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Josh Thompson
How To Procfile: Run Just a Single Process Lets say you’ve got something like this in your Procfile: web: PORT=3000...
over a year ago
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How To Procfile: Run Just a Single Process

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
Lets say you’ve got something like this in your Procfile: web: PORT=3000 RAILS_ENV=development bundle exec puma -C ./config/puma_development.rb -e development devlog: tail -f ./log/development.log mailcatcher: ruby -rbundler/setup -e...
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Retail Design Blog
Gen Digital Offices by HKS HKS Inc transformed a dormant building into Gen Digital’s vibrant Mountain View office, embodying...
7 months ago
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Gen Digital Offices by HKS

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

7 months ago
HKS Inc transformed a dormant building into Gen Digital’s vibrant Mountain View office, embodying the company’s mission emphasizing innovation, hospitality,...
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SatPost by Trung...
Why I love Bluey (and hate Cocomelon) These are the two most-streamed children's shows. And Joe Brumm's personal touch for Bluey trumps...
a year ago
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Why I love Bluey (and hate Cocomelon)

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
These are the two most-streamed children's shows. And Joe Brumm's personal touch for Bluey trumps Cocomelon's engagement-hacking approach.
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TheCollector
Who Is Mary in Islam? Mary’s status in Christianity as the most divinely-favored woman in history is without dispute....
4 months ago
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Who Is Mary in Islam?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
Mary’s status in Christianity as the most divinely-favored woman in history is without dispute. While Protestants afford her a lower status than do Catholic and Orthodox Christians, she is still honored by Christians of all stripes as the mother and sole biological parent of...
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Rubenerd
#Japan2025 Sydney, JAL, and the Sneaky Shortcut This is the last installment in our Japan2025 blog post series, at least as told as a post about...
2 months ago
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#Japan2025 Sydney, JAL, and the Sneaky Shortcut

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life

2 months ago
This is the last installment in our Japan2025 blog post series, at least as told as a post about recent events. Last we spoke, we’d boarded from Haneda for our flight back to Sydney. It was late in the afternoon, which did give us half a day in Japan to explore a few more places...
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Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much? Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
10 months ago
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When to write strategy, and how much?

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

10 months ago
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary. In...
over a year ago
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tools ecosystem

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary. In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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High Signal
The Ultimate Guide to Social Proof Social proof is a powerful concept in marketing. It's the idea that as consumers, we are influenced...
a year ago
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The Ultimate Guide to Social Proof

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

a year ago
Social proof is a powerful concept in marketing. It's the idea that as consumers, we are influenced by what others do, especially people we admire. If you have ever seen a website mention its number of users, a review from a customer, or company logos, you've
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Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK... I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
6 months ago
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK (1977)

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in history

6 months ago
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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Kat Snyder
No, I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter — horrible uses of exit overlays When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably...
over a year ago
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No, I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter — horrible uses of exit overlays

from Kat Snyder [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably to abandon the page — there are...
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Eric Bailey
Universal Design: 11 Practical Tips to Make Your Sites and Apps More Accessible
over a year ago
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Universal Design: 11 Practical Tips to Make Your Sites and Apps More Accessible

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Onions Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for...
12 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Onions

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

12 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for the phrase keystone onion. Today's News:
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abdz.do - Have you...
'Experiments in Form': a 3D series by Billielis 'Experiments in Form': a 3D series by Billielis AoiroStudio0129—23 ...
over a year ago
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'Experiments in Form': a 3D series by Billielis

from abdz.do - Have you given up on being inspired? [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
'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,...
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xkcd.com
1.2 Kilofives
a year ago
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1.2 Kilofives

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a year ago
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Easier and More Convenient” They Said… The other day in our morning rush before school my wife asked for help figuring out how to put lunch...
9 months ago
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“Easier and More Convenient” They Said…

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
The other day in our morning rush before school my wife asked for help figuring out how to put lunch money on our kids’ school accounts. For some time she’s been doing it “the hard way”: talk to the people in the front office of the school every few months and swipe a credit...
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IEEE Spectrum
Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room Any home baker will confirm that, even if you have all the right ingredients and follow the recipe,...
a year ago
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Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Any home baker will confirm that, even if you have all the right ingredients and follow the recipe, things don’t always turn out the way you envisioned. Such was the life of inventor extraordinaire Granville T. Woods. Who was Granville T. Woods? Woods was endowed with...
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Steve Blank
Playing With Fire – ChatGPT The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...
over a year ago
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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. John F. Kennedy Humans have mastered lots of things that have transformed our lives, created our civilizations, and might ultimately...
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Josh Comeau's blog
Clever Code Considered Harmful As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems,...
over a year ago
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Clever Code Considered Harmful

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems, relying on advanced tricks and techniques. As a result, we often write code that is hostile and inaccessible to the junior folks on our team. This article makes the case that we...
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Society's Backend:...
Positioning Myself: The Greatest Piece of Career Advice I've Ever Received And how it changed my personal life too
a year ago
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Positioning Myself: The Greatest Piece of Career Advice I've Ever Received

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
And how it changed my personal life too
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Cheese and Biscuits
The Counter, Tunbridge Wells As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the...
8 months ago
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The Counter, Tunbridge Wells

from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel

8 months ago
As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the world that are somewhat better-represented on these pages than others. Obviously as I live in London, and it's the best food city on the planet, that's the main focus of this blog....
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xkcd.com
Alphabet Notes
over a year ago
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Alphabet Notes

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over a year ago
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Flashbak
Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
9 months ago
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

9 months ago
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
If a manifesto is published on Medium and no one recommends it, does it make a sound? Anybody can write a manifesto and there is nothing that says it has to inspire anybody. But if you...
over a year ago
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If a manifesto is published on Medium and no one recommends it, does it make a sound?

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Anybody can write a manifesto and there is nothing that says it has to inspire anybody. But if you are going to fill space with corporate jargon, what are you hoping to accomplish? Why would you share it with the world if you have nothing new to contribute?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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Summary of changes for September 2023

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs. Niju,...
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oftwominds-Charles...
This Nails It: The Doom Loop of Housing Construction Quality Add in the doom loop of an unprecedented credit-asset bubble and housing as a sector is in trouble. ...
2 months ago
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This Nails It: The Doom Loop of Housing Construction Quality

from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 months ago
Add in the doom loop of an unprecedented credit-asset bubble and housing as a sector is in trouble. Sorry for the punnish-ment, but this nails it: How Contracting Work Became a Race to the Bottom The reality of being a contractor includes labor shortages, brutal...
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Joel Gascoigne
Exercise: a requirement for sleep? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently I have...
over a year ago
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Exercise: a requirement for sleep?

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently I have struggled to get to sleep at night. When I need to be up at 8 and working away on either my own projects or exciting client projects by 9 it is vital that I wake up refreshed
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NeuroLogica Blog
Should You Get a Heat Pump? Starting around 1550 and lasting through the 1600s, England had an energy crisis. They were running...
over a year ago
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Should You Get a Heat Pump?

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Starting around 1550 and lasting through the 1600s, England had an energy crisis. They were running out of wood, which was the main source of fuel for residential and commercial heating. England also needed a lot of wood for their massive navy – it took about 2,000 trees to build...
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TheCollector
What Were the Main Topics of Socialist Realism? 7 Key Themes Socialist Realism was the official artistic ideology proclaimed in the 1930s in the Soviet Union. It...
a month ago
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What Were the Main Topics of Socialist Realism? 7 Key Themes

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
Socialist Realism was the official artistic ideology proclaimed in the 1930s in the Soviet Union. It rejected experimentations with non-objective painting and criticized intellectual art that was not understood by the masses. Socialist realism was supposed to celebrate honest...
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David Perell
Thoughts on Free Will My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will....
over a year ago
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Thoughts on Free Will

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will. When it comes to living in it, assume you have no free will.” Here’s an example: I lost my love of working out during the pandemic. Before it started, I worked out at a nice,...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Group Analytics is now available in PostHog Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale /...
over a year ago
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Group Analytics is now available in PostHog

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale / Enterprise users and those on PostHog Cloud…
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Maps Mania
Insurers Retreating From Climate-Risk Zones
2 weeks ago
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Insurers Retreating From Climate-Risk Zones

from Maps Mania [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2 weeks ago
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James Vaughan's blog
Putting the Casio F-91W band on an Apple Watch
over a year ago
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Putting the Casio F-91W band on an Apple Watch

from James Vaughan's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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Blog posts of...
Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to get the most out of it. Everyone is doing pitch training. Almost no-one does training for the mentoring session, but this is...
over a year ago
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Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to get the most out of it.

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Everyone is doing pitch training. Almost no-one does training for the mentoring session, but this is where most startups get the m...
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The Ruffian
How To Write a Book Or At Least, How I Wrote My Book
2 months ago
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How To Write a Book

from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life

2 months ago
Or At Least, How I Wrote My Book
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Articles
The person on the other side of the screen
over a year ago
7

The person on the other side of the screen

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Max Rozen
How to write semantic HTML Writing semantic HTML markup is one of the first steps to writing accessible websites. Let's learn...
over a year ago
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How to write semantic HTML

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Writing semantic HTML markup is one of the first steps to writing accessible websites. Let's learn how to get started!
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Making software...
CSS Video Backgrounds CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3,...
over a year ago
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CSS Video Backgrounds

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3, developers now have the ability to support background videos (mp4 support only - at the time of this article) with pure CSS. Example: .video-background { background-image:...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
How the Paris 2023 Protests are Impacting Travel
over a year ago
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How the Paris 2023 Protests are Impacting Travel

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

over a year ago
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Letters of Note
Please don’t let anyone Americanise it! Born in Cambridge in 1952, Douglas Adams was best known for creating The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the...
over a year ago
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Please don’t let anyone Americanise it!

from Letters of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Born in Cambridge in 1952, Douglas Adams was best known for creating The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a wildly successful project that began in 1978 as a science-fiction comedy radio series and eventually evolved to become something much larger, in many formats and in many...
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The Works in...
Issue 19: American S-Bahn Plus: How to redraw cities with tangled property rights, the secret history of inflation targeting,...
3 weeks ago
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Issue 19: American S-Bahn

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

3 weeks ago
Plus: How to redraw cities with tangled property rights, the secret history of inflation targeting, and the end of lead pollution in the developing world
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Infinite Scroll
Get a Discount on Infinite Scroll Limited time! 30% off paid access to Infinite Scroll
8 months ago
39

Get a Discount on Infinite Scroll

from Infinite Scroll [alt+shift+b] in creative

8 months ago
Limited time! 30% off paid access to Infinite Scroll
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Calculated Risk
Wednesday: CPI Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
4 months ago
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Wednesday: CPI

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. Consumer Price Index for February from the BLS. The consensus is for a 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.3% increase in core CPI.  The consensus is for CPI to be...
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bookbear express
Dear Bear: do you feel doubts about your unconventional career path? + matchmaking results mostly out
2 months ago
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Dear Bear: do you feel doubts about your unconventional career path?

from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life

2 months ago
+ matchmaking results mostly out
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Tech + Economics +...
20 years of tech has made life easier, not better. Lately, I’ve felt nostalgic for the cluttered aisles of the local video store. It was more than a...
a year ago
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20 years of tech has made life easier, not better.

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Lately, I’ve felt nostalgic for the cluttered aisles of the local video store. It was more than a place; it was a portal, a weekend ritual that promised adventure, laughter, and the thrill of discovery. You would step inside, greeted by the scent of popcorn and the soft...
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Yale e360
Head of African Bank Warns of 'Carbon Grabs' by Foreign Firms Akinwumi Adesina, outgoing president of the African Development Bank, is warning that foreign firms...
3 months ago
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Head of African Bank Warns of 'Carbon Grabs' by Foreign Firms

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in science

3 months ago
Akinwumi Adesina, outgoing president of the African Development Bank, is warning that foreign firms are underpaying for carbon credits from African forests. Read more on E360 →
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The Works in...
Anemia and Malaria In malaria endemic regions, being anemic could be keeping children safe
8 months ago
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Anemia and Malaria

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago
In malaria endemic regions, being anemic could be keeping children safe
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A Beautiful Site
Tips for the aspiring web developer So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a...
over a year ago
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Tips for the aspiring web developer

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a lot more fun than most other programming jobs. However, before you take the plunge into a career in web development, there are a few things you should probably consider. A different...
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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 6-7 April 2024 Last-chance exhibitions, an ice hockey weekender, and a miniature railway.
a year ago
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 6-7 April 2024

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Last-chance exhibitions, an ice hockey weekender, and a miniature railway.
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diamond geezer
The longest journey in a single zone The longest possible journey in a single zone  z1 29 stationsEdgware Road to...
2 months ago
15

The longest journey in a single zone

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

2 months ago
The longest possible journey in a single zone  z1 29 stationsEdgware Road to PaddingtonCircle£2.80 z223 stationsStratford to Clapham JunctionMildmay£2.00 z315 stationsStratford International to BecktonDLR£2.00 z412 stationsLeytonstone to Woodford†Central£2.00 z55 stationsWaddon...
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Noahpinion
Stop saying "there is no decoupling". There is! Decoupling will take time, and it won't look like the Iron Curtain, but it's happening.
a year ago
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Stop saying "there is no decoupling". There is!

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a year ago
Decoupling will take time, and it won't look like the Iron Curtain, but it's happening.
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xkcd.com
Survey Marker
a year ago
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Survey Marker

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a year ago
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Eric Bailey
Use of the design system should factor into promotion packets That’s it, that’s the post.
a year ago
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Use of the design system should factor into promotion packets

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a year ago
That’s it, that’s the post.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Augmented Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A later update just turns things you don't want to...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Augmented

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A later update just turns things you don't want to see into bursts of pixie dust. Today's News:
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Astral Codex Ten
Try The 2025 ACX/Metaculus Forecasting Contest ...
5 months ago
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Try The 2025 ACX/Metaculus Forecasting Contest

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5 months ago
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swyx's site RSS Feed
(incomplete) Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the...
a year ago
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(incomplete) Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the large, multi-track format of the AI Engineer series of conferences that my biz partner Ben and I are building. I am historically bad at writing down lessons and thoughts, so I am...
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History Today Feed
Medieval Queen by Grace of God Medieval Queen by Grace of God JamesHoare Fri, 05/23/2025 - 09:13
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Medieval Queen by Grace of God

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a month ago
Medieval Queen by Grace of God JamesHoare Fri, 05/23/2025 - 09:13
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Rozado’s Visual...
ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter...
over a year ago
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ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias

from Rozado’s Visual Analytics [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter Thread Summary Between December 5-6, I applied 4 political orientation tests to ChatGPT. Results were consistent across the tests. All 4 tests diagnosed ChatGPT answers to their...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Should open source projects track you? Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking...
over a year ago
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Should open source projects track you?

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over a year ago
Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking is horrible. It's usually buried deep in the…
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The Honest Broker
Your Brain on Art My Q&A with Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
a year ago
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Your Brain on Art

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a year ago
My Q&A with Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 21 Highlights TinyPilot had its best sales month ever, with $69k of total revenue. I’m now five months...
over a year ago
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TinyPilot: Month 21

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot had its best sales month ever, with $69k of total revenue. I’m now five months and $32k over budget on a website redesign. I launched PicoShare, and it’s the fastest-growing project I’ve ever published. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what...
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detreville
Father's Day (First posted on Father's Day, 2022.)
over a year ago
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Father's Day

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over a year ago
(First posted on Father's Day, 2022.)
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Among Those Who Read There is Great Variety' Writing is famously the most narcissistic of professions, even worse than acting or being a...
2 months ago
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'Among Those Who Read There is Great Variety'

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2 months ago
Writing is famously the most narcissistic of professions, even worse than acting or being a politician. We’re forever carrying on about ourselves and our precious insights, like the kid in class who raises his hand and goes “Ooh! Ooh!” each time the teacher asks a question....
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Ruud van Asseldonk
Global Game Jam 2015
over a year ago
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Global Game Jam 2015

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over a year ago
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Londonist
There Are So Many Swan Lakes Coming To London This Summer The Year of the Swan.
a year ago
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There Are So Many Swan Lakes Coming To London This Summer

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a year ago
The Year of the Swan.
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Matt Mullenweg
RIP Quincy Jones Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is...
8 months ago
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RIP Quincy Jones

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8 months ago
Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is amazing. I feel so lucky to have met him in 2012 when I was much earlier in my career, and he didn’t have any reason to give me time, but he treated everyone as if they were...
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Wrong Side of...
Tolerance and terror Reflections on ‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe’, Part Seven
3 months ago
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Tolerance and terror

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3 months ago
Reflections on ‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe’, Part Seven
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Maps Mania
The Future of Urban Mobility
3 months ago
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The Future of Urban Mobility

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3 months ago
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The Rational Walk
Concentrated Investments Many Berkshire Hathaway shareholders have a very large percentage of their net worth invested in the...
a year ago
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Concentrated Investments

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a year ago
Many Berkshire Hathaway shareholders have a very large percentage of their net worth invested in the company. What are the risks of concentrated investments in general and Berkshire in particular?
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2024 The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of...
a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware February 2024

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of reporting both wind speed and direction. Thanks again to FETguy and Renew Computers for the contribution! The coil on the left hand side is a brushless resolver, which determines...
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Home on Erik...
The software engineering rule of 3 Here's a dumb extremely accurate rule I'm postulating* for software engineering projects: *you need...
over a year ago
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The software engineering rule of 3

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Here's a dumb extremely accurate rule I'm postulating* for software engineering projects: *you need at least 3 examples before you solve the right problem*. This is what I've noticed: Don't factor out shared code between two classes.
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Open Culture
Every Wes Anderson Movie, Explained by Wes Anderson That Wes Anderson is perhaps the most assiduous maker of short films today becomes clear when you...
4 weeks ago
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Every Wes Anderson Movie, Explained by Wes Anderson

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

4 weeks ago
That Wes Anderson is perhaps the most assiduous maker of short films today becomes clear when you look closely at his recent work. The four adaptations of “The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar” and three other Roald Dahl stories he made for Netflix were presented as a single...
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Seth's Blog
Simple and painless productivity On the factory floor, productivity increases are relentlessly implemented, often without regard for...
2 months ago
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Simple and painless productivity

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

2 months ago
On the factory floor, productivity increases are relentlessly implemented, often without regard for worker satisfaction. For people working with a laptop, though, they are often seen as optional lifestyle choices instead of ways to significantly boost how much we can get done–and...
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Louwrentius
Why filtering DHCP traffic is not always possible with iptables When configuring my new firewall using iptables, I noticed something very peculiar. Even if all...
over a year ago
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Why filtering DHCP traffic is not always possible with iptables

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
When configuring my new firewall using iptables, I noticed something very peculiar. Even if all input, forward and output traffic was dropped, DHCP traffic to and from my DHCP server was not blocked even if there were no rules permitting this traffic. I even flushed all rules,...
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Passing Time
What's the Least Impactful Way to Spend $300 Million? Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be.
over a year ago
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What's the Least Impactful Way to Spend $300 Million?

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over a year ago
Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be.
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Londonist
Peckham Festival: Free 3-Day Party Comes To SE15 London This September Music, workshops, crafts, food - you name it.
a year ago
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Peckham Festival: Free 3-Day Party Comes To SE15 London This September

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a year ago
Music, workshops, crafts, food - you name it.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Announcement Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I visualize a bunch of people sighing before they...
4 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Announcement

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I visualize a bunch of people sighing before they read this, thinking at last SMBC has literally just become a wall of text. Today's News:
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The personal website...
Stop brainstorming “Brainstorming” — the problem-solving technique of coming up with as many ideas as possible in a...
over a year ago
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Stop brainstorming

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
“Brainstorming” — the problem-solving technique of coming up with as many ideas as possible in a short period of time — has been showing up on a lot of my leadership meeting agendas lately. Many of my peers are employing brainstorming in the belief that, as thought-leading...
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Tech and Tea
Coaching Toolkit: The Power of Positive Intent One small but meaningful shift to make hard conversations a little bit easier
2 months ago
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Coaching Toolkit: The Power of Positive Intent

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2 months ago
One small but meaningful shift to make hard conversations a little bit easier
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Marco.org
Clip sharing with Overcast Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
over a year ago
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Clip sharing with Overcast

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014. Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
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Diaries of Note
Black female life is worth nothing Between January and May of 1979, eleven Black women were killed in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in a...
over a year ago
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Black female life is worth nothing

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Between January and May of 1979, eleven Black women were killed in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in a spate of murders that went largely unreported in the national media. Instead, it was left to grassroots organisations like the Black feminist group Combahee River Collective,...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 121: Digital doldrums June 6, 2025.
a month ago
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AI Roundup 121: Digital doldrums

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a month ago
June 6, 2025.
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Internal Tech Emails
"I just need to decide if we're going to buy Instagram" We have this big issue right now because gaming is shifting from us to mobile platforms.
a year ago
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"I just need to decide if we're going to buy Instagram"

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a year ago
We have this big issue right now because gaming is shifting from us to mobile platforms.
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Yale e360
Recycling Nuclear Waste: A Win-Win or a Dangerous Gamble? As interest in nuclear power rises, startups are pursuing plans to recycle spent fuel and reuse its...
3 months ago
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Recycling Nuclear Waste: A Win-Win or a Dangerous Gamble?

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in science

3 months ago
As interest in nuclear power rises, startups are pursuing plans to recycle spent fuel and reuse its untapped energy to power reactors. Advocates tout new recycling methods as a breakthrough, but many experts warn it will extract plutonium that could be used for nuclear...
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Flashbak
John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827) “Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
7 months ago
49

John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)

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7 months ago
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin     John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: React This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
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Explain Like I'm Five: React

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this post, we’ll be answering the question: what is React? We’ll look into its origins, usage, explain key terminology and also cover how and why...
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Flashbak
Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842 The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s.   “Isaac...
a year ago
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s.   “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
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Summary of changes for July 2024

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

11 months ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}. Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu. Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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Diaries of Note
The sea was alive with great hunchback whales On 28th February, seven years before his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, was to appear in...
a year ago
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The sea was alive with great hunchback whales

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
On 28th February, seven years before his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, was to appear in print, Arthur Conan Doyle left Peterhead on S. S. Hope, a whaling ship led by Captain John Gray that was heading for the Arctic Ocean. Aged twenty and still studying medicine at...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Four types of mobile apps If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app...
over a year ago
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Four types of mobile apps

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app has enduring value, it is helpful to…
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Ryan Hoover's...
Should do. Could do.
a year ago
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Should do. Could do.

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a year ago
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Articles
8 habits for a better day at work
over a year ago
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8 habits for a better day at work

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over a year ago
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Wuthering...
Books I Read in September 2023 Despite all evidence I hope to wrap up the Greek philosophy project within the next couple of...
a year ago
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Books I Read in September 2023

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Despite all evidence I hope to wrap up the Greek philosophy project within the next couple of weeks.  A medical deadline approaches.  That will help. As usual, I read good books.   PHILOSOPHY & SELF-HELP Letters from a Stoic (c. 60), Seneca - good timing for some...
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diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #17 The major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout are reaching their peak. It's resurfacing week which means...
4 months ago
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Bow Roundabout update #17

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

4 months ago
The major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout are reaching their peak. It's resurfacing week which means the roundabout has been descended upon by a huge hi-vis army of drivers, operatives, technicians, contractors, stewards and supervisors keen to get the job done as quickly as...
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Inverted Passion
Don’t compete The Internet is full of people winning all the time. Someone is traveling to exotic locations,...
3 months ago
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Don’t compete

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

3 months ago
The Internet is full of people winning all the time. Someone is traveling to exotic locations, someone else is raising funds, and another person is winning awards. Essentially, everyone around you is succeeding while you do spend your days as the nature intended – sleeping,...
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Articles
Retina is not a big deal
over a year ago
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Retina is not a big deal

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over a year ago
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Adventures In...
Dashing Maps There are lots of reasons why cartographers use dashed lines in their maps. Sometimes there are a...
8 months ago
91

Dashing Maps

from Adventures In Mapping [alt+shift+b] in cartography

8 months ago
There are lots of reasons why cartographers use dashed lines in their maps. Sometimes there are a lot of different sorts of lines going around and it’s the best way to differentiate between different categories of things. Or we can embed meaning into them, like a dashed line...
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TheCollector
The Celts & Celtic Mythology in Popular Culture Historic cultures often inspire modern artists and are reimagined for consumption as popular...
4 days ago
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The Celts & Celtic Mythology in Popular Culture

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 days ago
Historic cultures often inspire modern artists and are reimagined for consumption as popular culture. The Celts are no exception. While attempts at genuine historical portrayals of Celtic history and culture are rare, the recent television series Brittania being a notable...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Anxiety Biomarkers Psychiatry, psychology, and all aspects of mental health are a challenging area because the clinical...
over a year ago
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Anxiety Biomarkers

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Psychiatry, psychology, and all aspects of mental health are a challenging area because the clinical entities we are dealing with are complex and mostly subjective. Diagnoses are perhaps best understood as clinical constructs – a way of identifying and understanding a mental...
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Calculated Risk
Realtor.com Reports Active Inventory Up 29.2% YoY What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active...
3 months ago
22

Realtor.com Reports Active Inventory Up 29.2% YoY

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active inventory and new listings. On a monthly basis, they report total inventory. For February, Realtor.com reported inventory was up 27.5% YoY, but still down 22.9% compared to the 2017 to...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Is AI Sentient Revisited On the SGU this week we interviewed Blake Lemoine, the ex-Google employee who believes that Google’s...
over a year ago
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Is AI Sentient Revisited

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
On the SGU this week we interviewed Blake Lemoine, the ex-Google employee who believes that Google’s LaMDA may be sentient, based on his interactions with it. This was a fascinating discussion, and even though I think we did a pretty deep dive in the time we had, it also felt...
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Upcoming changes to the discovery feed Bear's discovery feed improvements and a call for feedback
11 months ago
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Upcoming changes to the discovery feed

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11 months ago
Bear's discovery feed improvements and a call for feedback
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A Smart Bear
When you have nothing: How to find potential customers to interview How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a...
6 months ago
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When you have nothing: How to find potential customers to interview

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6 months ago
How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a name?
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TheCollector
Delacroix Painting Discovered in Living Room Heads to Auction A 19th-century oil study of seven languorous lions once hung in a family’s living room. Now, after...
3 months ago
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Delacroix Painting Discovered in Living Room Heads to Auction

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3 months ago
A 19th-century oil study of seven languorous lions once hung in a family’s living room. Now, after being newly attributed to the French Romantic icon Eugène Delacroix, the painting is heading to auction with a six-figure pre-sale estimate.   “The Owners Weren’t Sure it was a...
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Rest of World -...
Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is...
a year ago
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Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme

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a year ago
With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is convincing people to have their irises scanned at Worldcoin Orb centers.
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David Heinemeier...
Working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again As more and more companies, especially large ones, have started demanding remote workers return to...
a year ago
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Working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again

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a year ago
As more and more companies, especially large ones, have started demanding remote workers return to the office, the competitive hiring advantage for remote-first companies is back. And it's even bigger than before the pandemic, now that so many workers have had a taste of what...
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Words and Buttons...
Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infinite With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it...
over a year ago
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Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infinite

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over a year ago
With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it but the whole function.
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The Rational Walk
Roth IRA Conversions For Early Retirees Roth IRA conversions could make sense for early retirees who are able to control their income and...
9 months ago
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Roth IRA Conversions For Early Retirees

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9 months ago
Roth IRA conversions could make sense for early retirees who are able to control their income and avoid falling into a high tax bracket.
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Seth's Blog
Updating our stuck interactions There are few sitcoms, thrillers or plays where the plot can tolerate the addition of a cell phone....
a year ago
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Updating our stuck interactions

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a year ago
There are few sitcoms, thrillers or plays where the plot can tolerate the addition of a cell phone. Once the characters have the ability to connect and clear up misunderstandings at will, a lot of tension disappears. If Juliet had had a smartphone, she and Romeo would have ended...
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Rest of World -...
China wants tech companies to monetize data, but few are buying in A first-of-its-kind policy allows Chinese firms to treat data as an asset, but compliance hurdles...
4 months ago
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China wants tech companies to monetize data, but few are buying in

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4 months ago
A first-of-its-kind policy allows Chinese firms to treat data as an asset, but compliance hurdles are keeping many companies on the sidelines.
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abdz.do - Have you...
Delicious brand identity and packaging design for chocolate co. Delicious brand identity and packaging design for chocolate co. ...
over a year ago
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Delicious brand identity and packaging design for chocolate co.

from abdz.do - Have you given up on being inspired? [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Delicious brand identity and packaging design for chocolate co. abduzeedo0503—23 Beta, a leading design agency, has recently undertaken a packaging design project for Morella Chocolates, a brand that prides itself on offering healthy products...
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Lighthouse Blog
What are blogrolls?
2 months ago
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What are blogrolls?

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2 months ago
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Wrong Side of...
Welcome to the hub What explains the strange ubiquity of this word?
3 months ago
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Welcome to the hub

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3 months ago
What explains the strange ubiquity of this word?
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Citation Needed
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the...
10 months ago
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Big publishers think libraries are the enemy

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10 months ago
The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.
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ByteofDev
Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that? While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling....
a year ago
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Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that?

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling. Luckily, there are solutions to this.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pokeymen t-shirt will be on sale just as soon as...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pokeymen t-shirt will be on sale just as soon as pokemon enters the public domain. Today's News:
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Diaries of Note
When in my hand thy pulse is prest, I feel it alter mine Born in Yorkshire in 1791, Anne Lister was a landowner famed for keeping detailed diaries that...
a year ago
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When in my hand thy pulse is prest, I feel it alter mine

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Born in Yorkshire in 1791, Anne Lister was a landowner famed for keeping detailed diaries that totalled over four million words, a sixth of which was written in a code she devised to conceal her sexuality and intimate encounters. Discovered and deciphered by a descendant in the...
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Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist? And if not, what are the consequences?
7 months ago
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Does FREE WILL Exist?

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7 months ago
And if not, what are the consequences?
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Seth's Blog
What are the defaults? Perhaps they were chosen a very long time ago. Or with very little thought. It could be that the...
a year ago
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What are the defaults?

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
Perhaps they were chosen a very long time ago. Or with very little thought. It could be that the constraints that led to the default are long gone. They might be perpetuating bad choices, injustice or sub-optimal outputs. The best way to fix something is to look at what we assume...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
a week ago
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Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive. Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
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The Marginalian
Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality How to "include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided,...
over a year ago
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Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
How to "include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border."
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African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE) The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
6 months ago
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The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

6 months ago
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
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Seth's Blog
The value of artifacts An artifact is an object that holds or signifies an idea. A book on paper is an artifact: it’s the...
6 months ago
47

The value of artifacts

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

6 months ago
An artifact is an object that holds or signifies an idea. A book on paper is an artifact: it’s the object plus the words. Now that you can get the words in many other ways, the value of the book is changed. A wedding ring is an artifact. If lost, it has sentimental value far […]
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Retail Design Blog
Confidential Client Offices by Chalk Studio Chalk Studio‘s Office X in Gurugram blends Zen design principles with nature-inspired elements like...
6 months ago
29

Confidential Client Offices by Chalk Studio

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

6 months ago
Chalk Studio‘s Office X in Gurugram blends Zen design principles with nature-inspired elements like wood and greenery, creating a harmonious...
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Londonist
Life Drawing With Wolves... In A London Hotel Anyone can get involved... even kids!
a year ago
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Life Drawing With Wolves... In A London Hotel

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a year ago
Anyone can get involved... even kids!
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Londonist
BBC's Desert Island Discs Announces Live Palladium Shows Celebrating 80 years of the hit radio programme.
a year ago
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BBC's Desert Island Discs Announces Live Palladium Shows

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a year ago
Celebrating 80 years of the hit radio programme.
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Confessions of a...
Building (and Breaking) Your First X86 Assembly Program We build a minimal X86 assembly program, run it… and hit a crash. But that crash is exactly what...
a month ago
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Building (and Breaking) Your First X86 Assembly Program

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
We build a minimal X86 assembly program, run it… and hit a crash. But that crash is exactly what makes this program worth writing.
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Global Inequality...
A view of the world After the Global Financial Crisis, the World Bank got more much involved in South-East Asian...
2 months ago
13

A view of the world

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
After the Global Financial Crisis, the World Bank got more much involved in South-East Asian countries than before.
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Nat Eliason's...
Crypto Confidential Pre-Order Bonuses! Live Hangs, Early Chapters, Cut Material, and more…
a year ago
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Crypto Confidential Pre-Order Bonuses!

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a year ago
Live Hangs, Early Chapters, Cut Material, and more…
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Retail Design Blog
KaDeWe: Private Label by Studio Chapeaux Challenge: Create a private label for the legendary sixth-floor Food Hall at KaDeWe — also known as...
4 months ago
35

KaDeWe: Private Label by Studio Chapeaux

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

4 months ago
Challenge: Create a private label for the legendary sixth-floor Food Hall at KaDeWe — also known as the culinary heaven...
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Calculated Risk
Fed Chair Powell: "Higher inflation and slower growth" From Fed Chair Powell: Economic Outlook Excerpt: Looking forward, the new Administration is in the...
2 months ago
22

Fed Chair Powell: "Higher inflation and slower growth"

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 months ago
From Fed Chair Powell: Economic Outlook Excerpt: Looking forward, the new Administration is in the process of implementing substantial policy changes in four distinct areas: trade, immigration, fiscal policy, and regulation. Those policies are still evolving, and their effects...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
250k downloads of Latent Space Pod I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded...
a year ago
40

250k downloads of Latent Space Pod

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded developer-part-time-creator, the Latent Space Newsletter + Pod has done much better than I usually do. Here are the stats as of today:
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Quanta Magazine
The Best Qubits for Quantum Computing Might Just Be Atoms In the search for the most scalable hardware to use for quantum computers, qubits made of individual...
a year ago
65

The Best Qubits for Quantum Computing Might Just Be Atoms

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a year ago
In the search for the most scalable hardware to use for quantum computers, qubits made of individual atoms are having a breakout moment. The post The Best Qubits for Quantum Computing Might Just Be Atoms first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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somenice
Environmental Sensing using an eInk Display and CircuitPython Measure CO2, temperature, humidity and send that data to the cloud, while displaying results on an...
a year ago
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Environmental Sensing using an eInk Display and CircuitPython

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Measure CO2, temperature, humidity and send that data to the cloud, while displaying results on an 2.9″ e-ink display. My first choice was to use the display vertically. It feels a bit less like a price tag in this orientation. This past August 18th marked CircuitPython day, a...
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TheCollector
What Are the Differences Between the Different Bible Translations? There are more than 100 different bible translations available in English today, and scholars have...
2 months ago
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What Are the Differences Between the Different Bible Translations?

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2 months ago
There are more than 100 different bible translations available in English today, and scholars have translated parts of the Bible into more than 3,000 languages. Many claims that the Bible has been corrupted reference different translations rather than differences in ancient...
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Arduino Blog
This novel wearable provides touchless haptic feedback for VR typing One reason that fans prefer mechanical keyboards over membrane alternatives is that mechanical key...
2 weeks ago
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This novel wearable provides touchless haptic feedback for VR typing

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2 weeks ago
One reason that fans prefer mechanical keyboards over membrane alternatives is that mechanical key switches provide a very noticeable tactile sensation at the moment a key press registers. Whether consciously or not, users notice that and stop pressing the key all the way through...
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Josh Collinsworth
A message from the Captain of the S.S. Layoff Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you. But the fastest way to make the...
a year ago
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A message from the Captain of the S.S. Layoff

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a year ago
Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you. But the fastest way to make the numbers better is to stop feeding and sheltering people and their families. Nothing personal.
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Computer Ads from...
UNIX Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler They discuss Tesler's involvement with Xerox, Apple and office automation with Unix.
10 months ago
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UNIX Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler

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10 months ago
They discuss Tesler's involvement with Xerox, Apple and office automation with Unix.
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Flashbak
Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
8 months ago
35

Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji

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8 months ago
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit...
over a year ago
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Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit today. I am now taking Latent Space (the new name enabled by the previous owner of that domain selling it to me in my first P2P domain purchase) a lot more seriously with the support...
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Max Rozen
Learn Integration Testing with React Hook Form Testing is super important, and yet it's hard to find practical examples to show you what to do....
over a year ago
103

Learn Integration Testing with React Hook Form

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Testing is super important, and yet it's hard to find practical examples to show you what to do. This article intends to fix that, by teaching integration testing with React Hook Form.
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Quanta Magazine
An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves...
over a year ago
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An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves pervading the cosmos. The post An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Evan Hahn's blog
Filling in the gaps of the internet Here’s a small philosophy I have about the internet: I believe that it’s my duty to publish the...
4 months ago
11

Filling in the gaps of the internet

from Evan Hahn's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
Here’s a small philosophy I have about the internet: I believe that it’s my duty to publish the answer to previously-unanswered questions. That way, the next person who comes along has an easier time. For example, I was once trying to figure out how to skip the first line of a...
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Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 13: Quebrada El Limón And The Last Of The Northwest (February 16-18,... February 16, 2024 The town of Olmos isn't the most picturesque in Peru. Situated in the coastal...
5 months ago
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A Month In Northern Peru, Part 13: Quebrada El Limón And The Last Of The Northwest (February 16-18, 2024)

from Explorations of an Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
February 16, 2024 The town of Olmos isn't the most picturesque in Peru. Situated in the coastal desert, the streets are dusty, the wind is always present and the roads are potholed. It is certainly not a town that caters to tourists, and I doubt many stop here. But an advantage...
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Common Edge
Is Santa Clara—the Heart of Silicon Valley—Soulless and Banal By Intent? The city combines great wealth and utter placelessness.
over a year ago
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Is Santa Clara—the Heart of Silicon Valley—Soulless and Banal By Intent?

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
The city combines great wealth and utter placelessness.
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Calculated Risk
Friday: Personal Income & Outlays Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Personal Income...
6 months ago
41

Friday: Personal Income & Outlays

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

6 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Personal Income and Outlays for November. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in personal income, and for a 0.5% increase in personal spending. And for the PCE price index to increase 0.2%, and...
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Scarlet Ink
The Six Steps to Saying No — Why Being a Team Player is Not Necessarily Great Frequently, saying no is better than saying yes. Our teams can concentrate on the highest value work...
4 months ago
30

The Six Steps to Saying No — Why Being a Team Player is Not Necessarily Great

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4 months ago
Frequently, saying no is better than saying yes. Our teams can concentrate on the highest value work if we set clear boundaries.
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Noahpinion
Yes, we still have to work The automated luxury paradise is still just science fiction.
11 months ago
90

Yes, we still have to work

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11 months ago
The automated luxury paradise is still just science fiction.
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Don't Worry About...
Monthly Roundup #28: March 2025 I plan to continue to leave the Trump administration out of monthly roundups - I will do my best to...
3 months ago
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Monthly Roundup #28: March 2025

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

3 months ago
I plan to continue to leave the Trump administration out of monthly roundups - I will do my best to only cover the administration as it relates to my particular focus areas.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
My investing theses | Out-Of-Pocket Hit up ya boi
a year ago
22

My investing theses | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
Hit up ya boi
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Musings on Maps
Sea Surface Temperatures With global ocean surface temperatures shot way off the charts by mid-March, beyond forty years...
a year ago
61

Sea Surface Temperatures

from Musings on Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a year ago
With global ocean surface temperatures shot way off the charts by mid-March, beyond forty years satellites have monitored sea surface temperatures, we’ve been struggling to map the changes in sea-surface temperatures, both globally and locally, in satisfactory and meaningful...
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Articles
Why didn't my project take off? We think we should be rewarded for the effort, resources, and time we invest in a project.
over a year ago
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Why didn't my project take off?

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We think we should be rewarded for the effort, resources, and time we invest in a project.
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Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Case-Shiller Index Up 3.6% year-over-year in October At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger...
6 months ago
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Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Case-Shiller Index Up 3.6% year-over-year in October

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At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.6% year-over-year in October Final Look at Local Housing Markets in November and a Look Ahead to December Sales Fannie and Freddie: Single...
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History Today Feed
‘Buddhism’ by Donald S. Lopez Jr. review ‘Buddhism’ by Donald S. Lopez Jr. review JamesHoare Mon, 03/31/2025 - 08:57
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‘Buddhism’ by Donald S. Lopez Jr. review

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‘Buddhism’ by Donald S. Lopez Jr. review JamesHoare Mon, 03/31/2025 - 08:57
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Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe" Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"

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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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Old Structures...
Iconic The Third Avenue elevated, looking north from 23rd Street or so. (The street sign at the lower right...
11 months ago
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Iconic

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11 months ago
The Third Avenue elevated, looking north from 23rd Street or so. (The street sign at the lower right reads East 24th Street.) My guess is that the photographer was standing at the north end of the northbound platform of the 23rd Street station. Off in the distance, we’ve got the...
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Maps Mania
Free TV & Radio Maps
3 months ago
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Free TV & Radio Maps

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Charles Chen
To Comment or Not to Comment Ruminations on the timeless debate of comments in code.
over a year ago
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To Comment or Not to Comment

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Ruminations on the timeless debate of comments in code.
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Yale e360
Carbon Dioxide Levels Highest in 800,000 Years Temperatures and carbon dioxide levels hit new highs last year, according to a U.N. report detailing...
3 months ago
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Carbon Dioxide Levels Highest in 800,000 Years

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3 months ago
Temperatures and carbon dioxide levels hit new highs last year, according to a U.N. report detailing the dire state of the global climate. Read more on E360 →
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PostHog's RSS Feed
What we built at our sun-kissed Aruba hackathon Every year, Team PostHog congregates for our annual all-company offsite . In previous years we've...
over a year ago
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What we built at our sun-kissed Aruba hackathon

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over a year ago
Every year, Team PostHog congregates for our annual all-company offsite . In previous years we've been to Italy, Portugal and Iceland. This year, we…
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Slam Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel like I could at least respect if political...
2 weeks ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Slam

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2 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel like I could at least respect if political leaders would knock down legal barriers with a folding chair, instead of just ignoring them. Today's News:
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The Changelog
Really Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary Like many young programmers of my age, before I could use the Internet, there were BBSs. I...
over a year ago
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Really Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary

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over a year ago
Like many young programmers of my age, before I could use the Internet, there were BBSs. I eventually ran one, though in my small town there were few callers. Some time back, I downloaded a copy of Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary. You might know Jason Scott from textfiles.com and...
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TheCollector
The Siege Warfare That Shaped Ancient Greece & Rome Discussions of warfare in ancient Greece and Rome usually revolve around open field battles with...
6 days ago
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The Siege Warfare That Shaped Ancient Greece & Rome

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Discussions of warfare in ancient Greece and Rome usually revolve around open field battles with dense formations of infantry clashing, supported by cavalry and missile troops. But many ancient conflicts were resolved through sieges, with enemy armies attempting to breach a...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Thirty Madison and Condition-Specific Care | Out-Of-Pocket I wanted to use this as an opportunity to talk a little bit about scalable telemedicine + specialist...
a year ago
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Thirty Madison and Condition-Specific Care | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
I wanted to use this as an opportunity to talk a little bit about scalable telemedicine + specialist care.
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Making software...
Prescription Form UI Improvements Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
over a year ago
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Prescription Form UI Improvements

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over a year ago
Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn't bad per se, but it could certainly be improved. Current design of the...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2021 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
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My 2021 New Mac Setup

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over a year ago
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
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TheCollector
Lost Camille Claudel Sculpture Sells for $3.8 Million A bronze sculpture by Camille Claudel, lost for over a century, was recently rediscovered in an...
4 months ago
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Lost Camille Claudel Sculpture Sells for $3.8 Million

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4 months ago
A bronze sculpture by Camille Claudel, lost for over a century, was recently rediscovered in an uninhabited Parisian apartment. Over the weekend, the bronze cast of The Age of Maturity fetched $3.8 million at a Philocale auction in Orléans, France—proving that Claudel’s artistic...
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TheCollector
5 Important Schools of Philosophy in Ancient Rome Roman philosophy generally shared an interest in studying the art of living. Ancient Roman schools...
3 weeks ago
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5 Important Schools of Philosophy in Ancient Rome

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3 weeks ago
Roman philosophy generally shared an interest in studying the art of living. Ancient Roman schools of philosophy often wanted to answer the question: how does one live best? And they all proposed answers, albeit with important differences, on how the individual is to achieve...
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Ben Borgers
Welcome to TikTok
over a year ago
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Welcome to TikTok

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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Viking Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Surprisingly, Panda War Criminals 3 was the high...
12 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Viking

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12 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Surprisingly, Panda War Criminals 3 was the high point in the series. Today's News:
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Ryan Mulligan
Scrolling Rails and Button Controls Once again, here I am, hackin' away on horizontal scroll ideas. This iteration starts with a custom...
6 months ago
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Scrolling Rails and Button Controls

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6 months ago
Once again, here I am, hackin' away on horizontal scroll ideas. This iteration starts with a custom HTML tag. All the necessities for scroll overflow, scroll snapping, and row layout are handled with CSS. Then, as a little progressive enhancement treat, button elements are...
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Asterisk
Looking Back at the Future of Humanity Institute The rise and fall of the influential, embattled Oxford research center that brought us the concept...
8 months ago
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Looking Back at the Future of Humanity Institute

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8 months ago
The rise and fall of the influential, embattled Oxford research center that brought us the concept of existential risk.
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The Marginalian
The Strength to Remember and the Strength to Forget: James Baldwin on What Makes a Hero “Let everything happen to you,” wrote Rilke, “Beauty and terror.” It is not easy, this simple...
3 months ago
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The Strength to Remember and the Strength to Forget: James Baldwin on What Makes a Hero

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3 months ago
“Let everything happen to you,” wrote Rilke, “Beauty and terror.” It is not easy, this simple surrender. The courage and vulnerability it takes make it nothing less than an act of heroism. Most of our cowardices and cruelties, most of the suffering we endure and inflict, stem...
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RhysTranter.com
Rereading The Brothers Karamazov It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park,...
a year ago
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Rereading The Brothers Karamazov

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a year ago
It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park, sitting under a tree overlooking the river. I remember that it was the Penguin Classics edition translated by David McDuff, and that I couldn’t put it down.
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Old Structures...
An APT Webinar I’m giving a webinar on February 27 for the Association for Preservation Technology on our analysis...
a year ago
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An APT Webinar

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a year ago
I’m giving a webinar on February 27 for the Association for Preservation Technology on our analysis of a somewhat weird building with concrete and masonry structure, and the implications for investigation and analysis of buildings with old concrete structure. More information...
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Ryan Hoover's...
Decentralized Startups
over a year ago
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Decentralized Startups

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over a year ago
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bt RSS Feed
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
over a year ago
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean

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over a year ago
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the “Lite” variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
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Irrational...
Should we decompose our monolith? From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting a microservices architecture, a...
9 months ago
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Should we decompose our monolith?

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9 months ago
From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting a microservices architecture, a monolithic service architecture, or a hybrid between the two, has become one of the least-reversible decisions that most engineering organizations make. Even migrating to a...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
over a year ago
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Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering

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over a year ago
a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
a year ago
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Marx Truncated

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a year ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Travel to Coastal Germany's Historical UNESCO Sites
a year ago
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Travel to Coastal Germany's Historical UNESCO Sites

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a year ago
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 046: AI has a CSAM problem December 22, 2023.
a year ago
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AI Roundup 046: AI has a CSAM problem

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a year ago
December 22, 2023.
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A Beautiful Site
The HTML5 download attribute Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't...
over a year ago
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The HTML5 download attribute

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over a year ago
Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't have to do that anymore. The HTML5 download attribute is intended to tell the browser that a certain link should force a certain file to download, optionally with a certain name...
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Founder's blog
How to Hide Tethering from Your Mobile Operator TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS...
over a year ago
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How to Hide Tethering from Your Mobile Operator

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over a year ago
TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS default 64 plus one). ••• On my recent mountain biking trip to France I accidentally booked an Airbnb without WiFi. Bummer. But hey, 5 minutes of googling and I found a...
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The Marginalian
Time and the Soul: Philosopher Jacob Needleman on Our Search for Meaning "The real significance of our problem with time... is a crisis of meaning... The root of our modern...
a year ago
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Time and the Soul: Philosopher Jacob Needleman on Our Search for Meaning

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a year ago
"The real significance of our problem with time... is a crisis of meaning... The root of our modern problem with time is neither technological, sociological, economic nor psychological. It is metaphysical. It is a question of the meaning of human life itself."
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Maggie Appleton
Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS Notes on how to use the position property in CSS to make scrollytelling stories
over a year ago
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Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS

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over a year ago
Notes on how to use the position property in CSS to make scrollytelling stories
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Charlie Becker
Sandcastles and Wanderlust An Adventure at the Beach
a year ago
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Sandcastles and Wanderlust

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a year ago
An Adventure at the Beach
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Ink & Switch
Jacquard 02 · Tracking provenance Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
11 months ago
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Jacquard 02 · Tracking provenance

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11 months ago
Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
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TheCollector
Sir Lancelot: King Arthur’s Greatest Knight and Betrayer In the Arthurian legends, King Arthur is portrayed as having a large group of loyal knights. Perhaps...
3 months ago
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Sir Lancelot: King Arthur’s Greatest Knight and Betrayer

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3 months ago
In the Arthurian legends, King Arthur is portrayed as having a large group of loyal knights. Perhaps the most famous of all these knights today is Lancelot. He is generally portrayed in the legends as the greatest of Arthur’s knights, on almost equal standing with Arthur himself....
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The Honest Broker
Does the Pulitzer Prize Hate Substack? And should we care?
2 weeks ago
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Does the Pulitzer Prize Hate Substack?

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2 weeks ago
And should we care?
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Christopher Butler
The Geography of Interface Is there a pattern language for digital spaces? We navigate digital spaces as if they were...
5 months ago
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The Geography of Interface

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5 months ago
Is there a pattern language for digital spaces? We navigate digital spaces as if they were physical ones. We “visit” websites, “go to” pages, get “lost” in apps, and find our way “back” to where we started. These spatial metaphors are so deeply embedded in how we think about...
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Contemporist...
Inside the Chic Winery Where the Owners Got Married Frank Family Vineyards has unveiled Miller House, a new hospitality space designed to host guests in...
a month ago
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Inside the Chic Winery Where the Owners Got Married

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a month ago
Frank Family Vineyards has unveiled Miller House, a new hospitality space designed to host guests in a setting that’s both refined and deeply personal. Located in Calistoga, California, the space was created by Hawkins Interiors in collaboration with Backen & Backen for...
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The Diff
Venture and Media Plus! Cluely; Big Tech Sees Like a State; Distribution; Student Loans and Demand Shocks; Rollups
2 months ago
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Venture and Media

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2 months ago
Plus! Cluely; Big Tech Sees Like a State; Distribution; Student Loans and Demand Shocks; Rollups
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Mobile Robot Upgrades Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
8 months ago
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Video Friday: Mobile Robot Upgrades

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8 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ROSCon 2024: 21–23 October 2024,...
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959) Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
8 months ago
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Space Witch (1959)

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8 months ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween. Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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IEEE Spectrum
Assistive Tech at the End of Sight Seeing his words on the printed page is a big deal to Andrew Leland—as it is to all writers. But the...
a year ago
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Assistive Tech at the End of Sight

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a year ago
Seeing his words on the printed page is a big deal to Andrew Leland—as it is to all writers. But the sight of his thoughts in written form is much more precious to him than to most scribes. Leland is gradually losing his vision due to a congenital condition called retinitis...
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Open Culture
A Young Jim Henson Teaches You How to Make Puppets with Socks, Tennis Balls & Other Household Goods... By the time he filmed this video archived on Iowa Public Television’s YouTube channel, Jim Henson...
a month ago
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A Young Jim Henson Teaches You How to Make Puppets with Socks, Tennis Balls & Other Household Goods (1969)

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a month ago
By the time he filmed this video archived on Iowa Public Television’s YouTube channel, Jim Henson was just about to strike gold with a new children’s show called Sesame Street. The year was 1969, and he already had 15 years of puppetry experience under his belt, from children’s...
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The personal website...
Functions and the future of design systems New kinds of computers and interfaces are becoming ubiquitous: in our cars, on our wrists, in our...
over a year ago
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Functions and the future of design systems

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
New kinds of computers and interfaces are becoming ubiquitous: in our cars, on our wrists, in our ears, at our desks at work, on our TVs at home. In response, we’ve seen innovations in the content, organization, and delivery of design systems: design tokens, interoperability,...
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Applied Cartography
Globals in Histoire Histoire, like so many other tools in the Vue ecosystem, is a bit of a neglected younger sibling to...
a year ago
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Globals in Histoire

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a year ago
Histoire, like so many other tools in the Vue ecosystem, is a bit of a neglected younger sibling to Storybook — a little bit uglier, with worse documentation and a couple rough edges, but much more tightly integrated with Vue and Vite. [1] One thing that was not particularly...
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Paul Graham: Essays
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
over a year ago
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A Unified Theory of VC Suckage

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over a year ago
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Articles
Out of office
over a year ago
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Out of office

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over a year ago
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anderegg.ca
Algorithms are breaking how we think Today, Alec Watson posted a video titled “Algorithms are breaking how we think” on his YouTube...
4 months ago
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Algorithms are breaking how we think

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4 months ago
Today, Alec Watson posted a video titled “Algorithms are breaking how we think” on his YouTube channel, Technology Connections. The whole thing is excellent and very well argued. The main thrust is: people seem increasingly less mindful about the stuff they engage with. Watson...
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 3 Windows becomes competitive
a year ago
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The History of Windows 3

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a year ago
Windows becomes competitive
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Moneyness
Trump-proofing Canada means ditching MasterCard and Visa We're all busy doing our best to boycott U.S. products. I can't buy Special K cereal anymore,...
3 months ago
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Trump-proofing Canada means ditching MasterCard and Visa

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We're all busy doing our best to boycott U.S. products. I can't buy Special K cereal anymore, because it's made in the U.S. by Kellogg's. But I'm still buying Shreddies, which is made in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Even that's a grey area, since Shreddies is owned by Post, a big...
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A Beautiful Site
On Using Web Component Libraries We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has...
over a year ago
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On Using Web Component Libraries

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over a year ago
We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has components, Vue has components, Angular has components…it's just how we've always used them. Because of that, people tend to refer to Lit and FAST Element as frameworks, but they’re not....
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Astral Codex Ten
Against The Generalized Anti-Caution Argument ...
7 months ago
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Against The Generalized Anti-Caution Argument

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Open Culture
Maurice Sendak’s First Published Illustrations: Discover His Drawings for a 1947 Popular Science... McGraw-Hill/public domain; copy from the Niels Bohr Library & Archives Once upon a time, long before...
10 months ago
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Maurice Sendak’s First Published Illustrations: Discover His Drawings for a 1947 Popular Science Book

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10 months ago
McGraw-Hill/public domain; copy from the Niels Bohr Library & Archives Once upon a time, long before Maurice Sendak illustrated Where The Wild Things Are (1963), he published, notes Ars Technica, “his first professional illustrations in a 1947 popular science book about nuclear...
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Nothing Human
Andrew Rose, part 2: solving coordination A longer and more chaotic follow-up conversation in which Andrew and I dive into the weeds of our...
5 months ago
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Andrew Rose, part 2: solving coordination

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5 months ago
A longer and more chaotic follow-up conversation in which Andrew and I dive into the weeds of our differing approaches to solving coordination.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Two Kinds of Judgement
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Two Kinds of Judgement

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over a year ago
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Both Are True
i want to be with someone i can goof with - help? wherever you goof, there you harr (i am so sorry)
a year ago
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i want to be with someone i can goof with - help?

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a year ago
wherever you goof, there you harr (i am so sorry)
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Idle Words
Protests and Power In August 2020, the New York Times asked me to write an op-ed for a special feature on...
over a year ago
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Protests and Power

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over a year ago
In August 2020, the New York Times asked me to write an op-ed for a special feature on authoritarianism and democracy. They declined to publish my submission, which I am sharing here instead. When the George Floyd protests began to spread nationally in the summer of 2020, I...
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
Leftover comics These are some comics I submitted to The New Yorker. View on my website
4 months ago
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Leftover comics

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4 months ago
These are some comics I submitted to The New Yorker. View on my website
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The Elysian
Companies are the new City-States That’s why we need to build better ones.
4 months ago
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Companies are the new City-States

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4 months ago
That’s why we need to build better ones.
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Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Growth Unrevised at 2.3% Annual Rate From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product, 4th Quarter and Year 2024 (Second Estimate) Real gross...
4 months ago
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Q4 GDP Growth Unrevised at 2.3% Annual Rate

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4 months ago
From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product, 4th Quarter and Year 2024 (Second Estimate) Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024 (October, November, and December), according to the second estimate released by the U.S....
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Biology Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The explanation of the Fermi Paradox is no beings...
a month ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Biology

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a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The explanation of the Fermi Paradox is no beings who practice internal fertilization are to be invited to the galactic party. Today's News:
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AVC
Read Write Own Chris Dixon, who leads the A16Z crypto fund, and has been an entrepreneur, VC, and friend of mine...
a year ago
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Read Write Own

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a year ago
Chris Dixon, who leads the A16Z crypto fund, and has been an entrepreneur, VC, and friend of mine for over twenty years, has written a book called Read Write Own that is available for pre-order now and will start shipping at the end of the month. Chris gave me a copy right before...
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Diaries of Note
 How utterly mad it all is Although her life was cut tragically short, Lorraine Hansberry’s influence on American theatre was...
over a year ago
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 How utterly mad it all is

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over a year ago
Although her life was cut tragically short, Lorraine Hansberry’s influence on American theatre was profound. Raised amid the racial turbulence of 1930s Chicago, she channelled her experiences into A Raisin in the Sun, a groundbreaking play that earned her three distinctions: the...
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968) The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
7 months ago
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)

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7 months ago
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Steve Blank
Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid This part 2 of the Secret History of Polaroid and Edwin Land. Read part 1 for context. Kodak and...
a year ago
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Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid

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a year ago
This part 2 of the Secret History of Polaroid and Edwin Land. Read part 1 for context. Kodak and Polaroid, the two most famous camera companies of the 20th century, had a great partnership for 20+ years. Then in an inexplicable turnabout Kodak decided to destroy Polaroid’s...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Departure Mono Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe. Visit original link → or View...
10 months ago
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🔗 Departure Mono

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10 months ago
Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe. Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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Lars Lofgren
The Stupidity of Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy Site reputation abuse is when a third-party abuses the reputation of a domain to rank a bunch of...
8 months ago
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The Stupidity of Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy

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8 months ago
Site reputation abuse is when a third-party abuses the reputation of a domain to rank a bunch of pages in Google. The SEO community refers to this type of thing as parasite SEO. Google has gone so far as to publish an official policy (documented here) on how this isn’t allowed:...
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Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 5: AI for Education is Bigger Than You Think Machine learning for software engineers 4-4-25
3 months ago
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ML for SWEs 5: AI for Education is Bigger Than You Think

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3 months ago
Machine learning for software engineers 4-4-25
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xkcd.com
Thanksgiving Arguments
a year ago
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Thanksgiving Arguments

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a year ago
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The Honest Broker
Nick Drake at Age 75 On a milestone birthday, I revisit a singer-songwriter nobody ever really knew
over a year ago
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Nick Drake at Age 75

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over a year ago
On a milestone birthday, I revisit a singer-songwriter nobody ever really knew
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computers are bad
2023-09-10 the Essex GWEN site Programming note: this post is in color. I will not debase myself to the level of sending HTML...
a year ago
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2023-09-10 the Essex GWEN site

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a year ago
Programming note: this post is in color. I will not debase myself to the level of sending HTML email, so if you receive Computers Are Bad by email and want the benefit of the pictures, consider reading this online instead (the link is at the top of the email). In the aftermath of...
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Sam Altman
DALL•E 2 Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from...
over a year ago
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DALL•E 2

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions.  Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful. For me, it’s the most delightful thing to play with we’ve created so far. I find it to...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache:...
a year ago
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Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers

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a year ago
MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache: 'global' }, chtml: { displayAlign: 'left' } }; MathJax.Hub.Config({ "HTML-CSS": { scale: 175} }); .MathJax {font-size: 1em !important} The Bendix Central Air...
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Computer Things
What are the Rosettas of formal specification? First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release...
5 months ago
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What are the Rosettas of formal specification?

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

5 months ago
First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release notes in the footnote.1 I've been thinking about my next project after the book's done. One idea is to do a survey of new formal specification languages. There's been a lot of new...
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TheCollector
Crusading Against Crusaders: Clement V’s Persecution of the Templars On March 18th, 1314, Jasque de Molay, the 23rd Grand Master of the monastic order of the Knights...
2 months ago
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Crusading Against Crusaders: Clement V’s Persecution of the Templars

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2 months ago
On March 18th, 1314, Jasque de Molay, the 23rd Grand Master of the monastic order of the Knights Templar, was burned at the stake on an island in the middle of the river Seine. After years and years of torture, confessions of heresy, and trial, the 23rd Grand Master of one of...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
How Aristotle Created the Computer The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world....
over a year ago
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How Aristotle Created the Computer

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over a year ago
The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world. Originally published by The Atlantic…
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Ryan Hoover's...
Winners of the Product Hunt Global Hackathon 2017
over a year ago
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Winners of the Product Hunt Global Hackathon 2017

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over a year ago
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Liz Denys
ZRH Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
over a year ago
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ZRH

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over a year ago
Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
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A Beautiful Site
Animated CSS hamburger icons If you need some tasty CSS hamburger icons that animate in fantastic ways, here you go. Hamburgers...
over a year ago
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Animated CSS hamburger icons

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over a year ago
If you need some tasty CSS hamburger icons that animate in fantastic ways, here you go. Hamburgers is an MIT-licensed CSS library that gives you over a dozen beautifully animated navicons for use in your own projects. Also includes the Sass source so you can customize and compile...
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Yale e360
Meta Said A.I. Could Help Tackle Warming. An Early Experiment Underwhelmed Last year Meta identified 135 materials that could potentially be used to draw down carbon dioxide,...
a week ago
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Meta Said A.I. Could Help Tackle Warming. An Early Experiment Underwhelmed

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a week ago
Last year Meta identified 135 materials that could potentially be used to draw down carbon dioxide, work it described as "groundbreaking." But when scientists tried to reproduce the results, they found that none of the materials could perform as promised and that some did not...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Susceptible to Education' I grew up fetishizing a university education. I knew no one in my family or in my working-class...
a week ago
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'Susceptible to Education'

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a week ago
I grew up fetishizing a university education. I knew no one in my family or in my working-class neighborhood who had “gone to college,” as the common phrase had it. In my experience, that status was confined to doctors and teachers. My father was a high-school dropout....
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Liz Denys
Early one morning The view shortly after waking up while camping at Marshall Beach, Point Reyes.
over a year ago
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Early one morning

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over a year ago
The view shortly after waking up while camping at Marshall Beach, Point Reyes.
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Ferd.ca
Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to...
7 months ago
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Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums

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7 months ago
I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to believe I do so on purpose. I want to know as much as I can about the context of what it is that I'm automating. I also use a limited set of tools. I used old computers for a long...
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xkcd.com
Reading a Big Number
3 weeks ago
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Reading a Big Number

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3 weeks ago
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Grow With Less
A Quick and Easy Win for the New Year (and an Important Check) 2020 is finally over (thank God.) Which means it’s time for some New Year cleaning. You may have...
over a year ago
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A Quick and Easy Win for the New Year (and an Important Check)

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over a year ago
2020 is finally over (thank God.) Which means it’s time for some New Year cleaning. You may have articles or copyright notices that reference previous years. Now is the perfect time to update these and make sure they say “2021” and not “2020” or even “2019.” To find pages...
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Cal Russell I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied...
over a year ago
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Meet the Maker: Cal Russell

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over a year ago
I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied Illustration at Falmouth School of Art and did a Masters in Contemporary Art at the Edinburgh College of Art. I mostly work independently and sell my prints and originals online or...
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Noahpinion
A bunch of handy charts about climate change A couple dozen pictures are worth a couple thousand words.
a year ago
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A bunch of handy charts about climate change

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a year ago
A couple dozen pictures are worth a couple thousand words.
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Open Culture
How Civilizations Built on Top of Each Other: Discover What Lies Beneath Rome, Troy & Other Cities The idea of discovering a lost ancient city underground has long captured the human imagination. But...
a month ago
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How Civilizations Built on Top of Each Other: Discover What Lies Beneath Rome, Troy & Other Cities

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a month ago
The idea of discovering a lost ancient city underground has long captured the human imagination. But why are the abandoned built environments of those fantasies always buried? The answer, in large part, is that such places do indeed exist under our feet, at least in certain parts...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox If you fit one of these criteria:
a year ago
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You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox

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a year ago
If you fit one of these criteria:
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The American Scholar
“Stick the Landing” by David Gewanter Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Stick the Landing” by David Gewanter appeared first on The...
11 months ago
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“Stick the Landing” by David Gewanter

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11 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Stick the Landing” by David Gewanter appeared first on The American Scholar.
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orlp.net - Blog...
Why Bad AI Is Here to Stay It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes to AI: skeptic or...
5 months ago
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Why Bad AI Is Here to Stay

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5 months ago
It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes to AI: skeptic or fanatic. The skeptic thinks AI sucks, that it’s overhyped, it only ever parrots nonsense and it will all blow over soon. The fanatic thinks general human-level intelligence is just...
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part IV: What Siege Equipment? This is the fourth part of our [five? -ish? I, II, III] part series on the Siege of Eregion in...
3 months ago
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Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part IV: What Siege Equipment?

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3 months ago
This is the fourth part of our [five? -ish? I, II, III] part series on the Siege of Eregion in Amazon’s Rings of Power. Last week, we took the opportunity presented by Adar’s absurd plan to dam a river using catapults to collapse a mountain to discuss the capabilities and...
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Blog of Simple...
The road to 1 Million ARR - September Update
a year ago
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The road to 1 Million ARR - September Update

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a year ago
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Maggie Appleton
Metaphors We Web By A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web
over a year ago
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Metaphors We Web By

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over a year ago
A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web
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David Heinemeier...
Don't make Google sell Chrome The web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome, even if it's to atone for...
2 months ago
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Don't make Google sell Chrome

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
The web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome, even if it's to atone for legitimate ad-market monopoly abuses. Which mean we'll all be worse off as the web would lose ground to actual monopoly platforms, like the iOS App Store and Google's own Play Store....
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Josh Thompson
No New Books I’ve promised myself that I won’t add any more books to my Kindle, either by purchasing them from...
over a year ago
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No New Books

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
I’ve promised myself that I won’t add any more books to my Kindle, either by purchasing them from Amazon, or downloading them online, or renting them from a Library. Why? I’ve let reading about doing things stand in the way of doing the things. No amount of educational literature...
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Seth's Blog
Should we assume rational goodwill? There’s often a choice between following the cultural dictates of a given group or seeking out...
a year ago
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Should we assume rational goodwill?

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a year ago
There’s often a choice between following the cultural dictates of a given group or seeking out demonstrable facts and the scientific method. Which do you expect most people would choose? Which would you choose? When we revert to a testable analysis of what works, we’re relying on...
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Don't Worry About...
On MAIM and Superintelligence Strategy Dan Hendrycks, Eric Schmidt and Alexandr Wang released an extensive paper titled Superintelligence...
3 months ago
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On MAIM and Superintelligence Strategy

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

3 months ago
Dan Hendrycks, Eric Schmidt and Alexandr Wang released an extensive paper titled Superintelligence Strategy. There is also an op-ed in Time that summarizes.
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Louwrentius
Migrated this blog from blogger.com to blogofile Until now, I was hosting my blog on Google's blogger. I switched to using Blogofile. I wanted to...
over a year ago
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Migrated this blog from blogger.com to blogofile

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Until now, I was hosting my blog on Google's blogger. I switched to using Blogofile. I wanted to have more control over my content and the layout. I had many issues with the blogger blog post editor, resulting in ugly posts with too much white space, strange fonts and fonts...
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Trick or Treat, Atlas Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
8 months ago
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Video Friday: Trick or Treat, Atlas

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8 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
over a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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over a year ago
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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Mazdak
Manus: The AI Agent That Could Change Everything On March 6, the global AI landscape shifted.
4 months ago
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Manus: The AI Agent That Could Change Everything

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4 months ago
On March 6, the global AI landscape shifted.
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Birchtree
Secretary of Defense put war plans in a group chat with a journalist Jeffrey Goldberg with an insane story in The Atlantic: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted...
3 months ago
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Secretary of Defense put war plans in a group chat with a journalist

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3 months ago
Jeffrey Goldberg with an insane story in The Atlantic: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. > > I, however, knew two hours...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Secret Travel Locations in Monaco
a year ago
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Secret Travel Locations in Monaco

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a year ago
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dthompson
Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
over a year ago
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Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 released

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over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme bindings for the SDL2 C shared library. The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's foreign function interface. New bindings in this...
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Construction Physics
Welding and the Automation Frontier The big question about Artificial Intelligence, other than whether it will destroy human...
a year ago
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Welding and the Automation Frontier

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
The big question about Artificial Intelligence, other than whether it will destroy human civilization, is the effect it will have on employment. Large language models already seem poised to automate large fractions of the work in certain industries, and the technology is only...
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This Space
A mighty contagious absence, part two On submission and resistance to AI-generated literature   To great writers, finished works weigh...
a month ago
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A mighty contagious absence, part two

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a month ago
On submission and resistance to AI-generated literature   To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives. For only the more feeble and distracted take an inimitable pleasure in conclusions, feeling themselves...
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Jorge Arango
IA Fail: Which Kindle Edition? One of the goals of information architecture is making it possible for people to easily find what...
6 months ago
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IA Fail: Which Kindle Edition?

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6 months ago
One of the goals of information architecture is making it possible for people to easily find what they’re looking for. As a large and complex information environment, Amazon.com provides lots of examples of how to do it right – and how to do it wrong. This post highlights one of...
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The Turn Signal RSS...
The Process Behind the Touch Interaction Concept If you haven't yet seen the concept I created, click here Below is the rough design process that I...
over a year ago
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The Process Behind the Touch Interaction Concept

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over a year ago
If you haven't yet seen the concept I created, click here Below is the rough design process that I followed. One of the main reasons…
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Steve Klabnik
Ouroboros
over a year ago
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Ouroboros

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over a year ago
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Yale e360
A systems design perspective on why chess.com's servers have been melting January 2023 was a rough month if you wanted to play chess on the most popular chess website,...
over a year ago
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A systems design perspective on why chess.com's servers have been melting

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
January 2023 was a rough month if you wanted to play chess on the most popular chess website, chess.com1. Their service has been experiencing an unprecedented amount downtime because of a huge influx of users2. There have been days where it's all but unusable. It's frustrating as...
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The Honest Broker
More Entries from My Private Journal A few months ago, I shared private entries from my journal. People seemed to enjoy reading them—so...
3 months ago
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More Entries from My Private Journal

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3 months ago
A few months ago, I shared private entries from my journal. People seemed to enjoy reading them—so I’m doing it again.
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DYNOMIGHT
It’s probably just money: Why hosts do well at the Olympics They say that countries win more medals when they host the Olympics. But do they? And if so,...
11 months ago
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It’s probably just money: Why hosts do well at the Olympics

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11 months ago
They say that countries win more medals when they host the Olympics. But do they? And if so, why? I’ve seen various theories: Jetlag. Maybe it’s because athletes from the host country don’t need to travel as far. Esprit de corps. Maybe athletes feel lifted up by the local crowd...
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Steven Scrawls
Easy Questions, Part 1: Introduction Easy Questions, Part 1: Introduction What if our stories explore questions not because those...
a year ago
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Easy Questions, Part 1: Introduction

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a year ago
Easy Questions, Part 1: Introduction What if our stories explore questions not because those questions are interesting, but because those questions are easier to respond to than the alternatives? Trope: The Chosen One What’s the shallow, wish-fulfillment version of...
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Open Culture
Behold a Creative Animation of the Bayeux Tapestry In previous centuries, unless you were a member of the nobility, a wealthy religious order, or a...
9 months ago
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Behold a Creative Animation of the Bayeux Tapestry

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

9 months ago
In previous centuries, unless you were a member of the nobility, a wealthy religious order, or a merchant guild, your chances of spending any significant amount of time with a Medieval tapestry were slim. Though “much production was relatively coarse, intended for decorative...
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bunnie's blog
Control and Autofocus Software for Chip-Level Microscopy This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through...
a year ago
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Control and Autofocus Software for Chip-Level Microscopy

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through non-destructive IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) inspection. Here’s the previous posts: This post will discuss the control software used to drive IRIS. Above is a screenshot of the IRIS machine...
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The American Scholar
Catalina Schliebener Muñoz Playing with dolls The post Catalina Schliebener Muñoz appeared first on The American Scholar.
a year ago
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Catalina Schliebener Muñoz

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a year ago
Playing with dolls The post Catalina Schliebener Muñoz appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The DESK Magazine
It's live! Introducing the new HOVS website The new HOVS (House of van Schneider) aka my personal (studio) website, is finally LIVE!
a year ago
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It's live! Introducing the new HOVS website

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
The new HOVS (House of van Schneider) aka my personal (studio) website, is finally LIVE!
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Calculated Risk
Hotels: Occupancy Rate Increased 4.4% Year-over-year (Easter Timing boosted YoY Occupancy) From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 29 March On the positive side of the Easter calendar...
3 months ago
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Hotels: Occupancy Rate Increased 4.4% Year-over-year (Easter Timing boosted YoY Occupancy)

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3 months ago
From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 29 March On the positive side of the Easter calendar shift, the U.S. hotel industry reported increases across the key performance metrics, according to CoStar’s latest data through 29 March. ... 23-29 March 2025 (percentage change from...
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The Marginalian
The Unphotographable: Richard Adams on the Singular Magic of Autumn There is a lovely liminality to autumn — this threshold time between the centripetal exuberance of...
8 months ago
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The Unphotographable: Richard Adams on the Singular Magic of Autumn

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

8 months ago
There is a lovely liminality to autumn — this threshold time between the centripetal exuberance of summer and the season for tending to the inner garden, as Rilke wrote of winter. Autumn is a living metaphor for the necessary losses that shape our human lives: What falls away...
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journal – Winnie Lim
gathering different pieces of myself I’ve been back home for a few days now. It feels good to be where I feel the safest, slowly working...
a year ago
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gathering different pieces of myself

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
I’ve been back home for a few days now. It feels good to be where I feel the safest, slowly working to get back to the routine I had before. Yesterday I...
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Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965 We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
a year ago
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965

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a year ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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devonzuegel.com
Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea...
over a year ago
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Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea is that I'll use the simpler append-only interface while on the go, and then use full-featured interface to review, edit, and organize those notes when I'm back at my computer. I...
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Basta’s Notes
No sacred masterpieces Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
a year ago
22

No sacred masterpieces

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
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Diaries of Note
My God, my God they can’t have On 28th May, 1968, the acclaimed English novelist Beryl Bainbridge embarked on a three-week road...
over a year ago
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My God, my God they can’t have

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over a year ago
On 28th May, 1968, the acclaimed English novelist Beryl Bainbridge embarked on a three-week road trip that would span the breadth of the United States—a 5,000-mile voyage carefully planned by her American friend, Harold, who had vowed to guide her through the nation’s most...
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TheCollector
Installing Pinochet: How the US Laid the Groundwork for Chile’s 1973 Coup On September 11, 1973, Chile entered a new era. On this day, Augusto Pinochet took power and began a...
a month ago
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Installing Pinochet: How the US Laid the Groundwork for Chile’s 1973 Coup

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a month ago
On September 11, 1973, Chile entered a new era. On this day, Augusto Pinochet took power and began a reign that would be characterized by brutal anti-communist sentiment and consolidation of right-wing principles. One of many instances of illegal interference in foreign...
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Seth's Blog
Delivering good taste There are lots of books on creating cooking, photography, writing and music. But they can’t possibly...
over a year ago
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Delivering good taste

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
There are lots of books on creating cooking, photography, writing and music. But they can’t possibly help you do better until you see and taste and appreciate what you’re trying to create. If you think what you’re serving is good, but others don’t, more recipes aren’t going to...
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Remains of the Day
Invisible asymptotes "It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred...
over a year ago
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Invisible asymptotes

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single...
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Tech + Economics +...
The elegance of endurance: what centuries-old enterprises can teach modern culture. For 879 years, the oldest Sake brewery in Japan has thrived and survived through massive social,...
a year ago
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The elegance of endurance: what centuries-old enterprises can teach modern culture.

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
For 879 years, the oldest Sake brewery in Japan has thrived and survived through massive social, technological and economic change. Most recently it has weathered the threat of radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, with its products remaining...
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The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread Trading, Money, Homemakers, Taxes, AI, Passive
7 months ago
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Longreads + Open Thread

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

7 months ago
Trading, Money, Homemakers, Taxes, AI, Passive
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Joel Gascoigne
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
over a year ago
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We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team. We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
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Maps Mania
The Flight of the Barn Swallow
4 months ago
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The Flight of the Barn Swallow

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4 months ago
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SatPost by Trung...
Introducing "Caffeinated Deep Dives" My new podcast.
8 months ago
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Introducing "Caffeinated Deep Dives"

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8 months ago
My new podcast.
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Seth's Blog
Busy-ness and leverage When I made breakfast this morning, I didn’t begin by making the blender. Someone else, a team with...
6 months ago
52

Busy-ness and leverage

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

6 months ago
When I made breakfast this morning, I didn’t begin by making the blender. Someone else, a team with more skills, resources and scale, built the blender. I simply bought it. That seems obvious–no one expects a from-scratch baker to make their own baking powder. And yet, our...
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mtlynch.io
Hiring Content Writers: Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job...
over a year ago
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Hiring Content Writers: Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description (this section) Part Three: Screening Candidates Part Four - Working with Writers Part Five - Terminating Writers A clear, concise job description shows candidates that you’re...
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NeuroLogica Blog
How Should We Talk About Autism RFK Jr.’s recent speech about autism has sparked a lot of deserved anger. But like many things in...
2 months ago
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How Should We Talk About Autism

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2 months ago
RFK Jr.’s recent speech about autism has sparked a lot of deserved anger. But like many things in life, it’s even more complicated than you think it is, and this is a good opportunity to explore some of the issues surrounding this diagnosis. While the definition has shifted over...
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement. From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
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A Short Service Announcement.

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a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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TheCollector
How the Flight of the Earls Changed Irish History Forever The Flight of the Earls took place on September 4, 1607 when three prominent Gaelic noble...
2 weeks ago
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How the Flight of the Earls Changed Irish History Forever

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2 weeks ago
The Flight of the Earls took place on September 4, 1607 when three prominent Gaelic noble families,those of Hugh O’Neill, Rory O’Donnell, and the Maguire clan, fled Ireland to escape feared arrest and seek Spanish assistance for resumption of hostilities against the British...
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TheCollector
What Are the Hidden Meanings of Dreams? (According to Carl Jung) The secrets of who you are and the key to your healing are encrypted in the rich symbols of your...
2 months ago
10

What Are the Hidden Meanings of Dreams? (According to Carl Jung)

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2 months ago
The secrets of who you are and the key to your healing are encrypted in the rich symbols of your dream life. Conjoining the two most powerful methods of Jungian psychology, dream interpretation and active imagination, you can learn to decipher the letters your unconscious sends...
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wadertales
Broad-billed Sandpiper: Now a Red-listed wader A dedicated team of Scottish bird ringers has been studying breeding waders in northern Norway since...
7 months ago
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Broad-billed Sandpiper: Now a Red-listed wader

from wadertales [alt+shift+b] in science

7 months ago
A dedicated team of Scottish bird ringers has been studying breeding waders in northern Norway since 1993. One of the focal species of their fieldwork is the secretive Broad-billed Sandpiper, an unusual taiga wader which nests on low-lying tussocks embedded in floating mats of...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Coal vs Natural Gas In the last 18 years, since 2005, the US has decreased our CO2 emissions due to electricity...
a year ago
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Coal vs Natural Gas

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
In the last 18 years, since 2005, the US has decreased our CO2 emissions due to electricity generation by 32%, 819 million metric tons of CO2 per year. Thirty percent of this decline can be attributed to renewable energy generation. But 65% is attributed to essentially replacing...
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
Stop trying to solve my problem A lifesaver View on my website
7 months ago
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Stop trying to solve my problem

from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics

7 months ago
A lifesaver View on my website
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Internal Tech Emails
Sam Altman emails Elon Musk The mission would be to create the first general Al and use it for individual empowerment—ie, the...
a year ago
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Sam Altman emails Elon Musk

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
The mission would be to create the first general Al and use it for individual empowerment—ie, the distributed version of the future that seems the safest.
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Seth's Blog
Your project is important But that’s not why it’s your project. Lots of things are important. Countless problems need to be...
4 months ago
37

Your project is important

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

4 months ago
But that’s not why it’s your project. Lots of things are important. Countless problems need to be solved, people need to be connected, a living needs to be made. But this work you’re doing now, the work you’re doing instead of everything else–it’s your project. When we talk about...
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Computer Things
A brief introduction to interval arithmetic You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet,...
a year ago
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A brief introduction to interval arithmetic

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet, then you measure the couch and get 7 feet. Can you fit the couch against that wall? Maybe. If the two measure is exactly 7 feet than sure, 7 ≤ 7. But you probably didn't line your...
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Noahpinion
Anti-anti-neoliberalism is also not enough We're never going back to the 1990s, and the Biden years have important things to teach us.
4 months ago
36

Anti-anti-neoliberalism is also not enough

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4 months ago
We're never going back to the 1990s, and the Biden years have important things to teach us.
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Quanta Magazine
‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work. What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century,...
10 months ago
93

‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work.

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question. The post ‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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When Google killed Google Reader, the bloggosphere took a severe hit and the content quality went down because there weren't enough readers to justify the effort it takes to maintain a high quality blog.

What's left is a decaying wasteland of blogs, most abandoned, a lot are now SEO spam, and 99% are not worth reading. BoredReading is a way to read the remaining great blogs that survived the ice age.

To add your favorite blog, please suggest it here! I get emails every day which helps me maintain a high quality selection of blogs!

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