Val Sopi
One year since "setting sail"
<p><i>For context, read <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">this article</a>...
a year ago
<p><i>For context, read <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">this article</a> first.</i></p><p><i>TLDR: A year ago, I took out a loan and went all–in pursuing my financial freedom. The words below are an update a year on the day.</i></p><hr><h2>Poetically...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Against
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a year ago
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If you write a paper against that paper you're -2, which is why negative even Erdos numbers are more prized.
Today's News:
Whew! Still traveling but trying to keep my update schedule sorta OK.
Construction Physics
Building Fast and Slow Part II - The World Trade Center
Part II in our series comparing the construction of two Tallest Building in the World projects - the...
over a year ago
Part II in our series comparing the construction of two Tallest Building in the World projects - the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center. See here for Part I. Unless otherwise noted, information and quotes are from “City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World...
Moneyness
Elon Musk's understanding of payments dates back to his PayPal days. It needs an update
[This is a republication of my most recent CoinDesk opinion piece.]
You've
heard the script...
a year ago
[This is a republication of my most recent CoinDesk opinion piece.]
You've
heard the script before. Migrants need to make payments back home to
their family, but cross-border payments are achingly slow, taking days
to process. Luckily, revolutionary new technologies like...
Louwrentius
Benchmark results of Random I/O performance of different RAID levels
Introduction
I have performed some benchmarks to determine how different RAID levels perform when...
over a year ago
Introduction
I have performed some benchmarks to determine how different RAID levels perform when handling a 100% random workload of 4K requests. This is a worst-case scenario for almost every storage subsystem. Normal day-to-day workloads may not be that harsh in a real-life...
A Beautiful Site
GIF, JPEG or PNG? Using images on the web
This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on...
over a year ago
This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on the Web, and how to use them effectively in your websites.
JPEG #
JPEG files are compressed images that maintain a balance of size versus quality. For example: More compression =...
Charles Chen
Concurrent Processing in .NET 6 with System.Threading.Channels (Bonus: Interval Trees)
Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
over a year ago
Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf().
The...
over a year ago
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf().
The problem with this approach is lack of selectivity: imagine you have 100 tests and only 1 test fails. For debugging the issue you only need to see logs when executing that 1 test...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Collection of Scraps and Shards of Knowledge'
“During this time we know [John] Donne was
collecting his fascinations in a book: a collection of...
4 months ago
“During this time we know [John] Donne was
collecting his fascinations in a book: a collection of scraps and shards of
knowledge known as a commonplace book.”
Like Donne (1572-1621), some of us are
magpie-minded, collecting objects shiny and drab, often without obvious
utility....
Atoms vs Bits
The Al Capone Problem
Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion, and didn't go to prison for tax evasion.
a year ago
Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion, and didn't go to prison for tax evasion.
Both Are True
Wacky Guy One: prepping for the audition that coulda changed everything
a raw and unvarnished look at what it takes to make it in hollywood with celebrated commercial actor...
a year ago
a raw and unvarnished look at what it takes to make it in hollywood with celebrated commercial actor Alex Dobrenko
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The beginner's guide to overcomplicating coffee ☕
Complicated coffee: plain and
simple.
There’s a scene in AMC’s “Breaking
Bad” where Gail Boetticher...
a year ago
Complicated coffee: plain and
simple.
There’s a scene in AMC’s “Breaking
Bad” where Gail Boetticher explains to Walter White how to make the
perfect cup of coffee. And it all sounds so plausible—there’s a
perfect coffee, and science will magic it for us.
That whole idea, scene,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Business development: the Goldilocks principle
Background: At Hunch, we switched our focus (“pivoted“) about 14 months ago from B2C to B2B. Over...
over a year ago
Background: At Hunch, we switched our focus (“pivoted“) about 14 months ago from B2C to B2B. Over that time, we pitched over 500 potential…
TokyoDev
Hiring a Japanese Virtual Assistant
As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several...
over a year ago
As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several Japanese virtual assistants to help me with various small tasks. Especially if you're not a fluent Japanese speaker, knowing where to look for one can be tricky, so I'll share my...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Seeing Others in Data, But Not Ourselves
Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human...
3 months ago
Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human behavior.
Subjects were given incomplete words and asked to complete them with the first word that came to mind.
For example, you’re given the fragments B__T and CHE__ and you write...
diamond geezer
Tube 160 Treasure Hunt
Are you at a loose end tomorrow? Do you like looking at station architecture? Would you like a...
11 months ago
Are you at a loose end tomorrow? Do you like looking at station architecture? Would you like a surprise birthday gift from TfL? If the answer to all these questions is yes then why not take part in the Tube 160 Treasure Hunt? You even get to travel round central London for...
Willem's Blog
Commuting by bike
One week on the VanMoof Electrified S E-bike testing it for commuting and comparing it to a normal...
over a year ago
One week on the VanMoof Electrified S E-bike testing it for commuting and comparing it to a normal bike.
TheCollector
5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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a year ago
Rest of World -...
How livestream realtors helped make Xishuangbanna a boom town
Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming,...
9 months ago
Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming, drawing the attention of out-of-town buyers.
Old Structures...
Not Famous Is Good
Theater fires were among the worst building-related events of the nineteenth and early-twentieth...
4 months ago
Theater fires were among the worst building-related events of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries in the US. The Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago killed over 600 people; closer to home, the Brooklyn Theater fire killed about 280. I serious do not recommend reading about...
computers are bad
2024-08-31 ipmi
I am making steady progress towards moving the Computers Are Bad enterprise
cloud to its new home,...
3 months ago
I am making steady progress towards moving the Computers Are Bad enterprise
cloud to its new home, here in New Mexico. One of the steps in this process is,
of course, purchasing a new server... the current Big Iron is getting rather
old (probably about a decade!) and here in...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Cal Russell
I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied...
a year ago
I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied Illustration at Falmouth School of Art and did a Masters in Contemporary Art at the Edinburgh College of Art. I mostly work independently and sell my prints and originals online or...
Open Culture
Watch The Idea, the First Animated Film to Deal with Big, Philosophical Ideas (1932)
A vague sense of disquiet settled over Europe in the period between World War I and World War II. As...
3 months ago
A vague sense of disquiet settled over Europe in the period between World War I and World War II. As the slow burn of militant ultranationalism mingled with jingoist populism, authoritarian leaders and fascist factions found mounting support among a citizenry hungry for...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
Diaries of Note
You drunken dog
In 1773, Dr. Samuel Johnson, the eminent intellectual and moralist, and James Boswell, a young...
a year ago
In 1773, Dr. Samuel Johnson, the eminent intellectual and moralist, and James Boswell, a young Scottish lawyer captivated by Johnson’s brilliance, embarked on a journey through the Highlands of Scotland. Their relationship was one of mentorship and friendship, a dynamic that...
Eukaryote Writes...
Eukaryote writes for Asterisk Magazine
See my piece on the history of microbiology and the vast, invisible worlds that come into focus...
2 months ago
See my piece on the history of microbiology and the vast, invisible worlds that come into focus every time we figure out how to look closer: Through the Looking Glass, and What Zheludev et al. (2024) Found There at Asterisk Magazine I’ve written for Asterisk before: What I won’t...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.41.0: Improving performance by up to 400%
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
over a year ago
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! 1.41.0 update guide for self-hosted…
The Modern House
Discover the Secret Garden House | A Modern Eco Home Hidden Behind a 300-Year-Old Wall
a month ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Early Stage Company Offsites
this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
2 months ago
this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #9
The roadworks at the Bow Roundabout continue, and have a lot more continuing to go.
Bow side of...
a month ago
The roadworks at the Bow Roundabout continue, and have a lot more continuing to go.
Bow side of the flyover, although new kerbstones are now lined up along the new slightly-wider edge of the roundabout.
major roadworks.
For the last month one of these two lanes has been...
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “stoically facing the end times” edition
1. When is AI coding not AI coding? You might have heard something about how Google now creates a...
a month ago
1. When is AI coding not AI coding? You might have heard something about how Google now creates a quarter of its code using AI. But as with most things concerning everyone’s favourite hot tech, the devil is in the details. And the details, according to this poster on Hacker News,...
Londonist
The World's Rarest Stamp Is On Display In London This September
It's also the most expensive.
a year ago
It's also the most expensive.
NeuroLogica Blog
New Type of Black Hole Discovered
ESA’s Gaia orbital telescope has recently discovered two new black holes. This, in itself, is not...
a year ago
ESA’s Gaia orbital telescope has recently discovered two new black holes. This, in itself, is not surprising, as that is Gaia’s mission – to precisely map the three-dimensional position of two billion objects in our galaxy, using three separate instruments. The process is called...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering
a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
over a year ago
a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
TokyoDev
TokyoDev 2023 Recap
2023 was an interesting year. While the tech market crashed in the US, I’d decided to expand...
12 months ago
2023 was an interesting year. While the tech market crashed in the US, I’d decided to expand TokyoDev, growing it beyond myself, and reinvesting the success we’ve had so far to expand the business further than I could on my own. As I heard about wave after wave of layoffs, it had...
History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
11 months ago
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
CONTEMPORIST
A Curved Accent Wall Wraps Around From The Fireplace To The Ceiling Inside This Home
MAKHNO Studio has designed a home in Kiev, Ukraine, that includes a contemporary living room with a...
a year ago
MAKHNO Studio has designed a home in Kiev, Ukraine, that includes a contemporary living room with a large curved statement piece. The living room has a sunken couch that neatly fits into the step-down, and faces the fireplace, while the focal point of the room is a curved section...
TheCollector
5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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2 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Statements Vs. Expressions
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of...
over a year ago
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we'll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an intuition about this can help us...
One Useful Thing
What Can be Done in 59 Seconds: An Opportunity (and a Crisis)
Five analytical tasks in under a minute
10 months ago
Five analytical tasks in under a minute
Epic Web Dev
Use Isolation to Solve Complex Problems (tip)
When faced with a complex problem, try isolating it by creating a minimal example in a temporary...
a year ago
When faced with a complex problem, try isolating it by creating a minimal example in a temporary project directory.
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 6-7 January 2024
Last-chance exhibitions, comedy, ice hockey, and bottomless fondue.
11 months ago
Last-chance exhibitions, comedy, ice hockey, and bottomless fondue.
Liz Denys
One idle dreary day many years ago
Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull...
over a year ago
Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull and sharp the sky was that day in San Francisco. When editing this photograph I took now about three and a half years ago, I only flattened the sky slightly and didn't touch up the...
A Beautiful Site
Moving to Node.js
The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of...
over a year ago
The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of software that I'm very proud of, but I decided to move the project to Node.js for a few important reasons. This is by no means a knock on PHP, which will always have a special...
HTMHell
Page by Page: How Pagination Makes the Web Accessible
by Kristin Rohleder
Imagine you’re reading a book that seems perfect for cozy winter evenings. But...
a week ago
by Kristin Rohleder
Imagine you’re reading a book that seems perfect for cozy winter evenings. But as soon as you turn the page, you suddenly find yourself somewhere else, rather than on the next page of the story. Now, you have to painstakingly search through the book to find...
TheCollector
Who Is Pina Bausch?
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8 months ago
Tech + Economics +...
The Hyperloop was always a scam
Paris Marx:
The tech industry’s move into transportation was not only a failure; it
was...
12 months ago
Paris Marx:
The tech industry’s move into transportation was not only a failure; it
was an active campaign to deny the public access to better transit and
trains because the billionaires of Silicon Valley don’t personally want
to get around that way. The...
journal – Winnie Lim
endure: book notes and thoughts
In recent years I’ve begun to develop an interest in the concept of endurance, be it psychological...
2 months ago
In recent years I’ve begun to develop an interest in the concept of endurance, be it psychological or physical. This is a response to a combination of recent world events, the imminent...
Retail Design Blog
JETEZO Chengdu MIXC Store
In our exploration of spatial layout, we chose elegant curves as guides to lead visitors into this...
2 months ago
In our exploration of spatial layout, we chose elegant curves as guides to lead visitors into this journey of discovery....
Making software...
Embracing Slow Tech
Embracing Slow Tech
2022-11-22
I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux...
over a year ago
Embracing Slow Tech
2022-11-22
I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux through Wayland/Sway and it is going well so far. Setting things up was much easier than I initially expected. There were only a few minor tweaks I had to make, such as setting vim...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Brand
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This is why smbc refuses to be about anything...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This is why smbc refuses to be about anything whatsoever, except maybe the idea that clowns are a species with interesting sexual customs.
Today's News:
Geeks of the UK! If you pre-order soon, you get a 20% discount on my new...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient Novel
a year ago
Noahpinion
This is not a good way to fight racism in America
Building a multiracial society is hard work. Don't be tempted by shortcuts.
10 months ago
Building a multiracial society is hard work. Don't be tempted by shortcuts.
Construction Physics
Goolsbee and Syverson on Construction Productivity
Several people have asked me about a new NBER working paper that takes a look at construction...
a year ago
Several people have asked me about a new NBER working paper that takes a look at construction productivity (a popular topic around here), “The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the US Construction Sector,” by Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson. This paper doesn’t bring any...
Ink & Switch
10 · Beyond prose
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
8 months ago
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
TheCollector
The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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2 months ago
mtlynch.io
Failed Attempts to Install NixOS on the Raspberry Pi 4
In creating the tutorial, “Installing NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4,” I ran into a ton of paths that...
a year ago
In creating the tutorial, “Installing NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4,” I ran into a ton of paths that didn’t work.
I’ve collected them here for the sake of saving others time retrying the same steps.
The standard NixOS aarch64 image doesn’t work When I checked the NixOS download page, I...
Christopher Butler
The AI Designer
The AI Designer is a powerful notion, but it is incomplete.
For creative craftspeople, AI is...
6 months ago
The AI Designer is a powerful notion, but it is incomplete.
For creative craftspeople, AI is more of an imposed thought experiment than it is a utility.
Yes, there are countless AI tools that can do parts of the job — make an image for you, create a layout, automate a...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Weird health insurance concepts | Out-Of-Pocket
Intercompany eliminations, copay shenanigans, and reference-based pricing
a month ago
Intercompany eliminations, copay shenanigans, and reference-based pricing
David Heinemeier...
The Framework 13 has a new high-res screen!
The first laptop I ordered back when my Linux journey began was the Framework 13. I immediately...
4 months ago
The first laptop I ordered back when my Linux journey began was the Framework 13. I immediately liked a lot about it. The keyboard is a big step up over the MacBook Pro, primarily because of the 50% longer key travel. And I love the matte screen and 3:2 aspect ratio. Both feel...
TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
England Allows Gene-Edited Crops
This has been somewhat of a quiet revolution, but a new law in England may bring it to the...
a year ago
This has been somewhat of a quiet revolution, but a new law in England may bring it to the foreground. The Precision Breeding Act will now allow gene-edited plants to be developed and marketed in England (not Northern Ireland, Wales, or Scotland). The innovation is that the law...
Julia Evans
Open sourcing the nginx playground
Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations
called nginx...
a year ago
Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations
called nginx playground. There’s a
blog post about it here.
This is an extremely short post to say that at the time I didn’t make it open source,
but I am making it open source now. It’s not a lot of...
Atoms vs Bits
Additive Domains, Multiplicative Domains
1 and 1 and 1 is 3, unless you're multiplying
3 months ago
1 and 1 and 1 is 3, unless you're multiplying
TheCollector
Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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2 months ago
Old Structures...
One Event, Two Views
On July 9, 1776, a bunch of New Yorkers – who maybe or maybe were not part of an organized group...
a year ago
On July 9, 1776, a bunch of New Yorkers – who maybe or maybe were not part of an organized group called the Sons of Freedom – celebrated the publication of the Declaration of Independence by pulling down a six-year-old equestrian statue of King George III at Bowling Green and...
Old Structures...
New And Improved Graphics!
Seven years ago [!] I spent some time looking at the Pearl Street overpass portion of the Manhattan...
2 months ago
Seven years ago [!] I spent some time looking at the Pearl Street overpass portion of the Manhattan approach of the Brooklyn Bridge. The short version is that it’s an 1880s steel truss reinforced in the mid-1900s with a steel arch below. The long discussion is: here and here and...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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8 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Have Current AI Reached Their Limit?
We are still very much in the hype phase of the latest crop of artificial intelligence applications,...
a year ago
We are still very much in the hype phase of the latest crop of artificial intelligence applications, specifically the large language models and so-called “transformers” like Chat GPT. Transformers are a deep learning model that use self-attention to differentially weight the...
TheCollector
Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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10 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Theodicy
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It is NEW book launch day, so please stay tuned for...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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It is NEW book launch day, so please stay tuned for more updates and check the blog for more info!
Today's News:
BOOOOOOOOOOOK
Joel Gascoigne
Healthy naivety
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I often like to...
over a year ago
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I often like to look back on when I was just getting into startups. I think
there is a myth in entrepreneurship which not only do many newcomers believe,
but could also be a key reason why many...
Maps Mania
How to Make Your Own Map Jigsaw Puzzle
4 months ago
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.
Retail Design Blog
Dynamic Frame office by balbek bureau
Dynamic Frame is the office of the eponymous film production company in the center of Zurich,...
3 weeks ago
Dynamic Frame is the office of the eponymous film production company in the center of Zurich, Switzerland. At the request...
42!
How we manage our product roadmap
The screenshot here is our company Trello board, where we manage our product roadmap. We are...
over a year ago
The screenshot here is our company Trello board, where we manage our product roadmap. We are extremely lucky in that our thousands of happy customers give us a steady stream of suggestions for new features and improvements, which we used to just throw on this board.
However,...
Archinect - Features
Exploring Coffee and Architecture With These Ten Mesmerizing Cafes
October 1st marks International Coffee Day, and to celebrate, we explore exceptional projects that...
a year ago
October 1st marks International Coffee Day, and to celebrate, we explore exceptional projects that exemplify the distinctive attributes and meticulous design considerations behind a diverse array of cafes across the globe.
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.3 released
D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in
nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the...
2 weeks ago
D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in
nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the heels of [the previous release][prev],
here’s nsnotifyd-2.3. Sorry for causing extra work to
my uncountably many users!
The nsnotifyd daemon monitors a set of DNS zones and runs a...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Daylight confusion week
Time is a river. A violent current of events.
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Here we are again:...
a year ago
Time is a river. A violent current of events.
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Here we are again: Daylight Confusion Week.
Much of Europe ends Daylight Savings Time today.
But North America will neglect their clocks for another week. And for
us remoties, that means next week’s...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The problem with tranched VC investments
In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over...
over a year ago
In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over time when certain pre-negotiated…
Identity Designed
Pets at Home
Designed by Nomad, London.
a year ago
Designed by Nomad, London.
TheCollector
Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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3 months ago
Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
a week ago
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Eponymous Laws
Interesting Two Word ideas with names of people on them
over a year ago
Interesting Two Word ideas with names of people on them
Seth's Blog
Your audiobook
Here’s a useful habit that’s more than a hack… The next time things are going well, when a project...
3 months ago
Here’s a useful habit that’s more than a hack… The next time things are going well, when a project is about to launch, when a meeting has been successful, when the sun is shining… take your phone and go for a walk. Hit record on an audio app and make a twenty-minute audiobook....
Open Culture
Orson Welles Narrates Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner in an Experimental Film Featuring the...
Around here we subscribe to the theory that there’s no such thing as too much Orson Welles. In years...
2 months ago
Around here we subscribe to the theory that there’s no such thing as too much Orson Welles. In years past, we gave you Welles narrating Plato’s Cave Allegory and Kafka’s “Before the Law,” and, before that, the Welles-narrated parable Freedom River, and the list goes on. Now, we...
Jonas Hietala
On The Decline of FPS Games
Mr. Eriksson just sent me this link as a fitting video on my post on The Decline of FPS...
over a year ago
Mr. Eriksson just sent me this link as a fitting video on my post on The Decline of FPS Games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU
Oh How true!
TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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a year ago
The American Scholar
Jason Middlebrook
Tree rings in time
The post Jason Middlebrook appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 months ago
Tree rings in time
The post Jason Middlebrook appeared first on The American Scholar.
Seeking Wisdom
Modeling Life: Equilibrium
This is my 2nd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I...
8 months ago
This is my 2nd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I recommend reading my earlier post first to get a good grounding on the foundations covered in the book. A system can exhibit three different types of behavior: equilibrium, oscillation,...
Christopher Butler
Gestalt Principles of Design – Symmetry
We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not.
The Gestalt...
a year ago
We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not.
The Gestalt Principles of Design are a set of concepts and guidelines drawn from gestalt psychology, which theorizes that the mind tends to process organized groups of things as a whole,...
Retail Design Blog
Humanitree School Hive and Flight by Rosan Bosch Studio
Rosan Bosch Studio has designed a holistic and coherent concept for Humanitree School – Hive and...
3 months ago
Rosan Bosch Studio has designed a holistic and coherent concept for Humanitree School – Hive and Flight (Middle and High...
TheCollector
“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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2 months ago
The Modern House
Why a nomadic design dealer is finally putting down roots at this family home in east London
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Norms
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Hovertext:
Sometimes I read my own comics and they seem like...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Sometimes I read my own comics and they seem like they were written by aliens.
Today's News:
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Eclipse of the Sun Coming in One Week
Saturday Oct. 14 North America will be treated to an eclipse of the Sun.
The post Eclipse of the Sun...
a year ago
Saturday Oct. 14 North America will be treated to an eclipse of the Sun.
The post Eclipse of the Sun Coming in One Week appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
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Semi-Automatic npm and GitHub Releases with `gh-release` and `auto-changelog`
A snippet I use all the time
over a year ago
A snippet I use all the time
The Marginalian
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: Doris Lessing on the Antidote to Self-Righteousness and Our Best...
This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand...
a month ago
This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand with the masses turning the individuals within them on each other, stirring certainties and self-righteousness to distract from the uncomfortable unknowns, from the great open...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Slowmad Q&A
The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people...
over a year ago
The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people are generally interested in is my experience of remote work. As I put it [recently](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1154916667606130689):
Londonist
See Dozens Of Tube Sketches At Barbican Library
Martin Church's vibrant portraits in free exhibition.
11 months ago
Martin Church's vibrant portraits in free exhibition.
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How we do customer support at our open source devtool company
Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the...
over a year ago
Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the feedback loop between your customers and your product…
Jonas Hietala
10 Games in 10 Languages
For school we have this programming course for Java. It isn’t anything special really and it would...
over a year ago
For school we have this programming course for Java. It isn’t anything special really and it would be really boring if I don’t like to program, it almost is anyway, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re to create a game! Just any game will do and we’re in a group of two and we...
Applied Cartography
Pytest: test for print statements
Inspired by Adam Johnson's test for pending migrations, and of course in conversation with my own...
5 months ago
Inspired by Adam Johnson's test for pending migrations, and of course in conversation with my own love of weird tests, I offer a similar concept: a test for finding stray print statements in your codebase, with a ratchet array for stuff to ignore.
import glob
PATH =...
diamond geezer
#generalelection w/e 23/05/24
10 things that happened this week #generalelection
Data 2019 → 2024
Interest rates: 0.75% →...
7 months ago
10 things that happened this week #generalelection
Data 2019 → 2024
Interest rates: 0.75% → 5.25%
Inflation: 1.3% → 2.3% (via 11.1%)
Energy cap: £1179 → £1690 (via £4059)
Unemployment: 3.8% → 4.3%
Covid deaths: 0 → 230,000
FTSE: 7353 → 8367 (up 14%)
Opinion polls: 11% CON lead →...
The Tao Of Wealth
How To Develop Extreme Resilience
1. There is no destination. Only the journey. Have you ever said something like, “If I had a higher...
over a year ago
1. There is no destination. Only the journey. Have you ever said something like, “If I had a higher salary, then I would be happy”or “I’ll be satisfied when I get this promotion”? Many people don’t find out in time that “when” never comes. Stress appears in our life when we let...
Rest of World -...
Indian politicians are bringing the dead on the campaign trail, with help from AI
Digital rights activists have questioned the ethics of using “soft fakes” to resurrect the past and...
7 months ago
Digital rights activists have questioned the ethics of using “soft fakes” to resurrect the past and manage the future.
Seth's Blog
Closed/open
I’m told that the hardest part of being a teaching golf pro isn’t helping adult golfers develop a...
a year ago
I’m told that the hardest part of being a teaching golf pro isn’t helping adult golfers develop a good swing. It’s getting them to stop using a bad one. Our position feels so fragile, we hold on very tightly. Competence, status and connection are fleeting yet hard-won. We can...
devonzuegel.com
Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes
I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea...
over a year ago
I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea is that I'll use the simpler append-only interface while on the go, and then use full-featured interface to review, edit, and organize those notes when I'm back at my computer.
I...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'O Friend Unseen, Unborn, Unknown'
Rabbi David Wolpe tells me Monday’s post reminds him of a poem, “To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence,”...
3 weeks ago
Rabbi David Wolpe tells me Monday’s post reminds him of a poem, “To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence,” by a poet I knew only by name: James Elroy Flecker. “I've always been
moved,” David said, “especially by the penultimate stanza”:
“O friend
unseen, unborn, unknown,
Student of...
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
2 days ago
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
Calculated Risk
FOMC Statement: 25bp Rate Cut
Fed Chair Powell press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM ET.
FOMC...
4 days ago
Fed Chair Powell press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM ET.
FOMC Statement:
lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point to 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent. In considering the extent and timing of additional adjustments to the...
Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
over a year ago
Remains of the Day
What I learned from a Taipei alley
I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy...
over a year ago
I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy schedule, it wasn't like my usual travels abroad for fun, it felt more like a work trip. Still, even if I'd been there purely for vacation, I would've wanted to try a different mode of...
NeuroLogica Blog
Hybrid Biopolymer Transistors – Implications for Brain Machine Interface
There are several technologies which seem likely to be transformative in the coming decades. Genetic...
a year ago
There are several technologies which seem likely to be transformative in the coming decades. Genetic bioengineering gives us the ability to control the basic machinery of life, including ourselves. Artificial intelligence is a suite of active, learning, information tools....
Christopher Butler
Link – Johannes Klingebiel's Personal Website
johannesklingebiel.de is a really nice website and digital garden.
There is so much to like on...
6 months ago
johannesklingebiel.de is a really nice website and digital garden.
There is so much to like on Johannes’s website — from the attention he gives to details that orient you to the site’s structure to the delicate balance between the playful and the analytical in its visual...
Tech and Tea
Life is not a race
Wisdom from a 6 year-old, and top regrets of the dying
4 months ago
Wisdom from a 6 year-old, and top regrets of the dying
Open Culture
Maurice Sendak’s First Published Illustrations: Discover His Drawings for a 1947 Popular Science...
McGraw-Hill/public domain; copy from the Niels Bohr Library & Archives Once upon a time, long before...
3 months ago
McGraw-Hill/public domain; copy from the Niels Bohr Library & Archives Once upon a time, long before Maurice Sendak illustrated Where The Wild Things Are (1963), he published, notes Ars Technica, “his first professional illustrations in a 1947 popular science book about nuclear...
Josh Comeau's blog
Refreshing Server-Side Props
Next allows you to do server-side data-fetching, but what happens when that data needs to change on...
over a year ago
Next allows you to do server-side data-fetching, but what happens when that data needs to change on the client? This brief tutorial shows how to re-fetch the props without doing a full server reload.
TheCollector
How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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a year ago
Math Is Still...
The Number 15 Describes the Secret Limit of an Infinite Grid
The “packing coloring” problem asks how many numbers are needed to fill an infinite grid so that...
a year ago
The “packing coloring” problem asks how many numbers are needed to fill an infinite grid so that identical numbers never get too close to one another. A new computer-assisted proof finds a surprisingly straightforward answer.
The post The Number 15 Describes the...
abdz.do - Have you...
Life Between Blocks
Life Between Blocks
abduzeedo0214—23
A solo exhibition by...
a year ago
Life Between Blocks
abduzeedo0214—23
A solo exhibition by Santiago Oddis.
As a collaboration between the production company Final Frontier and the renowned animation studio Le Cube the exhibition Life Between Blocks is now open at Silk...
Diaries of Note
The film had killed me
On the morning of 27th August 1945, shooting commenced on La Belle et la Bête, a French-language...
a year ago
On the morning of 27th August 1945, shooting commenced on La Belle et la Bête, a French-language adaptation of the 1757 fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. Directing this grand endeavour in his 57th year was poet and artist Jean Cocteau, a multi-talented creative force known for his...
Simply Explained
Make Your Garage Door Opener Smart: Shelly 1, ESPHome and Home Assistant
I've been adding more and more devices to my smart home lately, so naturally, my garage door opener...
over a year ago
I've been adding more and more devices to my smart home lately, so naturally, my garage door opener had to follow. But instead of swapping it out for a new unit, I used a Shelly 1 and a cheap door contact sensor to make it smart for less than $20!It runs ESPHome (open-source, no...
Retail Design Blog
CELINE store
For any luxury brand, it’s a prerequisite to have a retail presence in Hong Kong, and that has...
3 months ago
For any luxury brand, it’s a prerequisite to have a retail presence in Hong Kong, and that has certainly been...
The American Scholar
Acting Out
One tortuous journey from stage to screen
The post Acting Out appeared first on The American...
6 months ago
One tortuous journey from stage to screen
The post Acting Out appeared first on The American Scholar.
Epic Web Dev
Testing Accessibility with Keyboard (article)
Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all...
3 months ago
Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all users, including those using assistive technologies.
diamond geezer
Tickets are being accepted on alternative services
The tube was seriously disrupted in northwest London yesterday morning when a signal failure at...
4 months ago
The tube was seriously disrupted in northwest London yesterday morning when a signal failure at Wembley Park caused line closures and serious delays. And the advice which popped up is the advice which often pops up in such a situation, which is that tickets were being accepted on...
Founder's blog
SQL is the most long lasting skill in tech
In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front...
a year ago
In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front page:
"Which technology is worth learning in 2020?"
And the most "upvoted" answer was:
Learn how to really use a relational database, relational data modeling, and SQL
Well,...
Computer Ads from...
Apple IIe and IIc Design Manager Peter Quinn Interviewed by BYTE's Gregg Williams
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of the Apple IIe and IIc.
9 months ago
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of the Apple IIe and IIc.
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Back to America
After spending much of the past three years in Denmark, our family is returning to America full time...
a year ago
After spending much of the past three years in Denmark, our family is returning to America full time this summer. The original reasons for temporarily emigrating – the prolonged school lockdowns and other pandemic madness – have long since evaporated, and we've had a solid chance...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sim
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Hovertext:
'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated...
8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated years ago too.'
Today's News:
Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024 RLP 1.302E. I'll be talking space!
The Marginalian
The Shape of Wonder: N.J. Berrill on the Universe, the Deepest Meaning of Beauty, and the Highest...
"We, each of us, you and I, exhibit more of the true nature of the universe than any dead Saturn or...
3 months ago
"We, each of us, you and I, exhibit more of the true nature of the universe than any dead Saturn or Jupiter."
the singularity is...
nuke/acc
I wrote a tweet about this but deleted it, since it’s a much more nuanced topic than can be...
3 weeks ago
I wrote a tweet about this but deleted it, since it’s a much more nuanced topic than can be discussed there. Nuclear weapons are the Chekhov’s gun on the world stage.
When, if ever, are they going to be fired? When should they be?
I suspect this is not a question a lot of people...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Anita Klein
Hi, I am a painter and printmaker working in London and Italy.
Describe your printmaking process.
I...
a year ago
Hi, I am a painter and printmaker working in London and Italy.
Describe your printmaking process.
I use almost all printmaking processes and choose between techniques depending on the type of mark that suits the picture I want to make. At the moment I am mostly working in...
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A Developer's Guide to Startup Fundraising
A Brief Guide to Startup Fundraising Terminology for Beginners
over a year ago
A Brief Guide to Startup Fundraising Terminology for Beginners
CONTEMPORIST
This Hurricane Proof House Was Built On Top Of 12-Foot Concrete Piers To Protect It From Flooding
Studio PEEK|ANCONA has designed a hurricane-proof home in New Jersey, as a result of the homeowners...
a year ago
Studio PEEK|ANCONA has designed a hurricane-proof home in New Jersey, as a result of the homeowners losing their previous house to hurricanes Sandy and Irene. The architects mention that “the challenge was to build a high-strength home with an efficient construction schedule,...
Old Structures...
We Become Accustomed – Part 3
Having discussed the steel framing and the basic curtain wall of an incredibly-average 1926 office...
a year ago
Having discussed the steel framing and the basic curtain wall of an incredibly-average 1926 office building, I want to take a look at the end of the work. The picture above shows the building, just about on completion: a middle-of-the-road, mid-sized office building, with its...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Sega logo (1976–present)
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved.
The Sega logo...
over a year ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved.
The Sega logo used since 1976, in its official color for the Japanese market.
Source: segaretro.org Image: Scarred Sun. License: All Rights Reserved.
Sega logo used from the late 1950s to...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Can patients be good healthcare shoppers? | Out-Of-Pocket
Should their be limits to patient agency?
4 months ago
Should their be limits to patient agency?
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Films + Books, Q1 2023
What I watched and read
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Things to Know Before Seeing a Broadway Show in New York City
a year ago
Archinect - Features
Archinect's 2023 Summer Reading List
Summer is here, and whether you're on vacation or preparing for one or looking to lay low at home, a...
a year ago
Summer is here, and whether you're on vacation or preparing for one or looking to lay low at home, a summer must is a good book. The Archinect team has curated a list of reading essentials to explore.
Below is a collection of books organized into five categories – New Releases,...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
A good first word for Wordle
Ok, I gave in to the fad and took up Wordle. For those who have been living under a rock for the...
over a year ago
Ok, I gave in to the fad and took up Wordle. For those who have been living under a rock for the past few weeks, Wordle is a relatively new online word game which has become viral. It is a variation of Bulls and Cows. You have six tries to guess a five-letter word. Each […]
The...
TheCollector
Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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8 months ago
A Weekly Dose of...
From Web to Print
Recently I was watching a news program, most likely PBS Newshour or an MSNBC show, and was struck by...
a year ago
Recently I was watching a news program, most likely PBS Newshour or an MSNBC show, and was struck by one of the talking heads speaking via Skype or Zoom being described as "a writer working on turning her blog into a book." I don't remember her name or even the subject, as the...
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
Diaries of Note
The degradation machine is running
Jean Guéhenno was a French essayist and intellectual known for his unwavering commitment to freedom...
a year ago
Jean Guéhenno was a French essayist and intellectual known for his unwavering commitment to freedom and truth during a period when both were under severe threat. In the midst of World War II, France had become an eerie silhouette of its former self, ruled by a government that had...
Londonist
Origin Of The Faeces: Massive Animal Poo Collection Drops In Kingston
This show's going to make a splash.
a year ago
This show's going to make a splash.
CONTEMPORIST
Bamboo And Traditional Craftsmanship Weave Nature Into The Design Of This Retail And Exhibition...
Design firm llLab., has shared photos of a sculptural bamboo installation they recently completed as...
2 months ago
Design firm llLab., has shared photos of a sculptural bamboo installation they recently completed as part of the Element pop-up store at HKRI Taikoo Hui in Shanghai, China. Aligned with Element’s sustainable branding philosophy, this project embraces bamboo to explore a spatial...
One Useful Thing
Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button
We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true...
a year ago
We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true anymore.
TheCollector
The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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2 months ago
Unpacked
Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act
On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which...
a year ago
On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which will force tech giants (predominantly Meta and Google) to pay news organizations in Canada for content that is shared on these platforms. The foundational premise of the law is...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Search and the social graph
Google has created a multibillion-dollar economy based on keywords. We use keywords to find things...
over a year ago
Google has created a multibillion-dollar economy based on keywords. We use keywords to find things and advertisers use keywords to find…
Posts on Nikita...
RustLab 2024
I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4...
5 days ago
I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4 conferences in one year was a bad idea. I was exhausted and overwhelmed, but I still had a blast meeting new people and answering the questions after the talk. It had the following...
I Have No Idea What...
Rejected from YCombinator
and how I’m using their feedback to change my approach
over a year ago
and how I’m using their feedback to change my approach
Computer Things
What Mob Programming is Bad At
Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has...
9 months ago
Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has been part of the programming milleau since at least the 90's (with extreme programming), while mobbing is more of a 10's thing. I'm going to use them interchangeably from here on out...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Philip K. Dick paperback covers (Panther Science Fiction)
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by
citizen3xx24j....
over a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by
citizen3xx24j. License: All Rights Reserved.
Now Wait for Last Year (1975). Cover art by Chris Foss. [More info on ISFDB]
Roslyn Gothic arguably saw its most extensive and iconic use on the...
Arduino Blog
This fake CRT TV works using lasers and UV magic
Until the 21st century, cathode-ray tube (CRT) TVs were pretty much the only option. As such, media...
3 weeks ago
Until the 21st century, cathode-ray tube (CRT) TVs were pretty much the only option. As such, media was made to suit them. Retro video game consoles in particular look best on CRT TVs. But those old TVs are getting hard to find and desirable models are now quite expensive. So,...
Max Rozen
Books every developer should read
Whether you want to start a career as a developer, or have been a developer for 20 years, you should...
over a year ago
Whether you want to start a career as a developer, or have been a developer for 20 years, you should check out these books.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Amateurism (in the Original Sense of the Term)'
Autodidact as a noun and adjective arrived in English in
1534 via French, from a Latinized form of...
11 months ago
Autodidact as a noun and adjective arrived in English in
1534 via French, from a Latinized form of the Greek for “self-taught.” The
range of the word’s uses in our university-smitten age is vast. Some academics apply
it to anyone without an advanced degree who presumes to have...
TheCollector
Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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a month ago
Society's Backend
Positioning Myself: The Greatest Piece of Career Advice I've Ever Received
And how it changed my personal life too
12 months ago
And how it changed my personal life too
Anecdotal Evidence
'Sodding Good and Touching Was the Poem'
Kingsley
Amis’ daughter Sally was born on January 17, 1954, two days after her father
published his...
11 months ago
Kingsley
Amis’ daughter Sally was born on January 17, 1954, two days after her father
published his first and finest novel, Lucky
Jim. Three days later, Philip Larkin completed “Born Yesterday” (The Less Deceived, 1955) and dedicated it
to the little girl:
“Tightly-folded
bud,
I...
NeuroLogica Blog
Apologizing for Uri Geller
A recent New York Times article tries to rehabilitate the reputation of Uri Geller, famed...
a year ago
A recent New York Times article tries to rehabilitate the reputation of Uri Geller, famed spoon-bending magician, by simply telling a one-sided narrative. From my perspective as a skeptic, this was a terrible article that missed the real issue, glossed over glaring defects in...
ntietz.com blog
Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email)
People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just...
a year ago
People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just decide a different name better suits them. When this happens, things break. Recently I talked about how email address changes break things. Today it's how to fix this issue with...
Math Is Still...
Thirty Years Later, a Speed Boost for Quantum Factoring
Shor’s algorithm will enable future quantum computers to factor large numbers quickly, undermining...
a year ago
Shor’s algorithm will enable future quantum computers to factor large numbers quickly, undermining many online security protocols. Now a researcher has shown how to do it even faster.
The post Thirty Years Later, a Speed Boost for Quantum Factoring first appeared on...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Biases of GPT-4
Things are not always what they seem
a year ago
Things are not always what they seem
weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
a year ago
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
Marine Madness
Cownose rays at Bristol Aquarium (video)
Watch Bristol Aquarium’s newest residents in action. Bristol Aquarium reopened its doors on May 18...
over a year ago
Watch Bristol Aquarium’s newest residents in action. Bristol Aquarium reopened its doors on May 18 after being closed for months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, meaning visitors were finally allowed to return and see their favourite ocean creatures up close. But during the...
Laetitia@Work
Should seniority be a criterion for pay?
Laetitia@Work #74
3 months ago
Louwrentius
Example of a home networking setup with VLANs
Updated October 24, 2012, see below.
This post is a description of my home network setup based on...
over a year ago
Updated October 24, 2012, see below.
This post is a description of my home network setup based on gigabit ethernet. I did a non-standard trick with VLANs that may also be of interest to other people. I'm going to start with a diagram of the network. Just take a look (click to...
Confessions of a...
A Selective Survey of Efficient Speculative Decoding Techniques for LLM Inference
What is speculative decoding, how it works and what are some of the recent advances in this area?
2 months ago
What is speculative decoding, how it works and what are some of the recent advances in this area?
TheCollector
The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Contrived
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
How come nobody ever considers the increased CO2...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
How come nobody ever considers the increased CO2 emissions of causing the trolley to switch tracks?
Today's News:
Another prestigious publication compelled to say Weinersmith.
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Emojin
An infinite kaomoji generator
over a year ago
An infinite kaomoji generator
GitButler
Fearless Rebasing
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is...
2 months ago
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is "fearless rebasing"?
Escaping Flatland
On shortcuts and longcuts
There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they...
7 months ago
There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they make. This gives the path a lovely human fit. But sometimes you want to do the opposite. You want to design ways to get people to take a longer path, a longcut, so they can see or...
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...
4 months ago
20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in July 2024
1) TfL will not reveal the maximum speed on each tube line because "disclosure of the information you have requested would be likely to adversely affect the safety and security of TfL employees and members of the general...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
a year ago
nanoscale views
Thoughts on undergrad solid-state content
Figuring out what to include in an undergraduate introduction to solid-state physics course is...
8 months ago
Figuring out what to include in an undergraduate introduction to solid-state physics course is always a challenge. Books like the present incarnation of Kittel are overstuffed with more content than can readily fit in a one-semester course, and because that book has grown...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Different types of risk
The idea that founders take on “risk” is a misleading generalization. It is far more informative to...
over a year ago
The idea that founders take on “risk” is a misleading generalization. It is far more informative to separate the specific types of risks…
One Useful Thing
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition
AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
6 months ago
AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
Blog System/5
To C or not to C
That's the dilemma at Twitter over the weekend
10 months ago
That's the dilemma at Twitter over the weekend
History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
Tinloof - Blog
How to integrate Fathom Analytics into your Remix App
When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your...
over a year ago
When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your website visitors in order to enhance their experience.
In this guide, we will go over the steps of integrating Fathom Analytics into a Remix application.
Creating a site in Fathom...
TheCollector
Who Were the 43 Group?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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2 months ago
brr
The Beer Can
Connecting old and new.
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is ONCE #1
With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second...
11 months ago
With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second big launch of the new year: ONCE #1. And... drumroll... it’s a rebirth of Campfire! The original web-based chat system we built back in 2006. Brought back to the future as...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Coverage
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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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HTMHell
Makeshift hot reload
by Evan Hahn
In short: put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> in your <head> element to refresh...
a week ago
by Evan Hahn
In short: put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> in your <head> element to refresh your page every second. This is a makeshift "hot reload" for development. It's not perfect, but it can be a quick solution!
Hot reloading automatically reloads parts of your page...
Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
7 months ago
Blog posts of...
First-time fundraising is hell - maybe this helps 💰
Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I...
over a year ago
Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I try to give a few mental models and a bit tactical advice.
The Great Discontent...
Brian Eno
From pioneering ambient music and ever-evolving light paintings to innovating production styles,...
a year ago
From pioneering ambient music and ever-evolving light paintings to innovating production styles, installations, and strategies of surrender, Brian Eno’s work occupies a rare space in this world with an imprint as deep as it is wide. For the Roxy Music founder, art is the kind of...
Engineer’s Codex
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
5 months ago
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
Joel Gascoigne
Buffer's investor update on COVID-19 impact and approach
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Ever since the world got turned upside down by...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Ever since the world got turned upside down by COVID-19, it’s been “business as unusual” for everyone – Buffer included.
I sent this update out to Buffer’s investors one week ago. I hesitated on whether
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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8 months ago
TheCollector
444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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a year ago
Open Culture
How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant.
Brilliant. This moving manuscript depicts a single musical sequence played front to back and then...
6 months ago
Brilliant. This moving manuscript depicts a single musical sequence played front to back and then back to front. Give the video a little time to unfold and enjoy.
Essays - Benedict...
Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business
Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime,
bigger than the entire...
a year ago
Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime,
bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more
profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, or something
else? And what does that mean for Google?
NeuroLogica Blog
Biofrequency Gadgets are a Total Scam
I was recently asked what I thought about the Solex AO Scan. The website for the product includes...
10 months ago
I was recently asked what I thought about the Solex AO Scan. The website for the product includes this claim: AO Scan Technology by Solex is an elegant, yet simple-to-use frequency technology based on Tesla, Einstein, and other prominent scientists’ discoveries. It uses delicate...
HTMHell
The Form Attribute - Enhancing Form Layout Flexibility
by Alexander Muzenhardt
Consider a scenario where you have a login form containing two input fields...
a year ago
by Alexander Muzenhardt
Consider a scenario where you have a login form containing two input fields with corresponding labels, alongside a submit and a reset button. If you submit the form, the action of the form gets triggered, and you can work with the formData.
The layout...
James Vaughan's blog
Micro reviews: Bun, Cursor, Cloudflare Pages, and more
a year ago
The American Scholar
Rage, Muse
The novels that revisit Greek myths, giving voice to the women who were scorned, wronged, or...
4 months ago
The novels that revisit Greek myths, giving voice to the women who were scorned, wronged, or forgotten
The post Rage, Muse appeared first on The American Scholar.
Josh Collinsworth
The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals,...
9 months ago
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.
ntietz.com blog
Writing Hurl's grammar, twice
Recently I started working on a programming language, Hurl.
Writing the initial code samples and...
a year ago
Recently I started working on a programming language, Hurl.
Writing the initial code samples and developing the concept is all fine and good, but the next step is to actually make it work.
The steps I outlined for developing Hurl in the last post were:
Write out code samples to...
Old Structures...
Reuse, Recycle
When it was created in 1968, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority inherited from the New York...
4 months ago
When it was created in 1968, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority inherited from the New York City Transit Authority, from when it was created in 1953, the subway system as created by two private companies (the IRT and BMT) and the city-owned IND. All three parts of the...
The Marginalian
Stunning Century-Old Illustrations of Tibetan Fairy Tales from the Artist Who Created Bambi
Soulful art from stories that speak "to the childhood of all times and all races."
a year ago
Soulful art from stories that speak "to the childhood of all times and all races."
African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
5 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 6-12 November 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
IEEE Spectrum
Saving the Big Bang (Antenna)
The antenna that discovered a cosmic microwave background coming from all directions in...
a year ago
The antenna that discovered a cosmic microwave background coming from all directions in space—cementing the theory that the universe was created in a big bang—now stares down its own topsy-turvy future. Its owner says the hardware will be preserved, but the fate of the historical...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Hundred Words for the Word Brother'
One of the
stranger events recounted by Montaigne:
“[I]f I must
bring myself into this, a brother...
a month ago
One of the
stranger events recounted by Montaigne:
“[I]f I must
bring myself into this, a brother of mine, [Arnaud, Lord of] Saint-Martin,
twenty-three years old, who had already given pretty good proof of his valor, while
playing tennis was struck by a ball a little above the...
Diaries of Note
We spend our lives in tense expectation
In the midst of the Russian Civil War, April 1919 saw the city of Odessa plunged further into...
a year ago
In the midst of the Russian Civil War, April 1919 saw the city of Odessa plunged further into turmoil as the Bolshevik Red Army entered, leaving the future uncertain for the once-thriving port and its inhabitants. One person who found himself caught amidst the chaos was Ivan...
The Modern House
Our guide to Twickenham: architectural splendour and riverside walks in south-west London
11 months ago
Kagi Blog
Introducing the Kagi Family Plan
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the...
a year ago
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the power of Kagi Search together.
Stephen Diehl
Haskell for Web Developers
over a year ago
TokyoDev
How to Write Resumes for Jobs in Japan
Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially...
a year ago
Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially for software developers. The stakes are high (a job you want!), but the advice is uncountable and often contradictory. While many people may first think that it would be natural to...
TheCollector
Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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8 months ago
Both Are True
The ONE Black Friday Deal they DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT
this deal will change everything i gotta send this before they shoot a dart into my neck and silence...
a year ago
this deal will change everything i gotta send this before they shoot a dart into my neck and silence me becau-
Dustin Curtis
Blocked
A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture...
2 months ago
A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions.
Today, X engineering announced...
the singularity is...
choose your own adventure
In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile...
a year ago
In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile phone.
Barring a catastrophe, these are facts. What does the future look like for humanity?
The only reason we killed all the animals is because the Earth is small. The longest...
Charles Chen
I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but...
2 months ago
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but really, gen AI is just getting started.
The Ruffian
How Did Politics Get So Weird?
James Kanagasooriam Explains Everything
a week ago
James Kanagasooriam Explains Everything
The Marginalian
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: An Uncommon Meditation on Presence and the Aperture of Wonder
"Survival often depends on a specific focus: a relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the...
a year ago
"Survival often depends on a specific focus: a relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the edge of possibility."
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week
🙈 Innovation Fallacy
3 months ago
TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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3 weeks ago
Stoic Simple
How to Apply Stoicism in the Workplace for Increased Productivity
In today's fast-paced, high-stress work environment, it's easy to become overwhelmed and succumb to...
a year ago
In today's fast-paced, high-stress work environment, it's easy to become overwhelmed and succumb to emotional outbursts or impulsive decision-making. The ancient philosophy of Stoicism, however, offers a practical and effective approach to managing workplace challenges, improving...
Bits about Money
A review of Number Go Up, on crypto shenanigans
A review of Zeke Faux's Number Go Up, with some bonus commentary on financial journalism and Tether...
a year ago
A review of Zeke Faux's Number Go Up, with some bonus commentary on financial journalism and Tether specifically.
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
devonzuegel.com
Podcasts & conferences I've spoken at
I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive:
Urbanism and the...
over a year ago
I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive:
Urbanism and the Future of Cities (Jan 2023) – Narratives podcast
Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto (Oct 2022) – EconTalk podcast
Devon Zuegel on Startup Cities (June 2022)
Devon Zuegel, creator...
Rest of World -...
When Nigeria banned Twitter, Koo had a golden opportunity, and squandered it
Even the government officials who championed the Twitter competitor have stopped using it.
a year ago
Even the government officials who championed the Twitter competitor have stopped using it.
TheCollector
3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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a year ago
Matt Mullenweg
RIP Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is...
a month ago
Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is amazing. I feel so lucky to have met him in 2012 when I was much earlier in my career, and he didn’t have any reason to give me time, but he treated everyone as if they were...
Basta’s Notes
Go fix your bugs
An exploration of some bugs you might not have known that you had
a year ago
An exploration of some bugs you might not have known that you had
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2023
The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different...
a year ago
The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different era…but what does it do? Thanks to artemb for contributing this ware!
Fonts In Use: Blog...
John & Paul & Ringo & George / &&& T-shirt
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: walkerart.org License: All Rights Reserved.
Experimental...
over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: walkerart.org License: All Rights Reserved.
Experimental Jetset designed the original John & Paul & Ringo & George T-shirt (referencing the names of the Beatles) in 2001 for Yoshi Kawasaki at the Japanese apparel company 2K/Gingham. The...
Strange Loop Canon
We all live on a knife's edge, and it's fine
Or: How we weaponised serendipity
8 months ago
Or: How we weaponised serendipity
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
Math Is Still...
New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks Assemble
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of...
7 months ago
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of interacting complexes of protein, DNA, RNA and other molecules, better capturing cells’ biological landscapes.
The post New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks...
TheCollector
What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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a week ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog raises $15 million Series B for open source product analytics
Jun 10th, 2021 – PostHog , the open source product analytics company, today announced $15 million...
over a year ago
Jun 10th, 2021 – PostHog , the open source product analytics company, today announced $15 million in fresh funding and major new free features for…
TheCollector
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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a year ago
Rest of World -...
The most surprising tech champions of 2024
From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions...
2 weeks ago
From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions stood out for their impressive growth this year.
TheCollector
What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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3 months ago
Seth's Blog
Unaware
If you don’t realize that you have power, you might not be able to exercise it. The power to speak...
11 months ago
If you don’t realize that you have power, you might not be able to exercise it. The power to speak up, to participate, to invent, to lead, to encourage, to vote, to connect, to organize, to march, to write, to say ‘no’ or to say ‘yes’. It’s tempting to imagine we have less power...
Tinloof - Blog
Perfecting the design handover process
At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience...
a year ago
At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience completing dozens of projects.
Our ultimate goal is a "0 questions asked" handoff, akin to an improved IKEA assembly experience.
In this article, we'll explore the three core sections...
The Codist
If You Don't Give A Crap, This Is the Shit That You Get
Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing...
11 months ago
Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing broken or poor functionality in web and mobile apps. I always cared about what we were putting out, even if it was sometimes unimportant to my employer. When I see things that are easy...
Weighty Thoughts
Fear and Loathing in 7nm
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
a year ago
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
Tech + Economics +...
Feels bad, man: how memes escape from their creators and fuel extremism.
Meme content is so contextually bound and temporally sensitive that
yesterday’s viral sensation is...
a year ago
Meme content is so contextually bound and temporally sensitive that
yesterday’s viral sensation is today’s digital fossil. Writing about memes,
then, is a delicate dance on a stage where every word and interpretation
risks obsolescence as the cultural tide swiftly changes....
Explained from First...
Number theory explained from first principles
over a year ago
Evan Jones -...
Postgres large JSON value query performance
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
over a year ago
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
Open Culture
Google Launches a New Course Called “AI Essentials”: Learn How to Use Generative AI Tools to...
This week, Google announced the launch of Google AI Essentials, a new self-paced course designed to...
7 months ago
This week, Google announced the launch of Google AI Essentials, a new self-paced course designed to help people learn AI skills that can boost their productivity. Taught by Google’s AI experts, and assuming no prior knowledge of programming, the course ventures to show students...
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Ordinary Life Where Things Make Sense'
An old
friend back in upstate New York and I were texting. We worked years ago as
reporters for the...
a year ago
An old
friend back in upstate New York and I were texting. We worked years ago as
reporters for the same newspaper. She was married then to her second husband,
who had multiple sclerosis and died slowly and horribly. When she had to go out of town, I would stay with him...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Race And Healthcare: Recognizing And Addressing the Issues Facing Black Patients | Out-Of-Pocket
The systemic issues that plague black communities are extremely prevalent in healthcare, and we...
a year ago
The systemic issues that plague black communities are extremely prevalent in healthcare, and we should think about how to address them
Liz Denys
It's a piece of cake to bake a SIPB cake
Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes,...
over a year ago
Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes, vanilla buttercream frosting, chocolate buttercream frosting with black food coloring, homemade white vanilla fondant, homemade black chocolate fondant, a bread knife to carve shoes...
The American Scholar
Parque de la Música
The post Parque de la Música appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
The post Parque de la Música appeared first on The American Scholar.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Five Destinations to Explore Beyond the Ordinary on Your Next Journey
a year ago
The DESK Magazine
The illusion of productivity
"Productivity" is dead.
a year ago
Mazdak
The AI Invasion: Is humanity on the verge of a digital takeover?
The AI Invasion: Is humanity on the verge of a digital takeover?
a month ago
The AI Invasion: Is humanity on the verge of a digital takeover?
Ferd.ca
Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums
I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to...
a month ago
I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to believe I do so on purpose. I want to know as much as I can about the context of what it is that I'm automating.
I also use a limited set of tools. I used old computers for a long...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Signs that a Startup is Going Bad
All rocketship startups are alike, but every fading startup is fading in its own way.
a year ago
All rocketship startups are alike, but every fading startup is fading in its own way.
Making software...
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
2019-04-15
I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end...
over a year ago
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
2019-04-15
I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end developers since the newest build of jQuery (3.4.0) released a couple of days ago. While I understand not all developers share the same work-style or are using the same tech-stack,...
Christopher Butler
Link – Approach Studio website
approach.studio is a really nice website.
There’s a sensibility shared by many small,...
10 months ago
approach.studio is a really nice website.
There’s a sensibility shared by many small, interdisciplinary design studios — especially those who have aesthetic standards as high as their technical capabilities. They’re the sort of group that can make even the simplest working...
The Berkeley...
TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge
The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic...
6 months ago
The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic systems that can complete a user query by orchestrating the right set of tools (e.g. ToolFormer, Gorilla). This, along with the recent multi-modal efforts such as the GPT-4o or...
TheCollector
5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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a year ago
Alex Meub
Hacking Amazon Dash Buttons
The Amazon Dash button is about a year old and has proven to be a pretty great hackable...
over a year ago
The Amazon Dash button is about a year old and has proven to be a pretty great hackable internet-of-things button. It’s got built-in wifi, an onboard battery and best of all, a $4.99 price tag.
How It Works
The actual “hacking” of dash buttons has really nothing to do with the...
Christian Selig
Logging information from iOS Widgets
Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home...
over a year ago
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...
Common Edge
What Does Midcentury Modern Even Mean These Days?
When a style becomes historical, its meaning becomes slippery.
a year ago
When a style becomes historical, its meaning becomes slippery.
Old Vintage...
CAP-X and COMP-X: how the Tandy Pocket Computers got a sucky Japanese assembler
I grew up primarily with the Commodore 64, where if you wanted to do anything really cool and...
10 months ago
I grew up primarily with the Commodore 64, where if you wanted to do anything really cool and useful, you had to do it in 6502 assembly language. Today I still write 6502 assembly, plus some Power ISA and even a little TMS9900. I like assembly languages and how in control of the...
TheCollector
Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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5 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Confined to Famous Defunct Chefs'
Never underestimate
the satisfactions of contrariness. It starts as an impulse in adolescence,...
a year ago
Never underestimate
the satisfactions of contrariness. It starts as an impulse in adolescence, of
course, when the will to disagree and provoke comes naturally. It’s enormously entertaining
to the provokers, irritatingly tiresome to the rest of us. We outgrow it or at
least it...
David Perell
The Perks of Niche Fame
There are two kinds of fame: Celebrity-Fame and Niche-Fame.
The post The Perks of Niche Fame...
over a year ago
There are two kinds of fame: Celebrity-Fame and Niche-Fame.
The post The Perks of Niche Fame appeared first on David Perell.
Cheese and Biscuits
The Barn at Moor Hall, Ormskirk
In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought...
4 months ago
In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought experiment. If there was no such separation of options, and if all the dishes available were priced evenly on the same list, which would I end up going for?
Set menus (usually,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Engineering AI Agents - OpenAI DevDay Singapore talk
this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore.
a month ago
this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore.
Seth's Blog
The B2B questions
Questions people ask themselves when looking at a web page aimed at businesses (B2B). They are...
8 months ago
Questions people ask themselves when looking at a web page aimed at businesses (B2B). They are rhetorical, but should give you a place to begin: Is it my job to deal with this? Who sent me here? Will this advance my project? Will it help me get ahead if I take action? If I ignore...
The Works in...
Does higher density cause lower birth rates?
Assessing one recent claim that it does
7 months ago
Assessing one recent claim that it does
AI Snake Oil
The LLaMA is out of the bag. Should we expect a tidal wave of disinformation?
The bottleneck isn't the cost of producing disinfo, which is already very low.
a year ago
The bottleneck isn't the cost of producing disinfo, which is already very low.
Maggie Appleton
Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data
over a year ago
devonzuegel.com
Misreading Milei: The American press can only see Argentina through US-colored glasses
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. They are deeply...
a year ago
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. They are deeply misunderstanding (or misrepresenting?) what's going on. It seems the American press can only understand Argentine politics through the lens of the US, when really it's just a totally...
Rest of World -...
The church of Roblox: How young Filipino Catholics are building more inclusive spaces
Though not officially sanctioned, the role-playing clergy encourage young people to go deeper into...
6 months ago
Though not officially sanctioned, the role-playing clergy encourage young people to go deeper into their faith while providing a safe space for queer Catholics.
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step…
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024.
This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
9 months ago
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024.
This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”.
I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance.
This...
HTMHell
The Hellish History of HTML: An incomplete and personal account
by Jason Cranford Teague
Timeline of HTML from 1990–2024
Note: HTML standards are developed...
a year ago
by Jason Cranford Teague
Timeline of HTML from 1990–2024
Note: HTML standards are developed first in browsers, so the version might have already became the de facto standard before the official standard document is released.
The story so far:
In the beginning Tim...
Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
abdz.do - Have you...
Celebrating Valentine's Day with a simple animation in Figma: a radar that spots love around
Celebrating Valentine's Day with a simple animation in Figma: a radar that spots love around
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a year ago
Celebrating Valentine's Day with a simple animation in Figma: a radar that spots love around
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Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love and remind us that it is all around us. This year, instead of buying generic gifts, why...
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"No Code" Is A Lie
_Originally published on [the Webflow blog](https://webflow.com/blog/no-code-is-a-lie)._
over a year ago
_Originally published on [the Webflow blog](https://webflow.com/blog/no-code-is-a-lie)._
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, October 2023
A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots...
a year ago
A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots of Progress as a nonprofit organization, so I haven’t had as much time as I prefer for research and writing. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find...
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