Old Structures...
Sic Transit
This photo by Angelo Rizzuto, from October 1952, is listed at the Library of Congress as “Bird’s eye...
8 months ago
This photo by Angelo Rizzuto, from October 1952, is listed at the Library of Congress as “Bird’s eye view of a building in New York City.” It’s the old Metropolitan Opera House at 40th Street and Broadway, the one that the Met left in 1966 to move to Lincoln Center. The Met had...
Josh Thompson
Learning Spanish: Conversation connectors
I’m learning Spanish right now,
as I’ve mentioned. The bad news is I’ve been in some state...
over a year ago
I’m learning Spanish right now,
as I’ve mentioned. The bad news is I’ve been in some state of
learning spanish for the better part of the last 15 years. My mom’s parents came here from Paraguay, and so she and her siblings are all native Spanish speakers, plus their spouses....
Wuthering...
Ferdowsi's Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings - No one has any knowledge of those first days...
My little Persian literature syllabus in March was built on Aboloqasem
Ferdowsi’s gigantic epic...
8 months ago
My little Persian literature syllabus in March was built on Aboloqasem
Ferdowsi’s gigantic epic Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (1010), a
slender 850 pages in Dick Davis’s 2006 prose (mostly) translation. He added another 100 pages to the 2016
edition, whether filling out...
Londonist
Epping Ongar Lights Express - The Fairy Light-Covered Christmas Steam Train Ride Is Back!
Most festive train EVER.
a year ago
TheCollector
What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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3 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Want to be successful? Be inconsistent
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over a year ago
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Recently 37signals published an article titled Some advice from Jeff Bezos
[http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos]. This wasn’t
your usual advice, and I found it...
Flashbak
Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
2 weeks ago
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
Steve Blank
The 6th Lean Innovation Educators Summit – Education and Innovation in the Age of Chaos and...
Join Jerry Engel, Pete Newell, and Steve Weinstein for the sixth edition of the Lean Innovation...
over a year ago
Join Jerry Engel, Pete Newell, and Steve Weinstein for the sixth edition of the Lean Innovation Educators Summit December 14, 1-4 pm Eastern Time, 10 am-1 pm Pacific Time. Register here. — This virtual gathering will bring together entrepreneurship educators from around the world...
Programming in the...
Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last...
over a year ago
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last 30 seconds. Or the reverse, where a once speedy bar takes 50% of the time covering the last few pixels. And bars that occasionally jump backward in time are not the rarity you'd...
Diaries of Note
I try to make tea out of dust
Born in 1942 in Schenectady, New York, Lyn Lifshin was an award-winning American poet and feminist...
a year ago
Born in 1942 in Schenectady, New York, Lyn Lifshin was an award-winning American poet and feminist known for her unique voice and prolific output: over her lifetime, she authored more than 120 books and chapbooks of poetry, edited four anthologies of women’s writing, and...
Acko.net
On Variance and Extensibility
Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job
Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very...
over a year ago
Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job
Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very poorly understood in the software industry. This might seem strange to say, as you are reading this in a web browser, on an operating system, desktop or mobile. They are by all...
Good Enough
Beware of Free Software
Beware of free pizza
If I want a slice of pizza, I don't expect it to be free. In fact, if you try...
a year ago
Beware of free pizza
If I want a slice of pizza, I don't expect it to be free. In fact, if you try to offer me a slice of free pizza, I'd suspect there's something wrong with it.
And ever since my kids can understand me, I've taught them to be careful of free stuff. Nothing is...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Semi-Automatic npm and GitHub Releases with `gh-release` and `auto-changelog`
A snippet I use all the time
over a year ago
A snippet I use all the time
./techtipsy
ThinkPad T40: it can still run modern Linux, for now
I recently busted out my old ThinkPad T40, the last of the OG IBM ThinkPads.
I picked it up some...
7 months ago
I recently busted out my old ThinkPad T40, the last of the OG IBM ThinkPads.
I picked it up some time around my university days because I liked collecting
ThinkPads at the time, and it was a nice complement to my existing ThinkPad T60
and T430.
The battery is dead, but everything...
Remains of the Day
The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks:
COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient...
over a year ago
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks:
COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient markets guy, but when I look at initial public offerings I’m very baffled because investment banks take such a huge cut.
If you needed to argue, “Well, they need the cut because they...
Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
diamond geezer
Dangleway speed
Danglegeek (2) How fast?
2012 it was a two-speed service, offering 5 minute crossings before 10am...
a year ago
Danglegeek (2) How fast?
2012 it was a two-speed service, offering 5 minute crossings before 10am and after 5pm on weekdays and 10 minute crossings at other times. In 2015 they also introduced slower 'night flights' after 7pm, this time taking 12-13 minutes, as a further nod that...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 30 October-5 November 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Making software...
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
2021-10-15
A great deal of my time working as a...
over a year ago
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
2021-10-15
A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
Matt Mazur
Friday Updates: Smart Icons, Automatic Suggestions, Dealing with Spammers, Better Icon Colors
Preceden Lots of updates to Preceden this week: Improving the UX for the AI Suggestions When we...
a year ago
Preceden Lots of updates to Preceden this week: Improving the UX for the AI Suggestions When we rolled out the AI Suggestions feature last week, the typical experience for the user would go something like this: Lots of UX issues there though: To remedy this, I updated Preceden to...
TheCollector
The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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11 months ago
Moneyness
Are the sanctions on Russia working?
I very much enjoy economist Robin Brooks's tweets, especially his charts showing how sanctions...
9 months ago
I very much enjoy economist Robin Brooks's tweets, especially his charts showing how sanctions imposed on Russia have affected regional trade patterns. While direct trade between Europe and Russia has collapsed thanks to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions, the...
FIRE v London
August ’24: From triumph to tragedy
Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are...
3 months ago
Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are getting used to our new government. And, in some cases, violently testing its boundaries with some summer rioting. We’ve seen some dreadful street behaviour, frequently of a racist /...
Matt Mazur
Indie Hacking Week 1 Recap: Starting TimelineGPT, Ending LearnGPT
Today marks the end of my first week of full-time indie hacking. I feel like I’m getting in a good...
a year ago
Today marks the end of my first week of full-time indie hacking. I feel like I’m getting in a good groove as far as my daily routine, but I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet how much flexibility I have in terms of my daily schedule. For example, I’m still waking up early to […]
Seth's Blog
Some simple rules for source control
Collaborating on documents and projects has never been easier, which is why we screw it up so often....
2 months ago
Collaborating on documents and projects has never been easier, which is why we screw it up so often. Sharing and interacting with intent will save you heartache and wasted time. Some things to consider: Naming: Begin by naming your file with a digit and concept and a date....
The Modern House
How architect Alex Nikjoo lifted a lower-ground floor flat with a lightness of touch
4 months ago
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Finding acoustical delight in THE THOCK
Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I...
5 months ago
Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I soon learned that it describes one of those strangely seductive sounds you can produce from pressing the keys on a keyboard tuned for acoustical joy. And now, dammit, I've...
TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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8 months ago
Noahpinion
Why the U.S. should fight Cold War 2
And what it means to "fight" in this case.
a year ago
And what it means to "fight" in this case.
Maps Mania
Global Climate Change Impacts
10 months ago
nanoscale views
What do we want in a conference venue?
The APS March Meeting was in Las Vegas this year, and I have yet to talk to a single attendee who...
a year ago
The APS March Meeting was in Las Vegas this year, and I have yet to talk to a single attendee who liked that decision in hindsight. In brief, the conference venue seemed about 10% too small (severe crowding issues in hallways between sessions); while the APS deal on hotels was...
Londonist
Get Toasty In This King's Cross Sauna For Just £6 A Session
Slow Motion Sauna is in town for three weeks.
11 months ago
Slow Motion Sauna is in town for three weeks.
RhysTranter.com
Visit to Oxford Oratory
This week I had the joy of taking a group of students to the University of Oxford open day. In a few...
6 months ago
This week I had the joy of taking a group of students to the University of Oxford open day. In a few quiet moments, I had an opportunity to pray at the Oxford Oratory on Woodstock Road
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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11 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Doom Loop Triggers
Today I want to talk about the difference between unproductive mopes and highly successful people....
over a year ago
Today I want to talk about the difference between unproductive mopes and highly successful people. Imagine a spectrum with prolific artists at the top and ineffective slugs at the bottom.
Quantum Frontiers
Can Thermodynamics Resolve the Measurement Problem?
At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of...
a year ago
At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of Maryland!), during an expert panel Q&A session, one member of the audience asked “can quantum thermodynamics address foundational problems in quantum theory?” That stuck with …...
Max Rozen
On replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a Thinkpad T480
In which you probably wonder, but ...why?
a year ago
In which you probably wonder, but ...why?
Essays - Benedict...
Ways to think about AGI
How do we think about a fundamentally unknown and unknowable risk, when the
experts agree only...
8 months ago
How do we think about a fundamentally unknown and unknowable risk, when the
experts agree only that they have no idea?
TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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11 months ago
A Smart Bear
Building in public forces true competitive advantage
“Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it...
over a year ago
“Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it creates a self-imposed accountability. But doesn’t it ruin competitive advantage when your competitors can steal your source code and know the salaries of your employees and whether...
swyx's site RSS Feed
#HeyForGood
Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in...
over a year ago
Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in Donations to Support Diversity in Tech!
The Honest Broker
10 Reasons Why Technological Progress Is Now Reversing
Or How Silicon Valley Started Breaking Bad
4 months ago
Or How Silicon Valley Started Breaking Bad
Seth's Blog
Doing presentations virtually
A few years ago, I posted about the hardware setup you can use to look better and feel better when...
a year ago
A few years ago, I posted about the hardware setup you can use to look better and feel better when working in a distributed organization. Since then, I’ve tried many hacks for how to integrate Keynote presentations into this environment. I used some fancy software that was...
brr
Polar Night
Surreal and otherworldly.
a year ago
Surreal and otherworldly.
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
11 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
Home on Erik...
I'm looking for data engineers
I'm interrupting the regular programming for a quick announcement: we're looking for data engineers...
over a year ago
I'm interrupting the regular programming for a quick announcement: we're looking for data engineers at Better. You would be the first one to join and would work a lot directly with me.
Some fun things you could work on (these are all projects I'm working on right now):
Seth's Blog
Vocal fatigue
Most of us talk, some of us do it for a living. When your voice is on the fritz, it can affect your...
3 months ago
Most of us talk, some of us do it for a living. When your voice is on the fritz, it can affect your entire body as well as the way you approach your day. I’ve read all 25+ of my audiobooks myself, and I used to be able to complete each one in a day […]
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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10 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Kind of Masochism Afoot in Modern Aesthetics'
“Is there a
kind of masochism afoot in modern aesthetics whereby the leaden and the dull
acquire...
5 months ago
“Is there a
kind of masochism afoot in modern aesthetics whereby the leaden and the dull
acquire significance simply because the beaten spirit would seem to claim more
seriousness than a more robust struggle with the exigencies of things?”
This
elegantly crafted question, at...
Seth's Blog
The worst person on our team
A common shortcut to cultural divisiveness is to find the single worst person in a different group...
9 months ago
A common shortcut to cultural divisiveness is to find the single worst person in a different group and highlight and attack their behavior. By making it clear and obvious that this is what THEY (the plural) want and who THEY are, it’s easy to walk away from a larger we. Their...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Time Travel
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Later, things take a Heinleinian twist for the...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Later, things take a Heinleinian twist for the horrible.
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Blog - Amy Goodchild
Chaos in the medium: watercolour plotting
Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw...
6 months ago
Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw plotter. Watercolour is a medium I enjoy painting in (by hand) as a personal hobby, kind of separate from my public art making, so it’s been interesting to combine it with code. I’ve...
Coding Horror
The Great Filter Comes For Us All
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe...
a month ago
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now?
teaching the aliens how to exit Vim
(Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don't stop there - read the Story of
The Forney Flyer
Rib Day - 2 Year Anniversary Celebration!
Two years ago, on October 17th, this happened...
Long story short, I got knocked off my...
over a year ago
Two years ago, on October 17th, this happened...
Long story short, I got knocked off my motorcycle by a drunk driver, and then a different vehicle, a large Toyota Landcruiser (SUV) promptly drove over me, right across my torso. I should have died right then and there, and...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 19-20 August 2023
Black Pride, All Points East, a foodie weekend, a cocktail festival and more.
a year ago
Black Pride, All Points East, a foodie weekend, a cocktail festival and more.
Devmoh
Why did Meta open-source Llama 2?
Meta seems to be all in on open-source AI. They released Llama 2, which features some impressive...
a year ago
Meta seems to be all in on open-source AI. They released Llama 2, which features some impressive benchmarks compared to other open source language models. Why does Meta keep releasing open-source models? What is their incentive? To attract and retain top AI talent.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Pure CSS Parallax Websites
"This article demonstrates how to use CSS transforms, perspective and some scaling trickery to...
over a year ago
"This article demonstrates how to use CSS transforms, perspective and some scaling trickery to create a pure CSS parallax scrolling website. If you find this article useful and want to explore CSS Parallax further, you may find my follow-up article “Practical CSS Parallax” an...
Seth's Blog
The audacity of the crowd anthem
There’s little doubt that We Are the Champions is one of the great crowd anthems of our time. Just...
a year ago
There’s little doubt that We Are the Champions is one of the great crowd anthems of our time. Just about any group can be stirred into a frenzy just by playing a few bars: The same goes Rapper’s Delight. And yet… Can you imagine how frightening it must have been to play it live...
TheCollector
Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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4 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Moïra Swann
Bonjour everyone! Moïra Swann is an English and Proustian adaptation from my real name Anne-Marie:...
over a year ago
Bonjour everyone! Moïra Swann is an English and Proustian adaptation from my real name Anne-Marie: while Anne-Marie lives in France and works full-time in a wonderful museum dedicated to the French painter Anne-Louis Girodet, Moïra Swann does lino printing whenever she can, as an...
Liz Denys
Recruitment is hard.
Recruitment is one of those things that everyone does, but everyone seems to want to do better. It's...
over a year ago
Recruitment is one of those things that everyone does, but everyone seems to want to do better. It's also the kind of thing that is challenging: it's complicated, it's tiring, and it's personal.
Even if the {company, organization, student group} you're recruiting for has...
The Map is Mostly...
Efforts and Goals and Joy
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to...
a year ago
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and...
Spoon & Tamago
Hyper Realistic Pencil Drawings of Metallic Objects by Kohei Ohmori
Something must have come over me, says Kohei Ohmori, reflecting on the 280 hours or roughly 5 months...
6 months ago
Something must have come over me, says Kohei Ohmori, reflecting on the 280 hours or roughly 5 months spent drawing a hyper realistic composition of a metallic bolt and nut using just pencils. The 30-year old artist, who has publicly discussed his struggles with OCD (obsessive...
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
2 weeks ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
Archinect - Features
Beaux-Arts to Bauhaus: How Two Schools Shaped Architectural Visualization
Architecture schools have long held a significant role in shaping the field of architectural...
a month ago
Architecture schools have long held a significant role in shaping the field of architectural visualization. Through fostering particular artistic philosophies, drawing techniques, and design ideologies, such institutions shape not only the architects themselves but also the way...
Remains of the Day
Veblen values
NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
over a year ago
NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
Tom Blomfield
Taking Risk
I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities;...
7 months ago
I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities; Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College. Along with UCL, these British universities represent 4 of the top 10 universities in the world. The US - a country with 5x more people and...
Vadim Kravcenko
🎃 We’ll add it to the backlog
On a bright sunny day you wake up and go to work, grab a nice cappuccino from ViCAFE on your […]
The...
over a year ago
On a bright sunny day you wake up and go to work, grab a nice cappuccino from ViCAFE on your […]
The post 🎃 We’ll add it to the backlog appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
diamond geezer
Gridmaps
London in 1
Charing
Cross
London in 2
Westminster
City
London in...
a year ago
London in 1
Charing
Cross
London in 2
Westminster
City
London in 3
Westfield
Oxford
StreetWestfield
London in 4
Harefield
Harold
Hill
HeathrowOrpington
London in 6
M1
A10A12
M4
A3A2
London in...
TheCollector
The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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a year ago
Citation Needed
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world
A simple technique offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still...
3 months ago
A simple technique offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party platforms.
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 8
This is the first image taken from space. It was one of many images captured from 65 miles above...
a year ago
This is the first image taken from space. It was one of many images captured from 65 miles above Earth by a camera attached to a captured German V-2 rocket launched on October 24, 1946. You can watch a brief film about this mission here.
The first orbital satellite images of...
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
4 months ago
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
lcamtuf’s thing
How do wood finishes hold up?
A quick 18-month experiment to shed light on traditional woodworking lore.
3 months ago
A quick 18-month experiment to shed light on traditional woodworking lore.
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
Open Culture
RIP Paul Auster: Hear the Master of the Postmodern Page-Turner Discuss How He Became a Writer
In the Louisiana Channel interview clip from 2017 above, the late Paul Auster tells the story of how...
8 months ago
In the Louisiana Channel interview clip from 2017 above, the late Paul Auster tells the story of how he became a writer. Its first episode had appeared more than twenty years earlier, in a New Yorker piece titled “Why Write?”: “I was eight years old. At that moment in my life,...
Cremieux Recueil
Did Unions End Long Work Hours?
Is it growth or organized labor that's more responsible for giving us shorter workdays?
4 months ago
Is it growth or organized labor that's more responsible for giving us shorter workdays?
Joel on Software
HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free,...
over a year ago
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world"
Rest of World -...
TikTok creators are being arrested for violating religious laws in Nigeria
Digital rights advocates say social media companies like TikTok have a responsibility to protect...
a year ago
Digital rights advocates say social media companies like TikTok have a responsibility to protect their users in these situations.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Formats over Functions
Why we should focus less on Implementation and more on Standardization
over a year ago
Why we should focus less on Implementation and more on Standardization
Seth's Blog
The prevailing conditions
It doesn’t matter how hard you try, you’re not going to change the direction of the wind. That...
4 months ago
It doesn’t matter how hard you try, you’re not going to change the direction of the wind. That doesn’t mean you can’t get good at sailing, though. And yes, if we do try, we can change the conditions in our household, community or workplace. It might feel like wind, but it’s...
diamond geezer
346
Last Saturday one bus route on the edge of east London disappeared and another quadrupled in length....
9 months ago
Last Saturday one bus route on the edge of east London disappeared and another quadrupled in length. I didn't fancy spending my birthday in Upminster so left it a few days before taking a ride on the end result.
• The 346 used to be one of London's shortest bus routes, a brief...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Buds
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Free movie idea: guy goes on a road trip to find...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Free movie idea: guy goes on a road trip to find himself, keeps asexually creating duplicates. Title: Buds
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Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 11
On building table-stakes features, and breaking through a plateau.
a year ago
On building table-stakes features, and breaking through a plateau.
dthompson
Optimizing Guile Scheme
Guile is a rather niche language
that I love dearly. Guile is a Scheme dialect that features...
10 months ago
Guile is a rather niche language
that I love dearly. Guile is a Scheme dialect that features an
advanced optimizing bytecode compiler, a JIT compiler, and a modest
set of developer tools for inspecting and debugging. Through my time
spent developing Chickadee, a...
Citation Needed
Issue 46 – Checkmate, crypto
Cheating chess-players, cursed mansions, and more defi centralization.
a year ago
Cheating chess-players, cursed mansions, and more defi centralization.
GitButler
Why GitHub Actually Won
How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.
3 months ago
How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.
AFAR Media - Travel...
5 Trip Ideas Around the World for Adventurous Travelers
a year ago
Londonist
New Barbie Exhibition To Open In London Next Year
Hi Barbie!
a year ago
Ryan Mulligan
Scrolling Rails and Button Controls
Once again, here I am, hackin' away on horizontal scroll ideas. This iteration starts with a custom...
a week ago
Once again, here I am, hackin' away on horizontal scroll ideas. This iteration starts with a custom HTML tag. All the necessities for scroll overflow, scroll snapping, and row layout are handled with CSS. Then, as a little progressive enhancement treat, button elements are...
Old Structures...
All In A Name
I mentioned yesterday that New York’s City Hall, because it is over 200 years old, is very much too...
2 weeks ago
I mentioned yesterday that New York’s City Hall, because it is over 200 years old, is very much too small to house a modern government. The first solution dreamed up in the late 1800s was to replace City Hall with a much larger building. For various reasons – including expense, a...
On the Arts
Link List: 20 Articles + Websites About the Arts
A wide-ranging collection of links on ballet, ugly architecture, Soviet Control rooms, Hokusai, and...
a year ago
A wide-ranging collection of links on ballet, ugly architecture, Soviet Control rooms, Hokusai, and nifty CSS tools.
Mazdak
The Psychology of Investing: 5 Critical Traps That Can Destroy Your Wealth
The path to investment success is riddled with psychological pitfalls that can turn promising...
a month ago
The path to investment success is riddled with psychological pitfalls that can turn promising portfolios into cautionary tales.
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The...
over a year ago
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The Sultan's Riddle Once upon a time there was a Sultan who was looking for a vizier to help him rule his country. It became known to him that among the multitudes of his loyal subjects...
On Life and Lisp
Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month
u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue}
Finally, conformant Vulkan for the...
7 months ago
u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue}
Finally, conformant Vulkan for the M1! The new “Honeykrisp” driver is
the first conformant
Vulkan® for Apple hardware on any operating system, implementing the
full 1.3 spec without “portability”...
Interaction Magic -...
Metaphors mold minds
Every good design is founded on a great metaphor. How to use metaphors to design more a inclusive...
over a year ago
Every good design is founded on a great metaphor. How to use metaphors to design more a inclusive future for our cities. My IXDA Interaction 22 conference talk.
TheCollector
Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
TheCollector
Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Demand
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10 months ago
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Ice Formation
In today's bigger is better world, you don't order a large coffee, you order a 20 fluid ounce Venti...
4 months ago
In today's bigger is better world, you don't order a large coffee, you order a 20 fluid ounce Venti coffee. From 1987 through 2004, McDonald's restaurants had a supersize option for larger than large portions of its French fries and soft drinks. The prefix, super, has been used...
Archinect - Features
Archinect Celebrates Canada Day by Highlighting 15 Architecture Firms That Are Defining the...
July 1, also known as Canada Day, is a time when Canadians come together to commemorate the union of...
a year ago
July 1, also known as Canada Day, is a time when Canadians come together to commemorate the union of what were once three separate colonies — New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada (contemporary Ontario and Quebec).
Canada isn't just one of the largest countries in the world, but...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
Both Are True
The masks we wear (rom com, act three)
A denoument? In this economy? You betcha. Let's boogie.
9 months ago
A denoument? In this economy? You betcha. Let's boogie.
TokyoDev
Japan's Earthquake and Technology
Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in...
over a year ago
Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in Northern
Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami).
Despite Tokyo being several hundred kilometers from the epicenter, it's
effects were felt even here (although to a much lesser extent than...
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Shoes
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a year ago
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A Weekly Dose of...
A Modernist Reads About Lutyens
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the English architect who was born in 1869 and died in 1944, that is....
a year ago
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the English architect who was born in 1869 and died in 1944, that is. Although a famous name, Lutyens was not an architect I had much familiarity with before I received a review copy of the first volume of The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens....
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Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
2022-09-10
Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
over a year ago
Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
2022-09-10
Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the “golden age” in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
Blog posts of...
Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds.
Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
a week ago
Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
The Marginalian
How Emotions Are Made
"Emotions are not reactions to the world; they are your constructions of the world."
10 months ago
"Emotions are not reactions to the world; they are your constructions of the world."
Simply Explained
HEIC to JPG: Build a Quick Action with Automator
With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The...
over a year ago
With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The High-Efficiency Image File Format saves a lot of storage space on your devices while still maintaining your photos' quality. However, it does become problematic if you want to share those files...
TheCollector
America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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6 months ago
Mazdak
Anthropic & Amazon Partnership
In the world of cutting-edge AI, a power couple has emerged: Anthropic, the ambitious AI startup,...
a month ago
In the world of cutting-edge AI, a power couple has emerged: Anthropic, the ambitious AI startup, and Amazon, the tech giant with cloud dominance.
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Lines of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway, 1927
Here’s a fascinating map of streetcar lines in Omaha, Nebraska in 1927, beautifully hand drawn on...
a year ago
Here’s a fascinating map of streetcar lines in Omaha, Nebraska in 1927, beautifully hand drawn on top of a pre-printed single colour map of the area produced by the City’s engineering department. Not only does the map show the extent of all the streetcar lines (with 64.6 miles of...
Londonist
Miracle At Henrietta: The Christmassiest Bar In London
It's Kiiiiiiiitschmas!
a year ago
The Rational Walk
Herodotus
Herodotus is often described as the father of history for his narrative of the Greco-Persian Wars of...
5 months ago
Herodotus is often described as the father of history for his narrative of the Greco-Persian Wars of the fifth century BC.
Making software...
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
2020-06-04
Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
over a year ago
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
2020-06-04
Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I'm keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site.
I recently added a fairly...
Spoon & Tamago
Noma’s New Pop Up by OEO Studio in Kyoto
All images ©Kotaro Tanaka courtesy OEO Studio OEO Studio, a Copenhagen-based design firm, has...
a year ago
All images ©Kotaro Tanaka courtesy OEO Studio OEO Studio, a Copenhagen-based design firm, has recently completed the interiors of Noma Kyoto, a pop-up dining in Japan in collaboration with Ace Hotel. The 250 sqm existing dining space has been transformed under the guidance of...
Christopher Butler
object – Yoto
This is the best media player for children.
In the month before the pandemic shut everything...
a year ago
This is the best media player for children.
In the month before the pandemic shut everything down, I was in the midst of some research on how designers — and other kinds of creative experts and consultants — can best communicate results. I was looking at a variety of case...
NeuroLogica Blog
T-rex Had Lips
One of the challenges of paleontology is that we are trying to infer and entire animal just from the...
a year ago
One of the challenges of paleontology is that we are trying to infer and entire animal just from the hard parts that fossilize, mostly bones and teeth (and sometimes just teeth). But if we look at animals today there are a lot of details we could not guess from their bones alone...
The Works in...
Heat waves
Why a hotter world might be a more dangerous, violent, and less productive one
5 months ago
Why a hotter world might be a more dangerous, violent, and less productive one
Chris Nicholas
Integrate Twitter newsletters with API Routes
Last week newsletters started popping up on Twitter profiles, using their recently purchased...
over a year ago
Last week newsletters started popping up on Twitter profiles, using their recently purchased service, Revue.
Mazdak
Tesla's Trump Card: How a Presidency Could Fuel a Trillion-Dollar Boom
What happens when a polarizing president and an electric vehicle giant collide?
a month ago
What happens when a polarizing president and an electric vehicle giant collide?
Artificial Ignorance
LLMs are getting dumber and we have no idea why
Five theories that could explain how chatbots are getting worse.
3 months ago
Five theories that could explain how chatbots are getting worse.
Josh Thompson
How to never accidentally click Twitter's "Moments" again (and to block anything else on the...
Do you use Twitter’s “Moments” tool, or do you just find it really annoying?
Most people find it...
over a year ago
Do you use Twitter’s “Moments” tool, or do you just find it really annoying?
Most people find it annoying. Here’s how to get rid of Twitter’s “Moments” forever:
0. Be won over to using an ad blocker on the internet.
They don’t block just ads, but malicious scripts and...
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Occasion for Festive Processions"
“Others will
balk at his sometimes extravagant vocabulary; words such as ‘amphisbaenic’ or ‘labarum’...
6 months ago
“Others will
balk at his sometimes extravagant vocabulary; words such as ‘amphisbaenic’ or ‘labarum’ or
‘ithyphallic’ will send them ‘scurrying’ to their dictionaries (why do they
always ‘scurry’ or even ‘scuttle’? A new word, rightly used, should be an
occasion for festive...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Well-crafted grocery lists
Inspired by the simple unassuming beauty of a well-crafted grocery
list
– Field Notes back inside...
a year ago
Inspired by the simple unassuming beauty of a well-crafted grocery
list
– Field Notes back inside cover
The list.
Lists are powerful technology.
In his book Moonwalking
with Einstein, Joshua Foer likens early writing to sheet music for
story-telling.
Scripto
continua had zero...
TheCollector
Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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One Useful Thing
What Can be Done in 59 Seconds: An Opportunity (and a Crisis)
Five analytical tasks in under a minute
11 months ago
Five analytical tasks in under a minute
Castles in the Sky
Dreams Over Goals in 2024
More dreams, less goals, and some commitments for the year
11 months ago
More dreams, less goals, and some commitments for the year
Confessions of a...
Recording: Six Key Performance Engineering Lessons from 1BRC
Last night we did this live session on performance engineering.
3 months ago
Last night we did this live session on performance engineering.
Asterisk
Cows vs. Chemists: The Health Debates Over Plant-Based Meat
Everyone wants to know if plant-based meats are good for you. Despite what you might read, no one...
a year ago
Everyone wants to know if plant-based meats are good for you. Despite what you might read, no one has a definitive answer.
Lighthouse Blog
Updates December 01: UX improvements
a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
A month of the Vision Pro
The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems
years away from the mass...
9 months ago
The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems
years away from the mass market. And if it gets there, how much will it
matter?
mtlynch.io
Resurrecting a Dead Library: Part One - Resuscitation
When I arrived on the scene, it wasn’t a pretty sight.
I saw formerly active, cheerful Python...
over a year ago
When I arrived on the scene, it wasn’t a pretty sight.
I saw formerly active, cheerful Python classes in a sorry state of atrophy, having gone years without exercise. Functions at all levels of abstraction were crammed together inhumanely under the label utils. I tried to read...
Seeking Wisdom
Modeling Life: Linear Algebra
This is the 4th post in my series summarizing the key takeaways from reading the book Modeling Life....
8 months ago
This is the 4th post in my series summarizing the key takeaways from reading the book Modeling Life. I recommend reading my previous posts first to gain a solid understanding on how to model dynamic systems. This post focuses on how linear algebra is employed in modeling dynamic...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sheep
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a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Pulmuone’s Innovative Store Redefines Food Culture with Sustainability and Modern Convenience.
Pulmuone Foods has launched an innovative store that redefines food culture, offering an immersive...
3 months ago
Pulmuone Foods has launched an innovative store that redefines food culture, offering an immersive experience that transcends traditional retail. This...
Home on Erik...
Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory
It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe...
over a year ago
It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering...
The Honest Broker
Mainstream Is Now Fringe, and Fringe Is Mainstream
The current state of media is total anarchy
2 weeks ago
The current state of media is total anarchy
Simply Explained
How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!)
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from...
a year ago
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from anywhere on my Mac. I just open Alfred, type “note” followed by my query, and see my search results. Hit enter and the correct note opens in Obsidian. Easy and quick!
Seth's Blog
The color-coded wires
Have you ever wondered what the wiring layout behind the control panels at Abbey Road studios was...
8 months ago
Have you ever wondered what the wiring layout behind the control panels at Abbey Road studios was like? Neither have I. The Beatles recorded some of their best work there, and I have no idea if it was a rat’s nest of tangled wires, or if each wire was labeled, coded and perfectly...
TheCollector
FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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Greg Brockman
#define CTO OpenAI
It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I...
over a year ago
It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I could have scalable impact by writing code. I’ve finally found that role, though not by seeking it — instead, I sought out a problem more important to me than my role within it,...
Citation Needed
Issue 59 – Hot damn, this is going to get interesting quickly
Are US legislators warming to crypto? The SEC approves Ethereum ETPs, and a crypto bill gets through...
6 months ago
Are US legislators warming to crypto? The SEC approves Ethereum ETPs, and a crypto bill gets through the House.
Blog - Guerrilla...
Can You Stay?
Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning...
over a year ago
Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning housing precarity, focusing on a part of the world with unique geography and social issues.
Project Background
This map is cut from the cloth of a capstone project I did in 2018 at...
wingolog
conservative gc can be faster than precise gc
Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The
prevailing wisdom is that precise is...
3 months ago
Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The
prevailing wisdom is that precise is always better. Conservative GC can
retain more objects than strictly necessary, making GC slow: GC has to
more frequently, and it has to trace a larger heap on each...
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Against Namespacing Personal Sites
I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm...
over a year ago
I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm calling "URL Architecture". In true fashion, I'm blogging about it.
Louwrentius
'Improved' image gallery for Blogofile
This blog is just static HTML pages that are generated using Blogofile. The Blogofile website sports...
over a year ago
This blog is just static HTML pages that are generated using Blogofile. The Blogofile website sports a small image gallery that has been written to illustrate how to create your own 'controllers' or Blogofile plugins.
My Python skills are horrible buy I managed to improve a bit...
Math Is Still...
Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields
A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy...
11 months ago
A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clusters. If confirmed, the approach could be used to reveal where cosmic magnetic fields come from.
The post Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields...
Contemporist...
This Wood Watchtower Is Also A Home For Bats
NEXT Architects has shared photos of Watchtower Einderheide, a lookout in The Netherlands, that also...
2 months ago
NEXT Architects has shared photos of Watchtower Einderheide, a lookout in The Netherlands, that also doubles as a shelter for bats.
Seth's Blog
Did you see it in the theater?
We’re in the middle of a huge and unusual shift. The magazine publisher acted like the best sales...
7 months ago
We’re in the middle of a huge and unusual shift. The magazine publisher acted like the best sales were newsstand sales, even though the profit came from subscriptions and most people simply visited the website. Book publishers and editors seem to focus on selling copies on paper,...
Commoncog
Making Sense of Deming
A comprehensive summary of W. Edwards Deming's ideas, whose System of Profound Knowledge is one of...
9 months ago
A comprehensive summary of W. Edwards Deming's ideas, whose System of Profound Knowledge is one of the most powerful things you'll find on the Operations side of the business expertise triad. Read this, so you don't have to read multiple books to apply his ideas.
Open Culture
Medieval Cats Behaving Badly: Kitties That Left Paw Prints … and Peed … on 15th Century Manuscripts
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” –Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–90) When...
7 months ago
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” –Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–90) When Emir O. Filipovic, a medievalist at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, visited the State Archives of Dubrovnik, he stumbled upon something that will hardly surprise...
Irrational...
Gelling your Engineering leadership team.
One of the first leadership books I read was Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,...
a year ago
One of the first leadership books I read was Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which introduces the concept of your peers being your “first team” rather than your direct reports. This was a powerful idea for me, because it’s much harder to be a good teammate to...
Contemporist...
A Modern Brick Home Designed Around The Original Placement Of Trees
Exterio architects have shared photos of a new home they completed in Warsaw, Poland, that's...
5 months ago
Exterio architects have shared photos of a new home they completed in Warsaw, Poland, that's surrounded by a pine tree forest.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Calque
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The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero?
I lost my position as global minister for future generations because I spent my effort points to...
over a year ago
I lost my position as global minister for future generations because I spent my effort points to fast to reach net zero.
A Smart Bear
Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias
Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and...
a year ago
Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and what's random?
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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sbensu
But I want to turn people into dinosaurs
Beware of what you actually want.
5 months ago
Beware of what you actually want.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Hard to Find a Name in Human Speech'
After a stop
in Hong Kong during his four-thousand-mile journey back to Moscow from Sakhalin
Island,...
a year ago
After a stop
in Hong Kong during his four-thousand-mile journey back to Moscow from Sakhalin
Island, Chekhov’s ship encountered rough weather and high seas. Before reaching
Singapore, two men had died and their bodies were thrown overboard:
“When you
see a dead man wrapped in...
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
7 months ago
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
Seeking Wisdom
What I Learned from The South Asian Health Solution and wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor
We all know avocados are healthy, and coke is bad. Yet we can’t help but gulp down a coke with a...
7 months ago
We all know avocados are healthy, and coke is bad. Yet we can’t help but gulp down a coke with a plate full of french fries. It takes an enormous amount of energy to break bad habits. I’ve broken bad habits under two conditions: (a) it’s a do-or-die situation, or (b) you have a...
Applied Cartography
Globals in Histoire
Histoire, like so many other tools in the Vue ecosystem, is a bit of a neglected younger sibling to...
9 months ago
Histoire, like so many other tools in the Vue ecosystem, is a bit of a neglected younger sibling to Storybook — a little bit uglier, with worse documentation and a couple rough edges, but much more tightly integrated with Vue and Vite. [1]
One thing that was not particularly...
Wuthering...
Menander's Dyskolos - each man would hold a moderate share and be content
This week it’s Menander’s Dyskolos, or The Grouch, or The Misanthrope (316 BCE), which may or may...
over a year ago
This week it’s Menander’s Dyskolos, or The Grouch, or The Misanthrope (316 BCE), which may or may not have inspired the title of Molière’s great play, and nothing more than the title since the play was, like all of Menander’s plays, long lost. A fairly complete Dyskolos was the...
Mind Mine
act, rest, repeat
on finding the right doing-being balance
3 months ago
on finding the right doing-being balance
TheCollector
Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Retail Design Blog
FREITAG store
Following the opening in 2017 of FREITAG‘s first store Down Under, in collaboration with local...
3 months ago
Following the opening in 2017 of FREITAG‘s first store Down Under, in collaboration with local retailer Keoma, the innovative Zurich-based...
TheCollector
The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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DYNOMIGHT
Things that don’t work
(Or: Things where there’s a case worth considering that they don’t work all that well for most...
9 months ago
(Or: Things where there’s a case worth considering that they don’t work all that well for most people.)
Acupuncture. (link)
Phenylephrine. (link)
Multivitamins. (link)
Phosphoric acid. (for nausea; link)
Tree-based knowledge organization. The physical world whispers to us to...
Londonist
Non-Christmassy Things To Do In London In December
Where to avoid Christmas completely in London this year.
a year ago
Where to avoid Christmas completely in London this year.
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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“Meaningful” startups
There is generally a lot of enthusiasm in the startup world these days. But some observers worry...
over a year ago
There is generally a lot of enthusiasm in the startup world these days. But some observers worry that too many startups are working on…
Asterisk
Is Cultivated Meat For Real?
Cultivated meat faces a wall of scientific skepticism, but investors haven’t been deterred. A decade...
a year ago
Cultivated meat faces a wall of scientific skepticism, but investors haven’t been deterred. A decade in, how close are we to seeing it on our plates?
Matt Mazur
Going Full Time on My SaaS After 13 Years
In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few...
a year ago
In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the initial launch – I’m going full time on it and I couldn’t be more excited. A brief history...
99% Invisible
Anything’s Pastable: Eat Sauté Love [EPISODE]
This week we’re featuring an episode from The Sporkful’s series on the creation of “Anything’s...
8 months ago
This week we’re featuring an episode from The Sporkful’s series on the creation of “Anything’s Pastable,” Dan Pashman’s new pasta cookbook. In part two of “Anything’s Pastable,” Dan embarks on an epic trip across Italy in search of lesser-known pasta dishes — and to learn about...
ntietz.com blog
That time I wrote malware and got caught
Most of us make some bad decisions in high school.
While other people were drinking, going to...
a year ago
Most of us make some bad decisions in high school.
While other people were drinking, going to parties, and who knows what else, I was doing some experimentation of my own.
I was writing my first (and only) piece of malware.
From as early as I can remember, I've had a fascination...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Techies and normals
There are techies (if you are reading this blog you are almost certainly one of them) and there are...
over a year ago
There are techies (if you are reading this blog you are almost certainly one of them) and there are mainstream users – some people call them…
Passing Time
Hemiphytophilia
A journal entry about a house plant
11 months ago
A journal entry about a house plant
Arduino Blog
Harness the power and connectivity of your Arduino UNO R4 WiFi with this IoT lamp
It can be tough to get started with building an Internet of Things (IoT) project from the ground-up,...
7 months ago
It can be tough to get started with building an Internet of Things (IoT) project from the ground-up, as getting connected, serving a webpage, and managing other devices can all be a challenge to a beginner. This is why the YouTuber known as “Mario’s Ideas” made an end-to-end...
Applied Cartography
Why your marketing site should be separate
In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we...
3 months ago
In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we serve buttondown.com both as a marketing site (public-facing, Next/Vercel, largely just content pushed by non-developers) and an author-facing app (behind a login, Django/Heroku/Vue)...
Unpacked
DOJ v. Google: Case outline & arguments analysis
The DOJ is going after specific anti-competitive mechanisms, and the specifics of Google's onerous...
a year ago
The DOJ is going after specific anti-competitive mechanisms, and the specifics of Google's onerous Android deals might be the smoking gun
Diaries of Note
I need solitude. I need space. I need air.
English novelist Virginia Woolf was fifteen when she began her first diary; by the time of her death...
a year ago
English novelist Virginia Woolf was fifteen when she began her first diary; by the time of her death in 1941, she had filled more than thirty handwritten volumes with reflections, observations, and personal struggles that offer a window into her complex mind. When she wrote the...
Londonist
London In Teeth
A tribute to London's best gnashers.
10 months ago
A tribute to London's best gnashers.
Rest of World -...
The CEO trying to democratize cybersecurity
Felix Kan on building a bug-hunting platform to enhance cybersecurity for small companies.
11 months ago
Felix Kan on building a bug-hunting platform to enhance cybersecurity for small companies.
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
Epic Web Dev
Pixel Perfect Figma to Tailwind (workshop)
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS...
5 months ago
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS techniques, and Tailwind v4 migration in this workshop.
Moneyness
Stablecoins – a digital version of Swiss bearer savings books
Before anti-money laundering laws arrived in Switzerland, anyone could walk into a Swiss bank and...
4 months ago
Before anti-money laundering laws arrived in Switzerland, anyone could walk into a Swiss bank and open an account without showing any ID. The bank would then issue you something called a bearer savings book, otherwise known as inhabersparheften or livrets d'épargne au porteur....
Seth's Blog
Taxonomy as a service
When the truck makes a delivery at the nearby True Value hardware store, Danny needs to figure out...
a week ago
When the truck makes a delivery at the nearby True Value hardware store, Danny needs to figure out which shelf to put it on. Should the extension cords go next to the hoses? After all, they both do the same thing, one with electricity and one with water… The purpose of putting...
Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
One Useful Thing
Blinded by Analogies
What is this AI thing? The wrong model can lead us astray
a year ago
What is this AI thing? The wrong model can lead us astray
Math Is Still...
What Can Tiling Patterns Teach Us?
If you cover a surface with tiles, repetitive patterns always emerge — or do they? In this week’s...
6 months ago
If you cover a surface with tiles, repetitive patterns always emerge — or do they? In this week’s episode, mathematician Natalie Priebe Frank and co-host Janna Levin discuss how recent breakthroughs in tiling can unlock structural secrets in the natural world.
The...
TheCollector
The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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3 weeks ago
sbensu
Designing for support teams
Support agents spend their entire lives using the same software. Their needs are very different from...
11 months ago
Support agents spend their entire lives using the same software. Their needs are very different from consumer software. Here are some things to keep in mind.
Wuthering...
Paradoxes and epistemology - early Greek philosophy as conceptual innovation - "Zeno argues...
The conceptual innovation of Thales that we identify as the birth of philosophy quickly spun off...
a year ago
The conceptual innovation of Thales that we identify as the birth of philosophy quickly spun off other conceptual innovations. A real conceptual innovation does not require a book or even an argument. You say there are many gods? But what if there were one? Or none? ...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Making noisy SVGs
Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology...
a year ago
Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology inform web design. In an earlier post this…
Making software...
Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles
Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles
2021-11-09
This website almost exclusively uses the...
over a year ago
Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles
2021-11-09
This website almost exclusively uses the browser's (whichever one that might be) default styling to render it's HTML. I firmly believe, and have stated in a previous post, that the default HTML styling across all browsers...
Ralph Ammer
So… this is a job?
What is Design?
The post So… this is a job? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
over a year ago
What is Design?
The post So… this is a job? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Left To Write
#5 Writemas: The Way You Present Something Matters
If you had asked me 5 years ago, “Would you do sales?” I would’ve looked at you with disgust. I’m...
a year ago
If you had asked me 5 years ago, “Would you do sales?” I would’ve looked at you with disgust. I’m introverted, typically quiet and observant. But as Bloomstory’s co-founder, it’s one of my roles within the business. In fact, I volunteered for it. Most of my responsibilities...
Londonist
You Can Take A Dip In This Rooftop Pool Overlooking Battersea Power Station
art'otel announces series of aerobics classes.
11 months ago
art'otel announces series of aerobics classes.
TheCollector
Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
undefined
4 months ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#15)
Working-class wealth, the education gap, zero-sum thinking, data uncertainty, and indigenous...
a year ago
Working-class wealth, the education gap, zero-sum thinking, data uncertainty, and indigenous knowledge
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.10.0
This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out -...
over a year ago
This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out - you can walk through your own website or app and see…
diamond geezer
DIY blogpost
For one day only I'm offering you the opportunity to write today's post. Ten or so paragraphs of...
a year ago
For one day only I'm offering you the opportunity to write today's post. Ten or so paragraphs of factual musings, hopefully entertaining and illuminating, for the wider readership to enjoy. I'll pick the topic, you provide the words.
Don't worry, I'm not expecting you to write...
Londonist
10 Things You Learn From Living In The Tower Of London
William the Conqueror did NOT build those walls with a strong internet connection in mind.
9 months ago
William the Conqueror did NOT build those walls with a strong internet connection in mind.
The Modern House
Five things to do and see this April
The clocks have sprung forward and the spring chicks are chirping: yes, April has arrived. But it’s...
a year ago
The clocks have sprung forward and the spring chicks are chirping: yes, April has arrived. But it’s not only those longer, lighter evenings luring us out of the house; this month’s brilliant list of cultural and culinary must-dos and -sees is equally tempting – even […]
Blog - Bitfield...
Bitfield Institute of Technology
The Bitfield Institute of Technology (BIT) is a software engineering school
that offers remote...
5 months ago
The Bitfield Institute of Technology (BIT) is a software engineering school
that offers remote training and certifications in Go development to
students worldwide.
Odds and Ends of...
Keir Starmer needs to prepare for a world without America
Today's empires, tomorrow's ashes.
a month ago
Today's empires, tomorrow's ashes.
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 44
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
9 months ago
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Look for Truth, for Knowledge, for Wisdom'
“The library
is, and always has been, the heart of a college. . . . For professors--professors
of...
a year ago
“The library
is, and always has been, the heart of a college. . . . For professors--professors
of the humanities, at any rate--as much as students, are the creatures of the
library. Just as the laboratory is the domain of the sciences, so the library
is the domain of the...
Home on Erik...
Modeling conversion rates using Weibull and gamma distributions
This is a blog post originally featured on the Better engineering blog. If you want to link to this...
over a year ago
This is a blog post originally featured on the Better engineering blog. If you want to link to this article or share it, please go to the original post URL! Separately, I'm sorry it's been so long with no posts on this blog.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and...
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
over a year ago
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
a year ago
The Marginalian
The Half-Life of Hope
After breaking out of timidity with “Spell Against Indifference,” an offering of another poem — this...
a year ago
After breaking out of timidity with “Spell Against Indifference,” an offering of another poem — this one inspired by a lovely piece of science news that touched me with its sonorous existential echoes. THE HALF-LIFE OF HOPE by Maria Popova Walking beneath the concrete canopy...
Avestura's Blog
Creating a Git commit: The Hard Way
Let's create a Git commit using Git's low-level (plumbing) commands
4 months ago
Let's create a Git commit using Git's low-level (plumbing) commands
Common Edge
Telling the Essential Stories of Everyday Places
A talk with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viana, author of The Cities We Need.
a month ago
A talk with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viana, author of The Cities We Need.
Coding Horror
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career.
With early computers,...
over a year ago
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career.
With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
Product Identity
#4 Roam Research — What comes after a renaissance?
On mixing ideas, evolving design patterns and finding a soul
11 months ago
On mixing ideas, evolving design patterns and finding a soul
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bad
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Somehow it became God week on SMBC.
Today's News:
4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Somehow it became God week on SMBC.
Today's News:
Open Culture
13 Experimental Animations of Osamu Tezuka, “the Godfather of Manga” (1964–1987)
If you enjoy modern Japanese animation, you can no doubt name several masterpieces of the form off...
3 months ago
If you enjoy modern Japanese animation, you can no doubt name several masterpieces of the form off the top of your head, whether acclaimed series like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop to the work of cinema auteurs like Satoshi Kon and Hayao Miyazaki. What may cross your...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI & The Science of Creativity
In an effort to better understand how all this AI stuff works, I’ve been chipping away at Stephen...
a year ago
In an effort to better understand how all this AI stuff works, I’ve been chipping away at Stephen Wolfram’s meticulous piece, “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?”.
As you likely know, ChatGPT works by guessing at the next word. Here’s Stephen:
when ChatGPT does...
Working Theorys
Second Encounters
Firsts are overrated
9 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 049: Down the Rabbit hole
January 12, 2023.
11 months ago
The Elysian
Are Democrats too liberal? Or too conservative?
We're asking the wrong questions.
a month ago
We're asking the wrong questions.
99% Invisible
It’s Howdy Doody Time! [EPISODE]
If your parents or grandparents grew up in the United States in the 1950s, there’s a decent chance...
8 months ago
If your parents or grandparents grew up in the United States in the 1950s, there’s a decent chance that they know the theme song to The Howdy Doody Show. The Howdy Doody Show is one of those pieces of 1950s ephemera that has come to symbolize mid-century American childhood. For...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week
#1 💡 Massviews Analysis is a super useful free tool to identify niche trends, whether you’re trying...
11 months ago
#1 💡 Massviews Analysis is a super useful free tool to identify niche trends, whether you’re trying to research content ideas or doing research on business opportunities. You can put in any Wikipedia category, and it will show you what pages inside that category are most...
Home on Erik...
Pinterest open sources Pinball
Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two...
over a year ago
Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two blog posts: Pinball: Building workflow management (from 2014) and Open-sourcing Pinball (from this week). The author has a comment in the comments thread on Hacker News:
CONTEMPORIST
A 1970s Four Bedroom Home Renovated For A Couple That Loves To Entertain
Architecture firm Side Angle Side, has shared photos of a 1970s ranch home they renovated in Austin,...
2 months ago
Architecture firm Side Angle Side, has shared photos of a 1970s ranch home they renovated in Austin, Texas, for their clients that wanted a home for entertaining. The transformation involved converting a four-bedroom floor plan into a spacious, open, one bedroom home. A long...
bunnie's blog
Control and Autofocus Software for Chip-Level Microscopy
This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through...
8 months ago
This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through non-destructive IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) inspection. Here’s the previous posts: This post will discuss the control software used to drive IRIS. Above is a screenshot of the IRIS machine...
Stoic Simple
Seneca’s Writing on Stoicism and Philosophy
Seneca is one of the most prominent philosophers within the Stoic tradition, known for his...
a year ago
Seneca is one of the most prominent philosophers within the Stoic tradition, known for his contributions to ethical theory and his reflections on human nature. Understanding Seneca's philosophy and applying his teachings can lead to a more fulfilling and meaningful life. This...
Rozado’s Visual...
What is the IQ of ChatGPT?
Making an AI model take an IQ test
over a year ago
Making an AI model take an IQ test
Josh Thompson
November 2016 Goals
November 2016 Goals
Note to the reader: The words that follow are all about me. Very naval-gaze-ish....
over a year ago
November 2016 Goals
Note to the reader: The words that follow are all about me. Very naval-gaze-ish. I feel I owe you this warning.
My November goals are an extension of my
October goals.
October was good (
October review) - I made progress on two of three projects, and one of...
The Marginalian
How to Own Your Human-Heartedness: Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen and the Dangers of...
"Trust in human nature is acceptance of the good-and-bad of it, and it is hard to trust those who do...
a year ago
"Trust in human nature is acceptance of the good-and-bad of it, and it is hard to trust those who do not admit their own weakness."
Lighthouse Blog
Updates November 17: Content classification and summary
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Diminishing Dark Energy May Evade the ‘Swampland’ of Impossible Universes
The largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos hints that the dark energy that’s fueling the universe’s...
4 months ago
The largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos hints that the dark energy that’s fueling the universe’s expansion may be weakening. One community of theoretical physicists expected as much.
The post Diminishing Dark Energy May Evade the ‘Swampland’ of Impossible Universes...
Robert Caro
In Florida, the Pitch Is High and Hard
A special Senate committee has opened an investigation into these “Misery Acres” that take dollars...
a year ago
A special Senate committee has opened an investigation into these “Misery Acres” that take dollars from people who cannot afford it.
Scarlet Ink
Dave's Path to Amazon — And He Makes Fun of the Midwest
My path to Amazon wasn't obvious, or all that intentional. But it changed my life forever.
3 months ago
My path to Amazon wasn't obvious, or all that intentional. But it changed my life forever.
Both Are True
hello from the other side
a record of my first two days away from the internet and social media and wow
a year ago
a record of my first two days away from the internet and social media and wow
swyx's site RSS Feed
Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds
---
over a year ago
Neil Madden
Parse, don’t type-check
There’s a fantastic article from last year titled Parse, don’t validate. I’d highly recommend it to...
over a year ago
There’s a fantastic article from last year titled Parse, don’t validate. I’d highly recommend it to any programmer (along with the more recent follow up Names are not type safety). The basic idea is that there are two ways to check that some input to a function is valid: A...
Coding Horror
There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security
Remember "cybersecurity"?
Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .....
over a year ago
Remember "cybersecurity"?
Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .. things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to?
Unfortunately, we now live in a world where this kind of digital mischief is literally rewriting the...
The Modern House
Why deli and wine bar Lulu’s is winning the hearts of locals in Herne Hill
a year ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Wäre July 2023
The Ware for July 2023 is a “KUP 10” by aditec. Also, thanks to FETguy, we now have a schematic of...
a year ago
The Ware for July 2023 is a “KUP 10” by aditec. Also, thanks to FETguy, we now have a schematic of the ware: The spirit of Name that Ware is about demystifying electronics and encouraging people to learn by taking things apart. Drawing a schematic from an image of a circuit board...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Moved Off Dev.to
2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog...
over a year ago
2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog is on Github Issues](https://www.swyx.io/github-cms) and [I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1531330889535602688).
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Being friendly has become a competitive advantage in VC
Over the last decade or two, the supply of venture capital dollars has increased dramatically at the...
over a year ago
Over the last decade or two, the supply of venture capital dollars has increased dramatically at the same time as the cost of building tech…
Mazdak
Sam Altman's Potential Return to OpenAI
In a surprising turn of events, high-level discussions are underway to bring Sam Altman back to...
a year ago
In a surprising turn of events, high-level discussions are underway to bring Sam Altman back to OpenAI, not just as an investor or advisor, but as the company's CEO once again. This development comes just days after Altman's abrupt departure from the position, which sent...
One Useful Thing
Reshaping the tree: rebuilding organizations for AI
Technological change brings organizational change.
a year ago
Technological change brings organizational change.
The Wandering...
Mapping Gottfried Merzbacher
I’m wrapping up my work on Gottfried Merzbacher—a sort of back-burner project that’s been active and...
over a year ago
I’m wrapping up my work on Gottfried Merzbacher—a sort of back-burner project that’s been active and then dormant, on and off, for about seven years. It’s been a pleasure to learn about places like the Bayumkol valley, the relationship between the Saryzhaz and Kum-erik Rivers,...
Cheese and Biscuits
Cord, Fleet Street
Basil Fawlty:
Mr. Johnson:
Basil Fawlty:
Mr. Johnson:
Basil Fawlty:
Mr. Johnson:
Basil...
a year ago
Basil Fawlty:
Mr. Johnson:
Basil Fawlty:
Mr. Johnson:
Basil Fawlty:
Mr. Johnson:
Basil Fawlty:
gralefrit, we idolised the food of France, where they did things properly. Whipped into shape back in the 19th century by towering figures like Escoffier, French cuisine...
Wanderingspace
Morning and Night on Mars
Yeah. Um… Wow. Nice Job NASA. I’ll just copy/paste how The Planetary Society explained it:
“NASA's...
over a year ago
Yeah. Um… Wow. Nice Job NASA. I’ll just copy/paste how The Planetary Society explained it:
“NASA's Curiosity team made this artistic interpretation of the rover's view from high up Mt. Sharp by combining pictures taken at different times of day and adding colors to bring out the...
Liz Denys
Reflections on XOXO 2018
If I actually wrote about XOXO 2018 last weekend like I had intended to do, I would have tried to...
over a year ago
If I actually wrote about XOXO 2018 last weekend like I had intended to do, I would have tried to write an article titled "XOXO strives to be what the internet should strive to be," and I probably would have never finished it. It's not that I don't still think XOXO tries to be...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. an x86 upgrade
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
...
over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
3. LLVM
4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci
5. LLVM system calls
This post upgrades the ulisp x86 backend from using a limited set of
registers (with no spilling...
Frank’s Ramblings
Vision Transformers are Overrated
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
a year ago
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious upside: in a visual recognition setting, the receptive field of a pure ViT is effectively the entire image 1. In particular, vanilla ViTs maintain the quadratic time complexity...
Math Is Still...
Nobel Prize Honors Inventors of ‘Quantum Dot’ Nanoparticles
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers who harnessed the quantum...
a year ago
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers who harnessed the quantum behaviors of semiconductor nanocrystals.
The post Nobel Prize Honors Inventors of ‘Quantum Dot’ Nanoparticles first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Luxagraf:...
Fortified
From Edisto we worked our way south, stopping off a Hunting Island for a few dismal days in the cold...
11 months ago
From Edisto we worked our way south, stopping off a Hunting Island for a few dismal days in the cold and rain, camping in a site that was just a smidge above actual bog. We escaped that dreariness for the much more uplifting Fort McAllister, the first of a string of forts we...
TheCollector
7 African Myths About Animals
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5 months ago
Liz Denys
On the Fearless Girl, what constitutes art, authorial intent, and the patriarchy
A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with...
over a year ago
A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with Charging Bull statue in Manhattan's Financial District:
Moody Man's photo of Fearless Girl
Anthony Quintano's photo of Fearless Girl facing Charging Bull
But she wasn't...
Josh Thompson
Collateralizing Mortgages and Loans With the Present Value of Rent Flow
this is a draft document, it pairs with this Planned Unit Development application draft...
over a year ago
this is a draft document, it pairs with this Planned Unit Development application draft document
Inspiration comes from many places, but most strongly it draws heavily from Order Without Design. I’ve quoted in depth two pages below, but there is many other sections of the book...
A Smart Bear
Jason Cohen: About the author
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
a year ago
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful!
As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
The Pragmatic...
Building an an Early Stage Startup: Lessons from Akita Software
Jean Yang sold her startup to Postman, and shares the details on what happened in the 5 years...
a year ago
Jean Yang sold her startup to Postman, and shares the details on what happened in the 5 years leading up to this sale.
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 7 (South Korea: The DMZ)
The Korean War never actually ended. Rather, it froze in place at an armistice line on July 27,...
a year ago
The Korean War never actually ended. Rather, it froze in place at an armistice line on July 27, 1953. So there’s a multi-decade ceasefire, a truce, but no agreed-upon resolution of hostilities. A four kilometre wide Demilitarized Zone acts as a buffer between North and South...
Seth's Blog
A treaty
Successful treaties calm things down and let us get back to what’s really important. Sometimes, the...
a year ago
Successful treaties calm things down and let us get back to what’s really important. Sometimes, the fight becomes the entire point. Not surprisingly, when we’re busy fighting a war in our head about a previous injustice or slight, we can effectively consummate a treaty without...
Josh Thompson
Your "Community" Should Not Be Local
When Kristi and I were planning our move from Maryland to Colorado, the biggest challenge we...
over a year ago
When Kristi and I were planning our move from Maryland to Colorado, the biggest challenge we anticipated was no longer being a short drive away from my sister,
Jen, and Kristi’s brother,
Richard. There are a few reasons, however, that we decided the benefits of moving...
A Beautiful Site
box-sizing: border-box explained
It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us...
over a year ago
It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us back to the days of early Internet Explorer.
The good ol' days #
You might remember how Internet Explorer 6 (quirks mode) and below did that whole box model thing wrong. If not,...
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #07: Sec. Pete Buttigieg [EPISODE]
This is the seventh official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
5 months ago
This is the seventh official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott sit down with Pete Buttigieg, the US Secretary of Transportation. One of his major...
Archinect - Features
'AI Is Built on Datasets That Are Already Biased'; A Conversation with Felecia Davis
Ever since her childhood summers sewing patterns at the family dining table, Felecia Davis has...
a year ago
Ever since her childhood summers sewing patterns at the family dining table, Felecia Davis has understood the power of textiles to be a vehicle for communication, connection, and understanding. As her career in architecture unfolded in parallel with wider advances in...
Alex MacCaw
Captain's Log #1
In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech...
over a year ago
In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech businesses, and more.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Diana Steads Him Nothing, He Must Stay'
For earned emotional
intensity, especially coming from a man seldom associated with emotion, you...
a year ago
For earned emotional
intensity, especially coming from a man seldom associated with emotion, you can
hardly outdo A.E. Housman, as recounted by one of his students in Richard
Perceval Graves’ A. E. Housman: The
Scholar-Poet (1979):
“One morning
in May, 1914, when the trees in...
Mark Manson
5 Ways to Get Rid of Anxiety
We're living in an era where anxiety seems to be omnipresent, and everyone is struggling with it to...
a year ago
We're living in an era where anxiety seems to be omnipresent, and everyone is struggling with it to some degree.
It's important to remember that the reasons behind our anxiety may not be as crucial as our reactions to it. In this guide, let's explore five comprehensive ways to...
99% Invisible
Fact Checking the Supreme Court [EPISODE]
The Orange County courthouse in Santa Ana, California is a large granite and sandstone building from...
7 months ago
The Orange County courthouse in Santa Ana, California is a large granite and sandstone building from the early 20th century. There, Jennifer Birch was there doing research for a group called Moms Demand Action. It’s an organization that advocates for gun control and regulation....
Liz Denys
Gogo Yubari's meteor hammer as a purse
So I made a purse shaped like the Gogo Yubari's meteor hammer for a Kill Bill themed party...
The...
over a year ago
So I made a purse shaped like the Gogo Yubari's meteor hammer for a Kill Bill themed party...
The spherical shape comes from quilt batting stuffed between the beach ball style outside and a stiff dodecahedron lining. The body is hand-painted, punched out vinyl over black...
Liz Denys
Dan dan mian, the clearly Not Chinese way
Once upon a time, I stumbled across a reasonably accurate Szechuan recipe for dan dan mian. This...
over a year ago
Once upon a time, I stumbled across a reasonably accurate Szechuan recipe for dan dan mian. This isn't it.
In fact, I've never actually made it because I couldn't acquire all of the ingredients without going out of my way. Also, I don't really like committing to making a certain...
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Chinese internet trolls are adopting American racism to taunt Black users
Users are harassing Black creators with profile pictures of white police officers.
a year ago
Users are harassing Black creators with profile pictures of white police officers.
Sam Altman
Idea Generation
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The...
over a year ago
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup.
But giving founders an idea almost always doesn’t work. Having ideas is among the most important qualities for...
CONTEMPORIST
A Tiny Public Library With A Roof Inspired By A Sheet Of Paper
Ninja Stuudio has shared photos of “White Sheet”, a tiny public library and reading pavilion they...
8 months ago
Ninja Stuudio has shared photos of “White Sheet”, a tiny public library and reading pavilion they completed in Tallinn, Estonia. The design has been inspired by the image of a literary idea, with the pavilion’s roof hovering as a light sheet of paper in mid-air relying only on...
Joel Gascoigne
What no one talks about when building a team: Letting people go
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over a year ago
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One of the things I enjoy most about building a company is to focus on culture,
and to think about how we can create a team which is a joy to be part of. A
large part of this is
Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
7 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
DYNOMIGHT
Attitudes one can take towards people who have behaved badly
Have you ever noticed that reality has some properties that are quite annoying? For example, have...
a month ago
Have you ever noticed that reality has some properties that are quite annoying? For example, have you noticed that some people do bad things? And yet those same people sometimes have interesting ideas?
Occasionally, I’ll bring up an idea in conversation and someone will gently...
XO Capital - Field...
Fresh Cheddar
Couple of announcements:
We've got some fresh cheddar!
We just got access to up to $2M to deploy....
11 months ago
Couple of announcements:
We've got some fresh cheddar!
We just got access to up to $2M to deploy. We're looking for 1-2 businesses:
b2b saas
$30k+ MRR
This is about 2x what we've already deployed so far which is a big deal. We will
Applied Cartography
Consider the data product
The advice might seem dated these days, but I think the stair step approach to bootstrapping is...
2 months ago
The advice might seem dated these days, but I think the stair step approach to bootstrapping is evergreen:
It’s much easier to sell an add-on to an existing ecosystem like a WordPress plugin, a Shopify app, a Heroku add-on – they’re usually small things to build, relatively...
TheCollector
Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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3 months ago
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Making Rust builds fail from YAML config mistakes
I was talking to a friend recently, and zie1 lamented that a Rust web framework uses YAML for its...
2 months ago
I was talking to a friend recently, and zie1 lamented that a Rust web framework uses YAML for its configuration.
I'm far from one to defend YAML2, but dug in a little to understand zir issues with it: is it the trauma here, or is it something else?
Ultimately, zie wanted...
The Berkeley...
Why do Policy Gradient Methods work so well in Cooperative MARL? Evidence from Policy Representation
In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy...
over a year ago
In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy gradient (PG) methods are typically believed to be less sample efficient than value decomposition (VD) methods, which are off-policy. However, some recent empirical studies demonstrate...
TheCollector
10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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7 months ago
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway’s Q3 2023 Results — Manufacturing, Service, and Retailing
A review of Berkshire's large collection of non-insurance operating businesses, with a focus on...
a year ago
A review of Berkshire's large collection of non-insurance operating businesses, with a focus on results in Q3 2023 as well as a longer term view.
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