
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Ink Note Q2 2025: Scribble on your Google Calendar

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd May 2025
How would it feel if you could scribble on top of your Google Calendar events?
What Is an Electronic Sackbut? If you, like me, think of musical synthesizers as an artifact of 1970s rock and disco, then you,...
1st Feb 2024
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What Is an Electronic Sackbut?

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

1st Feb 2024
If you, like me, think of musical synthesizers as an artifact of 1970s rock and disco, then you, like me, will be surprised to learn that the first electronic synthesizer predates those genres by several decades In 1945, Hugh Le Caine, a physicist at Canada’s National Research...
Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
5th Feb 2019
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Proper UI Hierarchy

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

5th Feb 2019
Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it’s core seems so simple - yet is...
UX Roundup: Practice Interviewing With AI | AI Answer Complexity | Date-Picking | NASA-TLX | Why vs.... AI can’t simulate human research participants yet, but it can help interviewers practice before...
a week ago
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a week ago
AI can’t simulate human research participants yet, but it can help interviewers practice before meeting real users | AI answers can drain users’ cognitive budgets through several kinds of complexity | Let users type distant dates | Simplifying the NASA-TLX instrument for...
1st Jul 2025
The Euro-American Split (I): Dread Possibility THERE ARE DECADES WHEN possibility is constrained in a narrow frame. The terrain has been surveyed,...
21st Feb 2025
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The Euro-American Split (I): Dread Possibility

from The Scholar's Stage [alt+shift+b] in history

21st Feb 2025
THERE ARE DECADES WHEN possibility is constrained in a narrow frame. The terrain has been surveyed, boundaries have been laid, and rules have been established. In such an age there is still room for high drama: The decisive round of a boxing match draws the eye despite the...
Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster This article previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that...
14th Feb 2023
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Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Feb 2023
This article previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that pre-seed and seed startups with employees showing up in a physical office have 3½ times higher revenue growth than those that are solely remote. Let the discussion begin. During the...
Use TypeScript Record Types for Better Code TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
29th Oct 2022
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Use TypeScript Record Types for Better Code

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

29th Oct 2022
TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!) In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from...
22nd Mar 2023
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How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!)

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Mar 2023
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from anywhere on my Mac. I just open Alfred, type “note” followed by my query, and see my search results. Hit enter and the correct note opens in Obsidian. Easy and quick!
Unblogged November 30 unblogged things I did in November Sat 1: Spotted a doomed pillarbox in Beckenham High Street...
1st Dec 2025
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Unblogged November

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

1st Dec 2025
30 unblogged things I did in November Sat 1: Spotted a doomed pillarbox in Beckenham High Street wrapped in plastic film, ready to be updated to one of those new solar-powered automated boxes. I wonder what they do with the boxes that get replaced. Sun 2: The sheer irony of a...
Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for...
2nd May 2010
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Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd May 2010
If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for the VC industry comes from so-called LPs…
Transcript of Interview with Alexis D'Herouville on Tocqueville An interview with Alexis D'Herouville on his ancestor, Tocqueville
14 hours ago
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Transcript of Interview with Alexis D'Herouville on Tocqueville

from Johnathan Bi: Transcripts [alt+shift+b] in history

14 hours ago
An interview with Alexis D'Herouville on his ancestor, Tocqueville
When The Writing Is Very Good That Doesn't Matter The most popular link last time was this list of things that aren't doing the thing, with this piece...
4th Dec 2025
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When The Writing Is Very Good That Doesn't Matter

from Caroline Crampton [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Dec 2025
The most popular link last time was this list of things that aren't doing the thing, with this piece wondering if you are Actually Trying second. Somehow, the most insightful thing I have read/seen about contemporary social media usage is this Google Slides presentation. It's
British Summertime Aha, the great British Summer. You really never know what you’re going to get and it makes planning...
3rd Aug 2017
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British Summertime

from Sarah Parmenter [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Aug 2017
Aha, the great British Summer. You really never know what you’re going to get and it makes planning weekends so darn difficult. Us Brits really do love to talk about the weather; as I write this post I started the day in shorts and a t-shirt and I’m about to go and fetch a...
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