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Part 5: Relationship with Travis Air Force Base
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
9 months ago
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal.
Up until recently, the new city’s potential impact on Travis Air Force...
AI Snake Oil
New paper: AI agents that matter
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
5 months ago
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
Rest of World -...
Overworked and unable to quit: Delivery drivers in Brazil found something worse than gig work
Trapped in a subcontracting nightmare, some delivery drivers are facing grueling hours, low pay, and...
a year ago
Trapped in a subcontracting nightmare, some delivery drivers are facing grueling hours, low pay, and no control over their work.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Slosh
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Weirdly, bing ai won't generate this story for me,...
a year ago
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Weirdly, bing ai won't generate this story for me, so we may be OK.
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Christopher Butler
Your Own Personal Picture Collection
Many years ago, when I was a student at RISD, one of my favorite places to visit was the Clipping...
a year ago
Many years ago, when I was a student at RISD, one of my favorite places to visit was the Clipping File. It was an extension of the RISD Library — a vast collection of printed images and clippings organized with a card catalogue.
If you ever needed source imagery for a project...
AFAR Media - Travel...
An Alberta Winter Getaway for Nature, Wellness, and Culture
a month ago
AI Snake Oil
Introducing the REFORMS checklist for ML-based science
ML-based science is in trouble. Clear reporting standards for researchers could help.
a year ago
ML-based science is in trouble. Clear reporting standards for researchers could help.
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Costa Rica, Part 1 (Intentions and Observations)
This was supposed to be the younger kid’s trip. It was his turn to select a destination — anywhere...
a year ago
This was supposed to be the younger kid’s trip. It was his turn to select a destination — anywhere in the world — as a present for his upcoming high school graduation next year. The older one chose Australia back in 2018 and we expanded it to include New Zealand too. England...
Seth's Blog
Thoughts on audiobooks
I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact...
2 months ago
I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact on the way I absorb and learn from a book. It’s a once in a century sort of shift in this medium. My new book is now available in audio. It’s not on Audible, at least […]
Liz Denys
Chemistry at its finest: inverted sugar syrup for cocktails
Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily...
over a year ago
Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily enough. Simple syrup is traditionally made by dissolving white sugar into water on a stove and then cooling before use, but sometimes, in a pinch, people will shake superfine sugar...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction
5 months ago
Louwrentius
Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS
One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion.
Further...
over a year ago
One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion.
Further investigation uncovered that any storage vMotion of a virtual machine residing on our DR storage array would corrupt the virtual machine's disks.
I could easily restore the affected...
Cheese and Biscuits
Bouchon Racine, Farringdon
Such is the cyclical nature of these things, trends in food or clothing or plenty of other areas...
a year ago
Such is the cyclical nature of these things, trends in food or clothing or plenty of other areas besides will, given long enough, find themselves fading in and out of favour. There was a time, within living memory, when French cuisine was considered the gold standard of...
Flashbak
Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
a year ago
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge
Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this...
over a year ago
Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this duality, information is lost — either writing involves too much effort, or reading requires too much context.
Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
10 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cult
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Just because Scandinavians do it doesn't mean it's...
10 months ago
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Just because Scandinavians do it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
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Seth's Blog
Closed/open
I’m told that the hardest part of being a teaching golf pro isn’t helping adult golfers develop a...
a year ago
I’m told that the hardest part of being a teaching golf pro isn’t helping adult golfers develop a good swing. It’s getting them to stop using a bad one. Our position feels so fragile, we hold on very tightly. Competence, status and connection are fleeting yet hard-won. We can...
Classical Wisdom
The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
7 months ago
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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9 months ago
Epic Web Dev
React Server Components: An Optimistic Future (article)
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once...
5 months ago
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
Push to Prod
How Would You Design Amazon S3?
One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned...
2 months ago
One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned while answering it.
Retail Design Blog
EPAM Offices by Tengo Design
Tengo Design created a multifunctional office space for EPAM in Krakow, incorporating zones for...
7 months ago
Tengo Design created a multifunctional office space for EPAM in Krakow, incorporating zones for employees, clients, coworking, and meetings, with...
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,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - A City on Mars
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a year ago
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I will be nagging about this book for the next while, and I apologize for that. Good news though - the main form of nag will be bonus SMBC comics. Also, HOLY SHIT GUYS, ANDY FUCKIN WEIR!
Today's News:
Good morning, friends. Today...
One Useful Thing
My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far.
(Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)
a year ago
(Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)
Anecdotal Evidence
'O Friend Unseen, Unborn, Unknown'
Rabbi David Wolpe tells me Monday’s post reminds him of a poem, “To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence,”...
3 weeks ago
Rabbi David Wolpe tells me Monday’s post reminds him of a poem, “To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence,” by a poet I knew only by name: James Elroy Flecker. “I've always been
moved,” David said, “especially by the penultimate stanza”:
“O friend
unseen, unborn, unknown,
Student of...
Society's Backend
A Privacy Review: TikTok
You should stick to Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts
a year ago
You should stick to Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts
TheCollector
5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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10 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Vacation Ideas for Families with Neurodivergent Children
a year ago
Left To Write
The Narrative Fallacy
How narratives can distort our perception of reality and what to do against it
a year ago
How narratives can distort our perception of reality and what to do against it
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-05-19
Hey would you look at that - my personal...
over a year ago
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-05-19
Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol’ Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
diamond geezer
Random borough 1
It's exactly 20 years today since I dropped the names of 33 boroughs into an empty honey jar, picked...
9 months ago
It's exactly 20 years today since I dropped the names of 33 boroughs into an empty honey jar, picked one at random and kicked off my Random Borough project. It took eight years to complete.
I've decided to pick one of these 33 boroughs completely at random and then go there for...
Noahpinion
Announcing the winners of our semiconductor policy contest!
Some good ideas in here.
2 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Monochrome Interior Design For This Home In Singapore
Studio Metanoia has shared photos of a modern home interior they recently completed in Singapore,...
a year ago
Studio Metanoia has shared photos of a modern home interior they recently completed in Singapore, that has a very strong monochromatic aesthetic. The interior strikes a balance of light and dark, which is evident throughout, like in the living room, where a white couch with a...
Epic Web Dev
The Epic Stack
Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to...
a year ago
Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to production more efficiently.
Citation Needed
Citation Needed has a new home
Citation Needed is no longer hosted on Substack. Welcome to my antifascist bar.
11 months ago
Citation Needed is no longer hosted on Substack. Welcome to my antifascist bar.
Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
10 months ago
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
11 months ago
... and the Fall of the Republic
Seth's Blog
Reality as reassurance
Culture makes it tempting (and easy) to insulate ourselves from reality. Credit card debt is an...
a year ago
Culture makes it tempting (and easy) to insulate ourselves from reality. Credit card debt is an invisible burden, until it’s not. Ignoring the changes in our climate makes our days easier, but not our years. We can avoid the bank balance, not work on the annual budget and ignore...
TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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a year ago
The Map is Mostly...
Building The Goose Palace
The man who is most likely to ruin the place he loves is exactly the man who loves it with a reason....
over a year ago
The man who is most likely to ruin the place he loves is exactly the man who loves it with a reason. The man who will improve the place is the man who loves it without a reason. — GK Chesterton Dear friends, In May I announced I was going to timber frame a 12x16 barn, though I...
Passing Time
Caffeine, Albuterol, Alcohol
Mount Machebeuf Trip Report
6 months ago
Mount Machebeuf Trip Report
Noahpinion
Industrial policy doesn't have to succeed right away
Progressive approaches need to fail before they can change.
a year ago
Progressive approaches need to fail before they can change.
Londonist
The Superloop Loop Completes This Weekend - With The Launch Of SL2
(But yes, we know there's a gap in the loop.)
9 months ago
(But yes, we know there's a gap in the loop.)
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Special Edition: A Toilet And A Neural Network | Out-Of-Pocket
You didn't know you needed this. And you probably don't.
a year ago
You didn't know you needed this. And you probably don't.
Londonist
Leicester Square And The Big Apple
London could have had a very weird monument to Isaac Newton.
10 months ago
London could have had a very weird monument to Isaac Newton.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Why the integrated approach to mobile devices is winning
Until last week’s announcement of the new Surface tablet, Microsoft had taken the same approach to...
over a year ago
Until last week’s announcement of the new Surface tablet, Microsoft had taken the same approach to mobile devices that they had with PCs…
Joel Gascoigne
5 reasons as a CEO you should develop a habit of daily meditation
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Through my journey from a founder whose role it was to essentially build the
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and a fast growing team of 7 people,...
Open Culture
The Complete Howard Stern Interview with Kamala Harris
It’s hard to know where to start. This election comes down to whether or not we want to reward...
2 months ago
It’s hard to know where to start. This election comes down to whether or not we want to reward someone who tried to subvert our democracy four years ago. Whether we want to preserve the alliances that have kept the peace since World War II. Whether women want to resist losing...
ntietz.com blog
The bittersweet end of a year of independence
Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention...
over a year ago
Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention was to do freelance work ("consulting", to all my clients) until I was able to launch my first product, and then shift into being a product company. My ambitions and confidence...
Mazdak
Nearly All US Job Growth in November Came From Just 3 Sectors!
Did you know? The US economy added 199,000 jobs in November, slightly more than expected. But what's...
a year ago
Did you know? The US economy added 199,000 jobs in November, slightly more than expected. But what's even more interesting is that nearly all of this job growth came from just three sectors! So, which sectors are we talking about? Healthcare: Leading the pack with a steady demand...
TheCollector
How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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6 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 3: The Scourge
2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
The Honest Broker
"I Told Three Big Lies That Changed My Life"
A story from the comments section
5 months ago
A story from the comments section
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
The Modern House
Landscape designer and architect duo Anna and Allan Joyce share their dynamic family home...
5 months ago
Contemporist...
A Modern Brick Home Designed Around The Original Placement Of Trees
Exterio architects have shared photos of a new home they completed in Warsaw, Poland, that's...
5 months ago
Exterio architects have shared photos of a new home they completed in Warsaw, Poland, that's surrounded by a pine tree forest.
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Result of Education Carried on By Curiosity'
“His
curiosity was so pure it seemed almost childlike.”
Vladimir
Nabokov is describing his friend...
8 months ago
“His
curiosity was so pure it seemed almost childlike.”
Vladimir
Nabokov is describing his friend in exile, Iosif Hessen (1866-1943), and makes
him sound like an extraordinary fellow. He continues in the obituary he wrote
for his friend:
“He was
living proof of the fact that a...
The Codist
Twitter Was An Awesome Idea But Never A Viable Business
Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry...
a year ago
Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry communications in real-time to people worldwide, creating self-organizing circles of common interests, allowing for easy discovery, and supporting an instant source of information. But, there...
A Smart Bear
The Serengeti Plain: Fallacies that aren't fallacies
A contrarian look at logical "fallacies" that maybe aren't so illogical after all.
2 months ago
A contrarian look at logical "fallacies" that maybe aren't so illogical after all.
TheCollector
What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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a year ago
Calculated Risk
Industrial Production Decreased 0.1% in November
Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Industrial production (IP)...
5 days ago
Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Industrial production (IP) moved down 0.1 percent in November after declining 0.4 percent in October. In November, manufacturing output rose 0.2 percent, boosted by a 3.5 percent increase in the index for motor...
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The Internet Economy
We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook,...
over a year ago
We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have moved far…
NeuroLogica Blog
The Moon Race is On
Back in the 1960 there was a race to land people on the Moon between the US and the Soviet Union....
6 months ago
Back in the 1960 there was a race to land people on the Moon between the US and the Soviet Union. This was very much a part of the cold war, with each country interested in showing off its technical prowess to the world with a technology closely related to that needed to deliver...
Moneyness
Your finances are being snooped on. Here's how
We all have a pretty good idea that our finances are being snooped on, but most of us aren't quite...
5 months ago
We all have a pretty good idea that our finances are being snooped on, but most of us aren't quite able to articulate how. We know that we're being snooped on by two groups, corporations and the government. This post will focus on how the government snoops on our transactions,...
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React Suspense Q&A
a friendly cheat sheet for those wondering what React Suspense is and if they should care
over a year ago
a friendly cheat sheet for those wondering what React Suspense is and if they should care
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Cross the Line to Get to the Point
A new paper establishes a long-conjectured bound about the size of the overlap between sets of lines...
a year ago
A new paper establishes a long-conjectured bound about the size of the overlap between sets of lines and points.
The post Mathematicians Cross the Line to Get to the Point first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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a year ago
Prolost
Red Giant & Maxon, Sitting in a Tree
Red Giant, where I’ve been Chief Creative Officer for a couple of years now, but making filmmaking...
over a year ago
Red Giant, where I’ve been Chief Creative Officer for a couple of years now, but making filmmaking tools for you for 17 years, is merging with Maxon, makers of Cinema 4D.
From the Red Giant blog:
Hi folks — by now you’ve probably heard the news that Maxon and Red Giant are...
Londonist
Rare Chelsea Books: Memories Of A Bookshop On The King's Road
"We discouraged visitors from bringing in galettes, to prevent sticky fingers."
a year ago
"We discouraged visitors from bringing in galettes, to prevent sticky fingers."
Math Is Still...
‘Sensational’ Proof Delivers New Insights Into Prime Numbers
The proof creates stricter limits on potential exceptions to the famous Riemann hypothesis. ...
5 months ago
The proof creates stricter limits on potential exceptions to the famous Riemann hypothesis.
The post ‘Sensational’ Proof Delivers New Insights Into Prime Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Home on Erik...
Deep learning for... chess
I've been meaning to learn Theano for a while and I've also wanted to build a chess AI at some...
over a year ago
I've been meaning to learn Theano for a while and I've also wanted to build a chess AI at some point. So why not combine the two? That's what I thought, and I ended up spending way too much time on it.
charity.wtf
Pragmatism, Neutrality and Leadership
Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at...
5 months ago
Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at work!”, or “Trump voters are oppressed and live in fear!”, and we all get a good pained laugh over how out of touch and lacking in self-awareness they are. We hear a lot about the...
Diaries of Note
The home of the chimps
14th July 1960 was a pivotal moment in the annals of primate research. It was on this day, with...
a year ago
14th July 1960 was a pivotal moment in the annals of primate research. It was on this day, with nothing more than binoculars, a notebook, her boundless curiosity, and the company of her mother, that 26-year-old Jane Goodall first stepped into the wild and untamed landscape of...
Old Structures...
The Daily Planet
In October 1957, Angelo Rizzuto took this photo: The Library of Congress has a descriptive caption,...
6 months ago
In October 1957, Angelo Rizzuto took this photo: The Library of Congress has a descriptive caption, of the kind used when they don’t know where a picture is from: “View down commercial street with skyscrapers and billboards and signs on either side.” This one is fairly easy to...
Explorations of an...
Day Four At Río Bigal - Birding The Interior Trails
November 5, 2023
Sunday began overcast, but unlike the previous day there did not seem to be the...
a year ago
November 5, 2023
Sunday began overcast, but unlike the previous day there did not seem to be the same threat of rain looming over everything. Therefore, yesterday's plan shifted to today. Natalia made me a packed lunch and I prepared for a day on my own on the long PNS trail. I...
History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
2 months ago
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
macwright.com
Code-folding JSX elements in CodeMirror
This came up for Val Town - we implemented code folding in our default editor which uses CodeMirror,...
9 months ago
This came up for Val Town - we implemented code folding in our default editor which uses CodeMirror, but wanted it to work with JSX elements, not just functions and control flow statements. It’s not enough to justify a module of its own because CodeMirror’s API is unbelievably...
TheCollector
What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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4 weeks ago
Writing - Andreas...
Why I don’t give investment advice
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are
either looking for...
a year ago
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are
either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually
not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which
doesn’t exist). So people are inevitably disappointed by the...
Steve Blank
Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress
This article previously appeared in Defense News. It was co-written with Joe Felter, and Pete...
a year ago
This article previously appeared in Defense News. It was co-written with Joe Felter, and Pete Newell. Today, the U.S. is supporting a proxy war with Russia while simultaneously attempting to deter a China cross-strait invasion of Taiwan. Both are wakeup calls that victory and...
Transit Maps
New Official Map: Los Angeles Metro with Regional Connector, 2023
Just dropped on the LA Metro Twitter account, here’s a first look at their new system map once the...
a year ago
Just dropped on the LA Metro Twitter account, here’s a first look at their new system map once the Regional Connector opens at noon, this Friday June 16. First off, one prediction I made in my previous review [October 2022] has been proven true: this map marks the end of the old...
Vadim Kravcenko
Habits of great software engineers
The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While...
a year ago
The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While coding is undeniably the […]
The post Habits of great software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bt RSS Feed
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
2019-06-20
When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
over a year ago
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
2019-06-20
When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don’t think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
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...
9 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...
Seth's Blog
Who’s got the camera?
For years, I’ve been using this picture of Neil Armstrong when I tell the story of meeting him and...
a year ago
For years, I’ve been using this picture of Neil Armstrong when I tell the story of meeting him and hearing his talk at one of his last public appearances: I wasn’t there when this photo was taken, so I relied on a Google image search to find it: I compounded Google’s error....
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Array 1.0.11
Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Also...
over a year ago
Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Also as you will see below we have added Celery…
Many Worlds
Many Worlds Archive is Available
I had the pleasure of reporting and writing the Many Worlds column — sponsored by NASA’s NExSS...
a year ago
I had the pleasure of reporting and writing the Many Worlds column — sponsored by NASA’s NExSS initiative and the Lunar & Planetary Institute — for almost eight years. But the run came to an end in October. Now an archive of the more than 400 columns is easily available at...
Spoon & Tamago
Objects of Nostalgia Recreated in Pixelated Ceramics by Toshiya Masuda
all images courtesy the artist On the spectrum of artistic materials, pixel art and ceramics...
a year ago
all images courtesy the artist On the spectrum of artistic materials, pixel art and ceramics seemingly couldn’t be further apart. On one end you have one of mankind’s oldest forms of expression dating back to the late Paleolithic period. On the other, a digital form of art that...
Seth's Blog
Brakes and acceleration
Every driver benefits from good brakes. It makes driving safer. Only a few skilled drivers benefit...
a year ago
Every driver benefits from good brakes. It makes driving safer. Only a few skilled drivers benefit from better acceleration. Our habit is to compare top speed, horsepower, short-term returns and status. In every field, not just cars. But it probably pays to make sure that there...
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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4 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
7ème tour des subventions Gitcoin - Rétrospective
over a year ago
Mazdak
How Long (and Why) You Must Keep Every Business Record 🇨🇦
Every business, from the corner store to the tech giant, needs to keep accurate and reliable...
11 months ago
Every business, from the corner store to the tech giant, needs to keep accurate and reliable records. This isn't just about staying organized; it's about complying with the law, managing your finances, and protecting yourself from audits. But with so many rules and regulations,...
Diaries of Note
I never saw daffodils so beautiful
Born in the English county of Cumberland on Christmas Day, 1771, Dorothy Wordsworth was an author,...
a year ago
Born in the English county of Cumberland on Christmas Day, 1771, Dorothy Wordsworth was an author, poet, and diarist arguably best known as the sister to Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Close throughout their lives, it was on 15th April, 1802, shortly after taking a walk with...
TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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10 months ago
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Building Authenticated Serverless Jamstack Apps with Gatsby and Netlify
Gatsby is more than a simple static site generator. It uses JavaScript to rehydrate Markup into a...
over a year ago
Gatsby is more than a simple static site generator. It uses JavaScript to rehydrate Markup into a fully dynamic React app - which means you can use APIs to do all sorts of dynamic functionality!
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 5
Highlights TinyPilot revenue grew 20% to $12k. I released a new high-end model of TinyPilot. I...
over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot revenue grew 20% to $12k. I released a new high-end model of TinyPilot. I launched my first ever paid course. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:
Release a high-end version of...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically.
In this article I...
over a year ago
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically.
In this article I describe an optimization that uses arrays instead of classes while providing a class API for accessing data.
Imagine you’re building a web-based note taking application.
It uses modern,...
TheCollector
Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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The Modern House
Best Buds: the most beautiful garden centres in London
a year ago
Moneyness
Where now FedNow?
Earlier this month the Federal Reserve introduced its new instant retail payments system, FedNow....
a year ago
Earlier this month the Federal Reserve introduced its new instant retail payments system, FedNow. This is actually the U.S.'s second real-time retail settlement system. The first, The Clearing House's Real Time Payments Network, or RTP, opened for business back in 2017.
As FedNow...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Geometry
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a year ago
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This joke conceived while reading Tarski's biography, a fact which will cause four of you to laugh politely.
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A Cursed Bug
In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language...
over a year ago
In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language models. One of the joys of using a lot of computing resources, especially on somewhat niche software stacks, is that you spend a lot of time running into the long-tail of bugs which...
Joel on Software
Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams
New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team,...
over a year ago
New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team, company, or organization. Read more "Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams"
The Marginalian
The Art of Allowing Change: Neurobiologist Susan R. Barry’s Moving Correspondence with Oliver Sacks...
There is a thought experiment known as Mary’s Room, brilliant and haunting, about the abyss between...
10 months ago
There is a thought experiment known as Mary’s Room, brilliant and haunting, about the abyss between felt experience and our mental models of it, about the nature of knowledge, the mystery of consciousness, and the irreducibility of aliveness: Living in a black-and-white chamber,...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2023
The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”....
a year ago
The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”. Congrats to jackw01 for arriving at the correct answer! congrats, email me for your prize. This one was surprisingly difficult to guess from just the PCB alone, but once the associated...
Diaries of Note
He feels we should be on the attack for diversion
As Richard Nixon’s Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman was positioned at the epicentre of the Watergate...
a year ago
As Richard Nixon’s Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman was positioned at the epicentre of the Watergate scandal—a pivotal role that would ultimately lead to an eighteen month spell in jail for his role in the cover-up. In his posthumously published diaries from that period, Haldeman...
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
Musings on Markets
AI's Winners, Losers and Wannabes: An NVIDIA Valuation, with the AI Boost!
I will start this post with a couple of confessions. The first is that my portfolio has held up well...
a year ago
I will start this post with a couple of confessions. The first is that my portfolio has held up well this year, in a market that has been top-heavy and tech-driven, and one big reason is that it contains both NVIDIA and Microsoft, two companies that have benefited from the AI...
Joel Gascoigne
Focus on the line, not the dot
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over a year ago
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[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker
News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half
a...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Advanced Promise Coordination: Rate Limiting
In the previous post we learnt to serialize
and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js....
over a year ago
In the previous post we learnt to serialize
and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js. This time we dive further
and handle rate limiting.
What Exactly to Rate Limit
Let's get terminological matters out of the way first. Promises represent operations
that last a certain...
Open Culture
Built to Last: How Ancient Roman Bridges Can Still Withstand the Weight of Modern Cars & Trucks
A foreign traveler road-tripping across Europe might well feel a wave of trepidation before driving...
2 months ago
A foreign traveler road-tripping across Europe might well feel a wave of trepidation before driving a fully loaded modern automobile over a more than 2,000-year-old bridge. But it might also be balanced out by the understanding that such a structure has, by definition, stood the...
TheCollector
Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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8 months ago
Stoic Simple
What Does Stoicism Teach About Death & Mortality?
Stoicism, an ancient philosophy that dates back to the third century BC, has become increasingly...
a year ago
Stoicism, an ancient philosophy that dates back to the third century BC, has become increasingly popular in modern times. This philosophy, which focuses on self-control, rational thinking, and acceptance of the inevitability of life's ups and downs, has much to offer those who...
devonzuegel.com
Google Docs' sheet-of-paper metaphor
For ages, I've wondered why Google Docs still clings to the sheet-of-paper metaphor when lots of its...
over a year ago
For ages, I've wondered why Google Docs still clings to the sheet-of-paper metaphor when lots of its users never print out most of their documents.
Of course it does make sense for "Print layout" to be an option. Many people do print docs, and students make up a huge portion of...
Retail Design Blog
Yiwu Place Public Shopping Precinct
The city of Yiwu has unique trading culture and a thriving economy of commerce. The city has...
2 months ago
The city of Yiwu has unique trading culture and a thriving economy of commerce. The city has witnessed great historical...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
Rest of World -...
Influencers are getting young Nigerians hooked on online gambling
While sports betting is legal in Nigeria, experts say the government should have more oversight on...
a year ago
While sports betting is legal in Nigeria, experts say the government should have more oversight on the influencer culture.
NeuroLogica Blog
Some Thoughts on Aging
If either of the two presumptive nominees for the major political parties in the US are elected in...
5 months ago
If either of the two presumptive nominees for the major political parties in the US are elected in November they will be the oldest person ever to be inaugerated as president. What implications does this have? As a neurologist who sees patients every workday of various ages,...
Londonist
Gorgeous Shots Of The Thames In New Riverside Photography Book
London's Riverside in Photographs, by Franco Pfaller.
10 months ago
London's Riverside in Photographs, by Franco Pfaller.
TheCollector
3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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a year ago
Diaries of Note
Standing on the ramparts of Jodhpur fort
In 1925, at the age of thirty-one and seven years before publication of Brave New World, English...
a year ago
In 1925, at the age of thirty-one and seven years before publication of Brave New World, English author Aldous Huxley ventured to India on the first leg of a global tour that would take him and his wife to such places as Japan, China, Burma, and America. Their trip would later be...
Applied Cartography
The taste of beer
Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.
There’s a...
6 months ago
Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.
There’s a relatively famous line from Bezos, circulated first at YC in ’08 and then more recently by the folks at Acquired (a great pod!):
Jeff uses this analogy for AWS. He talks about...
The Elysian
I built a castle to save the economy
You're welcome.
8 months ago
A Smart Bear
Pick one and own it
What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will...
10 months ago
What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will make your positioning and strategy stronger.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone
For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were...
a year ago
For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were [subscribed](https://lspace.swyx.io/subscribe?simple=true&next=https://lspace.swyx.io/) on email!), I started a separate AI blog, [L-space Diaries](https://lspace.swyx.io/), this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2)...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hold Up
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3 months ago
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The Marginalian
About War
"Outsiders who are not themselves immersed in pain should make an effort to empathize with all...
a year ago
"Outsiders who are not themselves immersed in pain should make an effort to empathize with all suffering humans, rather than lazily seeing only part of the terrible reality. It is the job of outsiders to help maintain a space for peace."
David Heinemeier...
You're not guaranteed a spot on the team
I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously...
8 months ago
I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously not true, and it's usually cynically invoked by management to entice an undue obligation of sacrifice. Implying that you should give it all to The Company -- constantly working...
How to Be a Stoic
Stoic advice: can a salesperson be a Stoic?
[Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org....
over a year ago
[Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org. However, consider that I have a significant backlog, and I may not get to your question for some time, or at all.] D. writes: How should a practising Stoic ethically approach their...
ntietz.com blog
Optimize sprint points to get nowhere fast
As developers, we can be metric obsessed. We tend to like objective measures of things. 99th...
a year ago
As developers, we can be metric obsessed. We tend to like objective measures of things. 99th percentile request times, CPU percentage, disk utilization. Nothing escapes our attempts to quantify it, not even our productivity: enter story points1.
We measure our productivity in...
Grow With Less
7 Dangerous Meta Description Mistakes That Are Ruining Your CTR
I have some bad news.
Writing great content, building quality backlinks and having catchy blog post...
over a year ago
I have some bad news.
Writing great content, building quality backlinks and having catchy blog post titles is not enough.
You could have all this and still get very little traffic.
Why?
Because you need people to choose your article over competing articles in the search...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 7: Four habits to improve as a programmer
Seven weeks down, five weeks to go!
It's flying by quickly.
On the one hand, I want it to last...
over a year ago
Seven weeks down, five weeks to go!
It's flying by quickly.
On the one hand, I want it to last forever.
On the other hand, I know it can't, and I'm looking forward to talking to coworkers again at my day job when I go back.
RC has given me a renewed appreciation for what I get at...
The American Scholar
Rap Rap Rap
The post Rap Rap Rap appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 months ago
The post Rap Rap Rap appeared first on The American Scholar.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we raised $3M for an open source project
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have...
over a year ago
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
Moneyness
Central bank digital currencies and the fallacy of immaculate adoption
I recently noticed that the Bank of Jamaica, Jamaica's central bank, has implemented two new...
a year ago
I recently noticed that the Bank of Jamaica, Jamaica's central bank, has implemented two new marketing strategies to drive adoption of its new central bank digital currency, Jam-Dex. Jam-Dex is one of only four operational central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in the world,...
Nat Eliason's...
10 Things I Learned Losing 10 Million Dollars
How to Stay Sane in a Mania
5 months ago
How to Stay Sane in a Mania
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Novels as Prototypes of the Future
Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine):
A novel…is a prototype...
6 months ago
Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine):
A novel…is a prototype of the future. And if the ideas that the tech industry is pursuing feel stagnant…maybe it points to a shortage of compelling fictions for what the world could be.
I love that...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Vidjagames
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6 months ago
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Retail Design Blog
FOGO E ÁGUA at ALEA RESORT
FOGO E ÁGUA was built in Bad Orb, near Frankfurt, a place where salt was traditionally extracted...
2 months ago
FOGO E ÁGUA was built in Bad Orb, near Frankfurt, a place where salt was traditionally extracted from a brine...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
2 weeks ago
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
diamond geezer
London's wind turbines
I was in Dagenham and I saw this wind turbine and I wondered
How many wind turbines are there in...
6 months ago
I was in Dagenham and I saw this wind turbine and I wondered
How many wind turbines are there in London?
So I made a map using OpenStreetMap and OverpassTurbo.
It produced a map showing 44 wind turbines in the Greater London area.
Except I looked a bit closer and some of...
Koos Looijesteijn
Your app is not a product
8 months ago
Explorations of an...
Day Two At Río Bigal - Brilliant Birding and Magnificent Mothing
The Pink-throated Brilliant.
There are, of course, many other weird and wonderful species that call...
a year ago
The Pink-throated Brilliant.
There are, of course, many other weird and wonderful species that call Río Bigal home, but I was first drawn to the idea of visiting this reserve while reading about the enigmatic Pink-throated Brilliant. This rare hummingbird lives only in forest in...
mtlynch.io
Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra
Overall, this was an interesting read, but I found it hard to apply the lessons to my product. The...
over a year ago
Overall, this was an interesting read, but I found it hard to apply the lessons to my product. The book contains compelling case studies and ideas from the field of meta-learning, but most of the ideas were either too theoretical or too specific to large companies.
Home on Erik...
What can startups learn from Koch Industries?
I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The...
over a year ago
I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The Science of Success by Charles Koch himself a couple of years ago.
Charles Koch inherited a tiny company in 1967 and turned it into one of the world's largest ones.
Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
AFAR Media - Travel...
What it's Like to Try an Adaptive Outdoor Recreation Tour
a year ago
Society's Backend
The FTC Cracks Down on Fake AI-Generated Reviews, Midjourney Available on the Web, AI Used to Farm...
Machine learning resources and updates 8/26/2024
3 months ago
Machine learning resources and updates 8/26/2024
Old Structures...
Old-Fashioned Spelling
From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us...
10 months ago
From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us “The Willams [sic] Street Cañon”. The drawing seems pretty accurate. Here’s a similar view in a photo from 1928: I am a little suspicious of an article that misspells a street name...
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #03: David Sims [EPISODE]
This is the third official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power...
9 months ago
This is the third official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. Blank Check podcast co-host and The Atlantic movie critic David Sims is our book club guest. On today’s show, Elliott Kalan, Roman Mars, and David...
Louwrentius
Fio-plot: creating nice charts from FIO storage benchmark data
New release of fio-plot
I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice...
over a year ago
New release of fio-plot
I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice charts. It allows you to create four types of graphs which will be discussed below.
The github project page explains how to run this tool.
Fio-plot also includes a benchmark script...
Remains of the Day
My first podcast appearance
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
over a year ago
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Capabilities and sensibilities
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the...
over a year ago
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability…
Last Place Comics
Lasso Man 4
The post Lasso Man 4 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
6 months ago
The post Lasso Man 4 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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a year ago
Aaron's Essays
Distributed Capital
In theory, the hard part about finding capital for unproven founders with unproven technologies in...
over a year ago
In theory, the hard part about finding capital for unproven founders with unproven technologies in unproven markets should be that no one wants the risk. There was a time when that was true, but it isn’t anymore.[1] For a founder, the issue is different: venture capital is...
TheCollector
What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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10 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI's massive cash needs are Big Tech's chance to own the future
Over the past year, AI startups have raised some impressive amounts of money. OpenAI raised $10...
10 months ago
Over the past year, AI startups have raised some impressive amounts of money. OpenAI raised $10 billion, Anthropic did $6 billion, Inflection AI raised $1.3 billion, and dozens of companies closed rounds in the hundreds of millions.
A Weekly Dose of...
Visualizing the World, Visualizing Change
In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf. Neurath was...
a year ago
In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf. Neurath was director of the International Foundation of Visual Information and used the Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) system to "teach through the eye." A recent...
Passing Time
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics and the Exploitation Problem
In one of my favorite blog posts of all time, Jai writes: The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum...
over a year ago
In one of my favorite blog posts of all time, Jai writes: The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics says that you can have a particle spinning clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time – until you look at it, at which point it definitely becomes one or the other....
Strange Loop Canon
Disruption starts at the margins, but doesn't stop there
Contra Hoel on AI and its supply paradox
a year ago
Contra Hoel on AI and its supply paradox
Louwrentius
Migration from blogger to blogofile and disqus is complete
As stated in my previous post, I migrated all posts from blogger.com to my own host running...
over a year ago
As stated in my previous post, I migrated all posts from blogger.com to my own host running blogofile.
At the time of my previous post, I was not able to restore all comments made on my old blog. Thanks to some help
from disqcus I fixed an error on my behalf and all old comments...
Noahpinion
Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program!
Fun!!
2 months ago
HTMHell
Improving SEO without knowing where to start
Summary
Introduction
What is SEO ?
Web quality with Opquast
SEO-related Opquast...
over a year ago
Summary
Introduction
What is SEO ?
Web quality with Opquast
SEO-related Opquast rules
Conclusion
Introduction ↑
Colleagues sometimes ask me: “Hey Alex, I would like to learn a bit about search engine optimisation (SEO) but I don't really know where to start. Do you have tips for...
Joel Gascoigne
11 cities in 3 months: The highs and lows of digital nomad lifestyle
In December, my friend and co-worker Brian [https://twitter.com/brian_lovin]
casually mentioned to...
over a year ago
In December, my friend and co-worker Brian [https://twitter.com/brian_lovin]
casually mentioned to me that he would love to go traveling and explore Asia. I
love Asia. I lived in Japan as a kid for 3.5 years, and I lived in Hong Kong for
6 months in
UX Collective
Why is hiring software so impersonal?
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3 weeks ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Open Culture
Watch Tom Waits For No One, the Pioneering Animated Music Video from 1979
Tom Waits For No One, above, is surely the only film in history to have won an Oscar for Scientific...
5 months ago
Tom Waits For No One, above, is surely the only film in history to have won an Oscar for Scientific and Technical Achievement for its creator and a first place award at the Hollywood Erotic Film and Video Festival. Director John Lamb and his partner, Bruce Lyon also deserve...
The Marginalian
Working Out, Working In: Applying the Six Principles of Athletic Training to Writing and Creative...
The highest and hardest task of life may be to become entirely ourselves — to continually purify and...
a year ago
The highest and hardest task of life may be to become entirely ourselves — to continually purify and clarify who and what we are, shedding the shoulds of culture, convention, and expectation to discover the innermost musts: those deepest and truest callings of the authentic self,...
The Pragmatic...
Apple: The Only Big Tech Giant Going Against the Job Cuts Tide
Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can...
a year ago
Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can we now expect it to follow suit by shedding workers?
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Catch
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a month ago
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Wuthering...
Please read the Roman plays with me (although not all of them) - Plautus, Terence, Seneca
Roman plays, a sampling, readalong #1.
Fresh off the Greek plays, I want to revisit some of the...
a year ago
Roman plays, a sampling, readalong #1.
Fresh off the Greek plays, I want to revisit some of the surviving Roman plays to remind myself what they are like. Twenty-six comedies and ten tragedies have survived. I read about half of them long ago and plan to reread fewer than...
Seth's Blog
The ghost in the machine
“The computer wants you to click this button.” “It thinks you asked for something else.” “He’s mad...
a year ago
“The computer wants you to click this button.” “It thinks you asked for something else.” “He’s mad at you.” Thousands of generations ago, we evolved our way into a magnificent hack. It turns out that we can more safely navigate the world by imagining that other people have a...
Retail Design Blog
CASETiFY Dosan flagship store by Crosby Studios
There’s no denying, Seoul has the most exciting retail scene of the planet, and it has been like...
a month ago
There’s no denying, Seoul has the most exciting retail scene of the planet, and it has been like that for...
Making software...
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-07-06
If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown...
over a year ago
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-07-06
If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can't help it.
This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won't go...
Vadim Kravcenko
Software Development is very subjective
Most of you are familiar with the feeling of joining a new company and have that urge to rewrite...
over a year ago
Most of you are familiar with the feeling of joining a new company and have that urge to rewrite everything. […]
The post Software Development is very subjective appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The Honest Broker
12 Predictions on the Future of Song Investing
Who will eventually own all the dead stars of rock & roll?
a year ago
Who will eventually own all the dead stars of rock & roll?
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 5: Wrapping up projects and starting a new one
Another week of my RC batch wraps up.
I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left!
Time is...
over a year ago
Another week of my RC batch wraps up.
I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left!
Time is still flying by, and I've hit an inflection point.
I have gotten what I want out of the two projects I've worked on so far, so I'm going to wrap them up and move on to one new...
Aaron's Essays
Exceptionalism
Startups that do well often follow a set of common principles. These principles influence how they...
over a year ago
Startups that do well often follow a set of common principles. These principles influence how they develop products, build teams, raise money, and get customers. The most successful startups, though, are exceptional and often seem to go against these principles in various ways....
dthompson
Chickadee 0.8.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development...
over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to
provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers
need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme.
Notable improvements and...
TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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a year ago
Liz Denys
The 'doing good' framework: a manifesto against saying 'good people' and 'bad people'
I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I...
over a year ago
I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I grew up with, Boy Meets World. The main characters, who've now come of age, speak with the teacher that has been with them through every phase of their educations and lives:
Mr....
Castles in the Sky
The Bookseller's Register #1
Introducing a new series on building the bookstore of the future
a year ago
Introducing a new series on building the bookstore of the future
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 035: Me or your lying eyes
October 6, 2023.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
10 Principles I Learned from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain
10 Principles I Learned
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Then Came the Barbarians'
“Prose
poetry” suggests transfusing a patient with a blood type not his own. You’ll
kill him or at...
3 months ago
“Prose
poetry” suggests transfusing a patient with a blood type not his own. You’ll
kill him or at least make him sick. When I confront a prose poem I run, though
sometimes I pause to laugh and then run. The question becomes, which is worse:
the poet’s ineptness or his...
Londonist
Denmark Street: The Musical History Of London's "Tin Pan Alley"
We interview author Peter Watts about his new book.
a year ago
We interview author Peter Watts about his new book.
TokyoDev
Working as an Indonesian Software Engineer in Japan
Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first...
a year ago
Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first exposure to Japanese culture was through anime on Sunday morning TV broadcasts. At that time, I didn't even know it was called anime, let alone that it came from Japan since it...
Londonist
London's Going Snowdrop Crazy This Month - Here's Where To See Them
The flower that's about to take over your Instagram feed.
11 months ago
The flower that's about to take over your Instagram feed.
Common Edge
What Primitive Huts Teach Us About Architecture
An enduring ‘origin myth’ continues to inspire contemporary designers.
a year ago
An enduring ‘origin myth’ continues to inspire contemporary designers.
TheCollector
Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some thoughts on startup crowdfunding
Like a lot of people, I’m excited about crowdfunding, and specifically the crowdfunding of startups...
over a year ago
Like a lot of people, I’m excited about crowdfunding, and specifically the crowdfunding of startups now that’s it’s legal in the US. Based…
TheCollector
7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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11 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Rosanna Reade
I am a printmaker and illustrator from Northern Ireland, living and working in Edinburgh. I studied...
over a year ago
I am a printmaker and illustrator from Northern Ireland, living and working in Edinburgh. I studied History of Art at University but have reverted back to creating art rather than talking or writing about it!
As a self-taught printmaker, there is quite a lot of trial and error...
TheCollector
The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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9 months ago
Oykun
1 Simple Approach to Discover Your Design Career Path
As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from...
a year ago
As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from Junior to Senior levels. We either have no idea where we are going or get lazy and lost in our comfort zone.
If I've based the advice purely on
Arduino Blog
Vintage rotary phone becomes stylish kitchen timer
It seems like everything that happens in a kitchen requires exact timing. Whisk the batter for three...
6 months ago
It seems like everything that happens in a kitchen requires exact timing. Whisk the batter for three minutes, knead the dough for 15 minutes, bake for 30 minutes, and so on. A timer is a necessity for cooking and baking, but there is no reason you need to use your phone or a...
Kagi Blog
Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta
*Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem.
over a year ago
*Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem.
TheCollector
Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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9 months ago
Open Culture
Buckminster Fuller’s Map of the World: The Innovation That Revolutionized Map Design (1943)
In 2017, we brought you news of a world map purportedly more accurate than any to date, designed by...
4 months ago
In 2017, we brought you news of a world map purportedly more accurate than any to date, designed by Japanese architect and artist Hajime Narukawa. The map, called the AuthaGraph, updates a centuries-old method of turning the globe into a flat surface by first converting it to a...
TheCollector
Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The most important question in design: who’s gonna pay me?
Have you ever worried about the real impact of your work? Done a project in an exploitive industry?...
a year ago
Have you ever worried about the real impact of your work? Done a project in an exploitive industry? Or worked...
Electronics etc…
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series
Introduction
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series
Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by...
11 months ago
Introduction
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series
Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by Orthogonal Demodulation
Misc
Introduction
While researching a DSP related topic, Google dug up an excellent article,
written by Hideo Okawara, that is just one part of a series of ~53. I...
The Marginalian
The Beach and the Soul: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the Benedictions of the Sea
"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience,...
6 months ago
"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach."
Londonist
London's Curious Collection Of Golden Statues
Golden wonders.
a year ago
Stoic Simple
A Stoic Perspective on Achieving Happiness
In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges and...
a year ago
In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges and pressures of daily life. Many of us are constantly searching for ways to achieve happiness and inner peace amidst the chaos. While some turn to meditation and mindfulness, others...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dying
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Who is kind - he that kicketh a man in the balls...
8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Who is kind - he that kicketh a man in the balls for no reason, or he that doeth not?
Today's News:
TheCollector
5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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7 months ago
Louwrentius
How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness
At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are...
over a year ago
At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are a mid-size company, bandwidth is clearly a severe constraint. But it was not our biggest problem. Even simple web-browsing was very slow.
As I was setting up a monitoring...
TheCollector
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Atlanta BeltLine – Eastside Trail
I arrived in Atlanta, Georgia for business. On the final day I wrapped-up and had a little time to...
a year ago
I arrived in Atlanta, Georgia for business. On the final day I wrapped-up and had a little time to visit a family member who lives in the city. That became a good excuse to head over to the Grant Park neighborhood on Atlanta’s eastside. We spent most of our late afternoon walking...
wingolog
whippet update: faster evacuation, eager sweeping of empty blocks
Good evening. Tonight, notes on things I have learned recently while hacking on the .Whippet...
3 months ago
Good evening. Tonight, notes on things I have learned recently while hacking on the .Whippet GC
library
For some time now, the name Whippet has referred to three things.
Firstly, it is the , consisting of an include-only
garbage collection library containing a compile-time...
diamond geezer
Bus of the day 167
Bus Route Of The Day
167: Ilford to Loughton
Quadrant: London northeast
Length of journey: 8 miles,...
5 months ago
Bus Route Of The Day
167: Ilford to Loughton
Quadrant: London northeast
Length of journey: 8 miles, 50 minutes
Because it's 16th July I've been out riding the 167, because that's the Bus Route Of The Day. Let's hit the Home Counties.
167 extends far enough to properly enter...
The American Scholar
Teach the Conflicts
It’s natural—and right—to foster
The post Teach the Conflicts appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
It’s natural—and right—to foster
The post Teach the Conflicts appeared first on The American Scholar.
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
4 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
Dustin Curtis
Block Carefully
A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture...
2 months ago
A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions.
Today, X engineering announced...
Construction Physics
Building Fast and Slow Part II - The World Trade Center
Part II in our series comparing the construction of two Tallest Building in the World projects - the...
over a year ago
Part II in our series comparing the construction of two Tallest Building in the World projects - the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center. See here for Part I. Unless otherwise noted, information and quotes are from “City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World...
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
a year ago
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
2 months ago
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
Old Structures...
New And Improved Graphics!
Seven years ago [!] I spent some time looking at the Pearl Street overpass portion of the Manhattan...
2 months ago
Seven years ago [!] I spent some time looking at the Pearl Street overpass portion of the Manhattan approach of the Brooklyn Bridge. The short version is that it’s an 1880s steel truss reinforced in the mid-1900s with a steel arch below. The long discussion is: here and here and...
Rest of World -...
In-home beauty service in Pakistan: the woman sweet-talking tough clients
Though gig work gives respite from the grind of working in a salon, choosy clients make a...
a year ago
Though gig work gives respite from the grind of working in a salon, choosy clients make a beautician’s work demanding.
The Works in...
Links in Progress: Expanding the Mediterranean's busiest port
Plus: New tunnels, monorails, canals, small modular reactors, and horseless carriages
a month ago
Plus: New tunnels, monorails, canals, small modular reactors, and horseless carriages
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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3 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
HTMHell
Enforcing better HTML markup with Eleventy
While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what...
over a year ago
While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what we intended. This is especially true on the web, where there are many ways to consume content. The language, browser type, device model, using a screen reader, navigating with or...
Math Is Still...
The Two Faces of Space-Time
A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time,...
2 months ago
A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can sometimes be two things at once.
The post The Two Faces of Space-Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Lighthouse Blog
Lighthouse now integrates with mobile reader apps
5 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
a hole in my soul
I didn’t actually feel like writing today, but I’m worried if I don’t write I would forget the...
7 months ago
I didn’t actually feel like writing today, but I’m worried if I don’t write I would forget the feelings and thoughts I have at this point in time. It doesn’t seem right...
TheCollector
6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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2 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Algorithm
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
You are what we call a discontinuity at...
6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
You are what we call a discontinuity at zero.
Today's News:
Moneyness
The lower limit to silver's usefulness in coinage
A detectorist in Suffolk, England recently found a beautiful halfpenny minted some time between...
a year ago
A detectorist in Suffolk, England recently found a beautiful halfpenny minted some time between 1625-1649, during the reign of King Charles I. This coin, captured in the video below, illustrates an important feature of coinage: the lower limit to silver's usefulness as a monetary...
Louwrentius
Installation of ZFS on Linux hangs on Debian Wheezy
This article is no longer relevant.
After a fresh net-install of Debian Wheezy, I was unable to...
over a year ago
This article is no longer relevant.
After a fresh net-install of Debian Wheezy, I was unable to compile the ZFS for Linux kernel module. I've installed apt-get install build-essential but that wasn't enough.
The apt-get install debian-zfs command would just hang.
I noticed a...
Rest of World -...
Malaysia’s new data centers create thousands of jobs — and worries about power and water shortages
Data centers for companies like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia are transforming Johor state, with locals...
a month ago
Data centers for companies like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia are transforming Johor state, with locals bracing for higher real estate costs and resource shortages.
ntietz.com blog
Licensing can be joyful (and legally dubious)
Software licenses are a reflection of our values.
How you choose to license a piece of software says...
2 months ago
Software licenses are a reflection of our values.
How you choose to license a piece of software says a lot about what you want to achieve with it.
Do you want to reach the maximum amount of users?
Do you want to ensure future versions remain free and open source?
Do you want to...
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
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Revenue vs margin
Three years ago, Fred Wilson wrote a great blog post called When Talking About Business Models,...
over a year ago
Three years ago, Fred Wilson wrote a great blog post called When Talking About Business Models, Remember that Profits Equal Revenues Minus…
The Architectural...
Fake Views – The Contrast Between Renderings and Reality
A shining sun, playful children, overwhelming greenery and new neighborhoods with a richer wildlife...
11 months ago
A shining sun, playful children, overwhelming greenery and new neighborhoods with a richer wildlife than a Zoo. We have all seen them, the vision images that promise an idyll but result in a visual nightmare. Here‘s a few examples. Renderings are a visual representation of a...
99% Invisible
Autism Pleasantville [EPISODE]
A few years back, journalist Lauren Ober was diagnosed with autism. She then made a podcast about...
9 months ago
A few years back, journalist Lauren Ober was diagnosed with autism. She then made a podcast about her experience called The Loudest Girl in the World. And she found herself imagining a fantasy world where everything is tailored to Lauren’s very specific autistic needs. And she...
AI Snake Oil
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
6 months ago
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
Matt Blewitt
Modifying pg_dump To Exclude Event Triggers
At $WORK, we have a case where we have implemented an event trigger to prevent customers from...
5 months ago
At $WORK, we have a case where we have implemented an event trigger to prevent customers from dropping an extension. As this extension is part of contrib and normally installed by users, we can’t prevent them from dropping it normally. However, event triggers can only be created...
Internal Tech Emails
Inside Google's negotiations with Apple
I would let them try someone else for search if they don’t like our last offer.
a year ago
I would let them try someone else for search if they don’t like our last offer.
Daniel Bourke
Building a garden in the backyard
I started building a garden in the backyard.
It’s a small space but it took almost a year to get...
a year ago
I started building a garden in the backyard.
It’s a small space but it took almost a year to get going.
A year!
Mostly because of laziness and other things going on.
A little dream I have is to one day eat a full feast that consists 100%
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Man of My Kidney'
I met my
nephrologist for the first time when we shared an elevator to his office on the
fourth...
7 months ago
I met my
nephrologist for the first time when we shared an elevator to his office on the
fourth floor of the hospital. Between patients he was eating a banana, his breakfast, and carried a stack of folders in his other hand. On the front of his
white lab coat was his name, the...
TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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3 months ago
Londonist
The Top Exhibitions To See In London: March 2024
Photography, portraits and protest.
10 months ago
Photography, portraits and protest.
Paul Graham: Essays
What the Bubble Got Right
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Open House wrap-up
Let's finish this for another year.
Open House: The Rowe (Aldgate) The Unoccupied One
located...
a year ago
Let's finish this for another year.
Open House: The Rowe (Aldgate) The Unoccupied One
located immediately opposite the Whitechapel Gallery and is a repurposing of the former Cass School of Art and Architecture into a modern office block. The overall idea behind the rebuild was...
Max Rozen
How I became a React developer
On how I left a 'prestigious' consulting job to start from scratch as a React developer
over a year ago
On how I left a 'prestigious' consulting job to start from scratch as a React developer
TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
undefined
a month ago
Both Are True
brb
everything's fine just need some air
2 weeks ago
everything's fine just need some air
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The bowling pin strategy
A huge challenge for user-generated websites is overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem: attracting...
over a year ago
A huge challenge for user-generated websites is overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem: attracting users and contributors when you are…
Identity Designed
Champ
Designed by Jesús López, Hermosillo, Mexico.
7 months ago
Designed by Jesús López, Hermosillo, Mexico.
TheCollector
3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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a year ago
The American Scholar
Going for Gold
Joshua Prager on a forgotten Olympic gymnast whose 1904 record still hasn’t been beaten
The post...
4 months ago
Joshua Prager on a forgotten Olympic gymnast whose 1904 record still hasn’t been beaten
The post Going for Gold appeared first on The American Scholar.
IEEE Spectrum
The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916
At 8:30 p.m. on 16 May 1916, John J. Carty banged his gavel at the Engineering Societies Building in...
a month ago
At 8:30 p.m. on 16 May 1916, John J. Carty banged his gavel at the Engineering Societies Building in New York City to call to order a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. This was no ordinary gathering. The AIEE had decided to conduct a live national meeting...
Christian Selig
Curing Mac mini M4 fomo with 3D printing
Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect
If you’re anything like me, you’ve...
a month ago
Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect
If you’re anything like me, you’ve found the new, tinier Mac mini to be absolutely adorable. But you might also be like me that you either already have an awesome M1 Mac mini that you have no real reason to replace,...
A Smart Bear
No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric
Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
a month ago
Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
TheCollector
The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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8 months ago
Old Structures...
In The Background
The photo from the Bain News Service is titled “Post Office, New York” and the Library of Congress...
8 months ago
The photo from the Bain News Service is titled “Post Office, New York” and the Library of Congress dates it as “between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915.” I think we can do better: that’s the Municpal Building in the background under construction. The building took longer than usual to...
Marco.org
Clip sharing with Overcast
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
over a year ago
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014.
Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
Old Vintage...
Finally, an MOS 7600/7601 Video Game Array data sheet
A quick one. Many of you are aware of my rather abnormal fascination with the MOS 7600/7601, MOS...
a year ago
A quick one. Many of you are aware of my rather abnormal fascination with the MOS 7600/7601, MOS Technology's dedicated "Pong-on-a-chip" (from the company that brought you my favourite CPU, the MOS 6502) that's actually a rather sophisticated microcontroller for the era. I own...
Seth's Blog
Incrementally better
Massive leaps in utility and quality are extraordinary events. Going from ver 2.0 to 3.0 is a step...
6 months ago
Massive leaps in utility and quality are extraordinary events. Going from ver 2.0 to 3.0 is a step change. But that is almost never what improvement looks like. Instead, the persistent commitment to slightly better on a regular schedule inexorably makes a difference over time.
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...
Probably...
Should divorce be more difficult?
“The Christian right is coming for divorce next,” according to this recent Vox article, and “Some...
6 months ago
“The Christian right is coming for divorce next,” according to this recent Vox article, and “Some conservatives want to make it a lot harder to dissolve a marriage.” As always when I read an article like this, I want to see data — and the General Social Survey has just the data I...
The Great Discontent...
Rafael Espinal
Rafael Espinal was just 26 when he became an elected official. For the next 10 years, he worked...
2 months ago
Rafael Espinal was just 26 when he became an elected official. For the next 10 years, he worked within the halls of government, first as a New York State Assemblymember and then as a New York City Councilmember, advocating for artists, independent workers, and underserved...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In
Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
over a year ago
Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
Grow With Less
Do Headline Analyzers Work? A Data-Driven Answer
Headline analyzers are a popular way to come up with great headlines and try to predict their...
over a year ago
Headline analyzers are a popular way to come up with great headlines and try to predict their effectiveness.
All you need to do is write your headline and the tool will give it a score telling you how effective it’s likely to be.
But can these free headline analyzers accurately...
diamond geezer
Unblogged March (true)
31 unblogged things I did in March (true version)
Fri 1: I can't believe another constituency has...
8 months ago
31 unblogged things I did in March (true version)
Fri 1: I can't believe another constituency has elected George Galloway as its MP (actually I can, mine once did, because politics repeatedly proves you can fool enough of the people some of the time).
Sat 2: Yes I watched the...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Capitalism just like Adam Smith pictured it
From far away, things that are very different look alike. I grew up in a family of musicians and...
over a year ago
From far away, things that are very different look alike. I grew up in a family of musicians and English professors. To them, the entire…
Oxide Computer...
RFD 1 Requests for Discussion
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo...
over a year ago
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo houses our requests for discussion. Bryan teased this to the internet…
…and folks asked for our process, so we are going to share it!
The best way to describe RFDs is with “RFD 1...
Home on Erik...
Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously.
Benford's law describes a...
over a year ago
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously.
Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
balajis.com
Gil Duran Faked A Quote For the New Republic
Then they stealth edited the piece. They knew they'd committed libel.
7 months ago
Then they stealth edited the piece. They knew they'd committed libel.
Christopher Butler
Designing for (Realistic) Attention
The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute.
When I advise that a...
a year ago
The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute.
When I advise that a webpage — like a service detail page — have a maximum main body word-count of 150 words, I’m really recommending that it ask a reader to commit to 30 seconds. To put that in perspective, a...
Rest of World -...
How 2024’s tech trends changed our lives
From AI-powered classrooms in Mali to EV taxis in Vietnam, people worldwide are seeing opportunities...
2 weeks ago
From AI-powered classrooms in Mali to EV taxis in Vietnam, people worldwide are seeing opportunities from this year’s biggest tech shifts.
David Heinemeier...
The tech layoffs continue
A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta,...
11 months ago
A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and thousands of other big and small companies in the industry. And it looks like this year is not going to bring any relief. Google just announced more layoffs, Twitch...
Arduino Blog
Exploring Alvik: 3 fun and creative projects with Arduino’s educational robot platform
Alvik is cute, it’s smart, it’s fun… so what can it actually do? To answer this question, we...
4 days ago
Alvik is cute, it’s smart, it’s fun… so what can it actually do? To answer this question, we decided to have fun and put the robot to the test with some of the most creative people we know – our own team! A dozen Arduino employees volunteered for a dedicated Make Tank session...
latest projects -...
Portable Probability Panel
[Misc] Laser-cut Galton board
5 months ago
[Misc] Laser-cut Galton board
Open Culture
Oscar-Winning Director Frank Capra Made an Educational Science Film Warning of Climate Change in...
In 2015, we highlighted for you The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays, a largely-forgotten 1957...
5 months ago
In 2015, we highlighted for you The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays, a largely-forgotten 1957 educational science film. The production is notable partly because it was shot by Frank Capra, the influential director who had won not one, not two, but three Oscars for best director....
Seth's Blog
Peer support
Treasure it when you find it. Offer it when you can. One of the greatest joys of being an author is...
a year ago
Treasure it when you find it. Offer it when you can. One of the greatest joys of being an author is the other authors. The game theory would indicate that authors are competitors–there are a scarce number of publishers, of bookshelf slots, of readers. But, being the only author...
Rest of World -...
The slow transformation of Facebook in India
As the general election approaches, there are few spaces where the opposition can be safe online
a year ago
As the general election approaches, there are few spaces where the opposition can be safe online
Bryan Braun - Blog
Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian
I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas,...
6 months ago
I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas, researching technologies, managing my projects, and many other things. Writing is how I think through problems, and note-taking software makes all that thinking easy to search and...
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Borneo, October 2022
Borneo, the third largest island in the world behind Greenland and New Guinea, is home to some of...
a year ago
Borneo, the third largest island in the world behind Greenland and New Guinea, is home to some of the planet’s oldest rainforests, containing a stunning array of biodiversity. The conditions in Borneo forests have stimulated the evolution of many different organisms that are...
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