Atoms vs Bits
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No really, I'd love to know what's happening here.
a month ago
No really, I'd love to know what's happening here.
Identity Designed
Ryuko
Designed by Blok Design, Toronto.
over a year ago
Designed by Blok Design, Toronto.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#37)
The U.S. as trade war leader; Russia/China infowar; Biden and inflation; Yglesias on industrial...
7 months ago
The U.S. as trade war leader; Russia/China infowar; Biden and inflation; Yglesias on industrial policy; How to get immigrants to the Rust Belt; How to lose money
The Marginalian
How to Miss Loved Ones Better: The Psychology of Waiting and Withstanding Absence
On "the capacity to bear frustration without turning against one’s needy self, or against the person...
3 months ago
On "the capacity to bear frustration without turning against one’s needy self, or against the person one needs."
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Maximizing capacity utilization as a startup premise
In stark contrast to other major airlines, Southwest has been profitable for 40 years. If Southwest...
over a year ago
In stark contrast to other major airlines, Southwest has been profitable for 40 years. If Southwest had one core “startup premise” it was…
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...
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...
Patrick Kayongo
Of Coups, Wars, and Corporate Digital Transformations
In mid-April 2023, Sudan was plunged into civil war. The para-military group Rapid Support Forces...
a year ago
In mid-April 2023, Sudan was plunged into civil war. The para-military group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was formed during the war in Darfur, outside the control of the national army for “special operations”. Because they weren’t under the leadership of the army, normal war...
Engineers Need Art
Kim-1 User Manual
For sale: a few KIM-1 User Manuals I printed up.
a year ago
For sale: a few KIM-1 User Manuals I printed up.
TheCollector
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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11 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Cafe Kitty, Soho
For someone who spends an unhealthy amount of time thinking about and reading about restaurants, I...
5 months ago
For someone who spends an unhealthy amount of time thinking about and reading about restaurants, I consider it a personal failing that I didn't connect Cafe Kitty (Soho) with Kitty Fisher's (Mayfair) until it came up in conversation about halfway through dinner. In my defence,...
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 11 – What Could Have Been
In his Substack this week, Dave Karpf concludes that the trajectory of any emerging technology bends...
a year ago
In his Substack this week, Dave Karpf concludes that the trajectory of any emerging technology bends toward money. Of course it does. Because, capitalism.
Karpf is in the midst of a chronological reread of the entire WIRED magazine corpus — of great interest to me, of...
Arduino Blog
7 powerful ways to integrate Collaborative Coding into education with the Arduino Cloud
Collaborative coding in education can be a game-changer for students, providing them with real-world...
2 months ago
Collaborative coding in education can be a game-changer for students, providing them with real-world skills in communication, teamwork, and problem-solving. With the new collaborating coding feature of the Arduino Cloud, students can collaborate in real time on coding projects,...
TheCollector
Who Was Vercingetorix?
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9 months ago
Stephen Diehl
Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 4 (Datalog)
over a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Proxmox
Proxmox is good software
for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that
lets...
11 months ago
Proxmox is good software
for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that
lets you easily run multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. It
also manages disk storage and has some more complex support for high
availability in a cluster, distributed storage...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 048: The Robot Constitution
January 5, 2024.
11 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
📈 The Toxic Grind
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
over a year ago
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […]
The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 5 (DOF)
Some light Visual Pinball debugging and the world of DOF. New to DOF? Read on.
8 months ago
Some light Visual Pinball debugging and the world of DOF. New to DOF? Read on.
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Taking selfies from various angles
No one out-pizzas the Keith
View on my website
over a year ago
No one out-pizzas the Keith
View on my website
Christopher Butler
Christmas Day – Multiple UFO Sighting
My wife, children, and I witnessed a cluster of high-flying, unidentified objects at 6pm on...
over a year ago
My wife, children, and I witnessed a cluster of high-flying, unidentified objects at 6pm on Christmas Day.
At 6pm on the evening of Christmas Day, 2021, in Durham, NC, my wife and I were preparing to walk our children down the street to their grandparents’ house for...
Seth's Blog
Compared to what?
Emotions are often tied to events and events feel absolute. But events are rarely absolute. They’re...
a month ago
Emotions are often tied to events and events feel absolute. But events are rarely absolute. They’re almost always relative. How does this compare to what I was expecting? How does it compare to what others like me are experiencing? How does it compare to yesterday? When we change...
Josh Collinsworth
A decade of code
A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and...
7 months ago
A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and CSS exactly ten years ago, reflecting on the lucky turning points that brought me to where I am today.
David Heinemeier...
Imperfections create connections
The engine is in wrong place in a Porsche 911. It's hanging out the back, swinging the car like a...
8 months ago
The engine is in wrong place in a Porsche 911. It's hanging out the back, swinging the car like a pendulum. And that's key to why it's the most iconic sports car ever made. This fundamental imperfection is part of how it creates the connection.
This is true of mechanical watches...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5
Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5
The short version: porting from Vue...
5 months ago
Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5
The short version: porting from Vue to Svelte is pretty straightforward and Svelte 5 is nice upgrade to Svelte 4.
Why port?
I’m working on Edna, a note taking application for developers.
It started as a...
Moneyness
Who are the money launderers in the Tornado Cash stack?
Over the last few years I've written a bunch of posts about Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based mixing...
a year ago
Over the last few years I've written a bunch of posts about Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based mixing service, because I find it to be a fascinating tool. With the recent indictment of two people involved in the Tornado Cash "stack" for money laundering, here's another post to add...
Musings on Markets
Disagreements and First Principles: The Pushback on my Tesla Valuation
I wrote about my most recent valuation of Tesla just over a week ago, and as has always been the...
a year ago
I wrote about my most recent valuation of Tesla just over a week ago, and as has always been the case when I value this company, I have heard from both sides of the Tesla divide. Some of you believe that I am being far too generous in my forecasts of revenues and profitability...
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
A Weekly Dose of...
From Slow House to Blue Dream
Blue Dream is a house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Julia "Julie" Reyes Taubman and her...
a year ago
Blue Dream is a house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Julia "Julie" Reyes Taubman and her husband Robert "Bobby" Taubman. The house, located in East Hampton, on the South Fork of Long Island, was completed in 2017, nearly 30 years after the architects were commissioned...
Society's Backend
The FTC Cracks Down on Fake AI-Generated Reviews, Midjourney Available on the Web, AI Used to Farm...
Machine learning resources and updates 8/26/2024
3 months ago
Machine learning resources and updates 8/26/2024
Seth's Blog
The first draft of your first non-fiction book
Writing a book is good for you. It clarifies your thinking and it’s generous as well. You might not...
4 days ago
Writing a book is good for you. It clarifies your thinking and it’s generous as well. You might not publish it professionally, but sharing it with people you want to teach and lead is a useful practice. The first draft can be challenging. We’re facing a blank page, trying to find...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I prefer JS for front-end build automation
Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers,...
over a year ago
Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers, measure bundle size, and what not. npm scripts are fine for one-liners, but as the workflows grow more complex — run these things in parallel, then do something else, but only if...
Raw Thought (from...
Fix the machine, not the person
over a year ago
devonzuegel.com
Israel's water miracle
The saga of Israeli water management is one of the most inspiring stories of the last 75 years....
a year ago
The saga of Israeli water management is one of the most inspiring stories of the last 75 years. Israel went from having a serious water problem to being a net water exporter to neighboring countries. Meanwhile, the population grew from ~1 million to well over 9 million.
With...
TheCollector
Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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3 months ago
macwright.com
Competition
For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na
board of competition. Every time I saw something...
a year ago
For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na
board of competition. Every time I saw something that looked like it was
competing with Observable, or Placemark, or val.town I’d add it to the list.
Eventually I’d have a big gallery of screenshots of all the other companies
and...
TheCollector
Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
Rest of World -...
How well do you know global food delivery?
Test your knowledge of the world’s favorite delivery apps and most-ordered dishes.
4 months ago
Test your knowledge of the world’s favorite delivery apps and most-ordered dishes.
The Modern House
Five things to do and see this August
August has arrived – and come rain or shine we’ve plenty on the agenda this month. From an Italian...
a year ago
August has arrived – and come rain or shine we’ve plenty on the agenda this month. From an Italian menu that will transport you to the Mediterranean coast to an exhibition celebrating contemporary African photography, here are five shows, suppers and soirees not to be […]
Charles Chen
A Conceptual Model of State in Vue 3.4
A guide to understanding how to think about state and components in Vue with the game changing...
11 months ago
A guide to understanding how to think about state and components in Vue with the game changing defineModel
mtlynch.io
Strong Towns
I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how...
10 months ago
I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how perverse incentives lead to poor community outcomes. It had a huge impact on the way that I think about where to live and what policies I support in local government.
This book...
Arduino Blog
A miniature Vegas Sphere is the perfect nightlight
Sphere in Las Vegas is inarguably one of the most notable architectural achievements of the...
4 months ago
Sphere in Las Vegas is inarguably one of the most notable architectural achievements of the 21st century so far. Gaudy? Maybe. Controversial? Definitely. Interesting? Absolutely — no one can debate that with a straight face. When 15-year-old Ben Kennedy’s bedroom nightlight...
Math Is Still...
Maze Proof Establishes a ‘Backbone’ for Statistical Mechanics
Four mathematicians have estimated the chances that there’s a clear path through a random maze. ...
10 months ago
Four mathematicians have estimated the chances that there’s a clear path through a random maze.
The post Maze Proof Establishes a ‘Backbone’ for Statistical Mechanics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Elysian
What futuristic projects should I visit around the world?
What projects should I study around the world? And would you be interested in showing me around your...
6 months ago
What projects should I study around the world? And would you be interested in showing me around your city or project? I’d love your help plannin…
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Out-Of-Pocket Game plan | Out-Of-Pocket
How to build the on-boarding system for healthcare
a year ago
How to build the on-boarding system for healthcare
The Changelog
Visiting Germany: Reflections on Schloss Charlottenburg
200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of...
over a year ago
200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of which boiled down to their strong pacifism in the midst of a highly militarized country. Last week, my wife, the boys, and I walked through the favorite palace of Friedrich Wilhelm...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
A Beautiful Site
What are favicons?
A favicon (pronounced "fave-icon") is a small, iconic image that represents your website. Favicons...
over a year ago
A favicon (pronounced "fave-icon") is a small, iconic image that represents your website. Favicons are most often found in the address bar of your web browser, but they can also be used in lists of bookmarks in web browsers and feed aggregators.
Well-designed favicons are styled...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Google and newspapers: the false choice of opting out
First let me say I love Google. I think Google created one of the greatest inventions of the past...
over a year ago
First let me say I love Google. I think Google created one of the greatest inventions of the past century and continues to give back much…
TheCollector
Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Whisper to Transcribe Podcasts
You want
a year ago
Mark Manson
The 5 Levels of Understanding Yourself
Hey there, you beautiful bastards. Today, we're diving into the infinite complexities of the...
a year ago
Hey there, you beautiful bastards. Today, we're diving into the infinite complexities of the self.
We'll be exploring the concept of self at five different levels, from simple explanations to brain-melting ideas that'll leave you questioning your very existence.
Ready?
Let's do...
Home on Erik...
What I have been working on: Modal
Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you...
over a year ago
Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, using GPUs, setting up webhooks, and all kinds of other stuff.
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
2 months ago
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
Londonist
120 Teens Are Walking The Entirety Of The Tube This Sunday
(Not through the tunnels, though.)
10 months ago
(Not through the tunnels, though.)
symmetry magazine
What is neutral naturalness?
Indirectly testing this theory, motivated by the mysterious mass of the Higgs boson, could be within...
a year ago
Indirectly testing this theory, motivated by the mysterious mass of the Higgs boson, could be within reach for experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
CONTEMPORIST
A Cluster Of Shingle-Clad Buildings Create An Island Cottage Experience For These Owners
Akb Architects has shared photos of a cottage they designed that comprises a cluster of buildings,...
4 months ago
Akb Architects has shared photos of a cottage they designed that comprises a cluster of buildings, each scaled proportionately to the island’s one-acre size. Located three hours north of Toronto, Canada, the cottage includes four pitch-roofed structures, harmoniously clad in...
Seth's Blog
Books and more, winter 2024
They’re a gift that lasts forever, because your friend will remember what they learned and how they...
3 weeks ago
They’re a gift that lasts forever, because your friend will remember what they learned and how they felt… and they can keep it on their bookshelf or hard drive as a reminder in case they forget… Amazon chose This is Strategy for a Kindle deal today. It’s only $4. Also, the...
Making software...
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
2022-09-20
Installing custom fonts is a...
over a year ago
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
2022-09-20
Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow easy for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get...
The Modern House
Artist Grace Watts on creating a serene gallery-like living space in Bethnal Green
a year ago
Maps Mania
Have You Earned Your Air Pollution Stripes?
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
nanoscale views
Brief items
With the end of the semester approaching and various grant deadlines, it's been a very busy time. ...
a year ago
With the end of the semester approaching and various grant deadlines, it's been a very busy time. Here are some items I spotted this week (some new, some old):
This article from Quanta about the "Einstein tile" is great - I particularly like the animated illustration. This...
Flashbak
Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
99% Invisible
As Slow As Possible [EPISODE]
In February, everyone who went to a concert in the old medieval town of Halberstadt, Germany, showed...
5 months ago
In February, everyone who went to a concert in the old medieval town of Halberstadt, Germany, showed up 23 years late. This is also concert from which everyone walks out early. The performance is of a piece called ORGAN2/ASLSP. ASLSP stands for “as slow as possible,” which is how...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we do meetings at PostHog
Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do...
over a year ago
Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do nothing but hop into one meeting after another? Even…
General Robots
Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs
Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
7 months ago
Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
Open Culture
Watch Fantasmagorie, the World’s First Animated Cartoon (1908)
Trying to describe the plot of Fantasmagorie, the world’s first animated cartoon, is a folly akin to...
3 months ago
Trying to describe the plot of Fantasmagorie, the world’s first animated cartoon, is a folly akin to putting last night’s dream into words: I was dressed as a clown and then I was in a theater, except I was also hiding under this lady’s hat, and the guy behind us was plucking out...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2023
The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware!...
11 months ago
The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware! Unfortunately this image does have an exact hit on Google images, as it is already in Cedric’s social media feed — but I think the ware itself is functionally interesting, yet simple...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Just Build Websites
Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of...
4 months ago
Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of golf-related brands on social media as a guilty pleasure.
The other day an image surfaced on Taylormade’s account which showcases Tommy Fleetwood playing some of their newest...
computers are bad
2024-12-11 travelers information stations
Histories of radio broadcasting often make a particular focus on the most
powerful stations. For...
a week ago
Histories of radio broadcasting often make a particular focus on the most
powerful stations. For historic reasons, WBCT of Grand Rapids, Michigan
broadcasts FM at 320¸000 watts. Many AM stations are licensed to operate at
50,000 watts, but this modern license limit represented a...
Contemporist...
A Glass Wall Separates A Bedroom From The Living Spaces In This Apartment
MIKOLAJSKAstudio has shared photos of an apartment in Krakow, Poland, that includes a main living...
10 months ago
MIKOLAJSKAstudio has shared photos of an apartment in Krakow, Poland, that includes a main living level with a bedroom enclosed behind a glass wall.
Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
3 weeks ago
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
The Marginalian
Let the Last Thing Be Song
"When I die, I want to be sung across the threshold."
5 months ago
"When I die, I want to be sung across the threshold."
TheCollector
Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the First Triumvirate?
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7 months ago
Math Is Still...
A Close-Up View Reveals the ‘Melting’ Point of an Infinite Graph
Just as ice melts to water, graphs undergo phase transitions. Two mathematicians showed that they...
a year ago
Just as ice melts to water, graphs undergo phase transitions. Two mathematicians showed that they can pinpoint such transitions by examining only local structure.
The post A Close-Up View Reveals the ‘Melting’ Point of an Infinite Graph first appeared on Quanta...
David Perell
Chrisman Frank and Ana Lorena Fabrega: How Childhood Education Will Change
This week, I have two guests. Both are affiliated with Synthesis, a new kind of online school where...
over a year ago
This week, I have two guests. Both are affiliated with Synthesis, a new kind of online school where kids learn through games and simulations. One is Chrisman Frank, the CEO of Synthesis. The other is Ana Lorena Fabrega, who is their Chief Evangelist. Here’s the backstory: A few...
Seth's Blog
The head of marketing
It’s easy to be confused about this job, because it’s not one job, it’s at least three. This is why...
a year ago
It’s easy to be confused about this job, because it’s not one job, it’s at least three. This is why it’s a difficult job to fill, and why turnover is so high–we’re not allocating resources or setting expectations in a way that matches the work to be done. Marketing strategy: This...
Londonist
Places That Closed Down In London In 2024
Rooftop bars, kids' attractions and a beloved market.
9 months ago
Rooftop bars, kids' attractions and a beloved market.
SatPost by Trung...
Starbucks' Digital Dilemna
The Starbucks rewards app is an incredible business. However, mobile orders are getting out of...
7 months ago
The Starbucks rewards app is an incredible business. However, mobile orders are getting out of control and hurting the brand's "premium" vibe.
Christian Selig
Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store
For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store...
2 months ago
For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography.
I don’t personally...
nanoscale views
ARPA-E Roadshow
Today, Rice hosted the ARPA-E Roadshow, a series of presentations by ARPA-E program officers, MC-ed...
a year ago
Today, Rice hosted the ARPA-E Roadshow, a series of presentations by ARPA-E program officers, MC-ed by the director, Prof. Evelyn Wang. It was all about the energy transition, and it was pretty fascinating, particularly hearing from leaders of startups who were making...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Software eats software development
Software is eating the world, and doing so using smaller and smaller teams. WhatsApp was able to...
over a year ago
Software is eating the world, and doing so using smaller and smaller teams. WhatsApp was able to disrupt the global SMS industry with only a…
TheCollector
Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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4 months ago
Max Rozen
Understanding Integration Testing in React
Moving from Enzyme to React Testing Library is rough. You can't do a lot of things you used to, and...
over a year ago
Moving from Enzyme to React Testing Library is rough. You can't do a lot of things you used to, and there are new best practices. Let's learn them!
Spoon & Tamago
Elongated Engawa Defines this Community Welfare Center in Chiba
As Japan’s population continues to grow older—one in 10 residents are aged 80 or above—care for the...
a year ago
As Japan’s population continues to grow older—one in 10 residents are aged 80 or above—care for the elderly becomes an increasingly important issue. And while elderly populations are typically seen as a burden, there are places around rural Japan that offer glimpses of a more...
Stoic Simple
Successful Stoicism: How Stoics Deal with Success in Life
Success is something that most people strive for, but few can handle it well. Ironically, success...
a year ago
Success is something that most people strive for, but few can handle it well. Ironically, success often brings with it a whole host of new challenges and pressures. So how can one deal with the ups and downs of success in a healthy and productive way? One answer may lie in the...
Retail Design Blog
Aesop store by 0321
Next the opening of a number of standalone stores in Shanghai, and very recently, in Beijing,...
6 months ago
Next the opening of a number of standalone stores in Shanghai, and very recently, in Beijing, Aesop‘s ambitious retail roll-out...
Applied Cartography
Stripe Sessions 2024
Stripe held the keynote for Sessions, their annual WWDC/re:invent-esque conference, this morning. I...
8 months ago
Stripe held the keynote for Sessions, their annual WWDC/re:invent-esque conference, this morning. I wanted to jot down some thoughts while they’re still fresh. (I think the changelog is the best way to poke around both the changes I’m writing about and the ones that I...
TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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7 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Caroline Whitehead
I’m a printmaker based in East London. For about eight years now, I’ve been obsessed with...
a year ago
I’m a printmaker based in East London. For about eight years now, I’ve been obsessed with alternative forms of lithography (mokulito (wood litho), kitchen litho, prontoplate litho, waterless litho, gum transfer). I also make prints on clay. As well as making my own prints, I also...
Rest of World -...
A U.S. outsourcing company brought lofty promises to Nepal. Then came the layoffs
Former employees say the company killed the dream it once sold them.
a year ago
Former employees say the company killed the dream it once sold them.
History Today Feed
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
4 months ago
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
Wanderingspace
Colorized View of Perseverance Landing
An artificially colorized view of Jezero Crater, showing the bird’s eye view of Perseverance...
over a year ago
An artificially colorized view of Jezero Crater, showing the bird’s eye view of Perseverance screaming towards Mars’s surface. The above image was enhanced by Kevin Gill into full color, taking images captured by Perseverance’s Lander Vision System Camera just after the heat...
TheCollector
How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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6 months ago
TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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7 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
Microsoft execs on Apple's music store
We were smoked.
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Nonviolent Communication describes a communication style centered around sharing vulnerability and...
over a year ago
Nonviolent Communication describes a communication style centered around sharing vulnerability and offering empathy. One of its biggest strengths is in how it highlights common patterns of lazy communication that exclude personal feelings or critical thinking. I also found its...
The Changelog
When You Think You’re At the End, You’re At the Beginning
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. –...
over a year ago
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. – Fred Rogers This is sunrise over Kansas. Or maybe sunset. I’m not going to tell you this time, because it doesn’t matter all that much. I love that it (if you don’t over-analyze it)...
Noahpinion
Don’t Rock the Vote
Democrats are the party that benefits from low voter turnout. They just don’t know it yet. (Guest...
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Democrats are the party that benefits from low voter turnout. They just don’t know it yet. (Guest post by Wally Nowinski)
Bits about Money
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Bits about Money now offers paid memberships. (Plus, a bonus essay on newsletter financial infrastructure.)
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8 Ways of Connecting Your Wi-Fi Can't Deliver
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CONTEMPORIST
A Slightly Different Angled Ridge Line Was Given To Each Home In This Passive House Development
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TheCollector
10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Noahpinion
What America needs to do now on national security
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Classical Wisdom
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"The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious crime."
Liz Denys
When you don't have chocolate chips...
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over a year ago
But you still have large blocks of Valrhona dark chocolate and are craving the flavors of chocolate chip cookies? Turns out that while it's difficult to turn a large block into chip-sized chunks, it's a lot easier to turn it into shavings. Unfortunately, these shavings would get...
NeuroLogica Blog
Clickbait and Misinformation
Which is worse – clickbaity headlines for news articles that are factually correct, but may be...
6 months ago
Which is worse – clickbaity headlines for news articles that are factually correct, but may be playing up a sensational angle, or straight-up misinformation? It depends on what you mean by “worse”. A new study tries to address this information, with some interesting findings....
TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Archinect - Features
How to Understand Architecture Business Conditions Using the AIA's Architecture Billings...
Since 1995, the American Institute of Architects has conducted a monthly index detailing trends in...
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Since 1995, the American Institute of Architects has conducted a monthly index detailing trends in billings by architecture firms in the United States. Over time, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has become a valuable metric for charting the economic health of the...
The Honest Broker
How Many Visionary Artists Are Mentally Ill?
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A surprising number of creative people have visions, hear voices, or have strange encounters in dreams
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Smart Open Xcode
If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a...
a year ago
If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a stable version, and maybe another version in case the most recent stable version has something weird about it.
I also really like mapping my Caps Lock key to something more useful,...
Seth's Blog
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Attention is scarce. Decisions are difficult. Searching takes effort. For thirty years, texting has...
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Attention is scarce. Decisions are difficult. Searching takes effort. For thirty years, texting has been a powerful medium. It’s the thing that vibrates in our pocket. It promises something urgent, and a reply that’s demanded equally urgently. “I’m running ten minutes late,” is a...
Flashbak
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
Noahpinion
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Working-class wealth, the education gap, zero-sum thinking, data uncertainty, and indigenous knowledge
Londonist
Grown-Up Events To Take Your Baby To In London
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Baby-friendly events, designed with adults in mind.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Possible
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Happiness is never having to ask for permission
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If there’s one value Jason and I put above all else in business, it's independence. The freedom to make our own choices, good or bad, without ever having to ask anyone for permission. Not from investors, not from naysayers, not from platform gatekeepers. It’s why we’ve built our...
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Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color
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over a year ago
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color
2022-04-18
Supporting dark mode on the modern web falls under the realm of accessibility and should not be ignored. It is important and helps keep the visual flow of your content to match that of your users' operating...
Asterisk
Rat Traps
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Does the rationalist blogosphere need to update?
Wuthering...
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The great Roman playwright Terence wrote six plays between 166 and 160 BCE, twenty years after the death of Plautus. The story is that he wrote the first one at age nineteen, while enslaved, thus winning his freedom and entry into a world of aristocratic patrons. Plautus was...
Saturday Morning...
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mtlynch.io
Join My Six-Week Blogging Course
I’m teaching a small-group, live course about attracting readers to your blog through Hacker News....
6 months ago
I’m teaching a small-group, live course about attracting readers to your blog through Hacker News. Sign up by Monday (June 24th) to reserve your slot.
Why take a class with me? My blog receives 300k-500k unique readers per year. After Google, Hacker News is the primary way that...
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The Subversive Hyperlink
The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.
I send you a link and as long as you have an...
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The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.
I send you a link and as long as you have an agent, i.e. a browser (or a mere HTTP client), you can access the content at that link.
This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of...
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories
Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual...
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Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and experience.
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./techtipsy
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?
I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid.
This is one of them, but...
over a year ago
I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid.
This is one of them, but at least it makes for a fun experiment.
Intro
After adding an UPS to accompany my server,
my setup was as complete as it could reasonably be. The server is low power,
but packs...
Christopher Butler
Periodical 18 – A Personal Web
I am building a personal web.
My name is Chris and I am a data hoarder personal...
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I am building a personal web.
My name is Chris and I am a data hoarder personal archivist.
Current status of my “_archive” volume:
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Audio: 267,269,859,244 bytes (267.29 GB on disk) for 8,902 items
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The Rational Walk
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This post is a list of books that I read in the first quarter of 2024, most notably The Diary of...
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This post is a list of books that I read in the first quarter of 2024, most notably The Diary of Anne Frank, Endurance, Crime and Punishment, and the Iliad.
Saturday Morning...
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Wanderingspace
Saturn Vortex
“This is a view of a ~2,000-km-wide vortex of swirling clouds above Saturn's north pole, imaged in...
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“This is a view of a ~2,000-km-wide vortex of swirling clouds above Saturn's north pole, imaged in polarized light with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on November 27, 2012. I've processed the original monochrome image to approximate the color of the area at the time.” — Jason...
mtlynch.io
Building My First Homelab Server Rack
Seven years ago, I built my first home server. It made my software development work faster and more...
8 months ago
Seven years ago, I built my first home server. It made my software development work faster and more enjoyable, so I’ve gotten more into the home server scene. I built a custom storage server, another development server, and a dedicated firewall.
At some point, my wife gently...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Domestic Privacies"
Marilyn Sides won this reader’s heart in the third paragraph of her 2018 essay “The Consolations of...
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Marilyn Sides won this reader’s heart in the third paragraph of her 2018 essay “The Consolations of Literature,” when she refers to Dr. Johnson as “grand master of
English prose.” She also practices what Anecdotal Evidence preaches: “the
intersection of books and life.” We might...
Joel Gascoigne
Want to be successful? Be inconsistent
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over a year ago
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Recently 37signals published an article titled Some advice from Jeff Bezos
[http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos]. This wasn’t
your usual advice, and I found it...
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
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A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
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Stanford Continuing Studies Offering an Online Course Exploring the Music of the Grateful Dead
Image via Wikimedia Commons A quick heads up: On October 3rd, Stanford Continuing Studies will kick...
3 months ago
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Math Is Still...
Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits
Mathematicians think abstract tools from a field called symplectic geometry might help with planning...
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Mathematicians think abstract tools from a field called symplectic geometry might help with planning missions to far-off moons and planets.
The post Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The American Scholar
Poco a Poco
The post Poco a Poco appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The post Poco a Poco appeared first on The American Scholar.
99% Invisible
The Siren of Scrap Metal [EPISODE]
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Amid the noisy bustle of Mexico City, there is one iconic sound echoing on repeat in the background. A recording that blares from trucks looking to buy old household items and appliances, either to fix and resell or to sell for scrap. The crews inside these trucks are essentially...
Daniel Bourke
Small sways in the breeze make you strong
I watch the olive trees in my backyard dance in the wind.
When they were small, they’d almost fall...
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I watch the olive trees in my backyard dance in the wind.
When they were small, they’d almost fall over.
But the post kept them up.
Now they’re big enough to stand on their own.
A breeze comes along and their branches move with it but
The Rational Walk
The Digest #187
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Damage repair, Claude Shannon, Elon Musk's pay, Intellectual obesity, Apple Vision Pro, Ignoring the market, Damodaran data updates, Apple packaging, Samsung, Big Pharma
Quantum Frontiers
Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine
On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a...
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On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here. NISQ and beyond I’m honored to be back at Q2B for … Continue reading →
abdz.do - Have you...
'Experiments in Form': a 3D series by Billielis
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'Experiments in Form': a 3D series by Billielis
AoiroStudio0129—23
Billielis is known for his explorations and the stylish gold theme works in Cinema 4D. His series of works, titled "Experiments in Form," showcase his unique approach to 3D art,...
TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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Retail Design Blog
RE5.5 by Lana Burlachuk
Company RE5.5 is a company with a focus solely on the delicate art of eye care, that stood out as...
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Londonist
Things To Do In London In The Christmas Holidays With Kids
Theatre shows, exhibitions and Christmas events.
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Theatre shows, exhibitions and Christmas events.
Arduino Blog
Reimagining the chicken coop with predator detection, Wi-Fi control, and more
The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a...
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The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a nesting area, an egg-retrieval panel, and a way to provide food and water as needed. Realizing that some aspects of raising chickens are too labor-intensive, the Coders Cafe crew decided...
TheCollector
The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Rest of World -...
Drop-shipping is a lifeline for unemployed graduates in South Africa
Chinese e-commerce websites have proven popular in the country and are fueling a new line of work.
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Chinese e-commerce websites have proven popular in the country and are fueling a new line of work.
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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99% Invisible
The Power Broker #07: Sec. Pete Buttigieg [EPISODE]
This is the seventh official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
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Mazdak
Google's AI Search Tool: A Traffic Nightmare for Publishers?
AI Threatens to Shake Up the News Landscape.
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AI Threatens to Shake Up the News Landscape.
A Beautiful Site
On Buttons and Links
I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea...
over a year ago
I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea to unravel it.
Unpopular opinion: in a design system, a "link" and a "button" should be one component.
— Cory LaViska (@claviska) October 5, 2021
At face value, I understand why...
TheCollector
Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Map of the Week
German Food with Protected Geographical Origin
This map shows some of the 96 foods in Germany that have a protected geographic origin from the...
7 months ago
This map shows some of the 96 foods in Germany that have a protected geographic origin from the European Union.
For example curry sausages must be produced within the city limits of Berlin or they can't be marketed as Berlin currywurst. Other geographically protected foods...
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Why London's Famous Penguin Pool Has No Penguins In It
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A Tale From My Trip To The Zoo
TheCollector
How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Both Are True
'all food is unhealthy' and other dumb shit I believe about cooking
Some strange realizations I had while making some truly delicious fuckin yum yum food from Hungry as...
a year ago
Some strange realizations I had while making some truly delicious fuckin yum yum food from Hungry as Hell, the new cookbook by Michelle Albanes-Davis that I highly recommend !
Letters of Note
Am I really writing it at all?
Author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, and to this day remains one of the greats in...
over a year ago
Author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, and to this day remains one of the greats in the world of crime fiction thanks to his creation of Philip Marlowe, the hardboiled detective who stars in many of his stories: The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The...
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Stickiness is bad for business
It is common to hear entrepreneurs and investors talk about the high level of engagement (what we...
over a year ago
It is common to hear entrepreneurs and investors talk about the high level of engagement (what we used to call “stickiness”) of their…
Open Culture
How Filmmakers Make Cameras Disappear: Mirrors in Movies
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Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym
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over a year ago
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This guide walks you through these concepts one by one.
Rest of World -...
African universities are failing to prepare tech graduates for jobs in AI
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Dozens of new AI training startups are filling the gap, offering online courses, hackathons, and job placement help.
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Beware The Fallacy of Composition
Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
over a year ago
Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
Business Brainstorms
Helping dementia patients, Family Heirloom as a Service, Figma for architecture, asking for what you...
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a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities The CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund
Londonist
There's A Place Called Bovril Castle In South London
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And there was once a second one, too.
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JAMstack for Indie Hackers
_This article was [published on Indie...
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Alex Meub
How To Quiet Down Your 3D Printer
When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent...
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When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent temperature, and minimize noise. I was surprised to find that the enclosure didn’t reduce noise that significantly. I then placed a patio paver under my printer, which made it...
Open Culture
“The Virtues of Coffee” Explained in 1690 Ad: The Cure for Lethargy, Scurvy, Dropsy, Gout & More
According to many historians, the English Enlightenment may never have happened were it not for...
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According to many historians, the English Enlightenment may never have happened were it not for coffeehouses, the public sphere where poets, critics, philosophers, legal minds, and other intellectual gadflies regularly met to chatter about the pressing concerns of the day. And...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Expectations Versus Reality
A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short...
7 months ago
A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short prompt, much like ChatGPT does for text or DALL-E does for images, and I asked myself a pretty simple question:
"...how can someone actually make something useful out of
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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The AI artist who used Bad Bunny’s voice — and shot to fame
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Meet the Chilean artist who made it big using others’ voices.
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Open Culture
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Perform a Rollicking Cover of the Mary Tyler Moore Theme Song (1996)
?si=Pblv5Tzpi_F-a6cu Originally written by Sonny Curtis and released in 1970, “Love Is All...
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?si=Pblv5Tzpi_F-a6cu Originally written by Sonny Curtis and released in 1970, “Love Is All Around”–otherwise known as the Mary Tyler Moore theme song–has been covered by many acts: Sammy Davis Jr, Hüsker Dü, and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, to name a few. After releasing a studio...
alexwlchan
Snippets to manage albums in Photos.app
Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that...
a year ago
Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that involves moving photos in and out of albums.
The tool I’ve built is very specific to my workflow and unlikely to be immediately useful to anyone else, but I thought some of the code for...
Seth's Blog
More vs. better
If every building in the shopping district in a big city was owned by one landlord, rents would go...
a year ago
If every building in the shopping district in a big city was owned by one landlord, rents would go up. So would the prices of everything sold. The landlord would keep a significant percentage of each store’s profits and innovation would suffer as well. Google’s monopoly is real....
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 8
This is the first image taken from space. It was one of many images captured from 65 miles above...
a year ago
This is the first image taken from space. It was one of many images captured from 65 miles above Earth by a camera attached to a captured German V-2 rocket launched on October 24, 1946. You can watch a brief film about this mission here.
The first orbital satellite images of...
Passing Time
The Highest Impact Thing You Can Do in Your Everyday Life
Making friends is hard; introducing others is easy.
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Making friends is hard; introducing others is easy.
History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
Retail Design Blog
Simi Mama Birtoka Chutneys and Jams by Corvin Art School
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Simi Mama Birtoka is a small family business selling high-quality organic products such as jams, chutneys, syrups and juices. The...
Willem's Blog
Vision Pro
My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means...
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My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means and how it can be useful.
Seth's Blog
Digital shortcuts and cognitive load
I used to drive 200 miles to Boston once a week or so. After a few trips on the highway, my...
a year ago
I used to drive 200 miles to Boston once a week or so. After a few trips on the highway, my subconscious figured out that getting behind a few trucks for the entire ride enabled me to spend four hours without using much conscious effort on driving. Every day, we make decisions....
History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳
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over a year ago
::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture RootTree ImplicitD “ExprStruct” ChemicalConvert UniqueElements ReplaceAt TypeEvaluate TreeLeafCount QuestionSelector IncludeSingularSolutions KernelConfiguration PhongShading...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Online privacy: what’s at stake
It is widely believed that a flourishing democracy requires an independent, diverse, and financially...
over a year ago
It is widely believed that a flourishing democracy requires an independent, diverse, and financially solvent press. With print newspapers…
Ralph Ammer
The perfect drawing tool
The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. ...
a year ago
The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. I want every single pen, every brush, every quill, and a sheet of every paper, ranging from crude cardboard to magnificent handcrafted Japanese washi. And yes, I need papyrus. And...
TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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2 months ago
African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
5 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
Making software...
CSS Variables
CSS Variables
2018-03-24
The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
over a year ago
CSS Variables
2018-03-24
The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I'd like to focus specifically on the "new" CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now.
Getting started is easy
Let's just jump...
The Marginalian
Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier
"The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished."
a year ago
"The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished."
IEEE Spectrum
RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV
addressed a small crowd outside the RCA pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. “Today we are on the...
a year ago
addressed a small crowd outside the RCA pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. “Today we are on the eve of launching a new industry, based on imagination, on scientific research and accomplishment,” he proclaimed. That industry was television.
RCA president David Sarnoff’s...
TheCollector
Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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a month ago
The Marginalian
Working Out, Working In: Applying the Six Principles of Athletic Training to Writing and Creative...
The highest and hardest task of life may be to become entirely ourselves — to continually purify and...
a year ago
The highest and hardest task of life may be to become entirely ourselves — to continually purify and clarify who and what we are, shedding the shoulds of culture, convention, and expectation to discover the innermost musts: those deepest and truest callings of the authentic self,...
devonzuegel.com
Greater Los Angeles
I got back from Los Angeles last night and my head is still spinning. I’d move there again in a...
over a year ago
I got back from Los Angeles last night and my head is still spinning. I’d move there again in a heartbeat.
There are three great cities in the United States: there’s Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York – in that order.
I love Boston; I even love Denver; I like Miami; I think...
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
A Beautiful Site
The next version of PHP may very well be 7
We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact,...
over a year ago
We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact, the project was so plagued with problems that in 2010, it was abandoned. It almost felt like PHP would be perpetually stuck at version 5.
Except now there's talk about another major...
Maps Mania
30 Days of Crashes in New York City
5 months ago
Irrational...
Getting lucky isn't a plan.
One piece of flippant commentary that you’ll hear occasionally is that it’s “Better to be lucky than...
a year ago
One piece of flippant commentary that you’ll hear occasionally is that it’s “Better to be lucky than to be good.” On an individual level, it’s almost certainly true that being very lucky outperforms being quite good: I certainly know a number of folks who are financially...
African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
a year ago
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
10 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
diamond geezer
Park Lane
PARK
LANE
£350
London's Monopoly Streets
PARK LANE
Colour group: dark blue
Purchase price:...
a week ago
PARK
LANE
£350
London's Monopoly Streets
PARK LANE
Colour group: dark blue
Purchase price: £350
Rent: £35
Length: 1200m
Borough: Westminster
Postcode: W1
Park Lane, a seething dual carriageway that somehow retains a luxury cachet. One side is a wall of superior hideaways and...
journal – Winnie Lim
creative retail experiences, and warmth in tokyo
A long while ago I saw somewhere online that tokyo has a 3-storey art supply store. It became a...
a year ago
A long while ago I saw somewhere online that tokyo has a 3-storey art supply store. It became a bucket list item for me. We have art supply stores in singapore, but...
Mazdak
5 Must-Read Finance Books for Building Wealth
a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Guide to content creation with Sanity
We go through how Sanity can be used as a headless CMS to create and manage content.
over a year ago
We go through how Sanity can be used as a headless CMS to create and manage content.
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 12-18 February 2024
Copycat tube stations, odd benches and SIX new lines on the tube map.
10 months ago
Copycat tube stations, odd benches and SIX new lines on the tube map.
The Solarchitecture...
Case study #2 - Sunbeam A-frame
Let's start 2023 with presenting one of my dearest projects.
a year ago
Let's start 2023 with presenting one of my dearest projects.
alexwlchan
Getting alerts about flaky ECS tasks in Slack
At work, we use Amazon ECS to run some of our Docker-based services.
ECS is a container...
a year ago
At work, we use Amazon ECS to run some of our Docker-based services.
ECS is a container orchestrator, similar to Kubernetes: we tell it what Docker images we want to run in what configuration, and it stops or starts containers to match.
If a container stops unexpectedly, ECS...
This Space
More and less: Veilchenfeld by Gert Hofmann
Gert Hofmann's Veilchenfeld is the latest of his novels to be published in English translation, and...
over a year ago
Gert Hofmann's Veilchenfeld is the latest of his novels to be published in English translation, and the first translated by Eric Mace-Tessler. Tom Conaghan at Review31 has given it an appreciative review, recognising that Hofmann's presentation of a civilisation's descent into...
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 1
This is a semi-daily check-in. Experimental; likely to not actually be daily. Regular and...
a year ago
This is a semi-daily check-in. Experimental; likely to not actually be daily. Regular and short.
The kids are in the bath, listening to the Yoto Daily, which aptly describes itself as a “morsel.” The host offers stray thoughts, short learnings, words of the day, fascinating...
History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
3 weeks ago
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
Jonas Hietala
A Vacation Filled with Obsession
A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to...
over a year ago
A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to our dear home village Övertorneå and spent two weeks celebrating Christmas and New Years Eve. What did we do? I practiced some obsessive behavior with Power Grid and Minecraft (and...
TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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10 months ago
Musings on Markets
Data Update 3 for 2023: Inflation and Interest Rates
If 2022 was an unsettling year for equities, as I noted in my second data post, it was an even more...
a year ago
If 2022 was an unsettling year for equities, as I noted in my second data post, it was an even more tumultuous year for the bond market. The US treasury market, considered by some still as a safe haven, was anything but safe or a haven, especially at the long maturities, as long...
The Ruffian
When will an AI win the Booker?
A reflection on whether novelists will ever be made obsolete by ChatGPT
a year ago
A reflection on whether novelists will ever be made obsolete by ChatGPT
CONTEMPORIST
Rammed Earth Walls Surround This House In Australia
Luigi Rosselli Architects have shared photos of a home they renovated in Sydney, Australia, that had...
a year ago
Luigi Rosselli Architects have shared photos of a home they renovated in Sydney, Australia, that had rammed earth walls added. The original home, whose design was akin to that of a drilling platform, had two existing floors hovering above, and was entirely disconnected from its...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Narrative
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Please, oh god please use panel 5 wherever you...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Please, oh god please use panel 5 wherever you can.
Today's News:
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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9 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
A Glimpse Inside the Whimsical Wooden Miniature Homes of Yukihiro Akama
Artist Yukihiro Akama is set to unveil his largest exhibition to date, ‘Basho no Kankaku – A Sense...
9 months ago
Artist Yukihiro Akama is set to unveil his largest exhibition to date, ‘Basho no Kankaku – A Sense of Place,’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP).
Related posts:
Whimsical Wooden Automata by Kazuaki Harada
A Wooden Cabin Constructed Locally in the Mountains of Japan Using a 3D...
The Convivial...
Secularization Comes For the Religion of Technology (Audio Version)
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 3
9 months ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 3
Ink & Switch
Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.
Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a...
a year ago
Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is changing.
Tom Blomfield
Advice
Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your...
over a year ago
Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your wits to help you. Often, though, advice will be forthcoming. This post is about that advice, and how to spot the difference between good and bad.
Some advice is expert - your...
The American Scholar
The Writer in the Family
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary...
2 weeks ago
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero
The post The Writer in the Family appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Type parameters in Go
Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for
type parameters. We’ll...
9 months ago
Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for
type parameters. We’ll find out why we need type parameters, how we write
them, and how we can use them to create generic functions in Go.
Retail Design Blog
Den Helder City Hall by Office Winhov and Van Hoogevest Architecten
At the former Royal Naval Shipyard Willemsoord, Office Winhov and Van Hoogevest Architecten...
a week ago
At the former Royal Naval Shipyard Willemsoord, Office Winhov and Van Hoogevest Architecten repurposed two historic buildings – a neoclassical...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Failed Personal Site Redesign
Me a few weeks ago:
tfw when you have an idea for a personal website redesign, and then you build...
4 months ago
Me a few weeks ago:
tfw when you have an idea for a personal website redesign, and then you build it, and then you hate it, and then you have to decide whether to ship it anyway or keep what you have
As you can probably guess from the title[1], I decided to keep what I have and...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 18-24 September 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
The Marginalian
Louise Erdrich on the Deepest Meaning of Resistance
"Resist loss of the miraculous by lowering your standards for what constitutes a miracle. It is all...
a month ago
"Resist loss of the miraculous by lowering your standards for what constitutes a miracle. It is all a fucking miracle."
A Beautiful Site
Adding and removing virtual hosts on Ubuntu 14.04
Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume...
over a year ago
Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume you're not logged in as the root user. Change example.com to your own domain/subdomain.
Adding a virtual host #
Create the directory for your new site and grant permissions. If your...
A Smart Bear
"It's a Balance" isn't always the answer
Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a...
6 months ago
Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a new solution, or find the balance.
TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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5 months ago
TokyoDev
Software Developer Internships in Japan, Attending Japanese University, & Job Hunting as a New Grad
How do I get a job in Japan with no experience? Why are there no entry level jobs or ways to break...
a year ago
How do I get a job in Japan with no experience? Why are there no entry level jobs or ways to break into the industry?
This is one of the most common questions in the [TokyoDev Discord server](https://discord.gg/seUNe38YgV), and for good reason. The [job...
nanoscale views
Items of interest
A couple of interesting papers that I came across this week:
There is long been an interest in...
4 months ago
A couple of interesting papers that I came across this week:
There is long been an interest in purely electronic cooling techniques (no moving parts!) that would work at cryogenic temperatures. You're familiar with ordinary evaporative cooling - that's what helps cool down...
TheCollector
Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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3 weeks ago
Kevin Chen
Analyzing Tesla AI Day 2022
I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been...
over a year ago
I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been interesting to me because their hardware limitations drive advances in their software. Relative to other players in the industry:
Low-spec sensors require ML- and data-first...
Math Is Still...
New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text
Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills...
11 months ago
Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.
The post New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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11 months ago
David Perell
Thoughts on Montreal
I visited Montreal for the first time. Here are my general impressions of the city, based on walks...
over a year ago
I visited Montreal for the first time. Here are my general impressions of the city, based on walks around town and casual conversations with friends: Culture: My favorite thing about Montreal is its commitment to culture. French is the dominant language, which is partially why it...
Castles in the Sky
Relatable Flaws | Review of Ask the Dust by John Fante
Ask the Dust is a great book that captures a specific feeling unlike anything else I’ve ever read....
a year ago
Ask the Dust is a great book that captures a specific feeling unlike anything else I’ve ever read. The protagonist is a deeply flawed, almost perverse daydreamer, but it is his flaws that make him relatable in a way I’ve encountered in very few other places.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The most important question in design: who’s gonna pay me?
Have you ever worried about the real impact of your work? Done a project in an exploitive industry?...
a year ago
Have you ever worried about the real impact of your work? Done a project in an exploitive industry? Or worked...
Grow With Less
10 Proven Meta Descriptions Templates Top Blogs Use to Get More Clicks
I face the same problem every time I need to write a meta description.
I have no idea where to...
over a year ago
I face the same problem every time I need to write a meta description.
I have no idea where to start.
Should I first mention the problem the article is solving? Should I use a call-to-action? Is it bad to repeat what I already wrote in the headline?
To find out, I analyzed...
TheCollector
What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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11 months ago
Common Edge
What L.A. 2028 Can Learn From the Paris Olympics
Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to...
3 months ago
Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to take a cue from the City of Lights’ embrace of the local.
Cheese and Biscuits
Chungdam, Soho
I generally try and avoid focusing too much on service on invited meals. If the front of house know...
a year ago
I generally try and avoid focusing too much on service on invited meals. If the front of house know you're in to review they usually try and be that extra bit more attentive, and occasionally too much so, and either way it's rarely an accurate reflection of the average punter's...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
mtlynch.io
Fixing Memory Exhaustion Bugs in My Golang Web App
Earlier this year, I created an open-source app called PicoShare. It’s a simple Golang web app for...
over a year ago
Earlier this year, I created an open-source app called PicoShare. It’s a simple Golang web app for sharing files. I use it to send files that are too large to be email attachments, but I don’t want the recipient to deal with Dropbox or Google Drive.
A few months ago, I started...
Kevin Chen
Why we still can’t stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science
Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed
checkout clerk, you...
over a year ago
Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed
checkout clerk, you soon realize that half the patrons leave without actually
checking out their books! This leaves everyone else scratching their heads when
the catalog doesn’t match the shelves....
The American Scholar
The Wonder of It All
In search of awe
The post The Wonder of It All appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 weeks ago
In search of awe
The post The Wonder of It All appeared first on The American Scholar.
Londonist
The Best Places To Find Bluebells In And Near London This Spring
You can walk your dog in some of these spots, too.
9 months ago
You can walk your dog in some of these spots, too.
TheCollector
British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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a year ago
Inverted Passion
Don’t sell your soul to the algorithm
The danger of pleasing the algorithm to go viral is that gradually you end up selling yourself to...
a year ago
The danger of pleasing the algorithm to go viral is that gradually you end up selling yourself to big tech companies. This is how it works: This loop has two sinister effects: All this to make the richest companies and their shareholders even richer. This is why we must refuse to...
Math Is Still...
The Biggest Smallest Triangle Just Got Smaller
A new proof breaks a decades-long drought of progress on the problem of estimating the size of...
a year ago
A new proof breaks a decades-long drought of progress on the problem of estimating the size of triangles created by cramming points into a square.
The post The Biggest Smallest Triangle Just Got Smaller first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
The American Scholar
“How Happy Is the Little Stone” by Emily Dickinson
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “How Happy Is the Little Stone” by Emily Dickinson appeared...
7 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “How Happy Is the Little Stone” by Emily Dickinson appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Convivial...
The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 13
over a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 13
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jurassic
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
It's literally not even close. Look at the...
2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
It's literally not even close. Look at the unlabeled graph.
Today's News:
Probably...
Political Alignment and Outlook
This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from...
2 days ago
This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 15, which is part of the political alignment case study. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab....
Steve Klabnik
Reddit drama: an interesting look at community values
over a year ago
Wanderingspace
Morning and Night on Mars
Yeah. Um… Wow. Nice Job NASA. I’ll just copy/paste how The Planetary Society explained it:
“NASA's...
over a year ago
Yeah. Um… Wow. Nice Job NASA. I’ll just copy/paste how The Planetary Society explained it:
“NASA's Curiosity team made this artistic interpretation of the rover's view from high up Mt. Sharp by combining pictures taken at different times of day and adding colors to bring out the...
Marcus on AI
8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia
And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
a month ago
And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Martyr! book jacket
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Source: lithub.com License: All Rights Reserved.
Martyr! is a...
9 months ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Source: lithub.com License: All Rights Reserved.
Martyr! is a novel by Iranian-American writer Kaveh Akbar that combines modern situations with traditional imagery. For the jacket, prolific cover designer Linda Huang did what she does so well:...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Uncertainty: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases
Previous Next https://youtu.be/3GTYvkPMEh8 it's a fact: the future is always uncertain, no matter...
a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/3GTYvkPMEh8 it's a fact: the future is always uncertain, no matter how much we try to plan for it or predict it. And that uncertainty can easily upset people, because it's always a possibility that the future won't go as we want it to. For...
FIRE v London
Feeling broke
My psychology around money has changed significantly over the last two years. While some of that is...
a year ago
My psychology around money has changed significantly over the last two years. While some of that is captured in my monthly portfolio updates, I thought it was worth recording some of my emotions while they are still fresh. Two years ago Turning the clock back, my financial...
David Heinemeier...
The price of managed cloud services
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good...
a year ago
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Cross the Line to Get to the Point
A new paper establishes a long-conjectured bound about the size of the overlap between sets of lines...
a year ago
A new paper establishes a long-conjectured bound about the size of the overlap between sets of lines and points.
The post Mathematicians Cross the Line to Get to the Point first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Moneyness
The strange new world of multifunctional assets
I would never own it, but the cryptocurrency BNB is probably one of the strangest most interesting...
a year ago
I would never own it, but the cryptocurrency BNB is probably one of the strangest most interesting assets I've ever analyzed. No other asset (perhaps ever?) provides its owner with so much functionality.
Is the sort of multi-functionality offered by assets like BNB a feature...
Seth's Blog
Why tell the others?
Every internet success works because the network effect kicked in. There’s no other way for an idea...
8 months ago
Every internet success works because the network effect kicked in. There’s no other way for an idea to reliably and economically reach a big enough audience to be sustained. That’s why Super Bowl ads make so little sense in 2024. Ideas that spread win. I wrote a bestseller about...
The Changelog
A Maze of Twisty Little Pixels, All Tiny
Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since...
a year ago
Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since I wrote that post, most of those issues have been resolved. But then you throw HiDPI into the mix and it all goes wonky. If you’re running X11, basically the story is that you can...
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, November 2023
A ~monthly feature. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them in...
a year ago
A ~monthly feature. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them in my links digests. All emphasis in bold in the quotes below was added by me.
Books
Finished Lynn White, Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962). Last time I talked about the...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
Londonist
Miracle At Henrietta: The Christmassiest Bar In London
It's Kiiiiiiiitschmas!
a year ago