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The American vs. European Mindset on Life A personal look at how the American and European mindsets shape the way we live, work, and find...
1st Jun 2025
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The American vs. European Mindset on Life

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

1st Jun 2025
A personal look at how the American and European mindsets shape the way we live, work, and find happiness.
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Overcoming Automotive Overconsumption Through Design Is it really necessary to buy a new car every couple of years or do car companies make us believe...
1st May 2019
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Overcoming Automotive Overconsumption Through Design

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

1st May 2019
Is it really necessary to buy a new car every couple of years or do car companies make us believe that?
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Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948 1948 was an interesting time for computing. For decades, businesses had used punch card equipment...
7th Jun 2026
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Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948

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

7th Jun 2026
1948 was an interesting time for computing. For decades, businesses had used punch card equipment that added and sorted electromechanically. Now these electromechanical relays and counting wheels were being used to build room-filling general-purpose computers such as Harvard Mark...
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Interpreting Go After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct...
12th Oct 2019
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Interpreting Go

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Oct 2019
After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct definitions I had enough exposure to Go's built-in parsing package that next steps were clear: write an interpreter. It's a great way to get more comfortable with a language's AST. In...
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Our AI Midwife A guest post by Drew Housman
4 weeks ago
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Our AI Midwife

from Astral Codex Ten [alt+shift+b] in literature

4 weeks ago
A guest post by Drew Housman
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JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference? Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What...
6th Sep 2021
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JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference?

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

6th Sep 2021
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is TypeScript?” and if you haven’t, it won’t be long before you do.
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A writer's autobiography (Just not mine.)
1st Feb 2023
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A writer's autobiography

from detreville [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2023
(Just not mine.)
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An Open Letter about Golden 2022-06-15 Update I wrote this document the first time in a very small number of minutes, three...
24th May 2022
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An Open Letter about Golden

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

24th May 2022
2022-06-15 Update I wrote this document the first time in a very small number of minutes, three weeks ago, on my way out the door on a particularly busy day. I follow “write it now”. I’ve gotten to discuss this letter with a few different people, because I mentioned it in email....
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On the Arts: A Three Month Review And a Thank You to Subscribers
6th Sep 2023
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On the Arts: A Three Month Review

from On the Arts [alt+shift+b] in creative

6th Sep 2023
And a Thank You to Subscribers
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On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself...
19th Apr 2025
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On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment

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

19th Apr 2025
Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself say: I really miss posting on Twitter. I really, really miss it. It’s funny, because Twitter was never not a trash fire. There was never a time when it felt like we were living...
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Mutation testing - not just for unit tests I wrote about mutation testing a few times on this blog, and I even have a mutation testing workshop...
3rd Sep 2025
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Mutation testing - not just for unit tests

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2025
I wrote about mutation testing a few times on this blog, and I even have a mutation testing workshop that I run on a pretty frequent basis. One misconception that pops up sometimes, either explicitly in a question or implicitly when I hear others talk about mutation testing, is...
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a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history. the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
3rd Mar 2024
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a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Mar 2024
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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Global crime How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
25th Nov 2024
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Global crime

from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history

25th Nov 2024
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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Notes on Progress: An environmentalist gets lunch Why being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one
5th Sep 2022
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Notes on Progress: An environmentalist gets lunch

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Sep 2022
Why being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one
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Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 1: The Merge
14th Oct 2024
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Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 1: The Merge

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

14th Oct 2024
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25 IPython Tips for Your Next Advent of Code I've decided to skip last year's Advent of Code edition. Mostly because I didn't have time, but I...
27th Jan 2021
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25 IPython Tips for Your Next Advent of Code

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jan 2021
I've decided to skip last year's Advent of Code edition. Mostly because I didn't have time, but I also knew that I probably wouldn't finish it. I've never finished any edition. I'm not very good at code katas, and I usually try to brute force them. With AoC, that works for the...
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Goldilocks your graphs Data visualization is everywhere. From analytics platforms to infographics, across newsrooms and...
11th Nov 2015
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Goldilocks your graphs

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

11th Nov 2015
Data visualization is everywhere. From analytics platforms to infographics, across newsrooms and social media channels, there are vast swaths of the internet devoted to delivering data in non-tabular format. There are entire blogs devoted to the subject, such as the ubiquitous...
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Our own agents with their own tools. Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading...
4th Feb 2025
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Our own agents with their own tools.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Feb 2025
Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading Anthropic’s Building effective agents, followed by Chip Huyen’s AI Engineering. I kicked off a major workstream at work on using agents, and I also decided to do a personal experiment of...
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Marketing yourself as a developer As a developer, I've learned that no matter how good a product I build is, for the product to...
27th Jan 2016
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Marketing yourself as a developer

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jan 2016
As a developer, I've learned that no matter how good a product I build is, for the product to succeed, it also takes good marketing. The same is true for you as a developer in the job market: while solid technical skills are necessary to land great jobs, your ability to sell...
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10 relatively low-effort historically-inspired Halloween costumes that are still good fun I hate medieval Halloween what do you mean you’re Harold Godwinson getting shot in the eye
6 days ago
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10 relatively low-effort historically-inspired Halloween costumes that are still good fun

from weird medieval guys [alt+shift+b] in history

6 days ago
I hate medieval Halloween what do you mean you’re Harold Godwinson getting shot in the eye
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Simple Oblique Views in Blender While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m...
31st Mar 2022
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Simple Oblique Views in Blender

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

31st Mar 2022
While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m really not much of a 3D cartographer. I make oblique-view maps only rarely, and when I do, it’s usually in a simplified, abstract style, rather than the detailed, naturalistic...
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Testing a WebSocket that could hang open for hours I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in...
1st Jul 2024
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Testing a WebSocket that could hang open for hours

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2024
I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in question was not particularly complicated, and had been reviewed by multiple people. It included a timeout, and is straightforward: allow a Websocket connection to test that the client...
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Functional JavaScript: Learn by refactoring Learn the basics of functional programming by iteratively refactoring imperative code.
11th Nov 2016
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Functional JavaScript: Learn by refactoring

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

11th Nov 2016
Learn the basics of functional programming by iteratively refactoring imperative code.
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Provenance for science papers, local-first access control In this Dispatch, we'll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments...
3rd Sep 2024
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Provenance for science papers, local-first access control

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2024
In this Dispatch, we'll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments for science papers and local-first access control. We also have some updates on WASM packaging for Automerge, and a new researcher-in-residence.
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What Happens After the Zoning Code Says "Yes" One extra home can change the rules, the costs, and who can afford to build.
4 weeks ago
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What Happens After the Zoning Code Says "Yes"

from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4 weeks ago
One extra home can change the rules, the costs, and who can afford to build.
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The 8 Guidelines for Good Automotive UX Design The primary goal of a designer is to ensure the safety of the driver. Non-driving-related...
1st Dec 2023
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The 8 Guidelines for Good Automotive UX Design

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

1st Dec 2023
The primary goal of a designer is to ensure the safety of the driver. Non-driving-related activities, like interacting with an…
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Customer churn can kill your startup Startups are about growth, and of all the different possible metrics, startups often focus on user...
10th Jul 2014
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Customer churn can kill your startup

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Jul 2014
Startups are about growth, and of all the different possible metrics, startups often focus on user growth - if people aren’t using your new product or service in greater and greater numbers, it’s a good sign that you’re not on the right track. And, as long as your business-model...
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In search of lost teams As a technical leader, how do you spot when your team is lost in the weeds, and is there anything...
29th Sep 2020
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In search of lost teams

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

29th Sep 2020
As a technical leader, how do you spot when your team is lost in the weeds, and is there anything you can do about it? Leadership expert Mike Thomas explains.
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The journey of launching StorePreviewer PRO
10th Dec 2020
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The journey of launching StorePreviewer PRO

from Dominik Sobe's Thoughts ツ [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

10th Dec 2020
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Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses Queen ants live far longer than genetically identical workers. Researchers are learning what their...
7th Jun 2023
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Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses

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

7th Jun 2023
Queen ants live far longer than genetically identical workers. Researchers are learning what their longevity secrets could mean for aging in other species. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Good Times” by Patrick Patrikios.
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Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify. The story of Checkout X. ...
10th Mar 2023
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Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify. The story of Checkout X.

from 👋 Hello, I'm Ruslan. [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

10th Mar 2023
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What I'm up to - September 2026 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York....
1st Sep 2026
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What I'm up to - September 2026

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York. I have been busy bouncing between hotels and touring potential homes. I visited Copenhagen for an event at noma.
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Introducing Writebook You know, it's really easy to publish short form content on a variety of social platforms. And...
3rd Jul 2024
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Introducing Writebook

from Jason Fried [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Jul 2024
You know, it's really easy to publish short form content on a variety of social platforms. And individual blog posts on a number of other platforms. These are solved problems. But it's surprisingly challenging to publish books on the web in nice, cohesive, tight, easy-to-navigate...
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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 2.0 Looks to the Sea Marine science and the blue economy are emerging as a new area of China-Pakistan cooperation,...
2 weeks ago
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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 2.0 Looks to the Sea

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

2 weeks ago
Marine science and the blue economy are emerging as a new area of China-Pakistan cooperation, linking Gwadar with research, coastal industries and environmental management
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How To Name Things > There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
16th May 2019
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How To Name Things

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

16th May 2019
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - Leon Bambrick
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In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025 CHM is saddened to share the passing of 2018 CHM Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley, who was a pioneer in...
18th Aug 2025
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In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025

from CHM [alt+shift+b] in history

18th Aug 2025
CHM is saddened to share the passing of 2018 CHM Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley, who was a pioneer in embracing remote, flexible work for the thriving software company she founded in the 1960s. The post In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025 appeared first on CHM.
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Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs Also, we have a prompt library!
4th Mar 2024
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Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Mar 2024
Also, we have a prompt library!
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Literate Vimrc Literate ~/.vimrc This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now. Hold on, let me explain. Why would anyone do a...
14th Jun 2017
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Literate Vimrc

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

14th Jun 2017
Literate ~/.vimrc This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now. Hold on, let me explain. Why would anyone do a thing like this? I have tons of comments in my ~/.vimrc file. I try to leave a lot of comments because everything in my Vim configuration is hard-won knowledge. My ~/.vimrc is...
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99 percent Utopia and money For full happiness is possible only in stagnation.
6th May 2026
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99 percent Utopia and money

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

6th May 2026
For full happiness is possible only in stagnation.
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Objectivity is superstition An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our...
17th Mar 2025
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Objectivity is superstition

from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Mar 2025
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our subjective experiences correspond to an external reality. However, they may simply be subjective through and through. That which we claim to be evidence of external reality is actually...
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Sriracha Fight!! 🥊 At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty...
30th Jul 2023
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Sriracha Fight!! 🥊

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

30th Jul 2023
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone wants. Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have no idea when it’ll be back. So, driven by the...
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Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention? Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
21st May 2026
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Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?

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

21st May 2026
Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
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Rotating my PGP key
1st Aug 2025
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Rotating my PGP key

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2025
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Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking...
1st Jul 2026
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Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars

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

1st Jul 2026
For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The actual work
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Which Songs Do We Replay the Most? A Statistical Analysis Which songs do we listen to on repeat? And how does binge-listening behavior change with age?
3rd Dec 2025
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Which Songs Do We Replay the Most? A Statistical Analysis

from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative

3rd Dec 2025
Which songs do we listen to on repeat? And how does binge-listening behavior change with age?
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Issue 59 – Hot damn, this is going to get interesting quickly Are US legislators warming to crypto? The SEC approves Ethereum ETPs, and a crypto bill gets through...
7th Jun 2024
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Issue 59 – Hot damn, this is going to get interesting quickly

from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance

7th Jun 2024
Are US legislators warming to crypto? The SEC approves Ethereum ETPs, and a crypto bill gets through the House.
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BBC Gets Into UFOs Paranormal phenomena tend to wax and wane in the public interest. Typically a generation will become...
1st Jul 2024
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BBC Gets Into UFOs

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Jul 2024
Paranormal phenomena tend to wax and wane in the public interest. Typically a generation will become fascinated with a topic, but eventually the novelty will wear thin and interest will fade. But the flame will be kept alive by the hardcore believers. Wait long enough, and...
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It's time to become an ML engineer AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and...
11th Apr 2022
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It's time to become an ML engineer

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

11th Apr 2022
AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and DALL-E 2 are actually useful and can perform tasks computers cannot do any other way. The act of producing these models is an exploration of a new frontier, with the discovery of...
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No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol In 2022, I used to get calls from journalists asking,...
24th Sep 2026
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No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol

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

24th Sep 2026
No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol In 2022, I used to get calls from journalists asking, with great sincerity, what our lives would look like in the metaverse. How would we work, socialise, buy property, and fall in love once we had all moved there? The crypto...
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Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
8th Feb 2020
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Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics

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

8th Feb 2020
Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
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[ESSAYS] My 'Rules' for Running My Membership Program Should you start a membership program? Probably not. But boy am I glad that I started mine. Today...
1st Feb 2025
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[ESSAYS] My 'Rules' for Running My Membership Program

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

1st Feb 2025
Should you start a membership program? Probably not. But boy am I glad that I started mine. Today (basically) marks the sixth anniversary of starting SPECIAL PROJECTS. Each year, I’ve written up everything I learned. In total, here are nearly 40,000 words on running a membership...
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What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
3rd May 2024
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What is psephology?

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2024
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
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Lessons in frustration Assa Auerbach’s course was the most maddening course I’ve ever taken.  I was a master’s student in...
17th Feb 2025
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Lessons in frustration

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

17th Feb 2025
Assa Auerbach’s course was the most maddening course I’ve ever taken.  I was a master’s student in the Perimeter Scholars International program at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Perimeter trotted in world experts to lecture about modern physics. Many … Continue...
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How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly...
1st Nov 2024
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How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S.

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

1st Nov 2024
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
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It’s Just A Correlation Did you know that the number of Google searches for cat memes correlates tightly (P-value < 0.01)...
5th Aug 2025
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It’s Just A Correlation

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Aug 2025
Did you know that the number of Google searches for cat memes correlates tightly (P-value < 0.01) with England’s performance in cricket World Cups? What’s going on here? Is interest in funny cat videos driven by the excitement created by cricket victories. Perhaps cat memes are...
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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
3rd Dec 2020
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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines

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

3rd Dec 2020
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
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Finance, Fairer Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small...
17th May 2023
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Finance, Fairer

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th May 2023
Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small businesses in every corner of the world.
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Don't ask me to embarrass myself. Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
18th Jul 2024
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Don't ask me to embarrass myself.

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jul 2024
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
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Leslie's Razors Nine Rules of Thumb For Life
6th Jan 2024
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Leslie's Razors

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

6th Jan 2024
Nine Rules of Thumb For Life
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Act a Fool, or: Motion vs. Action If you’ve started reading this article, but have only two minutes, don’t read what I’m writing. Go...
16th Mar 2014
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Act a Fool, or: Motion vs. Action

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

16th Mar 2014
If you’ve started reading this article, but have only two minutes, don’t read what I’m writing. Go read this article by James clear. It’s called “ The Mistake Smart People Make: Being In Motion vs. Taking Action”. I’ve linked it a third time here. Go read it. James starts with...
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The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000 The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
1st Apr 2019
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The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000

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

1st Apr 2019
The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
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The birth of a child Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor...
12th Jul 2021
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The birth of a child

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

12th Jul 2021
Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor capturing the impact of birth on yours truly.
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For students who make websites WordPress.com maker Automattic is expanding into education with a new, free product designed for...
17th Aug 2026
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For students who make websites

from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design

17th Aug 2026
WordPress.com maker Automattic is expanding into education with a new, free product designed for teachers and their classes called WordPress.com Education. The suite for classrooms includes a full WordPress.com domain for each student, plus free domain names (on the .blog or .art...
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August 2020 gwern.net newsletter with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no...
1st Sep 2020
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August 2020 gwern.net newsletter

from Gwern.net Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Sep 2020
with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no reviews.
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Beyond Food and Travel: Remembering Anthony Bourdain I used to sit in my apartment, eating Ramen and watching Anthony Bourdain, wondering about all of...
5th Jul 2024
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Beyond Food and Travel: Remembering Anthony Bourdain

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Jul 2024
I used to sit in my apartment, eating Ramen and watching Anthony Bourdain, wondering about all of the things life and the world had to offer. It’s difficult to overstate the influence Anthony Bourdain has had on my worldview. For over a decade, whenever someone asked, “what do...
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Working on a virtualenv without magic
2nd Oct 2016
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Working on a virtualenv without magic

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Oct 2016
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Of Price Tags, Gig Apps, and Dynamic Pricing It is told that the modern price tag was developed in 1861 by one John Wanamaker, a merchant from...
15th Dec 2025
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Of Price Tags, Gig Apps, and Dynamic Pricing

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Dec 2025
It is told that the modern price tag was developed in 1861 by one John Wanamaker, a merchant from Philiadephia, USA. Before this point, every transaction with every merchant one encountered was a negotiation. Someone who was wealthy would end up paying more because the merchant...
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Bureaulogy The study of bureaucracy
21st Dec 2024
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Bureaulogy

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Dec 2024
The study of bureaucracy
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Why scons is cool I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not...
7th Nov 2010
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Why scons is cool

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

7th Nov 2010
I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not perfect, but I’ve rapidly come to the conclusion that it’s a probably far better choice than make in many cases. The main exceptions would be cases where you need to integrate into legacy...
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars A history of the monastic high life
2nd Aug 2023
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars

from weird medieval guys [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Aug 2023
A history of the monastic high life
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My Own AI Server Cluster When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original...
6th Nov 2023
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My Own AI Server Cluster

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Nov 2023
When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original dolphin-13b was a flop, I had some time to go back to the drawing board. When I was ready to train the next iteration, I reconsidered whether to rent or buy the compute for the build. I...
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✏️ A Second Shot It sunk in. Both the needle and the fact that life had indeed changed. I turned to my left and...
13th May 2021
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✏️ A Second Shot

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

13th May 2021
It sunk in. Both the needle and the fact that life had indeed changed. I turned to my left and looked at her. She, the same Black woman who had administered the first, and this time I tucked her name away into my memory, having forgotten it in the excitement and overwhelming...
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The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry....
17th Nov 2022
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The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

17th Nov 2022
Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry. The developer claimed the tool achieved over 90% accuracy in predicting when beaches would be safe to swim in. But the tool did much worse: on a majority of the days when the...
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Summary of changes for November Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
30th Nov 2022
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Summary of changes for November

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

30th Nov 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe. Noodle,...
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So, You Want To Build A DBaaS So you’ve made the decision to build a Database-as-a-Service product (or something similar). As a...
29th Mar 2023
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So, You Want To Build A DBaaS

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

29th Mar 2023
So you’ve made the decision to build a Database-as-a-Service product (or something similar). As a result, you are making state and coordination your problem. Here are some things I’ve learned to keep in mind as you embark on this project, in no particular order (other than the...
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Oct 2022 Portfolio Updates The three co-founders of XO got together last weekend in South Carolina for a weekend of golf and...
4th Nov 2022
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Oct 2022 Portfolio Updates

from XO Capital - Field Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Nov 2022
The three co-founders of XO got together last weekend in South Carolina for a weekend of golf and just hanging out. I am by far the crappiest golfer on the team... it's truly an evil sport. I think I'm also the shortest. Anyways ... We get together
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Go package for better guid generation The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is...
12th Feb 2015
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Go package for better guid generation

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2015
The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is popular but it can be done better. I wrote betterguid Go package that does it better. Unique id generated by this package: is a 20 character string, safe to include in urls (no need...
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What the Fork is Babel? Illustrated notes on how Babel works
1st Feb 2019
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What the Fork is Babel?

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

1st Feb 2019
Illustrated notes on how Babel works
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Rise of the Úlluminati I originally wrote this piece way back in April 2015, just after returning from speaking at Úll. It...
3rd Oct 2016
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Rise of the Úlluminati

from Three Letter Acronym [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

3rd Oct 2016
I originally wrote this piece way back in April 2015, just after returning from speaking at Úll. It ended up not being published, but I figured since I’m preparing for my trip to Úll 2016, I would put it up here instead. And hey, first post on my blog in six years! I wrote an...
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If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
17th Feb 2025
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If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown

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

17th Feb 2025
Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
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Bayesian Decision Analysis At PyData Global 2025 I presented a workshop on Bayesian Decision Analysis with PyMC. The video is...
9th Jan 2026
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Bayesian Decision Analysis

from Probably Overthinking It [alt+shift+b] in science

9th Jan 2026
At PyData Global 2025 I presented a workshop on Bayesian Decision Analysis with PyMC. The video is available now. This workshop is based on the first session of the Applied Bayesian Modeling Workshop I teach along with my colleagues at PyMC Labs. If you would like to learn more,...
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The Caldera: a sleek split and wireless keyboard I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically...
20th Jul 2024
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The Caldera: a sleek split and wireless keyboard

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Jul 2024
I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically my dream wireless split keyboard. I’ve been using it for months, and I love it. Video overview If you’re a visual person, I made a fun little video showcasing the...
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THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY I MADE A GLOBAL CAPS LOCK KEY SO THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE ON WHEN TO USE CAPS...
5th Feb 2025
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THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY

from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Feb 2025
THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY I MADE A GLOBAL CAPS LOCK KEY SO THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE ON WHEN TO USE CAPS LOCK. You can see the status and download the client at https://globalcapslock.com. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...
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Song Huong Eatery Many years ago, I would visit Song Huong out on Nanaimo for their Vietnamese fare, in particularly,...
1st Jun 2026
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Song Huong Eatery

from Sherman's Food Adventures [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Jun 2026
Many years ago, I would visit Song Huong out on Nanaimo for their Vietnamese fare, in particularly, their Bò 7 Món.  For those who are not familiar, this is seven courses of beef that is usually served during celebrations.  So when they opened a second location near me, I knew I...
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Good Meteor Shower This Week Wednesday evening and Thursday morning (Dec. 13-14) is the peak time for one of the best meteor...
10th Dec 2023
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Good Meteor Shower This Week

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science

10th Dec 2023
Wednesday evening and Thursday morning (Dec. 13-14) is the peak time for one of the best meteor showers of the year – the Geminids.  The post Good Meteor Shower This Week appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
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Progress on the Block Protocol Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents...
19th Dec 2022
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Progress on the Block Protocol

from Joel on Software [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Dec 2022
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"
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With thanks to Steven Rosenberg Lately I’ve got used to waking up and checking my email and socials, and sorting through the latest...
3rd Nov 2025
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With thanks to Steven Rosenberg

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Nov 2025
Lately I’ve got used to waking up and checking my email and socials, and sorting through the latest troll or person angry about something I didn’t say. In a word, not great… assuming you hyphenate not and great, which I didn’t do there for some reason. This morning, I got this...
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If you need the money, don't take the job Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're...
2nd May 2024
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If you need the money, don't take the job

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

2nd May 2024
Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll face as a newly independent worker.
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Ignore The Mess As you’ve no doubt noticed over the last few days, LICD.com is going through some changes.  Aside...
14th Oct 2025
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Ignore The Mess

from Least I Could Do [alt+shift+b] in comics

14th Oct 2025
As you’ve no doubt noticed over the last few days, LICD.com is going through some changes.  Aside from the new design, there’ll be a ton of improvements under the hood as well. For one, we’ve gotten rid of Vuukle, possibly […] The post Ignore The Mess appeared first on Least I...
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Introducing TagVault Strap Compact for AirTag We wanted a strap mount that was secure, rugged, ultra-compact, and super easier to assemble. So we...
12th Mar 2025
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Introducing TagVault Strap Compact for AirTag

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Mar 2025
We wanted a strap mount that was secure, rugged, ultra-compact, and super easier to assemble. So we designed TagVault Strap Compact. Fully waterproof with a hidden inner gasket.   It's ultra low-profile.   Perfect for backpacks.   Also really great for cameras.   Also available...
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what I want to post about (29s read) open sourcing for inspiration
13th Feb 2025
1

what I want to post about (29s read)

from Mihnea's Context [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

13th Feb 2025
open sourcing for inspiration
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How to get better at recursion tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For...
7th Mar 2021
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How to get better at recursion

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Mar 2021
tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For a few years after college I spent a lot of free time doing projects in Standard ML and Scheme. As a result I got really comfortable doing recursion. The two big reasons for this...
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Integrating git with your existing website Better git it in your soul*. Git has a lot of great tutorials for getting started. There are also a...
21st Oct 2012
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Integrating git with your existing website

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

21st Oct 2012
Better git it in your soul*. Git has a lot of great tutorials for getting started. There are also a number of great articles on how to use git and github for your workflow. What I haven’t seen is an article on how to integrate git with your current site without storing any code...
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Embedding the Sky Two projects at the intersection of geospatial data and AI. First, a semantic search engine for...
27th Feb 2026
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Embedding the Sky

from John Wiseman [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Feb 2026
Two projects at the intersection of geospatial data and AI. First, a semantic search engine for aerial imagery, fine-tuned on OpenStreetMap-tagged data. Second, WARP—a custom neural model that learns embeddings of aircraft flight trajectories, trained on roughly a million...
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Expectations, planning, and suffering Thoughts on planning and letting go of expectations
29th May 2024
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Expectations, planning, and suffering

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

29th May 2024
Thoughts on planning and letting go of expectations
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The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope One other way that the 2020s resemble the 1890s
5th Feb 2025
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The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope

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

5th Feb 2025
One other way that the 2020s resemble the 1890s
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Why geeks should speak
2nd Nov 2018
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Why geeks should speak

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

2nd Nov 2018
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Record Labels Are Running on Empty The latest news is ominous
2nd Jul 2025
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Record Labels Are Running on Empty

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Jul 2025
The latest news is ominous
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed. It contained more than 50.000...
14th Oct 2020
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Oct 2020
This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed. It contained more than 50.000 photos, covering two decades of personal history. As there was no backup, it was up to me to attempt to safe as much as I could. Could I possibly recover the personal...
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Building Virtual Branches GitButler has come up with an entirely new way to work on multiple branches: simultaneously. What...
6th Jul 2023
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Building Virtual Branches

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Jul 2023
GitButler has come up with an entirely new way to work on multiple branches: simultaneously. What are virtual branches?
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Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a...
7th Oct 2014
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Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Oct 2014
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
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RobotEra Has Two More Robot Olympic Wins! RobotEra has two more Olympic Medals. This time orange peeling (which PI accomplished but needed an...
6th Apr 2026
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RobotEra Has Two More Robot Olympic Wins!

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2026
RobotEra has two more Olympic Medals. This time orange peeling (which PI accomplished but needed an external tool, which disqualified them) and unlocking a padlock 25% faster than PI’s demonstration.
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French Youth Take the Streets against a Bleak Future : A Report This past week, thousands of teenagers have taken the streets of France, clashing with police as...
3 weeks ago
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French Youth Take the Streets against a Bleak Future : A Report

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

3 weeks ago
This past week, thousands of teenagers have taken the streets of France, clashing with police as they demonstrate against the deplorable conditions in their high schools and a rapidly collapsing future. This is a promising sign, shifting attention from the seemingly unstoppable...
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Industry roundup #11 Vercel testing AGENTS.md vs Skills
2nd Feb 2026
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Industry roundup #11

from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Feb 2026
Vercel testing AGENTS.md vs Skills
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A Hackathon Where the Dinkiest Idea Won. Why? What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon.
3rd May 2020
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A Hackathon Where the Dinkiest Idea Won. Why?

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

3rd May 2020
What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon.
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Shunn The Shunn manuscript format is a set of guidelines for writers to follow when submitting manuscripts...
31st May 2024
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Shunn

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

31st May 2024
The Shunn manuscript format is a set of guidelines for writers to follow when submitting manuscripts to publishers. It was created by author William Shunn and is widely used in the publishing industry. Here is a brief demonstration of a tool I wrote to facilitate generating...
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Biographies of every US president as audiobooks
27th Sep 2019
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Biographies of every US president as audiobooks

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

27th Sep 2019
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The Boot.dev Beat. March 2024 Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was...
28th Feb 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. March 2024

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

28th Feb 2024
Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was wounded and beaten back, he escaped. We’ll be trying again later this month. Happy coding.
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The Eight Tribes of Trump and China LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China...
31st Mar 2025
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The Eight Tribes of Trump and China

from The Scholar's Stage [alt+shift+b] in history

31st Mar 2025
LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China strategy under Trump. That piece was a pre-election preview of a much larger report I was writing for the Foreign Policy Research Institute. I published the preview as security: Trump...
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What is Backend-as-a-Service? Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made...
5th Dec 2022
1

What is Backend-as-a-Service?

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

5th Dec 2022
Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made available by a third party over the internet. Think Salesforce, WordPress, or MailChimp. And most people know what a “backend developer” is, that is, someone who is responsible for things...
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Smart lights behind a wall switch (Shelly + ESPHome) Using smart light bulbs means you can no longer use your physical wall switches because the bulbs...
7th Oct 2022
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Smart lights behind a wall switch (Shelly + ESPHome)

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Oct 2022
Using smart light bulbs means you can no longer use your physical wall switches because the bulbs need constant power. I think that's pretty dumb. Using a physical switch can be way faster than using an app to control the lights.Here's how you can put a Shelly in between the...
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Baseball on the Moon We want to adapt baseball to be played on the moon. Is there any way to make it work? My first...
18th Mar 2025
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Baseball on the Moon

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in history

18th Mar 2025
We want to adapt baseball to be played on the moon. Is there any way to make it work? My first impression is: no, for several reasons. The pitched ball will go a little faster (no air resistance) but breaking balls are impossible (ditto). So the batter will find it easier to...
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xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that...
2nd May 2025
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xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd May 2025
A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk's...
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The origin of Ruby on Rails I can't thank Honeypot and Carolina Cabral enough for the producing The Rails Documentary that was...
10th Nov 2023
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The origin of Ruby on Rails

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Nov 2023
I can't thank Honeypot and Carolina Cabral enough for the producing The Rails Documentary that was just released today. Looking back on those early, formative years of Ruby on Rails with Tobi, Jamis, Jeremy, and Jason was actually kind of profound. I usually don't spend much time...
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Analyzing Link Rot in My Newsletter (After 31 Editions) I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to...
2nd Sep 2023
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Analyzing Link Rot in My Newsletter (After 31 Editions)

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2023
I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to interesting articles related to science and technology. I thought it would be interesting to analyze how many of those links are still accessible, and how many have succumbed to link rot....
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There Are No Good Zionists, And Other Notes Reading by Tim Foley:
1st Apr 2026
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There Are No Good Zionists, And Other Notes

from Caitlin’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Apr 2026
Reading by Tim Foley:
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web app inspector @ sketch hi everyone 〜 ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ ) we just launched a new version of sketch including awaited features...
28th May 2025
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web app inspector @ sketch

from ramsés cabello [alt+shift+b] in design

28th May 2025
hi everyone 〜 ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ ) we just launched a new version of sketch including awaited features such as stacks, frames, and graphics, along with a lot of other new features. while we prepared the inspector on the web app to display the new properties that come with these...
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AI as Normal Technology A new paper that we will expand into our next book
15th Apr 2025
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AI as Normal Technology

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

15th Apr 2025
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
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I Have To Fix Broken Things Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes,...
9th May 2023
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I Have To Fix Broken Things

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2023
Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes, products, or UI. If it's broken, I want to fix it. If I can't, it grates on me. After I graduated from college, my parents, a friend, and his
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2026 AI and UX Predictions: A Mid-Year Reality Check Summary: Halfway through 2026, AI is evolving faster than expected, but usability is struggling to...
2nd Jul 2026
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2026 AI and UX Predictions: A Mid-Year Reality Check

from Jakob Nielsen on UX [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Jul 2026
Summary: Halfway through 2026, AI is evolving faster than expected, but usability is struggling to keep pace.
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Let's Learn CSS Variables! CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to...
25th Feb 2018
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Let's Learn CSS Variables!

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

25th Feb 2018
CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to CSS developers. This post covers what they are, how they work, and a couple of nifty ways you can implement them on your own website.
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Refactoring English: Month 11 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m...
7th Nov 2025
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Refactoring English: Month 11

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

7th Nov 2025
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are...
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I beat FTL on Hard with all ships in the game For 2023 I wanted to do something different than usual—I wanted to start playing computer games...
16th Jun 2023
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I beat FTL on Hard with all ships in the game

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

16th Jun 2023
For 2023 I wanted to do something different than usual—I wanted to start playing computer games again. So I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck (and like any self-serving gentleman I took care to pitch it as being for my kids) and I started loading it up...
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Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet
23rd Aug 2026
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Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Aug 2026
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The Little Kegel App that Could After 9 years and $380,000, Stamena has a new home
9th Sep 2025
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The Little Kegel App that Could

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

9th Sep 2025
After 9 years and $380,000, Stamena has a new home
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Marlowe's restless Doctor Faustus - I’ll burn my books! In Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus the great scholar sells his soul to the devil in exchange...
8th Dec 2025
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Marlowe's restless Doctor Faustus - I’ll burn my books!

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

8th Dec 2025
In Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus the great scholar sells his soul to the devil in exchange for twenty-four years of power and knowledge.  After learning and doing everything he wants he spends Acts III and IV playing an increasingly stupid series of pranks on anyone and...
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Homage to My Last Name How I build my custom error page with Next.js & Tailwind
25th Oct 2024
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Homage to My Last Name

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

25th Oct 2024
How I build my custom error page with Next.js & Tailwind
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What Makes Picasso’s Guernica a Great Painting?: Explore the Anti-Fascist Mural That Became a... A painting is not thought out and settled in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s...
1st Sep 2025
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What Makes Picasso’s Guernica a Great Painting?: Explore the Anti-Fascist Mural That Became a Worldwide Anti-War Symbol

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

1st Sep 2025
A painting is not thought out and settled in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. — Pablo Picasso In a famous story about Guernica, Pablo...
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2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring...
7th May 2023
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2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines

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

7th May 2023
Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring topic: implementation details of telephone lines. The conventional "copper pair" analog telephone line is fading away. The FCC has begun to authorize abandonment of copper outside...
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A Splinter In Your Mind Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be...
15th Nov 2022
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A Splinter In Your Mind

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

15th Nov 2022
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis helped make sense of a lot things and has given me a greater insight into my “way of being in the world”. Whilst there are times I...
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At least five interesting things to start your week (#42) The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI;...
1st Jul 2024
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At least five interesting things to start your week (#42)

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2024
The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI; solar power uses; Global South tariffs; Gen Z wages; Stiglitz
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Is a CS Degree Still Worth It? The junior developer crisis and the value of CS fundamentals.
6th Nov 2025
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Is a CS Degree Still Worth It?

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Nov 2025
The junior developer crisis and the value of CS fundamentals.
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what is a favicon? I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app...
11th Nov 2025
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what is a favicon?

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

11th Nov 2025
I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app which sports the default favicon (favorite icon) of whatever framework, tool, or library used to make said project, website, or app, I cannot help but be disappointed. Nay, more than...
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The Letters of Thomas Merton I have recently finished re-reading Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, one of my favourite books....
12th Jun 2020
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The Letters of Thomas Merton

from RhysTranter.com [alt+shift+b] in life

12th Jun 2020
I have recently finished re-reading Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, one of my favourite books. Now, I am dipping into the multi-volume edition of his letters...
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the video lunchbox An opening note: would you believe that I have been at this for five years, now? If I planned ahead...
13th Sep 2025
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the video lunchbox

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

13th Sep 2025
An opening note: would you believe that I have been at this for five years, now? If I planned ahead better, I would have done this on the five-year anniversary, but I missed it. Computers Are Bad is now five years and four months old. When I originally launched CAB, it was my...
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Globally install PHP command-line tools with Composer How to install CLI tools wiht Composer.
25th Apr 2014
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Globally install PHP command-line tools with Composer

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

25th Apr 2014
How to install CLI tools wiht Composer.
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Caroline Sur La Lune (Caroline on the Moon) 1965 A nice treat today as Caroline goes to the Moon! This was a popular French fictional series but I...
4th Apr 2025
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Caroline Sur La Lune (Caroline on the Moon) 1965

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

4th Apr 2025
A nice treat today as Caroline goes to the Moon! This was a popular French fictional series but I had not been able to find the one about the Moon trip until recently. The illustrations are beautiful and full color. Well worth examining each one for its details. Pierre Probst...
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quests, failure, desire or: contra defensive postures
9th Aug 2024
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quests, failure, desire

from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life

9th Aug 2024
or: contra defensive postures
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Three tips to make a content strategy work Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or...
24th Mar 2021
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Three tips to make a content strategy work

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

24th Mar 2021
Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or company.
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The square roots of all evil Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all...
3rd Dec 2024
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The square roots of all evil

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Dec 2024
Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all evil”, from his 1974 Turing Award lecture (pdf). A fuller quotation of the surrounding context gives a rounder view: I am sorry to say that many people nowadays are condemning...
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Tan Mok Won Mixed Use Spaceby USER + NAUxLab Tan-Mok-Won is located on the site of a 2013 fire in Ulsan, South Korea. Such history defines the...
3rd Feb 2025
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Tan Mok Won Mixed Use Spaceby USER + NAUxLab

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Feb 2025
Tan-Mok-Won is located on the site of a 2013 fire in Ulsan, South Korea. Such history defines the site’s locality,...
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Done this, done that. What now? Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and...
5th Nov 2011
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Done this, done that. What now?

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

5th Nov 2011
Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and starting some new courses in school. I’m liking my choice of Computer Science more and more. Data structures and Algorithms was a super fun course, I actually ordered a new book...
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An Apology And A Few Suggestions. More next week.
2nd Jul 2025
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An Apology And A Few Suggestions.

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

2nd Jul 2025
More next week.
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A quick summary one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the...
11th Oct 2024
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A quick summary

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

11th Oct 2024
one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the ability to summarize things read any AI product’s value prop and it will say a variation of “it frees you up to do higher order/ value tasks” nobody knows what these higher order...
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Disable Transparent Hugepages tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making...
10th Jul 2017
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Disable Transparent Hugepages

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

10th Jul 2017
tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making more efficient use of your processor’s memory-mapping hardware. It is enabled ("enabled=always") by default in most Linux distributions. Transparent Hugepages gives some applications...
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How to reverse AI brain rot — A note to myself Stop chasing frictionless convenience Accept some slowness and complexity in your life. Don't use...
1st Oct 2025
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How to reverse AI brain rot — A note to myself

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Oct 2025
Stop chasing frictionless convenience Accept some slowness and complexity in your life. Don't use shortcuts everywhere even if they're easily available to you. Embrace manual effort to train your mind and body. It's the only way to grow and retain personal agency in a
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The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
22nd Dec 2021
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The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays

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

22nd Dec 2021
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
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cooking with caro (and thrive!): smoky mole chicken enchiladas Thanks to everyone who joined for today’s Substack live cooking demo — if you couldn’t make it, find...
27th Apr 2026
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cooking with caro (and thrive!): smoky mole chicken enchiladas

from What To Cook [alt+shift+b] in life

27th Apr 2026
Thanks to everyone who joined for today’s Substack live cooking demo — if you couldn’t make it, find a full replay above! In the demo, I cooked smoky mole chicken enchiladas with lime crema, a recipe that turns a few humble pantry staples (peanut butter, chocolate chips,...
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Reading List 07/05/2025 A microscopic electric motor, California’s CEQA rollback, a US shipbuilding startup, Chinese map...
5th Jul 2025
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Reading List 07/05/2025

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

5th Jul 2025
A microscopic electric motor, California’s CEQA rollback, a US shipbuilding startup, Chinese map obfuscation, and more.
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The Black Exterior Of This Barn-Inspired Home Is Contrasted With A White Interior Architecture and interior design studio Laney LA has shared photos of a modern home they designed in...
21st Sep 2023
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The Black Exterior Of This Barn-Inspired Home Is Contrasted With A White Interior

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

21st Sep 2023
Architecture and interior design studio Laney LA has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Culver City, California, that has a dark black exterior.
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Every Enemy Wears Your Face The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the...
28th May 2026
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Every Enemy Wears Your Face

from Simone Salis [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th May 2026
The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the chair we can't see ourselves sitting in.
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Socratic dialogue with kids I’m simply trying to understand how she thinks. When she answers in a way that does not match my...
7th Dec 2023
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Socratic dialogue with kids

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

7th Dec 2023
I’m simply trying to understand how she thinks. When she answers in a way that does not match my understanding—that is interesting to me.
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CSS reset with box-sizing fix For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset....
14th Oct 2014
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CSS reset with box-sizing fix

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

14th Oct 2014
For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset. And since I'm not a glutton for punishment, I also throw in the tried and tested box-sizing fix popularized by Paul Irish. Instead of searching for and combining these...
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Critical Trade Theory You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income...
10th Apr 2025
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Critical Trade Theory

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2025
You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income between races, it must be due to discrimination. This is what wokism seems to be, and it’s moronic and false. The right wing has invented something equally stupid. Introducing...
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Beware the Complexity Merchants When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not...
15th May 2025
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Beware the Complexity Merchants

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th May 2025
When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not going to have a good time
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The Future of Interactive Theorem Proving? This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in...
16th Aug 2022
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The Future of Interactive Theorem Proving?

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Aug 2022
This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in computer science and mathematics. He completed this work while visiting Carnegie Mellon’s Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics. Introduction The history of interactive theorem...
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Commuting by bike For a few years now, I commute to work using a bicycle. I have lost more than 15KG since I stopped...
1st Dec 2017
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Commuting by bike

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2017
For a few years now, I commute to work using a bicycle. I have lost more than 15KG since I stopped using my scooter. This week I tested a VanMoof Electrified S, an electric bike with an industrial, minimal design. Is it any good? How does it compare to a normal bike? Will an...
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Be independent. Here’s how to live: Be independent. All misery comes from dependency. If you weren’t dependent...
1st Dec 2021
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Be independent.

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

1st Dec 2021
Here’s how to live: Be independent. All misery comes from dependency. If you weren’t dependent on income, people, or technology, you would be truly free. The only way to be deeply happy is to break all dependencies. People think we live in a world of politics, society,...
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AI Is This Correct? AI Is This Correct? One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is...
15th Aug 2023
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AI Is This Correct?

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

15th Aug 2023
AI Is This Correct? One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is this correct?” after an output. The chat model doesn’t involve a code interperter or require running anything, but often the robot can re-evalute its previous output to find its...
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Big Tech job-switching stats Which companies grew their software engineering headcount, which ones shrank, and how has the...
3rd Mar 2023
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Big Tech job-switching stats

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2023
Which companies grew their software engineering headcount, which ones shrank, and how has the “open-to-new-opportunities” ratio shifted across Big Tech? I collaborated with a recruiter to find out, and the data is in.
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Have I been married? Sofia was my first big love. We met at 21, when we were both in the circus. She opened me up, and...
20th Feb 2025
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Have I been married?

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

20th Feb 2025
Sofia was my first big love. We met at 21, when we were both in the circus. She opened me up, and taught me how to be honest. I was absolutely certain that I was going to spend the rest of my life with her.
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Autumnal equinox 2023 Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using...
24th Sep 2023
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Autumnal equinox 2023

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Sep 2023
Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using Trapcode Particular.
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2024-06-02 consumer electronics control In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less...
2nd Jun 2024
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2024-06-02 consumer electronics control

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

2nd Jun 2024
In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less important part of the modern home theater landscape. One reason is the broad decline of the component system: most consumers aren't buying a television, home theater receiver,...
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Bits about Money yearly recap and plans What we covered in 2024, what are plans are in 2025, and a solicitation for supporting memberships.
15th Jan 2025
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Bits about Money yearly recap and plans

from Bits about Money [alt+shift+b] in finance

15th Jan 2025
What we covered in 2024, what are plans are in 2025, and a solicitation for supporting memberships.
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ADHD 🧠 I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I don’t take any...
22nd Dec 2020
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ADHD 🧠

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Dec 2020
I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I don’t take any medication. I get regularly asked about...
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polymorphism Polymorphism is when two types implement the same interface.
16th May 2020
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polymorphism

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

16th May 2020
Polymorphism is when two types implement the same interface.
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Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots Illustrated notes on how work with immutable data in the Immer state library
10th Aug 2019
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Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots

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

10th Aug 2019
Illustrated notes on how work with immutable data in the Immer state library
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Testing out instrumenting LLM tracing for litellm with Braintrust and Langfuse I previously tried (and failed) to setup LLM tracing for hinbox using Arize Phoenix and litellm....
3rd Jun 2025
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Testing out instrumenting LLM tracing for litellm with Braintrust and Langfuse

from Alex Strick van Linschoten [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Jun 2025
I previously tried (and failed) to setup LLM tracing for hinbox using Arize Phoenix and litellm. Since this is sort of a priority for being able to follow along with the Hamel / Shreya evals course with my practical application, I’ll take another stab using a tool with which I’m...
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journey before destination It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the...
24th Feb 2021
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journey before destination

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

24th Feb 2021
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the accolades in the future.
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The Lofstrom Loop: A Bridge to Space Imagine you could take a train ride to space. Tracks that slope up into the sky, higher and higher,...
9th Dec 2023
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The Lofstrom Loop: A Bridge to Space

from ToughSF [alt+shift+b] in science

9th Dec 2023
Imagine you could take a train ride to space. Tracks that slope up into the sky, higher and higher, until you reach a plateau above the planet where it’s a straight line up to orbital velocity. That’s what’s possible with a Lofstrom Loop. But sending you into orbit is just one...
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3D Printing With Metallic Gel One of the futuristic technologies that I find most promising is 3D printing (additive...
6th Jul 2023
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3D Printing With Metallic Gel

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

6th Jul 2023
One of the futuristic technologies that I find most promising is 3D printing (additive manufacturing). 3D printing has already created a revolution in manufacturing, but I think the general public does not have a high awareness of this technology because it is not yet at the...
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Imagine Standing There Every so often, I mention New York’s industrial past. Compared to a truly industrial city like...
1st Mar 2024
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Imagine Standing There

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Mar 2024
Every so often, I mention New York’s industrial past. Compared to a truly industrial city like Philadelphia or Chicago, it’s small-scale stuff, but compared to the present it’s astonishing. Looking at one of the parts of the city devoted to industry before 1920, it’s hard to...
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The Birth of Paradise My novella is out next week!
13th Jan 2026
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The Birth of Paradise

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

13th Jan 2026
My novella is out next week!
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Postiz startup tips💰 Some cool build in public thoughts from the founder of Postiz here who is doing $145k MRR right now.
3rd Jul 2026
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Postiz startup tips💰

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

3rd Jul 2026
Some cool build in public thoughts from the founder of Postiz here who is doing $145k MRR right now.
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Epochs and slots all the way down: ways to give Ethereum users faster transaction confirmation times
30th Jun 2024
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Epochs and slots all the way down: ways to give Ethereum users faster transaction confirmation times

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

30th Jun 2024
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My mum’s friend’s espresso blog
1st Sep 2025
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My mum’s friend’s espresso blog

from Dominik Sobe's Thoughts ツ [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

1st Sep 2025
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Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the...
2nd Apr 2025
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Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex

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

2nd Apr 2025
A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution. The post Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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New Tesla Hack Map
1st Apr 2025
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New Tesla Hack Map

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

1st Apr 2025
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The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stainer My recommendation: 7/10 More details and reviews on Amazon Focusing on the good you can do for...
1st Feb 2023
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The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stainer

from Oykun Yilmaz [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Feb 2023
My recommendation: 7/10 More details and reviews on Amazon Focusing on the good you can do for others than yourself was an interesting perspective to build habits. I found the practical tips about how to phrase some questions useful such as using "What..." instead of "Why.
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Delusional self-belief is a superpower until it's a disaster What's the optimal amount of self-deception for a politician?
2nd Mar 2024
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Delusional self-belief is a superpower until it's a disaster

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

2nd Mar 2024
What's the optimal amount of self-deception for a politician?
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Coming soon A newsletter about rectangles, but mostly design.
12th Dec 2022
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Coming soon

from Rectangle [alt+shift+b] in creative

12th Dec 2022
A newsletter about rectangles, but mostly design.
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How clever and capricious you are How to take on a troll, 1950s style
14th Apr 2026
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How clever and capricious you are

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

14th Apr 2026
How to take on a troll, 1950s style
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Yes, Xxit Xxit is like Brexit for X haha
9th Dec 2024
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Yes, Xxit

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Dec 2024
Xxit is like Brexit for X haha
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The Best Product Managers Have The Worst Ideas It’s hard finding good product people. That fact is really a tragedy because they are probably the...
2nd Nov 2021
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The Best Product Managers Have The Worst Ideas

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

2nd Nov 2021
It’s hard finding good product people. That fact is really a tragedy because they are probably the most important part of any product-focused organization. I think there is a misconception in the software industry that product managers have a good sense of “what users want”,...
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Announcing the 2023 TokyoDev Developers Survey The 2023 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey [is now...
5th Oct 2023
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Announcing the 2023 TokyoDev Developers Survey

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Oct 2023
The 2023 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey [is now live](https://surveys.tokyodev.com/en-US/survey/tokyodev/2023)! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please help us by taking it. [Last year’s survey](https://www.tokyodev.com/insights/2022-developer-survey)...
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Test suites as classifiers Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and...
1st Mar 2020
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Test suites as classifiers

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

1st Mar 2020
Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and maintained test suite. Considering the patch, we may ask, is this patch acceptable to apply and deploy. By this we mean to ask if the patch breaks any important functionality,...
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Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions
21st Feb 2023
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Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Feb 2023
Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions
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The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like...
5th Mar 2026
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The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Mar 2026
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
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The Venn of my process A last minute event
15th Apr 2026
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The Venn of my process

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

15th Apr 2026
A last minute event
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The Crypto Mania Has Begun. How to Profit & Understand What's Happening If you missed out last time, this is your opportunity
11th Nov 2024
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The Crypto Mania Has Begun. How to Profit & Understand What's Happening

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

11th Nov 2024
If you missed out last time, this is your opportunity
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Refactoring won't save you from a layoff With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the...
1st Mar 2025
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Refactoring won't save you from a layoff

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Mar 2025
With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the Trump-voting federal employees who are just now…
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Choose boring technology and LLMs I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed...
8th Nov 2024
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Choose boring technology and LLMs

from maragu’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Nov 2024
I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed to robustly and fast, and is known by every person and machine on the planet. Technology like relational databases and SQL, HTTP, HTML, a well-known programming language. Throw...
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How Can Europe Improve Its Immigration Through getting better immigrants, rejecting coutnerproductive ones, and managing the existing ones...
2nd Jun 2026
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How Can Europe Improve Its Immigration

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

2nd Jun 2026
Through getting better immigrants, rejecting coutnerproductive ones, and managing the existing ones better.
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Optimizing tea: An N=4 experiment Tea is a little-known beverage, consumed for flavor or sometimes for conjectured effects as a...
5th Jun 2025
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Optimizing tea: An N=4 experiment

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Jun 2025
Tea is a little-known beverage, consumed for flavor or sometimes for conjectured effects as a stimulant. It’s made by submerging the leaves of C. Sinensis in hot water. But how hot should the water be? To resolve this, I brewed the same tea at four different temperatures, brought...
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Do Things You’ll Love Yourself For The night before you travel somewhere, order your favorite pizza, eat some of it for dinner, and...
2nd Jun 2026
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Do Things You’ll Love Yourself For

from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Jun 2026
The night before you travel somewhere, order your favorite pizza, eat some of it for dinner, and seal the rest in a bag and put it in the freezer. A week later, when you get home unexpectedly late, wiped out and ravenous, you’ll open your fridge to find only eggs, pickles, and...
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Network Latencies in the Data Center Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at...
25th Sep 2021
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Network Latencies in the Data Center

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

25th Sep 2021
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at LADIS), which included "round trip within same data center" as 500 us. I was recently wondering if that is still true, and more importantly what does the distribution of latencies...
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August ’24: From triumph to tragedy Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are...
7th Sep 2024
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August ’24: From triumph to tragedy

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

7th Sep 2024
Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are getting used to our new government. And, in some cases, violently testing its boundaries with some summer rioting. We’ve seen some dreadful street behaviour, frequently of a racist /...
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Two of My Science-Fiction Stories Published in May View this email in your browser A Change of Pace from Astronomy News  As you may know, I have been...
2nd Jun 2025
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Two of My Science-Fiction Stories Published in May

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd Jun 2025
View this email in your browser A Change of Pace from Astronomy News  As you may know, I have been writing science-fiction stories based on good astronomy as my retirement project.  After a good number of rejections from the finest sci-fi magazines the world over, I am now...
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Lessons Learned Running Our First DRI Your Career Cohort 50 coaching clients would kill us. 50 Google Docs to review? No problem.
6th Apr 2026
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Lessons Learned Running Our First DRI Your Career Cohort

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

6th Apr 2026
50 coaching clients would kill us. 50 Google Docs to review? No problem.
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Scope Creep, 2026-07-14 This causes multiple problems.
14th Jul 2026
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Scope Creep, 2026-07-14

from Scope of Work [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Jul 2026
This causes multiple problems.
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