Joel Gascoigne
6 things I do to be consistently happy
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over a year ago
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Now that it’s almost two years since I first had the idea for Buffer
[http://bufferapp.com], and with the year and a half before that which I worked
on my previous startup, I’ve started to notice...
Common Edge
When Is Architectural Symbolism Hypocrisy?
Like or loathe it, symbolism over substance has a long tradition.
8 months ago
Like or loathe it, symbolism over substance has a long tradition.
African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
a year ago
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
Maps Mania
Flip Off the World with Street View
9 months ago
Wuthering...
Books I Read in April 2024 - this irritation passes over into patient completed understanding
Grinding away at Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans
(1925), a genuine monster. “As I...
8 months ago
Grinding away at Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans
(1925), a genuine monster. “As I was
saying it is often irritating to listen to the repeating they are doing, always
then that one has it as being to love repeating that is the whole history of
each one, such a one has it...
CONTEMPORIST
Ombré Wallpaper Was A Creative Design Choice For This Bedroom
Svetlana Tryaskina of ESTEE DESIGN has shared photos of a contemporary home renovation that she...
a year ago
Svetlana Tryaskina of ESTEE DESIGN has shared photos of a contemporary home renovation that she completed for a busy family of five. One of the design elements that caught our attention, was the room that includes colorful accent walls in the form of ombre wallpaper. The ombre...
Asterisk
The EA-Progress Studies War is Here, and It’s a Constructive Dialogue!
We’re hoping Marc Andreessen doesn’t read this and polarize everyone again.
6 months ago
We’re hoping Marc Andreessen doesn’t read this and polarize everyone again.
Rest of World -...
A step counter, but for your prayers
At least 20 apps exist to help Muslims track their dhikrs, a form of Islamic worship in which people...
3 months ago
At least 20 apps exist to help Muslims track their dhikrs, a form of Islamic worship in which people repeat prayers and holy phrases.
Making software...
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux
2023-04-13
Everyone seems to be running some...
a year ago
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux
2023-04-13
Everyone seems to be running some version of VSCode as their main editor these days. But not me. I find VSCode to be too bloated for my needs - not to mention being built on top of electron instead of native code. I...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Book Notes: “Out of the Software Crisis” by Baldur Bjarnason
I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some...
a year ago
I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some of my highlighted excerpts and notes.
It’s always hard reading a book like this because I highlight so much and have so many thoughts that I could spend hours and hours rehashing...
The Honest Broker
If I Ran a Major Record Label...
I'd do these 10 things
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Samsung vs. iPhone | Elon Musk's schedule
Steve Job's passing has led to a huge wave of press coverage of Apple's and iPhone's "superiority",...
over a year ago
Steve Job's passing has led to a huge wave of press coverage of Apple's and iPhone's "superiority", all created by the, "passionate, tireless, perfectionist..." The point here is that there is an unintended benefit for Apple, since the external messages by 3rd parties are all...
Seth's Blog
Trouble in the grey zone
In many creative industries, there’s a similar pattern. When the stakes are very low, most creators...
a year ago
In many creative industries, there’s a similar pattern. When the stakes are very low, most creators produce things that are fairly banal and ordinary. Part of that is the law of large numbers, but it’s mostly our personal cultural resistance to leaning too far into weird stuff....
Seth's Blog
(Without the bad parts)
That makes it easy. “I’m in favor of unfiltered online commentary (without the misogyny, racism and...
a year ago
That makes it easy. “I’m in favor of unfiltered online commentary (without the misogyny, racism and mob manipulation.)” “I’d like to run a marathon (without getting tired).” “I’m in favor of strict copyright law (except for the endless © trolls and with just the right amount of...
Cheese and Biscuits
Hong Kong Restaurant, Angel
London has never been the kind of place where you can just pick a restaurant at random and have at...
2 months ago
London has never been the kind of place where you can just pick a restaurant at random and have at least a decent dinner. There are too many tourist traps, dingy fast food joints, grim chains and bandwagon-jumping copycats (just see how many smash burger joints have appeared in...
David Heinemeier...
The price of managed cloud services
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good...
a year ago
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...
Common Edge
Notre Dame Cathedral and the Rebirth of Artisanship
The miraculous rebuild was enabled by the century-old French system of trade guilds and education.
2 weeks ago
The miraculous rebuild was enabled by the century-old French system of trade guilds and education.
Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
Home on Erik...
NYC subway math
Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the...
over a year ago
Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the subway takes autistic proportions and so obviously I had to analyze some of the data. The documentation is somewhat terrible, but here's some relevant code for how to use the API:
Arduino Blog
Exploring fungal intelligence with biohybrid robots powered by Arduino
At Cornell University, Dr. Anand Kumar Mishra and his team have been conducting groundbreaking...
a month ago
At Cornell University, Dr. Anand Kumar Mishra and his team have been conducting groundbreaking research that brings together the fields of robotics, biology, and engineering. Their recent experiments, published in Science, explore how fungal mycelia can be used to control robots....
Castles in the Sky
The Moral Case for Small Business
Starting, running, and supporting our way to a better world
a year ago
Starting, running, and supporting our way to a better world
Irrational...
My advice for how to use LLMs in your product.
Pretty much every company I know is looking for a way to benefit from Large Language Models. Even if...
8 months ago
Pretty much every company I know is looking for a way to benefit from Large Language Models. Even if their executives don’t see much applicability, their investors likely do, so they’re staring at the blank page nervously trying to come up with an idea. It’s straightforward to...
Rest of World -...
ByteDance shuts down its WhatsApp clone in Africa
TikTok’s owner launched LetsChat in 2021, aimed at young Africans and boosted by heavy marketing,...
9 months ago
TikTok’s owner launched LetsChat in 2021, aimed at young Africans and boosted by heavy marketing, but it couldn’t crack WhatsApp’s dominance.
Mazdak
Meta Fined & FBI on Polymarket
Meta slapped with a HUGE EU fine, the FBI is investigating Polymarket...
a month ago
Meta slapped with a HUGE EU fine, the FBI is investigating Polymarket...
Seth's Blog
True/useful
Here’s a simple grid that might change the way you think about internal stories: When we believe in...
a year ago
Here’s a simple grid that might change the way you think about internal stories: When we believe in something that’s useful but not true, it can serve a helpful purpose. The tooth fairy, perhaps. When we act on something that’s useful and also true, we’ve found a resilient path...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sim
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'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated...
9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated years ago too.'
Today's News:
Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024 RLP 1.302E. I'll be talking space!
The Forney Flyer
Latest from Uganda
Here's a picture taken while I was doing an early morning pre-flight inspection 2 days ago, on...
over a year ago
Here's a picture taken while I was doing an early morning pre-flight inspection 2 days ago, on Sunday, on a remote strip in South Sudan.
It's not normal for us to do flights on Sundays, but we've had an aircraft stuck in that location for a long time now, requiring some TLC...
Daniel Bourke
5 Free Resources to Help You Get a Machine Learning Job
Learn in public, build your own projects, start the job before you have it, polish your resume and...
a year ago
Learn in public, build your own projects, start the job before you have it, polish your resume and practice, practice, practice!
TheCollector
How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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4 months ago
Archinect - Features
Get To Know Tulane School of Architecture’s Newest Faculty Cohort
With the new 2024/25 academic year in full swing, we are taking a moment to introduce fifteen newly...
a month ago
With the new 2024/25 academic year in full swing, we are taking a moment to introduce fifteen newly appointed permanent faculty members at the Tulane School of Architecture (TuSA), one of Archinect’s School Partners.
The new tenure and tenure-track faculty bring expertise...
Blog - Guerrilla...
Guerrillas in the Midst: Crowdsourcing Cartography
When I think about what Guerrilla Cartography does, I think of building and creating something new...
4 months ago
When I think about what Guerrilla Cartography does, I think of building and creating something new from many different pieces, like a puzzle that only makes sense once it’s put together. But unlike a puzzle, there is no single correct way to put the pieces together, as they can...
CONTEMPORIST
Traditional Materials And Forms Were Adapted To A Modern Language For This House
Melbourne-based architecture and interior design studio Splinter Society, has shared photos of...
a year ago
Melbourne-based architecture and interior design studio Splinter Society, has shared photos of modern rear addition they recently completed for a home in Australia. The designers retained the existing floor plan, roofing tiles, gable forms, small brick garage, simple...
Josh Thompson
Monthly Review: October
This is my first monthly review. I’ll spend some time fleshing out the why and the how, and then get...
over a year ago
This is my first monthly review. I’ll spend some time fleshing out the why and the how, and then get right to it. If you don’t want to read a lot of introspective Josh, stop reading. I use the word “I” dozens of times. Consider yourself warned.
For a long time I have feared life...
balajis.com
The Start Of Startup Cities
Miami demonstrates that the era of startup cities is now underway.
a year ago
Miami demonstrates that the era of startup cities is now underway.
mtlynch.io
My Fourth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder
Four years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software...
over a year ago
Four years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software company.
For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. They all operated at a loss, and none of them earned more than a few hundred dollars per month in revenue.
Halfway through...
Stoic Simple
The Leaf, the Cart and the Stacking of Stones
by Phil Van Treuren Your mind: a spring-fed pool, constantly renewed with fresh, cool water....
a year ago
by Phil Van Treuren Your mind: a spring-fed pool, constantly renewed with fresh, cool water. Unwanted thoughts are leaves falling into the pool; acknowledge them, let the stream carry them away, think of them no more. Your body: a sturdy cart, able to carry heavy burdens....
TheCollector
New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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4 days ago
Old Structures...
Not What’s Expected
I’ve met a lot of people who have not been to New York who think that Central Park is like a London...
4 months ago
I’ve met a lot of people who have not been to New York who think that Central Park is like a London square, a block-sized oasis surrounded by buildings. The “surrounded by buildings” part is correct, but the size is a bit off. It’s 1.3 square miles (3.4 square kilometers for...
The Convivial...
Care, Not Control
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 11
a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 11
Anecdotal Evidence
'Unless It From Enjoyment Spring!'
“He is the
supreme poet of childhood. He is at play all his life.”
Had I read
this out of context,...
a month ago
“He is the
supreme poet of childhood. He is at play all his life.”
Had I read
this out of context, I might have assumed the writer described was Walter de la
Mare, whose poetry I ignored for too long because teachers and critics told me
he wrote solely for children. (Something...
Arduino Blog
DexteriSync lets you walk a mile in the gloves of a user with manual disability
Good designers prioritize the user experience — particularly the experience of users with...
a month ago
Good designers prioritize the user experience — particularly the experience of users with disabilities that affect their perception and fine motor skills. A young person without disabilities, for example, may feel that jars are easy to open, while an elderly person with reduced...
Matt Blewitt
Riding the Risk Railway
When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is...
over a year ago
When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is important to consider the riskiness of a user, which can also be characterised as trustworthiness. These will typically be negatively correlated, with low trust indicating high risk...
TheCollector
What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Asheville Restaurants Refining Appalachian Culinary Traditions
a year ago
Common Edge
Are For-Profit Developments Consistent With the Values of a Public University?
These public-private partnerships may not dovetail with the schools’ values or mission.
a year ago
These public-private partnerships may not dovetail with the schools’ values or mission.
History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
2 weeks ago
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Losing a Loved One: Ask Marcus Aurelius
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
a year ago
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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a year ago
The Universe of...
A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix
Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that
worked surprisingly well. But...
3 months ago
Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that
worked surprisingly well. But it had one big bug that took me a day
to track down.
One reason I find the bug interesting is that it exemplifies the sort
of challenges that come up in systems programming. The...
The American Scholar
“The Pulley” by George Herbert
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Pulley” by George Herbert appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Pulley” by George Herbert appeared first on The American Scholar.
Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Stationery Award Offers a Return to the Primitive
Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably...
9 months ago
Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably Japan’s most-influential stationery design award, which this year asked designers to look to the past. “If we return to the idea of ‘primitive’ in order to create the future,”...
TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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11 months ago
Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
5 months ago
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
Liz Denys
The crispiest chocolate chip cookies
Remember how I was craving chocolate chip cookies not too long ago? Well, the ricotta chocolate...
over a year ago
Remember how I was craving chocolate chip cookies not too long ago? Well, the ricotta chocolate shavings cookies didn't satisfy that craving for long - probably because I was craving deep dark chocolate in a rich buttery dough.
Normally, I make chewy chocolate chip cookies that...
the jsomers.net blog
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's...
over a year ago
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time...
Good Enough
Season 3, Issue 1: Whale, Hello There!
Dear friends, we have not been good at writing this newsletter regularly. But writing is hard work,...
a year ago
Dear friends, we have not been good at writing this newsletter regularly. But writing is hard work, and there’s only so much time we have, and there was the winter break and Shawn kept getting sick—we have many excuses, how much time do you have?
Gosh, since July of last year?...
Rest of World -...
The Genius Bar in a country where iPhones can’t legally be sold
In the land of the U.S. embargo, Cuba’s Apple technicians are kings.
a year ago
In the land of the U.S. embargo, Cuba’s Apple technicians are kings.
The Great Discontent...
Beatie Wolfe
Beatie Wolfe has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation, and...
a year ago
Beatie Wolfe has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation, and pioneered new formats for art that bridge the physical and digital. Wolfe's latest projects include a visualization of 800,000 years worth of climate data, a collective postcard art...
Probably...
Elements of Data Science
I’m excited to announce the launch of my newest book, Elements of Data Science. As the subtitle...
5 months ago
I’m excited to announce the launch of my newest book, Elements of Data Science. As the subtitle suggests, it is about “Getting started with Data Science and Python”. Order now from Lulu.com and get 20% off! I am publishing this book myself, which has one big advantage: I can...
One Useful Thing
An AI Haunted World
Intelligence, everywhere.
a year ago
Intelligence, everywhere.
Math Is Still...
Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life
New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other...
8 months ago
New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues, suggesting that viruses make sense only as members of a community.
The post Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Mark Manson
My Response to Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock
Last weekend, Will Smith walked on stage at the Oscars and slapped Chris Rock for making a joke...
over a year ago
Last weekend, Will Smith walked on stage at the Oscars and slapped Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife. Since that moment, my phone and inbox have been inundated non-stop with people (friends, family, readers, journalists) wanting my “take” on the situation. After all, I...
A Smart Bear
You're a real company when…
What marks the moment when you become a "real" company?
a year ago
What marks the moment when you become a "real" company?
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#46)
Morning in America; Trump's bad vibes; Japan's chip industry; Biden and abundance; native-born...
4 months ago
Morning in America; Trump's bad vibes; Japan's chip industry; Biden and abundance; native-born employment; redistribution; transit costs
The Elysian
Yes, Taylor Swift is just as genius as Mary Shelley
The video from our live event.
3 months ago
The video from our live event.
Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
Rest of World -...
Ride-hailing in Pakistan: A driver’s endless struggle for a clean car
This inDrive worker says he is tired of passengers treating his car like a donkey cart.
a year ago
This inDrive worker says he is tired of passengers treating his car like a donkey cart.
Explorations of an...
Black-fronted Piping-Guans at Parque Provincial Urugua-í
February 8, 2023
Laura and I left the environs of Iguazú Falls and worked our way south and then...
a year ago
February 8, 2023
Laura and I left the environs of Iguazú Falls and worked our way south and then east, our destination being Parque Provincial Uragua-í. This park is a little bit off of the standard birding route and is not frequently visited by foreign birders. And, because...
A Beautiful Site
Better Buttons with color-mix() and Custom Properties
Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically....
a year ago
Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically. For this experiment, we'll use CSS Custom Properties, color-mix(), and OKLCH to ensure that tints and shades are perceptually uniform.
To keep things simple, we'll follow today's...
Irrational...
Should we decompose our monolith?
From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting
a microservices architecture, a...
3 months ago
From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting
a microservices architecture, a monolithic service architecture, or a hybrid between the two, has become one of the
least-reversible decisions that most engineering organizations make.
Even migrating to a...
Louwrentius
Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking
InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons:
low latency
high...
over a year ago
InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons:
low latency
high bandwidth
As a home user, I'm mainly interested in setting up a high bandwidth link between two servers.
I was using quad-port network cards with Linux Bonding, but this solution has some...
Steve Blank
The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates
This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you watch...
a year ago
This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context. See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading. Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II...
Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
a month ago
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
abdz.do - Have you...
Drive-In, lights, action! Cars in movies get a cool illustration twist
Drive-In, lights, action! Cars in movies get a cool illustration twist
...
a year ago
Drive-In, lights, action! Cars in movies get a cool illustration twist
abduzeedo0211—23
Cars have always been a staple in movies, from the classic muscle cars in "Grease" to the futuristic rides in "The Fifth Element". And let's not forget the...
Paul Graham: Essays
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
The simplest possible smooth contouring algorithm
The algorithm that takes a distance function and makes a smooth contour out of it in three steps.
over a year ago
The algorithm that takes a distance function and makes a smooth contour out of it in three steps.
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Advice That Actually Worked For Me
My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
over a year ago
My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
Flashbak
Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some ideas for native bitcoin apps
Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin...
over a year ago
Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin "native Bitcoin apps". Most of the…
abdz.do - Have you...
The brand identity of Molecule by Redkroft
The brand identity of Molecule by Redkroft
AoiroStudio0130—23
At...
a year ago
The brand identity of Molecule by Redkroft
AoiroStudio0130—23
At the heart of Molecule's brand is a commitment to using science and technology to improve people's lives. The company's mission is to bring cutting-edge biotechnology to the...
Old Structures...
Steel And Hemp
From the 1880s, a view of South Street and the East River with the brand-new Brooklyn Bridge in the...
3 months ago
From the 1880s, a view of South Street and the East River with the brand-new Brooklyn Bridge in the background. The bridge was the first suspension bridge with steel wires in its main cables. Steel rope had been used in ships for some time, but these sailing ships were mostly...
Londonist
Festival of Railway Modelling Returns To Alexandra Palace
Hundreds of mini trains steam into town.
10 months ago
Hundreds of mini trains steam into town.
Rest of World -...
AI moderation is no match for hate speech in Ethiopian languages
New research raises concerns that moderation tools can't detect violent threats in Tigray and...
a year ago
New research raises concerns that moderation tools can't detect violent threats in Tigray and elsewhere.
TheCollector
Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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10 months ago
Seth's Blog
The problem with the movie version
There are lights, camera and action, but mostly there’s the unreality of making it fit. Happily ever...
a month ago
There are lights, camera and action, but mostly there’s the unreality of making it fit. Happily ever after, a climax at just the right moment, perfect heroes, tension, resolution and a swelling soundtrack. Every element is amplified and things happen right on schedule. Consume...
Rest of World -...
Indian tech CEO to ChatGPT’s Altman: India can dominate AI
Tech Mahindra CEO explains why he believes India has the potential for global AI supremacy.
a year ago
Tech Mahindra CEO explains why he believes India has the potential for global AI supremacy.
latest projects -...
Analemmagraph
[Concept] Video of a day, one year in every frame
a year ago
[Concept] Video of a day, one year in every frame
IEEE Spectrum
The Lisa Was Apple’s Best Failure
Happy 40th Birthday to Lisa! The Apple Lisa computer, that is. In celebration of this milestone, the...
a year ago
Happy 40th Birthday to Lisa! The Apple Lisa computer, that is. In celebration of this milestone, the Computer History Museum has received permission from Apple to release the source code to the Lisa, including its system and applications software.
You can access the Lisa source...
NeuroLogica Blog
New Type of Black Hole Discovered
ESA’s Gaia orbital telescope has recently discovered two new black holes. This, in itself, is not...
a year ago
ESA’s Gaia orbital telescope has recently discovered two new black holes. This, in itself, is not surprising, as that is Gaia’s mission – to precisely map the three-dimensional position of two billion objects in our galaxy, using three separate instruments. The process is called...
Willem's Blog
From tree to table
Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
over a year ago
Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
Londonist
Buck's Fizz: How The Perennially Festive Drink Was Invented In A Mayfair Club
It's over 100 years old.
a year ago
Londonist
Where Is The Heart Of London?
Answer: everywhere.
11 months ago
Open Culture
How Henri Matisse Scandalized the Art Establishment with His Daring Use of Color
Even those of us not particularly well-versed in art history have heard of a painting style called...
3 months ago
Even those of us not particularly well-versed in art history have heard of a painting style called fauvism — and probably have never considered what it has to do with fauve, the French word for a wild beast. In fact, the two have everything to do with one another, at least in the...
The Honest Broker
Am I Wrong About the Live Music Resurgence?
Am I crazy? Let's find out...
2 months ago
Am I crazy? Let's find out...
Ben Borgers
Giving Out Chick-fil-A on a Schedule App
over a year ago
The American Scholar
Good Vibrations
One eccentric’s desert landmark allows visitors to bathe in sound
The post Good Vibrations appeared...
8 months ago
One eccentric’s desert landmark allows visitors to bathe in sound
The post Good Vibrations appeared first on The American Scholar.
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Profound Secret Both to Himself and the World'
English
majors will recall the evisceration of John Keats in an 1818 review of Endymion in...
a year ago
English
majors will recall the evisceration of John Keats in an 1818 review of Endymion in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. John Gibson Lockhart, using the pen
name “Z,” mocked Keats’ “Cockney” poetry, his medical training and even his
friendship with Leigh Hunt. He dismissed the...
The Ruffian
Zadie Smith and the 'Both Sides' Problem
On Centrist Meta-Commentaries
7 months ago
On Centrist Meta-Commentaries
Max Rozen
How to implement a Higher-order component in React with TypeScript
You probably know how to implement a HoC, but do you know how to write types for one?
over a year ago
You probably know how to implement a HoC, but do you know how to write types for one?
99% Invisible
Hyperfixed: Dylan’s Supermarket Cold Case
We’ve all got problems. Sometimes your problem is a massive roadblock in your life, or maybe it’s...
3 days ago
We’ve all got problems. Sometimes your problem is a massive roadblock in your life, or maybe it’s this little thing that quietly annoys you that you’ve learned to grudgingly put up with. But regardless of the size of your problem, it would be so great if someone would just fix it...
David Heinemeier...
You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories:...
a year ago
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories: competency or engagement. If it's a problem with engagement – their style of collaboration, their communication, their approach – there's a good chance you can fix it with some...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we do meetings at PostHog
Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do...
over a year ago
Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do nothing but hop into one meeting after another? Even…
CONTEMPORIST
This Cafe In Austria Has a Cycling Inspired Design
Architecture and interior design studio Archisphere collaborated with Carbone & Kacerovsky to design...
a year ago
Architecture and interior design studio Archisphere collaborated with Carbone & Kacerovsky to design a ‘Cyclist’, a modern cafe at the Hotel Andaz am Belvedere Vienna. Archisphere drew inspiration from the movement, freedom, and enjoyment associated with cycling. In addition to...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Each Man Can Be Judged By His Favorite Books'
This I find
in The Lone Heretic: A Biography of Miguel
de Unamuno y Jugo (1963) by Margaret Thomas...
6 months ago
This I find
in The Lone Heretic: A Biography of Miguel
de Unamuno y Jugo (1963) by Margaret Thomas Rudd, who quotes her subject: “Each
man can be judged by his favorite books.” She adds of the great Spanish thinker
and novelist:
“Throughout
his long life Unamuno returned to...
Light from Space
The Fossil Footprint Nebula
A rarely imaged target as it is very dim. This image took me over 50h of total exposure time.
Total...
11 months ago
A rarely imaged target as it is very dim. This image took me over 50h of total exposure time.
Total exposure time: 52h 40'
Image resolution: 4,490 × 4,552px (0.96″/px)
Shot from my driveway near Tucson, AZ in late 2023
Telescope: William Optics RedCat
The Modern House
Seeking sea spray: a collection of nine covetable coastal homes
Taking the Boxing Day Dip as inspiration for this week’s collection, we have gathered nine beachside...
a week ago
Taking the Boxing Day Dip as inspiration for this week’s collection, we have gathered nine beachside homes that would easily facilitate this bracing, peculiarly British tradition. Here, we’ve collected some of our most far-flung fantasies, from Cornwall to Norfolk and all the way...
HTMHell
#10 <section> is no replacement for <div>
Bad code
<section id="page-top">
<section data-section-id="page-top" style="display:...
over a year ago
Bad code
<section id="page-top">
<section data-section-id="page-top" style="display: none;"></section>
</section>
<main>
<section id="main-content">
<header id="main-header">
<h1>...</h1>
<section class="container-fluid">
<section class="row">
...
Common Edge
The Sphere in Las Vegas: A Placeless Object in a Placeless City
The latest Sin City spectacle is just that—spectacle. Pure, crystalline spectacle.
11 months ago
The latest Sin City spectacle is just that—spectacle. Pure, crystalline spectacle.
Arduino Blog
This automatic laser turret keeps the cats entertained for hours
Cats may be adorable, but they evolved to be predators. Unfortunately, responsible owners keep their...
2 months ago
Cats may be adorable, but they evolved to be predators. Unfortunately, responsible owners keep their cats indoors to avoid decimating the local wildlife population and that means Mr. Whiskers and Ms. Socks don’t get much opportunity to express their hunting urges. That’s why...
Making software...
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
2021-05-29
A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a...
over a year ago
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
2021-05-29
A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a first-person sci-fi horror-adventure game. The story was intriguing and the developers nailed the overall atmosphere of Pathos-II. Though both those aspects were great, what I found...
Daniel Miessler
AI is About to Feel Like AGI, and You Need to Get Ready
I just wrote a piece similar to this last week, but this one drives the point home even more....
over a year ago
I just wrote a piece similar to this last week, but this one drives the point home even more. Basically, the current trajectory of AI, with all the art generation, the language models, etc., are about to become a whole lot more instruction and response based. What does that mean?...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The idea maze
The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea....
over a year ago
The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea. After the eureka moment, the outcome is…
Joel Gascoigne
Work harder on yourself than you do on your startup
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over a year ago
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> "Work harder on yourself than you do on your job." - Jim Rohn
A long time ago, I came across the amazing quote above, which was said often by
Jim Rohn. It stook in my mind, and as the years
The Rational Walk
Burlington Northern Santa Fe — 2023 Results
Warren Buffett is concerned about the performance of Berkshire's railroad
10 months ago
Warren Buffett is concerned about the performance of Berkshire's railroad
nanoscale views
Brief items
With the end of the semester approaching and various grant deadlines, it's been a very busy time. ...
a year ago
With the end of the semester approaching and various grant deadlines, it's been a very busy time. Here are some items I spotted this week (some new, some old):
This article from Quanta about the "Einstein tile" is great - I particularly like the animated illustration. This...
TheCollector
Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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6 months ago
Seth's Blog
Cheating at golf
Someone who cheats at a friendly game of golf when nothing much is at stake–how can you possibly...
a year ago
Someone who cheats at a friendly game of golf when nothing much is at stake–how can you possibly trust them with something important? And yet, organizations and individuals “cheat at golf” all the time. They put clever clauses in the fine print. Spam a media list. Conceal the...
Jonas Hietala
2010 in review
I saw a post on briancarper where he reviews the past year and it sounds like a great idea...
over a year ago
I saw a post on briancarper where he reviews the past year and it sounds like a great idea actually.
2010 Geek Achievements
Wrote a few games earlier this year;
The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros
A Geek Valentine
Beebop The Island Hopper
Where’s Teddy?
Updated this site a...
Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Two Quick Tips When Building With React Router
I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I...
10 months ago
I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I had known when I started.
So I’m writing them down in case anyone else is about to start a React Router app.
1. Flat Action Data When Using JSON
If you’re submitting JSON,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Amuse and Gratify Her Own Self'
In her first
collection, A Good Time Was Had By All
(1937), Stevie Smith includes a couplet already...
a year ago
In her first
collection, A Good Time Was Had By All
(1937), Stevie Smith includes a couplet already suggesting themes that would go on preoccupying her:
“All things
pass
Love and
mankind is grass”.
In scripture,
grass is the default metaphor for the transience of life. In the...
Making software...
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
2022-12-23
The Desire to Suckless
While I have been happy with my...
over a year ago
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too
2022-12-23
The Desire to Suckless
While I have been happy with my previous desktop setup using Wayland on Alpine Linux, I just couldn't shake the urge to fully embrace the suckless ecosystem. Although, this meant ditching Wayland and returning...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.31.0
PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user experience on Insights and 350+ more improvements and fixes.
The Modern House
Green Series #4: how to make your home breathable and thermal-bridge free
For the final instalment in our mini-series of Passivhaus hacks, Kate Jacobs has asked our panel of...
3 weeks ago
For the final instalment in our mini-series of Passivhaus hacks, Kate Jacobs has asked our panel of experts how to make our homes breathable – and to explain thermal bridging … Because the Passivhaus ideal is all about incredible insulation and airtight construction,...
Handprinted - Blog
Preparing your paper and press for etching
When you’ve created an aluminium or zinc plate etching, you’ll want to have a go at pulling your...
7 months ago
When you’ve created an aluminium or zinc plate etching, you’ll want to have a go at pulling your first print. To do this, you’ll need to learn how to prepare your paper and how to set the correct pressure on your press.
This blog is part of a series featuring tips and techniques...
Old Structures...
So Very Random
Hidden among the vast holdings of the New York Public Library is a set of 52 images of playing cards...
a year ago
Hidden among the vast holdings of the New York Public Library is a set of 52 images of playing cards donated by William Barclay Parsons, arguably most famous for being the chief engineer of the Interborough Rapid Transit system, New York’s oldest subway. Each card has an...
Open Culture
Get $160 Off a Year of Coursera Plus & Gain Unlimited Access to Courses in Data Analytics,...
A heads-up on a Black Friday special: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40%...
a month ago
A heads-up on a Black Friday special: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $239.40) gives you access to 7,000+ courses for one...
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Also Did Not Hope'
Back to the
theme of non-specialization, of writer as generalist: “Next to
Montaigne, the rest of...
3 months ago
Back to the
theme of non-specialization, of writer as generalist: “Next to
Montaigne, the rest of the great intellectual figures of the sixteenth century,
the leaders of the Renaissance, of Humanism, of the Reformation, and of the
modern sciences, the men who created modern...
Seth's Blog
Perfect pavement
Paving the ground might be an option. Pavement is invisible to the driver. It’s expected, smooth,...
6 months ago
Paving the ground might be an option. Pavement is invisible to the driver. It’s expected, smooth, resilient and gets out of the way. You only notice a road when it’s not paved well. Nature, on the other hand, is never perfect. All untouched forests are natural, yet each is...
Vitalik Buterin's...
What do I think about network states?
over a year ago
computers are bad
2024-01-16 the tacnet tracker
Previously on Deep Space Nine, I wrote that "the mid-2000s were an unsettled
time in mobile...
11 months ago
Previously on Deep Space Nine, I wrote that "the mid-2000s were an unsettled
time in mobile computing."
Today, I want to share a little example. Over the last few weeks, for various
personal reasons, I have been doing a lot of reading about embedded operating
systems and ISAs for...
Computer Ads from...
VenturCom's VENIX
Mixing REAL Time With REAL UNIX Is Not Magic...It Is Technology.
10 months ago
Mixing REAL Time With REAL UNIX Is Not Magic...It Is Technology.
TheCollector
The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Presenting Founder Collective
As readers of this blog know, I’m a huge fan of the startup and venture capital world but also a...
over a year ago
As readers of this blog know, I’m a huge fan of the startup and venture capital world but also a sometimes critic of how the venture capital…
Remains of the Day
The John Wick Universe is Cancel Culture
“Si vis pacem para bellum”
translated
“If you want peace, prepare for...
over a year ago
“Si vis pacem para bellum”
translated
“If you want peace, prepare for war”
...
Mark Manson
Why You’re So Unhappy
This isn't going to be your typical pep talk about how the universe works in mysterious ways, or how...
a year ago
This isn't going to be your typical pep talk about how the universe works in mysterious ways, or how everything will fall into place if you're patient.
Spoiler alert: it won’t.
The cold hard truth is this: the universe doesn’t care about your happiness. You do.
Maybe you've...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How do hospitals spend money? | Out-Of-Pocket
it's time to look at a financial statement
6 months ago
it's time to look at a financial statement
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Lotus
The Hardest Working Software in the World
a year ago
The Hardest Working Software in the World
Seth's Blog
The paradigm flip
Paradigm shifts are appealing but rarely well executed. A paradigm is our mental model of the world....
a year ago
Paradigm shifts are appealing but rarely well executed. A paradigm is our mental model of the world. We’re surrounded by people who share a similar model, and as long as the model is working, we live our lives without thinking much about it. If you lived in a space station, the...
Irrational...
Getting lucky isn't a plan.
One piece of flippant commentary that you’ll hear occasionally is that it’s “Better to be lucky than...
a year ago
One piece of flippant commentary that you’ll hear occasionally is that it’s “Better to be lucky than to be good.” On an individual level, it’s almost certainly true that being very lucky outperforms being quite good: I certainly know a number of folks who are financially...
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we ditched ‘talk to sales’ for transparent pricing
"I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that...
over a year ago
"I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that embody everything we hate about modern SaaS…
essay – snarfed.org
Possible futures for Bridgy Fed
Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support...
2 months ago
Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support more users. It’s a technical question, but their underlying motivation is usually broader: they believe in the social web, and the fediverse(s), and they want them to connect...
Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
TheCollector
Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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a year ago
Math Is Still...
New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks Assemble
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of...
7 months ago
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of interacting complexes of protein, DNA, RNA and other molecules, better capturing cells’ biological landscapes.
The post New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks...
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
TheCollector
10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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7 months ago
abdz.do - Have you...
CG animation and motion design — Oknoplast PAVA
CG animation and motion design — Oknoplast PAVA
abduzeedo0505—23
...
a year ago
CG animation and motion design — Oknoplast PAVA
abduzeedo0505—23
Polish creative agency Ars Thanea recently completed a stunning CG animation project powered by the new OKNOPLAST window. The result is a breathtaking volcanic world that tells a...
Open Culture
How the Hugely Acclaimed Shōgun TV Series Makes Translation Interesting
Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their...
3 months ago
Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their owners ever actually got through James Clavell’s famously hefty novel of seventeenth-century Japan is open to question, but they may well have seen the first television adaptation,...
Society's Backend
OpenAI's Strawberry May Enhance AI Reasoning, Optimization of Vision Language Models, Info on...
Weekly updates and resources 7/15/24
5 months ago
Weekly updates and resources 7/15/24
TheCollector
Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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4 months ago
Rest of World -...
How an economic crisis shifted Sri Lanka’s e-commerce industry
Rakhil Fernando of Daraz talks about how the company had to shift its focus from lifestyle products...
a year ago
Rakhil Fernando of Daraz talks about how the company had to shift its focus from lifestyle products to essentials.
Castles in the Sky
Once the Cosmos Become Commonplace
Castles in the Sky #59
10 months ago
RhysTranter.com
A New Role at St David’s Catholic College, Cardiff
I have just started a new role as a pastoral tutor at St David's Catholic College in Cardiff. Over...
over a year ago
I have just started a new role as a pastoral tutor at St David's Catholic College in Cardiff. Over the last two years I have been looking for a secure full-time job that would allow me to draw on my teaching skills and experience, while also offering an opportunity to serve my...
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “stoically facing the end times” edition
1. When is AI coding not AI coding? You might have heard something about how Google now creates a...
2 months ago
1. When is AI coding not AI coding? You might have heard something about how Google now creates a quarter of its code using AI. But as with most things concerning everyone’s favourite hot tech, the devil is in the details. And the details, according to this poster on Hacker News,...
NeuroLogica Blog
A Greener Li-Ion Battery
It is increasingly obvious that battery technology is one of the keys to transitioning our...
7 months ago
It is increasingly obvious that battery technology is one of the keys to transitioning our civilization away from burning fossil fuels. Batteries facilitate the use of cheap, green, but intermittent energy sources. They also allow for the electrification of technology sectors...
TokyoDev
You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech
You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know...
11 months ago
You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know it. The trick is knowing what you’re up against, why these obstacles persist, who might be able to help, and how far you may be required to shift your perspective from where it...
Rest of World -...
Women in South Africa’s gig economy feel forced to work extra hours for free
Women who work as domestic cleaners with SweepSouth, an on-demand app, say clients frequently ask...
12 months ago
Women who work as domestic cleaners with SweepSouth, an on-demand app, say clients frequently ask them to do unpaid work, and the company hasn’t responded to their complaints.
ribbonfarm
Protocol Entrepreneurship
I’m running the Summer of Protocols program for the Ethereum Foundation again this year. Here is the...
9 months ago
I’m running the Summer of Protocols program for the Ethereum Foundation again this year. Here is the Call for Applications. I’d appreciate any help getting it in front of the right candidates. The core of it is what we’re calling Protocol Improvement Grants (PIGs): 90k for a team...
Jake Zimmerman
Old vs new case statement in Ruby
7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Destiny
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Written on the hilt in Latin is 'you will do...
a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Written on the hilt in Latin is 'you will do okay'
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Open Culture
B.B. King Changes a Broken Guitar String Mid-Song at Farm Aid, and Doesn’t Miss a Beat (1985)
The scene is Farm Aid, 1985, attended by a crowd of 80,000 people. The song is “How Blue Can You...
2 months ago
The scene is Farm Aid, 1985, attended by a crowd of 80,000 people. The song is “How Blue Can You Get.” And the key moment comes at the 3:10 mark, when the blues legend B.B. King breaks a guitar string, then manages to replace it before the song finishes minutes later. All the...
Diaries of Note
Oh Misery or the reverse!
In January of 1932, Barbara Pym was diligently studying English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford,...
a year ago
In January of 1932, Barbara Pym was diligently studying English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, honing her craft eighteen years before publication of her debut novel, Some Tame Gazelle. It was around this time that she was thinking deeply of Henry Harvey, a fellow student two...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 361 | GPT++, Apple Security, CISA Cuba…
SECURITY NEWS South Korean authorities are warning that North Koreans are disguising themselves and...
over a year ago
SECURITY NEWS South Korean authorities are warning that North Koreans are disguising themselves and getting jobs in South Korea. The saddest part is that it appears to be just another income generation scheme, meaning they use the salaries to fund the North Korean nuclear...
Archinect - Features
Organizing and Reforming Architectural Education: A Conversation With Tessa Forde
In recent years, the word 'organizing' has taken on a heightened power in architectural discourse,...
a month ago
In recent years, the word 'organizing' has taken on a heightened power in architectural discourse, most notably through grassroots efforts by architectural workers across the United States to organize for better workplace conditions.
For Tessa Forde, organizing centers on a vast...
SOCKS
Alain Biltereyst: Traces of Abstraction in the Urban Environment
Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold...
11 months ago
Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold patterns and colors. Most of the time, the shapes he depicts are not purely the result of chosen arrangements but act as a sort of “found art”: they are extracted from existing signs,...
The Modern House
Come On In: our collection in Open House Festival 2023 gives you access to some of London’s best...
a year ago
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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2 months ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 30
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
a week ago
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
Josh Comeau's blog
You Don’t Need a UI Framework
As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap....
over a year ago
As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap. Seems like a great way to outsource design and save a bunch of time, right? In my experience, this is an unrealistic expectation, and things don’t quite work out that way.
Neil Panchal
Isomatic Typeface Rev 6 WIP
This is a ton of work. But not many things in the world could be more satisfying.
Isomatic Type Rev...
over a year ago
This is a ton of work. But not many things in the world could be more satisfying.
Isomatic Type Rev 6 WIP
Also added Western and Central European language support.
Stay tuned. This concept has been brewing for a few years now. I'll post some lower case specimens
Rest of World -...
Becoming a tech powerhouse is harder than you think
Rio’s gambit to become Latin America’s tech hub is analogous to Brazil and Latin America’s struggle.
a year ago
Rio’s gambit to become Latin America’s tech hub is analogous to Brazil and Latin America’s struggle.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"There's no way to tell where the border is between measurement and manipulation"
Jaron Lanier discussing whether machine learning systems like Netflix recommendations, Facebook's...
over a year ago
Jaron Lanier discussing whether machine learning systems like Netflix recommendations, Facebook's newsfeed, Google search etc are…
Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Historical origins of the malaise
The Modern House
Akwasi Brenya-Mensa on the future of Pan-African cuisine at Tatale in Southwark
a year ago
Construction Physics
On Yglesias on Manufactured Homes
A few weeks ago, Matt Yglesias wrote “How to Unleash a Trailer Home Boom," which outlines a strategy...
12 months ago
A few weeks ago, Matt Yglesias wrote “How to Unleash a Trailer Home Boom," which outlines a strategy for getting more manufactured homes built. Broadly, Yglesias proposes ending HUD code requirements that manufactured homes have a steel chassis, making it easier and less...
Josh Thompson
Tiny Habits take 2
Dr. BJ Fogg runs
Tiny Habits, a one-week course on building new habits.
Since most of what we do is...
over a year ago
Dr. BJ Fogg runs
Tiny Habits, a one-week course on building new habits.
Since most of what we do is governed by habits, it is reasonable to study how to build new ones, or replace bad ones.
I
have done his course before, and had success. I have been reading
Freewith Kristi and...
Maps Mania
The 100 Most Segregated School Districts in America
9 months ago
Joel Gascoigne's...
Fourteen years
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my...
a month ago
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my apartment in Birmingham, in the UK. The launch came seven weeks after I started working on the project on the side as a contract web developer. For a few weeks, I called it bfffr...
TheCollector
10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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4 months ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Reflecting on 2024, preparing for 2025
If you do things a few times, they're a tradition.
This is the third time I'm writing one of these,...
4 days ago
If you do things a few times, they're a tradition.
This is the third time I'm writing one of these, so I guess it's an annual tradition now!
This is where I reflect on the year that's been, and talk some about my hopes and goals for the next year.
Reflecting on 2024
This year has...
The History of the...
We’ve been waiting 20 years for this
The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect.
The post We’ve been...
11 months ago
The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect.
The post We’ve been waiting 20 years for this appeared first on The History of the Web.
Making software...
Building openring with Jekyll Build
Building openring with Jekyll Build
2022-12-02
I think it's great when bloggers post their own...
over a year ago
Building openring with Jekyll Build
2022-12-02
I think it's great when bloggers post their own personal "reading list" of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
Willem's Blog
Snake '97 High Scores
Happily accepting the invitation to attend an exhibition of Snake 97 art works in Antwerp. This was...
over a year ago
Happily accepting the invitation to attend an exhibition of Snake 97 art works in Antwerp. This was totally WOW!
A Beautiful Site
Revisiting FOUCE
It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I...
a week ago
It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I think is worth a post.
This approach is similar to hiding the page content and then fading it in, but I've noticed it's far less distracting without the fade. It also adds a two...
HTMHell
#31 additional “assistance”
Bad code
<a href="/contact" aria-label="If you find that you need additional
assistance in...
over a year ago
Bad code
<a href="/contact" aria-label="If you find that you need additional
assistance in navigating or accessing the content of this website,
please call our customer service toll free number 1-800-666-8654309" title="If
you find that you need additional assistance in...
Strange Loop Canon
Mind the Gap
from empire to umpire
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Two-Storey Rear Addition For An Old Australian Cottage
Bijl Architecture has shared photos of the Stealth House, a renovation project they completed that...
a year ago
Bijl Architecture has shared photos of the Stealth House, a renovation project they completed that included a modern addition to an inter-war cottage located in Hunters Hill, Australia. From the street, the original facade and front garden of the home hide the barely visible rear...
Diaries of Note
ABBEY ROAD
On the morning of 8th August 1969, as a policeman held back traffic, all four members of the Beatles...
a year ago
On the morning of 8th August 1969, as a policeman held back traffic, all four members of the Beatles made their way across a zebra crossing outside EMI Studios in London. As they walked in line, one after the other, with a ten minute window in which to get the job done,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - That Thing
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a year ago
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I feel the quickest way to spot bias is to find someone who reacts to something terrible by worrying about the impression a third party will get.
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diamond geezer
Consecutive postcode districts
It's a lovely day in the capital so I hope you're out enjoying the unseasonable warmth rather than...
8 months ago
It's a lovely day in the capital so I hope you're out enjoying the unseasonable warmth rather than wasting your time reading today's post. That's because it's about journeys through consecutively numbered postcode districts, an issue of no practical use whatsoever.
postcode...
Rest of World -...
The end of anonymity on Chinese social media
Forced to use real names on platforms like Weibo, Chinese influencers quit social media instead.
a year ago
Forced to use real names on platforms like Weibo, Chinese influencers quit social media instead.
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must...
a year ago
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification.
Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then?
One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
Londonist
Life Drawing With Wolves... In A London Hotel
Anyone can get involved... even kids!
a year ago
Anyone can get involved... even kids!
Blog posts of...
The things first time founders do…
Last week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first...
over a year ago
Last week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first time founders shouldn’t do. I qu...
Arduino Blog
Enjoy a perpetual solar eclipse with this machine
Total solar eclipses are rare — at least from the perspective of any specific point on the planet. A...
6 months ago
Total solar eclipses are rare — at least from the perspective of any specific point on the planet. A total eclipse will occur somewhere on Earth once every 18 months or so, but that is more likely to track across the middle of the Pacific Ocean than wherever you happen to be....
TheCollector
The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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a year ago
Josh Thompson
Give it 30 days
Do you have any big audacious goal you want to accomplish?
If you think back to Jan 1, 2016, what...
over a year ago
Do you have any big audacious goal you want to accomplish?
If you think back to Jan 1, 2016, what were your goals?
Lose weight/get in shape
Make more money/start budgeting
Learn a language
Learn a skill
Read more
Stop doing something (smoking, drinking)
Statistically, all of...
Unpacked
Tech's Pledge To Fight AI Election Interference & Twillio’s woes with Segment | EP 6
Last week, 20 tech companies across Big Tech, social networks and AI providers signed a voluntary...
10 months ago
Last week, 20 tech companies across Big Tech, social networks and AI providers signed a voluntary pledge to fight election interference from AI-generated content going through 2024. We dive into the timing of the announcement (2024 is a big election year across the globe), some...
Home on Erik...
Stuff that bothers me: “100x faster than Hadoop”
The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be
Build something that does 1...
over a year ago
The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be
Build something that does 1 thing super well but nothing else Benchmark it against Hadoop Publish stats showing that it's 100x faster than Hadoop $$$ Spark claims their 100x faster than Hadoop and there's a...
TheCollector
What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Smile
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The weird thing is you can't NOT do this.
Today's...
a year ago
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The weird thing is you can't NOT do this.
Today's News:
Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday!
TheCollector
Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Writing for developers
As a founder, one of the most surprisingly important skills I've realized I have is hitting the...
over a year ago
As a founder, one of the most surprisingly important skills I've realized I have is hitting the front page of Hacker News . Out of five posts that I…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Reachy 2
IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few...
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE
ICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK
Cybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024,...
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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11 months ago
Old Structures...
Not Quite Before, Not Quite After
A building that was discussed at great length at last week’s Office To Residential Summit was 25...
6 months ago
A building that was discussed at great length at last week’s Office To Residential Summit was 25 Water Street. Old Structures has no connection to that project, but it’s a block from our office, so I’ve been watching the progress. Here’s what it looked like last December: It was...
Open Culture
Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still...
4 days ago
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting,” noted Matt Taibbi in a 40th anniversary edition of the book. Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of American political...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
11 months ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week
🙈 Copying doesn’t matter
a month ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
Confessions of a...
Let’s argue against the Shark Cull with science
There’s been a lot in the news recently about the implementation of the Shark Cull (or, as the...
over a year ago
There’s been a lot in the news recently about the implementation of the Shark Cull (or, as the Government put it, the “shark protection measures”) here in Western Australia. Just as I am not a climate scientist, I am not a shark biologist, and cannot claim to be a shark expert....
TheCollector
What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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8 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: ICRA Turns 40
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
3 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU...
Willem's Blog
Cleaning a vintage watch
This week I cleaned an automatic vintage watch and fitted it to with a new strap, rediscovering old...
over a year ago
This week I cleaned an automatic vintage watch and fitted it to with a new strap, rediscovering old beauty underneath layers of dirt!
Anecdotal Evidence
'Taking Your Time, Angel of Death'
I like plain
speaking when it comes to death. Not needlessly harsh but direct and above all...
a month ago
I like plain
speaking when it comes to death. Not needlessly harsh but direct and above all unvarnished,
no flowers, closer to a coroner’s report than a greeting card. A well-meaning
reader has sent belated condolences for my brother’s death in August without
once using any of...
Christopher Butler
Gestalt Principles of Design – Symmetry
We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not.
The Gestalt...
a year ago
We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not.
The Gestalt Principles of Design are a set of concepts and guidelines drawn from gestalt psychology, which theorizes that the mind tends to process organized groups of things as a whole,...
HTMHell
HTML and CSS I didn't even know about before I started creating content in Japanese
by Julia Undeutsch
Since I started to create content in Japanese, I also wanted to learn about...
3 weeks ago
by Julia Undeutsch
Since I started to create content in Japanese, I also wanted to learn about traditional setups, like having Japanese text flow from top to bottom, right to left, like you’d see in newspapers or novels. That's when I discovered CSS properties like writing-mode:...
TheCollector
Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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3 months ago
Elad Blog
Early days of AI
Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it...
a year ago
Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it is worth thinking of this as an entirely new era and discontinuity from the past
abdz.do - Have you...
An insight into redesigning the Midland Appliance logotype
An insight into redesigning the Midland Appliance logotype
abduzeedo0215—23
...
a year ago
An insight into redesigning the Midland Appliance logotype
abduzeedo0215—23
When it comes to branding, one of the most important elements is the logo. It's the visual representation of your brand, and it's the first thing that customers see...
Adventures In...
Blend Mode Helper
Blend modes can be a complex thing to wrap one’s head around. Experimentation is the best teacher,...
a year ago
Blend modes can be a complex thing to wrap one’s head around. Experimentation is the best teacher, but even then there are lots of variabilities involved, depending on the layer you use to experiment. The Blend Mode Helper Map (and its constituent Blend Mode Helper layer) reduces...
Joel Gascoigne
How to gain traction in two sided markets
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over a year ago
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Startup ideas that involve two sided markets are notoriously difficult to get
off the ground. It’s the age-old chicken and egg problem. You need lots of
buyers for the sellers to be interested,...
TheCollector
Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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a year ago
Escaping Flatland
Thinking about perceptiveness
links
4 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Calling closures in a Vec
In rust one might want to have a list of closures, for example as a list of callbacks.
let mut fs:...
over a year ago
In rust one might want to have a list of closures, for example as a list of callbacks.
let mut fs: Vec<||> = Vec::new();
fs.push(|| { println!("imma firing my lazer"); });
for f in fs.iter() {
f(); // error: expected function but found `&||`
};
Maybe if we borrow...
TheCollector
What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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9 months ago
Blog - Guerrilla...
Homeless and Shelters in São Paulo
When I was looking at the homeless census maps, my curiosity was sparked and I started to wonder...
over a year ago
When I was looking at the homeless census maps, my curiosity was sparked and I started to wonder what other visualizations and cartographical explorations could be possible. I have a deep interest in censuses because I have been working specifically in a peripheral communities’...
Computer Things
A list of ternary operators
Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability...
a month ago
Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability engineering and being way over my head in half the talks. I'm trying to catch up on The Book and contract work now so I'll do something silly here: ternary operators.
Almost all...
History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
Josh Thompson
Krav Maga, or "Crush Balls, Gouge Eyes, and Break Bones"
In the last few weeks, I have been physically attacked dozens of times. Usually the attacker was...
over a year ago
In the last few weeks, I have been physically attacked dozens of times. Usually the attacker was just trying to choke me, but sometimes he was trying to throw me to the ground. After a few minutes of fighting, I would attack him. Then we’d both shake hands, say “thank you”, and...
Londonist
Week Of January Tube Strikes Set To Cause Severe Disruption
Happy New Year!
a year ago
Grow With Less
9 Real Examples of SEO Titles (And Why They Work)
You just finished writing an amazing article and can’t wait to share it with the world.
But first,...
over a year ago
You just finished writing an amazing article and can’t wait to share it with the world.
But first, you need to come up with a great SEO title. The kind of SEO title that’ll not only help you rank in Google but also make people excited to read your article.
Following the advice I...
TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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6 months ago
Acko.net
Who Doesn't Go Nazi?
The essay "Who goes Nazi" (1941) by Dorothy Thompson is a commonly cited classic. Through a...
over a year ago
The essay "Who goes Nazi" (1941) by Dorothy Thompson is a commonly cited classic. Through a fictional dinner party, we are introduced to various characters and personalities. Thompson analyzes whether they would or wouldn't make particularly good nazis.
Supposedly it comes down...
diamond geezer
Snowflakes
A lot has been added to the tube map in recent years. Accessibility blobs, walking connections,...
a year ago
A lot has been added to the tube map in recent years. Accessibility blobs, walking connections, cablecars, trams, river piers and most recently Thameslink, all have been shoehorned into an increasingly cluttered diagram. But whatever ridiculous woke nonsense have they added...
CONTEMPORIST
Exposed Wood Beams Create A Rustic Yet Modern Aesthetic For This Accessory Dwelling Unit
Obreval together with Catch Architecture, has recently completed a modern ADU (accessory dwelling...
a year ago
Obreval together with Catch Architecture, has recently completed a modern ADU (accessory dwelling unit) in Carpenteria, California, whose design curves around a circular patio. The semicircular cutout that envelops the dwelling, invites an abundance of natural light into every...
diamond geezer
The most/least popular journeys between tube stations
What's the most popular journey between tube stations?
an FOI request published yesterday. The...
6 months ago
What's the most popular journey between tube stations?
an FOI request published yesterday. The data is
a) for journeys in the calendar year 2023
We have had similar spreadsheets before, but this is the first
The most popular journey is from Liverpool Street to Tottenham...
Damn Interesting
Devouring the Heart of Portugal
On the morning of Thursday, 04 December 1924, a tall and well-dressed Dutch trader named Karel...
over a year ago
On the morning of Thursday, 04 December 1924, a tall and well-dressed Dutch trader named Karel Marang strolled along Great Winchester Street in the City of London, among the bustling crowds of bankers and brokers of the business district, unaware that the parcel he carried held...
Internal Tech Emails
Facebook and Google "at Defcon 2"
From: Sheryl Sandberg We really want a deep relationship – or at this point any relationship – with...
6 months ago
From: Sheryl Sandberg We really want a deep relationship – or at this point any relationship – with Google
Working Theorys
Membership clubs & desktop apps are back.
And more things I talked about over coffee & dinner this week.
7 months ago
And more things I talked about over coffee & dinner this week.
DYNOMIGHT
Things that don’t work
(Or: Things where there’s a case worth considering that they don’t work all that well for most...
9 months ago
(Or: Things where there’s a case worth considering that they don’t work all that well for most people.)
Acupuncture. (link)
Phenylephrine. (link)
Multivitamins. (link)
Phosphoric acid. (for nausea; link)
Tree-based knowledge organization. The physical world whispers to us to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Circle
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The cool thing is the rapid mutation of surrounding...
11 months ago
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The cool thing is the rapid mutation of surrounding plants and bacteria, meaning Dad is still changing lives after he's gone.
Today's News:
Blog - Bitfield...
Suite smells: undertesting and overtesting
Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests
too optimistic...
3 weeks ago
Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests
too optimistic (assuming the code already works), or too persnickety
(testing the irrelevant)?
Artificial Ignorance
AI and the workplace
How employees and CEOs alike can plan for the future.
7 months ago
How employees and CEOs alike can plan for the future.
Paul Cudenec
Primeval freedom, the anarch and the anarchist
Have I, for the last 30 years, been mistakenly self-identifying as an anarchist?
a month ago
Have I, for the last 30 years, been mistakenly self-identifying as an anarchist?
TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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6 months ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Interactive explanation of marching cubes and dual contouring
Marching cubes and dual contouring are often used for mesh generation. This explanation shows how...
over a year ago
Marching cubes and dual contouring are often used for mesh generation. This explanation shows how they work, what are their differences, similarities, and limitations.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size
When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser...
over a year ago
When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser as small as possible.
I write in ES6 or TypeScript then use browserify to combine all JavaScript code into a single bundle file. For production builds I use uglify to make the...
The Modern House
Mark Bonskek and Sabba Khan’s playful Maryland home is a masterclass in materiality
a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 8 (Postscript: Interesting Signs)
I know that some of the articles in this series veered into heavy topics. So let’s take things in a...
a year ago
I know that some of the articles in this series veered into heavy topics. So let’s take things in a less serious direction for a moment now that I’ve completed the travelogue portion. It’s no secret that I enjoy signage, the more unusual the better. Sometimes I even collect them...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Research papers and the patient perspective | Out-Of-Pocket
we can make improvements with some better studies
a year ago
we can make improvements with some better studies
Applied Cartography
Notes on Zed, revisited
A little over six months ago, I wrote Notes on Zed. My conclusion at that time was that Zed made a...
2 months ago
A little over six months ago, I wrote Notes on Zed. My conclusion at that time was that Zed made a lot of great choices and felt really good to use, but lacked parity with VS Code's feature/ecosystem to its detriment.
Six months later, I spent a few days using it as my daily...
Ryan Mulligan
We can :has it all
The functional :has() CSS pseudo class is now shipping in all evergreen browsers! 🎉
With the...
a year ago
The functional :has() CSS pseudo class is now shipping in all evergreen browsers! 🎉
With the release of Firefox 121.0, I'm excited to see that my semi-dusty :has() demos are finally realizing their full potential in Firefox. The amount of opportunity unlocked with this selector...
Home on Erik...
The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus
As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old...
over a year ago
As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old code slowly over time? In order to understand this, I built a little thing to analyze Git projects, with help from the formidable GitPython project.
Alex Meub
Better Wheels for the Traeger Tailgater
I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and...
over a year ago
I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and works amazingly well. It has more than enough grill space for me and is pretty minimalist on features, which I like. Last Thanksgiving, many people wished they didn’t get the...
Open Culture
Meet Madame Inès Decourcelle, One of the Very First Female Taxi Drivers in Paris (Circa 1908)
If you can read this, you almost certainly know the French word for a professional automobile...
5 months ago
If you can read this, you almost certainly know the French word for a professional automobile driver. That’s because we use the same word in English: chauffeur. French nouns, unlike English ones, come in masculine and feminine varieties, and that -eur ending unmistakably...
sbensu
Risk-takers decide faster
Unsurprising connection between risk and speed.
a month ago
Unsurprising connection between risk and speed.
Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
10 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
TheCollector
How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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2 weeks ago
Steve Klabnik
An introduction to economics under capitalism
over a year ago
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 28 August-3 September 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
ToughSF
Particle Beams in Space
Science fiction is missing a realistic and grounded
look at particle beams. We plan to do just that...
over a year ago
Science fiction is missing a realistic and grounded
look at particle beams. We plan to do just that now.
After reading this, you might decide to give
particle beams their rightful place alongside lasers as a means of transmitting
power, propelling spacecraft or dealing damage...
Good Enough
Season 3, Issue 3: Cosmic Maelstrom
1. Team Full
It's exciting times over here at Good Enough HQ!
(There is no Good Enough HQ. I'd say...
a year ago
1. Team Full
It's exciting times over here at Good Enough HQ!
(There is no Good Enough HQ. I'd say it's in the cloud, but even clouds are now looked down upon as dirtyish things that should not be enjoyed. And not because of air pollution per se, though perhaps because of...
Kevin Chen
Tearing down the Rewind app
Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll...
over a year ago
Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll through a timeline of past screen recordings. Rewind also recognizes text, including text in videos and Zoom calls, allowing the user to perform full-text search on anything that has...
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers
To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to...
3 weeks ago
To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.
The post Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Max Rozen
A Walkthrough of migrating MaxRozen.com from Gatsby to Next.js
I recently migrated MaxRozen.com from Gatsby to Next.js, in this article I'll detail the steps it...
over a year ago
I recently migrated MaxRozen.com from Gatsby to Next.js, in this article I'll detail the steps it took.
./techtipsy
Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012
This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine.
I highly recommend giving that a...
over a year ago
This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine.
I highly recommend giving that a read as well!
Over my lifetime, I’ve used a bunch of different computers, mainly due to new
ideas and requirements popping into my mind every time I’m content with my
current setup....
TheCollector
5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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Rest of World -...
Venezuelan migrants helped build Colombia’s tech scene. Now the country is kicking them out
New rules make getting a visa more difficult, even as Colombia struggles to find enough tech...
a year ago
New rules make getting a visa more difficult, even as Colombia struggles to find enough tech workers.
Math Is Still...
Computer Scientists Combine Two ‘Beautiful’ Proof Methods
Three researchers have figured out how to craft a proof that spreads out information while keeping...
3 months ago
Three researchers have figured out how to craft a proof that spreads out information while keeping it perfectly secret.
The post Computer Scientists Combine Two ‘Beautiful’ Proof Methods first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Tom Preston-Werner
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over a year ago
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This is the second article in my achieving overnight success
[https://joel.is/tagged/achieving-overnight-success] series where I aim to dispel
the myth of overnight success. To do this, I look...
watchTowr Labs
IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377)
Welcome to April 2024.
A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide...
8 months ago
Welcome to April 2024.
A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide range of enterprise software stacks.
In addition, we've seen surreptitious and patient threat actors light our industry on fire with slowly introduced backdoors in the XZ...
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid
CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful...
a year ago
CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor
Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
over a year ago
Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
Working Theorys
Great Products Have Great Premises
The most powerful thing a product can do is give its user a premise.
10 months ago
The most powerful thing a product can do is give its user a premise.
One Useful Thing
The future of education in a world of AI
A positive vision for the transformation to come
a year ago
A positive vision for the transformation to come
Seth's Blog
All species are invasive species
Human beings as we know them have only been around for 70,000 years or so. Honeybees got to North...
a year ago
Human beings as we know them have only been around for 70,000 years or so. Honeybees got to North America around the time Columbus did. And the same is true for technologies and companies. Western Union was an interloper, telegrams were the scary new tech that was going to change...
Liz Denys
Some not-so-secrets of my kitchen
I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some...
over a year ago
I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some of the secrets of my kitchen. Actually, they're not so secret to anyone who's had a peek around my kitchen.
Oven thermometer(s)
For about five dollars, you can ensure your cookies...
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