Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
a week ago
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
Oxide Computer...
Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of
us being born in a...
over a year ago
We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of
us being born in a garage and
Bryan’s on the soul of our new computer
company. Also, see the perspectives of some of our founding engineers:
Robert Mustacchi on
joining Oxide,
Joshua Clulow on the need...
Open Culture
J. G. Ballard Demystifies Surrealist Paintings by Dalí, Magritte, de Chirico & More
Before his signature works like The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash, and High-Rise, J. G. Ballard...
4 months ago
Before his signature works like The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash, and High-Rise, J. G. Ballard published three apocalyptic novels, The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World. Each of those books offers a different vision of large-scale environmental disaster, and...
Seth's Blog
The magic of placebos
One of two things is true: A placebo is a force beyond understanding, one that is capable of...
a year ago
One of two things is true: A placebo is a force beyond understanding, one that is capable of disappearing when we do the appropriate double-blind tests and has mechanisms that defy our knowledge of the laws of physics. Or… A placebo is a prompt for our subconscious to do the hard...
./techtipsy
I finally found an use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+
You have probably heard about the Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little affordable
single-board computer...
over a year ago
You have probably heard about the Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little affordable
single-board computer with a huge community using it for all sorts of projects.
I got my first Raspberry Pi, the Model B+,
during my first year at university, which was around the winter of...
Quanta Magazine
The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy
Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics. ...
a year ago
Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics.
The post The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Making software...
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist
2021-11-03
This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
over a year ago
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist
2021-11-03
This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door...
I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website's CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It's pretty amazing to see the problems...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
The Mystery of the Dune Font
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved....
a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved.
In the six decades since the publication of the original Dune novel in 1965, the science fiction franchise has gone through many different typographic identities. Notable examples...
Open Culture
How an Ancient Roman Shipwreck Could Explain the Universe
In a 1956 New Statesman piece, the British scientist-novelist C. P. Snow first sounded the alarm...
4 months ago
In a 1956 New Statesman piece, the British scientist-novelist C. P. Snow first sounded the alarm about the increasingly chasm-like divide between what he called the “scientific” and “traditional” cultures. We would today refer to them as the sciences and the humanities, while...
Londonist
Things To Do In London On Christmas Day
Guided tours, river trips and Christmas lunch.
a year ago
Guided tours, river trips and Christmas lunch.
African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
Old Structures...
A Specific Location
“Pretty” is almost certainly the wrong word for this 1902 postcard view of lower Manhattan. It...
11 months ago
“Pretty” is almost certainly the wrong word for this 1902 postcard view of lower Manhattan. It shows, accurately, a jumbled mess with smoke everywhere. But is it real? Is this a photograph that was hand-painted to create the color, or is it a rendering by a very active artist? I...
The Ruffian
Nike's Winning Strategy
On the Cultural Significance of Its 2024 Olympics Campaign
4 months ago
On the Cultural Significance of Its 2024 Olympics Campaign
TheCollector
What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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4 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
You Can Run Containers on AWS Amplify Now
AWS just added the easiest way to deploy long running serverful code alongside a serverless...
over a year ago
AWS just added the easiest way to deploy long running serverful code alongside a serverless architecture.
History Today Feed
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
a year ago
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
The Marginalian
The Value of Being Wrong: Lewis Thomas on Generative Mistakes
In praise of our "property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities."
a year ago
In praise of our "property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities."
macwright.com
Recently
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I...
7 months ago
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I wrote about how searching source code is a pretty
hard problem. It was pretty
well-received: I confirmed that yes, it’s a pretty hard problem. We’re really
trying not to write a search...
nanoscale views
Some interesting recent papers - lots to ponder
As we bid apparent farewell to LK99, it's important to note that several other pretty exciting...
a year ago
As we bid apparent farewell to LK99, it's important to note that several other pretty exciting things have been happening in the condensed matter/nano world. Here are a few papers that look intriguing (caveat emptor: I have not had a chance to read these in any real depth, so...
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Consider Seriously My Condition'
Soon after
he is shipwrecked on an island off the coast of Venezuela and has finished...
a year ago
Soon after
he is shipwrecked on an island off the coast of Venezuela and has finished salvaging
everything useful from the wreckage, Robinson Crusoe builds a calendar:
“After I had
been there about ten or twelve days, it came into my thoughts that I should
lose my reckoning of...
IEEE Spectrum
Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector
In the mid-1960s, Robert Kahn began thinking about how computers with different operating systems...
8 months ago
In the mid-1960s, Robert Kahn began thinking about how computers with different operating systems could talk to each other across a network. He didn’t think much about what they would say to one another, though. He was a theoretical guy, on leave from the faculty of the...
On Life and Lisp
Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications
Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact...
over a year ago
Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth, implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available here in Toronto.
Wait –...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
3 months ago
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
Noahpinion
A data-driven case for productivity optimism
A guest post by Brian Albrecht of Economic Forces.
4 months ago
A guest post by Brian Albrecht of Economic Forces.
TheCollector
Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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4 days ago
Old Structures...
A Hidden Surprise, But Not Really
The picture above shows the nearly-complete Astor Court Apartments, on Broadway between 89th and...
a year ago
The picture above shows the nearly-complete Astor Court Apartments, on Broadway between 89th and 90th Street, in 1915. (As a side note, we’ve got some heavy hitters involved: the architect was Charles Platt, the contractor was Marc Eidlitz & Son, and the photographer was Irving...
Mazdak
AI Energy Fears: Overblown or the Next Crisis?
Is the fear of AI's energy consumption a tempest in a teapot or a sign of a looming energy crisis?
a month ago
Is the fear of AI's energy consumption a tempest in a teapot or a sign of a looming energy crisis?
The Marginalian
Something About the Sky: Rachel Carson’s Lost Serenade to the Science of the Clouds, Found and...
A version of this essay appeared in The New York Times Book Review. A cloud is a spell against...
9 months ago
A version of this essay appeared in The New York Times Book Review. A cloud is a spell against indifference, an emblem of the water cycle that makes this planet a living world capable of trees and tenderness, a great cosmic gasp at the improbability that such a world exists, that...
Posts on Made of...
Disable Transparent Hugepages
tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making...
over a year ago
tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making more efficient use of your processor’s memory-mapping hardware. It is enabled ("enabled=always") by default in most Linux distributions.
Transparent Hugepages gives some applications...
Noahpinion
Go read some Vernor Vinge
R.I.P. to my favorite science fiction author
9 months ago
R.I.P. to my favorite science fiction author
abdz.do - Have you...
Universal Principles of UX Book
Universal Principles of UX Book
AoiroStudio0507—23
Anton & Irene...
a year ago
Universal Principles of UX Book
AoiroStudio0507—23
Anton & Irene are renowned interaction designers who have made significant contributions to the field of UX and beyond. We love their work on abdz. One of their notable works is out now and...
Wanderingspace
Hope for Mars
Nothing really. Just a gorgeous image of Mars from the UAE Hope mission.
over a year ago
Nothing really. Just a gorgeous image of Mars from the UAE Hope mission.
CONTEMPORIST
A Kid’s Bedroom With Built-In Reading Nooks
Architecture and interiors firm Picnic Design has created a built-in storage unit with nooks for two...
4 weeks ago
Architecture and interiors firm Picnic Design has created a built-in storage unit with nooks for two kids in their tween years. The request came from two siblings who have been sharing a room since birth and have reached the point where they would like to have their own room....
TheCollector
Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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6 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Robots.txt
A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing...
a year ago
A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using robots.txt:
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
That felt a bit “ex post facto“ as they say. Or, as Jeremy put it, “Now that the horse has bolted—and...
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
Stoic Simple
A Stoic Perspective on Achieving Happiness
In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges and...
a year ago
In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges and pressures of daily life. Many of us are constantly searching for ways to achieve happiness and inner peace amidst the chaos. While some turn to meditation and mindfulness, others...
Map of the Week
More Maps and Views at the British Library
Here is another installment of maps on display at the British Library - part 1 can be found...
4 months ago
Here is another installment of maps on display at the British Library - part 1 can be found here.
Estate Map by Margaret Bowles, 1659
Apologies for the dark and shadowy picture, the display hall is not brightly lit. Margaret Bowles was an English cartographer whose surviving...
Product Identity
#2 Whereby – In the name of simplicity
The Zoom alternative you probably haven't heard of
a year ago
The Zoom alternative you probably haven't heard of
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build remote teams properly
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
over a year ago
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […]
The post How to build remote teams properly appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Cicada Chase, Day 2
The first day of cicada chasing exceeded expectations and we hoped for similar results on the...
6 months ago
The first day of cicada chasing exceeded expectations and we hoped for similar results on the second. However the weather began to change overnight with downpours possible during daylight hours. Local meteorologists predicted a line of thunderstorms rolling through the Midwest,...
Quanta Magazine
Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species
Genetic elements called Mavericks that have some viral features could be responsible for the...
a year ago
Genetic elements called Mavericks that have some viral features could be responsible for the large-scale smuggling of DNA between species.
The post Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Tony Finch's blog
Random floating point numbers
Here are a couple of algorithms for generating uniformly distributed
floating point numbers 0.0 <= n...
a year ago
Here are a couple of algorithms for generating uniformly distributed
floating point numbers 0.0 <= n < 1.0 using an unbiased
random bit generator and IEEE 754 double precision arithmetic. Both of
them depend on details of how floating point numbers work, so before
getting into...
Old Structures...
108 Years
First up, “A view of the Federal Hall of the City of New York, as appeared in the year 1797, with...
10 months ago
First up, “A view of the Federal Hall of the City of New York, as appeared in the year 1797, with the adjacent buildings thereto” as engraved in 1850. This is looking north up Broad Street, with the old Federal Hall at the intersection of Broad and Wall streets. Next, “Broad...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Originality, Learning, Acuteness, Terseness of Style'
Samuel Johnson:
“Coxcombs and blockheads always have been, and always will be, innovators; some
in...
10 months ago
Samuel Johnson:
“Coxcombs and blockheads always have been, and always will be, innovators; some
in dress, some in polity, some in language.”
John Horne Tooke:
“I wonder whether they invented the choice appellations you have just repeated.”
Johnson: “No,
sir! Indignant wise men...
Epic Web Dev
Professional Web Forms (workshop)
The Professional Web Forms Workshop will equip you for building complex, fully accessible forms that...
a year ago
The Professional Web Forms Workshop will equip you for building complex, fully accessible forms that handle validation and file uploads while preventing spam.
Confessions of a...
Two Threads, One Core: How Simultaneous Multithreading Works Under the Hood
Ever wondered how your CPU handles two tasks at once? Discover the magic of Simultaneous...
5 months ago
Ever wondered how your CPU handles two tasks at once? Discover the magic of Simultaneous Multithreading and see what’s really going on inside.
A Weekly Dose of...
This Blog in 2023
One year ago, in the first post of 2022, I shifted this blog from (almost) daily posts about...
a year ago
One year ago, in the first post of 2022, I shifted this blog from (almost) daily posts about architecture books to just once a week, changing the name of the blog to reflect that. In the fifth of five bullet points reasoning why that was happening, I wrote: "I'm planning on...
Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some more thoughts on telemedicine | Out-Of-Pocket
a collection of the best audience responses
a year ago
a collection of the best audience responses
TheCollector
The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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a year ago
Steve Blank
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2022 Wrap Up
We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class...
a year ago
We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class – now part of our Stanford Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to 1) give our students an appreciation of the...
TheCollector
Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Use Client Hints to Eliminate Content Layout Shift (tip)
Learn how to eliminate CLS using client hints in the Epic Stack.
a year ago
Learn how to eliminate CLS using client hints in the Epic Stack.
The Great Discontent...
Taekyeom Lee
Taekyeom Lee is a graphic designer with an artist’s sensibility. As a researcher, educator, and...
a year ago
Taekyeom Lee is a graphic designer with an artist’s sensibility. As a researcher, educator, and maker — born and raised in South Korea, now living and teaching in Madison, Wisconsin he works in the space where tactility and technology meet, combining ancient materials and...
TheCollector
Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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4 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Do You Have an Extra $10?
Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-23
As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
over a year ago
Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-23
As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it’s a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it’s a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it’s an impulse buy while we’re out shopping for...
Build In Public...
What's your north star while building in public? 🔭⭐️
Hey folks, Recently, I gave a workshop on “BUILDING IN PUBLIC” at On Deck and shared insights,...
over a year ago
Hey folks, Recently, I gave a workshop on “BUILDING IN PUBLIC” at On Deck and shared insights, lessons, war stories and essentially opened up all my playbooks on the topic. The talk seemed to have resonated deeply with many fellows and I was grateful and delighted. Some of them...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Found
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This theory actually makes sense of all holiday...
3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This theory actually makes sense of all holiday creatures that manage to visit every house.
Today's News:
The Ruffian
No, Joe Biden Is Not a Hero
There's Only One Politician Who Comes Out Of This Well
5 months ago
There's Only One Politician Who Comes Out Of This Well
TheCollector
What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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3 weeks ago
Rest of World -...
Japan’s sleepy tech scene is ready for a comeback
After decades of slumber, the country that brought us bullet trains and Nintendo has mustered some...
a year ago
After decades of slumber, the country that brought us bullet trains and Nintendo has mustered some momentum.
Open Culture
A Short Visual History of America, According to the Irreverent Comic Artist R. Crumb
As a founder of the “underground comix” movement in the 1960s, R. Crumb is either revered as a...
a month ago
As a founder of the “underground comix” movement in the 1960s, R. Crumb is either revered as a pioneering satirist of American culture and its excesses or reviled as a juvenile purveyor of painfully outmoded sexist and racist stereotypes. Crumb doesn’t apologize. He keeps...
Noahpinion
There's not that much wealth in the world
A little-understood fact.
5 months ago
A little-understood fact.
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...
Old Structures...
A Simple Drawing For A Difficult Structure – Part 1
Continuing from yesterday’s dive, we have an 1870 drawing by Washington Roebling showing the...
a year ago
Continuing from yesterday’s dive, we have an 1870 drawing by Washington Roebling showing the relationship of the Brooklyn tower of the Brooklyn Bridge to the caisson that serves as its foundation. There’s a lot going on in this line drawing and it’s worth the time to describe it...
Identity Designed
Juicy Sonic Magic
Designed by The Collected Works, New York.
a year ago
Designed by The Collected Works, New York.
Eukaryote Writes...
Eukaryote in Asterisk Magazine + New Patreon Per-post setup
Eukaryote elsewhere I have an article in the latest issue of Asterisk Magazine. After you get really...
a year ago
Eukaryote elsewhere I have an article in the latest issue of Asterisk Magazine. After you get really deep into the weeds of invertebrate sentience and fish welfare and the scale of factory farming, what do you do with that information vis-a-vis what you feel comfortable eating?...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 094: Pixtral et Le Chat
November 22, 2024.
a month ago
The Marginalian
Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary
Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how...
9 months ago
Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed against to exist, a reliquary of the violent collisions that forged our rocky planet lush with life...
Explorations of an...
2023 Part 1: January Through Early March (Argentina, Uruguay)
Over the next little while I will be making a few photo-heavy blog posts, highlighting a few of my...
12 months ago
Over the next little while I will be making a few photo-heavy blog posts, highlighting a few of my favourite memories from 2023. Laura and I finished our extending traveling in Latin America, but the first four months of 2023 saw us visiting Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to close...
Old Structures...
Unhidden
From 1900, a photo of the future site of the New York Public Library and the past site of the Croton...
10 months ago
From 1900, a photo of the future site of the New York Public Library and the past site of the Croton Distributing Reservoir. The photo is labelled at the NYPL as “The Croton Reservoir ruins, looking north,” which means the photographer was on or near 40th Street and Fifth Avenue...
TheCollector
Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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9 months ago
TheCollector
6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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a year ago
This Space
39 Books: 2013
I reread books like Aharon Appelfeld's A Table for One and Anne Atik's How It Was as if returning to...
7 months ago
I reread books like Aharon Appelfeld's A Table for One and Anne Atik's How It Was as if returning to a particular bench with a view of the sea. On first glance A Table for One promises only banal, coffee-table memories and reflections, and that would be almost right:
Real...
TheCollector
Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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a year ago
Noahpinion
China's demographics will be fine through mid-century
There is no imminent crisis.
6 months ago
There is no imminent crisis.
Common Edge
How the Much-Maligned Porch Supports Walkable, Sustainable Communities
Its aesthetic detractors don’t understand the porch’s ability to create community.
4 months ago
Its aesthetic detractors don’t understand the porch’s ability to create community.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Judge
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Written after enjoying the delightfully...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Written after enjoying the delightfully controversial book Status and Culture.
Today's News:
TheCollector
The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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a week ago
Rest of World -...
Kenya’s biggest protest in recent history played out on a walkie-talkie app
More than 40,000 Kenyans have downloaded Zello since protests began against the government’s plan to...
5 months ago
More than 40,000 Kenyans have downloaded Zello since protests began against the government’s plan to raise taxes.
alexwlchan
Changing the bulb in a Meridian Lighting CIR100B ceiling light
I moved into my house a couple of years ago, and for all that time I’ve had a porch light which...
a year ago
I moved into my house a couple of years ago, and for all that time I’ve had a porch light which doesn’t work.
I’ve tried taking it apart a couple of times to replace the bulb, but to no avail.
Although it’s a simple cylinder with only a black base and a clear cover, I couldn’t...
Making software...
CSS Variables
CSS Variables
2018-03-24
The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
over a year ago
CSS Variables
2018-03-24
The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I'd like to focus specifically on the "new" CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now.
Getting started is easy
Let's just jump...
Old Structures...
Possibly A Bad Idea
John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the...
5 months ago
John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the Chicago Tribune about a plane semi-faking bombing lower Manhattan in 1916. The short version of the story: DeLloyd Thompson, an early aviator of some note, took off from the airfield...
Willem's Blog
Why Apple Silicon is a big deal
Never have I been so blown away as by the new MacBook Air with M1 processor. It is a big deal.
over a year ago
Never have I been so blown away as by the new MacBook Air with M1 processor. It is a big deal.
Stat Significant
What Are the Most Commonly Used Movie Clichés? A Statistical Analysis
Exploring the cliché phrases that dominate movies.
4 days ago
Exploring the cliché phrases that dominate movies.
AFAR Media - Travel...
American Airlines’ Top Credit Card Offers 100K Mile Bonus
a year ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Artistic
From a stand-alone comic about the Penguin, a museum in Gotham City: From the Look Around feature in...
7 months ago
From a stand-alone comic about the Penguin, a museum in Gotham City: From the Look Around feature in Apple Maps, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fifth Avenue facade: From 1900, when the main facade of the center block was complete, but the wings not yet constructed: The rough...
Quanta Magazine
How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins
Proteins are often visualized as cascades of curled ribbons and twisted strings, which both reveal...
4 months ago
Proteins are often visualized as cascades of curled ribbons and twisted strings, which both reveal and conceal the mess of atoms that make up these impossibly complex molecules.
The post How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins first appeared on Quanta...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Atlanta BeltLine – Eastside Trail
I arrived in Atlanta, Georgia for business. On the final day I wrapped-up and had a little time to...
a year ago
I arrived in Atlanta, Georgia for business. On the final day I wrapped-up and had a little time to visit a family member who lives in the city. That became a good excuse to head over to the Grant Park neighborhood on Atlanta’s eastside. We spent most of our late afternoon walking...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 7
In which I pay for people to check out OnlineOrNot to test my landing pages.
a year ago
In which I pay for people to check out OnlineOrNot to test my landing pages.
Maps Mania
The 2024 World Press Freedom Rankings
7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension Adds A Home Office And Bedroom To This Miami Bungalow
Upstairs Studio Architecture has shared photos of a 900 sqft addition in South Miami, Florida, for...
4 months ago
Upstairs Studio Architecture has shared photos of a 900 sqft addition in South Miami, Florida, for owners who were looking for a little extra room in their traditional home, that was open to the outdoors, and allowed for a private primary bedroom and studio apart from the main...
TheCollector
Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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5 months ago
Contemporist...
This Small Apartment Has A Yoga Wall And A Coffee Bar
LITTLEMORE INTERIOR DESIGN has shared photos of a small 380-square-foot (35 sqm) apartment in Hong...
a year ago
LITTLEMORE INTERIOR DESIGN has shared photos of a small 380-square-foot (35 sqm) apartment in Hong Kong, that includes both a custom yoga wall and a coffee bar.
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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8 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Dividend Signal
Mature technology companies are establishing regular quarterly dividends. Is this a positive or...
7 months ago
Mature technology companies are establishing regular quarterly dividends. Is this a positive or negative development for shareholders?
A Smart Bear
When being “first” is not a competitive advantage
Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a new startup that does nothing...
over a year ago
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
From Skyline to Valley
A family friend had a big round-number birthday recently and we drove down to Central Virginia for...
over a year ago
A family friend had a big round-number birthday recently and we drove down to Central Virginia for the celebration. Meanwhile, I’m always on the lookout for opportunities to add to my various travel lists so I wondered how might I combine the two. I thought about county counting...
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending...
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Happy Independence Day my dear American friends. We are very lucky to have this country. Let us...
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Happy Independence Day my dear American friends. We are very lucky to have this country. Let us always be grateful for it. And let us always remember that good things are created not when people decide they have claims against an institution or a society, but when they have...
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New zine: How Integers and Floats Work
Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work!
You can get it for $12...
a year ago
Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work!
You can get it for $12 here:
https://wizardzines.com/zines/integers-floats, or get
an 13-pack of all my zines here.
Here’s the cover:
the table of contents
Here’s the table of contents!
Now let’s...
General Robots
What's With All the Humanoid Robots?
If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid...
7 months ago
If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid robot startups. What's with that? Why humanoids? Why now?
Twelve Mile Circle –...
England, Day 5 (Isle of Purbeck)
Dorset’s Isle of Purbeck isn’t an island it’s a peninsula. It was probably more isolated and...
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Cheese and Biscuits
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Mumbling and grumbling during my journey to Dalston the other night, as the 38 bus did an average...
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The Honest Broker
How Musicians Invented the Antihero
In this section from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead', I probe the hidden musical origins of...
a year ago
In this section from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead', I probe the hidden musical origins of Hollywood protagonists
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We spent $3.3M buying out investors: Why and how we did it
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about half of all the cash we had in the bank – to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors.
Starting the conversations, negotiations, and process of this buy out was one
TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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One Useful Thing
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AI can listen and see, with bigger implications than we might realize.
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AI can listen and see, with bigger implications than we might realize.
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will...
a year ago
For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will remain online for now, but I don’t plan on returning to write anything new here. Not that I’ve added any content in almost two years anyway.
I still have a passion for making...
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by Vasilis van Gemert
Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a...
a year ago
by Vasilis van Gemert
Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a font — a student asked: does it have to be semantic and shit? The whole class looked up, curious about the answer — please let it be no! I answered that no, it doesn’t have to be...
The Rational Walk
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This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2024, including Aeschylus,...
5 months ago
This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2024, including Aeschylus, Herodotus, the Odyssey, and American Scripture.
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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,...
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'An Interior Convulsion'
Too late the
other night a friend texted me links to several stand-up routines by the late
Jackie...
a year ago
Too late the
other night a friend texted me links to several stand-up routines by the late
Jackie Mason. I clicked on one and the inevitable followed: I went looking for
more and soon descended into a privately curated comedy show with guest stars Don
Rickles, Jonathan Winters...
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the CT Octoberfest 2023 about some
work I did over the summer that...
a year ago
A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the CT Octoberfest 2023 about some
work I did over the summer that I’m really proud of. Unfortunately, while
writing up the result I found a 1999 paper by Pedicchio and Wood that
proves the same theorem (with roughly the same proof), so I...
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Luke Mitchell's personal website
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Generative AI companies must publish transparency reports
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Cram Down – A Test of Character for VCs and Founders
This article previously appeared in TechCrunch. Cram downs are back – and I’m keeping a list. At the...
over a year ago
This article previously appeared in TechCrunch. Cram downs are back – and I’m keeping a list. At the turn of the century after the dotcom crash, startup valuations plummeted, burn rates were unsustainable, and startups were quickly running out of cash. Most existing investors...
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Early access to some software we've built to make XmR charts more accessible.
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Early access to some software we've built to make XmR charts more accessible.
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Protect Your Wireless Network
Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is...
over a year ago
Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is probably the single biggest security hole on any home wireless network.
About WiFi Protected Setup
WiFi Protected Setup is a security standard that comes enabled by default on many...
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The most important question to ask before taking seed money
There is a certain well respected venture capital firm (VC) that has a program for fledgling...
over a year ago
There is a certain well respected venture capital firm (VC) that has a program for fledgling entrepreneurs. The teams that are selected…
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over a year ago
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Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip
“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus,...
over a year ago
“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus, it piqued my interest when an early-stage SE chip startup, Cramium (still in stealth mode), approached me to advise on open source strategy. This blog post explains my reasoning...
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Thanks…
I got my first computer (TRS-80 Model 1) in 1980 at the age of 8. I got my second computer – an...
over a year ago
I got my first computer (TRS-80 Model 1) in 1980 at the age of 8. I got my second computer – an Atari 800 – two years later. I was…
Oxide Computer...
Compensation as a Reflection of Values
Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in
many. But we in...
over a year ago
Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in
many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated
domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are
clearly covered? If it needs to be said,...
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"IBM's first computer"
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 045: Google's just getting started
December 15, 2023.
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Moneyness
Thoughts on the Tornado Cash defence and what happens when everyone adopts it
Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance,...
8 months ago
Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance, has has to pay multiple fines. Western Union was famously busted in 2017. Meanwhile, Cash App is being probed as we speak for inadequate anti-money laundering controls.
In the...
Daniel Miessler
Twitter’s Blue Checkmark Strategy Reduces Trust in Pursuit of Revenue
When I heard that Twitter was going to open the blue checkmark up to anyone willing to pay $8/month,...
over a year ago
When I heard that Twitter was going to open the blue checkmark up to anyone willing to pay $8/month, I was happy. As a legacy holder of the checkmark there’s a slight band-aid-sting of the check indicating specialness—who doesn’t want to feel special?—but I’d much rather see a...
Coding Horror
Electric Geek Transportation Systems
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I...
over a year ago
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then we bought a VW station wagon
HTMHell
Swallowing camels
by Ida Franceen
I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been...
a year ago
by Ida Franceen
I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been experimenting with different kinds of markup to get it to read better, like injecting spans to force it to make proper pauses…
Reflecting on my tendency to obsess over small, but maybe not...
Louwrentius
My Ceph test cluster based on Raspberry Pi's and HP MicroServers
Introduction
To learn more about Ceph, I've build myself a Ceph Cluster based on actual hardware. In...
over a year ago
Introduction
To learn more about Ceph, I've build myself a Ceph Cluster based on actual hardware. In this blogpost I'll discus the cluster in more detail and I've also included (fio) benchmark results.
This is my test Ceph cluster:
The cluster consists of the following...
Prolost
Kino: My New Favorite iPhone Video App
The new Kino app recording ProRes Log with a custom preview LUT.
Yes we’re still talking about...
6 months ago
The new Kino app recording ProRes Log with a custom preview LUT.
Yes we’re still talking about shooting video on iPhones. But I also want to talk about digital cinema shooting in general, in a world where top camera makers are battling to give filmmakers everything we want in a...
Bits about Money
BAM is now reader-supported
Bits about Money now offers paid memberships. (Plus, a bonus essay on newsletter financial...
a year ago
Bits about Money now offers paid memberships. (Plus, a bonus essay on newsletter financial infrastructure.)
Saturday Morning...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Your guide to the new Overground line names
Your guide to the new Overground line names
individual names in 2015, mostly geographically-based,...
10 months ago
Your guide to the new Overground line names
individual names in 2015, mostly geographically-based, but Boris Johnson swiftly vetoed the proposal. Then in 2021 Sadiq Khan's manifesto pledged to rename the lines if he got elected.
"TfL’s London Overground network has grown...
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How Do You Steer a Drill Below The Earth?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
In December 2019, the City of...
over a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
In December 2019, the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida experienced a series of catastrophic ruptures in a critical wastewater transmission line, releasing raw sewage into local waterways and neighborhoods....
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He Might Have Been the First Jazz Star...
But Ford Dabney kept making wrong bets at the wrong time
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Mad Organics by 327 creative studio
Mad Organics bars make organic, plant-based snacking tasty, fun, and approachable for the...
6 months ago
Mad Organics bars make organic, plant-based snacking tasty, fun, and approachable for the health-conscious. With no mysterious components, their short...
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Plans are nothing, but planning is indispensable
It is widely believed that writing a business plan is a waste of time, because: 1) very few people...
over a year ago
It is widely believed that writing a business plan is a waste of time, because: 1) very few people will read it, and 2) you’ll end up…
High Signal
Selling a directory website for $10,000 - Damn Good Tools
Imagine selling a website you made for $10,000. Pretty great, huh? Well that's exactly what Dmytro...
a year ago
Imagine selling a website you made for $10,000. Pretty great, huh? Well that's exactly what Dmytro did
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 3: Related work
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Finite
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Butt-cream is in fact universal, for a sufficiently...
2 months ago
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Butt-cream is in fact universal, for a sufficiently wide definition of butt.
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Monsoon Season In Arizona, Part 1: Introduction, Phoenix to Miller Canyon
Earlier this summer, Laura and I were trying to determine where we would visit for a couple of mini...
3 months ago
Earlier this summer, Laura and I were trying to determine where we would visit for a couple of mini vacations. Due to the variations in her work schedule, Laura had two blocks of time - a five-day chunk in early August, and six days in early September - and we wanted to make the...
Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
Adventures In...
Layout sandwich
Here’s how to make an ArcGIS Pro layout where certain elements of the map step over the neatline and...
a year ago
Here’s how to make an ArcGIS Pro layout where certain elements of the map step over the neatline and the graticule is relegated only to the oceans. Because that looks cool! Mapping has a long and handsome history of neatlines that are interrupted by bits of land spilling over it,...
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thisisneverthat store by COM
Since its inception in 2010 by friends Inwook Park, Nadan Cho, and Jonkyu Choi, fashion brand...
2 days ago
Since its inception in 2010 by friends Inwook Park, Nadan Cho, and Jonkyu Choi, fashion brand thisisneverthat has come a...
Quanta Magazine
The ‘Accidental Activist’ Who Changed the Face of Mathematics
Throughout her 60-year career, Lenore Blum has developed new perspectives on logic and computation...
11 months ago
Throughout her 60-year career, Lenore Blum has developed new perspectives on logic and computation while championing women in mathematics and computer science. Now consciousness is on her mind.
The post The ‘Accidental Activist’ Who Changed the Face of Mathematics...
Seth's Blog
Create value
If your job feels like a dead end, it might be because you’ve traded agency and responsibility for...
a year ago
If your job feels like a dead end, it might be because you’ve traded agency and responsibility for the feeling of security. But real security lies in creating value. Creating value isn’t easy, but it’s resilient and generous and often profitable. “How do I create more value?” is...
Daniel Marino
Building a Random Music Sequencer with Preact
As I've composed music for video games, something that has piqued my interest is the concept of...
over a year ago
As I've composed music for video games, something that has piqued my interest is the concept of randomly generating music. Not that this is a new concept, but I was curious to see what I could come up with. Go ahead and check out the RMG-2021.
Design
I love how sequencers look...
Rest of World -...
YouTube is the final place to watch unbiased news in India. Can it last?
As Modi’s government clamps down on the free press, top journalists are forging their own channels...
a year ago
As Modi’s government clamps down on the free press, top journalists are forging their own channels to report unbiased news — for now.
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Mount Machebeuf Trip Report
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Mount Machebeuf Trip Report
balajis.com
Going Meta
Meta may be Android to Apple's Apple.
a year ago
Meta may be Android to Apple's Apple.
The Ruffian
The Good Enough Trap
How Technology Can Get Us Stuck In Place
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How Technology Can Get Us Stuck In Place
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Name that Ware, January 2024
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara....
10 months ago
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara. I actually have no idea what the original purpose was, so I’m curious to see if anyone can convince me as to what this thing did, presumably for many years and millions of times....
bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage
This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
8 months ago
This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
The Honest Broker
My Ultimate Texas Songwriter Playlist
I've handpicked 56 tracks from the Lone Star State (3 hours of music)
a year ago
I've handpicked 56 tracks from the Lone Star State (3 hours of music)
Musings on Markets
Tesla in 2023: A Return to Reality, The Start of the End or Time to Buy?
I am not much of a car person and view cars primarily as a mode of transportation. I drive a 2010...
a year ago
I am not much of a car person and view cars primarily as a mode of transportation. I drive a 2010 Honda Civic, a perfectly serviceable vehicle that is never going to get oohs and ahas from onlookers, but I feel no urge to value Honda. I don't own a Tesla, and have only driven...
Spoon & Tamago
All 54 Playing Cards Reinterpreted Through Still Life Photography by Yuni Yoshida
Flower petals, leaves, foods and other objects have all been meticulously arranged and then...
a year ago
Flower petals, leaves, foods and other objects have all been meticulously arranged and then photographed to create a set of 54 playing cards, including 2 jokers. It’s the latest work by art director Yuni Yoshida (previously), who’s penchant for analog techniques that shun digital...
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Platformer
Google's most serious antitrust challenge to date
The US government is coming after the company's ad business — and it might win
a year ago
The US government is coming after the company's ad business — and it might win
Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
Liz Denys
A better grumpy fuzzball cake: just one of the many reasons I love buttercream more than fondant
Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted...
over a year ago
Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted primarily with rolled fondant, a dough-like frosting that is made with gelatin, food-grade glycerine, and the usual frosting suspects. But I don't love the taste or texture of fondant....
Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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The Modern House
‘The girl from elsewhere’: designer India Mahdavi on her struggle for acceptance, and how a rented...
Our guest on this episode of Homing In – our podcast on which our co-founder Matt Gibberd asks...
a year ago
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TheCollector
7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Debunking the Laziness Lie
Laetitia@Work #53
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Construction Physics
Why Levittown Didn't Revolutionize Homebuilding
For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way...
5 months ago
For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way we build cars. While no one has succeeded, arguably the man that came closest to becoming “the Henry Ford of homebuilding” was William Levitt, with his company Levitt and Sons....
macwright.com
Recently
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn.
Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
a year ago
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn.
Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
TheCollector
Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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The Marginalian
The Beach and the Soul: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the Benedictions of the Sea
"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience,...
6 months ago
"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach."
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
3. LLVM
4. LLVM conditionals and...
over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
3. LLVM
4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci
5. LLVM system calls
6. an x86 upgrade
In this post we'll extend the compiler to support defining functions
and variables. Additionally, we'll require the...
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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Regent's Park Is Getting A New Garden Dedicated To The Late Queen
Two-acre space will open in 2026.
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Tomohiro Inaba Invites Viewers to Complete the Story of His Sculptures
“To the promised land” (2024) | installation view at YukikoMizutani Tomohiro Inaba is an artist who...
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slender 850 pages in Dick Davis’s 2006 prose (mostly) translation. He added another 100 pages to the 2016
edition, whether filling out...
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Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
2022-09-20
Installing custom fonts is a...
over a year ago
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
2022-09-20
Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow easy for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get...
Vadim Kravcenko
Being a good mentor – a developers guide
Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and...
a year ago
Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and illuminate the path ahead. I’ve […]
The post Being a good mentor – a developers guide appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Map of the Week
The Coaquannock Map
I will begin Philadelphia month at an early stage, just before European settlement.
via...
a year ago
I will begin Philadelphia month at an early stage, just before European settlement.
via Historical Society of Pennsylvania
This 1934 map showing the homeland of the Lenape people when the first white settlers arrived in Philadelphia, was funded by the Works Progress...
Rest of World -...
What do platforms actually want out of elections?
Nobody seems to know.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Lincoln's Inn
Two big Open House openings on opposite sides of Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Open House: Lincoln's...
a year ago
Two big Open House openings on opposite sides of Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Open House: Lincoln's Inn
Lincoln's Inn is the largest occupying 11 acres on the eastern side of Lincoln's Inn Fields (which was named after it, not the other way round). It's been here for at least 600...
Wuthering...
Paradoxes and epistemology - early Greek philosophy as conceptual innovation - "Zeno argues...
The conceptual innovation of Thales that we identify as the birth of philosophy quickly spun off...
a year ago
The conceptual innovation of Thales that we identify as the birth of philosophy quickly spun off other conceptual innovations. A real conceptual innovation does not require a book or even an argument. You say there are many gods? But what if there were one? Or none? ...
TheCollector
Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 23, 2016: street harassment
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. Today was the first time I was street harassed on my commute since moving in November... memories relived on the following train ride:
Content warning:...
Contemporist...
Large Wood Arches Dramatically Elevate The Roof Of This Charging Station
Research-based design studio EFFEKT has shared photos of a contemporary charging park designed to...
9 months ago
Research-based design studio EFFEKT has shared photos of a contemporary charging park designed to signal the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Theme Parks, Festivals, and More in Florida
5 months ago
Noahpinion
Don't be a decel
Technological progress must be harnessed, not fought
a year ago
Technological progress must be harnessed, not fought
Anecdotal Evidence
'Painstakingly Logical and Precise'
A thought
that never occurred to me but feels self-evidently right:
“In the
course of a reading...
4 months ago
A thought
that never occurred to me but feels self-evidently right:
“In the
course of a reading life, one often stumbles on excellent prose writers never
before encountered; such discoveries, however, are less likely in poetry.
First-rate poetry is a more manageable quantity....
Seth's Blog
The ghost in the machine
“The computer wants you to click this button.” “It thinks you asked for something else.” “He’s mad...
a year ago
“The computer wants you to click this button.” “It thinks you asked for something else.” “He’s mad at you.” Thousands of generations ago, we evolved our way into a magnificent hack. It turns out that we can more safely navigate the world by imagining that other people have a...
The American Scholar
From Las Cosas Nuevas by Ennio Moltedo
The post From <em>Las Cosas Nuevas</em> by Ennio Moltedo appeared first on The American Scholar.
8 months ago
The post From <em>Las Cosas Nuevas</em> by Ennio Moltedo appeared first on The American Scholar.
Quanta Magazine
Evolving Bacteria Can Evade Barriers to ‘Peak’ Fitness
Paradoxically, natural selection can sometimes seem to block organisms from evolving useful...
a year ago
Paradoxically, natural selection can sometimes seem to block organisms from evolving useful adaptations. But a new study of “fitness landscapes” and antibiotic resistance in bacteria shows that life still finds a way.
The post Evolving Bacteria Can Evade Barriers to...
Light from Space
Elephant Trunk & IC 1396
A beautiful nebula in Cepheus. The middle bottom left of the image shows the “Elephant Trunk”, but...
over a year ago
A beautiful nebula in Cepheus. The middle bottom left of the image shows the “Elephant Trunk”, but the whole nebula IC 1396 shows much impressive detail. A whole layer of dark nebulas overlaps everything, looking like a giant explosion frozen in time.
Total exposure time: 18h...
Seth's Blog
Unfettered
That’s unlikely. You’re rarely going to get the freedom and resources to do your best work...
a year ago
That’s unlikely. You’re rarely going to get the freedom and resources to do your best work unfettered. The hard part (and the opportunity) is to figure out how to get comfortable with fettered. Because fettered is what’s on offer. Boundaries and scarcity aren’t simply...
Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
9 months ago
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
Uncharted...
Is Desalination Everywhere Realistic?
Which countries are doing it already? Are they happy? Is desalinated water safe to drink? Does it...
a month ago
Which countries are doing it already? Are they happy? Is desalinated water safe to drink? Does it taste good? Does it pollute too much? Can we shrink its cost?
Arduino Blog
Is there an online Arduino IDE?
Since the inception of Arduino, the Arduino IDE has been a go-to tool for people learning to code...
2 months ago
Since the inception of Arduino, the Arduino IDE has been a go-to tool for people learning to code and creating projects ranging from remote-controlled cars to soil moisture monitoring. No wonder it’s been downloaded over 24 million times this year, so far! Now if you’ve ever...
Londonist
London's 2023 Christmas Lights Bitchily Reviewed
Throwing shade on the city's illuminations.
a year ago
Throwing shade on the city's illuminations.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte Zen Garden
reigniting the Zen Garden era with modern technology
over a year ago
reigniting the Zen Garden era with modern technology
TheCollector
The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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SQLite Slaps
why SQLite is cracked
6 months ago
Open Culture
Nick Cave Narrates an Animated Film about the Cat Piano, the Twisted 18th Century Musical Instrument...
What do you imagine when you hear the phrase “cat piano”? Some kind of whimsical furry beast with...
4 months ago
What do you imagine when you hear the phrase “cat piano”? Some kind of whimsical furry beast with black and white keys for teeth, maybe? A relative of My Neighbor Totoro’s cat bus? Or maybe you picture a piano that contains several caged cats who shriek along an entire scale when...
Computer Ads from...
OS-9 Bonus Content
A detailed look at OS-9 for Tandy Color Computers
3 months ago
A detailed look at OS-9 for Tandy Color Computers
Rest of World -...
Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are running Temu shipping centers out of their homes
To speed up delivery and dodge a crackdown on shipments from China, e-commerce companies are turning...
a month ago
To speed up delivery and dodge a crackdown on shipments from China, e-commerce companies are turning to so-called “family warehouses.”
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Joshua Xu
Lessons from building HeyGen from 0 to $1m ARR in 7 months
a year ago
Lessons from building HeyGen from 0 to $1m ARR in 7 months
A Smart Bear
Intense Asymmetry and Self-Flagellation
Erica Douglass sold her company for $1M, yet still struggles with self-worth; why driven people...
4 weeks ago
Erica Douglass sold her company for $1M, yet still struggles with self-worth; why driven people can't escape Impostor Syndrome.
TheCollector
Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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a year ago
Irrational...
Thesis on value accumulation in AI.
Recently, I’ve thinking about where I want to focus my angel investing in 2024,
and decided to...
10 months ago
Recently, I’ve thinking about where I want to focus my angel investing in 2024,
and decided to document my thinking about value accumulation in artificial intelligence
because it explains the shape of my interest–or lack thereof–in investing in artificial
intelligence tooling....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Immortal
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a year ago
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This led to a remarkably nice discussion in patreon yesterday.
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But what if it’s voluntary?
For more than 130 years, we’ve celebrated Labor Day in the US and Canada. And May Day has been...
a year ago
For more than 130 years, we’ve celebrated Labor Day in the US and Canada. And May Day has been around about as long. Around here, it’s become mostly a seasonal marker, but it was founded to devote just a day to something that deserves much more… to commemorate and celebrate the...
devonzuegel.com
IVF egg retrieval notes
I’ve now done two egg retrieval cycles. Given that I had a zillion questions before I started, I...
8 months ago
I’ve now done two egg retrieval cycles. Given that I had a zillion questions before I started, I thought I’d share my notes for others who might have similar questions.
Things I would’ve loved to know beforehand
Overall the process was way easier and less intense than I...
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Sharding Yourself
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
over a year ago
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #46: The transformation of London's skyline, a big week for nuclear, and installing...
Plus how to avoid the road pricing landmine
2 weeks ago
Plus how to avoid the road pricing landmine
Londonist
Sing Along To Beyoncé's Greatest Hits - As Played By A Brass Band
Old Dirty Brasstards mix things up.
10 months ago
Old Dirty Brasstards mix things up.
On Test Automation
RestAssured .NET in 2024 - a review
As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over...
4 days ago
As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over the changes, bug fixes and new features that have been introduced in RestAssured .NET in 2024. This year, I released 7 new versions of the library, and while none of the versions...
TokyoDev
Oh, that's not your job
My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese...
over a year ago
My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese startup](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan). The company had a stellar development team, and in a couple of months of working there I learned more about developing software than I did in my entire computer...
Diaries of Note
Blood, sweat and tears
Sir John Colville served three Prime Ministers as private secretary, most notably to Winston...
a year ago
Sir John Colville served three Prime Ministers as private secretary, most notably to Winston Churchill during the tumultuous years of World War II, and in this capacity had a front-row seat to some of the most consequential decisions and events of the 20th century. His diaries,...
Joel Gascoigne
How we're trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup
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I think I’ve...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I
stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a
while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
Home on Erik...
I'm looking for data engineers
I'm interrupting the regular programming for a quick announcement: we're looking for data engineers...
over a year ago
I'm interrupting the regular programming for a quick announcement: we're looking for data engineers at Better. You would be the first one to join and would work a lot directly with me.
Some fun things you could work on (these are all projects I'm working on right now):
42!
The wrong birthday assumption
Many years ago, back in the late 80’s, one of my first big development contracts was to create a...
over a year ago
Many years ago, back in the late 80’s, one of my first big development contracts was to create a database for NAALAS - the North Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service (no longer around).
Basically, this organisation provided legal assistance for Aboriginal people to help them...
Arduino Blog
Receive an alert when your device goes offline in Arduino Cloud
You’re managing a network of IoT sensors that monitor air quality across multiple locations....
a month ago
You’re managing a network of IoT sensors that monitor air quality across multiple locations. Suddenly, one of the sensors goes offline, but you don’t notice until hours later. The result? A gap in your data and a missed opportunity to take corrective action. This is a common...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally…
As Edwin Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his polarized headlight system was fatally...
over a year ago
As Edwin Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his polarized headlight system was fatally hampered by the fact that there was no…
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 30
The First Two of Twelve Questions
a year ago
The First Two of Twelve Questions
TheCollector
The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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3 weeks ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ethics
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Everyone is a utilitarian until being a utilitarian...
a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Everyone is a utilitarian until being a utilitarian is low utility.
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Hacker's Guide to Investors
over a year ago
Alex Meub
Indeterminate Checkboxes
While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can...
over a year ago
While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can actually have up to four different visual states: checked, unchecked, disabled and indeterminate. What is indeterminate? It’s defined by the W3C this way:
If the element’s...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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a month ago
Retail Design Blog
Polène store by WGNB
Polène is on a roll! Following the opening of standalone stores in Paris, New York and Tokyo, the...
6 months ago
Polène is on a roll! Following the opening of standalone stores in Paris, New York and Tokyo, the French brand...
Rest of World -...
Employees allege sexual harassment and intimidation at CCI, Africa’s largest call center company
CCI Kenya has over 1,400 employees and its clients include T-Mobile and Instacart.
a year ago
CCI Kenya has over 1,400 employees and its clients include T-Mobile and Instacart.
Aaron's Essays
Pots of Gold
Here’s a painful contradiction at the heart of spending time on startups: all the good stuff you can...
over a year ago
Here’s a painful contradiction at the heart of spending time on startups: all the good stuff you can create is in the future, but all the patterns you look at to learn what to do are in the past. This makes your brain do funny things. On the one hand, you see how huge things can...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Prime
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Fortunately, crowds of humans tend to congregate in...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Fortunately, crowds of humans tend to congregate in places where the background is easy to draw.
Today's News:
Thanks, geeks! Little reviews are beginning to trickle out into the universe, including this one by Marie Robinette...
The Marginalian
But We Had Music: Nick Cave Reads an Animated Poem about Black Holes, Eternity, and How to Bear Our...
How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through...
8 months ago
How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have together on this lonely, perfect planet. The seventh annual Universe in Verse — a...
Oykun
Communicate Value over Long Hours of Work as a Designer
The tagline for my newsletter goes as below:
Grow As Designer | Helping Designers Grow...
a year ago
The tagline for my newsletter goes as below:
Grow As Designer | Helping Designers Grow Their Value and Income.
It's a bit unclear, right?
What the heck is "Value" anyway? How can you grow it?
Well, there are many meanings to
computers are bad
2024-01-21 multi-channel audio part 1
Stereophonic or two-channel audio is so ubiquitous today that we tend to refer
to all kinds of...
11 months ago
Stereophonic or two-channel audio is so ubiquitous today that we tend to refer
to all kinds of pieces of consumer audio reproduction equipment as "a stereo."
As you might imagine, this is a relatively modern phenomenon. While stereo
audio in concept dates to the late 19th...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: entertainment.ha.com License: All Rights Reserved.
Original...
over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: entertainment.ha.com License: All Rights Reserved.
Original WAR IS OVER! postcard.
The War Is Over! campaign for peace was launched 50 years ago this week by Yoko Ono & John Lennon. On December 15, 1969, a series of billboards, leaflets,...
Stephen Wolfram...
Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in...
a year ago
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with the concept of the ruliad that’s emerged from our Wolfram Physics Project. I’ve...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Taking Risks: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases
Previous Next https://youtu.be/86mSy3jnSr0 For Stoics, taking risks is something that they feel we...
a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/86mSy3jnSr0 For Stoics, taking risks is something that they feel we should never fear to do . . . if, that is, the risk is actually something that will help us live a more virtuous life, fulfill our potentials, or help other people. However (and...
Quanta Magazine
Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture
In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound...
5 months ago
In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program.
The post Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Rest of World -...
African startups need more than just funds from their investors
Anne-Marie Chidzero, chief investment officer at FSD Africa Investments, talks about the risks and...
a year ago
Anne-Marie Chidzero, chief investment officer at FSD Africa Investments, talks about the risks and opportunities in backing Africa’s early-stage startups.
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
Arduino Blog
An Arduino-powered robotic ukulele that plays itself
The ukulele has a bit of a reputation for being quaint, but it is a legitimate instrument like any...
4 months ago
The ukulele has a bit of a reputation for being quaint, but it is a legitimate instrument like any other and that means it takes a lot of practice to play competently. Zeroshot is too busy building cool stuff to bother with all of that, so he put his skills to use constructing...
Prolost
VFX Suite 1.5
Today Red Giant released the first major update to the VFX Suite we introduced last year.
Lens...
over a year ago
Today Red Giant released the first major update to the VFX Suite we introduced last year.
Lens Distortion Matcher
A brand-new effect, Lens Distortion Matcher makes it ridiculously easy to profile the distortion of any lens, and either remove it, or build a VFX workflow around it...
Ink & Switch
08 · History and diffs with Automerge
Version control capabilities like history, branching, and diffs are enabled by the Automerge CRDT...
9 months ago
Version control capabilities like history, branching, and diffs are enabled by the Automerge CRDT library.
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
A small freedom area...
Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games
As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up
watching a large...
7 months ago
As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up
watching a large number of video tutorials on the subject. Even though the
quality of the content is pretty variable, I'm very grateful to the creators
for it. That being said, I couldn't help...
Archinect - Features
Upcoming Architecture School Admission Deadlines You Shouldn’t Miss
As 2024 winds down, there’s still time to apply to architecture programs! Many schools are accepting...
5 days ago
As 2024 winds down, there’s still time to apply to architecture programs! Many schools are accepting undergraduate and graduate applications through January and February 2025 (and some even beyond that).
If you’re planning to start your architecture journey in Fall '25, check...
Ink & Switch
Summit 010 Berlin
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
over a year ago
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
TheCollector
Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
experiences we enjoyed in penang
My partner’s birthday is in the month of july, so we celebrated it by visiting Penang. In the recent...
a year ago
My partner’s birthday is in the month of july, so we celebrated it by visiting Penang. In the recent decade I didn’t intentionally visit Malaysia much because I’ve been there countless times...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Reloading a Document (and Preserving Query String Parameters) Using Only HTML
tl;dr: an empty string for your link, e.g. <a href="">Reload</a>
The other day I was trying to write...
a year ago
tl;dr: an empty string for your link, e.g. <a href="">Reload</a>
The other day I was trying to write some HTML to give the user the ability to reload the document in its exact state by clicking on a link (same functionality as if they hit CMD + R on their keyboard, or clicked...
The Modern House
Artist Grace Watts on creating a serene gallery-like living space in Bethnal Green
a year ago
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 3
In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first...
over a year ago
In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first prototype version of the site. I hit some speedbumps along the way and quickly reached the limits of what I could do with a pure client-only 1980s BASIC codebase. In this part, I’ll look...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Quality Means The Flexibility to Change
Here’s Ben Nadal quoting Dave Farley:
I've come to the belief that the only definition of quality in...
a month ago
Here’s Ben Nadal quoting Dave Farley:
I've come to the belief that the only definition of quality in code that makes any sense is our ability to change the code. If it's easy to change, it's high quality; if it's hard to change, it's not.
Then Ben comments:
I'm sure that some...
Noahpinion
Bad and good arguments for industrial policy
Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
5 months ago
Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
Spoon & Tamago
The Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum is Keeping the Spirit of Wooden Architecture Alive
Roughly seventy per cent of Japan is forested and therefore wood has been historically tied to...
a year ago
Roughly seventy per cent of Japan is forested and therefore wood has been historically tied to architecture and design since ancient times. In fact, the world’s oldest surviving wooden structure is the Horyu-ji temple that was built in the early seventh century. From the...
Seth's Blog
Fire inspectors
Running into a burning building is heroic work. Keeping buildings from burning down in the first...
4 months ago
Running into a burning building is heroic work. Keeping buildings from burning down in the first place is actually just as important. And it scales more reliably.
Common Edge
How Might We Talk About the Shoreline of San Francisco?
Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can...
10 months ago
Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can enable better conversations about them.
ntietz.com blog
Feature flags and authorization abstract the same concept
When I think of feature flags and authorization, I usually think about very different things.
They...
a year ago
When I think of feature flags and authorization, I usually think about very different things.
They are used for different purposes.
But ultimately, they are abstractions of the same thing.
They might even be the same thing except for how they are used and the consequences for...
Seth's Blog
The simple word replacement for connection
What do we say when a customer or colleague says, “thank you”? For a long time, it was “you’re...
a year ago
What do we say when a customer or colleague says, “thank you”? For a long time, it was “you’re welcome.” This indicates that you put in some effort and you’re willing to do it again on request. Recently “no problem” has become more common. This implies that the effort could have...
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