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over a year ago
Hello everyone 👋 It’s Tony again with another monthly update! 😄Thanks for reading Tony Dinh’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Phu Yen Province, Vietnam Welcome 313 new subscribers since my last issue! 👋 If you are new here: My name is...
Math Is Still...
Hobbyist Finds Math’s Elusive ‘Einstein’ Tile
The surprisingly simple tile is the first single, connected tile that can fill the entire plane in a...
a year ago
The surprisingly simple tile is the first single, connected tile that can fill the entire plane in a pattern that never repeats — and can’t be made to fill it in a repeating way.
The post Hobbyist Finds Math’s Elusive ‘Einstein’ Tile first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Diaries of Note
If I can paint three good pictures, then I shall go gladly
Paula Modersohn-Becker was just thirty-one when she died, her life tragically cut short in 1907 due...
a year ago
Paula Modersohn-Becker was just thirty-one when she died, her life tragically cut short in 1907 due to complications after childbirth. Born in Germany in 1876, she had already established herself as a pioneering figure in the early expressionist art movement, and the hundreds of...
TheCollector
Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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9 months ago
Platformer
The people who want to end Section 230 may have botched their case
But even a ruling against the plaintiffs in Gonzalez vs. Google could hurt internet freedoms,...
a year ago
But even a ruling against the plaintiffs in Gonzalez vs. Google could hurt internet freedoms, observers say
African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
Maps Mania
245 Russian Military Targets at Risk
4 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
BHAGs
Recently, [I asked tweeple](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1158902677289472001):
over a year ago
Recently, [I asked tweeple](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1158902677289472001):
diamond geezer
A skinflint's guide to visiting London's zoos
A skinflint's guide to visiting London's zoos
London Zoo is an acclaimed repository of...
a year ago
A skinflint's guide to visiting London's zoos
London Zoo is an acclaimed repository of globally-sourced animals, as well as a conservation hub and a prestige tourist attraction. But it's a bit pricey with tickets costing £27 on weekdays and £31 at weekends, or even more on the...
Daniel Bourke
30 years old
I remember sitting in the car on the way to drop my brother to preschool.
Being 9 years old and...
a year ago
I remember sitting in the car on the way to drop my brother to preschool.
Being 9 years old and telling my mum how excited I was to turn ten.
Double digits!
I feel the same way about 29 to 30.
I hardly even got used to saying I’
nanoscale views
Brief items
A few tidbits that I encountered recently:
The saga of Ranga Dias at Rochester draws to a close,...
2 months ago
A few tidbits that I encountered recently:
The saga of Ranga Dias at Rochester draws to a close, as described by the Wall Street Journal. It took quite some time for this to propagate through their system. This is after multiple internal investigations that somehow were...
TheCollector
Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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9 months ago
Noahpinion
What if Xi Jinping isn't that competent? (repost)
Plus a new update showing how right I was.
a year ago
Plus a new update showing how right I was.
Paul Graham: Essays
Holding a Program in One's Head
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
over a year ago
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren’t great (and still aren’t perfect) but they represented a...
Platformer
Utah's war on social networks is a symptom of a larger problem
Congress failed to act — and now a patchwork of bad state laws is eroding our privacy
a year ago
Congress failed to act — and now a patchwork of bad state laws is eroding our privacy
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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5 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Gordon Moore on self-driving cars
“I never thought I’d see autonomous automobiles driving on the freeways. It wasn’t many years ago...
over a year ago
“I never thought I’d see autonomous automobiles driving on the freeways. It wasn’t many years ago they put out a request to see who could…
Londonist
30 Beautiful Giraffe Sculptures To Discover On This Croydon Art Trail
Done the gorillas? Now do these.
a year ago
Done the gorillas? Now do these.
African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
over a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
A Smart Bear
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad...
over a year ago
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if you’re lucky, they could even lead to a unique business model and a long-term...
The Ruffian
The Sunak Question
Why Has the Tory Party's Great Hope Been So Bad At the Job?
9 months ago
Why Has the Tory Party's Great Hope Been So Bad At the Job?
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Irresistible Obstacles
The formula beneath any game that hooks players can be boiled down to the following. Voluntary...
over a year ago
The formula beneath any game that hooks players can be boiled down to the following. Voluntary Obstacle + Rules + Feedback System = Leveling Up
History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
4 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
Neil Madden
SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices
I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short...
8 months ago
I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short authentication tags (e.g., 64 bits) using universal hashing. For example, there’s a proposal in CFRG at the moment for a version of AES-GCM with short tags for this kind of use-case. In my...
Uncharted...
Should You Be Able to Experiment on Your Own Cancer?
A researcher in virology and immunotherapy got bad news: Her cancer was back with a vengeance; the...
3 months ago
A researcher in virology and immunotherapy got bad news: Her cancer was back with a vengeance; the treatments weren’t working. She decided to treat it herself.
Mazdak
Four Dumb Things You're Doing That Are Making You Lose Money in the Stock Market
Navigating the stock market can be a daunting task, especially for those new to investing. While...
a year ago
Navigating the stock market can be a daunting task, especially for those new to investing. While there are many strategies that can help you achieve your financial goals, there are also some surefire ways to lose money. Here are four of the most common mistakes investors make:
Josh Thompson
Waking Up Early 2.0
A few months ago, I wrote about
waking up early.
I tracked my progress for almost a month, and most...
over a year ago
A few months ago, I wrote about
waking up early.
I tracked my progress for almost a month, and most of the days I woke up between 4:45 and 6:00. My “must be up by” time is 7:30a, so waking up more than an hour and a half early counts as a huge win.
From mid-may until June 7, I...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Don't Rush to Simplicity
Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the...
over a year ago
Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the complexity?
Aaron's Essays
VCs are Scared When They Should be Greedy
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022.
I've...
over a year ago
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022.
I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the markets. Most of that advice focuses on how founders need to adjust to survive the...
TheCollector
10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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a month ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Is it cynical to do what your manager wants?
When I suggest doing what your management chain wants, people call me cynical. Is it cynical to...
2 weeks ago
When I suggest doing what your management chain wants, people call me cynical. Is it cynical to deliberately work on things your company…
Entrepreneur's Edge
Scale 10X with Court Lorenzini (Founder/CEO Docusign)
A conversation around building your startup, making the right bets, and achieving operational...
a year ago
A conversation around building your startup, making the right bets, and achieving operational leverage as an organization.
TheCollector
Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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a month ago
Ferd.ca
Hiding Theory in Practice
2022/11/23
Hiding Theory in Practice
I'm a self-labeled incident nerd. I very much enjoy reading...
over a year ago
2022/11/23
Hiding Theory in Practice
I'm a self-labeled incident nerd. I very much enjoy reading books and papers about them, I hang out with other incident nerds, and I always look for ways to connect the theory I learn about with the events I see at work and in everyday life....
Astral Codex Ten
The Innocent And The Beautiful Have No Enemy But Time
...
a month ago
HTMHell
One day we'll have a fully customisable select
Today, I want to look at a proposed HTML feature that may end up replacing a lot of <div>s-based...
over a year ago
Today, I want to look at a proposed HTML feature that may end up replacing a lot of <div>s-based custom input components: <selectmenu>.
CSS is awesome
I realise this calendar is about HTML. And I'll get to that. But first, let me start with CSS. CSS is fantastic, because it has...
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A 1970s Home Received A Contemporary Renovation
Floisand Studio Architects has shared photos of a contemporary renovation project they did for a...
a year ago
Floisand Studio Architects has shared photos of a contemporary renovation project they did for a home in Seattle, Washington. The original 1970s Seattle rambler had a typical boxy layout, while the exterior featured brick with blue and red accents. The new exterior includes new...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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8 months ago
Seeking Wisdom
Attention is all you need – Part 2
This is the 11th and final post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for...
a year ago
This is the 11th and final post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for better understanding. I concluded the previous post by explaining how Attention works. You can download the Excel sheet and Python code that explains how Attention from here and...
Seth's Blog
Leverage
It’s almost impossible to remove a screw with your bare hands, but easy with a screwdriver. The...
a year ago
It’s almost impossible to remove a screw with your bare hands, but easy with a screwdriver. The handle might only add a little torque, but it’s more than enough. If someone is succeeding at something you find difficult, it might be because they realized they needed a screwdriver....
The Rational Walk
The Digest #205
Books I read in Q2, Buffett's estate plan, The magic of compounding, How to read a book, Portfolio...
6 months ago
Books I read in Q2, Buffett's estate plan, The magic of compounding, How to read a book, Portfolio rebalancing, Ben Graham in 1955, Sam Walton, LBJ, Robert Moses, The origins of language
journal – Winnie Lim
open-air dining in seoul
It probably sounds obscure to write specifically about dining in open air in seoul, but when I...
a year ago
It probably sounds obscure to write specifically about dining in open air in seoul, but when I conducted my own research prior to the trip it was challenging for me to find...
Jonas Hietala
Focusing Attention: Drawing
In my last post I wrote about some ideas and projects I have and how it’s a little bit too much at a...
over a year ago
In my last post I wrote about some ideas and projects I have and how it’s a little bit too much at a time, so now I’m going to try something new here. In the beginning of every week I’ll declare something I’ll be focusing on and then that’s the only thing I should focus on on my...
Steve Klabnik
Writing a su feature with Authlogic
over a year ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
11 Decisions I'm Making At 38 To Avoid Regret At 58
The future you is formed by every small decision you make today, not luck or fate
a month ago
The future you is formed by every small decision you make today, not luck or fate
Daniel Miessler
The 2 Current Major AI Bottlenecks
I’ve been going hardcore on using GPT to create essays, reports, and other kinds of analysis. I’ve...
a year ago
I’ve been going hardcore on using GPT to create essays, reports, and other kinds of analysis. I’ve had tons of success with it, and it’s given me a clear view of current limitations with the current tech. I’m not complaining. This stuff is brand-new. Here are the current...
TheCollector
The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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5 months ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
@levelsio and survivorship bias
Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software.
He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s...
over a year ago
Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software.
He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s close to making $1.5 million a year from his business, almost all of it profit.
Almost all of it is his profit since for most of the time he was a sole developer / marketer / copy...
Liz Denys
Black coiled bowl, 2023
Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, glossy blue glaze
a year ago
Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, glossy blue glaze
Commoncog
Becoming Data Driven, From First Principles
People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do...
11 months ago
People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do it. This is everything you need to know to actually become data driven, from scratch, using the same first principles that Amazon, Koch, and Toyota used back in their day.
The Honest Broker
Hey Madonna, Let Me Bring My Band to Your Concert
My latest briefing paper on culture, arts & society
a year ago
My latest briefing paper on culture, arts & society
macwright.com
About Placemark.io
Someone asked over email about why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source...
10 months ago
Someone asked over email about why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project. I have no qualms with sharing the answers publicly, so here they are:
I stopped Placemark because it didn’t generate enough revenue and I lost faith that there was a...
Londonist
Brentford's Enchanting Musical Museum Is Under Threat - And You Can Help Save It
Uniquely quirky museum could close later this year.
11 months ago
Uniquely quirky museum could close later this year.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 4: The Verge
3 months ago
Fatih Arslan
How I Designed a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone Dock
Dieter Rams and his friends (Dietrich Lubs and Ludwig Littman) designed many great looking alarm...
4 months ago
Dieter Rams and his friends (Dietrich Lubs and Ludwig Littman) designed many great looking alarm clocks.
Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
8 months ago
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 1
I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week...
2 weeks ago
I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 1.
Readings
Following Gioia’s plan, I read six of Plato’s dialogues:
Euthypro,
Apology,
Crito,
Phaedo, and
Books I and VII of The Republic.
I used the beautiful edition published (for free)...
TheCollector
Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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11 months ago
nanoscale views
Foams! (or, why my split pea side dish boils over every Thanksgiving)
Foams can be great examples of mechanical metamaterials.
Adapted from TOC figure of this...
a month ago
Foams can be great examples of mechanical metamaterials.
Adapted from TOC figure of this paper
Consider my shaving cream. You might imagine that the (mostly water) material would just pool as a homogeneous liquid, since water molecules have a strong attraction for one...
The Marginalian
Jonathan Franzen on How to Write About Nature, with a Side of Rachel Carson and Alice in Wonderland
I grew up loving Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. My grandmother read it to me before I could read....
10 months ago
I grew up loving Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. My grandmother read it to me before I could read. I read it to myself as soon as I could. I loved the strangeness of it, and the tenderness. As a child mathematician, I loved knowing that a grown mathematician had written it. But...
Retail Design Blog
via·1719 Wu Liangcai New Vision Field by Dayuan Design
When a building becomes a collective memory of a city, the meaning it carries is unique. Whenever...
2 weeks ago
When a building becomes a collective memory of a city, the meaning it carries is unique. Whenever people mention it,...
./techtipsy
No HDMI port on the ThinkPad T430? No problem!
The ThinkPad T430 has a few options for running it with an external display:
VGA port, which is...
6 months ago
The ThinkPad T430 has a few options for running it with an external display:
VGA port, which is pretty much obsolete at this point
mini DisplayPort connector on the laptop itself
DVI or DisplayPort on a dock
The mini DisplayPort port has annoyed me for as long as I’ve had this...
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Identify the Best Versions of Iconic Shapes
Researchers are discovering the shortest knots and fattest Möbius strips, among other “optimal...
a year ago
Researchers are discovering the shortest knots and fattest Möbius strips, among other “optimal shapes.”
The post Mathematicians Identify the Best Versions of Iconic Shapes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The American Scholar
Teach the Conflicts
It’s natural—and right—to foster
The post Teach the Conflicts appeared first on The American...
4 months ago
It’s natural—and right—to foster
The post Teach the Conflicts appeared first on The American Scholar.
NeuroLogica Blog
A Discussion about Biological Sex
At CSICON this year I gave talk about topics over which skeptics have and continue to disagree with...
2 months ago
At CSICON this year I gave talk about topics over which skeptics have and continue to disagree with each other. My core theme was that these are the topics we absolutely should be discussing with each other, especially at skeptical conferences. Nothing should be taboo or too...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #204
Buffett buys more Occidental, Daily Journal annual meeting notes, Experts vs. Imitators, Slowing...
7 months ago
Buffett buys more Occidental, Daily Journal annual meeting notes, Experts vs. Imitators, Slowing down time, Return of meme stocks, The U.S. Constitution, Gouverneur Morris, Cleopatra
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Find Hidden Structure in a Common Type of Space
In 50 years of searching, mathematicians found only one example of a “subspace design” in a vector...
a year ago
In 50 years of searching, mathematicians found only one example of a “subspace design” in a vector space. A new proof reveals that there are infinitely more out there.
The post Mathematicians Find Hidden Structure in a Common Type of Space first appeared on Quanta...
TheCollector
Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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a year ago
The Rational Walk
Coffee Can Investing
Sometimes an investing approach that is not necessarily "rational" from an economic perspective can...
a year ago
Sometimes an investing approach that is not necessarily "rational" from an economic perspective can produce superior results when one accounts for human nature.
Style over Substance
Adding night shading to a Home Assistant mini-graph-card chart
One of my favorite Lovelace interface cards for Home Assistant is the mini-graph-card by kalkih....
over a year ago
One of my favorite Lovelace interface cards for Home Assistant is the mini-graph-card by kalkih. It’s the card running most of the graphs in our smart home‘s dashboard. Surprisingly, mini-graph card is actually not included in Home Assistant by default – honestly, it should be,...
Explorations of an...
HWY 101 - Forest Birding Near Iguazú
Highway 101 is the main corridor that runs east-west along the top end of Misiones Province in...
a year ago
Highway 101 is the main corridor that runs east-west along the top end of Misiones Province in Argentina. Though this road looks like a major artery on Google Maps, in practice it is nothing more than a clay track that receives very little traffic - mainly, just a few locals...
Mazdak
Mastering Twitter/X Growth: Strategies to Skyrocket Your Follower Count
Twitter/X stands as one of the leading platforms for sharing ideas, connecting with others, and...
a year ago
Twitter/X stands as one of the leading platforms for sharing ideas, connecting with others, and building your personal brand. With the right strategies, you can transform your Twitter presence into a thriving community of engaged followers. In this blog post, I'll dive into...
Style over Substance
Review of the 2-dial TTArtisan Light Meter
My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter...
over a year ago
My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter accessory. The market for these shoe-mounted light meters for vintage cameras has become weirdly competitive. They fit on top of a mechanical camera and provide you with the right...
Map of the Week
Harry Beck's Famous Subway Map Goes Airborne
This map was published a month ago in the Londonist. Just about every other map blog has already...
a year ago
This map was published a month ago in the Londonist. Just about every other map blog has already picked up on it and I am late to the game. However, I've spent so much time looking at it that I think it's worth a visit even if you've already seen it. It was drawn by Harry Beck,...
Many Worlds
The Makeup of Red Dwarf Solar Systems May Seriously Limit the Formation of Habitable Planets
Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation...
a year ago
Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation and evolution of Earth possible. In the early days of the solar system, massive Jupiter helped the planet grow rapidly while serving as a gravity well that shielded the planet from...
Steve Klabnik
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Mexicans say some police officers are taking bribes with mobile payment services
Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed...
a year ago
Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed over their cards voluntarily.
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.
Londonist
London Hat Walk: Scores Of Fashionable Folk Will Parade Around Town This Weekend
Hat's the way uh-huh, uh-huh...
9 months ago
Hat's the way uh-huh, uh-huh...
Ben Borgers
The Beginning of College Sucks
over a year ago
Asterisk
The Making of Community Notes
The team that built X’s Community Notes talks about their design process and the philosophy behind...
2 months ago
The team that built X’s Community Notes talks about their design process and the philosophy behind their approach to combatting false information on the platform.
blag
SQLite Slaps
why SQLite is cracked
7 months ago
The Modern House
Rosh Mahtani: the Alighieri founder’s inspiring journey from school outcast to acclaimed...
Journal readers will know the name Rosh Mahtani – partly because we’ve visited her in the past, but...
a year ago
Journal readers will know the name Rosh Mahtani – partly because we’ve visited her in the past, but partly because she’s very, very good at what she does. Despite the joy it brings, Rosh started her cult jewellery brand, Alighieri, when she was in an […]
Maggie Appleton
Instachatting with Vue & Socket.io
Illustrated notes on how to implement web sockets with Vue.js and Socket.io
over a year ago
Illustrated notes on how to implement web sockets with Vue.js and Socket.io
Irrational...
Drafted Eng Executive's Primer!
Back in late April, I mentioned that I was
working on a new book,
The Engineering Executive’s...
a year ago
Back in late April, I mentioned that I was
working on a new book,
The Engineering Executive’s Primer,
with O’Reilly.
I wanted to share a few notes on progress!
First, there’s a cover, shown above in this post’s image, and also in the right rail (or bottom footer if you’re
reading...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Curse
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Really she should awaken after three dates have...
5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Really she should awaken after three dates have gone very well.
Today's News:
Tinloof - Blog
PWA: What it is and why you should try it
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of...
over a year ago
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of November 2022, 60.28 percent of all web traffic came through mobile phones. Providing a good mobile user experience is therefore crucial to attract and retain users.
Mobile applications...
Society's Backend
Side Projects to Get a Job in ML, a Survey of Small Language Models, How to Build ML Pipelines, and...
Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
2 months ago
Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
The Modern House
Curators Gonzalo Herrero Delicado and Mathilde Friis on life in their brutalist flat in Bethnal...
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Frequency of Terms Denoting Political Extremism in U.S. and U.K. News Media
Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with...
over a year ago
Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with Eric Kaufmann where we examine longitudinally the prevalence of terms denoting far-right and far-left political extremism in more than 30 million written news and opinion articles...
./techtipsy
The optimization treadmill: why I keep changing my computing setup all the time
I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I...
a year ago
I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I get
some new ideas, and then I obsessively think about it for weeks and months until I just buy it.
And then the cycle repeats.
I’ve had time to think about why that keeps happening...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2023
The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware!...
a year ago
The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware! Unfortunately this image does have an exact hit on Google images, as it is already in Cedric’s social media feed — but I think the ware itself is functionally interesting, yet simple...
Escaping Flatland
Socratic dialogue with kids
I’m simply trying to understand how she thinks. When she answers in a way that does not match my...
a year ago
I’m simply trying to understand how she thinks. When she answers in a way that does not match my understanding—that is interesting to me.
ntietz.com blog
Functional Programming and Big Data
Update: I wrote this while preparing a talk for the Columbus Functional Programmers meetup. You can...
over a year ago
Update: I wrote this while preparing a talk for the Columbus Functional Programmers meetup. You can find the talk on YouTube. It has more humor than these words, but then you'd have to listen to my voice.
This post is a long one, so here’s a brief roadmap. We’ll start with a...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Productivity
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I wonder if this is the source of the protestant...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I wonder if this is the source of the protestant work ethic?
Today's News:
narf
bt RSS Feed
ET-Jekyll Theme
ET-Jekyll Theme
2018-01-14
ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which...
over a year ago
ET-Jekyll Theme
2018-01-14
ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which takes it’s style and inspiration from the wonderful book and handout designs of Edward Tufte.
The differences are subtle when comparing my variation to Tufte CSS, but these...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 11-17 September 2023
Doctor Who, a child called Hyde Park, and some ace Ian Nairn quotes.
a year ago
Doctor Who, a child called Hyde Park, and some ace Ian Nairn quotes.
Londonist
The Church Service Held In The Middle Of London Bridge
The Blessing of the River Thames.
a year ago
The Blessing of the River Thames.
NeuroLogica Blog
Making Computers More Efficient
An analysis in 2021 found that 10% of the world’s electricity production is used by computers,...
a year ago
An analysis in 2021 found that 10% of the world’s electricity production is used by computers, including personal use, data centers, the internet and communication centers. The same analysis projected that this was likely to increase to 20% by 2025. This may have been an...
Mazdak
10 Steps to Transform Your Life
As someone who has built and scaled multiple businesses over decades, I've learned that success...
2 months ago
As someone who has built and scaled multiple businesses over decades, I've learned that success isn't about sporadic breakthroughs—it's about consistent, intentional changes in how we think and act.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 100: CES
January 10, 2025.
a week ago
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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4 months ago
diamond geezer
East Anglia Pylons
More News From Norfolk
110 mile line of pylons all the way from Norwich to the Thames. It's needed...
6 months ago
More News From Norfolk
110 mile line of pylons all the way from Norwich to the Thames. It's needed to help connect an increasing number of wind farms in the North Sea to population centres in London and the southeast, because it's no good having all that cheap energy if you...
balajis.com
#2 - Tobi Lütke & Kaz Nejatian on Shopify's Country-Sized Economy
Listen now (127 min) | Tobi Lütke (Shopify Founder & CEO), Kaz Nejatian (Shopify COO), and Balaji...
a year ago
Listen now (127 min) | Tobi Lütke (Shopify Founder & CEO), Kaz Nejatian (Shopify COO), and Balaji review how Shopify rose from tiny startup to $180B+ global economy, with an annual GMV on par with the GDP of New Zealand. In the process they touch on Hayek, the Hanseatic League,...
Basta’s Notes
Microwaves piss me off
If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about...
a year ago
If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about microwaves.
Old Structures...
More Blatant Fakery
First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about...
11 months ago
First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about the same time: It’s standard practice in New York real-estate glamor pictures to pretend that the buildings between you and the subject don’t exist. Narrow streets and big buildings...
Blog - Practical...
How The Channel Tunnel Works
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
2024 marks thirty years since...
a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
2024 marks thirty years since the opening of the channel tunnel, or chunnel, or as they say in Calais, Le tunnel sous la Manche. This underground/undersea railroad tunnel connects England with France, crossing...
TheCollector
What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
Patrick Kayongo
Iinkomo
“I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing...
a year ago
“I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing the last bit of her belongings into her bags, rushed by her anger and irritation. “I told you; it will just be for a few days. My grandfather is here for a medical procedure, and...
Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Why sharding is great: demystifying the technical properties
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Niching up
Along the way, folks have talked about “niching down” as a way to help a project find focus. But...
11 months ago
Along the way, folks have talked about “niching down” as a way to help a project find focus. But that’s backward. When we identify and embrace the smallest viable audience, we’re moving up. Up the quality hierarchy. Up in responsibility. Up in the likelihood that we’ll make an...
Spoon & Tamago
Designed by Kengo Kuma, Kiki’s Museum of Literature to Open in Tokyo
Fans of “Kiki’s Delivery Service” will be delighted to learn that a new museum dedicated to...
a year ago
Fans of “Kiki’s Delivery Service” will be delighted to learn that a new museum dedicated to children’s book author Eiko Kadono will open in Tokyo. Designed by architect Kengo Kumo, the three-story Kiki’s Museum of Literature will be located inside Nagisa Park, which is situated...
PostHog's RSS Feed
A non-coder's thoughts on an 'Everybody Codes' culture
One of PostHog’s core values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs previous...
over a year ago
One of PostHog’s core values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs previous experience as a developer or engineer, but we…
The American Scholar
Parque de la Música
The post Parque de la Música appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
The post Parque de la Música appeared first on The American Scholar.
Tony Dinh's...
Apr 2023: I sold Black Magic
And other updates in April 2023
a year ago
And other updates in April 2023
Josh Collinsworth
A New Headless Site with Gridsome
A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the...
over a year ago
A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the techniques and gotchas involved, and, finally, the new design of this site specifically.
./techtipsy
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?
I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid.
This is one of them, but...
over a year ago
I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid.
This is one of them, but at least it makes for a fun experiment.
Intro
After adding an UPS to accompany my server,
my setup was as complete as it could reasonably be. The server is low power,
but packs...
Home on Erik...
Books I consumed in 2017
Turns out having a toddler isn't super compatible with reading. I used to read ~100 books/year as a...
over a year ago
Turns out having a toddler isn't super compatible with reading. I used to read ~100 books/year as a teenager, but it has slowly deteriorated to maybe 20-30 books, at most. And I don't even finish all of them because life is too short!
Willem's Blog
Cutting Cloud Costs
Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud...
a year ago
Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud expenses!
diamond geezer
20 Centuries in 1 City
10 Centuries In 1 Day may not have been a very good walk.
London's a Roman city, can we do 20...
8 months ago
10 Centuries In 1 Day may not have been a very good walk.
London's a Roman city, can we do 20 centuries?
16th-21st century
This is the easy bit.
21st century
Gherkin (2004) I'm going to pick The Shard (2013). It's still the tallest building in western Europe.
20th...
TheCollector
What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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4 months ago
Noahpinion
Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway?
Six theories.
8 months ago
Rest of World -...
The political power of an unlikely Tesla factory
How Elon Musk plays politicians from Monterrey to Buffalo.
a year ago
How Elon Musk plays politicians from Monterrey to Buffalo.
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 9-15 October 2023
Live music, a Superpower Academy and a free games night - all under a fiver.
a year ago
Live music, a Superpower Academy and a free games night - all under a fiver.
David Perell
Annual Review 2020
Writing this Annual Review, I realize that I’m incredibly fortunate. While some people spent the...
over a year ago
Writing this Annual Review, I realize that I’m incredibly fortunate. While some people spent the quarantine alone, I moved into my childhood home and spent five months with family. While America saw the worst unemployment spike in recent history, my business grew because the...
TheCollector
B-24 Liberators: The Aircraft That Ended the Reign of the U-Boat
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2 weeks ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Why don’t we screen healthy people to catch diseases early? | Out-Of-Pocket
the fight that comes up every month
10 months ago
the fight that comes up every month
Steve Klabnik
An overview of macros in Rust
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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a year ago
Inverted Passion
Getting things done by not trying
I recently finished a very short book with an intriguing title: Why Greatness Cannot be Planned....
3 months ago
I recently finished a very short book with an intriguing title: Why Greatness Cannot be Planned. It’s an unconventional self-help book disguised as a computer science research exposition (that’s why the publisher is Springer). I strongly recommend reading it. Here is a taste of...
axio.ms
Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
over a year ago
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good.
I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Information Theory Recap
A small detour to catch up on the basics of Information Theory we'll need
over a year ago
A small detour to catch up on the basics of Information Theory we'll need
Tech + Economics +...
God is a crypto bro.
CoinTelegraph:
A Colorado-based online pastor who has been charged with fraud for
...
a year ago
CoinTelegraph:
A Colorado-based online pastor who has been charged with fraud for
selling a “worthless” cryptocurrency says he only did it because “the
Lord” told him to give his followers a “10X.”
In a strange 9-minute video — posted to INDXcoin’s...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image Part I: Design Iterations
I blogged about my recent project omgimg.jim-nielsen.com and I figured I’d write more details about...
a month ago
I blogged about my recent project omgimg.jim-nielsen.com and I figured I’d write more details about my process behind making it.
When the idea first struck, I jumped into Figma and started working out the idea. I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted: a quiz-like website that...
Seth's Blog
The blank page
Sometimes, we’re so afraid of creation that we don’t even leave blank pages around. If your...
9 months ago
Sometimes, we’re so afraid of creation that we don’t even leave blank pages around. If your workspace has a hole exactly the size of a creative idea in it, you’re more likely to fill the hole. When we decrease the number of steps to begin creating, and increase the expectation...
Josh Thompson
Paths In Which I Am Interested
this is still in draft status
this page serves as a placeholder for various paths I’m interested...
7 months ago
this is still in draft status
this page serves as a placeholder for various paths I’m interested in.
I hope to bring attention to “linear parks”, or a park that functions more in size and shape to a street, crossing blocks of distance, but maintaining park vibes throughout.
Path...
TheCollector
Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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6 months ago
Seth's Blog
Bullies
Bullies use intimidation and power to force others to act against their best interests. Bullies...
6 months ago
Bullies use intimidation and power to force others to act against their best interests. Bullies blame the victim, assuring everyone that they wouldn’t have to use force if people would simply go along with what they want. Effective bullies organize a small mob to enforce their...
Handprinted - Blog
Drypoint - Which plate is right for my project?
Drypoint is a fantastic intaglio technique as it requires limited equipment to create a plate. It's...
8 months ago
Drypoint is a fantastic intaglio technique as it requires limited equipment to create a plate. It's a great way of creating a printed drawing and is one of the printmaking techniques where the positive mark is the one that prints (unlike relief printing for example). There are...
Max Rozen
How to resolve 'X defined in resolvers, but not in schema' with babel-plugin-inline-import
Showing how to resolve the dreaded 'Query.X defined in resolvers, but not in schema' issue when your...
over a year ago
Showing how to resolve the dreaded 'Query.X defined in resolvers, but not in schema' issue when your X is **definitely** defined in both
The Modern House
From Liverpool terrace to Barbican penthouse: editor Tony Chambers on success from humble beginnings...
Tony Chambers, best known for being the longest-serving editor-in-chief of Wallpaper*, is the latest...
a year ago
Tony Chambers, best known for being the longest-serving editor-in-chief of Wallpaper*, is the latest guest to feature on our podcast, Homing In. Having worked at the design magazine for more than 15 years, Tony has spent a great deal of time reporting on some of […]
The Rational Walk
The Digest #164
Howard Marks on intelligent risks, Li Lu's amazing life story, Damodaran on streaming, Thompson on...
a year ago
Howard Marks on intelligent risks, Li Lu's amazing life story, Damodaran on streaming, Thompson on Charter vs. Disney, Taleb's favorite literary works, Buffett's Japanese investments, and more ...
Maps Mania
What is Your Neighborhood Scare Score?
3 months ago
History Today Feed
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/13/2025 - 10:35
a week ago
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/13/2025 - 10:35
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
No More Side Projects
Generally speaking, side projects are great things. They offer us opportunities to create something...
over a year ago
Generally speaking, side projects are great things. They offer us opportunities to create something new. Sometimes these are merely hobbies and sometimes these are projects we’d like to pursue as a potential career. They all have to start somewhere, right?
Over the past five...
Old Structures...
Embracing office-to-residential conversion in the ‘City of Yes’
A timely ‘Yes’ to converting older buildings is set to further fuel Manhattan’s current...
a month ago
A timely ‘Yes’ to converting older buildings is set to further fuel Manhattan’s current office-to-residential boom. New York City Council recently passed Mayor Adams’ ‘City of Yes’ proposal to create over 80,000 new housing units across the city over 15 years. Among the historic...
Stephen Diehl
The Non-Innovation of Cryptocurrency
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Meet Mr. Wallplate, an animatronic wall plate that speaks to you
Interactive robots always bring an element of intrigue, and even more so when they feature unusual...
8 months ago
Interactive robots always bring an element of intrigue, and even more so when they feature unusual parts and techniques to perform their actions. Mr. Wallplate, affectionately named by Tony K on Instructables, is one such robot that is contained within an electrical wall plate...
Willem's Blog
The value of notifications
It's easy to dismiss your phone's notifications as something that disturbs you, but if you take the...
over a year ago
It's easy to dismiss your phone's notifications as something that disturbs you, but if you take the time to set them up correctly, notifications can actually save you time!
Explained from First...
Email explained from first principles
over a year ago
Prolost
M1 Max MacBook Pro Long-term Report
The 2021 MacBook Pro alongside the cable-management fail of my iMac Pro
Back in October when I got a...
over a year ago
The 2021 MacBook Pro alongside the cable-management fail of my iMac Pro
Back in October when I got a chance to use a pre-release 14″ MacBook Pro with M1 Max processor, I openly questioned whether this laptop could replace my venerable iMac Pro. Four months later, I’m back with an...
The Modern House
Scene Stealers: seven rural homes with spectacular surroundings
We’ve all found ourselves daydreaming of life in the country – growing your own fruit and veg, wild...
a year ago
We’ve all found ourselves daydreaming of life in the country – growing your own fruit and veg, wild swimming, enjoying a glass of red by a cosy log fire… But if that’s never been quite enough to inspire you to take the plunge, the homes […]
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Lessons from the PC video game industry
The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed The success or failure of tech and...
over a year ago
The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed The success or failure of tech and media products depends on complicated…
Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
a month ago
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
Abort Retry Fail
The History of OS/2
Getting a Divorce
a year ago
Math Is Still...
How Math Achieved Transcendence
Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to...
a year ago
Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to understand them.
The post How Math Achieved Transcendence first appeared on Quanta Magazine
AFAR Media - Travel...
4 Outdoor Adventures Near Marriott Hotels in Florida
6 months ago
Jonas Hietala
2010 in review
I saw a post on briancarper where he reviews the past year and it sounds like a great idea...
over a year ago
I saw a post on briancarper where he reviews the past year and it sounds like a great idea actually.
2010 Geek Achievements
Wrote a few games earlier this year;
The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros
A Geek Valentine
Beebop The Island Hopper
Where’s Teddy?
Updated this site a...
A Beautiful Site
Finding the active element in a shadow root
You can get the focused element with document.activeElement but, if it's inside a shadow root, this...
over a year ago
You can get the focused element with document.activeElement but, if it's inside a shadow root, this will be the host element. This happens because of retargeting, but sometimes you might need access to the internal element that actually has focus.
Here's a recursive function that...
TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Building the future of game analytics - An interview with PureSkill.gg CTO, Evan Sosenko
Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations, where we chat to our contributors...
over a year ago
Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations, where we chat to our contributors and users. This time, we speak to Evan Sosenko, Co…
Common Edge
Making the Case for Sustainable Housing: It’s Time for a New Argument
How to undo the tension between affordability and sustainability.
a year ago
How to undo the tension between affordability and sustainability.
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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3 months ago
99% Invisible
Devil in the Details [EPISODE]
In 1994, an independent producer made a short, earnest video featuring an eccentric cast of...
a year ago
In 1994, an independent producer made a short, earnest video featuring an eccentric cast of characters who were focused on a very specific paranoia. The tape was made to look like a TV news special. It opens with a cheap, Jerry Springer-era computer graphic of a gold pentagram...
Common Edge
Minoru Yamasaki: The Fragility of Architecture
He designed two of the most famous landmarks of the late-20th-century. Why is he virtually unknown...
6 months ago
He designed two of the most famous landmarks of the late-20th-century. Why is he virtually unknown today?
Seth's Blog
The unwarranted smile
When we do something nice for someone, a ‘thank you’ and a smile is nice to receive. And, in many...
8 months ago
When we do something nice for someone, a ‘thank you’ and a smile is nice to receive. And, in many parts of human culture, it’s a bit expected. But when something goes wrong, if we drop a plate or miss a turn or make someone late, it’s particularly delightful and memorable if we...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Notes on the acquisition process
Ten years ago, startup financing was an insider’s game. Since then, the topic has been widely...
over a year ago
Ten years ago, startup financing was an insider’s game. Since then, the topic has been widely discussed on blogs, to the great benefit of…
Noahpinion
The perverse incentives of euthanasia
Suggesting that people die is not a good way of saving taxpayer money.
9 months ago
Suggesting that people die is not a good way of saving taxpayer money.
Unfiltered by Tim...
It's Absolutely Pointless to Start Anything Unless You'll Do It Daily
The simple shift in thinking that'll help you work on less so you get deep focus.
a month ago
The simple shift in thinking that'll help you work on less so you get deep focus.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The tradeoff between open and closed
When having the “open vs closed” debate regarding a technology platform, a number of distinctions...
over a year ago
When having the “open vs closed” debate regarding a technology platform, a number of distinctions need to be made. First, what exactly is…
HTMHell
#19 heading in the wrong direction
Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product.
Bad code
<h1>Product...
over a year ago
Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product.
Bad code
<h1>Product Status</h1>
<h2>Is the product available?</h2>
<div>
<h3>
<div>
<div>
<i>
<h3 class="message is-success">
It‘s <a>available</a>.
</h3>
...
TheCollector
Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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a year ago
ben-mini
Old School Business
In a prior role, I experienced friction with my sales team’s leadership:
They emphasized the needs...
7 months ago
In a prior role, I experienced friction with my sales team’s leadership:
They emphasized the needs of the economic buyer and neglected the end-users.
They withheld key performance indicators from prospects (i.e. pricing, number of customers, customer satisfaction).
They demeaned...
Londonist
London's Alleyway Pubs: 13 Of The Best
Some of the finest ye olde pubs in London.
11 months ago
Some of the finest ye olde pubs in London.
TheCollector
Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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a year ago
Ryan Mulligan
Penguin!
My partner and I finally finished our epic three-part claymation saga. It's our first attempt at...
8 months ago
My partner and I finally finished our epic three-part claymation saga. It's our first attempt at creating stop-motion videos with clay and it truly is a lot of work for such a short result. That claymation episode of Parks and Recreation is a little too real. I won't compare our...
CONTEMPORIST
Stone Covers The Exterior And Interior Of This Harbourfront Hideaway
SAOTA, TKD Architects, and interior architects ARRCC have shared photos of a new home they completed...
8 months ago
SAOTA, TKD Architects, and interior architects ARRCC have shared photos of a new home they completed that fronts Sydney Harbour in Australia. Partially hidden from view from the street, the home, which is located in a historical suburb, sits behind a row of plants and a fence...
Acko.net
In Search of Sophistication
Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice
The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times...
over a year ago
Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice
The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times on social media:
"Broken English is a sign of courage and intelligence, and it would be nice if more people remembered that when interacting with immigrants and refugees."
This...
A Smart Bear
Individual efficiency vs administrative efficiency
When to prioritize individual autonomy, and when to standardize for global optimization.
5 months ago
When to prioritize individual autonomy, and when to standardize for global optimization.
Epic Web Dev
What's Coming in React 19 Beta (tip)
8 months ago
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 31, 2016: 'innocent until proven guilty' gives cover to abusers
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. The ride home after yet another day hearing someone famous has been abusing a woman in his life:
Content warning: abuse, rape
Johnny Depp has allegedly been...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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a year ago
Identity Designed
Alon Shabo
Designed by Ark, Tel Aviv.
a year ago
Designed by Ark, Tel Aviv.
Steve Blank
Is a $100 Million Enough?
Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a...
10 months ago
Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build new startups,...
Tech + Economics +...
Is Twitch losing its edge with draconian content regulation?
The Verge: Twitch will ban people pretending to be naked
Twitch is changing its sexual...
a year ago
The Verge: Twitch will ban people pretending to be naked
Twitch is changing its sexual content policies again, this time to
prohibit implied nudity on the platform. The platform already prohibits
nudity, but Twitch’s new attire policy, which goes into effect...
ntietz.com blog
TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them
About a month ago1, I was onboarding a friend into one of my side project codebases and she asked me...
6 months ago
About a month ago1, I was onboarding a friend into one of my side project codebases and she asked me why I was using a particular type of UUID.
I'd heard about this type while working on that project, and it's really neat.
So instead of hogging that knowledge for just us, here it...
Stat Significant
The Rise and (Overstated) Fall of Radio. A Statistical Analysis
Examining radio's rapid adoption and surprising cultural endurance.
a month ago
Examining radio's rapid adoption and surprising cultural endurance.
The Rational Walk
Hesiod’s Works and Days
One of the oldest surviving books provides advice that is just as relevant to our lives today as it...
8 months ago
One of the oldest surviving books provides advice that is just as relevant to our lives today as it was 2,700 years ago.
TheCollector
How Does the Electoral College Work?
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4 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Dubious or Questionable Medium'
In 1972,
Daryl Hine, the editor of Poetry, requested
poems “protesting the acceleration of the...
11 months ago
In 1972,
Daryl Hine, the editor of Poetry, requested
poems “protesting the acceleration of the undeclared Indo-Chinese War” for a
special issue to be published in September of that year. Hine said he would be “grateful
to consider any poem on this terrible and topical subject...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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6 months ago
Luxagraf:...
Illinois Cliffs
If you look at a map of the U.S., there's a few routes that will get you from Pensacola FL to...
10 months ago
If you look at a map of the U.S., there's a few routes that will get you from Pensacola FL to Wisconsin. They all have one things in common: they pass through Illinois. Unfortunately, there isn't much camping in Illinois, and what camping there is... is generally not great. We've...
IEEE Spectrum
How This Record Company Engineer Invented the CT Scanner
The inspiration for computed tomography (CT) came from a chance conversation that research engineer...
over a year ago
The inspiration for computed tomography (CT) came from a chance conversation that research engineer Godfrey Hounsfield had with a doctor while on vacation in the 1960s. The physician complained that X-ray images of the brain were too grainy and only two-dimensional.
Hounsfield...
African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
a month ago
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
7 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
Ink & Switch
Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration
Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and...
over a year ago
Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
Epic Web Dev
The Epic Stack
Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to...
a year ago
Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to production more efficiently.
Maps Mania
The Best Graphics Team in the World
5 months ago
Construction Physics
What Progress Has There Been In Industrial Robots?
Long-term, I’m optimistic about robots and automation solving construction’s stagnant cost and...
a year ago
Long-term, I’m optimistic about robots and automation solving construction’s stagnant cost and productivity problem. Even if nothing else works, if you can build a cheap machine capable of doing everything a human can do, that would greatly reduce labor costs, which are a large...
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
a year ago
The Life and Work of Pheidias
Seth's Blog
What spoiled wrecks
There’s nothing wrong with abundance and joy. But being spoiled causes two real problems: As a...
7 months ago
There’s nothing wrong with abundance and joy. But being spoiled causes two real problems: As a community increases in wealth, the number of spoiled citizens increases as well. It’s often the acid that corrodes the magic that created the wealth in the first place. Whining is a...
Common Edge
Is Santa Clara—the Heart of Silicon Valley—Soulless and Banal By Intent?
The city combines great wealth and utter placelessness.
a year ago
The city combines great wealth and utter placelessness.
David Heinemeier...
Developers are on edge
It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are...
10 months ago
It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are dragging on. The industry has shed more jobs in a shorter period than any time since the dot-com bust over twenty years ago. Seasoned veterans who used to have recruiters banging on...
The Modern House
An artist-curator couple on their surprising choice to leave the walls of their mid-century marvel...
11 months ago
Math Is Still...
‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work.
What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century,...
4 months ago
What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question.
The post ‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 6
Highlights Is It Keto’s user visits plateaued in February, but that still represents progress....
over a year ago
Highlights Is It Keto’s user visits plateaued in February, but that still represents progress. Revenues fell substantially and missed targets for the month. I’m going to shelve the project unless I achieve my targets for March. Goal Grades At the start of the month, I laid out...
African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
a year ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
The Modern House
Five things to do and see this April
The clocks have sprung forward and the spring chicks are chirping: yes, April has arrived. But it’s...
a year ago
The clocks have sprung forward and the spring chicks are chirping: yes, April has arrived. But it’s not only those longer, lighter evenings luring us out of the house; this month’s brilliant list of cultural and culinary must-dos and -sees is equally tempting – even […]
Working Theorys
Cool Self
There are a lot of theories about the meaning of life. About what we go through life searching for....
6 months ago
There are a lot of theories about the meaning of life. About what we go through life searching for. What we’re lucky if we find. Some of these theories give us answers, but many prompt us to ask more questions. Recently I’ve landed on my own theory, one rooted in a kind of common...
diamond geezer
Energy shock
It's 2 years today since...
a) all Covid-related legal restrictions were withdrawn
b) Russian...
11 months ago
It's 2 years today since...
a) all Covid-related legal restrictions were withdrawn
b) Russian invaded Ukraine
It's also two years since the start of the energy shock that hoicked our gas and electricity bills to unheard-of levels. On the day of the invasion the annual energy...
nanoscale views
What are "quantum oscillations"?
For the first time in a couple of decades, I was visiting the Aspen Center for Physics, which is...
a year ago
For the first time in a couple of decades, I was visiting the Aspen Center for Physics, which is always a fun, intellectually stimulating experience. (Side note: I sure hope that the rapidly escalating costs of everything in the Aspen area don't make this venue untenable in the...
CONTEMPORIST
Cork Was Used As The Exterior Siding On This Home Extension
Mitchell + Corti Architects has designed a new rear ground floor extension for a home in England,...
a year ago
Mitchell + Corti Architects has designed a new rear ground floor extension for a home in England, that’s clad in cork. The architect mentions, “We chose to clad the extension in something a little different a dark patterned cork, in order to use a sustainable material and test...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Attention
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The real endgame is when AI can just generate novel...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The real endgame is when AI can just generate novel cat videos inside your brain.
Today's News:
Londonist
A Map Of Camden Place Name Origins
Etymology of the borough's road, parks and pubs.
11 months ago
Etymology of the borough's road, parks and pubs.
Blog posts of...
The simplest and most important dashboard for early stage startups.
This blogpost is part of a small series of posts that cover the basics of startup metrics. My...
over a year ago
This blogpost is part of a small series of posts that cover the basics of startup metrics. My personal goal is to help early stage...
Math Is Still...
A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation
A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly...
a year ago
A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly and potentially split species.
The post A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation first appeared on Quanta Magazine
A Beautiful Site
Getting it right
To my awesome users:
I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes,...
over a year ago
To my awesome users:
I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes, the betas were pretty awesome, but they weren't what I wanted them to be in terms of design, code, and function. I can do better, and you deserve nothing less than my very best.
The...
There are two types...
My Comments at the Midtown South Social Equity and Music Festival
Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only...
4 months ago
Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only is it the best building ever torn down in New York, but in the combined Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, we got the worst building in … Continue reading →
The post My...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction
6 months ago
TheCollector
Albert Einstein: The Greatest Scientist of the 20th Century
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a week ago
Diaries of Note
Art is local
On 24th October 1967, American painter Raphael Soyer found himself standing amidst a lifetime of his...
a year ago
On 24th October 1967, American painter Raphael Soyer found himself standing amidst a lifetime of his creations at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born in Russia in 1899, Soyer emigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1912, eventually becoming a prominent figure in the Social...
Matt Blewitt
Service Objects in Rails
Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite
OO approaches, Service Objects,...
over a year ago
Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite
OO approaches, Service Objects, in the context of Rails.
TheCollector
The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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7 months ago
HTMHell
#25 A link is a button is a link
Note: We've removed most classes to improve readability.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0" type="button"...
over a year ago
Note: We've removed most classes to improve readability.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0" type="button" href="/signup" role="link">
<span class="focus" tabindex="-1"></span>
<span>
<span>
<span>Sign up</span>
<i class="icon icon-external-link" aria-hidden="true"...
Neil Madden
The square roots of all evil
Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all...
a month ago
Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all evil”, from his 1974 Turing Award lecture (pdf). A fuller quotation of the surrounding context gives a rounder view: I am sorry to say that many people nowadays are condemning...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How do hospitals spend money? | Out-Of-Pocket
it's time to look at a financial statement
7 months ago
it's time to look at a financial statement
Ryan Mulligan
Site Rebuild, Here We Go!
There are still a few bits to work out, but why wait any longer? The latest version of my site is...
a year ago
There are still a few bits to work out, but why wait any longer? The latest version of my site is here and it has been rebuilt from the ground up. I'm feeling pretty good about it and invite you all to celebrate the magic with me! ✨
Inspiration
While playing Super Mario Wonder, I...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Kate Maxwell
Hello! I’m Kate Maxwell from Design and Draw. I’m a printmaker and freelance Illustrator. I make...
a year ago
Hello! I’m Kate Maxwell from Design and Draw. I’m a printmaker and freelance Illustrator. I make colourful screen prints, risographs and other handprinted goods. You can also find my freelance illustrations on wooden toys and in children’s publishing.
Describe your printmaking...
Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
Londonist
13 Of The Best Irish Pubs In London
Guinness, rugby, oysters and craic.
11 months ago
Guinness, rugby, oysters and craic.
Old Structures...
Buildings Are Meant To Be Used
With the partial exception of industrial buildings, you can always distinguish buildings constructed...
a month ago
With the partial exception of industrial buildings, you can always distinguish buildings constructed before the 1950s from their later counterparts by looking for light courts. If your lights are, at best, incandescent bulbs, and your ventilation is mostly or entirely though...
Anecdotal Evidence
'In a More Just World'
Our youngest
son’s bedroom has lately turned into an overstuffed warehouse. Last year, as a
junior...
3 months ago
Our youngest
son’s bedroom has lately turned into an overstuffed warehouse. Last year, as a
junior at Rice, he lived off-campus in an apartment. This year he’s back in a
dormitory so most of his “housewares” – clothing, dishes and utensils, tchotchkes
– have been heaped in his...
Old Structures...
Perspective
Anyone who’d read more than a few of these blog posts knows that sometimes I’ll write about...
a month ago
Anyone who’d read more than a few of these blog posts knows that sometimes I’ll write about something just because it seems cool. Or looks cool. In this case, “cool” is two photos from Carol Highsmith, a professional photographer who was generous enough to donate her archive to...
Ian's Blog
Pragmatically Generating a Self-Signed Certificate and Private Key using OpenSSL
Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS...
over a year ago
Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS app using OpenSSL, what surprised me was the total lack of documentation for OpenSSL.
While there is plenty of function documentation, what OpenSSL really lacks is examples of how it...
The Rational Walk
Thomas Jefferson’s Advice to His Nephew
Two letters from Thomas Jefferson to his nephew, Peter Carr, illustrate Jefferson's views on...
8 months ago
Two letters from Thomas Jefferson to his nephew, Peter Carr, illustrate Jefferson's views on education, ethics, religion, and many other subjects.
The Rational Walk
Progressive is Firing on All Cylinders
Progressive resumed aggressive growth in the first quarter of 2024 while reporting a strong combined...
9 months ago
Progressive resumed aggressive growth in the first quarter of 2024 while reporting a strong combined ratio.
Chris Nicholas
Live cursors with Liveblocks & Next.js
Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer!...
over a year ago
Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer! Using Liveblocks and Next.js we can get it working in a matter of minutes.
Wuthering...
Readalongs I wish someone else would organize - Cuban literature, August Wilson plays, and many more
The glory days of book blogs were full of “challenges.” I hosted several: Scottish literature,...
over a year ago
The glory days of book blogs were full of “challenges.” I hosted several: Scottish literature, Italian, Austrian, Scandinavian, Portuguese, always limited to the 19th century and earlier to keep the scope manageable. The idea was that I read a lot, while others were invited to...
NeuroLogica Blog
AI Humor
It’s been less than two years (November 2022) since ChatGPT launched. In some ways the new large...
5 months ago
It’s been less than two years (November 2022) since ChatGPT launched. In some ways the new large language model (LLM) type of artificial intelligence (AI) applications have been on the steep part of the improvement curve. And yet, they are still LLMs with the same limitations. In...
Londonist
Expect To Hear Lots More Buskers In Tube Stations Over The Next 2 Weeks
It's the X Factor of the London Underground.
10 months ago
It's the X Factor of the London Underground.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some cool AI healthcare projects | Out-Of-Pocket
What was built at the OOP hackathon?
5 months ago
What was built at the OOP hackathon?
Archinect - Features
'A Commitment to Craft Is Intrinsic to This Place': A Conversation with Portland-Based...
For our latest Studio Snapshot conversation, we had the pleasure of chatting with Brent Linden and...
11 months ago
For our latest Studio Snapshot conversation, we had the pleasure of chatting with Brent Linden and Chris Brown, founding partners of Portland, Oregon-based Linden, Brown Architecture. Established in 2018 as a collaborative venture after working for large, established firms, the...
julian.digital
The power of defaults
Are network effects overrated? 01 Intro The world’s most successful companies all exhibit some form...
over a year ago
Are network effects overrated? 01 Intro The world’s most successful companies all exhibit some form of structural competitive advantage: A defensibility mechanism that protects their margins and profits from competitors over long periods of time. Business strategy books like to...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Why decentralization matters
The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the...
over a year ago
The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the early 2000s — internet services were…
Maggie Appleton
Undetected AI Exam Answers
A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A...
a week ago
A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A “Turing Test” case study by Peter Scarfe, Kelly Watcham, Alasdair Clarke, Etienne Roesch
TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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5 months ago
Open Culture
Watch James Earl Jones Read Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter Urging High-School Students to Create Art & Make...
As cultural figures, the late James Earl Jones and Kurt Vonnegut would seem to have had little in...
4 months ago
As cultural figures, the late James Earl Jones and Kurt Vonnegut would seem to have had little in common, but each could easily be recognized by his voice. Jones’ will come to mind as soon as you think of Darth Vader, Simba’s father, or “This is CNN.” Vonnegut’s distinction was...
Maps Mania
A Map of the World's Deadliest Epidemics
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
the wonder of miyajima
A kind stranger dmed to tell me that my rss feed was broken – turns out the code for displaying...
a year ago
A kind stranger dmed to tell me that my rss feed was broken – turns out the code for displaying custom fields on rss was throwing a php fatal error (Uncaught TypeError:...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Marriage: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases
Previous Next https://youtu.be/sNV1MKQ53oA What exactly did the ancient Stoics think about marriage?...
a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/sNV1MKQ53oA What exactly did the ancient Stoics think about marriage? It's true, there isn't a huge amount of quotes to find from them specifically about marriage, although there are plenty about love, relationships and caring for people in our...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consequences
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
'How dare you politicize this tragedy' works in...
3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
'How dare you politicize this tragedy' works in literally any context. In fact, if anyone sends hatemail, it's going to be my response.
Today's News:
Math Is Still...
First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set
No two pairs have the same sum; add three numbers together, and you can get any whole number. ...
a year ago
No two pairs have the same sum; add three numbers together, and you can get any whole number.
The post First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set first appeared on Quanta Magazine
brr
South Pole Signage
Please close doors quietly!
a year ago
Please close doors quietly!
Retail Design Blog
Hermès flagship store by RDAI
A decade after relocating its Melbourne flagship store to Harley House, a heritage-listed 1924...
3 months ago
A decade after relocating its Melbourne flagship store to Harley House, a heritage-listed 1924 office building by architect Sydney Wigham...
Flashbak
Far Out Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)
“A complete treatment of the construction and use of lensed optical instruments. Presented in three...
a week ago
“A complete treatment of the construction and use of lensed optical instruments. Presented in three fundamentals, that is, bases: the physical, the mathematical, and the practical or mechanical” – Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus sive Telescopium The German student of light...
TheCollector
Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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7 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
GPT-3 x Healthcare: Democratizing AI | Out-Of-Pocket
ICD-10 vs. GPT-3, who will win?
a year ago
ICD-10 vs. GPT-3, who will win?
Josh Thompson
Overcome (some) barriers in work with this magic phrase
You’re sending an email to your boss about some decision point you’re facing. How should you word...
over a year ago
You’re sending an email to your boss about some decision point you’re facing. How should you word it?
Compare this wording:
Let me know if my criteria are sound, or if you have any concerns. I’d like to get started as soon as possible.
To this wording:
Unless I hear otherwise,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Future Spells Only Disaster'
Several
weeks ago in a post I wrote about Robert Conquest I referred to “the essential
books...
3 weeks ago
Several
weeks ago in a post I wrote about Robert Conquest I referred to “the essential
books published in the twentieth century,” and listed some of the titles deserving
a place in that category. Most, I wrote, “are not found in the traditionally
defined literary categories; that...
Home on Erik...
There is no magic trick
(Warning: super speculative, feel free to ignore)
As Yogi Berra said, “It's tough to make...
over a year ago
(Warning: super speculative, feel free to ignore)
As Yogi Berra said, “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future”. Unfortunately predicting is hard, and unsurprisingly people look for the Magic Trick™ that can resolve all the uncertainty.
Seth's Blog
The freedom loop
We spend almost no time teaching toddlers about freedom. Instead, the lessons we teach (and learn)...
a year ago
We spend almost no time teaching toddlers about freedom. Instead, the lessons we teach (and learn) for our entire lives are about responsibility. It’s easy to teach freedom, but important to teach responsibility. Because if you get the responsibility taken care of, often the...
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Questions
Berkshire Hathaway's 2024 annual meeting will be held in Omaha on May 4. This article includes five...
9 months ago
Berkshire Hathaway's 2024 annual meeting will be held in Omaha on May 4. This article includes five potential questions for the Q&A session.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Naked Emperors in Tech
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
over a year ago
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
orlp.net - Blog...
Taming Floating-Point Sums
Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them.
You might naively think...
8 months ago
Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them.
You might naively think you can simply add them, e.g. in Rust:
fn naive_sum(arr: &[f32]) -> f32 {
let mut out = 0.0;
for x in arr {
out += *x;
}
out
}
This however can easily...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
The Perry Bible...
Pop
The post Pop appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
9 months ago
The post Pop appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Joshua Xu
Lessons from building HeyGen from 0 to $1m ARR in 7 months
a year ago
Lessons from building HeyGen from 0 to $1m ARR in 7 months
Platformer
How Google taught AI to doubt itself
Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search?
a year ago
Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
What does longevity medicine actually mean? | Out-Of-Pocket
An interview with a practicing longevity medicine doctor
2 months ago
An interview with a practicing longevity medicine doctor
Elad Blog
Fireside SF: Clem Delangue CEO of Hugging Face
Sign up now - in person space is limited
a year ago
Sign up now - in person space is limited
Londonist
The Unique London Spot Where A Railway, A Road And A Canal All Cross Each Other
But which came first?
a year ago
Londonist
Leicester Square And The Big Apple
London could have had a very weird monument to Isaac Newton.
11 months ago
London could have had a very weird monument to Isaac Newton.
swyx's site RSS Feed
A World Without Plugins
What happens if we did away with plugins altogether? The case for Imperative Recipes
over a year ago
What happens if we did away with plugins altogether? The case for Imperative Recipes
Escaping Flatland
Living 80 years, you can have 8 lives
Highlights from the cutting room floor, pt. 2
2 months ago
Highlights from the cutting room floor, pt. 2
99% Invisible
The 2024 Olympics Spectacular [EPISODE]
From TV commercials and branded soda cans to Emily in Paris spon-con, the Olympics are once again...
6 months ago
From TV commercials and branded soda cans to Emily in Paris spon-con, the Olympics are once again everywhere. In the Olympic spirit, we’re bringing you four stories about the games in all their international, theatrical glory. In the first story, Christopher Johnson introduces...
Oykun
1 Simple Approach to Discover Your Design Career Path
As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from...
a year ago
As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from Junior to Senior levels. We either have no idea where we are going or get lazy and lost in our comfort zone.
If I've based the advice purely on
Max Rozen
Prefetch your Google Fonts for Performance Gains in Gatsby
Self-hosting your Google Fonts can save your customers around 3-400ms per page load. There's a...
over a year ago
Self-hosting your Google Fonts can save your customers around 3-400ms per page load. There's a Gatsby plugin that makes it super easy.
diamond geezer
World Cup of London Walks
The best thing about the creation of the Green Link Walk is that it brings the number of Walk London...
10 months ago
The best thing about the creation of the Green Link Walk is that it brings the number of Walk London walks to eight.
So let's do it, let's bring on the WORLD CUP OF LONDON WALKS.
Two rivers: Thames Path v Lea Valley Walk
Two greens: Green Chain Walk v Green Link Walk
Two...
The Turn Signal RSS...
Apple's Risky Bet on CarPlay
Drivers love CarPlay. Apple's WWDC 22 keynote revealed that And it's easy to see why. Even compared...
9 months ago
Drivers love CarPlay. Apple's WWDC 22 keynote revealed that And it's easy to see why. Even compared to the best native infotainment…
AFAR Media - Travel...
21 Must-Try Michelin-Star Restaurants in Monaco
9 months ago
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
over a year ago
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
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