TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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NeuroLogica Blog
Marmosets Call Each Other By Name
Humans identify and call each other by specific names. So far this advanced cognitive behavior has...
3 months ago
Humans identify and call each other by specific names. So far this advanced cognitive behavior has only been identified in a few other species, dolphins, elephants, and some parrots. Interestingly, it has never been documented in our closest relatives, non-human primates – that...
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a year ago
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James Cheshire
Being creative is reason enough to try different data visualization
A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not...
over a year ago
A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not be given a second glance. Getting the viewer to work a little harder to interpret and think about a graphic can be a very effective way of generating engagement. This is where the...
Daniel Bourke
ZTM 2023 State of AI Tools & Coding Report
How are developers using AI tools?
a year ago
How are developers using AI tools?
Paul Cudenec
The spirit of Sophia: our promise
Our Beloved!
3 months ago
Math Is Still...
Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption
The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the...
10 months ago
The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the subterranean magma are saving lives.
The post Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Christian Selig
A free, 3D printable Meta Quest 3 stand
People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I...
8 months ago
People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I designed in Fusion 360 with the goal of being visually appealing and compact as it stored the headset vertically so it wouldn’t take up too much space on your desk.
Turns out there were...
The Berkeley...
Rethinking Human-in-the-Loop for Artificial Augmented Intelligence
How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the...
over a year ago
How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the evaluation of AI methods involves a training-validation-testing process. The experiments usually stop when the models have good testing performance on the reported datasets because...
Mazdak
Canada's Housing Crisis: Is There a Way Out?
Canada's housing market has become a national concern. Soaring prices have pushed homeownership out...
8 months ago
Canada's housing market has become a national concern. Soaring prices have pushed homeownership out of reach for many, and even renters struggle to find affordable options. The pandemic exacerbated this pre-existing crisis, highlighting the urgent need for solutions. This article...
TheCollector
History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
4 months ago
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
Retail Design Blog
Craft Beer Legends by Tanya Pushkareva
For my academic project, I decided to focus on creating a unique craft beer label inspired by...
a month ago
For my academic project, I decided to focus on creating a unique craft beer label inspired by mythical creatures. Craft...
Paul Graham: Essays
An Alternative Theory of Unions
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
I'm shutting down my job tech jobs board after two-and-a-half years
I started The Pragmatic Engineer Job Board in October 2021. 2.5 years later, I am shutting it down...
8 months ago
I started The Pragmatic Engineer Job Board in October 2021. 2.5 years later, I am shutting it down permanently, despite a reasonable success in traction. The shutdown was triggered by my vendor – Pallet – discontinuing their job board and talent collective approach. However, I ...
Jake Zimmerman
Approximating strace with Instruments.app
2 months ago
The Modern House
Good Fellow: Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill join the RIBA as Honorary Fellows
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Currency in the Age of Digitization
over a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Jenny O'Leary
Hi, my name is Jenny O’Leary and I am a textile artist and tutor living in Shropshire.
I work with...
5 months ago
Hi, my name is Jenny O’Leary and I am a textile artist and tutor living in Shropshire.
I work with batik (hot wax resist), mainly on tissue paper - combining it with bleach, ink and dyes. I sometimes stitch to create beautiful surfaces and textures. Collage and layering are an...
Society's Backend
Why MLX is Important for the ML Community
And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
7 months ago
And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
Classical Wisdom
Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
a week ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'As a Whole It Is a Gallimaufry'
“[O]ne is
tempted—though it might be dangerous—to maintain that the best books in the
world were...
9 months ago
“[O]ne is
tempted—though it might be dangerous—to maintain that the best books in the
world were written chiefly for pleasure and with an after-hope to please.”
Things get
sticky when you start plumbing a writer’s intentions. Let’s just say that a dwindling
species of serious...
NeuroLogica Blog
A Climate Debate Regarding Health Effects – Part III
Part 3 Hi Steve, and thank you for your timely response, and for even considering hosting this...
a year ago
Part 3 Hi Steve, and thank you for your timely response, and for even considering hosting this debate. There has been, and continues to be a “blackout” on almost all discussion regarding the science behind climate change. If “The science” is truly “settled”, it is a pretty shaky...
TheCollector
Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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9 months ago
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JAMstack for Indie Hackers
_This article was [published on Indie...
over a year ago
_This article was [published on Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/article/jamstack-for-indie-hackers-b07f7a943d)!_
Max Rozen
Strangers from the internet paid for my MacBook Air: on my 4th year of indiehacking
In which I finally make money from strangers off the internet.
over a year ago
In which I finally make money from strangers off the internet.
TheCollector
The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
The Marginalian
Kinship in the Light of Conscience: Peter Kropotkin on the Crucial Difference Between Love,...
“Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” Whitman wrote in what may be the most elemental...
3 months ago
“Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” Whitman wrote in what may be the most elemental definition of solidarity — this tender recognition of our interdependence and fundamental kinship, deeper than sympathy, wider than love. Half a century after Whitman’s atomic...
Dustin Curtis
iPad in 2020
A couple of months ago, I switched entirely to an iPad Pro for about two weeks. I did not use my...
over a year ago
A couple of months ago, I switched entirely to an iPad Pro for about two weeks. I did not use my MacBook Pro at all, and forced myself to do everything on the iPad. After that experience, I planned to write some kind of review, but it turned out that my conclusions were pretty...
The Convivial...
Apocalyptic AI
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 5
a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 5
pcloadletter
Quality is a hard sell in big tech
I have noticed a trend in a handful of products I've worked on at big tech companies. I have friends...
10 months ago
I have noticed a trend in a handful of products I've worked on at big tech companies. I have friends at other big tech companies that have noticed a similar trend: The products are kind of crummy.
Here are some experiences that I have often encountered:
the UI is flakey and/or...
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
Seth's Blog
The perils of doing it live
[Relevant aside: If you get this blog by email, apologies for the glitches of the last few days...
8 months ago
[Relevant aside: If you get this blog by email, apologies for the glitches of the last few days caused by my provider. If you ever see a broken link or something that doesn’t render, you can visit the blog. It always has the latest version, typos fixed. It’s much easier to fix...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hands Down
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7 months ago
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Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand gibbering eyes.
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Using robots.txt to discover hidden content
I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed.
It’s...
11 months ago
I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed.
It’s interesting because some sites use it as access control, which, of course, is silly. Just because robots won’t index it doesn’t mean people won’t find it. Plus, by specifying it in...
History Today Feed
France’s Long March Against Racism
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #155
Early Retirement, Chris Davis on Berkshire's future, Howard Marks on market cycles, Threads vs....
a year ago
Early Retirement, Chris Davis on Berkshire's future, Howard Marks on market cycles, Threads vs. Twitter, Costco takes the high road, James Cameron, GEICO in the 1970s
TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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9 months ago
Irrational...
Advancing the industry.
Early in my career, I navigated most decisions by simple hill climbing: if it was a more prestigious...
a year ago
Early in my career, I navigated most decisions by simple hill climbing: if it was a more prestigious opportunity and paid more, I took it. As I got further, and my personal obligations grew, I started to think about navigating a 40-year career, where a given job might value pace...
Tech + Economics +...
Bootstrapped to death: why America’s favourite saying is strangling mobility
The old saying goes that anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps
- if they work hard...
11 months ago
The old saying goes that anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps
- if they work hard enough. There's this pervasive and poisonous idea that
success or failure rests solely on the individual and their effort. And if
you don't make it, if you don't lift yourself out...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
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
8 months ago
A look at the internals of list implementation in CPython to understand this weird quirk about them
Anecdotal Evidence
Arthur Krystal
My review of
two books by Arthur Krystal -- A Word or
Two Before I Go: Essays Then and Now and Some...
5 months ago
My review of
two books by Arthur Krystal -- A Word or
Two Before I Go: Essays Then and Now and Some Unfinished Chaos: The Lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald – is
published in Ron Slate’s On the Seawall.
Saturday Morning...
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a year ago
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Last chance to get signed books and free audiobooks by Phil Plait and Gretchen McCulloch!
The Rational Walk
The Digest #201
Daily Journal, The Oresteia, Elon's compensation, TSMC, Banks in disguise, Reading about stupidity,...
6 months ago
Daily Journal, The Oresteia, Elon's compensation, TSMC, Banks in disguise, Reading about stupidity, Zweig on Ben Graham's continued relevance, 3G Capital, Morgan Housel, Christopher Tsai
Home on Erik...
3D
Andy Sloane decided to call my 2D visualization and raise it to 3D.
(Looks a little weird in the...
over a year ago
Andy Sloane decided to call my 2D visualization and raise it to 3D.
(Looks a little weird in the iframe but check out the link). It's based on a LDA model with 200 topics, so the artists tend to stick to clusters where each cluster is a topic.
The Honest Broker
My Lost Gumby Essay
Or how I overcame ontological horror with the help of a rubbery toy
a year ago
Or how I overcame ontological horror with the help of a rubbery toy
Tinker, Tamper,...
Showing SQL Queries with Pytest and Django
I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s...
over a year ago
I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s sometimes useful to see the actual SQL queries that Django emitted, which is surprisingly hard. I assumed that that would be such an obvious and common need, that a simple switch...
Rest of World -...
The SoftBank-backed fintech that helped Nigerians through a cash crisis is eyeing “innovative...
Olu Akanmu, co-CEO and president of OPay Nigeria, on the importance of cloud infrastructure and the...
a year ago
Olu Akanmu, co-CEO and president of OPay Nigeria, on the importance of cloud infrastructure and the company’s future plans.
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 3-4 February 2024
New exhibitions, a flower show and a light festival in a church.
10 months ago
New exhibitions, a flower show and a light festival in a church.
Rest of World -...
The politics of Africa’s TikTok bans
TikTok was recently banned in Senegal and Somalia, and there have been efforts to do the same in...
a year ago
TikTok was recently banned in Senegal and Somalia, and there have been efforts to do the same in Kenya, Uganda, and Egypt.
Applied Cartography
Hidden settings are for cowards
At Stripe, we had two abstractions for branching logic in production: flags, which were meant to be...
2 weeks ago
At Stripe, we had two abstractions for branching logic in production: flags, which were meant to be explicitly temporal (temporarily split-testing traffic; rolling out a new feature or code path; exposing a specific path for a cohort of users during a closed beta) and gates,...
Retail Design Blog
Wilson Dow Offices by Partners by Design
Partners by Design‘s design for Wilson Dow’s Chicago office elevates the space with theatrical...
2 months ago
Partners by Design‘s design for Wilson Dow’s Chicago office elevates the space with theatrical flair, innovative lighting, cozy elements, and...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Stimulated to Vigour and Activity'
When John
Ruskin (b. 1819) traveled as a boy, his father packed in his luggage four small
volumes of...
8 months ago
When John
Ruskin (b. 1819) traveled as a boy, his father packed in his luggage four small
volumes of Dr. Johnson’s Rambler and Idler essays. In his peculiar memoir Praeterita (1885), Ruskin tells us “had
it not been for constant reading of the Bible, I might probably have...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cuffed
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10 months ago
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6 Things Markdown Got Wrong
John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong.
over a year ago
John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong.
TheCollector
The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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10 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Invention That Let Fiber Optics Span the Globe
Plenty of big stories from the year 1985 had their moment in the sun and are now all but forgotten:...
a year ago
Plenty of big stories from the year 1985 had their moment in the sun and are now all but forgotten: New Coke, “We Are the World,” the rise of desktop publishing. But one at-the-time obscure invention from that year has long eclipsed the frothy headlines of its time, because it...
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The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode
2021-04-12
After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...
over a year ago
The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode
2021-04-12
After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...
Vadim Kravcenko
Asking questions the right way
In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity....
a year ago
In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity. Let’s cut the crap and dive […]
The post Asking questions the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
mtlynch.io
Hiring Content Writers: A Guide for Small Businesses
If you write original content for your business, you know how quickly it drains your time and mental...
over a year ago
If you write original content for your business, you know how quickly it drains your time and mental energy. It’s extremely challenging to write articles or blog posts that readers find engaging, clear, and eloquent.
You may have considered hiring a freelance writer, but it’s...
Seth's Blog
Non-professional writers
Nobody asks you to design a bridge, write a sonnet or do open heart surgery. We leave these...
4 months ago
Nobody asks you to design a bridge, write a sonnet or do open heart surgery. We leave these essential tasks to trained professionals. But many job descriptions carry the unstated addendum, “and write.” Write memos, proposals, and even instruction manuals. The local supermarket is...
Charles Chen
I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but...
2 months ago
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but really, gen AI is just getting started.
Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
We might not be in this mess.
David Heinemeier...
Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
We had originally planned to go all-in on passkeys for ONCE/Campfire, and we built the early...
3 months ago
We had originally planned to go all-in on passkeys for ONCE/Campfire, and we built the early authentication system entirely around that. It was not a simple setup! Handling passkeys properly is surprisingly complicated on the backend, but we got it done. Unfortunately, the user...
The Marginalian
From Cells to Souls: The Poetic Science of How the Brain Became
The making of our densely networked crucible of thought and tenderness.
a year ago
The making of our densely networked crucible of thought and tenderness.
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Array 1.20.0
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog...
over a year ago
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog…
Dustin Curtis
Bill Gates is Angry
Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past...
over a year ago
Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past public appearances, Gates – like most experts – has attempted to walk the line between antagonizing the Trump administration and promulgating real science. But now he appears to be...
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
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Organizing Developer Writing Retreats
One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS |...
a year ago
One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS | RETREAT** in Miami!
Eukaryote Writes...
Internet Harvest (2020, 1)
Internet Harvest is a selection of the most succulent links on the internet that I’ve recently...
over a year ago
Internet Harvest is a selection of the most succulent links on the internet that I’ve recently plucked from its fruitful boughs.
TheCollector
What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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11 months ago
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Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux
Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux
2023-03-16
For some on-going projects I need to switch to...
a year ago
Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux
2023-03-16
For some on-going projects I need to switch to different versions of ruby. Although there exist many step-by-step instructions on installing and configuring rvm for most Linux distros, there aren’t many focused on Alpine “daily...
Seth's Blog
Tom Peters
Tom announced his retirement today, at 80 years old, after 45 years of Excellence and perhaps...
a year ago
Tom announced his retirement today, at 80 years old, after 45 years of Excellence and perhaps 10,000,000 miles flown. I remember a photo of him sleeping on a bench in an airport in Siberia. I remember him holding my young son just before we went on stage in Florida together...
Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
CONTEMPORIST
A Sheet Metal Skin Of Oiled Steel Was Selected For The Siding Of This Mountain Home
James Merrell Architects together with interior design firm Ellen Hanson Designs, completed a modern...
2 months ago
James Merrell Architects together with interior design firm Ellen Hanson Designs, completed a modern mountain home in Sun Valley, Idaho, that features an exterior of oiled steel, concrete, and glass. The sheet metal skin of oiled steel was selected for the siding to bring in the...
Copper • A blog...
Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing)
Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1
Exactly 3 months and a day...
over a year ago
Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1
Exactly 3 months and a day after placing an order through a Romanian Apple reseller, I finally got my 14-inch M1 Max.
Well, actually.. I first got the wrong configuration (base model instead of CTO), had to...
The Tao Of Wealth
The Meaning Of “Om”
With the help of “Om” one can realize the Divine. “Om” has a transformative power. “Om” represents...
over a year ago
With the help of “Om” one can realize the Divine. “Om” has a transformative power. “Om” represents the Divine. They say that all the aspirations of the world when going towards the Divine make “Om”, like that. I was in France, some, I think 60 years ago. There was a Frenchman who...
Map of the Week
Maps GPT
I've been seeing a few interesting uses for ChatGPT-type artificial intelligence lately. Of course...
a year ago
I've been seeing a few interesting uses for ChatGPT-type artificial intelligence lately. Of course there has to be a map generator. MapsGPT is powered by Proxi, an alternative to Google's MyMaps. I started out looking at their map suggestions, such as worst places to take a nap...
Maps Mania
Alien Arrivals Nosedive in 2023!
10 months ago
Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
Wuthering...
Books I read in November 2023
Recovery from surgery leads to a long list of books.
(Everything is going well, by the way,...
a year ago
Recovery from surgery leads to a long list of books.
(Everything is going well, by the way, thanks).
My idea of a “comfort read” is a book on a subject about which I do not
know much – start me over at the beginning – thus my enthusiastic Indian
literature project, which is...
The Convivial...
Reading As Counter-Practice
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 19
over a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 19
TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #203
American Scripture, Prometheus Bound, Herodotus on wealth, Apple intelligence, NetJets, Value...
6 months ago
American Scripture, Prometheus Bound, Herodotus on wealth, Apple intelligence, NetJets, Value Investor's Club, Nietzsche's world view, Are wrist watches effeminate?, Seinfeld on writing
Stoic Simple
What Does Stoicism Teach About Pleasure and Pain?
Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that has gained increasing popularity in recent years. At the...
a year ago
Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that has gained increasing popularity in recent years. At the heart of this school of thought is the idea that we can achieve true happiness by living in accordance with nature, accepting what we cannot change, and focusing on developing our own...
Flashbak
The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
a month ago
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
Londonist
Why Is There A Huge Mural Of Rembrandt On Mare Street, Hackney?
It's the return of the London Mural Festival.
a year ago
It's the return of the London Mural Festival.
The Modern House
How a love of Japan and the 1970s shaped Sherrill Smith’s Hackney home
a year ago
Val Sopi
The Benefits of NOT Being Online
<p>Hey, you probably know me as the founder of <a href="https://claritask.com/">Claritask</a> or as...
over a year ago
<p>Hey, you probably know me as the founder of <a href="https://claritask.com/">Claritask</a> or as a Podcaster where I nakedly talk about my <a href="https://bootstrapping-saas.transistor.fm/">Bootstrapping Saas</a> journey.</p>
<p>Since early this summer I took a sabbatical...
TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Trolley
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a year ago
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The weird thing is every last one of them is named Bruce.
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The Marginalian
Jealousy and Its Antidote: Pioneering Psychiatrist Leslie Farber on the Tangled Psychology of Our...
"Every jealous person knows jealousy to be a brutally degrading experience and resists with all his...
a year ago
"Every jealous person knows jealousy to be a brutally degrading experience and resists with all his might revealing the extent of his degradation."
Open Culture
This 392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived the Hiroshima Atomic Blast & Still Flourishes Today: The...
Image by Sage Ross, via Wikimedia Commons The beautiful bonsai tree pictured above–let’s call it the...
6 months ago
Image by Sage Ross, via Wikimedia Commons The beautiful bonsai tree pictured above–let’s call it the Yamaki Pine Bonsai–began its journey through the world back in 1625. That’s when the Yamaki family first began to train the tree, working patiently, generation after generation,...
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You May Not Need Controlled Form Components
A common design pattern for forms in React is using Controlled Components - but involves a lot of...
over a year ago
A common design pattern for forms in React is using Controlled Components - but involves a lot of boilerplate code. Here's another way.
Blog posts of...
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Over the years i met several people that left quite an impact on me and in many cases helped me...
over a year ago
Over the years i met several people that left quite an impact on me and in many cases helped me along the way. I tried to summariz...
Maggie Appleton
Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw
over a year ago
Old Structures...
The True Form
I thought I had posted this map before, but apparently not. John Montresor was an engineer in the...
11 months ago
I thought I had posted this map before, but apparently not. John Montresor was an engineer in the British army, who was in North America from the French and Indian War until about halfway through the American Revolution. He created this map in 1775, showing the city of New York,...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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7 months ago
Julia Evans
How HEAD works in git
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they
were that they...
9 months ago
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they
were that they understood how HEAD works in Git. The results (out of 1700
votes) were a little surprising to me:
10% “100%”
36% “pretty confident”
39% “somewhat confident?”
15% “literally no idea”
I was...
David Heinemeier...
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...
a month ago
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...
The Marginalian
Maira Kalman on How to Live with Remorse and Make of It a Portal of Creative Vitality
Each time we have tried to elevate ourselves above the other animals by claiming singular possession...
10 months ago
Each time we have tried to elevate ourselves above the other animals by claiming singular possession of some faculty, we have been humbled otherwise: Language, it turns out, is not ours alone, nor is the use of tools, nor is music. Elephants grieve, octopuses remember and...
Essays - Benedict...
Who cares about tech regulation?
Tech regulation gets a lot of headlines, and seems like a big deal, but
most people in tech don’t...
9 months ago
Tech regulation gets a lot of headlines, and seems like a big deal, but
most people in tech don’t seem to care much. It’s boring, and years away,
but more fundamentally, it really doesn’t affect what people spend their
time working on.
Rest of World -...
Mexicans say some police officers are taking bribes with mobile payment services
Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed...
a year ago
Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed over their cards voluntarily.
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
3 days ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
Steve Klabnik
Removing Turbolinks from Rails 4
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Delano Dubai hotel by Elastic Architects
ELASTIC reimagined Delano’s legendary style embracing modernity while staying true to the brand’s...
a week ago
ELASTIC reimagined Delano’s legendary style embracing modernity while staying true to the brand’s core ethos. Our goal was to merge...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning
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9 months ago
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Raptitude.com
Humans Are About to Learn Like Never Before
Humans aren’t good at predicting the future, but sometimes you can see a trend that promises...
4 weeks ago
Humans aren’t good at predicting the future, but sometimes you can see a trend that promises something great — like “a genie is granting your wish” great. I think this might be happening right now with one of my genie wishes, maybe yours too. For me it has to do with the piles of...
Joel Gascoigne
The dream forms over time
In my recent travels around Asia [http://instagram.com/joelgascoigne], I’ve had
the great...
over a year ago
In my recent travels around Asia [http://instagram.com/joelgascoigne], I’ve had
the great opportunity to meet a lot of local founders and aspiring
entrepreneurs.
One of the things that seems to come up many times is that people will ask me
“what triggered you to become...
alexwlchan
Mountaintop moments
Last weekend, I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe, and I’m so glad I went.
I met new people, hung out...
3 months ago
Last weekend, I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe, and I’m so glad I went.
I met new people, hung out with some Internet friends in-person, and saw some great theatre.
It was fun, but also exhausting.
By the final day, I was worn out and ready to sleep in my own bed – but now I’m...
Darek Kay
A guide to bookmarklets
I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to...
a month ago
I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to explain what bookmarklets are and how to use them.
In short, a bookmarklet is a browser bookmark containing JavaScript code. Clicking the bookmark executes the script in the context...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #200
Jefferson's advice to his nephew, Inside a Baby Berkshire, Windows Copilot, Hot utility stocks,...
7 months ago
Jefferson's advice to his nephew, Inside a Baby Berkshire, Windows Copilot, Hot utility stocks, Appnesia, Stress and heart disease, Steve Jobs, Flying Cars, Dunkirk, Napoleon
A Weekly Dose of...
Places in Time III
This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely...
a year ago
This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely at three books: the first about Chicago from the Great Depression to the mid-1980s; the second one about the broader American built landscape over roughly the same period of time;...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
How to pick the least wrong colors
I do have a formal design education, but I can very much relate with Matthew’s feeling incompetent...
over a year ago
I do have a formal design education, but I can very much relate with Matthew’s feeling incompetent and love how he managed to turn a ton of research into an algorithm.
Mazdak
Four Dumb Things You're Doing That Are Making You Lose Money in the Stock Market
Navigating the stock market can be a daunting task, especially for those new to investing. While...
a year ago
Navigating the stock market can be a daunting task, especially for those new to investing. While there are many strategies that can help you achieve your financial goals, there are also some surefire ways to lose money. Here are four of the most common mistakes investors make:
RhysTranter.com
Easter 2022: A Roman Pilgrimage
This Easter, my wife and I headed to Rome. What follows is a simple journal that records some of the...
over a year ago
This Easter, my wife and I headed to Rome. What follows is a simple journal that records some of the things that we did, with a selection of photographs from each day.
TheCollector
How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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4 months ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
Designing A New UX Concept to Reduce Driver Distraction
Since the arrival of the first iPhone, designers at car companies have tried to copy its minimalist...
over a year ago
Since the arrival of the first iPhone, designers at car companies have tried to copy its minimalist look and interface in the interiors of…
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: The AARRR pirate funnel explained
Want to build an AARRR funnel in PostHog? Use our AARRR dashboard template to set one up quickly...
a year ago
Want to build an AARRR funnel in PostHog? Use our AARRR dashboard template to set one up quickly and easily. What is the AARRR framework? The AARRR…
Construction Physics
The dream of deregulation - the grid part III
For most of the industry’s history, electric power in the US had largely been provided by vertically...
a year ago
For most of the industry’s history, electric power in the US had largely been provided by vertically integrated utility companies that handled every part of the electricity supply: generating it, transmitting it, distributing it to customers, and managing the overall system....
Seth's Blog
Fidelity, compression and culture
The alphabet is a miracle, one that is compounded by books. And the lessons we learn from this...
a year ago
The alphabet is a miracle, one that is compounded by books. And the lessons we learn from this cornerstone of modern culture apply to organizations, meetings, tech, politics and almost everything we do together. Your copy of To Kill a Mockingbird contains every single word that...
The American Scholar
“How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning appeared...
3 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning appeared first on The American Scholar.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Slowmad Q&A
The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people...
over a year ago
The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people are generally interested in is my experience of remote work. As I put it [recently](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1154916667606130689):
Passing Time
Perfidious Pricing
How Companies Use Drip Pricing to Overcharge Consumers
a year ago
How Companies Use Drip Pricing to Overcharge Consumers
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Air Quality, Breathing, and Health | Out-Of-Pocket
What we inhale is a public health issue
a year ago
What we inhale is a public health issue
NeuroLogica Blog
Intuitive and Analytical Thinking
Here is a relatively simple math problem: A bat and a ball cost $1.10 combined. The bat costs $1...
a year ago
Here is a relatively simple math problem: A bat and a ball cost $1.10 combined. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? (I will provide the answer below the fold.) This problem is the basis of a large psychological literature on thinking systems in the...
Both Are True
The ONLY Tip You Need To Become A Great Writer
If you are ready to change your life, keep reading.
5 months ago
If you are ready to change your life, keep reading.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Look
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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There was a discussion on patreon about whether pix or pics is appropriate and I stand by my choice.
Today's News:
Blog - Practical...
Which Power Plant Does My Electricity Come From?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
In June of 2000, the power...
a month ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
In June of 2000, the power shut off across much of the San Francisco Bay area. There simply wasn’t enough electricity to meet demands, so more than a million customers were disconnected in California's largest...
Val Sopi
Focusing on progress, not the goal
<p><span style="font-size: 21px;">Rion, my 11-year-old son, plays tennis.</span></p><p>He first set...
a year ago
<p><span style="font-size: 21px;">Rion, my 11-year-old son, plays tennis.</span></p><p>He first set foot on a tennis court when he was 18 months or so. His cousin was practicing back then, so he would tag along with his aunt to the tennis courts.</p><figure class="none"><img...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Found
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This theory actually makes sense of all holiday...
3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This theory actually makes sense of all holiday creatures that manage to visit every house.
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...
3 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...
Val Sopi
Test
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10 months ago
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Tony Finch's blog
A qp-trie for BIND
In 2021, I came up with a design for a new memory layout for a
qp-trie, and I implemented a...
a year ago
In 2021, I came up with a design for a new memory layout for a
qp-trie, and I implemented a prototype of the design in
NLnet Labs NSD (see my git repo or github).
Since I started work at ISC my main project has been to adapt the
NSD prototype into a qp-trie for use in BIND. The...
Words and Buttons...
[Republishing] Redundant stories about redundancy
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
over a year ago
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
TheCollector
Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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9 months ago
Archinect - Features
Where Are All The Affordable Housing Startups?
Despite the general consensus that the United States is in need of more affordable housing, funding...
6 months ago
Despite the general consensus that the United States is in need of more affordable housing, funding to startups focused on affordable housing and more efficient construction technologies is lower in 2024 than in recent years. In the meantime, a series of high-profile...
diamond geezer
Draw-Off
For a few weeks every November the water level in the Thames in west London is deliberately...
a month ago
For a few weeks every November the water level in the Thames in west London is deliberately lowered.
Draw-Off and it exposes more of the riverbed than usual.
In order to carry out essential maintenance works on Richmond lock, weirs and sluices, it is necessary to hold up the...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 24-25 February 2024
A Saltburn ball, a Spider-Man concert, and a mystery movie marathon.
10 months ago
A Saltburn ball, a Spider-Man concert, and a mystery movie marathon.
Retail Design Blog
ChloeMonique Atelier by Adrian Condina
Often seen as the more polished of Australia‘s two biggest cities, Melbourne has a wide array of...
a month ago
Often seen as the more polished of Australia‘s two biggest cities, Melbourne has a wide array of addresses where a...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why open-source projects are essential for large businesses
The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel...
over a year ago
The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel of modern technology’s canon and it continues to…
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI-generated Code
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on...
over a year ago
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code.
As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
Open Culture
Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977)
Say you were a fan of Steven Spielberg’s moving coming-of-age drama Empire of the Sun, set in a...
6 months ago
Say you were a fan of Steven Spielberg’s moving coming-of-age drama Empire of the Sun, set in a Japanese internment camp during World War II and starring a young Christian Bale. Say you read the autobiographical novel on which that film is based, written by one J.G. Ballard. Say...
TheCollector
Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Courthouses Galore
Foley Square, northeast of City Hall Park, has a collection of very large courthouses. Here’s Matt...
3 months ago
Foley Square, northeast of City Hall Park, has a collection of very large courthouses. Here’s Matt Murdoch, otherwise known as Daredevil, on the steps of a courthouse having just finished a case: Here’s a view looking north with the New York State Supreme Court and its large...
TheCollector
The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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a year ago
Letters of Note
I miss you so very much, Ryan
In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during...
over a year ago
In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during a contaminated treatment for hemophilia, a blood condition with which he had lived since birth. By June of 1985, keen to resume as normal a lifestyle as possible, Ryan attempted...
Rest of World -...
Why Nigerian filmmakers are skipping Netflix to go straight to YouTube
Filmmakers say YouTube prevents piracy and is more accessible than Netflix, Prime Video, and...
a year ago
Filmmakers say YouTube prevents piracy and is more accessible than Netflix, Prime Video, and Showmax.
diamond geezer
East Anglia Pylons
More News From Norfolk
110 mile line of pylons all the way from Norwich to the Thames. It's needed...
5 months ago
More News From Norfolk
110 mile line of pylons all the way from Norwich to the Thames. It's needed to help connect an increasing number of wind farms in the North Sea to population centres in London and the southeast, because it's no good having all that cheap energy if you...
Computer Things
NoCode Will Not Bring Computing to the Masses
No Newsletter next week
I'll be giving my conference talk at DDD Europe.
NoCode Will Not Bring...
7 months ago
No Newsletter next week
I'll be giving my conference talk at DDD Europe.
NoCode Will Not Bring Computing to the Masses
I don't have a whole lot of time this week so here's something that's been on my mind a little. I haven't researched any of the factual claims; consider this...
TheCollector
The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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7 months ago
The Modern House
House Music: pianist Simeon Walker performs at Domus – a modernist masterpiece, currently for sale
2 months ago
Making software...
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of...
a year ago
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
diamond geezer
The refillable water bottle tube map
If you were wondering what symbol would be added to the tube map next, how about a refillable water...
4 months ago
If you were wondering what symbol would be added to the tube map next, how about a refillable water bottle?
It's always obvious retrospectively.
Overground network, hence the map is titled "London Overground stations with free drinking water fountains". The new symbol thus...
Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
a month ago
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
TheCollector
10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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wingolog
whippet progress update: feature-complete!
Greetings, gentle readers. Today, an update on recent progress in the
embeddable...
3 months ago
Greetings, gentle readers. Today, an update on recent progress in the
embeddable garbage
collection library.Whippet
When I started working on Whippet, two and a half years ago already, I
was aiming to make a new garbage collector for
. In the beginning I was just
focussing on...
Londonist
Croydon Plans Spectacular Mic Drop For Borough Of Culture Closing Weekend
Light shows, punk marble runs and the world's smallest nightclub.
9 months ago
Light shows, punk marble runs and the world's smallest nightclub.
Old Structures...
The Name Lost Meaning
From the great archive of her photographs that Carol Highsmith donated to the Library of Congress,...
3 months ago
From the great archive of her photographs that Carol Highsmith donated to the Library of Congress, “View of a Manhattan street from New York City’s High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail.” Except that you can’t see the High Line because she was...
Christopher Butler
object – Coffee Cup
The perfect coffee cup is about half the size of your average American mug.
I bought a pair of...
a year ago
The perfect coffee cup is about half the size of your average American mug.
I bought a pair of used small porcelain mugs at a thrift shop for about $1 back in 2009. I have used one of them nearly every day since. I believe them to be the perfect cup for coffee.
This mug...
Grow With Less
The Overwhelmed Business Owner's Guide to SEO
What do you do when you spent hours writing awesome articles only to realize your mom and your best...
over a year ago
What do you do when you spent hours writing awesome articles only to realize your mom and your best friend Dave are the only people reading them?
That’s the question I asked myself 7 years ago after writing dozens of articles for my new blog French Together.
I followed 10,000...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.39.0: Betas, persons, events and libraries
PostHog 1.39.0 introduces a new beta for you to try, a new display chart and big improvements to our...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.39.0 introduces a new beta for you to try, a new display chart and big improvements to our client libraries.
TheCollector
What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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11 months ago
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Jubilee Line
Including why they abandoned the name Fleet line.
a year ago
Including why they abandoned the name Fleet line.
Ken Shirriff's blog
Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures...
4 weeks ago
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where
signal lines were connected to the silicon substrate for no apparent reason.
Two examples are in the photo below, where the metal wiring (orange) connects to small square regions of...
Platformer
In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO
Is the job Steve Davis' to lose? PLUS: A smart new tool to fight child exploitation online
a year ago
Is the job Steve Davis' to lose? PLUS: A smart new tool to fight child exploitation online
Yazin Alirhayim
Part 2: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain’s economy?
👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first.
In the last post, I discussed the question of access...
over a year ago
👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first.
In the last post, I discussed the question of access to capital and why’s important to verify that we do in fact have a problem before we attempt to “solve” it.
Now, we’re going to talk about the method for measuring the extent of...
TheCollector
9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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2 months ago
99% Invisible
Cue the Sun! [EPISODE]
Back in 2003, Emily Nussbaum developed a covert guilty pleasure: she started watching the streaming...
2 months ago
Back in 2003, Emily Nussbaum developed a covert guilty pleasure: she started watching the streaming 24-hour feeds of the first season of Big Brother in the U.S. Big Brother is a reality television show that debuted in the US in the year 2000. If you’ve never seen it, the show is...
Steve Klabnik
Rails 4.0.0-beta1 to Rails 4.0.0-rc1
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years
We finished pulling seven cloud apps, including HEY, out of AWS and onto our own hardware last...
2 months ago
We finished pulling seven cloud apps, including HEY, out of AWS and onto our own hardware last summer. But it took until the end of that year for all the long-term contract commitments to end, so 2024 has been the first clean year of savings, and we've been pleasantly surprised...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
11 months ago
Seth's Blog
The thought that counts
Well, maybe not. In 2024, worldwide gift card sales will pass a trillion dollars for the first time....
6 hours ago
Well, maybe not. In 2024, worldwide gift card sales will pass a trillion dollars for the first time. It’s a good grift. Surveys show that the buyer spends about 21% less per gift than they do when they actually buy something, while the recipients of the gift find themselves...
Open Culture
B.B. King Changes a Broken Guitar String Mid-Song at Farm Aid, and Doesn’t Miss a Beat (1985)
The scene is Farm Aid, 1985, attended by a crowd of 80,000 people. The song is “How Blue Can You...
a month ago
The scene is Farm Aid, 1985, attended by a crowd of 80,000 people. The song is “How Blue Can You Get.” And the key moment comes at the 3:10 mark, when the blues legend B.B. King breaks a guitar string, then manages to replace it before the song finishes minutes later. All the...
journal – Winnie Lim
43
I wrote this time last year that I felt like I was coping better than the year before. This year I...
8 months ago
I wrote this time last year that I felt like I was coping better than the year before. This year I don’t feel like I have made much progress, and perhaps I...
computers are bad
2024-12-04 operators on the front
At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a
lot of people, the...
2 weeks ago
At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a
lot of people, the vague understanding that an operator used to be involved is
the main thing they know about historic telephony. Of course, telephone
historians, as a group, tend to be much more...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
Seth's Blog
The Pinocchio protocol
He had a hard time lying because his nose got longer every time he did. Gas-powered leaf blowers...
5 months ago
He had a hard time lying because his nose got longer every time he did. Gas-powered leaf blowers would disappear if the smoke they belched out was black instead of invisible. And few people would start smoking if the deposits on their lungs ended up on their face instead. We’re...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Sharding Yourself
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
over a year ago
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
Irrational...
2024 in review.
A lot happened for me this year.
I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta,
which...
a week ago
A lot happened for me this year.
I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta,
which is likely the most complex product domain I’ve worked in.
My third book was published, and I did a small speaking tour to support it.
We started the unironically daunting San...
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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9 months ago
The Marginalian
Between Psyche and Cyborg: Carl Jung’s Legacy and the Countercultural Courage to Reclaim the Deeply...
"A reanimated world is one in which spirit and matter are not just equally regarded but recognized...
8 months ago
"A reanimated world is one in which spirit and matter are not just equally regarded but recognized as mutually dependent."
Out-of-Pocket Blog
“There Are Too Many Entrenched Interests” | Out-Of-Pocket
The Six Stages Of Health Tech Grief Part 3
a year ago
The Six Stages Of Health Tech Grief Part 3
The Modern House
The power of post-war design in Regent’s Park, north-west London
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got...
4 months ago
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language.
It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript.
This makes it appealing as a language that can target both...
Old Vintage...
xa (xa65) 2.4.0 - finally
xa (xa65) 2.4.0 is the newest release of André Fachat's fast and portable two-pass 6502/65816...
a year ago
xa (xa65) 2.4.0 is the newest release of André Fachat's fast and portable two-pass 6502/65816 crossassembler; yours truly is the current maintainer and I just punched "live" on it tonight. It runs on Un*xy things and Windows (with Cygwin or msys2 or similar), and probably other...
Christopher Butler
There Is No Digital World
Everything digital costs something physical. It’s time for a digital conservation...
over a year ago
Everything digital costs something physical. It’s time for a digital conservation movement.
inverse terms — has created a profound civilizational threat that masquerades as an opportunity.
The truth is that there is no such thing as the “digital world.” It is not a realm...
the singularity is...
the tiny corp raised $5.1M
Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank.
What is the tiny corp?
The...
a year ago
Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank.
What is the tiny corp?
The tiny corp is a computer company. We sell computers for more than they cost to make; I’ve been thinking about this one for a while. In the limit, it’s a chip company, but there’s a...
The Pragmatic...
The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed, why, and what is next
The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for...
5 months ago
The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for businesses and dev teams – and what will pragmatic software engineering approaches look like in the future?
I tackled these burning questions in my conference talk, “What’s Old is
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Worse
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a year ago
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My knowledge of Batman ends somewhere around 1952, when his costume was at its peak.
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TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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NeuroLogica Blog
Finding Small Primordial Black Holes
Astrophysicists come up with a lot of whacky ideas, some of which actually turn out to be possibly...
2 weeks ago
Astrophysicists come up with a lot of whacky ideas, some of which actually turn out to be possibly true (like the Big Bang, black holes, accelerating cosmic expansion, dark matter). Of course, all of these conclusions are provisional, but some are now backed by compelling...
Vadim Kravcenko
Networking as an introvert CTO
There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like...
a year ago
There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like a fish […]
The post Networking as an introvert CTO appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 9
On cleaning up the shop.
a year ago
Wuthering...
Jon Fosse's Septology - art "can only say something while keeping silent about what it actually...
Jon Fosse’s Septology (2019-21) is a long
stream-of-consciousness novel about a Norwegian painter...
a month ago
Jon Fosse’s Septology (2019-21) is a long
stream-of-consciousness novel about a Norwegian painter trying to understand
one of his paintings. Each of the novel’s
seven sections begins with Asle looking at the painting:
AND I SEE MYSELF STANDING and looking at the picture...
TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Rozado’s Visual...
Excess mortality during COVID pandemic, % of population vaccinated and Stringency Index of...
Please be mindful of potential confounds: population density, population behavior, virus virulence...
over a year ago
Please be mindful of potential confounds: population density, population behavior, virus virulence drift, herd immunity, etc.
Seth's Blog
The question book
In the old days, companies had a suggestion box. It was immortalized in cartoons, but the idea that...
9 months ago
In the old days, companies had a suggestion box. It was immortalized in cartoons, but the idea that an employee could anonymously submit a suggestion to make things better is a first step in engagement. Some companies took this much further and paid employees for suggestions that...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem
We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a...
over a year ago
We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a month. This sounds like an incredible feat of…
Inverted Passion
Why you will skim this article
Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then...
a year ago
Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then you’re likely to scan through a few paragraphs in this article and then give up. (Unless, you’re a long-time reader and trust that my writing is worthy of your time. More on this...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - That Thing
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I feel the quickest way to spot bias is to find...
a year ago
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I feel the quickest way to spot bias is to find someone who reacts to something terrible by worrying about the impression a third party will get.
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Last Place Comics
Boy’s Club VS Girl’s Club, Part 1
The post Boy’s Club VS Girl’s Club, Part 1 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
a week ago
The post Boy’s Club VS Girl’s Club, Part 1 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
The Marginalian
May Sarton on How to Cultivate Your Talent
"A talent grows by being used, and withers if it is not used."
a year ago
"A talent grows by being used, and withers if it is not used."
Oxide Computer...
Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of
us being born in a...
over a year ago
We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of
us being born in a garage and
Bryan’s on the soul of our new computer
company. Also, see the perspectives of some of our founding engineers:
Robert Mustacchi on
joining Oxide,
Joshua Clulow on the need...
Rest of World -...
You messaged your doctor on WhatsApp. Should that be billed?
Medical practitioners in Latin America say WhatsApp can be a lifesaving tool — and a costly time...
a year ago
Medical practitioners in Latin America say WhatsApp can be a lifesaving tool — and a costly time sink.
mtlynch.io
Hiring Content Writers: Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description
Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job...
over a year ago
Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description (this section) Part Three: Screening Candidates Part Four - Working with Writers Part Five - Terminating Writers A clear, concise job description shows candidates that you’re...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Acing the coding challenge
How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview...
over a year ago
How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview scenarios, typically a coding challenge is not a…
Farnam Street
Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking
A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions....
over a year ago
A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse. *** When we seek to intervene in any system created by someone, it’s not enough to view...
journal – Winnie Lim
getting closer to my darkness
I have always struggled with my mind, but the intensity seemed to worsen in the past few months....
a year ago
I have always struggled with my mind, but the intensity seemed to worsen in the past few months. Tracing back, I think it was since my covid infection. I wasn’t surprised to...
Archinect - Features
Narrative, Media, and AI in Architectural Academia; A Conversation with Natasha...
Archinect last spoke with Natasha Sandmeier on the themes of visual media and narrative storytelling...
a year ago
Archinect last spoke with Natasha Sandmeier on the themes of visual media and narrative storytelling in 2019. Back then, few could have imagined the seismic impact that generative AI would have on such fields. In her leading role at UCLA AUD's Entertainment Studio, Sandmeier sits...
Rest of World -...
Women in South Africa’s gig economy feel forced to work extra hours for free
Women who work as domestic cleaners with SweepSouth, an on-demand app, say clients frequently ask...
11 months ago
Women who work as domestic cleaners with SweepSouth, an on-demand app, say clients frequently ask them to do unpaid work, and the company hasn’t responded to their complaints.
Irrational...
Making engineering strategies more readable
As discussed in Components of engineering strategy,
a complete engineering strategy has five...
7 months ago
As discussed in Components of engineering strategy,
a complete engineering strategy has five components: explore, diagnose, refine (map & model), policy, and operation.
However, it’s actually quite challenging to read a strategy document written that way.
That’s an effective...
Londonist
Pollock's Toy Museum Is Reopening... In Croydon
Six month pop-up arrives this January.
11 months ago
Six month pop-up arrives this January.
Essays - Benedict...
Ways to think about a metaverse
Your boss wants a metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does
metaverse even mean?...
over a year ago
Your boss wants a metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does
metaverse even mean? If we strip away the noise, what can we say about
this, and what can we predict?
Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
9 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
Liz Denys
Striped pitcher, 2024
Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, denim satin glaze
7 months ago
Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, denim satin glaze
computers are bad
2023-09-10 the Essex GWEN site
Programming note: this post is in color. I will not debase myself to the
level of sending HTML...
a year ago
Programming note: this post is in color. I will not debase myself to the
level of sending HTML email, so if you receive Computers Are Bad by email
and want the benefit of the pictures, consider reading this online instead
(the link is at the top of the email).
In the aftermath of...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Algo
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a year ago
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Anecdotal Evidence
'An Accepter and Recorder of Things as They Are'
It has been
a good week for the satisfaction of knowing that a book I recommended has been
read and...
a year ago
It has been
a good week for the satisfaction of knowing that a book I recommended has been
read and enjoyed. A reader in New York City tells me the title character of
V.S. Pritchett’s 1951 novel Mr. Beluncle
reminds her of her late father, a man she describes as “feckless.” And...
Platformer
Why journalists can't quit Twitter
The media should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down
a year ago
The media should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Meta-Creator Ceiling
Don't play games you don't want to win.
over a year ago
Don't play games you don't want to win.
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The Black Panther: Black Community News Service
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over a year ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles
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The Black Panther, published weekly by the Black Panther Party, shone a light on...
computers are bad
2023-02-07 secret government telephone numbers
Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military
telephone
buttons.
To be...
a year ago
Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military
telephone
buttons.
To be clear, the "secret" here was a joke and these buttons are in fact well
documented. The buttons I was talking about were the AUTOVON call precedence
buttons, used for a five-level...
Tony Finch's blog
LEGO Technic beam sandwich keyboard case
My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way.
story time
Two years ago I...
a year ago
My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way.
story time
Two years ago I planned to make a typical
acrylic sandwich case
for HHKBeeb, in the style of the BBC Micro’s black and yellowish beige
case. But that never happened because it was too hard to choose...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #182
Passive Investing, Low Trust Societies, Greg Abel in the spotlight, Capital allocation at Berkshire,...
12 months ago
Passive Investing, Low Trust Societies, Greg Abel in the spotlight, Capital allocation at Berkshire, Better habits for 2024, Amusing CPA stories, Ben Graham, Charlie Munger, Pernod Ricard
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Londonist
10 Times That Fictional London Has Slipped Into Our Universe
Glitches in the matrix.
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
New Year's resolutions are silly
Every February you get to see so billboards with fitness center advertisements. Because by then most...
over a year ago
Every February you get to see so billboards with fitness center advertisements. Because by then most people have already given...
Liz Denys
invalid arch-dependent ELF magic
An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it,...
over a year ago
An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it, or...
Transit Maps
Submission – Fantasy Map: New York Regional Rail Concept by James G
Submitted by James, who says: I created this map based on various concepts (mainly the work of Alon...
4 months ago
Submitted by James, who says: I created this map based on various concepts (mainly the work of Alon Levy) for through-running regional rail in the New York region. This network would integrate all of the current commuter rail networks, increasing frequencies to metro-like levels,...
Scott DeLong
How To Build A Profitable Newsletter In 2024
Using the same strategies I've used to build millions of subscribers across multiple newsletters,...
11 months ago
Using the same strategies I've used to build millions of subscribers across multiple newsletters, you can do it too.
The post How To Build A Profitable Newsletter In 2024 appeared first on Scott DeLong.
journal – Winnie Lim
pandemic grief and sadness
One of the biggest cognitive dissonances I’ve had in this pandemic is seeing almost everyone I know...
11 months ago
One of the biggest cognitive dissonances I’ve had in this pandemic is seeing almost everyone I know – including the most intelligent and the most socially responsible – throw away all covid...
NeuroLogica Blog
Eclipse 2024
I am currently in Dallas Texas waiting to see, hopefully, the 2024 total solar eclipse. This would...
8 months ago
I am currently in Dallas Texas waiting to see, hopefully, the 2024 total solar eclipse. This would be my first total eclipse, and everything I have heard indicates that it is an incredible experience. Unfortunately, the weather calls for some clouds, although forecasts have been...
Notes on software...
Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps
In a ridiculous attempt to prove an internet
wrong about the
practicality of Lisp (Common Lisp...
over a year ago
In a ridiculous attempt to prove an internet
wrong about the
practicality of Lisp (Common Lisp specifically), I tried to get a
simple (but realistic) web app running. After four days and a patch
to ABCL I got something
working.
The code I had in mind would look something like...
Handprinted - Blog
On The Course: Creating Life Drawing Mono Screen Prints
I (Bridget) was lucky enough to take part on last years Life-Drawing Monoscreen Printing workshop...
a year ago
I (Bridget) was lucky enough to take part on last years Life-Drawing Monoscreen Printing workshop with Tricia Johnson. During the course, we worked with a life model to create painterly screen prints using the mono screen method. We used acrylic based screen printing inks and...
Londonist
Astounding Animal Statues By Gillie And Marc Near London Bridge
A Wild Life for Wildlife.
a year ago
A Wild Life for Wildlife.
Alice GG
Stuff I've been working on
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs.
Quite a...
2 months ago
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs.
Quite a few people who read this blog are wondering what the hell exactly I’ve been doing since then so I’m going to update all of you on the various projects I’ve been working on.
Meme...
TheCollector
What Was Organization Todt?
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TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Motorcycles, Cars, Websites, and Seams
In high school, I had a friend named Joe who owned a Honda Trail 110, a small motorcycle with enough...
7 months ago
In high school, I had a friend named Joe who owned a Honda Trail 110, a small motorcycle with enough history for its own Wikipedia page.
It didn’t go very fast (40MPH tops if you’re going downhill) but Joe rode that thing to school every day — or at least he tried, it often...
computers are bad
2023-06-07 something up there - nasa and uaps
A brief note on Grusch
First, a disclaimer of sorts: I am posting another article on UAPs, yet I...
a year ago
A brief note on Grusch
First, a disclaimer of sorts: I am posting another article on UAPs, yet I am
not addressing the recent claims by David Grusch. This is for a couple of
reasons. First, I am skeptical of Grusch. He is not the first seemingly
well-positioned former...
TheCollector
Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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mtlynch.io
Running Sia on a Synology NAS via Docker
Overview Sia is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network for buying and selling computer storage space....
over a year ago
Overview Sia is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network for buying and selling computer storage space. If you have extra storage space, Sia allows you to sell it to others who want to store their files on the Sia cloud network.
Hosting a Sia server on your personal laptop or...
TheCollector
8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Noahpinion
Progressives need to learn to take the W
Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.
3 months ago
Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.
The Marginalian
Alain de Botton on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind
"A healthy mind knows how to hope; it identifies and then hangs on tenaciously to a few reasons to...
a year ago
"A healthy mind knows how to hope; it identifies and then hangs on tenaciously to a few reasons to keep going."
FIRE v London
Jan ’23: Mr Market defuses my tax bombshell
January is always a miserable month to be in London. Thankfully I managed to get away a bit during...
a year ago
January is always a miserable month to be in London. Thankfully I managed to get away a bit during the month (not to Davos, no), and enjoy myself in London despite the wintry weather. What you’re paying for in Mayfair these days Market movements in January The markets on the...
Dan Slimmon
Why transaction order matters, even if you’re only reading
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET...
11 months ago
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET TRANSACTION statement. They are: This last guarantee is one against serialization anomalies. A serialization anomaly is any sequence of events that produces a result that would be...
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
And the Boundless Universe
Kevin Chen
!!Con 2018 Notes
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
over a year ago
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to
computers!
This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech
scene. I’m really going to miss it when I move back to the...
Map of the Week
Guided Across Switzerland by Hand Drawn Maps
The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland...
4 months ago
The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland guided only by hand drawn maps from the people he met along the way. I love a nice hand drawn map and this article provides lots of good examples.
These maps illustrate the things...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Subprime Intelligence
Please scroll to the bottom for news on my next big project, Better Offline, coming this...
10 months ago
Please scroll to the bottom for news on my next big project, Better Offline, coming this Wednesday!
Last week, Sam Altman debuted OpenAI's "Sora," a text-to-video AI model that turns strings of text into full-blown videos, much like how OpenAI's DALL-E turns text into
Seth's Blog
Explaining yourself
The only reason we need to go into detail about our resume, the details of our new idea or the...
9 months ago
The only reason we need to go into detail about our resume, the details of our new idea or the features of a product is to cause action to happen. And action is the result of tension, status or affiliation, and these are based on trust. There are many ways to build that trust,...
Liz Denys
Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023
Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
a year ago
Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
Ben Borgers
How ChatGPT spoiled my semester
2 months ago
Math Is Still...
Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement
While devising a new quantum algorithm, four researchers accidentally established a hard limit on...
3 months ago
While devising a new quantum algorithm, four researchers accidentally established a hard limit on entanglement.
The post Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Old Structures...
Very Local Requirements
Below, a construction fence of typical New York design. Such fences here have had windows of some...
8 months ago
Below, a construction fence of typical New York design. Such fences here have had windows of some kind going back at least to the mid-1900s. Per the current NYC building code, section 3307.7.3, “Viewing panels shall be provided in solid fences erected on or after July 1, 2013, at...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Google is about to make it a lot harder to track website and app users without third-party cookies
Google says they intend to deprecate the use of third-party cookies in 2023. But why is this...
over a year ago
Google says they intend to deprecate the use of third-party cookies in 2023. But why is this important, and how will this affect product analytics…
Seth's Blog
The problems with flat out
The desire for 11 is proof that we often want to go all the way to ten. While 11 is silly, there is...
a year ago
The desire for 11 is proof that we often want to go all the way to ten. While 11 is silly, there is a lot of pressure to give our all. But there are problems. The first is that if you try to sprint an entire marathon, you’ll hurt yourself. Systems can be stressed for […]
Both Are True
graphic design is my new pation
that's really how my brain spelled passion!!
7 months ago
that's really how my brain spelled passion!!
Seth's Blog
Student coach
Big football at colleges in the US costs more than $5 billion a year. And none of these programs has...
5 months ago
Big football at colleges in the US costs more than $5 billion a year. And none of these programs has a student acting as a coach. The same analysis, at a much smaller scale, applies to school theater directors and producers, conductors of the jazz band or orchestra and even the...
Notes on software...
Compiling dynamic programming languages
It can be difficult to disassociate the idea that dynamically typed
programming languages are tied...
over a year ago
It can be difficult to disassociate the idea that dynamically typed
programming languages are tied to byte-code interpreters (e.g. YARV
Ruby, CPython, V8, Zend Engine, etc.). But for many languages, a
compiled implementation also exists. Cython, Chicken Scheme and SBCL
are good...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bad Ways to Get Data
In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very...
over a year ago
In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very peculiar problem: my pages were being generated a lot more slowly than expected:
HTMHell
#27 <a6>
Context: Visually a list of links.
Bad code
<h6>Popular Cities</h6>
<div>
<h6...
over a year ago
Context: Visually a list of links.
Bad code
<h6>Popular Cities</h6>
<div>
<h6 class="footerLinks">Amsterdam</h6>
<h6 class="footerLinks">Rotterdam</h6>
<h6 class="footerLinks">Utrecht</h6>
<h6 class="footerLinks">Den Haag</h6>
<h6...
Spoon & Tamago
The New Simose Art Garden Villa: Where Art & Hospitality Meet at the Sea
All images © Simose Art Museum Stretching over an area of 4.6 hectares and situated alongside the...
a year ago
All images © Simose Art Museum Stretching over an area of 4.6 hectares and situated alongside the picturesque Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima is the Simose Art Garden Villa. Designed by architect Shigeru Ban (previously), the newly opened destination comprises ten villas, a...
CONTEMPORIST
A Calming Interior Was Designed For This Home In Spain
Susanna Cots Interior Design has shared a project they recently completed in Spain, that includes a...
a year ago
Susanna Cots Interior Design has shared a project they recently completed in Spain, that includes a calm material palette. Large windows were integrated into the homes’ design so that the surrounding nature and the gardens could be seen from within the home. In the garden,...
Aaron's Essays
A framework for choosing what to do
A year ago, I left YC and felt a bit lost about what to do next.[1] A lot of people were pretty sure...
over a year ago
A year ago, I left YC and felt a bit lost about what to do next.[1] A lot of people were pretty sure they knew what I should do. But...I didn't and most of their suggestions didn’t excite me.
As I thought through my possible paths, I realized that I didn't have a useful framework...
SOCKS
H. Wieners and P. Treutleins’ Catalogue of Mathematical Models (19th Century)
After last week’s post on Man Ray’s photographs of equation models from the Institut Poincaré in...
11 months ago
After last week’s post on Man Ray’s photographs of equation models from the Institut Poincaré in Paris, here are four illustrations (plus the cover) from the book “Verzeichnis von H. Wieners und P. Treutleins Sammlungen mathematischer Modelle für Hochschulen, höhere Lehranstalten...
Flashbak
Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
7 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
Retail Design Blog
Sandoitchi, Chatswood Chase
Sandoitchi, a renowned brand specializing in flavorful Japanese sandwiches, prides itself on its...
5 months ago
Sandoitchi, a renowned brand specializing in flavorful Japanese sandwiches, prides itself on its simplicity and delicious ingredients. The store’s concept,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Poets Who Are Plain and Gladsome'
Being or
pretending to be a philistine is great fun. It was one of Philip Larkin’s favorite
ruses...
9 months ago
Being or
pretending to be a philistine is great fun. It was one of Philip Larkin’s favorite
ruses (“Books are a load of crap”). It’s certain to rile the pompous and
pretentious, so all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the sputtering. I’ve
happened on a first-rate anthology of...
RhysTranter.com
Cultivating Silence
Saturday afternoon. Revisiting Merton, Newman, and this from Madeleine Delbrêl…
7 months ago
Saturday afternoon. Revisiting Merton, Newman, and this from Madeleine Delbrêl…
African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
11 months ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
Data Boutique
Generic data marketplaces are broken
Misaligned interests and lack of value are the cause
a year ago
Misaligned interests and lack of value are the cause
Old Structures...
Location and Purpose
From 1932, “The Kips Bay Station, with a capacity of 2,450,000 pounds of steam an hour, is the...
3 months ago
From 1932, “The Kips Bay Station, with a capacity of 2,450,000 pounds of steam an hour, is the largest and most modern central station steam generating plant in the world.” The station was a steam-generating plant, located on the East River at 36th Street, decommissioned and...
TheCollector
The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic
Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on...
a year ago
Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on directly from the work of Aristotle and Leibniz. For what Doug was fundamentally trying to do over the forty years he spent developing his CYC system was to use the framework of...
Prolost
VFX Suite 1.5
Today Red Giant released the first major update to the VFX Suite we introduced last year.
Lens...
over a year ago
Today Red Giant released the first major update to the VFX Suite we introduced last year.
Lens Distortion Matcher
A brand-new effect, Lens Distortion Matcher makes it ridiculously easy to profile the distortion of any lens, and either remove it, or build a VFX workflow around it...
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Explain Like I'm Five: Website speed
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand.
In this two minutes read, we'll explain why website speed matters, how to measure it, and how to improve it.
Why website speed matters
Anecdotal Evidence
'In Itself and Forever Shipwreck'
I’ve just
finished rereading William Maxwell’s final novel, So Long, See You Tomorrow, published in...
a year ago
I’ve just
finished rereading William Maxwell’s final novel, So Long, See You Tomorrow, published in two issues of The New Yorker in 1979 and as a book the
following year. I read it in the magazine and I’ve since read the book –
Maxwell’s finest, written when he was seventy years...
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