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Passing Time
Fun, Fellowship, and Fractures On the downside of activity-based friendships
6 months ago
Mind Mine
a return to soul bring back the Era of the Artist. not a political take.
2 months ago
Steve Blank
Why Large Organizations Struggle With Disruption, and What to Do About It Seemingly overnight, disruption has allowed challengers to threaten the dominance of companies and...
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Seemingly overnight, disruption has allowed challengers to threaten the dominance of companies and government agencies as many of their existing systems have now been leapfrogged. How an organization reacts to this type of disruption determines whether they adapt or die. I’ve...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Am Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There is no Steve-in-Itself! There's not even a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There is no Steve-in-Itself! There's not even a thing that believes it is Steve, now help me decide what's for dinner! Today's News:
Classical Wisdom
Democracy The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
2 months ago
diamond geezer
Old Kent Road OLD KENT ROAD £60   London's Monopoly Streets OLD KENT ROAD Colour group: brown Purchase price:...
a year ago
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a year ago
OLD KENT ROAD £60   London's Monopoly Streets OLD KENT ROAD Colour group: brown Purchase price: £60 Rent: £2 Length: 1¾ miles Boroughs: Southwark and Lewisham Postcodes: SE1, SE15 Old Kent Road, which is also the only location south of the river. Originally this was Watling...
TheCollector
Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union undefined
6 months ago
Computer Ads from...
EPYX's Pitstop Where Winning is the Pits.
6 months ago
samwho.dev
API Design: Errors Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems from time to time, and an error is the first thing they're going to see when they do. It's worth spending time on them to make using your API a more pleasant experience. › Guiding...
TokyoDev
How I landed a software developer job in Japan How I came to Japan ------------------- During the first day of the first computer science...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How I came to Japan ------------------- During the first day of the first computer science course I took, I happened to sit next to a Japanese woman. Over the semester, we became friends, and I remember many a lunch we had together, where she would tell me about life in...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Pivoting My Hunch cofounders and I frequently ask ourselves: “If we were to start over today, would we build...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My Hunch cofounders and I frequently ask ourselves: “If we were to start over today, would we build our product the same way we had so far…
diamond geezer
The Wrythe Today we're off to the only south London suburb that starts with The, namely The Wrythe which is a...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Today we're off to the only south London suburb that starts with The, namely The Wrythe which is a significant part of Sutton. Essentially it's North Carshalton but has had a separate identity since medieval times, actual residents since Victorian times and today forms a...
James Vaughan's blog
Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight
a year ago
Drew Ex Machina
NASA’s Viking Mission & The Search for Life on Mars: The Experiments For young space enthusiasts like myself growing up in the 1970s, NASA’s Viking mission to Mars was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For young space enthusiasts like myself growing up in the 1970s, NASA’s Viking mission to Mars was one of the more exciting and memorable. The Viking […]
Josh Comeau's blog
My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single tag.
Louwrentius
'A Moment Of Silence: OpenSolaris Is Dead' The last release of OpenSolaris dates back to July 2009. The next release was scheduled for March...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The last release of OpenSolaris dates back to July 2009. The next release was scheduled for March 2010, but Oracle did not release anything. It is dead silent around OpenSolaris. On 12 July 2010, the OpenSolaris Government Board sent out an ultimatum to Oracle: "please...
Calculated Risk
Tuesday: Richmond Fed Mfg Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Richmond Fed...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Richmond Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for December. NYSE and the NASDAQ will close early at 1:00 PM ET.
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible? undefined
a month ago
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
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a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966     The question mark...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Pia Bramley I’m an artist, illustrator and printmaker. Having left London after a decade of city life I now live...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m an artist, illustrator and printmaker. Having left London after a decade of city life I now live and work in The New Forest, squeezing in drawing and printing around caring for a three year old. How and where did you learn to print? I did my foundation at KIAD (formerly...
Noahpinion
Is it time for the Revenge of the Normies? An optimistic take on technology and inequality.
a year ago
TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry undefined
a year ago
The Ruffian
The Unreal Thing What Coca Cola's Christmas Ad and Ben Affleck Tell Us About AI and the Future of the Creative...
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a month ago
What Coca Cola's Christmas Ad and Ben Affleck Tell Us About AI and the Future of the Creative Industries
xkcd.com
Gold
a year ago
Castles in the Sky
I have a new face. Reintroducing myself and Castles in the Sky
4 months ago
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Peter Mick Lessons from building and growing Copylime to 6 figures all in public
a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #209 Berkshire's conservatism, Weschler's IRA, National Indemnity, A Defense of Andrew Left, Inflation...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Berkshire's conservatism, Weschler's IRA, National Indemnity, A Defense of Andrew Left, Inflation hammers the poor, Felony convictions as footnotes, Immanuel Nobel, Eisenhower and D-Day
Both Are True
The ONLY Tip You Need To Become A Great Writer If you are ready to change your life, keep reading.
5 months ago
Maps Mania
AI-Powered Satellite Search
5 months ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Fancy Digs Hawkeye chases some bad guys in New York: Looking north up Central Park West from a bit below 71st...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Hawkeye chases some bad guys in New York: Looking north up Central Park West from a bit below 71st Street: The relatively-low brown building two blocks up is the Dakota Apartments, but the drawing in the comic isn’t accurate enough to recognize it. The building at the first...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Poet's Hope' Erica Light is the daughter of my late friend Helen Pinkerton (1927-2017), the poet and Melville...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Erica Light is the daughter of my late friend Helen Pinkerton (1927-2017), the poet and Melville scholar. We exchange emails several times each year, usually devoted to what we are reading. This week she reported reading some of the writers and books I’ve mentioned recently at...
Uncharted...
How to Beat Cancer with Viruses: An Interview with Beata Halassy How viruses kill cancers, which viruses to use, how many injections, at what stage of the cancer,...
3 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
Say my name, say mye naym I have a name that a lot of people find hard to pronounce
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clusters. If confirmed, the approach could be used to reveal where cosmic magnetic fields come from. The post Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.0.0 This is the first of (what we hope are many) PostHog weekly roundup posts. We want to let the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is the first of (what we hope are many) PostHog weekly roundup posts. We want to let the community know what we have been up to, a few of our…
Epic Web Dev
Pixel Perfect Figma to Tailwind (workshop) Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS techniques, and Tailwind v4 migration in this workshop.
Londonist
Grown-Up Events To Take Your Baby To In London Baby-friendly events, designed with adults in mind.
a year ago
Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
Louwrentius
The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor implementing the VDEV expansion feature. A new pr has been created for this effort. The feature was merged into the code base, but may not be available to the general public before the end...
Both Are True
i was a murder mystery dinner theater actor my role? first-to-die. the job? weird as hell.
10 months ago
Ferd.ca
Negotiable Abstractions 2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
a year ago
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a year ago
2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
Wait But Why
Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future I knew the future would be shocking but this is a whole other level. The post Neuralink and the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I knew the future would be shocking but this is a whole other level. The post Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future appeared first on Wait But Why.
Retail Design Blog
The KSFX Experience It’s a temporary showroom showcasing the versatility and diverse applications of the Kalesinterflex...
a month ago
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a month ago
It’s a temporary showroom showcasing the versatility and diverse applications of the Kalesinterflex collection, a large-format porcelain stoneware slab. The...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Software 3.0 and the AI Engineer Landscape (talk notes & slides) Everyone has gone AI mad, and there is a lot of noise, hype, and demos, but not a lot of guidance on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Everyone has gone AI mad, and there is a lot of noise, hype, and demos, but not a lot of guidance on practical usecases. We will go over a mental model of who is doing what and explain both where the opportunities are and where the non-AI developer can start going down the rabbit...
Retail Design Blog
LE LABO KYOTO MACHIYA store by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects Le Labo is a fragrance brand from New York. I first became aware of the brand in 2016, when many...
6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review ‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review JamesHoare Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight. Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Logical Properties and Ease I’ll admit, I’m late to the logical properties party. The purist in me loves the idea because it...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ll admit, I’m late to the logical properties party. The purist in me loves the idea because it makes CSS more internally consistent with its design to be a language-agnostic framework for uni-directional layout. Chris gets at this in his recent post, “Why aren’t logical...
History Today Feed
History Today Review of the Year History Today Review of the Year j.hoare Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
xkcd.com
Cursive Letters
9 months ago
Construction Physics
How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial output. Even before the U.S. entered the war, the Americans provided hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of equipment to the Allies, and between 1938 and 1943 U.S. manufacturing...
TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War undefined
6 months ago
latest projects -...
LED Matrix Earrings [Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
10 months ago
xkcd.com
Size Comparisons
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A Dark Retail Space Transformed Into A Bright Skincare Center ISENSE DESIGN has shared photos of a recently completed retail design for Beauty Technology Skincare...
a year ago
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a year ago
ISENSE DESIGN has shared photos of a recently completed retail design for Beauty Technology Skincare Center in Beijing, China. The designers transformed a dark store with a red facade and awning, into a bright and open retail design with a green facade and large windows. Seizing...
Electronics etc…
Fake Parallel Printer - A Parallel Port Traffic Capturing Tool Introduction What Is Out There? The Parallel Printer Port Fake Printer Top Level Design Choices Fake...
a year ago
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a year ago
Introduction What Is Out There? The Parallel Printer Port Fake Printer Top Level Design Choices Fake Printer HW Details PCB Revision 1 PCB Revision 2 Firmware Building a Fake Printer Tool Yourself Programming the Raspberry Pico Fake Printer as a USB Serial Device on your...
Math Is Still...
Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it. The post Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Classical Wisdom
Beyond Stoicism New Event: January 7th, 2025
3 weeks ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Brains Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: However they're slow because many of them have no...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: However they're slow because many of them have no appendages. Today's News:
Paul Graham: Essays
Copy What You Like
over a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Evidence that Steve Jobs was aware of his reality distortion field I thought that the reality distortion field theory was just an invention that Apple haters invented...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I thought that the reality distortion field theory was just an invention that Apple haters invented in hindsight. I didn’t realize that it was a part of Steve Jobs vision from the beginning.
Rest of World -...
Two trophies, one meme How the World Cup and the Golden Globes united Argentina through a single viral image.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 037: The AI IPCC October 20, 2023.
a year ago
Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880 Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
xkcd.com
Hydrothermal Vents
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Online privacy: what’s at stake It is widely believed that a flourishing democracy requires an independent, diverse, and financially...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is widely believed that a flourishing democracy requires an independent, diverse, and financially solvent press.  With print newspapers…
Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines.  ...
TheCollector
Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished? undefined
a year ago
markround.com
A Splinter In Your Mind Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis helped make sense of a lot things and has given me a greater insight into my “way of being in the world”. Whilst there are times I...
TheCollector
Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China undefined
2 weeks ago
Retail Design Blog
LinkedIn Office Design, Bengaluru LinkedIn’s Bengaluru office underwent a dynamic redesign to elevate the workplace experience,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
LinkedIn’s Bengaluru office underwent a dynamic redesign to elevate the workplace experience, blending the company’s culture with a focus on...
Londonist
Where To Get Your Fill Of The Best Food And Drink In Islington Marvellous macarons, superb sushi... and Karen's Diner.
9 months ago
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 13-19 November 2023 The very best of Londonist from the past week.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Found-Money Startups 'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Toxic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember when conspiracy theories were mostly just...
5 months ago
Arduino Blog
These Shattered Space helmet replicas stay video game accurate using an Arduino Nano Starfield, a game set in the vast expanse of our galaxy, is receiving a new expansion called...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Starfield, a game set in the vast expanse of our galaxy, is receiving a new expansion called “Shattered Space” in which players can don novel weapons and gear to take on the latest challenge. As part of its release, the expansion’s publisher Bethesda reached out to cosplayer...
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common gotchas related to training neural nets. The tweet got quite a bit more engagement than I anticipated (including a webinar :)). Clearly, a lot of people have personally encountered...
Contemporist...
A Round Design And Open Arches Give This Concrete Home A Unique Look Architecture firm Estudio Carroll has shared photos of a new concrete home they completed in Puerto...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Architecture firm Estudio Carroll has shared photos of a new concrete home they completed in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, that has a unique shape.
macwright.com
Hiding Peloton and Zwift workouts on Strava by () I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with...
a year ago
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a year ago
I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with Peloton, Swift, and other “integrations.” It’s great for them, but the activities just look like ads for Peloton and don’t have any of the things that I like about Strava’s...
Rest of World -...
The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data Argentine startup Nippy aggregates data from gig workers and sells it to companies like Mastercard...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Argentine startup Nippy aggregates data from gig workers and sells it to companies like Mastercard and Movistar, who in turn offer workers their services.
TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas undefined
4 months ago
ntietz.com blog
Reflecting on 2022, Looking Ahead to 2023 This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals and whatnot for next year. They're cliche, but they're also useful. The planning and reflecting process is a useful one, and sharing openly means other people can come along and...
Seth's Blog
Heavy Lemon Tuna It’s easy to smirk at the ridiculous images one can make in twenty seconds with AI. People used to...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s easy to smirk at the ridiculous images one can make in twenty seconds with AI. People used to smirk at photographs in the 1800s. “I’ll believe it when I see it,” is no longer a useful thing to say. Truth is real, photos are not.
Val Sopi
Focusing on progress, not the goal <p><span style="font-size: 21px;">Rion, my 11-year-old son, plays tennis.</span></p><p>He first set...
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<p><span style="font-size: 21px;">Rion, my 11-year-old son, plays tennis.</span></p><p>He first set foot on a tennis court when he was 18 months or so. His cousin was practicing back then, so he would tag along with his aunt to the tennis courts.</p><figure class="none"><img...
Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809) These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
The Rational Walk
Claim Checks Viewing money as "claim checks" that can be exchanged for goods and services is a very useful...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Viewing money as "claim checks" that can be exchanged for goods and services is a very useful concept.
The Changelog
The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of them boiling down to some version of: The problem here is with Open Source Software. I want to say not only is that view so myopic that it pushes towards the incorrect, but also it...
Mazdak
Creating a Data-Driven LinkedIn Strategy: A Step-by-Step Guide One of the most effective ways to succeed on LinkedIn is to create content with purpose, track its...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
One of the most effective ways to succeed on LinkedIn is to create content with purpose, track its performance, and adjust based on data.
Irrational...
Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis. A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy...
a year ago
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a year ago
A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis, which I gave at QCon last week. They’ll have the conference video up in a few weeks, but I also decided to do a recording of the final version (albeit a few weeks after the talk, so...
Making software...
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into the main shell of my Raspberry Pi 400. It wasn't as straightforward as I thought it would be - in fact, most real hardware tinkerers will probably vomit in their mouths once they...
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore? undefined
8 months ago
Quantum Frontiers
A (quantum) complex legacy Early in the fourth year of my PhD, I received a most John-ish email from John Preskill, my PhD...
a year ago
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a year ago
Early in the fourth year of my PhD, I received a most John-ish email from John Preskill, my PhD advisor. The title read, “thermodynamics of complexity,” and the message was concise the way that the Amazon River is damp: “Might … Continue reading →
The personal website...
Beauty in the machine: Post-industrial design Has design become boring? A twitter thread by Sheehan Quirke (aka the Cultural Tutor) has been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Has design become boring? A twitter thread by Sheehan Quirke (aka the Cultural Tutor) has been making the rounds lately, arguing just that. Quirke describes the many shortcomings of modern design: architecture, urban planning, industrial design, and interior design have all been...
Mind Mine
write like you are mortal because you are
2 weeks ago
Nela Dunato Art &...
Why you’re not getting hired as a designer & how to fix it Starting out in any new career is hard. Especially nowadays, when you’re not only competing with...
a year ago
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a year ago
Starting out in any new career is hard. Especially nowadays, when you’re not only competing with other designers in your hometown, but those from all over the world! But you do have a chance to make it, if you change whatever currently isn’t working. Let’s troubleshoot and see...
Old Vintage...
The spawn of AtariLab and the Universal Lab Interface We were a Commodore 64/128 household growing up, and Apple IIe systems at school, but that doesn't...
a year ago
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a year ago
We were a Commodore 64/128 household growing up, and Apple IIe systems at school, but that doesn't mean I was unaware of Atari 8-bits. There was a family at church who had an 800XL and later a 130XE — and a stack of COMPUTE!'s I used to read through for hours — and it was...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2024 The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating stuff, thanks for the contribution!
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Thomas Jefferson on Patents If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an…
History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review ‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review JamesHoare Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
5 months ago
Map of the Week
Huge Lego Model of the Lake District Artist Jon Tordoff has made a 100 square foot, 200,000 piece (so far) Lego model of England's Lake...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Artist Jon Tordoff has made a 100 square foot, 200,000 piece (so far) Lego model of England's Lake District. via Getty Images  The model began as a pandemic recreation map of Buttermere, his favorite spot.  "Now I've come over the Honister Pass, up Borrowdale and I've got...
TheCollector
What Does the New Testament Say About Hell? undefined
a week ago
Louwrentius
Why security is all about defense in depth Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing could be further from the truth. Keeping your systems up-to-date only protects you against exploits for publicly known vulnerabilities. Your systems are still not protected...
SatPost by Trung...
Why I love Bluey (and hate Cocomelon) These are the two most-streamed children's shows. And Joe Brumm's personal touch for Bluey trumps...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
These are the two most-streamed children's shows. And Joe Brumm's personal touch for Bluey trumps Cocomelon's engagement-hacking approach.
Eukaryote Writes...
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Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
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We just made PostHog Open Source 1000x more scalable via ClickHouse We're excited to announce a major under-the-hood upgrade for PostHog Open Source! Over the past few...
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In the middle of the 19th century, well-meaning Victorian doctors would advise their patients to take ‘the sea cure’. Dutifully, they would go to the coast – particularly in the south – bathe in the waters and draw in lungfuls of salty air. Smart promenades, […]
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Monthly Review: October This is my first monthly review. I’ll spend some time fleshing out the why and the how, and then get...
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This is my first monthly review. I’ll spend some time fleshing out the why and the how, and then get right to it. If you don’t want to read a lot of introspective Josh, stop reading. I use the word “I” dozens of times. Consider yourself warned. For a long time I have feared life...
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Mimicry vs Reflexivity Two opposing forces that describe how perception and reality do battle.
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Figma Plugins At the beginning of 2023, I released a Figma plugin called Placemark, which lets you create vector...
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At the beginning of 2023, I released a Figma plugin called Placemark, which lets you create vector maps in Figma, the graphic design tool. Since then I’ve been maintaining that plugin for fun, and introduced another one, Placemark Globe. They’ve been somewhat successful! The...
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All purchases involve a decision. Yes or no, this or that, now or later… But it’s helpful to realize that all decisions involve a purchase. When we decide to spend time or take a risk or make a commitment, our brains act in a way very similar to how we choose to make a purchase....
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A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey...
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This is the home for all the original art in Castles in the Sky that is an AI generation, original commission, or some collage of the two. When the art is AI-generated, I will link to the first time it appeared in Castles in the Sky along with the prompt I used.
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Equity value Warren Buffet once said: Buy into a business that’s doing so well an idiot could run it, because...
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Warren Buffet once said: Buy into a business that’s doing so well an idiot could run it, because sooner or later, one will. This is a useful…
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The World’s Computer This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with...
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This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with Proof of Stake, and wish they would go back to focusing on building a reasonable world computer. In 2024, it’s still painfully annoying to stand up a database. This is the only...
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Unlock higher $$$ income with this approach as a Designer Happy Sunday mate, So, you want higher-value clients who pay higher $$$ dollars. I'm with you. We...
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Happy Sunday mate, So, you want higher-value clients who pay higher $$$ dollars. I'm with you. We all do (in a way). However, if you keep the $$$ income as the primary goal in your conversations with clients, it will completely affect your attitude, vibe...  You are going
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Death: A Free Online Philosophy Course from Yale Helps You Grapple with the Inescapable It pays to think intelligently about the inevitable. And this course taught by Yale professor Shelly...
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It pays to think intelligently about the inevitable. And this course taught by Yale professor Shelly Kagan does just that, taking a rich, philosophical look at death. Here’s how the course description reads: There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to...
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On 18th June 1960, during a practice run for the Belgian Grand Prix that was to take place the next day, British Formula One driver Stirling Moss almost died when the left rear wheel of his Lotus-Climax 18 fell off on the treacherous Burnenville curve. Moments later he was thrown...
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do you have a better system? The funeral is attended by 30 people. It's a military funeral because he was in Korea, and in the front chairs are his wife and two grown children, and they are quietly crying. When it ends, people disperse hesitatingly, after all, they...
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Issue 65 – World Liberty Fiasco Even the most pro-Trump crypto faithful think Trump’s new crypto scheme is a terrible idea.
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That’s not true, actually. Books sell, but book doesn’t. The odds of a particular book selling a lot of copies are close to zero. The truth of the long tail is that most titles are way out on the fringe. Now that book publishing is unleashed from retail distribution, the math is...
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September 2, 2024 We awoke to another beautiful sunrise in the Huachuca Mountains. I could get used to this view. View from Beatty's Guest Ranch - Miller Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona This was our final morning in this region; we had plans to make the long drive eastwards...
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This post is hard to write in a lot of ways. It's more personal than most I've written. This is presumptively a tech blog, and this piece is about so much more than technology. But it's important. Making things, software or otherwise, is ultimately about people. One of the ways I...
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I know you can change the mouse cursor using CSS, but I never realized that you can actually hide it altogether. .no-cursor { cursor: none; } Of course, that doesn't mean you should, it just means you can. Practical uses for this are definitely limited, but things like...
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Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools...
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Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools to take screenshots, and I love them as a way to take quick snapshots and skim the history of a site, but bitmap images aren’t a great archival representation of a website. What...
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So you've thrown yourself into the modern dating pool, eh? You brave, brave soul. Look, I know meeting new people, going on dates, figuring out if you even like the person sitting across from you—it can all be confusing, frustrating, and just exhausting at times. But before you...
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A Smart Bear
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What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
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The Millennial myth It seems that a day doesn’t pass without another article hitting the headlines exposing the...
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It seems that a day doesn’t pass without another article hitting the headlines exposing the shortcomings of the Millennial generation. It seems we are obsessed with the concept of demographic cohorts. Or, to put it more specifically, we are obsessed with the idea that...
Louwrentius
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update november 2010: it is reported in the comments that the next release will support these controllers. However, which controllers are supported is not clear. Also, we may have to wait for quite some time before squeeze will be released. Just a quick note: it seems that the...
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Gregory P. Downs on the late Anthony E. Kaye’s groundbreaking history of Nat Turner The post A Rebel to Remember appeared first on The American Scholar.
Old Structures...
Previous Work A minor point, but it never hurts to look at the details. The photo above shows repair work on a...
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A minor point, but it never hurts to look at the details. The photo above shows repair work on a 1920s steel-frame building. The black-painted iron is the top landing, at the roof level, of a fire-escape; there used to be (and will be again, soon) a parapet on either side of it,...
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What The Heck, z-index?? The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the...
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The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the number, the element never rises to the top! In this article, we explore stacking contexts, and see how they can thwart our efforts to use z-index. We'll also learn how to use this...
Louwrentius
The impact of the MDADM bitmap on RAID performance Introduction I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads...
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Introduction I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads on hard drives anymore, that ship has sailed a long time ago. SSDs have taken their place (or 'the cloud'). For those few left who do use hard drives in Linux software RAID setups...
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“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the...
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I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal...
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Tony Finch's blog
regpg-1.12 Yesterday I received a bug report for regpg, my program that safely stores server secrets encrypted...
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Yesterday I received a bug report for regpg, my program that safely stores server secrets encrypted with gpg so they can be commited to a git repository. The bug was that I used the classic shell pipeline find | xargs grep with the classic Unix “who would want spaces in...
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I’ve written before about changes in marriage patterns in the U.S., and it’s one of the examples in Chapter 13 of the new third edition of Think Stats. My analysis uses data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Today they released the most recent data, from surveys...
African History...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
Copper • A blog...
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
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One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise. I had to get my...
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An actually level workbench is critical for many different jobs, such as pouring resin or calibrating sensors. But it is difficult enough to level a stationary workbench and that becomes a nightmare for a workbench that needs to roll around a shop on casters, as shop floors...
Josh Comeau's blog
Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the...
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useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡
Josh Thompson
Pry-ing into a Stack Trace I was recently working on a feature, committed what I thought was clean code, and started getting...
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I was recently working on a feature, committed what I thought was clean code, and started getting errors. I git stashed, and re-ran my tests, and still got errors. Here’s the full stacktrace: > b ruby -Itest test/models/model_name_redacted_test.rb -n=/errors/ # Running tests...
Open Culture
Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various...
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We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various searchable copyright-free image databases that have arisen over the years. It makes sense that those two worlds would collide, and now they’ve done so in the form of the just-launched...
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A good pseudorandom number generator gives an even distribution of results from 0 to 1 but sometimes in generative art we might want something different.
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At work, we use Amazon ECS to run some of our Docker-based services. ECS is a container orchestrator, similar to Kubernetes: we tell it what Docker images we want to run in what configuration, and it stops or starts containers to match. If a container stops unexpectedly, ECS...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The funniest thing is that all the humans are dead and all the talking things at the end are confused robots! Today's News: We're a best book of the year!
Inverted Passion
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I’ve started reading The Capitalist Manifesto, a book full of data on how free markets generate prosperity. The author is nuanced and uses data and logic to show how we should be rooting for capitalism (instead of bringing it down). Income and wealth inequality created as a...
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On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have launched, built by the creators of Levels.fyi and Layoffs.fyi. I talked to both teams to learn how they were developed.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Ariana Martin Hi, I’m Ariana - a pattern designer and printmaker from leafy Sheffield. I create joyful patterns...
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Hi, I’m Ariana - a pattern designer and printmaker from leafy Sheffield. I create joyful patterns and illustrations, which are particularly inspired by 20th century design, and I produce my own range of stationery and homewares.     Describe your printmaking process. Screen...
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I love plain language. (the last one is a pdf) So it’s no surprise that one of my (many) pet peeves is when a title of an article tries to be clever. Consider, for example: It Can Happen to You This can be about anything from cancer to, as in this case, a very arcane piece of...
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I offended a reader by referring to Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a brilliant windbag junkie.” Let’s consider each part of the epithet. “Brilliant”? Without question. He wrote three incontestably good poems but Coleridge is an early specimen of the “public intellectual,” bristling...
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Under the old Twitter regime, politics seemed to seep into everything, especially tech talk. There was scarcely a programming or product topic that couldn’t be turned into a struggle session on account of some perceived transgression or privilege. It was, to use the trauma...
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A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader societal/historical dynamics?
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My name is Matt Hooper and I’m a relief printmaker working from my rather compact studio I built in the garden of my home in a town just outside Leeds. I’m a self taught artist and printmaker, ironically having being in the print industry for 32 years. I left school at 16 with no...
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Why is there almost nothing on the left hand side of the USA? Water scarcity! We’re missing 300 million Americans. We’re missing  30 global cities west of 100 degrees longitude. We should do something about it! The western US is a parched opportunity to create millions of acres...
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Welcome to April 2024. A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide range of enterprise software stacks. In addition, we've seen surreptitious and patient threat actors light our industry on fire with slowly introduced backdoors in the XZ...
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Abandon Your New Year’s Resolutions and Perform 6 System Checks I had trouble making resolutions this year. Normally I love the process, I make my list, sketch out...
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I had trouble making resolutions this year. Normally I love the process, I make my list, sketch out a plan, maybe even buy an online course or two. But this year I couldn’t do it. Why was my brain blocking the New Year’s resolution tradition?
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“The Christian right is coming for divorce next,” according to this recent Vox article, and “Some conservatives want to make it a lot harder to dissolve a marriage.” As always when I read an article like this, I want to see data — and the General Social Survey has just the data I...
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What a busy year in the studio! Thank you to everyone who has joined us for a workshop, event or open access studio session. Let's take a look at what's being going on in the Handprinted Studio in 2024: WORKSHOPS 2024 has been packed with workshops, taught by our team as well as...
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The BTduino app sends data using the serial interface of a microcontroller and a bluetooth connection. The concept of the protocol is to send all data in text form. Each set of data consists of the name and the value, seperated by a colon. This way of communication is not the...
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by Cristian Diaz Disclosure widgets are one of the most common component patterns you can find on the web. It consists of a button that can hide or show information when you click it. It's also one of the straightforward components to make from a technical standpoint. Just a...
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Lanescape Architecture has shared photos of a laneway home they completed for a narrow 17-foot wide lot in Toronto's Junction neighborhood.
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During a press conference held on January 6, 2020 at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Honolulu, Emily Gilbert (then a graduate […]
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Wall-To-Wall Built-In Wood Cabinetry Create A Warm Interior For This Renovated Home Design firm Atelier SUN has completed the renovation of a home near Toronto, Canada. The house was...
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Design firm Atelier SUN has completed the renovation of a home near Toronto, Canada. The house was built in the 1980s during an era of mass-produced developments, which resulted in excessive structural elements such as columns and beams throughout the space. The updated design...
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We invite all readers to contribute to an architectural competition to reimagine the façade of a significant building on Madrid’s famous Gran Vía. This competition focuses on number 19, the Court of Contentious-Administrative No. 10 headquarters, originally built in 1921 and...
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One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company maintains their current margin and grows revenue at 25-30%, or they instead grow slower and increase their free cash flow year over year. In many organizations, engineering costs have a...
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So it’s been what? Two, three years since I discovered the art of programming and I haven’t made one single game?! Well now I’m not counting the visual basic nightmare mastermind I made a long time ago but a real game. Whatever that means. I’ve had these monster-projects; Point...
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In many creative industries, there’s a similar pattern. When the stakes are very low, most creators produce things that are fairly banal and ordinary. Part of that is the law of large numbers, but it’s mostly our personal cultural resistance to leaning too far into weird stuff....
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President Trump’s recent sweeping electoral victory is a clear mandate for change. There is some urgency, and Trump has assembled the early stages of a team and coalition that can deliver it. It’s not exactly a mystery what Elon and Vivek plan for The Department of Government...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. Today was the first time I was street harassed on my commute since moving in November... memories relived on the following train ride: Content warning:...
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How to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster....
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When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster. Typically, the default data directory location is in /var/lib/postgresql/<version>/<cluster>/. There are three ways to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory. Options 1 and 2 are...
Open Culture
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The web site Overlook Hotel has posted pictures of Stanley Kubrick’s personal copy of Stephen King’s novel The Shining. The book is filled with highlighted passages and largely illegible notes in the margin—tantalizing clues to Kubrick’s intentions for the movie. The site...
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If you spend enough time digesting hackneyed business or self-improvement advice, you've probably seen someone wax poetic about the following image: This is meant to be an illustration of the power of incrementalism (often referred to as kaizen when the writer is trying to be...
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The Marginalian
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Imitate, then Innovate is my motto for improving at any skill.  It’s counterintuitive, but the more we imitate others, the faster we can discover our unique style. The post Imitate, then Innovate appeared first on David Perell.
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IBM spent a fortune fighting calls for them to be broken up. So did AT&T and Microsoft. In all three cases, there’s plenty of evidence that they would have been better off if they had simply broken themselves up. Microsoft is still recovering and IBM never will. One computer...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists. The demonstrators are responding to the...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is Waterloo Park in downtown Austin, Texas, just a couple of blocks away from the state capitol building. It’s got walking trails, an ampitheater, Waller Creek runs right through the center, and it has...
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About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment environment. This blog captures aspects of that tweet storm and some of its predictions and extends them further. Like all predictions this is what I view as a highly likely scenario versus...
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Use Insulin wisely Life on Earth started simple. For nearly 2 billion years, tiny single-celled organisms dominated. Then, a lucky accident changed everything. One cell swallowed another, and the swallowed cell became mitochondria, the powerhouse of complex cells. This chance...
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The Marginalian
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Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home screen widgets, and some well-placed logs can really help with identifying what’s going wrong. iOS has a sophisticated built in logging mechanism, os_log, and now with SwiftLogger in...
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Late in the summer of 2021, I visited a physics paradise in a physical paradise: the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP). The KITP sits at the edge of the University of California, Santa Barbara like a bougainvillea bush at … Continue reading →
Seth's Blog
Bob Dobalina I considered myself someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of a narrow range of mid-1960s TV and...
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I considered myself someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of a narrow range of mid-1960s TV and certain strains of pop music as well. I was stunned, then, to hear the song Zilch for the first time recently. Mr. Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina. It’s unforgettable. And it’s from the...
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It’s easy to talk bad about JavaScript (or at least its abuse) like it’s some kind of malware. But it’s worth remembering that JavaScript is enabled by default in web browsers. JavaScript is not so terrible, so harmful, so taboo, so something you shouldn’t use that it’s turned...
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Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship. In the...
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For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography. I don’t personally...
SOCKS
The Square and the Circle: The Palace of Charles V in Granada (1527) The palace of Charles V in Granada was built starting in 1527 as a summer palace for the emperor....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The palace of Charles V in Granada was built starting in 1527 as a summer palace for the emperor. The Renaissance building is located inside the Alhambra, the former Nasrid complex on Sabika hill, a notable example of Islamic architecture.  The structure is built in stone and is...
Jonas Hietala
Early Christmas Present School is almost over and it’s almost time to travel back up to Övertorneå. This year me and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
School is almost over and it’s almost time to travel back up to Övertorneå. This year me and Veronica opened our Christmas presents a bit early - we’re impatient like that. I got one of the best presents yet I think! A Raspberry Pi! Just look at this bad boy! She got some...
Maps Mania
99 Red Balloons Go By
7 months ago
Common Edge
Letter from Tennessee: License for Civility in Uncivil Times Not all civil portent is writ as large. It sometimes comes in small places, hidden in plain sight.
a year ago