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A Beautiful Site
Success Requires Luck I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck. It's not that strategy and...
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I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck. It's not that strategy and vision don't play a role in success, but nobody — literally nobody — can guarantee that a product or service will be successful. Think about some of the major corporations that...
TheCollector
How Did Plato Influence the Early Church? Plato played an important role in the works of several Church Fathers as they defended the truth...
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Plato played an important role in the works of several Church Fathers as they defended the truth claims of Christianity in the early centuries. The writings of Church Fathers like Justin Martyr, Clement of Rome, and Origen demonstrate how Plato was used to synthesize Christianity...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Last Chance!
over a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
Movie Director Genders
over a year ago
Wrong Side of...
A continent led by donkeys Europe’s independence from the US will be hard and expensive
4 months ago
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 10 Interaction design is two things. managing attention persuasion Once you come to the...
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Interaction design is two things. managing attention persuasion Once you come to the realization/acceptance that no one – not even the interested, motivated, and committed — has the kind of focused attention available for your thing that you assume they have, you will...
Quanta Magazine
A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity Mathematicians prove a theorem that illuminates the geometry of universes with tiny amounts of mass....
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Mathematicians prove a theorem that illuminates the geometry of universes with tiny amounts of mass. The post A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Ryan Hoover's...
A Frightening Future
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Between Matter and Spirit: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Substance of What We Are "We are carriers of spirit... into a future unknown, unknowable, and in continual creation."
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Small Details In “How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly”, Jennifer Ouellette gives a good summary of a...
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In “How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly”, Jennifer Ouellette gives a good summary of a recent paper “Thread form at the Crystal Palace” by John Gardner and Ken Kiss. My even shorter summary: the 1851 Crystal Palace in London was made possible, in part, through the...
Maps Mania
GeoGuessing Reimagined
5 months ago
Platformer
Why journalists can't quit Twitter The media should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down
over a year ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 10: Learning Distributed Systems How does one start learning to build distributed systems?
over a year ago
Wrong Side of...
The beautiful rebirth of Dresden (1) The Florence on the Elbe
4 months ago
The American Scholar
“One Letter” by Liu Xiaobo Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “One Letter” by Liu Xiaobo appeared first on The American...
a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
Let's learn SvelteKit by building a static Markdown blog from scratch Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with...
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over a year ago
Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with Markdown support, Sass, an API, and an RSS feed.
The Wandering...
Mapping Francis Younghusband in the Gobi Desert, 1887, Part 4: from the Ya-hu oasis to Hami. [Back to Part 3: from the Hun-kua-ling sandhills to the Ya-hu oasis] From Ya-Hu to Hami, we can see...
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[Back to Part 3: from the Hun-kua-ling sandhills to the Ya-hu oasis] From Ya-Hu to Hami, we can see that Younghusband now has to turn south, as his own map shows. The journey takes from June 23rd to July 4th, or twelve days. His mapmaker places Ula Khutun almost halfway from...
Wuthering...
A draft Elizabethan Not Shakespeare syllabus In case yesterday’s invitation was a bit abstract, here is my current sense of a twenty-play...
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In case yesterday’s invitation was a bit abstract, here is my current sense of a twenty-play Elizabethan Not Shakespeare syllabus that I would like to investigate beginning next fall.  I’ve read twelve of them. Please note that almost every date below should be preceded by “c.” ...
Josh Thompson
Processes Vs. Goals (or, Systems vs. Accomplishments) In this excellent article on systems vs. goals, James argues that even if you did not pursue any...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this excellent article on systems vs. goals, James argues that even if you did not pursue any specific goals, with the right system, you will still go a long way. This idea has been floating around my head for over a year, now, and I think it’s slowly coalescing into something...
Nothing Human
Against Positive-Sum Thinking why conflict is necessary
over a year ago
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.06 - Road Beer New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
a month ago
Prolost
What I Want to Do in Apple Vision Pro Still frame from Hello! by Goro Fujita, created in VR using Quill Today’s the day to pre-order Apple...
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Still frame from Hello! by Goro Fujita, created in VR using Quill Today’s the day to pre-order Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s first “spatial computing” device. It’s an expensive VR headset that either represents an opportunity to beta-test the future, or double down on past failings...
Tinloof - Blog
How we boosted the performance of a Gatsby website by 80% Sbaï Dentaire is the number 1 user-rated dental practice in Casablanca (Morocco) by Google...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sbaï Dentaire is the number 1 user-rated dental practice in Casablanca (Morocco) by Google users: Many patients book appointments through the website on the go from their mobile, therefore page speed is critical to avoid a high bounce rate. This article explains how we improved...
The Map is Mostly...
What is Good Within Social Networks I think we are still in the early days of social networks. We are only just beginning to figure them...
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over a year ago
I think we are still in the early days of social networks. We are only just beginning to figure them out. We certainly underestimate how positive and useful they can be, partly from a careless pessimism, and partly because the owners of major social networks seem to lack vision....
Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970) From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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a year ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
abdz.do - Have you...
RITM Generator, an interactive tool that generates abstract waveform graphics RITM Generator, an interactive tool that generates abstract waveform graphics ...
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RITM Generator, an interactive tool that generates abstract waveform graphics AoiroStudio0131—23 In the world of design, innovation is key to pushing the boundaries of what's possible. And Antlii's latest project is doing just that with RITM,...
diamond geezer
The bluebell scale The bluebell photo scale 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Score not awarded.
a month ago
macwright.com
Personal tools I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking...
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3 months ago
I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking application, and a keylogger that let me keep track of when I was using a computer, and generate some pretty charts. I’ve taken a long break from those kinds of things. I love my...
Rest of World -...
Reliance and Disney team up to crush Netflix and Prime Video in India Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance and The Walt Disney Company have joined forces creating a hard-to-beat...
a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Know your website’s Carbon Emissions - and how to reduce it
over a year ago
The Works in...
How Airbus took off Why you can build a European airliner, but not a European Google
3 months ago
Marcus on AI
Hype, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, the podcasters who love him — and how the New York Times’ commentary... Real journalists do due diligence
3 months ago
balajis.com
The Network State Conference Come to Amsterdam on October 30 to build the parallel establishment.
a year ago
Calculated Risk
February Employment Preview On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for February. The consensus is...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for February. The consensus is for 158,000 jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to be unchanged at 4.0%. We estimate nonfarm payrolls rose by 170k in February, slightly above consensus of +160k but below...
Odds and Ends of...
Yes, AI really can be used to tackle potholes It's not bullshit, it's already happening.
5 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Great Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Today's News:
4 weeks ago
Coding Horror
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up? I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow
Steve Klabnik
Most things I do are interconnected
over a year ago
RhysTranter.com
A new role I am delighted to say that today I accepted a role as Head of Religious Education and Chaplaincy...
a year ago
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a year ago
I am delighted to say that today I accepted a role as Head of Religious Education and Chaplaincy Coordinator at St David's Catholic College. I joined the college as a pastoral tutor four years ago this month, after a religious conversion prompted me to seek out a new career in...
Charlie Becker
Castles in the Sky 26 The Power of Meeting Weirdos
over a year ago
diamond geezer
O purple train O purple train (a poem on the occasion of the Elizabeth line's 1000th day) O purple train,...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
O purple train (a poem on the occasion of the Elizabeth line's 1000th day) O purple train, Boris's toadying tribute, No service between Paddington and Heathrow/Reading due to late finish of engineering works, London Underground will accept tickets, no service between...
Mazdak
Meta's Oakley Smart Glasses, TikTok's Revenue Nearly Doubled YouTube's Last Year, Hidden Hashtags on... “What if Elon Musk or Larry Ellison bought TikTok?”
5 months ago
TheCollector
A Complete List of US Presidents in Order The President of the United States is widely considered to be the most powerful person in the world....
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The President of the United States is widely considered to be the most powerful person in the world. Since the ratification of the Constitution of the United States and the election of George Washington in 1789, 45 men have served as US President, including two who were elected...
Ryan Hoover's...
RIP emojis. The future of communication.
over a year ago
Articles
Geek dad
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
PROGEN SUIT store by Greater Dog Situated little over two hours by car south of the sprawling urban behemoth that is Shanghai, the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Situated little over two hours by car south of the sprawling urban behemoth that is Shanghai, the provincial coastal city...
Jorge Arango
Book Notes: “Masters of Uncertainty” Masters of Uncertainty: The Navy SEAL Way to Turn Stress into Success for You and Your Team By Rich...
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Masters of Uncertainty: The Navy SEAL Way to Turn Stress into Success for You and Your Team By Rich Diviney  Amplify Publishing, 2025 We’re dealing with unprecedented levels of uncertainty. But that shouldn’t disempower us. Diviney, a former Navy SEAL, provides insights for...
lcamtuf’s thing
The Review Interior of a low-rise office park.
4 months ago
MMapped blog
Good names form Galois connections
a year ago
Making software...
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
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over a year ago
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...
Archinect - Features
From the Editors: What We're Thankful for in 2024 As we bid farewell to 2024, the Archinect editorial team reflects on a year filled with pivotal...
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As we bid farewell to 2024, the Archinect editorial team reflects on a year filled with pivotal moments, challenges, and milestones. Through it all, we've been privileged to observe, document, and engage with the ever-evolving world of architecture and design. The incredible...
Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City Discovering Kavala...
a year ago
Anarchy Unfolds
March '24 Myths & Recs Sleep deprivation, Kim Petras, the Anthropocene, and more
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a...
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Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow easy for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get...
Jonas Hietala
Default audio card in linux There are a bunch of posts about making your audio work by default in Linux but none that just...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are a bunch of posts about making your audio work by default in Linux but none that just worked for me. I had three separate problems: Getting sound Playing sound from multiple sources at the same time Audio card getting different numbers on reboot Getting sound Here I...
Tinloof - Blog
Analytics with Sanity We’ll explain in this article the analytics possibilities with Sanity and how we enable them in our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We’ll explain in this article the analytics possibilities with Sanity and how we enable them in our projects.
Sean Carroll
New Course: The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics In past years I’ve done several courses for The Great Courses/Wondrium (formerly The Teaching...
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a year ago
In past years I’ve done several courses for The Great Courses/Wondrium (formerly The Teaching Company): Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Mysteries of Modern Physics:Time, and The Higgs Boson and Beyond. Now I’m happy to announce a new one, The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics....
Mazdak
OpenAI’s Ph.D.-Level Super Agents The AI landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, and OpenAI is leading the charge.
5 months ago
Londonist
Which Tube Station Is Furthest From Its Namesake? How far is it from Kew Gardens to Kew Gardens?
a year ago
blag
Introducing CaskDB – a project to teach you writing a key-value store CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable...
over a year ago
Nothing Human
Whole Activities It is a fallen world, and there is no consonance between our bodies, minds, and souls.
4 months ago
Both Are True
a ride on the ol' braintrain hi
10 months ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Supporting coworkers, employees, and friends in this time We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An election just finished in the US, which means that half the country lost and has to face the coming changes. In particular, this is a scary time for many folks who have been targets in...
Open Culture
Read the Uncompromising Letter That Steve Albini (RIP) Wrote to Nirvana Before Producing In Utero... Today, Steve Albini, the musician and producer of important albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, the Pixies...
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Today, Steve Albini, the musician and producer of important albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, the Pixies and many others, passed away in Chicago, at the all-too-early age of 61. In tribute, we’re bringing you this classic 2013 post from our archive.  Journeyman record producer Steve...
Contemporist...
Inside a serene Montauk home where nature shapes design Perched on a windswept bluff between Old Montauk Highway and the Atlantic Ocean, this striking beach...
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a month ago
Perched on a windswept bluff between Old Montauk Highway and the Atlantic Ocean, this striking beach house in Montauk, New York State, seems to vanish into the landscape. Designed by South African firm SAOTA, the home embraces its rugged coastal setting with quiet confidence,...
TheCollector
Value Theory: Is it Immoral to Disrespect the Environment? Imagine being the last man on Earth. After your death, nothing would be left on the planet. In such...
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4 months ago
Imagine being the last man on Earth. After your death, nothing would be left on the planet. In such conditions, would it be immoral to blow up and destroy the very last Redwood on Earth before your death? This thought experiment, by New Zealander philosopher Richard Sylvan, is...
Marco.org
Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign...
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Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign of most of the iOS app, built to carry Overcast into the next decade — and hopefully beyond. Like podcasts better than blog posts? Listen to ATP #596 for more! What’s new Much...
xkcd.com
Water Balloons
3 months ago
Eric Bailey
“Evergreen” Does Not Mean Immediately Available
over a year ago
Open Culture
The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead (1970) What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world could such a thing happen? In the world of the late sixties/early seventies, when jazz fused with acid rock, acid rock with country, and pop culture took a long strange trip. The...
Moneyness
The intensifying effort to isolate Russia's banks Last week the U.S. government expanded the coverage of its Russian secondary sanctions program to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week the U.S. government expanded the coverage of its Russian secondary sanctions program to encompass most of Russia's banks. It's a very big step, one that has been long-awaited by sanctions watchers, and will likely have significant repercussions for Russia and its...
alexwlchan
Fast and random sampling in SQLite I was building a small feature for the Flickr Commons Explorer today: show a random selection of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I was building a small feature for the Flickr Commons Explorer today: show a random selection of photos from the entire collection. I wanted a fast and varied set of photos. This meant getting a random sample of rows from a SQLite table (because the Explorer stores all its data...
Computer Things
Keep perfecting your config First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought...
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11 months ago
First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought Logic for Programmers. Seeing the interest is incredible motivation to continue improving it. If you read it and have feedback, please share it with me! Second, I have a new blogpost...
Seán Barry
Quitting the Rat Race I'm leaving a comfortable job in a big city because there's more to life than whatever this is.
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
The World's Largest Search Doesn't Want You to Search Why is Google abandoning its core mission?
4 months ago
The Ruffian
The Sunak Question Why Has the Tory Party's Great Hope Been So Bad At the Job?
a year ago
Archinect - Features
How the Business of Architecture and Construction Fared in May 2024: Introducing Archinect's... Welcome to the first of Archinect's new monthly series, 'State of AEC.' At the end of each month, we...
a year ago
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Welcome to the first of Archinect's new monthly series, 'State of AEC.' At the end of each month, we will guide you through the latest analyses, indexes, and trends on how the architecture and construction industries are performing economically. As we approach the midway point of...
Beautiful Public...
The Naughty Words the FAA Removed From the Sky New FOIA records from the FAA shed light on the frantic effort in 2015 to rename navigation...
a year ago
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New FOIA records from the FAA shed light on the frantic effort in 2015 to rename navigation waypoints related to Donald Trump and reveal the list of naughty waypoint names that were changed over the years.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lit Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Written after enjoying Children's Fantasy...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Written after enjoying Children's Fantasy Literature, by Levy and Menlesohn. Today's News:
David Heinemeier...
We once more have no full-time managers at 37signals After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to its original configuration: None. We once more have no full-time managers whose sole function is to organize or direct the work of others. Everyone doing management here does so on...
Steve Klabnik
The CXX Debate
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Messy First I apologize for the reflections and glare artifacts in the picture: trying to get a decent...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
First I apologize for the reflections and glare artifacts in the picture: trying to get a decent photo through a clean and polished storefront window on a sunny day is a frustrating endeavor. But at least that gives a second meaning to the post title. Second – but really first –...
TheCollector
How Many Israelite Kings Were Assassinated? According to the Bible, ancient Israel was, in whole or part, ruled by kings for less than five...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
According to the Bible, ancient Israel was, in whole or part, ruled by kings for less than five hundred years. David is Israel’s most celebrated monarch. But the golden age of unity and peace in which he and his son Solomon ruled in Israel is framed between periods of violent...
The Marginalian
The Universe and the Soul: Richard Jefferies on Nature as Prayer for Presence How to grow "absorbed into the being or existence of the universe."
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tradition Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Tradition is whatever had just faded when I was...
6 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Opening a new window after an async operation I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in a new window. However, I needed to fetch the target URL from the server first, then open the window. Kinda like this: const button =...
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this deep-dive tutorial, we'll learn how CSS keyframes work from the ground up, and see how to use them to build high-quality animations.
symmetry magazine
Physics fashion and collider couture Symmetry is back with more physics-themed Halloween costumes.
a year ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
My Favourite Designers (ever) I think I've spent almost every day for the past 10+ years thinking about design and designers, as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I think I've spent almost every day for the past 10+ years thinking about design and designers, as well as architects and artists. Over that time, I've come to admire and truly appreciate the work of some highly notable individuals and teams, and others that probably fly under...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Familiar Hearts of Strangers' “At bottom Chekhov is a writer who has flung his soul to the side of pity, and sees into the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
“At bottom Chekhov is a writer who has flung his soul to the side of pity, and sees into the holiness and immaculate fragility of the hidden striver below.”  In his letters to family and friends, Chekhov can be harsh, hectoring and even smutty, though seldom in the stories except...
Ben Borgers
Productivity YouTubers
over a year ago
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
Notes on software...
Standard ML in 2020 Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML#...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML# and SML/NJ are the most prominent. Discussion on the future direction of Standard ML remains healthy as well. And somehow OCaml's lesser known cousin still beats out OCaml...
Eric Bailey
Spear phishing with Slackbot for fun and profit Slack went from IRC-but-with-WebKit to critical piece of business infrastructure almost overnight....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Slack went from IRC-but-with-WebKit to critical piece of business infrastructure almost overnight. I’m a big fan. It freed us from the tyranny of passive aggressive email chains, and when practiced with good etiquette quickly became my favorite way of communicating via text at...
A Smart Bear
Real Unfair Advantages It's not a question of if someone copies your business idea, it's when.
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
What happened vs. what we do about it It’s possible to have a useful conversation about what to do about something that’s broken or needs...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s possible to have a useful conversation about what to do about something that’s broken or needs improvement. But first, we must acknowledge that it happened. It’s not controversial to understand the facts, the data and the shifts that are happening in the world we live in. In...
TheCollector
The Mitanni Kingdom: Rise & Fall of a Bronze Age Superpower Located in northern Mesopotamia, the enigmatic Mitanni Kingdom influenced the course of ancient Near...
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Located in northern Mesopotamia, the enigmatic Mitanni Kingdom influenced the course of ancient Near Eastern history during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1550-1200 BCE). The majority of the Mitanni population was of the Hurrian ethnic group, while the elites were mainly Indo-European,...
Beautiful Public...
Cold War Military Slides A reporter stumbled upon a treasure trove of Department of Defense slides from the 1970s and 1980s...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A reporter stumbled upon a treasure trove of Department of Defense slides from the 1970s and 1980s depicting data from missile systems, Soviet capabilities and America’s nuclear arsenal.
A Beautiful Site
BrowserStack: stop using virtual machines for browser testing Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack, you don't need VMware or VirtualBox. Just enter a URL and instantly test on just about any browser you can think of. This is legit. It's not just another screenshot service or...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Of Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any word with at least 10 letters is easy to...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any word with at least 10 letters is easy to remember how to use. Today's News:
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How to measure ROI in healthcare (the right way) | Out-Of-Pocket The good, better, and best way to do it (+ a calculator)
a week ago
TheCollector
8 Best Places to Visit in Colombia for History Buffs Colombia is a captivating land rich in cultural heritage and ancient treasures, with countless tales...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Colombia is a captivating land rich in cultural heritage and ancient treasures, with countless tales to tell. From sophisticated pre-Columbian civilizations to colonial triumphs and struggles, this country showcases its colorful history with abundant enthusiasm. Here is a guide...
AFAR Media - Travel...
U.S. Launches Passport Fairs to Help Speed Up Applications
a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Build better libraries, use dev warnings Suppose you're making a cool library that sums numbers in an array. You add a new option, inital,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Suppose you're making a cool library that sums numbers in an array. You add a new option, inital, that lets users specify an initial value for the summation: sum([1, 1, 1], { inital: 10 }) // 13 Oh no! You made a typo — of course you meant initial, not inital. What's done is...
Jonas Hietala
2012 in Review Like the last two years I’m summarizing the year. At the end of the year like this it always feel...
over a year ago
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Like the last two years I’m summarizing the year. At the end of the year like this it always feel like I didn’t accomplish much, but after the yearly summary it always feels better. 2012 Geek Achievements Designed a processor which fulfills the Core Wars 88 standard. Includes a...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nothing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And that man's name was Job. Today's News:
over a year ago
Londonist
The Coca-Cola Christmas Truck Drives Into London This Week Merry fizz-mas!
a year ago
Marcus on AI
CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns Science, sociology, and the likely financial collapse of the Generative AI bubble
7 months ago
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Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS 2019-06-11 Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous...
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Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS 2019-06-11 Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous post about how changing the display properties on tables can impact screen readers. I highly recommend his excellent article Tables, CSS Display Properties, and ARIA I find that the...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing MagicGrips Apple has a long history with with computer mice. They pioneered one of the first commercially...
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Apple has a long history with with computer mice. They pioneered one of the first commercially available with the Lisa Mouse and helped make it mainstream when it shipped with the Macintosh 128K.   Apple has also been known to make good looking mice at the expense of ergonomics -...
elementary Blog
Visualizing The Finish Line First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already...
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First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already aware, we build elementary OS releases from the Ubuntu software repositories, so we now have a stable upstream to work from. That means it’s time for us to focus in on finishing up...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Genesis 1 but every word begins with 'A' - with GPT4 "At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
over a year ago
Sometimes It Works...
It's not just me, then! I don't want to hapr on about Twitter's downfall as a medium for people to connect, but... as I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I don't want to hapr on about Twitter's downfall as a medium for people to connect, but... as I mentioned a few weeks ago, the situation is pretty bad right now. For a while, I truly believed it was just me, but over the past few weeks I've been picking up a vibe fromjust a few...
Seth's Blog
Energy and systems complexity Wild animals forage. They spend calories and take risks to acquire food. If the required work and...
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Wild animals forage. They spend calories and take risks to acquire food. If the required work and risk expended are more than the food they acquire, they go extinct. The goal is to get as many calories as possible for as little effort as possible. If there’s a surplus, their...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The NYC tech scene is exploding The pace of innovation in the New York area is very impressive right now. Some of the top...
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The pace of innovation in the New York area is very impressive right now. Some of the top entrepenuers in the country are building and…
Calculated Risk
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Increase to 223,000 The DOL reported: seasonally adjusted initial claims was 223,000, an increase of 6,000 from the...
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The DOL reported: seasonally adjusted initial claims was 223,000, an increase of 6,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 217,000. The 4-week moving average was 213,500, an increase of 750 from the previous week's unrevised average of 212,750. emphasis added The...
Blog of Simple...
What is PHI under HIPAA?
a year ago
The American Scholar
Rage, Muse The novels that revisit Greek myths, giving voice to the women who were scorned, wronged, or...
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The novels that revisit Greek myths, giving voice to the women who were scorned, wronged, or forgotten The post Rage, Muse appeared first on The American Scholar.
Making software...
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a...
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Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow easy for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get...
Retail Design Blog
AREMAR jewelry Showroom Upon entering the Aremar showroom, visitors find a refined environment of curved forms and textured...
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Upon entering the Aremar showroom, visitors find a refined environment of curved forms and textured surfaces, highlighted by a subtle...
Flashbak
Vintage Posters for The Royal Court Theatre Founded by the English Stage Company (ESC in 1956, London’s Royal Court Theatre focuses on...
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Founded by the English Stage Company (ESC in 1956, London’s Royal Court Theatre focuses on contemporary theatre. The building on Sloane Square has put on plays since its completion in 1888. The venue truly arrived when on 8 May 1956, John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger opened – a...
The Berkeley...
Generating 3D Molecular Conformers via Equivariant Coarse-Graining and Aggregated Attention --> Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture. (I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the...
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--> Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture. (I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the fine-grained (FG) ground truth conformer $X$, RDKit approximate conformer $\mathcal{R}$ , and coarse-grained (CG) conformer $\mathcal{C}$ as inputs (derived from $X$ and a predefined...
Adventures In...
How to make this map of a melting glacier I’ve been to Columbia Glacier, just west of Valdez, Alaska, three times. The first was as a...
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I’ve been to Columbia Glacier, just west of Valdez, Alaska, three times. The first was as a youngster in 1984, the second in 1987, and the final time in 2000. Each time, the ride by boat to the terminal edge of the ice where it calves into Prince William Sound, took a bit longer....
TheCollector
Mussolini’s Gamble: How Italy’s Weakness Led to WWII Failure By 1940, Mussolini’s Fascists had governed for almost two decades. Mussolini and Hitler’s close...
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By 1940, Mussolini’s Fascists had governed for almost two decades. Mussolini and Hitler’s close bonds only tightened once the Tripartite Pact got signed on September 27, 1940. They had much in common – a belief in their own ability, political ambition, and zero tolerance for...
Platformer
How BeReal missed its moment To become the next big social app, competitors have to move faster
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
This Chinese startup believes it can take augmented reality glasses mainstream Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his...
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Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his product will revolutionize the display experience.
NeuroLogica Blog
Birds Separately Evolved Complex Brains The evolution of the human brain is a fascinating subject. The brain is arguably the most complex...
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The evolution of the human brain is a fascinating subject. The brain is arguably the most complex structure in the known (to us) universe, and is the feature that makes humanity unique and has allowed us to dominate (for good or ill) the fate of this planet. But of course we are...
Vitalik Buterin's...
La votación mediante blockchain está sobrevalorada entre personas desinformadas pero subestimada...
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
What can we do right now? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently there...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently there have been a few occasions at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we’ve hesitated about next steps or thought about spending longer on certain tasks. As a result of my thinking...
IEEE Spectrum
100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born Happy birthday, IBM! You’re 100 years old! Or are you? It’s true that the businesses that formed IBM...
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Happy birthday, IBM! You’re 100 years old! Or are you? It’s true that the businesses that formed IBM began in the late 1800s. But it’s also true that a birth occurred in February 1924, with the renaming of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. as the International Business...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How Health Data Gets Sold: Moving From Third-Party to First-Party | Out-Of-Pocket The shift from third-party to first-party data consent, and how far should it go?
a year ago
The Works in...
Links in Progress: Should we give babies the vote? And births rise in South Korea
5 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'What a Delight in Being a Discoverer!' The library catalogue said Walter Savage Landor’s Poems, the 1964 Centaur Press edition selected and...
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3 months ago
The library catalogue said Walter Savage Landor’s Poems, the 1964 Centaur Press edition selected and introduced by Geoffrey Grigson, had not been checked out by another patron (hardly surprising) and should be on the shelf. I couldn’t find it. Not a good sign. That could mean the...
Contemporist...
This bubble tea shop looks like a mini basketball court KHAB Tapioca Empress, nicknamed “Hoops,” reimagines what a bubble tea shop can be. Located in...
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KHAB Tapioca Empress, nicknamed “Hoops,” reimagines what a bubble tea shop can be. Located in Winnipeg, Canada, and brought to life by the team at Design Shop, this space delivers big personality, blending the lively spirit of street markets and the fun, social nature of boba...
Yale e360
Planned Indian Mega-Port Could 'Wipe Out' Isolated Tribe The Shompen, residents of a small island in the Indian Ocean, are among the world's last isolated...
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The Shompen, residents of a small island in the Indian Ocean, are among the world's last isolated tribes. But that may soon change as the Indian government moves forward with plans for a massive port that could "wipe out" the tribe, a watchdog group says. Read more on E360 →
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10 Principles I Learned from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain 10 Principles I Learned
over a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How to analyze public healthcare datasets (even if you're non-technical) | Out-Of-Pocket Plus: using ChatGPT to analyze datasets?
a year ago
Open Culture
Get $160 Off a Year of Coursera Plus & Gain Unlimited Access to Courses in Data Analytics,... A heads-up on a Black Friday special: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40%...
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A heads-up on a Black Friday special: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $239.40) gives you access to 7,000+ courses for one...
IEEE Spectrum
The Unlikely Inventor of the Automatic Rice Cooker How the automatic rice cooker was invented It isn’t often that housewives get credit in the annals...
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How the automatic rice cooker was invented It isn’t often that housewives get credit in the annals of invention, but in the story of the automatic rice cooker, a woman takes center stage. That happened only after the first attempts at electrifying rice cooking, starting in the...
Scott Jenson
A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar I borrowed a friend’s Tesla 3 yesterday. About 5 minutes into the ride, the windshield started...
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I borrowed a friend’s Tesla 3 yesterday. About 5 minutes into the ride, the windshield started fogging up. I couldn’t find the defroster on the large control screen Teslas are so famous for. In desperation, I tapped the CAR icon but that took me to the settings screen which ended...
Londonist
Where On The Tube Can You See A WWII Gun Emplacement? A defensive relic on the District line.
a year ago
Quanta Magazine
Do We Need a New Theory of Gravity? Since Newton had his initial revelation about gravity, our understanding of this fundamental concept...
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Since Newton had his initial revelation about gravity, our understanding of this fundamental concept has evolved in unexpected ways. In this week’s episode, theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham and co-host Janna Levin discuss the ways our current understanding of gravity needs...
Odds and Ends of...
The government ordering Apple to break its encryption is stupid, counter-productive and unworkable For the love of god, ask the computer people if your plan might actually work first.
4 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 060: Another CEO gone March 29, 2024.
a year ago
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford... Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
Essays - Benedict...
Metaverse! Metaverse? Metaverse!! ‘Metaverse’ is the buzzword of the moment, yet it doesn’t really exist as more than a label on a...
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over a year ago
‘Metaverse’ is the buzzword of the moment, yet it doesn’t really exist as more than a label on a whiteboard, and many of the ideas it tries to combine might not happen, or not like that. This might be the new ‘information highway.’ But however it works, some kind of...
Toni Lijic
On Design and Chemistry How I transitioned from chemistry to design, and back again.
9 months ago
SubAnima
Evolution Isn't Always For The Best Evolution is not, I repeat, NOT natural selection
over a year ago
Old Structures...
The Public Realm This is the 1895 firehouse constructed for Engine Company 31 and Battalion 2 of the Fire Department...
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10 months ago
This is the 1895 firehouse constructed for Engine Company 31 and Battalion 2 of the Fire Department of New York, at Lafayette and White Streets. The fire department facilities were moved elsewhere over 50 years ago, but the building is landmarked and reusable, so it has been...
Seth's Blog
Your preference is not universal You’re entitled to it, and we will do our best to help you find what you want. But it’s unlikely...
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You’re entitled to it, and we will do our best to help you find what you want. But it’s unlikely that what you want is what everyone wants. It’s hard to believe that there is only one appropriate standard for value, observance, speed or performance. The easiest way for us to help...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Transition Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm back to drawing after 2 weeks off and so let me...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm back to drawing after 2 weeks off and so let me just say that the hands will not be proportionate and accurate for at least 6 more months. Today's News:
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Meditation A comic about managing anxiety during a flight View on my website
6 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Consistency For Who? Thoughts on Overriding Basic Computing Controls A note before we start: I don’t know how much of this I believe. I’m sketching out some feelings in...
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A note before we start: I don’t know how much of this I believe. I’m sketching out some feelings in this post and thinking through whether it actually makes any sense. I’d be curious where other folks land on this. I’m not sure I totally understand this impulse we have on the...
anderegg.ca
Halls of Torment: a thematically questionable downtime game Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope everyone out there has a joyful and relaxing day, however...
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6 months ago
Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope everyone out there has a joyful and relaxing day, however you celebrate. During the downtime I got to play a game I’d been wanting to try for a while. Last summer on The Besties podcast, Russ Frushtick mentioned that he was enjoying...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
king - man + woman is queen; but why? Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how to change gender with a vector.
Louwrentius
Visual representation of hard drives and their temperature If you build a NAS with many drives, it may be of interest to you which drives get hot and where...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you build a NAS with many drives, it may be of interest to you which drives get hot and where they are located in the chassis. My Norco 4020 case has twenty drives in RAID 6, plus two operating system drives in RAID 1. I wrote a script that shows me the temperature of each...
Common Edge
The Art and Angst of Architecture in Southern California An excerpt from An Urban Odyssey: A Critic’s Search for the Soul of Cities and Self.
7 months ago
alexwlchan
emptydir: look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty...
a year ago
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I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty or nearly empty, and deletes them. This isn’t a completely trivial problem, because emptiness is deceptive. Consider the following folder. Finder tells us it has 0 items, so it...
Josh Thompson
Blessed to be Sick Yesterday, I wrote about reducing work hours to less than 40 hours a week. Yesterday, I was...
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over a year ago
Yesterday, I wrote about reducing work hours to less than 40 hours a week. Yesterday, I was struggling to be engaged in my work. I was easily distracted, and didn’t feel very efficient during the day. Once I identified the tasks I needed to complete before I could walk away from...
The Ruffian
Nike's Winning Strategy On the Cultural Significance of Its 2024 Olympics Campaign
11 months ago
Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Pageboy — The world’s simplest static site generator. Pageboy is a tiny app that lives in your Mac’s menu bar and helps you make static websites a bit...
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6 months ago
Pageboy is a tiny app that lives in your Mac’s menu bar and helps you make static websites a bit more easily. Use the good ol’ HTML, CSS, and JS you already know to build your headers, footers, and partials — then bring it together with a simple tag and instantly see the output....
AFAR Media - Travel...
Hotel Review: Penny Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York
a year ago
HTMHell
datalists are more powerful than you think by Alexis Degryse I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a...
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by Alexis Degryse I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a list of <option> elements, offering suggested choices for its associated input field. It’s not an alternative for the <select> element. A field associated to a <datalist> can...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Build Great Software By Repeatedly Encountering It Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes): the only way to build a great product is to...
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a year ago
Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes): the only way to build a great product is to use it every day, to stare at it, to hold it in your hands to feel its lumps. The data and customers will lie to you but the product never will. Oof. That lands with me. As a...
Not Boring by Packy...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #125 Commonwealth Fusion, Off-grid Solar Microgrids, HORNET, Astranis , Technology Brothers
6 months ago
Londonist
The Modern Game Of Darts Was Invented In A London Pub In 1926 Although Henry VIII had a set of darts too.
a year ago
Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, Sally is replaced by an inexpensive human...
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, Sally is replaced by an inexpensive human made overseas. Today's News:
Diaries of Note
Then, no more English poets Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland lived together for almost 40 years, their...
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a year ago
English poets Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland lived together for almost 40 years, their partnership both a romantic and literary alliance that formed in 1930. It was in the 1960s that Ackland’s health began to decline, and on 9th November 1969, at their home in...
Retail Design Blog
The hinc Hair Salon by Hitotomori Architects + arinco architects This project is the interior design of a hair salon renovated from the first floor of a Showa-era...
8 months ago
Aaron's Essays
Avoiding Errors in Demo Day Fundraising I’ll be addressing the topic below along with Alfred Lin from Sequoia and Ilya Sukhar from Matrix on...
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I’ll be addressing the topic below along with Alfred Lin from Sequoia and Ilya Sukhar from Matrix on 3/24: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qgghYDq4QxCiW9REOOrbmw It would be challenging to name all the fundraising mistakes that founders make during the many demo days...
Stephen Diehl
The Crypto Chernobyl
over a year ago
Good Enough
TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and...
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7 months ago
I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Apple Messages for months. And it made me sad. But in the past few months we got it fixed. And that made me very happy! We really love our Pika social share images. They are...
xkcd.com
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a year ago
escape the algorithm
The perfect pecan pie will never exi— Cutting a slice of longing
7 months ago
Seth's Blog
The magic of a page a day In 1979, the page-a-day calendar was born. It’s basically a book on its side, but the user rips off...
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over a year ago
In 1979, the page-a-day calendar was born. It’s basically a book on its side, but the user rips off a page each day. My friend Michael Cader took this concept and ran with it, creating calendars that sold millions of copies. Of course, everyone knows what day it is, and if you...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The interoperability of social networks Google recently added a caustic warning message when users attempt to export their Google Contacts...
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over a year ago
Google recently added a caustic warning message when users attempt to export their Google Contacts to Facebook: Hold on a second. Are you…
TokyoDev
Entry Level Jobs in Japan *Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in...
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over a year ago
*Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan), which goes into a lot more detail than this one.* When I was first looking for a job in Japan, I was surprised by the lack of entry level positions....
Odds and Ends of...
How I learned to stop worrying and love the military industrial complex Whether Trump wins or loses today, Europe should tool up and prepare to fight.
8 months ago
Alex Meub
Craigslist Alerts with Python I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously...
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over a year ago
I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously competitive. I wanted a simple way to be alerted immediately when an item I was looking for was posted. Craigslist Search Alerts I tried using Craigslist’s built in Search Alert...
Articles
Believe in me
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Annoyance I got home yesterday after watching the eclipse, put the kettle on and opened up my laptop. No...
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3 months ago
I got home yesterday after watching the eclipse, put the kettle on and opened up my laptop. No internet. Well that's annoying, I thought. My BT Hub was displaying the dreaded red ring of doom, a bit like an eclipse in itself, and rebooting it didn't help. OK that's more...
Cheese and Biscuits
Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Great Milton I'm sure the Manoir (as I will call it for this post) can impress whatever the weather, but when the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I'm sure the Manoir (as I will call it for this post) can impress whatever the weather, but when the early summer sun is shining, and punters are welcomed into the gardens for their aperitifs and/or digestifs, the place is surely at its best. When you've got gardens like these,...
Jason Fried
High and Low Problems are often described by their size. "Hey, that's a big problem". Or "Eh, that's just a...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Problems are often described by their size. "Hey, that's a big problem". Or "Eh, that's just a little issue, no big deal." And if you do hear someone say “serious” you immediately think huge. It’s still about size. I sometimes still use those descriptors, but I'm trying to use...
The Elysian
Week 5: Write one (pitchable) think piece
a year ago
Jason Fried
Hooks, towel bars, and software Strangely, a recent bathroom renovation crystalized my perspective on product development. When...
a year ago
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a year ago
Strangely, a recent bathroom renovation crystalized my perspective on product development. When being asked to choose between towel hooks or a towel bar, the choice was obvious: Hooks, of course. Hooks take up no space. Towel bars suck up space. Hooks hold towels no matter how...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dragons Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Dangle-balls is copyright SMBC Industries, All...
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Apple's Mistake
over a year ago
watchTowr Labs
Do Secure-By-Design Pledges Come With Stickers? - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282) Did you have a good break? Have you had a chance to breathe? Wake up. It’s 2025, and the chaos...
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Did you have a good break? Have you had a chance to breathe? Wake up. It’s 2025, and the chaos continues. Haha, see what we did? We wrote the exact same thing in 2024 because 2024 was exactly the same. As an industry, we are on GroundHog day
Rozado’s Visual...
Do OpenAI's New Reasoning Models (o1 Series) Differ Politically from Their Predecessors? How the o1 models that leverage inference time compute compares to GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 on political...
5 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Celebrating a million copies of REWORK It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit...
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It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit the New York Times bestseller list right out the gate. In the first two years, it sold over 200,000 copies. And then... it just kept selling. Now it has passed one million copies...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
When should you give up on an idea? Suppose you launch your new startup and don’t get the traction you were hoping for. How do you know...
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over a year ago
Suppose you launch your new startup and don’t get the traction you were hoping for. How do you know whether to give up or keep going? This…
Code Of Honor
Credit where credit is due I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
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I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Kindness: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/YzvbxsGNH0A There's an unfortunate mischaracterization of Stoic...
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/YzvbxsGNH0A There's an unfortunate mischaracterization of Stoic philosophy that has recently sprung up that implies that Stoicism cares more about overcoming our feelings than it does about showing kindness to others. The truth is that a true Stoic...
Making software...
My Robotic Mower Woes My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I'm no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
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My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I'm no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
Good Enough
My Tears of the Kingdom Addiction I don’t know how big my internet social bubble really is, but it feels like everyone in the world...
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over a year ago
I don’t know how big my internet social bubble really is, but it feels like everyone in the world that bubble has been playing a lot of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom lately. Me included! It’s amazing, and I’m thoroughly engrossed—I think I’ve stayed up playing until...
Steve Klabnik
Ember Data: ‘DS’ is not defined
over a year ago
TheCollector
The Liberation of Rome in WWII: Here’s What Happened In September 1943, the Western Allies—the US, Britain, and Canada—invaded fascist Italy, which was...
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In September 1943, the Western Allies—the US, Britain, and Canada—invaded fascist Italy, which was allied with Nazi Germany by longtime dictator Benito Mussolini. Although the Allies had made secret plans that would lead to the bloodless surrender of the weakest Axis power, the...
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The unexamined life Why ethics? The 2010s were a remarkable decade for technology. Day after day, tech lined the front...
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Why ethics? The 2010s were a remarkable decade for technology. Day after day, tech lined the front pages of major newspapers, the chyrons of broadcast news, and the glossy sheets of magazines. And in 2019, the trend took a turn: the stories became about the ethics of technology....
The Forney Flyer
I'm Still Here Wow, it's been nothing but crickets chirping here on my blog for quite a while, but I'm still here!...
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Wow, it's been nothing but crickets chirping here on my blog for quite a while, but I'm still here! Those long periods of silence on my blog are indicative of how super busy it's been here. The summer was a blur, and it hasn't slowed down since.
Blog of Simple...
Meta loses key privacy battle
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Is Deno Ready for Primetime? Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin...
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Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin TypeScript and a support for existing Node modules. However when it comes to using it in a real application, does it live up to its promises?
markround.com
Gig Just looking through some old videos and found this footage of me going off on one at our gig in...
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Just looking through some old videos and found this footage of me going off on one at our gig in February earlier this year, before the pandemic had really hit in the UK. Feels like a lifetime ago now. I miss it.
Open Culture
Thomas Edison’s Recordings of Leo Tolstoy: Hear the Voice of the Great Russian Novelist Born 196 years ago, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s life (1828–1910) spanned a period of immense...
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Born 196 years ago, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s life (1828–1910) spanned a period of immense social, political, and technological change, paralleled in his own life by his radical shift from hedonistic nobleman to theologian, anarchist, and vegetarian pacifist. Though he did...
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What you know that just ain't so The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower...
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The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower or leave it alone? Should we chase these customers over here or those customers over there? Should we add more features or polish the ones we have? There's endless variation in...
bookbear express
no exit love is the best kind of trap
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The Marginalian
Turning from Peril to Possibility: Ecological Superhero Christiana Figueres on the Spirituality of... Few things have maimed the spirit of Western civilization more than the myth of our expulsion from...
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Few things have maimed the spirit of Western civilization more than the myth of our expulsion from the Garden of Eden — a deeply damaging story about human nature, damning us and our relationship to nature. Unthinkingly, we have perpetuated this story in our present narrative...
Seth's Blog
Who owns your words? There are many ways to ask and answer this question. Authorship used to be rare, but now, all of us...
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There are many ways to ask and answer this question. Authorship used to be rare, but now, all of us write something. If you’re putting your words on a social media platform, you might be surprised to discover that they could disappear at any moment. Some platforms acknowledge...
Confessions of a...
Why Do Python Lists Multiply Oddly? Exploring the CPython Source Code A look at the internals of list implementation in CPython to understand this weird quirk about them
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Half of Singapore’s e-commerce scams now happen on WhatsApp, Facebook, or Instagram After a 50% increase in scams in 2023, Singapore authorities say Meta isn’t doing enough to stop the...
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TheCollector
3 Hidden Gems in Occitanie, France: Off the Beaten Path In 2016, France created Occitanie from two smaller regions: Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées....
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In 2016, France created Occitanie from two smaller regions: Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. Its name comes from Occitan, the historical language of southwestern France. Although this region is home to important cities like Narbonne (the first Roman colony in France) and...
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Old Structures...
It Is Sorely Missed Conceptions of leisure activities have changed over the years. The fact that people now sun...
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Conceptions of leisure activities have changed over the years. The fact that people now sun themselves lying on towels in Central Park while wearing quite brief bathing suits would seem as weird to people in the 1870s, when the park was new, as the presence of sheep in the Sheep...
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2018 year in review
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Engineers Need Art
Move Fast and Abandon Things For every shareware game I released in the 1990's, another four were partially written but put aside...
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For every shareware game I released in the 1990's, another four were partially written but put aside and abandoned.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 056: Data deals March 1, 2024.
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Stoic Simple
How Stoicism Can Help Improve Your Daily Life If you're looking for a practical philosophy that emphasizes personal growth and resilience,...
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If you're looking for a practical philosophy that emphasizes personal growth and resilience, Stoicism is a great place to start. By incorporating Stoic principles into your daily routine, you can learn to navigate the ups and downs of life with greater ease and clarity....
Paul Graham: Essays
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Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like? I Dare You...
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15 Things You Never Knew About Wembley Park Steeped in history.
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2025-01-20 office of secure transportation I've seen them at least twice on /r/whatisthisthing, a good couple dozen times on the road, and...
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I've seen them at least twice on /r/whatisthisthing, a good couple dozen times on the road, and these days, even in press photos: GMC trucks with custom square boxes on the back, painted dark blue, with US Government "E" plates. These courier escorts, "unmarked" but about as...
Win Vector LLC
Don’t think of a basketball player, or search engines don’t even support “not” In my opinion we have been accepting poor interfaces and results from search engines for quite a...
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In my opinion we have been accepting poor interfaces and results from search engines for quite a while. This may be a small part of why the newer Large Language Models (LLMs) / Generative AIs look so good. The large language models at least implement a usable approximation of...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Taken For A Ride There’s a visceral reaction when the idea of an autonomous car is brought up. “No way!” “I don’t...
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There’s a visceral reaction when the idea of an autonomous car is brought up. “No way!” “I don’t trust robots.” “How can that even be safe?” These are commonplace in the discourse of driverless vehicles. Some protestors have even placed cones on the vehicles’ sensors and cameras...
The Beauty of...
In Search of Perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow (Rail Symbol 2, Nick Job for Network Rail, 2022) It takes some strange mixture of bravery, confidence, and the thickest of skins to take on the job...
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It takes some strange mixture of bravery, confidence, and the thickest of skins to take on the job of redesigning a national icon. Once again, the rail industry’s “double arrow”, the symbol that has come completely to mean “railway” in Britain, has been given a facelift. Previous...
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Advice For Building A Business Boiled Down Into One-Sentence Harsh Truths A 3-minute read
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Converts versus equity deals There has been a debate going on the past few days over whether seed deals should be funded using...
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There has been a debate going on the past few days over whether seed deals should be funded using equity or convertible notes (converts…
The Prism
30 Useful Concepts (Autumn 2023) Ideas to help you make sense of the world
a year ago
Quantum Frontiers
The rain in Portugal My husband taught me how to pronounce the name of the city where I’d be presenting a talk late last...
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My husband taught me how to pronounce the name of the city where I’d be presenting a talk late last July: Aveiro, Portugal. Having studied Spanish, I pronounced the name as Ah-VEH-roh, with a v partway to a hard b. … Continue reading →
Dan Slimmon
I was on the Slight Reliability podcast! Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident...
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Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident response, diagnosis, and looking for trouble. It was very chill! Full 28-minute episode:
Steve Klabnik
Hackety Hack v1.0
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exist
Scaling Go to 192 Cores with Heavy I/O For the past few months I’ve been working alongside Why, Jacob, Dan, and Divy on a new revision of...
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For the past few months I’ve been working alongside Why, Jacob, Dan, and Divy on a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView. The AppView is a piece of infrastructure that aggregates posts, likes, follows, etc. from all across ATProto and merges them into a consistent view of the...
Musings on Markets
Breaking up Big Tech: Cui Bono? In a court filing on October 9, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) let it be known that it was...
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In a court filing on October 9, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) let it be known that it was considering a break-up of Alphabet, with the addendum that it would also be pushing for the company to share the data it collects across its multiple platforms with competitors....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Evolved Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I've heard people do this on Duolingo and it'll be...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I've heard people do this on Duolingo and it'll be the hardest thing to explain to AGI when it tries to do anthropology. Today's News:
Krebs on Security
Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon...
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A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transferred gigabytes of sensitive data from agency case files in early March, using short-lived accounts configured to leave few...
Open Culture
Why Most Ancient Civilizations Had No Word for the Color Blue In an old Zen story, two monks argue over whether a flag is waving or whether it’s the wind that...
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2 months ago
In an old Zen story, two monks argue over whether a flag is waving or whether it’s the wind that waves. Their teacher strikes them both dumb, saying, “It is your mind that moves.” The centuries-old koan illustrates a point Zen masters — and later philosophers, psychologists, and...
Yazin Alirhayim
Getting started with Flutter It used to be that you needed to know Kotlin and Swift to develop apps for both Android and iOS, but...
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It used to be that you needed to know Kotlin and Swift to develop apps for both Android and iOS, but those days are long gone. Even the fundamental reasons for doing so have changed — some sort of compromise between performance and speed to deployment. React Native apps were...
Liz Denys
One idle dreary day many years ago Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull...
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over a year ago
Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull and sharp the sky was that day in San Francisco. When editing this photograph I took now about three and a half years ago, I only flattened the sky slightly and didn't touch up the...
Open Culture
Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified... When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque...
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When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque composer’s music, played entirely on the Moog analog synthesizer, the album became an immediate hit with both classical and pop audiences. Not only was it “acclaimed as real music...
Asterisk
Read This, Not That: The Hidden Cost of Nutrition Misinformation Our daily lives are inundated with misleading claims about nutrition. That’s not just distracting —...
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Our daily lives are inundated with misleading claims about nutrition. That’s not just distracting — it’s also harming our health.
Sometimes It Works...
Creating new variables in Laravel’s Blade without resorting to writing PHP code Creating new variables in Laravel’s Blade without resorting to writing PHP code ¶Creating new...
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Creating new variables in Laravel’s Blade without resorting to writing PHP code ¶Creating new variables in Laravel’s Blade without resorting to writing PHP code Here’s a quick trick in case like me you occasionally need to declare a new variable in a Blade view. Blade doesn’t...
Blog - Mac Pierce
Understanding the work - Thoughts on one day with three art events. A few thoughts on a few art events that happened around Boston Feb. 22nd.
over a year ago
the jsomers.net blog
More people should write More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the...
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over a year ago
More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. I have a selfish reason for my demand: I have a lot of friends who are thoughtful, but keep their...
diamond geezer
Ode to an Annual Travelcard Ode to an Annual Travelcard I bought my first Annual Travelcard in 2001 when I moved to London....
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Ode to an Annual Travelcard I bought my first Annual Travelcard in 2001 when I moved to London. This is the easiest and cheapest way to commute without faffing at ticket machines every day, I thought, and I was right. That first Annual Travelcard cost me £896, i.e. the...
Quanta Magazine
The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change An ultra-precise measurement of a transition in the hearts of thorium atoms gives physicists a tool...
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An ultra-precise measurement of a transition in the hearts of thorium atoms gives physicists a tool to probe the forces that bind the universe. The post The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Liz Denys
Updated colors for the Library Blanket color palette preview tool Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle...
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Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle Hoverson's Library Blanket. I've added the eight new colors to the Library Blanket color palette preview tool I made last April, and I also labeled the discontinued colors as such....
David Heinemeier...
You're not guaranteed a spot on the team I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously...
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a year ago
I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously not true, and it's usually cynically invoked by management to entice an undue obligation of sacrifice. Implying that you should give it all to The Company -- constantly working...
Tech + Economics +...
Breaking up with Slack and Discord: why it's time to bring back forums. When I first found my people online, forums were the main way people gathered to discuss shared...
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When I first found my people online, forums were the main way people gathered to discuss shared interests. Web-based bulletin boards allowed members to have ongoing, asynchronous conversations over days or weeks as participants logged in to read and respond on their own...
The Solarchitecture...
Regenerative Architecture Shifting our time horizon.
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Rest of World -...
Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace them Human fallout may include being replaced by LLMs, diminished skills, and fewer career options for...
4 months ago
Beautiful Public...
The Army and Navy Style Guides These fascinating Army and Navy brand style guides define the look, feel and voice of our armed...
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 112: OpenAI might be open again April 4, 2025.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fun Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All I'm saying is according to quantum mechanics...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All I'm saying is according to quantum mechanics there's SOME chance a duck explodes because you thought about it. Today's News:
The Elysian
Founders will get much richer by exiting to employees This is how we create a wave of employee ownership.
10 months ago
Beautiful Public...
The Pillbox Database The National Library of Medicine's Pillbox dataset contained 8,693 photographs of pills, with an...
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The National Library of Medicine's Pillbox dataset contained 8,693 photographs of pills, with an accompanying database of drug information. It was built to help with the identification of unknown pills.
Calculated Risk
Watch Inventory and Why Measures of Existing Home Inventory appear Different Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Watch Inventory and Why Measures of Existing...
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2 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Watch Inventory and Why Measures of Existing Home Inventory appear Different A brief excerpt: We are in a period of significant policy uncertainty and there isn’t a good historical analog for the current period. However, for...
99% Invisible
Mini-Stories: Volume 20 Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button,...
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Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button, electric signs, a very important sticker, and video you can smell. Let’s get into it! Snooze Buttons In the 1950s, General Electric changed alarm clocks forever by adding a snooze...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Compete Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly, I don't know why we allow people to dope...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly, I don't know why we allow people to dope via exceptional genetics. Today's News:
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like “URL forwarding” through your domain provider could work,...
TheCollector
What Is Rodin’s “The Thinker” Thinking About? Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker is one of the most famous sculptures in the history of art. Endlessly...
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Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker is one of the most famous sculptures in the history of art. Endlessly reproduced and reinterpreted, it became the universal symbol of human creativity and intellectualism. The Thinker, modeled after both classical sculpture and a real body of Rodin’s...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Halo and more: exploring incremental verification and SNARKs without pairings
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Nice bike A well-designed bicycle is efficient, inexpensive and delightful. If you use your bike on the right...
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a year ago
A well-designed bicycle is efficient, inexpensive and delightful. If you use your bike on the right paths, with appropriate goals, it can deliver exactly what you need, while also allowing you to go at your own pace, see what’s going on around you and feel grounded. Until, of...
The Map is Mostly...
Designing a New Old Home: The Elements Heating and Cooling and Airflow Ensuring your house works well with the natural world is one of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Heating and Cooling and Airflow Ensuring your house works well with the natural world is one of the most crucial parts of designing a home. Like I wrote in the first part, it’s also one of the most ignored. We wanted to build a house that would stay as naturally cool in the...
Open Culture
The Dylatov Pass Incident: Has One of the Biggest Soviet Mysteries Been Solved? Most of us would go out of our way not to set foot anywhere near a place the local natives refer to...
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Most of us would go out of our way not to set foot anywhere near a place the local natives refer to as “Dead Mountain.” That didn’t stop the Dyatlov Hiking Group, who set out on a sixteen-day skiing expedition across the northern Urals in late January of 1959. Experienced and...
Quantum Frontiers
How writing a popular-science book led to a Nature Physics paper Several people have asked me whether writing a popular-science book has fed back into my research....
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Several people have asked me whether writing a popular-science book has fed back into my research. Nature Physics published my favorite illustration of the answer this January. Here’s the story behind the paper. In late 2020, I was sitting by … Continue reading →
The Works in...
Issue 11: Nuclear sandboxes Plus: Why Britain can’t seem to fix its housing market, gene-edited super-rice, and one weird trick...
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Plus: Why Britain can’t seem to fix its housing market, gene-edited super-rice, and one weird trick to reverse climate change.
Joel Gascoigne
Bright & Early Podcast with Brian Rhea I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above,...
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I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above, and see more details here.
Max Rozen
How to use SVGs in your React App Using SVG icons instead of PNG or JPG has a few performance benefits, but they're not always...
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over a year ago
Using SVG icons instead of PNG or JPG has a few performance benefits, but they're not always straightforward to use. Here's how you do it.
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Euclid Space Telescope Delivers Great Images The first images are coming in from the new Euclid Space Telescope and they are spectacular. The...
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a year ago
The first images are coming in from the new Euclid Space Telescope and they are spectacular. The post Euclid Space Telescope Delivers Great Images appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
Retail Design Blog
Hearts of Palm by HUMANO STUDIO A series of boxes for dietary pasta made out of palms’ inner core.
9 months ago
charity.wtf
Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it, tongue-in-cheek-ily, whether or not architect is a “bullshit role”. It got a LOT of reactions (2.5 weeks later, the thread is still going!!), which I would sort into roughly three camps: “OMG this...
Open Culture
Revisit Episodes of Liquid Television, MTV’s 90s Showcase of Funny, Irreverent & Bizarre Animation MTV stands for Music Television, and when the network launched in 1981, its almost entirely music...
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MTV stands for Music Television, and when the network launched in 1981, its almost entirely music video-based programming was true to its name. Within a decade, however, its mandate had widened to the point that it had become the natural home for practically any exciting...
TheCollector
Do Apes Ponder an Afterlife? A Philosophical View The Great Apes are humanity’s closest relatives. They look like us, walk like us, raise children...
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The Great Apes are humanity’s closest relatives. They look like us, walk like us, raise children like us, and can use tools like us. But do they think like us too? A major difference between apes (e.g., gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees) and humans is the use of language....
Old Structures...
We Become Accustomed – Part 1 I want to spend a few days talking about a building that is not very exciting, because it...
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a year ago
I want to spend a few days talking about a building that is not very exciting, because it illustrates an important phenomenon about change. When I talk about change in this blog, I most often mean technological change in the built environment, as new forms of construction...
bunnie's blog
Designing The Light Source for IRIS This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
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a year ago
This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique. IRIS allows us to see the insides of certain types of chips, even after they are soldered to a circuit board. This is possible...
Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,”  he...
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a year ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,”  he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Puzzle Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, you should just think of every moment of...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, you should just think of every moment of your life as a series of escape rooms. It's healthy. Today's News:
Handprinted - Blog
Blind Embossing with Lino Blind embossing is a beautiful way in which to add light and shadow to your prints. Embossing adds...
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Blind embossing is a beautiful way in which to add light and shadow to your prints. Embossing adds subtle texture and interest. Emboss prints ‘blind’ (without ink) or combine with inked lino for a complex final print. Prepare the design. These white pencils are brilliant for...
Roberto Vitillo's...
What every developer should know about TCP Why do you need to place your servers geographically close to your users? One of the reasons is to...
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Why do you need to place your servers geographically close to your users? One of the reasons is to achieve lower latencies. That makes a lot…
Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: the struggle goes on In the final part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look at 2025...
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In the final part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look at 2025 and beyond.
The American Scholar
Cancer The post Cancer appeared first on The American Scholar.
9 months ago
David Heinemeier...
New year, new calendar We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a...
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a year ago
We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a calendar! And now, in celebration of the new year, it’s finally ready, and we’re rolling it out to the first customers starting today 🎉 See, it turns out that lots of people would...
Map of the Week
30 Day Map Challenge-Admiring the Work of Others For the past several years November for me has meant working on the 30 Day Map Challenge. This year...
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For the past several years November for me has meant working on the 30 Day Map Challenge. This year I’ve been too busy to participate - also I really needed a break from it. Not participating means I’ve been able to admire the work of other cartographers. Here are some highlights...
Herbert Lui
What do you need? This is worth being curious about. But for starters, you need to be mindful and not...
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5 months ago
This is worth being curious about. But for starters, you need to be mindful and not distracted—sometimes, bored—in order to remember to ask yourself this question. “Our changing moods and energy levels, and how inspired we’re feeling on any given day, are part of the hard reality...
Seth's Blog
Doing presentations virtually A few years ago, I posted about the hardware setup you can use to look better and feel better when...
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A few years ago, I posted about the hardware setup you can use to look better and feel better when working in a distributed organization. Since then, I’ve tried many hacks for how to integrate Keynote presentations into this environment. I used some fancy software that was...
Rest of World -...
Xiaohongshu’s global pivot: The surprise winner of the TikTok ban wants to keep its new users The China platform faces political risks and e-commerce challenges in its overseas push ahead of a...
3 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 4: The Verge
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blag
Disaggregated Storage - a brief introduction a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems
8 months ago
The Forney Flyer
Recent Stuff A few weeks ago we (fellow MAF pilot Andrew and I) landed at Amudat airstrip for the first time in a...
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A few weeks ago we (fellow MAF pilot Andrew and I) landed at Amudat airstrip for the first time in a very long time (below). Over the past year and a half quite a few of the upcountry airstrips in Uganda (especially in Karamoja) deteriorated so badly that we had to stop using...
Quanta Magazine
Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes....
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes. Researchers have now proved that it’s “universally optimal.” The post Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph first appeared on Quanta Magazine
elementary Blog
elementary OS 8 Available Today We’re proud to announce that elementary OS 8 is available to download later today and shipping on...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
We’re proud to announce that elementary OS 8 is available to download later today and shipping on several high-quality computers! With OS 8, we’ve focused in on: Creating a new Secure Session that ensures applications respect your privacy and require your consent A brand new...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The War with What He Does Not Understand' “. . . I am closer to the ‘life of the spirit’ than you are. You are talking about the right of one...
a month ago
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a month ago
“. . . I am closer to the ‘life of the spirit’ than you are. You are talking about the right of one or another type of knowledge to exist, whereas I’m talking about peace, not rights. I want people not to see war where there isn’t any. Different branches of knowledge have always...
Vadim Kravcenko
Where do I find technical co-founder for my startup? Starting a business can be a daunting task. It’s even more difficult when you’re doing it alone and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Starting a business can be a daunting task. It’s even more difficult when you’re doing it alone and you’re not […] The post Where do I find technical co-founder for my startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Seth's Blog
Avoid false proxies They’re toxic, wasteful and a tempting trap. It’s one of the most important topics in my new book....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
They’re toxic, wasteful and a tempting trap. It’s one of the most important topics in my new book. (And here’s a new podcast on it). We need proxies. You’re not allowed to read the book before you buy it or taste the ketchup before you leave the store. We rely on labels and...
Arduino Blog
DexteriSync lets you walk a mile in the gloves of a user with manual disability Good designers prioritize the user experience — particularly the experience of users with...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Good designers prioritize the user experience — particularly the experience of users with disabilities that affect their perception and fine motor skills. A young person without disabilities, for example, may feel that jars are easy to open, while an elderly person with reduced...
Noahpinion
Three holes in the U.S.' economic strategy against China Legacy chips, drones, and coordination with allies.
a year ago
Herbert Lui
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast In the industrial era, the people that did more stuff—faster—added more value to the world....
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In the industrial era, the people that did more stuff—faster—added more value to the world. Efficiency was the buzzword. That’s no longer the case. Now, slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. We are already bumping up on the limits of how fast we can do our work—and we will never...
Quanta Magazine
How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats To buffer the brain against menaces in the blood, a dynamic, multi-tiered system of protection is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To buffer the brain against menaces in the blood, a dynamic, multi-tiered system of protection is built into the brain’s blood vessels. The post How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 081: Creative differences August 23, 2024.
10 months ago
The American Scholar
Paolo Arao Acts of devotion The post Paolo Arao appeared first on The American Scholar.
10 months ago