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Community Organizing
1st Nov 2024
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Community Organizing

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Nov 2024
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When RAND Made Magic in Santa Monica RAND’s halcyon days lasted two decades, during which the corporation produced some of the most...
1st Jun 2024
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When RAND Made Magic in Santa Monica

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Jun 2024
RAND’s halcyon days lasted two decades, during which the corporation produced some of the most influential developments in science and American foreign policy. So how did it become just another think tank?
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Ten New Albums I'm Recommending Right Now Warning: strange soul-stirring sounds ahead!
1st Jun 2026
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Ten New Albums I'm Recommending Right Now

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

1st Jun 2026
Warning: strange soul-stirring sounds ahead!
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One Way Or Another .... We're going to get you.
7th Jun 2023
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One Way Or Another ....

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

7th Jun 2023
We're going to get you.
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Africa's Poor Numbers How much do we really know about African state of affairs?
22nd Jun 2025
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Africa's Poor Numbers

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

22nd Jun 2025
How much do we really know about African state of affairs?
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Ten Blue Links "Toxic optimisation" edition 1. Your job is making you anxious. ChatGPT isn't helping If 21st-century capitalism has one central...
3rd Nov 2025
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Ten Blue Links "Toxic optimisation" edition

from Ian Betteridge [alt+shift+b] in creative

3rd Nov 2025
1. Your job is making you anxious. ChatGPT isn't helping If 21st-century capitalism has one central tenet, it's that innovation rules and disruption drives progress. And generative AI is one of the most disruptive innovations of our lifetime. Which is why, as Morra Aarons-Mele...
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Devouring the Heart of Portugal On the morning of Thursday, 04 December 1924, a tall and well-dressed Dutch trader named Karel...
3rd May 2022
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Devouring the Heart of Portugal

from Damn Interesting [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd May 2022
On the morning of Thursday, 04 December 1924, a tall and well-dressed Dutch trader named Karel Marang strolled along Great Winchester Street in the City of London, among the bustling crowds of bankers and brokers of the business district, unaware that the parcel he carried held...
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A better urbanism
5th Nov 2009
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A better urbanism

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

5th Nov 2009
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November 2022
1st Nov 2022
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November 2022

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

1st Nov 2022
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Copying is the way design works CC-BY SA 4.0 (more on that in a bit). You can download, copy, remix, excerpt, ...
28th Oct 2020
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Copying is the way design works

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

28th Oct 2020
CC-BY SA 4.0 (more on that in a bit). You can download, copy, remix, excerpt, change, and repost it however you see fit. I Charles Eames said it best: “We don’t do ‘art’ — we solve problems.”1 2 They...
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i hated coding, but i learned to love it again I quit my software job in October, two years ago. I was tired and extremely frustrated. Things that...
14th Jan 2025
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i hated coding, but i learned to love it again

from Shilin typing [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Jan 2025
I quit my software job in October, two years ago. I was tired and extremely frustrated. Things that I enjoyed in the past no longer satisfied me. Those things were mostly related to coding. But like any fire, I started as a slowly burning dumpster until I hit a critical point and...
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Day 33: pairing is magic and beautiful git diffs a silly Rails login bug (or: pairing is magic) On Wednesday morning suddenly I wasn’t able to login...
7th Jan 2021
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Day 33: pairing is magic and beautiful git diffs

from Rc-2020 on Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2021
a silly Rails login bug (or: pairing is magic) On Wednesday morning suddenly I wasn’t able to login in my dev environment, even though it was working in prod and it had worked the day before and I thought I hadn’t made any changes to my login code. The error was really weird...
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Five Unbreakable Rules for Startups I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower...
13th Dec 2015
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Five Unbreakable Rules for Startups

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

13th Dec 2015
I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower of Paul Graham and the YC camp of startup wisdom. There’s now a great deal of literature laying out the unbreakable rules for startups. Despite studying this literature, I’ve...
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Build system insights
3rd Sep 2018
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Build system insights

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

3rd Sep 2018
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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
17th May 2024
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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark

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

17th May 2024
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
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We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem. Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
13th Dec 2024
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We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem.

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

13th Dec 2024
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
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How we're trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve...
3rd May 2014
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How we're trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2014
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
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What I'm up to - October 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2025
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What I'm up to - October 2025

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

1st Oct 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Spent Labor Day in Boulder - Went to Alchemy Springs Sauna in SF- I'm happy to see...
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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something...
4th Jul 2025
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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

4th Jul 2025
As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in the United States. Civil-military relations (typically shortened to ‘civ-mil’ or...
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[instagram] there will still be 125 pieces of my love lingering somewhere on the internet i used to be one of those people who would say, marriage is just a piece of paper. but after being...
a week ago
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[instagram] there will still be 125 pieces of my love lingering somewhere on the internet

from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

a week ago
i used to be one of those people who would say, marriage is just a piece of paper. but after being with her for years and years through all the tears and laughter it is starting to make me sad that if anything were to happen to me she wouldn’t be able to do things like make...
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The Problem with Education is a Problem of Incentives I’ve found that almost anyone I talk to agrees with the statement: There is something wrong with...
10th May 2022
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The Problem with Education is a Problem of Incentives

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

10th May 2022
I’ve found that almost anyone I talk to agrees with the statement: There is something wrong with education, particularly higher education.
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Have Movies Stopped Killing Their Main Character? A Statistical Analysis A data-driven investigation of movie hero mortality rates
7th May 2025
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Have Movies Stopped Killing Their Main Character? A Statistical Analysis

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

7th May 2025
A data-driven investigation of movie hero mortality rates
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Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are...
2nd Apr 2021
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Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2021
Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are probably familiar with the acoustic characteristics of the drives. The drives have a loud hum caused by WD running the drives at 7200rpm while claiming the drives to be...
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Ganging Up on Psychological Science Sometimes, the costs of doing good science outgrow the resources available to the individual...
31st Aug 2018
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Ganging Up on Psychological Science

from Peder M. Isager [alt+shift+b] in science

31st Aug 2018
Sometimes, the costs of doing good science outgrow the resources available to the individual scientist. Large scale collaboration projects are quickly becoming our best tool for dealing with this problem in psychology.
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The universal translator
27th Mar 2026
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The universal translator

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Mar 2026
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What does a Data Scientist really do? No, you don't need a PhD or 10+ years of experience.
30th Apr 2019
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What does a Data Scientist really do?

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

30th Apr 2019
No, you don't need a PhD or 10+ years of experience.
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The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems AI caught everyone’s attention in 2023 with Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be instructed to...
18th Feb 2024
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The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

18th Feb 2024
AI caught everyone’s attention in 2023 with Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be instructed to perform general tasks, such as translation or coding, just by prompting. This naturally led to an intense focus on models as the primary ingredient in AI application development,...
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Creating Magic Functions in IPython - Part 1 IPython magic functions # One of the cool features of IPython are magic functions - helper functions...
1st Feb 2019
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Creating Magic Functions in IPython - Part 1

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

1st Feb 2019
IPython magic functions # One of the cool features of IPython are magic functions - helper functions built into IPython. They can help you easily start an interactive debugger, create a macro, run a statement through a code profiler or measure its' execution time and do many more...
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Softening Our Inner Critic Find nourishment in the weeds
4th Dec 2023
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Softening Our Inner Critic

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

4th Dec 2023
Find nourishment in the weeds
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AGI, agents, and timelines AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s...
6th Feb 2025
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AGI, agents, and timelines

from Alex MacCaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2025
AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s release, but recent developments have significantly accelerated my timelines. The first major shift was OpenAI’s breakthrough in test-time compute and its newly demonstrated scaling...
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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people When I started building up a tech team for Better, I made a very conscious decision to pay at the...
21st Feb 2019
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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

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

21st Feb 2019
When I started building up a tech team for Better, I made a very conscious decision to pay at the high end to get people. I thought this made more sense: they cost a bit more money to hire, but output usually more than compensates for it.
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Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote...
8th Apr 2008
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Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP

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

8th Apr 2008
This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote webpage. $c = curl_init(); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/"); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $data =...
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In praise of questions Prende y se apaga sola, sale después de hora. CHARLY GARCÍA La máquina de ser feliz I’ve learned to...
a week ago
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In praise of questions

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

a week ago
Prende y se apaga sola, sale después de hora. CHARLY GARCÍA La máquina de ser feliz I’ve learned to tolerate them, and sometimes even like them, but Zoom meetings are weird. Even in familiar contexts: I have weekly check-ins with … Continue reading →
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Progress on the Block Protocol Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents...
19th Dec 2022
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Progress on the Block Protocol

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

19th Dec 2022
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"
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Norfolk Coast Designed by Lantern, London.
23rd Nov 2023
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Norfolk Coast

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

23rd Nov 2023
Designed by Lantern, London.
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Can anything stop Kalshi? The lax regulation of prediction markets reminds many analysts of the late 1920s. You might remember...
3rd Apr 2026
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Can anything stop Kalshi?

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Apr 2026
The lax regulation of prediction markets reminds many analysts of the late 1920s. You might remember what happened then.
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When Labor is Scarce, Equity is the Mezzanine Tranche Plus! What Goes Up; Refinancing; Investor Relations; Scaling; Infrastructure
2nd Apr 2026
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When Labor is Scarce, Equity is the Mezzanine Tranche

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

2nd Apr 2026
Plus! What Goes Up; Refinancing; Investor Relations; Scaling; Infrastructure
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Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team,...
3rd May 2018
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Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams

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

3rd May 2018
New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team, company, or organization. Read more "Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams"
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My favourite etymologies: the dog days of summer Let’s get canicular
7th Sep 2026
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My favourite etymologies: the dog days of summer

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

7th Sep 2026
Let’s get canicular
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The Great Permitting Downturn and Your Rent Renting a home is more expensive because we stopped letting people build homes
1st Sep 2026
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The Great Permitting Downturn and Your Rent

from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Sep 2026
Renting a home is more expensive because we stopped letting people build homes
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Tailwind CSS Color Tokens (tutorial)
19th Aug 2024
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Tailwind CSS Color Tokens (tutorial)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Aug 2024
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Python & JavaScript Libraries The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy...
23rd Jan 2024
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Python & JavaScript Libraries

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

23rd Jan 2024
The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy to integrate your Python or JavaScript, or Typescript app with Ollama in a few lines of code. Both libraries include all the features of the Ollama REST API, are familiar in...
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Life is like high school When you’re in high school, it’s all about popularity, cliques, and being cool. Many people get...
1st Jun 2000
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Life is like high school

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

1st Jun 2000
When you’re in high school, it’s all about popularity, cliques, and being cool. Many people get out of college thinking the world will be like that — like the harder you work, the more you’ll be rewarded. But it’s not. But you can make this work in your favor. You can...
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Dictionary Comprehension Apart from the list comprehension method, in Python, we also have dictionary comprehension - a...
19th Jan 2023
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Dictionary Comprehension

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

19th Jan 2023
Apart from the list comprehension method, in Python, we also have dictionary comprehension - a little less known but very useful feature. It's a perfect tool for creating a dictionary from an iterable. Let's see how we can use it and if it's faster than other methods. About the...
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Quantum Lorem Ipsum I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon!...
20th Apr 2021
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Quantum Lorem Ipsum

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Apr 2021
I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon! To those who are not familiar, Lorem Ipsum is a piece of latin text, comprised of multiple paragraphs, that is used as a placeholder during the design process of building a page
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Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) Today's links The Post-American Internet: My speech from Hamburg's Chaos Communications Congress....
1st Jan 2026
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Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026)

from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jan 2026
Today's links The Post-American Internet: My speech from Hamburg's Chaos Communications Congress. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Error code 451; Public email address Mansplaining Lolita; NSA backdoor in Juniper Networks; Don't bug out; Nurses whose...
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Styling Ordered Lists with CSS Counters Styling an ordered list can be surprisingly tricky; there's no way to get at that bullet! In this...
7th Apr 2020
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Styling Ordered Lists with CSS Counters

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2020
Styling an ordered list can be surprisingly tricky; there's no way to get at that bullet! In this tutorial, we'll see a handy trick using CSS counters that lets us style ordered lists without breaking proper semantics.
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Should they buy…Allbirds? Everyone pivots to the enterprise. Plus, Block becomes a box.
3rd Apr 2026
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Should they buy…Allbirds?

from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Apr 2026
Everyone pivots to the enterprise. Plus, Block becomes a box.
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Atlanta BeltLine – Eastside Trail I arrived in Atlanta, Georgia for business. On the final day I wrapped-up and had a little time to...
19th Mar 2023
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Atlanta BeltLine – Eastside Trail

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

19th Mar 2023
I arrived in Atlanta, Georgia for business. On the final day I wrapped-up and had a little time to visit a family member who lives in the city. That became a good excuse to head over to the Grant Park neighborhood on Atlanta’s eastside. We spent most of our late afternoon walking...
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Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels --> This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have...
31st May 2016
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Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

31st May 2016
--> This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have noticed that computers can now automatically learn to play ATARI games (from raw game pixels!), they are beating world champions at Go, simulated quadrupeds are learning to run and leap,...
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ode to libraries (the book ones) Most of the audience reading this post think of some random new programming tool dropped recently...
25th Sep 2025
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ode to libraries (the book ones)

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Sep 2025
Most of the audience reading this post think of some random new programming tool dropped recently when the word library comes up. Let’s leave our déformation professionnelle in the door and think about the libraries. Book ones. This post is an ode to them. I am not sure if...
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Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday
1st Apr 2022
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Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2022
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The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
7th May 2021
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The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

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

7th May 2021
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
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Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real Like a perpetual motion machine, a time crystal forever cycles between states without consuming...
14th Oct 2021
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Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real

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

14th Oct 2021
Like a perpetual motion machine, a time crystal forever cycles between states without consuming energy. Physicists claim to have built this new phase of matter inside a quantum computer.
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Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course,...
4th Oct 2021
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Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released

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

4th Oct 2021
We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course, written in Go, would be better served if it covered Python instead. After much deliberation, we decided to rewrite the course, and we’re super excited to have now released the...
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Why we prefer computers over consoles when introducing kids to gaming I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing...
8th Mar 2024
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Why we prefer computers over consoles when introducing kids to gaming

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Mar 2024
I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing games with my brothers on those devices. But as my own kids have gotten older, my wife and I have decided to first introduce them to gaming with computers, instead of consoles. The...
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Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the STARLINK Admin Panel
23rd Jan 2025
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Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the STARLINK Admin Panel

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Jan 2025
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Before + After – A New Garden Studio For A Writer MW Architects has shared photos of a new garden room in London, England, that replaced an old...
1st Mar 2024
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Before + After – A New Garden Studio For A Writer

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Mar 2024
MW Architects has shared photos of a new garden room in London, England, that replaced an old derelict wash house, that was in danger of slipping down a steep slope and existed at the back of an overgrown garden. Here’s what it looked like originally. The new studio, which has...
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Issue 45 – I'm the director now Rising bitcoin prices bring echoes of the crypto mania from years past, and an ambitious hacker...
5th Dec 2023
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Issue 45 – I'm the director now

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

5th Dec 2023
Rising bitcoin prices bring echoes of the crypto mania from years past, and an ambitious hacker decides to manifest a new job for themselves.
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Wealth is not money, it’s the things we use money for As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing....
4th Mar 2023
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Wealth is not money, it’s the things we use money for

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Mar 2023
As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing. However, it’s essential to understand that money is not wealth. Wealth is stuff we want and by that logic, people can be wealthy even if they don’t have a lot of money. In fact,...
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Solar Is Booming Solar power as a source of electricity has been on a meteoric rise, and has crossed some encouraging...
1st Sep 2026
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Solar Is Booming

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

1st Sep 2026
Solar power as a source of electricity has been on a meteoric rise, and has crossed some encouraging milestone recently. Every way you look at it, solar is booming. This is driven primarily by the decrease in the cost of adding solar power, so let’s start there. The Berkley Lab...
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The Soul of the Heart Nebula A spectacular emission Nebula, the Heart Nebula is one of the classics of Northern Hemisphere...
5th Nov 2022
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The Soul of the Heart Nebula

from Light from Space [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Nov 2022
A spectacular emission Nebula, the Heart Nebula is one of the classics of Northern Hemisphere amateury astronomy. In the gallery below, I've highlighted 3 very different areas of the image: Left: Planetary Nebula WeBo-1 Middle: Melotte 15 in the... heart of the Heart...
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
13th Feb 2024
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism

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

13th Feb 2024
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Nuances of Minimalism Minimalism can be perceived in different ways, as it should be, because there are in fact many...
3rd Aug 2021
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Nuances of Minimalism

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Aug 2021
Minimalism can be perceived in different ways, as it should be, because there are in fact many nuances to the movement. Is it even a movement? It’s perhaps better described as a guiding principle. Some of these nuances are highly commercial, some are focused on personal wellbeing...
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of...
16th Feb 2018
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
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2024-06-02 consumer electronics control In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less...
2nd Jun 2024
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2024-06-02 consumer electronics control

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

2nd Jun 2024
In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less important part of the modern home theater landscape. One reason is the broad decline of the component system: most consumers aren't buying a television, home theater receiver,...
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice...
5th Jan 2026
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jan 2026
I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice illustration: accompanied by explanation: Fast forward to 2025. Apple releases macOS Tahoe. Main attraction? Adding unpleasant, distracting, illegible, messy, cluttered, confusing, frustrating...
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Try the Last Internet Kermit Server $ grep kermit /etc/services kermit 1649/tcp What is this mysterious protocol? Who uses it and what...
4th Aug 2023
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Try the Last Internet Kermit Server

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

4th Aug 2023
$ grep kermit /etc/services kermit 1649/tcp What is this mysterious protocol? Who uses it and what is its story? This story is a winding one, beginning in 1981. Kermit is, to the best of my knowledge, the oldest actively-maintained software package with an original developer...
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Organizing a design system via folksonomy Design systems are organized in an imperative, top-down, hierarchical way. By this, I mean its...
15th May 2025
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Organizing a design system via folksonomy

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th May 2025
Design systems are organized in an imperative, top-down, hierarchical way. By this, I mean its maintainers decide on categories of content, and then how that content is ordered. This is done as a calculated bet to best serve the known and unknown audiences who consume the design...
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Solving a math problem with planner programming The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either...
2nd Jul 2024
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Solving a math problem with planner programming

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2024
The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either the end of this week or early next week. During a break on Monday I saw this interesting problem on Math Stack Exchange: Suppose that at the beginning there is a blank document,...
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How will OpenAI compete? OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with...
19th Feb 2026
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How will OpenAI compete?

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Feb 2026
OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage...
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Asking questions Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly...
30th Mar 2020
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Asking questions

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Mar 2020
Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly without ego. If you spend time with 2-5 year olds, you’ll find yourself answering a near infinite series of progressively more challenging questions. This is one of the main paths by...
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
8th Sep 2023
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies

from Dr Alun Withey [alt+shift+b] in history

8th Sep 2023
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four Lately I've been reading Orwell's collected work from 1945–1950, which was being deaccessioned from...
12th Sep 2026
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George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four

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

12th Sep 2026
Lately I've been reading Orwell's collected work from 1945–1950, which was being deaccessioned from the library. It opens with a short but fascinating essay on , published 19 October 1945. It seems clear that Orwell's thinking about this development led directly to his novel ,...
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Comic for 2025.08.01 - Compadres New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
1st Aug 2025
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Comic for 2025.08.01 - Compadres

from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics

1st Aug 2025
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Blog questions challenge: TV shows The imitable R.L. Dane tagged me in this blog post challenge, which I will not take sitting down....
13th Apr 2025
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Blog questions challenge: TV shows

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life

13th Apr 2025
The imitable R.L. Dane tagged me in this blog post challenge, which I will not take sitting down. That’s a blatant lie, I’m 100% sitting down as I write this. I’m also drinking coffee, in case that was never obvious. What TV character from a beloved show do you wish you could be...
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Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
19th Feb 2021
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Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards

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

19th Feb 2021
Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
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How Much More Must We Bleed? - Citrix NetScaler Memory Disclosure (CitrixBleed 2 CVE-2025-5777) Before you dive into our latest diatribe, indulge us and join us on a journey. Sit in your chair,...
4th Jul 2025
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How Much More Must We Bleed? - Citrix NetScaler Memory Disclosure (CitrixBleed 2 CVE-2025-5777)

from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jul 2025
Before you dive into our latest diatribe, indulge us and join us on a journey. Sit in your chair, stand at your desk, lick your phone screen - close your eyes and imagine a world in which things are great. It’s sunny outside, the birds are chirping, and
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ckBTC internals: event log
1st May 2023
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ckBTC internals: event log

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2023
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Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structures This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a...
1st Oct 2015
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Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structures

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

1st Oct 2015
This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a library called Annoy that I have built that helps you do nearest neighbor queries in high dimensional spaces.
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against the fleeing to europe industrial complex a brief polemic
18th May 2025
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against the fleeing to europe industrial complex

from the late review [alt+shift+b] in literature

18th May 2025
a brief polemic
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The Black Panther: Black Community News Service Contributed by Stephen Coles Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable) Bold Face No. 2 (IBM)...
24th Aug 2020
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The Black Panther: Black Community News Service

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

24th Aug 2020
Contributed by Stephen Coles Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable) Bold Face No. 2 (IBM) (Sample unavailable) Source: letterformarchive.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Black Panther, published weekly by the Black Panther Party, shone a light on...
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Moving to Node.js The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of...
6th Feb 2017
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Moving to Node.js

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

6th Feb 2017
The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of software that I'm very proud of, but I decided to move the project to Node.js for a few important reasons. This is by no means a knock on PHP, which will always have a special...
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Pen and paper The tactile joy of thinking with lines on paper.
11th Apr 2025
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Pen and paper

from Thu Le [alt+shift+b] in life

11th Apr 2025
The tactile joy of thinking with lines on paper.
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Why I Still Prefer to Prototype Using Code There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of...
16th Apr 2024
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Why I Still Prefer to Prototype Using Code

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Apr 2024
There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of them over the years. I think these days, most everyone is using Figma, but whatever app you’re using—most of them typically have some sort of prototyping feature. Typically they have...
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From Azure Functions to FreeBSD Putting FreeBSD’s “power to serve” motto to the test
7th Dec 2025
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From Azure Functions to FreeBSD

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2025
Putting FreeBSD’s “power to serve” motto to the test
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Closest Thing To Crazy there's a link between the two
1st Apr 2026
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Closest Thing To Crazy

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Apr 2026
there's a link between the two
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First-time fundraising is hell - maybe this helps 💰 Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I...
2nd Dec 2022
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First-time fundraising is hell - maybe this helps 💰

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

2nd Dec 2022
Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I try to give a few mental models and a bit tactical advice.
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Oblast: a better Blasto game for the Commodore 64 wiring up a Gremlin Blasto arcade board, we talked at length about this 1978 arcade game's history...
6th Dec 2025
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Oblast: a better Blasto game for the Commodore 64

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Dec 2025
wiring up a Gremlin Blasto arcade board, we talked at length about this 1978 arcade game's history and its sole official home computer port by Milton Bradley to the Texas Instruments 99/4A. In the single player mode you run around in a maze and try to blow up all the mines, which...
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The real data wall is billions of years of evolution Say you have a time machine. You can only use it once, to send a single idea back to 2005. If you...
3rd Oct 2024
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The real data wall is billions of years of evolution

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Oct 2024
Say you have a time machine. You can only use it once, to send a single idea back to 2005. If you wanted to speed up the development of AI, what would you send back? Many people suggest attention or transformers. But I’m convinced that the answer is “brute-force”—to throw as much...
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It’s Been a Minute I’ve been meaning to write about *all of this*.
3 weeks ago
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It’s Been a Minute

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

3 weeks ago
I’ve been meaning to write about *all of this*.
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I sold Big Timer Five months ago I sold my countdown timer web app, Big Timer! I never really announced that, so...
18th Apr 2022
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I sold Big Timer

from Koos Looijesteijn - Everything [alt+shift+b] in design

18th Apr 2022
Five months ago I sold my countdown timer web app, Big Timer! I never really announced that, so here’s what...
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer...
15th Jan 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Jan 2025
The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer using these images: They could want to know whether there are tumors present or not. If there is a tumor, doctors would want to classify its stage, make predictions about how...
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How I obtained a J-FIND visa in Japan The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business...
13th Feb 2024
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How I obtained a J-FIND visa in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2024
The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business startup, and other income-generating endeavors within Japan — opportunities that were previously inaccessible to do so. I was one of the first recipients of this visa, which provided me...
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The optics of pair programming If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with...
17th May 2022
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The optics of pair programming

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th May 2022
If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with another person to work on a problem. You’ll often hear it in development contexts, but I've also encountered it with design. In the Before Times, we paired by walking over to a...
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Made in 2025 Here are some things I made in 2025: Pro-Wrestler or Roller Coaster A Fusion 360 Script for creating...
1st Jan 2026
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Made in 2025

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2026
Here are some things I made in 2025: Pro-Wrestler or Roller Coaster A Fusion 360 Script for creating a Penrose Triangle in CAD A personal book recommendation tool, which used my archive of book reviews, the OpenAI API, and RAG techniques to give me personalized book...
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Comics from December 1962 Issue of Computers and Automation Out oldest one yet
10th Oct 2025
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Comics from December 1962 Issue of Computers and Automation

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Oct 2025
Out oldest one yet
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'A Book That Everybody Can Understand' A partner at the Houston law firm where my youngest son is working as an intern this summer has...
1st Aug 2025
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'A Book That Everybody Can Understand'

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Aug 2025
A partner at the Houston law firm where my youngest son is working as an intern this summer has loaned him two nineteenth-century law books. Both were compiled by John G. Wells (1821-80) and were bestsellers in their day, long before the practice of law was fully...
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.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
4th Oct 2023
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.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels

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

4th Oct 2023
Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
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a review on protein language models Protein “language” is a lot like human language. Given the similarities, researchers have been...
12th May 2024
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a review on protein language models

from Apoorva Srinivasan [alt+shift+b] in science

12th May 2024
Protein “language” is a lot like human language. Given the similarities, researchers have been building and training language models on protein sequence data, replicating the success seen in other domains, with profound implications. In this post, I will explore how transformer...
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Time for another LinkedIn break Yes, it’s that time again: the season to be jolly and time to stop wasting time on LinkedIn for a...
11th Dec 2025
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Time for another LinkedIn break

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

11th Dec 2025
Yes, it’s that time again: the season to be jolly and time to stop wasting time on LinkedIn for a while. I’ve gone on a couple of, admittedly not very successful, LinkedIn breaks before (see here and here), breaks from which I always returned after a few weeks, in part because...
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Buenos Aires recommendations I wrote a Buenos Aires guide with recommendations and tips for a group of friends I was traveling...
6th Mar 2022
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Buenos Aires recommendations

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Mar 2022
I wrote a Buenos Aires guide with recommendations and tips for a group of friends I was traveling with in December 2021, and I figured it might be useful to other people too. I adore Buenos Aires and spend about a month each year there, so I'm always thrilled to hear when friends...
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Designers Need Thicker Skin Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I'm not normally one to comment or even really care about...
10th Jul 2017
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Designers Need Thicker Skin

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jul 2017
Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I'm not normally one to comment or even really care about "drama" within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
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ESP32: Tips to increase battery life Running an ESP32 on a battery is a tricky operation. The chip is a powerhouse, and with power comes...
4th Dec 2019
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ESP32: Tips to increase battery life

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

4th Dec 2019
Running an ESP32 on a battery is a tricky operation. The chip is a powerhouse, and with power comes great responsibility. In this post, I’ll outline how I got an ESP32 to run for over 15 weeks (and counting) on a single 1000mAh battery.
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What's "good" code and does it matter? I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back...
14th Oct 2020
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What's "good" code and does it matter?

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

14th Oct 2020
I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back and ask: what does that even mean? And does it matter? At a high level, "good code" is code that is suitable for its purpose and achieves its goals. That definition is pretty...
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Payments vs Transfers Transfer means to move money but payment means "exchanging goods or services". A payment system has...
4th Feb 2023
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Payments vs Transfers

from sbensu [alt+shift+b] in literature

4th Feb 2023
Transfer means to move money but payment means "exchanging goods or services". A payment system has a lot more requirements than a transfer system and I rarely see the crypto ecosystem acknowledge these when building "payment" products.
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Jennifer Pahlka: Fixing Government: Bottom Up and Outside In ## Toward agile government Pahlka quoted: “Efficiency in government is a matter of social justice.”...
2nd Feb 2017
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Jennifer Pahlka: Fixing Government: Bottom Up and Outside In

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd Feb 2017
## Toward agile government Pahlka quoted: “Efficiency in government is a matter of social justice.” (Mayor John Norquist) It is at the often maddening interface with government that the inefficiency and injustice play out. Two examples (both now fixed)… At the Veterans Affairs...
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CSS Media Query for Scripting Support Chrome 120 was released last week and in this version, we got the CSS Media Query for scripting...
4th Dec 2023
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CSS Media Query for Scripting Support

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2023
Chrome 120 was released last week and in this version, we got the CSS Media Query for scripting support. Simply, this media query allows you to test whether scripting language are available and tailor page content and styles depending on support. Media query syntax # There are...
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The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts A bit of a rant about Apple
25th Jan 2023
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The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts

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

25th Jan 2023
A bit of a rant about Apple
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Jolted and Jumbled: Riding in a Sedan Chair in the 18th Century If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is...
19th Aug 2025
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Jolted and Jumbled: Riding in a Sedan Chair in the 18th Century

from Dr Alun Withey [alt+shift+b] in history

19th Aug 2025
If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is a sedan chair.  Recently I have been doing some work on stage coaches, and the experience of what it was actually like to travel in one. This is already turning up some interesting...
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NFIB Offices by HLGstudio HLGstudio reimagined the NFIB offices in Nashville, creating a vibrant, collaborative environment...
6th May 2025
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NFIB Offices by HLGstudio

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

6th May 2025
HLGstudio reimagined the NFIB offices in Nashville, creating a vibrant, collaborative environment that maximizes natural daylight and promotes productivity and...
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No more boring drawings! Many drawing tutorials show us how to draw things. They teach us how to make photo-like drawings....
28th Jan 2026
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No more boring drawings!

from Ralph Ammer [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jan 2026
Many drawing tutorials show us how to draw things. They teach us how to make photo-like drawings. Such renderings look decent but also generic, conventional—like something an AI tool might produce. And they are also…  boring. Why is that? Because they don’t mean anything. Meaning...
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Access Ring Discover and invoke UI elements near your cursor, without precise mouse targeting. A Logi Actions...
16th Apr 2026
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Access Ring

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Apr 2026
Discover and invoke UI elements near your cursor, without precise mouse targeting. A Logi Actions SDK plugin for MX Creative Console and Actions Ring. Buttons, checkboxes, menus, tabs, dropdowns: tap to interact with whatever is nearby. The problem with precise clicking Every...
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Seasonal Changes Finding space and time to sloooooow down
19th Nov 2023
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Seasonal Changes

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

19th Nov 2023
Finding space and time to sloooooow down
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How the DevTeam conquered the iPhone
21st Jan 2024
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How the DevTeam conquered the iPhone

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

21st Jan 2024
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how good will you let it get? loosen your grip to let abundance flow in
1st Apr 2025
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how good will you let it get?

from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Apr 2025
loosen your grip to let abundance flow in
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Unwinding as a founder
19th Nov 2024
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Unwinding as a founder

from Ryan Hoover's Writing [alt+shift+b] in life

19th Nov 2024
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How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a...
13th May 2025
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How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th May 2025
This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth. Since 20 January, US science has been upended by severe cutbacks from...
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The secondary market in gift cards This post by patio11 covers a few things that I learned working with gift cards over the years.
13th Dec 2021
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The secondary market in gift cards

from sbensu [alt+shift+b] in literature

13th Dec 2021
This post by patio11 covers a few things that I learned working with gift cards over the years.
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Rotating my PGP key
1st Aug 2025
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Rotating my PGP key

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

1st Aug 2025
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Google Analytics data collection
14th Apr 2023
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Google Analytics data collection

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Apr 2023
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Precognition It’s almost impossible to predict the future. But it’s also unnecessary, because most people are...
13th Jun 2021
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Precognition

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

13th Jun 2021
It’s almost impossible to predict the future. But it’s also unnecessary, because most people are living in the past. All you have to do is see the present before everyone else does. To be less pithy, but more clear: Most people are slow to notice and accept change. If you can...
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The story of Musium
21st Sep 2025
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The story of Musium

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

21st Sep 2025
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Weird projects I shipped with AI
1st Jun 2026
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Weird projects I shipped with AI

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

1st Jun 2026
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Everything I know about gardening I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies...
2nd Jul 2023
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Everything I know about gardening

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

2nd Jul 2023
I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies and roses, or my fields, and several people have asked me to write about gardening, or for gardening advice. But this request encounters a ridiculous shortcoming: I know almost...
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I Bought A Scanner (No, Really This Time) This is a transcript from a talk I gave at the German Perl Workshop earlier this year. If you'd...
3 weeks ago
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I Bought A Scanner (No, Really This Time)

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
This is a transcript from a talk I gave at the German Perl Workshop earlier this year. If you'd prefer to watch the video recording, you can find it here. I have lots of photographic projects on the go. Lots of these being on film, as some of these I started shooting a long...
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Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a...
14th Apr 2023
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Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN

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

14th Apr 2023
Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a corporate or home network from a remote location, and access services as if you were there. But these days, the notion of “corporate network” and “home network” are less based around...
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10 websites for selling your startup If you are wanting to sell your startup but aren't sure where to do that, here are all your options....
20th Jan 2024
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10 websites for selling your startup

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

20th Jan 2024
If you are wanting to sell your startup but aren't sure where to do that, here are all your options. There's lots of choice here for you
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Caroline Ellison: A woman with agency or a helpless pawn? Why did the former Alameda Research CEO receive only two years imprisonment for her role in the FTX...
2nd Oct 2024
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Caroline Ellison: A woman with agency or a helpless pawn?

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

2nd Oct 2024
Why did the former Alameda Research CEO receive only two years imprisonment for her role in the FTX collapse?
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Genesis 1 but every word begins with 'A' - with GPT4 "At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
31st May 2023
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Genesis 1 but every word begins with 'A' - with GPT4

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

31st May 2023
"At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
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ML for SWEs 68: 43 Years Later, Developer Productivity Is Still a Billion-Dollar Problem 43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
1st Oct 2025
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ML for SWEs 68: 43 Years Later, Developer Productivity Is Still a Billion-Dollar Problem

from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Oct 2025
43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
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Datum ipsum tl;dr — I’ve created a tool called Datum Ipsum to enable designers to use realistic data when...
27th Jul 2016
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Datum ipsum

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

27th Jul 2016
tl;dr — I’ve created a tool called Datum Ipsum to enable designers to use realistic data when mocking up data visualizations. Also, this is a written version of a talk I gave at Data Viz Camp 2016 in NYC. The slides for that talk are here. In my career as a designer, both at...
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Understanding Open Model Licenses And what to look for in custom licenses
15th Apr 2026
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Understanding Open Model Licenses

from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Apr 2026
And what to look for in custom licenses
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Accessible Animations in React I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In...
4th May 2020
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Accessible Animations in React

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2020
I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In this tutorial, we'll see how to ensure that we respect user preferences, and create animations that can be disabled.
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Substack vs Africa The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging...
30th Jul 2024
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Substack vs Africa

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

30th Jul 2024
The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging and online writing was dead, superseded by YouTube, Substack came along and solved the problems of discovery and monetisation. Their feed and recommendations have allowed many to...
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MSG Two MSG quotes: “In animal studies, injecting high doses of MSG into the brains of rats made them...
22nd May 2021
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MSG

from There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind [alt+shift+b] in architecture

22nd May 2021
Two MSG quotes: “In animal studies, injecting high doses of MSG into the brains of rats made them fat.” – Wikipedia “Through Pennsylvania Station one entered the city like a god…. One scuttles in now like a rat” [under Madison … Continue reading → The post MSG appeared first on...
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Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is...
1st May 2024
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Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2024
With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is convincing people to have their irises scanned at Worldcoin Orb centers.
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Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further...
15th Dec 2016
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Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Dec 2016
One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further investigation uncovered that any storage vMotion of a virtual machine residing on our DR storage array would corrupt the virtual machine's disks. I could easily restore the affected...
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The YC Interview We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear...
1st Jan 2020
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The YC Interview

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2020
We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear back, but then we did. It was now October 16th…
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Two weeks of parenthood We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about...
6th Oct 2024
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Two weeks of parenthood

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Oct 2024
We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about parenthood. (In all seriousness, consider the below descriptive and not prescriptive: mostly, it's a notepad filled with things that were remarkable or surprising or divergent from...
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Quality vs quantity in the age of AI Over the last four months I’ve increased my use of AI for web dev work pretty dramatically. I use it...
27th Apr 2026
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Quality vs quantity in the age of AI

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Apr 2026
Over the last four months I’ve increased my use of AI for web dev work pretty dramatically. I use it every day at work, as do most of my coworkers. I don’t think it’s disputed anymore that AI-assisted development can save a lot of time and effort. The question is, what do we do...
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Roundup #84: Bears on bikes Vibecession (or not); AI depolarization; Existential AI risk; Millennials vs. Boomers;...
1st Jul 2026
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Roundup #84: Bears on bikes

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2026
Vibecession (or not); AI depolarization; Existential AI risk; Millennials vs. Boomers; Deindustrialization; Russian oil revenue; GLP-1s; AI and jobs
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The Soviet Zond 3 Lunar Flyby: Revealing the Rest of the Far Side Naturally, the early history of space exploration is filled with firsts. Just six decades ago at...
18th Jul 2025
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The Soviet Zond 3 Lunar Flyby: Revealing the Rest of the Far Side

from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science

18th Jul 2025
Naturally, the early history of space exploration is filled with firsts. Just six decades ago at this time, the world watched as NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft […]
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OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
15th Dec 2019
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OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) Review and Tips

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

15th Dec 2019
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
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Imperfectly Enforced Rules Create Bad Local Maxima Plus! Ads; Marketing; Pricing; Take Rates; SPVs
1st Sep 2026
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Imperfectly Enforced Rules Create Bad Local Maxima

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

1st Sep 2026
Plus! Ads; Marketing; Pricing; Take Rates; SPVs
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Could a Druze State Be Emerging in Southern Syria? If So, What Would It Encompass? Since the fall of Syria’s Assad Regime in December 2024, I have been wondering what would become of...
6th May 2026
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Could a Druze State Be Emerging in Southern Syria? If So, What Would It Encompass?

from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography

6th May 2026
Since the fall of Syria’s Assad Regime in December 2024, I have been wondering what would become of the Druze people and the areas in which they are the majority population. Particularly important is the Jabal al-Druze, or “Mountain of the Druze,” which is clearly visible on...
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On becoming a day person My biggest game-changer
19th Mar 2026
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On becoming a day person

from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Mar 2026
My biggest game-changer
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Towards better creative feedback Creative work — be it designing, writing, coding, or managing — is a collaborative practice. At...
7th Jan 2015
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Towards better creative feedback

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Jan 2015
Creative work — be it designing, writing, coding, or managing — is a collaborative practice. At least two parties are always involved: The maker (a designer, developer, or manager) on one end, and the audience on the other.1 Feedback between the maker and the audience is...
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Introducing PageRoast Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
11th Mar 2021
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Introducing PageRoast

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2021
Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
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on edward jenner and creativity One common question that’s on everyone’s minds as we fiercely scrub our hands, pool our resources,...
20th May 2020
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on edward jenner and creativity

from Apoorva Srinivasan [alt+shift+b] in science

20th May 2020
One common question that’s on everyone’s minds as we fiercely scrub our hands, pool our resources, conserve our consumption, stock up (but not hoard), invent calculus or write King Lear is: when will this end? Nobody knows what the answer to that question is but we
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The Annals Challenge My team of post-docs funded by this Renaissance Philanthropy grant has constructed a dataset of 50...
13th Aug 2026
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The Annals Challenge

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Aug 2026
My team of post-docs funded by this Renaissance Philanthropy grant has constructed a dataset of 50 Lean statements, corresponding to 50 important recent mathematical theorems! The 50 theorems were all published in the Annals of Mathematics (a prestigious mathematical journal) …...
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CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
5th Jan 2023
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CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach

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

5th Jan 2023
CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
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Gradients are the new intervals
14th May 2025
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Gradients are the new intervals

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

14th May 2025
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Weekly Scroll: We're Back! An overstuffed, mega-sized Weekly Scroll returns to action
1st Jul 2026
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Weekly Scroll: We're Back!

from Infinite Scroll [alt+shift+b] in creative

1st Jul 2026
An overstuffed, mega-sized Weekly Scroll returns to action
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Fab Solver
30th Apr 2012
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Fab Solver

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

30th Apr 2012
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🤫 Business Brainstorms is back! ... and has a new name
2nd Jun 2025
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🤫 Business Brainstorms is back!

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jun 2025
... and has a new name
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Using a folder other than <code>posts/</code> with Eleventy I just updated this site to use Eleventy. I don’t update enchilada that much anymore. It’s now more...
22nd Nov 2020
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Using a folder other than <code>posts/</code> with Eleventy

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Nov 2020
I just updated this site to use Eleventy. I don’t update enchilada that much anymore. It’s now more a place to centralize all the little tweaks and gotchas of web work, and less a platform for scaffolding websites. In all honestly, enchilada was intended more to be more a simple...
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Stoic advice: can a salesperson be a Stoic? [Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org....
2nd Jul 2018
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Stoic advice: can a salesperson be a Stoic?

from How to Be a Stoic [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Jul 2018
[Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org. However, consider that I have a significant backlog, and I may not get to your question for some time, or at all.] D. writes: How should a practising Stoic ethically approach their...
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Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home' I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
2nd Apr 2011
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Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home'

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Apr 2011
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
2nd Sep 2023
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history

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

2nd Sep 2023
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Apple at 50: my most memorable product announcements Apple turns 50 today, so I thought I'd take some time to think back on some of the most memorable...
1st Apr 2026
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Apple at 50: my most memorable product announcements

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2026
Apple turns 50 today, so I thought I'd take some time to think back on some of the most memorable Apple product announcements. I'm relying entirely on my own memory, so forgive me if I get some small details wrong. Original iPhone We have to start
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Best Questions and Answers to the “Terrifying Netflix Concurrency Bug” Post Why couldn't we roll back? Weren't we concerned about costs? Why is operating Netflix so...
29th Nov 2024
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Best Questions and Answers to the “Terrifying Netflix Concurrency Bug” Post

from Push to Prod [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Nov 2024
Why couldn't we roll back? Weren't we concerned about costs? Why is operating Netflix so complicated? Plus many others.
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Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator The Isotemp OCXO107-10 Gathering Information from time-nuts Getting It to Run On the Bench Inside...
26th Oct 2025
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Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator

from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Oct 2025
The Isotemp OCXO107-10 Gathering Information from time-nuts Getting It to Run On the Bench Inside the OCXO107-10 Looking Forward The Isotemp OCXO107-10 I spent $5 at the Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market on an Isotemp OCXO107-10 oscillator. Compared to my other OCXOs, this...
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Planning Your Career: Values and Superpowers What do you deeply care about? What do you excel at? Build a career out of that.
4th Apr 2021
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Planning Your Career: Values and Superpowers

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

4th Apr 2021
What do you deeply care about? What do you excel at? Build a career out of that.
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The two kinds of error In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered...
1st Mar 2026
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The two kinds of error

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2026
In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered invalid data”), which are part of normal operation, aren’t the developer’s fault, and should be handled. Unexpected errors (think “null pointer exception”) are the developer’s...
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A Modest Proposal To Turn Canada Into a Narco State Americans want cheap drugs and Canadians wants loads of money. I smell a deal.
30th Jul 2025
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A Modest Proposal To Turn Canada Into a Narco State

from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science

30th Jul 2025
Americans want cheap drugs and Canadians wants loads of money. I smell a deal.
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A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed is industries with a lot of gravitas thinking that their use...
14th Jul 2021
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A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jul 2021
A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed is industries with a lot of gravitas thinking that their use cases are somehow different and special. Somehow, the thinking becomes “our UI component is different because we deal with healthcare/banking/taxes/etc.” The opposite, however, is...
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1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web After Microsoft upped the ante in the browser market in 1996 by integrating Internet Explorer 3.0...
9th Mar 2021
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1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web

from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history

9th Mar 2021
After Microsoft upped the ante in the browser market in 1996 by integrating Internet Explorer 3.0 into Windows, Netscape began the new year with a renewed focus on the open web. Co-founder and CTO Marc Andreessen, along with the Netscape product team, introduced a new strategy...
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The Core of Fermat’s Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have...
2nd Jun 2025
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The Core of Fermat’s Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered

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

2nd Jun 2025
By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward building a “grand unified theory” of math. The post The Core of Fermat’s Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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the two dogs in me words from a private reading i did in Toronto
1st May 2025
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the two dogs in me

from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life

1st May 2025
words from a private reading i did in Toronto
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Notes on the third era of slop Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
4th Aug 2026
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Notes on the third era of slop

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Aug 2026
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
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The Many Layers of Packaging The packaging gradient, and why PyPI isn't an app store. Update: I turned this post into a talk. The...
9th May 2017
1

The Many Layers of Packaging

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2017
The packaging gradient, and why PyPI isn't an app store. Update: I turned this post into a talk. The video from PyBay is here, the slides are available here. The long-cut video from BayPiggies is coming, but the "Extended Edition" slides are here. One lesson threaded...
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Meet the Maker: Angela Chalmers Hi, my name is Angela Chalmers. I am a visual artist living in North Yorkshire. I work with...
5th Mar 2025
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Meet the Maker: Angela Chalmers

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

5th Mar 2025
Hi, my name is Angela Chalmers. I am a visual artist living in North Yorkshire. I work with cameraless photography techniques and the cyanotype process producing 2D and 3D artworks on paper and textiles. Cyanotype dates from the early days of photography and produces beautiful...
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Peter Calthorpe: Urban Planet Throughout Peter Calthorpe's decade-spanning career in urban design, planning, and architecture, he...
6th Aug 2020
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Peter Calthorpe: Urban Planet

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

6th Aug 2020
Throughout Peter Calthorpe's decade-spanning career in urban design, planning, and architecture, he has developed and practiced the key principles of [New Urbanism](https://www.cnu.org/resources/what-new-urbanism): that the most successful places are diverse in uses and users,...
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The Glass Heart: A Smashing Exhibition At Two Temple Place Intriguing artwork in a stunning building.
1st Feb 2024
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The Glass Heart: A Smashing Exhibition At Two Temple Place

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

1st Feb 2024
Intriguing artwork in a stunning building.
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Swapping Web 2.0 Summit for PARC; and RWW Planning for 2011 Me posing next to the Xerox ParcPad from 1992, an ancestor of the iPad (which was released in 2010);...
6th Nov 2024
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Swapping Web 2.0 Summit for PARC; and RWW Planning for 2011

from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history

6th Nov 2024
Me posing next to the Xerox ParcPad from 1992, an ancestor of the iPad (which was released in 2010); photo on the right is from a group dinner in San Francisco, October 2010. In July, as I was trying to make progress on a number of troublesome fronts — including filling in...
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Bear is now source-available Updates to the Bear license
1st Sep 2025
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Bear is now source-available

from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2025
Updates to the Bear license
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Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1 Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
13th Mar 2024
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Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1

from Engineers Need Art [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Mar 2024
Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
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A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging...
17th Nov 2025
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A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

17th Nov 2025
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging in 2015, I never expected that several of my blog posts would go viral or to have multiple journalists contact me (including from NPR, Wired, and Fortune), make the front page of...
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On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been...
8th Jun 2025
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On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not

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

8th Jun 2025
A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next three months. This is true. However, I did leave myself some wiggle room in my...
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Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 > note... this only represents my half of running AIE - the intention was to have Ben also write his...
29th Jun 2024
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Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024

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

29th Jun 2024
> note... this only represents my half of running AIE - the intention was to have Ben also write his side on the logistics and sponsorships but we never got round to it and its been a year and a half so... you get what you get, this brain dump of stuff. sorry. 2025's version is...
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texas gothic revival Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages...
1st Jun 2024
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texas gothic revival

from McMansion Hell [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Jun 2024
Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages but surely will soon be something else. (Please hyperfixation gods, make it financial literacy.) Anyway, I meandered around the nation (online) in search of another opportunity to...
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Adventures in pixel space
30th Mar 2025
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Adventures in pixel space

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Mar 2025
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Dogs That Don't Bark I once had to end a very nice person's freelance work contract for a role which they were doing...
5th Jun 2024
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Dogs That Don't Bark

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Jun 2024
I once had to end a very nice person's freelance work contract for a role which they were doing quite badly. I wrote them an email that tried to say only things that were both nice and true, such as some version of "we're wanting
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The impact of management teams as a decision-making group, in startups and enterprise Ambitious companies form management teams at every level above you, sometimes including you....
11th Nov 2020
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The impact of management teams as a decision-making group, in startups and enterprise

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

11th Nov 2020
Ambitious companies form management teams at every level above you, sometimes including you. Management teams meet periodically and have private chat rooms. They discuss customers, product and organizational direction. Sometimes discussions are well documented and...
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Can You Stay? Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning...
17th May 2021
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Can You Stay?

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

17th May 2021
Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning housing precarity, focusing on a part of the world with unique geography and social issues. Project Background This map is cut from the cloth of a capstone project I did in 2018 at...
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It's All Relative When something is described as normal, it begs the question: “relative to what?”
9th Aug 2023
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It's All Relative

from Passing Time [alt+shift+b] in life

9th Aug 2023
When something is described as normal, it begs the question: “relative to what?”
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Gestalt Principles of Design – Symmetry We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not. The Gestalt...
7th Jul 2023
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Gestalt Principles of Design – Symmetry

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Jul 2023
We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not. The Gestalt Principles of Design are a set of concepts and guidelines drawn from gestalt psychology, which theorizes that the mind tends to process organized groups of things as a whole,...
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Automatic Panorama Generation
3rd May 2011
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Automatic Panorama Generation

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

3rd May 2011
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Taste games I bet you like it when beautiful people laugh at your jokes. And I bet you like the taste of sugar....
15th Feb 2024
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Taste games

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

15th Feb 2024
I bet you like it when beautiful people laugh at your jokes. And I bet you like the taste of sugar. I sure do. But what about camping or dubstep or chain restaurants or installation art? What about blue cheese or pick-up trucks or reality TV? Me, I like some and loathe others....
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✏️ Dissocial Media I've been writing in my real handwritten journal in recent weeks that I've felt the weight of social...
1st Aug 2023
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✏️ Dissocial Media

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

1st Aug 2023
I've been writing in my real handwritten journal in recent weeks that I've felt the weight of social networks. And the manipulation and behavior patterning it's designed to do. I worked for a softer social network for almost two years and while we weren't as abhorrent as the huge...
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March 2025
5th Mar 2025
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March 2025

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

5th Mar 2025
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Nanotyrannus Controversy Solved One of the things I like about following paleontology news is that new evidence can just be...
3rd Nov 2025
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Nanotyrannus Controversy Solved

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

3rd Nov 2025
One of the things I like about following paleontology news is that new evidence can just be discovered, and sometimes these new pieces to the puzzle can significantly change what we think about past life. One such controversy I have been following for a while is whether or not...
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Repair Fail One of the most underappreciated, least talked about aspects of repair is the hierarchy. There are...
6th Dec 2023
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Repair Fail

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

6th Dec 2023
One of the most underappreciated, least talked about aspects of repair is the hierarchy. There are repair wizards and there are newbies and there are the rest of us, somewhere between those two poles. This hierarchy of skill and experience requires that you earn your way to the...
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Careless People: how power destroys empathy Laetitia@Work #83
24th Jul 2025
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Careless People: how power destroys empathy

from Laetitia@Work [alt+shift+b] in life

24th Jul 2025
Laetitia@Work #83
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What I'm up to - July 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jul 2025
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What I'm up to - July 2025

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - I wrote a post about open-sourcing Postcard. The post got picked up by Hacker News...
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The Virtual Fireworks Show
1st Jan 2026
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The Virtual Fireworks Show

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

1st Jan 2026
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Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I...
6th Jan 2026
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Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Jan 2026
A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
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What We Do When We See What does it even mean to design when perception is reality? Do we all ever see the same...
5th Nov 2021
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What We Do When We See

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

5th Nov 2021
What does it even mean to design when perception is reality? Do we all ever see the same thing? Visual Intelligence, a wonderful book about seeing and clarity, Amy Herman begins with the story of Derreck Kayongo. Kayongo had just stepped into the shower in his hotel room...
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One idle dreary day many years ago Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull...
4th Oct 2010
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One idle dreary day many years ago

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Oct 2010
Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull and sharp the sky was that day in San Francisco. When editing this photograph I took now about three and a half years ago, I only flattened the sky slightly and didn't touch up the...
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