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Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Become the master of your eslint with no-restricted-syntax The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a file, which ensures a predicatbale CSS order. I spent hours looking for a eslint plugin to do that, but with little luck. Without getting into too much details: The built-in...
The Modern House
How Robin and Bronwen Burgess created a haven overlooking Hampstead Heath
a year ago
The Ruffian
A Ruffian Catch-Up In Case You Missed...
a year ago
Londonist
Fantastic Firework Displays And Buzzing Bonfire Nights Near London Whizzbangs worth leaving London for.
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Wood Screens Wrap Around This Home To Create Shade And Privacy Koichi Takada Architects has completed a new home in Sydney, Australia, whose design was inspired by...
a year ago
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a year ago
Koichi Takada Architects has completed a new home in Sydney, Australia, whose design was inspired by palm fronds, specifically the way the leaves provide dappled light and shelter to the fruit its tree bears. Applying the same principles, the home was cocooned with symmetrical...
The Honest Broker
Are We Now Living in a Parasite Culture? In the new consumer economy, you get consumed
3 months ago
Steve Klabnik
git, history modification, and libuv
over a year ago
Londonist
London New Year's Day Parade 2024: A Guide Route, timings and where to watch the 1 January shindig.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE? undefined
3 months ago
Daniel Miessler
GPT and Search There’s a lot of talk about how GPT is going to take over search. Meaning, compete with or take down...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There’s a lot of talk about how GPT is going to take over search. Meaning, compete with or take down Google. I get the excitement there, but there are some pretty serious barriers to having this happen immediately. First, GPT is non-deterministic, meaning you can ask it the same...
xkcd.com
Air Handler
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Plants Are Encouraged To Grow Over The Exterior Of This New House Giles Miller Studio has shared photos of their first completed residential property in Kent,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Giles Miller Studio has shared photos of their first completed residential property in Kent, England, that features a sculptural black facade. The house breaks down barriers between the building’s internal spaces and the glade of natural planting and trees that surround it. By...
elementary Blog
New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of...
a year ago
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a year ago
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of our office productivity apps, including several new features in Mail, a much more personal Login & Lock Screen experience with improved accessibility, and a couple of large redesigns...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Secrets Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids, you can literally find ways to annihilate all...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids, you can literally find ways to annihilate all humans, but you have to start with algebra! Today's News:
Seth's Blog
True/useful Here’s a simple grid that might change the way you think about internal stories: When we believe in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here’s a simple grid that might change the way you think about internal stories: When we believe in something that’s useful but not true, it can serve a helpful purpose. The tooth fairy, perhaps. When we act on something that’s useful and also true, we’ve found a resilient path...
swyx's site RSS Feed
A Developer's Guide to Startup Fundraising A Brief Guide to Startup Fundraising Terminology for Beginners
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The SearchGPT Paradigm What people (still) fundamentally misunderstand about AI search.
4 months ago
TheCollector
Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines undefined
4 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Going vimgan
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's...
a year ago
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a year ago
I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's free, easy to set up (just drop a few tags on the page), and that's what I knew back then. I did not enjoy it being run by a big corporation, but I was too lazy to research the...
Nothing Human
Searching for the Root of the Tree of Evil The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among thousands. Many of us feel like we need to Do Something about these problems. There’s just one problem (sorry):
Seth's Blog
The magic of placebos One of two things is true: A placebo is a force beyond understanding, one that is capable of...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of two things is true: A placebo is a force beyond understanding, one that is capable of disappearing when we do the appropriate double-blind tests and has mechanisms that defy our knowledge of the laws of physics. Or… A placebo is a prompt for our subconscious to do the hard...
Jonas Hietala
The Top Idea Recently I’ve been having a dozen ideas and projects I’ve been poking around with: I wrote a simple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently I’ve been having a dozen ideas and projects I’ve been poking around with: I wrote a simple lua, later perl, which announced when a new day9 episode has come. Later I expanded it to search for new manga episodes, but now it’s broken and unfinished. In an attempt to learn...
Computer Ads from...
Salamander Software's Franklin's Tomb My name is Diamond, Dan Diamond. I'm a private cop.
9 months ago
TheCollector
Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity undefined
10 months ago
Tech and Tea
Saddened by the tech industry Watching the pendulum swing away from people-centric leadership and wishing pendulums didn't swing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Watching the pendulum swing away from people-centric leadership and wishing pendulums didn't swing quite so far in the other direction.
Both Are True
24 super genuine resolutions for 2024 + one important thing at the end sort of
11 months ago
A Smart Bear
Stop saying "fail" Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations...
a year ago
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a year ago
Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations and to suggest the next step.
Astral Codex Ten
Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know ...
3 weeks ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Retail and community pharmacies are changing | Out-Of-Pocket COVID tailwinds are changing the role of the pharmacy and pharmacist
a year ago
On Life and Lisp
OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost:...
a year ago
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a year ago
Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost: leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1! Similarly, the OpenGL ES 2.0 support is bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0. That means more playable games and more functioning...
ntietz.com blog
Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or this one: "We don't need to make it accessible since we don't have any blind users 1 ." It belies an attitude that's all too common in the software industry: That accessibility...
the singularity is...
Wireheading City I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line: There’s a fine line...
a year ago
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a year ago
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line: There’s a fine line that defines civilization. Several beggars approached me on the street, and I didn’t give them anything. I suspect they would be surprised to learn that we have worse beggars in...
CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Addition Is Perched Above This Home In Texas Architect Nicole Blair has shared photos of a modern addition that was built above an existing...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Architect Nicole Blair has shared photos of a modern addition that was built above an existing bungalow in Austin, Texas. Owners Dylan and Annie, a landscape designer and a hairstylist, wanted to keep their backyard intact, and not move during construction nor disrupt the mature...
Paul Cudenec
The stench of the system: conspiracy Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass...
a month ago
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a month ago
Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass murder, lies, hypocrisy and repression.
TheCollector
6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read undefined
6 months ago
Rest of World -...
Amazon needs to be clear about removing items on behalf of authoritarian governments It's too easy to quietly order the removal of pages or products.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Appetizing, Clear and Understandable' This I found in an interview with the late novelist Richard G. Stern: “I prefer windows to mirrors....
a year ago
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a year ago
This I found in an interview with the late novelist Richard G. Stern: “I prefer windows to mirrors. Not just for diversion, or something to study. I like new vocabularies, rhythms, ways of thinking, associations of every sort.”  Stern (1928-2013) was seventy-one at the time and...
Retail Design Blog
Neptune Energy Offices by Parella Parella designed innovative, collaborative workspaces for Neptune Energy in The Hague, reflecting...
2 days ago
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2 days ago
Parella designed innovative, collaborative workspaces for Neptune Energy in The Hague, reflecting the company’s culture with open areas, communal spaces,...
Alex MacCaw
Pain I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He shared an excellent insight about dealing with pain that I believe everyone should hear. So here it is: We all experience pain caused by others. Perhaps even earlier today
Mazdak
Should You Rent or Buy a Home in Today's Market? In today's Canadian housing market, the age-old question of renting versus buying feels more...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In today's Canadian housing market, the age-old question of renting versus buying feels more pressing than ever. Soaring property values and rising interest rates have created a complex landscape, leaving many wondering: is homeownership still the golden ticket to building...
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019 Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
Max Rozen
What it means to not test implementation details in React Most guides to testing React these days preach: 'Test functionality, not implementation details'....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Most guides to testing React these days preach: 'Test functionality, not implementation details'. This article explains what that means, and how to do it.
Liz Denys
Building confidence in the face of impostor syndrome When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I question if I am a good enough engineer, designer, or statistician, but once I get started, my excitement transforms those doubts into motivation. But all bets are off as soon as I...
TheCollector
6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells undefined
10 months ago
Rest of World -...
What Elon Musk’s new biography leaves out Looking beyond the Tesla reality-distortion field.
a year ago
Eukaryote Writes...
I got dysentery so you don’t have to On turning 30 in a human challenge trial ward.
2 months ago
Open Culture
Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future of Online Education in 1988–and It’s Now Coming True “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Though that line probably originated...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Though that line probably originated with  a Canadian novelist called Grant Allen, it’s long been popularly attributed to his more colorful nineteenth-century contemporary Mark Twain. It isn’t hard to understand why it...
Arduino Blog
Assess your aquarium’s health with an AI-enabled ultrasonic sensor Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can accumulate, which leads to a loss in fish and plant populations if not fixed quickly. But because most water testing, especially in aquariums, is done primarily on the surface, vital...
The Honest Broker
What Happened to My Search Engine? Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades
11 months ago
Maggie Appleton
A Meta-Tour of This Site
over a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The terminal for the 21st century "Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground up to work like a modern...
over a year ago
Math Is Still...
The Experimental Cosmologist Hunting for the First Sunrise To catch even a whiff of the universe’s earliest epochs — an age of darkness, and one of new light —...
a year ago
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a year ago
To catch even a whiff of the universe’s earliest epochs — an age of darkness, and one of new light — Cynthia Chiang builds her own equipment. Then she deploys it at the ends of the Earth. The post The Experimental Cosmologist Hunting for the First Sunrise first...
TheCollector
The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff undefined
a year ago
The Forney Flyer
More From Liberia I've really been enjoying being busy helping with the MAF flight operations in Liberia.  Shortly...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've really been enjoying being busy helping with the MAF flight operations in Liberia.  Shortly after I landed at a remote location one day, our other aircraft, piloted by Ulrich Müeller, also landed (below) at the same airstrip. I was about to load up two medical patients...
One Useful Thing
The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
a month ago
Wuthering...
Books I read in August 2024 My ambition this summer was to read extensively in Arabic literature.  Eh, I did all right, but I...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
My ambition this summer was to read extensively in Arabic literature.  Eh, I did all right, but I will have to save Ibn Battuta’s Travels and the second half of Leg over Leg for some other time.  FICTION The Arabian Nights (14th c.), many hands – In the great Hassan Haddawy...
Seth's Blog
The rock star conundrum Forty years ago, the royalty of rock spent the night in a studio to record one of the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Forty years ago, the royalty of rock spent the night in a studio to record one of the fastest-selling singles of all time. The documentary of the event is just okay, but it’s fascinating in how it shows us just how deep imposter syndrome lies. Only a few stars seemed at all...
Open Culture
Google Launches a New Course Called “AI Essentials”: Learn How to Use Generative AI Tools to... This week, Google announced the launch of Google AI Essentials, a new self-paced course designed to...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
This week, Google announced the launch of Google AI Essentials, a new self-paced course designed to help people learn AI skills that can boost their productivity. Taught by Google’s AI experts, and assuming no prior knowledge of programming, the course ventures to show students...
bt RSS Feed
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I’m keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site. I recently added a fairly...
Willem's Blog
Fietselfstedentocht 2017 Cycling the 235KM long Fietselfstedentocht through Friesland
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quote Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This isn't quite on the level of the time Hemingway...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This isn't quite on the level of the time Hemingway said 'Fuck literature' but it *is* more out-of-context. Today's News: Right here.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Neither Angels Nor Devils' A favorite story about Dr. Johnson reminded me of something the late critic John Simon had written...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A favorite story about Dr. Johnson reminded me of something the late critic John Simon had written on his blog five years ago. In a post titled “Curse Words,” abbreviated by Simon throughout as “CW,” he reviews profanity as used in various settings and languages, including Croat,...
xkcd.com
Marshmallow
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Buzzin branding by Dhriti Shah At Buzzin, we believe that every moment is worth celebrating. Born from the need to rekindle the joy...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
At Buzzin, we believe that every moment is worth celebrating. Born from the need to rekindle the joy of togetherness...
Tony Finch's blog
Popcorn Another recent food obsession! I think the instigation was a YouTube food video which led me to...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Another recent food obsession! I think the instigation was a YouTube food video which led me to try making popcorn at home from scratch with Nico. It was enormous fun! And several weeks later it’s still really entertaining to make (especially when a stray kernel pops after I take...
Old Structures...
Another Tool Our inspections tend to be very close up – one of my first, in 1988, had me lying on the floor in an...
a year ago
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a year ago
Our inspections tend to be very close up – one of my first, in 1988, had me lying on the floor in an abandoned building with my arm, up to the shoulder, inside a hole in the wall, trying to get the sense of a beam-to-column connection by touch – but sometimes long-distance tools...
TheCollector
Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist? undefined
7 months ago
Retail Design Blog
FUDDY DUDDY pizza takeout by Saint of Athens & ICD Designers Saint of Athens and ICD Designers present FUDDY DUDDY, a unique pizza takeout store located in the...
6 months ago
Inverted Passion
Getting things done by not trying I recently finished a very short book with an intriguing title: Why Greatness Cannot be Planned....
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I recently finished a very short book with an intriguing title: Why Greatness Cannot be Planned. It’s an unconventional self-help book disguised as a computer science research exposition (that’s why the publisher is Springer). I strongly recommend reading it. Here is a taste of...
Mazdak
Tech Today - Apple Smart Home Camera Subscribe to our newsletter at Mazdak.com
a month ago
Wuthering...
Books I Read in August 2023 As I suspected my energy for writing in August was diverted to more important things.  Plenty of...
a year ago
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a year ago
As I suspected my energy for writing in August was diverted to more important things.  Plenty of energy to read, though. With a respite in September, I should soon be able to write a bit on the Greek philosophers I have been reading.  The Cynics, Epicureans, and Stoics work...
Open Culture
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic...
a month ago
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a month ago
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, meaning they can be downloaded directly from the museum’s website for...
Citation Needed
Issue 51 – It's quiet... too quiet It's been a quiet few weeks in the world of crypto disasters... too quiet.
10 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software has no business in any school environment. Educational institutions lean heavily on Windows systems in the name of “security” or “easier platform management”. This approach forces...
TheCollector
7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman undefined
4 weeks ago
xkcd.com
Time Traveler Causes of Death
4 months ago
The Codist
Yet Another Post On Scrum, But Different Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management. I did as well, but a...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management. I did as well, but a difference is that I started my career in 1981, long before the hordes of Scrums took root. 1981, you say, so you must have done Waterfall, so you are old and have
TheCollector
How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art? undefined
9 months ago
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Finding and fixing slow queries Photo by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash I love dashboards, and I run several on my system to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Photo by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash I love dashboards, and I run several on my system to monitor my HR startup in real time. I love collecting data points around subscriptions, user activity, and most importantly, server uptime and performance. Especially now that we are...
Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard? A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
TheCollector
Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance undefined
a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Supporting coworkers, employees, and friends in this time We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An...
a month ago
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a month ago
We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An election just finished in the US, which means that half the country lost and has to face the coming changes. In particular, this is a scary time for many folks who have been targets in...
Paul Cudenec
Amsterdam, gaslighting and the horrible truth In terms of what physically happened, the much-publicised events in Amsterdam last week don’t amount...
a month ago
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a month ago
In terms of what physically happened, the much-publicised events in Amsterdam last week don’t amount to much.
TheCollector
Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals undefined
a year ago
alexwlchan
Testing JavaScript without a (third-party) framework Last week Julia Evans posted Writing Javascript without a build system, and it resonated with my own...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week Julia Evans posted Writing Javascript without a build system, and it resonated with my own experience. A lot of my websites (including this one) are content sites with just a bit of interactivity sprinkled on top, where I prefer writing vanilla JS over using complex...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Top Thing of the World' John Keats’ meditation on a reader’s paradise:  “I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
John Keats’ meditation on a reader’s paradise:  “I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner. Let him on a certain day read a certain Page of full Poesy or distilled Prose, and let him wander with it, and muse upon it and reflect from it, and dream...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST? How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is between Smart Clients and Smart Servers!
Platformer
Why Substack is at a crossroads Some thoughts on platforms and Nazis
11 months ago
Simply Explained
How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!) In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from...
a year ago
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a year ago
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from anywhere on my Mac. I just open Alfred, type “note” followed by my query, and see my search results. Hit enter and the correct note opens in Obsidian. Easy and quick!
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The rise of enterprise marketing Building an enterprise software company used to be largely about sales, because enterprise software...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Building an enterprise software company used to be largely about sales, because enterprise software was sourced and purchased by high-level…
The American Scholar
The Given Child To what lengths would a mother go to ensure her family’s survival in a remote Himalayan village? The...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
To what lengths would a mother go to ensure her family’s survival in a remote Himalayan village? The post The Given Child appeared first on The American Scholar.
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Are An Investment It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design system, especially in terms of salaries and development time. It's even easier to target a design system as the thing that's holding up a product from getting delivered. The truth...
Julia Evans
New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies I use to learn hard things. I just noticed that they’d released the video the other day, so I’m just posting it now even though I gave the talk 6 months ago. Here’s the video, as...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 10-11 February 2024 Super Bowl Sunday, Chinese New Year, and half term happenings.
10 months ago
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 3: Meta's Self-Taught Evaluator, AI for Cancer Diagnosis, and a Technical... Society's Backend Reading List 10-21-2024
2 months ago
Platformer
Why I'm having trouble covering AI If you believe that the most serious risks from AI are real, should you write about anything else?
a year ago
The Modern House
Emma Crosby and Simon Mitchell on restoring their mid-century house by the sea in Devon
a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 6-7 January 2024 Last-chance exhibitions, comedy, ice hockey, and bottomless fondue.
11 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Why My Blog is Closed-Source In our community, it's so common for developer projects to be open-source. I'm breaking with this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In our community, it's so common for developer projects to be open-source. I'm breaking with this trend for my blog, but I have good reasons! In this article, I'll share my reasoning, as well as a workaround in case you _really_ want to see the source. If you're considering...
Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s economic crisis is fueling a stunt philanthropy boom A crop of content creators are building fame on MrBeast-style content.
4 months ago
Blog posts of...
Drafting your first investment round. The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders look for external funding. And i...
Seth's Blog
Find the others: Worldwide Strategy Meetups On October 22, around the world, I’m helping to organize hundreds of in-person get togethers. A...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
On October 22, around the world, I’m helping to organize hundreds of in-person get togethers. A chance to share your work and have a conversation about your strategy with others. Mutual support and peer connection. All the details are on this page. It’s free. A chance to connect...
Math Is Still...
How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins Proteins are often visualized as cascades of curled ribbons and twisted strings, which both reveal...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Proteins are often visualized as cascades of curled ribbons and twisted strings, which both reveal and conceal the mess of atoms that make up these impossibly complex molecules. The post How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins first appeared on Quanta...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Myth Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I save a rant for 10 years and finally...
7 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I save a rant for 10 years and finally decide it's not a thinkpiece, it's a stupid joke. Today's News:
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The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916 At 8:30 p.m. on 16 May 1916, John J. Carty banged his gavel at the Engineering Societies Building in...
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At 8:30 p.m. on 16 May 1916, John J. Carty banged his gavel at the Engineering Societies Building in New York City to call to order a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. This was no ordinary gathering. The AIEE had decided to conduct a live national meeting...
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Diaries of Note
My love of solitude is growing with my growth Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an eminent 19th-century British poet most famous for her two-volume...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an eminent 19th-century British poet most famous for her two-volume collection, Poems, published in 1844, and the verse novel Aurora Leigh, which came out in 1856. It was in 1831, three years after the death of her mother, that Barrett Browning kept...
Applied Cartography
Notes on buttondown.com We spent $85,000 for buttondown.com in April; this was the biggest capital expenditure I've ever...
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We spent $85,000 for buttondown.com in April; this was the biggest capital expenditure I've ever made, and though it was coming from cash flow generated by Buttondown rather than my own checking account it was by rough estimation the largest non-house purchase I've ever made. As...
Noahpinion
The American socialist worldview is just totally broken (repost) Plus a new update showing how right I was.
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TheCollector
Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign? undefined
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Onec You See It The current round of repair work on the Manhattan Bridge has reached the stage of painting the...
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The current round of repair work on the Manhattan Bridge has reached the stage of painting the towers. It has, to my eye, the unfortunate effect of making the bridge look like it’s wearing shorts.
Joel Gascoigne
We spent $3.3M buying out investors: Why and how we did it Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about half of all the cash we had in the bank – to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors. Starting the conversations, negotiations, and process of this buy out was one
Business Brainstorms
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#1 💡 One of the most interesting learnings after doing lead gen for 100+ b2b companies: the more directly your offer is related to one the core b2b “desires”, the easier the sales process. Many offers are only indirectly related to them. A better design might increases...
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Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by...
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Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by Orthogonal Demodulation Misc Introduction While researching a DSP related topic, Google dug up an excellent article, written by Hideo Okawara, that is just one part of a series of ~53. I...
Diaries of Note
It seemed like a general conflagration In 1807, three years after shooting Alexander Hamilton dead in a duel, former Vice President of the...
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In 1807, three years after shooting Alexander Hamilton dead in a duel, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr was indicted for a second time, for treason. Having once been at the pinnacle of American politics, he was now accused of plotting to carve out his own...
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Solving the mystery of PostHog’s missing session recordings Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source...
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Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source ression replay tools available. It allows you to see…
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the military industrial complex Whether Trump wins or loses today, Europe should tool up and prepare to fight.
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Specialty If you look closely, that stereotypical New England mill building, photographed yesterday in...
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If you look closely, that stereotypical New England mill building, photographed yesterday in Pawtucket, has a sign reading “H. A. Briggs & Co. Cotton Waste.” I’ve heard of a lot of things you can do with cotton, but “cotton waste” was a new one for me. It apparently means scraps...
Seth's Blog
The Santa problem An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from...
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An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from conventional discourse. It can happen to sports and music fans, to investors, to companies that have confidence in their view of the world, or to social or political gatherings. We...
Max Countryman
Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can...
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Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can dramatically improve your odds of hiring exceptional software engineers.
Saturday Morning...
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Londonist
Tips For Australians In London - From An Australian In London Zoë Coombs Marr advises.
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CISHAN office by STUDIO8 Architects “CISHAN” is a catering company that possesses several catering brands. The office is located on the...
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“CISHAN” is a catering company that possesses several catering brands. The office is located on the top floor of a...
Construction Physics
The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part II Last week, we looked at the early history of high-speed rail in the US. Though the US attempted to...
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Last week, we looked at the early history of high-speed rail in the US. Though the US attempted to build its own high-speed rail routes soon after they debuted in Japan in 1964, these efforts were unsuccessful, outside of the popular-but-troubled Metroliner
Anecdotal Evidence
'Life Is So Long' Several years ago I was diagnosed with a condition called MGUS (pronounced EM-gus) -- monoclonal...
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Several years ago I was diagnosed with a condition called MGUS (pronounced EM-gus) -- monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. It’s a symptom-less and in most cases benign disorder, but it can be a precursor to multiple myeloma. It means I see my oncologist once a...
NeuroLogica Blog
Microbes Aboard the ISS As I have written many times, including in yesterday’s post, people occupying space is hard. The...
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As I have written many times, including in yesterday’s post, people occupying space is hard. The environment of space, or really anywhere not on Earth, is harsh and unforgiving. One of the issues, for example, rarely addressed in science fiction or even discussions of space...
TheCollector
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Collection of Scraps and Shards of Knowledge' “During this time we know [John] Donne was collecting his fascinations in a book: a collection of...
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“During this time we know [John] Donne was collecting his fascinations in a book: a collection of scraps and shards of knowledge known as a commonplace book.” Like Donne (1572-1621), some of us are magpie-minded, collecting objects shiny and drab, often without obvious utility....
The Ruffian
Nike's Winning Strategy On the Cultural Significance of Its 2024 Olympics Campaign
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mtlynch.io
Using Zig to Unit Test a C Application Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C...
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Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C that attempts to retain C’s performance while embracing improvements from the last 30 years of tooling and language design. Zig makes calling into C code easier than any other...
Old Structures...
6:52 AM, November 27 Half an hour after dawn, and the setting full moon is just to the right and below the ONE WAY sign....
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Half an hour after dawn, and the setting full moon is just to the right and below the ONE WAY sign. The construction on the left is poart of the Battery Resliency program to prtocet lower Manahttan against sea level rise.
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Links in Progress: Expanding the Mediterranean's busiest port Plus: New tunnels, monorails, canals, small modular reactors, and horseless carriages
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The Marginalian
What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep "It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice...
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"It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real... It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain."
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Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 The short version: porting from Vue...
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Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 The short version: porting from Vue to Svelte is pretty straightforward and Svelte 5 is nice upgrade to Svelte 4. Why port? I’m working on Edna, a note taking application for developers. It started as a...
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Northern Awokening: Social-justice and prejudice-signifying language in Canadian news media I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about...
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I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about changes in the language that the news media in Canada use. I have documented previously how in American news media mentions of terms that signify distinct forms of prejudice have...
Noahpinion
Asia is much more important to U.S. interests than the Middle East We need to prioritize, and our priorities should be clear.
a year ago
The Honest Broker
How I Stopped Hating Steely Dan I thought I was immune, but still became a Dan stan—this is my story
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The Wrong Bet The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
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Plans are nothing, but planning is indispensable It is widely believed that writing a business plan is a waste of time, because: 1) very few people...
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It is widely believed that writing a business plan is a waste of time, because: 1) very few people will read it, and 2) you’ll end up…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Putting the “Person” in “Personal Website” The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities...
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The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities like singing, dancing, and making art have been turned into skills instead of being recognized as behaviors? The point of doing these things has become to get good at them. But...
Common Edge
The Making of Ponchartrain Park in New Orleans How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith and Edgar Stern, helped inspire the first neighborhood...
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How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith and Edgar Stern, helped inspire the first neighborhood development exclusively available to Black middle-class families.
Devmoh
3 key tips for maximum impact, and the myth of the "lazy" Big Tech Engineer On forums with startup-heavy presences, it’s a common occurrence to sing about the downfall of FAANG...
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On forums with startup-heavy presences, it’s a common occurrence to sing about the downfall of FAANG and the uselessness of Big Tech for an engineer’s career. This specific tweet went viral recently and I wanted to do a little deep dive on the underlying implications of it:
Infinite Scroll
JOB - A theatrical review A Broadway play about Content Moderation
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Joel Gascoigne
The maker/manager transition phase * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Paul Graham...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Paul Graham [http://paulgraham.com] has a fantastic article on the topic of scheduling work as a maker and as a manager [http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html], which I’ve drawn insights...
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Becoming a tech powerhouse is harder than you think Rio’s gambit to become Latin America’s tech hub is analogous to Brazil and Latin America’s struggle.
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day? undefined
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer undefined
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ChloeMonique Atelier by Adrian Condina Often seen as the more polished of Australia‘s two biggest cities, Melbourne has a wide array of...
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Often seen as the more polished of Australia‘s two biggest cities, Melbourne has a wide array of addresses where a...
The Berkeley...
Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark! Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving...
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Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Over the decades, AI researchers have developed Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems to interpret scenes within single images and answer...
The Modern House
Textile designer Pauline Caulfield’s art-filled home and studio in Primrose Hill
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Doing Valuable Work in Literary Criticism' “Part of the drama of reading Boswell’s Life for the first time is that one can never (however much...
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“Part of the drama of reading Boswell’s Life for the first time is that one can never (however much classical or Christian erudition one brings to the task) predict confidently how Johnson is going to respond to this or that specific question; yet of course by the end one...
Seth's Blog
Hiding the ‘aha’ The most effective persuasion happens when we persuade ourselves. The purpose of the memo or the...
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The most effective persuasion happens when we persuade ourselves. The purpose of the memo or the table or the graph or the presentation is to create the conditions for someone to make up their own minds. Because it’s almost impossible to make up their mind for them. The aha is...
IEEE Spectrum
Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser The semiconductor laser, invented more than 60 years ago, is the foundation of many of today’s...
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The semiconductor laser, invented more than 60 years ago, is the foundation of many of today’s technologies including barcode scanners, fiber-optic communications, medical imaging, and remote controls. The tiny, versatile device is now an IEEE Milestone. The possibilities of...
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Organizing Developer Writing Retreats One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS |...
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One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS | RETREAT** in Miami!
Commoncog
Is This a Moat: Mailchimp and PayPal’s Algorithmic Advantage Two case studies of real world competitive advantage, followed by a question: was this a moat or...
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General Robots
Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
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Being a minor AI public figure I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
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I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
The Rational Walk
Musical Chairs at Dollar General Investors were euphoric when Dollar General brought back its former CEO less than a year after his...
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Investors were euphoric when Dollar General brought back its former CEO less than a year after his retirement. A sober look at the situation reveals significant concerns.
David Heinemeier...
Finding acoustical delight in THE THOCK Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I...
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Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I soon learned that it describes one of those strangely seductive sounds you can produce from pressing the keys on a keyboard tuned for acoustical joy. And now, dammit, I've...
Retail Design Blog
Alpha Group office by Ikon & Design with Narrative After creating ‘the best office in Bristol’ for Alpha, the international financial services group...
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After creating ‘the best office in Bristol’ for Alpha, the international financial services group asked Ikon to rise to similar...
Retail Design Blog
Plus X Innovation Offices by Oktra Oktra collaborated with Plus X Innovation to design a dynamic coworking space at The Future Works in...
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Oktra collaborated with Plus X Innovation to design a dynamic coworking space at The Future Works in Slough, emphasizing creativity,...
CONTEMPORIST
A House Designed Like Two Barns Beside Each Other Exterio Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in the Kujawy region of Poland, that...
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Exterio Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in the Kujawy region of Poland, that has a layout similar to two barns positioned side-by-side. The home has been designed to take advantage of the long and narrow lot, with the layout divided into two interconnected...
The Modern House
A couple’s self-renovated 1960s home built on to a 17th-century cottage in Somerset
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CONTEMPORIST
This Bedroom With A Partial Glass Floor Looks Down To The Living Room Below Fenda Arquitetura has shared photos of their project, a modern one-bedroom apartment in Sao Paulo,...
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Fenda Arquitetura has shared photos of their project, a modern one-bedroom apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that features a partial glass floor in the bedroom. The apartment has been designed with the living space on the lower floor, while the bedroom is located upstairs. One...
Louwrentius
1.0 GB/s using Linux software RAID I filled the Norco case with hardware. It is now up and running, based on Debian Linux (Lenny). I...
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I filled the Norco case with hardware. It is now up and running, based on Debian Linux (Lenny). I immediately performed some initial tests with software RAID 0. The results are just astounding. debian:~# dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=50000 50000+0 records in 50000+0...
Beautiful Public...
The Mirror Fusion Test Facility A decade-long effort to build a machine to unlock the promise of nuclear fusion fell victim to...
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A decade-long effort to build a machine to unlock the promise of nuclear fusion fell victim to budget constraints and competing science, and was shut down the day it was dedicated. It was never turned on.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Online privacy: what’s at stake It is widely believed that a flourishing democracy requires an independent, diverse, and financially...
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It is widely believed that a flourishing democracy requires an independent, diverse, and financially solvent press.  With print newspapers…
The Honest Broker
The State of the Culture, 2024 Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)
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Maps Mania
The Interactive Turbulence Map
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Steve Klabnik
The profile link relation and you
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NeuroLogica Blog
Non-Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation We are rapidly entering the era of neuromodulation – using electrical and magnetic fields in order...
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We are rapidly entering the era of neuromodulation – using electrical and magnetic fields in order to increase or decrease the activity of specific regions and circuits in the brain. Such treatments are already shown to be effective in treating some Parkinson’s symptoms,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Compliment Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time I see this it takes me a minute to...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time I see this it takes me a minute to realize it isn't an insult. Today's News:
Paul Graham: Essays
The Venture Capital Squeeze
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Founder's blog
How to Hide Tethering from Your Mobile Operator TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS...
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TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS default 64 plus one). ••• On my recent mountain biking trip to France I accidentally booked an Airbnb without WiFi. Bummer. But hey, 5 minutes of googling and I found a...
Math Is Still...
The Hidden Brain Connections Between Our Hands and Tongues Sticking out your tongue while doing delicate work with your hands reveals a history of evolutionary...
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Sticking out your tongue while doing delicate work with your hands reveals a history of evolutionary relationships. The post The Hidden Brain Connections Between Our Hands and Tongues first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Seth's Blog
“Please create more tension” This rarely comes up in focus group data. It doesn’t come up when a school talks to students, or a...
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This rarely comes up in focus group data. It doesn’t come up when a school talks to students, or a conductor asks the orchestra. It doesn’t come up when the gym owner surveys potential members or when a chef or playwright thinks about building something new. But of course, that’s...
Nat Eliason's...
The Most Useful Feedback Hurts Plus a sci-fi novel update
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Mazdak
Protect Your iPhone: Apple Introduces Stolen Device Protection Apple is taking a stand against iPhone theft with a new security feature called Stolen Device...
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Apple is taking a stand against iPhone theft with a new security feature called Stolen Device Protection, currently available to beta testers. This feature adds an extra layer of protection to your personal information and financial data, making it more difficult for thieves to...
Maps Mania
France Defeats the Far-Right
5 months ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Keeping track of visited URLs in WebCard <![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system. It can...
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<![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system. It can only command the browser to visit a URL when the user traverses a Web link or executes the Visit URL menu command. But with no precautions the browser would open a new tab for...
The Marginalian
Home: An Illustrated Celebration of the Genius and Wonder of Animal Dwellings “There’s no place like home,” Dorothy sighs in The Wizard of Oz. But home is not a place — it is a...
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“There’s no place like home,” Dorothy sighs in The Wizard of Oz. But home is not a place — it is a locus of longing, always haunted by our existential homelessness. “Welcome home!” a cheaply suited broker once exclaimed at me, swinging open the door to a tiny studio as my foot...
The American Scholar
Martha Foley’s Granddaughters What the esteemed literary editor never knew about the life of her troubled son, David Burnett The...
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What the esteemed literary editor never knew about the life of her troubled son, David Burnett The post Martha Foley’s Granddaughters appeared first on The American Scholar.
Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981 In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Selling pickaxes during a gold rush There is a saying in the startup world that “you can mine for gold or you can sell pickaxes.” This...
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There is a saying in the startup world that “you can mine for gold or you can sell pickaxes.” This is of course an allusion to the…
The Modern House
A local’s guide to Highbury and Canonbury: design and delicatessens in north London
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TheCollector
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The Honest Broker
The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College Our problem is in the real world—not the ivory tower—and so is the solution
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$500K milestone – my reflections after 1 year of building Typing Mind Also in this issue: one-off purchase vs. subscription, selling Xnapper, and other updates from me in...
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TheCollector
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bea Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks, everyone. It took about 5 years to get from...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks, everyone. It took about 5 years to get from the beginning to here. It's as a good of a thing as I can write, and I hope you enjoy it. Today's News: The most frequently asked question is the age range for Bea Wolf readers,...
Christian Selig
Announcing Juno 2.0 Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been...
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Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been enjoying Juno since its launch, as well as providing awesome feedback and input to improve it. Today I’m releasing Juno 2.0, which incorporates a ton of that community feedback,...
mtlynch.io
My Second Year as a Solo Developer Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I...
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Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I posted an update about my finances, happiness, and lessons learned. Today marks the end of my second year, so it’s time for another update. How I made and spent money Metric 2018...
Confessions of a...
Cottesloe Fish Habitat Protection Area Today I am teaching my first tutorial in the second year unit ‘Marine Systems‘, which will introduce...
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Today I am teaching my first tutorial in the second year unit ‘Marine Systems‘, which will introduce students to their major project, which is centred around a field trip to the Cottelsoe Fish Habitat Protection Area (CFHPA).  I’m pretty excited to introduce a few of my new ideas...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Secrets of Crete
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Julia Evans
Reasons to use your shell's job control Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z, wait, etc). It made me...
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Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z, wait, etc). It made me think about how I don’t use my shell’s job control interactively very often: usually I prefer to just open a new terminal tab if I want to run multiple terminal programs, or use tmux...
Cheese and Biscuits
Mamapen at the Sun and 13 Cantons, Soho There are a few pubs in London notable for their hosting of fledgling food businesses, giving...
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There are a few pubs in London notable for their hosting of fledgling food businesses, giving talented but cash-strapped teams a chance to test their market and their cooking skills without the risk and stress of opening a completely brand new restaurant. Over the years, you will...
One Useful Thing
Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
a year ago
Christopher Butler
object – A 20 Year-Old Sketchbook This sketchbook just turned twenty years old. I began keeping it in the final months of my...
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This sketchbook just turned twenty years old. I began keeping it in the final months of my senior year at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). A few friends and I had managed to register for the same elective art history course that spring, and in anticipation of all...
Londonist
Your London Reading List: The Best Non-Fiction Books Best books voted for by Londonist readers.
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DYNOMIGHT
Is there a homeless crisis? A few years ago, I took a look at the data on homelessness in the United States. We now have new...
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A few years ago, I took a look at the data on homelessness in the United States. We now have new data (and a new reality) so let’s revisit things, this time in superior list format. 1. After holding steady for years, homelessness recently jumped up a bit. Here is the percentage...
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Embrace the medium An obvious but surprisingly under-practiced design principle is to “embrace the medium.”  Applied to...
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An obvious but surprisingly under-practiced design principle is to “embrace the medium.”  Applied to software, this means building…
xkcd.com
House Inputs and Outputs
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Yiwu Place Public Shopping Precinct The city of Yiwu has unique trading culture and a thriving economy of commerce. The city has...
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The city of Yiwu has unique trading culture and a thriving economy of commerce. The city has witnessed great historical...
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Is autocapture ‘still’ bad? Is autocapture bad? Has it ever been good? Earlier this year Amplitude posed these questions in a...
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Is autocapture bad? Has it ever been good? Earlier this year Amplitude posed these questions in a blogpost by Product Evangelist Adam Greco. Yes, he…
Liz Denys
Black & white cookie jars, 2024 The classic New York City treat reimagined as a pill jar
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alexwlchan
Ten years of blogging I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared...
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over a year ago
I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared shortly after that (but the exact date is lost to history). This means I’ve been writing at alexwlchan.net for about a decade. The site looks very different now to how it...
Artificial Ignorance
Bridging AI and human creativity A conversation with Harrison Telyan, co-founder of NUMI.
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Citation Needed
Issue 49 – And so the Lord says "give them a 10x" Bitcoin ETP approval, God-sent crypto scammers, and more trouble in Justin Sun's world.
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How we're using email on a custom domain for $0/mo Google has announced yet another price increase for Google Workspace. Here's what we've done to...
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Google has announced yet another price increase for Google Workspace. Here's what we've done to avoid paying anything at all.
Stoic Simple
Understanding the Key Principles of Stoicism If you're looking for a practical philosophy to help guide you through life's ups and downs, look no...
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If you're looking for a practical philosophy to help guide you through life's ups and downs, look no further than Stoicism. At its core, Stoicism is all about living a good life by cultivating virtues like wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance, and finding inner tranquility no...
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Peace, Love, & Ass
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Counting to Ten We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to...
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a year ago
We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to the subject of counting to ten. Realizing everyone in the family can count to ten in a language unique to them at this moment in their life, we go around the table to do it...
TheCollector
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A Smart Bear
Discount gambit Discounting is the typical sales technique, but refusing to discount can lead to a much better...
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a year ago
Discounting is the typical sales technique, but refusing to discount can lead to a much better business, even in the Enterprise.
Dan Slimmon
Explaining the fire When the firefighters arrive at the blazing building, they don't need to explain the fire. They need...
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8 months ago
When the firefighters arrive at the blazing building, they don't need to explain the fire. They need to put it out. It doesn't matter whether a toaster malfunctioned, or a cat knocked over a candle, or a smoker fell asleep watching The Voice. But when PagerDuty blows up and we...
Maps Mania
The Coldest Day of the Year
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Making software...
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu...
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over a year ago
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
Seth's Blog
Communications hygiene (and the demise of texting) Attention is scarce. Decisions are difficult. Searching takes effort. For thirty years, texting has...
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11 months ago
Attention is scarce. Decisions are difficult. Searching takes effort. For thirty years, texting has been a powerful medium. It’s the thing that vibrates in our pocket. It promises something urgent, and a reply that’s demanded equally urgently. “I’m running ten minutes late,” is a...
Ian Betteridge
20241202 Ten Blue Links, the late late late show edition! Technically this is eight blue links, because I spent the weekend in Bristol and we’re getting...
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Technically this is eight blue links, because I spent the weekend in Bristol and we’re getting towards Christmas. Next week: five blue links and a bag of wine gums. 1. RIP ChromeOS (sort of) Odd as it sounds today, when I talk a lot about user privacy and avoiding cloud services,...
Londonist
13 Excellent Events Near London: February 2024 Snowdrops, cocktails and a special afternoon tea.
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Moneyness
For the first time ever, euro paper money in circulation is shrinking Why is the paper euro shrinking? Are we at peak cash?  To begin with, here is the data,...
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a year ago
Why is the paper euro shrinking? Are we at peak cash?  To begin with, here is the data, charted:  As the orange line shows, Europe is experiencing its first year-over-year drop in paper money in circulation.  While it's tempting to attribute this to paper money's declining...
Rest of World -...
Traditional multinationals are making their mark on Latin American tech The region’s conservative corporations are finding different ways to get into technology.
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An Earth Powered by the Sun
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Math Is Still...
In a ‘Dark Dimension,’ Physicists Search for the Universe’s Missing Matter An idea derived from string theory suggests that dark matter is hiding in a (relatively) large extra...
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An idea derived from string theory suggests that dark matter is hiding in a (relatively) large extra dimension. The theory makes testable predictions that physicists are investigating now. The post In a ‘Dark Dimension,’ Physicists Search for the Universe’s Missing...
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Why Does Being Left-Wing Make You Unhappy? The Ideological Well-Being Gap
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How America Made Machines Make Machines A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
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The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions There’s been a lot of speculation lately about why big companies spend millions of dollars acquiring...
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There’s been a lot of speculation lately about why big companies spend millions of dollars acquiring startups for their technology or talent…
Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Hacker, Hack Thyself We've read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to...
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We've read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took that lesson to heart when we founded the Discourse project; we endeavor to build open source software that is secure and safe for communities by default,...
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Top 10 Finance News Headlines for Thursday, November 30th, 2023 📈📰 📈 Stocks Soar: The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped more than 500 points on Thursday, closing at...
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📈 Stocks Soar: The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped more than 500 points on Thursday, closing at its highest level of the year. The rally was fueled by optimism about the economy and a slowdown in inflation. 🚀 💼 Peltz Takes Aim at Disney: Activist investor Nelson Peltz is...
General Robots
Dimension Hopper Part 1 2D Platformer using Stable Diffusion for live level art creation
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Consider the 15 mph City It’s time to expand our vision to include slower, more human-scaled speeds of transportation.
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Internet Harvest (2020, 2) Internet Harvest is a selection of the most succulent links on the internet that I’ve recently...
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over a year ago
Internet Harvest is a selection of the most succulent links on the internet that I’ve recently plucked from its fruitful boughs. Feel free to discuss the links in the comments. Also, semi-intentionally, none of the links in this harvest are COVID-19-related. If you want some...
Map of the Week
My Favorite New Jersey Drone Map Here is my favorite “map” showing the drone hysteria over New Jersey. It’s from Instagram...
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4 days ago
Here is my favorite “map” showing the drone hysteria over New Jersey. It’s from Instagram user wmh_x_0, aka Oona Harrigan.   It is based on these maps of drone sightings that have been going around the internet. The “globe” text is there because she is known for designing sad...
Words and Buttons...
Why did I write Geometry for programmers This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons...
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a year ago
This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons has been stagnant for a while though. I have been writing a book. Why? Well, visit and see.
TheCollector
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A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on Framework Churn I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they...
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a year ago
I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they save time. They help you build things faster. Yes, there are costs associated with frameworks later on, especially as new versions come out and your app instantly feels like...
xkcd.com
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A Smart Bear
Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric “Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail...
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over a year ago
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail to produce the best answers, and fail to create explanations that help others understand why they’re the best answers. This system works.
macwright.com
Recently I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element...
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4 months ago
I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element and browser abstractions I was reading Iván Sánchez Ortega’s thoughts on maps4html (at the time of writing, his website is down, so that’s an archive.org link). The post is about a...
TheCollector
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Paul Foot Is Barmy Brilliance In A Boiler Suit A hilarious, uncynical, remarkable piece of comedy.
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Math Is Still...
How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number Useful mathematical concepts, like the number line, can linger for millennia before they are...
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Useful mathematical concepts, like the number line, can linger for millennia before they are rigorously defined. The post How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Damn Interesting
Giving the Bird the Bird We’re not going to post things on Twitter X anymore. The new owner keeps doing awful stuff. If you...
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a year ago
We’re not going to post things on Twitter X anymore. The new owner keeps doing awful stuff. If you have enjoyed our mostly-daily curated links via the aforementioned collapsing service, we invite you to bookmark our curated links page, or follow us a number of other ways. Rather...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
The teaser trailer for my Exploding Kittens Netflix series just dropped! After four years of work, I am finally sharing one minute of glorious footage! View on my website
a year ago
Birchtree
Squashing links on social media Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow Knife For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are...
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Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow Knife For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning Facebook, Instagram’s increasingly-overbearing owner — tightly
Retail Design Blog
Polene Paris Seoul Flagship Store by WGNB The design narrative of Polène’s Seoul flagship store is a sophisticated exploration of space...
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The design narrative of Polène’s Seoul flagship store is a sophisticated exploration of space through the metaphorical and practical use...
The Pragmatic...
Who is Still Hiring Software Engineers and EMs? 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one...
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over a year ago
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get this newsletter every week, subscribe here. This article was updated in December 2022. In the midst of gloomy
mtlynch.io
Retrofitting Apps for Cloud Storage with Zero Code Changes I recently installed a media sharing app to one of my servers. It was simple to install, but it hid...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently installed a media sharing app to one of my servers. It was simple to install, but it hid a dastardly trap for long-term maintenance. Every time a user uploaded a file, the web app saved it to the local filesystem. If I ever blew away the server and rebuilt it, I’d have...
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Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
over a year ago
The Modern House
Claudia Donaldson: in residence with the pioneering editor and creative director Claudia Donaldson was the photography director at Wallpaper magazine, before becoming...
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Claudia Donaldson was the photography director at Wallpaper magazine, before becoming editor-in-chief of Nowness, the video platform that revolutionised the way we consume arts and culture. Under her stewardship, it is now considered a go-to source of inspiration and influence,...
Willem's Blog
Go Viral on X Learn how to go viral on X using simple logic in creating engaging posts.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Review Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You get scared to do 4 stars because then they...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You get scared to do 4 stars because then they inquire how they can improve service. Today's News:
The American Scholar
American Horror Story Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear The post American Horror Story appeared first on The...
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a month ago
Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear The post American Horror Story appeared first on The American Scholar.
Epic Web Dev
Motion Safe and Motion Reduce Modifiers (tip)
11 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Meteostat-12 Meets Flat Earthers I know this wasn’t the purpose of sending up a €4.3bn satellite into geostationary orbit, but...
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a year ago
I know this wasn’t the purpose of sending up a €4.3bn satellite into geostationary orbit, but tweaking flat earthers is a fun side effect. European countries have collaborated on this project, having weather satellites in orbit since 1977. The latest iteration is Meteostat-12,...
Both Are True
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6 months ago
Common Edge
San Francisco’s Love Affair With the Ferry Building John King, urban design critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, talks about his new book, Portal.
a year ago
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 March 9 - March 16 Putting these up on my website is a new thing I am doing! Either nothing is magic or everything...
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9 months ago
Putting these up on my website is a new thing I am doing! Either nothing is magic or everything is. We are doing solar this year! The back is better than the front.
TheCollector
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a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'His Own Exclusive Object' I’ve accumulated some of the accoutrements of age – bifocals, cane, hearing aids. None embarrasses...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I’ve accumulated some of the accoutrements of age – bifocals, cane, hearing aids. None embarrasses me and all make life less annoying. I’ve never been seriously ill. I take my handful of vitamins and meds in the morning. I no longer drink and never smoked. Among the last things I...
Retail Design Blog
HONOR Flagship Store Where New Tech Retail Experience Meets Historical Neighborhood Revitalization The historic charm of...
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Where New Tech Retail Experience Meets Historical Neighborhood Revitalization The historic charm of Kuanzhai Alley and the sleek modernity of...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Rob Jones I am a textiles artist working with Japanese techniques such as Shibori, shaped resist and Katagami...
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9 months ago
I am a textiles artist working with Japanese techniques such as Shibori, shaped resist and Katagami stencilling (using indigo to dye the fabric). I also work with formal Japanese embroidery techniques - Sashiko and Kogin (counted thread) embroidery as well as some Boro inspired...
TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs undefined
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Patrick Kayongo
Play “I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their...
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a year ago
“I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their backs from the lazy sloth on the paved ground outside of his garage. All the kids in the conformant townhouse complex regularly gravitated towards his house during the school...
Open Culture
Eno: The New “Generative Documentary” on Brian Eno That’s Never the Same Movie Twice Brian Eno once wrote that “it’s possible that our grandchildren will look at us in wonder and say,...
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5 months ago
Brian Eno once wrote that “it’s possible that our grandchildren will look at us in wonder and say, ‘You mean you used to listen to to exactly the same thing over and over again?’ ” That speculation comes from an essay on what he calls “generative music,” which is automatically...
detreville
Father's Day (First posted on Father's Day, 2022.)
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I’m a big...
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over a year ago
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I’m a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of “brutalist” or minimalist design, so I’m always inspired...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Yesss Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Mmmm, fully frontal prudity. Today's News:
a month ago
Writing - Andreas...
The LLM productivity puzzle Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first...
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a year ago
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first with real commercial use (Copilot/Codex, Codegen, etc.). If you spend time on the internet these days you’ll see people claim productivity gains ranging from 0 to 100x,...
Archinect - Features
AI is Good For Architects (For Now) In the final chapter of Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence, Niall Patrick Walsh reflects on...
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8 months ago
In the final chapter of Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence, Niall Patrick Walsh reflects on the historical relationship between architecture and technology, charting a trajectory for the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the future of the architectural...
Saturday Morning...
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The Convivial...
From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 12
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Figma variables: tips from 3 scenarios Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of...
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a year ago
Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of manually updating each instance of a design element, you can set a variable, like a color or padding, and apply it across your project. If you want to make a change, you update the...
Rest of World -...
Rebel or sellout? How Nigeria’s startup darling became tech minister Bosun Tijani was a rock star in the Nigerian startup scene, but his transition to government has...
11 months ago
Joel on Software
A Dusting of Gamification I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation. Read more "A Dusting of Gamification"
TheCollector
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Words and Buttons...
A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value...
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7 months ago
An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value only depends on the four neighboring pixel values. The image becomes smooth, but sharp features remain sharp.
Retail Design Blog
Haikou GAOXINGLI Insun Cinema by One Plus Partnership Haikou is an island in China, it’s situated on the north coast of Hainan Island, and the South China...
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Alex Meub
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
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over a year ago
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites. AWS Certficate Manager I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
Working Theorys
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The American Scholar
Drops in a Bucket The post Drops in a Bucket appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
diamond geezer
Unblogged September 30 unblogged things I did in September (contains nine additional clickable photos) Fri 1: "Hi,"...
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a year ago
30 unblogged things I did in September (contains nine additional clickable photos) Fri 1: "Hi," said the email. "I hope this doesn't come across as too strange but here goes. I was recently browsing eBay for a few things and came across something that I think you might like. So...
Open Culture
Mythology Expert Reviews Depictions of Greek & Roman Myths in Popular Movies and TV Shows It’s safe to say that we no longer believe in the gods of the ancient world — or rather, that most...
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a month ago
It’s safe to say that we no longer believe in the gods of the ancient world — or rather, that most of us no longer believe in their literal existence, but some of us have faith in their box-office potential. This two-part video series from Vanity Fair examines a variety of movies...
History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha The Search for the Historical Buddha j.hoare Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Triangle of Harm
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Old Structures...
The Personal Connection A 1958 or 59 view of 200 East 42nd Street under construction: It’s a fairly boring steel-frame,...
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8 months ago
A 1958 or 59 view of 200 East 42nd Street under construction: It’s a fairly boring steel-frame, glass-facade office building, remarkable to me for the simple reason that I had my first more-or-less real engineering job there. Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton, later known as TAMS...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2024 The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating stuff, thanks for the contribution!
Archinect - Features
Organizing and Reforming Architectural Education: A Conversation With Tessa Forde In recent years, the word 'organizing' has taken on a heightened power in architectural discourse,...
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In recent years, the word 'organizing' has taken on a heightened power in architectural discourse, most notably through grassroots efforts by architectural workers across the United States to organize for better workplace conditions. For Tessa Forde, organizing centers on a vast...
The Rational Walk
My Years with General Motors General Motors, under the leadership of Alfred P. Sloan, capitalized on the mistakes of Henry Ford...
a year ago
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a year ago
General Motors, under the leadership of Alfred P. Sloan, capitalized on the mistakes of Henry Ford in the 1920s to become the dominant American automaker.