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Wuthering...
Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music - enchantment is the precondition of all... When I read Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (1872) several...
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over a year ago
When I read Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (1872) several years ago I was interested in it as a 19th century work, as a key text in the cult of Richard Wagner and an early example of the vogue for fantasizing that stuffy Prussian or...
Laetitia@Work
Cognition & care: pay attention! Laetitia@Work #58
a year ago
TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers undefined
8 months ago
Herbert Lui
Confidence vs. trusting the process “This might not work,” Seth Godin writes in his blog post, “Out on a limb.” (It’s one of my...
a month ago
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a month ago
“This might not work,” Seth Godin writes in his blog post, “Out on a limb.” (It’s one of my favorites, alongside “Talker’s Block.” ) It’s fascinating to see this idea make it into a key part of his book The Practice, which I recently picked up and find myself liking a lot. If you...
Astral Codex Ten
How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test? ...
a month ago
David Perell
Ash Fontana: Building Artificial Intelligence Ash Fontana is an entrepreneur, investor, and author. As an entrepreneur, he was only of the early...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ash Fontana is an entrepreneur, investor, and author. As an entrepreneur, he was only of the early employees at an online investing platform called AngelList. From there, he became the Managing Director at Zetta, the first investment fund focused on artificial intelligence. Now,...
Working Theorys
How to Go Direct Owning your own message, with intermediaries
8 months ago
Old Structures...
Against Expectations Last Friday, I was walking through a neighborhood with quite a few of these handsome bow-fronted...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Last Friday, I was walking through a neighborhood with quite a few of these handsome bow-fronted rowhouses. It was not in upper Manhattan, the south Bronx, Brooklyn, or Hoboken, as you might expect. It was in Queens. More specifically near the Ridgewood/Glendale border, a...
Common Edge
Confronting the Leviathan in Vietnam An architect’s search for clarity in a far-off land.
yesterday
Old Structures...
Modern Perception First, the Carson, Pirie, Scott Store in Chicago, as it appeared in the past: In my opinion – and...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
First, the Carson, Pirie, Scott Store in Chicago, as it appeared in the past: In my opinion – and many other people’s opinions – it’s one of Louis Sullian’s most amazing designs. Here’s a close-up of the corner entrance as it appears today (actually yesterday, after I finished my...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Sacrifice and Doom' Scholars of Russian literature tell us the edition of Anton Chekhov’s letters published between 1944...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Scholars of Russian literature tell us the edition of Anton Chekhov’s letters published between 1944 and 1951 was heavily censored by Soviet editors, filled with ellipses that signify an excised word, phrase or sentence. Nothing surprising here. Censorship is an obligatory tool...
Making software...
Write HTML Like It's 1999 Write HTML Like It's 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it's safe to say that most developers love to use the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Write HTML Like It's 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it's safe to say that most developers love to use the latest and greatest web tools available. Helpful resources such as preprocessors, template engines, syntax formatters - you name it - can all make a developer's life easier....
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Simpifying AngularJS controllers with ES5 get / set I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and well. I'm not some crazy old fuck who thinks AngularJS is a promising new technology. Nor have I been waiting to publish this post for 3 years. It's just how things turned up for me....
Seth's Blog
Play fair & work hard Two of the building blocks of a resilient society. And the opposite of the lazy shortcut. The...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Two of the building blocks of a resilient society. And the opposite of the lazy shortcut. The meanings of both clauses change over time… Play fair: Work hard: Social media and politics have done a great job of celebrating people who seek selfish shortcuts, simply because it’s...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tickle Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First person to build and film the autotickler gets...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First person to build and film the autotickler gets 3 SMBC points. Today's News:
This Space
"When now?" Out of curiosity, I read a few novels that over the last year have received the highest praise on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Out of curiosity, I read a few novels that over the last year have received the highest praise on social media and literary podcasts, and have appeared multiple times in newspaper Books of the Year choices and on prize shortlists, and one that even won a prize. I wanted to see...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Night Time Sky Read more about RSS Club. When I was a kid, my Dad used to take us outside to look for what...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Read more about RSS Club. When I was a kid, my Dad used to take us outside to look for what he called “UFOs”. It’d take a moment, but after enough searching we’d eventually spot one. One night, all of us kids were outside with our uncle. We saw a star-like light moving in...
alexwlchan
Drawing repetitive radial artworks I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just had a text from a friend about an upcoming trip to Ireland, and she’d sent me the four-leafed clover emoji (🍀), so I was sketching some petal-like shapes. These are a few of my...
TheCollector
Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy undefined
3 months ago
Common Edge
AI, Architecture, and the Uncanny Valley Technology can design, but it can’t understand the “why” of buildings—yet.
4 months ago
Max Rozen
Examples of large production-grade, open-source React apps All of the to-do apps are great for starting to learn React, but what about real-life? Let's see...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
All of the to-do apps are great for starting to learn React, but what about real-life? Let's see what real production React apps are like.
TheCollector
Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic undefined
6 months ago
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Identify the Best Versions of Iconic Shapes Researchers are discovering the shortest knots and fattest Möbius strips, among other “optimal...
a year ago
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a year ago
Researchers are discovering the shortest knots and fattest Möbius strips, among other “optimal shapes.” The post Mathematicians Identify the Best Versions of Iconic Shapes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Tech + Economics +...
A few thoughts on the end of Omegle. In 2009, Omegle was more than just a website to me; it was a lifeline when I felt adrift and...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 2009, Omegle was more than just a website to me; it was a lifeline when I felt adrift and isolated from any real sense of community or network. I was struggling with depression, alcohol abuse and the recent end of my music career and my life on tour. Omegle's premise...
HTMHell
#12 accessible poll yes/no Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this accessible?</div> <div name="pollGroup" role="radiogroup"> <div role="radiogroup" aria-label="Poll title"> <input type="radio" name="poll" aria-labelledby="pollQuestion" value="[object...
Seth's Blog
The Mississippi River paradox There’s no water in that river that was there ten years ago. The boundaries have shifted in that...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
There’s no water in that river that was there ten years ago. The boundaries have shifted in that time as well, there’s no riverbank that’s exactly where it was. And the silt and the fish have all moved too. So, what’s “the Mississippi River”? It’s a label, a placeholder, and a...
Atoms vs Bits
Sleep Setup in case you were wondering
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sack Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you used 52 it'd be obvious what the point...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you used 52 it'd be obvious what the point was. Today's News: Click back for today's bonus update. Also buy my book!
TheCollector
Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry undefined
2 months ago
Basta’s Notes
We need to be liked, and it might be the fault of social media. If our god is a benevolent one, then why did he make us crave approval?
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Freedom of attitude There are two franchised pack-and-ship shops about equidistant from my home. One has a 4.5 rating...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are two franchised pack-and-ship shops about equidistant from my home. One has a 4.5 rating and is reliably busy. The other has an astonishingly low 1.5 out of 5 rating. The physical plant is virtually identical, and the marketing and promo are the same. The only difference...
Old Structures...
Not Quite Qualifying One of the points that I felt has to be made in discussing early skyscrapers in The Structure of...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the points that I felt has to be made in discussing early skyscrapers in The Structure of Skyscrapers in America was that the issues discussed apply to buildings outside the specific boundaries of my research. My research was specifically on buildings ten stories and...
Noahpinion
A three-state solution is the only viable future for Israel and the Palestinians Ethnic cleansing is off the table, and non-contiguous states just don't work.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Kawasaki Motors by Impact Awarded in two categories, Retail Design and Retail Technologies, at the Shop! D-A-CH Awards 2024. •...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Awarded in two categories, Retail Design and Retail Technologies, at the Shop! D-A-CH Awards 2024. • Retail Design We were...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Healthcare Ideas That Look Good But Are Bad | Out-Of-Pocket clinical trial matching, "find a specialist", and more
8 months ago
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F1, Sport and Reality TV It’s been two days now since I stayed up late to watch the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s been two days now since I stayed up late to watch the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi with my sons. Full disclosure, we are all team Hamilton fans here, and were excited to watch the final deciding race as to who would take out the 2021 World Driver’s...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio! Thousand Rooms, translated the...
xkcd.com
Moon Armor Index
9 months ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 3 Highlights TinyPilot generated $3,800 in revenue with zero marketing. I went from zero to a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot generated $3,800 in revenue with zero marketing. I went from zero to a complete, custom manufactured product in 26 days. I’m still struggling to manage my inventory. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I...
xkcd.com
Crossword Constructors
10 months ago
History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius j.hoare Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
Escaping Flatland
Seeing people clearly Head of people operations for the entire friend group
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Protein Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If demand is high enough, SMBC will reorient all...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If demand is high enough, SMBC will reorient all business around the production of nugs. Today's News:
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Showing up Mark Twain famously quipped that “80 percent of life is showing up.” Running a startup, I’d say it’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mark Twain famously quipped that “80 percent of life is showing up.” Running a startup, I’d say it’s more like 90 percent. For example, I…
Londonist
The Gingerbread City 2023: London's Tastiest Exhibition Returns For Christmas Buildings made of biscuits, decorated with icing and sweets.
a year ago
Applied Cartography
You should build this: A prior iteration of this site had a page called "Project ideas" that listed a bunch of things that...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A prior iteration of this site had a page called "Project ideas" that listed a bunch of things that I'd like to build. This was a good idea and useful in its own right (I got a few people to build companies and projects based on them, and it was a useful avenue by which folks...
Raptitude.com
Feedback is What Makes Everything Work The other day I closed a savings account at a tiny credit union branch. I expected it to take about...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The other day I closed a savings account at a tiny credit union branch. I expected it to take about five minutes, but the teller took so long that I started to experience time distortion. I knew it had been at least fifteen minutes, but perhaps it was much longer. Twenty-five...
pcloadletter
Agile is a tainted term Oh no, not another agile article. But at least this one isn't attempting to teach or reconcile. I'm...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Oh no, not another agile article. But at least this one isn't attempting to teach or reconcile. I'm not going to talk about the difference between agile and Agile™ nor will I try to convince you of my favorite flavor of Agile™. Instead, I'm here to assert that agile is a tainted...
Liz Denys
Chemistry at its finest: inverted sugar syrup for cocktails Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily enough. Simple syrup is traditionally made by dissolving white sugar into water on a stove and then cooling before use, but sometimes, in a pinch, people will shake superfine sugar...
TheCollector
The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages undefined
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
2012 in Review Like the last two years I’m summarizing the year. At the end of the year like this it always feel...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Like the last two years I’m summarizing the year. At the end of the year like this it always feel like I didn’t accomplish much, but after the yearly summary it always feels better. 2012 Geek Achievements Designed a processor which fulfills the Core Wars 88 standard. Includes a...
Jonas Hietala
Zucchini Crabcakes With a tiny bit more planning I made a dinner out the lessons 4 and 5 as the crabcakes were only...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With a tiny bit more planning I made a dinner out the lessons 4 and 5 as the crabcakes were only supposed to be an appetizer: Crabcakes: Surprisingly delicious. Both me and Veronica gives them a 7. Zucchini: While I thought they passed Veronica said “Zucchini is not my thing” and...
Rest of World -...
Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates The local gig workers’ union defends the practice, which Uber forbids, as a form of peaceful...
4 months ago
Old Structures...
Also From The Train, Again I was going through some old photos and found this, and was gong to use it for a blog post until I...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I was going through some old photos and found this, and was gong to use it for a blog post until I looked and realized that I already had. So here it is again: That’s the West Shore railroad, as seen from the Hudson line (AKA the New York Central main line), and from across […]
TheCollector
The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show undefined
7 months ago
Seth's Blog
What’s a “techie”? A friend’s email said, “I know many of my readers aren’t techies and you’re thinking of putting this...
a year ago
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a year ago
A friend’s email said, “I know many of my readers aren’t techies and you’re thinking of putting this newsletter aside…” We should get clear about what we’re talking about when we say “techie.” I’m going to argue that involves a combination of two things: But someone who says,...
Londonist
It's Official - London Has Two Of The World's 10 Best Bars But Barcelona's still the best place to booze.
a year ago
Probably...
Political Alignment, Affiliation, and Attitudes Is there a growing gender gap in the U.S? Alignment A recent article in the Financial Times suggests...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Is there a growing gender gap in the U.S? Alignment A recent article in the Financial Times suggests that among young people there is a growing gender gap in political alignment on a spectrum from liberal to conservative. In last week’s post, I tried to replicate this result...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your personal finances Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your personal...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your personal finances: Credit and debit card security An important part of your personal digital security is making sure your credit and debit cards are secure. In this episode, Liz and Geoffrey take a...
Calculated Risk
FOMC Preview: Fed to Cut Rates 25bp Most analysts expect the FOMC will cut the federal funds rate at the meeting this week by 25bp...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Most analysts expect the FOMC will cut the federal funds rate at the meeting this week by 25bp lowering the target range to 4 1/4 to 4 1/2 percent.   However, most market participants now expect the FOMC to pause in January and are split on a rate cut at the March...
The Marginalian
How to Make a World: A Poem Like mathematics, the truest metaphors are not invented but discovered. In fact, they hardly feel...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Like mathematics, the truest metaphors are not invented but discovered. In fact, they hardly feel like metaphors — they feel like equations equating something previously unseen with something familiar in order to see more deeply into the nature of reality. One morning out on a...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.39.0: Betas, persons, events and libraries PostHog 1.39.0 introduces a new beta for you to try, a new display chart and big improvements to our...
over a year ago
Maps Mania
Welcome To Your New Gardening Zone
8 months ago
Wuthering...
Thou hast devourd thy sonnes - some notes on Seneca's horror plays My Seneca reading in March: Medea, tr. Frederick Ahl The Trojan Women, tr. E. F. Watling Thyestes,...
a year ago
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a year ago
My Seneca reading in March: Medea, tr. Frederick Ahl The Trojan Women, tr. E. F. Watling Thyestes, tr. Jasper Heywood Hercules Furens, tr. Heywood The Madness of Hercules, tr. Dana Gioia The plays themselves are all from the mid-1st century, perhaps written when Seneca was in...
Math Is Still...
The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension,...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing something. The post The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Anecdotal Evidence
'Companionable Room' I had a minor problem with the university library’s catalog. When I requested two books stored...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I had a minor problem with the university library’s catalog. When I requested two books stored off-site in the Library Service Center I got this message: “No items can fulfill the submitted request.” That made no sense and I couldn’t figure out a way around the roadblock, so I...
Open Culture
Jean-Paul Sartre Rejects the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964: “It Was Monstrous!” In a 2013 blog post, the great Ursula K. Le Guin quotes a London Times Literary Supplement column by...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In a 2013 blog post, the great Ursula K. Le Guin quotes a London Times Literary Supplement column by a “J.C.,” who satirically proposes the “Jean-Paul Sartre Prize for Prize Refusal.” “Writers all over Europe and America are turning down awards in the hope of being nominated for...
Elad Blog
Anduril & Defense Tech The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of threats to our country and world. Examples of this include issues responding to the COVID pandemic, the cybersecurity ransomware attacks on critical US infrastructure such as our
Jonas Hietala
I, Robot Here are the results of the big robot construction course we had before christmas! The whole process...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here are the results of the big robot construction course we had before christmas! The whole process went smooth and our group was amazing. The design and building of the robot went well even though in hindsight I would’ve changed a lot of stuff. The ending competition didn’t go...
Naveen Arun's Blog
Please Let Me Monetize My Hobbies Please, let me monetize my hobbies. After all, what’s the point of doing something purely for fun...
a year ago
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a year ago
Please, let me monetize my hobbies. After all, what’s the point of doing something purely for fun when I could be making money off it? Please, let me turn my relaxing gaming sessions into high-pressure performances with commentary. Who wouldn’t enjoy transforming a leisurely...
TheCollector
6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain undefined
3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Research Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I have this fear that one day an all-powerful AI...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I have this fear that one day an all-powerful AI will be able to examine a statement you made and determine precisely where you got the information and it will be the most shame-filled moment of your life. Today's News: Very sweet...
The Marginalian
Stunning Century-Old Illustrations of Tibetan Fairy Tales from the Artist Who Created Bambi Soulful art from stories that speak "to the childhood of all times and all races."
a year ago
TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy undefined
a month ago
Applied Cartography
Notes on 'Founder Mode' / Lieutenancy In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale. Their advice could...
Wuthering...
My cancer - "It can’t be true! It can’t, but it is." Liver cancer.  That was a surprise.  I knew something was wrong, but I was not expecting that. Since...
a year ago
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a year ago
Liver cancer.  That was a surprise.  I knew something was wrong, but I was not expecting that. Since the diagnosis last summer, since it was known for a fact that I had something serious, things have moved fast.  It has been like boarding a train.  Once in motion there is no way...
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution undefined
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Five Founders
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Mining Incorporated (unfinished) Download Linux 64bit Windows Timelapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbr-mLi4DU I made a very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Download Linux 64bit Windows Timelapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbr-mLi4DU I made a very serious attempt at making a grand game for Ludum Dare 29. Unfortunately it was a far, far, too big of a game for me to be able to finish it in one weekend. But I had a great...
The Diff
Infrastructure on top of Infrastructure Plus! AI as an Interface; AI and Property Rights; Covering an EV Short Position; Heterogeneous...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Plus! AI as an Interface; AI and Property Rights; Covering an EV Short Position; Heterogeneous Consumption Baskets as Subtle Union-Busting; Second-Order Effects
Londonist
Christmas Transport In London: What's Running, What's Closed, And What About Those Strikes? Fingers crossed we have a strike-free festive period...
a year ago
The American Scholar
Last Laugh The post Last Laugh appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
HTMHell
Never underestimate HTML by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”,...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”, “Updating the UI should be a simple task once the backend is ready.”—these and other similar statements reached my ears time and again during my career as a web developer. Very often,...
Maps Mania
The D-Day Map Room
6 months ago
Mind Mine
being more available to myself requires me to be less available to others & other patterns i am trying to notice and break within myself
5 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
The choices we make when we build startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’ve recently...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’ve recently reached the point with Buffer where I’ve started to think about a lot of key higher level choices. As a CEO these can be difficult decisions to make. I’ve been taking time to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Generation Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm even into heterocyclic compounds. Today's News:
a year ago
Common Edge
Contemporary Architecture and the Modern City Americans don’t like modern buildings because they don’t like the modern city.
4 months ago
The American Scholar
Braña Curuchu The post Braña Curuchu appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW) In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in  shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works undefined
8 months ago
McMansion Hell
ode to a faux grecian urn Howdy everyone, Today’s house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Howdy everyone, Today’s house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago suburbs. The house is a testimony to traditional craftsmanship and traditional values (having lots of money.) The cost of painting this house greige is approximately the GDP of Slovenia...
The Marginalian
The Heart of Matter: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Bridging the Scientific and the Sacred "Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by...
a year ago
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a year ago
"Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth."
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in November 2024 30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in November 2024 1) In a typical month (April 2024) TfL...
a month ago
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a month ago
30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in November 2024 1) In a typical month (April 2024) TfL issued 29,767 Under 16 Oyster Photocards, 6992 16+ Oyster Photocards, 6028 18+ Oyster Photocards and 269 Apprentice Oyster Photocards. 2) The social media management tool used by...
Jonas Hietala
Getting the book into my hands Around a month ago I placed an order for a reference copy of my upcoming book Why Cryptocurrencies?....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Around a month ago I placed an order for a reference copy of my upcoming book Why Cryptocurrencies?. I took the cheapest shipping option at IngramSpark, without tracking and, apparently, without customs declarations as it got stuck in customs for several weeks. But it’s here...
diamond geezer
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45 45 Squared 1) VINCENT SQUARE, SW1 Borough of Westminster, 220m × 200m Russell Square is smaller. Trafalgar Square is half the size. Lincoln's Inn Fields is marginally longer but less broad. Eaton Square is half an acre larger but Square only in name, being extremely oblong....
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Three Monographs Just as last week's Places in Time III post featured a trio of books that were initially listed in...
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Just as last week's Places in Time III post featured a trio of books that were initially listed in my earlier holiday gift books post, two of the three monographs featured here were also on that list. As happened when I wrote this post, each book begins with a rhetorical question...
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Beware Rust Buffering This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much...
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This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much time to figure it out, I made this article as a reminder. Also, there is a post scriptum, also about buffers, but not about Rust. While writing my article about Linux pipes, I needed...
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Refurb weekend: Canon Cat It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on...
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It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on those machines I intend to work on more in the near future. So we'll start with one that's widely considered to be a remarkable cul-de-sac in computing history: the Canon...
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Stop treating human beings like NPCs. Technology has made it stupidly easy to avoid real human interaction. Our eyes are glued to our...
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Technology has made it stupidly easy to avoid real human interaction. Our eyes are glued to our phones as we walk down streets, barely noticing the people around us. Even in real-world interactions, we talk over the top of our screens, anything to avoid face-to-face...
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The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Wallis Annenberg...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing under construction over the 101 just outside Los Angeles, California. When it’s finished in a few years, it will be the largest wildlife crossing (*of its kind) on...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Hazel McNab Hi I’m Hazel, I live in Cornwall. I moved down just before Covid, very lucky me! And spent lockdown...
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Hi I’m Hazel, I live in Cornwall. I moved down just before Covid, very lucky me! And spent lockdown cutting Cornish Landscapes and really getting into my printing. My background is Fashion and Textiles, St Martins School of Art and I think my love of pattern shows in my...
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Lindt Premium Collection by Derek&Eric Lindt Premium Collection – The Art of Chocolate Lindt masters the art of crafting indulgent...
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Lindt Premium Collection – The Art of Chocolate Lindt masters the art of crafting indulgent chocolate, elevating technical skill to...
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A New Analysis of Beethoven’s DNA Reveals That Lead Poisoning Could Have Caused His Deafness Despite the intense scrutiny paid to the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven for a couple of...
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Despite the intense scrutiny paid to the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven for a couple of centuries now, the revered composer still has certain mysteries about him. Some of them he surely never intended to clarify, like the identity of “Immortal Beloved”; others he...
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown...
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can't help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won't go...
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Unsupervised Learning NO. 364 | Reality Headset, BingPT, AI+Cyber If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it with your favorite...
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If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it with your favorite client. APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS The FBI is warning people to block online ads due to imposters poisoning search results. They advise users to 1) check ad URLs, 2) go...
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"Good things come to those who wait." As a designer, one of the most useful skills you can have is patience. Even if you're not a...
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As a designer, one of the most useful skills you can have is patience. Even if you're not a designer, patience is one of the best yet hardest skills to learn.
Darek Kay
Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This...
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I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but with Firefox 95, the browser dark theme will enforce dark mode on websites as well. This sounds like a good default, but I want to...
Rest of World -...
Ride-hailing in Pakistan: A driver’s endless struggle for a clean car This inDrive worker says he is tired of passengers treating his car like a donkey cart.
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Common Edge
Why Cities Must Embrace Getting Smaller Urban researcher Alan Mallach on the global phenomenon of shrinking—and “thinning”—cities and...
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Urban researcher Alan Mallach on the global phenomenon of shrinking—and “thinning”—cities and countries.
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Life Skills Learned Playing World of Warcraft Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft...
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Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft (WoW). In the first half of this post I'm going to explain the game and how I played it. In the second half I'll talk about the skills I learned and how they've helped me. If you played a...
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The long walk Before buying a house, it makes sense to spend a day on foot, walking around the neighborhood....
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Before buying a house, it makes sense to spend a day on foot, walking around the neighborhood. You’ll notice things you might have missed in a car. Before starting a business, spend a few shifts working the cash register at a similar establishment. And before going into...
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There is only one form of passive income worth celebrating. It’s a UBI. The romanticised notion of passive income typically conjures up picturesque images of digital...
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The romanticised notion of passive income typically conjures up picturesque images of digital nomads lounging on immaculate beaches, their bank accounts growing with the profits from their latest online course on becoming a digital nomad. Dividends from investments in...
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Stoic Philosophy and its Influence on Literature Throughout History Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. It is a way of...
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Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. It is a way of life that encourages individuals to be virtuous, rational, and in control of their emotions. Stoicism has been an important part of literature throughout the ages, with many authors...
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Navigating the unpredictability of everything We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it...
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We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it means you need these techniques to navigate a volatile world.
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Learn In Public The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
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Confessions of a...
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Seaside Sweeper keeps beaches pristine Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That...
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Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That care is necessary to maintain the beautiful sandy havens that we all want to enjoy, but it requires a lot of labor. A capstone team of students from the University of Colorado...
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Finishing Stuff I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school...
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I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school stuff. We completed the assembly course labs, which were pretty fun actually, and I managed to finally complete the electronics course I’ve been holding off on for like forever… But...
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Drawing a better bandwidth graph for Netlify I currently host this site on Netlify’s Starter plan, which means I can serve 100GB of bandwidth per...
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I currently host this site on Netlify’s Starter plan, which means I can serve 100GB of bandwidth per month. That’s usually plenty, and I’ve only exceeded it a few times – this site is mostly text, and I only have a modest audience. I can see how much bandwidth I’ve used in the...
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Three days of Advent of Code in Hurl Every year I do some of Advent of Code. One year I completed it, but usually I just do some of it as...
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Every year I do some of Advent of Code. One year I completed it, but usually I just do some of it as a social thing with friends and then taper off as interest wanes. This year, I did three days of it, and stopped because I really truly did not want to write more solutions in the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Old Landor's Bones Are Laid' On Tuesday I wrote about Walter Savage Landor, his poems and especially Imaginary Conversations, a...
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On Tuesday I wrote about Walter Savage Landor, his poems and especially Imaginary Conversations, a collection of 174 dialogues, mostly of historical and literary figures, published in five volumes between 1824 and 1829. I keep a mental list of books I admire and enjoy that seem...
Scarlet Ink
How Senior Leaders Evaluate Ideas — And a Story of Amazon's 3-Year Planning Process Ideas are valuable if they're not simply a desired outcome. A path to an outcome is the core element...
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor’s suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
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Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 16-22 October 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
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On Migrating from Cypress to Playwright Cypress is an open-source tool for testing web applications end-to-end. I first saw Gleb Bahmutov...
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Cypress is an open-source tool for testing web applications end-to-end. I first saw Gleb Bahmutov demo Cypress at a 2018 web dev meetup in New York, and I was blown away. I’ve been using Cypress since I saw it demoed at a dev meetup in 2018. Before discovering Cypress, I had...
Old Structures...
A Few Changes That map is from 1879 and it feels not quite right, like an alternate-history version of New York....
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That map is from 1879 and it feels not quite right, like an alternate-history version of New York. The Upper West Side is referred to as the West End, Twelfth Avenue is shown along with Riverside Drive, and Columbia’s Campus at Broadway and 116th Street is shown as a park with a...
CONTEMPORIST
Pivoting Arched Windows Are A Unique Feature On This Row Of Townhouses In London Photography by Matthew White and Izzy Scott of AVR London Architecture firm DHaus has designed a...
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Photography by Matthew White and Izzy Scott of AVR London Architecture firm DHaus has designed a collection of 6 new terraced townhouses in North-West London, that replaced a gas station. The six new townhouses include a strong mixture of rectangles and arches, set within a brick...
The American Scholar
Sheep Jones Swimming below the surface The post Sheep Jones appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Weighty Thoughts
Most AI startups are doomed Just because it matters doesn’t mean it’s defensible or profitable
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Your Bit Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: An interesting future question is whether...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: An interesting future question is whether artificial wombs will displace stork-work or lead to increased prosperity. Today's News:
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t JamesHoare Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Some thoughts on mobile People tend to lump smartphones and tablets together as “mobile”. This can be misleading. Ask people...
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People tend to lump smartphones and tablets together as “mobile”. This can be misleading. Ask people who run internet companies and they’ll…
Seth's Blog
“For what purposes will it be useful?” In 1840, at the dawn of the information age, the king of Sardinia asked Charles Babbage what nearly...
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9 months ago
In 1840, at the dawn of the information age, the king of Sardinia asked Charles Babbage what nearly instant messaging like the telegraph could possibly be good for. Twenty years later, it was obvious. When I first saw Prodigy in 1986, I saw that the consumer internet would have...
Map of the Week
The Black Atlantic This map was created by Léopold Lambert to emphasize centrality of the Atlantic Ocean to the slave...
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This map was created by Léopold Lambert to emphasize centrality of the Atlantic Ocean to the slave trade. The map was created for an article in the Funambulist and was recently featured as a “Map of the Week” (yes there are others) for the American Geographical...
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Why i am leaving my own company. Fortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post...
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over a year ago
Fortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post might help to clarify and simpl...
Benny Kuriakose
Design Consideration For Differently Abled Students in Schools It is important for the school layout to be sensitive to the differently abled, and implement some...
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It is important for the school layout to be sensitive to the differently abled, and implement some techniques into space planning,...
Map of the Week
Harry Beck's Famous Subway Map Goes Airborne This map was published a month ago in the Londonist. Just about every other map blog has already...
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a year ago
This map was published a month ago in the Londonist. Just about every other map blog has already picked up on it and I am late to the game. However, I've spent so much time looking at it that I think it's worth a visit even if you've already seen it. It was drawn by Harry Beck,...
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Notes on being an Architect
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The Best Places for Art, Music, and Theater in Asheville
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The Framework 13 has a new high-res screen! The first laptop I ordered back when my Linux journey began was the Framework 13. I immediately...
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The first laptop I ordered back when my Linux journey began was the Framework 13. I immediately liked a lot about it. The keyboard is a big step up over the MacBook Pro, primarily because of the 50% longer key travel. And I love the matte screen and 3:2 aspect ratio. Both feel...
Maps Mania
The Streets of San Francisco Game
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The Marginalian
The Paradise Notebooks: A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain "Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it. If you understand one outcropping of...
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"Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it. If you understand one outcropping of stone, or one wildflower, or one hummingbird — if we see our way along the tracery of cause and effect, the mystery of change and recreation — then we are led to everything we see, and...
MMapped blog
Flat in-order binary trees
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs JamesHoare Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Construction Physics
How did solar power get cheap? Part I Solar photovoltaics (PV) have become one of the cheapest sources of electricity. Lazard’s estimate...
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Solar photovoltaics (PV) have become one of the cheapest sources of electricity. Lazard’s estimate of unsubsidized levelized cost of energy (LCOE)
Uncharted...
How to Beat Cancer with Viruses: An Interview with Beata Halassy How viruses kill cancers, which viruses to use, how many injections, at what stage of the cancer,...
3 months ago
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The security risk of vendor-supplied default SSL certificates Often, software comes supplied with some default SSL certificate, for testing purposes, such as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Often, software comes supplied with some default SSL certificate, for testing purposes, such as those 'snake oil' certificates (they are called snake oil certificates for a reason). In practice, I often encounter usage of such certificates. People may seem to think that as long...
ntietz.com blog
Procrastinating on my side project by torturing databases One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just a fun diversion. I ran into that recently for a side project I'm working on. It wasn't really necessary to test database options semi-rigorously, but here we are. This project is...
Jonas Hietala
My Dream Game: The RTS Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart: Supreme Commander. It’s not the game I’ve played the most and there might even be games which are better and more fun but supcom was the game that introduced me to competitive gaming...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
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diamond geezer
2025 anniversary quiz 2025 anniversary quiz a) established Jan 1675 (350 years): meridian telescopes b) reigned Jan 1725...
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2025 anniversary quiz a) established Jan 1675 (350 years): meridian telescopes b) reigned Jan 1725 (300 years): a Great empress c) written Jan 1775 (250 years): a comedy of errors d) buffered Feb 1975 (50 years): City crash e) reigned Mar 1625 (400 years): lost his head f) born...
Aaron's Essays
Pots of Gold Here’s a painful contradiction at the heart of spending time on startups: all the good stuff you can...
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over a year ago
Here’s a painful contradiction at the heart of spending time on startups: all the good stuff you can create is in the future, but all the patterns you look at to learn what to do are in the past. This makes your brain do funny things. On the one hand, you see how huge things can...
bt RSS Feed
Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux 2023-04-25 Users who work with git patches...
a year ago
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a year ago
Applying Email-Based Git Patches in Evolution on Linux 2023-04-25 Users who work with git patches through email most likely use a terminal-based program such as aerc or mutt. CLI email clients tend to have built-in support for easily applying patches directly to their local...
The Last...
Randi Zuckerberg Thinks We Should Untangle Our Wired Lives how hard could it be, none of those circles are actually connected Randi Zuckerberg is...
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over a year ago
how hard could it be, none of those circles are actually connected Randi Zuckerberg is CEO of Zuckerberg Media, which, according to its 10-K, is an iphone.  If you have no idea who she is, and you shouldn't, then the answer to your one and only question is yes. In her...
NeuroLogica Blog
Flow Batteries – Now With Nanofluids Battery technology has been advancing nicely over the last few decades, with a fairly predictable...
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11 months ago
Battery technology has been advancing nicely over the last few decades, with a fairly predictable incremental increase in energy density, charging time, stability, and lifecycle. We now have lithium-ion batteries with a specific energy of 296 Wh/kg – these are in use in existing...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The next big thing will start out looking like a toy One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet properties today looks from the list ten…
Anecdotal Evidence
'In Constant Repair' “In the streets I saw two men meet after a long separation, it was plain. They came forward with a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
“In the streets I saw two men meet after a long separation, it was plain. They came forward with a little run and LEAPED at each other’s hands. You never saw such bright eyes as they both had. It put one in a good humour to see it.” Yet again I’ve heard the small-minded slur that...
Seth's Blog
Ideas need handles: the thing about subject lines A bureaucracy recently asked me to submit a few documents. They were very specific and the person on...
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3 weeks ago
A bureaucracy recently asked me to submit a few documents. They were very specific and the person on the phone said that the subject line of the email I sent should be blank. This is really unsettling. Almost like taking the labels off bottles at the supermarket. My email...
Home on Erik...
Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and divide them with the total number of users. Done. Except… it's a lot more complicated when you have any sort of significant time lag.
xkcd.com
Decay Modes
a year ago
Christopher Butler
Writing is a Primary Design Tool In an interview with Tracy Francis at McKinsey, Jony Ive had something profound to say about writing...
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In an interview with Tracy Francis at McKinsey, Jony Ive had something profound to say about writing and design: “You’ll often find creatives are obsessed with process and tools. A primary tool for me is that I write an awful lot. I write because I realized at art school that...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Practical Eschatology Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder when the first cult run by a robot will...
a year ago
A Smart Bear
You can have two Big Things, but not three No you can't "have it all." You can have two things, but not three.
a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee ☕ Complicated coffee: plain and simple. There’s a scene in AMC’s “Breaking Bad” where Gail Boetticher...
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a year ago
Complicated coffee: plain and simple. There’s a scene in AMC’s “Breaking Bad” where Gail Boetticher explains to Walter White how to make the perfect cup of coffee. And it all sounds so plausible—there’s a perfect coffee, and science will magic it for us. That whole idea, scene,...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Halo and more: exploring incremental verification and SNARKs without pairings
over a year ago
Josh Thompson
Krav Maga, or "Crush Balls, Gouge Eyes, and Break Bones" In the last few weeks, I have been physically attacked dozens of times. Usually the attacker was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the last few weeks, I have been physically attacked dozens of times. Usually the attacker was just trying to choke me, but sometimes he was trying to throw me to the ground. After a few minutes of fighting, I would attack him. Then we’d both shake hands, say “thank you”, and...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is:  how secretive...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is:  how secretive should I be about my idea?  My answer…
TheCollector
Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress undefined
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Platformer
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Half Marathon Discover my journey from noob to (half) marathon finisher and how I balanced data with fitness -...
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Discover my journey from noob to (half) marathon finisher and how I balanced data with fitness - read about my experiences!
Stephen Diehl
The Simple English Argument Against Crypto
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Software The build continues, now in a little more familiar territory. Firmware flashing To flash the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The build continues, now in a little more familiar territory. Firmware flashing To flash the firmware I had to order a microSD card reader. With that on hand the flashing wasn’t difficult. The VORON docs walks you through the installation very well. Mainsail I chose to install...
Arduino Blog
Web Serial Camera stream with Arduino Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered how you could effortlessly stream camera footage...
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Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered how you could effortlessly stream camera footage from your Arduino boards directly to your web browser? Wonder no more! Arduino’s Web Serial Camera demo shows how to bring your camera projects to life. Stream images from your...
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods) undefined
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Anecdotal Evidence
'As Sensitive As Anyone Else' “In common with James Jones, Gina Berriault knows that ill-educated or inarticulate people are as...
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“In common with James Jones, Gina Berriault knows that ill-educated or inarticulate people are as sensitive as anyone else. She renders their speech with a fine and subtle ear for the shy or strident inaccuracies, for the bewilderment of missed points and for the dim, sad rhythms...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I prefer JS for front-end build automation Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers, measure bundle size, and what not. npm scripts are fine for one-liners, but as the workflows grow more complex — run these things in parallel, then do something else, but only if...
anderegg.ca
Apple and the AI divide This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images...
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This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images of themselves. I thought this take from Sam Biddle was very good: Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the...
TheCollector
How Did Switzerland Become a Country? undefined
5 months ago
Math Is Still...
What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly? Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet...
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Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment, leaving open the possibility that the results point to a new fundamental particle. The post What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects undefined
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Christopher Butler
object – 1999 Qualcomm QCP-860 This is the phone I carried in my pocket when I went to see The Matrix. My first cellphone was...
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This is the phone I carried in my pocket when I went to see The Matrix. My first cellphone was the Qualcomm QCP-860. It was marketed at the time as a “thin phone.” By today’s standards, that might seem silly, but at the time, phones were generally much chunkier. Like this...
Math Is Still...
Tracing the Hidden Hand of Magnetism in the Galaxy Susan Clark is helping to unravel the mysterious workings of the Milky Way’s magnetic field, a...
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Susan Clark is helping to unravel the mysterious workings of the Milky Way’s magnetic field, a critical missing piece of the galactic puzzle. The post Tracing the Hidden Hand of Magnetism in the Galaxy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Saturday Morning...
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That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are a great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet products. Existing descriptions aren’t sinking...
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Bangladesh has millions of e-rickshaws. They’re finally becoming legal Bangladesh’s EV industry will likely grow now, and drivers no longer have to worry about being fined...
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Bangladesh’s EV industry will likely grow now, and drivers no longer have to worry about being fined or having their vehicles impounded.
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Patek levels of finishing We’re in the final phase of getting the first ONCE product out the door. As with any new...
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We’re in the final phase of getting the first ONCE product out the door. As with any new development, there are a million little details we need to nail for a successful launch that’s up to our standards. That’s usually where the temptation to cut corners on internal quality...
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Set To Stun The latest exhibition at Gunnersbury Park Museum is called Set To Stun and is all about designing...
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The latest exhibition at Gunnersbury Park Museum is called Set To Stun and is all about designing and filming sci-fi in West London. A lot of plastic props and alien beings have been created in the boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow, and slightly wider afield, so this is a chance to...
Epic Web Dev
Implicit Assertions (article) Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a...
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Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a test or two in mind to improve.
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I was in Dagenham and I saw this wind turbine and I wondered How many wind turbines are there in London? So I made a map using OpenStreetMap and OverpassTurbo. It produced a map showing 44 wind turbines in the Greater London area. Except I looked a bit closer and some of...
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The Next Step in Space Travel The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced they are developing their own commercial space...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced they are developing their own commercial space capsule. This will be used initially for cargo, but then eventually for crew as well. They anticipate a maiden voyage in 2028. I think this is a positive development. It seems we are...
ribbonfarm
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I’ve been slow-reading Bettany Hughes’ Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities for months now, ever since I visited the city (on Kindle, so I didn’t realize when I started that it’s 600 pages plus another 250 odd notes). It’s dense and absorbing and I’ll probably do a reflections post...
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Timing your startup I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would...
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I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would have passed (which of course would have…
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What I’m Up To and the Future of the Blog Hi, everyone – it’s been a while! Quite a few people have written in lately wondering why I haven’t...
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Hi, everyone – it’s been a while! Quite a few people have written in lately wondering why I haven’t updated the blog in a while, so I thought I should address that. Firstly, for those that were concerned something was wrong, I’d like to reassure you that I’m a-okay and everything...
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When the sun is shining Our job as professionals is to show up and do the work. Not simply respond to incoming or do the...
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Our job as professionals is to show up and do the work. Not simply respond to incoming or do the chores, but to create and innovate. And yet, some days feel more conducive than others. There are moments when it simply flows. When the surf’s up, cancel everything else. Don’t waste...
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If you're not excited about where you're going, you're going the wrong way. Where you're going may be challenging, difficult, a real pain in the ass even, but come what may, you should be excited about getting there—both the getting, and the there. That's how you know you're on...
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The faces are back, a new book, calm, beauty, civil war. The faces are back. Feels like something is happening here. This ^ is the start of a new book. “We need more calm companies.” — Justin Jackson What is beautiful? Another...
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A decade of the Tim Cook machine In all the enthusiasms, arguments and panics around tech, Apple is the $2tn elephant in the...
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In all the enthusiasms, arguments and panics around tech, Apple is the $2tn elephant in the corner, mostly silent and serenely indifferent to the news cycle. It just ships - and it ships market-leading products, with metronomic precision, at massive scale, on a decade-long...
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A Ponzi scheme targets desperate workers amid Zimbabwe’s employment crisis E-Creator offered an opportunity to earn money by writing fake reviews for e-commerce websites.
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Every internet success works because the network effect kicked in. There’s no other way for an idea to reliably and economically reach a big enough audience to be sustained. That’s why Super Bowl ads make so little sense in 2024. Ideas that spread win. I wrote a bestseller about...
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When A Tube Train Full Of Passengers Was Abandoned In The Tunnel The stuff of nightmares.
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"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies" "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is...
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"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal…
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The Last Day of World War One At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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Culture, care and typography I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a...
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I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a combination of tech, art, systems, culture and most of all, deciding to put in the effort to get it right. [This is a long post, it would have been a podcast, but it doesn’t really...
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Renaissance Fair One of the things I find most peculiar about our current pop culture worldview is the utter...
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One of the things I find most peculiar about our current pop culture worldview is the utter disregard for the past. The past is a far away thing that is almost always a-thing-you-are-so-lucky-you-don't-have-to-live-in. Step outside that increasingly tunneled vision the media...
Left To Write
Sinking To Survive I always feel like I’m drowning. At this point I’m used to it. But I do question how much of this is...
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I always feel like I’m drowning. At this point I’m used to it. But I do question how much of this is inherited and how much of this is self-inflicted. Last year, I read an article on Epigenetics. The gist of it is that we’re shaped by the genes of our parents and grandparents,...
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Giant Eels, Loch Ness, and Probability At this point it is pretty clear that the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) does not exist. I know,...
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At this point it is pretty clear that the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) does not exist. I know, logically it is impossible to prove a negative, so if we want to be technical we can say that the probability of a large creature similar to that believed to be Nessie approaches zero....
99% Invisible
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There’s an image that’s stuck with many of us from the early pandemic: dozens of cargo ships anchored off the coasts of US ports, stacked high with hundreds of thousands of containers filled with goods, just sitting there in a traffic jam. At the same time, grocery store shelves...
the singularity is...
Disrupt the Government I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by...
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I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by providing 10x better versions of all of the services that it provides. The key thing the government is supposed to be able to do is infrastructure. Most of the wealth that we give to...
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Sometimes, the outside is inside Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the...
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Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic. The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
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Officially based in London, forward unisex fashion brand MITHRIDATE is led by brand founder Tina Jiang, and forms an integral...
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I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I'
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Why are so many famous YouTubers quitting? A legendary essay by Václav Havel — a Czech playwright and former President — helps to explain this trend.
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Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
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Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles. This is overkill. You can...
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Why Chinese EV battery manufacturers are flocking to Hungary They are drawn to the country’s access to European automakers, government subsidies, and favorable...
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What can startups learn from Koch Industries? I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The...
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I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The Science of Success by Charles Koch himself a couple of years ago. Charles Koch inherited a tiny company in 1967 and turned it into one of the world's largest ones.
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal. Left, added a...
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“And” fatigue Digital abundance creates a new problem. Most of our lives are filled with “or” decisions. You can...
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Digital abundance creates a new problem. Most of our lives are filled with “or” decisions. You can have this or that. You can save money for the big party or you can go out for lunch. You can have exactly one thing for dessert–cake or fruit. But the war for our attention has...
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Horizon 22 These are great times for going up very tall buildings. Last month 8 Bishopsgate opened its rooftop...
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These are great times for going up very tall buildings. Last month 8 Bishopsgate opened its rooftop viewing platform to the public, free of charge, and on Wednesday 22 Bishopsgate followed suit. Its viewing platform is called Horizon 22, and at 254m above ground level it's two...
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TokyoDev
Oh, that's not your job My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese...
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My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese startup](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan). The company had a stellar development team, and in a couple of months of working there I learned more about developing software than I did in my entire computer...
Rest of World -...
TikTokers are documenting — and monetizing — anti-government protests in Kenya At least 23 people have reportedly been killed as crowds oppose proposed tax increases.
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What You Can Do with Netlify Build Plugins Netlify Build Plugins are here! Here's a smattering of thoughts on what you can do with them.
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Last month, Facebook revealed a major redesign of all its apps across web and mobile. Reactions from design twitter were mixed, but there was one thing everyone agreed on: it looked familiar. Facebook’s 2019 Redesign, compared to Twitter by Alex Muench A few folks correctly noted...
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record One I bought fifty years ago.
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Josh Thompson
Mythical Creatures: Refactoring wizard.rb Preparing for Turing Series Index What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up...
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Preparing for Turing Series Index What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up useful information about a number of topics related to Ruby, specifically geared for students learning the Ruby programming language, as part of the Turing School’s Backend Software...
Internal Tech Emails
Apple execs on Facebook On Jul 11, 2011, at 8:03 PM, Steve Jobs wrote: I agree - if we eliminate Fecebooks third proposal it...
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On Jul 11, 2011, at 8:03 PM, Steve Jobs wrote: I agree - if we eliminate Fecebooks third proposal it sounds reasonable.
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East Anglia Pylons More News From Norfolk 110 mile line of pylons all the way from Norwich to the Thames. It's needed...
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More News From Norfolk 110 mile line of pylons all the way from Norwich to the Thames. It's needed to help connect an increasing number of wind farms in the North Sea to population centres in London and the southeast, because it's no good having all that cheap energy if you...
Londonist
See A Flock Of 50 Sheep Herded Over Southwark Bridge This September By a celebrity.
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Caution, Workers at Play I am going to take a wild guess that your workplace isn’t condusive to play. In fact, playfulness is...
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I am going to take a wild guess that your workplace isn’t condusive to play. In fact, playfulness is probably frowned upon in your office. I was once lucky enough to work in a place where that wasn’t the case.
Noahpinion
How will you save small midwestern towns without mass immigration? What really happens when a "flood of migrants" gets "dumped" on a small heartland town.
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How PostHog's new VP focused the company on nailing funnels in his first week Ramping up fast in any senior product role requires understanding as much context as possible across...
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Ramping up fast in any senior product role requires understanding as much context as possible across 3 axes (Market, Product and People). I’ll talk…
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Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley...
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<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley environment. This is the main window of the program: Main window of the Interpinkie Interlisp Finger client. It was a fun challenge considering I couldn't use Medley's TCP/IP stack. I...
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If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of time to do it
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Uncluttered From 1946, a view from 501 Madison Avenue looking southwest past St. Patrick’s Cathedral to...
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From 1946, a view from 501 Madison Avenue looking southwest past St. Patrick’s Cathedral to Rockefeller Center. The International Building on the right partially blocks the view of the taller RCA Building, with the (old) Time-Life building off to the left. The construction site...
Londonist
Even More Of London's Crappiest Benches When London's seats fail to bring their A game.
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Nelson's Weblog
New linkblog website I launched a new website for my linkblog; go check it out! I'm proud of how it looks. My linkblog...
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I launched a new website for my linkblog; go check it out! I'm proud of how it looks. My linkblog is a collection of links I find interesting. I write it for an audience, a few links a day of general interest. I've been doing this for 19 years now and I think it's one of the...
The Forney Flyer
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A few weeks ago we (fellow MAF pilot Andrew and I) landed at Amudat airstrip for the first time in a very long time (below). Over the past year and a half quite a few of the upcountry airstrips in Uganda (especially in Karamoja) deteriorated so badly that we had to stop using...
Kevin Chen
!!Con 2018 Notes !!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
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!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m really going to miss it when I move back to the...
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The absolute state of Bluetooth audio in 2022 I have the Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones. They’re good for consuming content. Audio calls with your...
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I have the Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones. They’re good for consuming content. Audio calls with your colleagues? Forget about it. This is the setup I have to go with, and it has all to do with how Bluetooth works. Your options with Bluetooth headsets are the following: high quality...
Prolost
Kino: My New Favorite iPhone Video App The new Kino app recording ProRes Log with a custom preview LUT. Yes we’re still talking about...
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The new Kino app recording ProRes Log with a custom preview LUT. Yes we’re still talking about shooting video on iPhones. But I also want to talk about digital cinema shooting in general, in a world where top camera makers are battling to give filmmakers everything we want in a...
Seth's Blog
Finding a more useful umwelt Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious...
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Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious that your dog has a different one than you do. They see fewer colors and smell far more intelligently. Sea slugs see a much wider range of colors, and bats can sense vibrations. Among...
Mazdak
Renting vs. Buying in Canada's Skyrocketing Market: Is Homeownership Still a Golden Ticket? The Great Canadian Housing Dilemma: Soaring prices and sky-high interest rates have transformed the...
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The Great Canadian Housing Dilemma: Soaring prices and sky-high interest rates have transformed the dream of homeownership into a distant mirage for many Canadians. But before you resign yourself to renting forever, consider this: owning a home may not be the guaranteed...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 30-31 December 2023 The best ways to spend the last weekend of 2023 in the capital.
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Why I cancelled my Replit subscription <![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of...
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<![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of 2023. Replit is a popular and growing multi language development environment in the cloud. I've been subscribing to the Hacker plan for the past few years and it worked well for my...
A Beautiful Site
SimpleImage 3.0 Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for...
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Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for working with images. Today, version 3.0 has landed, and there's a lot to love about it. Overview # Here's how it works at a glance: try { // Create a new SimpleImage object $image =...
One Useful Thing
Post-apocalyptic education What comes after the Homework Apocalypse
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For someone who spends an unhealthy amount of time thinking about and reading about restaurants, I consider it a personal failing that I didn't connect Cafe Kitty (Soho) with Kitty Fisher's (Mayfair) until it came up in conversation about halfway through dinner. In my defence,...
Spoon & Tamago
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all images courtesy Noriko Sugiyama Noriko Sugiyama is a self-taught artist who works with discarded kimono and obi, which she masterfully upcylces to create landscapes brimming with energy and hope. But her path to artistry has been anything but conventional. Now at the age of...
./techtipsy
I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out...
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After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out one UPS that was recommended on the basis of it being much more power efficient compared to the APC UPS that I previously ran. That UPS? CyberPower UT650EG. Why switch out a...
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus? Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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