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Organizing State of Diffusion++
I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed...
9 months ago
I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed up! Here are some photos!
AFAR Media - Travel...
Cruise for Best Way to See the Northern Lights in Alaska
8 months ago
Matt Mazur
Exploring ChatGPT’s Knowledge Cutoff
A recurring topic of discussion on the OpenAI forums, on Reddit, and on Twitter is about what...
a year ago
A recurring topic of discussion on the OpenAI forums, on Reddit, and on Twitter is about what ChatGPT’s knowledge cutoff date actually is. It seems like it should be straightforward enough to figure out (just ask it), but it can be confusing due to ChatGPT’s inconsistent answers...
Jonas Hietala
The Coinparty hackathon, take two
In December I declared that I would enter a Bitcoin Cash hackathon and I was excited to give my...
over a year ago
In December I declared that I would enter a Bitcoin Cash hackathon and I was excited to give my procrastination a kick in the balls. Unfortunately the hackathon was postponed to January just an hour later. Maybe the organizers didn’t think my project was exciting enough or...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Blogging or posting on social media—what's better?
I wrote about the benefits of blogging before. That was four years ago. Now I have some things to...
over a year ago
I wrote about the benefits of blogging before. That was four years ago. Now I have some things to add...
Common Edge
Four Decades in a House of Your Own Design
Reflections on the project that launched a career.
3 months ago
Reflections on the project that launched a career.
Mazdak
Fed Signals Shift to Easing: Rate Cuts Likely in 2024, Economy Expected to Remain Solid.
The Federal Reserve is signalling a change of course, and it's music to the ears of businesses,...
a year ago
The Federal Reserve is signalling a change of course, and it's music to the ears of businesses, investors, and everyday Americans. After two years of aggressive rate hikes to combat inflation, the central bank is now laying the groundwork for a shift towards easing
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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8 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
Stairs With Built-In Planters Lead To The Back Garden At This Home
Lior Brosh of Brosh Architects has shared photos of a recently completed renovation project in...
a year ago
Lior Brosh of Brosh Architects has shared photos of a recently completed renovation project in Greater London, England, that included new outdoor stairs with built-in planters. The client contacted the architects to renovate the lower ground floor of the house due to severe damp...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The importance of investor signaling in venture pricing
Suppose there is a pre-profitable company that is raising venture financing. Simple, classical...
over a year ago
Suppose there is a pre-profitable company that is raising venture financing. Simple, classical economic models would predict that although…
Londonist
10 Times That Fictional London Has Slipped Into Our Universe
Glitches in the matrix.
a year ago
Daniel Marino
Free Radon album released
A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go...
a year ago
A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go with Lofi or Chillvibes. Or maybe Not-Rock-n-Roll. I don’t know—I’m so bad at classifying music.
I wasn’t sure what to do with the songs. I was experiencing some intense emotions...
The Honest Broker
In Search of Dupree Bolton (Part 2 of 2)
I conclude the story of my quest to find a legendary jazz musician who disappeared in the early...
8 months ago
I conclude the story of my quest to find a legendary jazz musician who disappeared in the early 1960s
David Heinemeier...
The open source gift exchange
I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The...
a year ago
I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The first recipients of these programming gifts are almost always myself and my company. It's an intentionally selfish drive first, then a broader benefit second. But, ironically, this...
essay – snarfed.org
Moderate people, not code
Dixit / Marie Cardouat The scope of the fediverse has been hotly debated recently. Are we a big...
11 months ago
Dixit / Marie Cardouat The scope of the fediverse has been hotly debated recently. Are we a big fedi? Or a small fedi? Are instances just nodes? Or networked communities? Which Camp of Mastodon are we in? How far should our replies travel? How about our blog posts and Bluesky...
Diaries of Note
War raises the tone of life
In August of 1950, shortly after receiving the distinguished Strega Prize for his literary...
a year ago
In August of 1950, shortly after receiving the distinguished Strega Prize for his literary contributions, Italian novelist, poet, and translator Cesare Pavese tragically ended his life. He was just forty-one. Among his personal effects was found a deeply introspective diary that...
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Why we ditched ‘talk to sales’ for transparent pricing
"I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that...
over a year ago
"I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that embody everything we hate about modern SaaS…
elementary Blog
Let's Talk OS 8
One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that...
a year ago
One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that make it more inclusive and accessible, protects your privacy and ensures apps always operate with your explicit consent, and addresses your feedback with over 200 bug fixes, design...
Irrational...
The Engineering Executive's Primer.
See on O’Reilly’s website for The Engineering Executive’s Primer.
In 2019, I worked with Stripe...
a year ago
See on O’Reilly’s website for The Engineering Executive’s Primer.
In 2019, I worked with Stripe Press to publish my first book, An Elegant Puzzle,
which captured many of the lessons I’d learned as an engineering manager in fast growing Silicon Valley companies.
In 2021, I decided...
TheCollector
Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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2 months ago
Society's Backend
How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems
And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
4 months ago
And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
Tinker, Tamper,...
Showing SQL Queries with Pytest and Django
I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s...
over a year ago
I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s sometimes useful to see the actual SQL queries that Django emitted, which is surprisingly hard. I assumed that that would be such an obvious and common need, that a simple switch...
Old Structures...
Land Engineering
This map shows the proposed street layout in Manhattan from the original northern boundary at 155th...
12 months ago
This map shows the proposed street layout in Manhattan from the original northern boundary at 155th Street (on the left, where the blocks are shown as featureless white rectangles) to the northern tip of the island (on the right). I mentioned two days ago that the street layout...
Weighty Thoughts
AI's Future in Lung Disease and Medicine
A conversation with two radiologists—who are also experts in AI—about how AI can shape clinical...
a week ago
A conversation with two radiologists—who are also experts in AI—about how AI can shape clinical practice and patient experiences
Julia Evans
How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
Hello! I was trying to explain to someone how git cherry-pick works the other
day, and I found...
a year ago
Hello! I was trying to explain to someone how git cherry-pick works the other
day, and I found myself getting confused.
What went wrong was: I thought that git cherry-pick was basically applying a
patch, but when I tried to actually do it that way, it didn’t work!
Let’s talk...
TheCollector
What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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a month ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Shoehorning startups into the VC model
Tech startups go in an out of fashion. When they’re in fashion, as they are now, entrepreneurs and...
over a year ago
Tech startups go in an out of fashion. When they’re in fashion, as they are now, entrepreneurs and VCs get lots of attention. Most of this…
Benny Kuriakose
Importance of Landscape in School Design
Landscape plays a major role in the learning experience of a child. A school campus not only...
a year ago
Landscape plays a major role in the learning experience of a child. A school campus not only comprises of the buildings in a school,...
Archinect - Features
AI Bias and Digital Colonialism; A Conversation with Morehshin Allahyari
Whether through her art, writings, or lectures, Morehshin Allahyari's work evokes a range of...
a year ago
Whether through her art, writings, or lectures, Morehshin Allahyari's work evokes a range of emotions among its audience. There is wonder and intrigue at her reinterpretation of centuries-old Middle Eastern stories, images, and artifacts. There is introspection on our...
Diaries of Note
A veritable organ concert
It was May of 1967, and Che Guevara, the Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, was in Bolivia,...
a year ago
It was May of 1967, and Che Guevara, the Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, was in Bolivia, leading a small band of guerrillas in an attempt to spread socialism across Latin America. Facing harsh environmental conditions and the pressure of the Bolivian military backed by US...
The Wandering...
Constructing Bourgoin’s Figure 171 – Part 1
Just veering off into geometry here…. In November I was watching Eric Broug, an Islamic geometric...
over a year ago
Just veering off into geometry here…. In November I was watching Eric Broug, an Islamic geometric design guru, give a talk online at an Islamic art conference, and I noticed that behind him they were projecting an interesting pattern on the scrim. I froze the video and grabbed a...
Quanta Magazine
The Social Benefits of Getting Our Brains in Sync
Our brain waves can align when we work and play closely together. The phenomenon, known as...
8 months ago
Our brain waves can align when we work and play closely together. The phenomenon, known as interbrain synchrony, suggests that collaboration is biological.
The post The Social Benefits of Getting Our Brains in Sync first appeared on Quanta Magazine
SatPost by Trung...
Jensen Huang, Dario Amodei and Manufacturing Intelligence at Scale
PLUS: SpaceX's Starship miracle, Taco Bell's franchise model.
2 months ago
PLUS: SpaceX's Starship miracle, Taco Bell's franchise model.
99% Invisible
For Amusement Only (Free Replay) [EPISODE]
Everyone has tried it at some point. The authorities started turning a blind eye years ago, but it...
a year ago
Everyone has tried it at some point. The authorities started turning a blind eye years ago, but it wasn’t officially legalized until the summer of 2014. Finally, after more than 80 years of illegitimacy, the City of Oakland has legalized…pinball machines. Today, we travel back to...
Wait But Why
You Won’t Believe My Morning
A highly unexpected turn of events.
The post You Won’t Believe My Morning appeared first on Wait But...
over a year ago
A highly unexpected turn of events.
The post You Won’t Believe My Morning appeared first on Wait But Why.
Noahpinion
This is not a good way to fight racism in America
Building a multiracial society is hard work. Don't be tempted by shortcuts.
10 months ago
Building a multiracial society is hard work. Don't be tempted by shortcuts.
ntietz.com blog
Speeding up queries 1000x by sorting my bitmaps
I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions.
Right now, it...
a year ago
I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions.
Right now, it contains 240 million unique positions1 from 3.8 million games.
One of the things it needs to do is quickly find all the games where a particular position occurs.
I'd also like it to...
Hixie's Natural Log
Meeting philosophy
Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if...
a year ago
Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if possible.
Decline any meeting without an explicit agenda (I make exceptions for my immediate manager).
Decline any meeting where the agenda doesn't seem relevant to your work. Decline any...
Louwrentius
Using iSCSI with time machine and Super Duper
In the past, as a Mac user, I've used separate external drives for Time Machine backups and Super...
over a year ago
In the past, as a Mac user, I've used separate external drives for Time Machine backups and Super Duper clones but I'm not happy with that. External hard drives make noise and create clutter.
I'd like to move away all my storage from my living room (or home office) and put it in...
Left To Write
#3 Writemas: Developing Taste
Last week, on a Bloomstory team day out to the Design Museum in London, I said to my friend Myles,...
a year ago
Last week, on a Bloomstory team day out to the Design Museum in London, I said to my friend Myles, “Given we’re in a creative field, it’s important we develop taste.” I know it’s subjective, but I’ve often wondered about how universal ‘good’ taste is. However, instead of driving...
the singularity is...
The Elon Swing Voter
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
2 weeks ago
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
Louwrentius
Compiling Ceph on the Raspberry Pi 3B+ (armhf) using Clang/LLVM
UPDATE 2019 / 2020
There are official ARM64 binaries of Ceph that you can run on a 64-bit version of...
over a year ago
UPDATE 2019 / 2020
There are official ARM64 binaries of Ceph that you can run on a 64-bit version of Ubuntu 18.04.
Important: I consider this page obsolete. I will keep it up for transparency's sake
Introduction
In this blog post I'll show you how to compile Ceph Luminous for...
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: deterritorialization
over a year ago
David Perell
Coolest Things I Learned in 2020
This is a collection of the most popular ideas I shared in 2020.
The post Coolest Things I Learned...
over a year ago
This is a collection of the most popular ideas I shared in 2020.
The post Coolest Things I Learned in 2020 appeared first on David Perell.
Diaries of Note
When a shot goes badly, I feel like a useless object
Catherine Deneuve’s film career has been prolific and illustrious. Since her big screen debut in...
a year ago
Catherine Deneuve’s film career has been prolific and illustrious. Since her big screen debut in 1957 she has starred in close to 130 movies and garnered 14 César Award nominations, of which she has won two, cementing her as one of France’s most acclaimed actresses. Yet, even the...
TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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7 months ago
David Heinemeier...
House rules in Fortnite
We play a lot of Fortnite at our house. It's a great game for teaching kids cooperative discipline,...
a month ago
We play a lot of Fortnite at our house. It's a great game for teaching kids cooperative discipline, and in a remarkably wholesome setting to boot (no blood, cartoon styling). I've had no qualms involving all three of our boys from an early age in the family squad, including our...
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
Christopher Butler
Eclipse
We gathered on our street and shielded our eyes to behold a spectacle we last saw in 2017 and won’t...
8 months ago
We gathered on our street and shielded our eyes to behold a spectacle we last saw in 2017 and won’t again — with this clarity, on this part of the planet — until 2045.
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Caves on Mars
Recently, in social media posts, Dr. Pascal Lee of the SETI Institute discussed the intriguing caves...
4 weeks ago
Recently, in social media posts, Dr. Pascal Lee of the SETI Institute discussed the intriguing caves on the side of the giant martian volcano called Arsia Mons as interesting places for future exploration and even human residences. As it happens, my very first published...
Entrepreneur's Edge
Recommended Books
A collection of books that have changed how I think about the world.
a year ago
A collection of books that have changed how I think about the world.
Paul Graham: Essays
Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Past Is Alive and Stirring With Objects'
Published in
the January 1821 issue of London Magazine
are thematically linked essays by two...
11 months ago
Published in
the January 1821 issue of London Magazine
are thematically linked essays by two friends, Charles Lamb and William
Hazlitt: “New Year’s Eve” and “On the Past and Future,” respectively. Lamb’s is
better known, and I'm aware of several readers who, like me, read it...
Diaries of Note
The British people are like children
Few people were as close to Adolf Hitler as Joseph Goebbels. As the Reich Minister of Propaganda in...
a year ago
Few people were as close to Adolf Hitler as Joseph Goebbels. As the Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, he played a crucial role in shaping the image and message of the Third Reich, manipulating public opinion and orchestrating a vast machinery of lies and deception....
Seth's Blog
Out to get you
It’s easy to believe that in some moments, the world is out to get you. This is unlikely. The world...
11 months ago
It’s easy to believe that in some moments, the world is out to get you. This is unlikely. The world hardly knows you exist. There is injustice and trauma and systems of caste. There are tiny pockets of humanity that hold a grudge. But most of the time, in most situations, what...
TheCollector
10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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3 months ago
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I got booted from one of my own company’s Slack channels...
So, last week I got removed from one of my company’s Slack channels… and it was probably the best...
a year ago
So, last week I got removed from one of my company’s Slack channels… and it was probably the best thing that could have happened for me, and my company.
You see, like most companies, we have ‘global’ chat channels that everyone participates in, plus each team has distinct...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf().
The...
over a year ago
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf().
The problem with this approach is lack of selectivity: imagine you have 100 tests and only 1 test fails. For debugging the issue you only need to see logs when executing that 1 test...
The Honest Broker
Nobody Will Tell You the Ugly Reason Apple Acquired a Classical Music Label
But you need to know, because it offers a glimpse into the dark future of streaming
a year ago
But you need to know, because it offers a glimpse into the dark future of streaming
TheCollector
Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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10 months ago
Mark Manson
An Unconventional Guide to Happiness
Every day, we're bombarded with messages telling us that we need to be happy all the time—and that,...
over a year ago
Every day, we're bombarded with messages telling us that we need to be happy all the time—and that, in order to be happy, we need the perfect job, the perfect partner, the perfect life. And we're made to think that anything less than perfect happiness is a failure.
But the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sorry
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This is like a time machine to SMBC circa...
3 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This is like a time machine to SMBC circa 2005.
Today's News:
Code Of Honor
Whose bug is this anyway?!?
At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the...
over a year ago
At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the code is right, dammit! So it must be the operating system, the tools or the computer that’s causing the problem. Right?!? Today’s story is about some of those bugs I’ve discovered...
TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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6 months ago
Mazdak
Tech Titans: AI Race Heats Up!
We will explore the intensifying competition between major tech companies in the field of artificial...
a month ago
We will explore the intensifying competition between major tech companies in the field of artificial intelligence.
Londonist
Crystal Palace Park Dinosaurs Getting A Glow-Up - As Part Of Huge Park Revamp
Italian Terraces will also be restored and replanted with wildflowers.
9 months ago
Italian Terraces will also be restored and replanted with wildflowers.
The Elysian
Am I a Democrat or a Republican?
The case for going label-less.
2 days ago
The case for going label-less.
Flashbak
Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
a month ago
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
Good Enough
TIL: System Colors are supported in CSS, but they’re unreliable
I’ve said this before: We’re primarily a web shop here at Good Enough, but occasionally we come up...
a year ago
I’ve said this before: We’re primarily a web shop here at Good Enough, but occasionally we come up with ideas that we think would work really well as a native desktop or mobile application. Still, we prototype those ideas on the web first.
Recently, I wanted to try and make one...
Noahpinion
You're not going to like what comes after Pax Americana
Welcome to the jungle.
a year ago
TheCollector
The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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4 months ago
Rest of World -...
How to launch a Chinese smartphone in Mexico
Antonio Tercero is guiding Infinix’s Mexico expansion, facing off against Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo.
11 months ago
Antonio Tercero is guiding Infinix’s Mexico expansion, facing off against Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo.
Tech + Economics +...
Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug.
Imagine a philosophy so focused on the ends that it becomes blind to the
means. This is the...
a year ago
Imagine a philosophy so focused on the ends that it becomes blind to the
means. This is the seductive trap of Effective Altruism (EA), a doctrine
born to the rationalist cradle, promising to solve the world's woes through
a calculator. Into this world stepped Sam...
Jonas Hietala
Summer job at Configura
This is a wrap up of my 5 weeks at Configura as a summer internship. There were 6 interns and we had...
over a year ago
This is a wrap up of my 5 weeks at Configura as a summer internship. There were 6 interns and we had two teams doing different things. I worked with two other awesome guys and it was great!
The Premise
We had two assignments this summer. One was to create an optimized version of...
nanoscale views
Items of interest
The start of the semester has been very busy, but here are some items that seem interesting:
As...
3 months ago
The start of the semester has been very busy, but here are some items that seem interesting:
As many know, there has been a lot of controversy in recent years about high pressure measurements of superconductivity. Here is a first-hand take by one of the people who helped bring...
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
CONTEMPORIST
Vertical Fins Surround The Exterior Of This House Giving It A Distinct Appearance
Architecture and design studio MDAMMM, has recently completed the remodel of a home that had a...
a year ago
Architecture and design studio MDAMMM, has recently completed the remodel of a home that had a nondescript appearance and little aesthetic appeal. The original home had an exposed brick facade in ochre tones and all other elements featured different grey tones and finishes. The...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 23-29 October 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Navigations on the Web
When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of...
a month ago
When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of thumb is: links are for navigation, buttons are not.
That can take you pretty far. However, like most things, there’s nuance and that mental model can fall apart under certain...
The Pragmatic...
Lyft in Trouble
Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just...
a year ago
Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just stepped down and a former Amazon executive is the new CEO. What does this major change mean?
TheCollector
What Is Appropriation in Art?
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a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn
Your app is not a product
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Milton
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
OK OK but I am CORNERING the market on...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
OK OK but I am CORNERING the market on Milton-related humor.
Today's News:
Aaron's Essays
Generative AI Might Just Save Venture Capital
Originally published in The Information on November 2.
For the past nine months, nearly every...
over a year ago
Originally published in The Information on November 2.
For the past nine months, nearly every investor with a Twitter account, blog or board seat has been beating a unified and constant refrain: The go-go days are done. Founders were being pushed to build 36 months of runway,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 072: The new new Claude
June 21, 2024.
6 months ago
TheCollector
6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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a year ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
Take One Thing and Become Insanely Obsessed with It for 6 Months
This is how it'll change your life
a month ago
This is how it'll change your life
Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
7 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
Construction Physics
Mass Timber is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing Shortage
A short policy memo recently posted on the Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) website argues...
9 months ago
A short policy memo recently posted on the Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) website argues that “mass timber can help solve the housing shortage.” It was posted as part of the Housing Ideas Challenge, a collaboration between FAS, Matt Yglesias and a few other...
The Solarchitecture...
Case study #2 - Sunbeam A-frame
Let's start 2023 with presenting one of my dearest projects.
a year ago
Let's start 2023 with presenting one of my dearest projects.
diamond geezer
Far From Super Loop
On bus shelters across London TfL are keenly advertising the Superloop. The poster shows a bus, a...
11 months ago
On bus shelters across London TfL are keenly advertising the Superloop. The poster shows a bus, a rainbow burst of pastel colours and the legend The Superloop Is Coming. The given date is Spring 2024 and it's described as a commitment by the Mayor to improve public transport in...
Making software...
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
2023-04-02
I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
a year ago
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
2023-04-02
I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a "downgrade" in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 060: Another CEO gone
March 29, 2024.
8 months ago
TheCollector
Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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8 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"You actually have to remind yourself not to believe"
[Virtual Reality] is the last medium. We’re at the very beginning of it, but version 147 is The...
over a year ago
[Virtual Reality] is the last medium. We’re at the very beginning of it, but version 147 is The Matrix or Total Recall. Our brain is no…
TheCollector
How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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7 months ago
The Berkeley...
Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation
Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from...
a year ago
Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from experience, analogously to how one might train a pet with treats. But practical applications of reinforcement learning are often far from natural: instead of using RL to learn through trial...
TheCollector
What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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2 weeks ago
Stephen Diehl
The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger
over a year ago
Mazdak
Google Pays $700 Million to Settle App Store Antitrust Concerns
Google has agreed to pay a hefty $700 million and implement key changes to its Play Store, settling...
a year ago
Google has agreed to pay a hefty $700 million and implement key changes to its Play Store, settling a major antitrust lawsuit brought by a coalition of states. This landmark deal marks a significant victory for developers and consumers alike, potentially paving the way for a more...
Drew Ex Machina
First Pictures: NASA’s Mars Pathfinder – July 4, 1997
During the morning hours of July 4, 1997, I experienced a strange sense of déjà vu as I sat glued to...
over a year ago
During the morning hours of July 4, 1997, I experienced a strange sense of déjà vu as I sat glued to the television set watching live […]
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
Awarded in two categories, Retail Design and Retail Technologies, at the Shop! D-A-CH Awards 2024. • Retail Design We were...
Tech and Tea
Transformed into a couch
On taking this time to slooooooow down
a year ago
On taking this time to slooooooow down
Irrational...
Better to micromanage than be disengaged.
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with.
They would...
a year ago
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with.
They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs,
and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions.
In those moments, I wished...
Quanta Magazine
Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases...
9 months ago
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
The post Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Impressionist Blogging Movement
I love this articulation: AI enables action without thought. It comes from an iA article about AI...
4 months ago
I love this articulation: AI enables action without thought. It comes from an iA article about AI and the future of design (emphasis mine):
Now, what actually is AI? The Italian philosopher and technology ethicist Luciano Floridi sums it up nicely. He posits that AI doesn’t...
TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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6 months ago
Blog - Mac Pierce
p5.js on Squarespace - The Basics
A quick guide on how to get p5.js guides working on Squarespace.
over a year ago
A quick guide on how to get p5.js guides working on Squarespace.
Retail Design Blog
John Hardy Boutique by Blancostudio & Kalpa Taru
Designed by Blanco Studio & crafted by Kalpa Taru, interior design at John Hardy’s workshop in...
a month ago
Designed by Blanco Studio & crafted by Kalpa Taru, interior design at John Hardy’s workshop in Mambal, Bali, is a...
Escaping Flatland
On shortcuts and longcuts
There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they...
7 months ago
There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they make. This gives the path a lovely human fit. But sometimes you want to do the opposite. You want to design ways to get people to take a longer path, a longcut, so they can see or...
alexwlchan
Redecorating my bedroom
Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the...
a year ago
Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the inspiration to finally redecorate my bedroom – something I’ve been thinking about for two years.
My bedroom used to have white walls, a dark grey feature wall, and a purple sliding...
The Gradient
The Artificiality of Alignment
This essay first appeared in Reboot.
Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk”...
a year ago
This essay first appeared in Reboot.
Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
Retail Design Blog
Courtyard by Marriott by STUDIO SHOO
The new Courtyard by Marriott Hotel opened recently in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital. The hotel is...
4 months ago
The new Courtyard by Marriott Hotel opened recently in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital. The hotel is located on Teryan Street 5,...
Diaries of Note
They were struck with terror
On the morning of 3rd August 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus departed the Spanish town...
a year ago
On the morning of 3rd August 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus departed the Spanish town of Palos de la Frontera and embarked on what would become a monumental voyage across the unknown Atlantic, one that would forever alter the course of human history. Steering three...
Simply Explained
HEIC to JPG: Build a Quick Action with Automator
With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The...
over a year ago
With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The High-Efficiency Image File Format saves a lot of storage space on your devices while still maintaining your photos' quality. However, it does become problematic if you want to share those files...
Christopher Butler
Sub-Second Orientation
When a visitor encounters a web-page for the first time, they will ask and answer three questions...
a year ago
When a visitor encounters a web-page for the first time, they will ask and answer three questions within about one second:
What is this content?
Is it relevant to me?
What should I do next?
Realistically, for a human to ask and answer three questions about...
Diaries of Note
It is in solitude that being shows its worth
When she wrote the following entry in her diary, 18-year-old Simone de Beauvoir was on the cusp of...
a year ago
When she wrote the following entry in her diary, 18-year-old Simone de Beauvoir was on the cusp of adulthood and soon to begin studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. Born into an upper-middle-class family in Paris, even at this early age the seeds of her introspective nature and...
The Honest Broker
Why Gregory Bateson Matters
Or what a counterculture might look like in the 21st century
6 days ago
Or what a counterculture might look like in the 21st century
Notes on software...
React without webpack: fast path to a working app from scratch
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
TheCollector
How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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7 months ago
Louwrentius
The impact of the MDADM bitmap on RAID performance
Introduction
I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads...
over a year ago
Introduction
I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads on hard drives anymore, that ship has sailed a long time ago. SSDs have taken their place (or 'the cloud').
For those few left who do use hard drives in Linux software RAID setups...
SOCKS
Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ Blueprints
Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was a British botanist and photographer. She was in direct contact with...
over a year ago
Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was a British botanist and photographer. She was in direct contact with William Henry Fox Talbot, (the inventor of calotype, an early photographic technique), and with Sir John Frederick William Herschel, (the inventor of the cyanotype, a technique that...
Acko.net
The Case for Use.GPU
Reinventing rendering one shader at a time
The other day I ran into a perfect example of...
over a year ago
Reinventing rendering one shader at a time
The other day I ran into a perfect example of exactly why GPU programming is so foreign and weird. In this post I will explain why, because it's a microcosm of the issues that lead me to build Use.GPU, a WebGPU rendering...
Old Structures...
Metaphorical Significant Figures
Continuing a bit further with yesterday’s line of thinking…what happens if we use the wrong code?...
6 months ago
Continuing a bit further with yesterday’s line of thinking…what happens if we use the wrong code? (I’m going to say now, at the beginning of this post, and I’ll repeat at the end: we can and should use the current codes. I use current codes in analysis and design; I use old codes...
Both Are True
the essay formerly known as romcom (act two)
Rom and Com are perfect for each other, but the universe has other plans
9 months ago
Rom and Com are perfect for each other, but the universe has other plans
Noahpinion
The Super-Scary Theory of the 21st Century (repost)
The haunting specter of techno-authoritarianism has only gotten more haunting
a year ago
The haunting specter of techno-authoritarianism has only gotten more haunting
Open Culture
Discover the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization...
I’ve always admired people who can successfully navigate what I refer to as “Kafka’s Castle,” a term...
a month ago
I’ve always admired people who can successfully navigate what I refer to as “Kafka’s Castle,” a term of dread for the many government and corporate agencies that have an inordinate amount of power over our permanent records, and that seem as inscrutable and chillingly absurd as...
Flashbak
Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
a month ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
The Modern House
At home with our favourite interiors influencer, Akilah Cohen
3 days ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
Christopher Butler
What If Phones Were Actually Designed for Hands?
Phones no longer fit in the hands they were made to be held and used by. How did that...
over a year ago
Phones no longer fit in the hands they were made to be held and used by. How did that happen?
can make is determined by the range of the hand’s capabilities (and in the modern era, of course, extended by technology), and what we make and use serves as something of an...
TheCollector
Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Brief, Dry, Almost Colorless Account '
The Polish
writer Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919-2000) --
Gulag survivor, co-founder of Kultura
and...
a year ago
The Polish
writer Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919-2000) --
Gulag survivor, co-founder of Kultura
and author of A World Apart: Imprisonment
in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II (1951) – has sent me back to
Varlam Shalamov and his Kolyma stories. Herling-Grudziński in 1971...
Explorations of an...
Borneo: Ridiculous Mothing At Trus Madi Entomology Camp
When doing research on the few possible "lifer" birds that I could find on this trip to Sabah, and...
a week ago
When doing research on the few possible "lifer" birds that I could find on this trip to Sabah, and in particular, looking for sites to find the Bornean Frogmouth, I read about the Trus Madi Entomology Camp. This piqued my interest, as there is almost nothing I like more than...
The Changelog
A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP)
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage....
over a year ago
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage. Sometimes, I would drive in to town where there was a signal to get messages, upload photos, and so forth. I had to take several devices with me: my phone, my wife’s, maybe a …...
NeuroLogica Blog
How To Prove Prevention Works
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm. Lisa: That’s specious...
10 months ago
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm. Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad. Homer: Thank you, dear. Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away. Homer: Oh, how does it work? Lisa: It doesn’t work. Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa:...
Home on Erik...
Implicit data and collaborative filtering
A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right?...
over a year ago
A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right? People rate things 1-5 stars and then you have to predict missing ratings.
While there's no doubt that the Netflix Prize was successful, I think it created an illusion that all...
Atoms vs Bits
Intuitions for Georgism
Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite...
4 months ago
Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite from deep in our archive. You can unsubscribe from Reissues but continue receiving our new posts by updating your preference here.
Last year, Atvbt’s bloggers published a piece...
The American Scholar
Battle Hymns
Charles Ives and the Civil War
The post Battle Hymns appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 months ago
Charles Ives and the Civil War
The post Battle Hymns appeared first on The American Scholar.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx Interview on Daily Dev Tips
I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
over a year ago
I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
Words and Buttons...
Sine and cosine
Interactive mnemonics and changeable snippets.TL&DR: Sine is like S and cosine is like C. You can...
over a year ago
Interactive mnemonics and changeable snippets.TL&DR: Sine is like S and cosine is like C. You can make things like O or 8 by using them both.
Construction Physics
The Technological Innovations that Produced the Shale Revolution
Part One of Hot Rocks: Commercializing Next-Generation Geothermal Energy
a year ago
Part One of Hot Rocks: Commercializing Next-Generation Geothermal Energy
Quanta Magazine
Two Students Shoot Down a Widely Believed Math Conjecture
Mathematicians thought they were on the cusp of proving a conjecture about the ancient structures...
a year ago
Mathematicians thought they were on the cusp of proving a conjecture about the ancient structures known as Apollonian circles. But a summer project would lead to its downfall.
The post Two Students Shoot Down a Widely Believed Math Conjecture first appeared on Quanta...
TheCollector
King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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10 months ago
Rest of World -...
Drop-shipping is a lifeline for unemployed graduates in South Africa
Chinese e-commerce websites have proven popular in the country and are fueling a new line of work.
10 months ago
Chinese e-commerce websites have proven popular in the country and are fueling a new line of work.
diamond geezer
Pointless push-button crossings
There are seven pedestrian crossings at the Bow Roundabout.
This one's worthwhile.
However this...
7 months ago
There are seven pedestrian crossings at the Bow Roundabout.
This one's worthwhile.
However this one's useless.
This one's useless too.
And what's interesting is that people generally don't realise this and press the buttons anyway. Parents heading to the shops press the...
Josh Collinsworth
How to Check Uniqueness in an Array of Objects in JavaScript
Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all...
over a year ago
Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all object keys (IDs) are unique, and how to find non-unique values.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 073: Music make you lose control
June 28, 2024.
5 months ago
Code Of Honor
Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists
In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers...
over a year ago
In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers — even good ones — seem to get terribly wrong! Then I’m going to share techniques (with source code) to make your game engine code simpler, faster, more memory efficient and more...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.40.0: Interface improvements and more!
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
over a year ago
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! Running a self-hosted instance? Check…
Marine Madness
Book Club: ‘How To Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea’
In this absolute must-have for all walkers, sailors, swimmers, divers, photographers, and nature...
over a year ago
In this absolute must-have for all walkers, sailors, swimmers, divers, photographers, and nature lovers, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares his knowledge and skills to help you navigate and interpret the water around you. Combining elements of natural navigation history,...
On Life and Lisp
The first conformant M1 GPU driver
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and
M2-family GPUs. That means the...
a year ago
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and
M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES
3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux!
For existing Asahi Linux users,
upgrade your system with dnf
upgrade (Fedora) or pacman
-Syu...
TheCollector
What Is Conceptual Photography?
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6 months ago
wadertales
Why count shorebirds? A tale from Portugal
The Sado Estuary is one of Portugal’s most important wetlands – a key link in the chain of sites...
a year ago
The Sado Estuary is one of Portugal’s most important wetlands – a key link in the chain of sites connecting Africa and the Arctic, on the East Atlantic Flyway. In a paper in Waterbirds, João Belo and colleagues analyse changes in numbers of waders wintering in this estuary over...
David Heinemeier...
Ears rarely open until a rapport is established
It's hard to open cold with a controversial take to a bunch of strangers. And the room is always...
3 months ago
It's hard to open cold with a controversial take to a bunch of strangers. And the room is always cold on X or in a one-off blog post. Just like comedy, half the battle of winning over the audience comes from a solid introduction, good timing, and a broad smile to warm the room....
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware July 2024
The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS...
4 months ago
The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS terminal myself, so it was pretty interesting to see all the anti-tamper traces built into the product (thank you jackw01 for sharing it!). I wonder how effective these are, and...
TheCollector
Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
2 weeks ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
swyx's site RSS Feed
If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
over a year ago
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
TokyoDev
All About Working Visas for Hiring Foreigners Full-time in Japan
*This article is a translation of [a Japanese...
12 months ago
*This article is a translation of [a Japanese article](https://michi.sociarise.co.jp/recruiting-tips/working-visas/) by Takumi Nakamura, the CEO of [Sociarise](https://sociarise.co.jp), a consultancy for hiring global talents.*
When considering hiring foreign nationals, their...
swyx's site RSS Feed
6 Things Markdown Got Wrong
John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong.
over a year ago
John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Thirty Madison and Condition-Specific Care | Out-Of-Pocket
I wanted to use this as an opportunity to talk a little bit about scalable telemedicine + specialist...
a year ago
I wanted to use this as an opportunity to talk a little bit about scalable telemedicine + specialist care.
The Modern House
Nigel Slater: the food writer opens the door to his fascinating home life
At the (surprising) age of “almost 70”, Nigel Slater is “off-the-scale happy.” As our co-founder...
a month ago
At the (surprising) age of “almost 70”, Nigel Slater is “off-the-scale happy.” As our co-founder Matt Gibberd discovers in our latest Homing In podcast, his late Georgian house in north London plays no small part in that contentment. Over the course of their conversation, the […]
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
a week ago
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
Aaron's Essays
Fundraising isn't predictable
I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying...
over a year ago
I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying conversations with investors. The founder's company was growing well, had crossed $1mm ARR, but still couldn't raise money. According to conventional wisdom, that should have been enough to...
Seth's Blog
Noodling for professionals
When Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue with his quartet, they spent a total of four days in the...
7 months ago
When Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue with his quartet, they spent a total of four days in the recording studio. They created one of the bestselling and most important jazz albums of all time in less than a week. Of course, they’d been exploring for months. In clubs, in front of...
HTMHell
#3 image-buttons
Bad code
<img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)">
<img src="/images/delete.gif"...
over a year ago
Bad code
<img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)">
<img src="/images/delete.gif" onclick="openDeleteDialog(123)">
Issues and how to fix them
The purpose of the img element is to display images, not to execute JavaScript.
A click event on a img triggers only on...
The Modern House
MRTN Architects’ garden studios in Melbourne are a place to work – or to not work
8 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Evidence Suggests Lunar Cave
Astronomers have discovered multiple “pits” on the surface of the moon – these look superficially...
5 months ago
Astronomers have discovered multiple “pits” on the surface of the moon – these look superficially like craters, but on closer inspection are actually vertical pits. There has been considerable speculation that these pits might be cave openings. Now, an analysis of data from the...
Londonist
Hither Green Rail Crash: 1967 Disaster Was One Of London's Worst
"I saw one of the coaches go straight up on its end."
a year ago
"I saw one of the coaches go straight up on its end."
The Great Discontent...
Sofía Gallisá Muriente
Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed...
over a year ago
Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now ¿Puedes compartir un poco sobre dónde y cómo creciste y qué influencia...
Explorations of an...
2023 Part 1: January Through Early March (Argentina, Uruguay)
Over the next little while I will be making a few photo-heavy blog posts, highlighting a few of my...
12 months ago
Over the next little while I will be making a few photo-heavy blog posts, highlighting a few of my favourite memories from 2023. Laura and I finished our extending traveling in Latin America, but the first four months of 2023 saw us visiting Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to close...
Platformer
Apple prepares for a platform shift
Will the Reality Pro be the metaverse’s iPhone moment?
a year ago
Will the Reality Pro be the metaverse’s iPhone moment?
Rest of World -...
ShopeeFood drops non-compete clause after Rest of World reporting
Drivers for the Vietnam delivery company had used workarounds but feared detection. After Rest of...
8 months ago
Drivers for the Vietnam delivery company had used workarounds but feared detection. After Rest of World's reporting, the clause was dropped.
Old Structures...
Almost Unrecognizeable
Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if...
7 months ago
Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if their descriptions don’t say were they were taken. The 1957 picture above threw me. We’re looking towards midtown – the Empire State Building makes that obvious – but from what...
Rest of World -...
OpenAI is making a risky bet on live translation
The company has a stunning demo — but can the product live up to the hype?
7 months ago
The company has a stunning demo — but can the product live up to the hype?
Anecdotal Evidence
'One of the Least Appealing Aspects of Our Species'
The twentieth
century was a graduate-level education in irony. Our medical advances...
2 months ago
The twentieth
century was a graduate-level education in irony. Our medical advances were
extraordinary – antibiotics, insulin, the Salk and Sabin vaccines. Airplanes, television,
computers, space exploration. And yet Guy Davenport was not being needlessly morbid
when he...
Simply Explained
Migrating This Blog From Jekyll to Eleventy
Jekyll has been powering this site for many years now. It replaced my WordPress setup, and I haven't...
over a year ago
Jekyll has been powering this site for many years now. It replaced my WordPress setup, and I haven't looked back. Over the last few months, I have become fed up with Jekyll. It's slowing me down. Time to replace it with something new and shiny!
Open Culture
Medieval Cats Behaving Badly: Kitties That Left Paw Prints … and Peed … on 15th Century Manuscripts
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” –Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–90) When...
7 months ago
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” –Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–90) When Emir O. Filipovic, a medievalist at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, visited the State Archives of Dubrovnik, he stumbled upon something that will hardly surprise...
Londonist
London's Alleyway Pubs: 13 Of The Best
Some of the finest ye olde pubs in London.
10 months ago
Some of the finest ye olde pubs in London.
./techtipsy
The little Wi-Fi AP that could
I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short...
over a year ago
I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short overview of one of them.
The Orange Pi Zero is a SBC (single board computer) that has a slow 32-bit ARM 4 core CPU, 512MB of RAM and no display output.
It’s actually quite OK for many...
TheCollector
10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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3 weeks ago
Words and Buttons...
Why did I write Geometry for programmers
This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons...
a year ago
This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons has been stagnant for a while though. I have been writing a book. Why? Well, visit and see.
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Case for the React Native Web Singularity
There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice...
over a year ago
There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice for developing for the mobile web than `react-dom`. If this speculation comes true, this would be gamechanging.
Retail Design Blog
Gelato Messina, Mt. Lawley
Opened their first store in Western Australia, the sunniest region in Australia with a hot, dry...
4 months ago
Opened their first store in Western Australia, the sunniest region in Australia with a hot, dry climate. This inspired a...
TheCollector
Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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2 months ago
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...
3 months ago
The local gig workers’ union defends the practice, which Uber forbids, as a form of peaceful pushback against low earnings.
TheCollector
Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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11 months ago
Retail Design Blog
OOTOO coffee by Empatía
OOTOO is a Kyoto-based coffee brand and we embarked on a journey to create its brand identity,...
4 months ago
OOTOO is a Kyoto-based coffee brand and we embarked on a journey to create its brand identity, wanting to encapsulate...
Louwrentius
The downside of 120 Mbit broadband internet
My Dutch ISP Ziggo provides internet access through DOCSIS cable modems. They are now capable of...
over a year ago
My Dutch ISP Ziggo provides internet access through DOCSIS cable modems. They are now capable of providging 120 Mbit downstream and 10 Mbit upstream, for an affordable price.
In a way this is mind boggling. Most people have 100 Mbit home networks that are not capable of handling...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Winner, Name that Ware June 2024
The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top...
4 months ago
The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top side heatsinks removed. I’ll give the prize to Alex, for the thoughtful details related in the comments. Congrats, email me for your prize! I chose this portion of the miner to...
Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of December 15, 2024
The key economic reports this week are Retail Sales, Housing Starts, Existing Home Sales, the 3rd...
a week ago
The key economic reports this week are Retail Sales, Housing Starts, Existing Home Sales, the 3rd estimate of Q3 GDP, and November Personal income and outlays.
----- Monday, December 16th -----
8:30 AM: The New York Fed Empire State manufacturing survey for December. The...
The Honest Broker
“The Only Sensible Person in the World”
10 Perspectives on Joan Didion
a year ago
10 Perspectives on Joan Didion
./techtipsy
How to build a fleet of networked offsite backups using Linux, WireGuard and rsync
Just like most people out there, I have some files that are irreplaceable, such as cat pictures.
At...
a week ago
Just like most people out there, I have some files that are irreplaceable, such as cat pictures.
At one point I had a few single-board computers sitting idle, namely
the Orange Pi Zero and
the LattePanda V1, and a few
1TB SSD-s.
I hate idle hardware, so I did the most sensible...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
a year ago
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
Odds and Ends of...
Book now! Where we're going, we need roads (and trains)
My next in-person event/meet-up, with transport policy expert Michael Dnes!
3 weeks ago
My next in-person event/meet-up, with transport policy expert Michael Dnes!
TheCollector
What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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nanoscale views
Disorganized thoughts on "Oppenheimer"
I saw "Oppenheimer" today. Spoiler warning, I suppose, though I think we all know how this story...
a year ago
I saw "Oppenheimer" today. Spoiler warning, I suppose, though I think we all know how this story ends. Just in case you were wondering, there is no post-credit scene to set up the sequel. (For the humor-impaired: that was a joke.)
The movie was an excellent piece of...
Saturday Morning...
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Flashbak
In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
a month ago
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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The American Scholar
Jane Skafte
The language of trees
The post Jane Skafte appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
The language of trees
The post Jane Skafte appeared first on The American Scholar.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Prescription Drug Commercials: Why are you the way you are? | Out-Of-Pocket
And is direct-to-consumer pharma marketing bad? Maybe not
a year ago
And is direct-to-consumer pharma marketing bad? Maybe not
Mazdak
Elon Musk: All In
He's the richest man in the world, a tech titan, and now...
a month ago
He's the richest man in the world, a tech titan, and now...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Different types of risk
The idea that founders take on “risk” is a misleading generalization. It is far more informative to...
over a year ago
The idea that founders take on “risk” is a misleading generalization. It is far more informative to separate the specific types of risks…
Probably...
Standard deviation of a count
This post is part of a new project with the working title Data Q&A: Answering the real questions...
8 months ago
This post is part of a new project with the working title Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. In each installment, I’ll take a question from Reddit’s statistics forum and answer it, using Python code to demonstrate. My answer is in a Jupyter notebook — see the...
Applied Cartography
Tailwind black magic: swallowing all pointer events
I wrote two days ago about a real and useful application of Tailwind black magic; here's...
8 months ago
I wrote two days ago about a real and useful application of Tailwind black magic; here's another.
Buttondown has a dropzone component lets folks drag-and-drop items or click on it to get a file-picker. It's used for importing images, archives, CSVs, the works: because it's so...
The Rational Walk
Three Lessons
A few life lessons based on observations over a half century.
a year ago
A few life lessons based on observations over a half century.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Machine Vision, Robots, and Endoscopes with Matt Schwartz | Out-Of-Pocket
When GI met AI
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TheCollector
Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Retail Design Blog
2gethr Hub Private Limited Offices
Innovative and sustainable workplace design at 2gethr Hub in Bengaluru prioritizes natural light,...
4 months ago
Innovative and sustainable workplace design at 2gethr Hub in Bengaluru prioritizes natural light, comfort, functionality, inclusivity, and sustainability certifications, creating...
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...
10 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...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #191
The dopamine loop, Berkshire Hathaway's annual report recap, Tom Gayner's letter to Markel...
9 months ago
The dopamine loop, Berkshire Hathaway's annual report recap, Tom Gayner's letter to Markel shareholders, Investing lessons from Earnest Shackleton, Google's Gemini AI goes off the rails
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Software Has Eaten The Media
As I wrote a year ago in The Rot Economy (and as I argued on the first episode of my podcast Better...
9 months ago
As I wrote a year ago in The Rot Economy (and as I argued on the first episode of my podcast Better Offline), I believe that both public and private markets have become decoupled from the concept of "good business," ruled instead by a hunger for the eternal
diamond geezer
Brent Cross West, West and East
The new Brent Cross West station serves two very different communities either side of the tracks....
a year ago
The new Brent Cross West station serves two very different communities either side of the tracks. You could call them Brent Cross West West and Brent Cross West East. Neither is buzzing with potential passengers.
Brent Cross West West is commercial and car-dominated, as befits...
AFAR Media - Travel...
This Luxury Hotel Brand Helps Protect and Preserve the Ocean
a year ago
Basta’s Notes
No hassle detected!
The importance of tools
4 months ago
Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
Open Culture
Download 1,000+ Digitized Tapes of Sounds from Classic Hollywood Films & TV, Courtesy of the...
Watch enough classic movies — especially classic movies from slightly downmarket studios — and...
3 months ago
Watch enough classic movies — especially classic movies from slightly downmarket studios — and you’ll swear you’ve been hearing the very same sound effects over and over again. That’s because you have been hearing the very same sound effects over and over again: once recorded or...
Diaries of Note
At some stage in the season, failure is going to stare you in the face
Originally, Eamon Dunphy had set out to document a full year in the life of a professional...
a year ago
Originally, Eamon Dunphy had set out to document a full year in the life of a professional footballer. However, fate had different plans, and four months into the 1973/4 season he left Millwall to sign for Charlton Athletic, thereby cutting his diary short. The result was an...
Common Edge
What Primitive Huts Teach Us About Architecture
An enduring ‘origin myth’ continues to inspire contemporary designers.
a year ago
An enduring ‘origin myth’ continues to inspire contemporary designers.
The American Scholar
The Scales
The post The Scales appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
The post The Scales appeared first on The American Scholar.
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
2 weeks ago
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
The Pragmatic...
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon?
Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
a year ago
Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
Retail Design Blog
Boosty Dog by Péter Molnár
Boosty Dog is a 100% natural herbal blend for dogs, formulated by a canine herbalist. These...
a month ago
Boosty Dog is a 100% natural herbal blend for dogs, formulated by a canine herbalist. These specialized medicinal products are...
mtlynch.io
Hiring: Freelance Blog Illustrator
I’m a blogger, and I often commission custom illustrations for my blog posts like this one:
An...
7 months ago
I’m a blogger, and I often commission custom illustrations for my blog posts like this one:
An example of an illustration I commissioned for the blog, part of my year-in-review series
The blog’s previous illustrator was the awesome Loraine Yow, who worked with me for six years....
Retail Design Blog
Alkonost mead by Sofya Khmeleva
“Alkonost” is a design concept of craft mead made according to traditional Slavic recipes. The...
3 months ago
“Alkonost” is a design concept of craft mead made according to traditional Slavic recipes. The design of the jar is...
TheCollector
The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Stoic Simple
How to Find Fulfillment in Life with Stoicism
In a world that often emphasizes material success and external validation, it can be difficult to...
a year ago
In a world that often emphasizes material success and external validation, it can be difficult to find true fulfillment. Stoicism, an ancient philosophy that emphasizes personal virtue, inner resilience, and self-awareness, offers a roadmap for finding inner peace and...
CONTEMPORIST
A Material Palette Of Pale Brick, Concrete, And Timber Echoes This Home’s Coastal Site
Architecture firm studioplusthree has shared photos of a project in Sydney, Australia, that included...
6 months ago
Architecture firm studioplusthree has shared photos of a project in Sydney, Australia, that included the alterations and additions to an existing house. The home features a material palette of pale brick, concrete, and timber evoking the project’s coastal location and echoing the...
TheCollector
Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 18-19 November 2023
Chocolate tasting, a wine festival, Winter Wonderland and more.
a year ago
Chocolate tasting, a wine festival, Winter Wonderland and more.
TheCollector
The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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Musings on Markets
Just do it! Brand Name Lessons from Nike'sTroubles!
I have spent the last week reading "Shoe Dog", Phil Knight's memoir of how a runner on the Oregon...
2 months ago
I have spent the last week reading "Shoe Dog", Phil Knight's memoir of how a runner on the Oregon University track team built one of the great shoe companies in the world, in Nike. In addition to its entertainment value, and it is a fun book to read, I read it for two...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Reading Notes on “Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp”
by Josef Czapski
over a year ago
Musings on Markets
A Business Upended: Streaming disrupts the Entertainment Business!
It has been an unsettling summer for anyone with a stake in the movie, television and broadcasting...
a year ago
It has been an unsettling summer for anyone with a stake in the movie, television and broadcasting businesses. The strike by screen actors and writers which started in July is now into almost into its third month, with no end in sight, putting at risk the pipeline of movies and...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - New Word
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7 months ago
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Genuinely ashamed how much time was wasted on this.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Moby
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7 months ago
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Really you start to wonder about all those pale blonde princesses in storybooks.
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Marylebone
MARYLEBONE
STATION
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London's Monopoly Streets
MARYLEBONE STATION
Group: British...
7 months ago
MARYLEBONE
STATION
🚂
£200
London's Monopoly Streets
MARYLEBONE STATION
Group: British Railways
Purchase price: £200
Rent: £25
Annual passengers: 10 million
Borough: Westminster
Postcode: NW1
that question, announcements on the Bakerloo line pronounce it MARR-le-bone.
A...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Outside
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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David Perell
The Paradox of Abundance
Information abundance, like all markets of abundance, is bad for the average person but great for a...
over a year ago
Information abundance, like all markets of abundance, is bad for the average person but great for a small number of people. Abundance is a paradox. Environments of abundance are bad for the median consumer but extremely good for a small number of conscious ones. Average consumers...
Epic Web Dev
Use Zod for All Form Validation (tip)
Learn how to use Zod and Conform to validate and transform form data into sessions
a year ago
Learn how to use Zod and Conform to validate and transform form data into sessions
Both Are True
brb
everything's fine just need some air
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everything's fine just need some air
Coffee with an...
A simple description
The structural exploration reflects the dichotomy of the diametrically opposed forces creating...
7 months ago
The structural exploration reflects the dichotomy of the diametrically opposed forces creating intrinsic tension within the interstitial forms which have been bifurcated and articulated throughout the design exploration phases resulting from the pedological rigor employed...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Asheville’s French Broad River is a Must-Visit
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Tony Dinh's...
April 2022: High churn, reached $6K MRR, and other updates.
Hello everyone! Welcome 150 new subscribers since my last issue. I’m glad to have you here! 👋 Here...
over a year ago
Hello everyone! Welcome 150 new subscribers since my last issue. I’m glad to have you here! 👋 Here is a quick update from me in April 2022. This should make a nice thumbnail for this page! 😁 🔻 Suffered from high churn In early April, Black Magic observed
Code Of Honor
The StarCraft path-finding hack
Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite...
over a year ago
Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite right, and then that minor issue becomes a rage-inducing, end-of-the-world problem. During the development of StarCraft there were times when path-finding just didn’t work at all. As...
Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
3 months ago
Seth's Blog
What happened vs. what we do about it
It’s possible to have a useful conversation about what to do about something that’s broken or needs...
8 months ago
It’s possible to have a useful conversation about what to do about something that’s broken or needs improvement. But first, we must acknowledge that it happened. It’s not controversial to understand the facts, the data and the shifts that are happening in the world we live in. In...
AVC
The 83b Election
First and foremost, this is not tax advice. I am not a tax advisor and you should never take...
a year ago
First and foremost, this is not tax advice. I am not a tax advisor and you should never take anything you read here as tax advice. If you read something here that makes you think you should take some tax-related action, please always consult your tax advisor. With that disclosure...
diamond geezer
30s update
This is probably a good day for my annual heatwave update.
Dates on which the temperature at...
4 months ago
This is probably a good day for my annual heatwave update.
Dates on which the temperature at Hampstead reached 30°C
JunJulAugSep
2010279/10
201127
2012 2518
2013 13 15/16/17 221
2014 18
2015 122
2016 18/19/202413
201717/18/19/20/216
2018 5/6/7/8 15 23 25/26/272/3...
Seth's Blog
What to do with firm footing
If we’ve got tenure, a lifetime appointment or simply a really secure gig, what should we do with...
10 months ago
If we’ve got tenure, a lifetime appointment or simply a really secure gig, what should we do with it? One option is to race to the bottom, to chase short-term self-focused outcomes and to see how much we can get away with. (Probably, quite a bit). The other is to take this rare...
Maggie Appleton
Frequently Asked Questions
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics?
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat...
over a year ago
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat limited scope, this may be indeed an economical alternative to splines.
Infinite Scroll
Worst Tweets of 2024 - Dishonorable Mentions
All of the most horrifying posts on Twitter that didn't make the final bracket
5 days ago
All of the most horrifying posts on Twitter that didn't make the final bracket
Contemporist...
This Sculptural Home Is Full Of Curves And Surrounded By Landscaping
Niko Architect has shared photos of a sculptural home with curves they designed that's been built...
9 months ago
Niko Architect has shared photos of a sculptural home with curves they designed that's been built into an artificially created landscape.
Old Structures...
The Downside of Going Topless
The picture above shows two photos of the same building in Chelsea, where we finished a repair...
a month ago
The picture above shows two photos of the same building in Chelsea, where we finished a repair project about a year ago. The left side is a tax photo from the 1940s; the right photo was taken after we were done with our work. The viaduct in the back is the Highline. This 1902...
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and...
over a year ago
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) don't always download properly in Internet Explorer. In fact, IE tends to see them as ZIP files and forces their extension to change to .zip when you select download. This...
Lars Lofgren
Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host
Are you sick of Forbes appearing in search results? For topics that Forbes doesn’t have any...
3 months ago
Are you sick of Forbes appearing in search results? For topics that Forbes doesn’t have any expertise in? Here’s the organic rankings for “best pet insurance”: Forbes ranks #2. Not sure a business website knows how pet insurance actually works. But okay. They also have the #1...
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
Londonist
Shoreditch Has A New Secret Garden... On A Viaduct
Get eye-level with Village Underground's tube trains.
a year ago
Get eye-level with Village Underground's tube trains.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moving to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain
The case for having a -Public- Second Brain, and why I picked Obsidian.
over a year ago
The case for having a -Public- Second Brain, and why I picked Obsidian.
Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
Retail Design Blog
INSILENCE store by design by 83
The Insilence Seongsu store, our second flagship store following Hannam-dong, celebrates the theme...
6 months ago
The Insilence Seongsu store, our second flagship store following Hannam-dong, celebrates the theme of ‘Rebuild.’ This new store showcases Insilence’s...
The American Scholar
Jason Middlebrook
Tree rings in time
The post Jason Middlebrook appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 months ago
Tree rings in time
The post Jason Middlebrook appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Honest Broker
When a Single Person Controlled the Copyright on All Music (Even Blank Music Paper)
Music copyright law is a mess today—but it's always been that way
a year ago
Music copyright law is a mess today—but it's always been that way
Noahpinion
Once again: Imports do not subtract from GDP
I've explained it before, and I'll keep explaining it until the world understands.
2 months ago
I've explained it before, and I'll keep explaining it until the world understands.
Seth's Blog
Two sides of “a big deal”
Many businesses thrive by helping people deal with projects that feel like they have high stakes. A...
a year ago
Many businesses thrive by helping people deal with projects that feel like they have high stakes. A kid’s first haircut, the offsite storage of data backup, an upcoming family reunion, a medical procedure or the inscription on a sentimental piece of jewelry or watch. But, if the...
Remains of the Day
My first podcast appearance
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
over a year ago
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
"We Should Sell To Self-Insured Employers" | Out-Of-Pocket
Six Stages Of Health Tech Grief Pt. 2
a year ago
Six Stages Of Health Tech Grief Pt. 2
Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
Blog - Bitfield...
Functional programming in Go
Thanks to generics, there are some interesting new ways to program in Go.
This article explains...
4 months ago
Thanks to generics, there are some interesting new ways to program in Go.
This article explains how we can use functional programming techniques like
Map, Filter, and Reduce, and what kind of problems they might help us to
solve.
TheCollector
Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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7 months ago
mtlynch.io
What Got Done - Month 1
Highlights I launched my task journaling app, but it hasn’t attracted many users. Interviewing...
over a year ago
Highlights I launched my task journaling app, but it hasn’t attracted many users. Interviewing potential customers gave me a good idea for my next project. I earned $107 from Is It Keto and $123 from Zestful without working on either. Goal Grades Publish a minimum viable product...
The American Scholar
Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
The post Aging Out appeared first on The American...
2 weeks ago
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
The post Aging Out appeared first on The American Scholar.
Articles - Alex...
The ageism in advertising
The advertising industry is addicted to youth. We are obsessed and
possessed. We crave it in our...
over a year ago
The advertising industry is addicted to youth. We are obsessed and
possessed. We crave it in our agencies and we covet it in our audiences. We
believe younger staff are more creative and younger consumers are more
valuable. But this is nothing more than received wisdom....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Family
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a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
Louwrentius
Performance monitoring using dstat
I'd like to introduce the utility 'dstat'. Dstat provides detailed statistics
about what is...
over a year ago
I'd like to introduce the utility 'dstat'. Dstat provides detailed statistics
about what is currently happening on your Linux box.
Dstat allows you to monitor the system load, disk troughput, disk io, network
bandwith, and many more items.
Dstat is so valuable because it...
Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
essay – snarfed.org
Possible futures for Bridgy Fed
Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support...
a month ago
Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support more users. It’s a technical question, but their underlying motivation is usually broader: they believe in the social web, and the fediverse(s), and they want them to connect...
The Ruffian
Can You Imitate a Genius?
What the new Amy Winehouse film tells us about singing, talent, and AI
8 months ago
What the new Amy Winehouse film tells us about singing, talent, and AI
Maps Mania
The 100 Most Segregated School Districts in America
9 months ago
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