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What I'm up to - December 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2025
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What I'm up to - December 2025

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Just got back from a holiday in Tokyo and Hakone. I explored Ametora, noodles (tsuk...
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James Nestor: Humanity and the Deep Ocean In _[DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells us about...
1st Feb 2018
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James Nestor: Humanity and the Deep Ocean

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Feb 2018
In _[DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells us about Ourselves](https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Freediving-Renegade-Science-Ourselves/dp/0547985525)_ James Nestor follows extreme athletes, adventurers, and scientists as they plumb the limits of the ocean's...
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Reading List 10/04/2025 Boeing’s 737 replacement, parking lot investments, a deflected hurricane, opinions on nuclear power,...
4th Oct 2025
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Reading List 10/04/2025

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Oct 2025
Boeing’s 737 replacement, parking lot investments, a deflected hurricane, opinions on nuclear power, and more.
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How to generate color palettes for design systems It used to be easy to pick colors for design systems. Years ago, you could pick a handful of colors...
20th Apr 2024
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How to generate color palettes for design systems

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

20th Apr 2024
It used to be easy to pick colors for design systems. Years ago, you could pick a handful of colors to match your brand’s ethos, or start with an off-the-shelf palette (remember flatuicolors.com?). Each hue and shade served a purpose, and usually had a quirky name like “idea...
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How To Build Your Own Tower And Why You Should (Plus What I've Been Reading/Watching/Listening to)
7th Mar 2026
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How To Build Your Own Tower

from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Mar 2026
And Why You Should (Plus What I've Been Reading/Watching/Listening to)
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Business lesson: less research, launch small
17th Oct 2010
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Business lesson: less research, launch small

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Oct 2010
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Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention? Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
21st May 2026
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Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?

from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI

21st May 2026
Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
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Sensitivity Isn’t Static The sensitivity of our senses ebbs and flows. If you’re looking to be more perceptive, start by...
30th Mar 2023
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Sensitivity Isn’t Static

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Mar 2023
The sensitivity of our senses ebbs and flows. If you’re looking to be more perceptive, start by changing your environment. The post Sensitivity Isn’t Static appeared first on David Perell.
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Reddit drama: an interesting look at community values
1st Mar 2010
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Reddit drama: an interesting look at community values

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2010
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A Tiny City in the Wilderness On Urbanism in the Middle of Nowhere
6th Apr 2025
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A Tiny City in the Wilderness

from Hickman's Hinterlands [alt+shift+b] in life

6th Apr 2025
On Urbanism in the Middle of Nowhere
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Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
3rd Apr 2025
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Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Apr 2025
Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, French, and German.
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A list of books and essays that I love I’m purposefully not looking at my bookshelf to make sure I only pick books that I’ve thought about...
4th Nov 2025
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A list of books and essays that I love

from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature

4th Nov 2025
I’m purposefully not looking at my bookshelf to make sure I only pick books that I’ve thought about so much that they immediately occur to me.
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Don’t add your two cents “My two cents” is American slang for adding a small opinion or suggestion. The boss says, “Good...
25th Jul 2016
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Don’t add your two cents

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Jul 2016
“My two cents” is American slang for adding a small opinion or suggestion. The boss says, “Good job. Maybe just change the blue to gold, change the word ‘giant’ to ‘huge’, and get rid of the border. Other than that, it’s great!” But there’s a big downside: The employee no...
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The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have...
30th Jul 2024
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The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media

from Joel Gascoigne's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jul 2024
The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have introduced support for Bluesky in Buffer. This is an important moment for us as a company, and there are a number of reasons that adding Bluesky is personally meaningful for me. With...
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6 Must-See Events in Dallas This Spring and Summer
5th Mar 2025
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6 Must-See Events in Dallas This Spring and Summer

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

5th Mar 2025
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On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself...
19th Apr 2025
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On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2025
Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself say: I really miss posting on Twitter. I really, really miss it. It’s funny, because Twitter was never not a trash fire. There was never a time when it felt like we were living...
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Linear Light, Gamma, and ACES Imagine a digital 50% gray card. In 0–255 RGB values, it’s 127, 127, 127. On the RGB parade scope,...
22nd Jun 2021
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Linear Light, Gamma, and ACES

from Prolost [alt+shift+b] in creative

22nd Jun 2021
Imagine a digital 50% gray card. In 0–255 RGB values, it’s 127, 127, 127. On the RGB parade scope, the card is a perfect plateau at 50%. Now imagine increasing the exposure of this scene by one stop. “Stops” of light are an exponential scale, meaning that subtracting one stop is...
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FaceTime video/audio broken by Private Internet Access VPN client on Mac I recently diagnosed that the cause of FaceTime being broken on my Mac was the Private Internet...
24th Aug 2026
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FaceTime video/audio broken by Private Internet Access VPN client on Mac

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Aug 2026
I recently diagnosed that the cause of FaceTime being broken on my Mac was the Private Internet Access VPN client
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Old But Not Forgotten: Old Couple Find Fun Wearing Clothes Left At Their Laundry “Dressed like that, I feel 30 years younger” – Wan-ji, Want Show Was Young     For decades married...
2nd Nov 2025
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Old But Not Forgotten: Old Couple Find Fun Wearing Clothes Left At Their Laundry

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Nov 2025
“Dressed like that, I feel 30 years younger” – Wan-ji, Want Show Was Young     For decades married couple Hsu Sho-Er, 84, and Chang Wan-Ji, 83, ran the Wansho Laundry in Taichung, Taiwan. Over the years many people left clothes behind. Hundreds of items were left unclaimed for a...
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What the heck is OCSP? The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web...
9th May 2019
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What the heck is OCSP?

from Ian's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th May 2019
The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web browser) to check if a certificate has been revoked or not. Certificate Revocation? With asymmetrical encryption, your encryption is only as good as long as your private key remains...
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The Exodus Curve The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large...
8th Feb 2025
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The Exodus Curve

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Feb 2025
The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large language models (LLMs), as highlighted in a recent Reforge article. The article argues we’re witnessing unprecedented market disruption, in this post, I propose we’re experiencing...
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March 2025
5th Mar 2025
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March 2025

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Mar 2025
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Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum
14th Feb 2025
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Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Feb 2025
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Beth Noveck: Transparent Government ### Dot.Gov Noveck began with the example of patents, first devised in Renaissance Florence and...
5th Mar 2010
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Beth Noveck: Transparent Government

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Mar 2010
### Dot.Gov Noveck began with the example of patents, first devised in Renaissance Florence and Venice to protect techniques such as glass manufacture. In England, conferring a monopoly on a tool or technique became a prerogative of the king. In contemporary America, the process...
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Things I Don't Know About AI The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
21st Feb 2024
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Things I Don't Know About AI

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Feb 2024
The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
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7 key principles of solar passive design - Part 1. or how to dramatically improve indoor healthy air quality and well-being while reducing...
1st May 2022
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7 key principles of solar passive design - Part 1.

from The Solarchitecture Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st May 2022
or how to dramatically improve indoor healthy air quality and well-being while reducing energy-consumption for every building we build?
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The “const” Deception The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change....
24th Apr 2023
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The “const” Deception

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Apr 2023
The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the incredibly-important distinction between...
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ML for SWEs 66: Safety is a fundamental AI engineering requirement The debate about prioritizing speed or safety is over and reality has made the decision for us.
10th Sep 2025
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ML for SWEs 66: Safety is a fundamental AI engineering requirement

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Sep 2025
The debate about prioritizing speed or safety is over and reality has made the decision for us.
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Being John Malkovich I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty...
1st Feb 2025
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Being John Malkovich

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2025
I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty good idea of what it was and, while I wanted to watch it at some point, it never felt particularly urgent. (The vision in my head was a sort of Bosch painting filled with John...
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La première Madame Pipi de l’espace profond La première Madame Pipi de l’espace profond Outre la première victoire au Tour de France d’Eddy...
3rd Apr 2026
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La première Madame Pipi de l’espace profond

from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature

3rd Apr 2026
La première Madame Pipi de l’espace profond Outre la première victoire au Tour de France d’Eddy Merckx, 1969 fut une année qui marqua trois événements très importants. 1. Le premier homme sur la Lune Deux de ces événements ont encore aujourd’hui un impact quotidien dans votre...
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Why I left America I was living on the beach in Santa Monica, California, and life was perfect. I was in paradise, and...
9th Mar 2022
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Why I left America

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Mar 2022
I was living on the beach in Santa Monica, California, and life was perfect. I was in paradise, and deeply happy. But I always want to learn and grow. To grow intellectually, you need to be surprised. If we’re not surprised, we’re not really learning. We may add new...
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Andy Weir: The Red Planet for Real Before Andy Weir's self-published novel _The Martian_ became a _New York Times_ bestseller and a...
9th Jun 2017
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Andy Weir: The Red Planet for Real

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

9th Jun 2017
Before Andy Weir's self-published novel _The Martian_ became a _New York Times_ bestseller and a blockbuster film, it began as a series of blog posts. Those posts, and the online conversation they sparked, reflect Andy's lifelong love of space and his detailed research into how...
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Network Latencies in the Data Center Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at...
25th Sep 2021
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Network Latencies in the Data Center

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Sep 2021
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at LADIS), which included "round trip within same data center" as 500 us. I was recently wondering if that is still true, and more importantly what does the distribution of latencies...
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Reading List 09/06/2025 London homebuilding, historical home prices, a humanoid robot loading a dishwasher, France’s history...
6th Sep 2025
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Reading List 09/06/2025

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Sep 2025
London homebuilding, historical home prices, a humanoid robot loading a dishwasher, France’s history of nuclear reactor construction, and more.
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Macron is Safe for the Moment But the future worries me.
5th Apr 2023
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Macron is Safe for the Moment

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

5th Apr 2023
But the future worries me.
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Nela Dunato Art & Design got a brand refresh! My previous brand identity design lasted from 2015 until 2023, and it has served me quite well. But...
3rd Dec 2023
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Nela Dunato Art & Design got a brand refresh!

from Nela Dunato Art & Design [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Dec 2023
My previous brand identity design lasted from 2015 until 2023, and it has served me quite well. But my new professional photos sparked the need to overhaul the website, which led to a more substantial brand redesign including new typography and updated logo design. Come see what...
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What is a City Super App and Why Every City Needs One Why I believe every city needs a super app and how it will transform the way we engage with digital...
1st Dec 2025
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What is a City Super App and Why Every City Needs One

from Mert Bulan - Blog & Portfolio [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Dec 2025
Why I believe every city needs a super app and how it will transform the way we engage with digital devices.
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Notes from "On Writing Well" I’ve been trying to improve my writing so I read On Writing Well by William Zinsser. My main...
4th Jan 2026
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Notes from "On Writing Well"

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jan 2026
I’ve been trying to improve my writing so I read On Writing Well by William Zinsser. My main takeaways: Clear thinking is a prerequisite for clear writing. How do you avoid cluttered writing? “The answer is to clear our heads of clutter. Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one...
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
10th Jul 2020
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jul 2020
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
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Accelerating science through evolvable institutions This is the written version of a talk presented to the Santa Fe Institute at a working group on...
4th Dec 2023
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Accelerating science through evolvable institutions

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

4th Dec 2023
This is the written version of a talk presented to the Santa Fe Institute at a working group on “Accelerating Science.” We’re here to discuss “accelerating science.” I like to start on topics like this by taking the historical view: When (if ever) has science accelerated in the...
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Some thoughts on incumbents Reposted from Oct 7, 2010 from cdixon.posterous.com By “incumbents” I mean the big companies that...
7th Oct 2010
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Some thoughts on incumbents

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Oct 2010
Reposted from Oct 7, 2010 from cdixon.posterous.com By “incumbents” I mean the big companies that are loosely competitive to your startup…
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Yes! Apple TV!
17th Nov 2008
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Yes! Apple TV!

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Nov 2008
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How to Build the Best GitHub Profile for Your Job Search I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops...
4th Mar 2022
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How to Build the Best GitHub Profile for Your Job Search

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2022
I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops we do in the Boot.dev Discord group. I’m convinced that these days a developer’s GitHub profile is just as important as their resume itself. If you haven’t started your first job...
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Don't be afraid of RAID Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of...
22nd May 2020
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Don't be afraid of RAID

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd May 2020
Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of your RAID array failing during a rebuild is almost a certainty, because hard drives have become so large. I think nothing is further from the truth and I would like to dispel this...
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Learn Go Fast - Top Courses and Resources Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out...
2nd Nov 2020
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Learn Go Fast - Top Courses and Resources

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Nov 2020
Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out there. It was designed to have a compact feature set, which means you can learn it much faster than most other languages.
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More People, Less Progress: The Startup Scaling Paradox You go for a walk reflecting on how your startup is doing and you realize you’re moving slower with...
19th Oct 2025
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More People, Less Progress: The Startup Scaling Paradox

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Oct 2025
You go for a walk reflecting on how your startup is doing and you realize you’re moving slower with 8 people than you were with 4. It makes no sense! You’ve hired smart people, you’ve written good documentation, you’re not burdening people with meetings. Yet somehow, adding more...
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Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization Intro Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking...
27th Mar 2019
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Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization

from Civic Hax [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Mar 2019
Intro Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking tickets in Chicago, but because I've spent so much time on the overall project, I figured I'd share the story that got me to this point. In many ways, this work is the foundation...
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I'm doing another Recurse Center batch! Hello! I’m going to do a batch (virtually) at the Recurse Center, starting on Monday. I’ll probably...
6th Nov 2020
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I'm doing another Recurse Center batch!

from Rc-2020 on Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Nov 2020
Hello! I’m going to do a batch (virtually) at the Recurse Center, starting on Monday. I’ll probably be blogging about what I learn there, so I want to talk a bit about my plans! I’m excited about this because: I love RC, it’s my favourite programming community, and I’ve always...
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Google interviews vs the LSAT, and why AI will save us from both
14th Jun 2023
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Google interviews vs the LSAT, and why AI will save us from both

from Scott Kennedy [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Jun 2023
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Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich....
28th Dec 2011
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Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Dec 2011
I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich. Don't get me wrong - I like chocolate - but that's just it, I like chocolate, not a pinch of cocoa flavor. Chocolate chip cookies always tasted better to me with the chips on the...
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A Messy Mix The post A Messy Mix appeared first on The American Scholar.
1st May 2024
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A Messy Mix

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st May 2024
The post A Messy Mix appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Boring Phase of AI Advancements Will Become Less Visible—But More Impactful
4th Dec 2025
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The Boring Phase of AI

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Dec 2025
Advancements Will Become Less Visible—But More Impactful
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Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent...
2nd Jan 2025
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Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd Jan 2025
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab. The post Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life first appeared...
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The first post: why Jekyll? Why Jekyll (and not Wordpress)? Markdown, GitHub, simplicity, LaTeX.
2nd Dec 2015
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The first post: why Jekyll?

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Dec 2015
Why Jekyll (and not Wordpress)? Markdown, GitHub, simplicity, LaTeX.
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Socratic dialogue with kids I’m simply trying to understand how she thinks. When she answers in a way that does not match my...
7th Dec 2023
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Socratic dialogue with kids

from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature

7th Dec 2023
I’m simply trying to understand how she thinks. When she answers in a way that does not match my understanding—that is interesting to me.
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Are “Non-Persian” Regions of Iran Poorer than Persian Regions? The Counter-Case of Mazandaran The previous GeoCurrents post showed that the location of oil and natural gas deposits provides a...
6th Apr 2026
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Are “Non-Persian” Regions of Iran Poorer than Persian Regions? The Counter-Case of Mazandaran

from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography

6th Apr 2026
The previous GeoCurrents post showed that the location of oil and natural gas deposits provides a partial explanation of the differences in the distribution of wealth and economic productivity across the country. But other factors must also be considered. Could language and...
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What the mudslide along China-Nepal border tells us about Himalayan Risk What we know about the disaster, why it was so hard to predict, and the challenge of building a...
3 weeks ago
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What the mudslide along China-Nepal border tells us about Himalayan Risk

from Beijing Scroll [alt+shift+b] in history

3 weeks ago
What we know about the disaster, why it was so hard to predict, and the challenge of building a cross-border warning system
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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a...
15th Oct 2021
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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Oct 2021
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
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Liszt was a bad composer On 31st July 1886, the world lost the extraordinary talent of Franz Liszt, the pioneering Hungarian...
1st Aug 2023
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Liszt was a bad composer

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Aug 2023
On 31st July 1886, the world lost the extraordinary talent of Franz Liszt, the pioneering Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist. Liszt redefined music with his innovative symphonic poems and transformative piano compositions, pushing the boundaries of technique and reshaping...
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Coding agents write 90% of my code now
18th Dec 2025
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Coding agents write 90% of my code now

from Ben Borgers [alt+shift+b] in literature

18th Dec 2025
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Get your fine, handcrafted artisanal essays right here I don’t use AI to draft my writing. These are fine handcrafted artisanal essays, every word placed...
10th Jun 2026
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Get your fine, handcrafted artisanal essays right here

from The Roots of Progress [alt+shift+b] in science

10th Jun 2026
I don’t use AI to draft my writing. These are fine handcrafted artisanal essays, every word placed individually with loving care. I use AI a lot for researching, occasionally for brainstorming, and increasingly for fact-checking. But not for outlining, drafting, or directly...
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AT-HOME ENTERTAINING TRENDS FOR 2026, SERVED! What we want now: listening bars, hidden wet bars, Argentine grills, and spaces where every room...
12th Nov 2025
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AT-HOME ENTERTAINING TRENDS FOR 2026, SERVED!

from Melissa Penfold [alt+shift+b] in design

12th Nov 2025
What we want now: listening bars, hidden wet bars, Argentine grills, and spaces where every room pulls double duty for the party Every generation has its own way of gathering at home—the conversion pits and buffets of the ’70s, the formal dinner parties of the ’90s, the open-plan...
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A Splinter In Your Mind Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be...
15th Nov 2022
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A Splinter In Your Mind

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Nov 2022
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis helped make sense of a lot things and has given me a greater insight into my “way of being in the world”. Whilst there are times I...
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Announcing Rust Contributors
12th Jan 2017
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Announcing Rust Contributors

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jan 2017
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We need more calm companies
5th Apr 2024
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We need more calm companies

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Apr 2024
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What’s Preventing Us from Building a Beautiful Product? I just finished listening to Lenny’s conversation with Nan Yu, Head of Product at Linear, about what...
5th Feb 2025
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What’s Preventing Us from Building a Beautiful Product?

from ben-mini [alt+shift+b] in literature

5th Feb 2025
I just finished listening to Lenny’s conversation with Nan Yu, Head of Product at Linear, about what it takes to build a great SaaS product. Like many SaaS apps, the Kibu team and I have taken inspiration from Linear. But as we plan our roadmap and implement new solutions, I ask...
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9 Can’t-Miss Summer Events in Park City
3rd Jul 2025
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9 Can’t-Miss Summer Events in Park City

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

3rd Jul 2025
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query-json: jq written in Reason
12th Oct 2020
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query-json: jq written in Reason

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Oct 2020
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Folk Interfaces People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
24th Aug 2022
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Folk Interfaces

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Aug 2022
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
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AAA gaming on Asahi Linux Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which...
10th Oct 2024
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AAA gaming on Asahi Linux

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Oct 2024
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0. Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®, OpenCL™, and...
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American Elections Are Unfair Unfortunately, unfairness is baked in
5th Nov 2024
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American Elections Are Unfair

from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Nov 2024
Unfortunately, unfairness is baked in
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A Vim + Haskell Workflow A Vim + Haskell Workflow This post is out of date and has been updated for modern workflow.This page...
18th Oct 2013
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A Vim + Haskell Workflow

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

18th Oct 2013
A Vim + Haskell Workflow This post is out of date and has been updated for modern workflow.This page is left for posterity. Hoogle Hoogle is a Haskell type search $ cabal install hoogle Hoogle can be used from the command line as well from GHCi by .ghc/ghci.conf :def hoogle \s...
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Jigsaw Block Printing on Fabric Block printing onto fabric is such a fun way to create your own designs. Jigsaw printing allows you...
4th Jun 2025
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Jigsaw Block Printing on Fabric

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

4th Jun 2025
Block printing onto fabric is such a fun way to create your own designs. Jigsaw printing allows you to carve just one block to print a multi-coloured design. By cutting our carved block into jigsaw pieces we can ink them up separately and print onto the fabric, knowing they'll...
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Puffed millet and qui'nola I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been...
11th Mar 2020
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Puffed millet and qui'nola

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2020
I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been obsessed. All I want for breakfast these days is a bowl of this granola with some plain yogurt. UPDATE: I no longer order from Sqirl after hearing about their jam mold and the deeper...
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Seasonal relief Just a map for fun, made without writing any code, which is a nice change of pace. I finally spent a...
16th Feb 2018
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Seasonal relief

from Cartogrammar [alt+shift+b] in architecture

16th Feb 2018
Just a map for fun, made without writing any code, which is a nice change of pace. I finally spent a bit of time catching up with the great Daniel Huffman’s excellent tutorial on creating shaded relief maps with Blender. Do try it out if you haven’t; he’s written it up thoroughly...
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The Problem with Too Much Fairness We care so much about fairness that we are willing to sacrifice economic well-being to enforce it....
7th Oct 2021
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The Problem with Too Much Fairness

from Abhishek Chakraborty [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Oct 2021
We care so much about fairness that we are willing to sacrifice economic well-being to enforce it. Research shows that just to ensure shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
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Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal...
12th Mar 2022
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Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2022
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It's pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc. The only small...
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Django - growing up from SQLite to PostgreSQL Django by default comes with SQLite as a database.It’s a great choice for initial development and...
11th Jul 2021
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Django - growing up from SQLite to PostgreSQL

from Tiny struggles [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Jul 2021
Django by default comes with SQLite as a database.It’s a great choice for initial development and for testing,but not if you want to run multiple app servers, e.g. in a SaaS project. At some point it’s time to pick up a DB like MySQL or PostgreSQL that is more suitable for this...
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The Generational Legacy of Samples in Music We trace musical DNA from the classical "Hall of the Mountain King" to 2pac's "Hit Em Up."
1st Apr 2025
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The Generational Legacy of Samples in Music

from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Apr 2025
We trace musical DNA from the classical "Hall of the Mountain King" to 2pac's "Hit Em Up."
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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...
11th Feb 2024
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2024-02-11 the top of the DNS hierarchy

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Feb 2024
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,...
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Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic I've been studying the standard cell circuitry in the Intel 386 processor recently. The 386,...
22nd Nov 2025
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Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Nov 2025
I've been studying the standard cell circuitry in the Intel 386 processor recently. The 386, introduced in 1985, was Intel's most complex processor at the time, containing 285,000 transistors. Intel's existing design techniques couldn't handle this complexity and the chip began...
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Writing Javascript without a build system Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend...
16th Feb 2023
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Writing Javascript without a build system

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Feb 2023
Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend project, I was faced with the question: should I use a build system? I want to talk about what’s appealing to me about build systems, why I (usually) still don’t use them, and why I find...
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Braces Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by...
24th Jun 2024
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Braces

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jun 2024
Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by Dentist Chung (in Vietnamese I called him Bác Sĩ Chung – which means Dr Chung translated directly) and his sister running the office. The office was in Garden Grove, in between the...
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Another Atlas of Minor Projects A few years ago, I compiled a PDF of various small odds-and-ends mapping projects that I’d done....
31st Jan 2024
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Another Atlas of Minor Projects

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

31st Jan 2024
A few years ago, I compiled a PDF of various small odds-and-ends mapping projects that I’d done. Now, I’ve done it again. Please enjoy Another Atlas of Minor Projects, which houses a few dozen cartographic items that needed a home. These are all small, mostly-quick projects that...
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Rolex DateJust 36 Celebrating a major milestone, I treated myself to a Rolex DateJust 36. Want to know what it's like?...
21st Dec 2022
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Rolex DateJust 36

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Dec 2022
Celebrating a major milestone, I treated myself to a Rolex DateJust 36. Want to know what it's like? Keep reading!
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Achieving 450 MB/s network file transfers using Linux Bonding Linux Bonding In this article I'd like to show the results of using regular 1 Gigabit network...
7th Jan 2014
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Achieving 450 MB/s network file transfers using Linux Bonding

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jan 2014
Linux Bonding In this article I'd like to show the results of using regular 1 Gigabit network connections to achieve 450 MB/s file transfers over NFS. I'm again using Linux interface bonding for this purpose. Linux interface bonding can be used to create a virtual network...
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[RIDGELINE] Walking the Brooklyn Bridge Ridgeline subscribers — Thanks for all the “Yo!“s last week. It looks like transmissions from...
1st Jun 2026
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[RIDGELINE] Walking the Brooklyn Bridge

from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Jun 2026
Ridgeline subscribers — Thanks for all the “Yo!“s last week. It looks like transmissions from mailbot2k are getting through. (Let me know if you see any “rendering errors” in your email clients; I think we fixed the Proton Mail issues.) FYI, because the last issue of Roden ended...
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Photos from my time in Iran, 2017 Travels through Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Persepolis, and Yazd
31st Mar 2026
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Photos from my time in Iran, 2017

from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history

31st Mar 2026
Travels through Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Persepolis, and Yazd
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Advent of Code in C++ Template Metaprogramming This December, the imp of the perverse struck me, and I decided to see how many days of Advent of...
8th Dec 2023
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Advent of Code in C++ Template Metaprogramming

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Dec 2023
This December, the imp of the perverse struck me, and I decided to see how many days of Advent of Code I could do purely in compile-time C++ metaprogramming. As of this writing, I’ve done two days, and I’m not sure I’ll make it any further. However, that’s one more day than I...
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Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes Dwarf galaxies weren’t supposed to have big black holes. Their surprise discovery has revealed clues...
8th Jun 2022
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Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

8th Jun 2022
Dwarf galaxies weren’t supposed to have big black holes. Their surprise discovery has revealed clues about how the universe’s biggest black holes could have formed. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon.
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USB Cheat Sheet
5th May 2022
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USB Cheat Sheet

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th May 2022
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Three levels of enthusiasm for technology Most businesses today believe that technology can dramatically improve the way they operate. But...
2nd Aug 2014
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Three levels of enthusiasm for technology

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Aug 2014
Most businesses today believe that technology can dramatically improve the way they operate. But they embrace technology with varying levels…
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What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal...
25th Oct 2015
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What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Oct 2015
Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things. But...
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never waste a token durable inference: resumable streams, crash recovery, and why the LLM request shouldn't die with...
15th Jun 2026
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never waste a token

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Jun 2026
durable inference: resumable streams, crash recovery, and why the LLM request shouldn't die with your process.
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Drift Right now it is April 18 and I am walking along the steep coast at the peninsula on the Northeastern...
1st May 2025
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Drift

from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st May 2025
Right now it is April 18 and I am walking along the steep coast at the peninsula on the Northeastern corner of our island.
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Why do we need a Department of Government Efficiency? President Trump’s recent sweeping electoral victory is a clear mandate for change. There is some...
2nd Dec 2024
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Why do we need a Department of Government Efficiency?

from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd Dec 2024
President Trump’s recent sweeping electoral victory is a clear mandate for change. There is some urgency, and Trump has assembled the early stages of a team and coalition that can deliver it. It’s not exactly a mystery what Elon and Vivek plan for The Department of Government...
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
3rd Apr 2023
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp

from Paul Graham: Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Apr 2023
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Is climate change 100 times more threatening than gain-of-function research? Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
2nd Mar 2023
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Is climate change 100 times more threatening than gain-of-function research?

from David Rozado Substack [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Mar 2023
Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
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1981 time machine If you went back 45 years, the built world would be eerily similar–the clothes, the cars, even the...
1st Jan 2026
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1981 time machine

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

1st Jan 2026
If you went back 45 years, the built world would be eerily similar–the clothes, the cars, even the haircuts. Except you’d quickly notice that there were no personal computers and no smart phones. That for seven or ten hours a day, every day, people were interacting in real life,...
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Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders: Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm...
3rd Mar 2026
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Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2026
In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders: Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm implementing (kinda) a C-compiler in Rust, but desktop Claude is an Electron app. If code is free, why aren’t all apps native? And then argues that the answer is that LLMs are not good...
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Beautiful ugly websites Form is cheap, function is everything(?)
7th Mar 2024
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Beautiful ugly websites

from Product Identity [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Mar 2024
Form is cheap, function is everything(?)
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You’re Not “Letting People Go”—You're Firing Them Getting past the euphemisms - this is what “performance management” looks like from the manager...
5th Jan 2026
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You’re Not “Letting People Go”—You're Firing Them

from Scarlet Ink [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Jan 2026
Getting past the euphemisms - this is what “performance management” looks like from the manager chair.
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State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3 As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now...
12th Sep 2023
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State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Sep 2023
As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now everyone wants to see how Generative AI intersects with everything. The fits are not completely natural, as Generative AI like Chat GPT is more NLP type systems, but there are a...
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UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary...
31st Oct 2018
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UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Oct 2018
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary things. The first is that a young toddler can go trick-or-treating in your apartment building and acquire a huge amount of candy. When they are this young they have no interest in the...
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Anatomy of a change Exactly a year ago today, I changed something about myself that had been part of my life for ten...
9th Apr 2026
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Anatomy of a change

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Apr 2026
Exactly a year ago today, I changed something about myself that had been part of my life for ten years. What that "thing" is won’t be mentioned here, so as not to take the subject out of context, but I can tell you a few things about it. Because it had persisted for a decade, it...
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Vote for Nobody! Nobody cares.
1st Nov 2024
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Vote for Nobody!

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Nov 2024
Nobody cares.
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Building an AI toolbar for text editors I've been experimenting with a floating AI toolbar, designed for use in text editors. Here’s some...
9th Jul 2024
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Building an AI toolbar for text editors

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2024
I've been experimenting with a floating AI toolbar, designed for use in text editors. Here’s some details on how it was created.
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✏️ The Work Is Never Done I went for a run. I’ve been running consistently for over a year and a half now. It’s a panacea for...
7th Nov 2024
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✏️ The Work Is Never Done

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

7th Nov 2024
I went for a run. I’ve been running consistently for over a year and a half now. It’s a panacea for me. I run outside. I like to feel the cool wind on my skin, my pores open and sweating, the legs rhythmically turning over in pursuit of flow. In the beginning, I kept my head...
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What if Stripe is the next Google? Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
14th May 2021
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What if Stripe is the next Google?

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th May 2021
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
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Iran: The Day After What's going to happen in the coming days and weeks?
3rd Mar 2026
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Iran: The Day After

from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd Mar 2026
What's going to happen in the coming days and weeks?
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The next step in Buffer’s social media journey Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Can you remember where you were seven years...
2nd Aug 2017
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The next step in Buffer’s social media journey

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2017
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Can you remember where you were seven years ago? I was in my apartment in Birmingham, UK, coding up the very first version of Buffer as a tool to schedule tweets. So much has changed since then: the Buffer product has
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11th Nov 2018
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from Civic Hax [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Nov 2018
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A Newfound Source of Cellular Order in the Chemistry of Life Inside cells, droplets of biomolecules called condensates merge, divide and dissolve. Their dance...
1st Apr 2021
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A Newfound Source of Cellular Order in the Chemistry of Life

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Apr 2021
Inside cells, droplets of biomolecules called condensates merge, divide and dissolve. Their dance may regulate vital processes. The post A Newfound Source of Cellular Order in the Chemistry of Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Plus Post: Logic Programming Associates 386-PROLOG Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
1st Jul 2026
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Plus Post: Logic Programming Associates 386-PROLOG

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2026
Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
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Silver Machine (Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station, Hanley, Staffordshire, UK) With a horrid shock of recognition, I suddenly realised what Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station reminded me...
9th Feb 2022
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Silver Machine (Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station, Hanley, Staffordshire, UK)

from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9th Feb 2022
With a horrid shock of recognition, I suddenly realised what Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station reminded me of. As a one-time public transport officer in a local authority I, like most others, often experienced the depressing feeling of being unable to source enough funding to keep an...
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Grit Multipliers People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder....
4th Dec 2022
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Grit Multipliers

from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2022
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...
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Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I...
30th Dec 2025
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Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model

from Engineers Need Art [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Dec 2025
The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I build a replica from balsa.
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Full-bleed Table Scrolling on Narrow Viewports I found the following to be a rather decent solution for having HTML tables overflow the inline...
20th May 2023
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Full-bleed Table Scrolling on Narrow Viewports

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

20th May 2023
I found the following to be a rather decent solution for having HTML tables overflow the inline edges of smaller/tighter/narrow viewports. Try resizing the width of the browser window if viewing this page on a larger screen. Open CodePen demo Notice that the table...
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Hiring a geo-guesser, change merchants, one distribution channel is all it takes Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
7th Aug 2023
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Hiring a geo-guesser, change merchants, one distribution channel is all it takes

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Aug 2023
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “request for service: roast my onboarding for SaaS...
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Haiku Package Management Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have...
13th Feb 2023
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Haiku Package Management

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason...
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We need to talk about naked mole rats This is a comic about naked mole rats, aka tube goblins. View on my website
28th Nov 2025
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We need to talk about naked mole rats

from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics

28th Nov 2025
This is a comic about naked mole rats, aka tube goblins. View on my website
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Configuring SCST iSCSI target on Debian Linux (Wheezy) My goal is to export ZFS zvol volumes through iSCSI to other machines. The platform I'm using is...
1st Feb 2015
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Configuring SCST iSCSI target on Debian Linux (Wheezy)

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2015
My goal is to export ZFS zvol volumes through iSCSI to other machines. The platform I'm using is Debian Wheezy. There are three iSCSI target solutions available for Linux: LIO IET SCST I've briefly played with LIO but the targetcli tool is interactive only. If you want to...
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Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close...
7th May 2007
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Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2007
Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close to home (for me anyway) needs more attention than it's getting. My fear is that the Greensburg tornado will fade from the public mind just as quickly as it came. I would like to...
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30-Day First Draft: Week 2.5 Report & Lessons 70,117 Words Later
4th Sep 2024
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30-Day First Draft: Week 2.5 Report & Lessons

from Nat Eliason's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Sep 2024
70,117 Words Later
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2022 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years...
1st Jan 2023
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2022

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2023
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years straight (see main [2019 list](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts), then my [2020](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2020) and [2021](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2021) diffs),...
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Dishoom's $400m Restaurant Playbook How a former Harvard MBA turned Bain consultant co-founded Dishoom and scaled the Indian fine dining...
20th Nov 2025
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Dishoom's $400m Restaurant Playbook

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

20th Nov 2025
How a former Harvard MBA turned Bain consultant co-founded Dishoom and scaled the Indian fine dining business to $180m in sales and a $400m valuation.
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Shelter of Man With the publication of Shelter of Man in Guerrila Cartography’s forthcoming Shelter: An Atlas, I...
7th Jul 2021
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Shelter of Man

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

7th Jul 2021
With the publication of Shelter of Man in Guerrila Cartography’s forthcoming Shelter: An Atlas, I can officially call myself a guerrilla cartographer. I’m not just an artist anymore. My relationship with cartography developed while studying architecture in Australia. I might have...
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Suite smells: undertesting and overtesting Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests too optimistic...
8th Dec 2024
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Suite smells: undertesting and overtesting

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Dec 2024
Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests too optimistic (assuming the code already works), or too persnickety (testing the irrelevant)?
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Media Consumption (Feb 2021) >_ Summary Read 3 books (2202 min, -10% MoM) and 22 articles (-15%) Listened to 364 songs (+38%) and...
4th Mar 2021
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Media Consumption (Feb 2021)

from julian.digital [alt+shift+b] in design

4th Mar 2021
>_ Summary Read 3 books (2202 min, -10% MoM) and 22 articles (-15%) Listened to 364 songs (+38%) and 15 podcasts (749 min, same) Watched 8 movies (885 min, +727%), 7 soccer games (965 min, +16%) and 7 TV episodes (405 min, -62%) Played 0 board games (0 min, same) and 1 video game...
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Showdown, p11 The post Showdown, p11 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
3rd Nov 2025
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Showdown, p11

from Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic [alt+shift+b] in comics

3rd Nov 2025
The post Showdown, p11 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work? The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
11th Jul 2023
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?

from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history

11th Jul 2023
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part Two) This is the second half of my article about how to communicate well and avoid pitfalls in code...
9th Nov 2017
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How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part Two)

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

9th Nov 2017
This is the second half of my article about how to communicate well and avoid pitfalls in code reviews. Here, I focus on techniques to bring your code review to a successful close while avoiding ugly conflict. I laid the groundwork in Part One, so I recommend starting there. If...
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Setting Up a Free SSL Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
7th Aug 2018
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Setting Up a Free SSL

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Aug 2018
Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol. Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
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Bicycle There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling...
28th Mar 2023
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Bicycle

from Bartosz Ciechanowski [alt+shift+b] in science

28th Mar 2023
There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling to move forward and turning the handlebars to steer makes bike riding an effortless activity. In the demonstration below, you can guide the rider with the slider, and you can also...
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The Case For Abundance Why I'm betting on depth over distraction
5th Jan 2026
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The Case For Abundance

from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Jan 2026
Why I'm betting on depth over distraction
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Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama...
14th Mar 2024
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Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Mar 2024
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama can now be accelerated by AMD graphics cards on Ollama for Linux and Windows.
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UFO As Aliens Odds, Spending The following are some (lognormal fit) median estimates from some X polls I just ran.
2nd Feb 2025
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UFO As Aliens Odds, Spending

from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Feb 2025
The following are some (lognormal fit) median estimates from some X polls I just ran.
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What the Internet Was Like in 2001 Apple iTunes, the Rip Mix Burn advert, 2001; via YouTube (video embedded below). The year 2001 began...
5th Nov 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2001

from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history

5th Nov 2025
Apple iTunes, the Rip Mix Burn advert, 2001; via YouTube (video embedded below). The year 2001 began with optimism — in January, Wikipedia debuted and Apple launched iTunes. But by year’s end the mood had shifted. The dot-com crash had drained Silicon Valley’s exuberance, Napster...
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So Long, Prog21 I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry...
4th Jan 2017
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So Long, Prog21

from Programming in the 21st Century [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2017
I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry from January 1, 2010, that I needed to end it. It just took a while.Recovering Programmer And now, an explanation. I started this blog to talk about issues tangentially related to...
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visual journal – 2024 May 20 - June 1 Faces The last two weeks have been unusually busy and routine-disrupting. Half the input to the...
1st Jun 2024
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visual journal – 2024 May 20 - June 1

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Jun 2024
Faces The last two weeks have been unusually busy and routine-disrupting. Half the input to the book as usual, but still, something is better than nothing! I intended to make the collage on the right only black and white. Couldn’t resist a bit of color. Very...
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Netrunner Summer Tournament Linköping There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs...
18th Sep 2015
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Netrunner Summer Tournament Linköping

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Sep 2015
There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs with Old Hollywood and The Universe of Tomorrow so a lot of new things were tried. I heard a rumor that a full playset of both Aesop’s Pawnshop and Wyldside were available so I...
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The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967 It was the summer of 1952, and the executives of Tombow Pencil were about to revolutionize the...
2nd Mar 2022
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The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967

from Studio Notes [alt+shift+b] in creative

2nd Mar 2022
It was the summer of 1952, and the executives of Tombow Pencil were about to revolutionize the Japanese pencil industry—or, possibly, fall flat on their faces. Hachiro Ogawa, the son of founder Harunosuke Ogawa, was Tombow's managing director, and he had just finished a...
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Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to...
29th Apr 2022
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Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

29th Apr 2022
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to a technology with real-world applications. Notable examples include DeepMind’s work on controlling a nuclear reactor or on improving Youtube video compression, or Tesla attempting...
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OpenAI: The Battle of the Board: Ilya's Testimony New Things Have Come To Light
4th Nov 2025
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OpenAI: The Battle of the Board: Ilya's Testimony

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Nov 2025
New Things Have Come To Light
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The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals,...
7th Mar 2024
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The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2024
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.
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The right tool for the right job at the right time?
8th Jun 2022
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The right tool for the right job at the right time?

from CommitStrip [alt+shift+b] in comics

8th Jun 2022
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A love letter to civilian OSINT What is civilian OSINT, and could it be used altruistically?
10th Jul 2020
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A love letter to civilian OSINT

from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

10th Jul 2020
What is civilian OSINT, and could it be used altruistically?
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How I read Reading well is an endurance sport. I sometimes talk to people who want to become serious readers...
1st Oct 2025
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How I read

from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Oct 2025
Reading well is an endurance sport. I sometimes talk to people who want to become serious readers and so pick up Kafka’s The Trial or something like that—it is about as pleasant as running a marathon untrained.
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Examples of large production-grade, open-source React apps All of the to-do apps are great for starting to learn React, but what about real-life? Let's see...
1st Sep 2020
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Examples of large production-grade, open-source React apps

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

1st Sep 2020
All of the to-do apps are great for starting to learn React, but what about real-life? Let's see what real production React apps are like.
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On The Course: Creating Life Drawing Mono Screen Prints I (Bridget) was lucky enough to take part on last years Life-Drawing Monoscreen Printing workshop...
7th Jun 2023
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On The Course: Creating Life Drawing Mono Screen Prints

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

7th Jun 2023
I (Bridget) was lucky enough to take part on last years Life-Drawing Monoscreen Printing workshop with Tricia Johnson. During the course, we worked with a life model to create painterly screen prints using the mono screen method. We used acrylic based screen printing inks and...
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Is ops a bullshit job? I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A...
11th Feb 2025
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Is ops a bullshit job?

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Feb 2025
I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Graeber defines a bullshit job as, a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence...
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Precision Clock Acrylic Case [Hardware] Smoked acrylic upgrade for the Precision Clock Mk IV
29th Oct 2025
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Precision Clock Acrylic Case

from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Oct 2025
[Hardware] Smoked acrylic upgrade for the Precision Clock Mk IV
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2nd Dec 2024
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria

from CrimethInc. [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Dec 2024
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished It’s often the case that when we do good things for others, we open ourselves to new risks. A...
30th Aug 2023
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

from Naveen Arun's Blog [alt+shift+b] in life

30th Aug 2023
It’s often the case that when we do good things for others, we open ourselves to new risks. A student helps a classmate, only to get accused of cheating. A friend lends money, which strains the friendship. A driver stops their car for a pedestrian, then gets rear-ended. We do so...
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Trip to Germany, spring 2024
26th May 2024
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Trip to Germany, spring 2024

from Ben Borgers [alt+shift+b] in literature

26th May 2024
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Lichen as the common ancestor of all life on earth The alternate "Lichen as last universal common ancestor" model, which I will refer to for...
2nd Apr 2026
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Lichen as the common ancestor of all life on earth

from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd Apr 2026
The alternate "Lichen as last universal common ancestor" model, which I will refer to for convenience as “Big Lichen”, does not expect so little of mother nature.
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A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC" Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A...
18th Oct 2008
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A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC"

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Oct 2008
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship. In the...
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Goodbye, WordPress WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It...
1st Feb 2021
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Goodbye, WordPress

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2021
WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It transformed my career path and enabled me to do anything I wanted at every point in my journey. So why leave it now?
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How to use Next.js middleware Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access,...
1st Nov 2021
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How to use Next.js middleware

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2021
Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access, and more. Let’s take a look.
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Martin Fowler told me the second edition should be shorter (it's twice as long) 90% new material, a clearer mission, and a rogues gallery of contributors. The second edition of...
18th Feb 2026
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Martin Fowler told me the second edition should be shorter (it's twice as long)

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Feb 2026
90% new material, a clearer mission, and a rogues gallery of contributors. The second edition of Observability Engineering is almost done.
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Historical Map: Interurban Railways Around Chicago, c. 1921 A lovely map of the electric interurban lines radiating out from Chicago “over hill and valley, by...
8th Jun 2026
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Historical Map: Interurban Railways Around Chicago, c. 1921

from Transit Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

8th Jun 2026
A lovely map of the electric interurban lines radiating out from Chicago “over hill and valley, by lake and stream,” compiled by the Chicago Evening Standard newspaper. The source I obtained this map from tentatively dates it to 1921; perhaps people with more familiarity with the...
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Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to...
29th Aug 2007
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Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Aug 2007
When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons. Issues with leap years # A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
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Anthropic and Dario Amodei I unfortunately don’t see a way forward
19th Jul 2026
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Anthropic and Dario Amodei

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Jul 2026
I unfortunately don’t see a way forward
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Why did Stu Woo of the Wall Street Journal Follow Me to Singapore? Thirty five million people change countries every year. I'm one of them, and so is Stu Woo.
28th Jul 2026
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Why did Stu Woo of the Wall Street Journal Follow Me to Singapore?

from balajis.com [alt+shift+b] in finance

28th Jul 2026
Thirty five million people change countries every year. I'm one of them, and so is Stu Woo.
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Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of...
2nd Sep 2024
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Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2024
Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of virtual reality headsets, gaming is still done with relatively limited movement unless one has access to an expensive VR walking/running setup. As an effort to get more physical...
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AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You .highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color:...
22nd Apr 2024
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AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You

from Renegade Otter [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2024
.highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color: var(--theme-secondary-background-color); border-radius: 10px; } The firehose of data is turned on In the beginning, the Internet was a small, cozy place. Most people weren’t online, and most businesses...
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
2nd Jan 2024
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Jan 2024
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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Book Review - Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant In the book Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant, author Roland Lazenby meticulously shares the...
29th Mar 2020
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Book Review - Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant

from Blog - Anchorpointexpeditions.com [alt+shift+b] in literature

29th Mar 2020
In the book Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant, author Roland Lazenby meticulously shares the journey of Kobe Bryant, from ancestral influences up through his final game in the NBA. He is a clear fan of Kobe’s inarguable work ethic, but he allows readers to reinforce their...
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Upward assignment in Ruby Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it...
13th Jan 2023
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Upward assignment in Ruby

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jan 2023
Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it added rightward assignment (4 => x). Then at RubyConf 2021, Kevin Kuchta explained how to abuse Ruby features to build a downward assignment operator (yes, this really...
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Varieties of Disturbance My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of...
1st Mar 2023
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Varieties of Disturbance

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2023
My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of damning with faint praise:
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Why many products struggle, and only a few succeed
17th Aug 2018
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Why many products struggle, and only a few succeed

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Aug 2018
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The Mirrortable Mirrortables are to cap tables what stablecoins are to fiat currencies. They streamline and...
26th Dec 2021
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The Mirrortable

from balajis.com [alt+shift+b] in finance

26th Dec 2021
Mirrortables are to cap tables what stablecoins are to fiat currencies. They streamline and internationalize the logistical mess of angel investing.
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN Controller, Part 1 I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, from master controller to an AWS...
22nd Jun 2023
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN Controller, Part 1

from Project Blog on Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D. [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Jun 2023
I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, from master controller to an AWS sunflower to a speedometer, and everything in between. The engineer or hobbyist interested in getting this project ready expediently would probably find their favorite...
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Tesla Spyware I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to...
1st Aug 2026
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Tesla Spyware

from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Aug 2026
I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to WiFi. Hopefully turning all these settings off stops it; otherwise, I might need a new car. But are any good?
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Flip it in your favor The old saying, “It’s all who you know,” used to feel so defeating. So when I heard, “It’s all...
29th Mar 2010
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Flip it in your favor

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th Mar 2010
The old saying, “It’s all who you know,” used to feel so defeating. So when I heard, “It’s all who you know,” it felt like the rest of that sentence was, “and you don’t know anyone. So forget it.” On his way into class I overheard him say he was hungry. He had come...
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Externalizing Some Simple Topos Statements Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done...
13th Dec 2022
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Externalizing Some Simple Topos Statements

from Chris Grossack's Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

13th Dec 2022
Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done math in any serious capacity for almost the past month. It’s been a lot of hard work trying to get fair contracts out of the UC, but I had a lot of travel plans this December to...
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Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself) Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
19th Oct 2025
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Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself)

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Oct 2025
Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
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Prediction is hard, especially about the future more reinforcement learning, this time on the future
16th Sep 2025
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Prediction is hard, especially about the future

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Sep 2025
more reinforcement learning, this time on the future
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2015 Meta Time for my annual blogging review. And only 11 days late! I'll keep it brief. Blog stats I...
11th Jan 2016
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2015 Meta

from Melting Asphalt [alt+shift+b] in science

11th Jan 2016
Time for my annual blogging review. And only 11 days late! I'll keep it brief. Blog stats I published a paltry six full essays this year. Don't get me wrong: I'm proud of them. But still, six. It would be… Read more ›
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Stopping a runaway train It feels urgent because it is. But by the time the train is running away, it might be too late. The...
1st Aug 2024
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Stopping a runaway train

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

1st Aug 2024
It feels urgent because it is. But by the time the train is running away, it might be too late. The better strategy is to not sign up for trains that are likely to run away. The first principle of risk reduction is to figure out if you can stop it later. If you can’t, […]
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Good Tokens 2025-10-01 Dinosaurs for sale
3rd Oct 2025
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Good Tokens 2025-10-01

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Oct 2025
Dinosaurs for sale
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Writing, Riffs & Relationships summary And - specifically for anyone doing "content marketing" to drive sales - like indie...
10th Feb 2023
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Writing, Riffs & Relationships

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Feb 2023
summary And - specifically for anyone doing "content marketing" to drive sales - like indie consultants, business owners and founders - the riff is a great way to create connections and conversations around your work. In short it's a tasteful and more fun way of doing outreach...
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FYI: Broadcom is ruining Bitnami containers You'll need to switch off ASAP.
28th Aug 2025
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FYI: Broadcom is ruining Bitnami containers

from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Aug 2025
You'll need to switch off ASAP.
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Can LLMs learn from a single example? Summary: recently while fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on multiple-choice science exam...
3rd Sep 2023
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Can LLMs learn from a single example?

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Sep 2023
Summary: recently while fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on multiple-choice science exam questions, we observed some highly unusual training loss curves. In particular, it appeared the model was able to rapidly memorize examples from the dataset after seeing them just...
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LED Matrix Earrings [Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
20th Feb 2024
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LED Matrix Earrings

from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Feb 2024
[Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2nd Dec 2024
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Dec 2024
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no...
17th Aug 2016
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Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents

from Cartogrammar [alt+shift+b] in architecture

17th Aug 2016
Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no particular reason the other day, followed by a silly-sounding question: “but, like, what about land area by latitude and longitude?” Silly because, duh, a chart of land area by latitude and...
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Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the...
31st Dec 2019
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Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2019
I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the Everglades: the endless sea of grass, extending to the horizon, as far as the eye can see and beyond, and teeming with life. There are all kinds of animals there. Herons, egrets,...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Trust Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't even trust MYSELF to catch my wife, even if...
7th Feb 2023
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Trust

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

7th Feb 2023
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't even trust MYSELF to catch my wife, even if I'm intending to. Today's News:
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There Is No Truth in Business, Only Knowledge 'Knowledge' here is defined as 'theories or models that help you predict better'. How an idea from...
4th Apr 2023
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There Is No Truth in Business, Only Knowledge

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

4th Apr 2023
'Knowledge' here is defined as 'theories or models that help you predict better'. How an idea from W. Edwards Deming may well be a working philosophy of business.
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Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, a chip to "separate the really power-hungry...
7th Jul 2024
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Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jul 2024
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, a chip to "separate the really power-hungry folks from ordinary mortals." The original Pentium was followed by the Pentium Pro, the Pentium II, and others, spawning a long-running brand of high-performance processors, Intel's...
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The 8 Guidelines for Good Automotive UX Design The essence of automotive UX design turned into 8 fundamental guidelines aimed at designers in the...
1st Dec 2023
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The 8 Guidelines for Good Automotive UX Design

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Dec 2023
The essence of automotive UX design turned into 8 fundamental guidelines aimed at designers in the car industry
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Security Rules for Email Security Rules for Email Email Security Primer What is email? Email is the equivalent of a postcard...
5th Apr 2016
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Security Rules for Email

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Apr 2016
Security Rules for Email Email Security Primer What is email? Email is the equivalent of a postcard in the mail. Much like a postcard in the mail1, email is not guaranteed to be private or secure in any capacity. email is not secure You must assume: Anybody can read anything you...
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How they made it: The Molehill's Viv Chen on career transitions and fashion writing creativity, security, and changing careers in your late 20s
4th Mar 2025
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How they made it: The Molehill's Viv Chen on career transitions and fashion writing

from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Mar 2025
creativity, security, and changing careers in your late 20s
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Space-time Algebra in Python Space-time Algebra in Python Geometric Algebra is a very cool alternative formulation of linear...
21st Apr 2013
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Space-time Algebra in Python

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Apr 2013
Space-time Algebra in Python Geometric Algebra is a very cool alternative formulation of linear algebra that provides a succinct framework for representing geometric transformations and physical phenomena. One of my favourite books is Geometric Algebra for Computer Science by Leo...
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Bakeoff Formspree makes it easy to receive submissions from HTML forms on your static website. Functional...
1st Jul 2019
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Bakeoff

from Peder M. Isager [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Jul 2019
Formspree makes it easy to receive submissions from HTML forms on your static website. Functional Form This theme has a form-to-email feature built in, thanks to the simple Formspree integration. All you need to activate the form is a valid recipient email address saved in the...
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The How and Why of BlockValue I wrote the following post, and built the application in question, in 2017, in my “end of Turing”...
14th Sep 2017
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The How and Why of BlockValue

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

14th Sep 2017
I wrote the following post, and built the application in question, in 2017, in my “end of Turing” project, before I’d ever been hired as a software developer. I really enjoyed the app that I built, and I keep wanting to get around to cleaning it up and making it work again. Maybe...
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What is RSS?
26th Mar 2025
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What is RSS?

from Lighthouse Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Mar 2025
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Ontario, Day 3 (Lake and Mountain) Now it was time to get serious about seeing some local sights. We got to Ontario without any issues,...
1st Jul 2025
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Ontario, Day 3 (Lake and Mountain)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

1st Jul 2025
Now it was time to get serious about seeing some local sights. We got to Ontario without any issues, we had an entire down day, and next we needed something fun. Everyone in the family has a different version of fun but I had an idea. But before we started all that I still wanted...
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OpenAI Five intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch...
6th Aug 2018
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OpenAI Five intro

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Aug 2018
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch humans and AI play Dota, but today’s match will have implications for the world. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that when we can build machines as smart as humans, they will benefit...
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