Retail Design Blog
Hayat Restaurant by Ivy Studio
Located on De La Commune Street in Montreal, Hayat offers a luxurious and truly authentic dining...
4 weeks ago
Located on De La Commune Street in Montreal, Hayat offers a luxurious and truly authentic dining experience directly across from...
Elad Blog
Crypto Twitter
With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter...
over a year ago
With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter should be doing, that it has never done. There are lots of obvious features (edit tweets, longer form content, better user controls, better onboarding, better spam filtering,...
The Honest Broker
The Ugly Truth About Spotify is Finally Revealed
A year-long investigation by an independent journalist is very alarming
a month ago
A year-long investigation by an independent journalist is very alarming
Anecdotal Evidence
'The War Had Won'
“The war had
taken his innocence and replaced it with something else. That something – ‘the
destined...
a year ago
“The war had
taken his innocence and replaced it with something else. That something – ‘the
destined anguish’ - revealed itself gradually and became a presence in his
poetry for the rest of his life.”
Margi
Blunden, speaking in 2014, is remembering her father, the poet and Great...
Seth's Blog
There’s always a placebo switch
The trick is knowing where it is and using it well. Wanting control doesn’t always mean needing to...
a year ago
The trick is knowing where it is and using it well. Wanting control doesn’t always mean needing to have control. Sometimes it is simply a desire to be acknowledged. HT to Brian.
Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
9 months ago
TheCollector
Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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a year ago
balajis.com
The Start Of Startup Cities
Miami demonstrates that the era of startup cities is now underway.
a year ago
Miami demonstrates that the era of startup cities is now underway.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jiffy
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This whole time we could have been united.
Today's...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This whole time we could have been united.
Today's News:
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
Mazdak
Google & Microsoft $1M donation to Trump inauguration fund, Microsoft job cuts, Amazon ad business...
Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and even Tim Cook are each donating $1M to President-elect Trump’s...
a week ago
Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and even Tim Cook are each donating $1M to President-elect Trump’s inauguration fund.
TheCollector
British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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a year ago
Chris Nicholas
Which blend mode?
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for...
over a year ago
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for use in the wild.
The personal website...
UI Density
Interfaces are becoming less dense.
I’m usually one to be skeptical of nostalgia and “we liked it...
8 months ago
Interfaces are becoming less dense.
I’m usually one to be skeptical of nostalgia and “we liked it that way” bias, but comparing websites and applications of 2024 to their 2000s-era counterparts, the spreading out of software is hard to ignore.
To explain this trend, and suggest...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 4-10 December 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Old Structures...
Quite Far
I was at a project site in Rockaway this week. As the crow flies, about 13 or 14 miles from the...
a month ago
I was at a project site in Rockaway this week. As the crow flies, about 13 or 14 miles from the office; by subway about 18 miles and a little over an hour. (It would have been less, but the lift bridge on the train causeway was open for a boat to pass.) Apple Maps […]
Cognitive...
Uncensored Models
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
a year ago
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
Tinloof - Blog
A/B testing with Sanity and LaunchDarkly
We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and...
over a year ago
We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and LaunchDarkly.
History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
8 months ago
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
Cheese and Biscuits
Solo, Aughton
When I was first out of university, trying to decide what to do with my life, and with no long term...
10 months ago
When I was first out of university, trying to decide what to do with my life, and with no long term plan other than the fact I knew - eventually - I wanted to move to London and stay there, I got a job as a cashier at Ormskirk Abbey National. Ormskirk is ostensibly a market town,...
Maps Mania
Who Deserves a Monument Anyway?
10 months ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2023
The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully...
a year ago
The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully photographed circuit board as this month’s entry.
Common Edge
What Los Angeles Transit Could Learn From Charlotte
On accidentally discovering the Queen City’s wonderful light rail system.
a year ago
On accidentally discovering the Queen City’s wonderful light rail system.
Maggie Appleton
The Eponymous Laws of Programming
A collection of laws named for specific people in the field of programming
over a year ago
A collection of laws named for specific people in the field of programming
diamond geezer
Onslow Square/Osborne Square
45
45 Squared
2) ONSLOW SQUARE, SW7
Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, 150m × 90m
Onslow Square is one...
a week ago
45
45 Squared
2) ONSLOW SQUARE, SW7
Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, 150m × 90m
Onslow Square is one of the larger examples, tucked away between Old Brompton Road and Fulham Road. Turn left out of South Kensington station and you'll be there in two minutes. When Queen Victoria...
TheCollector
Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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10 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sauce
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Unfortunately, Sally is now set on the path toward...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Unfortunately, Sally is now set on the path toward cannibalism.
Today's News:
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
a year ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
devonzuegel.com
Remote work will break the US monopoly on global talent
Remote work is creating a new economic niche, and countries that put in the work to fill it will...
over a year ago
Remote work is creating a new economic niche, and countries that put in the work to fill it will finally be able to compete with the US to attract talent. This is the once-in-a-generation opportunity for small, stable countries to grow, diversify, and up-skill their...
Open Culture
Sex and Alcohol in Medieval Times: A Look into the Pleasures of the Middle Ages
Playing video games, road-tripping across America, binge-listening to podcasts, chatting with...
6 months ago
Playing video games, road-tripping across America, binge-listening to podcasts, chatting with artificial intelligence: these are a few of our modern pleasures not just unknown to, but unimaginable by, humanity in the Middle Ages. Yet medieval people were, after all, people, and...
Mazdak
Anthropic & Amazon Partnership
In the world of cutting-edge AI, a power couple has emerged: Anthropic, the ambitious AI startup,...
2 months ago
In the world of cutting-edge AI, a power couple has emerged: Anthropic, the ambitious AI startup, and Amazon, the tech giant with cloud dominance.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Serverless Functions are Stateful
A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy...
over a year ago
A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy breaks down when you look through the abstraction
Good Enough
TIL: Overriding Permalink Generation in FriendlyId
FriendlyId is a helpful Ruby gem that streamlines
creating permalinks and slugs for Rails...
4 months ago
FriendlyId is a helpful Ruby gem that streamlines
creating permalinks and slugs for Rails applications. In Pika we're using it to help with
generating permalinks for blog posts and pages as well as slugs for tags. When a customer
wrote in with a request to modify the behavior of...
Mind Mine
the taste issue
things i've loved this past year / things i'm excited about in 2025
4 weeks ago
things i've loved this past year / things i'm excited about in 2025
The American Scholar
The Rescuer
In search of the Underground Railroad’s legendary conductor
The post The Rescuer appeared first on...
7 months ago
In search of the Underground Railroad’s legendary conductor
The post The Rescuer appeared first on The American Scholar.
mtlynch.io
I'm Still Confused About Base
A year ago, I listented to an interview with Jesse Pollak on an episode of Into the Bytecode.
Jesse...
4 months ago
A year ago, I listented to an interview with Jesse Pollak on an episode of Into the Bytecode.
Jesse works for Coinbase, and he noticed that lots of developers building apps on top of Ethereum were solving the same problems over and over again. He started a project at Coinbase to...
This Space
A modern heretic
Literature can be defined by the sense of the imminence of a revelation which does not in fact...
over a year ago
Literature can be defined by the sense of the imminence of a revelation which does not in fact occur.
I used this line, apparently from Borges, as an epigram to an essay in the early days of online writing. I can't remember what book it came from and after searching I found a...
TheCollector
Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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10 months ago
diamond geezer
Hayling Island
Seaside postcard: Hayling Island
Hayling Island lies just off the south coast near the mouth of the...
5 months ago
Seaside postcard: Hayling Island
Hayling Island lies just off the south coast near the mouth of the Solent, just east of Portsmouth. It's England's 7th largest offshore island and 5th most populous, some way behind Wight and Portsea respectively, both of which are nextdoor. It...
Anecdotal Evidence
'There Are Many Real Things of Beauty Here'
A reader sent
me a screed against beauty he had found online. The writer wasn’t advocating...
3 months ago
A reader sent
me a screed against beauty he had found online. The writer wasn’t advocating its
opposite, ugliness, exactly, though his prose definitely leans in that
direction. Only a graduate-school alumnus could come up with such silly ideas.
Rather, he seemed to be saying that...
Jonas Hietala
The I'm Great quote
A new semester at the uni and so far it looks promising; I got a hold of some new books even though...
over a year ago
A new semester at the uni and so far it looks promising; I got a hold of some new books even though the bookstore had a snakelike queue similar to the Jörmungandr (the snake that encircled the earth in nordic mythology) and our new programming course started. This time it’s Ada’s...
This Space
39 Books: 2022
"Hölderlin...asked only that we accept silence as the one meaningful syllable in the...
7 months ago
"Hölderlin...asked only that we accept silence as the one meaningful syllable in the universe."
This line from Paul Stubbs' remarkable essay collection The Return to Silence is not an epigram to Marjorie Perloff's Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics, but it might have...
Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
a year ago
Notes on software...
Starting a minimal Common Lisp project
If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in
school, Common Lisp is nothing like...
over a year ago
If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in
school, Common Lisp is nothing like what you'd expect. While
functional programming is all the rage in Scheme, Common Lisp was
"expressly designed to be a real-world engineering language rather
than a theoretically...
Mazdak
Buffett's $325 Billion Warning
Is the legendary investor Warren Buffett sounding the alarm on the market? Berkshire Hathaway,...
2 months ago
Is the legendary investor Warren Buffett sounding the alarm on the market? Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's company, is sitting on a record $325 billion in cash after selling off major chunks of Apple and Bank of America stock.
Dominik Sobe's...
I tried the "Coding for Marketing" growth hack and the results are...
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge
The Great Data Heist continues.
a month ago
The Great Data Heist continues.
latest projects -...
Portable Probability Panel
[Misc] Laser-cut Galton board
6 months ago
[Misc] Laser-cut Galton board
Quanta Magazine
The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy
For decades, physicists have struggled to develop a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity —...
a year ago
For decades, physicists have struggled to develop a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity — and space-time — are fundamentally classical?
The post The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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a year ago
bt RSS Feed
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble
2022-09-08
Everyday a new designer begins their journey...
over a year ago
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble
2022-09-08
Everyday a new designer begins their journey into the world of insert design industry here and it is magical! Having a fresh pair of eyes untainted from the current trends of the time can help improve design as a whole....
Yazin Alirhayim
Braindump
Been having a hard time lately focusing.
It’s like whenever I start doing anything of any...
over a year ago
Been having a hard time lately focusing.
It’s like whenever I start doing anything of any significance I get derailed, and fall into this spiral of thought where I reconsider whether what I’m about to do matters, why it would, and whether I could be doing something else that...
Commoncog
Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think
Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it....
over a year ago
Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
SVG Turbulance Effect for Text
This approach allows for some next level design options!
over a year ago
This approach allows for some next level design options!
TheCollector
How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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6 months ago
Miguel Carranza
The privilege of free education
There are 50 public universities in Spain. The majority of Spanish students end up attending the...
over a year ago
There are 50 public universities in Spain. The majority of Spanish students end up attending the closest school to their family home. A particular degree not being taught nearby, or not getting in (mostly due to the limited number of seats) are the main exceptions for traveling...
Retail Design Blog
McKenzie 10-Year Barrel Reserve Rum by Works Design Group
Since re-vamping the branding and some marketing materials, Finger Lakes Distilling recently asked...
4 weeks ago
Since re-vamping the branding and some marketing materials, Finger Lakes Distilling recently asked us to help design the packaging for...
One Useful Thing
Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs
Also, we have a prompt library!
10 months ago
Also, we have a prompt library!
AVC
Flooding
I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday...
a year ago
I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday with photos of the flooding at West Point. My dad and brother used to work in that grey stone building called Mahan Hall. And the same storms that did this to West Point did worse...
lcamtuf’s thing
Weekend projects: Sketchy Sketch
Making a nicer version of a forgotten, electronic Etch-A-Sketch toy.
2 weeks ago
Making a nicer version of a forgotten, electronic Etch-A-Sketch toy.
TheCollector
Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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a year ago
Making software...
Setting Up a Free SSL
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
over a year ago
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol.
Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Vitalik Buterin's...
How will Ethereum's multi-client philosophy interact with ZK-EVMs?
a year ago
Londonist
The Coca-Cola Christmas Truck Drives Into London This Week
Merry fizz-mas!
a year ago
Explorations of an...
The End Of An Era - Reflections On Our Travels
(Written on April 23, 2023)
In just a few days time, Laura and I will board a jet bound for another...
a year ago
(Written on April 23, 2023)
In just a few days time, Laura and I will board a jet bound for another international destination. Our flight home to Toronto isn't that unique of a scenario, as we have flown on plenty of planes headed home since we began our international travels...
Seeking Wisdom
Neural Networks – Part 2
This is my sixth post in a series on building a toy GPT. I recommend that you read my previous posts...
a year ago
This is my sixth post in a series on building a toy GPT. I recommend that you read my previous posts before reading this one. When using linear and logistic regression, which involve just a single linear equation, calculating derivatives is easy since there is only one equation...
Code Of Honor
StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames
In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it...
over a year ago
In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it from a follow-on to Warcraft — derisively called “Orcs in space” in 1996 — into the award-winning game that we were finally able to deliver after two more years of hardship. But one...
Seth's Blog
“But what if I’m wrong?
If we’re going to come together and invest the time in conversation, in research or in analysis, we...
9 months ago
If we’re going to come together and invest the time in conversation, in research or in analysis, we should begin by understanding what would be required for you or I to change our minds. If you’re not willing to consider that you’re wrong, then, in the words of a Dan Dennett,...
Artificial Ignorance
Blade Runner 2024
Reddit's AI Hunters and the quest for authentic digital experiences.
4 months ago
Reddit's AI Hunters and the quest for authentic digital experiences.
Irrational...
Manage your priorities and energy.
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I...
a year ago
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This “company, team, self” framework proved a helpful decision-making...
Old Structures...
The Aftertaste of Technological Change
I slept through the Daylight Savings change last week. More accurately, I didn’t realize it was...
2 months ago
I slept through the Daylight Savings change last week. More accurately, I didn’t realize it was occurring – I thought it was yesterday, not the Sunday a week ago – and I generally sleep late on the weekends anyway, so I got an extra hour of sleep without realizing, until...
Contemporist...
A Monochromatic Interior Sets The Vibe Inside This Retail Store
Design firm Studiomateriality, has shared photos of a retail store they designed in Athina, Greece,...
10 months ago
Design firm Studiomateriality, has shared photos of a retail store they designed in Athina, Greece, that has a monochromatic interior to catch the eye of people walking past.
MMapped blog
Book summary: Building a Second Brain
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Were the First Laws Sung?
I make some radical claims in this extract from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
a year ago
I make some radical claims in this extract from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
Rest of World -...
The CEO helping thousands of women in Latin America launch successful online businesses
Zach Oschin is the founder of Elenas, an app used by women to digitize their catalog sales.
11 months ago
Zach Oschin is the founder of Elenas, an app used by women to digitize their catalog sales.
Home on Erik...
σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up?
Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as...
over a year ago
Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as Why software projects take longer than you think, which is a blog post I wrote a long time ago positing that software projects completion time follow a log-normal distribution.
Liz Denys
Bauhaus spoon rest, 2024
Bauhaus design / negative space / boundaries that are clear on paper
7 months ago
Bauhaus design / negative space / boundaries that are clear on paper
Jonas Hietala
Christmas break
So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and...
over a year ago
So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and I really enjoy studying here. We had lisp the whole time which is a pretty sweet little language and if you haven’t, give it a shot. Then we had math and I do like math, although I...
ntietz.com blog
A confusing lifetime error related to Rust's lifetime elision
Earlier this week, I ran into a confusing situation with lifetimes and the borrow checker while...
over a year ago
Earlier this week, I ran into a confusing situation with lifetimes and the borrow checker while working on my Lox interpreter.
It took me a little while to figure out, and it's an instructive situation.
Here's a reduced-down version of what I was working on.
It's an interpreter,...
The Works in...
To change a norm
How the war on drunk driving was won
7 months ago
How the war on drunk driving was won
Miguel Carranza
Effective code review
Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most...
over a year ago
Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most tech companies1. However, it is not always implemented as well as it should. In this post, I will describe some practices that I try to follow when opening pull requests, and that...
./techtipsy
Strangling your service with a Kubernetes misconfiguration
This is a quick story about a fun discovery that I made a while ago.
For legal reasons, all of this...
over a year ago
This is a quick story about a fun discovery that I made a while ago.
For legal reasons, all of this is made up and no such service ever existed.
Once upon a time, we had this Java service that handled all the backend
work that you’d expect to occur for a product with a web...
Jonas Hietala
addwatch: resource exhausted
While tampering with Hakyll and running site preview I stumbled upon this error message:
site:...
over a year ago
While tampering with Hakyll and running site preview I stumbled upon this error message:
site: addWatch: resource exhausted (No space left on device)
At first I tried to clear /tmp but, so clearly the device did have some space left. After a bit of googling I found a solution...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets
I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for...
over a year ago
I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of tracking on the reader, docks your lighthouse performance...
Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
Computer Ads from...
Ergotron's MacTilt
MacTilt is the Solution
a month ago
Old Structures...
Some Good News To Start The Year
From Ars Technica, “40% of US electricity is now emissions-free” by John Timmer has a pretty...
a year ago
From Ars Technica, “40% of US electricity is now emissions-free” by John Timmer has a pretty self-explanatory headline. The short version: wind and solar have advanced quickly because of decreases in their cost, coal use has dropped, and there’s more storage coming on line to...
Maps Mania
SPOT: the Natural Language Geolocation Map
2 weeks ago
Seldo.com
What I've learned about writing AI apps so far
2 days ago
TheCollector
Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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11 months ago
Passing Time
What My Friends Have to Say About Me
A Japanese proverb states that if the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
over a year ago
A Japanese proverb states that if the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Coding Horror
Password Rules Are Bullshit
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules.
If...
over a year ago
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules.
If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost pic.twitter.com/Tf9EnwgoZv
— Jeff Atwood
TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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3 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
These Are the Most Endangered Historic Sites in America
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Venezuelan migrants helped build Colombia’s tech scene. Now the country is kicking them out
New rules make getting a visa more difficult, even as Colombia struggles to find enough tech...
a year ago
New rules make getting a visa more difficult, even as Colombia struggles to find enough tech workers.
Old Structures...
Fuzzy
Structural steel and composite steel deck used with concrete slabs need to be fireproofed. Ducts,...
2 months ago
Structural steel and composite steel deck used with concrete slabs need to be fireproofed. Ducts, pipes, lights, and electrical conduits do not.
blag
How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine
In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how...
over a year ago
In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how to configure git emails per directory or per project.
Eric Bailey
Saying thank you
Things are in a really bad place right now. It is difficult to think of any aspect of the world that...
over a year ago
Things are in a really bad place right now. It is difficult to think of any aspect of the world that isn’t being strangled by malignant forces. This includes the web.
It's been a long time since the altruistic early web—putting content out there for the its own sake. The web...
Londonist
The Curling Club Has Slid Into South Bank For A Winter-Long Après-Ski Party
Unleash your inner Winter Olympian.
a year ago
Unleash your inner Winter Olympian.
TheCollector
Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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a year ago
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...
9 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...
Old Structures...
Adelaide House, Part 2 – Structure
Continuing my discussion (part 1 is here) of London’s maybe-first skyscraper, the Adelaide House,...
9 months ago
Continuing my discussion (part 1 is here) of London’s maybe-first skyscraper, the Adelaide House, let’s talk about structure. There’s a big difference between trying to build the first skyscraper in your city in the 1870s or 80s or 90s (depending on how you want to define...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Pitching to payers, pilots, and what makes Blue Cross distinct with Tricia Garland | Out-Of-Pocket
so you want to know what health insurers are looking for?
10 months ago
so you want to know what health insurers are looking for?
Daniel Miessler
The UL Boost Protocol
This is a member-only post. Thank you for being part of this. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
over a year ago
This is a member-only post. Thank you for being part of this. This is UL Member Content Subscribe Already a member? Login
Joel Gascoigne
I am an investor in 9 companies: How and why I started angel investing
A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written...
over a year ago
A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written about yet. So here we are.
./techtipsy
My very first Dungeons and Dragons campaign
In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours)...
2 weeks ago
In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours) Dungeons and
Dragons campaign.
It was the nerdiest thing ever, and I loved it!
The setting
After another day of keeping a critical production service up, the whole team met up at...
NeuroLogica Blog
Man Gets Pig Kidney Transplant
On March 16 surgeons transplanted a kidney taken from a pig into a human recipient, Rick Slayman. So...
10 months ago
On March 16 surgeons transplanted a kidney taken from a pig into a human recipient, Rick Slayman. So far the transplant is a success, but of course the real test will be how well the kidney functions and for how long. This is the first time such a transplant has been done into a...
Val Sopi
What a year!
<p>One of the things I'm most proud of in 2022 was that I stuck to some personal habits like going...
over a year ago
<p>One of the things I'm most proud of in 2022 was that I stuck to some personal habits like going to the gym, eating well, and meditating.</p>
<p>I believe these habits helped me get more in tune with myself and get the confidence necessary to take bold steps, like taking out a...
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Joining Ought
A new role at an AI research lab working on tools for open-ended reasoning
over a year ago
A new role at an AI research lab working on tools for open-ended reasoning
TheCollector
Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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7 months ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
AI tutoring; what works?
It's 2024 and LLMs are still the "hot new thing". Looking back on 2023, I'm surprised how quickly I...
11 months ago
It's 2024 and LLMs are still the "hot new thing". Looking back on 2023, I'm surprised how quickly I went from, "Wow! My computer is speaking to me in fluent and comprehensible English," to, "Eh, that could have been phrased/executed/generated better."
Back in the early 2010s, my...
99% Invisible
Devil in the Details [EPISODE]
In 1994, an independent producer made a short, earnest video featuring an eccentric cast of...
a year ago
In 1994, an independent producer made a short, earnest video featuring an eccentric cast of characters who were focused on a very specific paranoia. The tape was made to look like a TV news special. It opens with a cheap, Jerry Springer-era computer graphic of a gold pentagram...
The Works in...
Does higher density cause lower birth rates?
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8 months ago
Assessing one recent claim that it does
Londonist
The Unique London Spot Where A Railway, A Road And A Canal All Cross Each Other
But which came first?
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TheCollector
Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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3 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Why don't more people use Linux?
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?"...
4 months ago
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?" And it's a fair question! It intuitively rings true until you give it a moment's consideration. Linux is even free, so what's stopping mass adoption, if it's actually better? My...
Platformer
Reddit goes dark
As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it
a year ago
As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Equation
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The real fantasy is clearly a VR suit with a food...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The real fantasy is clearly a VR suit with a food tube and a lack of perception that you're in the VR suit with a food tube.
Today's News:
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
AI in healthcare - defensibility, capabilities, and cost reduction | Out-Of-Pocket
fine fine I'll write about AI
8 months ago
fine fine I'll write about AI
Diaries of Note
The dear old white bear saved me, that time
Liane de Pougy was a socialite and diarist who shimmered through early 20th-century Paris with the...
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Liane de Pougy was a socialite and diarist who shimmered through early 20th-century Paris with the sort of glamour and intrigue that novels are made of. Born Anne Marie Chassaigne in 1869, she lived many lives: an acclaimed dancer, a celebrated courtesan, and eventually an...
devonzuegel.com
OWD #0: Welcome to Order Without Design
I'm starting a new podcast called Order Without Design with the most interesting couple I know:...
over a year ago
I'm starting a new podcast called Order Without Design with the most interesting couple I know: Alain & Marie-Agnes Bertaud.
This project is an extension of their book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. With its focus on economic theory, you might not realize that...
diamond geezer
Kempton Park
One Stop Beyond: Kempton Park
In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater...
4 months ago
One Stop Beyond: Kempton Park
In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London boundary, getting off and seeing what's there. Today that means Kempton Park, one stop beyond Hampton on the Shepperton line, a station which exists solely because of the...
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Animated CSS hamburger icons
If you need some tasty CSS hamburger icons that animate in fantastic ways, here you go.
Hamburgers...
over a year ago
If you need some tasty CSS hamburger icons that animate in fantastic ways, here you go.
Hamburgers is an MIT-licensed CSS library that gives you over a dozen beautifully animated navicons for use in your own projects. Also includes the Sass source so you can customize and compile...
swyx's site RSS Feed
2019 /r/ReactJS Survey Results
[](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M-JUtp9I5_gSk8OpV9Adk9sYzhoU-VNcwz9RUJ1-8Sw/edit?usp=sharing)
Luxagraf:...
Greenfield Village
It's always seems slightly perverse to me to head east in a country that once lived by the slogan,...
a year ago
It's always seems slightly perverse to me to head east in a country that once lived by the slogan, go west. Whatever the case, we're eastbound again and when planning our route we ran across something called Greenfield Village.
Greenfield Village is difficult to describe, but...
TheCollector
Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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2 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
In-Depth Review of Buahan, a Banyan Tree Escape, a hotel in Bali, Indonesia
a year ago
MMapped blog
A swarm of replicated state machines
over a year ago
Londonist
Easter 2024 Transport In London: Which Train And Tubes Are Running, And Which Stations Are Closed?
Got an egg hunt to go to? Read this first
10 months ago
Got an egg hunt to go to? Read this first
Quanta Magazine
Diminishing Dark Energy May Evade the ‘Swampland’ of Impossible Universes
The largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos hints that the dark energy that’s fueling the universe’s...
5 months ago
The largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos hints that the dark energy that’s fueling the universe’s expansion may be weakening. One community of theoretical physicists expected as much.
The post Diminishing Dark Energy May Evade the ‘Swampland’ of Impossible Universes...
Posts on Made of...
A Go/C Polyglot
Writing a Go/C polyglot Someone on a Slack I’m on recently raised the question of how you might...
over a year ago
Writing a Go/C polyglot Someone on a Slack I’m on recently raised the question of how you might write a source file that’s both valid C and Go, commenting that it wasn’t immediately obvious if this was even possible. I got nerdsniped, and succeeded in producing one, which you can...
Londonist
Seek Out 25 Colourful Guide Dog Sculptures In Canary Wharf
We've heard of a glossy coat but this is ridiculous...
10 months ago
We've heard of a glossy coat but this is ridiculous...
The Ruffian
How Did Politics Get So Weird?
James Kanagasooriam Explains Everything
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James Kanagasooriam Explains Everything
nanoscale views
A couple of links + a thought experiment about spin
A couple of interesting things to read:
As someone interested in lost ancient literature and also...
11 months ago
A couple of interesting things to read:
As someone interested in lost ancient literature and also science, I really liked this news article from Nature about progress in reading scrolls excavated from Herculaneum. The area around the Bay of Naples was a quite the spot for posh...
alexwlchan
What comes after AWS?
James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday:
Grumble Bundle
@monkchips
...
8 months ago
James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday:
Grumble Bundle
@monkchips
what are the core primitives developers need for building and deploying modern applications? what platform services does the underlying infrastructure need to...
Mind Mine
are relationships actually “hard”?
on weak, unconvincing statements and expectations vs. reality
3 weeks ago
on weak, unconvincing statements and expectations vs. reality
The American Scholar
Battle Hymns
Charles Ives and the Civil War
The post Battle Hymns appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
Charles Ives and the Civil War
The post Battle Hymns appeared first on The American Scholar.
Passing Time
Your Social Universe
Imagine yourself as a star.
10 months ago
Imagine yourself as a star.
swyx's site RSS Feed
250k downloads of Latent Space Pod
I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded...
a year ago
I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded developer-part-time-creator, the Latent Space Newsletter + Pod has done much better than I usually do. Here are the stats as of today:
TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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a year ago
The American Scholar
“Snake” by D. H. Lawrence
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Snake” by D. H. Lawrence appeared first on The American...
4 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Snake” by D. H. Lawrence appeared first on The American Scholar.
Londonist
The Wandering Caryatids Of Southwark Park
They've stood in three different locations.
a year ago
They've stood in three different locations.
David Perell
The Paradoxes of Modern Life
The Paradox of Reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the...
over a year ago
The Paradox of Reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the vast majority of what you read. The Paradox of Writing: Great writing looks effortless. But because the ideas are so clear, casual readers don’t appreciate how much time it took to...
Joel on Software
A Dusting of Gamification
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe...
over a year ago
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation. Read more "A Dusting of Gamification"
Retail Design Blog
Day and Night Park by CATS
In late 2022, the independent bookstore Jetlag Books, based in Beijing, approached us with a...
4 months ago
In late 2022, the independent bookstore Jetlag Books, based in Beijing, approached us with a collaboration opportunity with the Swire...
One Useful Thing
What Apple's AI Tells Us: Experimental Models⁴
Siri versus the machine god?
7 months ago
Siri versus the machine god?
Maps Mania
Which Airports are also Filetypes?
3 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Knowledge Laundering
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took...
a year ago
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took notes on — and this excerpt talking about large language models (LLMs) stood out to me:
Why give somebody credit for the lines of code you’ve adapted for your own project when you...
Stoic Simple
What Is Stoicism, Basically? A Comprehensive Overview
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand years. The ancient Greeks...
a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand years. The ancient Greeks developed it as a way to live a good life, free from the distractions of emotions, desires, and material possessions. Stoicism has been embraced by many people throughout history,...
bt RSS Feed
Vertical Tabs in Safari
Vertical Tabs in Safari
2024-09-26
I use Firefox as my main browser (specifically the Nightly build)...
3 months ago
Vertical Tabs in Safari
2024-09-26
I use Firefox as my main browser (specifically the Nightly build) which has vertical tabs built-in. There are instances where I need to use Safari, such as debugging or testing iOS devices, and in those instances I prefer to have a similar...
Home on Erik...
Machine, Platform, Crowd
I just bought Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future and discovered that it...
over a year ago
I just bought Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future and discovered that it mentions my blog – in particular the post When machine learning matters.
Ok, I lied a little bit. I didn't discover it serendipitously.
Alex Meub
Chromecast Backgrounds
I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the...
over a year ago
I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the background images that cycle through the home screen are pretty awesome.
I looked into it and was able to find the URL that this page uses and pull all the images using a Node...
Product Identity
Niche product design
Seeking uniqueness where design flourish
11 months ago
Seeking uniqueness where design flourish
Willem's Blog
From tree to table
Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
over a year ago
Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
Mazdak
Block, TikTok & Beyond
From Block's latest moves to TikTok's impact on the music industry, we explore the trends shaping...
2 months ago
From Block's latest moves to TikTok's impact on the music industry, we explore the trends shaping our digital world.
The Marginalian
Favorite Children’s Books of 2023
Tender and poetic reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, deep time, and the...
a year ago
Tender and poetic reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, deep time, and the interconnectedness of life.
TheCollector
Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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10 months ago
Christopher Butler
Link – Vasantha Yogananthan's personal website
vasanthayogananthan.com is a beautifully-designed artist’s website. I love the home page’s text list...
a year ago
vasanthayogananthan.com is a beautifully-designed artist’s website. I love the home page’s text list styling!
TheCollector
Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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a year ago
The Modern House
Mia Castenskjold and Stefan Zschernitz’s self-built sanctuary in Hackney
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Fooled
Now it’s a business model. People are regularly fooled by crypto scams, NFT hype, opioid felons,...
a year ago
Now it’s a business model. People are regularly fooled by crypto scams, NFT hype, opioid felons, algorithmic spam at scale, health claims, illogical political arguments, fundraising pitches, overnight shortcuts on the road to riches or happiness and MLM hustle. Your account has...
Anecdotal Evidence
Kenneth C. Kurp 1955-2024
My brother died Saturday afternoon in the hospice in Cleveland, Ohio where he spent the last two...
4 months ago
My brother died Saturday afternoon in the hospice in Cleveland, Ohio where he spent the last two weeks of his life. He was age sixty-nine. I was with him as was his son, Abraham Kurp. I watched as his eyes closed and he stopped breathing. There was another sense, too, of a sudden...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
“Incalculable Loss” front page of The New York Times for May 24th, 2020
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights...
over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights Reserved.
The front page of The New York Times for Sunday, May 24th, 2020, was a stark wall of type, and only type: a long and somber list of Americans who have lost their lives...
The Honest Broker
Death: A Literary Guide
Can you really prepare for it or even understand it? These 10 books are my cherished touchstones on...
a year ago
Can you really prepare for it or even understand it? These 10 books are my cherished touchstones on the matter.
Londonist
Chelsea In Bloom 2024: Giant Floral Caterpillar To Take Over Sloane Square
Free flower festival returns... with a foodie theme.
11 months ago
Free flower festival returns... with a foodie theme.
Opsbros
Artemis 1 Countdown
I've been following the Artemis 1 Launch Schedule quite closely on a few forums and discussing it...
over a year ago
I've been following the Artemis 1 Launch Schedule quite closely on a few forums and discussing it with serveral people, and I had been regularly posting updated DateandTime countdown links for the revised launch attempts. With the schedule chnages and scrubs that have happened...
Marian's Blog
Raspberry Pi powered fishtank
My fishtank is now internet-connected. It is run by a Raspberry Pi that can do three things: Feed...
over a year ago
My fishtank is now internet-connected. It is run by a Raspberry Pi that can do three things: Feed the fish, switch the lights and take pictures.
To feed the fish, the Raspberry Pi sends commands to an automatic fishfeeder that I modified. It can empty any container in any order....
Cheese and Biscuits
Oren, Dalston
Mumbling and grumbling during my journey to Dalston the other night, as the 38 bus did an average...
a year ago
Mumbling and grumbling during my journey to Dalston the other night, as the 38 bus did an average speed of just less than walking pace all the way from Holborn in the pouring rain, just helped to highlight how I end up travelling to some parts of town for dinner over and over...
TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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5 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
Everything is espionage: Things I learned researching Assange
(espissange? asspionage?)
Who is this Julian Assange guy? Is he good or bad? Did he do espionage?...
10 months ago
(espissange? asspionage?)
Who is this Julian Assange guy? Is he good or bad? Did he do espionage? Why is the US so obsessed with getting its hands on him?
At dynomight.net we don’t like to answer questions. Instead, we prefer to replace them with more abstract questions that we...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Experience
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Also what if this IS the experience machine and the...
a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Also what if this IS the experience machine and the real world is way worse?
Today's News:
Mazdak
Google Quantum Computer, OpenAI Sora Video Generator and more ...
Google just dropped a bombshell in quantum computing.
a month ago
Google just dropped a bombshell in quantum computing.
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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a month ago
The Diff
Credentialism and the Money Illusion
Plus! Diff Jobs; Capacity Constraints; IPO Window; Strikes and Opportunity Costs; The Upside and...
2 weeks ago
Plus! Diff Jobs; Capacity Constraints; IPO Window; Strikes and Opportunity Costs; The Upside and Downside of Ads; Backcasting Returns
Liz Denys
Starlit sky coffee pitcher, 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
9 months ago
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
Daniel Miessler
NO. 367 | Hive Ransom, Anti-Google, Software 2.0…
🎙️If you’re not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your...
a year ago
🎙️If you’re not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your favorite client! APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS The FBI infiltrated the HIVE ransomware group, stopping over $130 million in ransomware attacks. HIVE is known for going...
CONTEMPORIST
A Coffee Shop Inspired By The Spectral Allure Of The Aurora Borealis
Design firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Uncloud Coffee, a new coffee shop they...
9 months ago
Design firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Uncloud Coffee, a new coffee shop they completed in Chonburi, Thailand, with a sculptural and eye-catching facade. Inspired by the spectral allure of the Aurora Borealis, the design abstractly interprets these atmospheric...
The personal website...
Responsive roadmaps
Shane Parrish’s essay The Map is Not the Territory begins:
The map of reality is not reality. Even...
over a year ago
Shane Parrish’s essay The Map is Not the Territory begins:
The map of reality is not reality. Even the best maps are imperfect. That’s because they are reductions of what they represent.
The same is true for product roadmaps. Understanding and applying Parrish’s mental model is...
Escaping Flatland
Seeing people clearly
Head of people operations for the entire friend group
a year ago
Head of people operations for the entire friend group
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Subversive Hyperlink
The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.
I send you a link and as long as you have an...
11 months ago
The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.
I send you a link and as long as you have an agent, i.e. a browser (or a mere HTTP client), you can access the content at that link.
This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of...
Quantum Frontiers
Can Thermodynamics Resolve the Measurement Problem?
At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of...
a year ago
At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of Maryland!), during an expert panel Q&A session, one member of the audience asked “can quantum thermodynamics address foundational problems in quantum theory?” That stuck with …...
TheCollector
Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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4 months ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Inland Northwest, Day 7 (Abrupt End)
What should have been a ten day trip ended unexpectedly on the seventh day. The previous evening our...
3 months ago
What should have been a ten day trip ended unexpectedly on the seventh day. The previous evening our kid who was watching the house called to tell us about our soaking wet basement carpet. Our ancient boiler was leaking. So we immediately contacted our insurance provider, a water...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
2 weeks ago
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months.
It’s also...
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
5 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
New Game: Nomido
With one of my other hats on, I made a new online word puzzle game called Nomido. The goal is to...
a month ago
With one of my other hats on, I made a new online word puzzle game called Nomido. The goal is to construct words out of two-letter tiles. I think it's great fun, and hope you will too – please give it a look!
Nomido
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The Marginalian
Awakened Cosmos: Poetry as Spiritual Practice
"Poetry is the cosmos awakened to itself."
10 months ago
"Poetry is the cosmos awakened to itself."
TheCollector
Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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9 months ago
Seth's Blog
The other choices
The intentional, noticed choices are obvious. “Vanilla or chocolate?” But most of the choices we...
8 months ago
The intentional, noticed choices are obvious. “Vanilla or chocolate?” But most of the choices we live with are unseen. They’re expensive, challenging and invisible. When we plan an event with an outdoor component, we’re choosing to be anxious about the weather in the week leading...
Overcoming Bias
Feels Gone Wrong
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me...
2 weeks ago
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me the huge emotional appeal of becoming a musician like them.
Josh Thompson
Sidekiq and Background Jobs for Beginners
I’ve recently had to learn more about background jobs (using Sidekiq, specifically) for some bugs I...
over a year ago
I’ve recently had to learn more about background jobs (using Sidekiq, specifically) for some bugs I was working on.
I learned a lot. Much of it was extremely basic. Anyone who knows much at all about Sidekiq will say “oh, duh, of course that’s true”, but at the time, it wasn’t...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
England, Day 9 (Atypical London)
Before we left on our trip to England I promised everyone in the family that we would visit at least...
5 months ago
Before we left on our trip to England I promised everyone in the family that we would visit at least one thing they absolutely wanted to see. We completed that for the younger kid at Tankfest. Two more bucket list destinations happened during our first full day in London. We’re...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Sunsetting Kubernetes support for PostHog
We're sunsetting support for our Kubernetes deployment for PostHog. Because we're an open source...
a year ago
We're sunsetting support for our Kubernetes deployment for PostHog. Because we're an open source company, I want to be transparent about what this…
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Gravity Prayers
A cube of ice trembled in the hand of a stupid boy. Like a loaded dice, its melting walls possessed...
over a year ago
A cube of ice trembled in the hand of a stupid boy. Like a loaded dice, its melting walls possessed the power to steer the fate of the foolish teenager. From the top of the bleachers the boy considers a dare as a high school marching band blares behind him. Two hundred feet below...
The Marginalian
Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism
"Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so."
a year ago
"Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so."
A Beautiful Site
PHP functions to get and remove the file extension from a string
I use these regular expressions all the time, but it's much more convenient to have them both in...
over a year ago
I use these regular expressions all the time, but it's much more convenient to have them both in convenient PHP functions.
// Returns only the file extension (without the dot)
function file_ext($filename) {
return preg_match('/\./', $filename) ? preg_replace('/^.*\./', '',...
Old Structures...
Roadtrip
I’m in Montreal for the annual APT so this week’s blog posts will be shallower less serious more...
2 months ago
I’m in Montreal for the annual APT so this week’s blog posts will be shallower less serious more entertaining than usual. I hope to work in some touristing photos, but that may not happen until next week. It’s worth noting that my train from New York to Montreal has a scheduled...
The Map is Mostly...
The Oak and the Reed
Dear friends, there is a tale, The oak one day said to the reed: You have good reason to curse...
over a year ago
Dear friends, there is a tale, The oak one day said to the reed: You have good reason to curse nature — A simple sparrow for you is a heavy burden. The slightest wind that by chance Makes the face of the water ripple Forces you to lower your head. However my own forehead, Not...
One Useful Thing
Confronting Impossible Futures
We shouldn't be certain about what is next, but we should plan for it
6 months ago
We shouldn't be certain about what is next, but we should plan for it
History Today Feed
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
UX Collective
Our top UX stories this year
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
4 weeks ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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2 months ago
The Changelog
It’s More Important To Recognize What Direction People Are Moving Than Where They Are
I recently read a post on social media that went something like this (paraphrased): “If you buy an...
a year ago
I recently read a post on social media that went something like this (paraphrased): “If you buy an EV, you’re part of the problem. You’re advancing car culture and are actively hurting the planet. The only ethical thing to do is ditch your cars and put all your effort into...
Simply Explained
Why I don't take sponsorships
Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN...
over a year ago
Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN providers. They all told me the same thing: our service is the best way to protect your privacy, and we were hoping you could convey this message in one of your videos.So I decided to do...
Noahpinion
At least five things to finish your week (#19)
Real wages, why North Korea is poor, China's stalled catch-up, the economics of social media, AI...
a year ago
Real wages, why North Korea is poor, China's stalled catch-up, the economics of social media, AI takes some jobs, and a comic about rabbits
The Pragmatic...
Happy Leap Day!
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how...
10 months ago
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how few assumptions we should make about dates – and why to use a date library when you can.
TheCollector
What Is Transcendentalism?
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a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Are Electric Vehicles Worth It
One of the key components of the plan to get our civilization to net zero by 2050 is to transform...
a year ago
One of the key components of the plan to get our civilization to net zero by 2050 is to transform the motor vehicle fleet into all electric vehicles (EVs). This is a worthy goal, as it would eliminate burning gasoline for transportation. In fact it’s necessary if we want to get...
diamond geezer
Old Oak Common to Euston
A Nice Walk: Old Oak Common to Euston (6 miles)
High Speed 2 is seemingly forever under threat, the...
a year ago
A Nice Walk: Old Oak Common to Euston (6 miles)
High Speed 2 is seemingly forever under threat, the latest proposal being that it should run only between not-quite-central Birmingham and not-quite-central London. But would it really be so terrible to terminate the line at Old...
Made by Ollin
Acapella Extraction with ConvNets
A working prototype
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Linux as the new developer default at 37signals
For over twenty years, the Mac was the default at 37signals. For designers, programmers, support,...
8 months ago
For over twenty years, the Mac was the default at 37signals. For designers, programmers, support, and everyone else. That mono culture had some clear advantages, like being able to run Kandji and macOS-specific setup scripts. But it certainly also had its disadvantages, like...
Avestura's Blog
Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser
This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like...
over a year ago
This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like Telegram...
Louwrentius
Linode hacked: thoughts about cloud security
I bought a Linode VPS for private usage just after the report that Linode had reset all passwords of...
over a year ago
I bought a Linode VPS for private usage just after the report that Linode had reset all passwords of existing users regarding the Linode management console.
Resetting passwords is not something you do when under a simple attack such as a DDOS attack. Such a measure is only taken...
Londonist
Inside South London's Pay-What-You-Can Cafe
South Norwood Community Kitchen.
9 months ago
South Norwood Community Kitchen.
Londonist
"There's A Mullet For Everyone" - How The Marmite Hairstyle Conquered Queer, Creative London
What gave rise to the mullet in London's hippest circles?
11 months ago
What gave rise to the mullet in London's hippest circles?
Escaping Flatland
Integrity
Intensely Human, No 3
11 months ago
Londonist
Doctor Who TARDIS And Sculpture Appear On South Bank
See David Tennant regenerate into Ncuti Gutwa... and back again.
a year ago
See David Tennant regenerate into Ncuti Gutwa... and back again.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Remember
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Do you want to do EVERYTHING right or do you want...
a year ago
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Do you want to do EVERYTHING right or do you want to have FRIENDSHIP?
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macwright.com
awesome-codemirror by ()
I started another “awesome” GitHub repo (a list of resources), for CodeMirror, called...
a year ago
I started another “awesome” GitHub repo (a list of resources), for CodeMirror, called awesome-codemirror. CodeMirror has a community page but I wanted a freewheeling easy-to-contribute-to alternative. Who knows if it’ll grow to the size of awesome-geojson - 2.1k stars as of this...
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
6 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
Old Structures...
6:52 AM, November 27
Half an hour after dawn, and the setting full moon is just to the right and below the ONE WAY sign....
a year ago
Half an hour after dawn, and the setting full moon is just to the right and below the ONE WAY sign. The construction on the left is poart of the Battery Resliency program to prtocet lower Manahttan against sea level rise.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Revolutionizing Audio with Descript and Temporal
A case study I published for my work at Temporal
over a year ago
A case study I published for my work at Temporal
Map of the Week
Mapping Etymology
Mapologies is a website that shows many interesting etymology maps such as this one showing the word...
9 months ago
Mapologies is a website that shows many interesting etymology maps such as this one showing the word for Earth throughout Europe-from their planets page.
The countries are color coded by the language family origins of the words. Here are peaches from the fruits page.
I like...
TheCollector
The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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3 months ago
TheCollector
6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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9 months ago
Seth's Blog
The blank page
Sometimes, we’re so afraid of creation that we don’t even leave blank pages around. If your...
9 months ago
Sometimes, we’re so afraid of creation that we don’t even leave blank pages around. If your workspace has a hole exactly the size of a creative idea in it, you’re more likely to fill the hole. When we decrease the number of steps to begin creating, and increase the expectation...
AVC
Yubikey Authenticator
I got a new Pixel 7 last week and have started the tedious process of moving over to a new phone....
a year ago
I got a new Pixel 7 last week and have started the tedious process of moving over to a new phone. One of the more painful chores in moving from one phone to another is moving the Google Authenticator app and all of the two factor codes to the new phone. My partner Nick told […]
Adventures In...
The Bounding Box Podcast
The one where I chat with Rene Rubalcava about the importance of unstructured data-play, the risk of...
a year ago
The one where I chat with Rene Rubalcava about the importance of unstructured data-play, the risk of metrics becoming the goal, where to find inspiration, brewing chaos into professional development, and loving our neighbors!
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Balance Sheet of Conscience'
“Strange as this
may sound, as soon as I saw the first Soviet airplanes on September 17, 1939, I
had...
a year ago
“Strange as this
may sound, as soon as I saw the first Soviet airplanes on September 17, 1939, I
had no doubt at all that I’d end up in a camp, and yet I wasn’t much interested
in them. Could I have been wearied in advance, by the monotony and dullness of
mass atrocities?”
That...
CONTEMPORIST
A Slide Connects The Main Floor With The Kids Bedrooms On The Lower Floor Of This Home
Reflect Architecture has remodeled a duplex that had an additional two small basement units, and...
a year ago
Reflect Architecture has remodeled a duplex that had an additional two small basement units, and turned it into one unit on the second floor for income purposes, as well as combined the ground floor and lower-level into a single dwelling for a young family of five. One unexpected...
Beautiful Public...
Mapping the Sea Floor
USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of...
over a year ago
USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of the sea floor off Cape Ann, MA.
Kagi Blog
Kagi raises $670K
Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our...
a year ago
Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date.
Seth's Blog
How many sparks?
That’s the tempting question. How much hustle, hoopla and initiative do we need to get this idea...
a month ago
That’s the tempting question. How much hustle, hoopla and initiative do we need to get this idea ignited in the marketplace… But the much better question is: How much kindling do we have? Kindling doesn’t happen all at once. It’s the result of investments over time. We can earn...
Open Culture
Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in...
Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been...
a week ago
Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been more widely known. “With his distinctive hair, gentle voice, and signature expressions such as ‘happy little trees,’ he’s an enduring icon,” writes Michael J. Mooney in an...
Open Culture
James Joyce Picked Drunken Fights, Then Hid Behind Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway seemed to feud with most of the prominent male artists of his time, from Wallace...
7 months ago
Ernest Hemingway seemed to feud with most of the prominent male artists of his time, from Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot to F. Scott Fitzgerald. He had a “very strange relationship” with Orson Welles—the two came to blows at least once—and he reportedly slapped Max Eastman in the...
Writing - Andreas...
Overconfidence and future-proofing
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to
defend questionable...
a year ago
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to
defend questionable design decisions. Future-proofing only makes sense if
you have some idea of what the future will look like and you understand
what the tradeoffs are.
Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
The Pragmatic...
Apple cracking down to enforce its RTO policy
Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office...
a year ago
Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office at least 3 days per week. I talked with engineers on how they see the policy being enforced.
Map of the Week
Harry Beck's Famous Subway Map Goes Airborne
This map was published a month ago in the Londonist. Just about every other map blog has already...
a year ago
This map was published a month ago in the Londonist. Just about every other map blog has already picked up on it and I am late to the game. However, I've spent so much time looking at it that I think it's worth a visit even if you've already seen it. It was drawn by Harry Beck,...
TheCollector
8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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4 months ago
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...
Making software...
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux
2023-09-11
I've recently been using Arch Linux...
a year ago
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux
2023-09-11
I've recently been using Arch Linux for my main work environment on my ThinkPad X260. It's been great. As someone who is constantly drawn to minimalist operating systems such as Alpine or OpenBSD, it's nice to use...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Peter Mick
Lessons from building and growing Copylime to 6 figures all in public
a year ago
Lessons from building and growing Copylime to 6 figures all in public
Eric Bailey
Making content-aware components using CSS’ <code>:has()</code>, grid, and quantity queries
3 months ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Constraints in Go
Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a
powerful way to build...
2 months ago
Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a
powerful way to build polymorphic types and functions constrained by type
sets. Let’s geek out.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Nature and Hiking Adventures in the Cayman Islands
9 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Google's sad ideological capture was exactly what we were trying to avoid
The Gemini AI roll out should have been Google's day of triumph. The company made one of the...
10 months ago
The Gemini AI roll out should have been Google's day of triumph. The company made one of the smartest acquisitions in tech when they bought DeepMind in 2014. They helped set the course for the modern AI movement with the Transformer paper in 2017. They were poised to be right...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Tools As Ways of Being
I took notes from Sean Voisen’s call for more hybrid tools. He speaks for a moment on generative AI...
a week ago
I took notes from Sean Voisen’s call for more hybrid tools. He speaks for a moment on generative AI and its inclusion into existing tools, but reading between the lines the insight I found was how our tools can trigger empathy for people and disciplines:
One of the greatest goals...
Jonas Hietala
Favourite Programming Language
All the programmers love to promote their favourite language, or to hate on others. Now I read a...
over a year ago
All the programmers love to promote their favourite language, or to hate on others. Now I read a post which claimes my favourite language is not good enough! But he’s correct of course, there is no one language to rule them all. You should always choose the mest language for the...
Arduino Blog
Arduino and Truesense partner to bring UWB technology to millions
We are excited to announce our latest partnership with Truesense, a leader in ultra-wideband (UWB)...
2 months ago
We are excited to announce our latest partnership with Truesense, a leader in ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, known for its innovative software and hardware solutions. This collaboration enhances our ecosystem of hardware products, software solutions, and cloud services,...
NeuroLogica Blog
Ripples in Spacetime
It’s always exciting when a scientific institution announces that they are going to make an...
a year ago
It’s always exciting when a scientific institution announces that they are going to make an announcement. Earlier this week we were told that there was going to be a major announcement today (June 29th) regarding a gravitational wave discovery. The goal of the pre-announcement is...
SOCKS
Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ Blueprints
Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was a British botanist and photographer. She was in direct contact with...
over a year ago
Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was a British botanist and photographer. She was in direct contact with William Henry Fox Talbot, (the inventor of calotype, an early photographic technique), and with Sir John Frederick William Herschel, (the inventor of the cyanotype, a technique that...
Jonas Hietala
10 Games in 10 Languages
For school we have this programming course for Java. It isn’t anything special really and it would...
over a year ago
For school we have this programming course for Java. It isn’t anything special really and it would be really boring if I don’t like to program, it almost is anyway, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re to create a game! Just any game will do and we’re in a group of two and we...
Probably...
Why are you so slow?
Recently a shoe store in France ran a promotion called “Rob It to Get It”, which invited customers...
a year ago
Recently a shoe store in France ran a promotion called “Rob It to Get It”, which invited customers to try to steal something by grabbing it and running out of the store. But there was a catch — the “security guard” was a professional sprinter, Méba Mickael Zeze. As you would...
Notes on software...
Learning a new codebase: hacking on nginx
I have never contributed to nginx. My C skills are 1/10. But
downloading the source, hacking it up,...
over a year ago
I have never contributed to nginx. My C skills are 1/10. But
downloading the source, hacking it up, compiling it, and running it
doesn't scare me. This post is to help you overcome your own fears
about doing so. Not necessarily because you should be running
out-of-tree diffs in...
A Beautiful Site
Don't hate on PHP
It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like...
over a year ago
It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like this:
I [...] immediately drop interest in a project when I see that it is implemented in PHP.
A lot of people have been hating on PHP in recent years, and frankly, they have every...
balajis.com
The Balaji Chat
A forum for balajis.com subscribers.
a year ago
A forum for balajis.com subscribers.
Louwrentius
Is storage really that cheap?
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build
myself a 4 TB NAS box,...
over a year ago
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build
myself a 4 TB NAS box, which is already 50% full. However, although it is to
some degree fault-tollerant by using RAID 6, one mistake or catastrophic
hardware faillure and all data is lost.
And that's...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jump
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a year ago
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You would just watch your friends jump off a cliff and do NOTHING?
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TheCollector
A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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5 months ago
Map of the Week
Protein Survey Map
While looking for unrelated items I came across this 1920's Protein Survey Map of Western...
a year ago
While looking for unrelated items I came across this 1920's Protein Survey Map of Western Canada.
Wondering what any of this means, I did some research and discovered that protein refers to the gluten content of wheat. In the early 1900's flour mills began classifying their...
Common Edge
What I Learned From Six Recessions in Architecture
Life is imperfect, and architects understand this better than most.
2 months ago
Life is imperfect, and architects understand this better than most.
Passing Time
In Defense of Trying Hard
Being a try-hard is good, actually
9 months ago
Being a try-hard is good, actually
TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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2 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Touch
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The deepest cut is when he pets his cat, raised...
a year ago
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Hovertext:
The deepest cut is when he pets his cat, raised from kittenhood for 10 years, and nothing happens.
Today's News:
TheCollector
Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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10 months ago
Quanta Magazine
Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging
Biologists discovered that mitochondria in different tissues talk to each other to repair injured...
a year ago
Biologists discovered that mitochondria in different tissues talk to each other to repair injured cells. When their signal fails, the biological clock starts winding down.
The post Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Willem's Blog
The birth of a child
Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor...
over a year ago
Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor capturing the impact of birth on yours truly.
Both Are True
The ONLY Tip You Need To Become A Great Writer
If you are ready to change your life, keep reading.
6 months ago
If you are ready to change your life, keep reading.
TheCollector
What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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4 weeks ago
On the Arts
How to Write a Proper Haiku
A Starter's Guide to the Deceptively Simple Poetic Form
a year ago
A Starter's Guide to the Deceptively Simple Poetic Form
The Works in...
Cheap ornament and status games
Was modernism originally a way to signal taste instead of wealth?
3 months ago
Was modernism originally a way to signal taste instead of wealth?
Darek Kay
Grab browser links and titles in one click
When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link...
2 weeks ago
When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link as rich text (e.g., when pasting the link into OneNote or Jira). Sometimes I prefer a Markdown link. There are browser extensions to achieve this task, but I don't want to...
TheCollector
4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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11 months ago
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: iPad
This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
3 weeks ago
This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s iPad report card here.
iPad Pro
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