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That bleeping kerfuffle After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via...
18th Jun 2017
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That bleeping kerfuffle

from Don Melton [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jun 2017
After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via Twitter that all my colorful metaphors had been “bleeped” on the audio. I didn’t realize that because I hadn’t listened to the recording myself. And I don’t normally listen to my own...
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‘Surf and turf’ can have carbon footprint of cross-country road trip: study
16th Jan 2024
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‘Surf and turf’ can have carbon footprint of cross-country road trip: study

from Conservation International [alt+shift+b] in science

16th Jan 2024
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One Month of Building the Used Bookstore of the Future + Things I loved in July Charlie Becker Letter #97
8th Aug 2025
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One Month of Building the Used Bookstore of the Future + Things I loved in July

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

8th Aug 2025
Charlie Becker Letter #97
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Melt the ICE: The Fight Continues : Twin Cities Protesters Blockade ICE Inside the Federal Building On March 1, 2026, at the conclusion of a week of action against the Immigration and Customs...
5th Mar 2026
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Melt the ICE: The Fight Continues : Twin Cities Protesters Blockade ICE Inside the Federal Building

from CrimethInc. [alt+shift+b] in history

5th Mar 2026
On March 1, 2026, at the conclusion of a week of action against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement occupation of the Twin Cities, protesters converged on the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Fort Snelling, Minnesota. At least four hundred people marched on the...
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Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That. A famous newspaper asked me to write an opinion article. But every time I submitted a draft, they'd...
25th Dec 2025
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Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That.

from Molson Hart's Blog - Molson Hart [alt+shift+b] in finance

25th Dec 2025
A famous newspaper asked me to write an opinion article. But every time I submitted a draft, they'd edit it, changing the message of the piece, even though the article was meant to be my opinion. Most people would have consented to the edits to have the honor of being in the...
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025 Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing....
1st Oct 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2025
Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing. Also, my children and those of half my employees are sick with the flu… I hope you’ve all been able to avoid it!
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Comic for 2025.07.01 - Lost My Dad New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
1st Jul 2025
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Comic for 2025.07.01 - Lost My Dad

from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics

1st Jul 2025
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Stop Trying to Reach the Top Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read...
9th Apr 2015
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Stop Trying to Reach the Top

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Apr 2015
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read this. Were you hit by Google Panda? Will you be hit when they start penalising non-mobile sites? The lesson? Stop trying to reach the top of Google. You’ll live longer/keep more of...
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Why Are There No Short Arch Dams? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Flaming Gorge Dam rises from...
5th Aug 2025
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Why Are There No Short Arch Dams?

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Aug 2025
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Flaming Gorge Dam rises from the Green River in northern Utah like a concrete wedge driven into the canyon, anchored against the sheer rock walls that flank it. It’s quintessential, in a way. It’s what we...
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Keeping your job board legal in Japan I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in...
10th Jan 2023
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Keeping your job board legal in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2023
I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in Japan](/articles/recruiting-in-japan), and because of this, [you need to be careful](/articles/legally-operating-a-job-board-in-japan) about how you operate your job board to ensure it isn't classified as...
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Raising a Special Little AI The actual lesson from Clawdbot/Moltbook
3rd Feb 2026
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Raising a Special Little AI

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative

3rd Feb 2026
The actual lesson from Clawdbot/Moltbook
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Day 51: Fixed my logging and made a couple of puzzles Here are a couple of things I did yesterday! some logging improvements I was having a problem on my...
2nd Feb 2021
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Day 51: Fixed my logging and made a couple of puzzles

from Rc-2020 on Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2021
Here are a couple of things I did yesterday! some logging improvements I was having a problem on my server where I was logging in 3 different ways: Rails was logging to a file called production.log my Go proxy was logging to Docker Compose’s default log thing (whatever that...
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NSF, spending, and the end of the fiscal year We are less than one month away from the end of the federal fiscal year, and traditionally there are...
5th Sep 2026
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NSF, spending, and the end of the fiscal year

from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Sep 2026
We are less than one month away from the end of the federal fiscal year, and traditionally there are internal deadlines for agencies to allocate their final spending by around September 9. Right now, the NSF is on track to issue about 4000 fewer (!!) awards in FY26 than it did...
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Recent Stuff A few weeks ago we (fellow MAF pilot Andrew and I) landed at Amudat airstrip for the first time in a...
3rd Jul 2021
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Recent Stuff

from The Forney Flyer [alt+shift+b] in travel

3rd Jul 2021
A few weeks ago we (fellow MAF pilot Andrew and I) landed at Amudat airstrip for the first time in a very long time (below). Over the past year and a half quite a few of the upcountry airstrips in Uganda (especially in Karamoja) deteriorated so badly that we had to stop using...
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Inequality, galactic and planetary Is the relationship between inequality and homicide casual? Should we expect it to be?
26th May 2023
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Inequality, galactic and planetary

from Lefineder’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in life

26th May 2023
Is the relationship between inequality and homicide casual? Should we expect it to be?
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Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage The listening algorithm A year after I started CD Baby, when it was still just me in my bedroom,...
21st Mar 2013
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Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Mar 2013
The listening algorithm A year after I started CD Baby, when it was still just me in my bedroom, the CEO and VP of a hugely-funded Silicon Valley online music company contacted me, saying they wanted to fly out to New York to meet me. I said OK, and we met a week later for...
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New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“ new jersey bonus post: 5 additional, wonderful rooms | McMansionHell New on Patreon: New Jersey...
30th Nov 2024
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New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“

from McMansion Hell [alt+shift+b] in architecture

30th Nov 2024
new jersey bonus post: 5 additional, wonderful rooms | McMansionHell New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
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Can Thermodynamics Resolve the Measurement Problem? At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of...
10th Sep 2023
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Can Thermodynamics Resolve the Measurement Problem?

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

10th Sep 2023
At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of Maryland!), during an expert panel Q&A session, one member of the audience asked “can quantum thermodynamics address foundational problems in quantum theory?” That stuck with …...
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“Won’t get fooled again” Alas, we probably will. Recurring scams, hustles and deceptions work because we’re eager to be...
1st Nov 2024
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“Won’t get fooled again”

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

1st Nov 2024
Alas, we probably will. Recurring scams, hustles and deceptions work because we’re eager to be fooled by them. Vaporware, false deadlines, fake budgets, unrealistic promises and straight out con jobs persist because at some level, we demand them. Divisive arguments, mob...
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Madeleine de Boullogne and Louise-Magdeleine Hortemels, Abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs: Paintings... Madeleine de Boullogne, (1646-1710), was a baroque artist born and raised in a family of painters....
6th Feb 2022
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Madeleine de Boullogne and Louise-Magdeleine Hortemels, Abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs: Paintings and Engravings

from SOCKS [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Feb 2022
Madeleine de Boullogne, (1646-1710), was a baroque artist born and raised in a family of painters. Extremely pious, she remained unmarried and lived a semi-monastic life entirely dedicated to working and teaching. Among the most important commissions, she produced a set of four...
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Pea Bee #6: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land Hi all, shipping a new issue after a long time.
22nd May 2021
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Pea Bee #6: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land

from Pea Bee [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd May 2021
Hi all, shipping a new issue after a long time.
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The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications
30th Jan 2024
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The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Jan 2024
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A Guide to Safe Online Shopping (2025 Edition)
1st Nov 2025
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A Guide to Safe Online Shopping (2025 Edition)

from The New Oil [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2025
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Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home' I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
2nd Apr 2011
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Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home'

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Apr 2011
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
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Exploring human vs machine learning (one blogpost at a time) To err is human... and machine, alike. Overfitting, adversarial examples, optical illusions,...
15th Jul 2019
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Exploring human vs machine learning (one blogpost at a time)

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Jul 2019
To err is human... and machine, alike. Overfitting, adversarial examples, optical illusions, hallucinations, Freudian slips, etc.
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When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
5th Aug 2024
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When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions

from Push to Prod [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Aug 2024
In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
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How Much Do Couples Share Traits? Do birds of a feather flock together, or do opposites attract? These are both common aphorisms,...
5th Sep 2023
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How Much Do Couples Share Traits?

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

5th Sep 2023
Do birds of a feather flock together, or do opposites attract? These are both common aphorisms, which means that they are commonly offered as generally accepted truths, but also that they may by wrong. People like pithy phrases, so they spread prolifically, but that does not mean...
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Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check The following incredibly small sorting algorithm has an $O(n^{4/3})$ worst-case runtime: def...
31st Dec 2025
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Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2025
The following incredibly small sorting algorithm has an $O(n^{4/3})$ worst-case runtime: def fibonacci_sort(v): a, b = 1, 1 while a * b < len(v): a, b = b, a + b while a > 0: a, b = b - a, a g = a * b for i in range(g, len(v)): ...
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Good Vibrations One eccentric’s desert landmark allows visitors to bathe in sound The post Good Vibrations appeared...
15th Apr 2024
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Good Vibrations

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

15th Apr 2024
One eccentric’s desert landmark allows visitors to bathe in sound The post Good Vibrations appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Markets in power How physics and infrastructure combine to generate (ba dum bum) the power market.
30th Sep 2022
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Markets in power

from Bits about Money [alt+shift+b] in finance

30th Sep 2022
How physics and infrastructure combine to generate (ba dum bum) the power market.
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Converting a Tuya Thermostat to ESPHome I bought a cheap Chinese thermostat to control an infrared heating panel in my office. It ticked all...
8th Mar 2026
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Converting a Tuya Thermostat to ESPHome

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Mar 2026
I bought a cheap Chinese thermostat to control an infrared heating panel in my office. It ticked all the boxes except one: it's a Tuya device which requires a cloud connection. That's a big no-no for me. So I ripped it apart, soldered some leads onto the PCB and flashed ESPHome...
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Understanding Storage Performance - IOPS and Latency Introduction The goal of this blogpost is to help you better understand storage performance. I want...
21st Mar 2020
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Understanding Storage Performance - IOPS and Latency

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Mar 2020
Introduction The goal of this blogpost is to help you better understand storage performance. I want to discuss some fundamentals that are true regardless of your particular needs. This will help you better reason about storage and may provide a scaffolding for further learning....
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Feeling Less Lonely I'm reflecting on a lot of really interesting responses I got last month to my article about feeling...
7th Oct 2025
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Feeling Less Lonely

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Oct 2025
I'm reflecting on a lot of really interesting responses I got last month to my article about feeling lonely on the web. And maybe now, I'm feeling a bit less so. So thank you to everyone who responded. The post Feeling Less Lonely appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Peace, Love, & Ass
19th Mar 2024
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Peace, Love, & Ass

from Neocha – Culture & Creativity in Asia [alt+shift+b] in creative

19th Mar 2024
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Ambsheets: A spreadsheet for exploring scenarios TODO
21st Jul 2025
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Ambsheets: A spreadsheet for exploring scenarios

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Jul 2025
TODO
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Australian Air Force If You're Switched On, This is Paradise.
12th Apr 2025
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Australian Air Force

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Apr 2025
If You're Switched On, This is Paradise.
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Meta: 7,000 Although I try to keep navel-gazing to a minimum, I’m happy to report that this publication has...
4th Aug 2026
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Meta: 7,000

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science

4th Aug 2026
Although I try to keep navel-gazing to a minimum, I’m happy to report that this publication has crossed 7,000 email subscribers (plus an unknown number of RSS weirdos).
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My Ceph test cluster based on Raspberry Pi's and HP MicroServers Introduction To learn more about Ceph, I've build myself a Ceph Cluster based on actual hardware. In...
26th Jan 2019
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My Ceph test cluster based on Raspberry Pi's and HP MicroServers

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Jan 2019
Introduction To learn more about Ceph, I've build myself a Ceph Cluster based on actual hardware. In this blogpost I'll discus the cluster in more detail and I've also included (fio) benchmark results. This is my test Ceph cluster: The cluster consists of the following...
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Can we get an AI to write better? A small step
6th Oct 2025
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Can we get an AI to write better?

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Oct 2025
A small step
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Inland Northwest, Day 2 (Walla Walla to Pendleton) We awoke in Walla Walla at the beginning of our first full day. We couldn’t check-in at our...
4th Oct 2024
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Inland Northwest, Day 2 (Walla Walla to Pendleton)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

4th Oct 2024
We awoke in Walla Walla at the beginning of our first full day. We couldn’t check-in at our accommodations in Pendleton, Oregon until mid-afternoon and the drive would only take about an hour. So we needed to find something we could do locally and we got another chance to explore...
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The hearts of the Super Nintendo
1st Apr 2024
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The hearts of the Super Nintendo

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2024
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My Teaching Philosophy As mentioned previously, I need to complete a teaching portfolio over my year as a lecturing intern...
16th Apr 2013
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My Teaching Philosophy

from Confessions of a Marine Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science

16th Apr 2013
As mentioned previously, I need to complete a teaching portfolio over my year as a lecturing intern as part of the PTIS scheme.  Central to this portfolio is a personal teaching philosophy, detailing why teaching is important to me, what my objectives are as a teacher, what...
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What's Going On In Budapest? A Return to Beauty
6th Jan 2026
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What's Going On In Budapest?

from Building Optimism [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Jan 2026
A Return to Beauty
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Feature detection for CSS transitions via jQuery $.support When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may...
9th Dec 2012
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Feature detection for CSS transitions via jQuery $.support

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

9th Dec 2012
When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may arise.  It can be of particular use when working with the transitionend event, which won't fire in unsupportive browsers. After finding a number of questionable solutions, I came...
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The Subprime AI Crisis None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of...
16th Sep 2024
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The Subprime AI Crisis

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Sep 2024
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a
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For Richer or Poorer A Love Letter to Weddings
2nd Aug 2023
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For Richer or Poorer

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Aug 2023
A Love Letter to Weddings
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The World’s First Mobile Phone Shown in 1922 Vintage Film A number of years ago, British Pathé uncovered some striking footage from 1922 showing two women...
2nd Sep 2024
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The World’s First Mobile Phone Shown in 1922 Vintage Film

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

2nd Sep 2024
A number of years ago, British Pathé uncovered some striking footage from 1922 showing two women experimenting with the first mobile phone. A spokesman for the archive said: ”It’s amazing that 90 years ago mobile phone technology and music … was not only being thought of but...
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The paradox at the heart of A/B testing A/B testing began with beer. At the turn of the 20th century, William Sealy Gosset was exploring new...
9th Jan 2020
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The paradox at the heart of A/B testing

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

9th Jan 2020
A/B testing began with beer. At the turn of the 20th century, William Sealy Gosset was exploring new ways of running experiments on his production line. Gosset was trying to improve the quality of Guinness’s signature stout but couldn’t afford to run large-scale experiments on...
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Game Design Analysis: World of Goo Introduction This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing...
1st Jun 2010
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Game Design Analysis: World of Goo

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jun 2010
Introduction This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing the game World of Goo a bit. The first level The game is very simple. You begin with a structure and a few Goo balls, the charming balls bobbing around there, which you can drag...
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Interview: Ted Nordhaus on ecomodernism Are technology and the environment friends or foes? In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss...
20th May 2021
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Interview: Ted Nordhaus on ecomodernism

from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science

20th May 2021
Are technology and the environment friends or foes? In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss climate policy, activism and ecomodernism with Ted Nordhaus.
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Linking Lemmid Store with kitchens Designing backend servers to connect with external services is challenging as you need to take into...
11th Jun 2020
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Linking Lemmid Store with kitchens

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Jun 2020
Designing backend servers to connect with external services is challenging as you need to take into account unreliability and unpredictability.
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Raven
4th Jul 2024
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Raven

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jul 2024
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Career Development Guide for Job Seekers Context October 2025: With the government shut down and NASA JPL business in apparent terminal...
3rd Oct 2025
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Career Development Guide for Job Seekers

from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd Oct 2025
Context October 2025: With the government shut down and NASA JPL business in apparent terminal decline, I have received numerous inbounds from former colleagues and friends asking for advice in post-NASA career development. At the same time, in my day job running Terraform...
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We can have a different web Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something...
1st May 2024
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We can have a different web

from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance

1st May 2024
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
31st Jul 2025
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery

from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history

31st Jul 2025
Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
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In defense of screen time My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding...
28th Oct 2024
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In defense of screen time

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

28th Oct 2024
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. The reason for these claims? My...
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Life Advice: “You’ll Do Fine If You Believe, ‘I Do My Best.’” Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of...
3rd Jun 2025
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Life Advice: “You’ll Do Fine If You Believe, ‘I Do My Best.’”

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

3rd Jun 2025
Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of 2025.
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The Five Rivers of Hades in Greek Mythology and Beyond The Greek afterlife wasn’t simply a shadowy realm of nothingness. Over time, from Homer to Hesiod,...
1st May 2026
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The Five Rivers of Hades in Greek Mythology and Beyond

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

1st May 2026
The Greek afterlife wasn’t simply a shadowy realm of nothingness. Over time, from Homer to Hesiod, Plato, and Virgil, through stories and poetry, it developed features of its own, with forests, mountains, cities, and lakes being considered as part of its geography. Of great...
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1-Node ClickHouse in Production In this guide I'll show you how to deploy a production-ready ClickHouse instance on EC2, including...
21st Aug 2022
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1-Node ClickHouse in Production

from anthonynsimon.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Aug 2022
In this guide I'll show you how to deploy a production-ready ClickHouse instance on EC2, including backups and basic monitoring.
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Reviving a 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI
4th Mar 2026
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Reviving a 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Mar 2026
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it's safe to assume most web designers and developers...
8th Feb 2023
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS

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

8th Feb 2023
Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it's safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element's height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
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Jitbit Helpdesk Bot is now in the Microsoft Teams Store Our new Microsoft Teams app just passed Microsoft's certification and is live in the Teams Store:...
8th May 2026
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Jitbit Helpdesk Bot is now in the Microsoft Teams Store

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

8th May 2026
Our new Microsoft Teams app just passed Microsoft's certification and is live in the Teams Store: Jitbit Helpdesk Bot. Search "Jitbit" in the Teams app store and it's right there - no custom app uploads, no admin-center gymnastics. Unlike our old webhook integration (one-way...
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Pilo Designed by 5.5, Paris.
30th Jun 2023
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Pilo

from Identity Designed [alt+shift+b] in design

30th Jun 2023
Designed by 5.5, Paris.
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The United Slate I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also...
12th Jul 2017
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The United Slate

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

12th Jul 2017
I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also to find someone to run a ballot initiative focused on affordable housing in the state.  A team of aligned people has a chance to make a real change. I believe in creating prosperity...
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LinkedIn Goes All In on Vertical Video For years, platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts have dominated the short-form...
4th Feb 2025
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LinkedIn Goes All In on Vertical Video

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

4th Feb 2025
For years, platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts have dominated the short-form video space.
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Control - how to make a game enjoyable for casual audiences I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively...
1st Dec 2023
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Control - how to make a game enjoyable for casual audiences

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2023
I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively healthy way to escape from the real world once in a while. A friend recommended one game in particular: Control: Ultimate Edition. During the Steam summer sale of 2023, I went...
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I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it? Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I...
2nd Nov 2023
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I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it?

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Nov 2023
Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I tried out existing ones, but it didn’t take long before I figured it’s better to develop my own—and things went downhill fast from there. (Some) combos of the T-34 layout. But now...
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Dear Young Designer, Part II (this is a timely continuation of Part I of Dear Young Designer) → You don't need to become a...
4th Nov 2025
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Dear Young Designer, Part II

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

4th Nov 2025
(this is a timely continuation of Part I of Dear Young Designer) → You don't need to become a grifter to be successful. I know it seems that way today (given the context of 2025), but trust me there is another way that's more meaningful and
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At the Bookstore I work hard to resist sentimental impulses and indulgence in nostalgia. Ours is a sentimental age,...
1st Sep 2025
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At the Bookstore

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Sep 2025
I work hard to resist sentimental impulses and indulgence in nostalgia. Ours is a sentimental age, and at the same time an angry, unforgiving age. One strain of sentimentality especially prevalent among the aging is a rueful, self-pitying lament for what no longer exists....
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Don't Hate Her Because She's Successful the first thing you noticed is her great outfit and the first thing I noticed is she's covering her...
22nd Mar 2013
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Don't Hate Her Because She's Successful

from The Last Psychiatrist [alt+shift+b] in creative

22nd Mar 2013
the first thing you noticed is her great outfit and the first thing I noticed is she's covering her wedding ring  this is why you are anxious and I am Alone Today in the United States and the developed world, women are better off than ever before. But the...
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The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
22nd Dec 2021
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The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Dec 2021
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
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Puppet versus Chef: 10 reasons Puppet wins Chef vs. Puppet is an ongoing debate, but here are 10 advantages I believe Puppet has over...
14th Nov 2018
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Puppet versus Chef: 10 reasons Puppet wins

from DevOps - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Nov 2018
Chef vs. Puppet is an ongoing debate, but here are 10 advantages I believe Puppet has over Chef today.
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Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and move some files...
5th Apr 2022
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Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Apr 2022
Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and move some files around. You finish the script and test it out. Oops. All the files now have all the wrong names, and some have been randomly moved 10 folders deep. It’s a mess. And you didn’t make a...
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Will a college degree get you a programming job?
7th Sep 2012
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Will a college degree get you a programming job?

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Sep 2012
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The Refugee Reality: Thinking Long-term About the Evolving Global Challenge With a complex and truly global problem like this, we can only scratch the surface in an hour. But...
1st Oct 2017
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The Refugee Reality: Thinking Long-term About the Evolving Global Challenge

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Oct 2017
With a complex and truly global problem like this, we can only scratch the surface in an hour. But we hoped to reframe some aspects and include perspectives not always heard. What's certain is this is a long-term problem that has been ongoing and looks likely to worsen due to...
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Thoroughly Modern Mämmi Bake off your sparge water for this finicky Finnish dessert
27th Aug 2022
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Thoroughly Modern Mämmi

from Haterade [alt+shift+b] in creative

27th Aug 2022
Bake off your sparge water for this finicky Finnish dessert
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Geoffrey B West: Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster ### Superlinear Cities "It's hard to kill a city," West began, "but easy to kill a company." The...
26th Jul 2011
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Geoffrey B West: Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

26th Jul 2011
### Superlinear Cities "It's hard to kill a city," West began, "but easy to kill a company." The mean life of companies is 10 years. Cities routinely survive even nuclear bombs. And "cities are the crucible of civilization." They are the major source of innovation and wealth...
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What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory Textbooks say that the moon was formed after a Mars-size mass smashed the young Earth. But new...
17th Nov 2017
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What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

17th Nov 2017
Textbooks say that the moon was formed after a Mars-size mass smashed the young Earth. But new evidence has cast doubt on that story, leaving researchers to dream up new ways to get a giant rock into orbit. The post What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a...
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How to Design and Print a Half Drop Repeating Pattern A half drop is a great way of creating a repeating pattern where the repeat is slightly obscured. It...
5th Jan 2023
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How to Design and Print a Half Drop Repeating Pattern

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

5th Jan 2023
A half drop is a great way of creating a repeating pattern where the repeat is slightly obscured. It can make for a less gridded-looking structure and add complexity to your design. Here's a simple, analogue way to make one. Start by drawing around your block. We are...
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Make small changes and solve the problems you have Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that...
27th Dec 2018
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Make small changes and solve the problems you have

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Dec 2018
Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that aren’t clearly associated with a known problem. It’s even worse in that order. These situations tend to happen when a problem remain unaddressed for too long. These situations tend to...
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London at its Dickensian finest What a time to be alive (if you didn’t die from cholera)
3rd Sep 2025
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London at its Dickensian finest

from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Sep 2025
What a time to be alive (if you didn’t die from cholera)
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🤫 Business Brainstorms is back! ... and has a new name
2nd Jun 2025
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🤫 Business Brainstorms is back!

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jun 2025
... and has a new name
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Net Gains I'm probably not going to do that, but it's a thought that's been on my mind.
8th Dec 2022
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Net Gains

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Dec 2022
I'm probably not going to do that, but it's a thought that's been on my mind.
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调整一下投资的思路 我主要的问题是太过追求找到高 beta 的标的，却忽视了那些领头羊公司。
16th Jul 2025
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调整一下投资的思路

from laike9m's blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Jul 2025
我主要的问题是太过追求找到高 beta 的标的，却忽视了那些领头羊公司。
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France’s Little Corner of North America In the 17th century, France had a huge empire of possessions and colonies in North America. Today,...
3rd Mar 2026
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France’s Little Corner of North America

from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Mar 2026
In the 17th century, France had a huge empire of possessions and colonies in North America. Today, the French flag flies over just a tiny sliver. St Pierre in 1887 photo from WikiCommons The French motive for exploring the New World was the same as Columbus’s had been–they hoped...
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2025.43: The Cost of Resiliency The best Stratechery content from the week of October 20, 2025, including the cost of resiliency, F1...
24th Oct 2025
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2025.43: The Cost of Resiliency

from Stratechery by Ben Thompson [alt+shift+b] in startups

24th Oct 2025
The best Stratechery content from the week of October 20, 2025, including the cost of resiliency, F1 makes it official with Apple, and a new era for NBA broadcasting.
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Isabelle Star LaBlanc's Guide to Minneapolis
6th May 2024
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Isabelle Star LaBlanc's Guide to Minneapolis

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

6th May 2024
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Search like a pro: Google search operators You probably use the world's most famous search engine to find things everyday, but you might not...
24th Apr 2019
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Search like a pro: Google search operators

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Apr 2019
You probably use the world's most famous search engine to find things everyday, but you might not know about some of its advanced search operators. You can use these special search phrases to find things that are otherwise burried in the search results. Read along for a...
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Sufi Rituals, Papal Editcs, and Other Fascinating Facts About the History of Coffee According to the National Coffee Association, about two-thirds of adult Americans start their day...
1st Sep 2026
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Sufi Rituals, Papal Editcs, and Other Fascinating Facts About the History of Coffee

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Sep 2026
According to the National Coffee Association, about two-thirds of adult Americans start their day with a cup of that precious beverage: coffee. There is something special about its bitter flavor and potent aroma that stimulates the mind and the senses. It is estimated that around...
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
28th Jun 2016
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jun 2016
Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
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Steep Embankments My police officer friend (and design mentor) once told me the story of a strange death he...
4th Jun 2016
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Steep Embankments

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

4th Jun 2016
My police officer friend (and design mentor) once told me the story of a strange death he investigated where a woman was found floating face down next to a shopping cart.
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Simulating + Streaming a 4k, 90hz, ultrawide, HDR PC monitor to Apple Vision Pro VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are...
7th Sep 2024
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Simulating + Streaming a 4k, 90hz, ultrawide, HDR PC monitor to Apple Vision Pro

from Azad's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Sep 2024
VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are also capable of outputting at a high refresh rate (60hz, 90hz, 120hz, or even 144hz). Some headsets (like Apple Vision Pro) can also output in HDR! The beauty of it all is that in...
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Inland Northwest, Day 1 (Staging) Was there a name for that largely empty space beyond Washington’s Cascades Range and into the Idaho...
29th Sep 2024
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Inland Northwest, Day 1 (Staging)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

29th Sep 2024
Was there a name for that largely empty space beyond Washington’s Cascades Range and into the Idaho Panhandle? A little research suggested the Inland Northwest, or perhaps a now lesser-used designation, the Inland Empire (not to be confused with a similarly named area of...
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Smile Like Zuck Smile Like Zuck Sometimes I'm photographed and I'm not sure how to smile. It's hard! There's a lot...
10th Mar 2025
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Smile Like Zuck

from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Mar 2025
Smile Like Zuck Sometimes I'm photographed and I'm not sure how to smile. It's hard! There's a lot that you have to do with your mouth and eyes. Last week I decided to improve at this - and who better to learn from than Mark Zuckerberg? Read the full post on my blog! Here's a...
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Will gene sequencing finally prove its worth? DNA sequencing hasn’t lived up to the hype Twenty to thirty years ago, politicians, scientific...
12th May 2025
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Will gene sequencing finally prove its worth?

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th May 2025
DNA sequencing hasn’t lived up to the hype Twenty to thirty years ago, politicians, scientific leaders, journalists, and even Nobel laureates predicted that sequencing the human genome would revolutionize how we treat disease. And while the advances in DNA sequencing that have...
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Naming your startup The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally...
18th Apr 2009
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Naming your startup

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

18th Apr 2009
The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally right on.   Naming is so important and…
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The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at...
26th Jul 2020
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The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Jul 2020
In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at the heart of many distributed systems…
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“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski “Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when...
25th Oct 2019
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“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Oct 2019
“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when a tyrant’s tall statues are shattered”
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It’s Not Better Yet We mourn our craft: The worst fact about these tools is that they work. They can write code better...
3rd Mar 2026
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It’s Not Better Yet

from I am BARRY HESS [alt+shift+b] in travel

3rd Mar 2026
We mourn our craft: The worst fact about these tools is that they work. They can write code better than you or I can, and if you don’t believe me, wait six months. This point stuck out to me. I’m going to take it completely out of context to make my own point. I haven’t yet...
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Black and white epaper photo frame based on Seeed Studio reTerminal E1003 using ESPHome and Home... Last year I wrote about how I had written an ESPHome configuration for the Seeed Studio reTerminal...
23rd May 2026
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Black and white epaper photo frame based on Seeed Studio reTerminal E1003 using ESPHome and Home Assistant

from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd May 2026
Last year I wrote about how I had written an ESPHome configuration for the Seeed Studio reTerminal E1002 device to work as a small, color, digital art frame. This year, I wrote about how I had been using Claude Code to help me write Home Assistant code for myself. Those efforts...
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Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X...
2nd Aug 2011
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Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Aug 2011
My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X Lion Time machine partition (I use an external SSD as my main OS) Bootcamp partition with windows A data partition containg... data. The problem is that CoreStorage is too new. Disk...
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What the Arctic Looked Like in the 1870s–1900s, Seen Through Old Photos At the far edges of the nineteenth-century world, the Arctic stood as both a lived homeland and a...
1st Feb 2026
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What the Arctic Looked Like in the 1870s–1900s, Seen Through Old Photos

from Rare Historical Photos [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Feb 2026
At the far edges of the nineteenth-century world, the Arctic stood as both a lived homeland and a testing ground for human ambition. Long before explorers and photographers arrived with cameras and scientific instruments, Indigenous peoples such as the Inuit, Sámi, and Chukchi...
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Bruce Sterling: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole One reason lots of people don't want to think long term these days is because technology keeps...
12th Jun 2004
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Bruce Sterling: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

12th Jun 2004
One reason lots of people don't want to think long term these days is because technology keeps accelerating so rapidly, we assume the world will become unrecognizable in a few years and then move on to unimaginable. Long-term thinking must be either impossible or irrelevant. The...
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Summary of changes for September Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
3rd Sep 2022
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Summary of changes for September

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

3rd Sep 2022
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 Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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Candid for engineers
14th Jun 2023
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Candid for engineers

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jun 2023
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How I ended up building storylearner.app I’ve always been drawn to self-directed learning. My interests have been pretty diverse - I would...
17th May 2025
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How I ended up building storylearner.app

from Tiny struggles [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th May 2025
I’ve always been drawn to self-directed learning. My interests have been pretty diverse - I would spend countless hours on math, science, soft-skills, movement skills (juggling, handstands) as well as languages. A long standing language learning obsession Over the years (starting...
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Bringing markers back to UI design Many designers know: the best design tool is a marker. Not Figma, not Sketch and no, not a pencil....
8th Jul 2021
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Bringing markers back to UI design

from Koos Looijesteijn - Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

8th Jul 2021
Many designers know: the best design tool is a marker. Not Figma, not Sketch and no, not a pencil. With...
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AI for Work & Life Hackathons need a “why” –
15th May 2025
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AI for Work & Life

from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th May 2025
Hackathons need a “why” –
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Open sourcing the nginx playground Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx...
8th Jul 2023
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Open sourcing the nginx playground

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2023
Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx playground. There’s a blog post about it here. This is an extremely short post to say that at the time I didn’t make it open source, but I am making it open source now. It’s not a lot of...
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How to make new friends as an adult
11th Jul 2024
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How to make new friends as an adult

from Ryan Hoover's Writing [alt+shift+b] in life

11th Jul 2024
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Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Support Annoy is a C++/Python package I built for fast approximate nearest neighbor search in high...
3rd May 2015
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Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Support

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

3rd May 2015
Annoy is a C++/Python package I built for fast approximate nearest neighbor search in high dimensional spaces. Spotify uses it a lot to find similar items. First, matrix factorization gives a low dimensional representation of each item (artist/album/track/user) so that every item...
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Symbolic Reference and Hardware Models in Python The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow An Image Downscaler as Example Design The...
27th Dec 2024
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Symbolic Reference and Hardware Models in Python

from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Dec 2024
The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow An Image Downscaler as Example Design The Reference Model The Micro-Architecture Model Comparing the results Conversion to Hardware Combining symbolic models with random input generation Specification changes Things to...
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Joining the No-Club Laetitia@Work #51
8th Sep 2022
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Joining the No-Club

from Laetitia@Work [alt+shift+b] in life

8th Sep 2022
Laetitia@Work #51
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“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they… “If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they...
30th Jul 2016
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“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they…

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Jul 2016
“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they would have said a decentralized network of information nodes that are ...
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International Developer in Japan Salary Survey 2014 *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* One of the...
13th Feb 2014
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International Developer in Japan Salary Survey 2014

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2014
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* One of the questions I've been asked several times by readers of this blog are [what are salaries of developers in Japan](/articles/software-developer-salaries-in-japan). There is a fair...
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Should we cool it with the historical present? On podcasts it's pretty common to hear something like this: So Alexander Hamilton has just finished...
22nd Oct 2021
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Should we cool it with the historical present?

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Oct 2021
On podcasts it's pretty common to hear something like this: So Alexander Hamilton has just finished law school, and he's trying to make a name for himself. He's only been in New York a few years. So he takes on this case... The problem with the past tense ("Hamilton had just...
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How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community....
7th Feb 2020
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How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer

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

7th Feb 2020
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn't have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in "web dev" some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
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How to handle server-side rendering in React Getting server-side rendering to work in React is quite a hassle if you don't know what you're...
4th Jun 2018
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How to handle server-side rendering in React

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

4th Jun 2018
Getting server-side rendering to work in React is quite a hassle if you don't know what you're doing. Let's make it easier.
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Give Me 20 Very Hard Questions Only an Expert Lepidopterist Would Understand An inch wide and a mile deep
2nd Apr 2026
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Give Me 20 Very Hard Questions Only an Expert Lepidopterist Would Understand

from The AI Underwriter [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Apr 2026
An inch wide and a mile deep
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We have collectively been recovering from a physically... We have collectively been recovering from a physically and emotionally draining two weeks of...
3rd Jul 2026
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We have collectively been recovering from a physically...

from I am BARRY HESS [alt+shift+b] in travel

3rd Jul 2026
We have collectively been recovering from a physically and emotionally draining two weeks of marching band. We all were caught napping at some point throughout the early days of this week! It’s been nice to have activities wind down this week, and we’ll have a bit of relaxation...
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Typography Styles & Element Examples Font Sizes A A A A A A A A 6rem (96px) 5rem (80px) 3rem (48px) 2.25rem (36px) 1.5rem (24px)...
18th Feb 2019
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Typography Styles & Element Examples

from Peder M. Isager [alt+shift+b] in science

18th Feb 2019
Font Sizes A A A A A A A A 6rem (96px) 5rem (80px) 3rem (48px) 2.25rem (36px) 1.5rem (24px) 1.25rem (20px) 1rem (16px) .875rem (14px) Type Samples Head­line Sub­head­line Level 1 Heading One page to rule them all...well, not really. This page displays sample typography and page...
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No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
3rd Nov 2024
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No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Nov 2024
Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
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Spring cleaning is in full effect March was all about bug fixes. This month don’t expect too many new features, but instead get...
5th Apr 2023
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Spring cleaning is in full effect

from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2023
March was all about bug fixes. This month don’t expect too many new features, but instead get excited about improved stability and closed issue reports! The team has been hard at work sorting through your feedback and smoothing out all of the wrinkles. Sideload Since sideloading...
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How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable....
13th Jan 2020
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How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model

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

13th Jan 2020
Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable. It's not very important what those are, so let's just call them “thing A” and “thing B” for now.
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Network Effects: When Value Comes from Others Joining in ... and Data Boutique Partnership Program launch
1st Sep 2023
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Network Effects: When Value Comes from Others Joining in

from Data Boutique [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Sep 2023
... and Data Boutique Partnership Program launch
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Three Class Society I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t...
3rd Oct 2023
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Three Class Society

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Oct 2023
I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t want to live in a free society. A free society requires personal responsiblity. People here want to be managed. They want a ruling class.” I heard something similar once from a...
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The Mirror With No Reflection From lovers to spouses, from employers to parental approval, we search for ourselves in others'...
12th Sep 2025
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The Mirror With No Reflection

from Simone Salis [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Sep 2025
From lovers to spouses, from employers to parental approval, we search for ourselves in others' eyes—creating perhaps the most elaborate illusion ever sustained: that validation exists outside the self that seeks it.
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Installing Transmission (remote and CLI) client on Raspberry Pi This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
5th Dec 2013
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Installing Transmission (remote and CLI) client on Raspberry Pi

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2013
This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
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You can move !Unpin Although I am now mostly comfortable with Rust, some concepts still elude me. One of them is the...
4th Dec 2024
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You can move !Unpin

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2024
Although I am now mostly comfortable with Rust, some concepts still elude me. One of them is the exact meaning of Unpin. The documentation says: The documentation of Unpin says: Types that do not require any pinning guarantees. Where pinning is described as: From this, you could...
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License My blog posts are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International...
1st Jan 2001
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License

from Peder M. Isager [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Jan 2001
My blog posts are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Quality is a trap Like cicadas emerging from the ground, design industry conversations about quality seem to...
25th Jun 2025
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Quality is a trap

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

25th Jun 2025
Like cicadas emerging from the ground, design industry conversations about quality seem to periodically erupt on social media. Also like cicadas, these articles are as predicable as they are irritating. I can’t count the amount of Medium thinkpieces I’ve seen come and go where an...
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50 conversations in Bangalore and Chennai February 13 through 21, 2023, I went to Chennai and Bengaluru, India. My sole purpose was to meet...
2nd Mar 2023
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50 conversations in Bangalore and Chennai

from Derek Sivers [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Mar 2023
February 13 through 21, 2023, I went to Chennai and Bengaluru, India. My sole purpose was to meet new friends. I’m an “Overseas Citizen of India” and my son is half-Indian (Tamil). I will always have ties to India. I wanted to deepen those ties and make new connections.
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It’s not just an IDE: building the developer cloud is hard
9th Aug 2023
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It’s not just an IDE: building the developer cloud is hard

from Scott Kennedy [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Aug 2023
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Silence Isn't Violence The last decade, we’ve been told we have to speak — and speak loudly — or we’re the bad guys. And,...
2nd Sep 2026
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Silence Isn't Violence

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2026
The last decade, we’ve been told we have to speak — and speak loudly — or we’re the bad guys. And, of course, say what the mob says or we’re still the bad guys. But silence is often more profound.
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The Birth of the Modern Moral Panic How the gin craze set a template for fear of intoxicants
13th Aug 2025
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The Birth of the Modern Moral Panic

from Looking Through the Past [alt+shift+b] in history

13th Aug 2025
How the gin craze set a template for fear of intoxicants
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The Infinite Heist - Part 1 In 1874, Georg Cantor published one of the most important papers in math’s 4,000-year history. Some...
3rd Mar 2026
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The Infinite Heist - Part 1

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd Mar 2026
In 1874, Georg Cantor published one of the most important papers in math’s 4,000-year history. Some ideas in it were stolen. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, the first of a two-parter, host Samir Patel speaks with math editor Jordana Cepelewicz about the hard-fought journey...
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On over-engineering; Architecture Edition I recently wrote about over-engineering and striking a good balance between making your code “too”...
10th Dec 2024
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On over-engineering; Architecture Edition

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Dec 2024
I recently wrote about over-engineering and striking a good balance between making your code “too” future-proof and not making it future-proof at all. Some time later, I realized it was missing a critical perspective. I hadn’t addressed over-engineering from an architectural...
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Tech pace layers I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for...
31st Dec 2024
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Tech pace layers

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

31st Dec 2024
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for thinking about how different ecosystems and emergent forces interact. I’ve been thinking about a tech version of it for the better part of a year, and I finally took advantage of the...
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The Power of Expectations: Nvidia's Earnings and the Market Reaction! Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled...
6th Sep 2024
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The Power of Expectations: Nvidia's Earnings and the Market Reaction!

from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance

6th Sep 2024
Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled for after the market closed. That call, at first sight, contained exceptionally good news, with revenues and earnings coming in at stratospheric levels, and above expectations,...
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Going vimgan
6th Mar 2013
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Going vimgan

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2013
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Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities In the realm of AI-powered text-to-CAD, there's promise, but also a surge in subpar designs. Can we...
9th Sep 2023
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Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities

from The Gradient [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Sep 2023
In the realm of AI-powered text-to-CAD, there's promise, but also a surge in subpar designs. Can we steer this technology towards better outcomes?
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Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
5th Apr 2025
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Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture

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

5th Apr 2025
Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
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Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top...
9th Oct 2024
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Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Oct 2024
In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top 10. For each entry, I’ll show you how to perform experiments on APIs to test for the vulnerability, and I’ll discuss my observations. I’ll use different APIs as test subjects in...
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The Newest Members of the USV Team Last Thursday, three new blog posts hit USV.com announcing our three new analysts: This is our...
6th Mar 2023
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The Newest Members of the USV Team

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Mar 2023
Last Thursday, three new blog posts hit USV.com announcing our three new analysts: This is our tradition at USV. When someone starts at USV, we ask them to write a post on the USV blog introducing themselves. This helps founders who come to talk to us about their companies...
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Crème de Mouthwash What price, enlightenmint?
25th Sep 2022
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Crème de Mouthwash

from Haterade [alt+shift+b] in creative

25th Sep 2022
What price, enlightenmint?
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Modeling Life: Linear Algebra This is the 4th post in my series summarizing the key takeaways from reading the book Modeling Life....
2nd May 2024
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Modeling Life: Linear Algebra

from Seeking Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in finance

2nd May 2024
This is the 4th post in my series summarizing the key takeaways from reading the book Modeling Life. I recommend reading my previous posts first to gain a solid understanding on how to model dynamic systems. This post focuses on how linear algebra is employed in modeling dynamic...
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A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer The noted Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz recently completed an intricate weaving composed...
6th Sep 2025
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A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Sep 2025
The noted Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz recently completed an intricate weaving composed of thick white lines on a black background, punctuated with reddish-orange diamonds. Although this striking rug may appear abstract, it shows the internal circuitry of a tiny silicon...
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New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory Researchers have mapped hundreds of semantic categories to the tiny bits of the cortex that...
11th May 2022
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New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

11th May 2022
Researchers have mapped hundreds of semantic categories to the tiny bits of the cortex that represent them in our thoughts and perceptions. What they discovered might change our view of memory. The post New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory first...
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Question #3 for 2025: What will the unemployment rate be in December 2025? Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
1st Jan 2025
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Question #3 for 2025: What will the unemployment rate be in December 2025?

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

1st Jan 2025
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
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'Linux: show graphical layout of disk temperatures' graphic, representation To get a visual representation of hard drive temperatures, I wrote a...
3rd Jan 2010
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'Linux: show graphical layout of disk temperatures'

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jan 2010
graphic, representation To get a visual representation of hard drive temperatures, I wrote a small script. The output of this script looks like this: This output is tailored to the exact disk lay-out of my storage server. However, it is also usable for other servers. You have to...
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I see dead people Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three...
9th Sep 2024
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I see dead people

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Sep 2024
Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three dimensions! You can almost touch them. It hits you differently, I can assure you. I'm still in awe: I just saw my dead grandfather, lifelike and for the first time ever in three dimensions!...
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2025: A big year for Kidz Fun Art Kidz Fun Art grew a lot in 2025! Many more people use it regularly, many more choose the paid...
20th Dec 2025
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2025: A big year for Kidz Fun Art

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Dec 2025
Kidz Fun Art grew a lot in 2025! Many more people use it regularly, many more choose the paid version & I added far more cool features. Loads of Work… First off, here’s a graph of the number of changes (“commits” in technical terms) that I made. 612 changes in total with a few...
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The Subtle Art of Designing Physical Controls for Cars Prototyping a concept for simpler, physical climate controls
1st Feb 2025
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The Subtle Art of Designing Physical Controls for Cars

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Feb 2025
Prototyping a concept for simpler, physical climate controls
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PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020 Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 ....
1st Oct 2020
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PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2020
Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 . For those who don't know, Hacktoberfest is an…
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Polygon Codec More...
26th Jun 2011
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Polygon Codec

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Jun 2011
More...
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Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9) Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
5th May 2025
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Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9)

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th May 2025
Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
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I'm Recommending 14 New Albums Here are some of my favorite recordings of 2026 (so far)
1st Apr 2026
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I'm Recommending 14 New Albums

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Apr 2026
Here are some of my favorite recordings of 2026 (so far)
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Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon Most of us go about our lives comforted by the thought “I would never drop a nuclear weapon on the...
13th Apr 2024
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Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon

from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

13th Apr 2024
Most of us go about our lives comforted by the thought “I would never drop a nuclear weapon on the moon.” The truth is that given a lot of power, a nuclear weapon, and a lot of extremely specific circumstances, we too might find ourselves thinking “I should nuke the moon.”
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So you want to escape the algorithm A primer
16th Jan 2025
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So you want to escape the algorithm

from escape the algorithm [alt+shift+b] in creative

16th Jan 2025
A primer
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How do trusted setups work?
14th Mar 2022
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How do trusted setups work?

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Mar 2022
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Global crime How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
25th Nov 2024
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Global crime

from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history

25th Nov 2024
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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Premium: This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble Soundtrack - Radiohead - Karma Police I just spent a week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one...
16th Jan 2026
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Premium: This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Jan 2026
Soundtrack - Radiohead - Karma Police I just spent a week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one word kept coming up: bullshit.  LG, a company known for making home appliances and televisions, demonstrated a robot (named “CLOiD” for some reason) that could “fold laundry”
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Advent Calendar Advent Calendar
2nd Dec 2024
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Advent Calendar Advent Calendar

from xkcd.com [alt+shift+b] in comics

2nd Dec 2024
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Mournful Mouse and the Space Trip (1963) I am not really scraping the bottom of the barrel as much as taking the time to post the most...
11th Oct 2025
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Mournful Mouse and the Space Trip (1963)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

11th Oct 2025
I am not really scraping the bottom of the barrel as much as taking the time to post the most obscure stuff in my space book collection. I collected almost any pre 1980 children's book about spaceflight. I preferred the non-fiction but picked up some strange fiction and comics...
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A float walks into a gradual type system
2nd Mar 2025
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A float walks into a gradual type system

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2025
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Martyr Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the...
25th Mar 2023
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Martyr

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Mar 2023
Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the floor to catch the sweat that had started dripping from his forehead. His hand was shaking uncontrollably, jerked back and forth by the fear of getting caught again. Mukaajanga, the...
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Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
11th Mar 2019
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Getting Closure on React Hooks

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

11th Mar 2019
Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
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Plain Text Emails, Please Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most...
9th Sep 2019
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Plain Text Emails, Please

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Sep 2019
Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn’t this same approach...
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Namespace Clashes what's in a name?
5th Jan 2026
1

Namespace Clashes

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Jan 2026
what's in a name?
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BIPOC Guide to Asheville's Outdoors
5th Feb 2024
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BIPOC Guide to Asheville's Outdoors

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

5th Feb 2024
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Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
6th Apr 2024
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Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown

from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Apr 2024
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
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Things I love about blogstatic <p>blogstatic had another above $1K month.</p> <p>$1,208.38 to be exact.</p> <p>This was the third...
1st Dec 2023
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Things I love about blogstatic

from Val Sopi [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

1st Dec 2023
<p>blogstatic had another above $1K month.</p> <p>$1,208.38 to be exact.</p> <p>This was the third +$1K month overall, since <a href="https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-chance">rebranding</a> back in 2022.</p> <figure><img...
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Why I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency As of September 1st 2023 I’ve been self-employed for 10 years. For this anniversary, I decided to...
2nd Sep 2023
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Why I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency

from Nela Dunato Art & Design [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Sep 2023
As of September 1st 2023 I’ve been self-employed for 10 years. For this anniversary, I decided to answer a question I'm often asked by family, friends, colleagues, and even strangers: do I plan to hire more people and grow my own design agency? I don't, and in this article I...
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What’s on my ballot: November 2020 general election Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal ...
2nd Nov 2020
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What’s on my ballot: November 2020 general election

from Kevin Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Nov 2020
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal President & Vice President US Representative, District 12 California State Legislature State Senator, District 11 State Assembly, District 17 San Francisco City & County ...
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The Audacity of Ambition Timothée Chalamet Aspires In Public
1st Mar 2025
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The Audacity of Ambition

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

1st Mar 2025
Timothée Chalamet Aspires In Public
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Not Getting It Together. As shown by the Iran crisis.
1st Apr 2026
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Not Getting It Together.

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Apr 2026
As shown by the Iran crisis.
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The Great American Pyramid Memphis, Tennessee is home to many historic landmarks. Like Graceland, and Beale Street. But one of...
1st Apr 2025
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The Great American Pyramid

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Apr 2025
Memphis, Tennessee is home to many historic landmarks. Like Graceland, and Beale Street. But one of their biggest tourist magnets is their Bass Pro Shops. Usually, Bass Pro is the place to buy hunting and fishing gear. But the one in Memphis, it’s less of a store, and more of a...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Trust Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't even trust MYSELF to catch my wife, even if...
7th Feb 2023
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Trust

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

7th Feb 2023
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't even trust MYSELF to catch my wife, even if I'm intending to. Today's News:
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The magic function How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use them! Let’s build a...
3rd Jan 2025
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The magic function

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jan 2025
How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use them! Let’s build a simple Rust CLI tool using what I call the “magic function” approach.
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Volatility Surface Volatility Surface We're going to use Python to generate an implied volatility surface for a family...
1st Mar 2024
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Volatility Surface

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Mar 2024
Volatility Surface We're going to use Python to generate an implied volatility surface for a family of options contracts. This is an extremely common tool for analyzing options and is a key component of many quantitative trading strategies. The Black-Scholes model is like a...
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Recently Hello! Only a day late this time. October was another busy month but it didn’t yield much content. I...
2nd Nov 2025
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Recently

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Nov 2025
Hello! Only a day late this time. October was another busy month but it didn’t yield much content. I ran a second half-marathon, this time with much less training, but only finished a few minutes slower than I did earlier this year. Next year I’m thinking about training at a...
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Most Demanded Helpdesk Features, According to IT Pros We've analyzed professional reviews, user testimonials, and forum discussions from IT professionals...
11th Aug 2025
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Most Demanded Helpdesk Features, According to IT Pros

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

11th Aug 2025
We've analyzed professional reviews, user testimonials, and forum discussions from IT professionals to identify their common pain points and what they value most in existing helpdesk solutions. We've also investigated current trends in helpdesk and IT service management...
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The Album I would forgive the simplicity of the bubblegum or the datedness of the production or the very short...
4th Aug 2021
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The Album

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2021
I would forgive the simplicity of the bubblegum or the datedness of the production or the very short runtime if any of these songs were bops but...they weren't? It just wasn't a very fu album.
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Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz: Resisting Dystopia One of our guiding principles at Long Now is that in order to get to a future that we want to live...
15th Jun 2023
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Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz: Resisting Dystopia

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

15th Jun 2023
One of our guiding principles at Long Now is that in order to get to a future that we want to live in, we must first be able to imagine it. For many, it is much easier to imagine a dystopia than a thriving civilization. Our cultural visions of the future are increasingly...
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Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim Look. There's simply no reason that I...
10th Jan 2025
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Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim

from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Jan 2025
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim Look. There's simply no reason that I should have to exit vim when I want to watch Bad Apple, the shadow-art video that folks enjoy embedding in fun spots. So I got Bad Apple running inside vim just using vim's search...
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Date me if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
2nd Jan 2025
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Date me

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

2nd Jan 2025
if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
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Track Zelda release anniversaries in your calendar The original Legend of Zelda came out 40 years ago today. With other birthdays on the horizon, like...
21st Feb 2026
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Track Zelda release anniversaries in your calendar

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Feb 2026
The original Legend of Zelda came out 40 years ago today. With other birthdays on the horizon, like Twilight Princess’s 20th in November, I wanted a calendar that showed the anniversary of every Zelda game. So I made one. Subscribe to this URL in your calendar...
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I don't care about your magic prompts There’s a brand of tech influencer now that’s all about sharing the perfect prompt for any...
6th May 2025
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I don't care about your magic prompts

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th May 2025
There’s a brand of tech influencer now that’s all about sharing the perfect prompt for any situation. The tweets in question typically read something like “this prompt will make you superhuman”, or “this prompt will be a 20k growth consultant in your pocket”. There’s a kernel of...
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Clients Have a Surprising Amount of Detail There’s a wonderful blog post called “Reality has a surprising amount of detail” which talks about...
5th Jun 2023
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Clients Have a Surprising Amount of Detail

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Jun 2023
There’s a wonderful blog post called “Reality has a surprising amount of detail” which talks about how interesting the world is and how much depth there is to every concept. Here’s a quote about boiling water:
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Sci-fi and Hi-fi Many a technologist has been inspired by science fiction. Some have even built, or rebuilt, entire...
4th Mar 2024
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Sci-fi and Hi-fi

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

4th Mar 2024
Many a technologist has been inspired by science fiction. Some have even built, or rebuilt, entire companies around an idea introduced in a story they read, as the founders of Second Life and Meta did, working from the metaverse as imagined by Neal Stephenson in his seminal 1992...
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A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
4th Nov 2024
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A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries

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

4th Nov 2024
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
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Seeing like a Bank The structural reasons why banks sometimes behave bizarrely in interactions with customers, like...
7th Nov 2023
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Seeing like a Bank

from Bits about Money [alt+shift+b] in finance

7th Nov 2023
The structural reasons why banks sometimes behave bizarrely in interactions with customers, like forgetting things which customers tell them.
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Stealing is a Skill I’m slowly developing my own list of advice: have a creative mindset, embrace radical transparency,...
24th Jun 2026
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Stealing is a Skill

from ben-mini [alt+shift+b] in literature

24th Jun 2026
I’m slowly developing my own list of advice: have a creative mindset, embrace radical transparency, and write down what makes you happy. I’d like to add one more to the list: stealing is a skill! Stealing is good for the soul. If done well, you will be able to build value at...
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Spicy Noodles: Dave Winer and the Web 2.0 Workgroup Celebrating the formation of the Web 2.0 Workgroup at Jing Jing, Palo Alto. From left to right: Gabe...
4th Dec 2023
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Spicy Noodles: Dave Winer and the Web 2.0 Workgroup

from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history

4th Dec 2023
Celebrating the formation of the Web 2.0 Workgroup at Jing Jing, Palo Alto. From left to right: Gabe Rivera, Dave Winer, me, Mike Arrington, Fred Oliveira; photo by Dave Winer. During my stay at the TechCrunch ranch, Mike Arrington, Fred Oliveira and I had been discussing how to...
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Colombia: Santa Marta Mountains And Caribbean Coast I have recently returned from an excellent tour of northern Colombia for Quest Nature Tours. This...
4th Apr 2026
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Colombia: Santa Marta Mountains And Caribbean Coast

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

4th Apr 2026
I have recently returned from an excellent tour of northern Colombia for Quest Nature Tours. This was my fourth time guiding for Quest here, in the birdiest country in the world. Birdiest may be a bold claim, but eBird shows 1,956 species recorded for Colombia, while the...
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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial... An inquiry into the eternal enchantment of why the world exists.
2nd Mar 2023
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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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

2nd Mar 2023
An inquiry into the eternal enchantment of why the world exists.
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It's a piece of cake to bake a SIPB cake Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes,...
5th Sep 2010
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It's a piece of cake to bake a SIPB cake

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Sep 2010
Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes, vanilla buttercream frosting, chocolate buttercream frosting with black food coloring, homemade white vanilla fondant, homemade black chocolate fondant, a bread knife to carve shoes...
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Postgres large JSON value query performance Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
1st Feb 2022
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Postgres large JSON value query performance

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2022
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
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Judgment and creativity are all you need. When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human...
11th Mar 2026
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Judgment and creativity are all you need.

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

11th Mar 2026
When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human attention to complete. Our database migrations were run manually, too. Developing good software is very possible in those circumstances, but it takes a remarkable attention to...
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Tips for a successful WooCommerce project I recently wrapped up a very large WooCommerce build that I am planning on writing a case study for...
29th Oct 2017
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Tips for a successful WooCommerce project

from Daniel Immke [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Oct 2017
I recently wrapped up a very large WooCommerce build that I am planning on writing a case study for next month. In the meantime, I thought I…
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