Math Is Still...
Topologists Tackle the Trouble With Poll Placement
Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places where it’s hard to vote. ...
9 months ago
Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places where it’s hard to vote.
The post Topologists Tackle the Trouble With Poll Placement first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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11 months ago
Seth's Blog
New ways to codify purpose
And then what happens? Many small businesses start with generosity and good intent at their core....
a year ago
And then what happens? Many small businesses start with generosity and good intent at their core. But it’s a rough ride, and especially when outside funding is involved, it’s easy to get seduced by the bright lights of Milton Friedman and an obsession with short-term profits....
Society's Backend
I Enjoy Technical Interviews and You Can Too
A simple change in mindset that completely changed the way I interview
a year ago
A simple change in mindset that completely changed the way I interview
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The problem with tranched VC investments
In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over...
over a year ago
In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over time when certain pre-negotiated…
Andrej Karpathy blog
Biohacking Lite
Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew...
over a year ago
Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of abstraction. I also knew that I can probably get away with...
Seán Barry
Presentation: Building a High Volume Data Processing Pipeline in JavaScript
There's more to JavaScript than e-commerce websites and web banners. This presentation is about an...
over a year ago
There's more to JavaScript than e-commerce websites and web banners. This presentation is about an ETL pipeline I built with a microservice architecture in JavaScript and some of the lessons I learned as part of the process.
TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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5 months ago
Uncharted...
Interesting News & Game Theory of Sex | Q3 2024
Trans & bathrooms, the end of nation states, woke pendulum, trigger warnings, is breastfeeding...
2 months ago
Trans & bathrooms, the end of nation states, woke pendulum, trigger warnings, is breastfeeding actually good for IQ, are differences in household work justified, and more
The American Scholar
The Snow Maiden
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice
The post The Snow Maiden appeared first on...
4 days ago
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice
The post The Snow Maiden appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Great Discontent...
Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor
When Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor came up with the idea for Ear Hustle, the podcast they’ve hosted...
7 months ago
When Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor came up with the idea for Ear Hustle, the podcast they’ve hosted together since 2017, Earlonne was serving a prison sentence of 31 years to life—the result of California’s three-strikes law. The two met at San Quentin State Prison where Nigel, a...
Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
a month ago
An indispensable organization
Wanderingspace
Saturn Family Portrait
From planetary.org: On July 29, 2011, Cassini captured five of Saturn’s moons in a single frame with...
over a year ago
From planetary.org: On July 29, 2011, Cassini captured five of Saturn’s moons in a single frame with its narrow-angle camera: Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Rhea, and Mimas. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. This is a full-color look at a view that was originally published in...
ToughSF
Nuclear Photon Rockets: Flashlights to the Stars
In this post, we will have a look at the concept of using a nuclear photon rocket for interstellar...
over a year ago
In this post, we will have a look at the concept of using a nuclear photon rocket for interstellar travel. They are an old concept that should theoretically be the ultimate form of relativistic propulsion.
However, today they are unknown or unpopular. Why might that be the...
Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
a month ago
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “I am your BFDL” edition
1. Tech benevolent dictators are still… dictators in the tech community there is a concept of the...
2 weeks ago
1. Tech benevolent dictators are still… dictators in the tech community there is a concept of the “benevolent dictator for life”. This is a leadership model where one person, usually the founder, has the final say on decisions. They guide the project’s direction, relying on their...
TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪
a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
over a year ago
a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
TheCollector
What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Treaty Ended World War II?
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4 months ago
mtlynch.io
Resurrecting a Dead Library: Part One - Resuscitation
When I arrived on the scene, it wasn’t a pretty sight.
I saw formerly active, cheerful Python...
over a year ago
When I arrived on the scene, it wasn’t a pretty sight.
I saw formerly active, cheerful Python classes in a sorry state of atrophy, having gone years without exercise. Functions at all levels of abstraction were crammed together inhumanely under the label utils. I tried to read...
Londonist
Where To Celebrate Hanukkah 2023 In London
Where to celebrate Chanukah this December.
a year ago
Where to celebrate Chanukah this December.
Vadim Kravcenko
🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day?
You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for...
over a year ago
You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for the […]
The post 🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Wanderingspace
OSIRIS-REX Leaves Bennu
The OSIRIS-REX mission in on a two year trajectory back to Earth after capturing fragments of the...
over a year ago
The OSIRIS-REX mission in on a two year trajectory back to Earth after capturing fragments of the near Earth asteroid Bennu after successfully executing a sample touchdown last fall. [LINK]
The sampling of of the asteroid’s surface is shown above.
Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
7 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
Joel Gascoigne
Making money with a product: A myth?
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I’ve realised...
over a year ago
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I’ve realised there was a time I didn’t believe people would pay for a product.
In my mind, it was a myth. As an entrepreneur, it’s so vital to overcome that.
First, a coffee shop conversation
I
Jonas Hietala
Blogging in Djot instead of Markdown
What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps...
11 months ago
What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps what is good about Markdown, while revising some of the features that have led to bloat and complexity in the CommonMark spec?
John Macfarlane, Beyond Markdown
I recently...
Strange Loop Canon
The agent principal problem
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
a year ago
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
Ben Borgers
Un-figure-out-able Software
over a year ago
Coffee with an...
A simple description
The structural exploration reflects the dichotomy of the diametrically opposed forces creating...
8 months ago
The structural exploration reflects the dichotomy of the diametrically opposed forces creating intrinsic tension within the interstitial forms which have been bifurcated and articulated throughout the design exploration phases resulting from the pedological rigor employed...
The personal website...
Well-designed interfaces look boring
3 billion people used the internet for the first time in the past decade. Can you imagine what that...
over a year ago
3 billion people used the internet for the first time in the past decade. Can you imagine what that was like? When I began using the internet, the web was pretty much just text. Interface design required finagling websites from knots of spreadsheet-like tables, and even the most...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 25 September-1 October 2023
The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
The best articles from the past week.
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 26 February-3 March 2024
Things to do for under a fiver.
10 months ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Essays - Benedict...
AI and problems of scale
Generative AI means things that were always possible at a small scale now
become practical to...
8 months ago
Generative AI means things that were always possible at a small scale now
become practical to automate at a massive scale. Sometimes a change in
scale is a change in principle.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Moïra Swann
Bonjour everyone! Moïra Swann is an English and Proustian adaptation from my real name Anne-Marie:...
over a year ago
Bonjour everyone! Moïra Swann is an English and Proustian adaptation from my real name Anne-Marie: while Anne-Marie lives in France and works full-time in a wonderful museum dedicated to the French painter Anne-Louis Girodet, Moïra Swann does lino printing whenever she can, as an...
Adventures In...
Storybook Cartography
ArcGIS Pro is a serious tool for serious GIS analysis. Are you ready for some seriously charming...
a year ago
ArcGIS Pro is a serious tool for serious GIS analysis. Are you ready for some seriously charming illustration style cartography? Ok! . . Children’s maps are a valuable thing. They are often the first impressions the world of geography has on every single one of us. What an...
Willem's Blog
Different ways to visualise health
To better understand how to visualise health I looked at different health/fitness apps and games.
over a year ago
To better understand how to visualise health I looked at different health/fitness apps and games.
Seth's Blog
Jump in the lake
The waters of Buck Lake are cool and clear and restorative. All summer, it’s tempting to go for a...
10 months ago
The waters of Buck Lake are cool and clear and restorative. All summer, it’s tempting to go for a swim. But it’s also a hassle. You need to change your clothes, find someone to guard, bring a towel and most of all, gasp at the transition when the cold water hits. And yet… no one...
Stoic Simple
Uncovering the Historical Origins of Stoicism
. Stoicism is a philosophy that has been studied and practiced for centuries. Though the modern...
a year ago
. Stoicism is a philosophy that has been studied and practiced for centuries. Though the modern understanding of Stoicism is associated with the Roman Empire, its roots can be traced back to Ancient Greece. This article will explore the historical origins of Stoicism, its core...
CONTEMPORIST
This Home Renovation Made More Use Of The Basement And Outdoor Space
Best Practice Architecture has shared photos of a contemporary home renovation they completed in...
a year ago
Best Practice Architecture has shared photos of a contemporary home renovation they completed in Seattle, Washington. Before – The Exterior The single-story, mid-century home had two doors at the front of the home, with steps leading to each one. After – The Exterior The updated...
Moneyness
The long arm of OFAC and its reach into the Ethereum network
Coinbase, the U.S.'s largest crypto exchange, is openly processing Ethereum transactions involving...
a year ago
Coinbase, the U.S.'s largest crypto exchange, is openly processing Ethereum transactions involving Tornado Cash, a piece of blockchain infrastructure that was sanctioned by the U.S. government last year for providing mixing services to North Korea.
Over the last two weeks...
IEEE Spectrum
Chuck E. Cheese’s Animatronics Band Bows Out
That may have been the last time I entered a Chuck E. Cheese pizzeria. And yet, when I heard that...
a month ago
That may have been the last time I entered a Chuck E. Cheese pizzeria. And yet, when I heard that the company was phasing out the animatronic bands from all but five locations by the end of this year, I felt a twinge of nostalgia. Much to my surprise, I was truly sad that the...
Jonas Hietala
Tufte style sidenotes and marginnotes in Pollen
When evaluating Pollen I complained about markdown/pandoc’s lack of sidenote handling. I have solved...
over a year ago
When evaluating Pollen I complained about markdown/pandoc’s lack of sidenote handling. I have solved it for Pollen but felt it deserved it’s own post.
A caveat: I generated Tufte CSS style sidenotes and marginnotes which made it more complex than if I had simply generated...
Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dimension
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Big announcement tomorrow. A new book, which is the...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Big announcement tomorrow. A new book, which is the product of years of research. Stay tuned, and then for God's sake please buy a copy.
Today's News:
TOMORROW
Founder's blog
Improving C# Performance with Span<T>
Whenever I have some free time on my hands I love making our helpdesk app faster. The newest C# and...
a year ago
Whenever I have some free time on my hands I love making our helpdesk app faster. The newest C# and .NET Core releases come with so many performance oriented features that I've been waiting to play with, specifically the new datatype called Span<T>.
Here's the thing. Every...
Seth's Blog
Holding on for dear life
That’s a cliche from the movies. Dangling from a railroad bridge, only determination and firm grip...
9 months ago
That’s a cliche from the movies. Dangling from a railroad bridge, only determination and firm grip can save the hero. In our modern world, we often end up holding on to ideas, to grievances or to our view of the world. Ironically, the harder we hold on to the things we’re hiding...
The Ruffian
Nike's Winning Strategy
On the Cultural Significance of Its 2024 Olympics Campaign
5 months ago
On the Cultural Significance of Its 2024 Olympics Campaign
Math Is Still...
How (Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions
By measuring the universe’s emptiest spaces, scientists can study how matter clumps together and how...
a year ago
By measuring the universe’s emptiest spaces, scientists can study how matter clumps together and how fast it flies apart.
The post How (Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Pragmatic...
Google Domains to shut down
The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t...
a year ago
The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t notify customers just yet. When could this happen, and why is Google silent?
History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
Louwrentius
1.0 GB/s using Linux software RAID
I filled the Norco case with hardware. It is now up and running, based on
Debian Linux (Lenny).
I...
over a year ago
I filled the Norco case with hardware. It is now up and running, based on
Debian Linux (Lenny).
I immediately performed some initial tests with software RAID 0. The results
are just astounding.
debian:~# dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=50000
50000+0 records in
50000+0...
Home on Erik...
Deep learning for… chess (addendum)
My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple...
over a year ago
My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple of other places. One pretty amazing thing was that the Github repo got 150 stars overnight.
ntietz.com blog
The most important goal in designing software is understandability
When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is...
11 months ago
When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is understandability.
Security, performance, and correctness are all important, but they come after understandability.
Don't get me wrong, all of those are important.
Software that isn't...
Dominik Sobe's...
What a roller coaster ride
over a year ago
Dominik Sobe's...
Five videos that shaped my life so far
over a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Descartes View Animals?
undefined
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 094: Pixtral et Le Chat
November 22, 2024.
a month ago
CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension And A Garden Studio For This Heritage-Listed Home
Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town...
a year ago
Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town House in Greater London, England. Not only did they design the addition, but they also created a small garden studio that provides a workspace for the musician owner. A large...
TheCollector
The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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10 months ago
Rest of World -...
The secret ingredient to hustle culture: A virtual assistant in the Philippines
How the office grind is being outsourced from Silicon Valley to Manila.
a year ago
How the office grind is being outsourced from Silicon Valley to Manila.
Diaries of Note
The crying could be heard from the street
“There is so much influenza about that they’ve had to shut the university.” The opening line in the...
a year ago
“There is so much influenza about that they’ve had to shut the university.” The opening line in the diary of Josep Pla sets the stage for what would become a transformative period in his life and, subsequently, a landmark in 20th-century Catalan literature. In 1918, the Spanish...
Old Vintage...
Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo?
Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to...
5 months ago
Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to get into the operating system and pull some tricks.
from our historical discussion of the Canon Cat, the Cat was designed by Jef Raskin as a sophisticated user-centric computer...
Diaries of Note
Left the Beatles
On the evening of 10th January 1969, after a tough day at work, guitarist George Harrison opened his...
11 months ago
On the evening of 10th January 1969, after a tough day at work, guitarist George Harrison opened his diary and in three words noted that he had quit the world’s most popular band. For a week the Beatles had been rehearsing at Twickenham Film Studios, their efforts captured on...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
10 months ago
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
diamond geezer
Last week unblogged
10 things I've seen/done/read over the last week
Tuesday (a): Last week I wrote a post about...
11 months ago
10 things I've seen/done/read over the last week
Tuesday (a): Last week I wrote a post about housing built on former airfields. Today I found myself standing outside some housing built on a former airfield, a fact made plain by someone mounting a model plane on the front of one...
The American Scholar
Riding With Mr. Washington
How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction
The post Riding With Mr....
4 months ago
How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction
The post Riding With Mr. Washington appeared first on The American Scholar.
Construction Physics
Building Fast and Slow: The Empire State Building and the World Trade Center (Part I)
The Empire State Building was completed in 1931. At a height of 1250 feet [0], it was the world's...
over a year ago
The Empire State Building was completed in 1931. At a height of 1250 feet [0], it was the world's tallest building, exceeding the recently completed Chrysler building by 202 feet. It would hold that title for the next 39 years, until 1970 when it was surpassed in height by...
The Pragmatic...
Happy Leap Day!
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how...
10 months ago
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how few assumptions we should make about dates – and why to use a date library when you can.
99% Invisible
The Containment Plan [EPISODE]
It’s hard to overstate the vastness of the Skid Row neighborhood in Los Angeles. It spans roughly 50...
6 months ago
It’s hard to overstate the vastness of the Skid Row neighborhood in Los Angeles. It spans roughly 50 blocks, occupying a significant portion of the downtown Los Angeles area. In some ways, it looks a lot like other neighborhoods with its corner stores and street vendors, old...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#12)
The college shakeout, China vs. its developing neighbors, Chinese zombie companies, more fun YIMBY...
a year ago
The college shakeout, China vs. its developing neighbors, Chinese zombie companies, more fun YIMBY stuff, and the victory of the Melting Pot
bt RSS Feed
RSS Hacks With XSLT
RSS Hacks With XSLT
2022-05-23
In my spare time I’ve been further tinkering (hopefully for the...
over a year ago
RSS Hacks With XSLT
2022-05-23
In my spare time I’ve been further tinkering (hopefully for the better) with my humble Shinobi Website1 script. The most recent update in patch-1 came with a solid amount of QoL improvements. If you’re interested, I wrote about it on the official...
History Today Feed
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
11 months ago
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
Julia Evans
New playground: memory spy
Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs
and...
a year ago
Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs
and see how their variables are represented in memory. It’s designed to be
accessible to folks who don’t know C – it comes with bunch of extremely simple
example C programs that you can...
Avestura's Blog
Explaining The Postgres Meme
Have you seen this legendary SQL iceberg meme? Let's talk about it while wearing our PostgreSQL hat!
a year ago
Have you seen this legendary SQL iceberg meme? Let's talk about it while wearing our PostgreSQL hat!
Common Edge
Near Ground Zero, Joshua Ramus Fails His Audition for Starchitect Status
The Perelman Performing Arts Center is a pricey bauble, but its over mechanized interiors suggest...
a year ago
The Perelman Performing Arts Center is a pricey bauble, but its over mechanized interiors suggest the building’s hype is unwarranted.
CONTEMPORIST
A Contemporary Ranch Home Bathed In Light And Natural Materials
Farmer Payne Architects together with interior designer firm Suede Studio, have completed a ranch...
5 months ago
Farmer Payne Architects together with interior designer firm Suede Studio, have completed a ranch house in Idaho, that seamlessly integrates rustic charm and contemporary elegance. Adorned with authentic hand-hewn heavy timber and stone with big grout joints reminiscent of...
TokyoDev
Which countries are overrepresented in Japan's foreigner population?
As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our...
over a year ago
As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our American neighbours. While the US's population is about nine times of ours, their population in Japan was only five times ours. This got me curious, and so I did some number crunching,...
Working Theorys
The Rise of the Software Creator
In the age of AI, software creators, like content creators, will emerge as the industry’s...
7 months ago
In the age of AI, software creators, like content creators, will emerge as the industry’s non-professional creative class.
Joel Gascoigne
My morning routine as a remote CEO and why it’s always changing
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Working remotely and having the opportunity to...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Working remotely and having the opportunity to work from home, coffee shops, coworking spaces, or wherever else I might feel the most productive, means that I can design my own mornings because they don’t necessarily need to be...
Applied Cartography
Things take time
Things take time.
Nintendo fairly famously was born in 1889, and the modern incarnation — Yamamuchi...
8 months ago
Things take time.
Nintendo fairly famously was born in 1889, and the modern incarnation — Yamamuchi Nintendo & Co., LTD — was established nearly fifty years later, in 1933. They spent forty years selling playing cards, then another decade operating merely as a distributor of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Oct 2019 Recap
Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
Hello mailing list friends!
The Modern House
How a love of Japan and the 1970s shaped Sherrill Smith’s Hackney home
a year ago
The Rational Walk
American Prometheus
The tragic story of J. Robert Oppenheimer encompasses far more than science and politics. It is a...
a year ago
The tragic story of J. Robert Oppenheimer encompasses far more than science and politics. It is a cautionary tale of human nature that holds timeless lessons.
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
The Elysian
Am I a Democrat or a Republican?
The case for going label-less.
2 weeks ago
The case for going label-less.
Retail Design Blog
H22 by PIXELAIN
H22 – Perfume Bottle & Label Design Project Overview: This perfume design project for H22 was...
a month ago
H22 – Perfume Bottle & Label Design Project Overview: This perfume design project for H22 was crafted to embody elegance...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 1 (Road Trip)
It feels like I just got back from Costa Rica and then I’m right back on the road again. True...
a year ago
It feels like I just got back from Costa Rica and then I’m right back on the road again. True enough, we made it home for only a couple of weeks before we began an extended drive through the southeastern United States. However, those were the only dates that worked with...
./techtipsy
How I ended up working as a software developer
I’ve officially worked as a software developer since August 2016, and by now I
have a fair share of...
4 months ago
I’ve officially worked as a software developer since August 2016, and by now I
have a fair share of stories to tell from those years. But those are stories for
another time.
Today I’d like to focus on where it all got started.
The early days
I never considered myself good with...
TheCollector
What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer....
yesterday
Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer. You can’t practice it beforehand (no…
essay – snarfed.org
Content negotiation considered harmful
Matilda, 1996 Content negotiation is a feature of HTTP that lets clients ask for, and servers...
a year ago
Matilda, 1996 Content negotiation is a feature of HTTP that lets clients ask for, and servers return, different content types based on the request’s Accept header. Sounds great, right? Well, no. Content negotiation is the classic example of an idea that sounds good in theory, but...
Escaping Flatland
Living 80 years, you can have 8 lives
Highlights from the cutting room floor, pt. 2
a month ago
Highlights from the cutting room floor, pt. 2
abdz.do - Have you...
Minimalist Weave Pattern artwork for your wall
Minimalist Weave Pattern artwork for your wall
abduzeedo0124—23
...
a year ago
Minimalist Weave Pattern artwork for your wall
abduzeedo0124—23
I’ve been making some of the artwork we created on the site available as limited digital art for purchase on Etsy (only 100). There’s something about printed work that is...
Tinloof - Blog
How to dynamically create a sitemap with Sanity and Remix
In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and...
over a year ago
In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and Remix.
We’ll learn by following an existing example of a sitemap built for Heavybit’s website, a San Francisco-based VC whose website is built with both technologies.
Remix is a React...
Explorations of an...
Borneo, October 2022
Borneo, the third largest island in the world behind Greenland and New Guinea, is home to some of...
a year ago
Borneo, the third largest island in the world behind Greenland and New Guinea, is home to some of the planet’s oldest rainforests, containing a stunning array of biodiversity. The conditions in Borneo forests have stimulated the evolution of many different organisms that are...
Londonist
Where To Watch Fireworks On Bonfire Night In London 2023
Mark Guy Fawkes Night with a bang.
a year ago
Mark Guy Fawkes Night with a bang.
Seth's Blog
Peak infrastructure
Community resources are easy to take for granted. Unevenly distributed, they’re the sort of thing we...
10 months ago
Community resources are easy to take for granted. Unevenly distributed, they’re the sort of thing we miss only when they’re gone. Invisible things are easy to ignore. I was stunned to see a sign in Connecticut that listed the names of dozens of highway workers who had been killed...
Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
We might not be in this mess.
diamond geezer
Tickets are being accepted on alternative services
The tube was seriously disrupted in northwest London yesterday morning when a signal failure at...
4 months ago
The tube was seriously disrupted in northwest London yesterday morning when a signal failure at Wembley Park caused line closures and serious delays. And the advice which popped up is the advice which often pops up in such a situation, which is that tickets were being accepted on...
Ian's Blog
Pragmatically Generating a Self-Signed Certificate and Private Key using OpenSSL
Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS...
over a year ago
Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS app using OpenSSL, what surprised me was the total lack of documentation for OpenSSL.
While there is plenty of function documentation, what OpenSSL really lacks is examples of how it...
ben-mini
Buying a House
Two days ago, I decided I want to buy my first house. My goal is to purchase it before the summer of...
3 months ago
Two days ago, I decided I want to buy my first house. My goal is to purchase it before the summer of 2025.
Why are you buying a house?
To make money. I see this as an opportunity in a space that many friends and family consider a safe, high-return bet (if done right). When...
Laetitia@Work
Artist vs Artisan: what's the difference?
Laetitia@Work #44
over a year ago
Acko.net
React - The Missing Parts
Question the rules for fun and profit
One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a...
over a year ago
Question the rules for fun and profit
One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a popular library's patterns is that you can experiment with all sorts of changes.
In my case, I have a React-clone, Live, which includes all the familiar basics: props, state and...
Jonas Hietala
2011 in Review
It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here.
2011 Geek...
over a year ago
It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here.
2011 Geek Achievements
Wrote three games this year:
My Minions
Grand Thief Arto
Sat-E
Bought a new computer!
Bought a mechanical keyboard.
Bought custom Starcraft 2 keycaps for the...
Engineer’s Codex
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
5 months ago
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 064: Big Tech's small models
April 26, 2024.
8 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing...
a month ago
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
Yazin Alirhayim
Part 2: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain’s economy?
👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first.
In the last post, I discussed the question of access...
over a year ago
👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first.
In the last post, I discussed the question of access to capital and why’s important to verify that we do in fact have a problem before we attempt to “solve” it.
Now, we’re going to talk about the method for measuring the extent of...
TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
How do wood finishes hold up?
A quick 18-month experiment to shed light on traditional woodworking lore.
3 months ago
A quick 18-month experiment to shed light on traditional woodworking lore.
TheCollector
A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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a year ago
This Space
39 Books: 2021
I lived in Brighton for 30 years. One of the many painful aspects of leaving in 2021 was losing the...
7 months ago
I lived in Brighton for 30 years. One of the many painful aspects of leaving in 2021 was losing the many second-hand bookshops, all within walking distance. Many have closed over the years, such as Sandpiper, a remaindered bookshop in Kensington Gardens. It had a backroom in...
African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
4 months ago
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
Math Is Still...
How the Ancient Art of Eclipse Prediction Became an Exact Science
The timing of the total eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be known to within a second, thousands of...
9 months ago
The timing of the total eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be known to within a second, thousands of years after fearful humans first started trying to anticipate these cosmic events.
The post How the Ancient Art of Eclipse Prediction Became an Exact Science first...
The Marginalian
Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship
"A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet...
4 months ago
"A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us."
Contemporist...
A Muted Palette Unifies The Interior Of This Remodeled Mid-Century Modern Home
Gast Architects has sent us photos of a remodel they completed for an Eichler home in the San...
a year ago
Gast Architects has sent us photos of a remodel they completed for an Eichler home in the San Francisco Bay Area, that hadn’t been updated since it was built in 1955.
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Be Made Out of Emotions, Colors, Life Itself'
“[Robert
Conquest] and his two closest friends, Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, proved
their...
5 months ago
“[Robert
Conquest] and his two closest friends, Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, proved
their vocation by playing the games with language and perception that poets
play, three Musketeers at a time when not much else was disturbing the quiet
little cemetery of English...
Society's Backend
All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/21/2024
Below are the machine learning resources and updates from the past few days you don't want to miss....
6 months ago
Below are the machine learning resources and updates from the past few days you don't want to miss. If you want all the ML updates from X, follow me there. Mamba + Sliding Window Attention = SAMBA with Efficient Unlimited... China runs to be one of top global players in AI model...
TheCollector
Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
undefined
6 months ago
Tech and Tea
How do you want to spend your time?
a question that seems to be on lots of people's minds
a year ago
a question that seems to be on lots of people's minds
devonzuegel.com
Misreading Milei: The American press can only see Argentina through US-colored glasses
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. They are deeply...
a year ago
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. They are deeply misunderstanding (or misrepresenting?) what's going on. It seems the American press can only understand Argentine politics through the lens of the US, when really it's just a totally...
Notes on software...
Administering Kubernetes is hard
Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient
too. But it is super hard to...
over a year ago
Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient
too. But it is super hard to set up.
eksctl is a good tool for folks who don't want to
spend hours/days/weeks debugging VPC configuration in 1000s of lines
of CloudFormation. None of the other tools seem to be...
diamond geezer
Carpenders Park
One Stop Beyond: Carpenders Park
In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater...
a month ago
One Stop Beyond: Carpenders Park
In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London boundary, getting off and seeing what's there. Today that means Carpenders Park, one stop beyond Hatch End on what will next week be the Lioness line. For positioning purposes...
Seth's Blog
For customers vs to customers
In the life of every enterprise, the moment arises when a choice has to be made: Are you here for...
a year ago
In the life of every enterprise, the moment arises when a choice has to be made: Are you here for your customers, to give them what they seek, or are you trying to do something to your customers, to squeeze out extra income? This doesn’t mean that the only path is to keep...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Anticipating Since Morning a Successful Hunt'
The neighbors
had several tall ash trees growing in their backyard behind the garage and the
trunks...
9 months ago
The neighbors
had several tall ash trees growing in their backyard behind the garage and the
trunks were a favorite perch for Polyphemus and especially cecropia moths. These
are large insects, beautifully colored, with “eyes” on their wings. To budding lepidopterists
they were...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boop
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Have you noticed you can get humans to do almost...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Have you noticed you can get humans to do almost anything as long as it's presented as a scam?
Today's News:
diamond geezer
Freshwater fish quiz
Freshwater fish quiz
(quiz complete... all answers now in the comments box)
1) roost
2) plump
3)...
8 months ago
Freshwater fish quiz
(quiz complete... all answers now in the comments box)
1) roost
2) plump
3) long spear
4) below tenor
5) director Ken
6) former Sussex MP
7) Surrey MP
8) vehicle (quiet)
9) phone company (large)
10) 10 swiss
11) 60 secs at present
12) 500 + 1
13) 1000...
Noahpinion
The George Floyd protests were not a civil war (repost)
And the less we collectively remember them as one, the better.
a year ago
And the less we collectively remember them as one, the better.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Anita Klein
Hi, I am a painter and printmaker working in London and Italy.
Describe your printmaking process.
I...
a year ago
Hi, I am a painter and printmaker working in London and Italy.
Describe your printmaking process.
I use almost all printmaking processes and choose between techniques depending on the type of mark that suits the picture I want to make. At the moment I am mostly working in...
Rest of World -...
ShopeeFood drops non-compete clause after Rest of World reporting
Drivers for the Vietnam delivery company had used workarounds but feared detection. After Rest of...
9 months ago
Drivers for the Vietnam delivery company had used workarounds but feared detection. After Rest of World's reporting, the clause was dropped.
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on being a good manager
Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly...
over a year ago
Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list, but it highlights many of the problems they were experiencing. Maybe my friend's manager will stumble upon it some day.
When someone has a grievance, take an...
Old Structures...
Possibly
The title of this 1958 photo by Angelo Rizzuto is “Aerial view of street, possibly Park Avenue, with...
8 months ago
The title of this 1958 photo by Angelo Rizzuto is “Aerial view of street, possibly Park Avenue, with raised medians separating traffic in each direction, high-rise buildings lining both sides of the street.” That’s definitely Park Avenue looking north from approximately 89th...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Nine reasons screenshots are awesome
By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots...
over a year ago
By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots back into any app that imports photos…
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
TheCollector
Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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3 weeks ago
A Smart Bear
When you want to quit because it's just not worth it
Are you crying in the shower because you can't handle it anymore? Beyond Impostor Syndrome: Complete...
a year ago
Are you crying in the shower because you can't handle it anymore? Beyond Impostor Syndrome: Complete melt-down? Well, at least you're in good company.
TheCollector
Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
undefined
a year ago
Light from Space
Bubble Nebula and Neighborhood
The constellation of Cassiopeia is full of rich gas clouds and a myriad of different Nebulas and...
over a year ago
The constellation of Cassiopeia is full of rich gas clouds and a myriad of different Nebulas and Star Clusters.
Click or tap to enlarge/double-tap to zoom
Total exposure time: 37h 20m (134,400s)
Image resolution: 4,784 × 6,840px (1.919″/px)
Shot from my driveway near
Charles Chen
Nuxt 3 with SSR on Google Cloud Firebase Functions (2023)
If you're seeking a no-cost, low-ops, low-friction solution for deploying SSR workloads then look no...
a year ago
If you're seeking a no-cost, low-ops, low-friction solution for deploying SSR workloads then look no further!
TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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5 months ago
Musings on Markets
Data Update 4 for 2023: Country Risk - Measures and Implications
I describe myself as a dabbler, and it does get in the way of my best laid plans. A few weeks ago, I...
a year ago
I describe myself as a dabbler, and it does get in the way of my best laid plans. A few weeks ago, I posted my first data update pulling together what I had learned from looking at the data in 2023, and promised many more on the topic. In the month since, I have added two more...
TheCollector
The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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a year ago
Seth's Blog
Celebrating the thousand with a special package
[Lots of links in this post… US offer is here, international is here.] Ideas travel horizontally....
3 months ago
[Lots of links in this post… US offer is here, international is here.] Ideas travel horizontally. Not from the creator to the audience as much as from one person to another. It’s easy to misunderstand the insight of Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 True Fans. Decades ago he argued that the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Naming, Addressing, and Forwarding
How IP Addressing evolved over time, how it works today, and how we can transition to IPv6 in future
over a year ago
How IP Addressing evolved over time, how it works today, and how we can transition to IPv6 in future
The Marginalian
You and the Universe: N.J. Berrill’s Poetic 1958 Masterpiece of Cosmic Perspective
"The universe is as we find it and as we discover it within ourselves."
4 months ago
"The universe is as we find it and as we discover it within ourselves."
TheCollector
Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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5 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term
over a year ago
Working Theorys
Membership clubs & desktop apps are back.
And more things I talked about over coffee & dinner this week.
7 months ago
And more things I talked about over coffee & dinner this week.
The Modern House
Author Kat Hill on why we all yearn for the sanctuary of a modern bothy
7 months ago
TheCollector
Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
undefined
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Songful, Tuneful Land'
"None
can care for literature in itself who do not take a special pleasure in the
sound of names;...
12 months ago
"None
can care for literature in itself who do not take a special pleasure in the
sound of names; and there is no part of the world where nomenclature is so rich,
poetical, humorous, and picturesque as the United States of America.”
Robert Louis
Stevenson means place names. He’s...
Marian's Blog
Visualizing 150000 butterflies from the Natural History Museum
Click here for the interactive visualization.
The Natural History Museum in London has a data portal...
over a year ago
Click here for the interactive visualization.
The Natural History Museum in London has a data portal in which they provide digital records for many of their specimens.
Some of these records have images.
I recently learned how to use machine learning tools such as convolutional...
A Smart Bear
The Serengeti Plain: Fallacies that aren't fallacies
A contrarian look at logical "fallacies" that maybe aren't so illogical after all.
2 months ago
A contrarian look at logical "fallacies" that maybe aren't so illogical after all.
Londonist
Dazzling Light Festivals To See In London: Winter 2023
Light tunnels, fire gardens and lasers.
a year ago
Light tunnels, fire gardens and lasers.
axio.ms
Classical virtualisation rules applied to RISC-style atomics
In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published a paper, “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable...
over a year ago
In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published a paper, “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures”, giving a set of characteristics for correct full-machine virtualisation.
Today, these characteristics remain very useful. Computer architects will...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Michelle Hughes
I’m a printmaker and illustrator, living in York, North Yorkshire. I create limited edition linocut...
a year ago
I’m a printmaker and illustrator, living in York, North Yorkshire. I create limited edition linocut prints inspired by the British countryside and British wildlife.
Describe your printmaking process.
When I started making lino prints I used SoftCut lino and a wooden spoon to...
Commoncog
Marvel Studios’s Origin Story
The creation of Marvel Studios was contingent on some very creative financial dealmaking. A story of...
a year ago
The creation of Marvel Studios was contingent on some very creative financial dealmaking. A story of superb capital expertise in action.
CONTEMPORIST
Cascading Plants Cover This Home In Vietnam
X11 Design Studio has shared photos of a home they completed in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, that includes a...
a year ago
X11 Design Studio has shared photos of a home they completed in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, that includes a facade of cascading plants. The home has been designed for a three-generation family, who wanted optimal functionality and a connection between nature and people. To integrate...
Noahpinion
Repost: Interview with James Medlock
The future winner of Balaji's million-dollar bet talks about taxes, cash benefits, and other fun...
a year ago
The future winner of Balaji's million-dollar bet talks about taxes, cash benefits, and other fun stuff
The Marginalian
The Messiah in the Mountain: Darwin on Wonder and the Spirituality of Nature
Here we are, matter yearning for meaning, each of us a fragile constellation of chemistry and chance...
7 months ago
Here we are, matter yearning for meaning, each of us a fragile constellation of chemistry and chance hurtling through a cold cosmos that has no accord for our wishes, takes no interest in our dreams. “I can’t but believe that all that majesty and all that beauty, those fated and...
Applied Cartography
Globals in Histoire
Histoire, like so many other tools in the Vue ecosystem, is a bit of a neglected younger sibling to...
9 months ago
Histoire, like so many other tools in the Vue ecosystem, is a bit of a neglected younger sibling to Storybook — a little bit uglier, with worse documentation and a couple rough edges, but much more tightly integrated with Vue and Vite. [1]
One thing that was not particularly...
Retail Design Blog
2050 coffee by TEKI Design
“2050 coffee problem” ,which is a concern that by the year 2050, we may not be able to enjoy...
3 months ago
“2050 coffee problem” ,which is a concern that by the year 2050, we may not be able to enjoy coffee...
Rest of World -...
The tech executive who believes AI needs more voice-based learning systems
Bayo Adekanmbi explains why voice-based learning is the best way to increase AI adoption across...
9 months ago
Bayo Adekanmbi explains why voice-based learning is the best way to increase AI adoption across Africa.
Old Structures...
Loans
I’m not sure why “Is a Library-centric Economy the Answer to Sustainable Living” by Philip Vachon...
3 months ago
I’m not sure why “Is a Library-centric Economy the Answer to Sustainable Living” by Philip Vachon surprised me, but it did. The basic argument is that the ideas that govern good libraries – making as many books available to as many readers as possible, fairly and efficiently, and...
Opsbros
Pro-tip for Baristas
If you've ever filled one of those 'Cheeki' coffee cups, or virtually any other reusable coffee cup,...
over a year ago
If you've ever filled one of those 'Cheeki' coffee cups, or virtually any other reusable coffee cup, you've definitely come across the issue that when it's 'overfilled' it will overflow when the lid is put back on. There is a
Anecdotal Evidence
'One of the Least Appealing Aspects of Our Species'
The twentieth
century was a graduate-level education in irony. Our medical advances...
2 months ago
The twentieth
century was a graduate-level education in irony. Our medical advances were
extraordinary – antibiotics, insulin, the Salk and Sabin vaccines. Airplanes, television,
computers, space exploration. And yet Guy Davenport was not being needlessly morbid
when he...
Old Structures...
Land Engineering
This map shows the proposed street layout in Manhattan from the original northern boundary at 155th...
a year ago
This map shows the proposed street layout in Manhattan from the original northern boundary at 155th Street (on the left, where the blocks are shown as featureless white rectangles) to the northern tip of the island (on the right). I mentioned two days ago that the street layout...
History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
11 months ago
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
diamond geezer
Not the Metropolitan line extension
Eight years ago the Metropolitan line extension to Watford Junction was cancelled when the incoming...
9 months ago
Eight years ago the Metropolitan line extension to Watford Junction was cancelled when the incoming Mayor chose to ditch the outgoing Mayor's underfunded project. The people of London barely noticed - they had no desperate need to go to west Watford and the money saved went on...
Style over Substance
Review of the 2-dial TTArtisan Light Meter
My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter...
over a year ago
My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter accessory. The market for these shoe-mounted light meters for vintage cameras has become weirdly competitive. They fit on top of a mechanical camera and provide you with the right...
The Modern House
A contemporary gallery-like home with countless credentials in Hampstead
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Art of Re-invention
The icon's biggest financial film success came from his riskiest bet: the comedy "Twins".
a year ago
The icon's biggest financial film success came from his riskiest bet: the comedy "Twins".
Anecdotal Evidence
'A General Effect of Pleasing Impression'
Back in the Golden Age of Blogging, the decline of
which roughly coincided with the arrival of...
a year ago
Back in the Golden Age of Blogging, the decline of
which roughly coincided with the arrival of Anecdotal Evidence in 2006, literary
memes were far more popular. Some were trivial parlor games, a way for certain readers
to safely show off without having ever opened a book....
CONTEMPORIST
A Home Designed As One Long Curve
FRARI – architecture network has designed a new house in Vagos, Portugal, that has a single arcing...
a year ago
FRARI – architecture network has designed a new house in Vagos, Portugal, that has a single arcing curved design. Through its shape and arrangement, the curved home protects itself from the busy road, while also opening up the interior to the outdoor spaces, like the yard and...
Archinect - Features
From the Editors: What We're Thankful for in 2024
As we bid farewell to 2024, the Archinect editorial team reflects on a year filled with pivotal...
a month ago
As we bid farewell to 2024, the Archinect editorial team reflects on a year filled with pivotal moments, challenges, and milestones. Through it all, we've been privileged to observe, document, and engage with the ever-evolving world of architecture and design. The incredible...
The Pragmatic...
Twitter’s ongoing cruel treatment of software engineers
Twitter has become the most toxic workplace amongst any major tech company in 2022. But why is Elon...
over a year ago
Twitter has become the most toxic workplace amongst any major tech company in 2022. But why is Elon Musk treating developers in an unusually cruel way?
Made by Ollin
Mac Replacement Icons
A standardized, simplified, and beautiful icon set
over a year ago
A standardized, simplified, and beautiful icon set
Math Is Still...
Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases...
9 months ago
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
The post Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Londonist
Superloop Gets A Bit Loopier With SL5 Bromley To Croydon Bus
New fast service for south London.
11 months ago
New fast service for south London.
TheCollector
Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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2 weeks ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Turkish Airlines Launches New Flights to Istanbul From Detroit
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some thoughts on SEO
“SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via...
over a year ago
“SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via organic search traffic.” I don’t like…
Anecdotal Evidence
'So Important That It Ought to Absorb Him'
In his brief
portrait of Joseph Conrad, Desmond MacCarthy tells us the novelist “felt
himself...
a month ago
In his brief
portrait of Joseph Conrad, Desmond MacCarthy tells us the novelist “felt
himself impelled to attempt an intenser vividness in description. Try, just
try, so to describe something that the inattentive reader must see it, and the
attentive one can never forget that he...
Ryan Mulligan
Animating with the Flip Plugin for GSAP
What the flip is it?
Every time a new GSAP plugin is introduced, I'm close to bursting from...
over a year ago
What the flip is it?
Every time a new GSAP plugin is introduced, I'm close to bursting from excitement. The simplicity of the GreenSock API makes learning and applying these tools in projects such a dream. I had the pleasure of beta testing the ScrollTrigger plugin and was blown...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Cicada Chase, Day 1
What would be a good present for someone who just graduated from college with a degree in...
7 months ago
What would be a good present for someone who just graduated from college with a degree in entomology? Well, how about a quick trip to the Midwest to hunt for bugs? May 2024 marked a special occasion that was well-reported (maybe over-reported) by the mainstream media: the...
Essays - Benedict...
Competing in search
A quarter century after ‘don't be evil’ a judge has found that Google is
abusing its monopoly in...
4 months ago
A quarter century after ‘don't be evil’ a judge has found that Google is
abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and
whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine?
Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?
TheCollector
What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
Open Culture
Is Andrew Huberman Ruining Your Morning Coffee Routine?
Andrew Huberman–the host of the influential Huberman Lab podcast–has gotten a lot of mileage out of...
4 months ago
Andrew Huberman–the host of the influential Huberman Lab podcast–has gotten a lot of mileage out of his recommended morning routine. His routine emphasizes the importance of getting sunlight within 30–60 minutes of waking; also engaging in light physical activity; hydrating well;...
A Smart Bear
Easy statistics for A/B testing and hamsters
A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an...
10 months ago
A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.
Applied Cartography
Using Cursor to port Django tests to pytest
When it comes to AI tooling, I am equal parts optimist and cynic. I have no moral qualm with using...
4 months ago
When it comes to AI tooling, I am equal parts optimist and cynic. I have no moral qualm with using these tools (Supermaven is a pretty heavy part of my day-to-day work), but have found most tools quite bad by the metric of "do they make me more productive on Buttondown's code...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change the world?
“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?” –...
over a year ago
“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?” – Steve Jobs I sometimes wish that instead…
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - They
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2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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If you'd like one of the badges in the bonus panel, please just attend one of the yacht meetings.
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Computer Things
How to argue for something without any scientific evidence
Last week I got this interesting question:
I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
10 months ago
Last week I got this interesting question:
I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
Handprinted - Blog
Making a Multi-Block Linocut
A multi-block linocut uses more than one piece of lino to create a layered image. Usually, each...
a year ago
A multi-block linocut uses more than one piece of lino to create a layered image. Usually, each block is inked with a separate colour. Where the colours overlap, another colour can be achieved.
Multi-block linocuts allow you to partially print an edition and create complete...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Outdoor Locations in Toronto, Canada
7 months ago
Stoic Simple
What Caused the Growing Popularity of Stoicism in Modern Culture?
Stoicism - a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece - has been gaining increased popularity in...
a year ago
Stoicism - a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece - has been gaining increased popularity in modern culture. It has been embraced by people from all walks of life, from high-powered business executives to the average person seeking ways to cope with the daily stresses of...
Steve Klabnik
Extracting domain models: a practical example
over a year ago
TheCollector
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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7 months ago
axio.ms
Colourclock
Original concept circa 2008, revisited 2012, hardware designed Feb 2014, firmware designed...
over a year ago
Original concept circa 2008, revisited 2012, hardware designed Feb 2014, firmware designed April-August 2014, project completed August 2014, installed in spare room in 2016, written up in March 2018 (jeeez…)
Acrylic, LEDs, ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller.
...
Farza's Newsletter
i got suitcases full of matcha tea don't mess with me punk
Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a...
a year ago
Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a live gameshow I hosted and gave away $100,000, had 225 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in SF, and then the following week had 125 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Updating my blog: a quick GPT chatbot coding experiment
over a year ago
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?”
I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP...
12 months ago
I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around whether or not I am allowed to have or hire any dedicated engineering managers....
journal – Winnie Lim
thoughts after the 2024 US election
Sometime midway through the pandemic I felt like if I had any hope or optimism for humanity prior, I...
a month ago
Sometime midway through the pandemic I felt like if I had any hope or optimism for humanity prior, I had lost it all witnessing how we responded towards a disabling virus. If...
ntietz.com blog
How Cryptology Can Fix Identity Theft
Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft...
over a year ago
Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft victims frequently lose time and money and undergo significant mental hardships while dealing with the fallout. It can happen a few different ways, but one large attack vector is...
The Wandering...
Constructing the Pattern on the Sala de la Barca Ceiling
I was flipping through Owen Jones’s Grammar of Ornament a couple months ago, and my eye was caught...
9 months ago
I was flipping through Owen Jones’s Grammar of Ornament a couple months ago, and my eye was caught by this handsome pattern I had not noticed before. This is Jones’s Plate XLII, in the chapter on designs from the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. He calls it, “Part of the ceiling of...
TheCollector
What Is Appropriation in Art?
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a year ago
Drew Ex Machina
First Pictures: Views of Mars from NASA’s Mars Observer – July 27, 1993
Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s,...
a year ago
Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s, the lack of any new NASA missions to Mars during the 1980s […]
Old Structures...
Not So Picturesque
From 1849, “New York from the steeple of St. Paul’s Church, looking east, south and west.” In other...
9 months ago
From 1849, “New York from the steeple of St. Paul’s Church, looking east, south and west.” In other words, looking into the heart of the downtown commercial district from its northern edge. My first thought in looking at this picture was that in 1849, before industrial technology...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Hooded
Daredevil strikes a pose: That weird thing he’s kneeling on is part of one of the towers of the...
4 months ago
Daredevil strikes a pose: That weird thing he’s kneeling on is part of one of the towers of the Manhattan Bridge. Here’s a nice general shot of the bridge, looking toward Brooklyn, from the HAER survey: And here’s a close up of where the pedestrian walkway on the outboard edge of...
DYNOMIGHT
Obvious travel advice
Mindset matters more than where you go.
Who you go with matters more than where you go.
After seeing...
6 months ago
Mindset matters more than where you go.
Who you go with matters more than where you go.
After seeing each other for a few months, many new couples take a short trip, which often ends in an apocalyptic, relationship-destroying fight. My theory is that’s the trip working as...
Arduino Blog
This small device enables users to feel braille through haptics
For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to...
7 months ago
For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to text-to-speech (TTS) interfaces that read portions of the screen aloud. Dynamic braille displays also exist as a tactile means of communication, but their prices can get close to...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Search for Words that Transcend
The perfect sentence. Lifetimes are spent in search of words that transcend. If you are lucky enough...
over a year ago
The perfect sentence. Lifetimes are spent in search of words that transcend. If you are lucky enough to find the words, the battle has just begun.
diamond geezer
London's longest countdowns
Works to remodel the Old Street roundabout are nearing completion, above ground at least. It was...
9 months ago
Works to remodel the Old Street roundabout are nearing completion, above ground at least. It was still possible to drive round it five years ago, then massive sequential roadworks intervened and the northwest arm was slowly pedestrianised. Cars now have to negotiate a very...
NeuroLogica Blog
Managing Plastic Waste
The world produces 350-400 million metric tons of plastic waste. Less than 10% of this waste is...
a month ago
The world produces 350-400 million metric tons of plastic waste. Less than 10% of this waste is recycled, while 25% is mismanaged or littered. About 1.7 million tons ends up in the ocean. This is not sustainable, but whose responsibility is it to deal with this issue? The debate...
Construction Physics
The grid part II - the golden age of the power industry
Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the...
a year ago
Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the US was using 114 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, generated by more than 4000 power plants. Most electricity was generated by coal (56%) and hydroelectric (34%)...
Epic Web Dev
Two Factor Auth is Included in the Epic Stack (tip)
A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
a year ago
A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
Passing Time
Savoring the Unsavory
Making Meaning on Mount Adams
12 months ago
Making Meaning on Mount Adams
Twelve Mile Circle –...
England, Day 2 (Jurassic Coast)
We were firmly based in Swanage after the long day of travel and ready to explore our new...
5 months ago
We were firmly based in Swanage after the long day of travel and ready to explore our new surroundings. However, we were still pretty tired so we stuck close to home and made it an easy day. Swanage sits near the eastern end of the 96 mile (154 km) Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Maternity Care and Payer Contracting with Marta Bralic Kerns | Out-Of-Pocket
and some good tips for consultants working at startups
a year ago
and some good tips for consultants working at startups
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 35
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
The Changelog
For the First Time In Years, I’m Excited By My Computer Purchase
Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a...
a year ago
Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a PCMCIA slot, or, heck, sound. Nowadays, mostly new hardware means things get a bit faster or less crashy, or I have some more space for files. It’s good and useful, but sorta… meh....
Sam Altman
US Digital Currency
I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is...
over a year ago
I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use case we have seen work at scale so far). There was possibly a time when governments could have totally stopped it, but it feels like that’s in the rearview mirror.
...
Josh Thompson
Winter on Two Pairs of Socks
We’re
minimalists, mostly. We try to not have a bunch of stuff. This naturally extends to the...
over a year ago
We’re
minimalists, mostly. We try to not have a bunch of stuff. This naturally extends to the wardrobe.
I’ll cover more about what we wear another time, but for now, I want to give you an idea. With the right socks, you can go an entire winter with just two pairs of socks. You...
Math Is Still...
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that...
2 months ago
Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.
The post Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Patrick Kayongo
Stimela
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya...
a year ago
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya asked this while squashing the newspaper within her clenched fist. Her lips were quivering, her face contorted to hold back the tears of anger and fear. “My brother went to the mines...
TheCollector
7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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a year ago
Diaries of Note
We spend our lives in tense expectation
In the midst of the Russian Civil War, April 1919 saw the city of Odessa plunged further into...
a year ago
In the midst of the Russian Civil War, April 1919 saw the city of Odessa plunged further into turmoil as the Bolshevik Red Army entered, leaving the future uncertain for the once-thriving port and its inhabitants. One person who found himself caught amidst the chaos was Ivan...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The risks of being a small investor in a private company
With the passage of the JOBS act, it seems that many more Americans will soon be able to buy equity...
over a year ago
With the passage of the JOBS act, it seems that many more Americans will soon be able to buy equity in private companies. I am no expert on…
Seth's Blog
Spire confusion
When architects show off their work, or propose a bold new building complex or even ask for a zoning...
10 months ago
When architects show off their work, or propose a bold new building complex or even ask for a zoning variance, the public sees the external photos. The tall spire, the innovative use of glass, the weird hole in the center of the building. And when a car company shows off a new...
David Perell
Thoughts on Montreal
I visited Montreal for the first time. Here are my general impressions of the city, based on walks...
over a year ago
I visited Montreal for the first time. Here are my general impressions of the city, based on walks around town and casual conversations with friends: Culture: My favorite thing about Montreal is its commitment to culture. French is the dominant language, which is partially why it...
TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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a week ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This...
over a year ago
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This guide walks you through these concepts one by one.
Simply Explained
My Sixth Year as YouTube Creator (statistics + retrospective)
Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. Last year has been my most...
over a year ago
Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. Last year has been my most successful year on YouTube so far, and I'd like to share some statistics and thoughts. I will also go over how my email newsletter is doing and where I'm headed. And finally, I'll set...
Josh Thompson
On Cleaner Controllers
A few days ago, I worked on a project that was mostly about serving up basic store data (modeled...
over a year ago
A few days ago, I worked on a project that was mostly about serving up basic store data (modeled after Etsy) to an API.
We had a few dozen end-points, and all responses were in JSON.
Most of the action happened inside of our controllers, and as you might imagine, our routes.rb...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
25 Questions You Didn’t Know You Needed “Art of the Living Dead” to Answer
A starting point for anyone curious about reading a book about creativity and zombies
over a year ago
A starting point for anyone curious about reading a book about creativity and zombies
On Life and Lisp
The Federation Fallacy
Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air:...
over a year ago
Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air: mistrust of large corporations, mistrust of governments, and of course, mistrust of proprietary software. Each mistrust is connected by a critical thread: centralisation.
Thus,...
Nat Eliason's...
The Best Books I Read in 2024
My first fiction-heavy roundup
2 weeks ago
My first fiction-heavy roundup
The Marginalian
Fox and Bear: A Tender Modern Fable About Reversing the Anthropocene, Illustrated in Cut-Cardboard...
An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.
a year ago
An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.
diamond geezer
Summing up 2024
The last day of the year is an excellent time to tot up what you've been doing all year... assuming...
3 days ago
The last day of the year is an excellent time to tot up what you've been doing all year... assuming you've been counting, which obviously I have. Cue my Counts of 2024.
(If you don't count these kinds of thing, look at all the fun you're missing out on)
the number of London...
TheCollector
Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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a year ago
Patrick Kayongo
Online Communication & Social Hierarchy
There are a plethora of ways to communicate online, both with people you know, and people you’ve...
a year ago
There are a plethora of ways to communicate online, both with people you know, and people you’ve never met. But something the makers of these tools fail to mould to, is the social hierarchy and human structures in which they are used. There are three examples that come to mind....
Writing - Andreas...
Early-stage engineering
Early on you need to be fast. Your team, your stack, your infrastructure —
they all need to be set...
a year ago
Early on you need to be fast. Your team, your stack, your infrastructure —
they all need to be set up for that. To do that, you have to have the
confidence to break with best practices. And that confidence comes from
knowing what risks actually matter in your context.
Seth's Blog
What’s a “techie”?
A friend’s email said, “I know many of my readers aren’t techies and you’re thinking of putting this...
a year ago
A friend’s email said, “I know many of my readers aren’t techies and you’re thinking of putting this newsletter aside…” We should get clear about what we’re talking about when we say “techie.” I’m going to argue that involves a combination of two things: But someone who says,...
Wuthering...
Books I read in December 2023 - No one’s worse than you, she says
Lots of short fantasy fiction this month, perhaps everything
in the first section except the May...
a year ago
Lots of short fantasy fiction this month, perhaps everything
in the first section except the May Sarton novel and Eugene O’Neill play,
balanced by a complementary pair of Holocaust memoirs.
NOVELS, STORIES & A PLAY
Ocean of Story, Vol. 1 (11th cent.), Somadeva, tr. C. H....
Noahpinion
New technologies, new totalitarians
Thanks to smartphones, social media, and globalization, liberalism faces a new and terrifying kind...
10 months ago
Thanks to smartphones, social media, and globalization, liberalism faces a new and terrifying kind of opponent.
markround.com
Haiku Package Management
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have...
a year ago
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...
Epic Web Dev
Inverse Assertions (article)
Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives...
3 months ago
Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives in time-dependent tests without using sleep.
Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Ruthless Edit
Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album:
[Let’s...
3 months ago
Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album:
[Let’s say] We’ve recorded twenty-five songs. We think the album is going to have ten. Instead of picking our favorite ten, we limit it to: “What are the five or six we can’t live...
Product Identity
The other chair
In praise of the HÅG Capisco
5 months ago
In praise of the HÅG Capisco
Anarchy Unfolds
Queer Folk Don't Need Orientation
How decade-old discourse shows us a way out
2 months ago
How decade-old discourse shows us a way out
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker
I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management...
a year ago
I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.
Cognitive...
Meet Samantha
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-7b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-13b
https://h...
a year ago
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-7b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-13b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-33b
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-falcon-7b
https://huggingface.co/datasets/ehartford/samantha-data/blob/main/samantha-1.0.json
I have...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1983/08 Today Mag
Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today...
9 months ago
Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your friends and relatives. Thank you.
Open Culture
How Édouard Manet Became “the Father of Impressionism” with the Scandalous Panting, Le Déjeuner sur...
Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) caused quite a stir when it made its public debut in...
8 months ago
Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) caused quite a stir when it made its public debut in 1863. Today, we might assume that the controversy surrounding the painting had to do with its containing a nude woman. But, in fact, it does not contain a nude woman — at least...
Old Structures...
Comparisons
This type of imaginary collection was quite popular at the beginning of the twentieth century....
4 months ago
This type of imaginary collection was quite popular at the beginning of the twentieth century. Sometimes it was just buildings, like here, sometimes steamships were stood on end to show how big they were. (Note that the biggest steamship in 1908, when the Singer Building was new,...
TheCollector
The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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6 months ago
sancho.dev
Don't use Tailwind for your Design System
over a year ago
TheCollector
The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Jetcraft Offices by Studio BV
Studio BV designed a high-end, textured space in Wayzata for Jetcraft, featuring stone and metal...
7 months ago
Studio BV designed a high-end, textured space in Wayzata for Jetcraft, featuring stone and metal accents, warm wood floors, tactile...
TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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6 months ago
Londonist
Bold New Look For Old City Hall
Plans teased for a more open, green look.
a year ago
Plans teased for a more open, green look.
Computer Ads from...
Merry Christmas 2024
and a Happy New Year
a week ago
diamond geezer
Open House wrap-up
Let's finish this for another year.
Open House: The Rowe (Aldgate) The Unoccupied One
located...
a year ago
Let's finish this for another year.
Open House: The Rowe (Aldgate) The Unoccupied One
located immediately opposite the Whitechapel Gallery and is a repurposing of the former Cass School of Art and Architecture into a modern office block. The overall idea behind the rebuild was...
./techtipsy
The little Wi-Fi AP that could
I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short...
over a year ago
I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short overview of one of them.
The Orange Pi Zero is a SBC (single board computer) that has a slow 32-bit ARM 4 core CPU, 512MB of RAM and no display output.
It’s actually quite OK for many...
Retail Design Blog
adidas Illustrates Confidence In Simplicity with a New Branded Space Design Exclusive to JD Sports
Launching into JD Sports’ best-performing store at Westfield Stratford, as well as JD Sports...
a month ago
Launching into JD Sports’ best-performing store at Westfield Stratford, as well as JD Sports Bluewater, following its prototype in Paris...
TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 months ago
Mazdak
Cloudflare 2024 Internet Report Analysis
Join us as we break down Cloudflare's groundbreaking report and expose fascinating trends in...
3 weeks ago
Join us as we break down Cloudflare's groundbreaking report and expose fascinating trends in internet traffic, security, and adoption.
Odds and Ends of...
Important information if you used my Bluesky MP follows bot
Please read this immediately.
a month ago
Please read this immediately.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Podcast Notes: Vlad Prelovac on “The Talk Show”
Vlad Prelovac is the CEO of Kagi: a search engine you have to pay for.
He’s on episode 416 of John...
4 days ago
Vlad Prelovac is the CEO of Kagi: a search engine you have to pay for.
He’s on episode 416 of John Gruber’s The Talk Show to discuss why he thinks we should be paying for search.
Hearing his point of view is compelling. I quite enjoyed the entire podcast. So much, in fact, that I...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes to Self on Mastodon
Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to...
a year ago
Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to articulate what I do understand in a way that helps me better understand the differences — and similarities — between Twitter and Mastodon, especially when it comes to owning more of...
Artificial Ignorance
Milestones, motivations, and miscellany
Some thoughts on the future of this newsletter.
6 months ago
Some thoughts on the future of this newsletter.
Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Map: Arendal Region Transit Map, Norway by Hazael
Hi! I made this transit diagram myself. I saw there was no “real” map with all the stations for the...
4 months ago
Hi! I made this transit diagram myself. I saw there was no “real” map with all the stations for the region of Arendal in Norway, so I decided to do this project. I would love to read your comments and criticisms! Transit Maps says: There’s a lot to like about this diagram – a...
Many Worlds
All Six Element Needed For Life as We Know It Have Now Been Found in The Watery Plumes of Enceladus
The elements needed for life as we know it are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen sulfur and...
a year ago
The elements needed for life as we know it are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen sulfur and phosphorus. Before today, planetary scientists could say that five of those crucial elements had been found in the watery spray that spurts out of the Saturn’s moon, Enceladus. All that...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 26 February-3 March 2024
Our top stories from the last seven days.
10 months ago
Our top stories from the last seven days.
Ben Borgers
I Keep Rewriting My Personal Website
over a year ago
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