Castles in the Sky
The Individual Magic of Their Genius
Introducing the Enchanter Series
a year ago
Introducing the Enchanter Series
HTMHell
Past HTML, Future HTML?
by Jens Oliver Meiert
Consider the following HTML document:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML...
2 weeks ago
by Jens Oliver Meiert
Consider the following HTML document:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 1996-01//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<p class="Author">
<h1></h1>
<P>
<P>
<H2></H2>
<P>
<UL>
<LI>
<LI>
...
The Pragmatic...
CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach
CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
a year ago
CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
Calculated Risk
Review: Ten Economic Questions for 2024
At the end of each year, I post Ten Economic Questions for the following year (2024). I followed up...
2 days ago
At the end of each year, I post Ten Economic Questions for the following year (2024). I followed up with a brief post on each question. Here is review (we don't have all data yet, but enough). I've linked to my posts from the beginning of the year, with a brief excerpt and a...
Dan Slimmon
Post-mortems: content over structure
The value of post-mortems is apparent: failures present opportunities to learn about unexpected...
a year ago
The value of post-mortems is apparent: failures present opportunities to learn about unexpected behaviors of the system, and learning lets us make improvements to the system’s reliability. The value of post-mortem documents is much less apparent. Many R&D orgs will insist that...
Open Culture
The 11 Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Cartoons That Haven’t Been Aired Since 1968
For decades and decades, Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons have served as a...
3 months ago
For decades and decades, Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons have served as a kind of default children’s entertainment. Originally conceived for theatrical exhibition in the nineteen-thirties, they were animated to a standard that held its own against the...
Working Theorys
Pursuits that can’t scale
What you should do "instead of going to therapy”
10 months ago
What you should do "instead of going to therapy”
TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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11 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Types in JavaScript With Zod and JSDoc
There are cases where I like types in JavaScript. And I don’t mind Typescript, especially for bigger...
a year ago
There are cases where I like types in JavaScript. And I don’t mind Typescript, especially for bigger projects — as long as somebody more knowledgable than me sets it up and maintains it.
When I want type hints in VSCode for smaller, personal projects, I use JSDoc which lets you...
Anecdotal Evidence
"The Pensive Citadel"
My review of
The Pensive Citadel by Victor
Brombert is published in the December issue of The New...
a year ago
My review of
The Pensive Citadel by Victor
Brombert is published in the December issue of The New Criterion.
Wuthering...
The Girl from Samos by Menander - I don’t think any one individual is better at birth than any other
It’s our last plays, the last surviving Greek play, The Girl from Samos (315 BCE) by Menander. How...
over a year ago
It’s our last plays, the last surviving Greek play, The Girl from Samos (315 BCE) by Menander. How tastes, or circumstances, had changed in the seventy years since Wealth, our last Aristophanes play. The political and social satire is gone, the sexual and scatological jokes are...
The Modern House
The brilliant reimagining of Sunny Side Up, a family home in Clapton
10 months ago
./techtipsy
Good reads
This is an unsorted list of articles that I find to be good in one way
or another.
Maker’s Schedule,...
a year ago
This is an unsorted list of articles that I find to be good in one way
or another.
Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
a must-read for anyone working in a software development team. Helps
express what most of us have felt at some point in our careers.
The case of the 500-mile...
Londonist
New York Had A Crystal Palace And It Also Burned Down
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
11 months ago
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Math Is Still...
The Mathematician Who Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry
The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now...
11 months ago
The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now turning a mathematical eye to literature.
The post The Mathematician Who Finds the Poetry in Math and the Math in Poetry first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Epic Web Dev
Prisma Typed SQL Queries (tip)
3 months ago
Old Structures...
Now The Good Side
A few years ago, I wrote a fairly snarky and negative piece on the Park Avenue Hotel. The building...
10 months ago
A few years ago, I wrote a fairly snarky and negative piece on the Park Avenue Hotel. The building is physically of interest to me because it was a rare example of a residential building with cast-iron facades and a good example of the common approach (in the mid-nineteenth...
Diaries of Note
Tabiboo sant, tabiboo sant!
In March of 1834, 25-year-old John Kirk Townsend was invited by fellow naturalist Thomas Nuttall to...
a year ago
In March of 1834, 25-year-old John Kirk Townsend was invited by fellow naturalist Thomas Nuttall to join him on an expedition across the Rocky Mountains, his role being to collect and identify birds and mammals as they journeyed. Before long, Townsend, a keen ornithologist,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Prayer
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Really, if you go to a temple with excellent...
10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Really, if you go to a temple with excellent customer service, you should wonder which branch of the afterlife is in charge.
Today's News:
This Space
“Can there be a pure narrative?”
The question opening Maurice Blanchot’s essay The Experience of Proust* has always drawn me back,...
over a year ago
The question opening Maurice Blanchot’s essay The Experience of Proust* has always drawn me back, not to secure a yes or a no, but to keep the question of pure narrative open in its initial uncertainty, perhaps, rather, in its impossibility, as it appears to make reading and...
NeuroLogica Blog
Diamond Batteries Again
Why does news reporting of science and technology have to be so terrible at baseline? I know the...
a week ago
Why does news reporting of science and technology have to be so terrible at baseline? I know the answers to this question – lack of expertise, lack of a business model to support dedicated science news infrastructure, the desire for click-bait and sensationalism – but it is still...
csvbase blog
DuckDB isn't just fast
A whistlestop tour of the cool bits of DuckDB
6 months ago
A whistlestop tour of the cool bits of DuckDB
Seth's Blog
On whining
It’s not just for little kids, and it might not be a bug in our culture. Whining might be a feature,...
a month ago
It’s not just for little kids, and it might not be a bug in our culture. Whining might be a feature, something that all humans have a desire to do, regardless of our age or position. Let’s define whining as a complaint about a situation that’s not easily addressed, often a...
Open Culture
Gustave Doré’s Macabre Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1884)
One of the busiest, most in-demand artists of the 19th century, Gustave Doré made his name...
6 months ago
One of the busiest, most in-demand artists of the 19th century, Gustave Doré made his name illustrating works by such authors as Rabelais, Balzac, Milton, and Dante. In the 1860s, he created one of the most memorable and popular illustrated editions of Cervantes’ Don Quixote,...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 9
Highlights I plan to open TinyPilot’s first real office next month. TinyPilot’s revenues continue to...
over a year ago
Highlights I plan to open TinyPilot’s first real office next month. TinyPilot’s revenues continue to plummet, but I’m learning to accept it. I’m inching ever closer to the freedom to take short vacations. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
TheCollector
Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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2 months ago
Arduino Blog
Transform trash into treasure with the DIY Bottle Plotter
Manufacturers put a lot of effort into their packaging (there is an entire engineering discipline...
3 months ago
Manufacturers put a lot of effort into their packaging (there is an entire engineering discipline just for that) and some of it can be quite beautiful. But it usually still ends up in the landfill or, at best, in a recycling center. However, if you’re the type of person who can...
Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
7 months ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago:
@solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
Platformer
Another whistleblower comes for Twitter
Is the real threat the company's "God Mode" — or its trust and safety team?
a year ago
Is the real threat the company's "God Mode" — or its trust and safety team?
Words and Buttons...
SymPy makes math fun again
It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast,...
over a year ago
It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast, accurate, and without angst. In other words, it is everything I'm not.
TheCollector
Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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11 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Liquor packaging by BXL Packaging Design
A bottle of good is like a work of art The packaging design of this liquor is inspired by the...
5 months ago
A bottle of good is like a work of art The packaging design of this liquor is inspired by the...
Home on Erik...
Slides from NYC Machine Learning talk
Slides from the talk. Slightly edited because (a) some of the slides make little sense taken out of...
over a year ago
Slides from the talk. Slightly edited because (a) some of the slides make little sense taken out of context (b) Slideshare seem to have problem converting some of the stuff.
Collaborative filtering at Spotify from Erik Bernhardsson
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
11 months ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
devonzuegel.com
Podcasts & conferences I've spoken at
I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive:
Urbanism and the...
over a year ago
I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive:
Urbanism and the Future of Cities (Jan 2023) – Narratives podcast
Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto (Oct 2022) – EconTalk podcast
Devon Zuegel on Startup Cities (June 2022)
Devon Zuegel, creator...
Josh Comeau's blog
The World of CSS Transforms
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take...
over a year ago
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
Londonist
Pedlar's Acre: The Mysterious Bit Of South Bank Where The London Eye Now Stands
Who was the Pedlar of Lambeth?
9 months ago
Who was the Pedlar of Lambeth?
Old Structures...
Not What’s Expected
I’ve met a lot of people who have not been to New York who think that Central Park is like a London...
3 months ago
I’ve met a lot of people who have not been to New York who think that Central Park is like a London square, a block-sized oasis surrounded by buildings. The “surrounded by buildings” part is correct, but the size is a bit off. It’s 1.3 square miles (3.4 square kilometers for...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The First to Climb a Mountain Because It Is There'
On this date
in 1336, just for the hell of it, Francesco Petrarca (we know him as Petrarch),
his...
8 months ago
On this date
in 1336, just for the hell of it, Francesco Petrarca (we know him as Petrarch),
his brother Gherardo and two servants climbed to the 6,263-foot summit of Mount
Ventoux in Provence. Morris
Bishop, Vladimir Nabokov’s closest friend at Cornell, writes in Petrarch and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs, Intuition, and Working With Computers
I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood...
a year ago
I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood out:
For the best [prompt] results, combine:
Domain knowledge of the thing you're working on
Understanding how the models work
Intuition gained from playing around with them a lot
I am...
Society's Backend
The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Machine Learning Engineer
And other practical guides to understand machine learning
11 months ago
And other practical guides to understand machine learning
Seth's Blog
The page-a-day calendar
Time passes. And humans have always kept track. Distribution and technology combined to create a few...
5 months ago
Time passes. And humans have always kept track. Distribution and technology combined to create a few decades where the tear off daily calendar was nearly ubiquitous (read on for details on my new one, a collaboration with Debbie Millman). First, the industry needed to efficiently...
Math Is Still...
Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound
Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways...
2 weeks ago
Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup.
The post Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound first appeared on Quanta Magazine
PostHog's RSS Feed
Moving to San Francisco
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole...
over a year ago
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole program. This gives you “a socially acceptable excuse…
Max Rozen
Protecting your React routes
React apps send their code directly to users, so you might be a little confused about how React...
over a year ago
React apps send their code directly to users, so you might be a little confused about how React 'guards' routes from unauthorised viewing. This article explains how.
Steve Klabnik
A case study in being excellent: Divvy
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
6 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
symmetry magazine
LHC experiments see four top quarks
The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs...
a year ago
The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs bosons.
The ATLAS and CMS experiments have successfully detected the production of a quartet of top quarks during high-energy proton collisions inside the Large...
TheCollector
The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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2 months ago
Mark Manson
How to Be Successful in Life
The internet is inundated with countless videos and advice columns promising to teach you how to...
a year ago
The internet is inundated with countless videos and advice columns promising to teach you how to become more successful than 99% of the world's population.
Most of these claims revolve around setting goals, developing discipline, and eliminating distractions.
But let's face it:...
Data Boutique
How to Estimate Sales Using Inventory Web-Scraped Data
A powerful use case for web data
9 months ago
A powerful use case for web data
Open Culture
Fritz Lang First Depicted Artificial Intelligence on Film in Metropolis (1927), and It Frightened...
Artificial intelligence seems to have become, as Michael Lewis labeled a previous chapter in the...
7 months ago
Artificial intelligence seems to have become, as Michael Lewis labeled a previous chapter in the recent history of technology, the new new thing. But human anxieties about it are, if not an old old thing, then at least part of a tradition longer than we may expect. For vivid...
Seth's Blog
Raising the bar
That’s not the same as raising the average. With the advent of the high jump, the idiom raising the...
a year ago
That’s not the same as raising the average. With the advent of the high jump, the idiom raising the bar became well understood: If you can’t jump over the bar that the current leader cleared, you don’t win. But most of the innovations that change our culture don’t actually...
TheCollector
Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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4 months ago
Diaries of Note
This must be a specially sad day
Born Hermione Llewellyn in 1913, the life of Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly took a dramatic turn in...
12 months ago
Born Hermione Llewellyn in 1913, the life of Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly took a dramatic turn in 1941 when her husband, a lieutenant in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, was captured by Rommel’s Afrika Korps, leading to his imprisonment as a prisoner of war in Italy. She wrote...
Contemporist...
A Re-Imagined Side Extension With A Slatted Wood Design
YARD Architects has shared photos of a side extension they re-imagined for a home in Greater London,...
a year ago
YARD Architects has shared photos of a side extension they re-imagined for a home in Greater London, England, that creates an open and bright dining area and kitchen.
TheCollector
The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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a year ago
Prolost
Apple’s “Let Loose” iPad Event was Shot on iPhone — With Panavision Lenses
Still from Apple’s “Let Loose” video.
Apple unveiled their new line of iPads yesterday in a...
7 months ago
Still from Apple’s “Let Loose” video.
Apple unveiled their new line of iPads yesterday in a pre-recorded video titled “Let Loose.” As with the previous “Scary Fast” MacBook Pro launch video, “Let Loose” ends with a tag proclaiming “Shot on iPhone” — this time adding “Edited on...
TheCollector
9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The return of podcasting
Kevin Roose recently wrote about the renaissance of podcasting: Sometime around 2009 or 2010, the...
over a year ago
Kevin Roose recently wrote about the renaissance of podcasting: Sometime around 2009 or 2010, the podcast scene seemed to wither. The…
Map of the Week
The Alphabet Railway
Radio personality Bill Barry was fascinated with the place names of his native Saskatchewan. So much...
a year ago
Radio personality Bill Barry was fascinated with the place names of his native Saskatchewan. So much so that he wrote a Dictionary of Saskatchewan Place Names, I'm sure you've probably read it already but an interesting item about this toponymy is how many of the towns were...
Stoic Simple
5 Stoic Strategies for Anger Management
Are you someone who struggles with managing your anger? Do you find yourself constantly feeling...
a year ago
Are you someone who struggles with managing your anger? Do you find yourself constantly feeling frustrated and overwhelmed? If so, it might be time to consider turning to the ancient wisdom of Stoicism. In this article, we'll explore five Stoic strategies for anger management...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 23
Highlights The TinyPilot website redesign is finally done. I’ve learned to make Debian packages, and...
over a year ago
Highlights The TinyPilot website redesign is finally done. I’ve learned to make Debian packages, and it’s surprisingly simple. I’ve given up on Vue and frontend frameworks in general. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 41
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Ralph Ammer
Aristotle — How to live a good life
2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual...
9 months ago
2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life: What is good? First of all, what makes a thing a good thing? A good thing fulfils its unique function. A good knife is a knife that is good at cutting. A good eye is...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q2
Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently...
8 months ago
Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently wrote an article on what she learned by looking at the 900 most popular open source AI tools. https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html In data engineering, one of our primary...
alexwlchan
Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy
I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a...
a month ago
I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a Linux server running Caddy.
(Yes, the Wi-Fi on European trains is reliable enough to make that possible, even pleasant.)
Hopefully nobody noticed!
When I flipped the DNS records to...
Birchtree
All the games I played in 2024, reviewed
I love movies, but I really love games as well, so I figured I may as well follow up my 2024 movies...
5 days ago
I love movies, but I really love games as well, so I figured I may as well follow up my 2024 movies of the year post with something similar for games. I’m not going to rank these, but I’ll give a few words on each one
TheCollector
7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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5 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
more of the same
Pretty late into my run yesterday I went into a meditative-like zone where my breathing was slow and...
a year ago
Pretty late into my run yesterday I went into a meditative-like zone where my breathing was slow and even, my legs were going at a consistent rhythm, and I found myself thinking:...
Seth's Blog
The second mistake
That’s the avoidable one and the one that usually causes the real trouble. When the first mistake...
a year ago
That’s the avoidable one and the one that usually causes the real trouble. When the first mistake flusters us, breaks our rhythm or messes with our confidence, we’re far more likely to make the second one. It’s almost impossible to avoid making a mistake. But avoiding the second...
Seth's Blog
New decisions based on new information
More than ever, we’re pushed to have certainty. Strong opinions, tightly held and loudly proclaimed....
a year ago
More than ever, we’re pushed to have certainty. Strong opinions, tightly held and loudly proclaimed. And then, when reality intervenes, it can be stressful. The software stack, business model, career, candidate, policy, or even the social network habits that we had as part of our...
Londonist
Stooky Bill: The Sinister Puppet From Doctor Who Was Real
And where to see him in London.
a year ago
And where to see him in London.
Londonist
Brixton Tube Station Gets A New Artwork From Jem Perucchini
Rebirth of a Nation adds a bright touch to station entrance.
a year ago
Rebirth of a Nation adds a bright touch to station entrance.
Eukaryote Writes...
Recommendation: reports on the search for missing hiker Bill Ewasko
How to find someone who has died in the wilderness.
4 months ago
How to find someone who has died in the wilderness.
Posts on Made of...
A Very Subtle Bug
6.033, MIT’s class on computer systems, has as one of its catchphrases, “Complex systems fail for...
over a year ago
6.033, MIT’s class on computer systems, has as one of its catchphrases, “Complex systems fail for complex reasons”. As a class about designing and building complex systems, it’s a reminder that failure modes are subtle and often involve strange interactions between multiple parts...
Spoon & Tamago
An Exhibition of Plushie, Small Disappointments
An onigiri smushed at the bottom of your bag. Water splashing off a spoon. Burnt toast. Life is full...
2 months ago
An onigiri smushed at the bottom of your bag. Water splashing off a spoon. Burnt toast. Life is full of small disappointments. But helping us see the humor in it all is Makosun, a Japanese maker of weird plushies—their words, not ours—who renders all these small disappointments...
One Useful Thing
How to Get an AI to Lie to You in Three Simple Steps
I keep getting fooled by AI, and it seems like others are, too.
a year ago
I keep getting fooled by AI, and it seems like others are, too.
The Modern House
A fossil-shaped eco home on the border of Devon and Somerset
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Once you take money, the clock starts ticking
One of the interesting things about having been investing in startups for a number of years is that...
over a year ago
One of the interesting things about having been investing in startups for a number of years is that at any moment you get an inside peek at…
Rest of World -...
The capybara influencer revolt
A wildlife influencer’s famous capybara was confiscated by Brazilian authorities. A mass movement...
a year ago
A wildlife influencer’s famous capybara was confiscated by Brazilian authorities. A mass movement ensued.
Seth's Blog
A finite ordered set of interesting objects
The alphabet is one. 26 letters, no more. One order, that’s it. The Beatles are another. John, Paul,...
a year ago
The alphabet is one. 26 letters, no more. One order, that’s it. The Beatles are another. John, Paul, George and then Ringo. The Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, The Supremes. The astrological zodiac gets us to twelve, but I’m having a really difficult time finding a memorable...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Hooded
Daredevil strikes a pose: That weird thing he’s kneeling on is part of one of the towers of the...
3 months ago
Daredevil strikes a pose: That weird thing he’s kneeling on is part of one of the towers of the Manhattan Bridge. Here’s a nice general shot of the bridge, looking toward Brooklyn, from the HAER survey: And here’s a close up of where the pedestrian walkway on the outboard edge of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Instant GraphQL with OneGraph
Here's a recorded screenshare chat I had with Sean Grove (https://twitter.com/sgrove), Cofounder of...
over a year ago
Here's a recorded screenshare chat I had with Sean Grove (https://twitter.com/sgrove), Cofounder of OneGraph! We swapped out the Next.js API Routes that I manually set up in my livestreaming, to the premade GraphQL integration that OneGraph has with Dev.to. As a bonus, this takes...
The American Scholar
Good Intentions
The post Good Intentions appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 months ago
The post Good Intentions appeared first on The American Scholar.
Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
TheCollector
7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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5 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Personal Affections'
Only
recently have I learned of the entrenched snobbery in certain quarters against anthologies.
It...
2 months ago
Only
recently have I learned of the entrenched snobbery in certain quarters against anthologies.
It seems to be rooted in the conviction that readers ought to read writers in
their original volumes, not someone’s curated selection, or something like
that. In common with most...
bt RSS Feed
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist
2021-11-03
This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
over a year ago
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist
2021-11-03
This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door…
I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website’s CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It’s pretty amazing to see the problems...
Astral Codex Ten
Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
...
3 weeks ago
Tom Blomfield
Unit Economics
The old joke describes a lot of companies at the moment - “I’ll sell at a loss but make it up on...
over a year ago
The old joke describes a lot of companies at the moment - “I’ll sell at a loss but make it up on volume.” Pilloried in the press, startups burn through vast sums of capital before spectacularly imploding.
Let’s go back to 2012-13. The world was finally emerging from a punishing...
Passing Time
So We Won't Forget
Why do we film concerts?
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Exit. Selling your SaaS
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post Exit. Selling your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
3 weeks ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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7 months ago
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 5: Wrapping up projects and starting a new one
Another week of my RC batch wraps up.
I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left!
Time is...
over a year ago
Another week of my RC batch wraps up.
I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left!
Time is still flying by, and I've hit an inflection point.
I have gotten what I want out of the two projects I've worked on so far, so I'm going to wrap them up and move on to one new...
TheCollector
What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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2 weeks ago
Evan Jones -...
Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to...
over a year ago
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to do things when changes occur. For example, we might want to send email notifications if a bank balance drops below a threshold. This is a very common reason applications use...
The Marginalian
Starlings and the Magic of Murmurations: A Stunning Watercolor Celebration of One of Earth’s Living...
Biking back to my rented cottage from CERN one autumn evening, having descended into the underworld...
a year ago
Biking back to my rented cottage from CERN one autumn evening, having descended into the underworld of matter for a visit to the world’s largest high-energy particle collider, a sight stopped me up short on the shore of Lake Geneva: In the orange sky over the orange water, a...
Citation Needed
Privacy, human rights, and Tornado Cash
I am more worried about privacy than crypto crime.
7 months ago
I am more worried about privacy than crypto crime.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Touch
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The deepest cut is when he pets his cat, raised...
a year ago
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The deepest cut is when he pets his cat, raised from kittenhood for 10 years, and nothing happens.
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Open Culture
Watch Tom Waits For No One, the Pioneering Animated Music Video from 1979
Tom Waits For No One, above, is surely the only film in history to have won an Oscar for Scientific...
5 months ago
Tom Waits For No One, above, is surely the only film in history to have won an Oscar for Scientific and Technical Achievement for its creator and a first place award at the Hollywood Erotic Film and Video Festival. Director John Lamb and his partner, Bruce Lyon also deserve...
Old Structures...
The Queen Anne Style Is Rare In New York
I was on the Upper East Side and saw two houses that don’t quite fit in on Park Avenue north of 69th...
10 months ago
I was on the Upper East Side and saw two houses that don’t quite fit in on Park Avenue north of 69th Street. Those two rowhouses are listed in the records of the Upper East Side Historic District as having been built between 1882 and 1885 as part of a larger row, with the other...
Neil Panchal
Dear JetBrains. Don't mess with your UI.
So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of...
over a year ago
So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of professionals.
Announcement:
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/
New Jet Brains interface
We're professionals. We can...
exist
Non-Empty Recursion in Elm
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Two sides of “a big deal”
Many businesses thrive by helping people deal with projects that feel like they have high stakes. A...
a year ago
Many businesses thrive by helping people deal with projects that feel like they have high stakes. A kid’s first haircut, the offsite storage of data backup, an upcoming family reunion, a medical procedure or the inscription on a sentimental piece of jewelry or watch. But, if the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Coming
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Wishing I had just taken this job instead of joking...
5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Wishing I had just taken this job instead of joking about it.
Today's News:
Math Is Still...
What Is Analog Computing?
You don’t need 0s and 1s to perform computations, and in some cases it’s better to avoid them. ...
4 months ago
You don’t need 0s and 1s to perform computations, and in some cases it’s better to avoid them.
The post What Is Analog Computing? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
How to Be a Stoic
Were the ancient Stoics feminist? Should the modern ones be?
The short answers to the title questions are: not really, and of course yes. At least, that’s the...
over a year ago
The short answers to the title questions are: not really, and of course yes. At least, that’s the conclusion of a detailed analysis of the relationship between Stoicism and feminism published in a paper by Scott Aikin and Emily McGill-Rutherford in Symposion, 1, 1 (2014): 9-22....
Willem's Blog
Creating a minimal road bike
I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
over a year ago
I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
bt RSS Feed
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0
2020-09-29
I have found that there is a lot of information...
over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0
2020-09-29
I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up “dynamic” navigation in Jekyll. The problem I’ve noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
devonzuegel.com
Part 4: Success is tied to benefiting existing Solano residents
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
9 months ago
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.
California Forever’s proposal includes 10 Voter Guarantees that go far...
NeuroLogica Blog
Predicting Outcome in Severe Brain Injury
One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical...
7 months ago
One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical medical condition and have to make life-or-death medical decisions for them. I have been in this situation many times as the consulting neurologist, and I have seen how weighty this...
Cremieux Recueil
High-Frequency Trading Is Good
Sichuan Mala has written a guest post on one of the most unfairly maligned parts of the financial...
3 months ago
Sichuan Mala has written a guest post on one of the most unfairly maligned parts of the financial industry
TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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2 months ago
Maps Mania
The 46 States of America & Each State Flower
6 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Here's Your 7-Day Escape to the British Virgin Islands
a year ago
Adventures In...
Stories
Here are some StoryMap stories that I’ve written over the years… Piracy & Time Travel How Deep is...
a year ago
Here are some StoryMap stories that I’ve written over the years… Piracy & Time Travel How Deep is Challenger Deep? Julie’s Improbable Flight How to Write a Story, starring sharks and hurricanes Gap, Pass, Notch, & Saddle College Football Air Mile Index Rivers of Plastic Smoking,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Old Man in the Dark'
Philip
Larkin shares with us the mundane complaints of the middle class, the lusts and
anxieties of...
a year ago
Philip
Larkin shares with us the mundane complaints of the middle class, the lusts and
anxieties of people unburdened with wealth and pull. He grows deaf, loses hair,
juggles girlfriends, gains weight and drinks too much. As a librarian he works hard.
He will never be hip except...
Map of the Week
Guided Across Switzerland by Hand Drawn Maps
The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland...
4 months ago
The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland guided only by hand drawn maps from the people he met along the way. I love a nice hand drawn map and this article provides lots of good examples.
These maps illustrate the things...
The Universe of...
A triviality about numbers that look like abbc
Looking at license plates the other day I noticed that if you have a
four-digit number with digits...
3 months ago
Looking at license plates the other day I noticed that if you have a
four-digit number with digits , and , then
will always be a multiple of . For example, and .
Mathematically this is uninteresting. The proof is completely
trivial. (Such a number is simply , and
.)
But I...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Law & Order
Contributed by Nick Sherman
License: All Rights Reserved.
Law & Order is a US television series...
over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman
License: All Rights Reserved.
Law & Order is a US television series set in New York City that first aired 30 years ago today, on September 13, 1990, and ran for 20 seasons until its final episode in 2010. Each episode is split into two segments:...
A Weekly Dose of...
Favorite Books of 2023
For the fifteenth and last time on this blog, I'm highlighting my favorite books of the year,...
a year ago
For the fifteenth and last time on this blog, I'm highlighting my favorite books of the year, selected from the many books I reviewed or featured as "Book Briefs" on this blog, and the few titles that I reviewed at World-Architects. From the 86 books I featured in 2023, 15 (or...
Noahpinion
Interview: Dan Wang, China specialist
We talk about China's economy, decoupling, export controls, industrial policy, state control, and...
a year ago
We talk about China's economy, decoupling, export controls, industrial policy, state control, and lots more.
The Modern House
The 'sculptural experience' of designer Ashley Law’s uniquely tactile cottage in Whitechapel
8 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Scaling Organizations, Patient Payments, and Collections with Lora Rosenblum | Out-Of-Pocket
Why am I getting bills 6 months later, Lora pls help
a year ago
Why am I getting bills 6 months later, Lora pls help
Steve Klabnik
Is WebAssembly the return of Java Applets & Flash?
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Promo creep
Hustle harder. Run more ads. Spam people. Interrupt. Make the logo bigger. Post again. Post again....
a year ago
Hustle harder. Run more ads. Spam people. Interrupt. Make the logo bigger. Post again. Post again. Add more blurbs. Push the press release to irrelevant people. Do one more ad. Use AI to create faux intimacy. Get the word out. Burn trust. Get more attention. In the last forty...
Retail Design Blog
Louis Vuitton store + café by THEVERYMANY
As you know, Louis Vuitton has started dabbling in hospitality for a little while now, and it looks...
a month ago
As you know, Louis Vuitton has started dabbling in hospitality for a little while now, and it looks like the...
Computer Ads from...
Dipco's Easy Reader
"Sight for Sore Eyes"
a month ago
Daniel Marino
Don’t Overthink Remote Working
The coronavirus is here, and as a result a lot of employers are asking employees to work remotely if...
over a year ago
The coronavirus is here, and as a result a lot of employers are asking employees to work remotely if possible. I’ve seen a fair share of tips for remote working blog posts this past week. I figured I’d cash in on the action and share my thoughts.
Don’t Overthink It
Most of the...
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
a year ago
The Life and Work of Pheidias
Stoic Simple
Stoicism as a Way to Learn Patience, Acceptance & Be Calm
Whether it's waiting in line at the grocery store, dealing with a difficult coworker, or facing a...
a year ago
Whether it's waiting in line at the grocery store, dealing with a difficult coworker, or facing a personal setback, we all encounter moments that test our patience. While it's natural to feel frustrated or angry in these situations, practicing patience can bring a sense of...
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #11
Major road works at the Bow Roundabout continue. They might even be halfway through, depending on...
2 weeks ago
Major road works at the Bow Roundabout continue. They might even be halfway through, depending on when you think the start and finish dates are.
new sliproad underneath the flyover is nearing completion. This'll carry westbound traffic from the contraflow lane on Stratford High...
Vadim Kravcenko
I’m finishing university, scared about future career prospects
Question:
Hey, my name's Kalesh, I'm 22 and about to finish my bachelor's in August. Planning to be...
8 months ago
Question:
Hey, my name's Kalesh, I'm 22 and about to finish my bachelor's in August. Planning to be a software engineer. But, I keep hearing the job market's tough. Been reading online that lots of devs are struggling to find steady gigs. Is your company looking for any devs?...
Liz Denys
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: lemon ginger ricotta cookies
There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really...
over a year ago
There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really makes it feel like the Christmas season (or maybe I just like having excuses to bake). Before leaving New York for holidays with the family in Chicago, I made candy cane brownie...
TheCollector
The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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a month ago
fast.ai
AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in...
a year ago
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways
The Wandering...
Mapping Gottfried Merzbacher
I’m wrapping up my work on Gottfried Merzbacher—a sort of back-burner project that’s been active and...
over a year ago
I’m wrapping up my work on Gottfried Merzbacher—a sort of back-burner project that’s been active and then dormant, on and off, for about seven years. It’s been a pleasure to learn about places like the Bayumkol valley, the relationship between the Saryzhaz and Kum-erik Rivers,...
Math Is Still...
How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?
By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to...
8 months ago
By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems.
The post How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Anita Klein
Hi, I am a painter and printmaker working in London and Italy.
Describe your printmaking process.
I...
a year ago
Hi, I am a painter and printmaker working in London and Italy.
Describe your printmaking process.
I use almost all printmaking processes and choose between techniques depending on the type of mark that suits the picture I want to make. At the moment I am mostly working in...
TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Remember
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2 weeks ago
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On the other hand, lately I have a real fondness for conspiracy theories that don't involve politics.
Today's News:
Math Is Still...
The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences
Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling...
a year ago
Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians.
The post The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences first appeared on Quanta...
Diaries of Note
I fell on the flagstones
It was in the final decade of her life that Frida Kahlo kept a diary—ten turbulent years marked by...
a year ago
It was in the final decade of her life that Frida Kahlo kept a diary—ten turbulent years marked by emotional distress, declining health, and unwavering artistic spirit. Kahlo endured multiple surgeries and spent long periods in hospital during this period, and in 1953, already...
The Ruffian
Movies as Discourse Generators
Notes on Recent Films
a year ago
Dominik Sobe's...
Five videos that shaped my life so far
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
August theme: Bare Minimum
This time I’ll be following my inspiring site and declare Bare Minimum as the theme for my next...
over a year ago
This time I’ll be following my inspiring site and declare Bare Minimum as the theme for my next game. This could really be anything, from graphics to user interaction… But I’ve got an idea. It’ll be a real challange for me to make but hopefully I’ll have a game in a few weeks...
The Works in...
Britain’s interwar apartment boom
A decade of Art Deco densification
9 months ago
A decade of Art Deco densification
Anecdotal Evidence
'Not Merely Mental Stenography'
“Allow me a
small confession: It has been some time since I have truly enjoyed an essay in
a...
4 months ago
“Allow me a
small confession: It has been some time since I have truly enjoyed an essay in
a literary magazine. There are too many essays, and vanishingly few good
essayists. There seems to be real confusion about whether style can conceal a
fundamental incuriosity, whether...
TheCollector
The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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a year ago
TheCollector
Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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6 months ago
macwright.com
Recently: Cycling and Autumn
I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog...
a month ago
I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog updates humming. If you want more content in your RSS reader, you can subscribe to those posts, which are shorter, more scattered, and even less copyedited. It feels bad to have...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Favourable Enough for a Writer'
Jules Renard
writing in his journal on November 22, 1906:
“I am in no
great hurry to see the...
a year ago
Jules Renard
writing in his journal on November 22, 1906:
“I am in no
great hurry to see the society of the future – our own favourable enough for a
writer. By its absurdities, its injustices, its vices, its stupidities, it
nourishes a writer’s observations. The more men...
Londonist
10 Tempting New Afternoon Teas To Try In London Right Now: February 2024
Get booking for the newest afternoon tea menus in the capital.
10 months ago
Get booking for the newest afternoon tea menus in the capital.
TheCollector
Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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6 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
sudon't
My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the
practices and security processes...
7 months ago
My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the
practices and security processes that use and recommend sudo, the
reasons for using it are mostly bullshit.
When I started my career in the late 1990s, I was already aware of
really(8) and userv because one of my...
Liz Denys
Burnout from unappreciated, unpaid diversity work
A little over a week ago, an unnecessary dick joke was sent to a mailing list I'm on. It's a mailing...
over a year ago
A little over a week ago, an unnecessary dick joke was sent to a mailing list I'm on. It's a mailing list related to a conference I go to, and the joke added absolutely no value to the conversation. Another young woman and I criticized this behavior, citing how it pushes women...
Open Culture
The Cramps Play a Mental Health Hospital in Napa, California in 1978: The Punkest of Punk Concerts
“We’re The Cramps, and we’re from New York City, and we drove 3,000 miles to play for you...
5 months ago
“We’re The Cramps, and we’re from New York City, and we drove 3,000 miles to play for you people.” So begins one of the oddest but also the punkest of punk rock concerts in history, as The Cramps play for a crowd at a state mental hospital in Napa, California. The date was June...
The Honest Broker
Are There Alternating Cycles of Hot and Cool in American Cultural History? (Part 1 of 2)
And are we midway through a hot cycle right now?
a year ago
And are we midway through a hot cycle right now?
Engineer’s Codex
3 predictions on the future of software after AI
Key takeaways: a multi-model strategy's necessity, emerging AI infra, LLMs as abstractions.
a year ago
Key takeaways: a multi-model strategy's necessity, emerging AI infra, LLMs as abstractions.
Anecdotal Evidence
'How Quickly It Would Slip By'
“[S]ome of
the memories I can now summon up have a greater intensity than the events...
3 months ago
“[S]ome of
the memories I can now summon up have a greater intensity than the events themselves
seemed to possess at the time, or rather – since memory has a filter of its
own, sometimes surprising in what it suppresses or retains, but always significant
– some of them stand out...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Stand for the Unacademic'
“I stand for
the un-Academic: the anti-Academic.”
As do most
of the better sort among writers and...
9 months ago
“I stand for
the un-Academic: the anti-Academic.”
As do most
of the better sort among writers and readers. Something vital was lost when the
profs colonized and laid claim to literature. John Gross puts it like this in The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters
(1969; rev. ed....
Retail Design Blog
LEICA store by Format Architecture Office
Almost twelve years after first opening up shop in Soho, LEICA has inaugurated a second store and...
7 months ago
Almost twelve years after first opening up shop in Soho, LEICA has inaugurated a second store and gallery in the...
The Rational Walk
The Use of Letters
As Mark Twain said, a person who won't read has no real advantage over a person who can't read. It...
a year ago
As Mark Twain said, a person who won't read has no real advantage over a person who can't read. It makes no sense to refuse to learn vicariously.
swyx's site RSS Feed
10 Principles I Learned from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain
10 Principles I Learned
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Hermann Hesse on What Books Give Us and the Heart of Wisdom
Books show us what it is like to be another and at the same time return us to ourselves. We read to...
a year ago
Books show us what it is like to be another and at the same time return us to ourselves. We read to learn how to live — how to love and how to suffer, how to grieve and how to be glad. We read to clarify ourselves and to anneal our values. We read for the assurance that others...
Jonas Hietala
Long Term Goals
I have a lot of things I want to do. Right now I want to go to the kids training tomorrow and also...
over a year ago
I have a lot of things I want to do. Right now I want to go to the kids training tomorrow and also to our training time. I haven’t trained a lot lately so it feels good to do something again and training the kids is very rewarding. On Monday I have the next graph theory lecture...
TheCollector
7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Property-Based Testing Is Fuzzing
“Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code...
over a year ago
“Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code (“properties”), and then using automated tooling to generate test inputs (typically, randomly-generated inputs of an appropriate type), and observe whether the properties hold for...
mtlynch.io
Strong Towns
I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how...
10 months ago
I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how perverse incentives lead to poor community outcomes. It had a huge impact on the way that I think about where to live and what policies I support in local government.
This book...
NeuroLogica Blog
Eclipse 2024
I am currently in Dallas Texas waiting to see, hopefully, the 2024 total solar eclipse. This would...
8 months ago
I am currently in Dallas Texas waiting to see, hopefully, the 2024 total solar eclipse. This would be my first total eclipse, and everything I have heard indicates that it is an incredible experience. Unfortunately, the weather calls for some clouds, although forecasts have been...
Benny Kuriakose
Abdul Rahman Sahib Museum: The Freedom Fighter’s Home
The Muziris Heritage Project narrates the stories from different timelines. From the first mosque in...
a year ago
The Muziris Heritage Project narrates the stories from different timelines. From the first mosque in India to the Study Centre for the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing PostHog Cloud EU
It's no secret that some popular analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, have fallen foul of GDPR...
over a year ago
It's no secret that some popular analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, have fallen foul of GDPR regulations in the EU. That's one reason why we…
bt RSS Feed
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
2019-06-20
When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
over a year ago
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
2019-06-20
When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don’t think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
The Marginalian
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt, the Power of Defiant Goodwill, and the Art of...
"It is when the experience of powerlessness is at its most acute, when history seems at its most...
9 months ago
"It is when the experience of powerlessness is at its most acute, when history seems at its most bleak, that the determination to think like a human being, creatively, courageously, and complicatedly, matters the most."
Luxagraf:...
Copper Harbor
After getting kicked out of our site in McLain State Park we weren't thrilled at the prospect of...
a year ago
After getting kicked out of our site in McLain State Park we weren't thrilled at the prospect of more time in a Michigan State Park, but there's not really anything else in Copper Harbor. We pulled in around 3 and asked for a site. The woman at this check-in station was very nice...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Whole Hog Barbecu'd!'
I was
surprised to see that Alexander Pope was familiar with the most popular cuisine
served in...
2 months ago
I was
surprised to see that Alexander Pope was familiar with the most popular cuisine
served in Texas: barbecue. You’ll find his reference in “The Second Satire in the Second Book of Horace Paraphrased”:
“Oldfield,
with more than Harpy throat endu’d,
Cries, ‘send
me, Gods! a...
Nelson's Weblog
Toto C5 Washlet power usage
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having
water for washing is great. But I...
a year ago
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having
water for washing is great. But I don’t love some details, see notes
below. Mostly I wanted to share how much power the thing uses.
About 80 Watt-hours a day, or an average of 3 watts. Note this is
without the seat...
diamond geezer
Tractor Tax Protest
Thousands of farmers, countryfolk and their supporters were in central London yesterday to protest...
a month ago
Thousands of farmers, countryfolk and their supporters were in central London yesterday to protest against the imposition of inheritance tax on farmland. You could tell something was up by the number of people in Barbour jackets, tweed caps and sensible outerwear milling around...
Working Theorys
Rabbitholes as Portals
Fall down the right ones
9 months ago
Christopher Butler
Organization – Office
I am on a continual quest for organization.
After the kitchen, the office is the most used room in...
a year ago
I am on a continual quest for organization.
After the kitchen, the office is the most used room in our home.
My wife and I work here, Monday through Friday, 9 to 5. Our children play and create in here just as often. It’s where we maintain several workspaces, store supplies,...
Roberto Vitillo's...
How to review a data analysis
Writing good code is hard, writing a good analysis is harder. Peer-review is an essential tool to...
over a year ago
Writing good code is hard, writing a good analysis is harder. Peer-review is an essential tool to fight repetitive errors, omissions and…
Arduino Blog
Finally, you can DIY your own espresso machine
Caffeine lovers take their coffee very seriously and that is most apparent when you dive into the...
3 months ago
Caffeine lovers take their coffee very seriously and that is most apparent when you dive into the world of espresso machines. To satisfy enthusiasts, an espresso machine needs to provide precise control over temperature, pressure, and flow to enable the perfect pull. But if...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
It’s not East Coast vs West Coast, it’s about making more places like the Valley
I’ve written a few times about what seems to be an exploding tech scene in NYC. This is sometimes...
over a year ago
I’ve written a few times about what seems to be an exploding tech scene in NYC. This is sometimes interpreted as arguing that NYC is a…
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Dayton, Ohio Part 1 (The Wright Stuff)
When people have asked, I’ve told them with a straight face that we didn’t go to Daytona for Spring...
8 months ago
When people have asked, I’ve told them with a straight face that we didn’t go to Daytona for Spring Break, no, we went to Dayton. As in Ohio. As in probably the least likely Spring Break destination in the United States. We managed to avoid warm weather, sandy beaches, and...
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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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
Jeff Bezos-Backed AI Faces Legal Scrutiny Over Content Scraping Allegations.
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Workshopping
Produce Consistency, Publish Quality by buffering.
over a year ago
Produce Consistency, Publish Quality by buffering.
TheCollector
What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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11 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
What questions to ask a startup before joining them?
Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared...
over a year ago
Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared […]
The post What questions to ask a startup before joining them? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Blogging to learn
People blog for all sorts of reasons. For me, it is mostly about learning. This wasn’t my original...
over a year ago
People blog for all sorts of reasons. For me, it is mostly about learning. This wasn’t my original intention – it evolved over time. Now I…
CONTEMPORIST
A Circular Sunken Firepit Is Nestled Into The Desert Landscape Of This Home
Architecture firm The Ranch Mine has sent us photos of a new home they completed in Paradise Valley,...
10 months ago
Architecture firm The Ranch Mine has sent us photos of a new home they completed in Paradise Valley, Arizona, that breaks down the barriers between indoor and outdoor living. As you approach the house, the first thing that captures the eye is the striking interplay of metal fins...
devonzuegel.com
The Hard Parts of Open Source, by Evan Czaplicki
Speaker: Evan Czaplicki
Meeting: Strange Loop 2018 - September 2018
Video:...
over a year ago
Speaker: Evan Czaplicki
Meeting: Strange Loop 2018 - September 2018
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA
Slides: https://prezi.com/oowcpzsnwp-8/the-hard-parts-of-open-source/?webgl=0
[ References to videos, books, and articles mentioned in this...
TheCollector
Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gods
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Looking at this again, Terrible Elk-God would be a...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Looking at this again, Terrible Elk-God would be a great He-Man character.
Today's News:
Old Structures...
Visible To The Naked Eye
Here’s the side wall of a building constructed about twenty-five years ago: I used this building not...
3 months ago
Here’s the side wall of a building constructed about twenty-five years ago: I used this building not because its construction was particularly bad – it is not – but because the glazed brick veneer on this side wall does a nice job of catching the raking sunlight. The brick color...
Tech + Economics +...
Real estate grifters are creating unlivable conditions.
TikTok Real Estate Influencers and ‘Grifters’ Are in Deep Trouble, Short
Seller Says
Philip...
11 months ago
TikTok Real Estate Influencers and ‘Grifters’ Are in Deep Trouble, Short
Seller Says
Philip Garboden, a professor of affordable housing at the University of
Hawaii who has studied the rise of small real estate investors, said
the effects of reckless lending on...
Blog - Practical...
Engineering The Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is my friend Jade,...
a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is my friend Jade, creator of the Up and Atom channel. She makes these incredible math and physics explainers that I absolutely love, and she recently got the opportunity to visit ITER (eater) in France....
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...
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.
ntietz.com blog
Paper review: Concurrency Control Performance Modeling
Another week, another paper!
This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control...
over a year ago
Another week, another paper!
This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control Performance Modeling" by Rakesh Agrawal, Michael J. Carey, and Miron Livny.
It was 46 pages, and I had a little trouble finding the whole paper—many of the Google Scholar links had...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Perfect Match
Some gangsters in a car, running from The Shadow: A circa 1920 view of the Broad Street roman-temple...
6 months ago
Some gangsters in a car, running from The Shadow: A circa 1920 view of the Broad Street roman-temple facade of the New York Stock Exchange, with the Wilks Building immediately to its right and Federal Hall, with George Washington standing out front, on the far right. I don’t know...
Seth's Blog
How to buy a lottery ticket
There are lots of cultural lotteries around us. The next pop song, the book that everyone is talking...
a month ago
There are lots of cultural lotteries around us. The next pop song, the book that everyone is talking about, the blog post or video that goes viral… it even applies to who gets into a famous college or is selected by the AI screening for a good job. The usual advice is: Fit in....
The Honest Broker
How the Music Business Can Tame the Dangerous AI Dragon
Here's a five point plan that makes a difference (and not just for music)
6 months ago
Here's a five point plan that makes a difference (and not just for music)
Platformer
How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk
Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang...
a year ago
Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance
Applied Cartography
Use Rails
I have a good number of people ask me what software stack they should use. I always have a two-part...
7 months ago
I have a good number of people ask me what software stack they should use. I always have a two-part answer:
Use what you're familiar with. If there's something that you've spent a good amount of time using, stick with that one.
Rails. People are usually surprised when I say this...
Tikalon Blog by Dev...
Spiderweb Microphone
Microphones convert sound into an electrical signal for subsequent amplification, as in auditorium...
3 months ago
Microphones convert sound into an electrical signal for subsequent amplification, as in auditorium public address systems; or transmission, as in landline and mobile phones. The most common types of microphones are carbon, used in early telephones, condenser, electret, dynamic,...
Electronics etc…
HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics
Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual
available as a PDF, but the...
10 months ago
Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual
available as a PDF, but the schematics of chapter 8 are all spread over 3 or 4 pages, which makes
them hard to follow.
I spent a good evening extracting the schematics pages, cutting-and-pasting
them together...
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 12
Highlights I added 88 new programmatically-generated articles to Is It Keto. With 100k monthly...
over a year ago
Highlights I added 88 new programmatically-generated articles to Is It Keto. With 100k monthly pageviews, it’s time to explore new ways of working with Is It Keto’s audience. I created a KVM over IP device that requires <$100 in hardware. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
Joel Gascoigne
5 varieties of remote working in companies
I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the
nature of a company...
over a year ago
I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the
nature of a company where the team works from remote locations to accomplish our
work.
Scaling remote working has been a challenge as the team has grown. Remote
companies are still relatively rare,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Source Code for Life v0.1
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
over a year ago
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
Construction Physics
Building Fast and Slow: The Empire State Building and the World Trade Center (Part I)
The Empire State Building was completed in 1931. At a height of 1250 feet [0], it was the world's...
over a year ago
The Empire State Building was completed in 1931. At a height of 1250 feet [0], it was the world's tallest building, exceeding the recently completed Chrysler building by 202 feet. It would hold that title for the next 39 years, until 1970 when it was surpassed in height by...
NeuroLogica Blog
Multipurpose Superconducting Highway
When it comes to technology (and also probably many things) there is a pyramid of ideas. At the very...
a year ago
When it comes to technology (and also probably many things) there is a pyramid of ideas. At the very bottom of the pyramid is pure speculation, just throwing out “what if” ideas to feed the conceptual pipeline. A subset of these ideas will pass the sniff test enough to justify...
Vadim Kravcenko
Being a good mentor – a developers guide
Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and...
a year ago
Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and illuminate the path ahead. I’ve […]
The post Being a good mentor – a developers guide appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The Modern House
Sent from Coventry: a graphic lament to the modernist architecture of 'the city of the future'
The printmaker and illustrator Paul Catherall uses linocuts to represent iconic British landmarks....
6 months ago
The printmaker and illustrator Paul Catherall uses linocuts to represent iconic British landmarks. His current exhibition ‘Sent from Coventry’ is a collection of prints that highlight and record the groundbreaking post-war buildings in Coventry – Paul’s hometown – which, at the...
mtlynch.io
My First Year as a Solo Developer
On February 1st, 2018, I quit my job as a software engineer at Google to start my own single-person...
over a year ago
On February 1st, 2018, I quit my job as a software engineer at Google to start my own single-person software company. It’s exactly one year later, so it feels like an apt time to reflect on how that decision affected my finances, lifestyle, and happiness.
How I made and spent...
David Gerrells
how to use web workers with typescript
A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and...
over a year ago
A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and limits
computers are bad
2024-07-20 minuteman missile communications
A programming note: I am looking at making some changes to how I host things
like Computers Are Bad...
5 months ago
A programming note: I am looking at making some changes to how I host things
like Computers Are Bad and wikimap that are going to
involve a lot more recurring expense. For that and other reasons, I want to see
if y'all would be willing to throw some money my way. If everyone...
Rest of World -...
Why Mexico is tweeting at its third- richest citizen to delete his tweets
On August 11, Mexico’s election authority made an unexpected announcement via its official account...
a year ago
On August 11, Mexico’s election authority made an unexpected announcement via its official account on X, formerly known as Twitter: It called for Ricardo Salinas Pliego, Mexico’s third-richest man, to...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies"
"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is...
over a year ago
"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal…
Moneyness
Elon Musk's understanding of payments dates back to his PayPal days. It needs an update
[This is a republication of my most recent CoinDesk opinion piece.]
You've
heard the script...
a year ago
[This is a republication of my most recent CoinDesk opinion piece.]
You've
heard the script before. Migrants need to make payments back home to
their family, but cross-border payments are achingly slow, taking days
to process. Luckily, revolutionary new technologies like...
The History of the...
Beware the cloud of hype
We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of...
6 months ago
We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web.
The post Beware the cloud of hype appeared first on The History of the Web.
NeuroLogica Blog
Scammers on the Rise
Good rule of thumb – assume it’s a scam. Anyone who contacts you, or any unusual encounter, assume...
10 months ago
Good rule of thumb – assume it’s a scam. Anyone who contacts you, or any unusual encounter, assume it’s a scam and you will probably be right. Recently I was called on my cell phone by someone claiming to be from Venmo. They asked me to confirm if I had just made two fund...
TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End?
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a year ago
Society's Backend
Weekly Backend #7: 39 Resources and Updates
GPT-4o, Google I/O, Fugaku LLM, Prep for Machine Learning Interviews, and more
7 months ago
GPT-4o, Google I/O, Fugaku LLM, Prep for Machine Learning Interviews, and more
Anecdotal Evidence
'By Studying Little Things'
“He advised
me to keep a journal of my life, fair and undisguised.”
So did my high-school
English...
5 months ago
“He advised
me to keep a journal of my life, fair and undisguised.”
So did my high-school
English teacher two centuries later. Boswell took Dr. Johnson’s advice and
later mined the resulting journal when assembling his Life of Johnson (1791). Much of Boswell’s London Journal...
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.1 released
I have made
a new release of nsnotifyd,
a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages
and...
6 months ago
I have made
a new release of nsnotifyd,
a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages
and runs a script when one of your zones changes.
This nsnotifyd-2.1 release includes a few bugfixes:
more lenient handling of trailing . in domain names on the command line
avoid...
TheCollector
The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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a month ago
The Rational Walk
A Dangerous Interregnum
President Biden's decision to allow Ukraine to fire American missiles deep into Russian territory...
a month ago
President Biden's decision to allow Ukraine to fire American missiles deep into Russian territory risks plunging the world into crisis in the finals months of his administration.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Why is open source software so badly designed?
“It could have been so great, but why is it so ugly and difficult to use?” people trying open...
over a year ago
“It could have been so great, but why is it so ugly and difficult to use?” people trying open source...
The Modern House
My Modern House: Tom Morris’ Brutalist flat on the Barbican Estate
This week, we’re taking a trip down memory lane – and to the Barbican apartment of Tom Morris,...
a year ago
This week, we’re taking a trip down memory lane – and to the Barbican apartment of Tom Morris, multihyphenate writer turned interior designer and founder of Morrisstudio, the outfit known for its considered craft-led approach to creating homes. However, when we first visited Tom,...
Moneyness
Why do sanctioned entities use Tether?
Tether, a stablecoin, has been in the news for offering sanctioned actors such as Hamas a means to...
a year ago
Tether, a stablecoin, has been in the news for offering sanctioned actors such as Hamas a means to participate in the global payments ecosystem.
In this post I want to explore in more depth how Tether is being used to dodge sanctions. I'm going to avoid drawing on the Hamas...
Both Are True
The self is a gut-hole - the first podcast ever made
Are Both True?? - The Podcast is a new form of media entertainment that is making studio execs go...
a year ago
Are Both True?? - The Podcast is a new form of media entertainment that is making studio execs go 'oh....ok.'
Math Is Still...
An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe
Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves...
a year ago
Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves pervading the cosmos.
The post An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Vitalik Buterin's...
El recurso escaso más importante es la legitimidad
over a year ago
Londonist
Fundraising Events In London For Medical And Humanitarian Aid In Gaza
Some ways to support emergency response efforts.
a year ago
Some ways to support emergency response efforts.
ben-mini
Making My SQL Skills Obsolete
By far, the most useful LLM app I’ve made is the Kibu Schema God:
I try not to make my posts too...
yesterday
By far, the most useful LLM app I’ve made is the Kibu Schema God:
I try not to make my posts too technical, but I can’t resist. I’d like to briefly explain what the Kibu Schema God is, how I set it up in a day, and how you might create something similar.
What it is
The Kibu...
Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
Max Rozen
Learn Integration Testing with React Hook Form
Testing is super important, and yet it's hard to find practical examples to show you what to do....
over a year ago
Testing is super important, and yet it's hard to find practical examples to show you what to do. This article intends to fix that, by teaching integration testing with React Hook Form.
Josh Comeau's blog
The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode
Dark Mode has become common enough that it's a user expectation. And yet, creating the perfect dark...
over a year ago
Dark Mode has become common enough that it's a user expectation. And yet, creating the perfect dark mode with a statically-built site/app is deceptively tricky. In this in-depth tutorial, we'll see how to build the perfect, flicker-free, customizable theming solution for...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Old Structures...
A Sometimes Disagreeable Foreign Land, Part 1
My off-hand comment yesterday about a Baedeker guide made me think that I should look to see what a...
2 weeks ago
My off-hand comment yesterday about a Baedeker guide made me think that I should look to see what a nineteenth-century European guidebook had to say about New York and I was not disappointed. The guidebooks put out by the Baedecker company since the 1830s are famous for their...
Seth's Blog
Assume lack of context
The person you’re working with might not know what you know, might not see what you see. It’s...
6 months ago
The person you’re working with might not know what you know, might not see what you see. It’s tempting to begin where we are. But it’s more useful to begin where they are.
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 34 - June 2023
Monthly Wrap-up
a year ago
TheCollector
Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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7 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
2020-09-16
I recently came across the...
over a year ago
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
2020-09-16
I recently came across the incredibly cool design for an “ultimate Raspberry Pi computer” by NODE and was inspired to create my own “portable” Pi device. Although, with my concept, I decided to set a few restrictions...
Citation Needed
We need to talk about digital ownership
"Ownership" means ten different things to ten different people. Let's talk about what we actually...
10 months ago
"Ownership" means ten different things to ten different people. Let's talk about what we actually want.
Daniel Bourke
The same feeling
Starting something new.
A business, a relationship, an adventure, a creation.
Hell, it doesn’t even...
a year ago
Starting something new.
A business, a relationship, an adventure, a creation.
Hell, it doesn’t even have to be new.
Or even the start.
Still, the feelings creep in.
Am I going to make it?
Does she like me?
What does he think?
Goodness what if I go broke?
Kagi Blog
Update to Kagi Search pricing
It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and...
a year ago
It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and we have been busy with three main large-scale initiatives: a new pricing model that ensures Kagi’s sustainability, new plans including Family plans, and enhancing search experience...
Making software...
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist
2021-11-03
This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
over a year ago
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist
2021-11-03
This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door...
I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website's CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It's pretty amazing to see the problems...
Steve Klabnik
Getting started with chruby
over a year ago
davidyat.es
The many (bad) interfaces of Substack
8 months ago
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...
a year ago
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...
History Today Feed
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
10 months ago
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
Laetitia@Work
Debunking the Laziness Lie
Laetitia@Work #53
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D
Ideas come from the edges, not the center
6 months ago
Ideas come from the edges, not the center
NeuroLogica Blog
Ghosts Are Not Real
It’s Halloween, so there are a lot of fluff pieces about ghosts and similar phenomena circulating in...
a year ago
It’s Halloween, so there are a lot of fluff pieces about ghosts and similar phenomena circulating in the media. There are some good skeptical pieces as well, which is always nice to see. For this piece I did not want to frame the headline as a question, which I think is...
Diaries of Note
Thanks be to God!
On 14th December 1911, after years of preparation and a gruelling journey in treacherous conditions,...
a year ago
On 14th December 1911, after years of preparation and a gruelling journey in treacherous conditions, Roald Amundsen and his team reached the South Pole and raised the flag of Norway—an achievement that marked them as the first to stand at this geographical zenith having beaten...
AI Snake Oil
AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder
What artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference
8 months ago
What artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference
Quantum Frontiers
It from Qubit: The Last Hurrah
Editor’s note: Since 2015, the Simons Foundation has supported the “It from Qubit” collaboration, a...
a year ago
Editor’s note: Since 2015, the Simons Foundation has supported the “It from Qubit” collaboration, a group of scientists drawing on ideas from quantum information theory to address deep issues in fundamental physics. The collaboration held its “Last Hurrah” event at … Continue...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 048: The Robot Constitution
January 5, 2024.
11 months ago
Londonist
Gorgeous Shots Of The Thames In New Riverside Photography Book
London's Riverside in Photographs, by Franco Pfaller.
10 months ago
London's Riverside in Photographs, by Franco Pfaller.
Maggie Appleton
A Short History of Bi-Directional Links
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
It is almost impossible to comprehend
Zygmunt Klukowski was a doctor born in 1885 in Ukraine who lived much of his life in Szczebrzeszyn,...
a year ago
Zygmunt Klukowski was a doctor born in 1885 in Ukraine who lived much of his life in Szczebrzeszyn, a small town in Eastern Poland where for thirty years he held the post of superintendent at the local hospital. During World War II, he balanced his medical duties with covert work...
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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3 months ago
Blog - Practical...
When Infrastructure Gets Hacked
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is a water tower, or as...
3 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is a water tower, or as the pros would say, an elevated storage tank. Pretty common here in the US, especially in flatter areas where there’s no nearby hillside to build a ground-level tank. I have a whole...
orlp.net - Blog...
Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search
by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss...
a year ago
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search
by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss the merits of the following snippet of
C++ code implementing a binary search:
template<typename It, typename T, typename Cmp>
It lower_bound_skarupke(It begin, It end, const T&...
bt RSS Feed
Better Box Shadows
Better Box Shadows
2019-01-08
Box shadow on HTML elements has been widely supported across most...
over a year ago
Better Box Shadows
2019-01-08
Box shadow on HTML elements has been widely supported across most browsers for a while now, but I find the default options don’t allow for much visual manipulation of the shadows in general.
Let’s take a look at a default configuration of...
History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free
Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free....
over a year ago
Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering…
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...
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…
The Ruffian
In (Partial) Defence of Jeff Bezos
It's Weird That Newspapers Endorse Politicians
a month ago
It's Weird That Newspapers Endorse Politicians
CONTEMPORIST
Bamboo And Traditional Craftsmanship Weave Nature Into The Design Of This Retail And Exhibition...
Design firm llLab., has shared photos of a sculptural bamboo installation they recently completed as...
2 months ago
Design firm llLab., has shared photos of a sculptural bamboo installation they recently completed as part of the Element pop-up store at HKRI Taikoo Hui in Shanghai, China. Aligned with Element’s sustainable branding philosophy, this project embraces bamboo to explore a spatial...
Rest of World -...
Buy-now-pay-later plans lead to rampant scams and bad debt across Southeast Asia
From Thailand to Vietnam, a loophole in buy-now-pay-later schemes that allows users to get cash is...
3 months ago
From Thailand to Vietnam, a loophole in buy-now-pay-later schemes that allows users to get cash is raising concerns.
Coffee with an...
Design explained using venn diagrams
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple venn diagrams. Unfortunately,...
8 months ago
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple venn diagrams. Unfortunately, this isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE
Dan Quach Blog
Data Engineering Low Code Tools
In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our...
a year ago
In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our radar. Low code tools have their own nuances as you will get to operationalize quicker, but the minute you need to customize something outside of the toolbox, you may run into...
The Marginalian
Cordyceps, the Carpenter Ant, and the Boundaries of the Self: The Strange Science of Zombie Fungi
"It is likely that fungi have been manipulating animal minds for much of the time that there have...
9 months ago
"It is likely that fungi have been manipulating animal minds for much of the time that there have been minds to manipulate."
The Ruffian
The Trump Shooting Was Fake News
On Events and Non-Events
5 months ago
diamond geezer
Another Islington post
Thanks for your suggestions for another Islington-based post.
Allow me to sort-of tackle what some...
a year ago
Thanks for your suggestions for another Islington-based post.
Allow me to sort-of tackle what some of you asked.
How about a walk around the gardens and squares of Islington?
Please can you explore Thornhill Square? I've walked around it a few times, and wondered what it would...
Probably...
Bertrand’s Boxes
An early draft of Probably Overthinking It included two chapters about probability. I still think...
7 months ago
An early draft of Probably Overthinking It included two chapters about probability. I still think they are interesting, but the other chapters are really about data, and the examples in these chapters are more like brain teasers — so I’ve saved them for another book. Here’s an...
Louwrentius
Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux
Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux.
I'm...
over a year ago
Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux.
I'm documenting the scenario where I just want to create a file system that can tollerate at least a single drive failure and can be shared over NFS.
Identify the drives you want to use for the...
Steve Blank
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2022 Wrap Up
We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class...
a year ago
We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class – now part of our Stanford Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to 1) give our students an appreciation of the...
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
alexwlchan
A bookmarklet to show which responsive image was chosen
I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better...
a year ago
I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better than when I started.
I’ve read a bunch of articles on responsive images, and I’ve sprinkled the <picture> and <source> tags everywhere to offer images in a variety of sizes and...
UX Collective
The split decision: IC or manager?
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a month ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Handprinted - Blog
Separating Your Colour Layers for CMYK Screen Printing
CMYK screen printing is a great way of bringing both your photographic and coloured art images to...
3 months ago
CMYK screen printing is a great way of bringing both your photographic and coloured art images to life through colour separation. This is achieved by layering four colours (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) on top of each other using only 4 screens.
Photoshop plays a key role in...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Entertain As Well As Illuminate'
“Here’s a
thought: literary criticism ought to entertain as well as illuminate.”
Bracing
words to...
a year ago
“Here’s a
thought: literary criticism ought to entertain as well as illuminate.”
Bracing
words to encounter while writing a book review. The writer is the poet
David Mason. Quoted is the opening sentence of his review/essay “Two Poet-Critics,” devoted to Clive James and John...
Making software...
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
2023-04-02
I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
a year ago
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
2023-04-02
I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a "downgrade" in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
orlp.net - Blog...
The World's Smallest Hash Table
This December I once again did the Advent of Code,
in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions
are...
a year ago
This December I once again did the Advent of Code,
in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions
are on Github. I wanted to highlight one particular solution to the day 2
problem as it is both optimized completely
beyond the point of reason yet contains a useful technique. For...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, July 2024
The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last...
4 months ago
The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last two images might be killer clues that give away the ware, but they are also so cool I couldn’t not include them as part of the post.
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