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Jimmy Wales: Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture ### Community-built content rules Vision is one of the most powerful forms of long-term thinking....
15th Apr 2006
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Jimmy Wales: Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture

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

15th Apr 2006
### Community-built content rules Vision is one of the most powerful forms of long-term thinking. Jimmy Wales, founder and president of the all-embracing online encyclopedia Wikipedia, examines how vision drives and defines that project and its strategy-- and how it fits into...
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The Lost Chapter I’m happy to report that Probably Overthinking It is available now in paperback. If you would like a...
4th Dec 2025
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The Lost Chapter

from Probably Overthinking It [alt+shift+b] in science

4th Dec 2025
I’m happy to report that Probably Overthinking It is available now in paperback. If you would like a copy, you can order from Bookshop.org and Amazon (affiliate links). To celebrate, I’m publishing The Lost Chapter — that is, the chapter I cut from the published book. It’s about...
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Seven Years If you subtract out 2020, when everything shut down and we rented a farm house in South Carolina,...
9th Apr 2025
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Seven Years

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

9th Apr 2025
If you subtract out 2020, when everything shut down and we rented a farm house in South Carolina, April 2025 marks seven years on the road in our 1969 Dodge Travco. We left our previous home of Athens GA on April 1, 2017. Our twin daughters were 4 years old. Our son was not yet...
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Quantum logic gates for a single qubit, interactively
10th Apr 2021
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Quantum logic gates for a single qubit, interactively

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

10th Apr 2021
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Warren Buffett’s Thanksgiving Letter Warren Buffett's Thanksgiving Letter sheds more light on why he decided to retire.
11th Nov 2025
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Warren Buffett’s Thanksgiving Letter

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

11th Nov 2025
Warren Buffett's Thanksgiving Letter sheds more light on why he decided to retire.
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How I ship projects at big tech companies I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to...
9th Nov 2024
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How I ship projects at big tech companies

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

9th Nov 2024
I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get…
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'Silence Where Hope Was' I’m coming to suspect that nothing is ever irretrievably lost to memory. The other night I dreamed...
1st Oct 2025
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'Silence Where Hope Was'

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

1st Oct 2025
I’m coming to suspect that nothing is ever irretrievably lost to memory. The other night I dreamed of a schoolmate I hardly knew who died sixty years ago. His name was Randy Peck. He had a twin sister named Mandy. Their names invited jokes, of course, as did their Georgia accents...
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How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to...
4th Feb 2022
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How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit

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

4th Feb 2022
As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence.
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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first...
30th May 2024
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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

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

30th May 2024
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
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La Guía Incompleta de los Rollups
5th Jan 2021
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La Guía Incompleta de los Rollups

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

5th Jan 2021
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How Germany’s Most Beautiful City Was Destroyed… and Rebuilt Dresden, a stunning city in Germany, was nearly wiped out during World War II when it was bombed,...
4th Feb 2025
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How Germany’s Most Beautiful City Was Destroyed… and Rebuilt

from THE ARCHITECTURAL UPRISING [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4th Feb 2025
Dresden, a stunning city in Germany, was nearly wiped out during World War II when it was bombed, leaving only ruins behind. But its story didn’t end there—this is a tale of how Dresden came back to life, and rose from the ashes like a phoenix. Before the war, Dresden was known...
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Family After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St....
8th Feb 2023
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Family

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

8th Feb 2023
After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St. Andrews state park, a little postage stamp of protected land off the coast of Panama City Beach. Apparently this was once a gem in the Florida State Park system, but the universal...
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Specificity: A weapon of mass effectiveness Want to write better? Swap generic words for specifics to make your text clear, powerful, engaging,...
13th Jul 2025
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Specificity: A weapon of mass effectiveness

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

13th Jul 2025
Want to write better? Swap generic words for specifics to make your text clear, powerful, engaging, and even funny.
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To Hell With Facebook The earliest known version of the idiom “the straw that broke the camel’s back” was written by the...
12th Jul 2021
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To Hell With Facebook

from Damn Interesting [alt+shift+b] in science

12th Jul 2021
The earliest known version of the idiom “the straw that broke the camel’s back” was written by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury in 1677, though it was concerned with horses and feathers: “The last Dictate of the Judgement, concerning the Good or Bad, that may...
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new year, same plan new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from...
31st Dec 2022
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new year, same plan

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

31st Dec 2022
new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from nearly nothing to far too much for what it is, so I moved provider and needed to write a blog post to test it all. I could have figured out why my current provider hiked the price....
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The ABCs Backwards I learned to sing the alphabet song backwards and recorded it in Golden Gate Park.
6th Feb 2009
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The ABCs Backwards

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2009
I learned to sing the alphabet song backwards and recorded it in Golden Gate Park.
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Uncontrolled Remains I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of...
7th Jul 2025
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Uncontrolled Remains

from BLDGBLOG [alt+shift+b] in architecture

7th Jul 2025
I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of garbage being stored in giant, artificial landforms—or simply buried underground like false geological deposits—might be inadvertently catalyzing chemical processes we neither...
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Too big to fail? Get ready for chaos
2nd Nov 2025
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Too big to fail?

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Nov 2025
Get ready for chaos
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The reason I got hooked on being an Indiehacker
3rd Sep 2023
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The reason I got hooked on being an Indiehacker

from Dominik Sobe's Thoughts ツ [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

3rd Sep 2023
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Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle" If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which...
20th Mar 2011
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Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle"

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

20th Mar 2011
If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which provides for efficient binary serialization and loading of Python datatypes. Hopefully, you’re also familiar with the warning printed prominently near the start of pickle’s...
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2025 retrospective
19th Jan 2026
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2025 retrospective

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

19th Jan 2026
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Making something people want - The GoCardless story I’m a co-founder of GoCardless, a direct debit payments company in London. This is the story of our...
8th Nov 2012
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Making something people want - The GoCardless story

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Nov 2012
I’m a co-founder of GoCardless, a direct debit payments company in London. This is the story of our first two years and the people we’ve met along the way. Making something no-one wants One startup I know very well in San Francisco was started by 3 ex-financiers. Their idea...
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My friend, JT I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
22nd Feb 2025
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My friend, JT

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

22nd Feb 2025
I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
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An In-Depth Look at the ICE-V Wireless FPGA Development Board Introduction The ICE-V Wireless FPGA Board Preloading the PSRAM with User Data The Overall Boot...
27th Dec 2022
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An In-Depth Look at the ICE-V Wireless FPGA Development Board

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

27th Dec 2022
Introduction The ICE-V Wireless FPGA Board Preloading the PSRAM with User Data The Overall Boot Process UART Console Getting Started with the ICE-V Wireless Board for Real Reinstalling or Modifying the ESP32C3 Firmware The RISC-V Example FPGA Design Compiling the RISC-V Example...
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Git’s push url
10th May 2016
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Git’s push url

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

10th May 2016
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Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco ### Four Dimensional Cities Cities are designed and built in three dimensions. Watching...
20th Dec 2008
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Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco

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

20th Dec 2008
### Four Dimensional Cities Cities are designed and built in three dimensions. Watching Prelinger's historic footage of San Francisco last night (to a more than overflowing crowd) reminds us however that one of the most compelling dimensions to a city is its fourth dimension -...
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Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints In 'A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints', Mark Cooprider offers an accessible analysis of...
29th Apr 2022
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Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints

from RhysTranter.com [alt+shift+b] in life

29th Apr 2022
In 'A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints', Mark Cooprider offers an accessible analysis of Terrence Malick's 2019 biopic of the Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter—executed in 1943 for his refusal to swear allegiance to National Socialism. Cooprider explores...
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Tablet as main computer For the past few weeks I have been using the Microsoft Surface Pro as my main computer. It's a...
6th Mar 2018
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Tablet as main computer

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

6th Mar 2018
For the past few weeks I have been using the Microsoft Surface Pro as my main computer. It's a modern tablet computer that can be used as laptop with the type cover. With the Surface Pen, it's a versatile PC that works in a lot of different ways. Time to find out if it's any good...
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AI enhanced search LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to...
20th Sep 2024
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AI enhanced search

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Sep 2024
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research. I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
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Maintainerati 2017: GitHub Design Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular...
18th Oct 2017
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Maintainerati 2017: GitHub Design

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Oct 2017
Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular software, run as a prelude to the GitHub Universe conference. After being brought up to speed on this year's secret handshake of the software elite, I had a great time in the...
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The fallacy of “no pain, no gain”
19th Dec 2024
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The fallacy of “no pain, no gain”

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

19th Dec 2024
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There are no strong opinions weakly held It's a shield for loud conviction and quiet backpedaling if needed.
1st Sep 2025
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There are no strong opinions weakly held

from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Sep 2025
It's a shield for loud conviction and quiet backpedaling if needed.
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Recently Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
3rd Sep 2024
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Recently

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

3rd Sep 2024
Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories. Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
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The AI Demand Bubble If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a...
4th Aug 2026
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The AI Demand Bubble

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

4th Aug 2026
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and
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Book Review - Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant In the book Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant, author Roland Lazenby meticulously shares the...
29th Mar 2020
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Book Review - Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant

from Blog - Anchorpointexpeditions.com [alt+shift+b] in literature

29th Mar 2020
In the book Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant, author Roland Lazenby meticulously shares the journey of Kobe Bryant, from ancestral influences up through his final game in the NBA. He is a clear fan of Kobe’s inarguable work ethic, but he allows readers to reinforce their...
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Brain As Receiver Is Still Wrong I have a love-hate relationship with TikTok, as I do social media in general. It is a great...
2nd Apr 2026
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Brain As Receiver Is Still Wrong

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

2nd Apr 2026
I have a love-hate relationship with TikTok, as I do social media in general. It is a great communication tool and allows scientists and science communicators to get their content out to a larger audience cheaply and easily. If you know how to use the internet and social media as...
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An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I...
12th Jul 2026
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An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Jul 2026
I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop Creative Cloud on day one. Today, I uninstalled it. I hope I never have to use...
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Does ChatGPT dream about cryptographic cats? Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject:...
31st Jan 2023
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Does ChatGPT dream about cryptographic cats?

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jan 2023
Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject: Blockchains. Two years ago, Vitalik Buterin revolutionized the nascent field by creating Ethereum. Ethereum was at the time a cryptographic protocol that would allow people to make distributed...
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Thoth and Khepri Thoth and Khepri Dean Nicholas Tue, 10/30/2018 - 00:00
30th Oct 2018
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Thoth and Khepri

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

30th Oct 2018
Thoth and Khepri Dean Nicholas Tue, 10/30/2018 - 00:00
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xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that...
2nd May 2025
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xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd May 2025
A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk's...
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Japan's Earthquake and Technology Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in...
16th Mar 2011
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Japan's Earthquake and Technology

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Mar 2011
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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My eclipse photography plan .title {text-wrap:balance;} 2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original) In 2017, I...
31st Mar 2024
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My eclipse photography plan

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Mar 2024
.title {text-wrap:balance;} 2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original) In 2017, I opted to skip the crowds and the drive and settle for a 94% solar eclipse. I fully regret that decision. Weather permitting, I’ll be photographing the full solar eclipse from the path...
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: lemon ginger ricotta cookies There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really...
22nd Dec 2012
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: lemon ginger ricotta cookies

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

22nd Dec 2012
There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really makes it feel like the Christmas season (or maybe I just like having excuses to bake). Before leaving New York for holidays with the family in Chicago, I made candy cane brownie...
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SemVer: The Tricky Parts Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood...
8th Nov 2021
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SemVer: The Tricky Parts

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

8th Nov 2021
Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood semver, but that illusion disappeared once I started maintaining libraries myself. Semver has tricky edge cases where it's unclear what the new version number should be: Should you...
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Guide to Las Fallas Festival in Valencia
8th Jun 2026
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Guide to Las Fallas Festival in Valencia

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

8th Jun 2026
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Racy git magic Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement. And I think there is one known race: the...
30th Nov 2023
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Racy git magic

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Nov 2023
Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement. And I think there is one known race: the index mtime itself is not race-free. – Linus Torvalds, Re:git bugs, 2008 A well-known race condition skulks through git’s plumbing. And I can demo it via a git magic trick 🪄1 $ tree...
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What’s the big idea? To make a big impact, we need a big idea. In brand communications, coveting the ‘big idea’ is...
12th Apr 2022
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What’s the big idea?

from Articles - Alex Murrell [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Apr 2022
To make a big impact, we need a big idea. In brand communications, coveting the ‘big idea’ is commonplace. We look for them. Long for them. Laud them and lionise them. And yet, despite its ubiquitous use, the ‘big idea’ remains incredibly ill-defined. This article is an...
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The Inevitable Drift Down from "Can't Lose" Owning Stocks to "Can't Win" Even if an AI program advises selling everything and walking away from the market for five years,...
3rd Nov 2025
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The Inevitable Drift Down from "Can't Lose" Owning Stocks to "Can't Win"

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

3rd Nov 2025
Even if an AI program advises selling everything and walking away from the market for five years, how many of us would take this advice? Only those who experienced the heady euphoria of the late 1990s dot-com bubble in tech stocks know what the shift from "can't lose"...
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Common Threads Visualizing how musicals use motifs to tell stories.
9th Dec 2025
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Common Threads

from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design

9th Dec 2025
Visualizing how musicals use motifs to tell stories.
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Swearing and automatic captions Swearing is the spice of language. Throw in a little to make that fucking point you want to make...
5th Dec 2022
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Swearing and automatic captions

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

5th Dec 2022
Swearing is the spice of language. Throw in a little to make that fucking point you want to make pop. Throw in a shitload to create a motherfucking verbal curry, layers of delicious goddamn meaning to unpack. Swearing is also present in every culture I can think of, with culture...
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Mutation testing - not just for unit tests I wrote about mutation testing a few times on this blog, and I even have a mutation testing workshop...
3rd Sep 2025
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Mutation testing - not just for unit tests

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

3rd Sep 2025
I wrote about mutation testing a few times on this blog, and I even have a mutation testing workshop that I run on a pretty frequent basis. One misconception that pops up sometimes, either explicitly in a question or implicitly when I hear others talk about mutation testing, is...
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What did Henry George think about cities? Solving the terrible urban conditions of the 1800s by abolishing cities
9th May 2024
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What did Henry George think about cities?

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

9th May 2024
Solving the terrible urban conditions of the 1800s by abolishing cities
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Competing in search A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in...
19th Aug 2024
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Competing in search

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Aug 2024
A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?
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Vintage Beach Fashion of the 1930s: Glamorous Swimwear Photos From the Pre-Bikini Era Sun-drenched shores, tailored wool swimsuits, and a newfound sense of freedom all came together to...
1st Aug 2026
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Vintage Beach Fashion of the 1930s: Glamorous Swimwear Photos From the Pre-Bikini Era

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

1st Aug 2026
Sun-drenched shores, tailored wool swimsuits, and a newfound sense of freedom all came together to define one of the most stylish decades in beach history. The 1930s transformed swimming from a rare luxury into a beloved national pastime, and with that shift came a wave of...
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Crypto token roundup Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens: Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred...
6th Jun 2017
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Crypto token roundup

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Jun 2017
Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens: Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred Wilson — ICOs and VCs here, Ethereum in 25 minutes, Polychain Joel Monegro ...
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Why fastDoom is fast
4th Mar 2025
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Why fastDoom is fast

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

4th Mar 2025
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Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those...
19th Nov 2023
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Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It

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

19th Nov 2023
You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those functions modify global state, and can cause other threads calling getenv() to crash. This also causes crashes in other languages that use those C standard library functions, such as...
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My Favorite Web Apps and Tools I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It...
26th Dec 2018
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My Favorite Web Apps and Tools

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Dec 2018
I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It seems that in general, desktop apps have been getting slower and more resource intensive lately. The trend of teams using Electron or the Chromium Embedded Framework in order to ship...
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Web Witch's Grimoire: June 2025 April was precisely what I was expecting it to be: exhausting. I'm still recovering from our trip to...
4th Jul 2025
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Web Witch's Grimoire: June 2025

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jul 2025
April was precisely what I was expecting it to be: exhausting. I'm still recovering from our trip to Seattle at the end of April. It turns out I never posted my draft covering the month of March and April, so I will attempt to cover the highlights. The excerpt above is from my...
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CSS-Tricks could be a co-op I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks. CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the...
18th Sep 2026
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CSS-Tricks could be a co-op

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

18th Sep 2026
I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks. CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the opportunity to write for them. In doing so, they helped to both socialize and normalize accessibility as a mainstream frontend concern. I’m deeply thankful to them for this. The...
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Lemon Lyme Summer The sun rises as a thin band of orange squeezed between twin blue worlds of lake and cloud. The tips...
22nd Sep 2024
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Lemon Lyme Summer

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

22nd Sep 2024
The sun rises as a thin band of orange squeezed between twin blue worlds of lake and cloud. The tips of the pines above glow for a moment before the sun slides up and behind the distant clouds. The sun rises near the center of the bay when we arrive in April, but by the solstice...
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Vote for Nobody! Nobody cares.
1st Nov 2024
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Vote for Nobody!

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Nov 2024
Nobody cares.
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Redecorating my bedroom Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the...
11th May 2023
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Redecorating my bedroom

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th May 2023
Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the inspiration to finally redecorate my bedroom – something I’ve been thinking about for two years. My bedroom used to have white walls, a dark grey feature wall, and a purple sliding...
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Put a billion dollars on red
9th Mar 2016
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Put a billion dollars on red

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

9th Mar 2016
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I quit my startup because of comic sans Okay, it wasn’t really caused by the Comic Sans. I had very fun 3 months of pretty fun collaboration...
14th Jul 2023
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I quit my startup because of comic sans

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

14th Jul 2023
Okay, it wasn’t really caused by the Comic Sans. I had very fun 3 months of pretty fun collaboration and intense learning, but in the end I had this very clear feeling that I would be better of on my own. It wasn’t awful, but it wasn’t great. There were many small and big things...
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Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested...
25th Nov 2025
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Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid

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

25th Nov 2025
Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested elements can participate in the same grid layout. At first glance, I thought this would be a helpful convenience, but it turns out that it’s so much more. Subgrid unlocks exciting new...
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Test marketing If you want a bigger company to help you some day, imitate what food companies call “test...
1st Apr 2000
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Test marketing

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

1st Apr 2000
If you want a bigger company to help you some day, imitate what food companies call “test marketing”. So first they’ll release it only in a small city like Albany. They ask customers for feedback, then make improvements based on that. They repeat this process until it’s a...
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Notes on Trekonomics Notes on Trekonomics My holiday reading this year has been Manu Saadia's Trekonomics, which is a...
9th Jan 2021
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Notes on Trekonomics

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

9th Jan 2021
Notes on Trekonomics My holiday reading this year has been Manu Saadia's Trekonomics, which is a deeply fun and thought-provoking exploration of the economic philosophy of the Star Trek universe. Here's my review and reading notes for the book. The book's ultimate motivating...
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Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate
20th Sep 2024
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Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Sep 2024
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the answer I must seek My partner pitter patters around the house constantly, always looking for something to do, always...
1st Sep 2024
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the answer I must seek

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

1st Sep 2024
My partner pitter patters around the house constantly, always looking for something to do, always scheming up some new creative project of hers. Being with her is an ongoing lesson and reminder...
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A blip in time
24th Jul 2010
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A blip in time

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

24th Jul 2010
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App store shenanigans I’ve downloaded and tested a few hundred iPhone and iPad apps.  One thing that I’ve noticed is that...
1st Apr 2011
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App store shenanigans

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Apr 2011
I’ve downloaded and tested a few hundred iPhone and iPad apps.  One thing that I’ve noticed is that many of the top rated and ranked apps…
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Where do you not feel free? Notice & soften & notice & soften & notice & soften & notice &
3rd Jun 2026
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Where do you not feel free?

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

3rd Jun 2026
Notice & soften & notice & soften & notice & soften & notice &
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The Design Process There’s a recurring take doing the rounds on socials. Thought leaders declaring that AI has killed...
4th Mar 2026
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The Design Process

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2026
There’s a recurring take doing the rounds on socials. Thought leaders declaring that AI has killed the design process (e.g. Lenny’s podcast). I personally think they’re wrong. But more importantly, I think most people (including designers) don’t know what they mean when they say...
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Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by...
3rd Nov 2025
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Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned

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

3rd Nov 2025
President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.
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How to Remove Virtual Desktop’s Leftover macOS Audio Devices Uninstalling Virtual Desktop Streamer can leave Virtual Desktop Mic and Virtual Desktop Speakers...
1st Sep 2026
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How to Remove Virtual Desktop’s Leftover macOS Audio Devices

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

1st Sep 2026
Uninstalling Virtual Desktop Streamer can leave Virtual Desktop Mic and Virtual Desktop Speakers behind in macOS Sound settings. Copy-paste this prompt to your AI agent Prompt: Remove the leftover Virtual Desktop Streamer audio components from my Mac. Move these exact items to...
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French onion soup redux If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm...
2nd Jan 2012
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French onion soup redux

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

2nd Jan 2012
If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm probably lying a little bit. What most people call French onion soup is mostly a thing of the past for me. But this soup is very similar. I grew out of the big croutons and the...
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Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, struggles to achieve its EV dreams China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries dissuade investors.
3rd Feb 2025
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Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, struggles to achieve its EV dreams

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

3rd Feb 2025
China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries dissuade investors.
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IC internals: XNet protocol
1st Jul 2022
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IC internals: XNet protocol

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

1st Jul 2022
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Premium: AI Isn't Too Big To Fail Soundtrack — Soundgarden — Blow Up The Outside World A lot of people try to rationalize the AI...
3rd Apr 2026
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Premium: AI Isn't Too Big To Fail

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

3rd Apr 2026
Soundtrack — Soundgarden — Blow Up The Outside World A lot of people try to rationalize the AI bubble by digging up the past. Billions of dollars of waste are justified by saying “OpenAI just like Uber” (it isn’t) and “the data center buildout is
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What Will Happen to Indian IT? The past and future of the “world’s back office.”
6th Oct 2026
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What Will Happen to Indian IT?

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

6th Oct 2026
The past and future of the “world’s back office.”
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API Security in Action handed over to production After a flurry of last-minute corrections and updates in response to review feedback, my book has...
5th Aug 2020
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API Security in Action handed over to production

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Aug 2020
After a flurry of last-minute corrections and updates in response to review feedback, my book has now been handed over to Manning’s production team. That means a few weeks of copy editing and graphics polish, then indexing and typesetting to produce the final version around...
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OpenAI Five Finals Intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI...
15th Apr 2019
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OpenAI Five Finals Intro

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Apr 2019
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI beat the world champions at Dota 2: “Welcome everyone. This is an exciting day. First, this is an historic moment: this will be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play...
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My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.
22nd Sep 2023
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My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

22nd Sep 2023
Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.
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Certificates vs Diplomas in Computer Science When I was looking into getting my first job related to programming, I had no idea what the...
2nd Dec 2020
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Certificates vs Diplomas in Computer Science

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

2nd Dec 2020
When I was looking into getting my first job related to programming, I had no idea what the difference between a certificate and a diploma was. I was terrified that I’d have to go back to school and spend 2-4 years getting a degree in computer science before an employer would...
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Protocol Politics Metascience is my bag.
4th Jun 2026
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Protocol Politics

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jun 2026
Metascience is my bag.
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A Programmer’s Guide to x86-64 Assembly (Series Overview) Welcome to my ongoing series on x86-64 assembly programming, designed for programmers who want to...
16th Jul 2025
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A Programmer’s Guide to x86-64 Assembly (Series Overview)

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

16th Jul 2025
Welcome to my ongoing series on x86-64 assembly programming, designed for programmers who want to peel back the abstraction and understand how code really runs at the machine level.
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Sara Huddleston on the Latino Vote in Iowa Last week I spoke with Sara Huddleston, candidate for Iowa state house in district 11 (Storm Lake)....
8th Aug 2020
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Sara Huddleston on the Latino Vote in Iowa

from Idle Words [alt+shift+b] in literature

8th Aug 2020
Last week I spoke with Sara Huddleston, candidate for Iowa state house in district 11 (Storm Lake). A longtime community organizer and three-term city council member, she was the first Latina elected to a city council in the state of Iowa, and would be the first Latina to serve...
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Best Questions and Answers to the “Terrifying Netflix Concurrency Bug” Post Why couldn't we roll back? Weren't we concerned about costs? Why is operating Netflix so...
29th Nov 2024
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Best Questions and Answers to the “Terrifying Netflix Concurrency Bug” Post

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

29th Nov 2024
Why couldn't we roll back? Weren't we concerned about costs? Why is operating Netflix so complicated? Plus many others.
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Exile on Silicon Valley The golden window of tech may have expired. In 2010, I came across a video of Mick Jagger being...
9th Oct 2026
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Exile on Silicon Valley

from Naz Hamid • Journal [alt+shift+b] in literature

9th Oct 2026
The golden window of tech may have expired. In 2010, I came across a video of Mick Jagger being interviewed (text version here). It was for a re-release of Exile on Main Street with 10 new tracks. During the interview he says this: But I have a take on that — people only made...
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Attention Traps Can we find needles of signal in the Web's infinite haystack of noise?
4th Apr 2023
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Attention Traps

from Varun's Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Apr 2023
Can we find needles of signal in the Web's infinite haystack of noise?
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σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up? Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as...
5th Apr 2022
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σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up?

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

5th Apr 2022
Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as Why software projects take longer than you think, which is a blog post I wrote a long time ago positing that software projects completion time follow a log-normal distribution.
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How Jamie Thingelstad uses Buttondown Jamie uses his newsletter to explore various tech topics and share his continuous technology...
1st Dec 2025
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How Jamie Thingelstad uses Buttondown

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

1st Dec 2025
Jamie uses his newsletter to explore various tech topics and share his continuous technology learning journey with readers.
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Introducing TagVault Fabric Extreme for AirTag Our original TagVault Fabric Mount is one of our most popular AirTag cases. So we wanted another...
17th Oct 2025
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Introducing TagVault Fabric Extreme for AirTag

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Oct 2025
Our original TagVault Fabric Mount is one of our most popular AirTag cases. So we wanted another design that was just as useful but even more rugged and fully waterproof. So we designed TagVault Fabric Extreme for AirTag. It's ultra-flexible to move with your fabric. Ultra-secure...
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I'm glad I factored out jQuery I refactored Winamp2-js to not depend on jQuery, and learned native JavaScript is not so bad.
13th Dec 2014
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I'm glad I factored out jQuery

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Dec 2014
I refactored Winamp2-js to not depend on jQuery, and learned native JavaScript is not so bad.
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Emergent, Fringe Behaviors in Healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket tweeting out your labs, induced mental states, and more
2nd May 2025
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Emergent, Fringe Behaviors in Healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd May 2025
tweeting out your labs, induced mental states, and more
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Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue Svelte is a new style of framework for building sites and apps. Let's dive into what makes it...
1st Oct 2021
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Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2021
Svelte is a new style of framework for building sites and apps. Let's dive into what makes it different, why it's so enjoyable, and how it's able to ship such tiny, fast apps.
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2015-04-02 "- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one...
2nd Apr 2015
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2015-04-02

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

2nd Apr 2015
"- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one common section.- When a blue train waits for red trains to go through the shared section, the blue trains behind it catch up (get more clumped)- If the merge rules are efficient...
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The Story Of Menstruation: Watch Walt Disney’s Sex Ed Film from 1946 From 1945 to 1951, Disney produced a series of educational films to be shown in American schools....
3rd Mar 2025
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The Story Of Menstruation: Watch Walt Disney’s Sex Ed Film from 1946

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

3rd Mar 2025
From 1945 to 1951, Disney produced a series of educational films to be shown in American schools. How to bathe an infant. How not to catch a cold. Why you shouldn’t drive fast. Disney covered these subjects in its educational shorts, and then eventually got to the touchy subject...
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Jan ’23: Mr Market defuses my tax bombshell January is always a miserable month to be in London. Thankfully I managed to get away a bit during...
1st Feb 2023
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Jan ’23: Mr Market defuses my tax bombshell

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

1st Feb 2023
January is always a miserable month to be in London. Thankfully I managed to get away a bit during the month (not to Davos, no), and enjoy myself in London despite the wintry weather. What you’re paying for in Mayfair these days Market movements in January The markets on the...
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The competitive claw machine boom How a childhood obsession became an online phenomenon and a full-time career for claw-machine...
9th Jan 2026
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The competitive claw machine boom

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Jan 2026
How a childhood obsession became an online phenomenon and a full-time career for claw-machine enthusiasts.
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The Pacification of War Battle Massacres may have gone out of fashion
23rd Apr 2024
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The Pacification of War

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

23rd Apr 2024
Battle Massacres may have gone out of fashion
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What I Read in June 2025 - A life of agony was all for naught. My summer plan was to read, short, easy books, and I almost succeeded.  I read short, difficult...
3rd Jul 2025
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What I Read in June 2025 - A life of agony was all for naught.

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

3rd Jul 2025
My summer plan was to read, short, easy books, and I almost succeeded.  I read short, difficult books in French, and accidentally read several grim, sad, violent books, alongside some playful nonsense.   FICTION The Field of Life and Death (1935), Xiao Hong – For example.  Ninety...
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The firmware veto When the install base outvotes the parliament
1st Jun 2026
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The firmware veto

from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jun 2026
When the install base outvotes the parliament
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I am back It's been three years since my last post on my old Wordpress blog! You can still find my earlier...
24th Apr 2020
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I am back

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

24th Apr 2020
It's been three years since my last post on my old Wordpress blog! You can still find my earlier posts there as I was too lazy to move…
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David Keith: Patient Geoengineering ## Practical geoengineering “Temporary, moderate, and responsive” should be the guidelines of...
18th Feb 2015
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David Keith: Patient Geoengineering

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

18th Feb 2015
## Practical geoengineering “Temporary, moderate, and responsive” should be the guidelines of responsible geoengineering, in David Keith’s view. For slowing global warming, and giving humanity time to bring greenhouse gas emissions down to zero (and eventually past zero with...
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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
1st Jul 2026
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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2026
In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
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Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How...
1st May 2025
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Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2025
Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How Broken the Internet Is There’s just one problem: *Mario Kart World* does not cost $90, at least based on what we know right now. No currently announced Nintendo Switch 2 game...
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Why Nextcloud feels slow to use Nextcloud. I really want to like it, but it’s making it really difficult. I like what Nextcloud...
3rd Nov 2025
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Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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

3rd Nov 2025
Nextcloud. I really want to like it, but it’s making it really difficult. I like what Nextcloud offers with its feature set and how easily it replaces a bunch of services under one roof (files, calendar, contacts, notes, to-do lists, photos etc.), but no matter how hard I try and...
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Self-hosting 101: Server and Tailscale
8th Sep 2025
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Self-hosting 101: Server and Tailscale

from tim.sh [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Sep 2025
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Doctors Shouldn't Be Allowed To Work 28 Hour Shifts Whyever they're allowed, they shouldn't be
2nd Mar 2026
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Doctors Shouldn't Be Allowed To Work 28 Hour Shifts

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

2nd Mar 2026
Whyever they're allowed, they shouldn't be
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Monitoring my weather at home 🌩️ Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my...
19th Feb 2023
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Monitoring my weather at home 🌩️

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Feb 2023
Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my weather center Despite their best efforts, all weather apps will eventually lie. Weather is often hyper-local. For example, trying to suss out the temperature this...
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Computer Use Models Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command...
18th Dec 2025
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Computer Use Models

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

18th Dec 2025
Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command line. I’m blown away with how good Claude Code is. I assume it was long context RLed in similar environments. I’m excited for open models to get this good, I tried GLM, Qwen3, and...
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.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
4th Oct 2023
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.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels

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

4th Oct 2023
Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
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How many units can you sell?
11th Jan 2021
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How many units can you sell?

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

11th Jan 2021
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The FTC versus tech M&A The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and...
2nd Aug 2022
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The FTC versus tech M&A

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Aug 2022
The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and big tech buying startups. The FTC’s attempt to block Meta from buying Within is a test case for all of this. So, how many interesting problems can we count?
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Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion...
11th Dec 2023
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Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts

from Dariusz Winkler | Software development [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2023
As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion around subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions and transcripts. In this post, I use interactive examples to show the difference. I also provide related success criteria from...
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Local Voltron The post Local Voltron appeared first on Last Place Comics.
22nd Jun 2025
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Local Voltron

from Last Place Comics [alt+shift+b] in comics

22nd Jun 2025
The post Local Voltron appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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Technology predictions For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past...
6th Apr 2013
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Technology predictions

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Apr 2013
For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past predictions to try to discern patterns in what…
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Care in Design Care in design is ultimately about feeling rather than seeing. It is about being thoughtful of...
1st Sep 2022
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Care in Design

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Sep 2022
Care in design is ultimately about feeling rather than seeing. It is about being thoughtful of users—of humans. It is designing product details that you might randomly discover (sometimes even years later) rather than only designing what should be seen. Care in design is worrying...
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Is MAGA Melting Down? Signs and wonders, portents and data points
2nd Aug 2026
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Is MAGA Melting Down?

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2nd Aug 2026
Signs and wonders, portents and data points
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Coolest hard-tech companies in NYC 2021 For years I've kept a private list of really cool tech companies in NYC. Now that I'm funemployed...
4th Jun 2021
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Coolest hard-tech companies in NYC 2021

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

4th Jun 2021
For years I've kept a private list of really cool tech companies in NYC. Now that I'm funemployed it's the perfect time to publish. This list is influenced by 1) my perception of the difficulty of the engineering behind the product and 2) the company's educational and OSS...
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Remembering the fires of revolt A book review
1st May 2026
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Remembering the fires of revolt

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

1st May 2026
A book review
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HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the...
22nd Feb 2024
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HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics

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

22nd Feb 2024
Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the schematics of chapter 8 are all spread over 3 or 4 pages, which makes them hard to follow. I spent a good evening extracting the schematics pages, cutting-and-pasting them together...
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IF YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR HOUSE, FIGURE OUT WHAT TO RENOVATE FIRST You want to sell your home, but the kids have scuffed up the floors and chipped the paint. The...
30th Jan 2024
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IF YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR HOUSE, FIGURE OUT WHAT TO RENOVATE FIRST

from Melissa Penfold [alt+shift+b] in design

30th Jan 2024
You want to sell your home, but the kids have scuffed up the floors and chipped the paint. The kitchen could use a face-lift and the lawn has seen better days. Every seller has to decide whether to sink money into their home before listing it, and how much. Lately, the stakes...
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Weekend Roundup Classics Gifts!
1st Dec 2024
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Weekend Roundup

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

1st Dec 2024
Classics Gifts!
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AI is making me paranoid about contributions
18th Feb 2026
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AI is making me paranoid about contributions

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

18th Feb 2026
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State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3 As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now...
12th Sep 2023
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State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Sep 2023
As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now everyone wants to see how Generative AI intersects with everything. The fits are not completely natural, as Generative AI like Chat GPT is more NLP type systems, but there are a...
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How we made feature flags even faster and more reliable Feature flags are high stakes. An outage affects not only our customers, but our customer's...
7th Oct 2025
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How we made feature flags even faster and more reliable

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

7th Oct 2025
Feature flags are high stakes. An outage affects not only our customers, but our customer's customers, who's experience it impacts. When flags are…
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Internet Harvest (2020, 1) Internet Harvest is a selection of the most succulent links on the internet that I’ve recently...
1st Feb 2020
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Internet Harvest (2020, 1)

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

1st Feb 2020
Internet Harvest is a selection of the most succulent links on the internet that I’ve recently plucked from its fruitful boughs.
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Motivation: What It Is, How It Works, and Where to Find It We all want to be motivated. We want to feel energized and excited about the things we do. We want...
1st Dec 2022
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Motivation: What It Is, How It Works, and Where to Find It

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Dec 2022
We all want to be motivated. We want to feel energized and excited about the things we do. We want to wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and drive, ready to tackle the day ahead. But the truth is, motivation is not always easy to come by. We tell ourselves lies about...
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chasing the dragon Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer...
10th Apr 2025
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chasing the dragon

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

10th Apr 2025
Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer with an honest side by side comparison to the more, exotic options.
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Autumn Every year for the past couple of years, when September rolls around we start getting ready to hit...
9th Oct 2024
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Autumn

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

9th Oct 2024
Every year for the past couple of years, when September rolls around we start getting ready to hit the road, packing away the paddle boards, washing the bus, and burning through the last of the firewood. Sometime around the middle of the month we say goodbye to friends and head...
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951 Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
1st Jul 2024
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Jul 2024
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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Things I've been thinking about - I can’t believe it's the end of March.
26th Mar 2025
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Things I've been thinking about -

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

26th Mar 2025
I can’t believe it's the end of March.
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Where did mainstream media come from? The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an...
10th Dec 2024
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Where did mainstream media come from?

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

10th Dec 2024
The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an interesting connection with the web. The post Where did mainstream media come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Bot Milk? I come from dairy-farming stock. My grandfather, the original Harry Goldstein, owned a herd of dairy...
1st May 2025
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Bot Milk?

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

1st May 2025
I come from dairy-farming stock. My grandfather, the original Harry Goldstein, owned a herd of dairy cows and a creamery in Louisville, Ky., that bore the family name. One fateful day in early April 1944, Harry was milking his cows when a heavy metallic part of his homemade...
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In Indonesia’s Rainforest, a Mega-Farm Project Is Plowing Ahead The Indonesian government is fast-tracking a massive agricultural project that is turning 7 million...
2nd Sep 2025
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In Indonesia’s Rainforest, a Mega-Farm Project Is Plowing Ahead

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

2nd Sep 2025
The Indonesian government is fast-tracking a massive agricultural project that is turning 7 million acres of tropical forest into rice and sugarcane farms. Critics say it is the world’s largest deforestation project and would upend the lives of thousands of Indigenous...
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
3rd Jul 2019
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS

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

3rd Jul 2019
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
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1997: The Year of DHTML As we saw in the previous post, 1997 was a year of growth for JavaScript. However, it was also a...
2nd Jun 2021
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1997: The Year of DHTML

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

2nd Jun 2021
As we saw in the previous post, 1997 was a year of growth for JavaScript. However, it was also a year in which its limitations were recognized and a new term was coined that both embraced and extended JavaScript. DHTML, or Dynamic HTML, was essentially a combination of HTML,...
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“Ascend the Hierarchy”: Let’s improve online discourse Many years ago Paul Graham wrote an essay, “How to Disagree”, that proposed a hierarchy of...
29th Mar 2020
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“Ascend the Hierarchy”: Let’s improve online discourse

from Jason Crawford [alt+shift+b] in life

29th Mar 2020
Many years ago Paul Graham wrote an essay, “How to Disagree”, that proposed a hierarchy of disagreement with seven levels, from DH0, “name-calling”, to DH6, “refuting the central point”. Someone then created a pyramid diagram based on this. Recently when someone commented...
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
22nd Aug 2023
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Aug 2023
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
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Sammy Cahn said thank you In 1990, at the age of 20, I moved to New York City and got a job as the tape room guy for...
21st May 2009
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Sammy Cahn said thank you

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

21st May 2009
In 1990, at the age of 20, I moved to New York City and got a job as the tape room guy for Warner/Chappell Music Publishing. One day, after a few months, I hear an old man yelling, “Goddamn it! What’s wrong with this typewriter? Can’t someone make a simple goddamn typewriter...
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Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer. I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
3rd Nov 2023
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Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer.

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

3rd Nov 2023
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
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A Note On Charity Through Marginal Price Discrimination
11th Mar 2017
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A Note On Charity Through Marginal Price Discrimination

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

11th Mar 2017
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Backgrounds Are Important I̸ ̸s̸t̸a̷r̶t̵e̷d̵ ̴w̵a̷t̶c̸h̶i̴n̸g̵ ̴t̵h̴e̶ ̸P̶y̴t̴h̸o̶n̴ ̵d̶o̵c̷u̵m̷e̴n̴t̷a̸r̶y̴,̶...
15th Sep 2025
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Backgrounds Are Important

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Sep 2025
I̸ ̸s̸t̸a̷r̶t̵e̷d̵ ̴w̵a̷t̶c̸h̶i̴n̸g̵ ̴t̵h̴e̶ ̸P̶y̴t̴h̸o̶n̴ ̵d̶o̵c̷u̵m̷e̴n̴t̷a̸r̶y̴,̶ ̸[̶r̷e̶c̶e̴n̷t̵l̷y̷ ̷a̶v̵a̸i̷l̸a̷b̷l̴e̷ ̸o̷n̸ ̵Y̴o̷u̶T̴u̴b̶e̸]̴(̵h̸t̵t̷p̴s̸:̴/̸/̴w̸w̴w̶.̵y̶o̶u̵t̵u̴b̶e̸.̴c̷o̷m̷/̵w̵a̴t̷c̴h̵?̷v̴=̵G̵f̶H̶4̵Q̷L̸4̸V̸q̴J̵0̴)̷,̴ ̴b̴u̵t̷ ̴I̴ ̸c̷o̸u̸l̶d̴n̸’̴t̷ ̷g̷e̷t̵...
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Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos....
27th Jul 2022
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Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders

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

27th Jul 2022
I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos. This is trickier as it sounds, because Reminders has no API that can be accessed from Home Assistant. Here's how I worked around that problem with a script, input text helper and...
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speed reading (the meaning of language) One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became a grift, is judging...
8th Dec 2025
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speed reading (the meaning of language)

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Dec 2025
One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became a grift, is judging the sincerity with which the whole thing started. Scams often crystallize around a kernel of truth: genuinely good intentions that start rolling down the hill to profitability and...
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Coding at work (after a decade away). Since joining Imprint a bit over six months ago as the CTO of a ~50 engineer team, I’ve merged 104...
19th Nov 2025
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Coding at work (after a decade away).

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

19th Nov 2025
Since joining Imprint a bit over six months ago as the CTO of a ~50 engineer team, I’ve merged 104 pull requests, which is slightly over four per week. Many of them are very minimal configuration and documentation tweaks, and none were the hardest or even most time-sensitive task...
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'All He'd Read and Learned' Eccentricity in books is a tricky quality. It can be charming and inspire lifelong devotion. Take...
1st Aug 2026
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'All He'd Read and Learned'

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

1st Aug 2026
Eccentricity in books is a tricky quality. It can be charming and inspire lifelong devotion. Take Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, a book I discovered in my freshman year. I redundantly keep three copies on the shelves nearest my desk. Tristram Shandy is another...
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The Blackbird Platform The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends...
5th Apr 2023
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The Blackbird Platform

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Apr 2023
The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends and family program at a restaurant in Williamsburg Brooklyn called Gertie. Blackbird wrote about it today on their excellent Supersonic blog: Throughout, when you tap Gertie’s...
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Samurai city For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its...
2nd Jun 2026
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Samurai city

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

2nd Jun 2026
For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its warlike samurai elite in the world’s least efficient city.
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I found my 7th grade art book ! The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that...
24th Apr 2016
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I found my 7th grade art book !

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Apr 2016
The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that period. I share this is to inspire at-least few to go back and check what they were and what they are now. Art book cover My 7th grade Art notebook. I’m 29 year old Indian male....
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On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week —...
2nd May 2025
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On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates

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

2nd May 2025
Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week — scoping it down, writing straight through, trying real hard to avoid over-writing or editing down to a pulp. Week 1 — “On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of...
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Harris/Waltz, tenant unions, Bangladesh, UBI Red Round-up #1
11th Aug 2024
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Harris/Waltz, tenant unions, Bangladesh, UBI

from Anarchy Unfolds [alt+shift+b] in creative

11th Aug 2024
Red Round-up #1
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The Artificiality of Alignment This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk”...
7th Oct 2023
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The Artificiality of Alignment

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

7th Oct 2023
This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
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The Struggle to Find Out How Cars Manage Your Personal Data The incredible difficulty of finding out what happens with your data
1st Jun 2021
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The Struggle to Find Out How Cars Manage Your Personal Data

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

1st Jun 2021
The incredible difficulty of finding out what happens with your data
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High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity...
1st Feb 2023
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High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last

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

1st Feb 2023
A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity seen in cuprate crystals, confirming a 35-year-old theory. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Quasi Motion” by Kevin MacLeod.
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Grumpy Julio plays with CLI coding agents Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article
9th Feb 2026
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Grumpy Julio plays with CLI coding agents

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2026
Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article
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Steven Hitchcock tweed bespoke coat: Review  This is the first English overcoat I’ve ever had made - or a traditional one anyway. There was the...
22nd Oct 2025
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Steven Hitchcock tweed bespoke coat: Review 

from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design

22nd Oct 2025
This is the first English overcoat I’ve ever had made - or a traditional one anyway. There was the topcoat from Michael Browne , but that was his own particular style and structure. And there was the wrap coat from Whitcomb & Shaftesbury , b... > Read more
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Ollama's new engine for multimodal models Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
15th May 2025
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Ollama's new engine for multimodal models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th May 2025
Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
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Computer Scientists Expand the Frontier of Verifiable Knowledge The universe of problems that a computer can check has grown. The researchers’ secret ingredient?...
9th Apr 2020
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Computer Scientists Expand the Frontier of Verifiable Knowledge

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

9th Apr 2020
The universe of problems that a computer can check has grown. The researchers’ secret ingredient? Quantum entanglement. The post Computer Scientists Expand the Frontier of Verifiable Knowledge first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Video Gamer skills that make a Great Designer Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR...
8th Apr 2022
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Video Gamer skills that make a Great Designer

from Oykun Yilmaz [alt+shift+b] in design

8th Apr 2022
Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR time, use it as you like it. It will make you a better designer.
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Taylor Swift, Johnny Cash and AI Art Context matters more than content in the age of AI-generated audio, images and videos.
2nd Dec 2023
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Taylor Swift, Johnny Cash and AI Art

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

2nd Dec 2023
Context matters more than content in the age of AI-generated audio, images and videos.
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I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert...
31st Mar 2021
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I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Mar 2021
how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert records that conflicted the index constraints
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Willy's, Margate I have often come across menus that read better than they deliver - full of interesting ingredients...
7th Apr 2026
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Willy's, Margate

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

7th Apr 2026
I have often come across menus that read better than they deliver - full of interesting ingredients and clever techniques on paper but not living up to the promise when the actual food starts appearing. This makes sense from a certain point of view - it's all very well writing...
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Drew Endy: The iGEM Revolution ## Massively collaborative synthetic biology Natural genomes are nearly impossible to figure out,...
17th Sep 2014
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Drew Endy: The iGEM Revolution

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

17th Sep 2014
## Massively collaborative synthetic biology Natural genomes are nearly impossible to figure out, Endy began, because they were evolved, not designed. Everything is context dependent, tangled, and often unique. So most biotech efforts become herculean. It cost $25 million to...
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The Safest Countries for LGBTQ Travelers
1st Aug 2023
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The Safest Countries for LGBTQ Travelers

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

1st Aug 2023
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Accelerator Energies
2nd Oct 2026
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Accelerator Energies

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

2nd Oct 2026
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New academic dissertation questions architects’ taste Many architects look down upon residential areas built with the small town as a model, with new...
6th Apr 2024
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New academic dissertation questions architects’ taste

from THE ARCHITECTURAL UPRISING [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Apr 2024
Many architects look down upon residential areas built with the small town as a model, with new houses made in a traditional style. But this is exactly what the average person appreciates. “Why do many architects dislike the very thing that residents often enjoy?” asks architect...
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The Joy of Small Markets If you want to get rich, the irony is that small markets are often better than large ones.
2nd Sep 2025
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The Joy of Small Markets

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

2nd Sep 2025
If you want to get rich, the irony is that small markets are often better than large ones.
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage "Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
3rd Dec 2023
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage

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

3rd Dec 2023
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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A website to call my own Most of this site was built at my favorite coffee shop of late, Sump. I make a living designing and...
2nd Dec 2013
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A website to call my own

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

2nd Dec 2013
Most of this site was built at my favorite coffee shop of late, Sump. I make a living designing and developing, among many many other things, websites. So, for the past few years, I’ve had the embarrassing task of explaining something to all my clients and — worse, if you can...
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail I. My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life....
13th May 2017
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail

from John Salvatier [alt+shift+b] in science

13th May 2017
I. My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I that meant a lot of standing outside in the cold. My dad’s preferred method of improving his lot was improving lots, and my brother and I were “voluntarily”...
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When One Pro Is Worth Ten Cons Stop listing options and start making arguments
3rd Feb 2026
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When One Pro Is Worth Ten Cons

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

3rd Feb 2026
Stop listing options and start making arguments
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lo-pi radio Live lo-fi beats from the digits of pi, forever.
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lo-pi radio

from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design

a week ago
Live lo-fi beats from the digits of pi, forever.
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Rambles I: The AI Onion
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Rambles I: The AI Onion

from Hall of Impossible Dreams [alt+shift+b] in creative

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The UX of HTML by Vasilis van Gemert Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a...
1st Dec 2023
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The UX of HTML

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2023
by Vasilis van Gemert Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a font — a student asked: does it have to be semantic and shit? The whole class looked up, curious about the answer — please let it be no! I answered that no, it doesn’t have to be...
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Winner, Name that Ware September 2023 The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the...
30th Oct 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware September 2023

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

30th Oct 2023
The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the general category of the ware first, David was the first to give the exact model. Usually I award the prize to the first person to give an exact, correct model number and fall back to...
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SQLite in Go, with and without cgo This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
12th May 2022
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SQLite in Go, with and without cgo

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

12th May 2022
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Julia Watson: Design by Radical Indigenism Responding to climate change by building hard infrastructures and favoring high-tech homogenous...
6th Oct 2020
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Julia Watson: Design by Radical Indigenism

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

6th Oct 2020
Responding to climate change by building hard infrastructures and favoring high-tech homogenous design, we are ignoring millennia-old knowledge of how to live in symbiosis with nature. Without implementing soft systems that use biodiversity as a building block, designs remain...
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Don't Tell Me This Town Ain't Got No Heart; Or, Sphere and Loathing Dead and Co and Authenticity at the Sphere
1st Jul 2024
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Don't Tell Me This Town Ain't Got No Heart; Or, Sphere and Loathing

from Passing Time [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Jul 2024
Dead and Co and Authenticity at the Sphere
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We Don't Need Conspiracies The real stories behind our problems are scary enough
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We Don't Need Conspiracies

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12th Jan 2025
The real stories behind our problems are scary enough
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In defense of Gemini a kvetch
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In defense of Gemini

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

5th Mar 2025
a kvetch
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Total Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If everyone gets killed because a neural network...
1st Feb 2025
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Total

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

1st Feb 2025
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If everyone gets killed because a neural network can't analyze itself, you owe me five bucks. Today's News:
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How many dimensions is this? A degree in mathematics might not save you from stacking boxes for a living.
3rd Sep 2025
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How many dimensions is this?

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

3rd Sep 2025
A degree in mathematics might not save you from stacking boxes for a living.
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TIL: Tiptap Excerpt Extension with Rails While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts...
16th Jan 2025
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TIL: Tiptap Excerpt Extension with Rails

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16th Jan 2025
While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts in the Pika editor. These excerpts would be used to show a small portion of your post in a post stream while offering a “continue reading” link for readers to click to read the rest...
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What is TypeScript and why should I use it? A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
30th Jun 2020
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What is TypeScript and why should I use it?

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30th Jun 2020
A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use it?
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Top Washington strategist says U.S. bases in Asia are “all risk and little reward” Is she the canary in the coal mine
2nd Oct 2026
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Top Washington strategist says U.S. bases in Asia are “all risk and little reward”

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2nd Oct 2026
Is she the canary in the coal mine
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Two of My Science-Fiction Stories Published in May View this email in your browser A Change of Pace from Astronomy News  As you may know, I have been...
2nd Jun 2025
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Two of My Science-Fiction Stories Published in May

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd Jun 2025
View this email in your browser A Change of Pace from Astronomy News  As you may know, I have been writing science-fiction stories based on good astronomy as my retirement project.  After a good number of rejections from the finest sci-fi magazines the world over, I am now...
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A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets An unexpected superconductor was beginning to look like a fluke, but a new theory and a second...
8th Jul 2021
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A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets

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8th Jul 2021
An unexpected superconductor was beginning to look like a fluke, but a new theory and a second discovery have revealed that emergent quasiparticles may be behind the effect. The post A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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It's a Gas! If everything worked as well as the product called Evapo-Rust, the world would be a much better...
7th Oct 2026
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It's a Gas!

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

7th Oct 2026
If everything worked as well as the product called Evapo-Rust, the world would be a much better place. That’s just one of the many lessons learned during my recent — successful! — project to transform my old, nonfunctioning gasoline-powered generator into something much better.
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Leaving Stripe I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
6th May 2015
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Leaving Stripe

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th May 2015
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup. Startups # Throughout college, I...
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Ethos and imagination Milk Drop Coronet, an ultra-high-speed photograph of the splash of a drop of milk, Harold Edgerton,...
4th Nov 2024
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Ethos and imagination

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4th Nov 2024
Milk Drop Coronet, an ultra-high-speed photograph of the splash of a drop of milk, Harold Edgerton, 1957
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Notes on the Fermi Paradox I recently realized I hadn’t written much in this blog about the Fermi Paradox, though I do write...
3rd Mar 2026
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Notes on the Fermi Paradox

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

3rd Mar 2026
I recently realized I hadn’t written much in this blog about the Fermi Paradox, though I do write about it elsewhere. So here is a quick note. The Fermi Paradox, sometimes paraphrased as “where are they?” is a question about the apparent lack of intelligent alien life in the...
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AI Is This Correct? AI Is This Correct? One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is...
15th Aug 2023
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AI Is This Correct?

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Aug 2023
AI Is This Correct? One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is this correct?” after an output. The chat model doesn’t involve a code interperter or require running anything, but often the robot can re-evalute its previous output to find its...
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Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment ### Becoming a Benign Dominant To track how humans became Earth's dominant animal, Ehrlich began...
28th Jun 2008
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Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment

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

28th Jun 2008
### Becoming a Benign Dominant To track how humans became Earth's dominant animal, Ehrlich began with a photo of a tarsier in a tree. The little primate had a predator's binocular vision and an insect-grabber's fingers. When (possibly) climate change drove some primates out of...
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

from Paul Graham: Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jun 2023
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Curved Line Jellyfish I had pictured something quite bold, graphical and geometric but I ended with gradients and...
22nd Mar 2021
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Curved Line Jellyfish

from Blog - Amy Goodchild [alt+shift+b] in creative

22nd Mar 2021
I had pictured something quite bold, graphical and geometric but I ended with gradients and floatiness.
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A month of the Vision Pro The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems years away from the mass...
17th Mar 2024
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A month of the Vision Pro

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Mar 2024
The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems years away from the mass market. And if it gets there, how much will it matter?
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