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Eukaryote Writes...
Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon Most of us go about our lives comforted by the thought “I would never drop a nuclear weapon on the...
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Most of us go about our lives comforted by the thought “I would never drop a nuclear weapon on the moon.” The truth is that given a lot of power, a nuclear weapon, and a lot of extremely specific circumstances, we too might find ourselves thinking “I should nuke the moon.”
Noahpinion
Patrick Collison interview + at least five interesting things (#58) Patrick interviews me; the energy transition; Americans die young; family and fertility; educating...
5 months ago
xkcd.com
Salt Dome
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
AI, fizyka kwantowa, relacje, ludzie, przyszłość
11 months ago
Arduino Blog
This portable Starmap could be your guide to the cosmos Estimates vary, but there are generally a few thousand stars bright enough to see in the sky on a...
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Estimates vary, but there are generally a few thousand stars bright enough to see in the sky on a clear, moonless, cloudless night away from city lights. You might be able to identify a couple of them, along with a handful of constellations. But what about the rest? If they...
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Central Planning as Overfitting
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
SEBO – Minimalism Meets Technology SEBO, a new brand by Mania Jeans, introduces a refined, cutting-edge retail experience. Designed by...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
SEBO, a new brand by Mania Jeans, introduces a refined, cutting-edge retail experience. Designed by architect Kfir Galatia Azulay from...
Rest of World -...
A tale of two feeds Car smuggling in Bolivia is booming, despite thieves and theft victims widely documenting the...
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Flemish Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The hardest part is that he has to keep a lantern...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The hardest part is that he has to keep a lantern in there for good lighting. Today's News:
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
No One Gives A F*ck About Websites Anymore It's painful to see website blogs die
4 months ago
Adventures In...
Inner Glow Effect for Polygons in ArcGIS Online Sure, there’s a glorious drop shadow effect in the ever-more-capable ArcGIS Online Map Viewer to...
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Sure, there’s a glorious drop shadow effect in the ever-more-capable ArcGIS Online Map Viewer to give features a sweet glow, BUT there’s no inner glow effect. How do we cast that beautiful glow inward? I’ll admit that I’ve been stumped by this one for longer than I care to admit,...
Old Structures...
Gaudy This scrapbook clipping is listed as 1895 to 1945. The presence of the entrance kiosk for the City...
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This scrapbook clipping is listed as 1895 to 1945. The presence of the entrance kiosk for the City Hall subway stop means it’s after 1904. I’m not sure if the Municipal Building (built 1909 to 1914) would be visible from this angle or would be off the left side of the frame; the...
Contemporist...
11 Outdoor dining areas that will make you want to eat outside every day Tired of eating indoors when the weather’s perfect outside? Whether you have a small patio, a...
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Tired of eating indoors when the weather’s perfect outside? Whether you have a small patio, a sprawling backyard, or a cozy balcony, the right outdoor dining setup can completely transform how you relax, entertain, and enjoy your space. From simple modern spaces to resort-style...
The American Scholar
Échame la Culpa The post Échame la Culpa appeared first on The American Scholar.
7 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Review: museums of the future, Dubai and Tokyo
11 months ago
Making software...
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own...
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Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own personal "reading list" of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
Making software...
CSS Character Unit CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the...
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CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the golden standard is to have no more than 75 characters per line. This is easy to achieve in the world of print but on the responsive, ever-changing web - statically defined...
The Changelog
Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and...
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This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts: In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and...
Diaries of Note
On sculptures Born in Prague in 1875, celebrated poet Rainer Maria Rilke was twenty-two when he began to keep a...
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Born in Prague in 1875, celebrated poet Rainer Maria Rilke was twenty-two when he began to keep a diary—a practice encouraged by his lover and mentor, Lou Andreas-Salomé, who was fifteen years his senior. That diary, titled Florence, would be the first of three that he kept...
TheCollector
Gustave Caillebotte at the Getty: 100+ Artworks Now on Display French impressionist and realist painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) often painted with an...
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French impressionist and realist painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) often painted with an emphasis on men and the masculine. In a collaboration between the J. Paul Getty Museum, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and Art Institute of Chicago, a curated selection of Caillebotte’s...
Londonist
Where To Watch The Six Nations 2024 In London Watch rugby greats battle it out at these pubs and bars.
a year ago
Calculated Risk
2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in February Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in...
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4 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in February A brief excerpt: NOTE: The tables for active listings, new listings and closed sales all include a comparison to February 2019 for each local market (some 2019 data is not...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: 11 Mar 2024 - AI Lifestory app back to my personal weight lows!
a year ago
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art. Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
11 months ago
Grow With Less
4 Simple Strategies I Use to Never Run out of Article Ideas Want to know a secret? I never run out of article ideas. In fact, my main struggle is usually...
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over a year ago
Want to know a secret? I never run out of article ideas. In fact, my main struggle is usually choosing between a myriad of topics I would love to write about. You may think it’s because I’m very creative but the simple truth is that I simply use 4 simple strategies that guarantee...
Passing Time
Losing My Edge But I was there!
3 months ago
UX Collective
Cracking the code of vibe coding Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Don't Talk to Corp Dev
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Imagine Standing There Every so often, I mention New York’s industrial past. Compared to a truly industrial city like...
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Every so often, I mention New York’s industrial past. Compared to a truly industrial city like Philadelphia or Chicago, it’s small-scale stuff, but compared to the present it’s astonishing. Looking at one of the parts of the city devoted to industry before 1920, it’s hard to...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How to Plan a Safari and Beach Trip in East Africa
a month ago
Abhishek Chakraborty
The Selfish Reason Behind Our Helpful Nature We have an inbuilt habit to help those in need. While it wouldn’t be wrong to assume that human...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We have an inbuilt habit to help those in need. While it wouldn’t be wrong to assume that human beings are good in spirit and hence they help out, it wouldn’t be as much interesting to understand why we really help others (as a species) and how it actually benefits us (as an...
Laetitia@Work
Why AI can make work painful: see customer service Laetitia@Work #71
a year ago
Both Are True
"she looks exactly like you" she's my daughter, she's my twin
a year ago
Diaries of Note
A movie has come to life and engulfed us On the evening of 23rd March 2020, in a televised address to a shellshocked nation, British Prime...
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On the evening of 23rd March 2020, in a televised address to a shellshocked nation, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a legally-enforced, pandemic-induced lockdown across the UK that would immediately force millions to stay at home for months on end and countless...
AFAR Media - Travel...
10 of California’s Best Wellness and Self-Care Experiences
3 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Warabi Shoten by Econosys Design Warabi Shoten are known for their signature soft warabi mochi. The texture of warabi mochi inspired...
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7 months ago
Warabi Shoten are known for their signature soft warabi mochi. The texture of warabi mochi inspired the logo, which is...
Londonist
The Open House London 2023 Programme Has Been Announced - Including BT Tower Tours Plus tube station tours, and other landmark buildings.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Stuff
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Lessons from the PC video game industry The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed The success or failure of tech and...
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The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed The success or failure of tech and media products depends on complicated…
Asterisk
The Devil in the Details: Matthew Desmond’s Poverty by America Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America is one of the most celebrated books on the subject....
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Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America is one of the most celebrated books on the subject. Unfortunately, carelessness about the ways we measure poverty undercuts its main argument.
The Scholar's Stage
Science Proceeds One Question at a Time MIDWAY through his 900 page history of biology, zoologist Ernst Mayr considers the problem posed by...
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MIDWAY through his 900 page history of biology, zoologist Ernst Mayr considers the problem posed by Alfred Wallace. Wallace was a contemporary of Charles Darwin who independently developed a theory of speciation by means of natural selection. By the time Wallace came on the scene...
NeuroLogica Blog
End of Life on Earth Let’s talk about climate change and life on Earth. Not anthropogenic climate change – but long term...
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Let’s talk about climate change and life on Earth. Not anthropogenic climate change – but long term natural changes in the Earth’s environment due to stellar evolution. Eventually, as our sun burns through its fuel, it will go through changes. It will begin to grow, becoming a...
Maggie Appleton
Pattern Languages in Programming and Interface Design Notes on pattern languages and Christopher Alexander's legacy on software programming
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
It’s not (just) Ticketmaster’s fault A Mexican superstar’s concert tour proves no ticketing company’s tech is a match for fans and fraud.
over a year ago
The Works in...
Invisible College: Applications close on 28th April Apply to come to our premier event for students
2 months ago
FIRE v London
Nov ’24: 3x London life I’ve been keeping busy as winter in London sets in. The Christmas lights are all out and...
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London life I’ve been keeping busy as winter in London sets in. The Christmas lights are all out and looking resplendent, and both the West End and the City are feeling pretty buzzy. For all the general ‘UK stuck in the weeds’ economic commentary, we feel a long way from any talk...
Aaron's Essays
Exceptionalism Startups that do well often follow a set of common principles. These principles influence how they...
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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....
Seth's Blog
Volition and placebos If a placebo heals your illness, does that mean it was all in your head in the first place? That you...
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If a placebo heals your illness, does that mean it was all in your head in the first place? That you weren’t really sick, or didn’t really want to get better? If expensive wine tastes better to you, but you can’t tell wine apart in a double-blind taste test, does that mean it...
Noahpinion
What would a real anti-China trade strategy look like? How we would do things if we were serious.
2 months ago
This Space
The disappearance of criticism, part two A friend mentioned to me that he felt alienated by the articulacy of a literary critical book he was...
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A friend mentioned to me that he felt alienated by the articulacy of a literary critical book he was reading; by its neutrality of tone, by its calm. Unruffled was another word he used. We all might recognise this feeling while assuming it is admiration, respect, perhaps even...
Rozado’s Visual...
Mentions of Prejudice in Academic Papers: A Declining Trend Amidst Ongoing DEI Growth? Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms...
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Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms continue to rise—what does this shift reveal?
Yale E360
Trump Administration Fires Hundreds of Climate and Weather Specialists The Trump administration has re-fired hundreds of probationary workers at NOAA after a court ruling...
3 months ago
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The Trump administration has re-fired hundreds of probationary workers at NOAA after a court ruling cleared the way. Read more on E360 →
swyx's site RSS Feed
Instant GraphQL with OneGraph Here's a recorded screenshare chat I had with Sean Grove (https://twitter.com/sgrove), Cofounder of...
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over a year ago
Here's a recorded screenshare chat I had with Sean Grove (https://twitter.com/sgrove), Cofounder of OneGraph! We swapped out the Next.js API Routes that I manually set up in my livestreaming, to the premade GraphQL integration that OneGraph has with Dev.to. As a bonus, this takes...
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us in 2023 It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
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It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
Retail Design Blog
“N” for Natário by MPFXDESIGN This is the image of a Portuguese wine from the Douro Demarcated Region, from the vineyards planted...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
This is the image of a Portuguese wine from the Douro Demarcated Region, from the vineyards planted at Quinta Encostas...
SOCKS
Matmata: Underground Dwellings for an Extreme Climate The ancient Berber village of Matmata in South Tunisia, located between the Eastern coast and the...
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The ancient Berber village of Matmata in South Tunisia, located between the Eastern coast and the desert, is characterised by settlements of dwellings dug into the clay-gypsum layers of the ground. The dating of the first inhabitations is uncertain. In these dwellings, vaulted...
Birchtree
Wow, what courage Mia McCarthy writing for Politico: No More in-Person Town Halls, NRCC Chief Tells House...
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Mia McCarthy writing for Politico: No More in-Person Town Halls, NRCC Chief Tells House Republicans The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President...
Identity Designed
The Hermitage Hotel Designed by Mucca, New York.
over a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Dual-Arm HyQReal Puts Powerful Telepresence Anywhere In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for whatever reason) are too dangerous for humans. I say “in theory” because in practice it’s difficult to get robots to do useful stuff in semi-structured or unstructured environments...
Calculated Risk
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Decrease to 228,000 The DOL reported: seasonally adjusted initial claims was 228,000, a decrease of 13,000 from the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The DOL reported: seasonally adjusted initial claims was 228,000, a decrease of 13,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 241,000. The 4-week moving average was 227,000, an increase of 1,000 from the previous week's unrevised average of 226,000. emphasis added The...
Flashbak
Why The BBC Wanted To Keep George Orwell Off The Radio “I am quite seriously worried about the situation and about the wisdom of our keeping Orwell...
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“I am quite seriously worried about the situation and about the wisdom of our keeping Orwell personally on the air.” – the BBC controller outlines his reasons for keeping George Orwell off the air     In his his lifetime, George Orwell (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was thought...
Kevin Chen
Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS...
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I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS is supposed to be fast now, right? But even when there was plenty of bandwidth, it still took several seconds to load a page of text. One WebPageTest later, and I found the...
David Crawshaw
2014-01-17 "pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel...
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"pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel coming into the engine, reducing engine pressure, causing more fuel to come in and increasing engine pressure again." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation
Artificial Ignorance
Blade Runner 2024 Reddit's AI Hunters and the quest for authentic digital experiences.
10 months ago
There are two types...
Me on the On Cities Podcast CLICK HERE to open in Apple Podcasts The post Me on the On Cities Podcast appeared first on There...
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CLICK HERE to open in Apple Podcasts The post Me on the On Cities Podcast appeared first on There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Machine Learning: An Overview The three major branches of ML
over a year ago
Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
Seth's Blog
The low-stakes argument It’s tempting and fun to argue about the logo. About the way the toilet paper is hung. About how to...
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a year ago
It’s tempting and fun to argue about the logo. About the way the toilet paper is hung. About how to load the trunk of the car. These sorts of arguments work precisely because they don’t matter. At all. And they distract us from the incredibly difficult work of discussing the...
Seth's Blog
Complaints The best way to complain is to make things better. Complaining can be a form of intimacy. It’s a...
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The best way to complain is to make things better. Complaining can be a form of intimacy. It’s a useful way to explain our behavior. And best of all, it gives us a way to communicate as we work to create community action. The rest sort of complaint requires generosity and...
Working Theorys
Big TAM Founders, Small TAM Startups | Theory No. 19 What's one way to maximize your startup's chance of success? Be a big TAM founder working on a...
a year ago
Quanta Magazine
New Kind of Magnetism Spotted in an Engineered Material In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes...
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In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes electrons’ spins to align. The post New Kind of Magnetism Spotted in an Engineered Material first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Sam Altman
Three Observations Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of...
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Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.  Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to understand the moment we are in. AGI is a weakly defined term, but generally speaking we mean...
The DESK Magazine
Is the folder dead? Think about a real folder made of paper. Back in the day... We invented paper folders because we...
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Think about a real folder made of paper. Back in the day... We invented paper folders because we had limited space in the physical world to organize ourselves. We needed a way to group and sort our letters, documents and papers. If we had stacked up our files anywhere on
Quanta Magazine
‘Magical’ Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient Locally correctable codes need barely any information to fix errors, but they’re extremely long. Now...
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Locally correctable codes need barely any information to fix errors, but they’re extremely long. Now we know that the simplest versions can’t get any shorter. The post ‘Magical’ Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient first appeared on Quanta Magazine
computers are bad
2024-02-11 the top of the DNS hierarchy In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the...
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In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" that structural aspects of the Internet make truly decentralized systems infeasible, due to the lack of a means to perform broadcast discovery. As a result,...
David Heinemeier...
Free speech isn't guaranteed to be forever History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and...
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History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and of dark ages. Each of which must have seemed like they would never end to the people who lived through them. If you were a citizen of the Ottoman empire 1452, you probably didn't...
Articles
Speaking of starting small
over a year ago
Grow With Less
Journorequest, Snowmaker and 20 other Link Building Strategies That Work Great in 2022 Creating awesome content is not enough. If you want traffic, you need to build high-quality...
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over a year ago
Creating awesome content is not enough. If you want traffic, you need to build high-quality backlinks. But how do you do that? There are hundreds of articles listing the best link building strategies but the reality is that you don’t need 100 strategies that make you feel pushy...
Retail Design Blog
Lotte Cinema Suwon: A Creative Cinema Hub Lotte Cinema Suwon: Redefining the Cinema Experience The cinema’s first impression captivates with...
10 months ago
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Lotte Cinema Suwon: Redefining the Cinema Experience The cinema’s first impression captivates with color-changing lights and patterned glass, setting a...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink augmentation Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows, and how we might be able to make these more dynamic.
Seán Barry
What is TypeScript and why should I use it? A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
over a year ago
The Rational Walk
Buffett & Munger Unscripted A new book by Alex Morris distills key insights and wisdom from three decades of Berkshire Hathaway...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A new book by Alex Morris distills key insights and wisdom from three decades of Berkshire Hathaway annual meetings.
Common Edge
Jane Jacobs Would Reject NYC’s Proposed “City of Yes” YIMBYS get a lot wrong about the legendary citizen planner.
11 months ago
The Marginalian
The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the... "We are never simply seeing what’s 'really there,' stripped bare of our own anticipations or...
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"We are never simply seeing what’s 'really there,' stripped bare of our own anticipations or insulated from our own past experiences. Instead, all human experience is part phantom — the product of deep-set predictions."
Paul Graham: Essays
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
Diaries of Note
I am going to do my best Yoko Moriwaki was born in Japan in 1932 on the picturesque island of Itsukushima, better known to...
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Yoko Moriwaki was born in Japan in 1932 on the picturesque island of Itsukushima, better known to locals as Miyajima, and until war broke out in 1941 her childhood was a happy one, filled with simple joys. In 1944, with the conflict casting a heavy shadow, her father was called...
The personal website...
What makes a good design principle? Like many design teams, the Wall Street Journal team has been thinking through our design...
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Like many design teams, the Wall Street Journal team has been thinking through our design principles. Writing design principles comes pretty naturally (especially if you read this excellent list by Jeremy Keith). As we collaborate, we end up with a lot of candidates. However,...
Marian's Blog
How to add Bluetooth to your Arduino Project with BTduino This tutorial will show you how to connect your Arduino project to an Android device using the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This tutorial will show you how to connect your Arduino project to an Android device using the BTduino app. You don’t need an extra Arduino library and you don’t need to code anything on the Android side. Here is what you need: an Android device running Android 4.0 or higher that...
This Space
Favourite books 2020 Every time Dennis Cooper posts his favorite (sic) fiction and non-fiction of the year, it alone...
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Every time Dennis Cooper posts his favorite (sic) fiction and non-fiction of the year, it alone exceeds the number of books I'm able to read in a year let alone the number from which it was presumably narrowed down. This is why I suggested a couple of years ago such pages choose...
TheCollector
Balder: The Most Beloved of the Norse Gods When thinking of the Norse gods, Balder is not among the most famous: he didn’t even appear in the...
2 months ago
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When thinking of the Norse gods, Balder is not among the most famous: he didn’t even appear in the Marvel movies! But in Norse mythology, Balder was the most beloved of the gods. Son of Odin the All-Father and his wife Frigg, it was Balder, not Thor, who was the prince of Asgard....
Home on Erik...
Predicting solar eclipses with Python As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute...
a year ago
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As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours.
Retail Design Blog
SprintCo’s Journey of Innovation and Storytelling SprintCo: We Create Spaces, That Speak Your Story For over 25 years, SprintCo has been crafting...
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6 months ago
SprintCo: We Create Spaces, That Speak Your Story For over 25 years, SprintCo has been crafting restaurant spaces that inspire...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Nothing Bad About It A year ago, Jen and I made an overland run from the south end of Anza-Borrego to the northern end....
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over a year ago
A year ago, Jen and I made an overland run from the south end of Anza-Borrego to the northern end. On the last night in Hawk Canyon, a super windy night made for less than ideal sleep. We ended up closing up the tent and sleeping in the front seats. Thankfully, the seats in a...
Mazdak
Block, TikTok & Beyond From Block's latest moves to TikTok's impact on the music industry, we explore the trends shaping...
8 months ago
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From Block's latest moves to TikTok's impact on the music industry, we explore the trends shaping our digital world.
Renegade Otter
AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You .highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color:...
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In my recent travels around Asia [http://instagram.com/joelgascoigne], I’ve had the great opportunity to meet a lot of local founders and aspiring entrepreneurs. One of the things that seems to come up many times is that people will ask me “what triggered you to become...
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I was boarding a plane for a trip to Latin America late in the evening last Wednesday (April 2), and as is my practice, I was checking the score on the Yankee game, when I read the tariff news announcement. Coming after a few days where the market seemed to have found its...
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I give thanks to Ryan Ruby for his review of Lessons, Ian McEwan’s latest novel. It brings to our attention that rare thing, joy of joys, a novel telling the story of a life remarkably similar to the author’s own set against the backdrop of recent history. Ruby shows how the...
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My partner, my cat, and I once missed a connecting flight due to a luggage hiccup. The staff got us replacement tickets for another flight 12 hours later. Maybe we could catch an earlier flight if there was space, they said. That was a possibility we were eager to explore. So I...
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The team at Basecamp recently did a six-week sprint to improve the product’s onboarding flow. They did a bunch of stuff and shipped it. The result was a 30% increase in conversion rate.  “What happened?!” you might ask them. “How? What’s the best practice?”  They don’t know. They...
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I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this long enough that people now ask me for advice. I've only changed jobs 3 times in my career, so I'm not sure I'm an expert. However, I decided I should write down my advice, to...
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> Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with geometry: 3D-graphics, image processing, physical simulation, — the answer is obvious. Knowing the mathematics behind your framework enables you to write more efficient code. But even if...
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An artificially colorized view of Jezero Crater, showing the bird’s eye view of Perseverance screaming towards Mars’s surface. The above image was enhanced by Kevin Gill into full color, taking images captured by Perseverance’s Lander Vision System Camera just after the heat...
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The tale of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s fiercest queen, is as captivating as it is shocking. Despite Henry’s efforts to erase her from history as if she were Nefertiti instead of a woman in the modern era, Anne’s legacy persists — she was, after all, mother to the monarch who ruled...
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What happened to the man who once told the US Senate “creators deserve control over how their creations are used”?
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One of the biggest mistakes that I see people make as they start to dip their toes into advising is try to anchor their work to specific deliverables. Doing this is bad for a number of reasons, but the primary one is that when you’re being brought on as an advisor, you’re not...
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When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having multiple merge commits and issues with keeping the forked repo in sync. This post addresses solutions for some of the problems.
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The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 award-winning animated film based on the Book of Exodus in the Bible. Set in ancient Egypt, the main characters reference actual historical figures. In this article, we will examine how life in ancient Egypt is shown in the movie to find out how...
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Many modern front-end libraries and apps obsess over their bundle size. It’s a noble pursuit — an app that uses smaller libraries has less bloat, loads faster, and the users are happier. We can agree to that. Measuring the impact of a library on the app’s bundle size sounds easy,...
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Robert Caro never learned to type. He pecks out his books two fingers at a time on an electric typewriter. There are two reasons to avoid learning a proven new technology: You know what it can do and how it will change your life and you don’t want it. You don’t know what it can...
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Australian-based Studio Minosa has shared photos of a kitchen and laundry renovation they completed for a home in Sydney, that includes hidden storage elements. In the laundry, wood paneling covers the lower section of the walls and hides a collection of laundry baskets from...
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Dear Young Designer, Yes, you can already call yourself a “Designer” Everybody in this world is a designer. What you want to be is an “Excellent Designer”. To become that; Explore! Do not worry about specialising. You will have time for that. Take whatever comes your
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Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic. The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
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I am on a continual quest for organization. After the kitchen, the office is the most used room in our home. My wife and I work here, Monday through Friday, 9 to 5. Our children play and create in here just as often. It’s where we maintain several workspaces, store supplies,...
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Right this minute, people are making plans, making promises and poems, while at the center of our galaxy a black hole with the mass of four billion suns screams its open-mouth kiss of oblivion. Someday it will swallow every atom that ever touched us and every datum we ever...
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In the course of doing research on old buildings, I’ve looked at some non-traditional sources. For example, in trying to find original images of demolished and non-famous buildings, I’ve had some success with magazine ads from tenants. It used to be popular to put a picture of...
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styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've learned a lot about how to use it effectively. This article shares my personal “best practices”.
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Orson Welles directed the greatest movie ever made, Citizen Kane, at age 25, with only a limited knowledge of the medium. When Paul McCartney was 25, he, along with his fellow Beatles, released the era-defining album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. By age 29, Pablo Picasso...
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Internet Intimacy Yesterday, I mentioned the Yoto Daily, a daily podcast for kids that loads up automatically on the Yoto player. I just wanted to add that what makes it special is that it feels like a voicemail from a friend. Listening to it gives me (and I presume, my...
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Last year, 99pi‘s Kurt Kohlstedt suffered a serious injury that initially rendered his right arm and hand both completely numb and paralyzed. Tests revealed severe damage to his right brachial plexus, an essential network of nerves between the arm and spinal cord. Kurt was told...
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Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”, coined by Castiglione in 1528’s The Book of the Courtier.
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“And I very much like your love of pleasure, and your humour and malice: it is so delightful to live in a world that is full of pictures, and incidental divertissements, and amiable absurdities. Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we...
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Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost: leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1! Similarly, the OpenGL ES 2.0 support is bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0. That means more playable games and more functioning...
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At a recent offsite with Carta’s Navigators, we landed on an interesting topic: leadership roles sometimes mean that making progress on a professional initiative requires taking some personal risk. This lesson was hammered into me a decade ago during my time at Uber, where I...
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Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than maintaining multiple feature branches in your…
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed,” William Blake wrote, “everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” But we are finite creatures, in time and in space, and there is a limit to how much reality we can bear — evolution gave us consciousness so that we may sieve the...
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SumatraPDF is a medium size (120k+ loc, not counting dependencies) Windows GUI (win32) C++ code base started by me and written by mostly 2 people. The goals of SumatraPDF are to be: fast small packed with features and yet with thoughtfully minimal UI It’s not just a matter of...
The Ruffian
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Schedule for Week of February 2, 2025 The key reports scheduled for this week are the January employment report and the December trade...
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The key reports scheduled for this week are the January employment report and the December trade deficit​. ----- Monday, February 3rd ----- 10:00 AM: ISM Manufacturing Index for January. The consensus is for the ISM to be at 49.5, up from 49.3 in December. 10:00 AM:...
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Winter on Two Pairs of Socks We’re minimalists, mostly. We try to not have a bunch of stuff. This naturally extends to the...
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We’re minimalists, mostly. We try to not have a bunch of stuff. This naturally extends to the wardrobe. I’ll cover more about what we wear another time, but for now, I want to give you an idea. With the right socks, you can go an entire winter with just two pairs of socks. You...
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Categorization is critical in science, but it is also very tricky, often deceptively so. We need to categorize things to help us organize our knowledge, to understand how things work and relate to each other, and to communicate efficiently and precisely. But categorization can...
TheCollector
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At the 8th Roman hour, or 2 pm, the Romans would finish their working day and head to one specific place to socialize, relax, and clean off the dirt of the day: the terme, or public baths. While some were lucky enough to have their own bath (balnea) at home, most headed to the...
The Marginalian
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Because life is a cosmos of connection, because to be alive is to be in relationship with the world, because (in the immortal words of John Muir) “when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,” how we relate to anything is how...
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What does 'TLA+' mean, anyway TLA+ Workshop Feb 12th. I've decided to reduce the class size from 20 to 15, so there's only a...
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TLA+ Workshop Feb 12th. I've decided to reduce the class size from 20 to 15, so there's only a couple of slots left! I'll be making a little less money this way but it should lead to a better teaching experience for the attendees. Use the code NEWSLETTERDISCOUNT for $100...
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The state of modern science and technology is truly amazing, much more so than the fake stuff that people like to spread around. Gravitational waves have opened up an entirely new type of astronomy, a way to explore the universe through very subtle ripples in spacetime produce by...
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How projects fail at large tech companies How do projects fail at large tech companies? As I’ve said many times, failure means executives...
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How do projects fail at large tech companies? As I’ve said many times, failure means executives aren’t happy with how the project turned out. At healthy companies, that typically means that a sensible engineer wouldn’t be happy either, because the project didn’t work or users...
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Service Throughput Tradeoffs 2018-04-13, David Crawshaw I am currently writing a service that lets users upload files. The typical file size is about 25KB, the maximum is 100MB, with file sizes following a power-law distribution. The nature of the service is that I need to buffer...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118.     Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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Turns out you can release a QBasic game on Steam if it’s packaged correctly. Beside being a nerdy oddity, this game is extremely well made and quite fun! Lots of Castlevania II vibes going on here. Check out Anzu Castle Gracula on Steam, or give it a shot on Itch.io.
Calculated Risk
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At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased in Q4; Office Vacancy Rate at Record High 1st Look at Local Housing Markets in December Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year Update: The...
Seth's Blog
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Mike Schur, co-creator of Parks and Recreation, said of his career, “This is not stuff you can read in a book,” he said. “This is stuff that you have to experience.” I think it’s also useful to flip it around. There are things you will have trouble experiencing until you read...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
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I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of dollars per month for doing nothing. Maybe tens of thousands. With a 100% real example. I’ve edited nothing. When you’re a Reddit mod, you have a TON of power in that subreddit. You...
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It’s the start of a calendar year. Let’s take a look at what 2023 did to me financially. I’m following the same structure I’ve used for the last few years (2022, 2021, and 2020). Overall, 2023 was a good year on almost all measures – thanks in particular to Q4 which saw the US...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kelly didn't like this one, but twitter did, and twitter, let me tell you, is very smart. Today's News: It's the last day that sales of Bea count toward our NYT bestseller total! The list is normally dominated by major franchises,...
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I don’t normally link to my short stories here, but I’m proud of a new one called “Lost Animals” that went up earlier this week. It’s about a man hired by private clients to clear houses of ghosts, not using supernatural equipment but a baseball bat. He’s been storming into...
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This year I read 22 books, which is about the average for the last few years. The ratio of fiction to non-fiction was skewed toward non-fiction. I think overall I read fewer amazing books than last year, when I finished 20, but also fewer duds - though there certainly were some...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Starfish Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Do not try this at home. Today's News:
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Josh Thompson
Thoughts on Money from 2013 I was looking through some draft posts I have lying around, and found one from the middle of 2013....
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I was looking through some draft posts I have lying around, and found one from the middle of 2013. That’s 2.5 years ago. Reading over it, I feel satisfaction for a few reasons: Old Josh (from July 2013) wasn’t a train wreck. As soon as I think about myself in highschool and...
David Heinemeier...
Beans and vibes in even measure Bean counters have a bad rep for a reason. And it’s not because paying attention to the numbers is...
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Bean counters have a bad rep for a reason. And it’s not because paying attention to the numbers is inherently unreasonable. It’s because weighing everything exclusively by its quantifiable properties is an impoverished way to view business (and the world!). Nobody presents this...
Construction Physics
The grid part II - the golden age of the power industry Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the...
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Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the US was using 114 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, generated by more than 4000 power plants. Most electricity was generated by coal (56%) and hydroelectric (34%)...
Open Culture
The Extreme Life and Philosophy of Hunter S. Thompson: Gonzo Journalism and the American Condition Hunter S. Thompson has been gone for two decades now. When he went out, as the new Pursuit of Wonder...
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Hunter S. Thompson has been gone for two decades now. When he went out, as the new Pursuit of Wonder video on his life and work reminds us, he did so in a highly American manner: with a gun, and at the moment of his own choosing. Even his longtime fans who respected something...
James Cheshire
If Data Could Talk Podcast We sat down with Andy Cotgreave for the If Data Could Talk podcast to give some behind the scenes...
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We sat down with Andy Cotgreave for the If Data Could Talk podcast to give some behind the scenes insights about our collaborative process and some of the work that went into Atlas of the Invisible.
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900. Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
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Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
MMapped blog
Scaling Rust builds with Bazel
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Birchtree
Settings > Default Apps > Voice Assistant Parker Ortolani writing Gemini, Siri, and Default Assistants on iOS, arguing that Apple should allow...
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Parker Ortolani writing Gemini, Siri, and Default Assistants on iOS, arguing that Apple should allow you to set a different default voice assistant: it would do two things: it would mitigate some of the damage with customer relations while they wait for the new Siri and it sets a...
Eric Bailey
Building a better button in CSS
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David Heinemeier...
Magic machines There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to...
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There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to computers run by anyone but themselves. Perhaps it's a corollary to imposter syndrome, which leads programmers to believe that if a computer is operated by AWS or SaaS or literally...
Flashbak
Terrible Visions of Death And Evil on Alfred Kubin’s Journey Back To The Womb “I definitely prefer the four-horned cow to the one having only two horns” – Alfred Kubin (10 April...
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“I definitely prefer the four-horned cow to the one having only two horns” – Alfred Kubin (10 April 1877 – 20 August 1959), 1911   In Alfred Kubin’s bizarre and horrific illustrations, humans appear as skeletal, ghost-like creatures or hideously deformed things. They share...
Florian Bellmann |...
How to switch from Tmux to WezTerm Tutorial on how to switch your terminal multiplexer from Tmux to WezTerm
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Quanta Magazine
Maze Proof Establishes a ‘Backbone’ for Statistical Mechanics Four mathematicians have estimated the chances that there’s a clear path through a random maze. ...
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Four mathematicians have estimated the chances that there’s a clear path through a random maze. The post Maze Proof Establishes a ‘Backbone’ for Statistical Mechanics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Louwrentius
The downside of 120 Mbit broadband internet My Dutch ISP Ziggo provides internet access through DOCSIS cable modems. They are now capable of...
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My Dutch ISP Ziggo provides internet access through DOCSIS cable modems. They are now capable of providging 120 Mbit downstream and 10 Mbit upstream, for an affordable price. In a way this is mind boggling. Most people have 100 Mbit home networks that are not capable of handling...