The Convivial...
Embrace Your Crookedness
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 13
a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 13
Matt Mazur
Friday Updates: Shipping AI Suggestions in Preceden, EmergentMind Growth and Brainstorming
Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I...
a year ago
Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I had planned on slowly rolling it out to 100% of users over the course of a week or two, but my OpenAI costs were minimal on Tuesday so on Wednesday I said screw it and just […]
TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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4 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"The Future of Reading Depends on the Future of Learning Difficult to Learn Things"
Socrates’ complaints about writing included “Writing removes the need to remember”. He meant that a...
over a year ago
Socrates’ complaints about writing included “Writing removes the need to remember”. He meant that a prosthetic brace on a healthy limb will…
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
10 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
computers are bad
2023-09-10 the Essex GWEN site
Programming note: this post is in color. I will not debase myself to the
level of sending HTML...
a year ago
Programming note: this post is in color. I will not debase myself to the
level of sending HTML email, so if you receive Computers Are Bad by email
and want the benefit of the pictures, consider reading this online instead
(the link is at the top of the email).
In the aftermath of...
Math Is Still...
‘The Rest of the World Disappears’: Claire Voisin on Mathematical Creativity
The recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics discusses math as art, math as language, and...
9 months ago
The recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics discusses math as art, math as language, and math as abstract thought.
The post ‘The Rest of the World Disappears’: Claire Voisin on Mathematical Creativity first appeared on Quanta Magazine
journal – Winnie Lim
temporary amnesia
Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to...
4 months ago
Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to temporarily forget things that usually weigh me down. Certain familiar things back home trigger uncomfortable feelings...
The Modern House
Mia Castenskjold and Stefan Zschernitz’s self-built sanctuary in Hackney
a year ago
Steve Blank
Be Where Your Business Is
This post previously appeared on the readwrite blog. A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to...
a year ago
This post previously appeared on the readwrite blog. A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the city where their business is – or else they’ll never scale. I was having breakfast with Erin, an ex-student, just off a red-eye flight from New York. She’s built a...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How do hospitals spend money? | Out-Of-Pocket
it's time to look at a financial statement
6 months ago
it's time to look at a financial statement
MMapped blog
Good names form Galois connections
8 months ago
Epic Web Dev
Pixel Perfect Figma to Tailwind (workshop)
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS...
5 months ago
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS techniques, and Tailwind v4 migration in this workshop.
Seth's Blog
Doing it step by step
I was surprised to discover that for many AI questions, if you add, “please figure this out step by...
5 months ago
I was surprised to discover that for many AI questions, if you add, “please figure this out step by step,” the AI will provide a dramatically more accurate and useful answer. This works on simple questions like, “how many times does the letter ‘r’ appear in the word ‘strawberry'”...
Irrational...
Deciding to leave your (executive) job.
If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up...
a year ago
If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up things are at work.
Initiatives are behind, layoffs are happening everywhere, the team is in disarray.
Then they’ll laugh, and switch topics. Sometimes one of the executives can’t...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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7 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
This Japanese Restaurant Uses Washi-Inspired Acrylic Panels To Create A Cozy Atmosphere
odd design has shared photos of a Japanese restaurant they recently completed in Beijing, China,...
3 months ago
odd design has shared photos of a Japanese restaurant they recently completed in Beijing, China, that uses textural materials to create a quiet, relaxing, and cozy atmosphere. The open entrance consists of a light box and two sets of low-wall partitions, allowing the space to be...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Every Public Engineering Career Ladder
A list of the public engineering career ladders I've found
over a year ago
A list of the public engineering career ladders I've found
macwright.com
SaaS exits by
I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit...
a year ago
I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit experiences:
Loom is surprisingly hard to exit from. There’s no bulk export option, no way to export metadata.
Webflow doesn’t support exporting sites with CMS collections (blogs, docs,...
Essays - Benedict...
Stepping out of the firehose
What does a mailbox with 351 thousand unread emails say about Bauhaus, the
Arts and Crafts...
over a year ago
What does a mailbox with 351 thousand unread emails say about Bauhaus, the
Arts and Crafts movement, and the Metaverse?
FIRE v London
Mar ’23: Harvesting tax losses
March has been rather a wet month in London. Wet, and cold. This translates into the ski slopes in...
a year ago
March has been rather a wet month in London. Wet, and cold. This translates into the ski slopes in the French Alps (finally) having great conditions – sadly too late for me to enjoy. Further north, it’s been a month of big change in Scotland. Nicola Sturgeon, the...
The Works in...
The Power of the Earth
On the future of geothermal energy
10 months ago
On the future of geothermal energy
Daniel Marino
My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred
I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would...
over a year ago
I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would serve content as HTML from this directory. This was a simple way to share my GIFs with the world. I even adopted an Alfred workflow for quickly searching and copying my GIFs URL to the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog raises $12 million in funding led by GV and Y Combinator
(Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in...
over a year ago
(Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in funding and major new features - including plugins…
Working Theorys
The Granny Hobby Protocol
And the hands-on, thumbs-off economy
8 months ago
And the hands-on, thumbs-off economy
A Smart Bear
The roadmap to Product/Market Fit… maybe
This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to...
12 months ago
This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to Product/Market Fit, consider copying some of these ideas.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Speeding up PostHog builds with Depot
PostHog recently swapped out Docker for Depot in their container image builds within GitHub Actions....
over a year ago
PostHog recently swapped out Docker for Depot in their container image builds within GitHub Actions. The results are outstanding, taking the average…
Maggie Appleton
Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Post
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I feel like more comics need to use the word...
9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I feel like more comics need to use the word salience.
Today's News:
NeuroLogica Blog
AI-Fueled Scams
Digital life is getting more dangerous. Literally every day I have to fend off attempts at scamming...
7 months ago
Digital life is getting more dangerous. Literally every day I have to fend off attempts at scamming me in one way or another. I get texts trying to lure me into responding. I get e-mails hoping I will click a malicious link on a reflex. I get phone calls from people warning me...
Tony Finch's blog
libc delenda est
Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C
library are terrible,
especially if...
a year ago
Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C
library are terrible,
especially if you are coding on Windows - good fun if you like staring
into the abyss. He followed up with let’s write a
setjmp which is fun in a
more positive way. I was also pleased to learn...
Seth's Blog
“But what if it doesn’t work?”
The best way to win a short-term game is to bet it all on one strategy. Someone is going to get...
a year ago
The best way to win a short-term game is to bet it all on one strategy. Someone is going to get lucky and it might be you. But we rarely thrive in the long run if we persist in playing a series of short-term games. Instead, organizations, individuals and teams do better when they...
Seth's Blog
In search of chatoyancy
A cat’s eye is smooth but doesn’t seem to be… there’s a mystery of depth. That illusion is called...
a year ago
A cat’s eye is smooth but doesn’t seem to be… there’s a mystery of depth. That illusion is called chatoyancy. The same is true for some sorts of woods (cedar is an exception). The digital age makes it more and more likely we’re experiencing things through a flat screen, and as a...
A Beautiful Site
Know When To Draw The Line
One-off variations aren't uncommon, but they don't belong in your design system. You're design...
over a year ago
One-off variations aren't uncommon, but they don't belong in your design system. You're design system isn't solving for every possible use case — it's encouraging visual consistency and efficient development. Use custom styles for one-offs.
This came up recently on my team.
We...
Steve Klabnik
An overview of macros in Rust
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
The lonely zone
For many, the goal is to be the deciding vote, the donation that gets a cause over the goal, the...
a year ago
For many, the goal is to be the deciding vote, the donation that gets a cause over the goal, the person who counts. And often, we enjoy piling on. Once the cause or fashion or tech is clearly working, it’s easy and fun to say “me too.” More rare, more vulnerable and more...
mtlynch.io
Projects
TinyPilot (2020 - present) TinyPilot is a small, inexpensive device that gives you remote access to...
over a year ago
TinyPilot (2020 - present) TinyPilot is a small, inexpensive device that gives you remote access to servers before they even boot.
Refactoring English (2021) Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers is my upcoming book that teaches developers practical tips...
PHD Comics
01/31/21 PHD comic: 'W O R D L E'
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
...
over a year ago
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
title:
"W O R D L E" - originally published
1/31/2021
For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
Ink & Switch
Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system
In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles...
over a year ago
In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.
Map of the Week
Buffalo in 50 Maps
New from Belt Publishing - the third book of their "50 Maps" series, Buffalo in 50 Maps is now out....
a year ago
New from Belt Publishing - the third book of their "50 Maps" series, Buffalo in 50 Maps is now out. Previous books on Cleveland and Detroit have been briefly covered on previous blog posts. The author, cartographer Victoria Johnson-Dahl was kind enough to send me an advance copy...
TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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5 months ago
Astral Codex Ten
Friendly And Hostile Analogies For Taste
...
2 weeks ago
Tech + Economics +...
The Hyperloop was always a scam
Paris Marx:
The tech industry’s move into transportation was not only a failure; it
was...
12 months ago
Paris Marx:
The tech industry’s move into transportation was not only a failure; it
was an active campaign to deny the public access to better transit and
trains because the billionaires of Silicon Valley don’t personally want
to get around that way. The...
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Nobel Prize for Attosecond Physics
One attosecond (as) is 1×10−18 seconds. An attosecond is to one second what one second is to the age...
a year ago
One attosecond (as) is 1×10−18 seconds. An attosecond is to one second what one second is to the age of the universe. It is an extremely tiny slice of time. This year’s Nobel Prize in physics goes to three scientists, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier, whose...
A Smart Bear
Distributed Logical Time
Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is...
over a year ago
Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
diamond geezer
Behind The Red Moon
Big Brother isn't the only cultural phenomenon dividing public opinion annually since the turn of...
a year ago
Big Brother isn't the only cultural phenomenon dividing public opinion annually since the turn of the millennium. There's also the giant artwork in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, which over the years has been amazing, tedious, thought-provoking, bland, must-see, involving,...
TheCollector
Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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The Ruffian
What Does It Mean For a Brand To Be Radical?
Thoughts on Jaguar's Relaunch, Plus a Juicy Cultural Rattle Bag
4 weeks ago
Thoughts on Jaguar's Relaunch, Plus a Juicy Cultural Rattle Bag
Cartogrammar
The rain on terrain
If you poured water over the terrain somewhere in the world, where would it go? That’s perhaps one...
over a year ago
If you poured water over the terrain somewhere in the world, where would it go? That’s perhaps one way to think of the thing that distracted me in the evenings this week. [Edit: an interactive map should appear here, but there are some unresolved issues. Check out the...
David Perell
The Counterfactual Theory of Value
The Labor Theory of Value argues that the value of a product or a service is determined by the...
over a year ago
The Labor Theory of Value argues that the value of a product or a service is determined by the amount of labor required to produce it. If so, something that takes 100 hours to produce is worth 10x more than something that takes 10 hours. One issue with the Labor Theory is it...
Notes on software...
SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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3 months ago
Rest of World -...
Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates
The local gig workers’ union defends the practice, which Uber forbids, as a form of peaceful...
3 months ago
The local gig workers’ union defends the practice, which Uber forbids, as a form of peaceful pushback against low earnings.
TheCollector
Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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CONTEMPORIST
Banquette Seating Separates The Kitchen From The Living Room Inside This Apartment
Interior design firm Melling Studio, has shared photos of a one-bedroom apartment they completed in...
4 months ago
Interior design firm Melling Studio, has shared photos of a one-bedroom apartment they completed in Vancouver, Canada. The apartment has been designed as a serene, open-plan environment with a crisp, minimal finish palette, locally sourced furniture, and elevated fixtures. One...
TheCollector
The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Cork Was Used As The Exterior Siding On This Home Extension
Mitchell + Corti Architects has designed a new rear ground floor extension for a home in England,...
a year ago
Mitchell + Corti Architects has designed a new rear ground floor extension for a home in England, that’s clad in cork. The architect mentions, “We chose to clad the extension in something a little different a dark patterned cork, in order to use a sustainable material and test...
The Rational Walk
Daily Journal Annual Meeting Notes
A reader has generously shared his notes from the Daily Journal annual meeting which took place in...
6 months ago
A reader has generously shared his notes from the Daily Journal annual meeting which took place in Los Angeles on February 15, 2024.
David Heinemeier...
Patek levels of finishing
We’re in the final phase of getting the first ONCE product out the door. As with any new...
a year ago
We’re in the final phase of getting the first ONCE product out the door. As with any new development, there are a million little details we need to nail for a successful launch that’s up to our standards. That’s usually where the temptation to cut corners on internal quality...
Society's Backend
AI Video Editing, MLX vs PyTorch, AI in Space, and More [Comprehensive ML Resource List for 6/28/24]
Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank...
5 months ago
Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank you for supporting Society's Backend! Don't forget to also follow me on X. Claude 3.5 Sonnet Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More?
TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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7 months ago
Product Identity
What’s the future of AI hardware?
I don't have answers
6 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we've launched PostHog user surveys
Today, we’ve announced user surveys are out of beta and in general release, complete with new...
a year ago
Today, we’ve announced user surveys are out of beta and in general release, complete with new pricing . Short version? Pricing is usage-based, with…
TheCollector
Who Is Pina Bausch?
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8 months ago
The Modern House
Kitchen tips and kimchi pancakes with Jesse Jenkins, founder of Another Day in Paradise
a year ago
The Works in...
The Cocktail Revolution
How bad drinks became good, and good drinks became great
a year ago
How bad drinks became good, and good drinks became great
Noahpinion
Interview: Dan Wang, China specialist
We talk about China's economy, decoupling, export controls, industrial policy, state control, and...
a year ago
We talk about China's economy, decoupling, export controls, industrial policy, state control, and lots more.
Londonist
Christmas Carol Concerts In London To Make You Feel All Warm And Fuzzy Inside This December
Including one with dogs. Woof!
a year ago
Including one with dogs. Woof!
One Useful Thing
On-boarding your AI Intern
There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
a year ago
There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
Open Culture
Download 131,000 Historic Maps from the Huge David Rumsey Map Collection
The world has changed dramatically over the past 500 years, albeit not quite as dramatically as how...
7 months ago
The world has changed dramatically over the past 500 years, albeit not quite as dramatically as how we see the world. That’s just what’s on display at the David Rumsey Map Collection, whose more than 131,000 historical maps and related images are available to browse (or download)...
Stat Significant
Unpacking Vinyl's Remarkable Revival: A Statistical Analysis
The fall and rise of vinyl and record stores.
3 months ago
The fall and rise of vinyl and record stores.
Mazdak
Compound Interest: A Comprehensive Guide
Compound interest is often called the "eighth wonder of the world" and for good reason.
a month ago
Compound interest is often called the "eighth wonder of the world" and for good reason.
Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Lessons from the PC video game industry
The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed The success or failure of tech and...
over a year ago
The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed The success or failure of tech and media products depends on complicated…
Rest of World -...
China fights for an edge on semiconductors
The gallium problem could become everyone’s problem
a year ago
The gallium problem could become everyone’s problem
Old Structures...
Begging The Question
The title refers to one of the classic logistical fallacies, where an argument is made that assumes...
6 months ago
The title refers to one of the classic logistical fallacies, where an argument is made that assumes its conclusion. The specific instance of this fallacy that often bothers me concerns code updates and existing buildings. Every time a code – for example, the New York City...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Like to Think of Pasteur in Elysium'
In 1985, the
year Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo, the scholar
and...
7 months ago
In 1985, the
year Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo, the scholar
and translator Clarence Brown published The
Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader, a selection ranging from Tolstoy
and Chekhov to Voinovich and Sokolov. In the introduction he...
ntietz.com blog
A student asked how I keep us innovative. I don't.
Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class.
One of the students asked a question...
a year ago
Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class.
One of the students asked a question that I loved.
They asked something like, "As a principal engineer, how do you make sure your company stays at the forefront of innovation?"
There are two reasons I love this...
Renegade Otter
Death by a thousand microservices
The Church of Complexity
There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to...
a year ago
The Church of Complexity
There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to the project manager how an overly complicated maze of
microservices works in order to get a user’s birthday - and fails to do so anyway. The scene accurately describes the...
Mazdak
Google Quantum Computer, OpenAI Sora Video Generator and more ...
Google just dropped a bombshell in quantum computing.
a week ago
Google just dropped a bombshell in quantum computing.
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Most Intense Enthusiasm for Good Literature'
I was
reading an interview with X.J. Kennedy when this line touched me unexpectedly: “He
was, of all...
8 months ago
I was
reading an interview with X.J. Kennedy when this line touched me unexpectedly: “He
was, of all the people I ever met, the one who had the most intense enthusiasm
for good literature.” Spoken by another, this might amount to glibly rendered
bullshit, the sort of thing junior...
Flashbak
The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
9 months ago
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL
Next in database basics:
2. binary expressions and WHERE filters
3. indexes
4. a...
over a year ago
Next in database basics:
2. binary expressions and WHERE filters
3. indexes
4. a database/sql driver
In this series we'll write a rudimentary database from
scratch in Go. Project source code is available on
Github.
In this first post we'll build enough of a parser to...
The Marginalian
The Art of Allowing Change: Neurobiologist Susan R. Barry’s Moving Correspondence with Oliver Sacks...
There is a thought experiment known as Mary’s Room, brilliant and haunting, about the abyss between...
10 months ago
There is a thought experiment known as Mary’s Room, brilliant and haunting, about the abyss between felt experience and our mental models of it, about the nature of knowledge, the mystery of consciousness, and the irreducibility of aliveness: Living in a black-and-white chamber,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Science
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Honestly geometry's pretty dicey, as are numbers...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Honestly geometry's pretty dicey, as are numbers larger than 1.
Today's News:
Thanks for a great launch day, all. I'll be in conversation with Randall Munroe tonight in NYC if you wanna say hi!
TheCollector
Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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11 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Japan Quietly Shines at Milan Design Week
Milan Design Week—Coachella, but for furniture—is running this week from April 16-21. All the...
8 months ago
Milan Design Week—Coachella, but for furniture—is running this week from April 16-21. All the biggest names and brands in the design world descend upon the Italian city, which sees its population swell by nearly 25%. Now in its 62nd iteration, the design extravaganza is an...
Wuthering...
The sophists and their rehabilitation - they clearly cause the ruin and corruption of their...
I have been pursuing the sophists, the great antagonists of Socrates and Plato. Minimized for...
a year ago
I have been pursuing the sophists, the great antagonists of Socrates and Plato. Minimized for centuries in the history of philosophy as, following Plato (but not Socrates), hucksters, they, or some of them, are now taken seriously as an intermediate step between the cosmological...
nanoscale views
Brief items - LOC, GPT, etc.
This year was a busy one and my overall posting rate is down. Hopefully the coming year will be a...
over a year ago
This year was a busy one and my overall posting rate is down. Hopefully the coming year will be a bit less frenetic, but who knows. A few brief items:
First, in the odd self-promotion department, this blog is officially going to be indexed by the Library of Congress as part...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Slowmad Q&A
The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people...
over a year ago
The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people are generally interested in is my experience of remote work. As I put it [recently](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1154916667606130689):
ntietz.com blog
Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why?
If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at...
over a year ago
If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at some point you have to figure out if it does or not. This is where load testing comes in: if you want to see whether or not your application can handle scale, just generate scale...
diamond geezer
Doctor Who 60
On Doctor Who's 60th birthday, here's a post about Doctor Who and birthdays.
I checked back...
a year ago
On Doctor Who's 60th birthday, here's a post about Doctor Who and birthdays.
I checked back recently and was amazed to see that my birthday had coincided with a new episode of Doctor Who in four consecutive years. This seemed somewhat improbable.
9th March 1982: Earthshock...
TheCollector
Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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8 months ago
Noahpinion
Bad and good arguments for industrial policy
Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
5 months ago
Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
TheCollector
Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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3 months ago
Seth's Blog
Reimagining cities in a few simple questions
What would happen if public transportation were free? What if it were paid for by congestion...
a year ago
What would happen if public transportation were free? What if it were paid for by congestion pricing, digitally implemented? What if public toilets were safe, beautiful, well-appointed and consistently maintained? What if there were a tax on empty storefronts, payable after three...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Friendcatchers
Patrick McKenzie's simple concept for making friends on the Internet.
over a year ago
Patrick McKenzie's simple concept for making friends on the Internet.
Words and Buttons...
Interactive mnemonics for dot and cross vector products
Dot and cross vector products are absolutely essential for everything three-dimensional. Whatever 3D...
over a year ago
Dot and cross vector products are absolutely essential for everything three-dimensional. Whatever 3D thing you do: graphics, printing, physical simulation, — as soon as you want anything beyond what your framework provides, you have to do some vector magic, and these are your...
Steve Klabnik
How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
over a year ago
HTMHell
My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
by Declan Chidlow
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving...
2 days ago
by Declan Chidlow
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving whipping it out the good ol' CSS color property. But this is HTMHell, dammit. None of that wishy-washy CSS nonsense here. No siree. We use HTML as the good lord intended and shalln't...
Retail Design Blog
Hakodate Sensyuan Sohonke by Schemata Architects
Walking on the streets of Hakodate, one sees brick warehouses, Western-style buildings, and...
5 months ago
Walking on the streets of Hakodate, one sees brick warehouses, Western-style buildings, and storehouses that give a sense of the...
Open Culture
Simone de Beauvoir Explains “Why I’m a Feminist” in a Rare TV Interview (1975)
In Simone de Beauvoir’s 1945 novel The Blood of Others, the narrator, Jean Blomart, reports on his...
5 months ago
In Simone de Beauvoir’s 1945 novel The Blood of Others, the narrator, Jean Blomart, reports on his childhood friend Marcel’s reaction to the word “revolution”: It was senseless to try to change anything in the world or in life; things were bad enough even if one did not meddle...
Handprinted - Blog
Making a Stamp with Japanese Transparent Stamp Carving Block
This new Japanese Transparent Stamp Carving Block enables you to carve your design and bake it in...
over a year ago
This new Japanese Transparent Stamp Carving Block enables you to carve your design and bake it in the oven until it appears clear. Clear stamps are so handy as they let you see where you’re printing! This is great for repeat patterns, accurate registration, multi-colour designs...
Wuthering...
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Canto I, "Of shapes transformde to bodies straunge"
Some notes on Canto I of Ovid’s Metamorphosis (8 CE). Just some of the things I am looking for...
a year ago
Some notes on Canto I of Ovid’s Metamorphosis (8 CE). Just some of the things I am looking for or
enjoying while reading Ovid’s epic of “forms changed / into new bodies.” (tr. Charles Martin, 2004, p. 15). Or, per Arthur Golding (1567, p. 3 of the
Paul Dry paperback) “Of...
Steve Klabnik
Moving from Sinatra to Rails
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Figma for developers: all you need to know
If you're a frontend developer, you are probably spending as much time on VS Code as on Figma.
This...
a year ago
If you're a frontend developer, you are probably spending as much time on VS Code as on Figma.
This quick read highlights some of the goodies that I personally use to speed up my workflow.
A word of caution
Open Culture
“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the...
There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to...
5 months ago
There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to fully translate. Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person. German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in...
Left To Write
#12 Writemas: All The Pieces of You
There’s a quote by Jorge Luis Borges I came across that I think about a lot. It goes like this: “I...
a year ago
There’s a quote by Jorge Luis Borges I came across that I think about a lot. It goes like this: “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
Josh Comeau's blog
Why My Blog is Closed-Source
In our community, it's so common for developer projects to be open-source. I'm breaking with this...
over a year ago
In our community, it's so common for developer projects to be open-source. I'm breaking with this trend for my blog, but I have good reasons! In this article, I'll share my reasoning, as well as a workaround in case you _really_ want to see the source. If you're considering...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Founder Stories
Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch asked me a few months ago if I’d be on a TechCrunch video show where...
over a year ago
Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch asked me a few months ago if I’d be on a TechCrunch video show where we interviewed startup founders. I love…
A Smart Bear
Why I feel like a fraud (Impostor Syndrome)
Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause,...
a year ago
Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause, you can defeat it.
Math Is Still...
How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It
Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold pulled off the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in...
5 months ago
Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold pulled off the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in science to date, accelerating molecular research and kindling deep questions about why we do science.
The post How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It...
bunnie's blog
Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022)
The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for...
a year ago
The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritz’s Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you...
anderegg.ca
Maybe Bluesky has “won”
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X....
a month ago
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this...
TheCollector
NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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a year ago
Noahpinion
How China's "debt traps" actually work
Raiding the Global South like a piggy bank.
a year ago
Raiding the Global South like a piggy bank.
Retail Design Blog
FENDI shop-in-shop
Hankyu Men‘s arguably is Osaka‘s high-end fashion central, and it’s no surprise many a luxury brand...
2 months ago
Hankyu Men‘s arguably is Osaka‘s high-end fashion central, and it’s no surprise many a luxury brand goes the extra yard...
This Space
39 Books: 1990
The first book I read in the 39 years of this series was a genre thriller, and I've read only two...
7 months ago
The first book I read in the 39 years of this series was a genre thriller, and I've read only two more since. The second one came along this year. In 1989, I got a temporary job in the archives of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum where I met Carl Erlewyn-Lajeunesse, an...
Londonist
Things To Do In London In The Easter Holidays 2024
Family-friendly events in the capital this spring.
9 months ago
Family-friendly events in the capital this spring.
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 2: Mathematical Limitations of LLMs, A SQL Roadmap for Data Science, and...
Society's Backend Reading List 10-14-2024
2 months ago
Society's Backend Reading List 10-14-2024
TheCollector
British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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6 months ago
Left To Write
#8 Writemas: 3 Lessons from Steve Jobs' Biography
Last week, I finished Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson portrays Jobs as a complex...
a year ago
Last week, I finished Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson portrays Jobs as a complex character with many paradoxes and personal contradictions. For example, he was adopted and struggled with ‘rejection’, yet rejected his own daughter, Lisa Jobs.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Model
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I wonder how long it'll be before dating sites do...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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I wonder how long it'll be before dating sites do some version of 'I'll have my bot talk to your bot'
Today's News:
TheCollector
An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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11 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Getting carried away with hack value
Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of...
over a year ago
Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of BarnOwl into perl code, instead of C (BarnOwl is written in an unholy mix of C and perl code that call each other back and forth obsessively).
Moving code into perl has many...
Atoms vs Bits
The Mystery Of The Pots
Does quantity lead to quality?
9 months ago
Does quantity lead to quality?
Diaries of Note
WROTE ‘YOUR SONG’
When he wrote this diary entry in October 1969, Elton John was yet to become the superstar we now...
a year ago
When he wrote this diary entry in October 1969, Elton John was yet to become the superstar we now know. Still only twenty-two, his debut album had been out in the wild for four months, and it would be another three years until he legally changed his name from Reginald Dwight....
Seth's Blog
The inevitable meeting
When the person you could have been meets the person you are becoming, is it going to be a cause for...
2 months ago
When the person you could have been meets the person you are becoming, is it going to be a cause for celebration or heartbreak? This is something we must work on right now, and tomorrow, and every single day until the meeting happens.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Phone is Still the Best Way to Order Pizza
"When ordering pizza for pickup, there is no easier way to do it than using a phone. On average, it...
over a year ago
"When ordering pizza for pickup, there is no easier way to do it than using a phone. On average, it takes no more than 20 seconds: There are many, many websites and apps that partner with local pizza shops. Often these apps require you to sign up or add excess information.
"
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sonnet
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The total effacement of selfhood is bad but the...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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The total effacement of selfhood is bad but the corn is *very* sweet.
Today's News:
Engineer’s Codex
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
5 months ago
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
Math Is Still...
Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms
Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest...
a year ago
Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest otherwise.
The post Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Rest of World -...
Small-scale investors are building Vietnam’s EV charging network
Anyone with spare land in a good location can become a franchisee for a charging company, but with...
2 weeks ago
Anyone with spare land in a good location can become a franchisee for a charging company, but with no government support it can take years to break even.
TheCollector
Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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5 days ago
David Heinemeier...
To the crazy ones
In an earlier era, we'd all have been glued to the television to cheer SpaceX successfully catching...
2 months ago
In an earlier era, we'd all have been glued to the television to cheer SpaceX successfully catching Starship's returning booster rocket on the first try. I remember my father talking about seeing Apollo 11 make it to the moon. That was a lifelong memory for him. And I remember,...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Lufthansa Strives to for More Eco-Friendly Air Travel
2 months ago
The Works in...
History is in the making
It's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect...
3 weeks ago
It's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect that.
TheCollector
Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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3 weeks ago
Open Culture
How the Hugely Acclaimed Shōgun TV Series Makes Translation Interesting
Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their...
3 months ago
Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their owners ever actually got through James Clavell’s famously hefty novel of seventeenth-century Japan is open to question, but they may well have seen the first television adaptation,...
Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
Dominik Sobe's...
My experience living and working in South East Asia
a year ago
haseeb qureshi
How DeFi cannibalizes PoS security
On-chain lending has become the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application today,...
over a year ago
On-chain lending has become the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application today, with over $600M in loans originated this year across MakerDAO, Compound, and dYdX. On-chain lending has the potential to disrupt traditional secured lending. But it seems it may do more...
Beautiful Public...
Mapping the Sea Floor
USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of...
a year ago
USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of the sea floor off Cape Ann, MA.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.37.0: Cohorts 2.0 and event & property detail pages
PostHog 1.37.0 introduces advanced filtering for cohorts, improved events and property pages,...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.37.0 introduces advanced filtering for cohorts, improved events and property pages, dancing hedgehogs and much, much more.
Math Is Still...
Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media
In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never...
a year ago
In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never do it perfectly, but a new study shows it’s possible for machines.
The post Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Explained from First...
Number theory explained from first principles
over a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #208
Biden's Withdrawal and Limits of Gaslighting, The CrowdStrike Crash, Munger and Franklin, Steve Jobs...
5 months ago
Biden's Withdrawal and Limits of Gaslighting, The CrowdStrike Crash, Munger and Franklin, Steve Jobs in 1983, Microsoft deep dive, Marks on risk, Luca Delanna on ergodicity, Guadalcanal
Steve Klabnik
Looking back at Rust in 2018
over a year ago
Probably...
Political Alignment, Affiliation, and Attitudes
Is there a growing gender gap in the U.S? Alignment A recent article in the Financial Times suggests...
10 months ago
Is there a growing gender gap in the U.S? Alignment A recent article in the Financial Times suggests that among young people there is a growing gender gap in political alignment on a spectrum from liberal to conservative. In last week’s post, I tried to replicate this result...
Construction Physics
How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years
It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial...
7 months ago
It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial output. Even before the U.S. entered the war, the Americans provided hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of equipment to the Allies, and between 1938 and 1943 U.S. manufacturing...
Construction Physics
Will Stone Replace Steel and Concrete?
A recent viral tweet by Micah Springut, founder of stone-carving startup Monumental Labs, argued...
7 months ago
A recent viral tweet by Micah Springut, founder of stone-carving startup Monumental Labs, argued that it will be cheaper to build buildings with stone than with steel or concrete within the next 10 years. Stone has of course been used for thousands of years as a construction...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Advanced markdown processing in Go
Using gomarkdown/markdown library
This article describes an advanced markdown processing...
a year ago
Using gomarkdown/markdown library
This article describes an advanced markdown processing in Go using gomarkdown/markdown library.
All the code examples are available at https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/tree/master/examples
Basics first
Here’s a good...
alexwlchan
The new Flickr Commons Explorer →
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way...
8 months ago
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way to browse the photos in the Flickr Commons.
Flickr Commons is a collection of historical photography from cultural institutions from all around the world, all with no known...
Cremieux Recueil
The Worst Argument Against Ozempic
Unfortunately, being skinny might require effort
3 months ago
Unfortunately, being skinny might require effort
A Smart Bear
Scars
Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
3 weeks ago
Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Covering your webcams! Plus, our new newsletter and articles!
A new episode of Loose Leaf Security is out to remind you to cover your webcams when you aren't...
over a year ago
A new episode of Loose Leaf Security is out to remind you to cover your webcams when you aren't using them, and it features my favorite episode art yet:
Covering your webcams
Liz and Geoffrey take a look at how attackers compromise webcams and discuss why it's worth physically...
Left To Write
Write Like You Write
And not how you speak
a year ago
TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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3 months ago
Code Of Honor
Debugging running server applications
So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real...
over a year ago
So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real users are playing the game server doesn’t work properly. Now what?!? I was reading an article by Mike Perham called Debugging with Thread Dumps and wanted to share a related...
NeuroLogica Blog
Ghosts Are Not Real
It’s Halloween, so there are a lot of fluff pieces about ghosts and similar phenomena circulating in...
a year ago
It’s Halloween, so there are a lot of fluff pieces about ghosts and similar phenomena circulating in the media. There are some good skeptical pieces as well, which is always nice to see. For this piece I did not want to frame the headline as a question, which I think is...
Construction Physics
Why Levittown Didn't Revolutionize Homebuilding
For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way...
5 months ago
For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way we build cars. While no one has succeeded, arguably the man that came closest to becoming “the Henry Ford of homebuilding” was William Levitt, with his company Levitt and Sons....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 4
This is day 4 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
over a year ago
This is day 4 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
Commoncog
Lee Walker and the Dell Growth Plateau
How Lee Walker overcame Dell's biggest growth plateau in 1986. A story about capital, imagination,...
a year ago
How Lee Walker overcame Dell's biggest growth plateau in 1986. A story about capital, imagination, and creative deal-making.
The American Scholar
The Importance of Being Different
A travel writer’s education
The post The Importance of Being Different appeared first on The...
7 months ago
A travel writer’s education
The post The Importance of Being Different appeared first on The American Scholar.
Elad Blog
MegaCycles in Tech & Crypto
Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology...
over a year ago
Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology or platform would emerge, there would be rampant investment and speculation, a few strong hypergrowth survivors would emerge and most of the rest of the new startups would...
The Honest Broker
Hey Madonna, Let Me Bring My Band to Your Concert
My latest briefing paper on culture, arts & society
a year ago
My latest briefing paper on culture, arts & society
FIRE v London
July ’23: Markets up, Coutts down
It’s been a dismally wet July here in London. About 50% more rainfall than normal (which, before ye...
a year ago
It’s been a dismally wet July here in London. About 50% more rainfall than normal (which, before ye scoff, isn’t that much – London is a fairly dry city – drier than Rome and much drier than Sydney). It has been long trousers weather, for the first time in several years. But at...
Retail Design Blog
Design Infinity Offices by Design Infinity
Design Infinity created a human-centric and sustainable design for their space in Dubai, displaying...
6 months ago
Design Infinity created a human-centric and sustainable design for their space in Dubai, displaying the quality, timeliness, and customer satisfaction...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How should physicians get paid? | Out-Of-Pocket
Should money and care be separate?
a year ago
Should money and care be separate?
Common Edge
How Might We Talk About the Shoreline of San Francisco?
Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can...
10 months ago
Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can enable better conversations about them.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Errors Are Not Exceptions
Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is...
over a year ago
Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is wrong.
The Oatmeal - Comics...
I posted some new animations
I've posted a couple of new animated cartoons about microwaves, cuddling, and wombats.
View on my...
a year ago
I've posted a couple of new animated cartoons about microwaves, cuddling, and wombats.
View on my website
The Architectural...
Can We Afford More Modernist Buildings?
A common myth suggests that the unattractiveness of new buildings over the last century is due to...
a year ago
A common myth suggests that the unattractiveness of new buildings over the last century is due to rational or economic reasons, implying that building beautifully is too costly. In this article, I’ll debunk this idea and uncover the real reason behind the prevalence of...
Retail Design Blog
The Embassy of Ireland by One Space
Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs is responsible for the establishment and management of all...
a month ago
Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs is responsible for the establishment and management of all Irish diplomatic missions around the world....
A Beautiful Site
Using an ORM
I've never really bothered with ORMs before, as feelings for them tend to be mixed. I've heard that...
over a year ago
I've never really bothered with ORMs before, as feelings for them tend to be mixed. I've heard that you can spend twice as long learning an ORM as you can coding raw SQL. 🤷🏻♂️
I figured it was time to see for myself. For the Postleaf rebuild, I decided to try out Sequelize. I...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
over a year ago
Writing - Andreas...
Using fewer parts
Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
a year ago
Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Understanding your market
Some startups become huge sensations without requiring any active marketing – YouTube, Skype, and...
over a year ago
Some startups become huge sensations without requiring any active marketing – YouTube, Skype, and Twitter come to mind. However, the vast…
SatPost by Trung...
Calvin & Hobbes, Bill Watterson and Art Over Commerce
PLUS: Election Betting, Selling to Costco and AI in Hollywood.
a month ago
PLUS: Election Betting, Selling to Costco and AI in Hollywood.
Archinect - Features
Archinect's Guide to the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale: Part I — The National...
With the opening week of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale now passed, there has been much...
a year ago
With the opening week of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale now passed, there has been much discussion and media coverage of the anticipated international exhibition. It's safe to imply that the high-profile event aims to highlight, unveil, celebrate, and at times, provoke new...
Engineer’s Codex
How Airbnb Scaled by Moving Away From a Monolith
4 lessons from Airbnb's scaling strategy, with comparisons to other big tech companies
a year ago
4 lessons from Airbnb's scaling strategy, with comparisons to other big tech companies
On Life and Lisp
Clip control on the Apple GPU
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver
After a year in...
over a year ago
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver
After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more to do, but Neverball is already playable (and a lot of fun!).
Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
mtlynch.io
A Survey of Applicant Tracking Systems for Bootstrapped Businesses
I’m a bootstrapped founder of a six-person company, and I spent this week testing different tools...
over a year ago
I’m a bootstrapped founder of a six-person company, and I spent this week testing different tools for hiring candidates.
This post summarizes my experience with the applicant tracking systems (ATS) I found and how well they serve small, bootstrapped businesses.
Note: This isn’t...
Coffee with an...
Design Paths
Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there...
9 months ago
Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there were a handful of clear diagrams to explain the process. This isn’t that:
TheCollector
5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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2 months ago
Christopher Butler
Reality Doubt
AI-generated media is accelerating very, very quickly.
OpenAI has announced Sora, an AI model that...
10 months ago
AI-generated media is accelerating very, very quickly.
OpenAI has announced Sora, an AI model that can generate up to 1 minute of video from a single text prompt.
The results are impressive.
As I look through them and compare what Sora is capable of with the AI-generated...
Drew Ex Machina
Webb’s First Glimpse of Jupiter, Its Moons & Rings
A long time ago when I was a budding amateur astronomer, one of the first targets I would observe...
over a year ago
A long time ago when I was a budding amateur astronomer, one of the first targets I would observe each evening with my new telescope was […]
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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a year ago
mtlynch.io
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
I had a mixed reaction to this book. Some of Ibram X. Kendi’s ideas felt novel and compelling. It...
over a year ago
I had a mixed reaction to this book. Some of Ibram X. Kendi’s ideas felt novel and compelling. It broadened my perspective in thinking about race. And there’s a lot of historical discussion of race and slavery that covered details I don’t remember from school. At the same time, I...
Rest of World -...
Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are unionizing
Citing meager wages, no safety gear, and exploitative working conditions, the country’s drivers are...
a year ago
Citing meager wages, no safety gear, and exploitative working conditions, the country’s drivers are organizing to demand better.
The Marginalian
Joy as a Force of Resistance and a Halo of Loss, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller Poem
In this world heavy with robust reasons for despair, joy is a stubborn courage we must not...
3 months ago
In this world heavy with robust reasons for despair, joy is a stubborn courage we must not surrender, a fulcrum of personal power we must not yield to cynicism, blame, or any other costume of helplessness. “Experience of conflict and a load of suffering has taught me that what...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Philospohy
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Where it gets really weird is when people start...
11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Where it gets really weird is when people start saying they're pretty sure they know how all of history works.
Today's News:
Cool article we contributed to for NYT.
journal – Winnie Lim
the capacity to be flexible
I woke up yesterday with the intention to run, but the PSI had entered unhealthy ranges due to the...
a year ago
I woke up yesterday with the intention to run, but the PSI had entered unhealthy ranges due to the seasonal haze that comes in from Indonesia. When I was younger I used...
Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
Joel Gascoigne
An invitation to come and hack on Buffer
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The last two...
over a year ago
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The last two years have been truly incredible. What started in my bedroom in the
UK has taken us across the world
[https://joel.is/post/27260290057/thoughts-on-travelling-with-your-startup] to...
computers are bad
2023-02-17 something up there pt II
As we discussed previously,
the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of...
a year ago
As we discussed previously,
the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017:
the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow
and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to
very little. I...
wadertales
How successful are headstarted waders
We know that headstarting (hatching eggs in captivity and rearing chicks through to fledging) can...
2 months ago
We know that headstarting (hatching eggs in captivity and rearing chicks through to fledging) can boost the number of young waders in a population. However, the sustainability of this intervention is dependent upon several factors that apply after the point of release. A paper in...
The Changelog
Review of Reputable, Functional, and Secure Email Service
I last reviewed email services in 2019. That review focused a lot of attention on privacy. At the...
7 months ago
I last reviewed email services in 2019. That review focused a lot of attention on privacy. At the time, I selected mailbox.org as my provider, and have been using them for these 5 years since. However, both their service and their support have gone significantly downhill since,...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Reading Recursion via Pascal
<![CDATA[I read the book Recursion via Pascal by Jeffrey S. Rohl, Cambridge University Press, 1984....
9 months ago
<![CDATA[I read the book Recursion via Pascal by Jeffrey S. Rohl, Cambridge University Press, 1984. I discovered this rare, little known gem by chance and, although it's available online, I also bought a cheap printed copy.
The book Recursion via Pascal.
What makes this short...
Epic Web Dev
Deploy Web Applications All Over the World (tutorial)
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Selecting the right product metrics
A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but...
a year ago
A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but also stakeholders, executives, and customers.
Calculated Risk
Housing Starts Decreased to 1.289 million Annual Rate in November
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Housing Starts Decreased to 1.289 million...
4 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Housing Starts Decreased to 1.289 million Annual Rate in November
A brief excerpt:
Total housing starts in November were below expectations, however, starts in September and October were revised up slightly, combined.
Total...
Strange Loop Canon
State of the Canon
Onwards
11 months ago
Julia Evans
Writing Javascript without a build system
Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start
a new frontend...
a year ago
Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start
a new frontend project, I was faced with the question: should I use a build
system?
I want to talk about what’s appealing to me about build systems, why I
(usually) still don’t use them, and why I find...
Seth's Blog
PW 2: Productivity in community
We need you. But only if you need us. Purple.space is six months old, and there are about a thousand...
11 months ago
We need you. But only if you need us. Purple.space is six months old, and there are about a thousand of us now. It was an experiment, now it’s a useful tool. The initiative hat is often ill-fitting. We rush to take it off and get back to doing chores. And that’s why a community...
Identity Designed
The Grand Press
Designed by Dixon Baxi, London.
a year ago
Designed by Dixon Baxi, London.
Londonist
April And May Tube Strikes Called Off
No tube strike next Monday after all.
8 months ago
No tube strike next Monday after all.
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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a week ago
Matt Blewitt
Sensibly Default
There are two programming principles that I hold dear to my heart: the principle of least surprise...
2 months ago
There are two programming principles that I hold dear to my heart: the principle of least surprise and provide sensible defaults. I’ve recently been working within the GraphQL ecosystem, and the number of violations of both here has frustrated me. This will be a little bit ranty.
Math Is Still...
Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit
Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating worlds that defy classification. The new...
a year ago
Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating worlds that defy classification. The new observations have forced them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation.
The post Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit first appeared on Quanta...
NeuroLogica Blog
Tong Test for Artificial General Intelligence
Most readers are probably familiar with the Turing Test – a concept proposed by early computing...
a year ago
Most readers are probably familiar with the Turing Test – a concept proposed by early computing expert Alan Turing in 1950, and originally called “The Imitation Game”. The original paper is enlightening to read. Turing was not trying to answer the question “can machines think”....
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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11 months ago
ntietz.com blog
The phrase "good enough" isn't fit for purpose
Words matter.
First impressions matter.
I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and...
a year ago
Words matter.
First impressions matter.
I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and there's a section titled "Good-Enough Software".
In it, the authors expand that "the phrase 'good enough' does not imply sloppy or poorly produced code" and that it must still meet...
Tech and Tea
Three Maternity Leaves at Early-Stage Startups
How it was with different companies, roles, and experiences
4 months ago
How it was with different companies, roles, and experiences
charity.wtf
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...
a month ago
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...
The Works in...
Fermenting revolution
The Victorian fight against bad bread and its role in women’s liberation
a year ago
The Victorian fight against bad bread and its role in women’s liberation
Liz Denys
L'Insurrection qui vient
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and...
over a year ago
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this.
But there are few...
The Modern House
Scene Stealers: seven rural homes with spectacular surroundings
We’ve all found ourselves daydreaming of life in the country – growing your own fruit and veg, wild...
a year ago
We’ve all found ourselves daydreaming of life in the country – growing your own fruit and veg, wild swimming, enjoying a glass of red by a cosy log fire… But if that’s never been quite enough to inspire you to take the plunge, the homes […]
Nothing Human
Reflections on Politics at Thanksgiving Dinner
political incorrectness as bid for closeness
3 weeks ago
political incorrectness as bid for closeness
Steve Klabnik
Real, modern Ruby development
over a year ago
Inverted Passion
Not everything is physics
The first book I ever read was The Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I liked it so much that...
3 months ago
The first book I ever read was The Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I liked it so much that I re-read it 8 times. As a young boy, the book had made a lasting impression on me, making me fall in love with ideas such as the arrow of time, black holes, entropy,…
Read...
mtlynch.io
Key Mime Pi: Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a Remote Keyboard
Recent versions of the Raspberry Pi support USB on-the-go (USB OTG), which allows them to...
over a year ago
Recent versions of the Raspberry Pi support USB on-the-go (USB OTG), which allows them to impersonate USB devices such as keyboards, thumb drives, and microphones. To take advantage of this, I made an open-source web app that turns my Pi into a fake keyboard. I call it Key Mime...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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8 months ago
nanoscale views
Some recent papers of interest
A couple of recent papers that seem interesting and I need to read more closely:
This paper in...
a year ago
A couple of recent papers that seem interesting and I need to read more closely:
This paper in Nature, a collaboration between folks at Ohio University and Argonne, is a neat combination of scanning tunneling microscopy and (synchrotron-enabled) resonant x-ray absorption. The...
NeuroLogica Blog
GMOs and Butterflies
Are attitudes towards genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our agriculture softening? Back in...
a year ago
Are attitudes towards genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our agriculture softening? Back in 2015 a Pew survey found that the gap between public opinion and that of scientists was greatest on acceptance of GMOs (more than any other topic surveyed), with a 51% gap. But more...
Rest of World -...
The Ghanaian founder challenging Google
Paul Azunre welcomes Big Tech making AI tools in African languages: “It is good to have some...
9 months ago
Paul Azunre welcomes Big Tech making AI tools in African languages: “It is good to have some competition.”
History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
7 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
Patrick Kayongo
On Leaving Coffee
It’s not the smell of the brew that you miss most Though the scent certainly does do something It’s...
a year ago
It’s not the smell of the brew that you miss most Though the scent certainly does do something It’s not the memory of the dark beans that haunt your thoughts Though their beauty can’t be unseen It’s not the burst of energy from the first sip Though it’s hard to find other means...
Londonist
16 Spring Day Trips From London: April 2024
Steam trains, flower festivals and a mysterious grotto.
9 months ago
Steam trains, flower festivals and a mysterious grotto.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
a year ago
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
McMansion Hell
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism”
It’s always funny to me when new wealth tries to imitate old wealth, but in a very specific way: by...
3 weeks ago
It’s always funny to me when new wealth tries to imitate old wealth, but in a very specific way: by trying to reproduce old ways of building that are no longer viable via mass produced building materials and contractors who are better than average but still not quite in the...
Retail Design Blog
Mite Spray Packaging Design by A SPRING DESIGN
Mite Spray Packaging Design
5 months ago
Mite Spray Packaging Design
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"This business is like bird spotting"
One of my favorite quotes about startups/VC, from legendary VC Mike Moritz of Sequoia: I rarely...
over a year ago
One of my favorite quotes about startups/VC, from legendary VC Mike Moritz of Sequoia: I rarely think about big themes. This business is…
Rest of World -...
How Spotify helped turn Afrobeats into a global phenomenon
The Swedish music giant is pushing to make Africa’s biggest sound the world’s favorite sound.
11 months ago
The Swedish music giant is pushing to make Africa’s biggest sound the world’s favorite sound.
Daniel Miessler
Would You Put AI Art In Your House?
I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I...
over a year ago
I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I immediately faced some internal resistance. Like, I wasn’t (and still am not) sure whether this is the right way to “do” art. And that got me thinking what that really means. What...
99% Invisible
Roman, Elliott, and Robert Caro: Live in Conversation
For 50 years, The Power Broker has remained a landmark biography, transforming how people see former...
a month ago
For 50 years, The Power Broker has remained a landmark biography, transforming how people see former New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. If you’ve been listening to 99% Invisible’sPower Broker Breakdown, you’re familiar with the story. The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The...
Both Are True
anxiety at work!!
hey boss, are you mad at me?
8 months ago
hey boss, are you mad at me?
swyx's site RSS Feed
Developer's Guide to Tech Strategy
This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather...
over a year ago
This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather than the art and science of creating software itself.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Painting
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
That stick figure diagram is the most joy I've had...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
That stick figure diagram is the most joy I've had making an illustration in years.
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Six companies making it easier for Africans to send money globally
Africa is the most expensive region to send money, but these companies are making it faster,...
a year ago
Africa is the most expensive region to send money, but these companies are making it faster, cheaper, and easier.
bt RSS Feed
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Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility...
over a year ago
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility is the “keyboard-only” audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
TheCollector
London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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a year ago
TheCollector
7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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3 months ago
The Honest Broker
Car Drivers Torment a City with Celine Dion Songs
An update on dangerous music
a year ago
An update on dangerous music
Platformer
Another Facebook content moderation company quits the business
Amid worker unrest and a lawsuit, Sama says it's done. Will others follow?
a year ago
Amid worker unrest and a lawsuit, Sama says it's done. Will others follow?
Code Of Honor
StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames
In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it...
over a year ago
In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it from a follow-on to Warcraft — derisively called “Orcs in space” in 1996 — into the award-winning game that we were finally able to deliver after two more years of hardship. But one...
nanoscale views
ARPA-E Roadshow
Today, Rice hosted the ARPA-E Roadshow, a series of presentations by ARPA-E program officers, MC-ed...
a year ago
Today, Rice hosted the ARPA-E Roadshow, a series of presentations by ARPA-E program officers, MC-ed by the director, Prof. Evelyn Wang. It was all about the energy transition, and it was pretty fascinating, particularly hearing from leaders of startups who were making...
Rest of World -...
Rwanda’s homegrown EV leader sets its sights on Kenya
Ampersand hopes to replicate its small-market success in East Africa’s largest economy.
7 months ago
Ampersand hopes to replicate its small-market success in East Africa’s largest economy.
Essays - Benedict...
Remaking the app store
The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we
started arguing about it,...
10 months ago
The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we
started arguing about it, and no-one is happy with the result. In the next
few years there’ll be a lot of shouting and some giant fines, but in the
end, nothing much will change.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Talking to ChatGPT costs 5ml of water, not 500ml
There’s a common claim on the internet that ChatGPT consumes half a litre of water for every 5-50...
a month ago
There’s a common claim on the internet that ChatGPT consumes half a litre of water for every 5-50 responses. Here are some randomly-chosen…
Spoon & Tamago
Kirie Artist Carves Playful Narratives Into Tree Leaves
“Aquarium of Leaves” A 37-year old Japanese artist who goes by the name Lito has been living with...
a year ago
“Aquarium of Leaves” A 37-year old Japanese artist who goes by the name Lito has been living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) his entire life. Lito had been searching for an outlet where he could channel his above-normal levels of concentration and...
Archinect - Features
The Industry Reacts to Interest Rate Cuts: Archinect’s State of AEC September 2024
Welcome to the fourth installment of Archinect's new series, State of AEC. At the end of each month,...
2 months ago
Welcome to the fourth installment of Archinect's new series, State of AEC. At the end of each month, we will guide you through the latest analyses, indexes, and trends on how the architecture and construction industries are performing economically.
Since our last edition, the...
The Ruffian
Last of the Curmudgeons
Catch-up service:
3 months ago
Home on Erik...
Google diversity memo, global warming, Pascal's wager, and other stuff
There's about 765 million blog posts about the diversity “memo” that leaked out of Google a couple...
over a year ago
There's about 765 million blog posts about the diversity “memo” that leaked out of Google a couple of weeks ago. I think the case for any biological difference is pretty weak, and it bothers me when people refer to an “interest gap” as anything else than caused by the...
One Useful Thing
The Lazy Tyranny of the Wait Calculation
Taking AI timelines seriously
11 months ago
Taking AI timelines seriously
Moneyness
In praise of anti-money laundering thresholds
Two seemingly separate stories, a crypto and a banking story, have a common thread in anti-money...
a year ago
Two seemingly separate stories, a crypto and a banking story, have a common thread in anti-money laundering thresholds.
In the first story, the New York Times shows how regular folks are increasingly losing their bank accounts because their bank perceives them to be engaging in...
A Beautiful Site
Don't Do Magic
We recently had a design for an "alert" component with an actions slot. In the spec, only secondary...
over a year ago
We recently had a design for an "alert" component with an actions slot. In the spec, only secondary buttons were allowed in it.
Dev: "Design only wants secondary buttons in the actions slot, so I'm forcing it."
The developer was listening for the slotchange event and applying the...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create an accessible React modal
A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the...
over a year ago
A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the user can’t interact with the rest of the application.
Creating a modal in React is fairly easy. There are dozens of resources that explain how to do so, including the React...
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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2 months ago
Epic Web Dev
Fixing a form validation bug in the Epic Stack (tip)
Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step...
a year ago
Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step guide and find out how they addressed the issue.
The Elysian
Hint #3
I'm publishing a new print collection in one week.
3 months ago
I'm publishing a new print collection in one week.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Early
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The worst part is you can't source any pumpkins...
a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The worst part is you can't source any pumpkins because there's been no first contact with the Americas.
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journal – Winnie Lim
where i can take off my mask
Recently I’ve been getting some feedback from multiple sources that they appreciate I am able...
a year ago
Recently I’ve been getting some feedback from multiple sources that they appreciate I am able to write it as it is. In parallel I’ve also been thinking about why I share so much...
Cheese and Biscuits
Roti King, Battersea Power Station
Many moons ago I made a short-lived attempt to do some shorter-form reviews of sandwich shops,...
10 months ago
Many moons ago I made a short-lived attempt to do some shorter-form reviews of sandwich shops, street food joints, delis and the like, places that are perhaps noteworthy but for which the usual 1000+ words could be considered overkill. This resolution didn't last long, partly...
Flashbak
Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
6 months ago
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
OH8HUB’s Substack
Spring ham radio activation of Korkattivuori (Mt. Korkatti)
Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature...
a year ago
Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature reserve area near town Haapavesi (pop. 6588) in Finland. The nature reserve area consist of short family friendly hiking path of approximately 1.5km. One end of the path has parking...
TheCollector
Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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7 months ago
Londonist
Part Of The Piccadilly Line Is Closing For 5 Days This Month
Heathrow will be off the cards.
10 months ago
Heathrow will be off the cards.
Jonas Hietala
An Elixir based payment processor for the Coinparty hackathon
Bitcoin Unlimited is hosting a Bitcoin Cash hackathon this December and it seemed like a good...
over a year ago
Bitcoin Unlimited is hosting a Bitcoin Cash hackathon this December and it seemed like a good opportunity for me to explore how to program against Bitcoin Cash, and it gives me an excuse to build something real with Phoenix and Elixir. (While an event like this might help combat...
Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
8 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
TheCollector
The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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5 months ago
ntietz.com blog
Three days of Advent of Code in Hurl
Every year I do some of Advent of Code.
One year I completed it, but usually I just do some of it as...
a year ago
Every year I do some of Advent of Code.
One year I completed it, but usually I just do some of it as a social thing with friends and then taper off as interest wanes.
This year, I did three days of it, and stopped because I really truly did not want to write more solutions in the...
99% Invisible
You Ain’t Nothin But a Postmark [EPISODE]
Over a decade after Elvis Presley’s death, the king of rock & roll took over headlines once again as...
a year ago
Over a decade after Elvis Presley’s death, the king of rock & roll took over headlines once again as Americans weighed in on which portrait of Elvis would be forever immortalized on a 29 cent US postage stamp. It was put to a popular vote: should the stamp feature an image of...
UX Collective
Is “founder mode” a rebrand for micromanaging, top-down leaders?
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Jonas Hietala
Widening the horizon
This is a game making site but where are the games? What gives?
I’ve been slightly less motivated in...
over a year ago
This is a game making site but where are the games? What gives?
I’ve been slightly less motivated in making games lately and I’ve been doing different things, just to get my ideas and my motivation up. As I said in an earlier post I wanted a break from Experimental Games and I...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Anatomy of Determination
over a year ago
TheCollector
How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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a year ago
TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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3 months ago
Max Rozen
Start your own app with React, GraphQL and Serverless architecture: Part 3 - Let's build a GraphQL...
Start your own app with React, GraphQL and Serverless architecture: Part 3 - Let's build a GraphQL...
over a year ago
Start your own app with React, GraphQL and Serverless architecture: Part 3 - Let's build a GraphQL backend!
Open Culture
Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful,...
When the Beatles upended popular music, thousands of wannabe beat groups were born all over the...
7 months ago
When the Beatles upended popular music, thousands of wannabe beat groups were born all over the world, and many of them–for the first time ever, really–were all-female groups. This Amoeba Records article has a fairly exhaustive list of these girl bands, with names like The...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build your SaaS with freelancers?
In today’s world, it’s easier than ever to build a Software-as-a-Service startup. With online tools...
over a year ago
In today’s world, it’s easier than ever to build a Software-as-a-Service startup. With online tools and resources like no-code platforms, […]
The post How to build your SaaS with freelancers? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Trick or Treat, Atlas
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from “Why Can’t We Make Simple Software?” By Peter van Hardenberg
I’m a fan of what Ink & Switch is doing in regards to local-first web development. I’ve got a few...
9 months ago
I’m a fan of what Ink & Switch is doing in regards to local-first web development. I’ve got a few harebrained ideas myself I want to build. And I’ve written notes from a talk by Peter before.
Which is all a preface for this set of notes from another talk by Peter. Here’s the talk...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Local Baker’s Top Picks to Maine’s Best Winter Adventures
4 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #198
Thoughts on risk, Berkshire recap, Graham's first investment, Marks on debt, Electricity demand, How...
7 months ago
Thoughts on risk, Berkshire recap, Graham's first investment, Marks on debt, Electricity demand, How to spend your days, AI and productivity