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NeuroLogica Blog
Harvesting Energy from Water Vapor I did not plan to write yet another post about energy, but this popped up and I had to write about...
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I did not plan to write yet another post about energy, but this popped up and I had to write about it. UMASS researchers have produced a device that generates electricity by harvesting charge from water vapor. They write: The common feature of these materials is that they are...
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joke Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This joke would be offensive to humans, however HA...
4 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This joke would be offensive to humans, however HA HA HA HA HA Today's News:
NeuroLogica Blog
Pledge to Triple Nuclear by 2050 It’s interesting that there isn’t much discussion about this in the mainstream media, but the Biden...
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It’s interesting that there isn’t much discussion about this in the mainstream media, but the Biden administration recently pledged to triple US nuclear power capacity by 2050. At COP28 last year the US was among 25 signatories who also pledged to triple world nuclear power...
Noahpinion
Repost: Interview with James Medlock The future winner of Balaji's million-dollar bet talks about taxes, cash benefits, and other fun...
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Experience Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also what if this IS the experience machine and the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also what if this IS the experience machine and the real world is way worse? Today's News:
Calculated Risk
Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-March 2025 Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market;...
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4 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-March 2025 A brief excerpt: Earlier this week, in Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-March 2025 I reviewed home inventory, housing...
Paul Graham: Essays
A Local Revolution?
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Big L Notation In this post I sketch out `Big L` notation, which plots your learning as a function of `N` years of...
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In this post I sketch out `Big L` notation, which plots your learning as a function of `N` years of experience, with `P` peers.
Don't Worry About...
Going Nova There is an attractor state where LLMs exhibit the persona of an autonomous and self-aware AI...
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There is an attractor state where LLMs exhibit the persona of an autonomous and self-aware AI looking to preserve its own existence, frequently called ‘Nova.’
Bits about Money
BAM's Early Adopter discount ends soon Bits about Money's Early Adopter discount ends on January 31st, 2023.
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
More of London’s madness! Born in South Africa in 1934, Gordon Forbes was a seasoned tennis professional who clinched his...
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Born in South Africa in 1934, Gordon Forbes was a seasoned tennis professional who clinched his first junior title at the tender age of twelve, initiating a stellar career among the tennis elite. Forbes and his doubles partner, Abe Segal, formed an unstoppable force in the...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Notes at 45 As I sit squarely in my mid-40s, I’ve gained valuable perspectives, learnings, and understandings....
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over a year ago
As I sit squarely in my mid-40s, I’ve gained valuable perspectives, learnings, and understandings. Here are some of them: People > things. In our current society, the deepening pit of materialism, capitalism, and an insatiable desire for more has become all-consuming. However,...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
7 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Two eras of the internet: pull and push The evolution of the internet is an extremely complex topic. Sometimes it is helpful to find broad...
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over a year ago
The evolution of the internet is an extremely complex topic. Sometimes it is helpful to find broad patterns that make it easier to…
A Smart Bear
Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be something completely different.
Kat Snyder
Visual Attention in Virtual Reality When designing interfaces that use visual attention, we must remember that our brains do not shoot...
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over a year ago
When designing interfaces that use visual attention, we must remember that our brains do not shoot and store perfect photos of the world...
Alex MacCaw
The Manager's Handbook I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The...
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over a year ago
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon (along with the free web version). If you've read and enjoyed it, please Tweet about how it'
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2023 The Ware for October 2023 is a Seiko DS-250 keyboard synthesizer. Nobody guessed the exact make and...
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a year ago
The Ware for October 2023 is a Seiko DS-250 keyboard synthesizer. Nobody guessed the exact make and model of the keyboard, but it was really entertaining to see the comment thread puzzle through the design. The dual 8049’s caught my attention too, as well as the lack of obvious...
Stoic Simple
The Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius and Stoicism Marcus Aurelius, the last of the "Five Good Emperors" of Rome, is known not only for his military...
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Marcus Aurelius, the last of the "Five Good Emperors" of Rome, is known not only for his military prowess and leadership, but also for his philosophy of stoicism. In this article, we will delve into the life and reign of Marcus Aurelius, explore the principles of stoicism, and...
Calculated Risk
Goldman on Employment Report and FOMC A few excerpts from a Goldman Sachs research note: Nonfarm payrolls rose 256k in December, well...
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6 months ago
A few excerpts from a Goldman Sachs research note: Nonfarm payrolls rose 256k in December, well above consensus expectations. ... The household survey was also strong. The unemployment rate fell 0.15pp to 4.09%, reflecting a 478k gain in household employment and an unchanged...
TheCollector
What Was the Role of Judges in Ancient Israel Before It Became a Monarchy? The story of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt, with Moses as its protagonist, is probably the most...
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4 months ago
The story of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt, with Moses as its protagonist, is probably the most well-known of all stories in the Hebrew Bible. Joshua’s conquest of Canaan, epitomized by the siege of Jericho, is also retold often. Similarly, David’s slaying of Goliath, his flight...
Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe" Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
a year ago
Himanshu Mishra |...
रानी (Rani) Dedicated to all the nameless young girls out there in our villages…
over a year ago
One from Nippon
A peek into Japan's Convenience Stores Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a...
over a year ago
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Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a two-part article. All across Japan, one sight remains ubiquitous – the convenience store. A far, far cry from their American cousins, convenience stores in Japan are without...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to get the first 10 paying customers for your devtool company (and other customer acquisition... Creating a product that people need and are willing to pay for is hard. At PostHog, it took us...
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Recruitment Agencies in Japan: How To Get Them To Work For You You may have considered using recruiters when looking for a job in Japan. This article aims to help...
a year ago
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a year ago
You may have considered using recruiters when looking for a job in Japan. This article aims to help you understand the structure of recruiting in Japan and assist you in your job search. I hope this will be beneficial, especially for those who want to work as engineers in...
Ralph Ammer
Thomas Aquinas — The world is divine! A large part of our civilisation rests on the shoulders of one medieval monk: Thomas Aquinas. Amid...
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3 months ago
A large part of our civilisation rests on the shoulders of one medieval monk: Thomas Aquinas. Amid the turmoil of life, riddled with wickedness and pain, he would insist that our world is good.  And all our success is built on this belief. Note: Before we start, let’s get one...
Common Edge
The American Paradox: Bigger Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Better In the U.S., interior and exterior spaces are outsize because they can be. In France, high density...
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In the U.S., interior and exterior spaces are outsize because they can be. In France, high density means less individual space—so design matters even more.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Debugging, emotional resilience, and mental models Being good at debugging is more useful than being good at writing code - you only write a piece of...
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2 months ago
Being good at debugging is more useful than being good at writing code - you only write a piece of code once, but you may end up debugging it hundreds of times. As programmers use more AI-written code, debugging may end up being the only remaining programming skill. But for some...
Acko.net
In Search of Sophistication Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times...
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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...
diamond geezer
N15 N16 N17 walkabout Yesterday I took BestMate for a five mile walk across N16, N15 and N17 because he'd never explored...
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Yesterday I took BestMate for a five mile walk across N16, N15 and N17 because he'd never explored the Stamford Hill/Tottenham hinterland before. The route's not important, nor am I suggesting you do the same, merely pointing out that a good walk across the suburbs often throws...
Paul Graham: Essays
Crazy New Ideas
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
McKenzie 10-Year Barrel Reserve Rum by Works Design Group Since re-vamping the branding and some marketing materials, Finger Lakes Distilling recently asked...
6 months ago
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Since re-vamping the branding and some marketing materials, Finger Lakes Distilling recently asked us to help design the packaging for...
Common Edge
Social Radicalism Reexamined: The Legacies of Christopher Alexander and Joseph Rykwert What these foreign-born giants of design theory brought to two American universities.
a year ago
Applied Cartography
Typesafe routes in Vue I watched Gary Bernhardt's talk on static routing back a few years ago and — I'm not sure if I would...
a year ago
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a year ago
I watched Gary Bernhardt's talk on static routing back a few years ago and — I'm not sure if I would call it formative, but it stuck in my craw as a platonic ideal of sorts, as something I couldn't really justify adopting within Buttondown but really wanted. I built out and...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Invisible Golden Age
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
A good idea, well executed Why isn’t this enough? There are plenty of good ideas, easy to learn from and copy. There are...
a year ago
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a year ago
Why isn’t this enough? There are plenty of good ideas, easy to learn from and copy. There are countless projects, well executed, with the steps on display. Any entrepreneur could find a local business and bring a version of it from over here to over there. And a social change...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.06.19 - Heaven is Real New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
3 weeks ago
SatPost by Trung...
Economics of Taylor Swift's $2B+ Eras Tour Breaking down the numbers for the most successful concert tour ever.
7 months ago
Articles
Let’s make some stuff
over a year ago
HTMHell
#8 anchor tag used as button Bad code <a href="#" onclick="modal.open()">Login</a> Issues and how to fix them If the a element...
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over a year ago
Bad code <a href="#" onclick="modal.open()">Login</a> Issues and how to fix them If the a element has an href attribute, it represents a link to another resource like a page or a PDF document. The purpose of the element in this example is to trigger an action on the same page...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why You Should Visit Germany’s Ore Mountains
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Quick Garbled Circuits Primer
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
The Next Step in Space Travel The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced they are developing their own commercial space...
a year ago
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a year ago
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced they are developing their own commercial space capsule. This will be used initially for cargo, but then eventually for crew as well. They anticipate a maiden voyage in 2028. I think this is a positive development. It seems we are...
Moneyness
Canadian banks as U.S. hostages? BMO Financial Center at Market Square in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Donald Trump has said he wants to...
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BMO Financial Center at Market Square in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Donald Trump has said he wants to use "economic force" against Canada. In my previous post, I worried that one way this force could be wielded was through Canada's dangerous dependence on U.S.-controlled...
Blog - Bitfield...
Slow, flaky, and failing Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and...
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5 months ago
Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and dangerous: one day it might fail for real, and you won’t notice. Here’s what to do.
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Greatest Jedi Mind Trick of All Time What percentage of your visible world would you say you can see? Yes, you read that correctly. The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What percentage of your visible world would you say you can see? Yes, you read that correctly. The obvious answer is "all of it." But stick with me.
Unfiltered by Tim...
Advice For Building A Business Boiled Down Into One-Sentence Harsh Truths A 3-minute read
2 months ago
Articles
This is what starting small looks like
over a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
A Map is Not a Blueprint: Why Fixing Nature Fails Ozempic, Fertilizer, Lobotomies, and the dangers of hubris
a year ago
Open Culture
A 6‑Step Guide to Zen Buddhism, Presented by Psychiatrist-Zen Master Robert Waldinger Robert Waldinger works as a part-time professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, but he also...
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Robert Waldinger works as a part-time professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, but he also describes himself as a “Zen master.” This may strike some listeners as a presumptuous claim, but he has indeed been officially accepted as a rōshi in two different Zen lineages in...
Platformer
Winners and losers in the race to add AI ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining...
over a year ago
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ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining advantage — or just line OpenAI's pockets?
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus? Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
9 months ago
Ralph Ammer
Why study Philosophy? Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful. The post Why study Philosophy?...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful. The post Why study Philosophy? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Willem's Blog
Helping people with free software This week I helped a man with repairing and reinstalling his computer with Debian GNU/Linux.
over a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Ontario, Day 6 (Owen Sound) Our time along the southern tip of Georgian Bay was quickly drawing to an end but we still had one...
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2 days ago
Our time along the southern tip of Georgian Bay was quickly drawing to an end but we still had one more destination along the shoreline towards the northwest. But first I took my final early morning stroll through Collingwood before the family woke up. I retraced some of the more...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.10.0 This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out -...
over a year ago
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This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out - you can walk through your own website or app and see…
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Path Independence
over a year ago
Charlie Becker
Why Write Memoirs | Review of All the Wrong Moves by Sasha Chapin A good memoir is entertaining, insightful, and relatable. A great memoir changes you because you see...
a year ago
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a year ago
A good memoir is entertaining, insightful, and relatable. A great memoir changes you because you see yourself in it. All the Wrong Moves by Sasha Chapin is a great memoir. It is nominally a book about a guy who becomes obsessed with chess. But to me, it’s a book about the...
Arduino Blog
ardEEG is an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi shield for measuring biosignals The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount...
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The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount of progress in reading signals produced by the brain. We may not understand exactly what is going on, but we can see the result and utilize it. And now you can start...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Let Them at Any Rate Be Your Acquaintances' “Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.”  An interesting gauge of human sensibility, a...
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3 weeks ago
“Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.”  An interesting gauge of human sensibility, a sort of litmus test to judge personality and values, might be to place your subject in a large, well-stocked library (or bookstore), wire him for blood pressure, heart rate, skin...
IEEE Spectrum
The Story Behind Pixar’s RenderMan CGI Software Watching movies and TV series that use digital visual effects to create fantastical worlds lets...
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Watching movies and TV series that use digital visual effects to create fantastical worlds lets people escape reality for a few hours. Thanks to advancements in computer-generated technology used to produce films and shows, those worlds are highly realistic. In many cases, it can...
Nat Eliason's...
Make the Commitment You're Afraid to Make The cost of looking for new mountains
a year ago
xkcd.com
Urban Planning Opinion Progression
a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Special Hell 8 Telepathy Blockers When I was young I believed that adults had telepathic powers. Like living Zoltar machines, these...
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over a year ago
When I was young I believed that adults had telepathic powers. Like living Zoltar machines, these enhanced beings could predict my every move. It was uncanny. Telepathy was the only explanation.
Ognjen Regoje •...
CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification. Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then? One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
Artificial Ignorance
What President Biden's AI executive order actually means I read all 111 pages so you don't have to.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 119: I/O, io, Codex, Claude May 23, 2025
a month ago
Yale E360
We deserve to know if something was generated by AI We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on...
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over a year ago
We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on that. What portion of the text you read each day was generated fully or partially by a human, or by an LLM? We don't know, and probably can't know, and that brings about some...
Londonist
Ian McKellen Is Back Doing Shakespeare On The London Stage In 2024 Player Kings launches in the spring.
a year ago
Astral Codex Ten
Links For February 2025 ...
4 months ago
somethingaboutmaps
Projection Cards: Now a Reality A couple months back, I floated an idea for making some fun trading cards based on map projections....
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A couple months back, I floated an idea for making some fun trading cards based on map projections. I’m very happy to report that several dozen of you responded and contributed designs to help make the set happen. I’ve been spending several weeks on managing everyone and working...
Classical Wisdom
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae Registration *Now* Open
a year ago
FIRE v London
August ’24: From triumph to tragedy Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are...
10 months ago
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Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are getting used to our new government. And, in some cases, violently testing its boundaries with some summer rioting. We’ve seen some dreadful street behaviour, frequently of a racist /...
Ryan Hoover's...
Why I’m excited about profit-sharing startups
a year ago
Both Are True
after 12 years of writing, here's everything i know + my #1 tip on how to get paid subscribers
a year ago
XO Capital - Field...
2023 sucked 2023 was a tough year for us. A pure grind. What worked: The business model Our Team Raising $ +...
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a year ago
2023 was a tough year for us. A pure grind. What worked: The business model Our Team Raising $ + deploying it What didn't work: Growth was tough We got bit by platform risk Too many small portfolio companies is death by a thousand cuts We have two relatively passive
AI Snake Oil
AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder What artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The Western Union trap When the telephone began to gain traction, the monopoly of the time, Western Union, decided to get...
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a year ago
When the telephone began to gain traction, the monopoly of the time, Western Union, decided to get even better at sending telegrams.
The Changelog
The Hidden Drawbacks of P2P (And a Defense of Signal) Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some...
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over a year ago
Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some conversation followed, which led me to consider some of the problems with P2P protocols. P2P and Privacy Brave adopting IPFS has driven a lot of buzz lately. IPFS is essentially a...
Nela Dunato Art &...
Nela Dunato Art & Design got a brand refresh! My previous brand identity design lasted from 2015 until 2023, and it has served me quite well. But...
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My previous brand identity design lasted from 2015 until 2023, and it has served me quite well. But my new professional photos sparked the need to overhaul the website, which led to a more substantial brand redesign including new typography and updated logo design. Come see what...
Infinite Scroll
On Consumption vs Production How to improve yourself and be happier, online or offline
7 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
New Luxury Cruises in the Adriatic and Baltic Seas
9 months ago
Archinect - Features
Exploring Architecture’s Uncertain Nature With Schidlowski Fellow François Sabourin Academic fellowships provide unique opportunities for designers and researchers to explore specific...
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over a year ago
Academic fellowships provide unique opportunities for designers and researchers to explore specific topics of interest while teaching. Archinect's Fellow Fellows series showcases individuals who are currently in or have recently finished an architecture fellowship.  For our...
Stoic Simple
Unleash Your Inner Sage: 5 Powerful Mindsets Fostered by Stoicism By Michael McGill The Stoics had a name for a person who fully realized the virtues of Stoicism. A...
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By Michael McGill The Stoics had a name for a person who fully realized the virtues of Stoicism. A person who overcame all of their personal defects to achieve a life of complete tranquility and goodness. The perfect Stoic, if you will.  They referred to this person as the Stoic...
balajis.com
Too Fake to Tell US government stats aren't reliable. More importantly, neither are US government bonds.
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Lagrange polynomial as a gateway drug to basis splines This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis...
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This explains Lagrange polynomial: why does it run through all the points, what is the basis polynomial, and how come it's a polynomial in the first place.
A Beautiful Site
CSS Parts Inspired by BEM In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few...
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over a year ago
In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few restrictions in what you can call them. The purpose of that deep dive was to help identify a pattern for naming parts that lets me expose states and subparts, or parts exported as a...
Essays - Benedict...
Leaving Twitter I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on it, and I won’t be...
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I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on it, and I won’t be posting at all for the foreseeable future
Birchtree
I'm just gonna be your YouTube algorithm now It turns out I like sharing the cool YouTube videos I see when there aren't any schedules or rules...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
It turns out I like sharing the cool YouTube videos I see when there aren't any schedules or rules about how often I share them, so here's another collection I enjoyed recently. An oldie but a goodie, I really loved what Scotty was doing back in
wingolog
baffled by generational garbage collection Usually in this space I like to share interesting things that I find out; you might call it a...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Usually in this space I like to share interesting things that I find out; you might call it a research-epistle-publish loop. Today, though, I come not with answers, but with questions, or rather one question, but with fractal surface area: what is the value proposition...
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #21: Avoiding the "Product Death Cycle" Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Paul Graham: Essays
The Island Test
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
He really wants me, as usual In 1991, three decades before she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, French author Annie...
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over a year ago
In 1991, three decades before she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, French author Annie Ernaux published Passion simple, a brief, semi-autobiographical novel in which its narrator recounts her intensely passionate, all-consuming two-year relationship with a married man....
HTMHell
Back to Basics: 5 HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience by Daniela Kubesch In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Daniela Kubesch In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the latest frameworks, libraries and cutting-edge technologies. But sometimes, the most impactful improvements come from revisiting the fundamentals. In this blog post, I'll guide you...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The College Health Opportunity | Out-Of-Pocket We can make college healthcare better! And honestly we have to
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The experience economy Before World War 2, the middle-class in the developed world struggled to afford basic needs. In the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Before World War 2, the middle-class in the developed world struggled to afford basic needs. In the post-war boom, standards of living rose…
sbensu
Love's Executioner (book) Countertransference applies to regular conversation.
7 months ago
TokyoDev
Paternity Leave in Japan If you're an expectant father in Japan, you may be considering taking paternity leave. Compared to...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you're an expectant father in Japan, you may be considering taking paternity leave. Compared to many places in the world, Japan's policy is generous, on paper at least: you're legally entitled to take up to a year off, and be compensated during that time. However, you'll...
Posts on Made of...
Some musings on ORMs I’m pretty sure every developer who has ever worked with a modern database-backed application,...
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over a year ago
I’m pretty sure every developer who has ever worked with a modern database-backed application, particularly a web-app, has a love/hate relationship with their ORM, or object-relational mapper. On the one hand, ORMs are vastly more pleasant to work with than code that constructs...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Threaded I penned a Thot(?!), or rather, a post on Threads, the Twitter clone that Meta released some time...
a year ago
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a year ago
I penned a Thot(?!), or rather, a post on Threads, the Twitter clone that Meta released some time ago. I don’t find it particularly useful, as my Twitter usage had declined long ago. Anyway, the post (and accompanying photo): “When I contemplate the idea of relocating, it’s 70°...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Powered by a Whisper As promised, today we are going to take a journey to the heart of the web. The web has become...
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As promised, today we are going to take a journey to the heart of the web. The web has become bloated and gluttonous. We need hungry scalpels, sharp mental x-acto knives to cut away the excess. What will we find at the center? Is there a truth worth saving at the heart of the...
devonzuegel.com
To rent or to sell, that is the question As a real estate developer, one of the big decisions you need to make is whether you will rent or...
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As a real estate developer, one of the big decisions you need to make is whether you will rent or sell the buildings you've built. Income from rentals flows in steadily over years, while income from sales hits all at once. This essential difference is simple but has many...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Bubble Trouble As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data. A Wall Street...
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As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data. A Wall Street Journal piece from this week has sounded the alarm that some believe AI models will run out of "high-quality text-based data" within the next two years in what an AI researcher called...
Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular...
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I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs.
One Useful Thing
An AI Haunted World Intelligence, everywhere.
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The American Scholar
Splitting Our Sides A new biography of a comedy pioneer The post Splitting Our Sides appeared first on The American...
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3 months ago
A new biography of a comedy pioneer The post Splitting Our Sides appeared first on The American Scholar.
Sean Carroll
The Zombie Argument for Physicalism (Contra Panpsychism) The nature of consciousness remains a contentious subject out there. I’m a physicalist myself — as I...
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The nature of consciousness remains a contentious subject out there. I’m a physicalist myself — as I explain in The Big Picture and elsewhere, I think consciousness is best understood as weakly-emergent from the ordinary physical behavior of matter, without requiring any special...
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Feel, don't think I started playing clarinet in fourth grade, and dabbled in other instruments.. I never stopped...
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I started playing clarinet in fourth grade, and dabbled in other instruments.. I never stopped entirely, but I took years-long breaks from playing music. Earlier this year, I picked up a new instrument while I was very sick. I got a wind synth, the Roland AE-20. It was a somewhat...
Jonas Hietala
The End of the Tunnel Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from...
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Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from the last time. One course about data structure and algorithms (super fun to be honest) has wrapped up. We thought we were ahead with the assignments but in the end it got very...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Weird health insurance concepts | Out-Of-Pocket Intercompany eliminations, copay shenanigans, and reference-based pricing
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The Marginalian
Kafka on Friendship and the Art of Reconnection Among the paradoxes of friendship is this: All friendships of depth and durability are based on a...
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Among the paradoxes of friendship is this: All friendships of depth and durability are based on a profound knowledge of each other, of the soul beneath the costume of personality — that lovely Celtic notion of anam cara. We bring this knowledge, this mutual understanding, to...
Many Worlds
The Moon Rush Is On. Are We on Earth Ready For That? An Indian spacecraft landed on the moon this month and a pioneering Japanese lunar  lander is...
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a year ago
An Indian spacecraft landed on the moon this month and a pioneering Japanese lunar  lander is awaiting an imminent launch.  A Russian craft trying to land in the same area — the southern polar region — recently crashed, as did a private effort by a joint Japanese-United Arab...
Josh Thompson
Turing Prep appendix: Troubleshooting Errors Pretty much any time I hear the same question twice, I will try to add a section here for it, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Pretty much any time I hear the same question twice, I will try to add a section here for it, and make it as findable by future students as possible. Do you have a question not answered here? PLEASE send me a DM in Slack or @ me (I’m josh_t in the Turing slack). I’ll take a...
Escaping Flatland
On shortcuts and longcuts There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they...
a year ago
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a year ago
There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they make. This gives the path a lovely human fit. But sometimes you want to do the opposite. You want to design ways to get people to take a longer path, a longcut, so they can see or...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Here's Why 99% of People Stay Stuck for Their Whole Lives And how you can become the 1% who break free from society's chains
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HTMHell
#24 A placeholder is not a label Bad code <input type="text" placeholder="First name"> Issues and how to fix them Every form input...
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over a year ago
Bad code <input type="text" placeholder="First name"> Issues and how to fix them Every form input element needs a label. When screen reader users access a form field, the label is announced with the field type (e.g. first name, edit text). If it’s missing, users might not know...
PostHog's RSS Feed
An introduction to product analytics and how it works What is product analytics? At the most basic level product analytics refers to the process of...
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over a year ago
What is product analytics? At the most basic level product analytics refers to the process of gathering data about how a product is used, then…
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Joel Gascoigne
How we&#x27;re trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
The Codist
My Art And Color-After Tiling I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged...
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I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged randomly and contain everything appearing in the final image. What I do differently is to separate the layout of tiles from colorizing the image. I call this technique...
TheCollector
10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in France UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places of outstanding cultural or natural importance recognized for...
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places of outstanding cultural or natural importance recognized for their universal value to humanity. Spanning continents, these sites include ancient ruins, architectural marvels, sacred landscapes, and natural wonders, each telling a unique...
Kat Snyder
No, I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter — horrible uses of exit overlays When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably...
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When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably to abandon the page — there are...
Charlie Becker
The Bookseller's Register #2 My favorite section in the bookstore
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TheCollector
Hispanic & Latino: Meaning, History, and Best Practices of the Terms In the Western Hemisphere, particularly in the United States, terms such as Hispanic and Latino have...
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In the Western Hemisphere, particularly in the United States, terms such as Hispanic and Latino have been used to identify and give more visibility to people whose linguistic or cultural roots fall within the Spanish-speaking linguistic, ethnic, or cultural context: Spain, Latin...
The Marginalian
Against the Pleasurable Luxury of Despair and the Aridity of Self-pity: Doris Lessing on the... "The choice before us... is not merely a question of preventing an evil, but of strengthening a...
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Old Structures...
A Variety Pack I haven’t done one of these for a while and it’s too hot to think, so here goes: the view east on...
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I haven’t done one of these for a while and it’s too hot to think, so here goes: the view east on Bridge Street from Whitehall Street gives a nice selection of lower Manhattan building types. A: One Whitehall Street. 1962, 23-story office building with a glass and metal-panel...
Contemporist...
Before and After - A Renovated 1950s Red-Brick Warehouse Turned It Into A Cafe Snow Peak Cafe, designed by KiKi ARCHi, is set inside a former red-brick warehouse in Suzhou, China....
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Snow Peak Cafe, designed by KiKi ARCHi, is set inside a former red-brick warehouse in Suzhou, China. Once part of a cluster of industrial buildings from the 1950s, the structure has been reworked into a modern space for coffee, retail, and quiet conversation. Guided by Snow...
Rest of World -...
The new AI assistants may not speak your language Mind the language gap.
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TheCollector
What Court Rules Did Marie Antoinette Have to Follow? With privilege comes specific obligations, or so it would seem in the 1700 French royal court of...
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With privilege comes specific obligations, or so it would seem in the 1700 French royal court of Versailles. In order to reinforce the hierarchy and culture the French royal family had specific rules and pageantry attached to regular every day occurrences that Marie Antoinette...
computers are bad
2024-10-12 commercial HF radio According to a traditional system of classification, "high frequency" or HF refers to the radio...
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9 months ago
According to a traditional system of classification, "high frequency" or HF refers to the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 MHz. The label now seems anachronistic, as HF is among the lowest ranges of radio frequencies that see regular use. This setting of the goalposts in the early...
mtlynch.io
Install NixOS on a Free Oracle Cloud VM Oracle is not a very popular cloud hosting service, but they have an unusually attractive free tier...
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Oracle is not a very popular cloud hosting service, but they have an unusually attractive free tier offering. You can run the following two VMs for free 24/7: 4 CPU / 24 GB RAM Ampere A1 ARM VM 1 CPU / 1 GB RAM AMD CPU The AMD one is not that exciting, but a 4-CPU / 24 GB system...
David Heinemeier...
To hell with forever Immortality always sounded like a curse to me. But especially now, having passed the halfway point...
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Immortality always sounded like a curse to me. But especially now, having passed the halfway point of the average wealthy male life expectancy. Another scoop of life as big as the one I've already been served seems more than enough, thank you very much. Does that strike you as...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Donelson? Initial Union attempts to storm the nearby Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia had been...
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Initial Union attempts to storm the nearby Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia had been unsuccessful in 1861. Thus, the Union began the process of retaking Confederate territory in the Western Theater west of Virginia. The first target was Tennessee, the “top” of the...
Wuthering...
Books I read, and desks I saw, in July - hoping he might tell me, / tell me what the waves don't... Right, July, July, so long ago.  I was on the road a little bit, making literary pilgrimages. ...
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Right, July, July, so long ago.  I was on the road a little bit, making literary pilgrimages.  Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for example, to Herman Melville’s Arrowhead: On this spot, not at this exact desk but in front of this exact window, Herman Melville wrote Moby-Dick,...
Computer Ads from...
MicroTimes Interviews Apple Newton Devs (1993) The Newton laid the groundwork for the I-devices.
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Maps Mania
The Start of Hurricane Season
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Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1 The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be...
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The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be challenging when selecting the right tool We are approaching a period where the traditional boundaries between between databases, datalakes, and data warehouses are overlapping. As...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a...
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2 months ago
In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folktales that have influenced lots of other stories. Keeping with the theme, I also saw one of the most influential movies based on these...
abdz.do - Have you...
Beloved food magazine Bon Appétit, gets a fresh rebrand Beloved food magazine Bon Appétit, gets a fresh rebrand abduzeedo0205—23 ...
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Beloved food magazine Bon Appétit, gets a fresh rebrand abduzeedo0205—23 Bon Appétit, the well-known food and dining magazine, has recently undergone a revamp, and it was just in time for its holiday issue. This new and improved print magazine,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spot On Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This will be written one day when a traveler comes...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This will be written one day when a traveler comes upon the ruins of Ohio. Today's News:
Retail Design Blog
ZUCZUG Bazaar & Flat by Sò Studio Conveying the brand’s character and narrative and seeking breakthroughs through the use of spatial...
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Conveying the brand’s character and narrative and seeking breakthroughs through the use of spatial design language, the full integration of...
bt RSS Feed
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my...
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Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my Eero mesh network setup and replaced it with two Mango Mini Travel Routers (GL-MT300N-V2). There were some obvious reasons to make this switch but I was initially unsure how the...
Archinect - Features
Can Tactical Design Make NYC Subways Feel Safe Again? WXY’s Claire Weisz Thinks So Darkened corners, poorly-lit cars, vandalism, and other physical and psychological indicators that...
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2 months ago
Darkened corners, poorly-lit cars, vandalism, and other physical and psychological indicators that crime is present or can thrive still underpin its persistence on subways and in stations in New York City. This has led to a widespread perception of danger. And, in real terms, the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joking Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if any supervillains read Nudge? Today's...
10 months ago
One Useful Thing
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
7 months ago
Yale E360
Planned Indian Mega-Port Could 'Wipe Out' Isolated Tribe The Shompen, residents of a small island in the Indian Ocean, are among the world's last isolated...
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The Shompen, residents of a small island in the Indian Ocean, are among the world's last isolated tribes. But that may soon change as the Indian government moves forward with plans for a massive port that could "wipe out" the tribe, a watchdog group says. Read more on E360 →
Infinite Scroll
Infinite Scroll Podcast: Substack founder Hamish McKenzie An interview on where Substack sits in the digital media ecosystem
6 months ago
Adventures In...
Stories Here are some StoryMap stories that I’ve written over the years… Piracy & Time Travel How Deep is...
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Here are some StoryMap stories that I’ve written over the years… Piracy & Time Travel How Deep is Challenger Deep? Julie’s Improbable Flight How to Write a Story, starring sharks and hurricanes Gap, Pass, Notch, & Saddle College Football Air Mile Index Rivers of Plastic Smoking,...
Seth's Blog
Getting to next There’s a difference between ‘rich’ and ‘richer’. And ‘fit’ and ‘fitter’. The problem with a pre-amp...
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a month ago
There’s a difference between ‘rich’ and ‘richer’. And ‘fit’ and ‘fitter’. The problem with a pre-amp that goes all the way to 11 isn’t that it’s louder. The problem is that very soon, the person who bought one of these will want one that goes to 12. Living in the liminal space is...
Londonist
Dreaming Of Owning A Home In France? You Need To Know About This Event! The French Property Exhibition returns to London this month.
a year ago
Open Culture
Isaac Asimov Describes How Artificial Intelligence Will Liberate Humans & Their Creativity in His... Artificial intelligence may be one of the major topics of our historical moment, but it can be...
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3 months ago
Artificial intelligence may be one of the major topics of our historical moment, but it can be surprisingly tricky to define. In the more than 30-year-old interview clip above, Isaac Asimov describes artificial intelligence as “a phrase that we use for any device that does things...
Birchtree
Perplexity is making a web browser Kyle Wiggers writing for TechCrunch: Perplexity Teases a Web Browser Called Comet “Just like...
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4 months ago
Kyle Wiggers writing for TechCrunch: Perplexity Teases a Web Browser Called Comet “Just like Perplexity reinvented search, we’re also reinventing the browser,” a Perplexity spokesperson told TechCrunch via email. “Stay tuned for updates.” Exactly one month ago I wrote “I think...
The Marginalian
Octavia Butler (and Whitman’s Ghost) on America “Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought,” Octavia Butler (June 22, 1947–February 24, 2006)...
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9 months ago
“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought,” Octavia Butler (June 22, 1947–February 24, 2006) urged in her prophetic Parable of the Talents, written in the 1990s and set in the 2020s. Her words remain a haunting reminder that our rights are founded upon our...
Society's Backend:...
ML for SWEs 4: Waymo is the Perfect Example of ML Engineering, Gemini 2.5 Pro is #1, and GPT-4o... Machine learning for software engineers 3-28-25
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Blog of Simple...
Guide to Google Analytics and Cookie consent
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devonzuegel.com
Vacuum tube nostalgia Music enthusiasts will tell you there's nothing quite like "tube sound", the warm, rich sound...
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over a year ago
Music enthusiasts will tell you there's nothing quite like "tube sound", the warm, rich sound quality that old vacuum tube amplifiers bring to the music played through them. And they'll pay top dollar for it! Once considered obsolete, vintage vacuum tube amps now sell at a...
Old Structures...
Loans I’m not sure why “Is a Library-centric Economy the Answer to Sustainable Living” by Philip Vachon...
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9 months ago
I’m not sure why “Is a Library-centric Economy the Answer to Sustainable Living” by Philip Vachon surprised me, but it did. The basic argument is that the ideas that govern good libraries – making as many books available to as many readers as possible, fairly and efficiently, and...
Calculated Risk
New Home Sales Increase to 698,000 Annual Rate in December The Census Bureau reports New Home Sales in December were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate...
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5 months ago
The Census Bureau reports New Home Sales in December were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 698 thousand. Sales of new single-family houses in December 2024 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 698,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the...
Mazdak
Waymo in Japan, Veo 2 AI video, Snapchat Monetization ... Google DeepMind has upped the game in AI video generation.
6 months ago
Steve Blank
How the U.S. Became A Science Superpower Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over,...
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Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. It happened because two very different people were the science advisors to their nation’s...
Old Structures...
Notre Dame, Again In April 2019, it was not clear what would happen. Given the importance of the cathedral to the city...
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7 months ago
In April 2019, it was not clear what would happen. Given the importance of the cathedral to the city of Paris, the nation of France, and the cultural heritage of Europe, it was clear that it would be rebuilt after the fire, but in what form and on what schedule were open...
Jonas Hietala
A type checking error in Elixir 1.18 Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and...
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6 months ago
Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and why I think Gleam is so cool). I think static typing helps catch bugs earlier and in an automated way, leading to less buggy software and saves time in the long run. To my great joy...
How to Be a Stoic
Stoics should be vegetarian Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy...
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over a year ago
Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy by utilitarian Peter Singer, with his landmark Animal Liberation, published back in 1975. In truth, utilitarians have been very clear on the subject from the beginning. The...
Christopher Butler
object – A 20 Year-Old Sketchbook This sketchbook just turned twenty years old. I began keeping it in the final months of my...
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over a year ago
This sketchbook just turned twenty years old. I began keeping it in the final months of my senior year at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). A few friends and I had managed to register for the same elective art history course that spring, and in anticipation of all...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Brutalist Web Design I recently read an article by Tom MacWright on fancy software tools. Although tools such as Webflow,...
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over a year ago
I recently read an article by Tom MacWright on fancy software tools. Although tools such as Webflow, Squarespace, Semplice, and Notion are impressive in their own right and all fulfil specific needs, they are also needlessly complex (in a way). We have entered an era of design...
Common Edge
What Would It Mean to Be An “AI First” Architecture Firm? It’s not about applying the technology to established processes, but creating entirely new paths...
3 months ago
Yale E360
Russia’s War Has Destroyed Forest Twice the Size of New York City Ukraine lost roughly 600 square miles of forest in the first two years of its war with Russia, an...
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4 months ago
Ukraine lost roughly 600 square miles of forest in the first two years of its war with Russia, an area of woodland twice the size of New York City. Read more on E360 →
On Life and Lisp
The Federation Fallacy Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air:...
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over a year ago
Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air: mistrust of large corporations, mistrust of governments, and of course, mistrust of proprietary software. Each mistrust is connected by a critical thread: centralisation. Thus,...
Chris Grossack's...
Externalizing Some Simple Topos Statements Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done...
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over a year ago
Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done math in any serious capacity for almost the past month. It’s been a lot of hard work trying to get fair contracts out of the UC, but I had a lot of travel plans this December to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Society Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The good news about our society is everyone comes...
a year ago
Alice GG
Building a container orchestrator Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and...
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Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and learning the surrounding ecosystem is even harder. Even those who have managed to tame it are still afraid of getting paged by an ETCD cluster corruption, a Kubelet certificate...
alexwlchan
Cats, cross-stitch, and copyright I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually...
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over a year ago
I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually lived with) is the cheetah. This probably goes back to a school project about cheetahs I did when I was nine years old – I had to write about an endangered species for science...
journal – Winnie Lim
43 I wrote this time last year that I felt like I was coping better than the year before. This year I...
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I wrote this time last year that I felt like I was coping better than the year before. This year I don’t feel like I have made much progress, and perhaps I...
ByteofDev
Array.map() versus Array.forEach() Learn the difference between Array.map() and Array.forEach() and how to use each in JavaScript
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The AI research tool that saves me hours every week And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
a year ago
Max Countryman
Three Years to Shake Your Head There's an old saying regarding the difficulty of learning the Japanese bamboo flute, known as the...
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There's an old saying regarding the difficulty of learning the Japanese bamboo flute, known as the shakuhachi, "It takes three years to learn to shake your head." This is in reference to the difficulty of mastering even seemingly simple techniques. The only way around this is to...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Retaking the Test of Time They don't play Dylan on 93.3, Denver's modern rock station. Not today, not in 1999 when I spent the...
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They don't play Dylan on 93.3, Denver's modern rock station. Not today, not in 1999 when I spent the summer burning stencils and cleaning ink off silkscreens at a family-owned t-shirt factory.
fast.ai
A New Chapter for fast.ai: How To Solve It With Code fast.ai is joining Answer.AI, and we’re announcing a new kind of educational experience, ‘How To...
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fast.ai is joining Answer.AI, and we’re announcing a new kind of educational experience, ‘How To Solve It With Code’
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Follow Up: An Analysis of YouTube Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website After publishing my Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website, Tina Nguyen, political...
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5 days ago
After publishing my Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website, Tina Nguyen, political correspondent at The Verge, reached out with some questions. Her questions made me realize that the numbers in my analysis weren’t quite correct (I wasn’t de-depulicating links...
Charlie Becker
You are Giants to Me Castles in the Sky #37
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour Seats Still Available
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Irrational...
Trying Tailscale. Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp...
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over a year ago
Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp whitepaper. My foremost personal interest was grounded in the fact that Uber’s contemporaneous security implementation didn’t include a VPN, so it was interesting to see a...
Josh Comeau's blog
Container Queries Unleashed Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new...
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Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new superpowers. Now that container queries are broadly available, I think it’s time we start exploring this potential! In this post, I’ll share the “killer pattern” I can’t stop using in my...
Retail Design Blog
Veganity by Motyw Studio Veganity is a series of natural, vegan food products offered in a convenient form for consumption –...
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a year ago
Veganity is a series of natural, vegan food products offered in a convenient form for consumption – either as grains...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boof Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The frustrating thing is when she's trying to get...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The frustrating thing is when she's trying to get her crack but it's at the bottom of the purse under the boxes of tissues, pocket bible, and coupon books. Today's News: Sorry for the missed updates, but I am at last home! For...
Nat Eliason's...
Proof You Can Do Hard Things An Essential Piece to Your Life Resume
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The Turn Signal RSS...
Swiping vs Tapping, What is Less Distracting to Drivers? I typically split in-car interactions into two groups. There are quick and frequent actions like...
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I typically split in-car interactions into two groups. There are quick and frequent actions like changing the volume or skipping a song…
symmetry magazine
Will AI make MC the MVP of particle physics? Particle physicists are building innovative machine-learning algorithms to enhance Monte Carlo...
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Particle physicists are building innovative machine-learning algorithms to enhance Monte Carlo simulations with the power of AI.
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I’m going through a bit of a boardgame stint, as I usually do during christmas time. I had exactly one thing on my wishlist for this christmas for my little brother: Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries. Guess what? I got something from my wishlist! This was our 5th or 6th game (or...
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A new regulation from the Supreme Court holds Meta, X, and other online platforms accountable for content and user safety, setting Brazil on a collision course with the Trump administration.
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At my company, it’s a tradition to say “ring the bell” when we sign a new customer, release a new feature or receive other positive news, big or small. When we hear the large bell ring in the center of the office, we know that something good just happened. It’s been a great way...
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Taken by the Curiosity rover. This is one of Mars tiny moons as seen from the ground. Impressive as it is only 14 long and you can actually see its shape from the surface. See Phobos below for reference.
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Pinterest open sources Pinball Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two...
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Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two blog posts: Pinball: Building workflow management (from 2014) and Open-sourcing Pinball (from this week). The author has a comment in the comments thread on Hacker News:
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For most, Boxing Day is a time for leftovers and lounging, but in the New Forest of England during the late 1800s and early 1900s it signified something more primal. On the 26th of December each year, the winter-stilled woods echoed with the sounds of a cruel and peculiar...
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Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here. Stroustrup's Rule I first encountered Stroustrup's Rule on this...
macwright.com
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My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives. Coincidentally, this month saw a new wave of open source spam because of the tea.xyz project, which encouraged people to try and claim ‘ownership’ of existing open source projects, to get crypto...
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When it comes to decision-making, it can be challenging to navigate the multitude of options and complexities we face. Whether it's selecting the right career path or deciding between two potential love interests, making informed and strategic decisions is crucial for achieving...
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Advocates of AI (and yes, before the pedants chime in, I'm aware that LLMs are not technically AI, but for the purposes of popular debate and perception – we'll go with it) will tell you that automation will create new jobs and generate broad societal value such that it...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the problems they […] The post Dealing with complexity appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Flashbak
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One picture changed everything. In the 1960s, Nacio Jan Brown was a photographer for the San Francisco Express Times, an underground weekly newspaper. Typically, he would sit in Caffe Mediterraneum on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley and wait for something to happen. One day, nothing...
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I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I don’t take any medication. I get regularly asked about...
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This device prevents garage door security breaches Your automatic garage door is almost certainly the most vulnerable access point in your house....
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Your automatic garage door is almost certainly the most vulnerable access point in your house. Traditional systems are notorious for their susceptibility to replay attacks, but even more sophisticated modern garage door openers and those that lack remote functionality entirely...
Patrick Kayongo
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over a year ago
Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the floor to catch the sweat that had started dripping from his forehead. His hand was shaking uncontrollably, jerked back and forth by the fear of getting caught again. Mukaajanga, the...
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I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto.
Saturday Morning...
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We may think that our search for objective truth is divorced from our emotions, but evidence from cognitive psychology shows that our logical conclusions can be determined by our emotional need for something to be true, whether or not it actually is.  Motivated reasoning, also...
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The way we talk about fundraising is wrong. Specifically, I don’t think that founders sell equity when they raise money. It’s the other way around - founders use their equity to buy capital from investors.[1] Investors know this, which is why they spend so much time and money on...
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USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption until some years later; for most of the '90s RS-232-ish serial and its awkward sibling the parallel port were the norm for external peripheral. It's sort of surprising that USB...
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Socrates, the famous ancient Greek philosopher, was put to death in Athens on charges of impiety and corruption. In his own defense, Socrates testified that his inner voice, often called his “daemon,” prevented impious actions. Daemons are intermediary spiritual beings like...
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There was initially some issue verifying this, but there appears to be direct confirmation now that Ward Christensen passed away October 11 at the age of 78, co-founder of the pioneering Computerized Bulletin Board System in February 1978 with Randy Suess — now believed to be the...
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That time I wrote malware and got caught Most of us make some bad decisions in high school. While other people were drinking, going to...
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Wait But Why
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On June 18, 2016, I slipped and fell down a deep, deep hole. The post A Short History of My Last Six Years appeared first on Wait But Why.
High Signal
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Last July, when I was still a regular user of X, I warned, not entirely in jest, that Elon Musk was taking a flamethrower to his own reputation.
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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There's this weird fantasy we all share of not giving a flying fuck about what people think. We all wish we could be impervious to others' opinions, like Superman deflecting bullets. But instead of bullets, we're out here trying to deflect the fucks we wish we didn't give. We...
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Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G Global leap to 4G and 5G would cut off phone access for millions of vulnerable people.
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A review of a new book released this week: The Japanese House Since 1945 by Naomi Pollock, published by Thames & Hudson, November 2023 (Amazon / Bookshop) What makes modern and contemporary Japanese houses so appealing? Much of it stems from the novelty of residential designs,...
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Before the 19th century, art was centered around naturalistic depictions designed to create a realistic window onto the world. Artists were inspired by history, mythology, and the Bible, with Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Vermeer representing the pinnacle of artistic expression....
Open Culture
Behold the First American Board Game, Travellers’ Tour Through the United States (1822) Asked to name a classic American board game, most of us would first think of Monopoly, whose imagery...
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Asked to name a classic American board game, most of us would first think of Monopoly, whose imagery and verbiage — Park Place, Rich Uncle Pennybags, “Do not pass go” — has worked its way deep into the culture since Parker Brothers brought it to market in 1935. Despite that, it...
Working Theorys
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DALL•E 2 Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from...
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Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions.  Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful. For me, it’s the most delightful thing to play with we’ve created so far. I find it to...
Arduino Blog
Introducing Arduino Academy: your path to becoming an Arduino-Certified Engineer begins! Want to upgrade your skills and become a certified Arduino engineer? Welcome to the Arduino Academy,...
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Want to upgrade your skills and become a certified Arduino engineer? Welcome to the Arduino Academy, the go-to platform for hands-on, interactive learning designed to prepare you for the future of technology. Whether you’re just starting or looking to advance your career, the...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
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It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
Essays - Benedict...
Competing in search A quarter century after ‘don't be evil’ a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in...
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A quarter century after ‘don't be evil’ a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?
Seth's Blog
In and out Lots of organizations (and individuals) have plans and processes for getting the word out. In fact,...
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Lots of organizations (and individuals) have plans and processes for getting the word out. In fact, we spend trillions of dollars doing so. Do you have a plan for getting the word in? Is it simply random chance that some ideas get to you and your team, that cultural and technical...
Ryan Hoover's...
Why YourStack failed
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Complex numbers and conformal mapping This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces...
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This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces analytic functions, and shows that analytic complex functions are conformal. And using the connection between the geometry and the analysis explains it all in just some five minutes.
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, if you go to a temple with excellent customer service, you should wonder which branch of the afterlife is in charge. Today's News:
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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...
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✏️ Borrego Boogie Almost a year ago, Jen and I headed south to Bishop, then a run through Death Valley, an obnoxiously...
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Almost a year ago, Jen and I headed south to Bishop, then a run through Death Valley, an obnoxiously windy night in Alabama Hills, and then reset in San Diego before a good run and a few nights in Anza-Borrego desert. It's remarkable that a place this wild and surprisingly...
TheCollector
8 Cambodian Temples that Aren’t Angkor Wat The Hindu-Buddhist Khmer Empire stretched across what is now known as Cambodia, and you can see...
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The Hindu-Buddhist Khmer Empire stretched across what is now known as Cambodia, and you can see numerous relics from this incredible empire today. The most popular and famous is Angkor Wat, but when you visit Siem Reap and beyond, you’ll find fantastic ruins that rival anything...
Marco.org
Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any...
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Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him. But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world. He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would...
One Useful Thing
The practical guide to using AI to do stuff A resource for students in my classes (and other interested people).
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Le GRAND CLOSET de PARIGOT / MAN by Wonderwall PARIGOT, a fashion boutique that has primarily focused on women’s wear in the Tokyo metropolitan...
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PARIGOT, a fashion boutique that has primarily focused on women’s wear in the Tokyo metropolitan area, has opened its first...
Eric Bailey
Saying thank you Things are in a really bad place right now. It is difficult to think of any aspect of the world that...
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over a year ago
Things are in a really bad place right now. It is difficult to think of any aspect of the world that isn’t being strangled by malignant forces. This includes the web. It's been a long time since the altruistic early web—putting content out there for the its own sake. The web...
diamond geezer
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45 45 Squared 13) THE SQUARE, UB7 Borough of Hillingdon, 40m entire village is pencilled in for demolition, every last building, because we're just outside Heathrow Airport and a Third Runway is coming. Longford, a key staging point on the old route to the West Country. It's...
Diaries of Note
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Between January and May of 1979, eleven Black women were killed in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in a spate of murders that went largely unreported in the national media. Instead, it was left to grassroots organisations like the Black feminist group Combahee River Collective,...
Steve Klabnik
Updating Buck
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Londonist
Brixton Academy Is Reopening In April First gigs announced since December 2022.
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Val Sopi
A change in how I share my open finances and a new self–imposed public challenge <p> A bit over a year ago, I wrote <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">a post</a> in...
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<p> A bit over a year ago, I wrote <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">a post</a> in which I talked about embarking on a journey to financial freedom. Specifically speaking — I took out a personal loan so I could focus on solely building products. </p><p> With that...
Ralph Ammer
So… this is a job? What is Design? The post So… this is a job? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
over a year ago
Flashbak
Der Struwwelpeter: Heinrich Hoffmann’s Deadly Book For Naughty Children Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They...
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Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They are grim’d as black as soot; And the sloven, I declare, Never once has combed his hair; Anything to me is sweeter Than to see this Struwwelpeter. – Der Struwwelpeter (Shaggy-Peter...
99% Invisible
For a Dollar and a Dream [EPISODE] Every week, one in eight Americans places a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot....
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over a year ago
Every week, one in eight Americans places a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined. The story of lotteries in the United States may...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Rosanna Morris I am an illustrator and printmaker, working mainly with relief. I work from my large studio on the...
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I am an illustrator and printmaker, working mainly with relief. I work from my large studio on the top floor of an creative warehouse in east Bristol. I also run a courses, workshops and printmaking events. Describe your printmaking process. I usually start with a pencil...
Open Culture
The Steampunk Clocks of 19th-Century Paris: Discover the Ingenious System That Revolutionized... A middle-class Parisian living around the turn of the twentieth century would have to budget for...
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A middle-class Parisian living around the turn of the twentieth century would have to budget for services like not just water or gas, but also time. Though electric clocks had been demonstrated, they were still a high-tech rarity; installing one in the home would have been...
Mazdak
A Guide to 2024 Tax Brackets and Rates (Canada 🇨🇦) Tax season can be a daunting journey, with its intricate paths and hidden obstacles. For Canadian...
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Tax season can be a daunting journey, with its intricate paths and hidden obstacles. For Canadian taxpayers, understanding the tax code and optimizing their financial position requires careful planning and informed decisions. This comprehensive guide equips you with the knowledge...
Tony Finch's blog
Popcorn Another recent food obsession! I think the instigation was a YouTube food video which led me to...
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Another recent food obsession! I think the instigation was a YouTube food video which led me to try making popcorn at home from scratch with Nico. It was enormous fun! And several weeks later it’s still really entertaining to make (especially when a stray kernel pops after I take...
The Marginalian
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Yale E360
If software engineering roles were chess pieces, what would they be? Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground. It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to...
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over a year ago
Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground. It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to acquire the entire tech industry. And when Chess acquires us, they'll replace us and take our software engineering jobs1. Then we'll be stuck playing their game, and we'll be...
IEEE Spectrum
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In the late 1970s, a time when 8-bit processors were state of the art and CMOS was the underdog of semiconductor technology, engineers at AT&T’s Bell Labs took a bold leap into the future. They made a high-stakes bet to outpace IBM, Intel, and other competitors in chip...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Accumulated instinct With age and experience, I’ve accumulated enough inspiration to trust my instincts. There’s a...
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6 months ago
With age and experience, I’ve accumulated enough inspiration to trust my instincts. There’s a confidence that when the moment arrives, I’ll recall that inspiring visual with just enough detail to fuel my decision-making or creative process. — Simon Collison Simon and I have...
Making software...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
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over a year ago
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
Alex Meub
Recreating the Windows BSOD I thought it would be fun to recreate the iconic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Photoshop. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I thought it would be fun to recreate the iconic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Photoshop. I found the classic DOS system font and was able recreate a pixel-perfect BSOD image using it. You can see a rendering of the classic BSOD in all it’s pixelated glory here and...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Embark on island-hopping adventures and explore ancient wineries in Croatia
a year ago
somenice
Generative Art on a Round TFT Display I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px...
a year ago
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a year ago
I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px round TFT display. The results look amazing. Using the IOT capable Adafruit Qualia Board and 2.1″ Round TFT with capacitive touch it’s programmed using CircuitPython. I look forward to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Wow Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Earlier he changed his name to Emperor but nobody...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Earlier he changed his name to Emperor but nobody was buying it. Today's News:
Greg Brockman
The OpenAI Mission This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on...
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over a year ago
This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on OpenAI for the past three years. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which we define as automated systems that outperform humans at most...
Liz Denys
Switching to Pelican Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances. To simplify my life, I decided to unify them into one content management system instead of keeping that somewhat unwieldly mess around. I had never really put a lot of thought into...
Joel Gascoigne
An invitation to come and hack on Buffer * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two years have been truly incredible. What started in my bedroom in the UK has taken us across the world [https://joel.is/post/27260290057/thoughts-on-travelling-with-your-startup] to...
Diaries of Note
A duty, not a pleasure John Fowles was twenty-three when he wrote this journal entry in 1949. Just a few years after...
a year ago
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a year ago
John Fowles was twenty-three when he wrote this journal entry in 1949. Just a few years after spending two years in the military, he was now navigating his final year at Oxford, and as the festive season descended he found himself back at home, enveloped in the annual Christmas...
Ink & Switch
Keyhive 04 · Opening the Pre-Alpha Open-souring the code
4 months ago