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ntietz.com blog -...
Great things about Rust that aren't just performance Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust. It's not because I need great performance,...
6 months ago
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Great things about Rust that aren't just performance

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust. It's not because I need great performance, though that's a nice benefit. I write a lot of Rust because it's a joy to write code in. There is so much else to love about Rust beyond going fast without segfaults. Here are a few...
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Irrational...
Public company comparables. A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive...
2 months ago
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Public company comparables.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive skill. I also subsequently wrote about ways to measure your engineering organization. Despite having written those, I still spend a lot of time wondering about effective ways to...
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Rest of World -...
Apple should tell Indians what it knows about politicians’ phones being hacked The Silicon Valley giant’s muted public response after several Indian opposition leaders received a...
a year ago
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Apple should tell Indians what it knows about politicians’ phones being hacked

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
The Silicon Valley giant’s muted public response after several Indian opposition leaders received a message that their devices may be compromised is doing more harm.
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
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Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Josh Collinsworth
Announcing Hondo Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from....
over a year ago
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Announcing Hondo

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from. Eventually, those ideas took the shape of a whole new word game, named Hondo.
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Handprinted - Blog
Using a Thermal Screen to Print Festive Wrapping Printing your own bespoke wrapping paper or fabric can be very rewarding especially when the gift is...
over a year ago
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Using a Thermal Screen to Print Festive Wrapping

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
Printing your own bespoke wrapping paper or fabric can be very rewarding especially when the gift is for a loved one. This week we're printing our own kraft wrapping paper using a Thermal Screen.  Here at Handprinted we use a MiScreen Machine to make our Thermal Screens. You can...
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wingolog
a whippet waypoint Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language...
2 months ago
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a whippet waypoint

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language implementations, and I just want to know all the things and implement all the fun stuff: intermediate representations, flow-sensitive source-to-source optimization passes,...
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The Works in...
The duplication crisis: the other replication crisis How bad publishing incentives hinder long-term thinking in computational biology research
9 months ago
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The duplication crisis: the other replication crisis

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
How bad publishing incentives hinder long-term thinking in computational biology research
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exist
An entire Social Network in 1.6GB (GraphD Part 2) In Part 1 of this series, we tried to answer the question “who do you follow who also follows user...
a year ago
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An entire Social Network in 1.6GB (GraphD Part 2)

from exist [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
In Part 1 of this series, we tried to answer the question “who do you follow who also follows user B” in Bluesky, a social network with millions of users and hundreds of millions of follow relationships. At the conclusion of the post, we’d developed an in-memory graph store for...
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balajis.com
The Network State Book A new book on starting new countries. Available on Kindle and for free at thenetworkstate.com.
over a year ago
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The Network State Book

from balajis.com [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
A new book on starting new countries. Available on Kindle and for free at thenetworkstate.com.
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History Today Feed
The Battle for Britain’s First Book of the Month Club The Battle for Britain’s First Book of the Month Club JamesHoare Tue, 07/08/2025 - 08:23
4 days ago
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The Battle for Britain’s First Book of the Month Club

from History Today Feed [alt+shift+b] in history

4 days ago
The Battle for Britain’s First Book of the Month Club JamesHoare Tue, 07/08/2025 - 08:23
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Michigan Michigan, known as the Great Lakes State, has played a vital role in American history. From its days...
3 months ago
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Michigan

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
Michigan, known as the Great Lakes State, has played a vital role in American history. From its days as a fur trading hub in the 17th century to its rise as the center of the automotive industry, the state has seen dramatic transformations. The War of 1812 brought significant...
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Alex MacCaw
Unshackling Artificial Minds Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product...
a year ago
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Unshackling Artificial Minds

from Alex MacCaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product of Entropy, the law of nature that dictates it is easier to destroy than to create. And here we are, on the cusp of creating not just something new, but
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Marcus on AI
Altman vs Musk cage match Uh oh. Now Altman wants to build a social media company, to compete with X. Who should we root for?
2 months ago
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Altman vs Musk cage match

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 months ago
Uh oh. Now Altman wants to build a social media company, to compete with X. Who should we root for?
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Quanta Magazine
Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their Pasts In two landmark experiments, researchers used quantum processors to engineer exotic particles that...
over a year ago
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Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their Pasts

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
In two landmark experiments, researchers used quantum processors to engineer exotic particles that have captivated physicists for decades. The work is a step toward crash-proof quantum computers. The post Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their Pasts...
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Blog posts of...
How to use Gmail more efficiently I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought...
over a year ago
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How to use Gmail more efficiently

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought it’s worth it’s own blogpost...
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Drew Ex Machina
Webb’s First Glimpse of Jupiter, Its Moons & Rings A long time ago when I was a budding amateur astronomer, one of the first targets I would observe...
over a year ago
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Webb’s First Glimpse of Jupiter, Its Moons & Rings

from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
A long time ago when I was a budding amateur astronomer, one of the first targets I would observe each evening with my new telescope was […]
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Elad Blog
Hiring Executives & Bad Advice When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of...
over a year ago
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Hiring Executives & Bad Advice

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of customer demand and experience a Cambrian explosion of internal org complexity simultaneously. Things will initially seem to just truck along as usual, and then suddenly everything at...
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Archinect - Features
A Guide to Salary Transparency Laws Across the United States At present, there is no federal pay transparency law in the United States. However, as Archinect...
a year ago
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A Guide to Salary Transparency Laws Across the United States

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
At present, there is no federal pay transparency law in the United States. However, as Archinect frequently reports on, several states and cities across the United States have enacted their own requirements for employers seeking to hire or promote within their...
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TokyoDev
Tips for Interviewing at Japanese Tech Companies I've already talked about some [tips on how to land a job in...
over a year ago
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Tips for Interviewing at Japanese Tech Companies

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I've already talked about some [tips on how to land a job in Japan](https://medium.com/japonica-publication/tips-for-landing-a-job-in-japan-b1b94315f177), as well as some [job sites](https://todorokis.medium.com/job-hunting-websites-to-get-an-it-job-in-japan-c7516846ce5) that...
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The Last...
The Maintenance Of Certification Exam As Fetish no need to wait for the receipt (I had reworked an old post for a psychiatry trade journal, which I...
over a year ago
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The Maintenance Of Certification Exam As Fetish

from The Last Psychiatrist [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
no need to wait for the receipt (I had reworked an old post for a psychiatry trade journal, which I would happily have linked you to, except that page 2 is behind a login wall. So here is the version I submitted before the editors edited it, slightly longer with more typos. I am...
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Making software...
Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
over a year ago
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Proper UI Hierarchy

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
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Open Culture
How Do You Use AI in Your Daily Life? Share the Applications That Have Made a Big Difference Image by Jernej Furman, via Wikimedia Commons It would be difficult to imagine the last couple of...
4 months ago
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How Do You Use AI in Your Daily Life? Share the Applications That Have Made a Big Difference

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
Image by Jernej Furman, via Wikimedia Commons It would be difficult to imagine the last couple of years without artificial intelligence, even if you don’t use it. Can you recall the last day without some AI-related news item or social-media post — or indeed, a time when the hype...
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Quentin Santos
How to use “real” UART I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This...
3 months ago
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How to use “real” UART

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This is just a recap of the basics to help put things in context. Many tutorials focus on using UART over USB, which adds many layers of abstraction, hiding what it actually is. Here,...
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sancho.dev
4 Years at ahrefs, can’t ask for a better job
a year ago
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4 Years at ahrefs, can’t ask for a better job

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a year ago
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The Honest Broker
AI Is Defeated in Hollywood—But What About Music? I describe a legit pathway to victory, but we need a general to lead the battle
a year ago
19

AI Is Defeated in Hollywood—But What About Music?

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
I describe a legit pathway to victory, but we need a general to lead the battle
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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...
over a year ago
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Name that Ware, April 2023

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over 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!
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xkcd.com
Exoplanet High-5
over a year ago
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Exoplanet High-5

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over a year ago
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The American Scholar
“À une passante” by Charles Baudelaire Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “À une passante” by Charles Baudelaire appeared first on The...
12 months ago
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“À une passante” by Charles Baudelaire

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

12 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “À une passante” by Charles Baudelaire appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Archinect - Features
A Conversation with Bjarke Ingels on AI, 3D Printing, and the Future of the Architectural... It has been almost ten years since Archinect last spoke with Bjarke Ingels. Back then, the topic of...
a year ago
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A Conversation with Bjarke Ingels on AI, 3D Printing, and the Future of the Architectural Profession

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
It has been almost ten years since Archinect last spoke with Bjarke Ingels. Back then, the topic of conversation was BIG's 'Hot to Cold' exhibition at the National Building Museum. Today, after a decade that has included award-winning Manhattan skyscrapers, floating cities, a...
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xkcd.com
Eclipse Clouds
a year ago
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Eclipse Clouds

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a year ago
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Tech + Economics +...
Portfolio careers are the future of work. The traditional idea of sticking to one career path for life, once seen as the golden standard of...
a year ago
63

Portfolio careers are the future of work.

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
The traditional idea of sticking to one career path for life, once seen as the golden standard of work success, is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Now, we're moving towards the paradigm of the "portfolio career." Think of a portfolio career like a patchwork quilt of jobs....
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Greater Still by...
Towards Crypto Literacy Consumer scale isn’t reached by abstracting the crypto away — not yet, at least.
over a year ago
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Towards Crypto Literacy

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Consumer scale isn’t reached by abstracting the crypto away — not yet, at least.
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Rest of World -...
A local ride-hailing service can’t beat Uber and Bolt, so its drivers are beating up their rivals Shesha was launched as a fair-minded local competitor to Western companies in South Africa. It has...
8 months ago
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A local ride-hailing service can’t beat Uber and Bolt, so its drivers are beating up their rivals

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

8 months ago
Shesha was launched as a fair-minded local competitor to Western companies in South Africa. It has acquired an ugly reputation for intimidating drivers and passengers.
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Opsbros
Pro-tip for Baristas If you've ever filled one of those 'Cheeki' coffee cups, or virtually any other reusable coffee cup,...
over a year ago
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Pro-tip for Baristas

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
If you've ever filled one of those 'Cheeki' coffee cups, or virtually any other reusable coffee cup, you've definitely come across the issue that when it's 'overfilled' it will overflow when the lid is put back on. There is a
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Canvas: A Bet On New EMRs | Out-Of-Pocket what if EMRs didn't totally suck?
a year ago
28

Canvas: A Bet On New EMRs | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
what if EMRs didn't totally suck?
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Posts on Nikita...
EuroRust 2024 I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an...
6 months ago
61

EuroRust 2024

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an actor system written in Rust. As I’m no longer an active contributor to elfo, it feels a bit bittersweet to finish last thing related to the project. I wish maintainers of elfo well...
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sbensu
Hiring from Big Tech Some brief notes about the subject
a year ago
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Hiring from Big Tech

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a year ago
Some brief notes about the subject
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Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
7 months ago
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI, Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly...
4 months ago
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Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI, Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for an increase to 224 thousand from 219 thousand last week. Producer Price Index for January from the BLS. The...
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The DESK Magazine
How to create free press for your work You know what’s not a portfolio, but still acts as a portfolio?
a year ago
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How to create free press for your work

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
You know what’s not a portfolio, but still acts as a portfolio?
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Noahpinion
Harris needs to be Pennsylvania fracking's biggest champion Biden already boosted fracking. Harris needs to promise more of the same.
9 months ago
70

Harris needs to be Pennsylvania fracking's biggest champion

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

9 months ago
Biden already boosted fracking. Harris needs to promise more of the same.
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Epic Web Dev
Good Code, Testable Code (article) Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for...
a year ago
70

Good Code, Testable Code (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for effective testing.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s TypeScript and Then There’s TypeScript Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming...
a year ago
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There’s TypeScript and Then There’s TypeScript

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming “No!” The answer seems simple, but (as with most things) it might be more nuanced than you think. Here’s Anders Hejlsberg, TypeScript Co-Creator & Lead Architech, from the...
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Platformer
Can Snap snap back? At its annual summit, the company gets bullish on AI — but feels haunted by the ghost of its past...
over a year ago
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Can Snap snap back?

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
At its annual summit, the company gets bullish on AI — but feels haunted by the ghost of its past ambitions
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.07.07 - Beer New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
5 days ago
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Comic for 2025.07.07 - Beer

from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics

5 days ago
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Quanta Magazine
Across a Continent, Trees Sync Their Fruiting to the Sun European beech trees more than 1,500 kilometers apart all drop their fruit at the same time in a...
a year ago
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Across a Continent, Trees Sync Their Fruiting to the Sun

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
European beech trees more than 1,500 kilometers apart all drop their fruit at the same time in a grand synchronization event now linked to the summer solstice. The post Across a Continent, Trees Sync Their Fruiting to the Sun first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Paul Graham: Essays
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
over a year ago
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A Unified Theory of VC Suckage

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over a year ago
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Willem's Blog
Tips for Long-Distance Cycling Embark on your own long-distance cycling adventure by learning from my post-COVID...
over a year ago
17

Tips for Long-Distance Cycling

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Embark on your own long-distance cycling adventure by learning from my post-COVID Fietselfstedentocht experience, packed with invaluable tips and tricks.
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99% Invisible
Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is [EPISODE] A few years ago, at the very start of the pandemic, Roman Mars wrote an episode of 99pi in which he...
a year ago
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Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is [EPISODE]

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a year ago
A few years ago, at the very start of the pandemic, Roman Mars wrote an episode of 99pi in which he simply talked about design details in his house — realizing that he, like the audience, didn’t have many other places to go. )You should check it out — it’s a real time capsule,...
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A Beautiful Site
Cory's amazing dot paper In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in...
over a year ago
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Cory's amazing dot paper

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over a year ago
In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in my corner holding this old fashioned pencil and a stack of dot paper. Sorry, but for me, these primitive tools do the same thing and I find them easier to use. I don't know. I guess...
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macwright.com
Web pages and video games An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are...
a year ago
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Web pages and video games

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a year ago
An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are so amazing and fast?” I’ve thought about it more than I’d like. Anyway, here are some reasons: Web pages are just-in-time delivered, with no installation required. Modern video...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA February 2, 2024.
a year ago
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AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA

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a year ago
February 2, 2024.
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Raptitude.com
Do Quests, Not Goals South Island, New Zealand, a.k.a. Middle-Earth If you were to make a list of what you want to get...
11 months ago
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Do Quests, Not Goals

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11 months ago
South Island, New Zealand, a.k.a. Middle-Earth If you were to make a list of what you want to get done this week, it would mostly consist of things you have to do. Get groceries. Book a hair appointment. Get back to so-and-so. Read that health and safety thing for work. If you...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
5 Must-Visit UNESCO Sites in Berlin
a year ago
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5 Must-Visit UNESCO Sites in Berlin

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a year ago
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Maps Mania
Underwater Weather Forecasts
a month ago
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Underwater Weather Forecasts

from Maps Mania [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a month ago
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Confessions of a...
Linux Context Switches: The Truth About TLB Flushes Watch now (22 mins) | Is the TLB really flushed during context switches?
5 months ago
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Linux Context Switches: The Truth About TLB Flushes

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

5 months ago
Watch now (22 mins) | Is the TLB really flushed during context switches?
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The Roots of...
Links digest, 2023-10-12 I’ve been traveling for a while, so this is a long one, covering the last ~month. I tried to cut it...
a year ago
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Links digest, 2023-10-12

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
I’ve been traveling for a while, so this is a long one, covering the last ~month. I tried to cut it down, but there have been so many amazing announcements, opportunities, etc.! Feel free to skim and jump around: From the Roots of Progress fellows Connor O’Brien and Adam Ozimek...
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Wuthering...
Books I Read in April 2024 - this irritation passes over into patient completed understanding Grinding away at Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans (1925), a genuine monster.  “As I...
a year ago
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Books I Read in April 2024 - this irritation passes over into patient completed understanding

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a year ago
Grinding away at Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans (1925), a genuine monster.  “As I was saying it is often irritating to listen to the repeating they are doing, always then that one has it as being to love repeating that is the whole history of each one, such a one has it...
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Londonist
20 Remarkable Photos Of London In 1992 Concorde, IRA bombs and the Chippendales.
a year ago
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20 Remarkable Photos Of London In 1992

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a year ago
Concorde, IRA bombs and the Chippendales.
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.07.09 - Confidence New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
3 days ago
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Comic for 2025.07.09 - Confidence

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3 days ago
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Wet Labs Shouldn’t Be Boring (for young scientists) | Out-Of-Pocket This is the first touchpoint for science, we should make it more enticing
3 weeks ago
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Wet Labs Shouldn’t Be Boring (for young scientists) | Out-Of-Pocket

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3 weeks ago
This is the first touchpoint for science, we should make it more enticing
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Artificial Ignorance
GPTs won't make you rich But they'll make you more productive.
a year ago
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GPTs won't make you rich

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a year ago
But they'll make you more productive.
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exist
Your Data Fits in Memory (GraphD Part 1) I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things...
a year ago
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Your Data Fits in Memory (GraphD Part 1)

from exist [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things have been going very well. The system scales and handles millions of users without breaking a sweat, the ScyllaDB-backed Data Plane service sits at under 5% DB load in the most...
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SubAnima
Have We Already Found Life On Mars? Definitions are a funny thing..
over a year ago
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Have We Already Found Life On Mars?

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over a year ago
Definitions are a funny thing..
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Old Structures...
Ins And Outs Of Development In 1891, Corydon Purdy published a four-piece article in the Engineering News on “The Steel Skeleton...
a year ago
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Ins And Outs Of Development

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
In 1891, Corydon Purdy published a four-piece article in the Engineering News on “The Steel Skeleton Type of High Buildings.” Skeleton framing, as we understand it today, was about a year old; using some of the older and looser definitions floating around in the 1880s and 90s, it...
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The American Scholar
“I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Forugh Farrokhzad Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Forugh Farrokhzad appeared...
10 months ago
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“I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Forugh Farrokhzad

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10 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Forugh Farrokhzad appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Articles
Park your experience
over a year ago
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Park your experience

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over a year ago
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Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,”  he...
a year ago
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,”  he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Lesser-Known Adventures to Explore in Greece
7 months ago
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7 Lesser-Known Adventures to Explore in Greece

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7 months ago
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TokyoDev
A Win-Win: Multinational Development Teams at Givery There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan, and a growing number of Japanese companies...
9 months ago
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A Win-Win: Multinational Development Teams at Givery

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan, and a growing number of Japanese companies have responded by building new, multinational development teams. An in-house multinational team, which typically uses English as a first language, can allow a Japanese company to take...
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Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs and Palm This is not satisfactory to Apple.
6 months ago
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Steve Jobs and Palm

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6 months ago
This is not satisfactory to Apple.
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Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.1 released I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and...
a year ago
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nsnotifyd-2.1 released

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and runs a script when one of your zones changes. This nsnotifyd-2.1 release includes a few bugfixes: more lenient handling of trailing . in domain names on the command line avoid...
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alexwlchan
Not all blog posts are created equal For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block. I was struggling to write,...
6 months ago
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Not all blog posts are created equal

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block. I was struggling to write, even when I had good ideas; if I wrote something I liked, I was often reluctant to publish it; if somebody asked to read the site, I’d wince before giving them the link. Something...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Nature of Love
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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a year ago
The Nature of Love
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Calculated Risk
Newsletter: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.8% year-over-year in November Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up...
5 months ago
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Newsletter: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.8% year-over-year in November

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.8% year-over-year in November S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for November ("November" is a 3-month average of September, October and November closing...
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TheCollector
Red Gold: How Cochineal Dye Built Mexican Cities A dye extracted from crushed bugs might sound archaic, but it is surprisingly ubiquitous....
2 months ago
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Red Gold: How Cochineal Dye Built Mexican Cities

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
A dye extracted from crushed bugs might sound archaic, but it is surprisingly ubiquitous. Cochineal—parasitic insects that live on nopal (prickly pear) cacti across Latin America—are the key ingredients in a vivid red pigment known as carmine, which colors foods, beverages,...
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Platformer
How BeReal missed its moment To become the next big social app, competitors have to move faster
over a year ago
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How BeReal missed its moment

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
To become the next big social app, competitors have to move faster
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Computer Ads from...
Electronic Protection Devices' Electro-Clamp line The Underrated Virtues of Plain Vanilla
a year ago
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Electronic Protection Devices' Electro-Clamp line

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
The Underrated Virtues of Plain Vanilla
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Working Theorys
The Taste Discount Everything is easier when tastes align.
a year ago
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The Taste Discount

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a year ago
Everything is easier when tastes align.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 8 2024 - on Dune 2 A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
a year ago
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Pensieve: Mar 8 2024 - on Dune 2

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
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Josh Collinsworth
A New Headless Site with Gridsome A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the...
over a year ago
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A New Headless Site with Gridsome

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the techniques and gotchas involved, and, finally, the new design of this site specifically.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Perk Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't know if anyone else likes the etymology...
11 months ago
64

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Perk

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't know if anyone else likes the etymology jokes, but I am here for me. Today's News:
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Londonist
Explore Notre-Dame Cathedral... From Westminster Abbey Hit augmented reality experience comes to London.
a year ago
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Explore Notre-Dame Cathedral... From Westminster Abbey

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a year ago
Hit augmented reality experience comes to London.
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Posts on Nikita...
Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
over a year ago
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Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 2 I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week...
6 months ago
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Humanities Crash Course: Week 2

from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 2. Following Ted Gioia’s curriculum, I tackled a small volume of early Greek poetry and the first ten books of the Odyssey. I also heard music from recent descendents of these ancient bards...
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Yale E360
Working with Rust in (neo)vim I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code. My first introduction to it was...
over a year ago
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Working with Rust in (neo)vim

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code. My first introduction to it was being thrown in the deep end in 2009 by my Intro to CS lab assistant, who told us to write our programs using vi1 on the department servers. Why he told us that, I have no idea. But...
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Map of the Week
Mapping The Surf Malin and Mizen is a company that makes specialty maps like the California Surf Map   I love the...
2 months ago
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Mapping The Surf

from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2 months ago
Malin and Mizen is a company that makes specialty maps like the California Surf Map   I love the wavy lines and details showing ideal wind and swell directions, coordinates, shark sightings, etc. The hand drawn details on the land are also very nice.  The company is named...
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Sam Altman
Keep the Internet Open The FCC has announced plans to roll back policies on net neutrality, and its new head has indicated...
over a year ago
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Keep the Internet Open

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
The FCC has announced plans to roll back policies on net neutrality, and its new head has indicated he has no plan to stop soon. The internet is a public good, and I believe access should be a basic right.  We've seen such great innovation in software because the internet has...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
VC investment vs Gartner hype cycle Here is total VC investment over time: And here's the Gartner hype cycle: One reading of this is...
over a year ago
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VC investment vs Gartner hype cycle

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Here is total VC investment over time: And here's the Gartner hype cycle: One reading of this is that the advent of the internet was the…
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
How to use your AirPod Pros to Trigger Flow It’s 2020 and if you are like me you are hoping to spend as much of this year in a flow state as...
over a year ago
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How to use your AirPod Pros to Trigger Flow

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
It’s 2020 and if you are like me you are hoping to spend as much of this year in a flow state as possible. I am always looking for hacks that allow my to get into the zone faster, stay there longer, and increase my creative output. Here’s a new trick that has been working for me...
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SatPost by Trung...
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Pixar Revisiting the studio’s early highs (one lunch led to $6B at the box office), creative struggles...
11 months ago
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The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Pixar

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

11 months ago
Revisiting the studio’s early highs (one lunch led to $6B at the box office), creative struggles (stale IP, original flops) and why "Inside Out 2" could trigger a renaissance.
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Seth's Blog
A thoughtful review Thanks to Francis Wade for emailing me this review of THIS IS STRATEGY. Francis works in strategy,...
8 months ago
60

A thoughtful review

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

8 months ago
Thanks to Francis Wade for emailing me this review of THIS IS STRATEGY. Francis works in strategy, and I’m so delighted the book resonated the way it did. Case: You are a corporate strategic planner – someone immersed in defining a future for your organization. But lately, you...
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Tinloof - Blog
A/B testing with Sanity and LaunchDarkly We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and...
over a year ago
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A/B testing with Sanity and LaunchDarkly

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and LaunchDarkly.
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Unpacked
Instacart IPO: Race against market saturation The company's journey to IPO is impressive but long-term upside hinges on the success of its...
a year ago
32

Instacart IPO: Race against market saturation

from Unpacked [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
The company's journey to IPO is impressive but long-term upside hinges on the success of its long-term bets like ads and the enterprise platform
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Calculated Risk
FOMC Statement: No Change to Fed Funds Rate Fed Chair Powell press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM ET. FOMC...
2 months ago
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FOMC Statement: No Change to Fed Funds Rate

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 months ago
Fed Chair Powell press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM ET. FOMC Statement: Uncertainty about the economic outlook has increased further. The Committee is attentive to the risks to both sides of its dual mandate and judges that the risks of higher...
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Haterade
Happy Birthday, Haterade The Terrible Twos. Plus, new merch!
over a year ago
8

Happy Birthday, Haterade

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over a year ago
The Terrible Twos. Plus, new merch!
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Common Edge
As Brooklyn Nets’ Value Booms, a Missed Opportunity With the Arena A $688 million Koch family (!) investment shows the enormous upside for NBA team owners.
a year ago
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As Brooklyn Nets’ Value Booms, a Missed Opportunity With the Arena

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a year ago
A $688 million Koch family (!) investment shows the enormous upside for NBA team owners.
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The Ruffian
The Ruffian Speaks For Money
a year ago
46

The Ruffian Speaks

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a year ago
For Money
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Google Sheets v4 API with Netlify Dev wiring up Google Sheets via a Netlify Function
over a year ago
37

Google Sheets v4 API with Netlify Dev

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
wiring up Google Sheets via a Netlify Function
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Push to Prod
When Things Are Slow, Look for Queues When your system is slower than desired, queues are often heavily involved. Here's an overview of...
11 months ago
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When Things Are Slow, Look for Queues

from Push to Prod [alt+shift+b] in technology

11 months ago
When your system is slower than desired, queues are often heavily involved. Here's an overview of the most common situations.
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99% Invisible
Model Village [EPISODE] For decades, society has dealt with people with dementia and other forms of cognitive decline by...
a year ago
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Model Village [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
For decades, society has dealt with people with dementia and other forms of cognitive decline by storing them away in unstimulating, medicalized environments. But around the world, a new architectural movement is starting to challenge that old paradigm. Designing environments...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 How to Monetize a Blog Regardless, if this is the game, we can still be its players. Hats off to you. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Visit...
10 months ago
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🔗 How to Monetize a Blog

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

10 months ago
Regardless, if this is the game, we can still be its players. Hats off to you. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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Wrong Side of...
The First Briton James I, the wise fool who dreamed of a Great Britain
3 months ago
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The First Briton

from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
James I, the wise fool who dreamed of a Great Britain
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Greg Brockman
The OpenAI Mission This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on...
over a year ago
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The OpenAI Mission

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on OpenAI for the past three years. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which we define as automated systems that outperform humans at most...
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Society's Backend:...
Know Your Benchmarks How the Chatbot Arena leaderboard for LLMs works and why it’s important to understand
a year ago
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Know Your Benchmarks

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
How the Chatbot Arena leaderboard for LLMs works and why it’s important to understand
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Grant Slatton
How to write complex software A general method
6 months ago
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How to write complex software

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
A general method
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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
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A Simple Drawing For A Difficult Structure – Part 1

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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...
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Calculated Risk
Q1 GDP Tracking: Wide Range From BofA: Our 1Q GDP tracking remains unchanged at 1.9% q/q saar and our 4Q GDP tracking is down...
3 months ago
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Q1 GDP Tracking: Wide Range

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
From BofA: Our 1Q GDP tracking remains unchanged at 1.9% q/q saar and our 4Q GDP tracking is down two tenths to 2.3% q/q saar since our last weekly publication. [Mar 14th] emphasis added From Goldman: We lowered our Q1 GDP tracking estimate by 0.3pp to +1.3% last week. [Mar...
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Epic Web Dev
Web Application Testing (workshop) Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing...
a year ago
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Web Application Testing (workshop)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing covers unit testing, E2E, integration testing, and more!
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The Elysian
Join our upcoming literary salon discussions Our calendar of upcoming events.
9 months ago
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Join our upcoming literary salon discussions

from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature

9 months ago
Our calendar of upcoming events.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
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Epic Web Dev
Authentication Strategies & Implementation (workshop) Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more...
a year ago
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Authentication Strategies & Implementation (workshop)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more in the Authentication Strategies & Implementation Workshop!
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Seth's Blog
Perfect Nothing is perfect… But everything can get better. There’s never enough time… But there’s time...
2 weeks ago
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Perfect

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

2 weeks ago
Nothing is perfect… But everything can get better. There’s never enough time… But there’s time enough to make a difference. Someone will always be opposed to the change we seek to make. And there’s always someone who wants to help. Anything can happen… But something will.
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BLDGBLOG
Cleared For Approach [Image: “Forest and Sun” (1926) by Max Ernst.] When I first saw this painting—“Forest and Sun”...
over a year ago
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Cleared For Approach

from BLDGBLOG [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
[Image: “Forest and Sun” (1926) by Max Ernst.] When I first saw this painting—“Forest and Sun” (1926) by Max Ernst, a composition and theme he continually revisited and changed over the course of his career—I mistook the tiny white squiggles in the lower right for a procession of...
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Old Structures...
A Specific Location “Pretty” is almost certainly the wrong word for this 1902 postcard view of lower Manhattan. It...
a year ago
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A Specific Location

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year 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...
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detreville
But why "detreville"? (But why not?)
over a year ago
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But why "detreville"?

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over a year ago
(But why not?)
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Open Culture
Hōshi: A Short Documentary on the 1300-Year-Old Hotel Run by the Same Japanese Family for 46... Hōshi, a traditional Japanese inn in Komatsu, Japan, holds the distinction of being the second...
2 months ago
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Hōshi: A Short Documentary on the 1300-Year-Old Hotel Run by the Same Japanese Family for 46 Generations

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

2 months ago
Hōshi, a traditional Japanese inn in Komatsu, Japan, holds the distinction of being the second oldest hotel in the world—and “the oldest still running family business in the world.” Built in 718 AD, Hōshi has been operated by the same family for 46 consecutive generations. Count...
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Mazdak
OpenAI Launches GPT‑4.1: What You Need to Know About the New Family of AI Models OpenAI has officially released the GPT‑4.1 family — and it’s more than just a minor upgrade.
2 months ago
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OpenAI Launches GPT‑4.1: What You Need to Know About the New Family of AI Models

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 months ago
OpenAI has officially released the GPT‑4.1 family — and it’s more than just a minor upgrade.
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oftwominds-Charles...
Here Come the Chaos Monkeys The Chaos Monkeys are so masterful at distracting and confusing us with sensory-digital overload,...
3 months ago
28

Here Come the Chaos Monkeys

from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
The Chaos Monkeys are so masterful at distracting and confusing us with sensory-digital overload, we're not even aware of the game until the extortion begins. Chaos Monkeys excel at distraction and extortion. They appear suddenly, leaping about in disorienting mayhem,...
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Tech + Economics +...
A few thoughts on the end of Omegle. In 2009, Omegle was more than just a website to me; it was a lifeline when I felt adrift and...
a year ago
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A few thoughts on the end of Omegle.

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
In 2009, Omegle was more than just a website to me; it was a lifeline when I felt adrift and isolated from any real sense of community or network. I was struggling with depression, alcohol abuse and the recent end of my music career and my life on tour. Omegle's premise...
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Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s) Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
a year ago
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A Kitchen And Bathroom Remodel For This 1970s Home SHED Architecture & Design has shared their latest project, the contemporary interior remodel of a...
over a year ago
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Before & After – A Kitchen And Bathroom Remodel For This 1970s Home

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
SHED Architecture & Design has shared their latest project, the contemporary interior remodel of a 1970s home on Seattle’s Mercer Island that was originally designed by William Rutledge. The house met the functional needs of its new owners but did not quite suit their...
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The Marginalian
Meeting the Muse at the Edge of the Light: Poet Gary Snyder on Craftsmanship vs. Creative Force It is tempting, because we make everything we make with everything we are, to take our creative...
4 months ago
35

Meeting the Muse at the Edge of the Light: Poet Gary Snyder on Craftsmanship vs. Creative Force

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

4 months ago
It is tempting, because we make everything we make with everything we are, to take our creative potency for a personal merit. It is also tempting when we find ourselves suddenly impotent, as all artists regularly do, to blame the block on a fickle muse and rue ourselves abandoned...
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Hixie's Natural Log
Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation....
a year ago
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Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation. With Flutter's web support, we're even able to literally inline full sample applications into the API docs and have them literally editable and executable inline. For example,...
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Joel Gascoigne
Reflecting on 10 years of building Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the...
over a year ago
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Reflecting on 10 years of building Buffer

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the first version of Buffer. What started as a landing page to gauge interest, and then a very basic product that I worked on alone, has become so much more. Buffer is now a
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Search Results Without JavaScript I’m currently looking to add a search feature to my blog. It’s a client-side approach, which means I...
4 months ago
44

Search Results Without JavaScript

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

4 months ago
I’m currently looking to add a search feature to my blog. It’s a client-side approach, which means I was planning on using my favorite progressive-enhancement technique for client-side only search: you point a search form at Google, scope the results to your site, then use...
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Charlie Becker
Have you quit social media? Do you want to? I am looking for feedback on an idea I'm writing an essay about.
11 months ago
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Have you quit social media? Do you want to?

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

11 months ago
I am looking for feedback on an idea I'm writing an essay about.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Graphs It has become customary to use “graph” to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks...
over a year ago
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Graphs

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
It has become customary to use “graph” to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. (Computer scientists…
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Evan Jones -...
Huge Pages are a Good Idea Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to...
over a year ago
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Huge Pages are a Good Idea

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to physical addresses. These translations are usually fast because the mappings are cached in the CPU's Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Unfortunately, virtual memory on x86 has...
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Blog - Bitfield...
Why you can't meditate You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special cushion. But you can start to...
6 months ago
93

Why you can't meditate

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special cushion. But you can start to gently train your brain to stop craving distraction and overstimulation. In this excerpt from Monk Mode, we'll see how.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Immortal Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This led to a remarkably nice discussion in patreon...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Immortal

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This led to a remarkably nice discussion in patreon yesterday. Today's News: 6 days!!
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Seth's Blog
Putting up the big numbers Some people go to the gym for health and energy. Some go to lift more weight than they did yesterday...
a year ago
28

Putting up the big numbers

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
Some people go to the gym for health and energy. Some go to lift more weight than they did yesterday (or more than the person next to them). You can start a company to make an impact and surround yourself with people on a similar journey, or you can seek to maximize the stock...
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Epic Web Dev
Turn Progressive Enhancement up to 11 (tip) Learn how to create a progressive enhancement image uploader that works for users with or without...
a year ago
28

Turn Progressive Enhancement up to 11 (tip)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Learn how to create a progressive enhancement image uploader that works for users with or without JavaScript.
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Applied Cartography
Applied Cartography × Val Town Had a blast live-coding some experimentations with Steve and Shovel yesterday using Val Town. (If...
8 months ago
25

Applied Cartography × Val Town

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago
Had a blast live-coding some experimentations with Steve and Shovel yesterday using Val Town. (If you haven't used Val, well, watch the stream — think live, zero-deploy code snippets that can be arbitrarily extended and executed.) Reflecting on the experience, the most exciting...
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Wuthering...
Jon Fosse's Septology - art "can only say something while keeping silent about what it actually... Jon Fosse’s Septology (2019-21) is a long stream-of-consciousness novel about a Norwegian painter...
8 months ago
57

Jon Fosse's Septology - art "can only say something while keeping silent about what it actually wants to say"

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

8 months ago
Jon Fosse’s Septology (2019-21) is a long stream-of-consciousness novel about a Norwegian painter trying to understand one of his paintings.  Each of the novel’s seven sections begins with Asle looking at the painting: AND I SEE MYSELF STANDING and looking at the picture...
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Seth's Blog
Generational shifts in punditry In 1970, when Walter Cronkite was narrating current events for the United States, he was 54 years...
a year ago
50

Generational shifts in punditry

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
In 1970, when Walter Cronkite was narrating current events for the United States, he was 54 years old. Hitchcock made his last film when he was 77. When there’s a limited number of slots for narrators to fill, they can stick around for a long time. One of the overlooked cultural...
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Steve Klabnik
Resque 1.25.0 has been released
over a year ago
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Resque 1.25.0 has been released

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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journal – Winnie Lim
blog questions challenge Though I’ve already done something similar for people & blogs, I thought it could be interesting to...
5 months ago
35

blog questions challenge

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

5 months ago
Though I’ve already done something similar for people & blogs, I thought it could be interesting to answer similar questions in a different slice of time after being tagged by Naz Hamid...
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Louwrentius
ZFS: Performance and capacity impact of ashift=9 on 4K sector drives Update 2014-8-23: I was testing with ashift for my new NAS. The ashift=9 write performance...
over a year ago
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ZFS: Performance and capacity impact of ashift=9 on 4K sector drives

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Update 2014-8-23: I was testing with ashift for my new NAS. The ashift=9 write performance deteriorated from 1.1 GB/s to 830 MB/s with just 16 TB of data on the pool. Also I noticed that resilvering was very slow. This is why I decided to abandon my 24 drive RAIDZ3...
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Devmoh
Protobufs Explained, and why Google, Apple, and LinkedIn use it over JSON Faster than JSON, clearer than XML, cross-language, type-safe, and backwards compatible.
a year ago
49

Protobufs Explained, and why Google, Apple, and LinkedIn use it over JSON

from Devmoh [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Faster than JSON, clearer than XML, cross-language, type-safe, and backwards compatible.
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The Rational Walk
Biden’s Withdrawal and the Limits of Gaslighting President Biden's withdrawal from the election is the culmination of months of gaslighting by the...
11 months ago
104

Biden’s Withdrawal and the Limits of Gaslighting

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

11 months ago
President Biden's withdrawal from the election is the culmination of months of gaslighting by the Democratic Party and allies in the mainstream media.
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Open Culture
Historian Answers Burning Questions About The Renaissance Courtesy of Wired, historian Alexander Bevilacqua (Williams College) answers the internet’s burning...
4 months ago
36

Historian Answers Burning Questions About The Renaissance

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
Courtesy of Wired, historian Alexander Bevilacqua (Williams College) answers the internet’s burning questions about the cultural rebirth that came to be known as The Renaissance. In 30+ minutes, Bevilacqua covers an array of questions, including: When did The Renaissance begin?...
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Open Culture
How a Steady Supply of Coffee Helped the Union Win the U.S. Civil War Americans doing “e‑mail jobs” and working in the “laptop class” tend to make much of the quantity of...
a year ago
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How a Steady Supply of Coffee Helped the Union Win the U.S. Civil War

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
Americans doing “e‑mail jobs” and working in the “laptop class” tend to make much of the quantity of coffee they require to keep going, or even to get started. In that sense alone, they have something in common with Civil War soldiers. “Union soldiers were given 36 pounds of...
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TheCollector
An Overview of the Qin and Han Chinese Dynasties In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire...
3 months ago
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An Overview of the Qin and Han Chinese Dynasties

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire as Qin Shi Huangdi (The First August Emperor of Qin). The Qin emperor centralized state administration, built an extensive road network, and built the first Great Wall.   While...
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./techtipsy
Disabling the crappy Broadcom Bluetooth adapter in your ThinkPad T430 running Linux You’ve disabled the boneheaded Lenovo WiFi adapter whitelist using a tool like 1vyrain, installed a...
over a year ago
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Disabling the crappy Broadcom Bluetooth adapter in your ThinkPad T430 running Linux

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
You’ve disabled the boneheaded Lenovo WiFi adapter whitelist using a tool like 1vyrain, installed a better adapter like the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260, and found that Bluetooth is not working as intended on your ThinkPad T430 running Linux? Here’s a guide on what you can...
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Rest of World -...
Careless People: Facebook insider’s memoir reveals more in what it omits Sarah Wynn-Williams’ memoir is a courageous feat, but it glosses over her own indifference to...
3 months ago
57

Careless People: Facebook insider’s memoir reveals more in what it omits

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

3 months ago
Sarah Wynn-Williams’ memoir is a courageous feat, but it glosses over her own indifference to warnings from policymakers, civil society, and internal teams outside the U.S. about serious harm to communities from Facebook.
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CONTEMPORIST
Distillery-Inspired Materials Are Featured Throughout The Interior Of This Gin Bar Architecture and experimentation office Grizzo Studio together with Rocio Martinez Serra, has sent...
a year ago
49

Distillery-Inspired Materials Are Featured Throughout The Interior Of This Gin Bar

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Architecture and experimentation office Grizzo Studio together with Rocio Martinez Serra, has sent us photos of the Moretti Gin Bar that they have recently completed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The design of the bar incorporates elements that have been inspired by the gin...
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Home on Erik...
Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project. Luigi is a Python module that helps...
over a year ago
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Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project. Luigi is a Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs, handle dependency resolution, and create visualizations to help manage multiple workflows. It also comes with Hadoop support built in...
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Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims, Trade Deficit, ISM Services Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly...
3 months ago
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Thursday: Unemployment Claims, Trade Deficit, ISM Services

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for 225 initial claims up from 224 thousand last week. Trade Balance report for February from the Census Bureau. The...
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Londonist
Exciting News For London Art Lovers! A special offer just in time for the Easter holidays
a year ago
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Exciting News For London Art Lovers!

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a year ago
A special offer just in time for the Easter holidays
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A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI-generated Code I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on...
over a year ago
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My Stance on AI-generated Code

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over a year ago
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code. As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
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Seth's Blog
Reimagining cities in a few simple questions What would happen if public transportation were free? What if it were paid for by congestion...
over a year ago
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Reimagining cities in a few simple questions

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
What would happen if public transportation were free? What if it were paid for by congestion pricing, digitally implemented? What if public toilets were safe, beautiful, well-appointed and consistently maintained? What if there were a tax on empty storefronts, payable after three...
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Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
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Bringing It All Back Home

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a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Ben Borgers
Learnings from JumboCode
over a year ago
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Learnings from JumboCode

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over a year ago
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Many Worlds
The Familiar, Yet So Different, Hydrocarbon Rivers of Titan There are three planets or moons in our solar system known to now have, or once had, surface rivers,...
a year ago
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The Familiar, Yet So Different, Hydrocarbon Rivers of Titan

from Many Worlds [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
There are three planets or moons in our solar system known to now have, or once had, surface rivers, lakes, deltas and a hydrologic system.  There’s Earth, of course, Mars long ago when it was warmer and wetter, and the so different yet so similar rivers of hydrocarbons on...
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Aaron's Essays
Things that aren't progress A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to...
over a year ago
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Things that aren't progress

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to founders doing these things, I started thinking about why they were happening. I realized that the behaviors were largely a function of bad goal setting. When founders choose bad...
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Making software...
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount...
over a year ago
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Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount of time and effort into fixing a stuck oil fuel tank float-gauge in my house. Recently, the float mechanism became stuck and permanently displayed empty regardless of how much...
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Tony Finch's blog
regpg-1.12 Yesterday I received a bug report for regpg, my program that safely stores server secrets encrypted...
a year ago
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regpg-1.12

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a year ago
Yesterday I received a bug report for regpg, my program that safely stores server secrets encrypted with gpg so they can be commited to a git repository. The bug was that I used the classic shell pipeline find | xargs grep with the classic Unix “who would want spaces in...
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Quanta Magazine
An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that...
a year ago
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An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

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a year ago
The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been disproved, the universe of shapes has exploded. The post An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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There are two types...
With Rhetoric: The New York Apartment House WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.”...
7 months ago
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With Rhetoric: The New York Apartment House

from There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind [alt+shift+b] in architecture

7 months ago
WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.” I helped Robert A.M. Stern write New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915. My summer job turned into a … Continue reading → The post With Rhetoric: The New...
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Yale E360
I'm scared, and hopeful, and you can help Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event. It's my first time flying since 2018, and...
a year ago
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I'm scared, and hopeful, and you can help

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event. It's my first time flying since 2018, and I'm excited to meet all my coworkers in person. The travel is, on whole, going to be a good experience. But there is a lot surrounding the travel that is stressful and scary. I'm...
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Vadim Kravcenko
💀 Every app has its skeletons You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You...
over a year ago
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💀 Every app has its skeletons

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over a year ago
You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You […] The post 💀 Every app has its skeletons appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Computer Ads from...
Expedited Vote for the February 2025 + Post Topic Time is running out.
4 months ago
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Expedited Vote for the February 2025 + Post Topic

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4 months ago
Time is running out.
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
What it's like working for American companies as an Australian For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia....
6 months ago
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What it's like working for American companies as an Australian

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6 months ago
For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia. First I worked in a satellite office for…
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Left To Write
Stoicism: The Philosophy I Use To Guide Me Through Life Last week, I had a Zoom call with someone from Daniel Vassallo’s Small Bets community. The person —...
over a year ago
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Stoicism: The Philosophy I Use To Guide Me Through Life

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over a year ago
Last week, I had a Zoom call with someone from Daniel Vassallo’s Small Bets community. The person — let’s call him B — was leaving a cushy tech job and wanted to give the whole solopreneur thing a try. So given my background, B wanted insights into how I deal with uncertainty.
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Blog of Simple...
Cookie banners: How to stay GDPR compliant?
over a year ago
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Cookie banners: How to stay GDPR compliant?

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over a year ago
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's...
over a year ago
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Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's free, easy to set up (just drop a few tags on the page), and that's what I knew back then. I did not enjoy it being run by a big corporation, but I was too lazy to research the...
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Londonist
Just 18 Pictures Of Modernist Tube Stations Looking Dreamy They don't make 'em like they used to.
a year ago
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Just 18 Pictures Of Modernist Tube Stations Looking Dreamy

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a year ago
They don't make 'em like they used to.
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Dan Slimmon
Outliers carry information. Don’t leave them on the table Over a decade ago, I saw this talk by John Rauser. Only recently, though, did I come to realize how...
over a year ago
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Outliers carry information. Don’t leave them on the table

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Over a decade ago, I saw this talk by John Rauser. Only recently, though, did I come to realize how incredibly influential this talk has been on my career. Gosh what a great talk! You should watch it. If you operate a complex system, like a SaaS app, you probably have a dashboard...
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There are two types...
DONALD TRUMP & EVIL – A Post-Halloween / Election-Eve Story Almost forty years ago, I owned a small house in the Greenwich “backcountry” just a few miles from...
8 months ago
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DONALD TRUMP & EVIL – A Post-Halloween / Election-Eve Story

from There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind [alt+shift+b] in architecture

8 months ago
Almost forty years ago, I owned a small house in the Greenwich “backcountry” just a few miles from the Westchester County Airport. One morning, I was talking on the phone with a friend whom I would see later in the … Continue reading → The post DONALD TRUMP & EVIL – A...
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Making software...
Chasing Performance Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been...
over a year ago
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Chasing Performance

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been redesigned since. I'm keeping this article up as a point of reference. So I decided to participate in Smashing Mag's Front End Performance Challenge, not only for the potential of...
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TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Folk Horror Genre? Originating in British cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, classic works of folk horror such as The...
4 months ago
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What Are the Origins of the Folk Horror Genre?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
Originating in British cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, classic works of folk horror such as The Wicker Man (1973), have created their own set of features usually used as shorthand by folk horror creators in many mediums. Featuring isolated, rural communities grappling with the...
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Himanshu Mishra |...
Joining Spotify in Sweden Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as...
over a year ago
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Joining Spotify in Sweden

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over a year ago
Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as I arrived here 8 months ago. Japan is a…
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Wrong Side of...
Disappointment of the diaspora Reflections on ‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe’, Part Six
3 months ago
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Disappointment of the diaspora

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3 months ago
Reflections on ‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe’, Part Six
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Sometimes It Works...
Punctuated Excitement Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new...
over a year ago
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Punctuated Excitement

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new acquaintances about what I do, the conversation usually finishes in 30 seconds with them saying something like “oh yeah, IT, I thought so” or “so you’re a web designer?” So I...
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A Smart Bear
For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and...
over a year ago
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For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 049: Down the Rabbit hole January 12, 2023.
a year ago
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AI Roundup 049: Down the Rabbit hole

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a year ago
January 12, 2023.
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Quanta Magazine
The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time These three imagined scenarios lead many physicists to doubt that space-time is fundamental. ...
9 months ago
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The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
These three imagined scenarios lead many physicists to doubt that space-time is fundamental. The post The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
4 months ago
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Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification

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4 months ago
A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
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Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France. The kinetic phase may come next.
over a year ago
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Understanding What's Happening in France.

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over a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Knowledge Laundering I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took...
a year ago
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Knowledge Laundering

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took notes on — and this excerpt talking about large language models (LLMs) stood out to me: Why give somebody credit for the lines of code you’ve adapted for your own project when you...
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The Honest Broker
In 2025, Your Boss Will Launch a Podcast I warn about new grifts in my latest arts & culture briefing paper
6 months ago
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In 2025, Your Boss Will Launch a Podcast

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6 months ago
I warn about new grifts in my latest arts & culture briefing paper
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IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Team Up on Robots Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to...
8 months ago
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Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Team Up on Robots

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI

8 months ago
Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” Committing to working towards a general purpose...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Focus Is About Saying No Focusing our minds is essential to productivity, high performance, and awareness, but our focus is...
over a year ago
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Focus Is About Saying No

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Focusing our minds is essential to productivity, high performance, and awareness, but our focus is constantly under siege by things grasping for our attention. Some of us may excel in multitasking, but you will undoubtedly perform better with full, selective attention. It’s not...
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Retail Design Blog
Nudo Salvaje Mezcal by Hi estudio From the union of essential elements like earth, agave, and fire emerges the concept of NUDO, a...
5 months ago
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Nudo Salvaje Mezcal by Hi estudio

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

5 months ago
From the union of essential elements like earth, agave, and fire emerges the concept of NUDO, a representation that evokes...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Annihilate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Prediction: in 15 years, nobody under the age of 20...
a week ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Annihilate

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a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Prediction: in 15 years, nobody under the age of 20 will see why this was supposed to be funny. Today's News:
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NeuroLogica Blog
Anxiety Biomarkers Psychiatry, psychology, and all aspects of mental health are a challenging area because the clinical...
over a year ago
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Anxiety Biomarkers

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Psychiatry, psychology, and all aspects of mental health are a challenging area because the clinical entities we are dealing with are complex and mostly subjective. Diagnoses are perhaps best understood as clinical constructs – a way of identifying and understanding a mental...
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Oykun
Saying no to projects with pricing Don’t undervalue your service and experience, you will be amazed to find out how much some...
over a year ago
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Saying no to projects with pricing

from Oykun [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Don’t undervalue your service and experience, you will be amazed to find out how much some businesses are willing to pay for it.
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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...
a year ago
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Biofrequency Gadgets are a Total Scam

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year 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...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inaccurate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately the people in the comic are only alive...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inaccurate

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately the people in the comic are only alive for the duration of this conversation. Today's News:
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Articles
The hidden cost of bootstrapping
over a year ago
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The hidden cost of bootstrapping

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over a year ago
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Confessions of a...
All Set! Looking Under the Hood of Python's Set Data Structure Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
a year ago
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All Set! Looking Under the Hood of Python's Set Data Structure

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
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Londonist
A Fantastically Festive Walk Through London's Christmas Lights And Decorations A self-guided tour through lights, shop window displays, ice rinks and more.
a year ago
51

A Fantastically Festive Walk Through London's Christmas Lights And Decorations

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
A self-guided tour through lights, shop window displays, ice rinks and more.
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Joel Gascoigne
Why I'm helping startup founders * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last month I...
over a year ago
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Why I'm helping startup founders

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last month I wrote about my discovery that helping others makes me happier [https://joel.is/post/26003263041/want-to-be-happy-and-successful-bring-happiness-to] than spending the time seeing a...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sum Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just gently closing the door on ever giving a TED...
a year ago
139

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sum

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just gently closing the door on ever giving a TED talk there. Very nice. Today's News:
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Noahpinion
You're not going to like what comes after Pax Americana Welcome to the jungle.
a year ago
25

You're not going to like what comes after Pax Americana

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Welcome to the jungle.
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Josh Comeau's blog
Clever Code Considered Harmful As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems,...
over a year ago
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Clever Code Considered Harmful

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems, relying on advanced tricks and techniques. As a result, we often write code that is hostile and inaccessible to the junior folks on our team. This article makes the case that we...
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Arduino Blog
Quickly digitize your Magic deck with this 3D-printable scanning rig We call them “deck builders” for a reason: because players end up with huge piles of trading cards....
3 months ago
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Quickly digitize your Magic deck with this 3D-printable scanning rig

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3 months ago
We call them “deck builders” for a reason: because players end up with huge piles of trading cards. They can get difficult to manage, which is why the ManaBox app exists for Magic: The Gathering. It lets collectors scan and log their decks, which is handy for everything from...
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Quanta Magazine
A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force...
over a year ago
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A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus

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over a year ago
By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons. The post A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The key to real AGI is to make 4,000 different...
2 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness

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2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The key to real AGI is to make 4,000 different small AIs that hate each other. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Crack Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Poor man has a crack addiction. Today's News:
a month ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Crack

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a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Poor man has a crack addiction. Today's News:
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BLDGBLOG
Architectural Dressage You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single...
4 days ago
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Architectural Dressage

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4 days ago
You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single block and walked to an adjacent site by a phalanx of miniature robots. Then walked back into place again. The 432 individual machines used for the move were “actually...
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TheCollector
Aztec Ruins and the Afterlife of an Empire The Aztec Empire may have ended centuries ago, but its presence is far from gone. It lingers in...
a month ago
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Aztec Ruins and the Afterlife of an Empire

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a month ago
The Aztec Empire may have ended centuries ago, but its presence is far from gone. It lingers in temple ruins, place names, and bits of language and folklore. Walk through Mexico City nowadays, and you’ll find stones carved by hands that are long gone, pressed into the foundations...
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xkcd.com
Water Damage
4 months ago
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Water Damage

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4 months ago
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Wuthering...
Some of the difficulties of Finnegans Wake - Two dreamyums in one dromium? Yes and no error. I am too tired to write about Finnegans Wake which is a good state for writing about this dream...
2 months ago
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Some of the difficulties of Finnegans Wake - Two dreamyums in one dromium? Yes and no error.

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2 months ago
I am too tired to write about Finnegans Wake which is a good state for writing about this dream novel where characters keep falling asleep.  “Dream” is conventional wisdom but I will note that no part of the book resembles any dream I have ever experienced or read about, although...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Can You Get Banned from Flying for Skiplagging?
a year ago
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Can You Get Banned from Flying for Skiplagging?

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a year ago
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SatPost by Trung...
Birkenstock IPO: Is it worth $10B? And 4 other questions about the 249-year cult German footwear brand.
a year ago
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Birkenstock IPO: Is it worth $10B?

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a year ago
And 4 other questions about the 249-year cult German footwear brand.
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Common Edge
On Winning—and Not Winning—Design Competitions It’s the Competition Conundrum: You Can’t Lose If You Don’t Play.
a year ago
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On Winning—and Not Winning—Design Competitions

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a year ago
It’s the Competition Conundrum: You Can’t Lose If You Don’t Play.
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TheCollector
The Anglo-Russian Conflict in the Napoleonic Wars: A “Smokeless War?” Britain and Russia were notably enemies during the Crimean War (1853-1856). However, the two...
a month ago
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The Anglo-Russian Conflict in the Napoleonic Wars: A “Smokeless War?”

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a month ago
Britain and Russia were notably enemies during the Crimean War (1853-1856). However, the two countries briefly clashed during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). Yet, Britain and Russia were allies for most of the coalition wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France...
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Articles
Twenty dollars in an envelope
over a year ago
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Twenty dollars in an envelope

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over a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius ... and the Fall of the Republic
a year ago
16

Gaius Marius

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a year ago
... and the Fall of the Republic
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The Honest Broker
Yacht Rock Sails Again! Is relaxed jazzy pop music coming back?
2 months ago
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Yacht Rock Sails Again!

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2 months ago
Is relaxed jazzy pop music coming back?
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Chris Nicholas
A new blog for 2024 It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024,...
a year ago
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A new blog for 2024

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a year ago
It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024, it’s time for a complete refresh.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
My Favorite New Podcasts in 2020 An update to my favorite podcasts list with the ones I have found this year
over a year ago
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My Favorite New Podcasts in 2020

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over a year ago
An update to my favorite podcasts list with the ones I have found this year
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Haterade
Tiny Hot Dogs for the Modern Man Introducing: Smoke Sheaths
over a year ago
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Tiny Hot Dogs for the Modern Man

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over a year ago
Introducing: Smoke Sheaths
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Rest of World -...
The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and...
over a year ago
31

The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution

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over a year ago
The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.
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TheCollector
Ancient “Woodhenge” Discovered in Denmark Newly unearthed evidence of a Stonehenge-like circle in Denmark, which has been dubbed “Woodhenge,”...
4 months ago
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Ancient “Woodhenge” Discovered in Denmark

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4 months ago
Newly unearthed evidence of a Stonehenge-like circle in Denmark, which has been dubbed “Woodhenge,” may offer new insights into shared belief systems across Neolithic-era Europe.   “The Timber Circle is a Window into the Past”   According to experts, the recently discovered...
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Contraption Co.
A mini data center Hosting web apps on a Mac Mini
5 months ago
16

A mini data center

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5 months ago
Hosting web apps on a Mac Mini
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Working Theorys
3 Hours or Nothing Musing #14 | The merits of being binary with your time
a year ago
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3 Hours or Nothing

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a year ago
Musing #14 | The merits of being binary with your time
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Quanta Magazine
Animal Mutation Rates Reveal Traits That Speed Evolution The first large-scale comparison of mutation rates gives insights into how quickly species can...
over a year ago
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Animal Mutation Rates Reveal Traits That Speed Evolution

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
The first large-scale comparison of mutation rates gives insights into how quickly species can evolve. The post Animal Mutation Rates Reveal Traits That Speed Evolution first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Asterisk
The Puzzle of Non-Proliferation Today, only nine countries have nuclear weapons. That outcome was hardly inevitable, and the story...
over a year ago
17

The Puzzle of Non-Proliferation

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Today, only nine countries have nuclear weapons. That outcome was hardly inevitable, and the story of how we arrived there holds important lessons for AI.
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99% Invisible
WARNING: This Podcast Contains Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Other... WARNING: Entering this area can expose you to chemicals known to the State of California to cause...
a year ago
44

WARNING: This Podcast Contains Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Other Reproductive Harm [EPISODE]

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a year ago
WARNING: Entering this area can expose you to chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm, including Benzene, a chemical used in urinal cleaners and Toluene, a chemical used in common household cleaning products. For...
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bt RSS Feed
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
over a year ago
23

Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven’t seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
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Posts on Made of...
BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the...
over a year ago
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BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine on Linux. Virtunoid: Breaking out of KVM from Nelson Elhage [Edited 2011-08-11] The code is now available. It should be fairly well-commented, and...
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Identity Designed
WHEN Designed by Universal Favourite, Sydney.
6 months ago
101

WHEN

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6 months ago
Designed by Universal Favourite, Sydney.
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The American Scholar
The Support Ship The post The Support Ship appeared first on The American Scholar.
11 months ago
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The Support Ship

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11 months ago
The post The Support Ship appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Londonist
An Entire Barbra Streisand Season Is Coming To North London A star is celebrated.
a year ago
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An Entire Barbra Streisand Season Is Coming To North London

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a year ago
A star is celebrated.
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Escaping Flatland
Bring everything into the conversation layer A conversation is not an interface that lets you get to know each other; it is an interface that...
6 months ago
68

Bring everything into the conversation layer

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6 months ago
A conversation is not an interface that lets you get to know each other; it is an interface that lets you savor and get enriched by the Otherness of each other. The richer the conversation becomes, the more this Otherness can be expressed and explored.
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Seth's Blog
Twenty questions Your next project might feel like a calling, but it’s a choice. A choice that will have an impact on...
9 months ago
37

Twenty questions

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9 months ago
Your next project might feel like a calling, but it’s a choice. A choice that will have an impact on each day you spend on it. There are no right answers here, but before you fall in love with a business or an organization, it may pay to think about these and other options that...
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Both Are True
we laugh so that we do not cry but we end up crying anyway a recap + recording of BATWRITE #001
2 months ago
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we laugh so that we do not cry but we end up crying anyway

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2 months ago
a recap + recording of BATWRITE #001
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Retail Design Blog
Peckish Bakery by guudpin design Blending Neighborhood Culture and Urban Scenery: A Fusion of Old and New Culinary Experiences –...
5 months ago
48

Peckish Bakery by guudpin design

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

5 months ago
Blending Neighborhood Culture and Urban Scenery: A Fusion of Old and New Culinary Experiences – Peckish, the new bakery and...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten... Many breakthrough technologies were hatched by hobbyists in garages and dorm rooms. Prominent...
over a year ago
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What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Many breakthrough technologies were hatched by hobbyists in garages and dorm rooms. Prominent examples include the PC, the web, blogs, and…
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TheCollector
Why Nietzsche Considered Himself Ahead of His Time Untimely Meditations is one of the least read of Nietzsche’s works. In this article, we look at why...
a month ago
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Why Nietzsche Considered Himself Ahead of His Time

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a month ago
Untimely Meditations is one of the least read of Nietzsche’s works. In this article, we look at why more attention ought to be paid to the essays in this collection, but also why Nietzsche considered them to be “untimely.”   What Are the Untimely Meditations?   Nietzsche’s...
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Founder's blog
Reasons NOT to upgrade ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core (but you will have to anyway) I know, I know, .NET Core is the future of .NET, and "cross-platform blah-blah", and...
over a year ago
48

Reasons NOT to upgrade ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core (but you will have to anyway)

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over a year ago
I know, I know, .NET Core is the future of .NET, and "cross-platform blah-blah", and "high-performance and scalable blah-blah", and also "microservices!!! containers!!!" etc. Even more - I understand that's it's inevitable. But still. Consider this an angry post on what's wrong...
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99% Invisible
Build, Interrupted: A Conversation with Ezra Klein In 2022, a group of developers proposed transforming a Nordstrom parking lot in San Francisco into...
a month ago
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Build, Interrupted: A Conversation with Ezra Klein

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a month ago
In 2022, a group of developers proposed transforming a Nordstrom parking lot in San Francisco into nearly 500 apartments, many of them affordable and close to public transit. But before they could even begin the formal approval process, they faced a preliminary review. This step...
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Londonist
Kong And Godzilla Appear By/In The Thames For Epic Selfie Op! They're only here till tonight.
a year ago
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Kong And Godzilla Appear By/In The Thames For Epic Selfie Op!

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a year ago
They're only here till tonight.
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Liz Denys
I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker' When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required...
over a year ago
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I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker'

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required computer class. Our teacher did not once call this programming; it was just another project among ones that usually weren't programming. I generalized almost every exercise - something...
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Business Brainstorms
Hiring a geo-guesser, change merchants, one distribution channel is all it takes Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
24

Hiring a geo-guesser, change merchants, one distribution channel is all it takes

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a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “request for service: roast my onboarding for SaaS...
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Londonist
The Biggest Exhibitions To See In London This Winter Over 30 excellent exhibitions to choose from
a year ago
22

The Biggest Exhibitions To See In London This Winter

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a year ago
Over 30 excellent exhibitions to choose from
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Passing Time
Respecting Repose There's a difference between noise and sound.
over a year ago
44

Respecting Repose

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over a year ago
There's a difference between noise and sound.
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Willem's Blog
Fighting backscatter spam at server level Deal with backscatter spam by implementing a stringent SMTP delivery policy at MTA level.
over a year ago
20

Fighting backscatter spam at server level

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Deal with backscatter spam by implementing a stringent SMTP delivery policy at MTA level.
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Stoic Simple
Stoicism & Military Training: How Stoic Philosophy Makes Better Soldiers Military training is known for its rigorous physical and mental demands. Soldiers must be able to...
over a year ago
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Stoicism & Military Training: How Stoic Philosophy Makes Better Soldiers

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over a year ago
Military training is known for its rigorous physical and mental demands. Soldiers must be able to perform under pressure while managing complex emotions in high-stress situations. To better prepare military personnel for the challenges ahead, many are turning to Stoic philosophy...
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Rest of World -...
After Mexico’s top streamer — the president — left office, YouTube creators hustle for views A slew of content creators built small social media empires off Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose...
6 months ago
116

After Mexico’s top streamer — the president — left office, YouTube creators hustle for views

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6 months ago
A slew of content creators built small social media empires off Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose term ended in October.
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Ruud van Asseldonk
Model facts, not your problem domain
over a year ago
34

Model facts, not your problem domain

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over a year ago
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lcamtuf’s thing
Electric chainsaws and the gorge of misery Lithium batteries are great -- so why do mid-size electric power tools suck in 2024?
11 months ago
16

Electric chainsaws and the gorge of misery

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11 months ago
Lithium batteries are great -- so why do mid-size electric power tools suck in 2024?
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Open Culture
How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant. Brilliant. This moving manuscript depicts a single musical sequence played front to back and then...
a year ago
63

How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant.

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a year 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.
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Irrational...
Posts
a year ago
44

Posts

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a year ago
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Seth's Blog
The fame/trust inversion A generation ago, the Generals ruled. General Motors, General Foods, General Mills, General...
6 months ago
60

The fame/trust inversion

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6 months ago
A generation ago, the Generals ruled. General Motors, General Foods, General Mills, General Dynamics… they were big, and they had a lot to lose. As a result, people trusted them to show up and keep their promises–it just wasn’t worth letting a few people down at the risk of their...
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Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969 Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
9 months ago
54

Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969

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9 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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Kagi Blog
Enhancements to the Kagi search experience We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
over a year ago
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Enhancements to the Kagi search experience

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over a year ago
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
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Flashbak
Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots “The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt  ...
a year ago
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots

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a year ago
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt   Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
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David Perell
The Book You Need to Read There is an epidemic of people who bash Christianity but haven’t read the Bible. No matter where you...
over a year ago
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The Book You Need to Read

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over a year ago
There is an epidemic of people who bash Christianity but haven’t read the Bible. No matter where you stand on religion, if you don’t know what the Bible actually says, it’s time to change that.   The post The Book You Need to Read appeared first on David Perell.
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Krebs on Security
Alleged ‘Scattered Spider’ Member Extradited to U.S. A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group...
2 months ago
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Alleged ‘Scattered Spider’ Member Extradited to U.S.

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2 months ago
A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group was extradited last week from Spain to the United States, where he is facing charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft. U.S. prosecutors allege Tyler Robert Buchanan and...
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Ryan Hoover's...
Weekend Fund 2.0
over a year ago
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Weekend Fund 2.0

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over a year ago
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Rest of World -...
The Indian company forcing Uber to change its business model Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now...
2 months ago
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The Indian company forcing Uber to change its business model

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

2 months ago
Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now other ride-hailing apps are rethinking their strategy.
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Ariana Martin Hi, I’m Ariana - a pattern designer and printmaker from leafy Sheffield. I create joyful patterns...
a year ago
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Meet The Maker: Ariana Martin

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
Hi, I’m Ariana - a pattern designer and printmaker from leafy Sheffield. I create joyful patterns and illustrations, which are particularly inspired by 20th century design, and I produce my own range of stationery and homewares.     Describe your printmaking process. Screen...
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Bits about Money
Improving how credit cards work under the covers Card networks are legacy systems. Some bugs have persisted for decades, surprisingly, but they can...
over a year ago
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Improving how credit cards work under the covers

from Bits about Money [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
Card networks are legacy systems. Some bugs have persisted for decades, surprisingly, but they can be fixed. Stripe provides examples.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Building the future of game analytics - An interview with PureSkill.gg CTO, Evan Sosenko Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations, where we chat to our contributors...
over a year ago
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Building the future of game analytics - An interview with PureSkill.gg CTO, Evan Sosenko

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over a year ago
Welcome to another episode of PostHog's Community Conversations, where we chat to our contributors and users. This time, we speak to Evan Sosenko, Co…
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Nela Dunato Art &...
Nela Dunato Art & Design got a brand refresh! My previous brand identity design lasted from 2015 until 2023, and it has served me quite well. But...
a year ago
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Nela Dunato Art & Design got a brand refresh!

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a year ago
My previous brand identity design lasted from 2015 until 2023, and it has served me quite well. But my new professional photos sparked the need to overhaul the website, which led to a more substantial brand redesign including new typography and updated logo design. Come see what...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Future Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel there's a lot of money in an app where, when...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Future

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel there's a lot of money in an app where, when you skip exercise, it projects your future body slightly degrading. Today's News: We did it! ACOM is an NYT bestseller. Thanks everyone - this'll help us get a bit more...
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devonzuegel.com
Topographic theory of flaking Natan Gesher sent me the following email after reading my post about why flaking is so widespread in...
over a year ago
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Topographic theory of flaking

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over a year ago
Natan Gesher sent me the following email after reading my post about why flaking is so widespread in San Francisco, and I thought you all might find it interesting too: I saw your blog posts about flaking and wanted to share something I've observed from moving around a bit (four...
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Birchtree
Comfort Zone predicts tech in 2025 In this very special episode, the gang makes their "Pro" and "Pro Max" predictions for tech in 2025...
5 months ago
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Comfort Zone predicts tech in 2025

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5 months ago
In this very special episode, the gang makes their "Pro" and "Pro Max" predictions for tech in 2025 and oh my, does it get wild! Who's best clued into the tech coming this year? Who is just wish-casting their way to third place? This
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TheCollector
What Does the Bible Say About the Tree of Life? Genesis 3 suggests that eating the fruit from the Tree of Life gave eternal life. After the Fall,...
3 months ago
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What Does the Bible Say About the Tree of Life?

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3 months ago
Genesis 3 suggests that eating the fruit from the Tree of Life gave eternal life. After the Fall, God prevented access to the tree by posting two cherubs at the entrance to the garden. Humans should not have access to eternal life while in their fallen state. Access to the tree...
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Epic Web Dev
Understanding the cause of hydration issues in react-router (tip) Today we go over how hydration errors happen in react-router and how to fix them.
a month ago
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Understanding the cause of hydration issues in react-router (tip)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
Today we go over how hydration errors happen in react-router and how to fix them.
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Dan Slimmon
Explaining the fire When the firefighters arrive at the blazing building, they don't need to explain the fire. They need...
a year ago
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Explaining the fire

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
When the firefighters arrive at the blazing building, they don't need to explain the fire. They need to put it out. It doesn't matter whether a toaster malfunctioned, or a cat knocked over a candle, or a smoker fell asleep watching The Voice. But when PagerDuty blows up and we...
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Good Enough
TIL: Don’t forget your Web Manifest file We’re primarily a web shop. We’re dipping our toes into mobile app development, but our collective...
over a year ago
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TIL: Don’t forget your Web Manifest file

from Good Enough [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
We’re primarily a web shop. We’re dipping our toes into mobile app development, but our collective expertise is in making products and services for the web. And like everyone else, our use of the web has shifted from our desktops and laptops to our phones. As we’re creating and...
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Londonist
Things To Keep You Busy For LGBT+ History Month 2024 In London Museums, guided walks, cabaret and kids events.
a year ago
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Things To Keep You Busy For LGBT+ History Month 2024 In London

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a year ago
Museums, guided walks, cabaret and kids events.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020 Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 ....
over a year ago
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PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020

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over a year ago
Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 . For those who don't know, Hacktoberfest is an…
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Irrational...
2023 in review. Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 This was an eventful year. My son went to...
a year ago
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2023 in review.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 This was an eventful year. My son went to preschool, I joined Carta, left Calm, and wrote my third book. It was also a logistically intensive year, with our toddler heading to preschool, more work travel, and a bunch of other little...
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CONTEMPORIST
Pivoting Arched Windows Are A Unique Feature On This Row Of Townhouses In London Photography by Matthew White and Izzy Scott of AVR London Architecture firm DHaus has designed a...
over a year ago
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Pivoting Arched Windows Are A Unique Feature On This Row Of Townhouses In London

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
Photography by Matthew White and Izzy Scott of AVR London Architecture firm DHaus has designed a collection of 6 new terraced townhouses in North-West London, that replaced a gas station. The six new townhouses include a strong mixture of rectangles and arches, set within a brick...
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Jonas Hietala
Preventing Firefox from creating Desktop directories With a fresh firefox installation I found that it kept creating a ~/Desktop directory. But I found...
over a year ago
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Preventing Firefox from creating Desktop directories

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
With a fresh firefox installation I found that it kept creating a ~/Desktop directory. But I found how to turn it off. Edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs...
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Calculated Risk
Tuesday: Trade Deficit, Job Openings, ISM Services From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Barely Budge to Start New Week The bond...
6 months ago
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Tuesday: Trade Deficit, Job Openings, ISM Services

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

6 months ago
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Barely Budge to Start New Week The bond market and interest rates have arrived at the first full week of the new year almost exactly where they left off before the X-mas/New Year holiday weeks. ... Although the past 2...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020 Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
over a year ago
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IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
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Cremieux Recueil
Food Deserts Are Not Real They're more like bad habit neighborhoods
10 months ago
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Food Deserts Are Not Real

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10 months ago
They're more like bad habit neighborhoods
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abdz.do - Have you...
Custom Font made of shapes and patterns for John Lewis (UK) Custom Font made of shapes and patterns for John Lewis (UK) ...
over a year ago
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Custom Font made of shapes and patterns for John Lewis (UK)

from abdz.do - Have you given up on being inspired? [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Custom Font made of shapes and patterns for John Lewis (UK) AoiroStudio0510—23 In the world of graphic design, there are few studios as talented and innovative as Hola Bosque™. Based in the vibrant city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, this creative...
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Christopher Butler
Developing Digital Disgust Our world treats information like it’s always good. More data, more content, more inputs — we want...
2 months ago
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Developing Digital Disgust

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

2 months ago
Our world treats information like it’s always good. More data, more content, more inputs — we want it all without thinking twice. To say that the last twenty-five years of culture have centered around info-maximalism wouldn’t be an exaggeration. I hope we’re coming to the end...
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TheCollector
The Year of the Six Emperors (238 CE): A Complete Guide Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire starts with the observation that “in a period of 60 years,...
a month ago
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The Year of the Six Emperors (238 CE): A Complete Guide

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a month ago
Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire starts with the observation that “in a period of 60 years, the Roman imperial power was held by more emperors than would seem possible in so short a time…” This is a preface to his history of Rome, from the death of the last “good emperor,”...
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Old Structures...
Adelaide House, Part 3 – Facades Part 1, General: here. Part 2, Structure: here. So on Tuesday I effectively said that Adelaide House...
a year ago
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Adelaide House, Part 3 – Facades

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Part 1, General: here. Part 2, Structure: here. So on Tuesday I effectively said that Adelaide House was either small for a skyscraper or forty years behind the times, and yesterday I said that the steel was pretty familiar for an old skyscraper but maybe a little old-fashioned....
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TheCollector
Anne Frank: Her Life, Death, and Legacy Explained On August 4, 1944, a group of German soldiers stormed into the premises of the Frank family’s...
2 months ago
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Anne Frank: Her Life, Death, and Legacy Explained

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2 months ago
On August 4, 1944, a group of German soldiers stormed into the premises of the Frank family’s business in Amsterdam. During the search, the soldiers discovered a secret annex behind a bookcase, arresting the eight people who had been hiding there for two years. Among them was the...
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Louwrentius
Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 on Debian howto Get the 'open source' driver from www.highpoint-tech.com. (It's not open source, it uses a closed...
over a year ago
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Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 on Debian howto

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Get the 'open source' driver from www.highpoint-tech.com. (It's not open source, it uses a closed binary driver.) http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr2320.htm Install the kernel headers if you haven't already - apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-6-k7 - extract the...
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blag
Introducing CaskDB – a project to teach you writing a key-value store CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable...
over a year ago
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Introducing CaskDB – a project to teach you writing a key-value store

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable database from scratch.
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Rest of World -...
U.S. tariffs on China can’t slow the impact of Chinese imports worldwide New tariffs on China imposed by Trump — and an end to direct e-commerce shipping to U.S. consumers —...
5 months ago
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U.S. tariffs on China can’t slow the impact of Chinese imports worldwide

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

5 months ago
New tariffs on China imposed by Trump — and an end to direct e-commerce shipping to U.S. consumers — could impact Shein and Temu, but their influence extends globally.
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Artificial Ignorance
How to build an AI search engine (Part 1) Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
9 months ago
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How to build an AI search engine (Part 1)

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9 months ago
Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
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Passing Time
A Morning and Night in the Desert These moments in time seem to have a higher density than usual.
over a year ago
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A Morning and Night in the Desert

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over a year ago
These moments in time seem to have a higher density than usual.
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: An Impossible View Above, Iron Man flies past the Chrysler Building. I was trying to figure out if the buildings in the...
a year ago
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It Looked Familiar: An Impossible View

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Above, Iron Man flies past the Chrysler Building. I was trying to figure out if the buildings in the background were realistic, and got part of the way there. The gray building on the right looks like a simplified version of the Socony-Mobil Building at the southeast corner of...
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The Diff
Should Congress be Allowed to Trade? Plus! Norms Trading; Point-of-Sale; Trade Trench Warfare; AI and Ads; Bluffing Your Way to Better...
2 months ago
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Should Congress be Allowed to Trade?

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 months ago
Plus! Norms Trading; Point-of-Sale; Trade Trench Warfare; AI and Ads; Bluffing Your Way to Better Management
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Maggie Appleton
Squish Meets Structure Designing with Language Models
over a year ago
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Squish Meets Structure

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over a year ago
Designing with Language Models
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Josh Thompson
Turing Prep appendix: Troubleshooting Errors Pretty much any time I hear the same question twice, I will try to add a section here for it, and...
over a year ago
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Turing Prep appendix: Troubleshooting Errors

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
Pretty much any time I hear the same question twice, I will try to add a section here for it, and make it as findable by future students as possible. Do you have a question not answered here? PLEASE send me a DM in Slack or @ me (I’m josh_t in the Turing slack). I’ll take a...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
6 Reasons To Travel by Private Yacht in Croatia
a year ago
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6 Reasons To Travel by Private Yacht in Croatia

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a year ago
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The Universe of...
Dancing bread Marnanel Thurman reported the following item that they found in an 1875 book titled How to Entertain...
9 months ago
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Dancing bread

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in comics

9 months ago
Marnanel Thurman reported the following item that they found in an 1875 book titled How to Entertain a Social Party: To Make a Loaf of Bread Dance on the Table. — Having a quill filled with quicksilver and stopped close, you secretly thrust it into a hot roll or loaf, which...
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TheCollector
Camus’ “Jonas or the Artist at Work”: Analysis & Ending Explained Camus wrote the short stories included in the collection “Exile and the Kingdom” at a time of...
a month ago
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Camus’ “Jonas or the Artist at Work”: Analysis & Ending Explained

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a month ago
Camus wrote the short stories included in the collection “Exile and the Kingdom” at a time of extreme turmoil in his life. Recently shunned by the Parisian literary community, Camus suffered a crisis of confidence in both himself as a writer and as a man. What came of this period...
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Atoms vs Bits
Dogs That Don't Bark I once had to end a very nice person's freelance work contract for a role which they were doing...
a year ago
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Dogs That Don't Bark

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a year ago
I once had to end a very nice person's freelance work contract for a role which they were doing quite badly. I wrote them an email that tried to say only things that were both nice and true, such as some version of "we're wanting
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sbensu
Semantic gaps Swedish has a specific word for each of the four grandparents: mormor, morfar, farmor, farfar....
a year ago
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Semantic gaps

from sbensu [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Swedish has a specific word for each of the four grandparents: mormor, morfar, farmor, farfar. English doesn’t. So when you mention your 'grandma' to a Swede, they are left wondering 'which grandma?' even if it is not relevant to the story. That is a semantic gap.
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Old Vintage...
So long, Z80 You can still buy 6502s from Western Design Center and others, but Zilog's getting out of Z80s...
a year ago
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So long, Z80

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
You can still buy 6502s from Western Design Center and others, but Zilog's getting out of Z80s (PDF), announcing earlier this week that after June 14th you won't be able to buy them anymore (specifically the last-part-standing Z84C00 which comes in various speeds from 6-20 MHz)...
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HTMHell
You Don't Need ARIA For That In web development, writing semantic HTML is important for accessibility, and also provides some...
over a year ago
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You Don't Need ARIA For That

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over a year ago
In web development, writing semantic HTML is important for accessibility, and also provides some nice side effects such as supporting browser "reader" modes, SEO, graceful degradation, and exporting. Implementing semantic HTML will also greatly reduce the need for ARIA...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Exist Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is a bonus update brought to you by my new...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Exist

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is a bonus update brought to you by my new book, A City on Mars. Please do me a favor and click this comic for more info. Today's News: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK
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NeuroLogica Blog
What Policies Affect Climate Change? What is the potential for climate change policy to affect climate change? I often discuss, here and...
a year ago
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What Policies Affect Climate Change?

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
What is the potential for climate change policy to affect climate change? I often discuss, here and on the SGU, the science of climate change, and specifically focus on what we can do about it, mostly by reducing our CO2 emissions. Often I get push back explicitly promoting the...
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Don Melton
My traitorous move to Windows I still have my Mac. Three of them in fact. And, of course, my iPhone. Why would I ever get rid of...
over a year ago
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My traitorous move to Windows

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over a year ago
I still have my Mac. Three of them in fact. And, of course, my iPhone. Why would I ever get rid of it? That’s just crazy talk. But… uh… my primary desktop computer has changed. Just a bit. Most of you probably don’t know this but a little over five years ago I built my own gaming...
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Noahpinion
We can't afford to keep cutting taxes for the rich Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an advanced stage of a disease that took hold long ago.
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We can't afford to keep cutting taxes for the rich

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a week ago
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an advanced stage of a disease that took hold long ago.
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