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NeuroLogica Blog
Grief Tech In the awesome show, Black Mirror, one episode features a young woman who lost her husband. In her...
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In the awesome show, Black Mirror, one episode features a young woman who lost her husband. In her grief she turns to a company that promises to give her at least a partial experience of her husband. They sift through every picture, video, comment, and other online trace of the...
High Signal
Joining a startup as a co-founder Today's interview is with Iron Brands (he's Dutch, that is his actual name), who joined a privacy...
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Today's interview is with Iron Brands (he's Dutch, that is his actual name), who joined a privacy analytics startups as a co-founder after it had already launched. We talked about how he met the original founder of Simple Analytics, how they negotiated the new ownership...
IEEE Spectrum
The Rise of Groupware A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the...
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A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. These days, computer users take collaboration software for granted. Google Docs, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Salesforce, and so on, are such a big part of many...
Archinect - Features
Creativity Won’t Protect Architects from Automation — But Labor Unions Might The proliferation of generative AI tools such as Midjourney and ChatGPT has undermined long-held...
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The proliferation of generative AI tools such as Midjourney and ChatGPT has undermined long-held assumptions that artificial intelligence would not threaten creative disciplines. In an effort to balance the opportunities and limits of artificial intelligence in the architecture...
Christian Selig
Trials and Tribulations of Making an Interruptable Custom View Controller Transition on iOS I think it’s safe to say while the iOS custom view controller transition API is a very powerful one,...
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over a year ago
I think it’s safe to say while the iOS custom view controller transition API is a very powerful one, with that power comes a great deal of complexity. It can be tricky, and I’m having one of those days where it’s getting the better of me and I just cannot get it to do what I want...
One Useful Thing
When you give a Claude a mouse Some quick impressions of an actual agent
2 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Ideal African Safari Cruise For All Ages
a year ago
TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada undefined
6 months ago
Mazdak
Information Overload? Don't Be Fooled! In today's world of instant access and information overload, we often find ourselves bombarded with...
a year ago
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In today's world of instant access and information overload, we often find ourselves bombarded with conflicting opinions and dubious advice. It can be a challenge to distinguish genuine expertise from misleading claims and unqualified opinions. This issue of our newsletter offers...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 15-21 January 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
11 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Zipping multiple folders into separate zip files Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into separate .zip files: for i in */; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done I had to do this to 75+ folders today and this definitely saved me some time. It works on macOS too!
TokyoDev
What if We Had a Party, but the Entertainment was a Conference: Tokyu RubyKaigi 14 Recap [Tokyu RubyKaigi](https://tokyurb.connpass.com/event/289120/) is a regional ruby conference held in...
a year ago
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a year ago
[Tokyu RubyKaigi](https://tokyurb.connpass.com/event/289120/) is a regional ruby conference held in Tokyo. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the event, the last Ruby conference I went to was [RubyKaigi](/articles/rubykaigi-2023-recap), but since this event attracted a similar...
Sarah Parmenter
Remarkable Remarkable looks really interesting. I’m curious to know what the stylus feels like as I really do...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Remarkable looks really interesting. I’m curious to know what the stylus feels like as I really do love my Apple Pencil & iPad Pro and favour Procreate. Right now they’re doing a bundle of the tablet, folio and marker for $429 with an expected shipping date of September. I’m...
ntietz.com blog -...
Estimating projects sells them short (and that's okay) Recently, I read a blog post about doing software project estimates. It's a reasonable post with a...
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Recently, I read a blog post about doing software project estimates. It's a reasonable post with a reasonable method. But it does what all estimates do: it sells projects short. I don't mean in the sense of underestimating a young promising project's potential, relegating it to...
Daniel Miessler
OpenAI’s Purpose is to Build AGI, and What That Means Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has said multiple times that, He says it in this video as well. >...
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a year ago
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has said multiple times that, He says it in this video as well. > We’re very much here to build AGI. Sam Altman I am not sure how many people realize this about the company. They’re not like playing with other AI-related tech and AGI might come out...
Making software...
Working with `git` Patches in Apple Mail Working with git Patches in Apple Mail 2023-05-11 Before we begin: You could likely automate this...
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a year ago
Working with git Patches in Apple Mail 2023-05-11 Before we begin: You could likely automate this process in a more streamlined way, but for most use cases this workflow should be fine. I recently covered how to work with git email patches in Evolution on Linux, so I thought it...
TheCollector
Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read undefined
a year ago
Dustin Curtis
Apple Card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts About ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a...
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over a year ago
About ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a curious error. The internet is filled with stories from people whose Google accounts were locked for unexplained reasons, causing them to lose all of their data, including years of...
bt RSS Feed
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal...
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over a year ago
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It’s pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc. The only small...
balajis.com
#1 - Vitalik Buterin on Starting New Countries, Upgrading Ethereum, and Improving Yourself Listen now (118 min) | A discussion between Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan on starting new...
a year ago
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Listen now (118 min) | A discussion between Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan on starting new countries, improving yourself, and upgrading Ethereum. OUTLINE 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - A brief history of Ethereum 16:54 - The DAO hack 20:32 - The Devcon 2 attack 33:24 - The...
Londonist
London's Smallest Art Gallery Is In A Phone Box Outside The British Museum You can buy the art, too.
a year ago
Notes on software...
dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more. This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US undefined
8 months ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
If You Want to Be a Millionaire, You Need to Be Nicheless Being nicheless is a higher state of consciousness
a month ago
The American Scholar
Riding With Mr. Washington How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction The post Riding With Mr....
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How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction The post Riding With Mr. Washington appeared first on The American Scholar.
Math Is Still...
Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are...
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Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction. The post Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information first appeared on Quanta Magazine
./techtipsy
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G: first impressions on Fedora 34 Introduction I’ve covered my self-hosting setup in a previous post. It has been a couple of months...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction I’ve covered my self-hosting setup in a previous post. It has been a couple of months and the setup has mostly been fine. Sure, the power usage was pretty big under load, and yes, my internet did cut out every time I turned the VM on with all the services starting,...
Tech + Economics +...
The Hyperloop was always a scam Paris Marx: The tech industry’s move into transportation was not only a failure; it was...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Paris Marx: The tech industry’s move into transportation was not only a failure; it was an active campaign to deny the public access to better transit and trains because the billionaires of Silicon Valley don’t personally want to get around that way. The...
Seth's Blog
The length trick It’s possible that the memo or video is simply too long. A 14 minute video explaining how to have a...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s possible that the memo or video is simply too long. A 14 minute video explaining how to have a 10 minute brainstorming meeting might benefit from some editing. But it might be that your instruction manual would benefit from some more photos and better in depth explanation....
Odds and Ends of...
Christmas Mailbag! Is Elon Musk actually smart? Will HS2 ever be properly finished? Do I like Dominic Cummings? And...
4 days ago
Math Is Still...
To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random Four mathematicians broke a 75-year-old record by finding a denser way to pack high-dimensional...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Four mathematicians broke a 75-year-old record by finding a denser way to pack high-dimensional spheres. The post To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Seth's Blog
When the media is ready (Bongo part 2) Media isn’t a magazine or a website. It’s a system. We can learn to see the system and contribute to...
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a month ago
Media isn’t a magazine or a website. It’s a system. We can learn to see the system and contribute to it with leverage. There are three elements to consider in a media system that’s worth a professional creator’s time: Systems are changed by technology. When desktop publishing...
David Heinemeier...
Switching to Android was easy In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number to Android...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number to Android recently. And that turned out to be far easier. Dangerously easy, you might say, if you were in Apple’s shoes. But it’s all down to how deep you’re mired in the platform services soup. I...
TheCollector
The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World undefined
a week ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Law & Order Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. Law & Order is a US television series...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. Law & Order is a US television series set in New York City that first aired 30 years ago today, on September 13, 1990, and ran for 20 seasons until its final episode in 2010. Each episode is split into two segments:...
CONTEMPORIST
A Round House Design Inspired By A Tree Trunk Mobius Architekci has sent us photos of a home they designed in Izabelin, Poland, that has a round...
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a year ago
Mobius Architekci has sent us photos of a home they designed in Izabelin, Poland, that has a round design. The vast, sandy plot densely covered with a pine forest created a unique setting for the house, with the architect drawing inspiration from a tree trunk. The home has been...
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works #2: Volume Discounts The volume-related pricing system explained
9 months ago
Arduino Blog
Arduino partners with RS/OKdo strategically to further expand the China Market Arduino is excited to announce a strategic new partnership with RS/OKdo, a prominent leader in the...
a month ago
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a month ago
Arduino is excited to announce a strategic new partnership with RS/OKdo, a prominent leader in the distribution of industrial and electronic equipment. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in bringing Arduino’s technology closer to China’s thriving maker community...
Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon... Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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7 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
McMansion Hell
the motel room, or: on datedness I. Often I find myself nostalgic for things that haven’t disappeared yet. This feeling is enhanced...
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6 months ago
I. Often I find myself nostalgic for things that haven’t disappeared yet. This feeling is enhanced by the strange conviction that once I stop looking at these things, I will never see them again, that I am living in the last moment of looking. This is sense is strongest for me in...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to write a symphony.” The man said, “You…
Tech + Economics +...
I can't believe this needs to be said. I can't believe this needs to be said, but no - the reason Disney's movies have bombed lately is...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I can't believe this needs to be said, but no - the reason Disney's movies have bombed lately is not because they aren't advertising on Birdchan. There are a plethora of reasons behind their recent box office failures. But they have nothing to do with diminishing...
Open Culture
The Complete Howard Stern Interview with Kamala Harris It’s hard to know where to start. This election comes down to whether or not we want to reward...
2 months ago
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It’s hard to know where to start. This election comes down to whether or not we want to reward someone who tried to subvert our democracy four years ago. Whether we want to preserve the alliances that have kept the peace since World War II. Whether women want to resist losing...
Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Meditation Part of our 80/20 series sit on a cushion for 20 mins per day focus on your sensory experiences...
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8 months ago
Part of our 80/20 series sit on a cushion for 20 mins per day focus on your sensory experiences (touch, sight, smell, sound). Try to perceive them as accurately as possible [1] [2] [3] footnotes: is that really all? on one level, yes -- both in the sense that
alexwlchan
Two examples of hover styles on images I enjoy adding :hover styles to my websites. A good hover style reminds me of how fast and...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I enjoy adding :hover styles to my websites. A good hover style reminds me of how fast and responsive our computers can be, if we let them. For example, I add a thicker underline when you hover over a link on this site, and it appears/disappears almost instantly as I move my...
Seth's Blog
Aerodynamic figureheads That’s sort of an oxymoron. The original figureheads were carved into the bow of a ship. They exist...
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5 months ago
That’s sort of an oxymoron. The original figureheads were carved into the bow of a ship. They exist to express the spirit of the boat and to demonstrate its power and resilience. Here’s an AI recreation of the most famous one: The sailors were wise enough to understand that the...
Christopher Butler
Move Slow and Preserve Things Haste has created waste. Someone please tell Zuckerberg to slow the hell down. unfair. Funny,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Haste has created waste. Someone please tell Zuckerberg to slow the hell down. unfair. Funny, that. There’s another saying, much older than Zuckerberg, and, to my middle-aged ears, even more enduringly punk: “You wouldn’t bring a bull to a china shop.” Its first recorded...
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
Bryan Braun - Blog
Unusual Git IDs You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with...
a month ago
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a month ago
You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with 0000000! While looking for commits like these, I started to become suspicious that people were intentionally modifying their commits IDs to be unusual: A commit ID of eeeeeee, with a message...
TheCollector
UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge undefined
5 months ago
Basta’s Notes
The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts A bit of a rant about Apple
a year ago
Lighthouse Blog
Updates May 24
7 months ago
Christian Selig
Theming Apps on iOS is Hard Theming apps (the ability to change up the color scheme for an app from say, a white background with...
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over a year ago
Theming apps (the ability to change up the color scheme for an app from say, a white background with blue links to a light green background with green links) is a pretty common feature across a lot of apps. It’s one of the core features of the new “Twitter Blue” subscription,...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The ChatGPT vs Bear Blog spam war Ever since Bear Blog's infancy, spam has been an issue. Free services tend to attract those seeking...
a year ago
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a year ago
Ever since Bear Blog's infancy, spam has been an issue. Free services tend to attract those seeking to exploit them for backlinks and the alleged SEO benefits (although this is debatable given updates to the Google algorithm). I've previously discussed this in a post, detailing...
devonzuegel.com
Part 6: Is the proposed new city in California climate resilient? A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
8 months ago
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A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal. One of the biggest questions I had when I first learned about this...
Willem's Blog
Wearing Grand Seiko I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship, innovation and practicality.
Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
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a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
Society's Backend
Things Everyone Should Understand About the Stanford AI Index Report And my notes on why they’re important
8 months ago
Made by Ollin
Priors for Autonomous Vehicle Development
over a year ago
Beautiful Public...
The Army and Navy Style Guides These fascinating Army and Navy brand style guides define the look, feel and voice of our armed...
a year ago
TheCollector
Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry undefined
8 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa. a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
11 months ago
Nat Eliason's...
Using ChatGPT as a Writing Coach How to improve instead of atrophy
a year ago
Oxide Computer...
Benefits as a Reflection of Values “We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper,...
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over a year ago
“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper, this is accurate: the health insurance Oxide offers is the best plan we can find that is offered to small businesses. What we left unsaid until now is that the best health...
Citation Needed
Issue 52 – I am Sam's low-level culpability Bitcoin prices are spiking. Are we in for another round of crypto mania? Also, Sam Bankman-Fried...
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Bitcoin prices are spiking. Are we in for another round of crypto mania? Also, Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't want to go to jail for 100 years.
Florian Bellmann |...
Build a career path by multiplying your value Oftentimes senior developers lack ideas on where to go next. Let's try to explore some ideas.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Grawl Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any swear words you notice are pareidolia. Today's...
a month ago
Blog posts of...
#fyi: How founders can avoid drive-by-management Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be misunderstood as directions or decisions...
Seth's Blog
What spoiled wrecks There’s nothing wrong with abundance and joy. But being spoiled causes two real problems: As a...
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6 months ago
There’s nothing wrong with abundance and joy. But being spoiled causes two real problems: As a community increases in wealth, the number of spoiled citizens increases as well. It’s often the acid that corrodes the magic that created the wealth in the first place. Whining is a...
alexwlchan
Filtering out bogus requests from Netlify Analytics I host this site on Netlify, and I pay for Netlify Analytics to monitor its performance. It’s...
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a year ago
I host this site on Netlify, and I pay for Netlify Analytics to monitor its performance. It’s essentially server-side logging with a dashboard on top, and it’s more than sufficient for the very limited analytics I want to do here. One of the dashboard panels is “resources not...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Peace Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the one hand there's data and on the other...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the one hand there's data and on the other there's the tiny angry man in my brain who is VERY persuasive. Today's News: Another lovely review for A City on Mars.
Rest of World -...
Why Southeast Asia became a spyware hotspot A new Amnesty International report raises difficult questions.
7 months ago
Noahpinion
The Big Tariffs are here Biden just slapped a 100% tax on Chinese car imports. Here's what that will and won't accomplish.
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Biden just slapped a 100% tax on Chinese car imports. Here's what that will and won't accomplish.
diamond geezer
Where Have You Been This Weekend? It's been a busy weekend. It must be the highlight of your weekend, not just something you also...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
It's been a busy weekend. It must be the highlight of your weekend, not just something you also did. Where have diamond geezer readers been this weekend? stayed indoors Spent Monday to Friday walking the Cotswold Way so happy to have a rest this weekend. sheepdog to the...
TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art undefined
8 months ago
Rest of World -...
China’s AI elite rethink their Silicon Valley dream jobs The West may lose out in the talent race amid U.S. national security and immigration hurdles
6 days ago
Blog posts of...
My Addressbook? Keep it. Telephone numbers are a disgrace to our generation. There is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I...
over a year ago
Matt Blewitt
Death, and Utsuge This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and...
a month ago
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a month ago
This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and Japanese visual novels.
NeuroLogica Blog
Electronic Noses I am always sniffing around (pun intended) for new and interesting technology, especially anything...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I am always sniffing around (pun intended) for new and interesting technology, especially anything that I think is currently flying under the radar of public awareness but has the potential to transform our world in some way. I think electronic nose technology fits into this...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build your SaaS with freelancers? In today’s world, it’s easier than ever to build a Software-as-a-Service startup. With online tools...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In today’s world, it’s easier than ever to build a Software-as-a-Service startup. With online tools and resources like no-code platforms, […] The post How to build your SaaS with freelancers? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
CONTEMPORIST
This Bed Headboard Was Designed With A Fold-Out Desk Laura Ortín Arquitectura has shared photos of an apartment renovation they completed in Murcia,...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Laura Ortín Arquitectura has shared photos of an apartment renovation they completed in Murcia, Spain that includes a unique design feature in the bedroom. The bedroom, located off of a curved hallway, has dual doorways providing a glimpse of the room inside. Once inside, the...
Cartogrammar
The rain on terrain If you poured water over the terrain somewhere in the world, where would it go? That’s perhaps one...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you poured water over the terrain somewhere in the world, where would it go? That’s perhaps one way to think of the thing that distracted me in the evenings this week. [Edit: an interactive map should appear here, but there are some unresolved issues. Check out the...
TheCollector
Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Contrived Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: How come nobody ever considers the increased CO2...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: How come nobody ever considers the increased CO2 emissions of causing the trolley to switch tracks? Today's News: Another prestigious publication compelled to say Weinersmith.
The Pragmatic...
Big Tech job-switching stats Which companies grew their software engineering headcount, which ones shrank, and how has the...
a year ago
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a year ago
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.
Rest of World -...
Conservative evangelicals use social media to sway Brazil election The popularity of evangelical content, which often amplifies criticisms of the ruling party, could...
5 months ago
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The popularity of evangelical content, which often amplifies criticisms of the ruling party, could play an important role during October’s municipal elections.
Making software...
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I've made the switch...
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over a year ago
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I've made the switch to Alpine Linux as my main laptop/desktop hybrid workstation and I love it - warts and all. This post will follow my process building my Alpine Linux "installer" I used for this...
Londonist
Lord Mayor's Show 2023: When And Where Is It, And What's Happening? Spend the day marking an ancient London tradition dating back to 1215.
a year ago
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley? undefined
a year ago
Old Structures...
Less Than The Original Construction on LEGO Notre Dame has moved ahead but will pause while I’m out of town. We’ve got the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Construction on LEGO Notre Dame has moved ahead but will pause while I’m out of town. We’ve got the apse built up to the vault level and the beginning of the crossing: I’ve been playing around to see if I can do a fly-through style photo, to give a sense of what the building...
Steve Klabnik
A break with the past
over a year ago
Musings on Maps
Perilous Waters The voyage to the Titanic promoted cartographic fantasies of discovery and exploration, but only in...
a year ago
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a year ago
The voyage to the Titanic promoted cartographic fantasies of discovery and exploration, but only in international waters. The maps of legal oversight Stockton Rush avoided demand to be recognized as a creation of globalism, as much as a luxury diversion of the super-rich. ...
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Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times on social media: "Broken English is a sign of courage and intelligence, and it would be nice if more people remembered that when interacting with immigrants and refugees." This...
Anecdotal Evidence
"The Test of a Reader' “. . . to say a word or two about the improvable reader. The gift of reading, as I have called it,...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
“. . . to say a word or two about the improvable reader. The gift of reading, as I have called it, is not very common, nor very generally understood. It consists, first of all, in a vast intellectual endowment—a free grace, I find I must call it—by which a man rises to understand...
Maps Mania
The Solar Eclipse Simulator
a year ago
Arduino Blog
A pair of Arduino UNO R4 boards power this Tron-inspired, decked-out shop room Bob Clagett of the “I Like to Make Stuff” YouTube channel has recently undertaken an extensive shop...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Bob Clagett of the “I Like to Make Stuff” YouTube channel has recently undertaken an extensive shop renovation project where he is rearranging tools, tidying up various spaces, and even creating a dedicated “clean” room for his collection of 3D printers/electronics work. With its...
TheCollector
The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles undefined
a month ago
This Space
“Can there be a pure narrative?” The question opening Maurice Blanchot’s essay The Experience of Proust* has always drawn me back,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The question opening Maurice Blanchot’s essay The Experience of Proust* has always drawn me back, not to secure a yes or a no, but to keep the question of pure narrative open in its initial uncertainty, perhaps, rather, in its impossibility, as it appears to make reading and...