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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Business Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Anyone caught brandishing an ultrasound will be...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Business

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

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Anyone caught brandishing an ultrasound will be escorted off the premises. Today's News:
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bt RSS Feed
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source My Text Edtior is Not Open Source 2024-01-02 I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than...
a year ago
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My Text Edtior is Not Open Source

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

a year ago
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source 2024-01-02 I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than I can remember. I think Sublime has been around since the start of my “real” career over 10 years ago, but I could be mistaken1. It certainly feels that long. And in that time I...
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Isabel Unraveled
are relationships actually “hard”? on weak, unconvincing statements and expectations vs. reality
6 months ago
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are relationships actually “hard”?

from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life

6 months ago
on weak, unconvincing statements and expectations vs. reality
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Seth's Blog
The steps vs. the concept If you memorize the steps, you have a direct, simple and fast path to obtain the result. Until the...
2 months ago
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The steps vs. the concept

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

2 months ago
If you memorize the steps, you have a direct, simple and fast path to obtain the result. Until the world changes. Even the tiniest shift in the system will render your memorization useless. On the other hand, if you understand the concept, you’ll be able to produce the steps...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Nordstrom Anniversary Sale 2023: Best Deals for Travelers
a year ago
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Nordstrom Anniversary Sale 2023: Best Deals for Travelers

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

a year ago
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Mazdak
Protect Your iPhone: Apple Introduces Stolen Device Protection Apple is taking a stand against iPhone theft with a new security feature called Stolen Device...
a year ago
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Protect Your iPhone: Apple Introduces Stolen Device Protection

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Apple is taking a stand against iPhone theft with a new security feature called Stolen Device Protection, currently available to beta testers. This feature adds an extra layer of protection to your personal information and financial data, making it more difficult for thieves to...
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lcamtuf’s thing
The Afterlife AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
4 months ago
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The Afterlife

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

4 months ago
AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
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Both Are True
wait no that last email wasn't supposed to get cut off !!! this one has the May schedule for the BATCAVE 🦇🦇 Hey also should teach a workshop in how to send...
2 months ago
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wait no that last email wasn't supposed to get cut off !!!

from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life

2 months ago
this one has the May schedule for the BATCAVE 🦇🦇 Hey also should teach a workshop in how to send emails good and how you definitely should send a follow up immediately after that is KEY
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Maggie Appleton
Historical Trails Giving people a visible, useful trail of where they've been over the course of an exploratory...
a year ago
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Historical Trails

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

a year ago
Giving people a visible, useful trail of where they've been over the course of an exploratory journey
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Calculated Risk
3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in February Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in...
3 months ago
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3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in February

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

3 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in February A brief excerpt: The NAR is scheduled to release February Existing Home sales on Thursday, March 20th at 10:00 AM. The consensus is for 3.92 million SAAR, down from 4.08 million...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
How we raised $3M for an open source project Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have...
over a year ago
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How we raised $3M for an open source project

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

over a year ago
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Elves Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am coming to realize I overrespresent fungus and...
4 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Elves

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

4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am coming to realize I overrespresent fungus and cephalopods in my random life forms. Is this chauvinism? Today's News:
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Quanta Magazine
Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and...
3 days ago
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Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies

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

3 days ago
An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption schemes. The post Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Maps Mania
2025 Canadian Election Maps
2 months ago
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2025 Canadian Election Maps

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2 months ago
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Julia Evans
New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal Hello! After many months of writing deep dive blog posts about the terminal, on Tuesday I released a...
2 weeks ago
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New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal

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

2 weeks ago
Hello! After many months of writing deep dive blog posts about the terminal, on Tuesday I released a new zine called “The Secret Rules of the Terminal”! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal, or get an 15-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the...
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Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong? How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
a year ago
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Late October 2024: Inkling LIVE Presentation A few notes about the presentation, and a link to the video
8 months ago
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Ink Note Late October 2024: Inkling LIVE Presentation

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

8 months ago
A few notes about the presentation, and a link to the video
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French And some bits and pieces of news.
a year ago
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Another Of My Essays in French

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

a year ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
arXiv vs MathOverflow - popularity of disciplines
over a year ago
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arXiv vs MathOverflow - popularity of disciplines

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

over a year ago
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Yale E360
In a Major Reversal, the World Bank Is Backing Mega Dams Despite continued opposition, the World Bank has approved the first of five big dam projects...
6 months ago
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In a Major Reversal, the World Bank Is Backing Mega Dams

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
Despite continued opposition, the World Bank has approved the first of five big dam projects expected to get its support in the coming months. Climate change has upped the need for renewable energy, but the environmental and social costs of building such massive projects...
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Vadim Kravcenko
10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens Question: Answer: The post 10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
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10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Question: Answer: The post 10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Louwrentius
Benefits of hyper-threading on a Core 7i processor I had some wave files that I wanted to encode to mp3. I wrote a small parallel processing framework...
over a year ago
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Benefits of hyper-threading on a Core 7i processor

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I had some wave files that I wanted to encode to mp3. I wrote a small parallel processing framework for this job. It executes parallel jobs so I can benefit from the 4 cores + 4 virtual cores of my new Core 7i 920 processor.  The framework is based on some shell scripts running...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte reactivity — an inside and out guide I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the...
over a year ago
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Svelte reactivity — an inside and out guide

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the foot every now and then when using reactive state. Some of the confusion is due to my prior experience with React, but some points are confusing on their own. Today, I dive into...
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Seth's Blog
The Coney Island problem Disney theme parks created more than 20 billion dollars in revenue last year. Coney Island, not so...
a year ago
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The Coney Island problem

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

a year ago
Disney theme parks created more than 20 billion dollars in revenue last year. Coney Island, not so much. Coney Island is dozens of small honky tonk vendors and attractions, an ecosystem, not a corporation. Independent local stores got hammered by the more organized stores in the...
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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...
a year ago
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Books I Read in April 2024 - this irritation passes over into patient completed understanding

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

a year 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...
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CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension And A Garden Studio For This Heritage-Listed Home Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town...
over a year ago
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A New Extension And A Garden Studio For This Heritage-Listed Home

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town House in Greater London, England. Not only did they design the addition, but they also created a small garden studio that provides a workspace for the musician owner. A large...
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Confessions of a...
An Unreachable Hidden XKCD Easter Egg inside CPython No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
7 months ago
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An Unreachable Hidden XKCD Easter Egg inside CPython

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

7 months ago
No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
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The Changelog
Using git-annex for Data Archiving In my recent post about data archiving to removable media, I laid out the difference between backing...
over a year ago
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Using git-annex for Data Archiving

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In my recent post about data archiving to removable media, I laid out the difference between backing up and archiving, and also said I’d evaluate git-annex and dar. This post evaluates git-annex. The next will look at dar, and then I’ll make a comparison post. What is git-annex?...
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Seth's Blog
The 500 ways There are thousands of ways to express encouragement and enthusiasm and support. Few of them require...
over a year ago
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The 500 ways

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

over a year ago
There are thousands of ways to express encouragement and enthusiasm and support. Few of them require a blood oath or even much inconvenience. “I’m thrilled that you’re contributing.” “Can’t wait to see how this turns out.” “I know someone who really needs to hear about this.” “Go...
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Diaries of Note
O God is there no redress, no peace, no justice in this land for us? Ida B. Wells was a trailblazing African American journalist, civil rights activist, and suffragist...
over a year ago
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O God is there no redress, no peace, no justice in this land for us?

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

over a year ago
Ida B. Wells was a trailblazing African American journalist, civil rights activist, and suffragist who courageously fought against racial injustice and gender inequality throughout her life. Born into slavery in 1862, she grew up to become a vocal advocate for the rights of Black...
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xkcd.com
Trojan Horse
a month ago
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Trojan Horse

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a month ago
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tomcritchlow.com
Writing, Riffs & Relationships summary And - specifically for anyone doing "content marketing" to drive sales - like indie...
over a year ago
75

Writing, Riffs & Relationships

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

over a year ago
summary And - specifically for anyone doing "content marketing" to drive sales - like indie consultants, business owners and founders - the riff is a great way to create connections and conversations around your work. In short it's a tasteful and more fun way of doing outreach...
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CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – An Old Warehouse Was Turned Into A Contemporary Home Brengues Le Pavec architects have shared photos of a modern warehouse conversion they completed in...
a year ago
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Before & After – An Old Warehouse Was Turned Into A Contemporary Home

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Brengues Le Pavec architects have shared photos of a modern warehouse conversion they completed in the south of France, between Montpellier and the sea. The ‘Before’…the run-down warehouse, which was still being used to store products, was dark and filled with shelves. The...
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Retail Design Blog
UChicago Medicine Crown Point by Perkins&Will UChicago Medicine Crown Point is one of the nation’s newest multispecialty care centers. This...
4 months ago
31

UChicago Medicine Crown Point by Perkins&Will

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

4 months ago
UChicago Medicine Crown Point is one of the nation’s newest multispecialty care centers. This innovative, free-standing micro-hospital is filling a...
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Diaries of Note
People who gush at me and don’t really like me Antonia White, born Eirene Botting in 1899, was a British writer who won plaudits for Frost in May,...
a year ago
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People who gush at me and don’t really like me

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

a year ago
Antonia White, born Eirene Botting in 1899, was a British writer who won plaudits for Frost in May, a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1933 in which her experiences in a Catholic convent school were vividly depicted. At this point in her life, White had been married three...
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A Smart Bear
The Startup Drake Equation Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an...
5 months ago
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The Startup Drake Equation

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

5 months ago
Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an answer, and a path to increase the chance of success.
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Engineers Need Art
Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1 Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
a year ago
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Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1

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a year ago
Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
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Build In Public...
What if Pinterest and Shopify had a baby? Just hunted Depict — a new AI tool that turns boring Shopify grids into stunning visual stories...
4 months ago
42

What if Pinterest and Shopify had a baby?

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

4 months ago
Just hunted Depict — a new AI tool that turns boring Shopify grids into stunning visual stories without a single line of code.
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Retail Design Blog
Scania Offices by Giant Leap Giant Leap designed Scania’s new South African head office, creating an inspiring and unified space...
7 months ago
34

Scania Offices by Giant Leap

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

7 months ago
Giant Leap designed Scania’s new South African head office, creating an inspiring and unified space that embodies the brand’s values,...
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Don't Worry About...
AI #100: Meet the New Boss Break time is over, it would seem, now that the new administration is in town.
5 months ago
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AI #100: Meet the New Boss

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

5 months ago
Break time is over, it would seem, now that the new administration is in town.
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Retail Design Blog
Bayer Offices by Contract Workplaces Until recently, the offices of the German chemical giant Bayer in Bogotá were located in an...
7 months ago
55

Bayer Offices by Contract Workplaces

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

7 months ago
Until recently, the offices of the German chemical giant Bayer in Bogotá were located in an industrial zone, far from...
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The Convivial...
The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 13
over a year ago
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The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self

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over a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 13
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Ognjen Regoje •...
BSL is not good, it's great Another day, another project adopted BSL. Another day, another round of outrage from people harping...
a year ago
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BSL is not good, it's great

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Another day, another project adopted BSL. Another day, another round of outrage from people harping on the difference between Open Source and open source. Another day, another inferior fork of a product due to a technicality that has nothing to do with the product itself and that...
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
Blogging or posting on social media—what's better? I wrote about the benefits of blogging before. That was four years ago. Now I have some things to...
over a year ago
80

Blogging or posting on social media—what's better?

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

over a year ago
I wrote about the benefits of blogging before. That was four years ago. Now I have some things to add...
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Herbert Lui
Turner’s practice When you look at one of Joseph Mallord William Turner’s paintings, you might notice his work with...
6 months ago
46

Turner’s practice

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

6 months ago
When you look at one of Joseph Mallord William Turner’s paintings, you might notice his work with color. Yes—while it is a landscape painting, and landscapes were seen as a relatively low form of art at the time, that Turner took on any way for better commercial prospects—it’s...
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MMapped blog
Square joy: trapped rainwater
over a year ago
24

Square joy: trapped rainwater

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over a year ago
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Paul Graham: Essays
Coronavirus and Credibility
over a year ago
37

Coronavirus and Credibility

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over a year ago
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Seth's Blog
Graceful Long after people forget the details, they’ll remember your kindness. There are many forms of...
a year ago
39

Graceful

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

a year ago
Long after people forget the details, they’ll remember your kindness. There are many forms of hospitality, but resilience, goodwill and gratitude are often the ones that matter. PS here’s a short ebook I published almost a decade ago.
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Classical Wisdom
Martin Luther King and LOVE How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
5 months ago
35

Martin Luther King and LOVE

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5 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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McMansion Hell
dome sweet dome As some of you may know, I have been going to language school for the last few months in order to...
over a year ago
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dome sweet dome

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

over a year ago
As some of you may know, I have been going to language school for the last few months in order to learn the world’s most widely spoken and useful language: Slovenian. At this point, my Slovenian is about as coherent as, well, a McMansion. In order to feel better about myself, I...
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Herbert Lui
From research to imagination You remember a fragment of a song that sounds like it’s from the eighties. You do some research, but...
2 months ago
21

From research to imagination

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

2 months ago
You remember a fragment of a song that sounds like it’s from the eighties. You do some research, but you struggle to remember where you heard it, and when. Your guesses are more imagination than recall. No hints come to mind.  When this happened to Questlove, he was stumped. He...
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charity.wtf
In Praise of “Normal” Engineers This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February...
3 weeks ago
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In Praise of “Normal” Engineers

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3 weeks ago
This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engineering teams” . It was later picked up by IEEE Spectrum (!!!), who scrapped most of the...
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Noahpinion
I owe the libertarians an apology It turns out there are worse monsters than the market.
2 months ago
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I owe the libertarians an apology

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2 months ago
It turns out there are worse monsters than the market.
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Willem's Blog
The best keyboard for iPad While everybody is raving about the Magic Keyboard there is something to be said for the...
over a year ago
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The best keyboard for iPad

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over a year ago
While everybody is raving about the Magic Keyboard there is something to be said for the "mouse-less" Smart Keyboard Folio. Read along for a detailed analyses based on actual iPad use.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Science News in 2023 This is not exactly a “best of” because I don’t know how that applies to science news, but here are...
a year ago
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Science News in 2023

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a year ago
This is not exactly a “best of” because I don’t know how that applies to science news, but here are what I consider to be the most impactful science news stories of 2023 (or at least the ones that caught by biased attention). This was a big year for medical breakthroughs. We are...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Fave New Podcasts in 2021 My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also...
over a year ago
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Fave New Podcasts in 2021

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over a year ago
My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also pick up on best of the best from 2020.
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Rest of World -...
Seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border? You’d better speak English or Spanish Migrants speaking Haitian Creole or Indigenous languages face challenges at the border.
over a year ago
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Seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border? You’d better speak English or Spanish

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over a year ago
Migrants speaking Haitian Creole or Indigenous languages face challenges at the border.
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The American Scholar
The Scales The post The Scales appeared first on The American Scholar.
a year ago
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The Scales

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a year ago
The post The Scales appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Ben Borgers
Pluto was 2006??
over a year ago
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Pluto was 2006??

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The Marginalian
Wonder-Sighting on Planet Earth: The Space Telescope Eye of the Scallop Inside Earth's most alien vision.
over a year ago
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Wonder-Sighting on Planet Earth: The Space Telescope Eye of the Scallop

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over a year ago
Inside Earth's most alien vision.
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Yale E360
If software engineering roles were chess pieces, what would they be? Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground. It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to...
over a year ago
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If software engineering roles were chess pieces, what would they be?

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over a year ago
Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground. It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to acquire the entire tech industry. And when Chess acquires us, they'll replace us and take our software engineering jobs1. Then we'll be stuck playing their game, and we'll be...
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Londonist
60 Of The Best Things To Do In London This Spring Your March-May diary, sorted.
a year ago
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60 Of The Best Things To Do In London This Spring

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a year ago
Your March-May diary, sorted.
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Flashbak
Grant Wood: America The Sensual Grant Wood’s most famous picture is American Gothic (1930), that painting stepped in storytelling...
4 months ago
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Grant Wood: America The Sensual

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4 months ago
Grant Wood’s most famous picture is American Gothic (1930), that painting stepped in storytelling and subversive wit of two farmers looking lean, staid and weather-beaten as they stand guard before their lean and staid home. But there’s lot more to him that than hit. Wood was a...
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Diaries of Note
I thought once or twice we were done for In the late 1860s, amid the rugged landscapes of post-Civil War America, countless cowboys undertook...
a year ago
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I thought once or twice we were done for

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a year ago
In the late 1860s, amid the rugged landscapes of post-Civil War America, countless cowboys undertook arduous journeys herding cattle from Texas to Kansas where the demand for beef was on the rise. One such cowboy was Jack Bailey, a 37-year-old North Texan who herded approximately...
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Don't Worry About...
Housing Roundup #11 The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to...
3 months ago
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Housing Roundup #11

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3 months ago
The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to highlight the importance of solving America’s housing crisis the only way it can be solved: Building houses in places people want to live, via repealing the rules that make this...
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Eric Bailey
Multipage Version Zine, Issue 1 I contributed two pages to Multipage Version, Mat Marquis’ new zine. The zine is about HTML...
a year ago
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Multipage Version Zine, Issue 1

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a year ago
I contributed two pages to Multipage Version, Mat Marquis’ new zine. The zine is about HTML elements, and is intended to be printed out as physical media. It was a ton of fun to make, and so refreshing to get back to print media design for a bit. Here are the two pages I...
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Blog - Mac Pierce
+ / - , Actualization Reposting some writing I did a while back on the subject of how additive manufacturing is...
over a year ago
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+ / - , Actualization

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over a year ago
Reposting some writing I did a while back on the subject of how additive manufacturing is necessarily a destructive process.
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Willem's Blog
Enter text without keys Worn on your fingers, the Tap Strap recognises tapping and moving to control and type without a...
over a year ago
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Enter text without keys

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over a year ago
Worn on your fingers, the Tap Strap recognises tapping and moving to control and type without a mouse or keyboard!
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Society's Backend:...
Code with AI but do it correctly ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
4 months ago
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Code with AI but do it correctly

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4 months ago
ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
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Ink & Switch
Dispatch 004: Universal version control and rich text on Automerge In this dispatch we’re sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.
a year ago
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Dispatch 004: Universal version control and rich text on Automerge

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a year ago
In this dispatch we’re sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
U.S. Airplane Bathrooms Must Meet New Accessibility Rules
a year ago
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U.S. Airplane Bathrooms Must Meet New Accessibility Rules

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a year ago
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Ryan Hoover's...
Real friends
a year ago
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Real friends

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a year ago
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Kagi Blog
Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods...
a year ago
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Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments

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a year ago
One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods so that more people can more easilly enjoy the benefits of Kagi Search.
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balajis.com
America's $175 Trillion Problem The true state of the global financial system, in ten charts.
11 months ago
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America's $175 Trillion Problem

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11 months ago
The true state of the global financial system, in ten charts.
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Willem's Blog
Some thoughts on touch screen user interface design I am working on a new app involving personal health that requires a natural intuitive interface that...
over a year ago
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Some thoughts on touch screen user interface design

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

over a year ago
I am working on a new app involving personal health that requires a natural intuitive interface that works well on touch screens. It's good to check out some best practices for touch UI design
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Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75 In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
10 months ago
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75

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10 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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CONTEMPORIST
Stone Snakes Around The Curved Exterior Of This Modern Home Adrian James Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Oxfordshire,...
a year ago
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Stone Snakes Around The Curved Exterior Of This Modern Home

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a year ago
Adrian James Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Oxfordshire, England, that has a sculptural form which sprouts organically from its hillside setting. The home’s design is inspired by the crinkle-crankle Cotswold stone wall, with ribbons of cast...
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Koos Looijesteijn
Your lifestyle won’t save the world
10 months ago
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Your lifestyle won’t save the world

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10 months ago
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2024 The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last...
8 months ago
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Name that Ware, October 2024

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8 months ago
The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last month’s ware. The main reason I liked this ware is actually the board shown below with the prominent star-routing. It’s such traditional hand-routing work, I love craftsmanship like...
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Common Edge
Minoru Yamasaki: The Fragility of Architecture He designed two of the most famous landmarks of the late-20th-century. Why is he virtually unknown...
a year ago
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Minoru Yamasaki: The Fragility of Architecture

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a year ago
He designed two of the most famous landmarks of the late-20th-century. Why is he virtually unknown today?
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Rest of World -...
Brazil banned X. Right-wing politicians are still using it Echoing Elon Musk, the politicians claim they are defending free speech.
9 months ago
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Brazil banned X. Right-wing politicians are still using it

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9 months ago
Echoing Elon Musk, the politicians claim they are defending free speech.
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Quanta Magazine
The Year in Biology Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and...
6 months ago
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The Year in Biology

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6 months ago
Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA. The post The Year in Biology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Old Structures...
Complicated History, Nice Backdrop From February 1946, a view of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn, with lower Manhattan in the...
11 months ago
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Complicated History, Nice Backdrop

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11 months ago
From February 1946, a view of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn, with lower Manhattan in the background. It was a cold month: note the ice in the river past the train storage to the right of pier 15. This is the old pier 15, which was close to the foot of Montague Street. It...
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Julia Evans
Writing Javascript without a build system Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend...
over a year ago
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Writing Javascript without a build system

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over a year ago
Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend project, I was faced with the question: should I use a build system? I want to talk about what’s appealing to me about build systems, why I (usually) still don’t use them, and why I find...
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David Heinemeier...
Have you tried the exact opposite? Have you thought about doing the opposite of whatever you're doing or considering? It's a really...
a month ago
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Have you tried the exact opposite?

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a month ago
Have you thought about doing the opposite of whatever you're doing or considering? It's a really helpful way to test your assumptions and your values. What does the opposite look like, how would it work? It's so easy to get stuck in a groove of what works, what you believe to be...
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Londonist
The Top Exhibitions To See In London: February 2024 Clocks, consumerism and centurions.
a year ago
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The Top Exhibitions To See In London: February 2024

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a year ago
Clocks, consumerism and centurions.
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Paul Cudenec
The Big Plan and the Great Gaslighting Earlier this year I published an essay about “modernisation” in post-WW2 France which exposed how it...
3 months ago
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The Big Plan and the Great Gaslighting

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3 months ago
Earlier this year I published an essay about “modernisation” in post-WW2 France which exposed how it was part of a deliberate strategy of dispossession and control.
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Charlie Becker
Beyond Food and Travel: Remembering Anthony Bourdain I used to sit in my apartment, eating Ramen and watching Anthony Bourdain, wondering about all of...
a year ago
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Beyond Food and Travel: Remembering Anthony Bourdain

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a year ago
I used to sit in my apartment, eating Ramen and watching Anthony Bourdain, wondering about all of the things life and the world had to offer. It’s difficult to overstate the influence Anthony Bourdain has had on my worldview. For over a decade, whenever someone asked, “what do...
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Matt Mazur
Indie Hacking Week 2 Recap – TimelineGPT Progress, LearnGPT Decision Time For Martin Luther King weekend my family and I headed to Boone, North Carolina and stayed in a cabin...
over a year ago
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Indie Hacking Week 2 Recap – TimelineGPT Progress, LearnGPT Decision Time

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over a year ago
For Martin Luther King weekend my family and I headed to Boone, North Carolina and stayed in a cabin for a few days. We went snow tubing at Beech Mountain while we were there, one of the many ski resorts in the area. As is common on vacations, I spent way too much time thinking...
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IEEE Spectrum
Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser The semiconductor laser, invented more than 60 years ago, is the foundation of many of today’s...
12 months ago
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Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser

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12 months ago
The semiconductor laser, invented more than 60 years ago, is the foundation of many of today’s technologies including barcode scanners, fiber-optic communications, medical imaging, and remote controls. The tiny, versatile device is now an IEEE Milestone. The possibilities of...
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The Honest Broker
When Louis Armstrong Conquered Chicago Grammy-winner Ricky Riccardi tells the story of a milestone moment in American music in this extract...
5 months ago
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When Louis Armstrong Conquered Chicago

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5 months ago
Grammy-winner Ricky Riccardi tells the story of a milestone moment in American music in this extract from his new book
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Matt Mazur
“Monthly Billed Annually” is Cursed Copy There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS...
a year ago
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“Monthly Billed Annually” is Cursed Copy

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a year ago
There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS for not refunding an accidental annual payment he made on their service. He intended to purchase the monthly plan, but due to an unclear UI and poor copy, he unintentionally...
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Irrational...
Systems model of API deprecation In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a...
3 months ago
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Systems model of API deprecation

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3 months ago
In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a significant cause of customer churn. While there is internal data that can be used to correlate deprecation with churn, it’s also valuable to build a model to help us decide if we...
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A small freedom area...
Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform...
over a year ago
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Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic

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over a year ago
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is. But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
over a year ago
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Getting Closure on React Hooks

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over a year ago
Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
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xkcd.com
Scream Cipher
4 months ago
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Scream Cipher

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4 months ago
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Wuthering...
Books Read in May 2024 – Some are certainly knowing what they are meaning, some are certainly not... A month without writing anything.  Plenty of reading, though. FICTIONS The Autobiography of an...
a year ago
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Books Read in May 2024 – Some are certainly knowing what they are meaning, some are certainly not knowing what they are meaning.

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a year ago
A month without writing anything.  Plenty of reading, though. FICTIONS The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), James Weldon Johnson The Making of Americans (1925), Gertrude Stein – read over the course of months.  The quotation up above is from p. 783.  I will write about...
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Passing Time
South of the Haimish Line Orienteering on the hedonic treadmill
4 days ago
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South of the Haimish Line

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4 days ago
Orienteering on the hedonic treadmill
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Transitioning from the Attention Era to the Automation Era This new era – the Automation Era – is marked by platforms managing the content and connections for...
7 months ago
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🔗 Transitioning from the Attention Era to the Automation Era

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7 months ago
This new era – the Automation Era – is marked by platforms managing the content and connections for you, so you can spend your attention elsewhere. Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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The American Scholar
Three Poems The post Three Poems appeared first on The American Scholar.
10 months ago
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Three Poems

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10 months ago
The post Three Poems appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Pragmatic...
Survey: What’s in your tech stack? We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us...
3 months ago
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Survey: What’s in your tech stack?

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3 months ago
We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis
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Joel Gascoigne
Founders: failure comes with the territory * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of...
over a year ago
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Founders: failure comes with the territory

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of things have happened this week that made me think a little about what failure means for startup founders. Firstly, one of my favorite startups Sprouter has announced that it is...
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Daniel De Laney
Network Engineering “My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in...
over a year ago
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Network Engineering

from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
“My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in a comprehensible and usable way. Finally, I had to make it less ugly.” The Challenge When you type “google.com” into your browser and press the Enter key, what happens? How do you...
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Rest of World -...
Everything you need to know about Xiaohongshu As fears of a TikTok ban grow, Americans are turning to Xiaohongshu, which translates to “little red...
5 months ago
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Everything you need to know about Xiaohongshu

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

5 months ago
As fears of a TikTok ban grow, Americans are turning to Xiaohongshu, which translates to “little red book.” Here’s how the lifestyle app became a global phenomenon.
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Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Death of Alexander The Great How Exactly did the Famed Conqueror Die?
3 months ago
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The Mysterious Death of Alexander The Great

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
How Exactly did the Famed Conqueror Die?
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The Universe of...
Jonathan Chait [ Content warning: angry, contemptuous ranting that accomplishes nothing. ] I didn't really know who...
7 months ago
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Jonathan Chait

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago
[ Content warning: angry, contemptuous ranting that accomplishes nothing. ] I didn't really know who Jonathan Chait was until last week when I unfortunately read this essay of his (from February 2016) on “Why Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination”. I've said a lot...
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The personal website...
The micromanager's dilemma Here’s a riddle: Nobody I’ve ever worked with likes micromanagement. Yet, on every team I’ve been...
over a year ago
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The micromanager's dilemma

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

over a year ago
Here’s a riddle: Nobody I’ve ever worked with likes micromanagement. Yet, on every team I’ve been on, there is at least one micromanager. How is this possible? Harvard Business Review says, “Micromanage at Your Peril.” Forbes says “Micromanaging is one of the most damaging habits...
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Retail Design Blog
White Fox Offices by PMG Group PMG Group collaborated with White Fox Boutique for five years, designing and constructing various...
2 months ago
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White Fox Offices by PMG Group

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

2 months ago
PMG Group collaborated with White Fox Boutique for five years, designing and constructing various modern spaces reflecting the brand’s vision,...
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Rozado’s Visual...
Northern Awokening: Social-justice and prejudice-signifying language in Canadian news media I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about...
over a year ago
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Northern Awokening: Social-justice and prejudice-signifying language in Canadian news media

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

over a year ago
I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about changes in the language that the news media in Canada use. I have documented previously how in American news media mentions of terms that signify distinct forms of prejudice have...
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of GM-NAA I/O and SHARE The Birth of Computer Operating Systems
a year ago
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The History of GM-NAA I/O and SHARE

from Abort Retry Fail [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
The Birth of Computer Operating Systems
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Adventures In...
Three Maps & the Truth You may have heard that “all maps lie” and that’s right (also, here’s some required reading). Each...
7 months ago
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Three Maps & the Truth

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

7 months ago
You may have heard that “all maps lie” and that’s right (also, here’s some required reading). Each map is a collection of compromises, whether they’re geomatic (your projection and scale choices), editorial (your choice of subject and what you’ve chosen to show and not show), and...
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A Smart Bear
In its emptiness, there is the function of a startup Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage...
over a year ago
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In its emptiness, there is the function of a startup

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

over a year ago
Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage is meaningless, unless you decide what those things are.
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Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87) American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
11 months ago
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

11 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for...
over a year ago
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SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released

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

over a year ago
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for Windows. Changes in this release: 2 page view for ebooks new keybindings: Ctrl+PgDn, Ctrl+Right : go to next page Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+Left : go to previous page 10x faster ebook...
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Paul Graham: Essays
The High-Res Society
over a year ago
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The High-Res Society

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over a year ago
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Society's Backend:...
How much does a 10 million token context window actually cost? Some back-of-the-napkin math for Meta's Llama 4 Scout
2 months ago
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How much does a 10 million token context window actually cost?

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

2 months ago
Some back-of-the-napkin math for Meta's Llama 4 Scout
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Luxagraf:...
Microcosm We sprinted across Florida, from St. Augustine to the far end of the panhandle in two quick drives....
a year ago
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Microcosm

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
We sprinted across Florida, from St. Augustine to the far end of the panhandle in two quick drives. We stopped in the middle at the Tallahassee Car Museum, an odd little museum with a few campsites out front (not everything on Harvest Hosts is a farm). The kids and I wandered...
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Epic Web Dev
Anatomy of a Test (article) Explore the analogy between learning human anatomy and writing code tests, emphasizing a universal...
a year ago
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Anatomy of a Test (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Explore the analogy between learning human anatomy and writing code tests, emphasizing a universal three-step structure: Setup, Action, and Assertion.
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Open Culture
Talking Heads Release the First Official Video for “Psycho Killer”: Watch It Online On social media, the Talking Heads teased a major announcement on June 5th, leading fans to wonder...
a month ago
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Talking Heads Release the First Official Video for “Psycho Killer”: Watch It Online

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

a month ago
On social media, the Talking Heads teased a major announcement on June 5th, leading fans to wonder if a reunion—41 years after their last tour—might finally be in the offing. As one fan put it, “If this is a tour announcement, I am going to freak out!” Alas, we didn’t quite get...
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History Today Feed
‘The Soldier’s Reward’ and ‘Matchmaking and the Marriage Market...’ review ‘The Soldier’s Reward’ and ‘Matchmaking and the Marriage Market...’ review JamesHoare Tue,...
3 months ago
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‘The Soldier’s Reward’ and ‘Matchmaking and the Marriage Market...’ review

from History Today Feed [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
‘The Soldier’s Reward’ and ‘Matchmaking and the Marriage Market...’ review JamesHoare Tue, 03/18/2025 - 07:59
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The Honest Broker
The Rise and Fall of Sly Stone The soul and funk legend leaves us today at age 82—but the deeper story is that he abandoned his...
a month ago
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The Rise and Fall of Sly Stone

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

a month ago
The soul and funk legend leaves us today at age 82—but the deeper story is that he abandoned his audience more than 50 years ago
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Nadia Asparouhova
The New American University I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president,...
over a year ago
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The New American University

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president, earlier this year, and I so enjoyed his thoughts on knowledge production that I immediately wondered how his philosophy would translate to ASU as an organization. Turns out,...
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Both Are True
hello from the other side a record of my first two days away from the internet and social media and wow
a year ago
27

hello from the other side

from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
a record of my first two days away from the internet and social media and wow
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Steve Klabnik
Shoes 4 work is starting: get involved!
over a year ago
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Shoes 4 work is starting: get involved!

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

over a year ago
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Quanta Magazine
New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers With One Qubit The catch: It would require the energy of a few medium-size stars. The post New Quantum...
a month ago
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New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers With One Qubit

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

a month ago
The catch: It would require the energy of a few medium-size stars. The post New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers With One Qubit first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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SatPost by Trung...
The Camera, Vincent Van Gogh and "The Starry Night" How the invention of the camera changed art and led to Van Gogh's classic painting.
3 months ago
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The Camera, Vincent Van Gogh and "The Starry Night"

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

3 months ago
How the invention of the camera changed art and led to Van Gogh's classic painting.
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nanoscale views
What is multiferroicity? (A post summarizing recent US science-related events will be coming later.  For now, here is my...
3 months ago
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What is multiferroicity?

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

3 months ago
(A post summarizing recent US science-related events will be coming later.  For now, here is my promised post about multiferroics, inspired in part by a recent visit to Rice by Yoshi Tokura.) Electrons carry spins and therefore magnetic moments (that is, they can act in some ways...
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mtlynch.io
How to Grow Quickly and Never Turn a Profit Early last year, I launched a nutrition site called Is It Keto. From November 2018 until March 2019,...
over a year ago
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How to Grow Quickly and Never Turn a Profit

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

over a year ago
Early last year, I launched a nutrition site called Is It Keto. From November 2018 until March 2019, the site was my full-time focus. Every month, visitors increased by 50% to 150%, an exhilarating growth rate that far outpaced any of my previous projects. There was only one...
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nanoscale views
March Meeting 2025, Day 1 The APS Global Physics Summit is an intimate affair, with a mere 14,000 attendees, all apparently...
3 months ago
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March Meeting 2025, Day 1

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

3 months ago
The APS Global Physics Summit is an intimate affair, with a mere 14,000 attendees, all apparently vying for lunch capacity for about 2,000 people.   The first day of the meeting was the usual controlled chaos of people trying to learn the layout of the convention center while...
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One Useful Thing
A quick and sobering guide to cloning yourself It took me a few minutes to create a fake me giving a fake lecture.
over a year ago
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A quick and sobering guide to cloning yourself

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
It took me a few minutes to create a fake me giving a fake lecture.
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the singularity is...
choose your own adventure In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile...
a year ago
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choose your own adventure

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

a year ago
In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile phone. Barring a catastrophe, these are facts. What does the future look like for humanity? The only reason we killed all the animals is because the Earth is small. The longest...
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Birchtree
Nintendo's financial results are actually pretty interesting Nintendo's fiscal year just ended on March 31, and their annual results report has some goodies in...
2 months ago
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Nintendo's financial results are actually pretty interesting

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
Nintendo's fiscal year just ended on March 31, and their annual results report has some goodies in there I thought were worth shouting out. First up, the company made a lot less money than in the previous year, with 30% lower revenue and 46% lower profits. As someone
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Old Structures...
Head In The Clouds One of my favorite views of tall buildings, again: in the fog. New York Bay has more than it’s fair...
a year ago
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Head In The Clouds

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
One of my favorite views of tall buildings, again: in the fog. New York Bay has more than it’s fair share of fog, and sometimes it creeps back up into the city. We had one of those days last week.
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Josh Thompson
My terminal setup note: this is a draft. Please ping me in slack/email with questions, spots where this is unclear....
over a year ago
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My terminal setup

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

over a year ago
note: this is a draft. Please ping me in slack/email with questions, spots where this is unclear. I’ll answer your question, and update this post. Here’s some quick notes on how I have my terminal setup. First, I use Zsh. If you’re on a new Macbook Pro, you also are using...
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fast.ai
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion Practical Deep Learning for Coders part 2, 2022
over a year ago
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From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

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

over a year ago
Practical Deep Learning for Coders part 2, 2022
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xkcd.com
Wish Interpretation
over a year ago
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Wish Interpretation

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

over a year ago
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Mind Mine
one thing at a time the only antidote to overwhelm
11 months ago
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one thing at a time

from Mind Mine [alt+shift+b] in life

11 months ago
the only antidote to overwhelm
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David Perell
After Minimalism It's time for us to move beyond minimalism. If we want a dynamic world, we should splash our...
over a year ago
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After Minimalism

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

over a year ago
It's time for us to move beyond minimalism. If we want a dynamic world, we should splash our buildings with enthusiastic colors, bold patterns, and visions of a better tomorrow. The post After Minimalism appeared first on David Perell.
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The Rational Walk
The Berkshire Hathaway Playbook Competition tends to eliminate high profits resulting from business models that have worked...
a year ago
125

The Berkshire Hathaway Playbook

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Competition tends to eliminate high profits resulting from business models that have worked spectacularly well. Will Berkshire's playbook continue to perform well in the future?
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Grant Slatton
Markdown-ish Writing a Markdown(ish) parser with the nom library
a year ago
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Markdown-ish

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Writing a Markdown(ish) parser with the nom library
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Ink & Switch
Dispatch 002: Making a new medium and other recaps It’s always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our...
a year ago
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Dispatch 002: Making a new medium and other recaps

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

a year ago
It’s always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our work are ongoing journeys. So, in this end of the year dispatch we wanted to share some recaps and talk a bit about one of our longest standing research tracks: programmable ink.
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bt RSS Feed
Yes, I Still Use jQuery Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end...
over a year ago
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Yes, I Still Use jQuery

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

over a year ago
Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end developers since the newest build of (jQuery 3.4.0) released a couple of days ago. While I understand not all developers share the same work-style or are using the same tech-stack,...
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Herbert Lui
Mutual understanding Take responsibility for understanding other people. Don’t expect people to understand you the first...
6 months ago
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Mutual understanding

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

6 months ago
Take responsibility for understanding other people. Don’t expect people to understand you the first time.  They may not want to let you know they don’t understand—and they may not want to hurt your feelings—so it’s your job to make them feel safe enough to speak up.  Better yet,...
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Londonist
Explore Notre-Dame Cathedral... From Westminster Abbey Hit augmented reality experience comes to London.
a year ago
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Explore Notre-Dame Cathedral... From Westminster Abbey

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Hit augmented reality experience comes to London.
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Unfiltered by Tim...
If You’re Poor, the Solution Isn’t to Save Money. It’s to Make More Money. “A lot of poor people stay poor because they’re too cheap to get rich”
6 months ago
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If You’re Poor, the Solution Isn’t to Save Money. It’s to Make More Money.

from Unfiltered by Tim Denning [alt+shift+b] in life

6 months ago
“A lot of poor people stay poor because they’re too cheap to get rich”
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HTMHell
Table Like It's 2023 In this article: Hello, Website Builders! A little history What is a table? Who benefits from...
over a year ago
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Table Like It's 2023

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In this article: Hello, Website Builders! A little history What is a table? Who benefits from tables? What does a table look like? What does a table sound and feel like? (Re)learning tables (1994 - 2022) WCAG levels unlocked When tables get complicated Go forth, and make good...
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Seth's Blog
By association We’re busy, we’re confused and we’re always seeking a shortcut. If a company is hiring, the person...
a year ago
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By association

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

a year ago
We’re busy, we’re confused and we’re always seeking a shortcut. If a company is hiring, the person who worked at Google or Apple or Disney gets more of the benefit of the doubt. Even if all they did was bring coffee to someone. But, if that person was one of the hundreds laid off...
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Passing Time
How I passed the time in 2024 Essays, books, albums, & reviews
6 months ago
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How I passed the time in 2024

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6 months ago
Essays, books, albums, & reviews
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Ben Borgers
Information Distribution
over a year ago
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Information Distribution

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over a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
The Brightly Colored Past Burn Ivory, Melt Wax... just like the Ancient Artists
2 months ago
29

The Brightly Colored Past

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Burn Ivory, Melt Wax... just like the Ancient Artists
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AI Snake Oil
People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
over a year ago
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People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
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Yale E360
Facing High Tariffs in U.S., Chinese Solar Flows to Poorer Countries Facing high tariffs in the U.S. and Europe, Chinese solar and battery companies have been selling a...
2 months ago
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Facing High Tariffs in U.S., Chinese Solar Flows to Poorer Countries

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science

2 months ago
Facing high tariffs in the U.S. and Europe, Chinese solar and battery companies have been selling a growing share of their products to poorer countries, a new analysis finds. Read more on E360 →
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Unfiltered by Tim...
Study Human Psychology, Then Make Money Doing Whatever You Want The way to legitimately influence people without being manipulative
7 months ago
31

Study Human Psychology, Then Make Money Doing Whatever You Want

from Unfiltered by Tim Denning [alt+shift+b] in life

7 months ago
The way to legitimately influence people without being manipulative
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Retail Design Blog
Sandy Liang Store by Almost Studio Fit into a narrow storefront once occupied by a laundromat on the edge of Chinatown, the Sandy Liang...
7 months ago
31

Sandy Liang Store by Almost Studio

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

7 months ago
Fit into a narrow storefront once occupied by a laundromat on the edge of Chinatown, the Sandy Liang Store draws...
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Retail Design Blog
KAFÉN by Jawad Zelmadi KAFÉN is a new coffee brand shaped by clarity and built with intention, designed to create structure...
3 months ago
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KAFÉN by Jawad Zelmadi

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3 months ago
KAFÉN is a new coffee brand shaped by clarity and built with intention, designed to create structure without losing life....
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Hidden History
The Vigenere Cipher The Vigenere Cipher is an encryption system that was developed over 500 years ago, and a variant of...
4 months ago
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The Vigenere Cipher

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4 months ago
The Vigenere Cipher is an encryption system that was developed over 500 years ago, and a variant of it was still being used by Soviet KGB spies in the 1950s. Ever since people have been writing, they have been searching for ways to make their written messages secure. This has...
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Jason Fried
Don't delegate your word As you build your business, you'll end up delegating plenty. Much of what you did before is now...
a year ago
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Don't delegate your word

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a year ago
As you build your business, you'll end up delegating plenty. Much of what you did before is now better done by someone else. To make more progress, you release your grip and allow. But there’s one thing you should hold tight and never let go. It’s the thing that should never be...
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Seth's Blog
Agency and contribution What’s possible and what’s required? It’s still surprising to me that some of these ideas aren’t...
22 hours ago
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Agency and contribution

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22 hours ago
What’s possible and what’s required? It’s still surprising to me that some of these ideas aren’t widely held, because they seem so clear to me: Skill is a choice. Talent is overrated, and if we choose to get better at something, we probably can. Responsibility is a privilege....
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Matt Mullenweg
Greatest Hits I’ve been blogging now for approximately 8,465 days since my first post on Movable Type. My...
2 months ago
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Greatest Hits

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2 months ago
I’ve been blogging now for approximately 8,465 days since my first post on Movable Type. My colleague Dan Luu helped me compile some of the “greatest hits” from the archives of ma.tt, perhaps some posts will stir some memories for you as well: Where Did WordCamps Come From?...
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Both Are True
full convo w claude about my demons lol and an actual convo with my meta-critic who, in the convo, I name Brad
4 months ago
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full convo w claude about my demons lol

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4 months ago
and an actual convo with my meta-critic who, in the convo, I name Brad
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Both Are True
i figured out why nothing is ever enough (science) its dopamine all the way down babe
a year ago
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i figured out why nothing is ever enough (science)

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a year ago
its dopamine all the way down babe
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Special Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If Roger Penrose is right, we should be doing this...
3 days ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Special

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3 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If Roger Penrose is right, we should be doing this YESTERDAY. Today's News:
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Nelson's Weblog
Linkblog feed update I've got a new feed for my linkblog. It's at https://www.somebits.com/linkblog/index.atom old feed...
over a year ago
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Linkblog feed update

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over a year ago
I've got a new feed for my linkblog. It's at https://www.somebits.com/linkblog/index.atom old feed at Pinboard will still work but isn't as fancy.
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Steve Klabnik
Thoughts on Bluesky Verification
2 months ago
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Thoughts on Bluesky Verification

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2 months ago
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The American Scholar
The Creator’s Code Are humans alone in their ability to make art? The post The Creator’s Code appeared first on The...
7 months ago
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The Creator’s Code

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7 months ago
Are humans alone in their ability to make art? The post The Creator’s Code appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 105: AI Action Summit February 14, 2025.
4 months ago
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AI Roundup 105: AI Action Summit

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4 months ago
February 14, 2025.
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TokyoDev
Working as an Indonesian Software Engineer in Japan Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first...
a year ago
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Working as an Indonesian Software Engineer in Japan

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a year ago
Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first exposure to Japanese culture was through anime on Sunday morning TV broadcasts. At that time, I didn't even know it was called anime, let alone that it came from Japan since it...
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xkcd.com
Ferris Wheels
11 months ago
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Ferris Wheels

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11 months ago
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Uncharted...
10 Other Places Where Geniuses Hide Groups, networks, the Internet, IQ, state sponsorship, and many more
7 months ago
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10 Other Places Where Geniuses Hide

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7 months ago
Groups, networks, the Internet, IQ, state sponsorship, and many more
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Let Us Think That We Build Forever' I’ve just learned that the English poet Clive Wilmer died on March 13 at age eighty. I knew him...
3 months ago
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'Let Us Think That We Build Forever'

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3 months ago
I’ve just learned that the English poet Clive Wilmer died on March 13 at age eighty. I knew him first as a friend and champion of Edgar Bowers, Thom Gunn and Dick Davis, a co-translator of the Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti, a serious reader of John Ruskin and a fine poet in his...
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Noahpinion
Six reasons chipmakers should put their fabs in Japan It has every resource the semiconductor industry needs.
a year ago
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Six reasons chipmakers should put their fabs in Japan

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a year ago
It has every resource the semiconductor industry needs.
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42!
Optimising bank working hours Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash This is probably an out of date concept these days, however if...
over a year ago
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Optimising bank working hours

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash This is probably an out of date concept these days, however if you ever ran a traditional business back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s as I did, one of the most frustrating things ever was trying to get my banking done over the counter. Almost...
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Diaries of Note
The virus has displaced me British filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman paid £32,000 for Prospect Cottage, a humble fisherman’s...
a year ago
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The virus has displaced me

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a year ago
British filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman paid £32,000 for Prospect Cottage, a humble fisherman’s shack perched on the stark yet striking shingle beach of Dungeness, Kent. In 1986, following his diagnosis with HIV, Jarman found solace and creative refuge in this secluded spot—its...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
“Otherwise do something else” I remember back when I started my first company, a friend said to me “get ready to have a knot in...
over a year ago
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“Otherwise do something else”

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over a year ago
I remember back when I started my first company, a friend said to me “get ready to have a knot in your stomach and feel nauseous for years…
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TheCollector
Baroque Music: Contrast and Drama The Baroque Era’s genesis lay in Italy, established during the Council of Trent between 1545 and...
4 months ago
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Baroque Music: Contrast and Drama

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4 months ago
The Baroque Era’s genesis lay in Italy, established during the Council of Trent between 1545 and 1653. The Council’s mission was simple: How could they inspire people to follow the Catholic faith and come back to the Church’s fold? Where the Protestants opted for simplicity, the...
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Vadim Kravcenko
 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob...
over a year ago
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 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes

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over a year ago
Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob mentioned that I […] The post  🎭 Owning up to your mistakes appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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julian.digital
The power of defaults Are network effects overrated? 01 Intro The world’s most successful companies all exhibit some form...
over a year ago
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The power of defaults

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over a year ago
Are network effects overrated? 01 Intro The world’s most successful companies all exhibit some form of structural competitive advantage: A defensibility mechanism that protects their margins and profits from competitors over long periods of time. Business strategy books like to...
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A Beautiful Site
Flash of Undefined Custom Elements (FOUCE) Web components are defined and registered with JavaScript. Depending on how and when you load the...
over a year ago
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Flash of Undefined Custom Elements (FOUCE)

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over a year ago
Web components are defined and registered with JavaScript. Depending on how and when you load the scripts that perform registration, you may see a brief flash of unstyled HTML where your custom elements should be when the page loads. This is not dissimilar to FOUC, which occurs...
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Rubenerd
Australia’s and Canada’s Elections We take a quick break from #Japan2025 to mention the results back home. Clara and I both submitted...
2 months ago
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Australia’s and Canada’s Elections

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2 months ago
We take a quick break from #Japan2025 to mention the results back home. Clara and I both submitted our postal votes before we left, and largely ignored the news while we tried to enjoy our holiday and break. My sister messaged last night to tell us it was safe to check now, and...
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Posts on Made of...
Tracking down a memory leak in Ruby's EventMachine At Stripe, we rely heavily on ruby and EventMachine to power various internal and external services....
over a year ago
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Tracking down a memory leak in Ruby's EventMachine

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
At Stripe, we rely heavily on ruby and EventMachine to power various internal and external services. Over the last several months, we’ve known that one such service suffered from a gradual memory leak, that would cause its memory usage to gradually balloon from a normal ~50MB to...
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Quantum Frontiers
Quantum automata Do you know when an engineer built the first artificial automaton—the first human-made machine that...
2 months ago
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Quantum automata

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2 months ago
Do you know when an engineer built the first artificial automaton—the first human-made machine that operated by itself, without external control mechanisms that altered the machine’s behavior over time as the machine undertook its mission? The ancient Greek thinker Archytas …...
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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 30 September-1 October 2023 A drag brunch, a mudlarking festival, art markets, Oktoberfest and more.
a year ago
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 30 September-1 October 2023

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a year ago
A drag brunch, a mudlarking festival, art markets, Oktoberfest and more.
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dthompson
Haunt 0.2.6 released Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that...
over a year ago
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Haunt 0.2.6 released

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over a year ago
Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that was accidentally broken in 0.2.5. Additionally, Haunt now uses the inotify API to watch for file changes on Linux when running haunt serve --watch, replacing a slower and more naive...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 This Glorious Machine Riding an e-bike is like discovering a long forgotten secret of the universe or, perhaps, inventing...
6 months ago
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🔗 This Glorious Machine

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6 months ago
Riding an e-bike is like discovering a long forgotten secret of the universe or, perhaps, inventing something worthy of a heartfelt ‘eureka.’ — Robin Rendle Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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Arduino Blog
Vintage rotary phone becomes stylish kitchen timer It seems like everything that happens in a kitchen requires exact timing. Whisk the batter for three...
a year ago
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Vintage rotary phone becomes stylish kitchen timer

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a year ago
It seems like everything that happens in a kitchen requires exact timing. Whisk the batter for three minutes, knead the dough for 15 minutes, bake for 30 minutes, and so on. A timer is a necessity for cooking and baking, but there is no reason you need to use your phone or a...
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diamond geezer
Catch-up While I've been preoccupied on the south coast, London has continued unabated. Monday 5th May Red...
a month ago
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Catch-up

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a month ago
While I've been preoccupied on the south coast, London has continued unabated. Monday 5th May Red Arrows didn't arrive until 2pm. Tuesday 6th May ceramic poppies are back at the Tower of London to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day. However this time there are only...
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Scarlet Ink
Inside a High-Severity Outage: A Late Night Sev-2 at Amazon A detailed narrative of how we communicated about, worked on, and resolved a technical mess we...
2 months ago
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Inside a High-Severity Outage: A Late Night Sev-2 at Amazon

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2 months ago
A detailed narrative of how we communicated about, worked on, and resolved a technical mess we created.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
The Great Unzippening Society is splintering in an unacceptable way and I have a metaphor for it.
over a year ago
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The Great Unzippening

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over a year ago
Society is splintering in an unacceptable way and I have a metaphor for it.
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Notes on software...
A minimal RocksDB example with Zig I mostly programmed in Go the last few years. So every time I wanted an embedded key-value database,...
over a year ago
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A minimal RocksDB example with Zig

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over a year ago
I mostly programmed in Go the last few years. So every time I wanted an embedded key-value database, I reached for Cockroach's Pebble. Pebble is great for Go programming but Go does not embed well into other languages. Pebble was inspired by RocksDB (and its...
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Aristotle Explained The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, one of antiquity’s greatest thinkers, was a student of...
2 months ago
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5 Quotes by Aristotle Explained

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2 months ago
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, one of antiquity’s greatest thinkers, was a student of Plato and a tutor to Alexander the Great. Aristotle had insights far ahead of his time; his understanding of human psychology wasn’t much worse than modern scientists. Only a quarter...
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Ferd.ca
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go? This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as...
4 months ago
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AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?

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4 months ago
This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as well. AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it...
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Farza's Newsletter
me and satoru iwata were chilling at target and bought some beef jerky I’ve been having a ton of fun lately with ZipSchool. We’re evolving fast in terms of our...
over a year ago
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me and satoru iwata were chilling at target and bought some beef jerky

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over a year ago
I’ve been having a ton of fun lately with ZipSchool. We’re evolving fast in terms of our understanding of the product, problem, user. We’re following the data and have numbers we can point to when making a majority of our decisions. We’re focusing on growth.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gorillas Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unprompted, they will walk into a cafe and pretend...
11 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gorillas

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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unprompted, they will walk into a cafe and pretend they have important business to do. Today's News:
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Mazdak
Jury Delivers Major Blow to Google in Antitrust Case: Play Store Deemed Illegal Monopoly In a historic ruling that could shake the foundations of the mobile app ecosystem, a federal jury...
a year ago
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Jury Delivers Major Blow to Google in Antitrust Case: Play Store Deemed Illegal Monopoly

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a year ago
In a historic ruling that could shake the foundations of the mobile app ecosystem, a federal jury has found Google Play guilty of violating antitrust laws in a lawsuit brought by Epic Games. This landmark decision has sent shockwaves through the tech industry and raised questions...
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TokyoDev
Japan's Earthquake and Technology Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in...
over a year ago
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Japan's Earthquake and Technology

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over a year ago
Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in Northern Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami). Despite Tokyo being several hundred kilometers from the epicenter, it's effects were felt even here (although to a much lesser extent than...
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diamond geezer
The 100 comments challenge The 100 comments challenge Can we get 100 comments on today's post, which is full of burning issues...
3 months ago
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The 100 comments challenge

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3 months ago
The 100 comments challenge Can we get 100 comments on today's post, which is full of burning issues from my immediate locality? My local Dry Cleaners is closing on 1st April a small unit beside the barbers. Alas a sign in the window says they're closing down from 1st April...
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latest projects -...
LED Matrix Earrings [Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
a year ago
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LED Matrix Earrings

from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
[Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
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CONTEMPORIST
Wood Details Are Found Throughout This Apartment’s Interior Architecture and Design Studio Cuaik CDS has sent us photos of an apartment they have recently...
a year ago
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Wood Details Are Found Throughout This Apartment’s Interior

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Architecture and Design Studio Cuaik CDS has sent us photos of an apartment they have recently completed in Madrid, Spain, that includes wood details throughout its interior. In the living room, a wall-mounted TV is disguised as art, while illuminated wooden shelves on either...
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Seth's Blog
Everything costs But not all costs are the same. There are three kinds of costs that people get confused about, but...
9 months ago
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Everything costs

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9 months ago
But not all costs are the same. There are three kinds of costs that people get confused about, but understanding them, really understanding them–in your bones–unlocks opportunity. Opportunity cost: If you eat the cupcakes, you can’t also eat the brownies. Every time we choose to...
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Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 375.5 ...
3 months ago
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Hidden Open Thread 375.5

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3 months ago
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Atoms vs Bits
Did the Cybertruck Bomber Have CTE? In what currently appears to be two unconnected events, two veterans committed acts of terrorism...
6 months ago
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Did the Cybertruck Bomber Have CTE?

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6 months ago
In what currently appears to be two unconnected events, two veterans committed acts of terrorism within just a few days. The Cybertruck bombing, in particular, is notable because the alleged perpetrator was in the US Army special forces. This suggests two things about him: He...
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The Last...
True Detective's Detective taking part in a particular pleasure [Pastabagel and I have emailed about the show.  Some excerpts...
over a year ago
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True Detective's Detective

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

over a year ago
taking part in a particular pleasure [Pastabagel and I have emailed about the show.  Some excerpts of his]: In Episode 3, the preacher says to Cohle, "Compassion is ethics, detective" when he departs the trailer leaving the reformed pedophile Burt in distress.  Cohle replies...
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Max Rozen
Getting your own good enough laptop for under $500 I recently bought a cheap, used Thinkpad T480, replaced a bunch of parts. Some folks were asking how...
over a year ago
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Getting your own good enough laptop for under $500

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

over a year ago
I recently bought a cheap, used Thinkpad T480, replaced a bunch of parts. Some folks were asking how they could do the same thing, so I figured I'd write about it
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Open Culture
Meet Jesse Welles, the Folk Singer Who Turns News into Folk Music, Writing Songs on Elections, Plane... At first glance, Jesse Welles resembles nothing so much as a time traveler from the year 1968....
4 months ago
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Meet Jesse Welles, the Folk Singer Who Turns News into Folk Music, Writing Songs on Elections, Plane Crashes, Ozempic & More

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

4 months ago
At first glance, Jesse Welles resembles nothing so much as a time traveler from the year 1968. That’s how I would open a profile about him, but The New York Times’ David Peisner takes a different approach, describing him recording a song in his home studio. “Welles, a...
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weird medieval guys
Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps! Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
over a year ago
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Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!

from weird medieval guys [alt+shift+b] in history

over a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Quantum Frontiers
Identical twins and quantum entanglement “If I had a nickel for every unsolicited and very personal health question I’ve gotten at parties,...
over a year ago
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Identical twins and quantum entanglement

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

over a year ago
“If I had a nickel for every unsolicited and very personal health question I’ve gotten at parties, I’d have paid off my medical school loans by now,” my doctor friend complained. As a physicist, I can somewhat relate. I occasionally … Continue reading →
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oftwominds-Charles...
Why the Global Recession Will be Deeper and Longer Than Pundits Anticipate The global recession will be deeper and longer than those relying on models based on the past two...
3 months ago
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Why the Global Recession Will be Deeper and Longer Than Pundits Anticipate

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

3 months ago
The global recession will be deeper and longer than those relying on models based on the past two decades of hyper-globalization and hyper-financialization anticipate. While everyone focuses on conflicts between nations, few look at the problems shared by nations. Richard...
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Yale E360
Scheduling visits from the muse Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively...
over a year ago
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Scheduling visits from the muse

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively inactive. And then, I just started pumping out a lot more blog posts in 2022 while attending the Recurse Center. What changed? I stopped relying on visits from the muse, and started...
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Left To Write
№ 66: Why Do We Brush Our Teeth? The opposite of a good idea - Finding the real reason behind brushing our teeth - Let's not jump to...
a year ago
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№ 66: Why Do We Brush Our Teeth?

from Left To Write [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
The opposite of a good idea - Finding the real reason behind brushing our teeth - Let's not jump to conclusions
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Flashbak
The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook, 1961 First published in 1961, The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook shares 220 recipes by 55 painters, 61...
a month ago
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The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook, 1961

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
First published in 1961, The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook shares 220 recipes by 55 painters, 61 novelists, 15 sculptors and 19 poets. Dedicated to the art of imperfection in the kithc”, it’s a fun book in which wit and wine feature heavily.   American novelist William Styron...
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Irrational...
Notes on Technology Strategy Patterns Technology Strategy Patterns by Eben Hewitt is a methods-based approach to engineering strategy,...
a year ago
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Notes on Technology Strategy Patterns

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

a year ago
Technology Strategy Patterns by Eben Hewitt is a methods-based approach to engineering strategy, with a particular focus on the methods wielded by McKinsey consultants, software engineering mainstays like Thoughtworks, and philosophy. A valuable read for anyone looking to build...
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Epic Web Dev
Testing Accessibility with Keyboard (article) Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all...
9 months ago
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Testing Accessibility with Keyboard (article)

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9 months ago
Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all users, including those using assistive technologies.
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NeuroLogica Blog
New Potential mRNA HIV Treatment First, don’t get too excited, this is a laboratory study, which means if all goes well we are about...
a month ago
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New Potential mRNA HIV Treatment

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

a month ago
First, don’t get too excited, this is a laboratory study, which means if all goes well we are about a decade or more from an actual treatment. The study, however, is a nice demonstration of the potential of recent biotechnology, specifically mRNA technology and lipid...
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Seth's Blog
Freedom of attitude There are two franchised pack-and-ship shops about equidistant from my home. One has a 4.5 rating...
a year ago
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Freedom of attitude

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

a year ago
There are two franchised pack-and-ship shops about equidistant from my home. One has a 4.5 rating and is reliably busy. The other has an astonishingly low 1.5 out of 5 rating. The physical plant is virtually identical, and the marketing and promo are the same. The only difference...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Is autocapture ‘still’ bad? Is autocapture bad? Has it ever been good? Earlier this year Amplitude posed these questions in a...
over a year ago
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Is autocapture ‘still’ bad?

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

over a year ago
Is autocapture bad? Has it ever been good? Earlier this year Amplitude posed these questions in a blogpost by Product Evangelist Adam Greco. Yes, he…
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Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important? Podcast with Stephen Fry
a year ago
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Why are MYTHS Important?

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a year ago
Podcast with Stephen Fry
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Rest of World -...
Turn it up: Rest of World’s 2023 global party playlist Impress your friends by queuing up these chart-topping pop songs from the countries we cover.
over a year ago
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Turn it up: Rest of World’s 2023 global party playlist

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Impress your friends by queuing up these chart-topping pop songs from the countries we cover.
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Marcus on AI
Poor ROI for GenAI 61% in a recent survey report no ROI or disappointing ROI.
3 months ago
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Poor ROI for GenAI

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3 months ago
61% in a recent survey report no ROI or disappointing ROI.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Silly, Trivial Things You Did When Young' “Of course, you live life forward and think about it backwards.”  I’ve spent the last month or so...
2 weeks ago
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'The Silly, Trivial Things You Did When Young'

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

2 weeks ago
“Of course, you live life forward and think about it backwards.”  I’ve spent the last month or so thinking about the summer of 1973, when I visited Europe for the first time. This retrospective was prompted by my youngest son, who graduated in May from Rice University and the...
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Londonist
What's Happening With London Housing, Rent And Development? November 2023 Our quickfire summary of bricks and mortar, steel and glass.
a year ago
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What's Happening With London Housing, Rent And Development? November 2023

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Our quickfire summary of bricks and mortar, steel and glass.
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Yale E360
Procrastinating on my side project by torturing databases One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just...
a year ago
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Procrastinating on my side project by torturing databases

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just a fun diversion. I ran into that recently for a side project I'm working on. It wasn't really necessary to test database options semi-rigorously, but here we are. This project is...
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Seth's Blog
Analyzing the last move When the deal falls apart, or the team loses the game, or a partnership hits the rocks, it’s easy to...
a year ago
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Analyzing the last move

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

a year ago
When the deal falls apart, or the team loses the game, or a partnership hits the rocks, it’s easy to focus our energy on what just happened. “What if they had called a different play?” This overlooks the real issue. It’s the first move, or the fifth, that led to this problem, not...
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Daniel Bourke
Placebo yourself If there’s something that you’d like to do or some condition you’d like to be true, let it...
over a year ago
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Placebo yourself

from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
If there’s something that you’d like to do or some condition you’d like to be true, let it happen. Believe it’s going to happen. Write it down. Start talking about it with yourself. I’ve got this. You (I) can do
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Josh Thompson
Maybe "Now" Is Not the Right Time Recently I deleted a bunch of old notes I had in Evernote. Some of the notes were almost immediately...
over a year ago
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Maybe "Now" Is Not the Right Time

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

over a year ago
Recently I deleted a bunch of old notes I had in Evernote. Some of the notes were almost immediately unneeded, like old receipts and confirmations.  Much of the rest was notes related to goals (“Checklist to move out of MD Apartment”, “Planning trip to Buenos Aires”) or to...
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Retail Design Blog
Ella Bar-Grigliata-pasta Step into the vibrant world of Ella Bar-Grigliata-pasta, a stunning 370m2 establishment crafted by...
a year ago
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Ella Bar-Grigliata-pasta

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

a year ago
Step into the vibrant world of Ella Bar-Grigliata-pasta, a stunning 370m2 establishment crafted by Benjamin Fretard of Fretard Design, nestled...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Orthodox Privilege
over a year ago
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Orthodox Privilege

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over a year ago
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Name Things > There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
over a year ago
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How To Name Things

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

over a year ago
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - [Leon Bambrick](https://twitter.com/secretgeek/status/7269997868?lang=en)
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Musings on Markets
The Power of Expectations: Nvidia's Earnings and the Market Reaction! Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled...
10 months ago
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The Power of Expectations: Nvidia's Earnings and the Market Reaction!

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

10 months ago
Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled for after the market closed. That call, at first sight, contained exceptionally good news, with revenues and earnings coming in at stratospheric levels, and above expectations,...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes) Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
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Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes)

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

over a year ago
Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut content.
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charity.wtf
“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the...
6 months ago
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“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal...
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Jonas Hietala
Fixing Problems Today I have fixed two large annoyances I’ve had! I fixed the blue people on youtube bug I found a...
over a year ago
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Fixing Problems

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

over a year ago
Today I have fixed two large annoyances I’ve had! I fixed the blue people on youtube bug I found a nice thread with a great answer. I solved it by forcefully patching libflashplayer.so perl -pi.bak -e 's/libvdpau/lixvdpau/g' libflashplayer.so Worked perfectly! I fixed the...
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julian.digital
List of Goals and Rules for 2021 Publish 6 long-form essays↳ Instead of publishing a new post each week, I want to focus on six...
over a year ago
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List of Goals and Rules for 2021

from julian.digital [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Publish 6 long-form essays↳ Instead of publishing a new post each week, I want to focus on six in-depth essays this year. Quality over quantity. ████ ██ █████ ██ ████ ██████ Read 20 books ↳ You can follow my progress here Go for a swim at least once per week ↳ If covid rules...
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Rest of World -...
Last-mile delivery is so normalized that we can’t see the endgame approaching Latin American delivery businesses are now entering a new phase of consolidation into their own...
over a year ago
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Last-mile delivery is so normalized that we can’t see the endgame approaching

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Latin American delivery businesses are now entering a new phase of consolidation into their own local fiefdoms.
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Remains of the Day
My first podcast appearance A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
over a year ago
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My first podcast appearance

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

over a year ago
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
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Joel Gascoigne's...
The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have...
11 months ago
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The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media

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

11 months ago
The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have introduced support for Bluesky in Buffer. This is an important moment for us as a company, and there are a number of reasons that adding Bluesky is personally meaningful for me. With...
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NeuroLogica Blog
How Much Do Couples Share Traits? Do birds of a feather flock together, or do opposites attract? These are both common aphorisms,...
a year ago
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How Much Do Couples Share Traits?

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

a year ago
Do birds of a feather flock together, or do opposites attract? These are both common aphorisms, which means that they are commonly offered as generally accepted truths, but also that they may by wrong. People like pithy phrases, so they spread prolifically, but that does not mean...
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Quanta Magazine
Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of...
a year ago
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Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton

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

a year ago
Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time. The post Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton first appeared on Quanta...
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Louwrentius
Systemd Forward Secure Sealing of system logs makes little sense Systemd is a more modern replacement of sysvinit and its in the process of being integrated into...
over a year ago
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Systemd Forward Secure Sealing of system logs makes little sense

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Systemd is a more modern replacement of sysvinit and its in the process of being integrated into most mainstream Linux distributions. I'm a bit troubled by one of it's features. I'd like to discuss the Forward Secure Sealing (FSS) feature for log files that is part of systemd....
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Faro, Portugal In Faro, you will marvel at the Moorish and Medieval buildings that stand beside the stunning...
2 months ago
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Faro, Portugal

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
In Faro, you will marvel at the Moorish and Medieval buildings that stand beside the stunning Baroque and Neoclassical monuments that define the city’s landscape. In this article, we will show you the city’s iconic must-visit landmarks.   1. Milreu Roman Ruins   Located nine...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Metrics Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really freaky part is when you hear about this...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Metrics

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

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really freaky part is when you hear about this going on in medical research. Today's News:
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Wuthering...
Not Shakespeare - a preliminary, semi-formed invitation to read plays by Shakespeare's... Here’s something I’ve been wanting to do.  I’ve been wanting to return to the plays of...
a month ago
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Not Shakespeare - a preliminary, semi-formed invitation to read plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries

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

a month ago
Here’s something I’ve been wanting to do.  I’ve been wanting to return to the plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson and so on.  The Spanish Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, The Knight of the Burning Pestle,  Bartholomew Fair.  It has been a while...
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Yale E360
TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them About a month ago1, I was onboarding a friend into one of my side project codebases and she asked me...
a year ago
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TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
About a month ago1, I was onboarding a friend into one of my side project codebases and she asked me why I was using a particular type of UUID. I'd heard about this type while working on that project, and it's really neat. So instead of hogging that knowledge for just us, here it...
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TheCollector
London in WWII: The Horror of the London Blitz “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields...
4 months ago
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London in WWII: The Horror of the London Blitz

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,” famously declared British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the House of Commons on June 4, 1940. At...
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Articles
How to use Mastodon: a beginner's guide I've been trying out Mastodon. Overall, I'm digging it. People bill it as a Twitter alternative....
over a year ago
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How to use Mastodon: a beginner's guide

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I've been trying out Mastodon. Overall, I'm digging it. People bill it as a Twitter alternative. While there are some similarities, it's definitely its own thing.
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Yale E360
RC Week 8: Life happens, and databases are hard I'm two-thirds of the way done with my RC batch now. Eight weeks down, four weeks to go. The last...
over a year ago
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RC Week 8: Life happens, and databases are hard

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I'm two-thirds of the way done with my RC batch now. Eight weeks down, four weeks to go. The last two weeks have been difficult for me because of life happening. Week 7 was hard because I had some travel to help my parents, and that just takes me out of my routine and is...
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The American Scholar
Ideology as Anatomy How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives The post Ideology as Anatomy...
7 months ago
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Ideology as Anatomy

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

7 months ago
How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives The post Ideology as Anatomy appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Retail Design Blog
485 MetaGalaxy 485 MetaGalaxy is a designer cluster label dedicated to pushing the boundaries of design and leading...
7 months ago
64

485 MetaGalaxy

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

7 months ago
485 MetaGalaxy is a designer cluster label dedicated to pushing the boundaries of design and leading future design trends. It...
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Tinloof - Blog
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 2) This series of articles is made out of two parts: In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user...
over a year ago
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How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 2)

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

over a year ago
This series of articles is made out of two parts: In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS. In this second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
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Platformer
The Biden administration turns its attention toward AI The Commerce Department asks for public comment. Here are three problems it should consider
over a year ago
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The Biden administration turns its attention toward AI

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over a year ago
The Commerce Department asks for public comment. Here are three problems it should consider
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Open Culture
The Story of Lee Miller: From the Cover of Vogue to Hitler’s Bathtub In late-twenties Manhattan, a nineteen-year-old woman named Elizabeth “Lee” Miller stepped off the...
a year ago
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The Story of Lee Miller: From the Cover of Vogue to Hitler’s Bathtub

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

a year ago
In late-twenties Manhattan, a nineteen-year-old woman named Elizabeth “Lee” Miller stepped off the curb and into the path of a car. She was pulled back to safety by none other than the magnate Condé Nast, founder of the eponymous publishing company. Not long thereafter, Miller,...
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I write blog posts every month Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my...
over a year ago
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How I write blog posts every month

from Daniel Immke's Blog Posts [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my first post that my goal was to write one…
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ribbonfarm
Stack Map of the World I’ve been buried neck deep in work stuff this week, but I did find time to make this stack diagram...
a year ago
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Stack Map of the World

from ribbonfarm [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
I’ve been buried neck deep in work stuff this week, but I did find time to make this stack diagram of the world, inspired by the xkcd Dependency cartoon. Randall Munroe draws better than me, but in my favor, I use more colors. Did you know most of the high-purity quartz needed...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Tradeoffs to Continuous Software? I came across this post from the tech collective crftd. about how software is in a process of...
a month ago
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Tradeoffs to Continuous Software?

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

a month ago
I came across this post from the tech collective crftd. about how software is in a process of “continuous disintegration”: One of the uncomfortable truths we sometimes have to break to people is that software isn't just never “done”. Worse even, it rots… The practices of...
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Neocha – Culture &...
Spectacular Skin
over a year ago
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Spectacular Skin

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over a year ago
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MMapped blog
A swarm of replicated state machines
over a year ago
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A swarm of replicated state machines

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over a year ago
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Yale E360
After 17 Years Underground, Massive Cicada Brood to Swarm U.S. After hiding underground for the last 17 years, billions of cicadas will take to the skies this...
2 months ago
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After 17 Years Underground, Massive Cicada Brood to Swarm U.S.

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science

2 months ago
After hiding underground for the last 17 years, billions of cicadas will take to the skies this summer, from Tennessee to Cape Cod.  Read more on E360 →
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Computer Things
What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway Systems Distributed I'll be speaking at Systems Distributed next month! The talk is brand new and...
a month ago
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What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway

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

a month ago
Systems Distributed I'll be speaking at Systems Distributed next month! The talk is brand new and will aim to showcase some of the formal methods mental models that would be useful in mainstream software development. It has added some extra stress on my schedule, though, so...
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AI Tidbits: AI...
Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
5 months ago
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Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents

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5 months ago
How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
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99% Invisible
The Little Levee That Could [EPISODE] Most of the stories in this series have been about places that are ill-prepared for the extreme...
10 months ago
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The Little Levee That Could [EPISODE]

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

10 months ago
Most of the stories in this series have been about places that are ill-prepared for the extreme weather that is coming their way. But this story is about a place that managed to get the kind of infrastructure that will actually help it survive climate change. How after more than...
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Paul Cudenec
The criminocracy's Colombian connection Juan Manuel Santos is a Colombian businessman and politician who was president of the South American...
6 months ago
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The criminocracy's Colombian connection

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6 months ago
Juan Manuel Santos is a Colombian businessman and politician who was president of the South American country from 2010 to 2018.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Why You Should Visit Germany’s Ore Mountains
a year ago
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Why You Should Visit Germany’s Ore Mountains

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a year ago
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Applied Cartography
You need to be frictionlog-maxxing Lots of people have spent the past few days discussing the perceived increase in difficulty in...
a year ago
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You need to be frictionlog-maxxing

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
Lots of people have spent the past few days discussing the perceived increase in difficulty in getting an entry-level programming job relative to the halcyon ZIRP days of yesteryear. I am sympathetic to new grads running into this; I am dismayed that when I ask some [1] of them...
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Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 3 Marketing week? More like reliability week
over a year ago
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 3

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over a year ago
Marketing week? More like reliability week
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The DESK Magazine
Our favorite portfolios launched with Semplice in July 2022 Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are...
over a year ago
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Our favorite portfolios launched with Semplice in July 2022

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

over a year ago
Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are the best of the best, chosen by yours truly from hundreds of beautiful submissions
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Josh Comeau's blog
Effective Collaboration with Product and Design How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always...
over a year ago
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Effective Collaboration with Product and Design

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

over a year ago
How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity.
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TheCollector
The Mind-Body Problem & Consciousness: Dualism vs. Materialism Dualism is the idea that while the body is made of physical material, the mind is made of something...
4 months ago
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The Mind-Body Problem & Consciousness: Dualism vs. Materialism

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
Dualism is the idea that while the body is made of physical material, the mind is made of something immaterial. The counterpart to this is materialism, which posits that both the mind and body are composed of the same material, physical substance. There is much more to each...
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #158 Claude Shannon's mighty mouse, Ben Graham's father, Doomberg quits Twitter, FASB segment disclosure...
a year ago
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The Digest #158

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Claude Shannon's mighty mouse, Ben Graham's father, Doomberg quits Twitter, FASB segment disclosure rules, Podcasts on old annual reports, Henry Ford's road trips, Jony Ive, Sal Kahn
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oftwominds-Charles...
AI Is a Digital Parrot: Word-Traps, False Logic and the Illusion of Intelligence Word traps and false logic don't lead to dominance of the future or monopolistic grips on limitless...
5 months ago
19

AI Is a Digital Parrot: Word-Traps, False Logic and the Illusion of Intelligence

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

5 months ago
Word traps and false logic don't lead to dominance of the future or monopolistic grips on limitless profits. The heart of the current euphoric expectations for AI is a simple but problematic proposition: the equivalence of function equals intelligence. If using natural...
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NeuroLogica Blog
RFK Jr., Joe Rogan, and Vaccines RFK Jr., who is now running for the Democratic presidential nomination, is anti-vaccine. He will...
over a year ago
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RFK Jr., Joe Rogan, and Vaccines

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

over a year ago
RFK Jr., who is now running for the Democratic presidential nomination, is anti-vaccine. He will vehemently deny this, but I don’t buy it for a second. He is simply playing the, “I’m not anti-vaccine, I am pro-safe vaccine” gambit, which is disingenuous and always has been. We...
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Rest of World -...
iPhones were already losing ground in China. Then came Trump’s tariffs Consumers ditch Apple for more advanced features and to support Chinese brands.
3 months ago
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iPhones were already losing ground in China. Then came Trump’s tariffs

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

3 months ago
Consumers ditch Apple for more advanced features and to support Chinese brands.
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Articles
Out of office
over a year ago
6

Out of office

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over a year ago
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Data Boutique
The Web Data Landscape Map: Visualizing The Ecosystem Mapping actors and solutions
a year ago
118

The Web Data Landscape Map: Visualizing The Ecosystem

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a year ago
Mapping actors and solutions
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Scarlet Ink
Do Jerks Get Hired For Management Roles, or Does Management Create Jerks? I assumed that certain rude personalities were promoted to leadership positions. Then I both found...
4 months ago
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Do Jerks Get Hired For Management Roles, or Does Management Create Jerks?

from Scarlet Ink [alt+shift+b] in life

4 months ago
I assumed that certain rude personalities were promoted to leadership positions. Then I both found myself being promoted, and adopting some of those behaviors.
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The Elysian
Three classic utopian novels—now collectibles More than 100 years ago, three thinkers imagined what a utopian future might look like in the year...
10 months ago
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Three classic utopian novels—now collectibles

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

10 months ago
More than 100 years ago, three thinkers imagined what a utopian future might look like in the year 2000. Now, their novels are available as a collectible set.
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Cognitive...
Running Dolphin Locally with Ollama Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way -...
a year ago
150

Running Dolphin Locally with Ollama

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way - Ollama. install ollama. after you finsh you should be able to run ollama from the command line. Also you will see the ollama icon up top like this: Iff you are curious - anytime you see that...
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Rest of World -...
Ultra-cheap meals from China’s delivery giant are hugely popular. Drivers are bearing the costs Meituan’s group order program boomed amid China’s post-Covid-19 thrift economy, but delivery drivers...
a year ago
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Ultra-cheap meals from China’s delivery giant are hugely popular. Drivers are bearing the costs

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Meituan’s group order program boomed amid China’s post-Covid-19 thrift economy, but delivery drivers say they’re working longer for less pay.
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Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Louis Pereira Lessons from building AudioPen to 600+ paid users to clinching #1 on Product Hunt
over a year ago
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How I Built This In Public: Louis Pereira

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Lessons from building AudioPen to 600+ paid users to clinching #1 on Product Hunt
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Articles
Business is like surfing
over a year ago
8

Business is like surfing

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Mind Prison: Notes...
The public trusts AI as a credible source Notes From the Desk: No. 27 - 2024.02.26
a year ago
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The public trusts AI as a credible source

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a year ago
Notes From the Desk: No. 27 - 2024.02.26
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Maps Mania
Free TV & Radio Maps
3 months ago
26

Free TV & Radio Maps

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

3 months ago
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Wuthering...
Books I read in August 2024 My ambition this summer was to read extensively in Arabic literature.  Eh, I did all right, but I...
10 months ago
35

Books I read in August 2024

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

10 months ago
My ambition this summer was to read extensively in Arabic literature.  Eh, I did all right, but I will have to save Ibn Battuta’s Travels and the second half of Leg over Leg for some other time.  FICTION The Arabian Nights (14th c.), many hands – In the great Hassan Haddawy...
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Quanta Magazine
The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes Cynthia Rudin wants machine learning models, responsible for increasingly important decisions, to...
over a year ago
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The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes

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

over a year ago
Cynthia Rudin wants machine learning models, responsible for increasingly important decisions, to show their work. The post The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Engineer’s Codex
How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
a year ago
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How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
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Copper • A blog...
Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing) Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1 Exactly 3 months and a day...
over a year ago
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Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing)

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1 Exactly 3 months and a day after placing an order through a Romanian Apple reseller, I finally got my 14-inch M1 Max. Well, actually.. I first got the wrong configuration (base model instead of CTO), had to...
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
8 months ago
20

How Every Empire Falls

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8 months ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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Seth's Blog
Solving invented problems Some problems, when well solved, lead to making things better. Some problems give us a chance to get...
a year ago
24

Solving invented problems

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

a year ago
Some problems, when well solved, lead to making things better. Some problems give us a chance to get back on course. And some problems are opportunities to be generous. But many of the problems that we seek to solve are actually invented, and maybe we could benefit by simply...
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Ian Betteridge
Weeknote, Monday 23rd December A week off work, yay! Obviously that has not stopped me checking and replying to a few emails. My...
6 months ago
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Weeknote, Monday 23rd December

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6 months ago
A week off work, yay! Obviously that has not stopped me checking and replying to a few emails. My team were also attempting to get me to help them cheat at the work Christmas quiz using WhatsApp. Shamefully, they didn’t even win. I had my first face to face physio session about...
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Applied Cartography
Fathom I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly...
7 months ago
26

Fathom

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7 months ago
I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly good reason to do so until the news broke that Paul Jarvis was selling his share of the company to Jack Ellis, the technical co-founder. [1] Anyway, the two thoughts: I think Fathom...
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Confessions of a...
Substack has Failed Indian Creators Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the...
a year ago
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Substack has Failed Indian Creators

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a year ago
Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the problems I (and many other Indian writers) have faced in monetizing their writing on Substack, even after being here for years, bringing in thousands of new readers and producing...
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Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping 20241208 Corrections, stats, and an update
7 months ago
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Housekeeping 20241208

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7 months ago
Corrections, stats, and an update
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Allocation investing and the social premium The rational way to invest in something – a startup, public company, venture capital firm, real...
over a year ago
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Allocation investing and the social premium

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

over a year ago
The rational way to invest in something – a startup, public company, venture capital firm, real estate project, etc. – is to base your…
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David Crawshaw
2015-10-13 "So OpenSSL has optional code to reject attempts to use weak DES keys. It, sanely, is not enabled...
over a year ago
13

2015-10-13

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
"So OpenSSL has optional code to reject attempts to use weak DES keys. It, sanely, is not enabled by default; if you want it you have to compile with DEVP_CHECK_DES_KEY.Last Thursday it was reported to the openssl-dev mailing list by Ben Kaduk that there was a defect in this...
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Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ... ...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
over a year ago
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ...

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over a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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macwright.com
Recently This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll...
a year ago
24

Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll write a standalone post again, soon enough. It’s been another busy year and I’m as aware as ever of the challenge of keeping all of my habits and outputs going. Some, like...
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CONTEMPORIST
A New Home With Twin Gables Connected By A Glazed Breezeway Wheeler Kearns Architects has shared photos of a new home they have completed in Illinois, which is...
a year ago
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A New Home With Twin Gables Connected By A Glazed Breezeway

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Wheeler Kearns Architects has shared photos of a new home they have completed in Illinois, which is located on a one-acre wooded ravine site north of Chicago. The home, situated upward and slightly angled away from the street, includes twin-gabled volumes, one for sleeping and...
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Isabel Unraveled
how good will you let it get? loosen your grip to let abundance flow in
3 months ago
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how good will you let it get?

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3 months ago
loosen your grip to let abundance flow in
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FIRE v London
Mayday for IBKR margin lending Regular readers will know what a fan I have been of margin lending from Interactive Brokers. No...
over a year ago
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Mayday for IBKR margin lending

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
Regular readers will know what a fan I have been of margin lending from Interactive Brokers. No longer. If you’ve read my other posts (like this or this or this) on margin lending, and are interested in exploring further, make you read this post before you do. Why I used to like...
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The Honest Broker
A Conversation with Jason Moran The celebrated pianist, composer, and Artistic Director for Jazz at the Kennedy Center talks with...
over a year ago
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A Conversation with Jason Moran

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over a year ago
The celebrated pianist, composer, and Artistic Director for Jazz at the Kennedy Center talks with Ted Panken
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Birchtree
Remember when the Switch 2 was *only* going to cost $449? Nintendo Life: Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders in the US Amidst New Trump Tariffs Nintendo has...
3 months ago
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Remember when the Switch 2 was *only* going to cost $449?

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
Nintendo Life: Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders in the US Amidst New Trump Tariffs Nintendo has delayed pre-orders for the Switch 2 in the US while it evaluates the potential impact of new tariffs from The Trump Administration. And A $2,300 Apple iPhone? Trump tariffs could...
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Luxagraf:...
California We didn't have long to settle into the cabin. A week later the kids and I flew out to California to...
8 months ago
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California

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

8 months ago
We didn't have long to settle into the cabin. A week later the kids and I flew out to California to visit my parents, trading the last of fall for some warmth and extra sunshine at the beach. I am a stranger in my hometown. The California of my youth is gone. Everything paved...
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