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symmetry magazine
Practice makes perfect (particle detectors)
Prototyping is an indispensable step in the development of particle physics experiments like DUNE...
a year ago
Prototyping is an indispensable step in the development of particle physics experiments like DUNE and projects like PIP-II.
When complete, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, or DUNE, will be the world’s most comprehensive neutrino experiment—and...
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"No Code" Is A Lie
_Originally published on [the Webflow blog](https://webflow.com/blog/no-code-is-a-lie)._
over a year ago
_Originally published on [the Webflow blog](https://webflow.com/blog/no-code-is-a-lie)._
Musings on Markets
Market Bipolarity: Exuberance versus Exhaustion!
As we enter the last quarter of 2023, it has been a roller coaster of a year. We started the year...
a year ago
As we enter the last quarter of 2023, it has been a roller coaster of a year. We started the year with significant uncertainty about whether the surge in inflation seen in 2022 would persist as well as about whether the economy was headed into a recession. In the first half of...
IEEE Spectrum
How the Designer of the First Hydrogen Bomb Got the Gig
Richard Garwin is one of the most decorated and successful engineers of the 20th century. The IEEE...
3 months ago
Richard Garwin is one of the most decorated and successful engineers of the 20th century. The IEEE Life Fellow has won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, France’s La Grande Médaille de l’Académie des Sciences, and is one of just a handful of people...
Steve Blank
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained
Artificial Intelligence is a once-in-a lifetime commercial and defense game changer (download a PDF...
over a year ago
Artificial Intelligence is a once-in-a lifetime commercial and defense game changer (download a PDF of this article here) Hundreds of billions in public and private capital is being invested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning companies. The number of patents...
Quanta Magazine
What Can Cave Life Tell Us About Alien Ecosystems?
Extremophiles, or microbes that live in the most seemingly hostile environments, are the darlings of...
2 months ago
Extremophiles, or microbes that live in the most seemingly hostile environments, are the darlings of astrobiologists, who study the potential for life beyond Earth. In this episode, co-host Janna Levin speaks with astrobiologist and cave explorer Penelope Boston about how life...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Myth
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Sometimes I save a rant for 10 years and finally...
7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Sometimes I save a rant for 10 years and finally decide it's not a thinkpiece, it's a stupid joke.
Today's News:
Diaries of Note
The greatest crime on the largest scale known in modern history
George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of...
a year ago
George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of his city, but his lasting impact extends far beyond the legal world. From 1835 to 1875, Strong meticulously recorded his observations and insights in a diary that has since become an...
Marcus on AI
AI influencer hype gone wild
Reality is quite the opposite
a month ago
Reality is quite the opposite
latest projects -...
Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion
[Hardware] Army of Robot Slide Whistles
8 months ago
[Hardware] Army of Robot Slide Whistles
TheCollector
Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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2 months ago
Engineers Need Art
Adam74
The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
over a year ago
The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Resurrection
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a year ago
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It gets even weirder when you realize God has been saving the brains, so the blogs are sapient.
Today's News:
NeuroLogica Blog
Rats!
What killed off the dodo? Humans first arrived at Mauritius island in the late 1500s. They found on...
6 months ago
What killed off the dodo? Humans first arrived at Mauritius island in the late 1500s. They found on this island fat flightless birds who nested on the ground and were a convenient way to restock their ship’s food supply. Within 80 years the dodo went extinct. But hunting was not...
Noahpinion
A better way to build a downtown
It's time to learn a Japanese word: "zakkyo".
2 months ago
It's time to learn a Japanese word: "zakkyo".
Anecdotal Evidence
'Diana Steads Him Nothing, He Must Stay'
For earned emotional
intensity, especially coming from a man seldom associated with emotion, you...
a year ago
For earned emotional
intensity, especially coming from a man seldom associated with emotion, you can
hardly outdo A.E. Housman, as recounted by one of his students in Richard
Perceval Graves’ A. E. Housman: The
Scholar-Poet (1979):
“One morning
in May, 1914, when the trees in...
Calculated Risk
FOMC Projections
Statement here.
press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM...
4 days ago
Statement here.
press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM ET.
projections. Since the last projections were released, economic growth has been above expectations, the unemployment rate is below expectations, and inflation close to expectations (although...
The Honest Broker
What Is Really Inside the Briefcase in 'Pulp Fiction'?
Here's the latest installment of my book 'Music to Raise the Dead'—currently available only on...
8 months ago
Here's the latest installment of my book 'Music to Raise the Dead'—currently available only on Substack
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Guide to D.C. for Music Lovers by Local Musician Neffy
7 months ago
High Signal
The Ultimate Guide to Social Proof
Social proof is a powerful concept in marketing. It's the idea that as consumers, we are influenced...
6 months ago
Social proof is a powerful concept in marketing. It's the idea that as consumers, we are influenced by what others do, especially people we admire. If you have ever seen a website mention its number of users, a review from a customer, or company logos, you've
Spoon & Tamago
Exploring Japanese Hell Through Art from the 12th to 19th Century
As a child, growing up in Japan, there was one book that terrified me. Luckily, I didn’t own it. The...
a year ago
As a child, growing up in Japan, there was one book that terrified me. Luckily, I didn’t own it. The red hardback sat on the bottom shelf in my friend’s room and every time I went over to play I could see it, out of the corner of my eye, staring me in the face. […]
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Epic Web Dev
Good Code, Testable Code (article)
Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for...
6 months ago
Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for effective testing.
Essays - Benedict...
Building AI products
How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a
technology that gets things...
6 months ago
How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a
technology that gets things ‘wrong’? What does wrong mean, and how is that
useful?
blag
Learning C
Some resources for learning C
9 months ago
Some resources for learning C
The American Scholar
The Writer in the Family
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary...
2 weeks ago
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero
The post The Writer in the Family appeared first on The American Scholar.
Old Structures...
Not What’s Expected
I’ve met a lot of people who have not been to New York who think that Central Park is like a London...
3 months ago
I’ve met a lot of people who have not been to New York who think that Central Park is like a London square, a block-sized oasis surrounded by buildings. The “surrounded by buildings” part is correct, but the size is a bit off. It’s 1.3 square miles (3.4 square kilometers for...
DYNOMIGHT
Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics III
How much should a couple talk if they are having dinner in a restaurant, after being together for...
3 days ago
How much should a couple talk if they are having dinner in a restaurant, after being together for one month/year/decade?
If it’s safer to face backwards in vehicles, then what is it that’s shared by infants in cars and soldiers on military planes but no one else?
Among rock bands...
The Changelog
Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances
Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things...
over a year ago
Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things are difficult – maybe there’s been a disaster, or an invasion (this page is being written in 2022 just after Russia invaded Ukraine), or maybe you’re just backpacking off the grid...
Epic Web Dev
Epic Workshop Test Tab Demo (tip)
3 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Read the Wild Wallpaper of My Heart'
Meade
Harwell, Gordon H. Felton, M.J.A. McGittigan, Jess H. Cloud, Byron Vazakas,
Ellis Foote, Myron...
a year ago
Meade
Harwell, Gordon H. Felton, M.J.A. McGittigan, Jess H. Cloud, Byron Vazakas,
Ellis Foote, Myron H. Broomell, Celeste Turner Wright.
Who are
these strangers? What brings them together? They recall a walk in the cemetery,
reading on the stones the names of people we have...
A Beautiful Site
Shoelace 2.0
It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has...
a year ago
It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has amassed over 300 million monthly hits on jsDelivr and, as of today, it is jsDelivr's 73rd most popular project.
And that was just the beta version.
Today, I'm happy to announce that...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Angie Lewin
I'm a printmaker working in linocut, wood engraving and silk screen. I also exhibit my watercolours...
a year ago
I'm a printmaker working in linocut, wood engraving and silk screen. I also exhibit my watercolours and create collages of printed Japanese papers applied to objects collected on walking and sketching trips. In 2005, I set up St Jude's, along with my husband Simon, to produce...
Retail Design Blog
Freeths LLP office by Denton
A New Beginning for Freeths LLP Leeds Freeths LLP, a leading legal firm, found its Leeds office...
a month ago
A New Beginning for Freeths LLP Leeds Freeths LLP, a leading legal firm, found its Leeds office bursting at the...
Wanderingspace
Hope for Mars
Nothing really. Just a gorgeous image of Mars from the UAE Hope mission.
over a year ago
Nothing really. Just a gorgeous image of Mars from the UAE Hope mission.
Epic Web Dev
Turn Progressive Enhancement up to 11 (tip)
Learn how to create a progressive enhancement image uploader that works for users with or without...
a year ago
Learn how to create a progressive enhancement image uploader that works for users with or without JavaScript.
Commoncog
Cultural Advantage is Counter Positioning
Competitive advantages in business that come from cultural differences tend to be...
over a year ago
Competitive advantages in business that come from cultural differences tend to be counter-positioning, not process power. Why this is surprising, and why it matters.
TokyoDev
Personal Blog to Profitable Business: the Story of TokyoDev
この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。
TokyoDev...
a year ago
この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。
TokyoDev started out as my personal blog talking about developer life in Japan, but has evolved into a job board that is a thriving business that is my sole source of income. But even more than...
somenice
Merlin Bird Sound ID
I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...
over a year ago
I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...
Making software...
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut
2022-11-14
It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated,...
over a year ago
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut
2022-11-14
It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated, but I have finally started to port over all my personal open-source projects to sourcehut.org. I'll get into the why and how momentarily, but first let's take a look at all the...
TheCollector
Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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3 months ago
Prolost
Circle of Stone
TLDR; a short film I DP’ed is playing tons of festivals, and you can see it stream this Friday!
The...
over a year ago
TLDR; a short film I DP’ed is playing tons of festivals, and you can see it stream this Friday!
The Call to Action
In early 2017, my buddy Mark Andrews asked if I would be his cinematographer on a short film. Mark and I met at CalArts and have been making films together most of...
The American Scholar
“The Gaffe” by C. K. Williams
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Gaffe” by C. K. Williams appeared first on The American...
2 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Gaffe” by C. K. Williams appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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a year ago
Notes on software...
Implementing zip archiving in Golang: unzipping
All code for this post is available on Github.
Let's take a look at how zip files work. Take a small...
over a year ago
All code for this post is available on Github.
Let's take a look at how zip files work. Take a small file for example:
$ cat hello.text
Hello!
Let's zip it up.
$ zip test.zip hello.text
adding: hello.text (stored 0%)
$ ls -lah test.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 phil phil 177 Nov 23 23:04...
Society's Backend
The Metrics Machine Learning Engineers Care About That Modelers Don't
And a brief overview of TPUs in Google data centers
9 months ago
And a brief overview of TPUs in Google data centers
Seth's Blog
Overstuffed
The empty part of the drawer is what makes it a useful tool. Same goes for a filing cabinet, a...
a year ago
The empty part of the drawer is what makes it a useful tool. Same goes for a filing cabinet, a toolbox and a calendar. Slack is underrated.
The Pragmatic...
Is Critical Thinking the Most Important Skill for Knowledge Workers?
Critical thinking will only become more important as AI tools spread more. How can you get better at...
a year ago
Critical thinking will only become more important as AI tools spread more. How can you get better at this, and why should you reject jargon and "thought leaders?"
TheCollector
A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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10 months ago
Quanta Magazine
A Tower of Conjectures That Rests Upon a Needle
On its surface, the Kakeya conjecture is a simple statement about rotating needles. But it underlies...
a year ago
On its surface, the Kakeya conjecture is a simple statement about rotating needles. But it underlies a wealth of mathematics.
The post A Tower of Conjectures That Rests Upon a Needle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Seth's Blog
The challenge of N + 1
“Just a little more,” might be a useful way to self motivate, until it isn’t. N + 1 pushes us to win...
7 months ago
“Just a little more,” might be a useful way to self motivate, until it isn’t. N + 1 pushes us to win every race, every argument, every bank balance competition. Sometimes this is simply a self challenge, not designed to hurt others, but the problem with never being satisfied is...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an...
over a year ago
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls…
TheCollector
Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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8 months ago
ToughSF
Hypervelocity Tether Rockets
Rotating tethers can reach incredible velocities when they are built out of high strength materials....
over a year ago
Rotating tethers can reach incredible velocities when they are built out of high strength materials. With some design features, they can greatly surpass the exhaust velocities of chemical or even nuclear rockets. They can become propulsion systems with impressive performance......
Anecdotal Evidence
'On the Cello of Shared Grief'
With the deaths
of certain writers our reaction is shamefully selfish: Why did he do that to me? No...
5 days ago
With the deaths
of certain writers our reaction is shamefully selfish: Why did he do that to me? No thought for family or friends, or
even other readers, merely one’s sense of personal betrayal. That’s how I felt
seven years ago when Richard Wilbur died at age ninety-six, as...
There are two types...
Traffic Flow and the Status Quo: There are better ways to spend $10 billion than rebuilding the BQE
New York City plans to spend more than $10 billion on a project that will speed up climate change...
a year ago
New York City plans to spend more than $10 billion on a project that will speed up climate change and increase the number of New Yorkers killed by traffic and pollution. The good news is that the city will hold … Continue reading →
The post Traffic Flow and the Status Quo: There...
The American Scholar
Teach the Conflicts
It’s natural—and right—to foster
The post Teach the Conflicts appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
It’s natural—and right—to foster
The post Teach the Conflicts appeared first on The American Scholar.
Quanta Magazine
Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields
A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy...
10 months ago
A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clusters. If confirmed, the approach could be used to reveal where cosmic magnetic fields come from.
The post Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields...
TheCollector
The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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4 months ago
Londonist
Where To Eat And Drink In Canary Wharf: The Best Restaurants, Cafes, Bars And Pubs
Scran among the 'scrapers.
a year ago
Scran among the 'scrapers.
I Have No Idea What...
Getting to 19,000 monthly clicks: Everything I've learned about SEO as a beginner
It’s been a while since my last post! Since then, I’ve been focusing on growing Remote Rocketship....
a year ago
It’s been a while since my last post! Since then, I’ve been focusing on growing Remote Rocketship. I’m super excited to announce that it’s reached $2,000 MRR! 🥳 You may recall from the last post that I mentioned that the only sustainable channel to grow the website is SEO and...
Retail Design Blog
House of B Store by Another D Studio
We believe a brand’s core identity is created through the values of brand founders. We worked to...
7 months ago
We believe a brand’s core identity is created through the values of brand founders. We worked to expand and deepen...
Mazdak
Google Quantum Computer, OpenAI Sora Video Generator and more ...
Google just dropped a bombshell in quantum computing.
a week ago
Google just dropped a bombshell in quantum computing.
SOCKS
A City in Retreat: Les Devantures by Sandrine Marc (2018)
Sandrine Marc is a photographer and artist based in Paris with a specific interest in self-made...
over a year ago
Sandrine Marc is a photographer and artist based in Paris with a specific interest in self-made editions. She investigates urban and suburban territories through slow, long walks immersing herself in mutating environments. In December 2018, after the first demonstration by the...
Rest of World -...
Samsung knowingly exposed workers to highly toxic chemicals, whistleblower claims
In Vietnam, a key production base, a former safety officer alleges the factory also dumped chemicals...
a year ago
In Vietnam, a key production base, a former safety officer alleges the factory also dumped chemicals into waterways.
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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9 months ago
On the Arts
How to Start Learning About Aesthetics
Three ways to improve your knowledge about aesthetics, art theory, and the philosophy of art.
a year ago
Three ways to improve your knowledge about aesthetics, art theory, and the philosophy of art.
Seth's Blog
Misunderstanding bigness
IBM spent a fortune fighting calls for them to be broken up. So did AT&T and Microsoft. In all three...
4 months ago
IBM spent a fortune fighting calls for them to be broken up. So did AT&T and Microsoft. In all three cases, there’s plenty of evidence that they would have been better off if they had simply broken themselves up. Microsoft is still recovering and IBM never will. One computer...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on "Growing a Language"
Revisiting one of my favorite talks ever, on designing programming languages for user extensibility...
over a year ago
Revisiting one of my favorite talks ever, on designing programming languages for user extensibility and collaboration
The Modern House
Zen and the art of mindset maintenance in a former warehouse in east London
a year ago
Making software...
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
2021-04-12
After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...
over a year ago
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
2021-04-12
After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...
Tony Dinh's...
Oct 2023: side project, interview on Indie Hackers
Going viral, my thoughts, and updates from me in October 2023.
a year ago
Going viral, my thoughts, and updates from me in October 2023.
Open Culture
Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified...
When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque...
7 months ago
When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque composer’s music, played entirely on the Moog analog synthesizer, the album became an immediate hit with both classical and pop audiences. Not only was it “acclaimed as real music...
TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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a month ago
TheCollector
How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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2 months ago
diamond geezer
Anorak Corner - bus edition
Anorak Corner [bus edition] (annual update)
Once again TfL have silently published their annual...
a year ago
Anorak Corner [bus edition] (annual update)
Once again TfL have silently published their annual spreadsheet listing the number of passengers using every London bus route and how many kilometres those buses travelled. Data is for April 2022 - March 2023. Comparisons are with the...
Louwrentius
Blu Ray is dead
HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical
media is dead....
over a year ago
HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical
media is dead. Honestly, who is still burning CD's or DVD's nowadays? (If you
are, why for Christ sake? I can't think of a single good reason) And at 10
euros ($100) for a single Blu Ray disk, you must...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Alternatives to selling at below-market-clearing prices for achieving fairness (or community...
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech
2024-05-27
I recently went through the process of porting...
6 months ago
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech
2024-05-27
I recently went through the process of porting over my wife’s small business website (built off of WordPress + Woocommerce) from EasyWP to NearlyFreeSpeech. Although the process was fairly easy-going, I thought I would post my...
Tony Dinh's...
Making $22K in 7 days: the story
and other updates from me in Mar 2023
a year ago
and other updates from me in Mar 2023
swyx's site RSS Feed
Sharding Yourself
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
over a year ago
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
The Rational Walk
Burlington Northern Santa Fe — 2023 Results
Warren Buffett is concerned about the performance of Berkshire's railroad
9 months ago
Warren Buffett is concerned about the performance of Berkshire's railroad
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Eulogy
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Weirdly, his revealed preference was for a painful...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Weirdly, his revealed preference was for a painful and protracted demise.
Today's News:
Noahpinion
Thus passes Robert Lucas
Farewell to the most influential macroeconomist of his generation.
a year ago
Farewell to the most influential macroeconomist of his generation.
TokyoDev
Will a company in Japan find out your previous salary?
When it comes to [salary negotiation in...
a year ago
When it comes to [salary negotiation in Japan](/articles/a-guide-to-salary-negotiations-in-japan-s-tech-industry), companies often have the upper hand. Not only do they know what they're willing to pay for a position, but it is very common for companies to ask you to disclose...
Atoms vs Bits
Incumbency Advantage
What if good candidates just win against bad ones?
4 months ago
What if good candidates just win against bad ones?
A Smart Bear
Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision
Rubrics are often used to select the best option in a multi-dimensional decision space. However,...
over a year ago
Rubrics are often used to select the best option in a multi-dimensional decision space. However, they often do not clearly identify a winner, nor do they result in an explanation of the decision that is easily communicated to others, especially those whose favorite option was...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Pitching the VC partnership
The last step to raising venture capital is normally a 1 hour pitch to the whole partnership during...
over a year ago
The last step to raising venture capital is normally a 1 hour pitch to the whole partnership during their weekly monday meeting. This is…
Rest of World -...
The company that thinks it can succeed where Lime failed
Russia’s Whoosh launched in Brazil last year, and plans to expand across the country by 2026.
4 months ago
Russia’s Whoosh launched in Brazil last year, and plans to expand across the country by 2026.
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Present to Investors
over a year ago
The Diff
Infrastructure on top of Infrastructure
Plus! AI as an Interface; AI and Property Rights; Covering an EV Short Position; Heterogeneous...
5 days ago
Plus! AI as an Interface; AI and Property Rights; Covering an EV Short Position; Heterogeneous Consumption Baskets as Subtle Union-Busting; Second-Order Effects
NeuroLogica Blog
Man Gets Pig Kidney Transplant
On March 16 surgeons transplanted a kidney taken from a pig into a human recipient, Rick Slayman. So...
9 months ago
On March 16 surgeons transplanted a kidney taken from a pig into a human recipient, Rick Slayman. So far the transplant is a success, but of course the real test will be how well the kidney functions and for how long. This is the first time such a transplant has been done into a...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness
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Hovertext:
Some time in the next 10 years, someone's gonna...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Some time in the next 10 years, someone's gonna whoopsie an AGI into existence trying to create a highly multimodal porn-bot.
Today's News:
Blog - Guerrilla...
How Guerrilla Cartography’s Atlases Promote Diverse Perspectives
Guerrilla Cartography aims to promote the understanding that there are many views of the world, that...
a year ago
Guerrilla Cartography aims to promote the understanding that there are many views of the world, that how we understand space and place can vary, and that we should think critically about the maps and the graphics we make and consume. Our organization has designed processes for...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
6 months ago
TheCollector
Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quest
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You can also farm for human pelts, but the town...
3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
You can also farm for human pelts, but the town guards get angry.
Today's News:
Diaries of Note
The most sensual thing I’ve ever seen
When Pamela Des Barres graduated from high school in 1966, she headed straight for the Sunset Strip...
a year ago
When Pamela Des Barres graduated from high school in 1966, she headed straight for the Sunset Strip where the rock stars she had idolised from afar roamed—a path that led her to become one of the most celebrated groupies of the rock and roll era. She kept a diary throughout and...
Explorations of an...
The End Of An Era - Reflections On Our Travels
(Written on April 23, 2023)
In just a few days time, Laura and I will board a jet bound for another...
a year ago
(Written on April 23, 2023)
In just a few days time, Laura and I will board a jet bound for another international destination. Our flight home to Toronto isn't that unique of a scenario, as we have flown on plenty of planes headed home since we began our international travels...
Making software...
Proper UI Hierarchy
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
over a year ago
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
Retail Design Blog
CHIMI store by CAMPUS
Following outposts in Oslo, Cape Town and Paris, Stockholm-based eyewear brand CHIMI expands once...
a month ago
Following outposts in Oslo, Cape Town and Paris, Stockholm-based eyewear brand CHIMI expands once again, and this time, across The...
Spoon & Tamago
3D Printing and Traditional Wood Joinery Techniques Give Life to the Tsuginote Tea House
all photos by Eiichi Yoshioka courtesy Kei Atsumi Japanese wood joinery dates back to the seventh...
a year ago
all photos by Eiichi Yoshioka courtesy Kei Atsumi Japanese wood joinery dates back to the seventh century and is a craftsmanship technique that involves complicated, interlocking wooden joints that form bonds without the use of nails, screws or adhesives. Practical use of these...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Book Poll 2019
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this...
over a year ago
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this poll](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1168182079613485056):
Maggie Appleton
Squish Meets Structure: Designing with Language Models
a year ago
The Elysian
Your alternatives to democracy
Entries to the March writing prompt.
8 months ago
Entries to the March writing prompt.
Unpacked
Highlights: First Quarter of Unpacked
Bold product moves, AI things accelerate, Tech policy in the front seat, Interesting things...
a year ago
Bold product moves, AI things accelerate, Tech policy in the front seat, Interesting things continue. This post is a bird’s eye view of the seventeen articles published on Unpacked in the past quarter.
diamond geezer
Some transport news
Some transport news
Overground news
It's only accessible via QR code so it's not that...
4 months ago
Some transport news
Overground news
It's only accessible via QR code so it's not that accessible, but I clicked through and discovered the URL is vin.cloud.gomedia.io/HOXTON so you can check it out too. The homescreen is a list of the next three departures and their expected...
TheCollector
What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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a year ago
Christopher Butler
Are We Ready?
Inventions that were ahead of their time can help us to understand whether we are truly ready to...
over a year ago
Inventions that were ahead of their time can help us to understand whether we are truly ready to live in the world we are making.
every detail — but hinting at them by highlighting mere facets that represent a coherent reality beneath them. If that reality is convincing, then...
Computer Ads from...
OS-9 Bonus Content
A detailed look at OS-9 for Tandy Color Computers
3 months ago
A detailed look at OS-9 for Tandy Color Computers
Mazdak
Creating a Data-Driven LinkedIn Strategy: A Step-by-Step Guide
One of the most effective ways to succeed on LinkedIn is to create content with purpose, track its...
2 months ago
One of the most effective ways to succeed on LinkedIn is to create content with purpose, track its performance, and adjust based on data.
Making software...
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
2019-06-11
Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a...
over a year ago
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
2019-06-11
Update (Oct 2019): @aardrian wrote a previous post about how changing the display properties on tables can impact screen readers. I highly recommend his excellent article Tables, CSS Display Properties, and ARIA
I find...
SatPost by Trung...
The Science and History of the iPhone Screen
In 2007, one conversation convinced Steve Jobs to pick Corning and Gorilla Glass for the iPhone.
a year ago
In 2007, one conversation convinced Steve Jobs to pick Corning and Gorilla Glass for the iPhone.
NeuroLogica Blog
Carbon Fiber Structural Battery
I have written previously about the concept of structural batteries, such as this recent post on a...
3 months ago
I have written previously about the concept of structural batteries, such as this recent post on a concrete battery. The basic idea is a battery made out of material that is strong enough that it can bare a load. Essentially we’re asking the material to do two things at once – be...
xkcd.com
Data Quality
[last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] ->...
a year ago
[last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] -> [photo of your cat] -> [clone of your cat] -> [your actual cat] -> [my better cat]" alt="[exclamation about how cute your cat is] -> [last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your...
The Modern House
The Modern House guide to Christmas gifts that give back
The festive sprint comes with ample occasions for gift giving, from Secret Santa to stocking...
2 weeks ago
The festive sprint comes with ample occasions for gift giving, from Secret Santa to stocking fillers. Where to start? This year, we’ve decided to focus on gifting with an altruistic inclination and present an edit of design-led festive finds that support the work of charities […]
Society's Backend
Google AI Essentials, A New LLM Benchmark, Washington's AI Task Force, and More [Top 10 ML Resource...
Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and...
5 months ago
Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I share more frequent ML updates on X so don’t forget to follow me there. Support Society's Backend for just $1/mo
somenice
Procedural “Trees” using Blender Geometry Nodes
I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with Blender Geometry and Shader Nodes.Specifically here using...
over a year ago
I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with Blender Geometry and Shader Nodes.Specifically here using Instances on Points. I started with a 60 x 60 grid of curves, made into spirals and animated with a Noise texture. This ended up creating 8.3 Million faces and took 12 hours to...
Old Vintage...
The W65C265SXB gets a SXY case
Don't worry — my favourite single-board computer remains the 6502-based classic MOS/Commodore KIM-1,...
a year ago
Don't worry — my favourite single-board computer remains the 6502-based classic MOS/Commodore KIM-1, and I've got some future projects in the works. But these were recently on sale on Amazon and I couldn't resist getting a little sort-of RPi-sized SBC that runs the 16-bit 65816,...
Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
a year ago
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
Nothing Human
Reflections on Politics at Thanksgiving Dinner
political incorrectness as bid for closeness
3 weeks ago
political incorrectness as bid for closeness
The Great Discontent...
Schessa Garbutt
Schessa Garbutt is the founder of the Inglewood–based design studio, Firebrand. An educator,...
5 months ago
Schessa Garbutt is the founder of the Inglewood–based design studio, Firebrand. An educator, lecturer, and published essayist (see The Black Experience in Design anthology, a must-read). Garbutt works at the intersection of co-design practices and making huge, mind-bending ideas...
Mazdak
The ChatGPT Revolution: A Year Later
On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) that quickly captured...
a year ago
On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) that quickly captured the attention of the world. ChatGPT's ability to generate human-quality text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer questions in an informative...
Matt Mullenweg
DrupalCon Singapore
This week, DrupalCon Singapore is bringing together an incredible community of Drupal platform...
a week ago
This week, DrupalCon Singapore is bringing together an incredible community of Drupal platform creators, developers, and supporters. Last year, I had the chance to share the stage with Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, and the conversation stuck with me. It highlighted the...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#29)
AI might help the middle class, Americans can afford food, narratives about science, Europe's...
9 months ago
AI might help the middle class, Americans can afford food, narratives about science, Europe's defense industry, and Native American YIMBYism
The Modern House
Mark Lebon, the man inside the house that makes people smile
8 months ago
Kagi Blog
The Age of PageRank is Over
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The...
over a year ago
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
Anecdotal Evidence
'We Enter Again November'
The final
stanza of Howard Nemerov’s “Elegy of Last Resort” from his second collection, Guide to the...
a month ago
The final
stanza of Howard Nemerov’s “Elegy of Last Resort” from his second collection, Guide to the Ruins (1950):
“We enter
again November; cold late light
Glazes the field, a little fever of love,
Held in numbed hands, admires the false gods;
While lonely on this coast the...
Liz Denys
Reasons to kick Peter Thiel off Facebook's board
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about...
over a year ago
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the threat he poses. Many of the arguments are centered around diversity, which is a tenet Facebook says it deeply values.
The ways Thiel fails to value diversity matter: his...
Marco.org
Developer relations
Apple’s leaders
continue
to
deny
developers
of two obvious truths:
That our apps provide substantial...
over a year ago
Apple’s leaders
continue
to
deny
developers
of two obvious truths:
That our apps provide substantial value to iOS beyond the purchase commissions collected by Apple.
That any portion of our customers came to our apps from our own marketing or reputation, rather than the App...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.19.0
This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer...
over a year ago
This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer features, as well as our core analytics stack…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bea
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
(Thanks for the amazing sales numbers so far, and...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
(Thanks for the amazing sales numbers so far, and more importantly for all the happy stories about parents and kids reading together!)
Today's News:
Also this, but we ran out of space
Maps Mania
Live 2 Years Longer with Better Air Quality
a year ago
Seth's Blog
What are the stakes?
How big a swing do we need to make it feel like it matters? At the casino, some folks play with $5...
9 months ago
How big a swing do we need to make it feel like it matters? At the casino, some folks play with $5 chips, some with $100 chips. Do the high rollers have more fun? Are they more engaged? It’s natural to imagine that bigger swings matter more. That a bigger audience means our...
Bartosz Ciechanowski
Airfoil
The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many...
9 months ago
The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventually succeeded in achieving that goal. These days we take air transportation for granted, but the physics of flight can still be puzzling.
In this article we’ll...
TheCollector
How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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9 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Michelle Hughes
I’m a printmaker and illustrator, living in York, North Yorkshire. I create limited edition linocut...
a year ago
I’m a printmaker and illustrator, living in York, North Yorkshire. I create limited edition linocut prints inspired by the British countryside and British wildlife.
Describe your printmaking process.
When I started making lino prints I used SoftCut lino and a wooden spoon to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscious
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The maximum size of brain a human can comprehend...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The maximum size of brain a human can comprehend consists of 3 neurons.
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TheCollector
6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
“PCs are going to be like trucks”
Steve Jobs in 2010: When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you...
over a year ago
Steve Jobs in 2010: When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. Cars became more…
diamond geezer
Energen Close
While I was in Willesden, round the back of Taylors Lane Power Station, I came across this...
8 months ago
While I was in Willesden, round the back of Taylors Lane Power Station, I came across this oddly-named cul-de-sac. That's an odd name for a cul-de-sac, I thought. Why was Energen Close named after a private company?
Powergen, not Energen, although they were founded in 1989 so...
alexwlchan
A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian →
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it.
It’s already absorbed...
over a year ago
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it.
It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too.
To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin.
When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
Liz Denys
Cancel Like Everything
Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a...
over a year ago
Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a new poster inspired by For Like Ever and the current need for social distance:
The texture in the clouds below the text is made up of no symbols and small x's:
I've made an A4...
Aaron's Essays
Asking questions
Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly...
over a year ago
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...
Noahpinion
The reverse OPEC maneuver
Pricing power in the oil industry is shifting, and will shift more.
a year ago
Pricing power in the oil industry is shifting, and will shift more.
The Modern House
Our guide to Kentish Town: Technicolour townhouses, natural wine and nature in north London
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
DepolarizingGPT
A Political Chatbot that Gives 3 Politically Diverse Answers to Every Prompt
a year ago
A Political Chatbot that Gives 3 Politically Diverse Answers to Every Prompt
Both Are True
did you steal my bicycle
we moved to Asheville and then this happened
3 months ago
we moved to Asheville and then this happened
Rest of World -...
Google turns to AI in the race to dub YouTube
YouTube’s new automatic dubbing system is competing with with human firms to help creators scale the...
a year ago
YouTube’s new automatic dubbing system is competing with with human firms to help creators scale the language barrier.
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
2 weeks ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
devonzuegel.com
Misreading Milei: The American press can only see Argentina through a US lens
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. The American press...
a year ago
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. The American press seems to deeply misunderstand what's going on. It seems the US reporters can only understand Argentine politics through the lens of the US, when really it's just a totally...
Diaries of Note
When I die I shall go to May
British gardener Monty Don has been educating and inspiring the British public for decades through...
a year ago
British gardener Monty Don has been educating and inspiring the British public for decades through his love of nature, beginning in 1989 with a television debut that ultimately led to him presenting BBC’s much-loved Gardener’s World. It was shortly after he became a broadcaster...
The American Scholar
Femmes Fantastiques
Mickalene Thomas and the art of remixing
The post Femmes Fantastiques appeared first on The American...
6 months ago
Mickalene Thomas and the art of remixing
The post Femmes Fantastiques appeared first on The American Scholar.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Also rationality developed entirely to rationalize...
11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Also rationality developed entirely to rationalize your own behavior. Its use in mathematics is incidental.
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diamond geezer
We're drinking less tea
Yesterday the BBC website had a story about the amount of tea people aren't drinking any more.
do...
a week ago
Yesterday the BBC website had a story about the amount of tea people aren't drinking any more.
do drink tea it's often green tea, herbal tea or bubble tea, not traditional black tea. 18 year-old Sharma, for example, said she prefers herbal tea and hasn't even heard of Typhoo...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week
🛰️ Starlink Plus
2 months ago
diamond geezer
Northumberland Avenue
NORTHUMBER
LAND AVENUE
£160
London's Monopoly Streets
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE
Colour group:...
7 months ago
NORTHUMBER
LAND AVENUE
£160
London's Monopoly Streets
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE
Colour group: pink
Purchase price: £160
Rent: £12
Length: 300m
Borough: Westminster
Postcode: SW1
Northumberland Avenue is a young street by central London standards, and a grand one at that. Like...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#42)
The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI;...
5 months ago
The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI; solar power uses; Global South tariffs; Gen Z wages; Stiglitz
Common Edge
Will Mayor Eric Adams’ “City of Yes” Be a City for All?
New York’s massive zoning overhaul has passed. What now?
6 days ago
New York’s massive zoning overhaul has passed. What now?
Rest of World -...
Technology is transforming the deadly voyage from Cuba to Florida
From Havana to Key West on a surfboard and a cellphone.
a year ago
From Havana to Key West on a surfboard and a cellphone.
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Fairway Market logos
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: nypost.com Christopher Sadowski. License: All Rights...
over a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: nypost.com Christopher Sadowski. License: All Rights Reserved.
Dom Bold and Agenda.
Fairway Market is a chain of grocery stores in the New York metropolitan area. From Wikipedia:
Founded in 1933, it expanded in the New York area...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2022 California general election
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While
preparing for this election, I...
over a year ago
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While
preparing for this election, I consulted:
San Francisco Chronicle voter guide
SPUR endorsements
GrowSF voter guide, which links to questionnaires from many local candidates that are far more detailed than their...
TheCollector
Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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a year ago
Seán Barry
Using snippets in sublime text to speed up your development
How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your...
over a year ago
How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your efficiency.
Nadia Asparouhova
The New American University
I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president,...
over a year ago
I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president, earlier this year, and I so enjoyed his thoughts on knowledge production that I immediately wondered how his philosophy would translate to ASU as an organization. Turns out,...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 15
Highlights TinyPilot had its highest-revenue month ever. One of TinyPilot’s competitors raised $800k...
over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot had its highest-revenue month ever. One of TinyPilot’s competitors raised $800k almost overnight. I’m working with a design firm to improve TinyPilot’s brand and website. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s...
Londonist
London's New Women's Museum Opens This March
Launching on International Women's Day.
9 months ago
Launching on International Women's Day.
Liz Denys
Route: annoying insurance upsell or online shopping data aggregator?
I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart...
over a year ago
I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart when I purchase things online:
I went partially through the checkout flow of a shop that uses Route with a $278 item I have no interest in purchasing to illustrate this...
Construction Physics
Could We Boost Housing Construction by Permitting ADUs Under the HUD Code?
To boost housing construction, some jurisdictions have adopted a new strategy: allowing the...
a year ago
To boost housing construction, some jurisdictions have adopted a new strategy: allowing the construction of Accessory Dwelling Units, or ADUs. ADUs, sometimes called “granny flats,” are small, secondary housing units built on the lots of existing single family homes – things like...
Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
10 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
exist
Turing Machine Halting in Lean
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
La Umbela by Andrew Higareda
The project focused on creating a non-alcoholic tequila brand, offering a sophisticated and...
2 months ago
The project focused on creating a non-alcoholic tequila brand, offering a sophisticated and authentic experience for conscious consumers, without compromising...
Louwrentius
Using ncat to provide SSL-support to non-ssl capable software
Sometimes, people are using software that does not support encrypted
connections using SSL. To...
over a year ago
Sometimes, people are using software that does not support encrypted
connections using SSL. To provide SSL-support to such a client, ncat can be
used. Ncat is part of nmap, the famous port-scanner.
The main principle is that the non-ssl capable software does not connect to
the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project
I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
over a year ago
I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s Something You Need to Know About Web Design and Development
You’re doing great at it.
(❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race)
Email, Twitter,
Mastodon
a year ago
You’re doing great at it.
(❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race)
Email, Twitter,
Mastodon
Londonist
Plans For Redevelopment Of Waterloo Station Revealed
New entrances and concourses are among the ideas.
9 months ago
New entrances and concourses are among the ideas.
Artificial Ignorance
I gave ChatGPT access to my Gmail
I'm sure this will end well.
a year ago
I'm sure this will end well.
Arduino Blog
This DIY guitar transmitter sends digital audio to the amp
When on stage, most guitarists will simply run a long cable from their guitar to the amp or mixer....
4 months ago
When on stage, most guitarists will simply run a long cable from their guitar to the amp or mixer. But that cable can become tangled or get in the way, which is a problem for some of the more animated musicians out there. Wireless transmitters exist for them to express themselves...
TheCollector
Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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a year ago
the singularity is...
Cruise
NOTE: this is not about the similarly named self driving car company, it’s a movie idea
Set 5 years...
10 months ago
NOTE: this is not about the similarly named self driving car company, it’s a movie idea
Set 5 years in the future.
Scene 1 (the party):
Our opening scene is a New Jersey houseparty, late college. Four kids lamenting the loss of their childhood. And it’s not just their childhood,...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
Old Vintage...
The Fossil Wrist PDA becomes a tiny Gopher client (with Overbite Palm 0.3)
I don't always often wear watches. But when I do, I prefer Palm PDAs. Wired to my wrist.
all...
a year ago
I don't always often wear watches. But when I do, I prefer Palm PDAs. Wired to my wrist.
all about Palm devices on the Internet.
It turns out there's a reason for that, and we're going to patch the operating system so we can make the Fossil Wrist PDA into what may be the...
History Today Feed
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
a month ago
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
Notes on software...
Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 1. a stack and register machine
Better yet, take a look at this post walking through emulating x86 ELF binaries in Go:
Emulating...
over a year ago
Better yet, take a look at this post walking through emulating x86 ELF binaries in Go:
Emulating linux/AMD64 userland: interpreting an ELF binary
2. system calls
In this post we'll create a small virtual machine in JavaScript and
use it to run a simple C program compiled...
A Beautiful Site
A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC"
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A...
over a year ago
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship.
In the...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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4 months ago
Seth's Blog
The ledge
Drowning is devastating, a tragic and painful way to go. So much so that feeling like we’re drowning...
3 months ago
Drowning is devastating, a tragic and painful way to go. So much so that feeling like we’re drowning is a trigger, an overwhelming emotion that causes us to grasp, struggle and leave our best self behind. It’s easy to experience this even when we’re out of the water. When the...
tomcritchlow.com
Digital Bricolage & Web Foraging
When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme:...
a year ago
When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme: digital bricolage. Bricolage is “the skill of using whatever is at hand and recombining them to create something new.”
Blog - Guerrilla...
Counter-mapping: Sitio San Roque, Philippines
This counter-map was the product of a collaboration between the Junior Philippine Geographical...
over a year ago
This counter-map was the product of a collaboration between the Junior Philippine Geographical Society – University of the Philippines Diliman (JPGS-UPD), the Save San Roque Alliance, Kadamay – San Roque, and most especially the urban poor residents of San Roque.
The...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Books in the Running Brooks'
One of my
favorite literary analogies:
“The work of
a correct and regular writer is a garden...
11 months ago
One of my
favorite literary analogies:
“The work of
a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently
planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers; the composition of
Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower
in...
Coding Horror
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career.
With early computers,...
over a year ago
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career.
With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
Blog - Practical...
Which Is Easier To Pull? (Railcars vs. Road Cars)
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Imagine the room you’re in...
a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Imagine the room you’re in right now was filled to the top with gravel. (I promise I’m headed somewhere with this.) I don’t know the size of the room you’re in, but if it’s anywhere near an average-sized...
Dustin Curtis
Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+
Apple TV is a hardware device.
Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy...
over a year ago
Apple TV is a hardware device.
Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way to tell which ones).
Apple TV is an app on iOS/iPadOS devices that...
macwright.com
Recently
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
3 months ago
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories.
Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
The Modern House
A beloved mid-century home built for a lifetime of colour and creation by two architects
7 months ago
Maggie Appleton
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Does technology have a right to exist? (No.)
So often, people argue against restrictions on technology (or tech companies) with the argument that...
a year ago
So often, people argue against restrictions on technology (or tech companies) with the argument that those restrictions aren't possible given the scale, value, or some other property of the technology.
For example, a common retort to arguments that Facebook and YouTube should...
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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5 months ago
The Modern House
Knock on Wood: five homes making the best of nature’s most versatile material
Abundant, strong, durable – not to mention beautiful – wood has been used to build our homes for...
a year ago
Abundant, strong, durable – not to mention beautiful – wood has been used to build our homes for millennia. It’s not surprising, really, when you think how easy it is to access and work with, to say nothing of the ways in which it provides […]
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Can you tell an assembly language when you see one?
An interactive quiz featuring several obscure high-level languages and assembly variants.
over a year ago
An interactive quiz featuring several obscure high-level languages and assembly variants.
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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TheCollector
The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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a year ago
GitButler
Git Merge 2024
GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
5 months ago
GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
Old Structures...
Not A Skyscaper
The picture above – courtesy of Irfan Haider of the Central Park Conservancy – shows the realization...
a year ago
The picture above – courtesy of Irfan Haider of the Central Park Conservancy – shows the realization of another of our designs for small rustic structures in the park. Again, Shaquana Lovell took the lead for OSE. In this case, the design of the log structure was not the main...
Tech + Economics +...
A decade of discontent is coming.
The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for
large-scale upheaval and...
a year ago
The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for
large-scale upheaval and the reordering of societal structures is
significant. We are already witnessing the dismantling of long-standing
institutions and the rise of new paradigms. The struggle between...
Rest of World -...
Malaysia’s homegrown car brands bank on cheaper models to compete with Tesla and BYD
Proton and Perodua are betting on low prices and an emotional connection with Malaysia’s drivers to...
3 months ago
Proton and Perodua are betting on low prices and an emotional connection with Malaysia’s drivers to compete with BYD and Tesla.
Diaries of Note
CORONACION DAY
On 23rd April 1661, a decade after fleeing the country following defeat by Oliver Cromwell, Charles...
a year ago
On 23rd April 1661, a decade after fleeing the country following defeat by Oliver Cromwell, Charles II was crowned king, heralding the restoration of the monarchy and the end of political turmoil. The Abbey was resplendently adorned in reds that day, and the finest of garments...
On Life and Lisp
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem
(No, there won’t be jokes.)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a...
over a year ago
(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...
Noahpinion
The Roaring 20s are back on track
A healthy economy, strong productivity growth, and a continuing tech boom.
a year ago
A healthy economy, strong productivity growth, and a continuing tech boom.
Quanta Magazine
The Quest for Simple Rules to Build a Microbial Community
Microbiologists are searching for a universal theory of how bacteria form communities based not on...
11 months ago
Microbiologists are searching for a universal theory of how bacteria form communities based not on their species but on the roles they play.
The post The Quest for Simple Rules to Build a Microbial Community first appeared on Quanta Magazine
This Space
39 Books: 2011
How does one respond to Nietzsche's revelation at Sils Maria?
I read Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche...
7 months ago
How does one respond to Nietzsche's revelation at Sils Maria?
I read Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle because the thought of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same occurred to me as a literary concept, perhaps the ultimate experience of the literary, but needed...
Prolost
Log is the “Pro” in iPhone 15 Pro
And I’ve got some free LUTs for you.
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature log video recording. This...
a year ago
And I’ve got some free LUTs for you.
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature log video recording. This is a big deal, but there’s already some confusion about it. Where consumer devices and pro video overlap, that’s where the Prolost Signal gleams brightest in the night sky. So...
TheCollector
Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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11 months ago
Map of the Week
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
In response to last week's Black Atlantic post, a reader directed me to the Atlas of the...
10 months ago
In response to last week's Black Atlantic post, a reader directed me to the Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Atlas has a companion site, Echoes: the SlaveVoyages Blog where you can browse through an impressive array of maps produced for the Atlas. Here are the major...
TheCollector
Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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10 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
May 2022: $7,839 MRR, travel, experiments, and a new app.
Hello everyone, it’s Tony again 👋 These days time flies so fast to me! I’m having so many updates...
over a year ago
Hello everyone, it’s Tony again 👋 These days time flies so fast to me! I’m having so many updates in May that I want to share with you all. Let’s go! Welcome 128 new subscribers since the last issue! If you are new here, this is a monthly newsletter of my indie hacking journey....
TheCollector
Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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TheCollector
9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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a year ago
Londonist
An 'Accidentally Wes Anderson' Exhibition Is Coming To West London
So. Much. Pastel.
a year ago
Passing Time
Learning Not to Trust the All-In Podcast in Ten Minutes
Gross incompetence or purposeful deception?
a month ago
Gross incompetence or purposeful deception?
NeuroLogica Blog
Grief Tech
In the awesome show, Black Mirror, one episode features a young woman who lost her husband. In her...
7 months ago
In the awesome show, Black Mirror, one episode features a young woman who lost her husband. In her grief she turns to a company that promises to give her at least a partial experience of her husband. They sift through every picture, video, comment, and other online trace of the...
Noahpinion
Some thoughts on where the war in Ukraine is headed
And some perspective on what's happened already.
a year ago
And some perspective on what's happened already.
NeuroLogica Blog
Let’s Talk About Cement
Industry is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions, close to the amount of electricity production...
6 months ago
Industry is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions, close to the amount of electricity production (25%) and transportation (28%). We talk a lot about transportation and energy, but industrial carbon is a harder nut to crack. Also, the 23% is direct carbon release from industrial...
Quanta Magazine
New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize
The proof establishes new conditions that cause connected oscillators to sway in sync. ...
a year ago
The proof establishes new conditions that cause connected oscillators to sway in sync.
The post New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize first appeared on Quanta Magazine
mtlynch.io
How to Grow Quickly and Never Turn a Profit
Early last year, I launched a nutrition site called Is It Keto. From November 2018 until March 2019,...
over a year ago
Early last year, I launched a nutrition site called Is It Keto. From November 2018 until March 2019, the site was my full-time focus. Every month, visitors increased by 50% to 150%, an exhilarating growth rate that far outpaced any of my previous projects.
There was only one...
Londonist
This Oxford Circus Building Is The Mini Me Of An Iconic Manhattan Skyscraper
Palladium House is a tribute to the American Radiator Building.
10 months ago
Palladium House is a tribute to the American Radiator Building.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The challenge of creating a new category
One of the hardest things to do as a startup is to create a new category. Bloggers and press have a...
over a year ago
One of the hardest things to do as a startup is to create a new category. Bloggers and press have a natural tendency to “pigeonhole” – to…
Old Structures...
The Big Day and We’re Two-Faced
Our new website is up and, as with all such changes, things are not going as smoothly as I might...
a year ago
Our new website is up and, as with all such changes, things are not going as smoothly as I might have hoped. There’s a minor glitch with the menu on the new website, which I expect will be fixed shortly. More importantly, we wanted to change to the new back-end in such a way that...
Quanta Magazine
‘Sensational’ Proof Delivers New Insights Into Prime Numbers
The proof creates stricter limits on potential exceptions to the famous Riemann hypothesis. ...
5 months ago
The proof creates stricter limits on potential exceptions to the famous Riemann hypothesis.
The post ‘Sensational’ Proof Delivers New Insights Into Prime Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Old Structures...
A Simple Drawing For A Difficult Structure – Part 2
The illustration above, from the May 1883 issue of Harper’s Magazine, courtesy of the New York...
a year ago
The illustration above, from the May 1883 issue of Harper’s Magazine, courtesy of the New York Public Library, gives a better sense of the Brooklyn Bridge caissons than yesterday’s working drawing (repeated below) even if it’s got less technical information. Note that May 1883...
TheCollector
What Was the Chaco War?
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a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Hard Work
I’ve spent literally the whole day coding and it feels like I’ve only done a small parts of the...
over a year ago
I’ve spent literally the whole day coding and it feels like I’ve only done a small parts of the actual game mechanics… I know this isn’t going to end well.
I can allow myself a small pause I feel…
Not sure where this is going to end, but I’m having a blast anyway!
Citation Needed
Issue 58 – Threats to the stability and integrity of Ethereum
The Justice Department worries about the stability of Ethereum, DCG tries to bilk their subsidiary's...
7 months ago
The Justice Department worries about the stability of Ethereum, DCG tries to bilk their subsidiary's creditors, and Biden threatens a crypto veto.
Fonts In Use: Blog...
The Exorcist movie titles
Contributed by Nick Sherman
License: All Rights Reserved.
License: All Rights Reserved....
over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman
License: All Rights Reserved.
License: All Rights Reserved.
License: All Rights Reserved.
The Exorcist is a 1973 horror film directed by William Friedkin based on William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel of the same name. The story focuses...
Diaries of Note
Work under any circumstances
Benjamin Robert Haydon was a 19th-century British artist and writer whose career was plagued by...
a year ago
Benjamin Robert Haydon was a 19th-century British artist and writer whose career was plagued by financial hardship and legal troubles. Born in 1786, Haydon’s passion for historical painting led him down a tumultuous path, as mounting debts and controversial public statements...
Vadim Kravcenko
How much equity should a CTO ask for?
This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s...
over a year ago
This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s especially awesome […]
The post How much equity should a CTO ask for? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
7 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
Blog - Practical...
Why Are Rails Shaped Like That?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Maybe more than any other type...
a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Maybe more than any other type of infrastructure, railways have a contingent of devoted enthusiasts. “Railfans” as they call themselves; Or should say “ourselves”? Maybe it's the nostalgia of an earlier era or...
TheCollector
When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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11 months ago
Seth's Blog
Delivering good taste
There are lots of books on creating cooking, photography, writing and music. But they can’t possibly...
a year ago
There are lots of books on creating cooking, photography, writing and music. But they can’t possibly help you do better until you see and taste and appreciate what you’re trying to create. If you think what you’re serving is good, but others don’t, more recipes aren’t going to...
Rest of World -...
ByteDance shuts down its WhatsApp clone in Africa
TikTok’s owner launched LetsChat in 2021, aimed at young Africans and boosted by heavy marketing,...
9 months ago
TikTok’s owner launched LetsChat in 2021, aimed at young Africans and boosted by heavy marketing, but it couldn’t crack WhatsApp’s dominance.
Irrational...
Physics and perception.
At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite...
5 months ago
At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite civil war.
The conflict was driven by one group’s belief that Java should replace Ruby.
Java would, they posited, address the ongoing challenge of delivering a quality platform in...
Common Edge
Capturing America, One State Capitol at a Time
A new book celebrates the lost grandeur and optimism of democracy.
a year ago
A new book celebrates the lost grandeur and optimism of democracy.
Letters of Note
Never get a bulldog
When he wrote this letter to his mother in 1944, Roald Dahl was working at the British Embassy in...
over a year ago
When he wrote this letter to his mother in 1944, Roald Dahl was working at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C.—one of hundreds of undercover agents employed by Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service to spy on the United States. Dahl’s debut novel, The Gremlins, had been...
TheCollector
6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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2 months ago
Both Are True
i guess i wrote a song???
a guest post from Alex Gobrenko
8 months ago
a guest post from Alex Gobrenko
Open Culture
Stephen King Names His Five Favorite Works by Stephen King
Stephen King has no doubt forgotten writing more books than most of us will ever publish. But even...
6 months ago
Stephen King has no doubt forgotten writing more books than most of us will ever publish. But even now, in his prolific “late career,” if you ask him to name his own most favored works, he can do it without hesitation. Stephen Colbert tried that out a few years ago on The Late...
Alex Meub
My Favorite Web Apps and Tools
I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It...
over a year ago
I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It seems that in general, desktop apps have been getting slower and more resource intensive lately. The trend of teams using Electron or the Chromium Embedded Framework in order to ship...
The Honest Broker
10 YouTube Videos I'm Enjoying Right Now
My life is pretty much like yours. Except that total strangers send me all sorts of things.
a year ago
My life is pretty much like yours. Except that total strangers send me all sorts of things.
devonzuegel.com
On bounties
Michael Kaminsky recently emailed me an interesting post he wrote about bounties in open source, and...
over a year ago
Michael Kaminsky recently emailed me an interesting post he wrote about bounties in open source, and I took the opportunity to write up some thoughts that had been swirling in my head for a while. You can find the (lightly edited) response I sent to him below.
~
Bounties are...
The Honest Broker
Investment Funds Are Now Selling the Rock Songs They Bought
They will even take less than "fair market value"
a year ago
They will even take less than "fair market value"
Josh Comeau's blog
Building a Magical 3D Button
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and...
over a year ago
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
Maggie Appleton
Natureculture, Moral Purity, and Cultural Boundaries
over a year ago
The Modern House
MRTN Architects’ garden studios in Melbourne are a place to work – or not to work
8 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
Google and AI | Elon Musk on Tesla comp
Such a deep ML system could well be developed outside of Google-- at Microsoft, Baidu, Yandex,...
10 months ago
Such a deep ML system could well be developed outside of Google-- at Microsoft, Baidu, Yandex, Amazon, Apple, or even a startup.
TheCollector
Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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a year ago
Seth's Blog
The best possible use
I walked by a psychic’s storefront studio. The window said that this person had been reading palms...
10 months ago
I walked by a psychic’s storefront studio. The window said that this person had been reading palms and predicting the future since 1989. It was a large space on a vibrant New York City corner. The rent must be astronomical. Or else the purveyor owns the building. Given that this...
Computer Ads from...
Mark Williams' C Programming System
What C did for Programming Mark Williams has done for C Programming
4 months ago
What C did for Programming Mark Williams has done for C Programming
TheCollector
The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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a month ago
Arduino Blog
7 powerful ways to integrate Collaborative Coding into education with the Arduino Cloud
Collaborative coding in education can be a game-changer for students, providing them with real-world...
2 months ago
Collaborative coding in education can be a game-changer for students, providing them with real-world skills in communication, teamwork, and problem-solving. With the new collaborating coding feature of the Arduino Cloud, students can collaborate in real time on coding projects,...
alexwlchan
Using static websites for tiny archives
In my previous post, I talked about how I’m trying to be more intentional and deliberate with my...
2 months ago
In my previous post, I talked about how I’m trying to be more intentional and deliberate with my digital data.
I don’t just want to keep everything – I want to keep stuff that I’m actually going to look at again.
As part of that process, I’m trying to be better about organising...
Platformer
Twitter’s risky plan to save its ads business
Agree to personalize your ads — or else
over a year ago
Agree to personalize your ads — or else
Escaping Flatland
On limitations that hide in your blindspot
and how to find them
9 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'More Talkative But Less Writative'
Lately I’ve been
reading the Swift/Pope correspondence. Long ago I adopted the author of Gulliver’s...
a year ago
Lately I’ve been
reading the Swift/Pope correspondence. Long ago I adopted the author of Gulliver’s Travels as the most useful
model for prose style in English. It’s not the only way to write but it’s the best
if we judge clarity the supreme virtue. Sloppy prose, unless...
Dan Slimmon
Incident metrics tell you nothing about reliability
When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As...
a year ago
When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As long as we’re creating standards for incidents, let’s track Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) and Mean-Time-To-Detection (MTTD) and Mean-time-Between-Failures (MTBF)!” they say things...
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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11 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Vida – “Pura Vida” Cocktail by Horus Academy
Vida is a canned Cocktail product with an inclusive spirit, unique, modern and more accessible than...
7 months ago
Vida is a canned Cocktail product with an inclusive spirit, unique, modern and more accessible than traditional cocktails. There is...
TheCollector
Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
6 months ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
Moneyness
Do bitcoin ETFs conflict with bitcoin's original ethos?
Some folks are suggesting that a bitcoin ETF is absurd because it doesn't fit with Bitcoin's...
11 months ago
Some folks are suggesting that a bitcoin ETF is absurd because it doesn't fit with Bitcoin's original ethos. On the contrary, I think it's a nice snug fit.
It would be a misunderstanding of bitcoin's history to assume that it was the idealism of cypherpunk-ism that gave birth to...
TheCollector
The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Open Culture
A New 3D Scan, Created from 25,000 High-Resolution Images, Reveals the Remarkably Well-Preserved...
Photos on this page courtesy of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Few who hear the story of the...
a month ago
Photos on this page courtesy of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Few who hear the story of the Endurance could avoid reflecting on the aptness of the ship’s name. A year after setting out on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, it got stuck in a mass of drifting ice...
Passing Time
Is a Priest Justified in Consulting a Doctor?
We must either love God or hate him; we must either believe everything or deny everything; All or...
a year ago
We must either love God or hate him; we must either believe everything or deny everything; All or Nothing.
On Life and Lisp
The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from...
over a year ago
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since then, we’ve been reverse-engineering AGX and building open source graphics drivers. Last January, I rendered a triangle with my own code, but...
Seth's Blog
How to buy a lottery ticket
There are lots of cultural lotteries around us. The next pop song, the book that everyone is talking...
a month ago
There are lots of cultural lotteries around us. The next pop song, the book that everyone is talking about, the blog post or video that goes viral… it even applies to who gets into a famous college or is selected by the AI screening for a good job. The usual advice is: Fit in....
Epic Web Dev
Data Modeling Deep Dive (workshop)
The Data Modeling Deep Dive Workshop will teach you best practices for designing database schemas,...
a year ago
The Data Modeling Deep Dive Workshop will teach you best practices for designing database schemas, managing relationships, data mutations, and optimizations.
TheCollector
Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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5 months ago
Kevin Chen
Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?”
It’s a good question.
Trucking was...
11 months ago
Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?”
It’s a good question.
Trucking was supposed to be the ideal first application of autonomous driving. Freeways contain predictable, highly structured driving scenarios. An autonomous truck would not have to deal with the...
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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5 months ago
./techtipsy
This site will be offline on 2022-08-17 between 18:00-19:00 EEST
There really isn’t much to say here, nor is there a rational reason behind this.
I just see it as an...
over a year ago
There really isn’t much to say here, nor is there a rational reason behind this.
I just see it as an opportunity to send a signal and test the capabilities of
my UPS.
I’ve prepared for this moment with my self-hosting setup, let’s see how well it
holds up. Hopefully better than...
Steve Klabnik
The culture war at the heart of open source
over a year ago
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway Energy
Selected highlights from the 2023 EEI Financial Conference
a year ago
Selected highlights from the 2023 EEI Financial Conference
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Yup
Sometimes, this game is not much of a challenge. Above, the Midtown North precinct house, as seen in...
a year ago
Sometimes, this game is not much of a challenge. Above, the Midtown North precinct house, as seen in Daredevil. Below, the Midtown North precinct house, as seen in Apple Look Around.
Ian Betteridge
20241202 Ten Blue Links, the late late late show edition!
Technically this is eight blue links, because I spent the weekend in Bristol and we’re getting...
2 weeks ago
Technically this is eight blue links, because I spent the weekend in Bristol and we’re getting towards Christmas. Next week: five blue links and a bag of wine gums. 1. RIP ChromeOS (sort of) Odd as it sounds today, when I talk a lot about user privacy and avoiding cloud services,...
The Marginalian
How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love
"Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both...
a year ago
"Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged."
Confessions of a...
Marine Ecology or Marine Biology….what’s the difference!?!?!?
A few of you may be wondering why the blog is called ‘Confessions of a Marine Ecologist” and not...
over a year ago
A few of you may be wondering why the blog is called ‘Confessions of a Marine Ecologist” and not ‘Confessions of a Marine Biologist”. After all, if you ask a group of school kids what they want to be when they grow up, more than a handful would happily answer “marine biologist”,...
TheCollector
10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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9 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Where at least I know I'm free
I used to find the American self-image of being this uniquely freedom-loving, freedom-having people...
4 months ago
I used to find the American self-image of being this uniquely freedom-loving, freedom-having people delusional. Sure, I'd think, you're not North Korea or Venezuela, but is that really a standard worth celebration? Shouldn't America compare itself to higher alternatives, like...
Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
2 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
My Pardot landing page starter kit
Over the past year, I’ve built an increasing amount of Pardot landing pages in my day to day role. I...
over a year ago
Over the past year, I’ve built an increasing amount of Pardot landing pages in my day to day role. I think landing pages are a really…
bt RSS Feed
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-22
There are a great deal of options available on the web and...
over a year ago
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-22
There are a great deal of options available on the web and built into most operating systems when you need to create presentation / keynote slides. You could use native software like LibremOffice Impress, Powerpoint, Apple’s Keynote, etc....
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