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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes On the Spot: Lucy Noakes JamesHoare Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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Marco.org
Introducing Voice Boost 2: Remaster your podcasts The latest update to Overcast includes a feature that I’m especially proud of that took over a year...
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The latest update to Overcast includes a feature that I’m especially proud of that took over a year to build. Voice Boost 2 is an all-new audio engine that includes professional-grade, mastering-quality loudness normalization. When I first introduced Overcast in 2014, Voice Boost...
The Roots of...
Quote quiz answer Here’s the answer to the recent quote quiz: The author was Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. The...
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Here’s the answer to the recent quote quiz: The author was Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. The quote was taken from his manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future.” Here’s a slightly longer, and unaltered, quote: First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in...
Open Culture
Discover Hannah Arendt’s Syllabus for Her 1974 Course on “Thinking” If you’ve read one work of Hannah Arendt’s, it’s probably Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the...
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If you’ve read one work of Hannah Arendt’s, it’s probably Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of the eponymous Nazi official — and the source of her much-quoted phrase “the banality of evil.” That book came out in 1963, at which time Arendt still had a dozen...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Guarantee you AI won't sit around moping around the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Guarantee you AI won't sit around moping around the nature of qualitative experience - it's just gonna murder your ass. Today's News:
Contemporist...
This Australian Terrace House Was Modernized For Today's Living Chan Architecture has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Clifton Hill, Australia,...
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a year ago
Chan Architecture has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Clifton Hill, Australia, that included transforming the interior of a terrace house into a modern home.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tradition Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Tradition is whatever had just faded when I was...
a week ago
./techtipsy
I finally found an use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+ You have probably heard about the Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little affordable single-board computer...
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You have probably heard about the Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little affordable single-board computer with a huge community using it for all sorts of projects. I got my first Raspberry Pi, the Model B+, during my first year at university, which was around the winter of...
Londonist
Paws On The Wharf: Free Guide Dogs Sculpture Trail Coming To London Another free art trail for a fantastic cause.
10 months ago
Nothing Human
The Tyranny of the Marginal User why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
The Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum is Keeping the Spirit of Wooden Architecture Alive Roughly seventy per cent of Japan is forested and therefore wood has been historically tied to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Roughly seventy per cent of Japan is forested and therefore wood has been historically tied to architecture and design since ancient times. In fact, the world’s oldest surviving wooden structure is the Horyu-ji temple that was built in the early seventh century. From the...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Asheville Restaurants Refining Appalachian Culinary Traditions
11 months ago
The Honest Broker
Where Do Music Genres Come From? A new section from my online book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
3 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Write better cukes with the rel attribute
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
CEO diary: The things I learned in 2022 It's always helpful to look back on the year just gone, and 2022 was an exceptionally good year for...
a year ago
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It's always helpful to look back on the year just gone, and 2022 was an exceptionally good year for PostHog. Here's my personal perspective on how it…
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
Blog posts of...
The Founder’s Lie About Comfort Zones There is a lot of talk going on about the endurance and struggle that startup founders go through....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a lot of talk going on about the endurance and struggle that startup founders go through. How long the hours are, we all...
A Beautiful Site
Parsing URLs in JavaScript There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John Long over on GitHub. This technique works great, but the resulting search property will be a raw query string. This isn't very useful if you need to access certain variables in said...
TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory undefined
3 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Building StoreEngine
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
Confronting Impossible Futures We shouldn't be certain about what is next, but we should plan for it
5 months ago
This Space
39 Books: 2005 Four years later, browsing in Waterstones, I picked a book from a table and read "What will we do to...
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Four years later, browsing in Waterstones, I picked a book from a table and read "What will we do to disappear?" – the epigram to Enrique Vila-Matas's novel Montano's Malady. It's a line taken from Maurice Blanchot's Infinite Conversation, so I had to buy it. Later that year,...
Joel Gascoigne
Want to be successful? Be inconsistent * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * 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...
Seth's Blog
Big science To win a Nobel prize a hundred years ago, you might only need a legal pad and a few pencils. Today,...
a year ago
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To win a Nobel prize a hundred years ago, you might only need a legal pad and a few pencils. Today, it takes millions of dollars, scores of people and many years of effort. That’s because the most straightforward problems have been solved. One side effect of this inevitable shift...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Keyboard First I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast today](https://art19.com/shows/intercom-on-product/episodes/10ee6fbe-13ef-48c6-af5e-3477bdbe87e3). They discussed the rise of the `cmd+K` UI paradigm in apps like:
Rest of World -...
When Nigeria banned Twitter, Koo had a golden opportunity, and squandered it Even the government officials who championed the Twitter competitor have stopped using it.
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters
over a year ago
Liz Denys
A short comic about the Internet Protocol Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer Systems Engineering) recitation last semester:
David Heinemeier...
Staying in the arena One of the things that can seem difficult to understand for people who merely tolerate having a job...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the things that can seem difficult to understand for people who merely tolerate having a job is why anyone would continue working if they didn't have to. You often see a version of this incredulity when the peanut gallery weighs in on the choices of billionaires. Why do...
Tony Finch's blog
LEGO Technic beam sandwich keyboard case My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way. story time Two years ago I...
a year ago
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a year ago
My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way. story time Two years ago I planned to make a typical acrylic sandwich case for HHKBeeb, in the style of the BBC Micro’s black and yellowish beige case. But that never happened because it was too hard to choose...
Retail Design Blog
Jianliang Liquor Store by Riverside Design Studio Brand Identity for Jianliang Liquor Store Jianliang Liquor Store is a franchised personalized...
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Brand Identity for Jianliang Liquor Store Jianliang Liquor Store is a franchised personalized service store under Jianli Grain and Liquor...
History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry The Powers of Soviet Puppetry JamesHoare Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
4 months ago
Arduino Blog
This perplexing robotic performer operates under the control of three different Arduino boards Every decade or two, humanity seems to develop a renewed interest in humanoid robots and their...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Every decade or two, humanity seems to develop a renewed interest in humanoid robots and their potential within our world. Because the practical applications are actually pretty limited (given the high cost), we inevitably begin to consider how those robots might function as...
Seth's Blog
As slow as possible A six-hundred-year-long organ recital is going on, and today marks a change in notes. If you miss...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A six-hundred-year-long organ recital is going on, and today marks a change in notes. If you miss it, the next one is in two years. We’re used to the rapid increase in speed in just about everything around us. Absolutely positively overnight is mostly too slow for many industries...
Londonist
What's Happening With London Housing, Rent And Development? November 2023 Our quickfire summary of bricks and mortar, steel and glass.
a year ago
Luxagraf:...
Renaissance Fair One of the things I find most peculiar about our current pop culture worldview is the utter...
a year ago
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One of the things I find most peculiar about our current pop culture worldview is the utter disregard for the past. The past is a far away thing that is almost always a-thing-you-are-so-lucky-you-don't-have-to-live-in. Step outside that increasingly tunneled vision the media...
On Test Automation
PNSQC 2024 - experience report While most of the clients I work with are based in Europe, over the last couple of years my client...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
While most of the clients I work with are based in Europe, over the last couple of years my client base on the North American side of the Atlantic has slowly but surely started to grow, mainly in the United States. As someone who really enjoys working with and learning from...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Hotel Review: Sofitel Legend Casco Viejo in Panama City
a year ago
Electronics etc…
Installing Linux GPIB Drivers for the Agilent 82357B Introduction Other Installation Instructions Agilent 82357B Initialization Process Installing the...
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Introduction Other Installation Instructions Agilent 82357B Initialization Process Installing the Agilent 82357B GPIB Driver on an Ubuntu Linux Distribution References Introduction I’ve started to grow a collection of older test equipment from the eighties, the nineties, and the...
The Modern House
Beautiful, useful and sustainably flexible: the hand-crafted, customised and highly experimental...
9 months ago
Noahpinion
A pivotal moment for Japan's national defense A guest post by Jonathan Grady
7 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
Website migration 101: transitioning to a headless CMS In this article, we share insights gleaned from migrating websites created with WordPress, Hubspot...
a year ago
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a year ago
In this article, we share insights gleaned from migrating websites created with WordPress, Hubspot CMS, Webflow, and similar tools, to a headless CMS setup.
Grow With Less
Do Headline Analyzers Work? A Data-Driven Answer Headline analyzers are a popular way to come up with great headlines and try to predict their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Headline analyzers are a popular way to come up with great headlines and try to predict their effectiveness. All you need to do is write your headline and the tool will give it a score telling you how effective it’s likely to be. But can these free headline analyzers accurately...
Steve Klabnik
User-Agent: moz://a
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
Noah Bragg's First Stoke Fire Livestream I’ve been interested in Ethereum the past year, especially the Base ecosystem. The problem is that...
3 months ago
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I’ve been interested in Ethereum the past year, especially the Base ecosystem. The problem is that after hours of reading about Base, I still don’t get what Base is. Every few months, I check back in on the Base website’s developer section to see if there’s a path to building on...
99% Invisible
Unbuilding the Terrace [EPISODE] All across the country thousands of people are living in locations that regularly flood, and many of...
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All across the country thousands of people are living in locations that regularly flood, and many of these places will only get more flood-prone as the climate continues to change. Residents who live in these danger zones are often trapped in a demoralizing loop—flooding,...
TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection) undefined
4 months ago
Matt Blewitt
On That Okta LDAP Bug A quick explanation of the Okta AD/LDAP DelAuth bug that was being shared around, and the importance...
a month ago
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a month ago
A quick explanation of the Okta AD/LDAP DelAuth bug that was being shared around, and the importance of sensible defaults.
PHD Comics
09/03/21 PHD comic: 'Lab coat' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
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over a year ago
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "Lab coat" - originally published 9/3/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
Scarlet Ink
6 Ways that Good People Build Trust, and Become Leaders That Others Follow What type of leader do you want to be? One core identifying feature of admired leaders is how many...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
What type of leader do you want to be? One core identifying feature of admired leaders is how many people follow them to their next role. And trust is the core tool to improve that metric.
ntietz.com blog -...
Debugging my wife's alarm clock My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately. Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately. Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't blare in the morning at the set time. Instead, when it was supposed to go off it would... reset itself. The time would start flashing in that "I'm confused because the power went...
Artificial Ignorance
Jevons Paradox and the future of programming Supply and demand in the Age of AI.
8 months ago
TheCollector
Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance undefined
a year ago
Making software...
Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling and implementing my own custom dropdowns far more often than I'd like. So, I recently created a very simple and clean component using just pure CSS. Check out the CodePen below...
diamond geezer
It's official Journalists working at various media portals are under increasing pressure to churn out more and...
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Journalists working at various media portals are under increasing pressure to churn out more and more stories because the more they write the more page views they get. Clickbait isn't going away any time soon. But a trope that's sadly gathering more prominence lately is a...
Charles Chen
3 Tips to Help Dev Teams Build Speed My observations on practices that help all teams build speed.
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Amazing Things to Do in Puerto Rico, According to Locals
a year ago
Londonist
DLR Extension To Thamesmead: Public Consultation Opens Have your say before 18 March.
10 months ago
Liz Denys
Cocoa brownies Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice Medrich's ingredient list is nearly flawless. (Okay, okay, I can never truly stick to a recipe as written. Here, I prefer a little more vanilla extract and like to put a pinch of flaky...
Beautiful Public...
Photologging Vans These sequences are from New York and Connecticut’s state photolog archives, which I obtained...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
These sequences are from New York and Connecticut’s state photolog archives, which I obtained through public records requests. Almost every state’s highway departments had highway photolog programs, some dating back as early as 1961. These sequences were captured by specially...
UX Collective
How did a company acquisition feel like for a product designer Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature? Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
4 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Ronco Principle
over a year ago
TheCollector
A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater undefined
11 months ago
Map of the Week
Heat Islands of Philadelphia Program Note: This month is Philadelphia month! Don't get too excited.  In the past I've done San...
a year ago
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a year ago
Program Note: This month is Philadelphia month! Don't get too excited.  In the past I've done San Francisco Week and New Jersey Week. Much of that content was posted to Twitter. These things happen when I suddenly find a trove of information about a specific place. In this case...
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Articles on Adventure and Wellness in the Nordic Countries
4 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Which VC firm should I pitch? A friend asked me the other day “Which VC firms should I pitch?” and I started to respond to him,...
over a year ago
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A friend asked me the other day “Which VC firms should I pitch?” and I started to respond to him, but then realized that most of my…
Aaron's Essays
Pro rata is a bad term For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade...
over a year ago
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For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade and was comfortable with it. As a partner at YC, I thought it made enough sense that I helped design an entire programmatic pro rata system that covered every investment YC made....
TokyoDev
My experience with Vulcanus in Japan, a training programme for EU engineering students My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter...
a year ago
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a year ago
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter the country, such as a working holiday visa, English teaching, or getting hired by one of the [many wonderful companies](http://www.tokyodev.com/companies), posting jobs on...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Answers: Too much money in digital health? | Out-Of-Pocket Here's what some of you had to say
a year ago
A Weekly Dose of...
Book Briefs #47: Three Altrim Titles Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Obviously, these briefs are not full-blown reviews, but they are a way to...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Quanta Magazine
How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats To buffer the brain against menaces in the blood, a dynamic, multi-tiered system of protection is...
a year ago
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a year ago
To buffer the brain against menaces in the blood, a dynamic, multi-tiered system of protection is built into the brain’s blood vessels. The post How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats first appeared on Quanta Magazine
cdixon.org RSS Feed
How We Got To Now I really enjoyed Steven Johnson's How We Got To Now. I read a lot of history and science books, but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I really enjoyed Steven Johnson's How We Got To Now. I read a lot of history and science books, but this book stood out because 1) the…
Archinect - Features
Climate, Justice, and Collaboration in Academia: A Conversation with Tyler School of Art and... At Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Kate Wingert-Playdon is building an...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
At Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Kate Wingert-Playdon is building an academic culture grounded in collaboration. As Senior Associate Dean and Director of Architecture, Wingert-Playdon is engaged in a mission of encouraging cross-disciplinary...
Castles in the Sky
Who Cries for the Robot? Humans, perhaps?
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Is There a Crisis of Seriousness? Back in 1996, critic Susan Sontag warned that seriousness was disappearing from society...
a month ago
ntietz.com blog
Approximating the Sierpinski Triangle on my CNC One of my big hobbies outside of tech is chess. I like to play it, and I also help run our town's...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
One of my big hobbies outside of tech is chess. I like to play it, and I also help run our town's chess club. As part of that, we like to run rated tournaments to get our members some experience in a low-pressure tournament environment. These are my responsibility to organize and...
Engineers Need Art
Stereographer Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives? How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
The Map is Mostly...
Everything I know about gardening I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies and roses, or my fields, and several people have asked me to write about gardening, or for gardening advice. But this request encounters a ridiculous shortcoming: I know almost...
Diaries of Note
Four times I have turned the lights out while writing this To live in Belfast in 1972 was to dwell in the heart of a storm, for this was the most violent year...
a year ago
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a year ago
To live in Belfast in 1972 was to dwell in the heart of a storm, for this was the most violent year of the Troubles’ three decades—a period of civil unrest marked by sectarian conflict and political upheaval. When she wrote this diary entry in July of that year, Eimear...
Noahpinion
Why Americans fear the AI future Five decades of rising inequality and slow growth have made us a less optimistic country.
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
U.S. Airplane Bathrooms Must Meet New Accessibility Rules
a year ago
The Modern House
Plate in the Sun: London’s best restaurants for alfresco dining
a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eventually consistent plain text accounting .title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past...
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a month ago
.title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past six months, I’ve tracked my money with hledger—a plain text double-entry accounting system written in Haskell. It’s been surprisingly painless. My previous attempts to pick up...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Enabling zero downtime data migrations for self-hosted users In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product evolves, your schemas evolve too, and you need…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSS in HTML: A Follow-Up I asked if anyone has tried to do RSS with HTML and a good number of people responded (via Mastodon...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I asked if anyone has tried to do RSS with HTML and a good number of people responded (via Mastodon and email — TY kind people). Many folks pointed me to h-feed microformats which, in hindsight, I’m surprised I didn’t think of as I already implement the h-entry format on my...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
A case for stacked patches 📚 I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds, 2005, git@vger.kernel.org Git branches are hard to think about. But “GitHub” forces you to think about branches. A lot. Instead of futzing with GitHub’s feature branches, many...
TheCollector
The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening undefined
6 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Situazioni di collusione
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sheep Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Creative people express their utterly generic...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Creative people express their utterly generic feelings with NEW phrases. Today's News:
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 26 February-3 March 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
10 months ago
./techtipsy
Things I've learned during my self-hosting adventure This is a list of lessons that I’ve learned while playing around with my computer setup during the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a list of lessons that I’ve learned while playing around with my computer setup during the last 6-7 years or so. USB connected storage is a bad idea when you are using BTRFS. USB connected storage is still a bad idea when you are using ZFS, but it is at least much more...
Open Culture
How 2001: A Space Odyssey Became “the Hardest Film Kubrick Ever Made” Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey has been praised in all manner of terms since it came out...
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3 months ago
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey has been praised in all manner of terms since it came out more than half a century ago. An early advertising campaign, tapping into the enthusiasm of the contemporary counterculture, called it “the ultimate trip”; in the equivalently trendy...
Spoon & Tamago
Tsuchiya Kaban Creates Leather Randoseru For Dogs Tsuchiya Kaban, the 58-year old Japanese leather bagmaker known for their highly-specific bags, has...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tsuchiya Kaban, the 58-year old Japanese leather bagmaker known for their highly-specific bags, has released their very first line-up of pet products. And their doggy randoseru is absolutely adorable. For those who aren’t familiar, randoseru are backpacks for kids. Typically made...
Anecdotal Evidence
'We Are All Potential Recruits for Anarchy' It’s an honor to be published in The New Criterion, a journal I started reading in 1986, four years...
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6 months ago
It’s an honor to be published in The New Criterion, a journal I started reading in 1986, four years after it was founded by the late Hilton Kramer and Samuel Lipman. To share pages in the June issue with Gary Saul Morson, Victor Davis Hanson and other gifted writers is...
TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death undefined
a week ago
TheCollector
History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained undefined
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Linktel Technologies New Campus by ATDESIGNOFFICE ATDESIGNOFFICE focused on creating innovative communal spaces in the Linktel Technologies building...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
ATDESIGNOFFICE focused on creating innovative communal spaces in the Linktel Technologies building in Wuhan, connecting employees with nature, promoting collaboration,...
NeuroLogica Blog
World Events and the Conspiracy Instinct By now most people have heard that on Saturday there was a failed assassination attempt on candidate...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
By now most people have heard that on Saturday there was a failed assassination attempt on candidate Trump at a rally. While it has only been a few days, preliminary investigation has found that 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, using a AR style rifle purchased legally by his...
Old Structures...
Travelog: A Building Type Speaking only for myself, it’s easy to mentally categorize subways (i.e., electric mass transit,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Speaking only for myself, it’s easy to mentally categorize subways (i.e., electric mass transit, mostly underground) as something different than railroads. Different lengths of routes, different spacing of stations, different rolling stock, and so on. The differences are often...
Seth's Blog
Abundance and ideas A colleague got an angry note. It concluded with, “you should know better.” The transgression? The...
a year ago
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A colleague got an angry note. It concluded with, “you should know better.” The transgression? The sender was offended that my friend had written a post about a concept she’s been developing for nearly a decade. Of course, no idea is unique, and the posted idea sort of rhymed...
Sam Altman
E Pur Si Muove Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me.  I realized I felt more...
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Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me.  I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco.  I didn’t feel completely comfortable—this was China, after all—just more comfortable than at home. That...
ToughSF
Space Tethers: Stringing up the Solar System All the methods we have used to reach space so far have been subject to the Tsiolkovsky rocket...
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All the methods we have used to reach space so far have been subject to the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation - propellant must be ejected and more and more of it is needed to go further. What if we could break that equation with rotating orbital tethers? The tether I have worked...
diamond geezer
Exiting Noak Hill I said I wasn't going to make a habit of this, and I'm not, but I've ticked off two more. The...
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I said I wasn't going to make a habit of this, and I'm not, but I've ticked off two more. The black ticks are all the crossings I've crossed and the latest two are the pair just northeast of Noak Hill. I walked out of one and back in via the other. In the middle were...
Castles in the Sky
Corporate Bloodsuckers Fiction | Magical Realism Short Story #3
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TheCollector
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents undefined
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What should China do to revive its economy? There are a couple of aces that the government hasn't yet played.
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New features in the Orion Browser *Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing...
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*Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing over 160 new features, improvements, and bug fixes, making this our most significant release ever.
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He Might Have Been the First Jazz Star... But Ford Dabney kept making wrong bets at the wrong time
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sleep Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks to many readers for telling me the story I...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks to many readers for telling me the story I was thinking for yesterday's comic, which was a myth about Narada and Krishna. Still can't remember where I heard it first, but thanks! Today's News:
NeuroLogica Blog
Power-To-X and Climate Change Policy What is Power-to-X (PtX)? It’s just a fancy marketing term for green hydrogen – using green energy,...
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What is Power-to-X (PtX)? It’s just a fancy marketing term for green hydrogen – using green energy, like wind, solar, nuclear, or hydroelectric, to make hydrogen from water. This process does not release any CO2, just oxygen, and when the hydrogen is burned back with that oxygen...
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Visualizing the FIDE World Chess Championship This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y...
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This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y things together. It's a great experience and I've had a lot of fun reconnecting with friends and meeting some new friends. But it wouldn't be an RC experience without working at the...
Handprinted - Blog
Sue Brown Paper Lithography Book Review Our good friend Sue Brown has recently released her new book Paper Lithography! In this step-by-step...
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Our good friend Sue Brown has recently released her new book Paper Lithography! In this step-by-step guide Sue takes us through the process of making paper lithography prints using the humble photocopy as your plate. Paper lithography is a quick and straightforward process that...
The Modern House
Coast and countryside at a contemporary home in Suffolk
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
Alex MacCaw
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99% Invisible
The Infernal Machine [EPISODE] For most of history there was only one way to blow things up. You could pack a bunch of gunpowder in...
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For most of history there was only one way to blow things up. You could pack a bunch of gunpowder in one place and set it on fire. But then in the 1800s one scientist named Alfred Nobel dedicated himself to taming the incredibly volatile substance that was nitroglycerine.  After...
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Open House (3) Yesterday's Open House tally was seven. • The repurposed building indelibly associated with a star...
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Yesterday's Open House tally was seven. • The repurposed building indelibly associated with a star architect where everyone had to wear a name badge in case the over-excitable staff wanted to make conversation, but there was in fact hardly anything to see and I was out of there...
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Ever Noticed These Decorative Panels At Guy's Hospital? Three scenes of hospital life.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Thatched Roof And Charred Wood Siding Were Used To Create This Modern Home PAX Architects has completed a modern summer house in Skagen, Denmark, whose design pays tribute to...
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PAX Architects has completed a modern summer house in Skagen, Denmark, whose design pays tribute to the local architecture and history of the town it’s located in. The materials chosen for the home were inspired by the houses built in Skagen’s Black Period, when charred wood from...
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The Power of Personal Podcasting Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
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TheCollector
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The Works in...
Upzoning New Zealand How a small country started building a lot of homes
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Dwarf Planet Ring Mystery Scientists love mysteries, because that is where new discoveries lay. It is nice to find evidence...
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Scientists love mysteries, because that is where new discoveries lay. It is nice to find evidence consistent with existing theories, providing further confirmation, but it’s exciting to find evidence that cannot be explained with existing theories. Astronomers may have found such...
TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients undefined
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Cities need more trees A case for planting more trees in urban areas.
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The Map is Mostly...
Small Spaces notes on building blocks
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Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream. But why aren't people in other countries listening?
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The Elysian
The unbearable necessity of being online On loving and loathing the internet as an artist and why we need to be here anyway.
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Farza's Newsletter
was playing super smash melee w voldemort he mains yoshi wow Hey everyone! Been a while :). I’ll talk more about this next time, but, we’ve decided to pivot away...
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! Been a while :). I’ll talk more about this next time, but, we’ve decided to pivot away from ZipSchool to BuildSpace. Check it out, sign-up, and talk more next week!!! Got a lot of work to do right now. I’m feeling better than ever. 🚀
Archinect - Features
3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, and Space Habitats: A Conversation with ICON’s Melodie... As a ‘Space Architect’ working on the design and delivery of 3D printed habitats on the Moon and...
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As a ‘Space Architect’ working on the design and delivery of 3D printed habitats on the Moon and Mars, Melodie Yashar is aware that, even in space, 3D printing does not exist in a vacuum. Like any construction methodology, it requires a confluence of design intent, delivery...
alexwlchan
Fare-Wellcome Collection I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was...
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I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was living and working in the Cambridge at the time, and I’d come into London for the day to hang out with a friend who lived near King’s Cross. We wandered up the Euston Road, popped...
ben-mini
IMG_0416 Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube”...
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Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube” that allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube from the Photos app. The feature worked… really well. In fact, YouTube reported a 1700% increase in total video uploads...
Tony Finch's blog
Purple PCBs for Keybird69 I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I was at school 30 years ago,...
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a year ago
I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I was at school 30 years ago, and a lot has changed since then! So my aim for Keybird69’s PCB was to learn my way around the design, manufacturing, and assembly process. microcontroller other components key...
David Heinemeier...
Apple rejects the HEY Calendar from their App Store There should at least be a standard of double jeopardy when it comes to the app store monopoly...
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11 months ago
There should at least be a standard of double jeopardy when it comes to the app store monopoly regimes. If you’ve managed to overturn a rejection of your service once, they can’t come after you on the same service again later. We could have used that today! But unfortunately...
CONTEMPORIST
The Woody Palette Of The Exterior Is Brought Through To The Inside Of This Home In New Zealand First Light Studio has shared photos of a new home they designed that’s nestled into the Port Hills...
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First Light Studio has shared photos of a new home they designed that’s nestled into the Port Hills in Governors Bay, New Zealand. The design brief for the house was to create a small home that was well crafted out of nice materials, which resulted in a gable form with a wood...
Castles in the Sky
How many of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century have I read? This is a Workshop post, which means it doesn’t get emailed out to everyone and doesn’t show up in...
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This is a Workshop post, which means it doesn’t get emailed out to everyone and doesn’t show up in the Castles in the Sky best of lists. To subscribe and receive these in your email inbox (or unsubscribe from them if you’re already receiving them), adjust your
Jake Zimmerman
What if typing on phones was fast?
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Wuthering...
Planning next year's readalong opportunities - Greek philosophy and Roman plays If only I had another idea as good as reading all the Greek plays in order.  But I do have ideas. ...
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If only I had another idea as good as reading all the Greek plays in order.  But I do have ideas. 1. Roman plays.  Up to five Roman playwrights have survived: the comedians Plautus and Terence and the tragedian Seneca, along with two plays under his name that were likely...
The Modern House
Hot Spots: six homes that come alive in summer Summer has arrived – and so too has that familiar desire to escape, decamp and generally disappear...
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Summer has arrived – and so too has that familiar desire to escape, decamp and generally disappear somewhere (anywhere) that isn’t inside the same four walls. In reality, however, so many of our most cherished hot-weather memories are of time spent at home, stealing moments […]
The Pragmatic...
The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time,...
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How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time, and is it still relevant half a century on – or does it belong in a museum, alongside floppy discs?
FIRE v London
Mayday for IBKR margin lending Regular readers will know what a fan I have been of margin lending from Interactive Brokers. No...
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Regular readers will know what a fan I have been of margin lending from Interactive Brokers. No longer. If you’ve read my other posts (like this or this or this) on margin lending, and are interested in exploring further, make you read this post before you do. Why I used to like...
Seth's Blog
The friendly professional Friendly doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, or changing every policy, or giving up our...
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Friendly doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, or changing every policy, or giving up our principles. Friendly is how it feels, not what it does.
CONTEMPORIST
A Complete Renovation Was Given To This 1980s Plaster Clad House Michael Cooper Architects has shared photos of a 1980s plaster-clad home in Auckland, New Zealand,...
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a year ago
Michael Cooper Architects has shared photos of a 1980s plaster-clad home in Auckland, New Zealand, that they renovated to bring it up to today’s standards. The house needed a re-design inside and out, with the clients requesting a contemporary design. The clients also wanted a...
A Beautiful Site
Introducing Surreal CMS 7 Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS, a content management service I created to manage...
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over a year ago
Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS, a content management service I created to manage static (and mostly static) websites. Last week, I soft launched Surreal CMS 7. This new version is a complete rebuild from scratch using Node.js + Vue.js. I worked on this new...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Partner Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Humans are the only social animal that is creating...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Humans are the only social animal that is creating fake partners so they don't have to be social anymore. Today's News:
Irrational...
Executive translation. One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts is Extract the Kernel, which argues that executives...
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One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts is Extract the Kernel, which argues that executives are generally directionally correct but specifically wrong, and it’s your job to understand the overarching direction without getting distracted by the narrow errors in their...
TheCollector
Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy? undefined
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Society's Backend
The Problem with American Emergency Alerts In a world of self-driving cars and human-like chatbots, shouldn't the best technologies would be...
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In a world of self-driving cars and human-like chatbots, shouldn't the best technologies would be used for life-saving applications?
Arduino Blog
This disturbing Halloween doll was brought to life with Bottango Halloween is popular for a lot of reasons and it is safe to say that “creative expression” is near...
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Halloween is popular for a lot of reasons and it is safe to say that “creative expression” is near the top of the list. That extends beyond store-bought costumes and decorations to DIY projects. If you want an excuse to make something impractical, Halloween can provide that. And...
Maggie Appleton
JSX is a Lovechild
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Artificial Ignorance
The State of AI Engineering Notes from the first AI Engineer Summit.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Related But Detached' I’ve seen Hamlet on the stage only once, in 1971. The prince was played by Dame Judith Anderson,...
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10 months ago
I’ve seen Hamlet on the stage only once, in 1971. The prince was played by Dame Judith Anderson, unconvincing in her early seventies. Wrong sex, wrong age, wrong play – a stillborn theatrical stunt. My reaction was perhaps the worst that staged Shakespeare can inspire – boredom...
Aaron's Essays
VCs are Scared When They Should be Greedy I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the markets. Most of that advice focuses on how founders need to adjust to survive the...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Fancy Digs Hawkeye chases some bad guys in New York: Looking north up Central Park West from a bit below 71st...
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Hawkeye chases some bad guys in New York: Looking north up Central Park West from a bit below 71st Street: The relatively-low brown building two blocks up is the Dakota Apartments, but the drawing in the comic isn’t accurate enough to recognize it. The building at the first...
ntietz.com blog
I'm hopeful but wary of "empathic" AI A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume. I was primed to be...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume. I was primed to be skeptical, except that I trust this friend to have a somewhat balanced perspective on this topic. He'd talked to some people there and read their site and generally felt a good vibe...
Old Vintage...
The Fossil Wrist PDA becomes a tiny Gopher client (with Overbite Palm 0.3) I don't always often wear watches. But when I do, I prefer Palm PDAs. Wired to my wrist. all...
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a year ago
I don't always often wear watches. But when I do, I prefer Palm PDAs. Wired to my wrist. all about Palm devices on the Internet. It turns out there's a reason for that, and we're going to patch the operating system so we can make the Fossil Wrist PDA into what may be the...
Probably...
Density and Likelihood It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
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It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. If you get this post by email, the formatting might be broken — if so, you might want to read it on the site. likelihood Density and...
xkcd.com
Linear Sort
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The Modern House
Hans Ulrich Obrist: the celebrated curator on why home has always been a place of artistic discovery Hans Ulrich Obrist is the artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington, west London,...
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Hans Ulrich Obrist is the artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington, west London, and is universally acknowledged as one of the most important and prolific art curators of our time. He’s known for his broad, cross-disciplinary approach, in which subjects such as...
Maps Mania
Population Flags
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Data Boutique
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Liz Denys
Hold back on some of the sweet tooth: citrus almond poundcake When I had come across an article on "sneaking" citrus almond poundcake out of a food processor in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I had come across an article on "sneaking" citrus almond poundcake out of a food processor in Mark Bittman's column, I realized that it had been too long since I had even eaten poundcake. Further, this one was flavored like oranges and marzipan - two of my favorite flavors -...
alexwlchan
Setting up Fish to make virtualenv easier Since I started my new job, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Python. As I was starting with a...
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a year ago
Since I started my new job, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Python. As I was starting with a completely clean slate, I wanted to try setting up Python the “right” way – or if not “right”, at least better way than my previous pile of hacks and kludges. (I don’t remember much of...
Seth's Blog
Choose your customers …choose your future. It’s an odd way to think about your project, your job, your startup, but...
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…choose your future. It’s an odd way to think about your project, your job, your startup, but there’s little that matters more. There are two key elements: At one extreme is the first few years of Google’s growth. The salesforce didn’t matter–the customers showed up on their own,...
Diaries of Note
My heroic composure was wasted Philip Toynbee, born in Oxford in 1916, was an English journalist and author best known for his...
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Philip Toynbee, born in Oxford in 1916, was an English journalist and author best known for his insightful and often controversial reviews in the The Observer—including, most famously, his 1961 critique of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “dull, ill-written, whimsical and childish” Hobbit novels...
Mazdak
TFSA 2025: Your Complete Guide to Tax-Free Savings in Canada In the ever-evolving landscape of personal finance, the Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA) continues to...
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In the ever-evolving landscape of personal finance, the Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA) continues to be a bright spot for Canadian investors.
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Five It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter...
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It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter of weeks, RevenueCat will become the company where I have worked the longest in my career. As Jason Lemkin says, it’s important to continuously reinvent the company and oneself...
Artificial Ignorance
Has YC hit peak AI? (F24) The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
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Retail Design Blog
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Danish womenswear brand ROTATE, created in partnership with leading stylists Jeanette Madsen and Thora Valdimars, and part of forward fashion...
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Old Structures...
Shrinkage I took this photo last summer while eating dinner in a brew-pub in Utica, New York. I’m looking up...
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I took this photo last summer while eating dinner in a brew-pub in Utica, New York. I’m looking up at the second-floor framing from below, in an old industrial building near the train tracks (the former main line of the New York Central Railroad). The building structure consists...
TheCollector
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Citation Needed
Issue 44 – Four The Justice Department's interest in Binance isn't just "FUD" anymore.
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NFTs and A Thousand True Fans In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform...
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In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform the economics of creative activities: To…
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and... For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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Diaries of Note
To pay up would constitute a precedent Kenneth Tynan was a towering figure in the British theatre scene, known for his sharp criticism and...
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Kenneth Tynan was a towering figure in the British theatre scene, known for his sharp criticism and a remarkable ability to discern the pulse of contemporary drama. Born in Birmingham, England, in 1927, he began documenting his life and thoughts in diaries from the age of six, a...
alexwlchan
Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote...
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About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
Common Edge
Everything Is (Not) Architecture: Environmental Design and Architecture’s Slippery Slope Does it exist, distinct from buildings and bodies?
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Elad Blog
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
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nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2024, Day 4 and wrap-up Because of the timing of my flight back to Houston, I really only went to one session today, in...
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Because of the timing of my flight back to Houston, I really only went to one session today, in which my student spoke as did some collaborators.  It was a pretty interesting collection of contributed talks.   The work that's been done on spin transport in multiferroic...
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Bring Back Short Stories There was a time, before the screens took over, when people read these things called "books"....
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There was a time, before the screens took over, when people read these things called "books". Remarkably efficient things. Always-on display. Could survive dropping from a great height. Somewhat fragile but who cares when you could mass produce thousands of the things for...
Diaries of Note
She cured me of the disease of night fear Dawn Powell was a master of incisive, sharp-witted prose that dissected the intricacies and follies...
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Dawn Powell was a master of incisive, sharp-witted prose that dissected the intricacies and follies of the human experience. Born in Ohio in 1896, she moved to New York City in her early twenties and quickly became an active member of the literary scene, writing novels, plays,...
Seth's Blog
“I don’t like it” Everyone is entitled to their own taste. But this isn’t the helpful answer to the question, “is this...
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a year ago
Everyone is entitled to their own taste. But this isn’t the helpful answer to the question, “is this good?” Whether it suits your taste might be irrelevant. “It doesn’t resonate with me” is not the same as “No one will like this.” The professional understands that they need...
Joel Gascoigne
Does location really matter for your startup? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Some of you may...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Some of you may know that I just left everything behind in the UK and together with my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] arrived in San Francisco to base ourselves and Buffer...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The chatbot creator Back in the day my mother created and ran a math tutoring service for underserved communities in...
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Back in the day my mother created and ran a math tutoring service for underserved communities in South Africa called Dr Math. It was serving tens of thousands of students until bureaucracy shut the project down. I decided to rekindle it using GPT4 as a socratic tutor and WhatsApp...
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The 9 best mobile app A/B testing tools A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it...
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A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it comes to mobile apps, there are many different A/B…
The Elysian
The future according to artists The Parisianer 2050's project to imagine the future in art.
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Old Vintage...
One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them...
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I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them involve some little Commodore 64 games I've had kicking around on the backburner. However, every game needs media assets, and while there are many great tools for doing art on your...
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...
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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...
Seth's Blog
The cheap chocolate system The first step in building a successful and elegant strategy is to see the systems that are part of...
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The first step in building a successful and elegant strategy is to see the systems that are part of our lives. October is a fine month to take a moment to look closely at one: the system that brings us cheap chocolate. Like most systems, it’s largely invisible. The people in it...
Passing Time
Manufactured Data Scarcity All your information is under the hood even if you’re be interested in seeing what is driving the...
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The first two parts of this series looked at patents that involved odd details that were not really part of the metal-frame revolution that was taking place in the 1890s but rather adjacent to it. Neither of those patents reflected actual structure that I’ve ever seen in an old...
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For decades, Carrie Partch has led pioneering structural research on the protein clockwork that keeps time for our circadian rhythm. Is time still on her side? The post In Our Cellular Clocks, She’s Found a Lifetime of Discoveries first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman software engineer.” As intimidating as these sound: what if it’s more marketing than reality?
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I don't use this very often, but when I do I always spend a decent amount of time trying to figure it out online. Here are the steps to import a large SQL file from the command line. Upload the SQL file to the server that your MySQL database is on Execute the following command...
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A piece of a single sentence in the 1893 Baedeker description of New York sent me down a rabbit hole. In a proper library I believe that I’d find a hard answer but playing around on the internet from hime, I’m left with a partial guess. The phrase, under the heading of Theaters...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter  ...
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No matter what country we live in, we’ve all fantasized about taking our own great American road trip, considering a variety of the infinitely many possible routes. The most obvious would be driving between Los Angeles and New York, a distance of 2,800 miles that would take a bit...
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There’s a high-end grocer in a very expensive neighborhood of New York–and they focus all of their energy on Italian food. Everything is imported, and they spend a lot of time and money earning the premium they charge for an authentic Italian shopping experience. And then a lazy...
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Walking along South Street, which is to say along the East River waterfront. First up, the view from Rutgers Street and South Street: We’ve got a pseudo-dramatic, badly framed view of the Manhattan tower of the Manhattan Bridge, with the elevated FDR Drive blocking most of it....
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The ThinkPad T430 has a few options for running it with an external display: VGA port, which is pretty much obsolete at this point mini DisplayPort connector on the laptop itself DVI or DisplayPort on a dock The mini DisplayPort port has annoyed me for as long as I’ve had this...
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What should have been a ten day trip ended unexpectedly on the seventh day. The previous evening our kid who was watching the house called to tell us about our soaking wet basement carpet. Our ancient boiler was leaking. So we immediately contacted our insurance provider, a water...
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This is the third is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 10, which is about multiple regression. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab. In the previous...
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Every day, hundreds of millions of people suffer from giving too many fucks. They spend their lives imprisoned by meaningless anxiety and unnecessary concerns. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this article, I'm going to walk you through the five levels of non-fuck-giving,...
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Thank you once again to everyone who participated in this year’s survey of freelance cartographer rates and business practices! Our apologies for the delay in posting the results; life has been busy for both Aly and myself. Before we get to the survey results, here are some handy...
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Today is Canary Wharf station's 25th birthday. Not the DLR station (that's 33) nor the Crossrail station (that's 2) but the Jubilee line station which opened mid-afternoon on Friday 17th September 1999. The relentless commercialisation of Canary Wharf station "Twenty banks of...
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Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace Icay](https://www.tokyodev.com/authors/mary-grygjeanne-grace-icay) (Gray in the [TokyoDev Discord community](https://discord.gg/seUNe38YgV)) managed to do it. She originally worked...
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Highlights My loved ones and I are safe and healthy. WanderJest is on hiatus due to the nationwide shutdown. I’m working on a product to help investors rebalance their portfolios. COVID-19 and me Obviously, the most relevant thing to happen in the last month has been the global...
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