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The Rational Walk
The Digest #181 Antisemitism in America, Charlie Munger's uncommon sense, Les Schwab's business philosophy, Niccolò...
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Antisemitism in America, Charlie Munger's uncommon sense, Les Schwab's business philosophy, Niccolò Machiavelli, internal vs. external goals, Safe withdrawal rates, Protecting your time
Artificial Ignorance
Who in their right mind would do an AI hardware startup From megaFLOPS to mega flops.
8 months ago
Making software...
The Death of Personality The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
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The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it's fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple's iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Be Made Out of Emotions, Colors, Life Itself' “[Robert Conquest] and his two closest friends, Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, proved their...
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5 months ago
“[Robert Conquest] and his two closest friends, Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, proved their vocation by playing the games with language and perception that poets play, three Musketeers at a time when not much else was disturbing the quiet little cemetery of English...
Seth's Blog
The paradox of lottery thinking Tim Brownson points us to this recent poll of people in Great Britain. About one out of four people...
4 months ago
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Tim Brownson points us to this recent poll of people in Great Britain. About one out of four people surveyed (of all ages) believe that they could qualify for the Olympics if they trained for the next four years. This is absurd. It’s the very absurdity of it that makes it common....
Strange Loop Canon
When we become cogs on motivation and technology
a month ago
Maps Mania
London, Paris & Berlin Metro Memory Games
a year ago
Mazdak
News Publishers Sue Perplexity AI for Copyright Infringement Jeff Bezos-Backed AI Faces Legal Scrutiny Over Content Scraping Allegations.
a month ago
Retail Design Blog
glo flagship store by ZIKZAK Architects In Odessa, a flagship glo™ store with a conceptual interior based on the company’s updated brand...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In Odessa, a flagship glo™ store with a conceptual interior based on the company’s updated brand book has opened. The...
Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960) Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
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a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
Maps Mania
Subway Specs - Part III
12 months ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design ...
a year ago
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Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design abduzeedo0217—23 For over a decade, Monterra has been creating top-of-the-line wines sourced from picturesque vineyards in South Australia. But in recent times, the...
The Rational Walk
Costco’s Director Compensation Charlie Munger's service on Costco's board makes the retailer's director compensation approach a...
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a year ago
Charlie Munger's service on Costco's board makes the retailer's director compensation approach a potential model for Berkshire Hathaway in the future.
James Cheshire
Newspapers and the 1976 Drought With each new temperature record that tumbles the UK, climate skeptics have a standard stock phrase:...
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over a year ago
With each new temperature record that tumbles the UK, climate skeptics have a standard stock phrase: ‘it was this hot in 1976’. Of course it wasn’t, and crucially the planet overall was not as hot then as it is now. Parts of the UK media have had their part to play in fueling...
nanoscale views
Intriguing papers - exquisite thermal measurements + automated materials discovery/synthesis It's a busy time, but I wanted to point out a couple of papers from this past week. First, I want...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's a busy time, but I wanted to point out a couple of papers from this past week. First, I want to point to this preprint on the arxiv, where the Weizmann folks do an incredibly technically impressive thing.  I'd written recently about the thermal Hall effect, when a...
Construction Physics
How did solar power get cheap part II (note: all quotes are from Nemet’s How Solar Energy Became Cheap unless otherwise noted.) Welcome to...
a year ago
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(note: all quotes are from Nemet’s How Solar Energy Became Cheap unless otherwise noted.) Welcome to Part II of “How did Solar Power Get Cheap?” To recap Part I, the modern solar photovoltaic (PV) cell was invented at Bell Labs in 1954. Early markets were almost entirely...
Liz Denys
How communication breaks down In a little less than a month, the MIT undergraduate body will elect new leadership for their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a little less than a month, the MIT undergraduate body will elect new leadership for their primary advocacy group, the Undergraduate Association. Every year around later February and early March, students who consider themselves relatively politically active request an...
Seth's Blog
Intuition Intuition is simply a theory we haven’t yet put into words. Once we write down and share our...
a month ago
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a month ago
Intuition is simply a theory we haven’t yet put into words. Once we write down and share our intuition, it becomes more resilient, focused and useful to others.
Elad Blog
A return to company core mission & values If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of time to do it
Charles Chen
Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way How Mastodon and the Fediverse are shifting the landscape of social media -- for the better.
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
being creative is not just about making things I place a lot of value on creativity in my life, and this has been pretty consistent throughout my...
a year ago
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a year ago
I place a lot of value on creativity in my life, and this has been pretty consistent throughout my various life stages. For a long time it was tied to my identity...
Christopher Butler
The Rhythm of Your Screen Length is not the problem; lack of rhythm is. It’s 2023 and I’m still frequently asked by...
a year ago
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a year ago
Length is not the problem; lack of rhythm is. It’s 2023 and I’m still frequently asked by clients about scrolling. I understand why. Every design comes with assumptions about how much content will be seen by people because the space in which people access our designs is...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Famous and Less So On the left, Steve Rogers jogs off the Brooklyn Brige onto a walkway that doesn’t actually exist at...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
On the left, Steve Rogers jogs off the Brooklyn Brige onto a walkway that doesn’t actually exist at the foot of the bridge. The S-curved pickets in the handrail above a stone base look very much like the walkway along the Hudson River in Battery Park City, on the other side of...
Rest of World -...
Apple’s reluctant shift toward India Apple apparently sees India as a destination to assemble and sell its iPhones. But CEO Tim Cook...
a year ago
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a year ago
Apple apparently sees India as a destination to assemble and sell its iPhones. But CEO Tim Cook hasn’t made any big promises yet.
Anecdotal Evidence
'This Refined, White-Sheeted Torture' My tutelary spirit of recent days has been the American poet L.E. Sissman, dead from Hodgkin...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
My tutelary spirit of recent days has been the American poet L.E. Sissman, dead from Hodgkin lymphoma at age forty-eight. Out in the hall I spoke with three oncologists  after they had yet again examined my brother. I asked the question no one had yet asked: How much time does...
Left To Write
Playing Russian Roulette How understanding this morbid game can improve your decision making in life, health and business.
a year ago
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a year ago
How understanding this morbid game can improve your decision making in life, health and business.
Ralph Ammer
The Creative Switch This secret to creativity will help you come up with many ideas. The post The Creative Switch...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This secret to creativity will help you come up with many ideas. The post The Creative Switch appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
xkcd.com
Sphere Tastiness
10 months ago
xkcd.com
Probabilistic Uncertainty
a month ago
Noahpinion
Toward a shallower future Adversity isn't worth the price of adversity.
11 months ago
Grow With Less
A 10-Minute Guide to Finding Low Competition, High Traffic Keywords You may have heard of unicorn keywords: low competition, high volume keywords. Some say they are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You may have heard of unicorn keywords: low competition, high volume keywords. Some say they are extinct. Others say they are so plentiful in some niches that any blog can easily rank without backlinks. As often, the truth lies somewhere in between. One thing is for certain...
Beautiful Public...
The GOES-16 Weather Satellite Satellites used to observe weather are so ubiquitous it is easy to take them for granted. GOES-16 is...
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over a year ago
Satellites used to observe weather are so ubiquitous it is easy to take them for granted. GOES-16 is worthy of your attention.
abdz.do - Have you...
Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs abduzeedo0428—23 ...
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Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs abduzeedo0428—23 Hungarian graphic designer KissMiklós has created a stunning series of typography compositions that showcase the beauty of serif fonts, letters and ligatures. While they may...
TheCollector
Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work? undefined
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision Binstack is the best way to select a “single most impactful” solution when there are multiple...
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Binstack is the best way to select a “single most impactful” solution when there are multiple dimensions to evaluate, even when those dimensions cannot be compared to each other. People often reach for the “rubric” for such puzzles, but rubrics often do not clearly identify a...
Maps Mania
Piecing the World Back Together
4 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
2019 /r/ReactJS Survey Results [![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQrqygkW4AIxT0c?format=jpg&name=large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQ...
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[![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQrqygkW4AIxT0c?format=jpg&name=large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQrqygkW4AIxT0c?format=jpg&name=large)](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M-JUtp9I5_gSk8OpV9Adk9sYzhoU-VNcwz9RUJ1-8Sw/edit?usp=sharing)
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Novels Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel like all these people trying to measure...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel like all these people trying to measure attention span degradation should just look at what percent of the population is cognitively capable of reading Sense and Sensibility. Today's News:
99% Invisible
The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons [EPISODE] Hailing from central African cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa, sapeurs have become increasingly...
8 months ago
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Hailing from central African cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa, sapeurs have become increasingly recognizable around the world. Since the 1970s, sapeurs (from: le sape, short for “Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes”) have been known for donning technicolored...
David Heinemeier...
Joining the Shopify board of directors I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he...
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a month ago
I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he was building Snowdevil, which eventually became Shopify, to sell snowboards online. Here's his first commit to Rails from 2004, which improved the ergonomics of controller testing....
A Beautiful Site
I switched from tabs to spaces and haven't looked back Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would never do, but I'm glad I finally did. Why I always preferred tabs # Tabs are sensible. They were made to indent things, and code needs to be indented, so it was a good relationship....
The Map is Mostly...
[subscribers only] Ask Me Anything
over a year ago
The American Scholar
To Catch a Sunset Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love The post To Catch a Sunset...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love The post To Catch a Sunset appeared first on The American Scholar.
Map of the Week
Map for Bloomsday I have not read Ulysses by James Joyce, few people have. Even fewer have understood it. To honor the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I have not read Ulysses by James Joyce, few people have. Even fewer have understood it. To honor the annual Bloomsday festival going on right now, here is a map showing the wanderings and locations within the book. The map about as easy to understand as the plot itself. I have...
Maps Mania
Text Search for Street View
3 months ago
the singularity is...
Dangerous Misinformation When I Google myself, I get this infobox: As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not...
4 months ago
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When I Google myself, I get this infobox: As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not 5’4” Google, please take this misinformation seriously before you end up in a very large libel suit. This is not on a site you are linking to, this is first party misinformation...
Maps Mania
Alternatives to Google Maps Street View
a year ago
Londonist
Captain Zip's Amazing Film Footage Of London Punks In The 1970s And 80s They even visit Downing Street.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Risk of Discovery
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
The future of education in a world of AI A positive vision for the transformation to come
a year ago
Open Culture
The Page That Changed Comics Forever: Discover the Innovative 1950s Comic Book That Almost Went... If you grew up reading American comic books during the second half of the twentieth century, you’ll...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
If you grew up reading American comic books during the second half of the twentieth century, you’ll be familiar with the seal of the Comics Code Authority. I remember seeing it stamped onto the upper-right corner of issues of titles from The Amazing Spider-Man to reprints of Carl...
TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall? undefined
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
How my co-founder and I structure ourselves as CEO and COO * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first two years of Buffer we didn’t use C-level titles [https://soundcloud.com/joelgascoigne/thoughts-on-cxo-titles-in]. In February last year it started to make much more sense for me to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Heretic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For A City on Mars, I read a lot of war theory, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For A City on Mars, I read a lot of war theory, and one of the interesting things was how almost everyone stressed immediately that most places and times are peaceful. Today's News:
Marco.org
Clip sharing with Overcast Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014. Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
tonsky.me
Logo: Squint Squint is a light-weight dialect of ClojureScript with a compiler and standard library. “The idea is...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Squint is a light-weight dialect of ClojureScript with a compiler and standard library. “The idea is that when you squint, it still looks like CLJS”.
Rest of World -...
Chinese smartphone maker Transsion’s strategy to win hearts and wallets in small-town India After big successes in Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, China's Transsion Holdings sets its sights...
9 months ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986 From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the  club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife? undefined
9 months ago
TokyoDev
How to Get a Software Developer Job in Japan I came to Japan on a working holiday visa in 2006, and [found a job as a Ruby...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I came to Japan on a working holiday visa in 2006, and [found a job as a Ruby developer](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan) at a Japanese startup. At the time, options for English speaking developers in Japan were few and far between: I could only find two...
diamond geezer
completely screwed at the moment I was on the Central line the other day and there was a 15 minute gap between trains. You might...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I was on the Central line the other day and there was a 15 minute gap between trains. You might expect this kind of thing at the extremities or late at night, but not at Bethnal Green mid-morning. "Sorry, we're going to be held here for 5 minutes," said the driver. "This is due...
TheCollector
6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know undefined
2 months ago
Old Structures...
He Is, After All, A Boy From Queens
2 months ago
Applied Cartography
buttondown.com/alternatives Some kind words from Chris Krycho on Buttondown's Alternatives page: This is how I want all my tools...
a week ago
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Some kind words from Chris Krycho on Buttondown's Alternatives page: This is how I want all my tools to be. There is a ton of room in these markets for healthy and friendly competition — and no need at all for winner-take-all or monopolist attitudes. First off — credit where it's...
Jonas Hietala
Establishing Habits with Habitica I have used Habitica the last 18 months to organize my habits and things I want to get done. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have used Habitica the last 18 months to organize my habits and things I want to get done. I believe it all started with an amazing book called The Power of Habit which describes the amazing benefits habits can give, both in the context of your own life but also in business....
Working Theorys
Placeholders for Life Life is not a dress rehearsal
9 months ago
TheCollector
8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists undefined
9 months ago
Stephen Diehl
Dive into GHC: Targeting Core
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Did you hear? I'm Ruby Mendicant University's first visiting teacher
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Machine-to-machine communication is easier than ever: Opta now supports OPC UA OPC Unified Architecture – OPC UA in short – is a cross-platform, open-source machine-to-machine...
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a month ago
OPC Unified Architecture – OPC UA in short – is a cross-platform, open-source machine-to-machine communication protocol for industrial automation. It was developed by the Open Platform Communications (OPC) Foundation and is defined in detail in the IEC 62541 standard. With the...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Terrible things are going down Shit hits the fan View on my website
11 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Humanitree School Hive and Flight by Rosan Bosch Studio Rosan Bosch Studio has designed a holistic and coherent concept for Humanitree School – Hive and...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Rosan Bosch Studio has designed a holistic and coherent concept for Humanitree School – Hive and Flight (Middle and High...
The Marginalian
The Two Souls Within: Hermann Hesse on the Dual Life of the Creative Spirit "Like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of suffering arise all those works of art, in which a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
"Like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of suffering arise all those works of art, in which a single individual lifts himself for an hour so high above his personal destiny that his happiness shines like a star and appears to all who see it as something eternal and as a...
Diaries of Note
Society is not geared to the expression of compassion In 1942, shortly before the US joined the war, editor and lifelong pacifist Alfred Hassler...
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a year ago
In 1942, shortly before the US joined the war, editor and lifelong pacifist Alfred Hassler registered as a conscientious objector. However, his commitment to nonviolence led him to refuse even the alternative to combat service: enrollment in a Civilian Public Service camp, as...
TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots? undefined
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Valuable contributions We actually don’t really know. Netflix just released their first-ever detailed analysis of how many...
a year ago
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a year ago
We actually don’t really know. Netflix just released their first-ever detailed analysis of how many hours of engagement the top 15,000+ most watched shows on the network received over a six month period. Here’s the file. Who won? That question is actually the lesson here. The...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Non-linearity of technology adoption When I was in business school I remember a class where a partner from a big consulting firm was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I was in business school I remember a class where a partner from a big consulting firm was talking about how they had done extensive…
devonzuegel.com
Unconventional strategies for practicing Spanish Language skills are highly multi-dimensional*, so while learning a language, it's important to come...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Language skills are highly multi-dimensional*, so while learning a language, it's important to come at it from lots of different directions. Here are some of the tricks I've used to practice Spanish that I haven't heard so many other people use. (They're likely useful for other...
davidyat.es
Syntax highlighting with render hooks
2 months ago
The Modern House
A family home in Hackney, lovingly tended inside and out
a year ago
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Suckered Yet Again Influencer boxing, BlueSky winning, and incredible calendar confessions
a month ago
Josh Collinsworth
How to Create Custom Editor Blocks with Block Lab Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the block editor, AKA Gutenberg, the new content editor in WordPress 5.0. This post explains how to use it, even if you only know basic HTML.
The DESK Magazine
How to make a copywriting portfolio Talk to any creative person about building their portfolio and they’ll tell you: copy is the hardest...
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over a year ago
Talk to any creative person about building their portfolio and they’ll tell you: copy is the hardest part.
RhysTranter.com
A New Role at St David’s Catholic College, Cardiff I have just started a new role as a pastoral tutor at St David's Catholic College in Cardiff. Over...
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over a year ago
I have just started a new role as a pastoral tutor at St David's Catholic College in Cardiff. Over the last two years I have been looking for a secure full-time job that would allow me to draw on my teaching skills and experience, while also offering an opportunity to serve my...
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great? undefined
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Premier Yachting in The British Virgin Islands
a year ago
TheCollector
British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection undefined
a year ago
Maps Mania
2½ Half Weeks with Mrs Rauer
11 months ago
Stoic Simple
What Influence Did Stoicism Have on Early Christianity? Stoicism and Christianity are two of the most influential philosophical and religious traditions in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stoicism and Christianity are two of the most influential philosophical and religious traditions in human history. Both have helped shape our understanding of the world and our place in it. While they seem quite distinct from one another, there are many overlapping themes and...
Steve Klabnik
How to squash commits in a GitHub pull request
over a year ago
Dan Cowell
Breaking the rules: I threw away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job. When I took over the team, they were in month 8 of a 3-month project to relaunch the company's...
a year ago
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a year ago
When I took over the team, they were in month 8 of a 3-month project to relaunch the company's ecommerce website. After 2 months leading the team, I decided to scrap it and start over. This is the story of how and why, and whether it all worked out.
wadertales
WaderTales blogs in 2022 Here are brief summaries of the sixteen WaderTales blogs that were published in 2022. I have grouped...
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over a year ago
Here are brief summaries of the sixteen WaderTales blogs that were published in 2022. I have grouped the blogs into sections; problems with trees, more research from Iceland, Curlews, news from the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, tracking and updates. As ever, I am grateful to...
The Ruffian
The State of the Culture Is...Not Bad, Actually Reflections on a good year for the Oscars
9 months ago
David Heinemeier...
System tests have failed When we introduced a default setup for system tests in Rails 5.1 back in 2016, I had high hopes. In...
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When we introduced a default setup for system tests in Rails 5.1 back in 2016, I had high hopes. In theory, system tests, which drive a headless browser through your actual interface, offer greater confidence that the entire machine is working as it ought. And because it runs in...
alexwlchan
Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library. I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space. (My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
A Beautiful Site
Bulletproof Components Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book Bulletproof Web Design. I purchased it during my first trip to An Event Apart in 2007. This book meant a lot to me back then, and almost 15 years later, many of its concepts still hold...
Willem's Blog
Measuring cholesterol levels in blood This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know your LDL, HDL and Triglycerides numbers with a simple test.
High Signal
Making a living from no-code Katt Risen is a no-code founder and the creator of the No-Code Exits newsletter and co-creator of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Katt Risen is a no-code founder and the creator of the No-Code Exits newsletter and co-creator of Build the Keyword
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know undefined
3 months ago
Maps Mania
Mapping 1,001 American Novels
a year ago
computers are bad
2024-02-11 the top of the DNS hierarchy In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" that structural aspects of the Internet make truly decentralized systems infeasible, due to the lack of a means to perform broadcast discovery. As a result,...
One Useful Thing
It is starting to get strange. Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
a year ago
The DESK Magazine
How much YOU is in YOUR work? I started my design career by accident and never enjoyed a classical educational foundation in...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I started my design career by accident and never enjoyed a classical educational foundation in anything I'm doing professionally. As a result, my approach always had a bit more of a "punk" approach.
Math Is Still...
How Math Achieved Transcendence Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to...
a year ago
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Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to understand them. The post How Math Achieved Transcendence first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Designing and implementing a (micro) payment system Designing and implementing a micro payment system with an emphasis on simplicity. Read about how I...
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Designing and implementing a micro payment system with an emphasis on simplicity. Read about how I did it in this post.
Paul Graham: Essays
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TokyoDev
Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
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There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
Business Brainstorms
Operational Minimalism, Zero shame in pulling the plug, OpenAI blog posts, ... Welcome to another edition of Business Brainstorms - your weekly dose of invaluable insights, trends...
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Welcome to another edition of Business Brainstorms - your weekly dose of invaluable insights, trends and opportunities served up fresh from the cerebral kitchen of Jakob Greenfeld. Time to brainstorm! 💡 Opportunities “Whoever can find out how to crack the operational hurdles of...
Words and Buttons...
SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a...
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I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
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When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use some kind of smooth broken stone that she passed over the length of the knife blade before sacrificing a chicken. I also remember seeing my father use a very coarse stone wheel...
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s  ...
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Willem's Blog
Three tips to make a content strategy work Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or...
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Reflecting on 2023, preparing for 2024 This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, reviewing last year's...
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This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, reviewing last year's goals, and talking about hopes and goals for next year. They're cliche, and they're also useful. The planning and reflecting process is a useful one, and sharing openly means other...
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps “Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard   Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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Argentina On Two Steaks A Day (Idle Words) 04.13.2006 Argentina On Two Steaks A Day The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is...
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04.13.2006 Argentina On Two Steaks A Day The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day. You will be tempted to just peck at it or even skip it altogether, rationalizing that you need to save yourself for the much larger steak...
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ntietz.com blog
RC Week 9: Parallels of Proofs and Programs I have three weeks left at Recurse Center. This last week was significantly less productive for me...
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I have three weeks left at Recurse Center. This last week was significantly less productive for me than usual, because I've been pretty fatigued and just recovered from a cold. But I still got some work done that I'm proud of. More than that, I'm excited for the coming three...
HTMHell
The Implied Web by Halvor William Sanden People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get...
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a year ago
by Halvor William Sanden People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get attention and herd people towards clicks increase cognitive effort because they obscure themselves and reduce interfaces to clickable surfaces. The implied web is based on the idea...
mtlynch.io
Want to Buy Is It Keto? I’m looking for someone to take over my old content website, Is It Keto. Is It Keto is for sale I...
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I’m looking for someone to take over my old content website, Is It Keto. Is It Keto is for sale I worked on the site on and off between 2019 and 2020, but I no longer have time for it, so it’s just been neglected for the past several years. Still, it consistently earns $1-2k/yr...
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Naming your startup The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally...
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The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally right on.   Naming is so important and…
Patrick Kayongo
Technology & The Hollowing Middle Class IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in...
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IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in great cost-savings, yet with unquestioned social effects. In his book Rhodes & His Banker, Richard Steyn narrates the founding and the early years of the bank we now know as Standard...
Liz Denys
One idle dreary day many years ago Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull...
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Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull and sharp the sky was that day in San Francisco. When editing this photograph I took now about three and a half years ago, I only flattened the sky slightly and didn't touch up the...
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire? What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire? JamesHoare Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know much about us. So we’re starting a new Q&A column to introduce ourselves, one-at-a-time, starting with our resident designer… Who the hell do you think you are? 👋 Hello, I’m...
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Et tu, Zoom? The corporate cause for return-to-office just claimed its perhaps most ironic victim: Zoom! The...
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The corporate cause for return-to-office just claimed its perhaps most ironic victim: Zoom! The company that literally lives to sell us all on the wonders of remote collaboration wants its own people back into the office again. Which I guess is just a regression to the mean of...
journal – Winnie Lim
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I’d finally tested negative on may 2nd the 13th day of my infection, in time to have a mini celebration with my partner. I am not sure if I overdid it, but...
Notes on software...
A database without dynamic memory allocation This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eternal shell history 🐢 XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded...
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XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded ¾ million commands in my bash history: $ wc -l < ~/.muh_history 763075 My history accounts for every shell command I’ve run since 2016—all saved in a 102MB file: ~/.muh_history. $...
TokyoDev
Transferring from the Philippines to be a QA Engineer in Japan Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace...
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a year ago
Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace Icay](https://www.tokyodev.com/authors/mary-grygjeanne-grace-icay) (Gray in the [TokyoDev Discord community](https://discord.gg/seUNe38YgV)) managed to do it. She originally worked...
Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation… A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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The Marginalian
Batter My Heart: Love, the Divine Within, and How Not to Break Our Your Own Heart There are many things we mistake for love — infatuation, admiration, need — but there is no error of...
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There are many things we mistake for love — infatuation, admiration, need — but there is no error of the heart graver than making another our higher power. This may seem inevitable — because to love is always to see the divine in each other, because all love is a yearning for the...
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Seamus Heaney A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Is it a tech bubble? Every week a “we are in a tech bubble” article seems to come out in a major newspaper or blog....
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Every week a “we are in a tech bubble” article seems to come out in a major newspaper or blog. People who argue we aren’t in a bubble are…
diamond geezer
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Historic Hounslow High Street Past bypassed in 1925 reducing the flow of traffic and boosting the High Street's importance as a shopping centre for the growing suburb. Then in the late 1960s it was part-pedestrianised in readiness for nearby redevelopment (as you can see...
Castles in the Sky
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David Heinemeier...
Commit to competence in this coming year It’s that time of year where people often start thinking about new year’s resolutions. I want to...
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It’s that time of year where people often start thinking about new year’s resolutions. I want to loose 10 lbs, I want to read more books, I want to x, y, and z. Often, it’s just a fantasy. They’re not actually going to loose 10 lbs or they might order some more books but never...
Christian Selig
Apollo for Reddit 1.9 Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really...
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Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really happy with the result, and it brings together a ton of ideas from the community to make Apollo even nicer to use. The update includes a variety of features around crossposts, flair,...
CONTEMPORIST
A’ Design Awards & Competition – Last Call for Entries This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award &...
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This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing 16,000 award winners from 110 different design disciplines. A’ Design...
Louwrentius
Getting the Sitecom AC600 Wi-Fi adapter running on Linux TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a...
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TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a Raspberry Pi broke as I dropped it on the floor, so I had to replace it. I just went to a local shop and bought the Sitecom AC600 adapter as that's what they had available (with...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The product lens There has been a lot of discussion lately about the markets for startup financing. Many of the...
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There has been a lot of discussion lately about the markets for startup financing. Many of the discussions use words like “valuations…
TheCollector
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Math Is Still...
AI System Beats Chess Puzzles With ‘Artificial Brainstorming’ By bringing together disparate approaches, machines can reach a new level of creative...
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a year ago
By bringing together disparate approaches, machines can reach a new level of creative problem-solving. The post AI System Beats Chess Puzzles With ‘Artificial Brainstorming’ first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Society's Backend
The Problem with American Emergency Alerts In a world of self-driving cars and human-like chatbots, shouldn't the best technologies would be...
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In a world of self-driving cars and human-like chatbots, shouldn't the best technologies would be used for life-saving applications?
Maps Mania
Virtual Rewind Machines
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Old Structures...
Building, Blocks I looked up a bit more than usual today on a street that I’m on three or four times per week, and...
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I looked up a bit more than usual today on a street that I’m on three or four times per week, and got this nice rear view of 75 Broad Street. The upper setbacks and tower are aligned with the overall cityscape; the lower base is aligned with ther curve of South William Street....
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 1–5
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Stoic Simple
What’s the Difference Between Stoicism and Existentialism? Philosophy is a discipline that seeks to understand the nature of existence, reality, knowledge, and...
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Philosophy is a discipline that seeks to understand the nature of existence, reality, knowledge, and ethics. Two important philosophical schools of thought that have influenced Western intellectual tradition are Stoicism and Existentialism. Both of these philosophies share some...
Seth's Blog
Don’t know, don’t care Clients and customers can be frustrating. Perhaps they don’t know what you know. Perhaps they don’t...
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a year ago
Clients and customers can be frustrating. Perhaps they don’t know what you know. Perhaps they don’t care. It’s possible to educate and inspire. It might be more productive to find the few that want to go where you do.
The Rational Walk
The Digest #187 Damage repair, Claude Shannon, Elon Musk's pay, Intellectual obesity, Apple Vision Pro, Ignoring the...
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Damage repair, Claude Shannon, Elon Musk's pay, Intellectual obesity, Apple Vision Pro, Ignoring the market, Damodaran data updates, Apple packaging, Samsung, Big Pharma
TheCollector
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./techtipsy
I encourage you to write a blog It’s been over 4 years since my first post on this blog. During those 4 years I’ve written over 90...
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It’s been over 4 years since my first post on this blog. During those 4 years I’ve written over 90 posts, received over 1 million clicks, a dozen legitimate reader e-mails and thousands of spam e-mails. And I love it! I’ve found that writing can be very fulfilling and I encourage...
Matt Mazur
Don’t Self Host Unlicensed Proxima Nova Fonts I’m a big fan of the Proxima Nova font and have been using it on Preceden for years: For a long time...
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I’m a big fan of the Proxima Nova font and have been using it on Preceden for years: For a long time I was loading Proxima Nova on Preceden via Typekit (a hosted web font service) for $49.99/year, but at some point I decided to self-host it to avoid the third party request which...
Open Culture
How Ancient Romans Traveled Without Maps In an age when many of us could hardly make our way to an unfamiliar grocery store without relying...
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In an age when many of us could hardly make our way to an unfamiliar grocery store without relying on a GPS navigation system, we might well wonder how the Romans could establish and sustain their mighty empire without so much as a proper map. That’s the question addressed by the...
Seth's Blog
Ride your own bike I was happily pedaling along on the rail trail when three spandex speedsters blew by me on their...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was happily pedaling along on the rail trail when three spandex speedsters blew by me on their handmade carbon bikes. For a moment, I was disheartened. What’s the point–they’re speedy, I’m not. Then I realize that it’s not a bike race, it’s a bike ride. There is no winning,...
Unpacked
Generative AI and the Future of News - a tale of two worlds Last week, the New York Times reported that Google is testing an AI tool that enables news...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week, the New York Times reported that Google is testing an AI tool that enables news organizations to create content using AI. It is unclear what the exact capabilities of the product are but based on one comment from Google, it helps with tasks like headlines and modifying...
Mazdak
Used Car Prices Drop: Should You Buy Now or Wait for Better Deals? The once-tumultuous used car market, characterized by record-high prices and limited options, has...
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11 months ago
The once-tumultuous used car market, characterized by record-high prices and limited options, has begun to exhibit signs of a significant shift. Prices are now decelerating, presenting both challenges and opportunities for buyers. This article delves into the key factors driving...
Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome? Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
TheCollector
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ntietz.com blog
Asheville Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's...
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Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's difficult to flush toilets. As of yesterday, the hospital has water (via tanker trucks), but 80% of the public water system is still without running water. Things are really bad. Lots of...
Seth's Blog
And then that happened The world changes and we have a choice: • Fight hard to keep it the way it was. • Notice what...
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a year ago
The world changes and we have a choice: • Fight hard to keep it the way it was. • Notice what happened and then decide to do something with that insight. Thirty years ago, AOL was my company’s biggest client. They charged users $3 an hour to use their precursor to the internet,...
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...
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Netlify Year One - 360 Review I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year...
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I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) Recap. That post was entirely me looking back at myself. It's helpful to see what others said about me at my review.
Marcus on AI
CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns Science, sociology, and the likely financial collapse of the Generative AI bubble
a month ago
bt RSS Feed
Introducing Notez Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
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over a year ago
Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it’s nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Cured The official test earlier this week was negative too. Most of the symptoms are gone, but some days I...
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over a year ago
The official test earlier this week was negative too. Most of the symptoms are gone, but some days I cough...
TheCollector
College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection undefined
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The Marginalian
An Antidote to the Anxiety About Imperfection: Parenting Advice from Mister Rogers "It’s part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance and ultimate understanding — and...
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TheCollector
Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know undefined
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TheCollector
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Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with nanosecond sorting If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about algorithmic complexity probably wouldn't apply. The most effective algorithms become mediocre while the useless rise from the oblivion to shine and amaze. One of these algorithms is the...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2022 California general election Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While preparing for this election, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While preparing for this election, I consulted: San Francisco Chronicle voter guide SPUR endorsements GrowSF voter guide, which links to questionnaires from many local candidates that are far more detailed than their...
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History *my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'At the Five and Ten Cent Store' Irving Berlin was Jewish and gave us the soundtrack for our American holidays,...
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Irving Berlin was Jewish and gave us the soundtrack for our American holidays, including Thanksgiving Day: “My needs are small, I buy ’em all / At the five and ten cent store. / Oh, I've got plenty to be thankful for.” Bing Crosby, a serious Roman Catholic, introduced “I’ve Got...
Daniel Bourke
Copying Tesla's Data Engine (for food images) A cooking recipe for building Nutrify's data engine.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rite Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: What's really irritating is the way some of them...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: What's really irritating is the way some of them live lives of quiet desperation which is a thing our people have been doing for generations. Today's News: Thanks everyone. Some day I will stop being surprised by how willing my...
Blog - Bitfield...
Suite smells: testing legacy code How do you rescue a legacy codebase that has no tests? Let's look at some techniques for clawing...
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How do you rescue a legacy codebase that has no tests? Let's look at some techniques for clawing your way back to maintainability, one test at a time.
High Signal
Joining a startup as a co-founder Today's interview is with Iron Brands (he's Dutch, that is his actual name), who joined a privacy...
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Today's interview is with Iron Brands (he's Dutch, that is his actual name), who joined a privacy analytics startups as a co-founder after it had already launched. We talked about how he met the original founder of Simple Analytics, how they negotiated the new ownership...
Mazdak
Playing it Safe Paid Off in 2023, But Now It's Time to Take More Risk with Your Money 2023 was a year of playing it safe for investors, with many flocking to the security and guaranteed...
a year ago
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a year ago
2023 was a year of playing it safe for investors, with many flocking to the security and guaranteed returns of cash and cash-like investments. This was largely driven by the Fed's aggressive interest rate hikes, which boosted the yields of money-market funds and similar...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Philosopher Kings
10 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
The real data wall is billions of years of evolution Say you have a time machine. You can only use it once, to send a single idea back to 2005. If you...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Say you have a time machine. You can only use it once, to send a single idea back to 2005. If you wanted to speed up the development of AI, what would you send back? Many people suggest attention or transformers. But I’m convinced that the answer is “brute-force”—to throw as much...
David Heinemeier...
Forcing master to main was a good faith exploit I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over...
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8 months ago
I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over how calling the default branch in Git repositories "master" was PrObLEmAtIC, I thought, fine, what skin is it off anyone's or my back to change? If this is really important, can...
TheCollector
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a year ago
David Heinemeier...
The price of managed cloud services One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...
Identity Designed
The Bond Designed by Common Curiosity, Birmingham, London.
a year ago
On Life and Lisp
The Federation Fallacy Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air: mistrust of large corporations, mistrust of governments, and of course, mistrust of proprietary software. Each mistrust is connected by a critical thread: centralisation. Thus,...
Retail Design Blog
Art Vessels by OPEN Architecture In 2018, OPEN was commissioned to transform a commercial complex under construction located in...
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In 2018, OPEN was commissioned to transform a commercial complex under construction located in central Beijing into an art center....
Product Identity
What’s the future of AI hardware? I don't have answers
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beep.blog
Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? John Gruber asks and answers: Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? I say...
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a year ago
John Gruber asks and answers: Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? I say no. But it feels a bit skeevy, and more than a little curious, that they choose to. Is it outrageous? My gut said yes. It's outrageous that Apple would change their
alexwlchan
Snippets to manage albums in Photos.app Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that...
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a year ago
Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that involves moving photos in and out of albums. The tool I’ve built is very specific to my workflow and unlikely to be immediately useful to anyone else, but I thought some of the code for...
TheCollector
Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner undefined
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Lotte Cinema Suwon: A Creative Cinema Hub Lotte Cinema Suwon: Redefining the Cinema Experience The cinema’s first impression captivates with...
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Lotte Cinema Suwon: Redefining the Cinema Experience The cinema’s first impression captivates with color-changing lights and patterned glass, setting a...
Kevin Chen
Speeding up code with vectorization I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people about my problems, they usually suggest multithreading and general-purpose GPU computing. These both have downsides. Multithreading might not be the best option in systems that...
Data Boutique
Generic data marketplaces are broken Misaligned interests and lack of value are the cause
a year ago
Words and Buttons...
The Real C++ Killers (Not You, Rust) All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D,...
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All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D, help you write more features with fewer bugs, but they don't much help when you need to squeeze the very last FLOPS from the hardware you rent. As such, they don’t have a...
SOCKS
Carlos Morago. Across the Ordinary Interior Contemporary Spanish painter Carlos Morago depicts realistic interior scenes that are mostly reduced...
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a year ago
Contemporary Spanish painter Carlos Morago depicts realistic interior scenes that are mostly reduced to the bare minimum: light floors and walls and sporadical furniture. Empty corridors and rooms are framed through opened doors and walls while opening on uneventful exteriors...
swyx's site RSS Feed
TL;DR of Why React is Not Reactive A recap of my first ever conference talk
over a year ago
The DESK Magazine
The books I loved After at least a year of talking about it, my new website is launching. One of the sub-pages will be...
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After at least a year of talking about it, my new website is launching. One of the sub-pages will be dedicated entirely to my favorite reading recommendations.
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Home on Erik...
The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y" I was reading yet another blog post titled “Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y>” (I...
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over a year ago
I was reading yet another blog post titled “Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y>” (I forgot which one) and I started wondering if you can generalize it a bit. Is it possible to generate a N * N contingency table of moving from language X to language Y?
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The baked apple pancake I don't have a lot of complete memories from my childhood. Somehow, my photographic memory didn't...
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I don't have a lot of complete memories from my childhood. Somehow, my photographic memory didn't kick in until the middle of seventh grade, when all of a sudden I started to remember everything. Sadly, everything from before that time is either a blurry film played a fifteen...
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SVG Turbulance Effect for Text This approach allows for some next level design options!
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Going steady <p>blogstatic has been going well. Better than any other app I've ever ran. Not sure what it is....
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<p>blogstatic has been going well. Better than any other app I've ever ran. Not sure what it is. Could be that my experience over the years has caused for me to cover all the usual pitfalls, so everything looks good to the new client: from the marketing website all the way to the...
Seth's Blog
Thoughts on audiobooks I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact...
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2 months ago
I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact on the way I absorb and learn from a book. It’s a once in a century sort of shift in this medium. My new book is now available in audio. It’s not on Audible, at least […]
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Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how...
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over a year ago
Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how to boost it even further, and faster
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Joel Gascoigne
Want to create a new habit? Get ready to break it. * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We are what...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle I’ve been obsessed with thinking about, adjusting and building upon my habits for a long time now, and...
Retail Design Blog
Gelato Messina, Mt. Lawley Opened their first store in Western Australia, the sunniest region in Australia with a hot, dry...
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Opened their first store in Western Australia, the sunniest region in Australia with a hot, dry climate. This inspired a...
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The Cult of Microsoft At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of...
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At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company decision-making in everything from how products are sold, to how...
Opsbros
WetSocks Revival How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
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over a year ago
How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do to get WetSocks Windows 98 tray weather app working again.
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Internet Harvest (2020, 3) Repairs, number stations, the only good Twitters, a low-key infohazard about pictures of...
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over a year ago
Repairs, number stations, the only good Twitters, a low-key infohazard about pictures of butterflies, and more.
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DeFi in Eth2: Cities, suburbs, and farms Ethereum today is incredibly congested—it’s even more congested now than it was during the height of...
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over a year ago
Ethereum today is incredibly congested—it’s even more congested now than it was during the height of the ICO bubble. This is impressive, but also worrying! Ethereum 2.0 is still a ways away, but the tiny island of Ethereum 1.0 is already populated to the point of...
Old Structures...
Yesterday and Today There’s nothing that creates disorientation quite like having a single day that combes changing time...
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There’s nothing that creates disorientation quite like having a single day that combes changing time zones by five hours with Dayight Savings. It’s nice to be back home, though. A small reminder that Daylight Savings was introdcued in the US in 1918 for less than a year and...
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A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Augustus and Ancient Religion
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samwho.dev
Adventures in Homelab: Part 1 If you work in tech, and you use the cloud in any way, you've probably heard of Kubernetes. It's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you work in tech, and you use the cloud in any way, you've probably heard of Kubernetes. It's inescapable now, and there's no shortage of takes on it. I've worked in a few companies that have used Kubernetes, but never been close to it. I've used in-house tools that...
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WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It) Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: entertainment.ha.com License: All Rights Reserved. Original...
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over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: entertainment.ha.com License: All Rights Reserved. Original WAR IS OVER! postcard. The War Is Over! campaign for peace was launched 50 years ago this week by Yoko Ono & John Lennon. On December 15, 1969, a series of billboards, leaflets,...
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Man vs. AI: optimizing JavaScript (Claude, Cursor) How AI beat me at code optimization game. When I started writing this article I did not...
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How AI beat me at code optimization game. When I started writing this article I did not expect AI to beat me at optimizing JavaScript code. But it did. I’m really passionate about optimizing JavaScript. Some say it’s a mental illness but I like my code to go balls to...
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Multiple Regression with StatsModels This is the third is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from...
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This is the third is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 10, which is about multiple regression. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab. In the previous...
Seth's Blog
Delivering good taste There are lots of books on creating cooking, photography, writing and music. But they can’t possibly...
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There are lots of books on creating cooking, photography, writing and music. But they can’t possibly help you do better until you see and taste and appreciate what you’re trying to create. If you think what you’re serving is good, but others don’t, more recipes aren’t going to...
TheCollector
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
Luxagraf:...
Second Spring Driving 1,800 miles north in a week was like stepping back in time. Spring came and went in Florida...
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a year ago
Driving 1,800 miles north in a week was like stepping back in time. Spring came and went in Florida back in early March, by the time we left Florida was well into summer, whatever the calendar might have said. Here in Washburn though spring had barely arrived. The night we got...
Seth's Blog
The leaping curve The learning curve is familiar to many people. It might be steep, but it’s continuous. Organizations...
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The learning curve is familiar to many people. It might be steep, but it’s continuous. Organizations (and people) work their way up it, one step at a time (it’s the black line in the graph below). But there’s rarely a continuous learning curve. Instead, it’s often interrupted by...
Arduino Blog
Self-leveling workbench can travel without trouble An actually level workbench is critical for many different jobs, such as pouring resin or...
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An actually level workbench is critical for many different jobs, such as pouring resin or calibrating sensors. But it is difficult enough to level a stationary workbench and that becomes a nightmare for a workbench that needs to roll around a shop on casters, as shop floors...
Joel Gascoigne
Start something small * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The other day I...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The other day I was listening to Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People and and I found it amazing how this book, which has now sold over 15 million copies, originally started: >...
Code Of Honor
The making of Warcraft part 3 The first-ever multiplayer game of Warcraft was a crushing victory, an abject defeat, and a tie, all...
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The first-ever multiplayer game of Warcraft was a crushing victory, an abject defeat, and a tie, all at once. Wait, how is that possible? Well, therein lies a tale. This tale grew organically during the writing to include game AI, the economics of the game business, fog of war...
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One Useful Thing
Freeing the chatbot Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
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AC vs DC and other Power Questions I was away last week, first at CSICON and then at a conference in Dubai. I was invited to give a 9...
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I was away last week, first at CSICON and then at a conference in Dubai. I was invited to give a 9 hour seminar on scientific skepticism for the Dubai Future Foundation. That sounds like a lot of time, but it isn’t. It was a good reminder of the vast body of knowledge that is...
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A Guide to Interior Photography of Historic Buildings - Part III Interior views add valuable information to the documentation of a historic building. To capture the...
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Interior views add valuable information to the documentation of a historic building. To capture the true essence of the building, the...
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Natural Stone Provides A Base For This Modern Home Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of...
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Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of Canada’s Québec province between Montréal and Québec City. The home’s design is inspired by the region’s industrial heritage and the natural elements that surround it. The unusually...
Vadim Kravcenko
Bullsh*t Jobs Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the...
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a year ago
Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the second part of […] The post Bullsh*t Jobs appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Selectively disabling payment gateways in WooCommerce I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve...
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over a year ago
I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve decided to write about a few of those…
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Must-Try Winter Activities in Park City, Utah
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The Works in...
Issue 15: To change a norm Plus: bland buildings can't be blamed on labor costs, reasons to be sceptical about prediction...
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Plus: bland buildings can't be blamed on labor costs, reasons to be sceptical about prediction markets, and gentrification policies that actually help.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Blink Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weirdest part is the eloquent baritone...
3 months ago
This Space
Kevin Hart and the outside There are two reasons why listening to Kevin Hart's interview on the Hermitix podcast, and reading...
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a year ago
There are two reasons why listening to Kevin Hart's interview on the Hermitix podcast, and reading his new collection and The Dark Gaze for the second time, has helped me to recognise what I have forgotten, missed, misconstrued or misunderstood in Maurice Blanchot's writing or,...
TheCollector
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
Improving my productivity in 2018 2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation,...
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over a year ago
2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation, built this site and started blogging…
macwright.com
Web technology optimism hour It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer...
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It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer energy wasted on crypto, which has produced negative real-world value, the wider downturn in tech stocks, and the often-antagonistic interactions between developers on Twitter and...
African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914 the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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PromptArmor Blog
Slack AI data exfiltration from private channels via indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor
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Asterisk
Rarely is the Question Asked: Is Our Children Learning? Across the world, more students than ever are in school. But it’s not clear that they're learning...
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Across the world, more students than ever are in school. But it’s not clear that they're learning more while there — or if that’s even the goal.
TheCollector
“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy undefined
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East? undefined
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devonzuegel.com
Part 2: Cluster development preserves California’s landscape A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
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A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal. One of the most essential parts of California Forever’s proposal to...
TheCollector
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Experience Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weird part is that the second panel is a...
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Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops A Misunderstood Monster?
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The Modern House
Pure 1970s glamour at an iconic modernist house, from sunken sofas to an indoor pool
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Care Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This accidentally became Bea Wolf for...
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Seth's Blog
Non-professional writers Nobody asks you to design a bridge, write a sonnet or do open heart surgery. We leave these...
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Nobody asks you to design a bridge, write a sonnet or do open heart surgery. We leave these essential tasks to trained professionals. But many job descriptions carry the unstated addendum, “and write.” Write memos, proposals, and even instruction manuals. The local supermarket is...
The American Scholar
The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths The...
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How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths The post The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
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Willem's Blog
Upgrading a 27-inch iMac 5K to 14 terabytes This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and...
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This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and some spare time I was able to resurrect it from the death!
Math Is Still...
How to Build a Big Prime Number A new algorithm brings together the advantages of randomness and deterministic processes to reliably...
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A new algorithm brings together the advantages of randomness and deterministic processes to reliably construct large prime numbers. The post How to Build a Big Prime Number first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Society's Backend
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A Smart Bear
Pricing determines your business model Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured...
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Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured out later," because determines your business model today.
Maps Mania
Mapping the Amazon Underworld
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Moore's Scofflaws Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course...
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Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
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Starting a New Chapter At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last...
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At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last week at CrossChx, and then I begin splitting my time between contract work and developing some of my own ideas. I only spent about three quarters of a year at CrossChx, but in that...
Vadim Kravcenko
Getting your Idea to the MVP This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Getting your Idea to the MVP appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
AI Snake Oil
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Notes on software...
An effective product manager There are three specific activities I have loved in some product managers I've worked with (and...
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There are three specific activities I have loved in some product managers I've worked with (and missed in others). tldr; Talk with customers and prospects Develop and share a vision Evangelize Talk with customers and prospects As a product manager, your superpower over...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Lessons in Competitive Comms from the Plaid-Stripe Kerfuffle Now that the dust has settled on the Plaid-Stripe thing it's time to recap lessons learned.
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HTMHell
Modern HTML as a foundation for progressive enhancement Reading HTMHell, you might be aware that progressive enhancement is a thing. To sum things up, it's...
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Reading HTMHell, you might be aware that progressive enhancement is a thing. To sum things up, it's a way to make sure anyone gets a viable version of your page whatever is their context — slow bandwitdh, oldish browser, etc. — but also making the said page more resilient (e.g....
Uncharted...
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Also, why solar will beat wind, why they are so complementary, the nuclear renaissance, the poor state of German energy, and more.
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Using Novela by Narative (updated) With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier...
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over a year ago
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier for anyone to grasp the power of this incredible tool.
Home on Erik...
Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I...
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over a year ago
I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I have a couple of blog posts in the pipeline about various updates. First up, I made a number of fixes to Git of Theseus which is a tool (written in Python) that generates...
Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood ...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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Quantum Frontiers
Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a...
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On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here. NISQ and beyond I’m honored to be back at Q2B for … Continue reading →
Cremieux Recueil
Woke Madness Why do more left-wing individuals tend to be more mentally ill?
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NeuroLogica Blog
Hunger Circuitry One of the organizing principles that govern living organisms is homeostasis. This is a key feature...
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One of the organizing principles that govern living organisms is homeostasis. This is a key feature of being alive – maintaining homeostatic equilibrium both internally and externally. Homeostatic systems usually involve multiple feedback loops that maintain some physiological...
Math Is Still...
The Mystery of the Missing Multicellular Prokaryotes Why have bacteria never evolved complex multicellularity? A new hypothesis suggests that it could...
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Why have bacteria never evolved complex multicellularity? A new hypothesis suggests that it could come down to how prokaryotic genomes respond to a small population size. The post The Mystery of the Missing Multicellular Prokaryotes first appeared on Quanta...
Math Is Still...
How Simple Math Moves the Needle The spatial intuition behind a three-point turn offers an on-ramp to a century-old geometry problem....
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a year ago
The spatial intuition behind a three-point turn offers an on-ramp to a century-old geometry problem. The post How Simple Math Moves the Needle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Rational Walk
Just Hold the Goddamn Stock! Charlie Munger's solution to estate planning at Berkshire was simple: Just Hold the Goddamn Stock!...
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Charlie Munger's solution to estate planning at Berkshire was simple: Just Hold the Goddamn Stock! Unfortunately, his advice is not easy to follow.
Paolo Amoroso's...
I mothballed Free Python Books <![CDATA[I shut down Free Python Books, the list of Python books that are free to read online or...
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<![CDATA[I shut down Free Python Books, the list of Python books that are free to read online or download I had been maintaining since 2019. I archived the project's GitHub repo, which is now read-only and no longer accepts contributions. If you're interested you're welcome to...
Noahpinion
Singapore urbanism Thoughts from a visit to the solarpunk city.
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Saturday Morning...
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How to think for yourself A couple weeks ago we published this video for mymind. Watch it before you keep reading, it's only a...
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A couple weeks ago we published this video for mymind. Watch it before you keep reading, it's only a minute long. Alright, now that you have watched the video, here's my take: Today's professional world is a mess. We've been driven
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Archinect - Features
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At Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Kate Wingert-Playdon is building an academic culture grounded in collaboration. As Senior Associate Dean and Director of Architecture, Wingert-Playdon is engaged in a mission of encouraging cross-disciplinary...
Castles in the Sky
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