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The Highland Laddie, Leeds At first, you can't quite believe what you're seeing. Right in the middle of a cluster of modern...
19th May 2026
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The Highland Laddie, Leeds

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

19th May 2026
At first, you can't quite believe what you're seeing. Right in the middle of a cluster of modern high-rises, behind a large neon-lit casino and steps away from a giant ugly motorway junction, is a beautiful little brick-built pub that seemingly has no business being there. How...
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Finishing Stuff I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school...
7th Dec 2011
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Finishing Stuff

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

7th Dec 2011
I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school stuff. We completed the assembly course labs, which were pretty fun actually, and I managed to finally complete the electronics course I’ve been holding off on for like forever… But...
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Still (ab)using spreadsheets as a KB, for now? Forgive the Betteridge headline, but it’s because this is a personal thought process I’m still going...
1st Jan 2026
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Still (ab)using spreadsheets as a KB, for now?

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Jan 2026
Forgive the Betteridge headline, but it’s because this is a personal thought process I’m still going through myself. As opposed to a personal thought process I’m going through for someone else!? That doesn’t make sense. Welcome to 2026! The shop next door is playing a Carpenters...
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Winner, Name that Ware September 2023 The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the...
30th Oct 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware September 2023

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

30th Oct 2023
The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the general category of the ware first, David was the first to give the exact model. Usually I award the prize to the first person to give an exact, correct model number and fall back to...
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Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
1st Dec 2025
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Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available

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

1st Dec 2025
Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
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Tesla and Storytelling Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no...
14th Oct 2024
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Tesla and Storytelling

from Dustin Curtis [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Oct 2024
Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and an autonomous humanoid robot, called Optimus2, that can walk and has fully functioning hands and feet. Both of these products have been depicted in...
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Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a...
3rd Oct 2021
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Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Oct 2021
The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a Wemos D1 mini running Tasmota super super easy.
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The algorithmic atelier Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3rd Aug 2026
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The algorithmic atelier

from UX Collective [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Aug 2026
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Ink Note Q2 2025: Scribble on your Google Calendar How would it feel if you could scribble on top of your Google Calendar events?
22nd May 2025
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Ink Note Q2 2025: Scribble on your Google Calendar

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

22nd May 2025
How would it feel if you could scribble on top of your Google Calendar events?
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WiFi Binary Clock Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from...
21st Mar 2022
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WiFi Binary Clock

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Mar 2022
Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from ThinkGeek, and it was pride of place on my desk. LED's are a thing of beauty.
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Playground Playground
1st Jun 2025
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Playground

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

1st Jun 2025
Playground
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It must be nice to have Washington on our side Thomas Jefferson and the American genius
3rd Jan 2026
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It must be nice to have Washington on our side

from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Jan 2026
Thomas Jefferson and the American genius
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Drafting your first investment round. The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders...
6th May 2013
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Drafting your first investment round.

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th May 2013
The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders look for external funding. And i...
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IBM Granite 3.0 models Ollama partners with IBM to bring Granite 3.0 models to Ollama.
21st Oct 2024
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IBM Granite 3.0 models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

21st Oct 2024
Ollama partners with IBM to bring Granite 3.0 models to Ollama.
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What I'm up to - March 2023 ✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups...
1st Mar 2023
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What I'm up to - March 2023

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

1st Mar 2023
✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups develop new products. For the last six months, I've unintentionally been working almost exclusively wit...
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GovTech Conference - Data Science and Agile—Can or Not? Yes, Agile can be adopted by data science teams. Moderating a panel at GovTech STACK.
28th Oct 2018
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GovTech Conference - Data Science and Agile—Can or Not?

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

28th Oct 2018
Yes, Agile can be adopted by data science teams. Moderating a panel at GovTech STACK.
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Faster than Light So I returned to Faster than Light again this weekend, this time for real. I bought it when it came...
12th Feb 2013
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Faster than Light

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

12th Feb 2013
So I returned to Faster than Light again this weekend, this time for real. I bought it when it came out and I played it only in passing, but this weekend I played it a ton. Aaahh a new beginning in FTL. Will it be death once more I generally don’t like games where you have to...
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Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of...
29th Aug 2023
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Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed

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

29th Aug 2023
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of items randomly across a set of servers (e.g. by hashing, or by randomly selecting a server), the average number of items on each server is num_items / num_servers. It is easy to...
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Champ Designed by Jesús López, Hermosillo, Mexico.
29th Apr 2024
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Champ

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

29th Apr 2024
Designed by Jesús López, Hermosillo, Mexico.
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1999: Netscape’s Fall and the Rise of the Mozilla Browser At the beginning of 1999, one company had all the momentum on the Web: Microsoft. While Netscape was...
13th Oct 2021
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1999: Netscape’s Fall and the Rise of the Mozilla Browser

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

13th Oct 2021
At the beginning of 1999, one company had all the momentum on the Web: Microsoft. While Netscape was adjusting to corporate life with new owner AOL and trying to figure out its browser strategy, Microsoft was preparing to release version 5 of its browser, Internet Explorer. Like...
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Tanjiro Emerges in the Fields as Gyoda Unveils 2025 Rice Paddy Art Every summer, the city of Gyoda in Saitama Prefecture turns rice paddies into giant canvases,...
1st Jul 2025
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Tanjiro Emerges in the Fields as Gyoda Unveils 2025 Rice Paddy Art

from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel

1st Jul 2025
Every summer, the city of Gyoda in Saitama Prefecture turns rice paddies into giant canvases, planting colorful rice varieties to form massive works of art. Known as tanbo art, these living murals stretch across nearly three hectares and can only be fully appreciated from above....
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Ethan Magnass' sermons from Grace Anglican Church in Grove City, PA I’ve been recommending a collection of sermons to many people recently. I’ve listened to each of...
14th Dec 2020
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Ethan Magnass' sermons from Grace Anglican Church in Grove City, PA

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

14th Dec 2020
I’ve been recommending a collection of sermons to many people recently. I’ve listened to each of these sermons quite a few times. They’re worth your time. Ethan Magness is the rector at Grace Anglican Church in Grove City, PA. Sermon Series on Joseph Grace Anglican Church podcast...
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Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods...
31st Aug 2023
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Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments

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

31st Aug 2023
One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods so that more people can more easilly enjoy the benefits of Kagi Search.
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Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any...
5th Oct 2021
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Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs

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

5th Oct 2021
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him. But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world. He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would...
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Luxury for everyone: thoughts on Vision Pro and Apple's DNA In 2009, Microsoft released an enormous 200lb coffee table with an embedded 30-inch touchscreen...
21st May 2024
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Luxury for everyone: thoughts on Vision Pro and Apple's DNA

from Dustin Curtis [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st May 2024
In 2009, Microsoft released an enormous 200lb coffee table with an embedded 30-inch touchscreen called Surface. Although the iPhone had been around for a little while, the larger screen made Surface feel absolutely futuristic: in the Photos app, you could toss around pictures...
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Reflections on vibecoding ticket.el It has now been a month since I started playing with Claude Code “for real” and by now I’ve mostly...
6th Mar 2026
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Reflections on vibecoding ticket.el

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2026
It has now been a month since I started playing with Claude Code “for real” and by now I’ve mostly switched to Codex CLI: it is much snappier—who would imagine that a “Rewrite in Rust” would make things tangibly faster—and the answers feel more to-the-point than Claude’s to me.
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Adland is an island We spend eight hours a day thinking about the brands we build. Many of us more. We consider our...
24th Feb 2021
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Adland is an island

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

24th Feb 2021
We spend eight hours a day thinking about the brands we build. Many of us more. We consider our clients’ companies and the categories in which they compete. We visit the sites in which our products are produced and the stores in which they are sold. We analyse their adverts...
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Focus on the process, not the outcome Woorkeri Raman, a former Indian cricketer and former coach of the India women’s national cricket...
12th Aug 2024
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Focus on the process, not the outcome

from Seeking Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in finance

12th Aug 2024
Woorkeri Raman, a former Indian cricketer and former coach of the India women’s national cricket team, has two non-negotiables. As an offspinner, you must never get cut, and you must never get driven through the covers. Even when Ravichandran Ashwin takes five wickets, Raman will...
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Short Story on AI: Forward Pass p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color:...
27th Mar 2021
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Short Story on AI: Forward Pass

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

27th Mar 2021
p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color: #eee; } The inspiration for this short story came to me while reading Kevin Lacker’s Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test. It is probably worth it (though not required) to skim this post to get...
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43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips,...
3rd Feb 2023
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43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief

from Lennart Koopmann (KJ5KRF) [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2023
In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips, I finally embarked on a journey of my own: I took the Amtrak Southwest Chief train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Continue reading to learn more about it and why I’ll do it again on...
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Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I...
30th Dec 2025
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Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model

from Engineers Need Art [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Dec 2025
The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I build a replica from balsa.
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This is what starting small looks like
13th Dec 2016
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This is what starting small looks like

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

13th Dec 2016
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39 Books: 2015 In the Spring of 1997, I visited a friend in Kassel, a city in the middle of Germany, home of the...
24th May 2024
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39 Books: 2015

from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature

24th May 2024
In the Spring of 1997, I visited a friend in Kassel, a city in the middle of Germany, home of the Brothers Grimm and Franz Rosenzweig, and not very far from Weimar, hence the visit to the Goethehaus mentioned in the entry for 1989. I hadn't heard of it before and nor had my...
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Is Datalog a good language for authorization? Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence...
19th Feb 2022
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Is Datalog a good language for authorization?

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

19th Feb 2022
Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence in interest in recent years. In particular, several recent approaches to authorization (working out who can do what) have used Datalog as the logical basis for access control...
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Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip pre {border:none;} In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy the Intel...
14th Feb 2026
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Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip

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

14th Feb 2026
pre {border:none;} In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip. With this chip, CAD software, spreadsheets, flight simulators, and other programs were much speedier. The 8087 chip could add, subtract,...
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Doomr Most of my creations can be contained within an RSS feed; Doomr cannot. You'll want to check the...
14th Feb 2024
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Doomr

from Steven Scrawls [alt+shift+b] in literature

14th Feb 2024
Most of my creations can be contained within an RSS feed; Doomr cannot. You'll want to check the website for this one.
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Another Of My Essays In French. "C’est quoi cette « guerre » dont vous parlez ?"
4th May 2025
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Another Of My Essays In French.

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

4th May 2025
"C’est quoi cette « guerre » dont vous parlez ?"
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No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But...
13th Oct 2025
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No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off

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

13th Oct 2025
Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What do they do? And more importantly, why should anyone (outside of universities) care?...
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Solution, Name that Ware May 2026 The Ware for May 2026 is, in FETguy’s words: “one of many large pc boards of a Rodgers Instrument Co...
30th Jun 2026
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Solution, Name that Ware May 2026

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

30th Jun 2026
The Ware for May 2026 is, in FETguy’s words: “one of many large pc boards of a Rodgers Instrument Co church organ. The core memory was used to store and recall settings of the organ’s “stops”. There were 5 core memory boards in this instrument which differ in how many words were...
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Slow Horses (Season 2) Not as great as the first season; still tremendously entertaining television, with more than a few...
7th Jan 2024
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Slow Horses (Season 2)

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

7th Jan 2024
Not as great as the first season; still tremendously entertaining television, with more than a few twists that I couldn't predict and an underlying thread of competence in set design, pacing, and acting that is hard to deny.
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A Road Trip Along Mississippi's Blues Trail
7th Jan 2025
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A Road Trip Along Mississippi's Blues Trail

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

7th Jan 2025
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[ESSAYS] My 'Rules' for Running My Membership Program Should you start a membership program? Probably not. But boy am I glad that I started mine. Today...
1st Feb 2025
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[ESSAYS] My 'Rules' for Running My Membership Program

from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Feb 2025
Should you start a membership program? Probably not. But boy am I glad that I started mine. Today (basically) marks the sixth anniversary of starting SPECIAL PROJECTS. Each year, I’ve written up everything I learned. In total, here are nearly 40,000 words on running a membership...
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Stuff costs money The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
5th Sep 2025
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Stuff costs money

from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Sep 2025
The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
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Vermont's Great Retreat To begin the process of creating this map, I asked questions. Devoured books. Consumed articles....
10th Nov 2021
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Vermont's Great Retreat

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

10th Nov 2021
To begin the process of creating this map, I asked questions. Devoured books. Consumed articles. Talked to historians and librarians. And read maps. Lots of maps. As I did, I wondered if there was something in the landscape, the communities, the culture that made Vermont...
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La justesse au lieu de l’exactitude La justesse au lieu de l’exactitude Où je parle de hockey sous-marin, d’avions militaires et du...
14th Oct 2025
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La justesse au lieu de l’exactitude

from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature

14th Oct 2025
La justesse au lieu de l’exactitude Où je parle de hockey sous-marin, d’avions militaires et du pourrissement des oranges punks. L’arbitraire de l’arbitrage C’est un fait historique peu connu, mais j’ai, brièvement, été arbitre sportif. J’ai en effet arbitré des matchs de...
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NYC Bike Rules for Drivers mini-zine After five different drivers, including a school bus driver, aggressively close-passed me in Midwood...
21st Oct 2025
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NYC Bike Rules for Drivers mini-zine

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

21st Oct 2025
After five different drivers, including a school bus driver, aggressively close-passed me in Midwood last night and two of them threatened me just for being on the street, I realized there's a huge gap in educational outreach about bike rules in NYC: drivers. I decided to make a...
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Interior Alaska, Part 6 (Dalton Highway) We made it to Coldfoot by airplane and now we started the long drive back to Fairbanks. It seemed...
2nd Nov 2025
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Interior Alaska, Part 6 (Dalton Highway)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2nd Nov 2025
We made it to Coldfoot by airplane and now we started the long drive back to Fairbanks. It seemed daunting. Most of it would follow the Dalton Highway starting at Mile 175 (route), with the remainder on the Elliott Highway. The James W. Dalton Highway is a rugged working road,...
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The beauty of concrete Why are buildings today simple and austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately...
17th May 2024
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The beauty of concrete

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

17th May 2024
Why are buildings today simple and austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented? The answer is not the cost of labor.
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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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Titles matter Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer? And if not, what is the...
26th Aug 2025
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Titles matter

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

26th Aug 2025
Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer? And if not, what is the difference, and why does that matter so much?
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For the love of mini People regulary ask me why I have a small smartphone, a modern iPhone 13 Mini. Often I simply reply...
8th Dec 2021
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For the love of mini

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

8th Dec 2021
People regulary ask me why I have a small smartphone, a modern iPhone 13 Mini. Often I simply reply that I like it. The smaller size offers more than just an easier fit in your pocket. I have come to appreciate its intangible greatness, read along for the love of mini! iPhone...
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Questions and Answers vs. Features and Benefits When making products, you can think of them as a collection of features or answers. Some people may...
12th Sep 2024
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Questions and Answers vs. Features and Benefits

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

12th Sep 2024
When making products, you can think of them as a collection of features or answers. Some people may say "you mean features or benefits?" No, I mean answers. Answers are counterpoints to questions people have in their heads. Answers fill holes, answers snap into sockets. Benefits...
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On Scooters as a class of vehicle/tool Introduction Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of...
18th Dec 2024
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On Scooters as a class of vehicle/tool

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

18th Dec 2024
Introduction Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of something different than what I mean. Here’s Denver’s Sportique Scooters, here’s one of their recent posts: So that is the kind of vehicle I’m talking about when I say “scooter”. I...
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Redefining Success It’s been pretty quiet around here lately. It’s been almost a month since my last entry. I thought...
6th Nov 2013
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Redefining Success

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

6th Nov 2013
It’s been pretty quiet around here lately. It’s been almost a month since my last entry. I thought about writing something here almost every day, but here is why I didn’t: I want to produce “content” that is helpful and relevant to those who might read it. I felt like nothing I...
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The Souls of Animals “They do not sweat and whine about their condition,” Walt Whitman wrote of the other animals, “they...
1st Mar 2025
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The Souls of Animals

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

1st Mar 2025
“They do not sweat and whine about their condition,” Walt Whitman wrote of the other animals, “they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning...
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My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026
2nd Apr 2026
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My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2026
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Is This the Worst Map in Current Circulation? No, It Is This One! As I often mock the AI-slop maps that I see on X (“Twitter”), my account has apparently responded by...
3 weeks ago
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Is This the Worst Map in Current Circulation? No, It Is This One!

from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography

3 weeks ago
As I often mock the AI-slop maps that I see on X (“Twitter”), my account has apparently responded by sending even more garbage my way. One example recently caught my attention as perhaps the worst map that I had ever seen. Then, several days later, I encountered something even...
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The military mechanism of zimperial occupation The first of two related book reviews
1st Dec 2025
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The military mechanism of zimperial occupation

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Dec 2025
The first of two related book reviews
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Tough times on the road to Starcraft I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me...
7th Sep 2012
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Tough times on the road to Starcraft

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Sep 2012
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable...
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The Serendipity Machine Notes on Using Twitter
20th Jan 2024
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The Serendipity Machine

from Nabeel S. Qureshi [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Jan 2024
Notes on Using Twitter
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How I ended up building storylearner.app I’ve always been drawn to self-directed learning. My interests have been pretty diverse - I would...
17th May 2025
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How I ended up building storylearner.app

from Tiny struggles [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th May 2025
I’ve always been drawn to self-directed learning. My interests have been pretty diverse - I would spend countless hours on math, science, soft-skills, movement skills (juggling, handstands) as well as languages. A long standing language learning obsession Over the years (starting...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mans Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Yes, ten legs. Today's News:
1st Jul 2023
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mans

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

1st Jul 2023
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Yes, ten legs. Today's News:
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Benefits as a Reflection of Values “We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper,...
20th Apr 2022
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Benefits as a Reflection of Values

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

20th Apr 2022
“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper, this is accurate: the health insurance Oxide offers is the best plan we can find that is offered to small businesses. What we left unsaid until now is that the best health...
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In 150 characters or less This is based on a poem by Nikita Gill View on my website
23rd Oct 2024
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In 150 characters or less

from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics

23rd Oct 2024
This is based on a poem by Nikita Gill View on my website
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Butt Pomodoro - A butt triggered pomodoro timer A need gap of Remind me to take break when working from home was recently posted. Forgetting to take...
10th Jul 2020
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Butt Pomodoro - A butt triggered pomodoro timer

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

10th Jul 2020
A need gap of Remind me to take break when working from home was recently posted. Forgetting to take regular breaks when immersed with work in front of a computer is a common problem, especially when working from home. On the flip side, getting distracted from completing a task...
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Advice for job seekers I recently heard from an accomplished former colleague who had failed to impress the recruiter...
2nd Mar 2026
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Advice for job seekers

from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Mar 2026
I recently heard from an accomplished former colleague who had failed to impress the recruiter evaluating their initial application for an open position. It was a position for which they were more than qualified. So why hadn’t they scored so much as an initial interview? Turned...
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Unblogged May 31 unblogged things I did in May Fri 1: To celebrate May Day, and to make the most of the glorious...
1st Jun 2026
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Unblogged May

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

1st Jun 2026
31 unblogged things I did in May Fri 1: To celebrate May Day, and to make the most of the glorious weather, I went for a 10 mile walk up the Chess Valley from Rickmansworth to Chesham. Along the way I passed 16 dogs, 19 horses, 2 cows, 68 butterflies, 8 birds of prey, 5 bluebell...
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Kind of Cool Image of Io from Juno Image Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI The brightest spot is a radiation signature, but all the...
18th Aug 2021
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Kind of Cool Image of Io from Juno

from Wanderingspace [alt+shift+b] in science

18th Aug 2021
Image Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI The brightest spot is a radiation signature, but all the rest are thought to be active volcanos on the Io surface. The moons are not a primary target of the Juno mission, but they do occasionally take a peek to try and monitor such...
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UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary...
31st Oct 2018
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UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8

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

31st Oct 2018
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary things. The first is that a young toddler can go trick-or-treating in your apartment building and acquire a huge amount of candy. When they are this young they have no interest in the...
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Who Monitors The Monitor? Monitor The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for...
5th Nov 2025
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Who Monitors The Monitor?

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

5th Nov 2025
Monitor The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for monitoring your system resources and running processes, including with optional panel indicators. Since its last release, we’ve completed the port to GTK4, rewrote the settings...
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My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.
22nd Sep 2023
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My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

22nd Sep 2023
Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.
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Terry Hunt & Carl Lipo: The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island ### Easter Island reconsidered In the most isolated place on Earth a tiny society built world-class...
18th Jan 2013
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Terry Hunt & Carl Lipo: The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island

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

18th Jan 2013
### Easter Island reconsidered In the most isolated place on Earth a tiny society built world-class monuments. Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is 1,000 miles from the nearest Pacific island, 3,000 miles from the nearest continent. It is just six by ten miles in size, with no running...
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The Forgotten Piece of Evolutionary Theory What if we took the 'struggle for life' seriously again?
22nd Jul 2023
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The Forgotten Piece of Evolutionary Theory

from SubAnima [alt+shift+b] in science

22nd Jul 2023
What if we took the 'struggle for life' seriously again?
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Bumpy
17th Dec 2014
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Bumpy

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

17th Dec 2014
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The story of Tupo, my new daily logic puzzle Tupo is my first new game in four years. I'm excited to share it with the world, and to talk about...
2 weeks ago
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The story of Tupo, my new daily logic puzzle

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

2 weeks ago
Tupo is my first new game in four years. I'm excited to share it with the world, and to talk about the process behind it.
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Reading As Counter-Practice The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 19
1st Dec 2022
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Reading As Counter-Practice

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

1st Dec 2022
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 19
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December 2023
1st Dec 2023
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December 2023

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1st Dec 2023
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Apps lighter than a React button Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
1st Apr 2025
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Apps lighter than a React button

from Nue developer blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2025
Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
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Is Music Stardom in Decline? A Statistical Analysis Is music stardom dying?
6th Nov 2024
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Is Music Stardom in Decline? A Statistical Analysis

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

6th Nov 2024
Is music stardom dying?
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Le Mans 2024 This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some...
3rd Apr 2024
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Le Mans 2024

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

3rd Apr 2024
This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some five years after I had first driven a real race car, and even less time since I made participating in the world's greatest endurance race the ultimate goal. But it almost didn't...
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Scuba, panic, empathy I used to scoff at those people who had panic attacks. “The cake is late! Oh no! I’m freaking out!...
26th Jul 2022
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Scuba, panic, empathy

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

26th Jul 2022
I used to scoff at those people who had panic attacks. “The cake is late! Oh no! I’m freaking out! I can’t breathe!” Ridiculous. Hysterical. Over-reacting. learning scuba diving, and went on my first practice dive. While I was 15 meters underwater, I felt a sudden need to...
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To Conquer the Primary Energy Consumption Layer of Our Entire Civilization [Originally posted on the Terraform blog April 3, 2025.] Three years ago we set out to make cheap...
8th Apr 2025
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To Conquer the Primary Energy Consumption Layer of Our Entire Civilization

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

8th Apr 2025
[Originally posted on the Terraform blog April 3, 2025.] Three years ago we set out to make cheap synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. At the time I didn’t fully appreciate that we had kicked off the process of recompiling the foundation layer of our entire industrial...
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Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you...
11th May 2026
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Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture

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

11th May 2026
I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you set an evolutionary algorithm on the task of producing a structure that is as efficient at its intended function as possible. Past that there’s no human input, the algorithm just...
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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook's strategy tax Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook, spinning off Instagram, antitrust regulation, and more.
13th Jul 2025
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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook's strategy tax

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Jul 2025
Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook, spinning off Instagram, antitrust regulation, and more.
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Resurrecting Nexus 6P from bootloop of death Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android...
14th Jun 2019
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Resurrecting Nexus 6P from bootloop of death

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

14th Jun 2019
Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android with the brand of the manufacturer. They packed in latest android version with top end specifications and pathetic camera (processed image/video) quality; no wonder they didn't take...
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MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5 A microcontroller Macintosh This all started from a conversation about the RP2040 MCU, and building...
15th Jun 2024
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MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

from axio.ms [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Jun 2024
A microcontroller Macintosh This all started from a conversation about the RP2040 MCU, and building a simple desktop/GUI for it. I’d made a comment along the lines of “or, just run some old OS”, and it got me thinking about the original Macintosh. The original Macintosh was...
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Hidden Weaknesses and Outsourced Risk The benefits of not asking for help (even when you desperately need it)
9th Jan 2016
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Hidden Weaknesses and Outsourced Risk

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

9th Jan 2016
The benefits of not asking for help (even when you desperately need it)
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TinyPilot: Month 37 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
15th Aug 2023
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TinyPilot: Month 37

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

15th Aug 2023
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
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Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little...
2nd Jul 2025
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Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2025
After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little bug: the order of the icons specified in the URL doesn’t match the order in which they are displayed on screen. Why’s this happening? I have a bunch of links in my HTML document,...
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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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Made in 2024 Here are some things I made in 2024: Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature): ...
1st Jan 2025
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Made in 2024

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2025
Here are some things I made in 2024: Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature): Adds multiple-note selection for bulk operations on notes (like deletion, copy/paste, nudging and dragging) Also includes a “space editor” for arbitrarily adding/removing space...
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Ideas for fooling Amazon Go Amazon Go is a grocery store that does away with checkout lines by using computer vision to figure...
24th Jan 2018
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Ideas for fooling Amazon Go

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

24th Jan 2018
Amazon Go is a grocery store that does away with checkout lines by using computer vision to figure out what you purchased. What happens if you… Take an item off the shelf and give it to someone else. Go shopping with your identical twin. Use the restroom to put on a face...
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A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition In 1981, a groundbreaking show featuring digital art on monitors connected to framebuffers and a...
10th Apr 2026
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A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition

from CHM [alt+shift+b] in history

10th Apr 2026
In 1981, a groundbreaking show featuring digital art on monitors connected to framebuffers and a computer made history. This is the story of the small team that pulled it off. The post A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition appeared first on CHM.
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Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and...
1st Sep 2020
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Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring

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

1st Sep 2020
My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and more time refactoring our code and tests. As a result, and perhaps somewhat counterintuitively, we’ve noticed a significant increase in our throughput of features and bug fixes.
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Relational Antipatterns Introduction This list of relational anti-patterns started as a draft of a written list in a small...
12th May 2025
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Relational Antipatterns

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

12th May 2025
Introduction This list of relational anti-patterns started as a draft of a written list in a small notebook I carry with me most of the time. Eventually, I was jotting down notes for both this this particular list and the list on the piece on sadness and grief, and there is...
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Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
10th Apr 2023
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Passing the reins on Panfrost

from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Apr 2023
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out...
2nd Dec 2024
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Dec 2024
Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out in a cultural clash between different…
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Square joy: tile crush
16th Dec 2024
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Square joy: tile crush

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

16th Dec 2024
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AMD CPUs, CCDs and CCXs When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more...
3rd Oct 2024
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AMD CPUs, CCDs and CCXs

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Oct 2024
When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more familiar with how my CPU works. I thought I knew quite a bit, with L1/L2/L3 caches, ISA extensions, branch predictors, register renaming and so much more. But, it turns out, even...
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How to help us build open source Pebble software! As you may have heard, last week Google published the source code for PebbleOS. This is a big...
6th Feb 2025
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How to help us build open source Pebble software!

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

6th Feb 2025
As you may have heard, last week Google published the source code for PebbleOS. This is a big deal! Thank you again to Google for this…
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China found in U.S. archives an energy source that could power its future for 20,000 years - and... I’m not exaggerating.
6th Nov 2025
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China found in U.S. archives an energy source that could power its future for 20,000 years - and made it work

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

6th Nov 2025
I’m not exaggerating.
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Taking time to reflect * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s been a...
15th Oct 2011
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Taking time to reflect

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

15th Oct 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s been a while since my last blog post, and I’ve recently been pondering why that may be. It’s not that I’ve been doing less than when I was regularly blogging, it’s in fact quite
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Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9) Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
5th May 2025
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Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9)

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

5th May 2025
Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
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Best BigCo of 2009: Google This post as it looked in 2009. In one of ReadWriteWeb's longest-running traditions, every year we...
16th Dec 2009
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Best BigCo of 2009: Google

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

16th Dec 2009
This post as it looked in 2009. In one of ReadWriteWeb's longest-running traditions, every year we review the top Internet companies and their impact over the past 12 months. Today we're announcing the 6th annual Best BigCo, a.k.a. big Internet company. Next week we'll announce...
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Visualizing Rivers and Floodplains with USGS Data Using USGS elevation data to visualize stunning views of the flow of water through rivers and...
7th Nov 2022
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Visualizing Rivers and Floodplains with USGS Data

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

7th Nov 2022
Using USGS elevation data to visualize stunning views of the flow of water through rivers and floodplains.
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The Top 50 US Cities: Why Are They Where They Are? The geographic and historical reasons that have made some spots in the country the most populated...
8th Jan 2025
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The Top 50 US Cities: Why Are They Where They Are?

from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science

8th Jan 2025
The geographic and historical reasons that have made some spots in the country the most populated ones
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Mexicans say some police officers are taking bribes with mobile payment services Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed...
30th Mar 2023
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Mexicans say some police officers are taking bribes with mobile payment services

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

30th Mar 2023
Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed over their cards voluntarily.
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A Haskell Implementation Reading List A Haskell Implementation Reading List A reading list for those interested in the implementation...
14th Dec 2014
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A Haskell Implementation Reading List

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Dec 2014
A Haskell Implementation Reading List A reading list for those interested in the implementation internals of Haskell more , these are simply Typeclass Inference A Theory Of Qualified Types Type Inference For Parametric Type Classes Type Reconstruction For Type Classes Constraints...
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Data and acquired consent Perhaps you're not aware of data privacy laws and didn't think you needed to be, and maybe that's...
4th Nov 2025
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Data and acquired consent

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

4th Nov 2025
Perhaps you're not aware of data privacy laws and didn't think you needed to be, and maybe that's okay...until it's not. If you're a brand, a content creator, or just someone on the internet, and you come across someone sharing their email on a platform for the purpose of being...
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up We just wrapped up the third year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class...
6th Feb 2024
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up

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

6th Feb 2024
We just wrapped up the third year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class –part of Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Joe Felter, Mike Brown and I teach the class to: Give our students an appreciation of the challenges and...
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How to write for Works in Progress We’re looking for new authors and article pitches.
4th Apr 2025
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How to write for Works in Progress

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

4th Apr 2025
We’re looking for new authors and article pitches.
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Good Software Has a Clear Geography
1st Feb 2022
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Good Software Has a Clear Geography

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

1st Feb 2022
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Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
8th Sep 2021
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Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog

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

8th Sep 2021
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
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Paul Hawken: The New Great Transformation ### Humanity's immune system The title of Paul Hawken's talk, "The New Great Transformation," has...
9th Jun 2007
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Paul Hawken: The New Great Transformation

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

9th Jun 2007
### Humanity's immune system The title of Paul Hawken's talk, "The New Great Transformation," has two referents, he explained. Economist Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, _The Great Transformation_ , said that the "market society" and modern nation state emerged together in Europe after...
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A Guide to Prototyping Automotive Interfaces Good design is not a function of talent, but number of iterations. Here's my guide to prototyping...
1st Sep 2023
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A Guide to Prototyping Automotive Interfaces

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

1st Sep 2023
Good design is not a function of talent, but number of iterations. Here's my guide to prototyping automotive interfaces
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Minimal Impact to Insurers from Icelandic Volcano Eruption At least for now, most air travel restrictions caused by the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull...
11th Aug 2026
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Minimal Impact to Insurers from Icelandic Volcano Eruption

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

11th Aug 2026
At least for now, most air travel restrictions caused by the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano have been lifted throughout Europe.
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JJ Con 2026 Talks are Up All the talks from JJ Con 2026 in Lisbon are now on YouTube. Here is a quick overview of each of...
3 weeks ago
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JJ Con 2026 Talks are Up

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

3 weeks ago
All the talks from JJ Con 2026 in Lisbon are now on YouTube. Here is a quick overview of each of them.
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A Zombie Gene Protects Elephants From Cancer Elephants did not evolve to become huge animals until after they turned a bit of genetic junk into a...
12th Apr 2018
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A Zombie Gene Protects Elephants From Cancer

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

12th Apr 2018
Elephants did not evolve to become huge animals until after they turned a bit of genetic junk into a unique defense against inevitable tumors. The post A Zombie Gene Protects Elephants From Cancer first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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How to use Sandpack for code demos Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every...
17th Dec 2021
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How to use Sandpack for code demos

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Dec 2021
Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every JavaScript framework.
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a return to soul bring back the Era of the Artist. not a political take.
9th Nov 2024
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a return to soul

from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life

9th Nov 2024
bring back the Era of the Artist. not a political take.
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The Making of Ponchartrain Park in New Orleans How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith and Edgar Stern, helped inspire the first neighborhood...
7th Mar 2024
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The Making of Ponchartrain Park in New Orleans

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

7th Mar 2024
How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith and Edgar Stern, helped inspire the first neighborhood development exclusively available to Black middle-class families.
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague...
27th Sep 2024
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans

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

27th Sep 2024
Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.
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10 Billion Minus 1 - Making a 10 digit 7 segment display for Lovepop The process and steps of making a multi-digit display.
9th Jun 2019
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10 Billion Minus 1 - Making a 10 digit 7 segment display for Lovepop

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

9th Jun 2019
The process and steps of making a multi-digit display.
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Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare Everything impacts everything.
1st Jun 2026
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Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare

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

1st Jun 2026
Everything impacts everything.
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Stoic advice: can a salesperson be a Stoic? [Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org....
2nd Jul 2018
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Stoic advice: can a salesperson be a Stoic?

from How to Be a Stoic [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Jul 2018
[Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org. However, consider that I have a significant backlog, and I may not get to your question for some time, or at all.] D. writes: How should a practising Stoic ethically approach their...
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How do you know what you like anymore? "Did you see Turtle Boss yet?" Tim asked over brunch. "I saw it," said Katie over a mouthful of...
27th Sep 2023
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How do you know what you like anymore?

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

27th Sep 2023
"Did you see Turtle Boss yet?" Tim asked over brunch. "I saw it," said Katie over a mouthful of hash browns. "It was so freaking good." "Good?" said Sam. "You actually thought it was good?" "Yeah, it was incredible.
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Slow Horses: Series 5 Filming Locations Where is Slough House and the key scenes from Series 5?
1st Oct 2025
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Slow Horses: Series 5 Filming Locations

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

1st Oct 2025
Where is Slough House and the key scenes from Series 5?
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The mathematical principles of management I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's...
9th Apr 2017
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The mathematical principles of management

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

9th Apr 2017
I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's the lack of first principles thinking. Basically it's a ton of heuristics. And heuristics are great, but when you present heuristics as true objectives, it kind of clouds the...
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OWD #0: Welcome to Order Without Design I'm starting a new podcast called Order Without Design with the most interesting couple I know:...
30th Apr 2020
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OWD #0: Welcome to Order Without Design

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

30th Apr 2020
I'm starting a new podcast called Order Without Design with the most interesting couple I know: Alain & Marie-Agnes Bertaud. This project is an extension of their book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. With its focus on economic theory, you might not realize that...
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Media Consumption (Jan 2021) >_ Summary Read 11 books (2456 min, +111% MoM) and 26 articles (-46%) Listened to 263 songs (-59%)...
1st Feb 2021
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Media Consumption (Jan 2021)

from julian.digital [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Feb 2021
>_ Summary Read 11 books (2456 min, +111% MoM) and 26 articles (-46%) Listened to 263 songs (-59%) and 15 podcasts (749 min, -43%) Watched 1 movie (107 min, -54%), 7 soccer games (835 min, -.6%) and 21 TV episodes (1079 min, +40%) Played 0 board games (0 min, -100%) and 1 video...
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The thin layer problem Outperforming your manager without getting fired
6th Oct 2025
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The thin layer problem

from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Oct 2025
Outperforming your manager without getting fired
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A Survey of the Ticket (Re)Selling Landscape TL;DR? It’s a quagmire, essentially. But let’s dive in. Possible strong language ahead, and copious...
17th Oct 2025
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A Survey of the Ticket (Re)Selling Landscape

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Oct 2025
TL;DR? It’s a quagmire, essentially. But let’s dive in. Possible strong language ahead, and copious footnotes with links to much more information below. scalper noun [ C ] US informal /ˈskæl.pər/ (UK: tout) someone who buys things, such as theatre tickets, at the usual prices and...
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IrDA Light: it's the radiation we can see. The communications potential of light is obvious, and indeed,...
11th Apr 2026
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IrDA

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

11th Apr 2026
Light: it's the radiation we can see. The communications potential of light is obvious, and indeed, many of the earliest forms of long-distance communication relied on it: signal fires, semaphore, heliographs. You could say that we still make extensive use of light for...
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Why we still can’t stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed checkout clerk, you...
22nd Mar 2018
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Why we still can’t stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science

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

22nd Mar 2018
Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed checkout clerk, you soon realize that half the patrons leave without actually checking out their books! This leaves everyone else scratching their heads when the catalog doesn’t match the shelves....
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Up to eleven
7th Apr 2025
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Up to eleven

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

7th Apr 2025
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What I learned from a Taipei alley I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy...
15th May 2018
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What I learned from a Taipei alley

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

15th May 2018
I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy schedule, it wasn't like my usual travels abroad for fun, it felt more like a work trip. Still, even if I'd been there purely for vacation, I would've wanted to try a different mode of...
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump Does Donald J.
12th Nov 2024
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

12th Nov 2024
Does Donald J.
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"People need my product!" (But do they want it?)
6th Jul 2017
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"People need my product!" (But do they want it?)

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

6th Jul 2017
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The time for designers to learn to code is now I often use the analogy that when we design for print, what are we doing over and over again? Doing...
12th Jul 2024
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The time for designers to learn to code is now

from Luke Mitchell | Product Designer [alt+shift+b] in design

12th Jul 2024
I often use the analogy that when we design for print, what are we doing over and over again? Doing proof prints. Why then when designing websites (or apps) are we not getting in to the browser as quickly as possible, rather than creating interactive pictures of websites in...
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The Gift of Code In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time...
4th Sep 2024
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The Gift of Code

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Sep 2024
In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript The post The Gift of Code appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Cynicism kills progress
2nd Jan 2019
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Cynicism kills progress

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

2nd Jan 2019
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When The Music's Over ... Turn out the lights.
6th Mar 2024
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When The Music's Over ...

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

6th Mar 2024
Turn out the lights.
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Preceden’s Spam Problem Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS...
20th Oct 2023
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Preceden’s Spam Problem

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

20th Oct 2023
Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I’m honestly surprised it took spammers so long: Preceden is a freemium product (meaning people can sign up and try it for free), the product makes it very easy to...
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Raise your standards for important things; lower them for unimportant things I think we’ve all got some built in tendencies, pulling us towards certain behaviors, whether or not...
27th Dec 2025
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Raise your standards for important things; lower them for unimportant things

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Dec 2025
I think we’ve all got some built in tendencies, pulling us towards certain behaviors, whether or not they are worthwhile. It takes many different forms. If you have OCD cleaning tendencies, you spend excessive time making sure your windows are spotless. If you are money-focused,...
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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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Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infinite With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it...
9th May 2020
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Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infinite

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2020
With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it but the whole function.
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Few thoughts on life, psychology, and mindset I’ve been writing my thoughts on life, psychology, and mindset for some time. I’ve considered...
2nd Sep 2023
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Few thoughts on life, psychology, and mindset

from Seeking Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in finance

2nd Sep 2023
I’ve been writing my thoughts on life, psychology, and mindset for some time. I’ve considered transferring some of these writings from Notion into this post. In physics, three laws can explain 99% of observations. However, in life, psychology, and mindset, 99 laws can barely...
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Skip SDKs in Simple Integrations (article) When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is...
4th Jun 2024
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Skip SDKs in Simple Integrations (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2024
When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is worth the trade-offs.
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Unchecked Depression Boxes And are you feeling depressed? Why should that question enrage me so much? I realize depression is a...
4th Aug 2018
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Unchecked Depression Boxes

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

4th Aug 2018
And are you feeling depressed? Why should that question enrage me so much? I realize depression is a major health epidemic. I understand that they can't treat an invisible disease without asking if you are suffering from it. But all I wanted was to get a wart frozen off the...
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The 8 Guidelines for Good Automotive UX Design The essence of automotive UX design turned into 8 fundamental guidelines aimed at designers in the...
1st Dec 2023
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The 8 Guidelines for Good Automotive UX Design

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

1st Dec 2023
The essence of automotive UX design turned into 8 fundamental guidelines aimed at designers in the car industry
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Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive....
14th Jan 2025
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Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible

from Moneyness [alt+shift+b] in finance

14th Jan 2025
On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive. Tether, which has four times more wallets than all other stablecoins, is locked-in as the stablecoin lingua franca, just like English has been locked-in as the global language of...
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Making Space After Burnout What to know if you’re considering a sabbatical
2nd Feb 2026
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Making Space After Burnout

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Feb 2026
What to know if you’re considering a sabbatical
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
7th Sep 2023
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore

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

7th Sep 2023
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
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My dog is going to be animated My Dog: The Paradox is going to be an animated short film. View on my website
18th May 2025
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My dog is going to be animated

from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics

18th May 2025
My Dog: The Paradox is going to be an animated short film. View on my website
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ... ...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
4th Jan 2023
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ...

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

4th Jan 2023
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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baffled by generational garbage collection Usually in this space I like to share interesting things that I find out; you might call it a...
9th Feb 2025
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baffled by generational garbage collection

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2025
Usually in this space I like to share interesting things that I find out; you might call it a research-epistle-publish loop. Today, though, I come not with answers, but with questions, or rather one question, but with fractal surface area: what is the value proposition...
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Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons On digging AI shaped holes
7th May 2025
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Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons

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

7th May 2025
On digging AI shaped holes
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The Future is Now
4th May 2025
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The Future is Now

from The New Oil [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th May 2025
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Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
4th Dec 2020
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Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2020
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require content to be "injected" via Javascript. I should mention that I am strongly against this practice - but often this kind of thing is out of one's hands. So, the least I can do is...
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How I didn’t become a philosopher (but wound up presenting a named philosophy lecture anyway) Many people ask why I became a theoretical physicist. The answer runs through philosophy—which I...
15th Apr 2024
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How I didn’t become a philosopher (but wound up presenting a named philosophy lecture anyway)

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

15th Apr 2024
Many people ask why I became a theoretical physicist. The answer runs through philosophy—which I thought, for years, I’d left behind in college. My formal relationship with philosophy originated with Mr. Bohrer. My high school classified him as a religion … Continue reading →
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AI More Stories from Local Yi 34Bq4 AI More Stories These were all generated locally using the 34 billion parameter Yi model quantized...
25th Nov 2023
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AI More Stories from Local Yi 34Bq4

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Nov 2023
AI More Stories These were all generated locally using the 34 billion parameter Yi model quantized to 4 bits (20 GB total quantized instead of 70 GB natural width). It feels almost better than GPT-4 at some tasks. Also considering it costs nothing to run this model locally, the...
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Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
1st Sep 2026
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Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage

from Slow Boring [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Sep 2026
Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
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Build system insights
3rd Sep 2018
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Build system insights

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

3rd Sep 2018
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AI Roundup 112: OpenAI might be open again April 4, 2025.
4th Apr 2025
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AI Roundup 112: OpenAI might be open again

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Apr 2025
April 4, 2025.
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What's Going On In Budapest? A Return to Beauty
6th Jan 2026
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What's Going On In Budapest?

from Building Optimism [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Jan 2026
A Return to Beauty
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AI as Normal Science shoutsout to Arvind and Sayash
2nd Sep 2025
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AI as Normal Science

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2025
shoutsout to Arvind and Sayash
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On Call Shouldn’t Suck: A Guide For Managers Maybe I need to write a blog post called "On Call For Managers". If you're asking engineers to be on...
3rd Oct 2020
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On Call Shouldn’t Suck: A Guide For Managers

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

3rd Oct 2020
Maybe I need to write a blog post called "On Call For Managers". If you're asking engineers to be on call for their code — and you should — you owe in return: – enough time to fix what's broken– hands to do the work– closely track how often they are interrupted/woken– ..etc —...
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Quality, Maintenance & Craft We are shokunin. Last week I was in Ojai, California, for True’s Founder Camp.[1] James Freeman,...
12th Mar 2025
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Quality, Maintenance & Craft

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

12th Mar 2025
We are shokunin. Last week I was in Ojai, California, for True’s Founder Camp.[1] James Freeman, founder of Blue Bottle Coffee was in conversation with Jeff Veen, and one of the attendees asked him: “How do you maintain such high quality?” Freeman answers, “‘Maintaining’ is a...
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Stuff you should have been taught in college but weren’t As part of my job running Terraform Industries, I get to build an amazing team of super smart...
4th Feb 2025
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Stuff you should have been taught in college but weren’t

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

4th Feb 2025
As part of my job running Terraform Industries, I get to build an amazing team of super smart people, and that involves interviewing hundreds of people. Over time certain patterns have become obvious, but I remember when they weren’t obvious to me on the other side of the table!...
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Why we prefer computers over consoles when introducing kids to gaming I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing...
8th Mar 2024
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Why we prefer computers over consoles when introducing kids to gaming

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Mar 2024
I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing games with my brothers on those devices. But as my own kids have gotten older, my wife and I have decided to first introduce them to gaming with computers, instead of consoles. The...
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Reversing the Parks Dept. Ban on E-Bikes is a Matter of Equity Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs: The...
3rd Jun 2022
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Reversing the Parks Dept. Ban on E-Bikes is a Matter of Equity

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

3rd Jun 2022
Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs: The original signs announcing this ban only stated it in English. I'm in Streetsblog today with a piece about why reversing this arbitrary ban is a matter of equity: Over Memorial Day...
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Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers? TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more...
12th Feb 2025
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Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2025
TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more Japanese companies we’ve interviewed, the more we’ve realized that a talent shortage is not the only reason for Japanese companies to hire from overseas. There are a host of other...
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sketchbook – 2024 March 9 - March 16 Putting these up on my website is a new thing I am doing! Either nothing is magic or everything...
9th Mar 2024
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sketchbook – 2024 March 9 - March 16

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

9th Mar 2024
Putting these up on my website is a new thing I am doing! Either nothing is magic or everything is. We are doing solar this year! The back is better than the front.
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Transcarent, AI Therapists, Interoperability, and more | Out-Of-Pocket Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
16th Jan 2025
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Transcarent, AI Therapists, Interoperability, and more | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

16th Jan 2025
Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
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Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system In 1948, IBM introduced the 604 Electronic Calculating Punch. This machine was a programmable...
31st Jul 2026
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Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system

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

31st Jul 2026
In 1948, IBM introduced the 604 Electronic Calculating Punch. This machine was a programmable calculator, about the size of a double refrigerator. It was not quite a computer, but was programmed by plugging wires into a plugboard. This machine read numbers from a punch card,...
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What distinguishes quantum from classical thermodynamics? Should you require a model for an Oxford don in a play or novel, look no farther than Andrew Briggs....
27th Nov 2025
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What distinguishes quantum from classical thermodynamics?

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

27th Nov 2025
Should you require a model for an Oxford don in a play or novel, look no farther than Andrew Briggs. The emeritus professor of nanomaterials speaks with a southern-English accent as crisp as shortbread, exhibits manners to which etiquette influencer … Continue reading →
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Using ChatGPT to implement Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings Sol LeWitt‘s Wall Drawings aren’t actually drawings but, rather, instructions for drawings. I...
30th Jan 2023
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Using ChatGPT to implement Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings

from Blog - Amy Goodchild [alt+shift+b] in creative

30th Jan 2023
Sol LeWitt‘s Wall Drawings aren’t actually drawings but, rather, instructions for drawings. I asked ChatGPT to implement them in p5js
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speed reading (the meaning of language) One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became a grift, is judging...
8th Dec 2025
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speed reading (the meaning of language)

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

8th Dec 2025
One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became a grift, is judging the sincerity with which the whole thing started. Scams often crystallize around a kernel of truth: genuinely good intentions that start rolling down the hill to profitability and...
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A better Apple TV
7th Jan 2010
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A better Apple TV

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

7th Jan 2010
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One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
10th Jun 2022
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One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding

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

10th Jun 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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A Web Component Story Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a...
30th Sep 2022
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A Web Component Story

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

30th Sep 2022
Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a component library for their design system. The one they were replacing was built with AngularJS, but AngularJS was old and rickety and nobody wanted to use it anymore. Plus, many teams...
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Class action employment suits Google has agreed to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees. Congratulations to...
12th Jun 2022
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Class action employment suits

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

12th Jun 2022
Google has agreed to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees. Congratulations to the plaintiffs, suing your employer is a difficult and stressful thing. But while the $118M headline looks big it works out to only $7600 per employee, less after the lawyers'...
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Stop Trying to Reach the Top Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read...
9th Apr 2015
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Stop Trying to Reach the Top

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

9th Apr 2015
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read this. Were you hit by Google Panda? Will you be hit when they start penalising non-mobile sites? The lesson? Stop trying to reach the top of Google. You’ll live longer/keep more of...
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Long Distance Relationships I’ve been managing a fully remote, fully distributed team, covering timezones from UTC-8 through...
12th Oct 2024
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Long Distance Relationships

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

12th Oct 2024
I’ve been managing a fully remote, fully distributed team, covering timezones from UTC-8 through UTC+10, for the last couple of years. Through that time, I’ve learned a lot on organising work, interpersonal relationships, and ultimately how to overcome a lack of promximity to my...
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Perspective Perspective 2024-08-06 I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and...
6th Aug 2024
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Perspective

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

6th Aug 2024
Perspective 2024-08-06 I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I...
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Tiny data visualizations This is a direct translation of a talk I gave at the NYC D3.js meetup in January of 2016. If you’d...
8th Feb 2016
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Tiny data visualizations

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

8th Feb 2016
This is a direct translation of a talk I gave at the NYC D3.js meetup in January of 2016. If you’d like to see a video of the talk, you can check it out on YouTube. Have you seen this comprehensive list of Donald Trump’s insults? Or maybe this detailed rundown of the 2016...
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Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from...
20th Jan 2023
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Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation

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

20th Jan 2023
Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from experience, analogously to how one might train a pet with treats. But practical applications of reinforcement learning are often far from natural: instead of using RL to learn through trial...
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Blood Knowledge by Kirsty Gunn "A novel is a kind of lazy way of writing a short story, a short story a lazy way of writing a poem"...
29th Nov 2024
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Blood Knowledge by Kirsty Gunn

from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature

29th Nov 2024
"A novel is a kind of lazy way of writing a short story, a short story a lazy way of writing a poem" said Muriel Spark, adding by explanation: "The longer they become, the more they seem to lose value". We might wonder then if the most value is to be found in the shortest novels,...
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Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem A French mathematician has completed the classification of all convex pentagons, and therefore all...
21st Sep 2017
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Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem

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21st Sep 2017
A French mathematician has completed the classification of all convex pentagons, and therefore all convex polygons, that tile the plane. The post Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Designing a version In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a proper versioning scheme. Weak...
23rd Feb 2016
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Designing a version

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Feb 2016
In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a proper versioning scheme. Weak version management neglects clients like lack of source control neglects collaborators. Dependency management and migration rely on versions. Beyond the technical, a project's...
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The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business) My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating...
23rd Sep 2022
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The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)

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23rd Sep 2022
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, which she accepted with relish. Molly was smart, driven, and fiercely ambitious, so...
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Highs And Lows
15th Jul 2016
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Highs And Lows

from Yazin Alirhayim [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Jul 2016
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2023 The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the...
31st May 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2023

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

31st May 2023
The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the month without being guessed, but congrats to cpresser for figuring it out in the last week! email me for your prize. Here’s some more context images of the ware. The colored filter...
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programming, i hate it There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
1st Aug 2024
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programming, i hate it

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

1st Aug 2024
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
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What affects customer motivation?
23rd Feb 2018
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What affects customer motivation?

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

23rd Feb 2018
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Quick Subtitles 1.6 (benchmark history, more stats, and more) Quick Subtitles has yet another update out now, which brings a few new features to the mix. UI...
3rd Jan 2026
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Quick Subtitles 1.6 (benchmark history, more stats, and more)

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jan 2026
Quick Subtitles has yet another update out now, which brings a few new features to the mix. UI tweaks First up is a slightly refreshed UI. This is mostly a new coat of paint across the interface. The iPhone UI home page, for example, now uses all the available space
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To Bitcoin or not to Bitcoin? A Corporate Cash Question! In this post, I will bring together two disparate and very different topics that I have written...
18th Jul 2025
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To Bitcoin or not to Bitcoin? A Corporate Cash Question!

from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance

18th Jul 2025
In this post, I will bring together two disparate and very different topics that I have written about in the past. The first is the role that cash holdings play in a business, an extension of the dividend policy question, with an examination of why businesses often should not pay...
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The best portfolios launched with Semplice in May 2022 Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are...
1st Jun 2022
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The best portfolios launched with Semplice in May 2022

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

1st Jun 2022
Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are the best of the best, chosen by yours truly from hundreds of beautiful submissions.
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ZTM 2023 State of AI Tools & Coding Report How are developers using AI tools?
2nd Aug 2023
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ZTM 2023 State of AI Tools & Coding Report

from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Aug 2023
How are developers using AI tools?
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I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but...
17th Oct 2024
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I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too

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

17th Oct 2024
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but really, gen AI is just getting started.
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