Construction Physics
The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part II
Last week, we looked at the early history of high-speed rail in the US. Though the US attempted to...
a year ago
Last week, we looked at the early history of high-speed rail in the US. Though the US attempted to build its own high-speed rail routes soon after they debuted in Japan in 1964, these efforts were unsuccessful, outside of the popular-but-troubled Metroliner
Seth's Blog
Semantic algebra
Doing math problems in your head is a skill. No one is born knowing the answer to, “You have 35...
7 months ago
Doing math problems in your head is a skill. No one is born knowing the answer to, “You have 35 coins in nickels and quarters. They add up to $4.15. How many quarters do you have?” but we can learn. And some people find it easier than others, but yes, we can learn. The same […]
TheCollector
5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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9 months ago
Liz Denys
'First' thoughts on git
I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git;...
over a year ago
I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git; I've certainly already been exposed to git in a variety of ways. I'd always been told that my love of graph theory would convert me over to this different type of version control.
I...
Old Structures...
An Exotic Foreign Land
From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, what appears to be a page of illustrations from a...
2 weeks ago
From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, what appears to be a page of illustrations from a European tourist guide to New York: Let’s start with the non-controversial item in the lower left: That is a decent engraving of Das Stadhaus / The City Hall / La maison de Ville as...
CONTEMPORIST
A White Palette Helps Connect This Heritage Home With Its New Addition
Dalecki Design has shared photos of a home they remodeled in Subiaco, Australia, which includes a...
a year ago
Dalecki Design has shared photos of a home they remodeled in Subiaco, Australia, which includes a contemporary rear addition and a white color palette throughout. The heritage character of the original house and the bright but calm feeling of the new addition are harmoniously...
Londonist
Fourth Plinth Winning Artworks For 2026 And 2028 Announced
Say hello to Trafalgar Square's latest additions.
9 months ago
Say hello to Trafalgar Square's latest additions.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Together
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Today's...
9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Today's News:
Computer Ads from...
Electronic Protection Devices' Electro-Clamp line
The Underrated Virtues of Plain Vanilla
9 months ago
The Underrated Virtues of Plain Vanilla
Making software...
My Robotic Mower Woes
My Robotic Mower Woes
2023-05-19
A Brief Background
I'm no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
a year ago
My Robotic Mower Woes
2023-05-19
A Brief Background
I'm no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
AVC
The 83b Election
First and foremost, this is not tax advice. I am not a tax advisor and you should never take...
a year ago
First and foremost, this is not tax advice. I am not a tax advisor and you should never take anything you read here as tax advice. If you read something here that makes you think you should take some tax-related action, please always consult your tax advisor. With that disclosure...
Style over Substance
Guy’s Cool Tools
This is a placeholder post! I’m a huge fan of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site and have loved their...
over a year ago
This is a placeholder post! I’m a huge fan of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site and have loved their recommendations for years. So much, so that I even started a Pinterest board filled with my own recommendations. But after a few years of running into the limitations of the form, I...
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #04: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [EPISODE]
This is the fourth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
8 months ago
This is the fourth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the U.S. representative for New York’s 14th...
Computer Things
Logic for Programmers Update
I spent the early week recovering and the later week working on Logic for Programmers ([init]...
6 months ago
I spent the early week recovering and the later week working on Logic for Programmers ([init] [update]) because I have a self-imposed deadline of mid-July, backed up by a $1000 toxx clause. Here's where I currently am:
1: The book is now 14k words. About 4k are "basics", covering...
TheCollector
Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
a year ago
Liz Denys
ZRH
Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
over a year ago
Art near the B gates: "Altocumulus Lenticularis" by Inigo Mnglano Ovalle.
diamond geezer
Dangleway Week
Often around this time of year I go totally tubular with a week devoted to the London Underground -...
a year ago
Often around this time of year I go totally tubular with a week devoted to the London Underground - five days of quizzes, quirks, commentary and obscure statistics. Well not this year.
I should warn you that I haven't actually ridden the cablecar while researching these fifteen...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSC, Localfirst, and Coordination Between Multiple Computers
Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which...
7 months ago
Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which gives the conceptual background around how the team came up with the idea for React Server Components (RSC)[1].
I found the talk intriguing. It’s like watching someone take something...
TheCollector
Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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10 months ago
HTMHell
Starting off right: Where autofocus shines
by Kilian Valkhof
Focus is where the user is on your website. It's what makes it possible to...
2 weeks ago
by Kilian Valkhof
Focus is where the user is on your website. It's what makes it possible to navigate your site with the keyboard or other assistive technologies, and it's how a browser knows which form element you're typing in. It's vital to get right if you want to build good...
alexwlchan
Snippets to manage albums in Photos.app
Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that...
a year ago
Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that involves moving photos in and out of albums.
The tool I’ve built is very specific to my workflow and unlikely to be immediately useful to anyone else, but I thought some of the code for...
Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
3 days ago
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Sum of All the Losses'
Abraham Lincoln
was six feet, four inches tall, making him the tallest of U.S. presidents (LBJ
was...
a month ago
Abraham Lincoln
was six feet, four inches tall, making him the tallest of U.S. presidents (LBJ
was half an inch shorter). The crown of his trademark top hat – a stovepipe, it
was called -- measured twelve inches in height. Allowing for the silk hat settling on his head, the...
Londonist
It's Car-Free Day This Weekend - And 100 London Roads Are Closing To Vehicles
To the space hoppers!
a year ago
Posts on Made of...
A brief look at Linux's security record
After the fuss of the last two weeks because of CVE-2010-3081 and CVE-2010-3301, I decided to take a...
over a year ago
After the fuss of the last two weeks because of CVE-2010-3081 and CVE-2010-3301, I decided to take a look at a handful of the high-profile privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux from the last few years. So, here's a summary of the ones I picked out. There are also a large...
Making software...
Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System
Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System
2022-09-19
Special Note: Credit needs to be given to...
over a year ago
Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System
2022-09-19
Special Note: Credit needs to be given to user Achraf JEDAY for putting these instructions together on Stack Overflow (although his comments were targeting an older version of Ruby). This post is more for my own personal...
The Marginalian
The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity: Nobel-Winning Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter...
"Come with me. I'll teach you the flowers and the stars."
a year ago
"Come with me. I'll teach you the flowers and the stars."
Raw Thought (from...
Look at yourself objectively
over a year ago
devonzuegel.com
Topographic theory of flaking
Natan Gesher sent me the following email after reading my post about why flaking is so widespread in...
over a year ago
Natan Gesher sent me the following email after reading my post about why flaking is so widespread in San Francisco, and I thought you all might find it interesting too:
I saw your blog posts about flaking and wanted to share something I've observed from moving around a bit (four...
Seth's Blog
Unforced errors
In hospitality and customer service, perfect is elusive. Someone is going to miss a shift, have a...
a month ago
In hospitality and customer service, perfect is elusive. Someone is going to miss a shift, have a bad day, or fail to understand a situation. But there’s a second kind of error, the one that’s far more common. When management makes bad choices, or underinvests in systems,...
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
One of the most effective ways to succeed on LinkedIn is to create content with purpose, track its performance, and adjust based on data.
Rest of World -...
How tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India
Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment...
a year ago
Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment receipts are making fintech companies big money.
David Heinemeier...
The price of managed cloud services
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good...
a year ago
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...
HTMHell
#32 almost a proper close button
Bad code
<button display="flex" role="button">
<svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13"...
over a year ago
Bad code
<button display="flex" role="button">
<svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13" aria-hidden="true" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="15px" width="15px" fill="#000" name="close">
<title>Close dialog</title>
<path d="…"> </path>
</svg>
</button>
Issues and...
Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
2 months ago
Heraclitus against Parmenides
Luxagraf:...
I Like New Orleans Better
After Galveston we headed north, bound for New Orleans. We broke up the drive with a stop at one of...
over a year ago
After Galveston we headed north, bound for New Orleans. We broke up the drive with a stop at one of the gates of hell, located in Sea Rim State Park, Texas. Sea Grim as we call it. Do not go there. Ever. For any reason. We had to abandon the bus there that night and retreat to a...
History Today Feed
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
UX Collective
Are physical buttons going extinct?
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a month ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
a year ago
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
Seth's Blog
The lens or the problem?
We often see problems through the lens that we’re used to using. The banker sees a solution around...
a year ago
We often see problems through the lens that we’re used to using. The banker sees a solution around money, the activist might see an opportunity for social justice. The technologist figures that a computer and more data might help, and the bureaucrat is looking for a system to put...
Londonist
The West End's Atmospheric Alleys: A Self-Guided Tour
10 of London's most characterful alleys.
a year ago
10 of London's most characterful alleys.
Londonist
When Are London's Christmas Lights Switched On For 2023?
Three...two...one... CHRISTMAS!
a year ago
Three...two...one... CHRISTMAS!
One Useful Thing
What just happened
A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
3 days ago
A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
Both Are True
am i old now?
on committing to the bit and becoming a dad v2
11 months ago
on committing to the bit and becoming a dad v2
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on being a good manager
Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly...
over a year ago
Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list, but it highlights many of the problems they were experiencing. Maybe my friend's manager will stumble upon it some day.
When someone has a grievance, take an...
TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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a month ago
Seth's Blog
Books and more, winter 2024
They’re a gift that lasts forever, because your friend will remember what they learned and how they...
3 weeks ago
They’re a gift that lasts forever, because your friend will remember what they learned and how they felt… and they can keep it on their bookshelf or hard drive as a reminder in case they forget… Amazon chose This is Strategy for a Kindle deal today. It’s only $4. Also, the...
Londonist
London Almost Had Another Public Aquarium - In Silvertown Docks
Ever heard of 'Biota!'?
a year ago
elementary Blog
Let's Talk OS 8
One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that...
a year ago
One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that make it more inclusive and accessible, protects your privacy and ensures apps always operate with your explicit consent, and addresses your feedback with over 200 bug fixes, design...
Home on Erik...
My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning
I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The...
over a year ago
I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The speedup from a GPU is awesome and hard to deny. GPUs have taken over the field. Maybe following the footsteps of Bitcoin mining there's some research on using FPGA (I know very little...
Renegade Otter
Getting our focus back
“We was robbed…”
Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
a year ago
“We was robbed…”
Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to
improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the
nine unmonetized glances.
An...
macwright.com
Replay.web is cool
I’ve been trying to preserve as much of Placemark now that it’s open-source. This has been a mixed...
11 months ago
I’ve been trying to preserve as much of Placemark now that it’s open-source. This has been a mixed experience: some products were really easy to move away from, like Northwest and Earth Class Mail. Webflow was harder to quit. But replay.web came to the rescue, thanks to Henry...
Society's Backend
Updates to Society's Backend
New benefits for paid subscribers, support Society's Backend for just $1/mo, a referral program, and...
9 months ago
New benefits for paid subscribers, support Society's Backend for just $1/mo, a referral program, and more
TheCollector
Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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8 months ago
Making software...
Setting Up a Free SSL
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
over a year ago
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol.
Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Steve Klabnik
"C is not how the computer works" can lead to inefficient code
over a year ago
Darek Kay
Web push notifications: issues and limitations
In this post, I will summarize some problems and constraints that I've encountered with the...
4 months ago
In this post, I will summarize some problems and constraints that I've encountered with the Notifications and Push web APIs.
Notification settings on macOS
Someone who's definitely not me wasted half an hour wondering why triggered notifications would not appear. On macOS,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AAAAAAAAAAA
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Have you tried tuning out all your coping...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Have you tried tuning out all your coping mechanisms and focusing entirely on your unresolvable problems?
Today's News:
Confessions of a...
Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025
Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
4 days ago
Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
This Space
39 Books in one
For anyone interested (you there in the phone box), here's a PDF of the 39 Books series.
39 Books:...
6 months ago
For anyone interested (you there in the phone box), here's a PDF of the 39 Books series.
39 Books: PDF
As the introduction explained, the books were chosen from those on my books-read lists that I hadn't written about before. I thought it might be instructive to contrast the...
Dominik Sobe's...
What a roller coaster ride
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.18.0
Our primary goals for this release were to iron out bugs and improve the user experience of our Beta...
over a year ago
Our primary goals for this release were to iron out bugs and improve the user experience of our Beta features. As a result, we fixed a whole lot of…
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
CONTEMPORIST
Steel Symphony: A Madrid Home’s Unique Design With Weathered Elegance
Borja Lomas of Voluar Arquitectura has designed a new home in Madrid, Spain, that’s covered in...
8 months ago
Borja Lomas of Voluar Arquitectura has designed a new home in Madrid, Spain, that’s covered in weathering steel and has a uniquely shaped design. The shape of the home showcases various areas that branch out in different directions, some of which are cantilevered away from the...
Joel Gascoigne
The different ways of traveling
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One of the...
over a year ago
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One of the incredible side-effects of doing retreats 3 times a year with my
startup
[https://joel.is/post/79092725144/why-we-go-on-international-retreats-3-times-a-year-with]
is that I get the...
Londonist
Christmas Carol Concerts In London To Make You Feel All Warm And Fuzzy Inside This December
Including one with dogs. Woof!
a year ago
Including one with dogs. Woof!
The Modern House
A Day in the Life of a Listing: photographer Freya Najade captures Hackney 'letting its hair down'
While we are most at home photographing homes, we are sometimes left wondering what the streets...
5 months ago
While we are most at home photographing homes, we are sometimes left wondering what the streets surrounding our listings might look like through a different lens. This is why we have asked photographer Freya Najade to take her cameras out in Hackney. Using the area […]
Steve Klabnik
A new introduction to Rust
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Time Is Relative
From 1949, “Manhattan from a Hudson River ferry.” The piers in the foreground are where the Battery...
5 months ago
From 1949, “Manhattan from a Hudson River ferry.” The piers in the foreground are where the Battery Park City landfill would be made circa 1970. From the left, the peaks are the New York Telephone building at 140 West Street, the Woolworth Building, 225 Broadway, AT&T at 195...
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 4
Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers:
Is It Keto Month 4: My...
over a year ago
Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers:
Is It Keto Month 4: My First Dollar of Revenue
TheCollector
10 Forgotten US Presidents
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3 months ago
macwright.com
On Web Components
God, it’s another post about Web Components and stuff, who am I to write this, who are you to read...
11 months ago
God, it’s another post about Web Components and stuff, who am I to write this, who are you to read it
Carlana Johnson’s “Alternate Futures for Web Components” had me nodding all the way. There’s just this assumption that now that React is potentially on its way out (after a...
Home on Erik...
The Filter Bubble is Silly and you Can't Guess What Happened Next
I'm at RecSys 2014, meeting a lot of people and hanging out at talks. Some of the discussions here...
over a year ago
I'm at RecSys 2014, meeting a lot of people and hanging out at talks. Some of the discussions here was about the filter bubble which prompted me to formalize my own thoughts.
I firmly believe that it's the role of a system to respect the user's intent.
Wuthering...
The Making of Americans as conceptual art - I have already made several diagrams
Sometime I will be able to make a diagram. I have already made several diagrams. I will sometime...
6 months ago
Sometime I will be able to make a diagram. I have already made several diagrams. I will sometime make a complete diagram and that will be a very long book... (580)
I am going to write about The Making of Americans as
conceptual art, art where how it is made is a central part...
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:...
Mazdak
Apple Intelligence, Gemini 2.0, Amazon Autos and more
Apple just redefined how we use Siri.
a week ago
Apple just redefined how we use Siri.
Spoon & Tamago
Trains Intersect with Everyday Life in Nostalgic Illustrations by Shinjiro Ogawa
Trains are an integral part of daily life in Japan, supporting commutes, errands and all other forms...
a year ago
Trains are an integral part of daily life in Japan, supporting commutes, errands and all other forms of daily life. And while their existence can be taken for granted, their many forms and colors add to the uniqueness of each neighborhood they traverse. Capturing the scenery of...
Quanta Magazine
Celebrated Cryptography Algorithm Gets an Upgrade
Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new...
a year ago
Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics.
The post Celebrated Cryptography Algorithm Gets an Upgrade first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Louwrentius
Blu Ray is dead
HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical
media is dead....
over a year ago
HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical
media is dead. Honestly, who is still burning CD's or DVD's nowadays? (If you
are, why for Christ sake? I can't think of a single good reason) And at 10
euros ($100) for a single Blu Ray disk, you must...
diamond geezer
Untangling Hackney
We're not due another tube map until August when the Overground lines get their own names. There's...
8 months ago
We're not due another tube map until August when the Overground lines get their own names. There's no point replacing paper maps and posters on platforms until then. But the online map on the TfL website is another matter and is often updated between print runs to reflect the...
TheCollector
How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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2 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Linux as the new developer default at 37signals
For over twenty years, the Mac was the default at 37signals. For designers, programmers, support,...
7 months ago
For over twenty years, the Mac was the default at 37signals. For designers, programmers, support, and everyone else. That mono culture had some clear advantages, like being able to run Kandji and macOS-specific setup scripts. But it certainly also had its disadvantages, like...
Seth's Blog
Overconfidence and AI
Human beings are often more effective when we’re a bit self-effacing. “I think,” “Perhaps,” or “I...
a year ago
Human beings are often more effective when we’re a bit self-effacing. “I think,” “Perhaps,” or “I might be missing something, but…” are fine ways to give our assertions a chance to be considered. The solar-powered LED calculator we used in school did no such thing. 6 x 7 is 42,...
Kagi Blog
Enhancements to the Kagi search experience
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
a year ago
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
There are two types...
My Meals With Bob: My Mini Memoir in Common Edge
A photo of New York 1900. showing two of the four images of the Colonial Club in the book. We...
over a year ago
A photo of New York 1900. showing two of the four images of the Colonial Club in the book. We included so many images of the pleasant but unremarkable building because that was where we wrote the book, in Robert A.M. … Continue reading →
The post My Meals With Bob: My Mini Memoir...
Engineer’s Codex
The Boolean Trap
Use enums instead
3 months ago
diamond geezer
Vehicle registration letters
My latest numberplate-spotting game, as I said yesterday, is trying to spot all the pairs of letters...
10 months ago
My latest numberplate-spotting game, as I said yesterday, is trying to spot all the pairs of letters at the start of a vehicle registration plate.
I tried spotting L-pairs over the weekend - a dozen attempts in various parts of town for roughly fifteen minutes each. The dark...
TheCollector
Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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a year ago
ntietz.com blog
I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center!
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college.
In that time, I've worked at three...
over a year ago
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college.
In that time, I've worked at three startups, co-founded a non-profit immigration tech company, consulted for the United Nations, and noped out of grad school after one semester (twice!).
I've also struggled with depression...
Mark Manson
5 Ways to Get Rid of Anxiety
We're living in an era where anxiety seems to be omnipresent, and everyone is struggling with it to...
a year ago
We're living in an era where anxiety seems to be omnipresent, and everyone is struggling with it to some degree.
It's important to remember that the reasons behind our anxiety may not be as crucial as our reactions to it. In this guide, let's explore five comprehensive ways to...
Spoon & Tamago
Cafe Fang: An Oasis of Books and Coffee in Kyoto
If you want to escape the hustle and bustle of touristy Kyoto, head to this newly opened oasis of...
a year ago
If you want to escape the hustle and bustle of touristy Kyoto, head to this newly opened oasis of books and coffee. Located slightly north of central Kyoto is the Donkou Kissa Fang, a serene cafe and private book collection built inside immaculately crafted townhouse and garden....
Rest of World -...
New data shows the number of new mobile internet users is stalling
What happened to the “next billion” internet users? They’re already online.
a month ago
What happened to the “next billion” internet users? They’re already online.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
What’s strategic for Google?
Google seems to be releasing or acquiring new products almost daily. It’s one thing for a couple of...
over a year ago
Google seems to be releasing or acquiring new products almost daily. It’s one thing for a couple of programmers to hack together a side…
Words and Buttons...
What can we learn from sexaplication on nuclear power plants
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
over a year ago
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
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If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect various measures of Firefox performance…
Rest of World -...
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The India-born tech investor, entrepreneur and billionaire businessman spoke to Rest of World about the promise of AI technology, why the U.S. needs to move faster to compete with China, and the advantage the UAE has in building AI.
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The shift to music streaming has led to songs getting shorter, music
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The shift to music streaming has led to songs getting shorter, music
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Software is a fluid that expands to fill its container
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On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of models that hit new highs on various benchmarks, add multi-modal capabilities, and are a real competitor to GPT-4.
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To many, Richard Saul Wurman is inevitably introduced as "the man who created TED." Since Wurman organized the first TED conference in 1984, the organization's library has expanded to over 4,300 publicly available videos from some of the world's greatest minds about some of...
Calculated Risk
FOMC Projections
Statement here.
press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM...
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Statement here.
press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM ET.
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How the Much-Maligned Porch Supports Walkable, Sustainable Communities
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In the mid-1800s, Italy was consumed by two parallel fights: one to rid itself of Austrian domination (a holdover from the Holy Roman Empire) and the other for unification. At the time, Europe’s boot was a curious conglomeration of separate states, not all of which got along....
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Quick, what time is it?
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The first million people who bought VCRs bought them before there were any movies available to watch on them. They just wanted to “time…
Working Theorys
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Who am I? And other urgent existential questions.
wingolog
javascript weakmaps should be iterable
Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for
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Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for
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A associates a key with a value, as long as the key is
otherwise reachable in a program. (It is an .)WeakMapephemeron
table
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Classical Wisdom
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Today in the United States we almost take for granted the military’s ability to detect missile launches anywhere on the planet and quickly determine whether it […]
IEEE Spectrum
How a Robot Is Grabbing Fuel From a Fukushima Reactor
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Preparing for this post I counted roughly one hundred books in my library that are related to exhibitions. Surprisingly, given that I tend to buy catalogs and other companion books to exhibitions I visit, only a quarter of those hundred are exhibitions I have seen in person....
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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This is a guest post written by Anton Howes and animated by Matt Brown of Extraordinary Facility. This project was sponsored by The Roots of Progress, with funding generously provided by The Institute.
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Handprinted - Blog
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We've been looking back on all our studio highlights for 2023, and what a year it's been! If you took part in one of our Fab Fridays, attended a workshop, or used the studio for open access - thanks for being a part of our studio! We hope to see you back again in 2024!
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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...
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And why direct forms of communication will always be super valuable
Old Structures...
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Every once in a while, something slightly out of the ordinary reminds me of how our work looks to people not in the AEC world. Yesterday morning I was walking up Thames Street from Trinity to Broadway and took this photo: That block of Thames is a great illustration of why the...
Common Edge
Zoning, Preservation, Climate Change: Connecting the Dots
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I recently completed a 98-page mixed media sketchbook that I've been using since 2009! In the sketchbook tour video you can see my fantasy character portraits, surreal artworks, watercolor landscapes and urban sketches, many many skull studies, as well as lots of fun colorful...
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CPython Garbage Collection: The Internal Mechanics and Algorithms
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A detailed code walkthrough of how CPython implements memory management, including reference counting and garbage collection
Applied Cartography
Globals in Histoire
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Histoire, like so many other tools in the Vue ecosystem, is a bit of a neglected younger sibling to Storybook — a little bit uglier, with worse documentation and a couple rough edges, but much more tightly integrated with Vue and Vite. [1]
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Common Edge
Brutalism in the Nation’s Capital
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A National Building Museum exhibition surveys notable concrete architecture in D.C. and presents possible future uses.
Last Place Comics
Analog House
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The post Analog House appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
Tony Dinh's...
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and other updates from me in Mar 2023
The Marginalian
Milan Kundera on Animal Rights and What True Human Goodness Really Means
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"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true mortal test, its fundamental test... consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals."
Blog - Practical...
East Palestine Train Derailment Explained
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
On the evening of Friday,...
a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
On the evening of Friday, February 3, 2023, 38 of 149 cars of a Norfolk Southern Railway freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Five of the derailed cars were carrying vinyl chloride, a hazardous...
TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Liz Denys
Some not-so-secrets of my kitchen
I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some...
over a year ago
I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some of the secrets of my kitchen. Actually, they're not so secret to anyone who's had a peek around my kitchen.
Oven thermometer(s)
For about five dollars, you can ensure your cookies...
Computer Things
New blog post: Composing TLA+ Specifications
Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers....
6 months ago
Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers. Patreon here.
Anyway, I'm off to get a bone graft. Proper newsletter will come later this week when I've got more time to write.
NeuroLogica Blog
Another UFO Whistleblower
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a year ago
How seriously should we take the claims of David Grusch? He is an airforce veteran and former member of the UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) task force, which is enough to at least hear him out. He gave an exclusive interview to journalist Ross Coulthart from NewsNation, part...
History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Thinking about your goal with a startup
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over a year ago
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I often reflect upon the differences between my previous startup and Buffer
[http://bufferapp.com], and think about what changes to my mindset affected the
better outcome this time compared with...
Retail Design Blog
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7 months ago
“The Shell” is born from a blend of diverse creative approaches, functional necessities, and spatial dynamics. It embodies Highsnobiety’s refined...
Christian Selig
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a year ago
Converted the blog over to a new Hugo theme! Hopefully everything here sorta works. Test post will remove.
This goat’s name is apparently Gubgub, and very cute.
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a year ago
Sometimes it is nice to be a tourist and do touristy things. tsukiji outer market We got there at 740am because I read that the crowds will start to get crazy at...
The Pragmatic...
Twitter’s ongoing cruel treatment of software engineers
Twitter has become the most toxic workplace amongst any major tech company in 2022. But why is Elon...
over a year ago
Twitter has become the most toxic workplace amongst any major tech company in 2022. But why is Elon Musk treating developers in an unusually cruel way?
Tinloof - Blog
Yeah hooks are good, but have you tried faster React Components?
This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on...
over a year ago
This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on performance issues but rather on getting comfortable and productive with it.
The performance of a React application can be defined by how long the user should wait before seeing the UI...
Jonas Hietala
Now we have a Forum
In a burst of random energy I made a forum for madeoftree. Well okay I just made an awesome style...
over a year ago
In a burst of random energy I made a forum for madeoftree. Well okay I just made an awesome style for the awesome phpBB - the forum itself was up and running in say 10min and the rest of the latest days has been all about customizing. Now it’s finally kinda complete so here it is...
The DESK Magazine
What makes me a designer?
This question crossed my mind enough times recently that I went into the DESK archives to find my...
over a year ago
This question crossed my mind enough times recently that I went into the DESK archives to find my own answer. To my surprise, there wasn’t one. I’ve never written about it, not until today.
Anecdotal Evidence
'They Will Leave Behind Trenches'
“You wouldn’t
give up utopia it was too nourishing seductive / For mommy’s boys the heirs of
fortune...
a month ago
“You wouldn’t
give up utopia it was too nourishing seductive / For mommy’s boys the heirs of
fortune heirs / To the bloody myths of the twentieth city.”
Today is the
centenary of Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert. The
Anglophone world has been fortunate. Herbert’s poems...
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Supervised Learning: VC Dimensions
It's not venture capital, that's for sure
over a year ago
It's not venture capital, that's for sure
The Modern House
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
6 days ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Why Giving Up On The Humanities Is Self-Destructive
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The Economic Case For the Liberal Arts In the Age of AI
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Revising card shape and initialization in WebCard
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You may have heard of [Flutter](https://flutter.io), Google's answer to React Native. What should you know?
Rest of World -...
How Shein and TikTok Shop are trying to shake the ‘Made in China’ reputation
Chinese platforms came for global customers. Now they want global sellers.
a year ago
Chinese platforms came for global customers. Now they want global sellers.
42!
I got booted from one of my own company’s Slack channels...
So, last week I got removed from one of my company’s Slack channels… and it was probably the best...
a year ago
So, last week I got removed from one of my company’s Slack channels… and it was probably the best thing that could have happened for me, and my company.
You see, like most companies, we have ‘global’ chat channels that everyone participates in, plus each team has distinct...
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AI Anxiety
A walk into the unknown.
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The startup working to teach AI about African history
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a year ago
There’s less historical material about Africa for AI to find online. Archivi.ng believes its work will change that.
mtlynch.io
Delete the Timestamps from your Static Blog
I build this blog using Hugo, a popular static site generator.
The way Hugo works is that when I...
a month ago
I build this blog using Hugo, a popular static site generator.
The way Hugo works is that when I create a new blog post, Hugo generates a default template that looks like this:
--- title: "My New Post" date: 2024-11-16T20:33:09-04:00 --- The boilerplate for the post contains a...
Flashbak
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Talk -- 2-Categorical Descent and (Essentially) Algebraic Theories
A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the CT Octoberfest 2023 about some
work I did over the summer that...
a year ago
A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the CT Octoberfest 2023 about some
work I did over the summer that I’m really proud of. Unfortunately, while
writing up the result I found a 1999 paper by Pedicchio and Wood that
proves the same theorem (with roughly the same proof), so I...
Noahpinion
How we could return to the productivity growth of the 1990s
A guest post by Preston Mui.
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A guest post by Preston Mui.
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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diamond geezer
W12W13W14
Over the weekend TfL withdrew bus route 549, extended route W13 and substantially restructured...
3 months ago
Over the weekend TfL withdrew bus route 549, extended route W13 and substantially restructured routes W12 and W14. I wrote about the changes last week, and how TfL's information strategy relied substantially on a very complicated map. I went back yesterday to see how the...
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Using Parent Selectors in CSS
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
over a year ago
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
Seth's Blog
Should we assume rational goodwill?
There’s often a choice between following the cultural dictates of a given group or seeking out...
a year ago
There’s often a choice between following the cultural dictates of a given group or seeking out demonstrable facts and the scientific method. Which do you expect most people would choose? Which would you choose? When we revert to a testable analysis of what works, we’re relying on...
TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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AVC
NFT Art CDMX
We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the...
over a year ago
We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the premier NFT art “gallery” in the world. I use that term in parentheses because Bright Moments is much more than a gallery but that word is well understood. USV is a member of the...
The Honest Broker
A Tribute to Tony Bennett (1926-2023)
I've been a fan since childhood—and it feels like I've lost a part of my extended family
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I've been a fan since childhood—and it feels like I've lost a part of my extended family
Computer Things
Paradigms succeed when you can strip them for parts
I'm speaking at DDD Europe about Empirical Software Engineering!1 I have complicated thoughts about...
7 months ago
I'm speaking at DDD Europe about Empirical Software Engineering!1 I have complicated thoughts about ESE and foolishly decided to update my talk to cover studies on DDD, so I'm going to be spending a lot of time doing research. Newsletters for the next few weeks may be light.
The...
Epic Web Dev
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The Data Modeling Deep Dive Workshop will teach you best practices for designing database schemas,...
a year ago
The Data Modeling Deep Dive Workshop will teach you best practices for designing database schemas, managing relationships, data mutations, and optimizations.
The Marginalian
Fox and Bear: A Tender Modern Fable About Reversing the Anthropocene, Illustrated in Cut-Cardboard...
An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.
a year ago
An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.
Acko.net
Fuck It, We'll Do It Live
How the Live effect run-time is implemented
In this post I describe how the Live run-time...
a year ago
How the Live effect run-time is implemented
In this post I describe how the Live run-time internals are implemented, which drive Use.GPU. Some pre-existing React and FP effect knowledge is useful.
I have written about Live before, but in general terms. You may therefor have...
Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
Common Edge
“What Would Jane Jacobs Do?” Is the Wrong Question
Proponents of City of Yes are misapplying her ideas (again).
3 months ago
Proponents of City of Yes are misapplying her ideas (again).
Louwrentius
LFS - Linux Firewall Script released
I started a small new Google project for a new script I wrote called LFS.
It stands for Linux...
over a year ago
I started a small new Google project for a new script I wrote called LFS.
It stands for Linux Firewall Script.
I run a small Linux box as an internet router that doubles as a firewall. The
firewall is configured using iptables. In my opinion, iptables is not the
easiest tool to...
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in July 2024
20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in July 2024
1) TfL will not reveal the maximum speed on...
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20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in July 2024
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We have made decaf a villain.
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This is a Devtools feature that you will only need once in a while, but it is a life-saver.
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ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view.
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We often say somewhere is "in the shadow of" something without it necessarily being true.
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The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
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In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted conversations blended into a […]
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It has been a long time since I did a Funding Friday here at AVC. I used to do them every Friday. We have funded a lot of bars, restaurants, coffee shops, and bakeries here over the years. Here are a few examples. L’Appartement 4F Land To Sea There is a new wrinkle in...
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Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for learning.
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Native apps are all about control. Don’t like thing X? You can dive in and, with enough elbow grease and persistence, finally get what you want. Write your own C library. Do some assembly code. Even make your own hardware if you have to.
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🎙️ I love listening to podcasts. I listen to one of them when I go for a walk or during […]
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Christopher Butler
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We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not.
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We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not.
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Following stores in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, cult streetwear brand KITH has opened a third outpost in the Greater...
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
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Surviving the front page of HackerNews on a 50 Mbps uplink
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on HackerNews. I guess I lucked out with the choice of the...
over a year ago
Around a month ago I shared my blog post
on HackerNews. I guess I lucked out with the choice of the topic, because it
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Pricing your product: It doesn't have to be so complicated
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Sherwin-Williams by Laundry
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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Teens Obsessed with YouTube and TikTok: New Survey Reveals Usage Trends
Nearly 1 in 5 teens are on YouTube or TikTok "almost constantly," according to a new survey by Pew...
a year ago
Nearly 1 in 5 teens are on YouTube or TikTok "almost constantly," according to a new survey by Pew Research Center. This highlights the immense popularity of these video-streaming platforms among younger generations. Here are the key takeaways from the survey:
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