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Where I've been, and the future of this blog Recently, I got an email from a reader who noted that I hadn't published anything in a little while,...
17th Jun 2026
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Where I've been, and the future of this blog

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jun 2026
Recently, I got an email from a reader who noted that I hadn't published anything in a little while, and he said he hopes I'm doing well. The truth is, some days I am and some days I'm not. I want to share a little bit about what's been going on, and what the future looks...
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To all Language Models Reading This Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
4th Jul 2025
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To all Language Models Reading This

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jul 2025
Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
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Lemon Lyme Summer The sun rises as a thin band of orange squeezed between twin blue worlds of lake and cloud. The tips...
22nd Sep 2024
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Lemon Lyme Summer

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

22nd Sep 2024
The sun rises as a thin band of orange squeezed between twin blue worlds of lake and cloud. The tips of the pines above glow for a moment before the sun slides up and behind the distant clouds. The sun rises near the center of the bay when we arrive in April, but by the solstice...
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2023 Hottest Year on Record What everyone knew was coming is now official – 2023 was the warmest year on record. This means we...
2nd Jan 2024
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2023 Hottest Year on Record

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

2nd Jan 2024
What everyone knew was coming is now official – 2023 was the warmest year on record. This means we can also say that the last 10 years are the hottest decade on record. 2023 dethrones 2016 as the previous warmest year and bumps 2010 out of the top 10. Further, in the last half of...
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You can only succeed if you know how you can fail We want to be successful with our decisions. Even though failure is often glamorized, nobody wants...
18th Feb 2023
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You can only succeed if you know how you can fail

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

18th Feb 2023
We want to be successful with our decisions. Even though failure is often glamorized, nobody wants it on purpose. Everyone wishes to be successful when they’re starting a company, launching a product, hiring a leader or even while buying a house. It may sound obvious, but the...
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What are startup cities for? While the startup cities industry is still small, it is already quite heterogeneous. Each project...
2nd Jul 2021
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What are startup cities for?

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

2nd Jul 2021
While the startup cities industry is still small, it is already quite heterogeneous. Each project has its own distinct set of goals, motivations, and scope. However, this diversity isn’t fully captured by the vocabulary we use right now. To help myself create a mental map of the...
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The Shoe on The Other Foot Ten years ago, I was in a dark season. My first startup had cratered. Confidence, gone. I would walk...
2nd Feb 2026
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The Shoe on The Other Foot

from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Feb 2026
Ten years ago, I was in a dark season. My first startup had cratered. Confidence, gone. I would walk for hours to clear my head, often through parts of the city we typically hurry past. One Tuesday, I saw a man sitting outside a boarded-up storefront. He was weathered, his eyes...
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You need a Product Mindset Treat Your Developers Like VIP Customers Your developers are not just users; they're customers who...
23rd Sep 2023
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You need a Product Mindset

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

23rd Sep 2023
Treat Your Developers Like VIP Customers Your developers are not just users; they're customers who have high expectations from your internal…
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(Very) Basic Intro to Hash Functions (SHA-256, MD5, etc) Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and...
1st Jan 2020
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(Very) Basic Intro to Hash Functions (SHA-256, MD5, etc)

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2020
Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and retrieve data, among other useful computational tasks. As a practical example, all user passwords on boot.dev are hashed using Bcrypt to ensure that if an attacker were ever to gain...
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When Do Viewers Get Hooked on a TV Show? A Statistical Analysis When do TV viewers become committed fans?
3rd Apr 2025
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When Do Viewers Get Hooked on a TV Show? A Statistical Analysis

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

3rd Apr 2025
When do TV viewers become committed fans?
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Things that work (for me) A list of tools and items that JustWork (tm)
20th Jan 2026
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Things that work (for me)

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

20th Jan 2026
A list of tools and items that JustWork (tm)
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Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail Always choose the right tool for the job? Nah. I use Go basically everywhere, which either makes me...
8th Aug 2024
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Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail

from maragu’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Aug 2024
Always choose the right tool for the job? Nah. I use Go basically everywhere, which either makes me insightful or stupid. Decide for yourself! :D
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ICML accepted papers institution stats
24th May 2017
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ICML accepted papers institution stats

from Stories by Andrej Karpathy on Medium [alt+shift+b] in AI

24th May 2017
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Google Reader was building the wrong future The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.
1st Jul 2026
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Google Reader was building the wrong future

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

1st Jul 2026
The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.
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Deep learning for… chess (addendum) My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple...
8th Dec 2014
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Deep learning for… chess (addendum)

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

8th Dec 2014
My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple of other places. One pretty amazing thing was that the Github repo got 150 stars overnight.
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Sensitivity Isn’t Static The sensitivity of our senses ebbs and flows. If you’re looking to be more perceptive, start by...
30th Mar 2023
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Sensitivity Isn’t Static

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Mar 2023
The sensitivity of our senses ebbs and flows. If you’re looking to be more perceptive, start by changing your environment. The post Sensitivity Isn’t Static appeared first on David Perell.
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Blend Mode Helper Blend modes can be a complex thing to wrap one’s head around. Experimentation is the best teacher,...
15th Jun 2023
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Blend Mode Helper

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

15th Jun 2023
Blend modes can be a complex thing to wrap one’s head around. Experimentation is the best teacher, but even then there are lots of variabilities involved, depending on the layer you use to experiment. The Blend Mode Helper Map (and its constituent Blend Mode Helper layer) reduces...
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Mini-review: David Pogue's Apple: The First 50 Years Apple: The First 50 Years to see if I even wanted to bother with the hardcover. Previously the...
1st Apr 2026
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Mini-review: David Pogue's Apple: The First 50 Years

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2026
Apple: The First 50 Years to see if I even wanted to bother with the hardcover. Previously the essential tome on Apple (and especially Mac) history was Owen Linzmeyer's Apple Confidential, still on my shelf in the well-thumbed 2.0 paperback. I was prepared to find this book...
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A couple of git nits A small rant on git papercuts, and why they are like that.
16th Mar 2026
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A couple of git nits

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Mar 2026
A small rant on git papercuts, and why they are like that.
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Business is like surfing
21st Feb 2020
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Business is like surfing

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Feb 2020
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Fancy math doesn’t make simple math stop being true What are you supposed to do when someone disagrees with you using a bunch of math you can’t...
11th Jan 2024
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Fancy math doesn’t make simple math stop being true

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

11th Jan 2024
What are you supposed to do when someone disagrees with you using a bunch of math you can’t understand? I’ve been thinking about that recently because of the NordICC colonoscopy trial. It took 85k Europeans aged 55-64, invited a third of them for a free one-time screening...
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Optimizing for iteration speed I've written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn't necessarily talk about...
6th Jul 2017
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Optimizing for iteration speed

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

6th Jul 2017
I've written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn't necessarily talk about some concrete things you can do. When I've built up the tech team at Better, I've intentionally optimized for fast iteration speed above almost everything else.
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30 Useful Concepts (Spring 2024) Ideas to help you make sense of the world
5th May 2024
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30 Useful Concepts (Spring 2024)

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

5th May 2024
Ideas to help you make sense of the world
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Parking Tickets Wrapped 2024
7th Jan 2025
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Parking Tickets Wrapped 2024

from Ben Borgers [alt+shift+b] in literature

7th Jan 2025
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Sophocles' Swansong Oedipus at Colonus
4th Aug 2023
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Sophocles' Swansong

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

4th Aug 2023
Oedipus at Colonus
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Building Custom Elements With a Library I often get asked why I use Lit to build web components. Hands down, it's become my preference after...
28th Mar 2024
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Building Custom Elements With a Library

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

28th Mar 2024
I often get asked why I use Lit to build web components. Hands down, it's become my preference after years of working with various libraries and tools. Here's why I use it. Libraries offer a better DX # This seems like a selfish answer for a developer to lean on, but there are...
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5 Frames of Kodacolor 100 with the Nikon FM Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m...
28th Jun 2026
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5 Frames of Kodacolor 100 with the Nikon FM

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Jun 2026
Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m camping. Mostly FujiFilm because I liked the greens. Once I started shooting Black & White and developing the film myself, I really didn’t see the need to have someone else...
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Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land...
7th Sep 2026
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Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life

from Cal Newport [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Sep 2026
Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land using traditional techniques and wrote with ... Read more The post Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life appeared first on Cal Newport.
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No agenda cold emails, dealership visits as a service, prompt money, the doing game. Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
3rd Jul 2023
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No agenda cold emails, dealership visits as a service, prompt money, the doing game.

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Jul 2023
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities Prompt Base has a list of the
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Making $6k from a baby AI photo generator Ever wondered, "Is there an AI to see how your baby looks?" Well you're not alone! OurBabyAI is an...
6th Sep 2023
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Making $6k from a baby AI photo generator

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

6th Sep 2023
Ever wondered, "Is there an AI to see how your baby looks?" Well you're not alone! OurBabyAI is an app that shows how your future baby may look.
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Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
8th Mar 2024
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Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Mar 2024
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
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Introducing TagVault Strap for AirTag Having DSLR cameras stolen, having gear bags stolen, we wanted a hard-core AirTag mount to mount to...
8th Sep 2022
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Introducing TagVault Strap for AirTag

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Sep 2022
Having DSLR cameras stolen, having gear bags stolen, we wanted a hard-core AirTag mount to mount to them and to be discreet. So we took our much loved TagVault Pet waterproof AirTag case, over engineered to take abuse from large dogs, and gave it all matte black hardware so it...
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Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more... Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small...
2nd Nov 2024
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Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more...

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Nov 2024
Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small fixed-size output domain such that the mapping is deterministic, yet appears to be random. This “deterministic randomness” is incredibly useful for a variety of purposes, such as hash...
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The Hidden Engineering of Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] There’s a new trend in...
1st Jul 2025
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The Hidden Engineering of Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Jul 2025
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] There’s a new trend in high-rise building design. Maybe you’ve seen this in your city. The best lots are all taken, so developers are stretching the limits to make use of space that isn’t always ideal for...
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Why Paying for Spotify Mostly Pays Taylor Swift Your money isn't going to the bands you love, it's going to the ones everyone else listens to.
10th Aug 2025
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Why Paying for Spotify Mostly Pays Taylor Swift

from Mert Bulan - Blog & Portfolio [alt+shift+b] in life

10th Aug 2025
Your money isn't going to the bands you love, it's going to the ones everyone else listens to.
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LinkedIn Highlights, Feb 2025 Anthropic's tip for long context prompts, a curated list of agents for computer use, an app to chat...
2nd Mar 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Feb 2025

from AI Tidbits [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Mar 2025
Anthropic's tip for long context prompts, a curated list of agents for computer use, an app to chat with multiple LLMs, and tips to improve the performance of GPT-4.5 and o3
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It haunts us
22nd Jun 2021
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It haunts us

from CommitStrip [alt+shift+b] in comics

22nd Jun 2021
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Death of the Visceral Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane...
22nd Jan 2025
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Death of the Visceral

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

22nd Jan 2025
Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane sideways to fit, a missile on your tail and closing, hitting the turbo, feeling the g force, coming up on the end of the corridor, pulling back hard on the stick the second the corridor...
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Kim Stanley Robinson: Learning From Le Guin The legacy of [Ursula K Le Guin](http://www.ursulakleguin.com/) lives beyond the page in generations...
12th Jul 2019
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Kim Stanley Robinson: Learning From Le Guin

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

12th Jul 2019
The legacy of [Ursula K Le Guin](http://www.ursulakleguin.com/) lives beyond the page in generations of writers who have learned from her. She used fantastic fiction to imagine ideals for the real world. Kim Stanley Robinson, her student 40 years ago and now a celebrated science...
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Inside A Modern Australian Home Surrounded By Tropical Rainforest Designed by Void Building Design, Raintree is a contemporary three-level home located beside Noosa...
a week ago
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Inside A Modern Australian Home Surrounded By Tropical Rainforest

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a week ago
Designed by Void Building Design, Raintree is a contemporary three-level home located beside Noosa National Park in Queensland, Australia. The residence occupies a compact 350-square-metre site, yet manages to create a generous sense of space, privacy, and openness. With...
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How I Manage Projects As a Product Designer at Harvest, part of my role is running projects. While I don’t believe there...
12th Feb 2020
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How I Manage Projects

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2020
As a Product Designer at Harvest, part of my role is running projects. While I don’t believe there is a right or wrong way to manage projects, I do think there are some methods that can yield better results. I’m hardly an expert in this area, but I’d like to share some of the...
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Virtue ethics Virtue ethics was one of the earliest attempts at defining a language and a logic around ethics. The...
13th Apr 2020
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Virtue ethics

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

13th Apr 2020
Virtue ethics was one of the earliest attempts at defining a language and a logic around ethics. The effort to identify and understand virtues began in Ancient Greece and continues to this day. What is a virtue? The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines a virtue as “an...
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What's your north star while building in public? 🔭⭐️ Hey folks, Recently, I gave a workshop on “BUILDING IN PUBLIC” at On Deck and shared insights,...
31st Jul 2021
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What's your north star while building in public? 🔭⭐️

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

31st Jul 2021
Hey folks, Recently, I gave a workshop on “BUILDING IN PUBLIC” at On Deck and shared insights, lessons, war stories and essentially opened up all my playbooks on the topic. The talk seemed to have resonated deeply with many fellows and I was grateful and delighted. Some of them...
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Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with...
14th Sep 2026
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Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces

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

14th Sep 2026
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
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There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0 Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about...
19th Nov 2024
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There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Nov 2024
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately; what it means for telemetry and instrumentation, its practices and sociotechnical implications, and the dramatically different shape of its cost model. With all...
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Faking 3D Elements with CSS Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that...
29th Apr 2020
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Faking 3D Elements with CSS

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

29th Apr 2020
Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that some of your web elements are 3D can be a fun experiment. I set out to see if I was able to create such an illusion with only 2 HTML elements and as little CSS as possible. This is...
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Scientists Find a Fast Way to Describe Quantum Systems After years of false starts, a team of computer scientists has found a way to efficiently deduce the...
1st May 2024
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Scientists Find a Fast Way to Describe Quantum Systems

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

1st May 2024
After years of false starts, a team of computer scientists has found a way to efficiently deduce the Hamiltonian of a physical system at any constant temperature. The post Scientists Find a Fast Way to Describe Quantum Systems first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Play the card game "War" in my avatar I programed a dynamic avatar that plays the card game war.
12th Nov 2008
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Play the card game "War" in my avatar

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

12th Nov 2008
I programed a dynamic avatar that plays the card game war.
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Returning to Free Software, a guide
15th Jun 2013
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Returning to Free Software, a guide

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jun 2013
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Experiences running ZFS on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 I really like ZFS because with current data sets, I do believe that data corruption may start...
18th Oct 2012
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Experiences running ZFS on Ubuntu Linux 12.04

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Oct 2012
I really like ZFS because with current data sets, I do believe that data corruption may start becoming an issue. The thing is that the license under which ZFS is released does not permit it to be used in the Linux kernel. That's quite unfortunate, but there is hope. There is a...
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#4 Roam Research — What comes after a renaissance? On mixing ideas, evolving design patterns and finding a soul
15th Jan 2024
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#4 Roam Research — What comes after a renaissance?

from Product Identity [alt+shift+b] in design

15th Jan 2024
On mixing ideas, evolving design patterns and finding a soul
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a problem with ssr Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer...
10th Apr 2025
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a problem with ssr

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2025
Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer with an honest side by side comparison to the more, exotic options.
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Content debt There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
4th Jul 2024
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Content debt

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jul 2024
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
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RIP Stuey Weills Beloved Nevada City community member passed away, a nice obituary of her impact on our small town
2nd Apr 2026
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RIP Stuey Weills

from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Apr 2026
Beloved Nevada City community member passed away, a nice obituary of her impact on our small town
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Which variables to control for, and why In this post, we will use a practical example to explore the power of statistical control,...
17th Nov 2025
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Which variables to control for, and why

from Peder M. Isager [alt+shift+b] in science

17th Nov 2025
In this post, we will use a practical example to explore the power of statistical control, explaining why adjusting for the right variables clarifies relationships and why adjusting for the wrong ones can introduce new, serious biases.
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My Favorite Things
3rd Apr 2023
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My Favorite Things

from xkcd.com [alt+shift+b] in comics

3rd Apr 2023
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Is an AI company buying up all the used books? (Part 2: Maybe yes, actually.) #109 updates the record on AI companies and used book buying
17th Aug 2026
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Is an AI company buying up all the used books? (Part 2: Maybe yes, actually.)

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

17th Aug 2026
#109 updates the record on AI companies and used book buying
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What you know that just ain't so The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower...
5th Nov 2024
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What you know that just ain't so

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Nov 2024
The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower or leave it alone? Should we chase these customers over here or those customers over there? Should we add more features or polish the ones we have? There's endless variation in...
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Our AI Midwife A guest post by Drew Housman
2 weeks ago
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Our AI Midwife

from Astral Codex Ten [alt+shift+b] in literature

2 weeks ago
A guest post by Drew Housman
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It’s Time to Build It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few...
23rd Apr 2024
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It’s Time to Build

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

23rd Apr 2024
It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few updates about what I’ve been up to. Quick recap At the start of 2023 I quit consulting to go full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker, after growing it on … Continue reading...
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Choosing what to keep human A quote from Ethan Mollick on figuring out what to keep human using AI.
27th May 2026
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Choosing what to keep human

from maragu’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

27th May 2026
A quote from Ethan Mollick on figuring out what to keep human using AI.
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Edith Clarke: Architect of Modern Power Distribution Edith Clarke was a powerhouse in practically every sense of the word. From the start of her career...
10th Jul 2024
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Edith Clarke: Architect of Modern Power Distribution

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

10th Jul 2024
Edith Clarke was a powerhouse in practically every sense of the word. From the start of her career at General Electric in 1922, she was determined to develop stable, more reliable power grids. During her first years at GE she invented what came to be known as the Clarke...
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Introducing GeoCards – A Wiki Labeled Map
2nd Feb 2026
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Introducing GeoCards – A Wiki Labeled Map

from Maps Mania [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2nd Feb 2026
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Pont
30th May 2020
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Pont

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th May 2020
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ETHDenver: A Glimpse into the Future I signed up for ETHDenver 2020 hoping to learn more about cryptocurrency. What I came away with was...
18th Feb 2020
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ETHDenver: A Glimpse into the Future

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

18th Feb 2020
I signed up for ETHDenver 2020 hoping to learn more about cryptocurrency. What I came away with was questions about the viability of, well, everything.
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Addicted to ideas Having an idea is like taking a hit of a fine drug.
10th Oct 2023
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Addicted to ideas

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

10th Oct 2023
Having an idea is like taking a hit of a fine drug.
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Crony Beliefs [Note: if you prefer audio, you can listen to this essay narrated by Grognor on his excellent...
2nd Nov 2016
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Crony Beliefs

from Melting Asphalt [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd Nov 2016
[Note: if you prefer audio, you can listen to this essay narrated by Grognor on his excellent podcast Second Enumerations. —Ed.]   Credits up front: This essay draws heavily from Overcoming Bias, Less Wrong, Slate Star Codex, Robert Kurzban, Robert… Read more ›
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I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business My first two years as a bootstrapped founder went poorly. I could barely find any paying customers,...
29th May 2024
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I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

29th May 2024
My first two years as a bootstrapped founder went poorly. I could barely find any paying customers, and all of my businesses lost money. I began questioning my decision to quit my cushy Google job. In mid-2020, yet another of my businesses had flopped, and it was only kind of...
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The rough edges of Terraform that I awkwardly stumble over First and foremost, thanks to everyone who has subscribed recently. I know I’ve been quieter than...
7th Mar 2023
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The rough edges of Terraform that I awkwardly stumble over

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2023
First and foremost, thanks to everyone who has subscribed recently. I know I’ve been quieter than usual. I actually have a number of nearly-complete drafts ready to go, but each is waiting on something. Two of them are posts that I think y’all will hopefully enjoy very much!
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Self-hosting 101: Server and Tailscale
8th Sep 2025
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Self-hosting 101: Server and Tailscale

from tim.sh [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Sep 2025
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The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand...
2 weeks ago
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The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 weeks ago
In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand for professional work – at 37signals at least. Is this change now unstoppable?
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query-json: jq written in Reason
12th Oct 2020
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query-json: jq written in Reason

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Oct 2020
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‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback You’re carrying around in your head a model of how the world works. Will AI systems need to do the...
2nd Sep 2025
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‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

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

2nd Sep 2025
You’re carrying around in your head a model of how the world works. Will AI systems need to do the same? The post ‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Thoughts on Practical Cartographic Education While I have not conducted a formal survey, I think I have the right impression when I say that most...
13th Oct 2022
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Thoughts on Practical Cartographic Education

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

13th Oct 2022
While I have not conducted a formal survey, I think I have the right impression when I say that most university cartography courses, at least in the United States, are taught by people whose primary job (when they are not teaching) is not the regular production of maps. These...
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The Rise of Steel - Part I One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every...
5th Jan 2023
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The Rise of Steel - Part I

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5th Jan 2023
One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every product of industrial civilization relies on steel, either as a component or as part of the equipment used to produce it. Without it, Vaclav Smil notes in “Still the Iron Age”, modern...
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Free Edition of Charles Gounod’s Le Crucifix I typeset a Creative Commons edition of Charles Gounod's a cappella choral work 'Le Crucifix'.
1st Oct 2013
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Free Edition of Charles Gounod’s Le Crucifix

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

1st Oct 2013
I typeset a Creative Commons edition of Charles Gounod's a cappella choral work 'Le Crucifix'.
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The C Standard Library Function isspace() Depends on Locale This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be...
6th Jun 2023
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The C Standard Library Function isspace() Depends on Locale

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2023
This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be able to remember it in the future. I expect close to zero others to be interested. The C standard library function isspace() returns a non-zero value (true) for the six "standard"...
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Tech Heroin Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell...
7th Jan 2024
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Tech Heroin

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

7th Jan 2024
Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell cocaine. Techno-Optimism is cocaine. Atlas Shrugged is cocaine. Futurism is cocaine. I am a progressive. A liberal. I believe in progress. I am not a conservative. Conservatives lose....
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Inequality, galactic and planetary Is the relationship between inequality and homicide casual? Should we expect it to be?
26th May 2023
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Inequality, galactic and planetary

from Lefineder’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in life

26th May 2023
Is the relationship between inequality and homicide casual? Should we expect it to be?
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On my new ‘Valuable feedback, fast’ course A couple of weeks ago, I published the training page for a brand-new course that I’m looking to run...
7th Jan 2026
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On my new ‘Valuable feedback, fast’ course

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2026
A couple of weeks ago, I published the training page for a brand-new course that I’m looking to run at least a couple of times in 2026. The course is called ‘Valuable feedback, fast’, and in this blog post, I’d like to share a little more about why I created this course, why it...
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Blink Twice to Quell a Quasar: Carl Sagan on Superstition Growing up in Bulgaria, in a city teeming in stray dogs and cars, I was deeply distressed by the...
4th Aug 2025
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Blink Twice to Quell a Quasar: Carl Sagan on Superstition

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

4th Aug 2025
Growing up in Bulgaria, in a city teeming in stray dogs and cars, I was deeply distressed by the sight of each dead animal in the streets between home and school — deaths I could not prevent and could not bear. To cope with the aching helplessness, I developed a private...
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Rose McDermott: Ideology in our Genes: The Biological Basis for Political Traits While traditionally social factors have been considered to have primary influence on political...
1st Dec 2017
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Rose McDermott: Ideology in our Genes: The Biological Basis for Political Traits

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

1st Dec 2017
While traditionally social factors have been considered to have primary influence on political behaviors and preferences, more recent research shows that there's also a strong heritable component to ideological attitudes. Rose McDermott, professor of International Relations at...
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Startup Series Part 1: Interviewing Engineers There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and...
20th Sep 2013
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Startup Series Part 1: Interviewing Engineers

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

20th Sep 2013
There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and philosophies. This is a positive thing for the ecosystem - just as new software tools mean it’s simpler and cheaper to start a company, these methodologies allow first-time entrepreneurs...
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How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading Experiments in reading with LLMs
20th Jan 2026
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How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Jan 2026
Experiments in reading with LLMs
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Understanding Windows KMS and MAK volume license activation Introduction If you have to administer a large number of PCs running Windows, you will end up...
9th Jun 2012
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Understanding Windows KMS and MAK volume license activation

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jun 2012
Introduction If you have to administer a large number of PCs running Windows, you will end up creating an automated deployment platform for your Windows clients. You may implement something like Windows Deployment Services. I used WDS to create a fully automated installation of...
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025 The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The...
27th Apr 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2025
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The community rallied during the event, dealing a whopping 132,282,452 damage in total, but not quite enough to bring him down.
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Raise less money Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that good companies are increasingly over-diluting themselves...
12th Aug 2020
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Raise less money

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Aug 2020
Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that good companies are increasingly over-diluting themselves in their seed and A rounds. Counterintuitively, dilution seems to rise along with price. One would expect the opposite correlation. Strong founders who command high prices should...
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Veganism and Moral Intuitions Inspecting some ethical claims, in the hope you might revisit some of your own intuitions
24th Jun 2026
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Veganism and Moral Intuitions

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

24th Jun 2026
Inspecting some ethical claims, in the hope you might revisit some of your own intuitions
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Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM) If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a...
1st Jul 2020
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Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM)

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2020
If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a Go scratchpad in the browser. Want to show someone a code snippet? Want to quickly test some syntax? Browser-based code pads are helpful. On that note, I created a new playground....
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The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from...
13th May 2022
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The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th May 2022
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since then, we’ve been reverse-engineering AGX and building open source graphics drivers. Last January, I rendered a triangle with my own code, but...
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Power dynamics in web specifications My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we...
19th Apr 2024
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Power dynamics in web specifications

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2024
My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
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The Great Permitting Downturn and Your Rent Renting a home is more expensive because we stopped letting people build homes
1st Sep 2026
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The Great Permitting Downturn and Your Rent

from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Sep 2026
Renting a home is more expensive because we stopped letting people build homes
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The case for null in design systems
5th Jul 2022
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The case for null in design systems

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jul 2022
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Flash Loans: Why Flash Attacks will be the New Normal Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to...
27th Feb 2020
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Flash Loans: Why Flash Attacks will be the New Normal

from haseeb qureshi [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Feb 2020
Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to attack the margin trading protocol bZx, first in a $350K attack and later in a $600K copycat attack. These attacks were, in a word, magnificent. In each attack, a penniless attacker...
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Notes on 'Founder Mode' Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
2nd Sep 2024
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Notes on 'Founder Mode'

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Sep 2024
Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
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Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts...
10th Jan 2017
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Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering

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

10th Jan 2017
This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts of libertarianism and a lot of the good parts: Both ideologies strive to eliminate [the] state.
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Parametric half-circle For my torchlensmaker project, I need to represent lenses surface shapes parameterically. That is, I...
20th Dec 2024
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Parametric half-circle

from Victor Poughon [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Dec 2024
For my torchlensmaker project, I need to represent lenses surface shapes parameterically. That is, I need equations that give the X and Y coordinates of the surface, as a function of a parameter, usually called t. The project supports different parametric shapes, but a very...
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Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies The Gold Standard
1st Dec 2024
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Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2024
The Gold Standard
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The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps
1st Oct 2025
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The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill

from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Oct 2025
How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps
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Simple sabotage for software CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out...
13th Dec 2023
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Simple sabotage for software

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

13th Dec 2023
CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and...
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My Answer to the “ChatGPT Isn’t Really Creative” Argument There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool...
2nd Jan 2023
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My Answer to the “ChatGPT Isn’t Really Creative” Argument

from Daniel Miessler [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Jan 2023
There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool stuff, but it’s really just a next-word-completion trick. It’s not doing real creativity like humans do. I get that argument, and it’s attractive to me as well, but I think it’s...
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Assumed Audiences Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
8th Jan 2022
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Assumed Audiences

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

8th Jan 2022
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
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Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or...
7th Mar 2025
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Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2025
I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or dynamic visualisation – just a static map with coloured dots for each coordinate. I’ve created maps on the web using Leaflet.js, which load map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and...
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Three Macro Predictions on AI And also a reaction to OpenAI's GPT-5 release
9th Aug 2025
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Three Macro Predictions on AI

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Aug 2025
And also a reaction to OpenAI's GPT-5 release
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The Demonization of DeepSeek NIST’s September 30 report on DeepSeek not about security, it’s about control. I am here to tell you...
4th Oct 2025
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The Demonization of DeepSeek

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Oct 2025
NIST’s September 30 report on DeepSeek not about security, it’s about control. I am here to tell you what the man behind the curtain doesn’t want you to pay any attention to. NIST's DeepSeek "Evaluation" is a Hit Piece NIST’s recent report on DeepSee...
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How /swipes Works
1st Apr 2022
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How /swipes Works

from Ben Borgers [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Apr 2022
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I switched from GMail and nobody died Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as...
8th May 2025
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I switched from GMail and nobody died

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th May 2025
Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as authentication and sometimes as authorisation for certain actions. I’m not comfortable with Google having such power over me, especially given the fact that they practically don’t...
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Vintage retro hand-drawn-ish hillshade in ArcGIS Pro Adding a hillshade terrain to your basemap can give the map reader incredible amounts of information...
2 weeks ago
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Vintage retro hand-drawn-ish hillshade in ArcGIS Pro

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

2 weeks ago
Adding a hillshade terrain to your basemap can give the map reader incredible amounts of information about the surface of the earth. But it’s also a mechanism for adding visual charm and interest to a map! With emotional resonance and technical merit bound up together in such a...
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Inside-out vs. outside-in: the adoption of new technologies There are broadly two adoption paths for new computing technologies: inside-out and outside-in....
17th Jan 2020
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Inside-out vs. outside-in: the adoption of new technologies

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Jan 2020
There are broadly two adoption paths for new computing technologies: inside-out and outside-in. Inside-out technologies are pioneered by…
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Meet the Maker: Ieuan Edwards I’m a linocut printmaker and illustrator based in Broadstairs on the Isle of Thanet in Kent, which...
5th Apr 2023
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Meet the Maker: Ieuan Edwards

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

5th Apr 2023
I’m a linocut printmaker and illustrator based in Broadstairs on the Isle of Thanet in Kent, which is home to a good few other lino folks and a thriving and supportive art scene in general. Describe your printmaking process. I tend to print fairly small runs of reduction linocut...
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The Pathologization Pandemic Why youth mental illness is surging
6th Jul 2023
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The Pathologization Pandemic

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

6th Jul 2023
Why youth mental illness is surging
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Things that aren't progress A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to...
12th Nov 2015
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Things that aren't progress

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Nov 2015
A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to founders doing these things, I started thinking about why they were happening. I realized that the behaviors were largely a function of bad goal setting. When founders choose bad...
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A simple timeline using CSS flexbox As I added a /now page to the site I also decided to refresh my /about page and I figured it would...
25th Aug 2024
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A simple timeline using CSS flexbox

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

25th Aug 2024
As I added a /now page to the site I also decided to refresh my /about page and I figured it would be neat to have timeline element where I could list some of the larger events in my life. To my surprise it wasn’t too difficult to create one that looks pretty clean—the flexbox...
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Software Sprezzatura Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says...
26th Jan 2020
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Software Sprezzatura

from Matt Blewitt [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Jan 2020
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”, coined by Castiglione in 1528’s The Book of the Courtier.
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Test suites as classifiers Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and...
1st Mar 2020
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Test suites as classifiers

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

1st Mar 2020
Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and maintained test suite. Considering the patch, we may ask, is this patch acceptable to apply and deploy. By this we mean to ask if the patch breaks any important functionality,...
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"Flow" in software development is overrated Tackling the myth that "flow" is critical for software development. Decided not to go with the...
5th Nov 2025
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"Flow" in software development is overrated

from Arguing with Algorithms [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Nov 2025
Tackling the myth that "flow" is critical for software development. Decided not to go with the obvious "Flow considered harmful" title. You're welcome.
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I'm done with Ubuntu I liked Ubuntu. For a very long time, it was the sensible default option. Around 2016, I used the...
5th Feb 2025
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I'm done with Ubuntu

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

5th Feb 2025
I liked Ubuntu. For a very long time, it was the sensible default option. Around 2016, I used the Ubuntu GNOME flavor, and after they ditched the Unity desktop environment, GNOME became the default option. I was really happy with it, both for work and personal computing...
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What I'm up to - May 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st May 2025
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What I'm up to - May 2025

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

1st May 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - "I created a chatbot with my dog" was a presentation I gave at a meetup. (Here's t...
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How to make and test your own React drag and drop list with 0 dependencies I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily...
1st Dec 2018
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How to make and test your own React drag and drop list with 0 dependencies

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2018
I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily have a drag and drop list in your application (dragula, react-beautiful-dnd, and react-dnd). These libraries offer APIs that make it easy to meet your needs without worrying about...
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Copying is the way design works CC-BY SA 4.0 (more on that in a bit). You can download, copy, remix, excerpt, ...
28th Oct 2020
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Copying is the way design works

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

28th Oct 2020
CC-BY SA 4.0 (more on that in a bit). You can download, copy, remix, excerpt, change, and repost it however you see fit. I Charles Eames said it best: “We don’t do ‘art’ — we solve problems.”1 2 They...
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Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
6th Oct 2020
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Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses

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

6th Oct 2020
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
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Tutorial: stable-structures
20th Jan 2023
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Tutorial: stable-structures

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jan 2023
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Claude vs. ChatGPT: A Comprehensive Comparison In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, two names stand out in the realm of conversational...
4th Mar 2025
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Claude vs. ChatGPT: A Comprehensive Comparison

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

4th Mar 2025
In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, two names stand out in the realm of conversational assistants—Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Although both are built on large language models, they diverge sharply in design philosophy, technical implementation, safety...
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Which Decade(s) Saw the Greatest Change in Popular Music? A Statistical Analysis Which decades saw the greatest shifts in mainstream music?
2nd Jul 2025
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Which Decade(s) Saw the Greatest Change in Popular Music? A Statistical Analysis

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

2nd Jul 2025
Which decades saw the greatest shifts in mainstream music?
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A Collection of Design Engineers Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to...
11th Mar 2024
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A Collection of Design Engineers

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

11th Mar 2024
Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #160 Epigenetic atlas, Stroke Pills, Tempo, 1 GB Kuiper, Polymarket in the USA, Saquon
5th Sep 2025
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #160

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative

5th Sep 2025
Epigenetic atlas, Stroke Pills, Tempo, 1 GB Kuiper, Polymarket in the USA, Saquon
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DIY: Use an IKEA VINDRIKTNING air quality sensor in Home Assistant with ESPHome IKEA has released some interesting new products lately, focused on air quality. In this product...
21st Aug 2021
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DIY: Use an IKEA VINDRIKTNING air quality sensor in Home Assistant with ESPHome

from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Aug 2021
IKEA has released some interesting new products lately, focused on air quality. In this product line, one unit that stands out is the VINDRIKTNING air quality sensor. This cheap (just €9,99) sensor measures the air quality in your home, using a simple traffic light scheme to...
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A Requiem for MIT’s Room 10-485 Memories of a space whose unique qualities helped nurture a burgeoning planner from East Los...
3rd Nov 2025
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A Requiem for MIT’s Room 10-485

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3rd Nov 2025
Memories of a space whose unique qualities helped nurture a burgeoning planner from East Los Angeles.
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What are web feeds?
15th Apr 2025
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What are web feeds?

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

15th Apr 2025
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On Designing For Children I’ve been building Kidz Fun Art (web, iPad & Windows) since 2021, so 4 years at time of writing....
28th Jul 2025
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On Designing For Children

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jul 2025
I’ve been building Kidz Fun Art (web, iPad & Windows) since 2021, so 4 years at time of writing. It’s a tablet optimized application intended to be used by children of all ages – my daughters were 3 and 5 when I started, and are 7 and 9 now, so I’ve seen how they use it almost...
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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the...
2nd Jul 2023
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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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

2nd Jul 2023
In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. Mr. Raskin believed the computer he...
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The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above,...
17th Jan 2019
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The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew

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

17th Jan 2019
I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above, and check out the full transcript.
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China’s Almost-War With Taiwan and the US Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in...
2nd Dec 2025
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China’s Almost-War With Taiwan and the US

from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Dec 2025
Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in a military situation which threatened to go hot. When the Second World War ended in 1945, China was still divided. For years a civil war had raged between the Nationalist...
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Alpine Starts You need all the hours you can get— you better start early (or go very late).
8th May 2023
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Alpine Starts

from Passing Time [alt+shift+b] in life

8th May 2023
You need all the hours you can get— you better start early (or go very late).
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The silks of Como: A reminder of the value of craft I miss this. Visiting a mill is such an enjoyable, often inspiring experience, yet I don’t do it as...
2nd Sep 2026
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The silks of Como: A reminder of the value of craft

from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Sep 2026
I miss this. Visiting a mill is such an enjoyable, often inspiring experience, yet I don’t do it as much as I used to. Perhaps because once you’d done one worsted weaver it’s hard to justify more.  But we’ve never done silk. I did go to Vann... > Read more
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The Grand AGI Delusion and a fantastic symposium on AI and society at The Royal Society
12th Oct 2025
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The Grand AGI Delusion

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Oct 2025
and a fantastic symposium on AI and society at The Royal Society
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Everything is downstream of ambition Everyone wants to build the one person billion dollar company. But how many people you need used to...
10th Aug 2026
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Everything is downstream of ambition

from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Aug 2026
Everyone wants to build the one person billion dollar company. But how many people you need used to be a decision you made last, not first.
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Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet This month my trustworthy Giro Aeon bicycle helmet broke down! Normally I wouldn't hesitate to...
8th Jul 2020
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Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Jul 2020
This month my trustworthy Giro Aeon bicycle helmet broke down! Normally I wouldn't hesitate to invest in safety and thus buying a new one. But I like the Aeon helmet so much that I went through some extra trouble to fix it. Read along to see how I did it. Giro Aeon The Giro Aeon...
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Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons and cups You know what they say in the world of products: fast, cheap, good; pick two Which is very similar...
8th Dec 2025
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Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons and cups

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Dec 2025
You know what they say in the world of products: fast, cheap, good; pick two Which is very similar to my experience when trying to find the most suitable wood finish for my hand carved wooden spoons and coffee cups. hand carved wooden spoon It’s hard to find a finish...
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Estimating the number of your RSS subscribers Here's a quick tip to estimate the number of your RSS subscribers. All you need is access to the web...
22nd Feb 2021
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Estimating the number of your RSS subscribers

from rss — Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Feb 2021
Here's a quick tip to estimate the number of your RSS subscribers. All you need is access to the web server logs. Let's filter the logs for the RSS file names (in my case it's atom.xml and feed.json): cat access.log | grep -e atom.xml -e feed.json When looking through my logs,...
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An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
7th Dec 2023
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An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Dec 2023
A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
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The Porcupine Dilemma: Schopenhauer’s Parable about Negotiating the Optimal Distance in Love This is the supreme challenge of intimacy — how to reconcile the aching yearning for closeness with...
3rd Aug 2023
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The Porcupine Dilemma: Schopenhauer’s Parable about Negotiating the Optimal Distance in Love

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

3rd Aug 2023
This is the supreme challenge of intimacy — how to reconcile the aching yearning for closeness with the painful pressures of actually being close, how to forge a bond tight enough to feel the warmth of connection but spacious enough to feel free. Kahlil Gibran knew this when he...
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megawatts by microwave In 1914 the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, investigated the...
4th Jul 2026
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megawatts by microwave

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jul 2026
In 1914 the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, investigated the possibilities of developing the Columbia River. Thousands of arid but potentially fertile acres needed only water to become the Imperial Valley of the Northwest. Locked in the mountain...
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Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT Work Replacement Talent Magnification Solopreneuers AI Specialists Idea Dominance Use Cases Random...
4th Dec 2022
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Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT

from Daniel Miessler [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Dec 2022
Work Replacement Talent Magnification Solopreneuers AI Specialists Idea Dominance Use Cases Random Thoughts If you’re reading this you already know the internet is on fire over the new  GPTChatBot from OpenAI. There are people using it to create full virtual machines, to be their...
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Passing the Buck: The story of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show collision
28th Feb 2025
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Passing the Buck: The story of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show collision

from Stories by Admiral Cloudberg on Medium [alt+shift+b] in history

28th Feb 2025
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This is how China skirts U.S. chip bans Chinese tech companies use smugglers, loopholes, and innovation to work around U.S. chip...
1st Apr 2025
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This is how China skirts U.S. chip bans

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

1st Apr 2025
Chinese tech companies use smugglers, loopholes, and innovation to work around U.S. chip restrictions
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Google: Monopolized? Is Google too big? For years, the tech giant has dominated the search market, facing little...
1st Dec 2024
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Google: Monopolized?

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

1st Dec 2024
Is Google too big? For years, the tech giant has dominated the search market, facing little competition.
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Why developers hate being interrupted I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that...
8th Jan 2015
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Why developers hate being interrupted

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

8th Jan 2015
I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that I had written it myself. Many of the points in it hit home, so I hope it helps people better understand how developers think and what they go through when interruptions arise. One...
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Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a...
10th Apr 2025
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Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips

from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Apr 2025
I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a classroom appropriate tool for discussing allocating assets in the presence of risk. The usual Kelly betting on coin-flips is too high variance to expect successful classroom...
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Most book clubs are doing it wrong The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk...
15th Jul 2017
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Most book clubs are doing it wrong

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jul 2017
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
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Gary Snyder on How to Unbreak the World "What we’d hope for on the planet is creativity and sanity, conviviality, the real work of our hands...
1st Feb 2025
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Gary Snyder on How to Unbreak the World

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Feb 2025
"What we’d hope for on the planet is creativity and sanity, conviviality, the real work of our hands and minds."
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AI Engineer 2024 Keynote - What We Learned from a Year of LLMs Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied...
27th Jun 2024
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AI Engineer 2024 Keynote - What We Learned from a Year of LLMs

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

27th Jun 2024
Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs.
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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...
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Housing Roundup #11 The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to...
1st Apr 2025
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Housing Roundup #11

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

1st Apr 2025
The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to highlight the importance of solving America’s housing crisis the only way it can be solved: Building houses in places people want to live, via repealing the rules that make this...
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The Traveler and His Baggage On 19 May 1943, a news report from Berlin deepened the already dreary gloom that clung to the people...
3rd Jun 2021
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The Traveler and His Baggage

from Damn Interesting [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd Jun 2021
On 19 May 1943, a news report from Berlin deepened the already dreary gloom that clung to the people of Nazi-occupied Paris. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels proudly announced to the world that the German capital of Berlin was officially judenfrei–free of all Jews. As this...
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Summary of changes for January 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Feb 2024
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Summary of changes for January 2024

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

1st Feb 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner. Permacomputing, revamped the page. Flappy Bird,...
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How To Build Your Own Tower And Why You Should (Plus What I've Been Reading/Watching/Listening to)
7th Mar 2026
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How To Build Your Own Tower

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

7th Mar 2026
And Why You Should (Plus What I've Been Reading/Watching/Listening to)
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Peter Calthorpe: Urban Planet Throughout Peter Calthorpe's decade-spanning career in urban design, planning, and architecture, he...
6th Aug 2020
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Peter Calthorpe: Urban Planet

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

6th Aug 2020
Throughout Peter Calthorpe's decade-spanning career in urban design, planning, and architecture, he has developed and practiced the key principles of [New Urbanism](https://www.cnu.org/resources/what-new-urbanism): that the most successful places are diverse in uses and users,...
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Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2 A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2. We’d started seeing issues in our...
5th Oct 2022
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Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Oct 2022
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2. We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case. I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
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How to build cron jobs with Netlify functions We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's...
6th Nov 2022
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How to build cron jobs with Netlify functions

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Nov 2022
We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's portfolio companies into their Jobs page.
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How to timeout a promise Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request...
2nd Apr 2021
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How to timeout a promise

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Apr 2021
Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request to an endpoint and a response does not, for whatever reason, come soon, we act as if the request failed and fall back to plan B — try again, show an error message and let the user...
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The joys and benefits of working as a distributed team * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer is a...
27th Aug 2013
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The joys and benefits of working as a distributed team

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

27th Aug 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer is a fully distributed team. It’s a decision [https://joel.is/post/54284926855/questions-i-ask-myself-about-working-as-distributed] I had to make at the end of 2012, and it’s interesting...
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How to: Adding a floating “Back to top” button in Pika As we say repeatedly on its homepage, Pika is designed to help you focus on writing, not tinkering...
22nd May 2026
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How to: Adding a floating “Back to top” button in Pika

from Good Enough [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd May 2026
As we say repeatedly on its homepage, Pika is designed to help you focus on writing, not tinkering with your blog design. To that end Pika purposely doesn’t support complex liquid templating or other such code customization. However, today I thought I’d share how crazy powerful...
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AI alignment starter pack
9th Jun 2024
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AI alignment starter pack

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jun 2024
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30 Useful Concepts (Autumn 2023) Ideas to help you make sense of the world
25th Nov 2023
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30 Useful Concepts (Autumn 2023)

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

25th Nov 2023
Ideas to help you make sense of the world
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6 Culture Trends Worth Watching: Madonna, Avengers Doomsday, Million-Dollar Jackets, and More A data-driven look at the Emmys’ cultural relevance, Hollywood’s latest layoffs, country music’s...
3rd Aug 2026
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6 Culture Trends Worth Watching: Madonna, Avengers Doomsday, Million-Dollar Jackets, and More

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

3rd Aug 2026
A data-driven look at the Emmys’ cultural relevance, Hollywood’s latest layoffs, country music’s mainstream rise, and an overpriced leather jacket—through data. Plus recommended reads and datasets.
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What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to? ---
3rd Feb 2018
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What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to?

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2018
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Perseverance: 7 Stoic Lessons on How To Keep Going “To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea...
9th May 2023
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Perseverance: 7 Stoic Lessons on How To Keep Going

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

9th May 2023
“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.” — Marcus Aurelius The question of why and how we are supposed to live has been contemplated for centuries.  Absurdist Albert Camus wrote that life is like...
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From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 12
12th Jul 2022
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From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities

from The Convivial Society [alt+shift+b] in life

12th Jul 2022
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 12
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Creating dynamic bar charts with CSS grid How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library...
24th Mar 2022
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Creating dynamic bar charts with CSS grid

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

24th Mar 2022
How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library required!
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Does AI have a dirty mind, too?
16th Apr 2019
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Does AI have a dirty mind, too?

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Apr 2019
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How to not make a résumé in React I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like...
7th Apr 2020
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How to not make a résumé in React

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2020
I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like recently. They all promise the same thing, namely how to use React to create a résumé. I mean, I get it. It’s important to have something to build towards when learning a new skill,...
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AI, networks and Mechanical Turks How far do LLMs give us a step change in how good a search and recommendation system can be? Do...
23rd Nov 2025
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AI, networks and Mechanical Turks

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Nov 2025
How far do LLMs give us a step change in how good a search and recommendation system can be? Do they let you build one without needing a vast user base of your own?
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What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten... Many breakthrough technologies were hatched by hobbyists in garages and dorm rooms. Prominent...
2nd Mar 2013
47

What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Mar 2013
Many breakthrough technologies were hatched by hobbyists in garages and dorm rooms. Prominent examples include the PC, the web, blogs, and…
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Philip K. Howard: Fixing Broken Government ### Government 4.0 Americans have made major adjustments to our government before, Howard declared....
19th Jan 2011
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Philip K. Howard: Fixing Broken Government

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

19th Jan 2011
### Government 4.0 Americans have made major adjustments to our government before, Howard declared. At the beginning of the 20th century a Progressive era ended strict laissez-faire. The New Deal in the 1930s provided social safety nets. In the 1960s Civil Rights came to the...
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Gzip hates your DRY code How to remove code and still increase your library weight.
13th Mar 2017
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Gzip hates your DRY code

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

13th Mar 2017
How to remove code and still increase your library weight.
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed. It contained more than 50.000...
14th Oct 2020
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Oct 2020
This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed. It contained more than 50.000 photos, covering two decades of personal history. As there was no backup, it was up to me to attempt to safe as much as I could. Could I possibly recover the personal...
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The Best Place to Eat Cypriot Food in the UK Alex Mylonas maps the movement of four fine souvlatzidika out of north London and into Potters Bar....
3rd Oct 2025
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The Best Place to Eat Cypriot Food in the UK

from Vittles [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Oct 2025
Alex Mylonas maps the movement of four fine souvlatzidika out of north London and into Potters Bar. Photographed by Michaël Protin.
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Two more 27.0 design grumbles After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest....
2 weeks ago
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Two more 27.0 design grumbles

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 weeks ago
After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest. This time, it’s all about how tabs and menus have gotten worse. I’ve already ranted about the Liquid Glass material in general, but these two design changes in particular have really...
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What I'm up to - February 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Feb 2024
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What I'm up to - February 2024

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in January - Hello from Tokyo! I'm here doing a creative residence at Almost Perfect. If you're in...
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The Tyranny of "We" Why "We Are All One Humanity" Is the Most Dangerous Idea on Earth
10th May 2026
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The Tyranny of "We"

from Arnaud Bertrand [alt+shift+b] in history

10th May 2026
Why "We Are All One Humanity" Is the Most Dangerous Idea on Earth
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Fireside: Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft live in SF Monday Nov 6, 11:30am - sign up now on link below
31st Oct 2023
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Fireside: Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft live in SF

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Oct 2023
Monday Nov 6, 11:30am - sign up now on link below
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Google Analytics vs AWStats This month I have been working on website statistics, tracking traffic using different technologies....
19th Aug 2018
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Google Analytics vs AWStats

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Aug 2018
This month I have been working on website statistics, tracking traffic using different technologies. Some of my customers use Google Analytics, others use AWStats, and some use both. Which is better is often debated, but few people really understand the differences. Time to shed...
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Designing a New Old Home: Mistakes But in me haste to do the job, I was too blind to see
5th Mar 2026
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Designing a New Old Home: Mistakes

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

5th Mar 2026
But in me haste to do the job, I was too blind to see
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A New Concept for Usable Touch Interaction in Cars When looking around in traffic, the number of people being distracted by their phones and...
1st Apr 2020
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A New Concept for Usable Touch Interaction in Cars

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

1st Apr 2020
When looking around in traffic, the number of people being distracted by their phones and infotainment systems is alarming. The latter is a…
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The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
9th Apr 2021
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The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club

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

9th Apr 2021
A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
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Generative AI will probably make blogs better Generative AI will probably make blogs better. Have you ever searched for something on Google and...
30th May 2025
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Generative AI will probably make blogs better

from pcloadletter [alt+shift+b] in science

30th May 2025
Generative AI will probably make blogs better. Have you ever searched for something on Google and found the first one, two, or three blog posts to be utter nonsense? That's because these blog posts have been optimized not for human consumption, but rather to entertain the search...
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How Cryptology Can Fix Identity Theft Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft...
22nd Feb 2015
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How Cryptology Can Fix Identity Theft

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Feb 2015
Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft victims frequently lose time and money and undergo significant mental hardships while dealing with the fallout. It can happen a few different ways, but one large attack vector is...
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Consider Part-Time Work It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and...
26th Sep 2016
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Consider Part-Time Work

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Sep 2016
It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and have more leisure time, but we continue to fall short of that promise. In many ways, we're working harder and longer, with more stress, than previous generations did. I think that...
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Know What You Need Knowing what you need makes knowing what you want much easier. It is often said about successful...
16th Nov 2024
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Know What You Need

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

16th Nov 2024
Knowing what you need makes knowing what you want much easier. It is often said about successful people that they “know exactly what they want.” I’m sure this is true, because in our modern culture, where we are constantly made aware of new choices and possibilities, knowing...
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Catch up It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some...
20th Mar 2018
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Catch up

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Mar 2018
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free time. While I won't publish some Medium screed on how spending less time on social...
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How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a...
17th May 2025
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How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys

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

17th May 2025
For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was time to upgrade, so I...
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Rendering Animated .ani Cursors in the Browser Technical breakdown of how the NPM module ani-cursor converts .ani files into CSS animations in the...
9th Dec 2020
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Rendering Animated .ani Cursors in the Browser

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

9th Dec 2020
Technical breakdown of how the NPM module ani-cursor converts .ani files into CSS animations in the browser.
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Securing modern applications in the cloud Kubernetes security is in the news at the moment, not necessarily in a good way. We thought it...
8th Dec 2018
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Securing modern applications in the cloud

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

8th Dec 2018
Kubernetes security is in the news at the moment, not necessarily in a good way. We thought it might be an appropriate time to share an interesting conversation we had recently with our friends Todd and Hannah at Threat Stack about Kubernetes, container security, and much...
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South Pole Topography The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.
27th Jan 2023
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South Pole Topography

from brr [alt+shift+b] in science

27th Jan 2023
The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.
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The Hart, Marylebone In an ideal world this would be a post about the 'proper' upstairs restaurant at the Hart, a serious...
2nd Jan 2026
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The Hart, Marylebone

from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel

2nd Jan 2026
In an ideal world this would be a post about the 'proper' upstairs restaurant at the Hart, a serious (though not by all accounts stuffy) dining room serving seasonal British food in the heart of Marylebone village. Unfortunately, due to a combination of my own lack of...
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The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
1st Sep 2026
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The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Sep 2026
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
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Indie Web Stack of the Future You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a...
8th Jan 2023
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Indie Web Stack of the Future

from Max Countryman [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jan 2023
You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a few things that make indie development different and we should design our stack around our unique goals. Let's explore an ideal web stack we can build the future on.
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Drift Right now it is April 18 and I am walking along the steep coast at the peninsula on the Northeastern...
1st May 2025
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Drift

from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st May 2025
Right now it is April 18 and I am walking along the steep coast at the peninsula on the Northeastern corner of our island.
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Attacking My Landlord's Boiler Attacking My Landlord's Boiler Posted on April 22, 2025 This post is from a legacy version of...
22nd Apr 2025
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Attacking My Landlord's Boiler

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

22nd Apr 2025
Attacking My Landlord's Boiler Posted on April 22, 2025 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. Please do your due diligence and check local laws before attempting anything I do...
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