Applied Cartography
Klarna: nineteen years, twenty billion kroner
I tend to ignore the entire genre of what we now refer to as BNPL businesses — Affirm, Afterpay...
3 weeks ago
I tend to ignore the entire genre of what we now refer to as BNPL businesses — Affirm, Afterpay (RIP), Klarna, et al — not for any particular sin I feel that they are committing, but because they in my mind are much less interesting companies with less volatile upside than the...
Chris Grossack's...
Life in Johnstone's Topological Topos 1 -- Fundamentals
I’ve been thinking a lot about the internal logic of topoi again, and I
want to have more examples...
5 months ago
I’ve been thinking a lot about the internal logic of topoi again, and I
want to have more examples of topoi that I understand well enough to
externalize some statements. There’s more to life than just a localic
$\mathsf{Sh}(B)$, and since I’m starting to feel like I understand...
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Waterloo & City Line
A very peculiar line.
a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Wrapping up my RetroChallenge 2024 project
<![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in...
a month ago
<![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in time as hoped.
I accomplished the initial goal of extending NoteCards to visit websites. This is my Linux desktop after traversing a NoteCards link to a Web card which opened the...
The Marginalian
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance
One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do...
5 months ago
One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of uncommon helplessness and uncertainty, touching every aspect of our lives, and in...
A Smart Bear
Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
11 months ago
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but does it limit your target market?
bt RSS Feed
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...
macwright.com
Masked email is a killer feature for Fastmail
I last sang the praises of Fastmail in 2018, writing about how it’s pretty easy to avoid Google now...
a year ago
I last sang the praises of Fastmail in 2018, writing about how it’s pretty easy to avoid Google now that Google’s products are relatively middling. I’ve been using Fastmail exclusively since then and have only good things to say about it. The user interface is rock-solid and...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Preferences of LLMs
Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with...
10 months ago
Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with political connotations
The Architectural...
VR Study Shows People Prefer Traditional Architecture Over Modernist Designs
Traditional architecture has been found to contribute more to people’s well-being than modernist...
a year ago
Traditional architecture has been found to contribute more to people’s well-being than modernist glass and steel buildings, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in Oslo. Using virtual reality (VR) technology, the team...
HTMHell
5 HTML elements, And a partridge in a despair tree
HTML is a beautiful programming language. It comes with many out-of-the-box accessibility...
over a year ago
HTML is a beautiful programming language. It comes with many out-of-the-box accessibility benefits—it conveys semantic meaning to assistive technology, enabling people to consume content and complete often important journeys that they may not be able to do outside of the web. So...
Londonist
Regent's Park Is Getting A New Garden Dedicated To The Late Queen
Two-acre space will open in 2026.
11 months ago
Two-acre space will open in 2026.
TokyoDev
Software Developer Salaries in Japan
Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software...
a year ago
Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software development doesn’t pay exceptionally well: according to [a 2022...
bt RSS Feed
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
2022-07-14
I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But...
over a year ago
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
2022-07-14
I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. The community. The security and core focus on open source. The customizable environments. Tweaking as...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Meaning of Sidereal Time'
Years ago I
was at a birthday party where one of the other guests was a stand-up comic and
part-time...
a year ago
Years ago I
was at a birthday party where one of the other guests was a stand-up comic and
part-time journalist who lived in Woodstock, N.Y. He was smart, quick, funny
and surprisingly well-read (he knew who Edward Dahlberg was). Neither of
us was much of a party-goer so we spent...
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...
4 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...
Julia Evans
Building a custom site for zine feedback
Hello! A few years I wrote a post called A new way I’m getting feedback on my posts: beta...
a year ago
Hello! A few years I wrote a post called A new way I’m getting feedback on my posts: beta readers!
about how I’d started using beta readers.
The basic strategy for getting feedback there was to email people a PDF and ask
for feedback. This was kind of inefficient, and so over the...
computers are bad
2023-02-14 something up there pt I
Over the last few weeks, there has been an astounding increase in the number of
objects shot down by...
a year ago
Over the last few weeks, there has been an astounding increase in the number of
objects shot down by North American air defense. Little is yet known about some
of these objects, but it is clearly one of the more dramatic UFO turns in
recent memory. Some of the mystery is simply...
TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
11 months ago
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
Kevin Chen
How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update)
Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience
stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple...
over a year ago
Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience
stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple added support for Suica to Apple Pay on iPhone 7
devices sold in Japan. In 2017, Apple added support to all iPhone 8/X and later, regardless of where they’re sold.1
Virtual Suica...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 087: DevDay SF
October 4, 2024.
2 months ago
Seth's Blog
Allocating scarcity
If we’re lucky, we invent something that’s going to be in high demand. Reservations at a hot...
a year ago
If we’re lucky, we invent something that’s going to be in high demand. Reservations at a hot restaurant. Limited edition trading cards. Concert tickets… How to decide who gets them? One attractive option is “first-come-first-served.” It feels fair, after all. The theory is that...
99% Invisible
Devil in the Details [EPISODE]
In 1994, an independent producer made a short, earnest video featuring an eccentric cast of...
a year ago
In 1994, an independent producer made a short, earnest video featuring an eccentric cast of characters who were focused on a very specific paranoia. The tape was made to look like a TV news special. It opens with a cheap, Jerry Springer-era computer graphic of a gold pentagram...
Kagi Blog
Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments
One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods...
a year ago
One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods so that more people can more easilly enjoy the benefits of Kagi Search.
This Space
39 Books: 1993
I've written about Gert Hofmann's novels a few times, most recently Veilchenfeld (Our Philosopher in...
7 months ago
I've written about Gert Hofmann's novels a few times, most recently Veilchenfeld (Our Philosopher in the US edition), but not his short stories. In the year Hofmann died aged only 62, I bought and read Balzac's Horse and other stories in the wonderful Minerva paperback imprint....
TheCollector
Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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9 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Trunk Hotel’s Newest Yoyogi Park Location Embraces Its Neighboring Park and City
photos by Tomooki Kengaki courtesy Keiji Ashizawa Architects Trunk Hotel Yoyogi Park is a new...
a year ago
photos by Tomooki Kengaki courtesy Keiji Ashizawa Architects Trunk Hotel Yoyogi Park is a new boutique hotel located in Tokyo’s quiet Tomigaya neighborhood that just opened this month. Designed by architect Keiji Ashizawa, the 7-story hotel has 25 rooms, a restaurant and a...
TheCollector
Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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3 months ago
Infinite Scroll
Why You Should Read Web Fiction
A beginner's guide to an underappreciated format
3 weeks ago
A beginner's guide to an underappreciated format
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"A lot of the best tech startups are ideas that have been around for years"
A lot of the best tech startups are ideas that have been around for years but the time is finally...
over a year ago
A lot of the best tech startups are ideas that have been around for years but the time is finally right. * Some people get jaded. "We tried…
TheCollector
Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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a year ago
This Space
39 Books: 2003
This year I read Robert Antelme's The Human Race for the first time. I was nonplussed. The strange...
7 months ago
This year I read Robert Antelme's The Human Race for the first time. I was nonplussed. The strange title, closer to popular sociology than memoir, should have been a warning. This was not quite the horror story one imagines of memoirs from those who survived Nazi concentration...
Elad Blog
Startup Decoupling & Reckoning
The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely...
a year ago
The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation. Implications are discussed.
Daniel Miessler
My Answer to the “ChatGPT Isn’t Really Creative” Argument
There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool...
a year ago
There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool stuff, but it’s really just a next-word-completion trick. It’s not doing real creativity like humans do. I get that argument, and it’s attractive to me as well, but I think it’s...
TheCollector
Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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3 months ago
alexwlchan
The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser →
As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to...
6 months ago
As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to parse Flickr URLs.
For example:
$ flickr_url_parser 'https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727552068/'
{"type": "single_photo", "photo_id": "4727552068"}
This started...
Retail Design Blog
Scania Offices by Giant Leap
Giant Leap designed Scania’s new South African head office, creating an inspiring and unified space...
2 weeks ago
Giant Leap designed Scania’s new South African head office, creating an inspiring and unified space that embodies the brand’s values,...
Confessions of a...
Recording: How Hyper-Threading Works — A Microarchitectural Perspective
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous...
5 months ago
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous multithreading) implementation in Intel’s x86 processors.
Diaries of Note
It’s a man!
Arthur Munby was a lawyer and poet whose private life was ruled by an obsession that remained a...
a year ago
Arthur Munby was a lawyer and poet whose private life was ruled by an obsession that remained a secret until decades after his death, at which point his diaries and letters revealed all. For much of his adult life, unbeknownst to family and friends, Munby sought out, interviewed,...
Londonist
London To Brighton Veteran Car Run 2023: When Is It? What's The Route? Which Vehicles Will I See?
What a sight!
a year ago
Infinite Scroll
Infinite Scroll on Offline with Jon Favreau
A chat about online media ecosystems
a month ago
A chat about online media ecosystems
Diaries of Note
They have to fight an eagle on the top of the Empire State Building
Michael Palin, born in Sheffield on 5th May 1943, is best known as a member of Monty Python, the...
a year ago
Michael Palin, born in Sheffield on 5th May 1943, is best known as a member of Monty Python, the iconic comedy group who redefined the world of comedy with their surreal, subversive humour and innovative performances. However, Palin’s career extends beyond comedy thanks to...
Coffee with an...
Design explained using venn diagrams
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple venn diagrams. Unfortunately,...
8 months ago
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple venn diagrams. Unfortunately, this isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE
bt RSS Feed
Embracing Slow Tech
Embracing Slow Tech
2022-11-22
I’m writing this post on my “new” X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux...
over a year ago
Embracing Slow Tech
2022-11-22
I’m writing this post on my “new” X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux through Wayland/Sway and it is going well so far. Setting things up was much easier than I initially expected. There were only a few minor tweaks I had to make, such as setting vim...
CONTEMPORIST
An Urban Tree House In New York City
NO ARCHITECTURE has shared photos of a home they completed inside a residential tower at the edge of...
a year ago
NO ARCHITECTURE has shared photos of a home they completed inside a residential tower at the edge of Manhattan’s West Village, that has the appearance of an urban tree house. The open-plan social areas of the interior are housed in a double-height space with 22-ft tall glass...
The Modern House
A flexible family home with flair in Clapton
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Chemistry
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I'm just saying, it wouldn't be the MOST useless...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I'm just saying, it wouldn't be the MOST useless expenditure of grant money.
Today's News:
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#28)
Cultural stagnation, pedestrian deaths, evidence on decoupling, the benefits of education, and why...
10 months ago
Cultural stagnation, pedestrian deaths, evidence on decoupling, the benefits of education, and why philosophers read the classics
Math Is Still...
New Codes Could Make Quantum Computing 10 Times More Efficient
Quantum computing is still really, really hard. But the rise of a powerful class of error-correcting...
a year ago
Quantum computing is still really, really hard. But the rise of a powerful class of error-correcting codes suggests that the task might be slightly more feasible than many feared.
The post New Codes Could Make Quantum Computing 10 Times More Efficient first appeared...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Fat Crab, Clapham
One of the best things about being a food blogger in London, and especially as one that has been...
a year ago
One of the best things about being a food blogger in London, and especially as one that has been going as bloody long as I have, is that you generally get to see each of the great global cuisines, or at least global restaurant styles, tackled increasingly successfully. There's...
Left To Write
№ 71: You Had A Sh*t Day But Tomorrow Is A New Day
I didn’t have the greatest start to 2023. My emails were being ignored, offers rescinded, a bout of...
a year ago
I didn’t have the greatest start to 2023. My emails were being ignored, offers rescinded, a bout of writer’s block, and I struggled to complete any climbing projects. Pipe in a layer of never feeling enough, feeling behind, and financial struggles and what you’ve got is a...
Seth's Blog
The empathy of magic
Magicians know where the trapdoors are, what’s up their sleeves and how to hide the ball. And yet,...
a year ago
Magicians know where the trapdoors are, what’s up their sleeves and how to hide the ball. And yet, mechanical skill is just the first step in being actually good at magic. The real skill is in finding the empathy to imagine that someone else might believe. To do the trick for...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Famous and Less So
On the left, Steve Rogers jogs off the Brooklyn Brige onto a walkway that doesn’t actually exist at...
10 months ago
On the left, Steve Rogers jogs off the Brooklyn Brige onto a walkway that doesn’t actually exist at the foot of the bridge. The S-curved pickets in the handrail above a stone base look very much like the walkway along the Hudson River in Battery Park City, on the other side of...
Articles - Alex...
The Millennial myth
It seems that a day doesn’t pass without another article hitting the
headlines exposing the...
over a year ago
It seems that a day doesn’t pass without another article hitting the
headlines exposing the shortcomings of the Millennial generation. It seems
we are obsessed with the concept of demographic cohorts. Or, to put it more
specifically, we are obsessed with the idea that...
Retail Design Blog
Sanofi office by The Design Group
The Sanofi office is a space where the harmony of nature meets modernity, creating an innovative and...
3 months ago
The Sanofi office is a space where the harmony of nature meets modernity, creating an innovative and inspiring work environment....
History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
Platformer
Taylor Lorenz on her extremely online history of the internet
Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at...
a year ago
Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at shielding users from harassment
Maps Mania
Tracking American Spies in Germany
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Halloween?
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a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Writing for developers
As a founder, one of the most surprisingly important skills I've realized I have is hitting the...
over a year ago
As a founder, one of the most surprisingly important skills I've realized I have is hitting the front page of Hacker News . Out of five posts that I…
Handprinted - Blog
Batik on Paper
Batik is a fun, dynamic way of creating bold and beautiful designs on cloth but did you know batik...
5 months ago
Batik is a fun, dynamic way of creating bold and beautiful designs on cloth but did you know batik can be made on paper too? We used some Tej Prakrtika paper (as well as testing some others) to create a colourful, abstract batik.
You'll find lots more batik projects here.
Begin...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dance Dance Dance
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
There exist solutions that would work if only you...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
There exist solutions that would work if only you could take them seriously.
Today's News:
Merci!
Diaries of Note
The newspapers are having a field day
Few broadcasters have left as indelible a mark on the hearts and minds of the British public as Sir...
a year ago
Few broadcasters have left as indelible a mark on the hearts and minds of the British public as Sir Terry Wogan. A consummate professional, Wogan’s wit, warmth, and engaging personality endeared him to audiences throughout his long and successful career in radio and television....
escape the algorithm
The perfect pecan pie will never exi—
Cutting a slice of longing
3 weeks ago
Cutting a slice of longing
Commoncog
Putting Amazon’s PR/FAQ to Practice
What it's like putting Amazon's famed Working Backwards process to practice in a small company...
over a year ago
What it's like putting Amazon's famed Working Backwards process to practice in a small company context, and what was surprising and difficult about it.
The American Scholar
“The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop appeared first on...
8 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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a year ago
Open Culture
Free: Download Over 33,000 Sounds from the BBC Sound Effects Archive
There may be a few young people in Britain today who recognize the name Ludwig Koch, but in the...
2 months ago
There may be a few young people in Britain today who recognize the name Ludwig Koch, but in the nineteen-forties, he constituted something of a cultural phenomenon unto himself. He “started recording sounds and voices in the 1880s when he was still a child” in his native Germany,...
Math Is Still...
Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold
In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more...
a week ago
In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications.
The post Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold first appeared on Quanta...
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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a year ago
Copper • A blog...
Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode
You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of...
a year ago
You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of pixels.
You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision.
Closing the lid is not an option because you...
Maps Mania
How Well Do You Know New York's Subway?
a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
JavaScript’s Maps For Better Performance
This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for...
over a year ago
This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for such a source, please check out MDN.
In general, the Map data structure is useful when we want to retrieve/add/delete values through a set of unique keys.
One of the...
Londonist
These Are The London Boroughs With The Most Public CCTV Cameras
And they're not the ones you might think.
a year ago
And they're not the ones you might think.
TheCollector
4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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a month ago
African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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9 months ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 369 | Reddit Hack, Deepfake Scams, Embracing Change…
✅ Please subscribe to and give a 17-star review to this show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Thank...
a year ago
✅ Please subscribe to and give a 17-star review to this show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Thank you! SECURITY Reddit has confirmed it was hacked, and it’s recommending users add 2FA. The attack started by phishing Reddit employees and stealing credentials and 2FA codes. After...
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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a year ago
TheCollector
Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Groq, Gemini, and 10x improvements
As a programmer and CTO, I've developed a rough rule of thumb when it comes to scaling systems. When...
10 months ago
As a programmer and CTO, I've developed a rough rule of thumb when it comes to scaling systems. When you scale your inputs (users, page views, messages, etc) by 10x, something breaks. Usually, it's something pretty fundamental. And the end result is that you need to replace a...
TheCollector
A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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a year ago
Contemporist...
This Elevated Home Allows Plants To Be Grown Underneath
Bates Masi + Architects has sent us photos of a new home they recently completed in Bridgehampton,...
11 months ago
Bates Masi + Architects has sent us photos of a new home they recently completed in Bridgehampton, New York, that has its living spaces elevated above the ground.
The Gradient
Why Doesn’t My Model Work?
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to...
10 months ago
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world data? If so, you’re in good company.
Construction Physics
Roman vs Modern Concrete
There's a new paper out exploring some of the chemical mechanisms at work in Roman concrete. As per...
a year ago
There's a new paper out exploring some of the chemical mechanisms at work in Roman concrete. As per usual, it’s triggered a round of enthusiastic discussion of Roman concrete, and how its ability to last for millennia puts modern concrete (which often fails after a few decades)...
TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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a year ago
High Signal
Making $10k a month from a French learning app
Most founders dream of making $10,000 in monthly revenue. One founder who has made that dream a...
a year ago
Most founders dream of making $10,000 in monthly revenue. One founder who has made that dream a reality is Benjamin Houy
Vadim Kravcenko
Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return
Question:
Answer:
The post Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
7 months ago
Question:
Answer:
The post Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The Tao Of Wealth
The Meaning Of “Om”
With the help of “Om” one can realize the Divine. “Om” has a transformative power. “Om” represents...
over a year ago
With the help of “Om” one can realize the Divine. “Om” has a transformative power. “Om” represents the Divine. They say that all the aspirations of the world when going towards the Divine make “Om”, like that. I was in France, some, I think 60 years ago. There was a Frenchman who...
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 10
Interaction design is two things.
managing attention
persuasion
Once you come to the...
a year ago
Interaction design is two things.
managing attention
persuasion
Once you come to the realization/acceptance that no one – not even the interested, motivated, and committed — has the kind of focused attention available for your thing that you assume they have, you will...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Life as a Con Man
Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it...
over a year ago
Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it everywhere I look.
Londonist
"£1 For A Return Fare Since 2003": Brockwell Park's Miniature Railway
You can hire it for birthdays, too.
8 months ago
You can hire it for birthdays, too.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Instrumenting the offline world
In the last decade there have been major advances in storing, analyzing, and acting upon extremely...
over a year ago
In the last decade there have been major advances in storing, analyzing, and acting upon extremely large data sets. Data sets that were…
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
2 weeks ago
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
blag
Setting up Github Actions for Hugo
Github Actions for Hugo but with particular requirements
over a year ago
Github Actions for Hugo but with particular requirements
diamond geezer
High Streets
My High Streets post got a lot of attention over the weekend.
How many High Streets are there in...
6 months ago
My High Streets post got a lot of attention over the weekend.
How many High Streets are there in London?
Twitter and got 20 more comments.
Hacker News, the behemoth American syndicator, and got 80 more comments.
diamond geezer.
a) not realising the significance of capital...
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Never Relied on His Sensibility Alone'
In 1937,
Desmond MacCarthy delivered a lecture at Cambridge on Leslie Stephen, author of
the...
2 weeks ago
In 1937,
Desmond MacCarthy delivered a lecture at Cambridge on Leslie Stephen, author of
the three-volume Hours in a Library
(1874-7) and father of Virginia Woolf. For a
century England had specialized in producing formidably well-read, non-academic
literary critics. In addition...
Flashbak
Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
a month ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
devonzuegel.com
The new city in California
A new city has been proposed in California, and the plan is going to a vote in Solano County’s...
10 months ago
A new city has been proposed in California, and the plan is going to a vote in Solano County’s November election. The proposed location is in Solano County, about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento, and the group behind the proposal is named California Forever.
As a...
Flashbak
A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
2 months ago
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
The American Scholar
The Power of the Common Soul
Ives, music-making, and hope
The post The Power of the Common Soul appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
Ives, music-making, and hope
The post The Power of the Common Soul appeared first on The American Scholar.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some crypto x healthcare ideas | Out-Of-Pocket
Decentralized EMRs, Insurance DAOs, and Drug Picking Models
a year ago
Decentralized EMRs, Insurance DAOs, and Drug Picking Models
The DESK Magazine
It's live! Introducing the new HOVS website
The new HOVS (House of van Schneider) aka my personal (studio) website, is finally LIVE!
6 months ago
The new HOVS (House of van Schneider) aka my personal (studio) website, is finally LIVE!
diamond geezer
Interview with a Bus Rescheduler
An interview with Liam Fennell, TfL Bus Rescheduler
DG: Hi Liam, tell us what you do.
Liam: Hi, I'm...
11 months ago
An interview with Liam Fennell, TfL Bus Rescheduler
DG: Hi Liam, tell us what you do.
Liam: Hi, I'm the guy who slows the buses down.
DG: I've always wondered who that was.
Liam: It's quite a responsibility!
DG: So how does that work?
Liam: You know when you're on a bus, pootling...
Society's Backend
Backend Biweekly #1: Important AI Developments and ML Learning Resources
Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train...
9 months ago
Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train models, and benchmark LLMs
Retail Design Blog
Coworking Offices – The Workshop YCK
The Workshop is dedicated to creating versatile co-working spaces that invite professionals into a...
2 months ago
The Workshop is dedicated to creating versatile co-working spaces that invite professionals into a dynamic environment that offers private workpods...
Map of the Week
Maps and Views at the British Library
The British Library contains over 4.5 million maps, atlases, globes, and digital models dating back...
5 months ago
The British Library contains over 4.5 million maps, atlases, globes, and digital models dating back to medieval times. A small sample of these are displayed on the walls in a section called "Maps & Views". Here are some mediocre pictures I took with links (where I can find them)...
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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5 months ago
sbensu
When coordination pays off
Stories about Stripe Link where we have to do a lot of upfront coordination but it was worth it.
2 months ago
Stories about Stripe Link where we have to do a lot of upfront coordination but it was worth it.
Liz Denys
Bacon cheddar scallion biscuit sliders
Earlier this week, I made bacon cheddar scallion biscuits because I had been craving an especially...
over a year ago
Earlier this week, I made bacon cheddar scallion biscuits because I had been craving an especially savory breakfast bread option for those mornings that you wake up a little bit later than you'd like. Nothing too fancy, just fifteen traditional country biscuits except that I...
Seth's Blog
Long-term selfish
Everyone is selfish. We do things that increase our chances of survival, help us achieve our goals...
4 months ago
Everyone is selfish. We do things that increase our chances of survival, help us achieve our goals and give us a story we can tell ourselves about our role in the community. But short-term selfish is something we try to grow out of. Short-term selfish runs a red light because...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Grateful: Colors in console.log()
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every...
2 months ago
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values.
I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 50%...
A Beautiful Site
Anchoring Software to Major Versions
In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see...
7 months ago
In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see software projects anchor themselves to major versions for long periods of time, usually with the promise of stability.
We all know how frustrating it is to upgrade a package and run...
Passing Time
On For Grantedness
Finding secular thankfulness
over a year ago
Finding secular thankfulness
Society's Backend
Clarifying DEI
What makes DEI important and where it fails
11 months ago
What makes DEI important and where it fails
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Let's Make Software Better
My previous post, a classic rant, how-bad-software-is-these-days kind, attracted unexpected and...
over a year ago
My previous post, a classic rant, how-bad-software-is-these-days kind, attracted unexpected and probably even unreasonable attention. This time I'm in for something different — I'm going to preach. Behold, and open your eyes, and open your hearts, and open your minds, as I am...
The Modern House
Picture erfect: an ingenious creative sanctuary in the leafy heart of London Fields
a week ago
Retail Design Blog
EPAM Offices by Tengo Design
Tengo Design created a multifunctional office space for EPAM in Krakow, incorporating zones for...
7 months ago
Tengo Design created a multifunctional office space for EPAM in Krakow, incorporating zones for employees, clients, coworking, and meetings, with...
David Heinemeier...
The law of the land
Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile,...
a year ago
Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile, longest-running social fissures in America. So of course the recent ruling from the Supreme Court making its use in college admissions illegal was going to light a political fire. The...
TheCollector
How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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TheCollector
9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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mtlynch.io
About
Michael Lynch is a developer and blogger. He graduated from Columbia University in 2007 with a BS in...
over a year ago
Michael Lynch is a developer and blogger. He graduated from Columbia University in 2007 with a BS in Computer Science. He has worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and Google and as a security engineer at NCC Group.
Michael is available for weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, and...
Epic Web Dev
A Deep Dive in Tailwind Font Settings (tip)
Take a deep dive on multiple approaches for controlling typographic settings on an element with...
4 months ago
Take a deep dive on multiple approaches for controlling typographic settings on an element with Tailwind.
Steve Klabnik
The Little Coder's Predicament
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
You’d think I would be happy all the time
Nikki Sixx was twenty-two when he co-founded Mötley Crüe, a heavy metal band destined to become one...
a year ago
Nikki Sixx was twenty-two when he co-founded Mötley Crüe, a heavy metal band destined to become one of the most successful music acts in history. As the band’s bassist and principal songwriter, Sixx played a key role in developing their iconic rebellious persona, his escalating...
Retail Design Blog
Ton Corner Coffee Shop by TON Architects
Situated in a small alley in the heart of Hue city, Ton Corner – a coffee shop that embodies an...
2 months ago
Situated in a small alley in the heart of Hue city, Ton Corner – a coffee shop that embodies an...
Castles in the Sky
Thought Bananas (Castles in the Sky) 24
The Thousand Griefs of a Left-Behind Place
a year ago
The Thousand Griefs of a Left-Behind Place
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Annual Performance Reviews Ruin Everything
"There is hardly an area of work, psychological safety, growth, collaboration or equity that annual...
a year ago
"There is hardly an area of work, psychological safety, growth, collaboration or equity that annual performance reviews don’t undermine. Think I’m exaggerating? Have I got a (long) post for you….
"
Anecdotal Evidence
'We Are All Potential Recruits for Anarchy'
It’s an
honor to be published in The New
Criterion, a journal I started reading in 1986, four years...
6 months ago
It’s an
honor to be published in The New
Criterion, a journal I started reading in 1986, four years after it was
founded by the late Hilton Kramer and Samuel Lipman. To share pages in the June issue with Gary Saul Morson, Victor Davis Hanson and other gifted writers is...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git the stupid password store
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GIT - the stupid content tracker
“git” can mean anything, depending on...
4 months ago
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GIT - the stupid content tracker
“git” can mean anything, depending on your mood.
– Linus Torvalds, Initial
revision of “git”, the information manager from hell
Like most git features, gitcredentials(7)
are obscure, byzantine, and incredibly...
Archinect - Features
'Everything in Design Is Extremely Collaborative': A Conversation with Emerging Architecture...
Starting your own practice comes with a mixture of excitement, collaboration, stressors, and endless...
a year ago
Starting your own practice comes with a mixture of excitement, collaboration, stressors, and endless problem-solving. As a new firm, architects Neda Kakhsaz and Zabie Mustafa are developing their approach to architectural design and how they would like to make their mark within...
NeuroLogica Blog
Finding Small Primordial Black Holes
Astrophysicists come up with a lot of whacky ideas, some of which actually turn out to be possibly...
2 weeks ago
Astrophysicists come up with a lot of whacky ideas, some of which actually turn out to be possibly true (like the Big Bang, black holes, accelerating cosmic expansion, dark matter). Of course, all of these conclusions are provisional, but some are now backed by compelling...
Diaries of Note
My oldest Friend is at last going to leave me
Born in 1741 in Caernarvonshire, Wales, Hester Thrale belonged to the esteemed Salusbury family....
a year ago
Born in 1741 in Caernarvonshire, Wales, Hester Thrale belonged to the esteemed Salusbury family. Famous for her friendships with such luminaries as Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and David Garrick, Thrale was a prominent figure of the period, and her writings, particularly the...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#45)
Intel; Canada's economy; infrastructure and state capacity; East Asian development; race in America;...
4 months ago
Intel; Canada's economy; infrastructure and state capacity; East Asian development; race in America; corrupt nonprofits
Arduino Blog
Amassing a mobile Minion militia
Channeling his inner Gru, YouTuber Electo built a robotic minion army to terrorize and amuse the...
4 months ago
Channeling his inner Gru, YouTuber Electo built a robotic minion army to terrorize and amuse the public in local shopping malls. Building one minion robot is, in theory, pretty straightforward. That is especially true when, like these, that robot isn’t actually bipedal and...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Pivoting into a new corporate structure
This hasn’t happened to me, but I keep hearing stories about situations like the following: 1)...
over a year ago
This hasn’t happened to me, but I keep hearing stories about situations like the following: 1) startup raises a seed financing round while…
AI Snake Oil
Are open foundation models actually more risky than closed ones?
A policy brief on open foundation models
a year ago
A policy brief on open foundation models
History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
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Mazdak
Unlocking Tax Savings and Building Wealth for Your Children: A Smart Strategy for Business Owners
As a business owner, you're constantly seeking ways to optimize your operations, reduce costs, and...
a year ago
As a business owner, you're constantly seeking ways to optimize your operations, reduce costs, and maximize profits. But have you considered a strategy that not only benefits your business but also sets your children up for financial success? The concept of hiring your children...
Math Is Still...
What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression?
Drugs that target the neurotransmitter serotonin have long been prescribed to treat depression. Now...
7 months ago
Drugs that target the neurotransmitter serotonin have long been prescribed to treat depression. Now the spotlight is turning to other aspects of brain chemistry. In this episode, the neuropharmacologist John Krystal shares findings that are overturning our understanding of...
The Ruffian
The Infrastructure of Genius
Behind every radical breakthrough is someone trying hold back change (or what ABBA and Adam Smith...
a year ago
Behind every radical breakthrough is someone trying hold back change (or what ABBA and Adam Smith have in common)
Blog - Guerrilla...
Love Letter Back Home
Mapped October 5th, written December 2019:
As I noted in my last Guerrilla Cartography Cartographer...
over a year ago
Mapped October 5th, written December 2019:
As I noted in my last Guerrilla Cartography Cartographer Spotlight (May 2019), my career has been a diverse mix of my two professional passions, cartography and participatory mapping. Cartography is about the place; it’s top-down, it’s...
Alex Meub
Amazon's Top Rated Items
I developed a set of scripts that scrape Amazon’s product pages. The result of scraping and...
over a year ago
I developed a set of scripts that scrape Amazon’s product pages. The result of scraping and processing nearly 300,000 products from 26 departments is my own Amazon Top 400 List.
_chart("scatter","scatter-chart2", "Amazon Product Ratings", {categories:[ 'Average Rating', 'Number...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Jenny McCabe
I am printmaker based up north in Lancaster. I currently work mainly with intaglio printmaking...
a year ago
I am printmaker based up north in Lancaster. I currently work mainly with intaglio printmaking methods, preferring metal plate etchings and card Collagraph constructed plates. I have been making printed items for many years including printed textiles and writing books about...
Platformer
The surgeon general's warning is a wake-up call for social networks
A growing body of evidence suggests that social products pose significant risks to teenagers
a year ago
A growing body of evidence suggests that social products pose significant risks to teenagers
samwho.dev
A Commitment to Art and Dogs
.dog-line {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
flex-direction: row;
width: 100%;
height:...
6 months ago
.dog-line {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
flex-direction: row;
width: 100%;
height: 10rem;
margin-top: 2rem;
margin-bottom: 2rem;
}
.dog-line img {
flex-grow: 1;
height: auto;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
object-fit: contain;
}
.dog-grid {
display:...
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Trams of Brisbane, Queensland, 1957
A simple but nicely drawn map of tram services in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1957. The lack...
a year ago
A simple but nicely drawn map of tram services in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1957. The lack of any sort of key for the routes means that users need to have some familiarity with the city to decipher where trams might go. The pamphlet that the map is part of includes...
Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes...
over a year ago
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
diamond geezer
847
London's Free Buses
847: Stratford to Here East
Length of journey: 1 mile, 7 minutes
shuttle bus...
2 months ago
London's Free Buses
847: Stratford to Here East
Length of journey: 1 mile, 7 minutes
shuttle bus that runs up and down the Olympic Park and has done since May 2017. It may therefore come as a surprise to hear that I've never previously ridden it, especially as it's very close to...
Anecdotal Evidence
'It Is the Past That Cast the Stars'
I and the
first issue of Mad magazine arrived
in October 1952. A decade or so later I was a devoted...
a year ago
I and the
first issue of Mad magazine arrived
in October 1952. A decade or so later I was a devoted reader. That same month, Poetry, a journal I would start reading
a few years after Mad, published its fortieth anniversary issue. Included is the work of more than fifty poets,...
NeuroLogica Blog
Managing Plastic Waste
The world produces 350-400 million metric tons of plastic waste. Less than 10% of this waste is...
a month ago
The world produces 350-400 million metric tons of plastic waste. Less than 10% of this waste is recycled, while 25% is mismanaged or littered. About 1.7 million tons ends up in the ocean. This is not sustainable, but whose responsibility is it to deal with this issue? The debate...
Seth's Blog
Ride your own bike
I was happily pedaling along on the rail trail when three spandex speedsters blew by me on their...
a year ago
I was happily pedaling along on the rail trail when three spandex speedsters blew by me on their handmade carbon bikes. For a moment, I was disheartened. What’s the point–they’re speedy, I’m not. Then I realize that it’s not a bike race, it’s a bike ride. There is no winning,...
Old Structures...
New Ringing The Old
Here’s a terrible photo I took through the window of a ferry: There’s a weird concentric-circle...
3 months ago
Here’s a terrible photo I took through the window of a ferry: There’s a weird concentric-circle effect to the buildings in much of lower Manhattan that you can see clearly here, that the buildings on the waterfront are new and bigger than the ones behind them. It’s a simple...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The essential tools used by product engineers
Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to...
over a year ago
Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to gather insights, ideate, and deploy solutions…
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Framework DIY 13 gen AMD review ⚙️
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Framework Laptop DIY 13 AMD, 13th Generation with ethernet dongle and...
11 months ago
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Framework Laptop DIY 13 AMD, 13th Generation with ethernet dongle and screwdriver
The laptop industry is a
tragedy.
Meanwhile, Framework built something
different—repairable, Linux-ready laptops that respect
users. Framework is a rare company worth...
Common Edge
It’s Time to Blur the Boundaries Between Town and Gown
University campus planning should look outward to the surrounding city.
6 months ago
University campus planning should look outward to the surrounding city.
Tech + Economics +...
This is how you know I’m almost 35.
Woke up.
Feel like absolute hell.
Need coffee. This is me sober, how did I ever function in...
a year ago
Woke up.
Feel like absolute hell.
Need coffee. This is me sober, how did I ever function in the mornings
while I was drinking?
Stoic Simple
Understanding the Key Principles of Stoicism
If you're looking for a practical philosophy to help guide you through life's ups and downs, look no...
a year ago
If you're looking for a practical philosophy to help guide you through life's ups and downs, look no further than Stoicism. At its core, Stoicism is all about living a good life by cultivating virtues like wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance, and finding inner tranquility no...
High Signal
$100k from building a SaaS boilerplate for Django
Cory Zue has built a living making Django SaaS boilerplates for founders. It means you can get...
a year ago
Cory Zue has built a living making Django SaaS boilerplates for founders. It means you can get started with your SaaS much quicker
Seth's Blog
Catastrophizing toward action
A friend found a knobby growth near his knee. After a few doctor visits, it was diagnosed as cancer....
a month ago
A friend found a knobby growth near his knee. After a few doctor visits, it was diagnosed as cancer. A cancer diagnosis is a self-sufficient catastrophe–few people need more than that to start taking immediate action. At the same time, we live in a media culture where catastrophe...
CONTEMPORIST
Lighting Highlights The Alternating Curvilinear Balconies Of This New Apartment Building
Omniview Design has completed the Golf Apartments, a high-end residential development adjacent to a...
a year ago
Omniview Design has completed the Golf Apartments, a high-end residential development adjacent to a famous golf course in Glyfada, Greece. Key to the design of the building are the curvilinear balconies that alternate directions creating a lively facade. In the evening, lighting...
Rest of World -...
Indonesia’s e-bike shops are building their own batteries
Battery-pack builders chase maximum range, despite safety risks.
9 months ago
Battery-pack builders chase maximum range, despite safety risks.
Open Culture
Artist Draws 9 Portraits on LSD During 1950s Research Experiment
During the 1950s, a researcher gave an artist two 50-microgram doses of LSD (each dose separated by...
7 months ago
During the 1950s, a researcher gave an artist two 50-microgram doses of LSD (each dose separated by about an hour), and then the artist was encouraged to draw pictures of the doctor who administered the drugs. Nine portraits were drawn over the space of eight hours. We still...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them...
over a year ago
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them and pressing play when ready to view…
Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
Rest of World -...
The Chinese founder who is betting on the Western appetite for short soaps
Mega Matrix and FlexTV want to succeed where Quibi has failed by embracing the allure of “so bad...
7 months ago
Mega Matrix and FlexTV want to succeed where Quibi has failed by embracing the allure of “so bad it’s good” shows.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Not Merely Mental Stenography'
“Allow me a
small confession: It has been some time since I have truly enjoyed an essay in
a...
4 months ago
“Allow me a
small confession: It has been some time since I have truly enjoyed an essay in
a literary magazine. There are too many essays, and vanishingly few good
essayists. There seems to be real confusion about whether style can conceal a
fundamental incuriosity, whether...
Maggie Appleton
Speculative Calendar Events
11 months ago
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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6 months ago
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #3
They've confirmed dates for the upcoming major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout.
This is annoying...
3 months ago
They've confirmed dates for the upcoming major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout.
This is annoying for a number of reasons.
It's hard to comprehend why local bus services have been worsened entirely unnecessarily for several weeks and I can only assume that this is because...
TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 33 [May 2023]
Big, Big News!
a year ago
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Scrollbar Shenanigans
Styling scrollbars for my space on the Internet
over a year ago
Styling scrollbars for my space on the Internet
This Space
39 Books: 2014
One could say that Mallarmé, through an extraordinary effort of asceticism, opened an abyss in...
7 months ago
One could say that Mallarmé, through an extraordinary effort of asceticism, opened an abyss in himself where his awareness, instead of losing itself, survives and grasps its solitude in a desperate clarity.
This is from The Silence of Mallarmé, an essay in Blanchot's first...
Londonist
Mesmerising Shots Of London From Above At Christmas
Ding dong merrily on (very) high.
a year ago
Ding dong merrily on (very) high.
Construction Physics
Why the U.S. Can’t Build Icebreaking Ships
I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post,...
2 months ago
I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post, especially those who shared their own stories of loss.
Daniel Miessler
Reverse Transcription
There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have...
over a year ago
There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have AIs producing so much extraordinary art. But I’m excited about something else that we’re naturally evolving GPT into, which I’m calling Reverse Transcription. A bit of background...
TheCollector
Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
The Honest Broker
The Number of Songs in the World Doubled Yesterday
Did you even notice?
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Places to Eat and Drink in Myrtle Beach, SC
3 months ago
Diaries of Note
Mr. Daniels took a picture just as it left the tracks
At 10:35 a.m. on 17th December 1903, Orville Wright, alongside his brother Wilbur, embarked on a...
a year ago
At 10:35 a.m. on 17th December 1903, Orville Wright, alongside his brother Wilbur, embarked on a historic journey that would change the course of human history. They achieved the first powered, controlled flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina....
The Honest Broker
Dana Gioia on Stephen Sondheim
An extract from his new book
a week ago
An extract from his new book
Liz Denys
Slack doesn't listen to its users.
In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York...
over a year ago
In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York Times:
That feeling when you think "we should buy a full page in the Times and publish an open letter," and then you do. 💫 pic.twitter.com/BQiEawRA6d
— Stewart Butterfield (@stewart)...
Diaries of Note
His tiny tadpole body…
When she wrote this diary entry in April of 1890, Beatrice Potter could not have imagined that a...
a year ago
When she wrote this diary entry in April of 1890, Beatrice Potter could not have imagined that a mere two years later, this man with the “tiny tadpole body,” Sidney Webb, would become her husband. Nor could she have foreseen the powerful intellectual partnership that would...
The Marginalian
Poetry as Prayer: The Great Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva on Reclaiming the Divine
"In our age, to have the courage for direct speech to God (for prayer) we must either not know what...
5 months ago
"In our age, to have the courage for direct speech to God (for prayer) we must either not know what poems are, or forget."
nanoscale views
Items of interest
A couple of interesting papers that I came across this week:
There is long been an interest in...
4 months ago
A couple of interesting papers that I came across this week:
There is long been an interest in purely electronic cooling techniques (no moving parts!) that would work at cryogenic temperatures. You're familiar with ordinary evaporative cooling - that's what helps cool down...
Coding Horror
The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer
When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high:
1GB RAM
modern, fast dual core...
over a year ago
When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high:
1GB RAM
modern, fast dual core CPU
speedy solid state drive with 20+ GB
I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications.
We were...
TheCollector
Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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a year ago
Working Theorys
Product vs. Production | Theory No. 9
HQ Trivia, TikTok Trivia, & the not-so-subtle art of creating compelling live media.
a year ago
HQ Trivia, TikTok Trivia, & the not-so-subtle art of creating compelling live media.
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Could Take Part in This Savouring of the World'
One of the
ways biologists distinguish the animate from the inanimate, and the dead, is
motility....
4 months ago
One of the
ways biologists distinguish the animate from the inanimate, and the dead, is
motility. Life moves independently, under its own power. Stasis suggests the
end of life. Travel is especially prized by those unable to do so, whether confined
to bed or a Soviet Bloc regime....
Anecdotal Evidence
'Demographer of the Common Woe'
Only in the
last twenty years or so have I started accumulating deaths, logging them on a...
a year ago
Only in the
last twenty years or so have I started accumulating deaths, logging them on a internal
list and weighing them against my own precious self. I’ve led a improbably
healthy life which only encouraged the universal young man’s conviction that I
was immune to mortality and...
Handprinted - Blog
Collagraph Printing
Collagraphy is a really versatile printing process in which a textured plate is inked up and put...
a year ago
Collagraphy is a really versatile printing process in which a textured plate is inked up and put through a press. Different textures hold varying amounts of ink and print different tones. Anything with a low relief texture can be stuck down and used: wallpaper, leaves, fabrics,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Content Distribution
How CDNs, BitTorrent and Distributed Hash tables work
over a year ago
How CDNs, BitTorrent and Distributed Hash tables work
Flashbak
Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” –...
a month ago
“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
Retail Design Blog
Zurich Insurance by Cachet Group
As a leading multi-line insurer serving people and businesses globally, Zurich has once again...
2 months ago
As a leading multi-line insurer serving people and businesses globally, Zurich has once again demonstrated its commitment to excellence. Their...
Flashbak
Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
SatPost by Trung...
Nike’s Marketing Blindspot
What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
a year ago
What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.34.0
PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for projects, smart names for all insights, an entire Data Management tool as well as support for horizontal scalability!
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Kaiserslautern
I hope to stay longer than 72 hours the next time I visit Germany. I don’t recommend such a short...
7 months ago
I hope to stay longer than 72 hours the next time I visit Germany. I don’t recommend such a short visit. However I went there for work as I do occasionally, and I had no choice. So that’s what I did. I landed in Frankfurt on Monday, drove down to Kaiserslautern, stayed through...
Sam Altman
Tech Workers' Values
For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all
our lives.
As members of the...
over a year ago
For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all
our lives.
As members of the community, we're interested in ways in which
tech companies can use their collective power to protect privacy, rule of law,
freedom of expression, and other fundamental American rights....
TheCollector
Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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a year ago
Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
CONTEMPORIST
Painted Drop Shadows Around The Windows Create An Interesting Effect On This Building
Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has unveiled its own new office that’s located within a century-old,...
a year ago
Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has unveiled its own new office that’s located within a century-old, three-storey brick building in Toronto’s Corso Italia neighborhood. A unique design feature not often seen on the exterior of a building, are the painted drop shadows surrounding...
Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 7: The Marvelous Spatuletail (February 9, 2024)
There are several bird species that are near the top of the wish-list for any birdwatcher visiting...
7 months ago
There are several bird species that are near the top of the wish-list for any birdwatcher visiting Peru for the first time. The enigmatic Long-whiskered Owlet is one, as it is a recently described species of owl that is only known from the stunted cloud forests in a very small...
A Beautiful Site
Custom Event Names and the Bubbling Problem
The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users...
over a year ago
The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users who get confused when events of the same name are emitted from different components.
Take <sl-details>, <sl-dialog>, and <sl-dropdown>, for example. They all emit sl-show and...
The Elysian
One essay could change the future
Please support a better media ecosystem.
2 months ago
Please support a better media ecosystem.
Society's Backend
All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 7/8/24
Everything I've been reading
5 months ago
Everything I've been reading
Dustin Curtis
Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+
Apple TV is a hardware device.
Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy...
over a year ago
Apple TV is a hardware device.
Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way to tell which ones).
Apple TV is an app on iOS/iPadOS devices that...
elementary Blog
Package Releases Are Almost Done, You Won't Believe What Happens Next!
This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes,...
3 months ago
This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes, regression testing, updating metadata, taking screenshots, and releasing packages. We’re getting down to the last few items before we can release elementary OS 8. Read ahead to find out...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mechanism
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
People who say microeconomics isn't useful in real...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
People who say microeconomics isn't useful in real life are simply not being creative enough.
Today's News:
Old Structures...
It’s Not Blue
That’s a drawing from 1837 of the new Customs House – now Federal Hall – being constructed at the...
a year ago
That’s a drawing from 1837 of the new Customs House – now Federal Hall – being constructed at the northeast corner of Wall and Nassau Streets. John Frazee is listed as the architect and superintendent, which is not quite accurate: he was working from an architectural design by...
Seth's Blog
Who owns your words?
There are many ways to ask and answer this question. Authorship used to be rare, but now, all of us...
2 weeks ago
There are many ways to ask and answer this question. Authorship used to be rare, but now, all of us write something. If you’re putting your words on a social media platform, you might be surprised to discover that they could disappear at any moment. Some platforms acknowledge...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 4: The Verge
2 months ago
TheCollector
Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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8 months ago
How to Be a Stoic
Welcome!
Welcome to How to Be a Stoic! It began back in March ’15 as a blog to track my personal journey into...
over a year ago
Welcome to How to Be a Stoic! It began back in March ’15 as a blog to track my personal journey into modern practical Stoicism. The blog has now moved to Patreon and I hope you will follow me there. However, the full archive of 425 posts and a whopping 4,600 comments will remain...
Diaries of Note
Dickens flew into so violent a passion
Born in London in 1793, William Charles Macready was one of the most famous Shakespearean actors of...
a year ago
Born in London in 1793, William Charles Macready was one of the most famous Shakespearean actors of his generation, thanks to a forty year career that began on stage in 1810 and also saw him manage both the Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres in the 1840s. Such a career...
Londonist
An Entire Barbra Streisand Season Is Coming To North London
A star is celebrated.
10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Paradise
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
It's okay, nobody finished the first book...
4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
It's okay, nobody finished the first book anyway.
Today's News:
Nelson's Weblog
Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at
Reed College. It was a fun...
over a year ago
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at
Reed College. It was a fun project, studying
a discrete dynamic system that was an extension of the
Ising
model. Sort of cellular automata meets statistical mechanics.
It's the only significant thing I've...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Become the master of your eslint with no-restricted-syntax
The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a...
over a year ago
The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a file, which ensures a predicatbale CSS order. I spent hours looking for a eslint plugin to do that, but with little luck. Without getting into too much details:
The built-in...
Engineers Need Art
Soft Dorothy Software — Shareware Projects
Wherein I attempt to recover and restore old shareware code and program again like it's 1989.
3 months ago
Wherein I attempt to recover and restore old shareware code and program again like it's 1989.
Londonist
Punchdrunk: Immersive Doyens Return In 2024 With "Moonlit Fever Dream"
Tickets for Viola's Room on sale this week.
9 months ago
Tickets for Viola's Room on sale this week.
Christopher Butler
We Have Five Years Left
We must radically reduce carbon emissions by 2030 in order to avoid the most catastrophic damage of...
7 months ago
We must radically reduce carbon emissions by 2030 in order to avoid the most catastrophic damage of climate change. How can you help?
We have only 5 years left to do something about climate change. Depending upon how you define “do something,” we have even less time,...
Posts on Made of...
Getting carried away with hack value
Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of...
over a year ago
Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of BarnOwl into perl code, instead of C (BarnOwl is written in an unholy mix of C and perl code that call each other back and forth obsessively).
Moving code into perl has many...
Math Is Still...
Fresh X-Rays Reveal a Universe as Clumpy as Cosmology Predicts
By mapping the largest structures in the universe in X-rays, cosmologists have found striking...
9 months ago
By mapping the largest structures in the universe in X-rays, cosmologists have found striking agreement with their standard theoretical model of how the universe evolves.
The post Fresh X-Rays Reveal a Universe as Clumpy as Cosmology Predicts first appeared on Quanta...
Retail Design Blog
Aesop store by 0321
Next the opening of a number of standalone stores in Shanghai, and very recently, in Beijing,...
6 months ago
Next the opening of a number of standalone stores in Shanghai, and very recently, in Beijing, Aesop‘s ambitious retail roll-out...
diamond geezer
The Big London Airports Race
Nobody wants to read boring old text any more, the moving image is where it's at.
video and bringing...
8 months ago
Nobody wants to read boring old text any more, the moving image is where it's at.
video and bringing you my first thrilling dynamic transport content.
For those of you without playback capability, I've included a transcript below.
THE BIG LONDON AIRPORTS RACE
Scene - outside...
Acko.net
On Witchcraft
Lies, damned lies, and social media
Rhetoric about the dangers of the internet is at a feverish...
over a year ago
Lies, damned lies, and social media
Rhetoric about the dangers of the internet is at a feverish high. The new buzzword these days is "disinformation." Funnily enough, nobody actually produces it themselves: it's only other people who do so.
Arguably the internet already came up...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles
over a year ago
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles
Vadim Kravcenko
Software Development is very subjective
Most of you are familiar with the feeling of joining a new company and have that urge to rewrite...
over a year ago
Most of you are familiar with the feeling of joining a new company and have that urge to rewrite everything. […]
The post Software Development is very subjective appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates on Netscape | Larry Page and YouTube
I don't want a lot of guesses about Netscape generated by people who may know less than I do. I want...
a year ago
I don't want a lot of guesses about Netscape generated by people who may know less than I do. I want to learn a lot of facts - most of which I don't already know.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Hyatt's Zilara Riviera Maya Resort Is The Best Vacation Destination
a year ago
Construction Physics
The Story of Titanium
The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By...
a year ago
The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By mass, there’s more titanium in the earth’s crust than carbon by a factor of nearly 30, and more titanium than copper by a factor of nearly 100. But despite its abundance, it's...
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
alexwlchan
A script to get Live Text from images
One of my favourite new features on Apple’s OSes in the last few years is Live Text, which is an...
a year ago
One of my favourite new features on Apple’s OSes in the last few years is Live Text, which is an optical character recognition tool that lets you select text in images.
This sort of tech has been around for decades, but having it built into the OS makes it much easier to use.
The...
Liz Denys
xoxo
You and I meeting
Places to experiment, learn,
failure.
But you and I -
Places and spaces...
over a year ago
You and I meeting
Places to experiment, learn,
failure.
But you and I -
Places and spaces into
moments and memories and
bonds to hold onto
beyond those polygons,
yellow, orange, and red.
Londonist
'Stand Against Suella' Protest Takes Place In Central London On Sunday
LGBTQ groups rally against dehumanising rhetoric.
a year ago
LGBTQ groups rally against dehumanising rhetoric.
The Marginalian
Kamau & ZuZu Find a Way: A Tender Lunar Fable about the Stubborn Courage of Prevailing Over the Odds...
"But we will have to find a way to live, as people do."
3 months ago
"But we will have to find a way to live, as people do."
diamond geezer
20 questions hide and seek
I have no idea if this'll work but let's give it a try.
20 questions hide and seek
I'll be there...
a year ago
I have no idea if this'll work but let's give it a try.
20 questions hide and seek
I'll be there from 10am to 11am.
I shall have Squeezy Pig with me.
Your questions go in this comments box. comments if(postComments['89451144195511'] != null){document.write(' (' +...
Roberto Vitillo's...
Don't trust default timeouts
Modern applications don't crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that...
over a year ago
Modern applications don't crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that the network is reliable. It isn't. When…
Willem's Blog
Making my own tablet OS
I wondered if I could escape Windows by installing Debian GNU/Linux on a Surface Go, read along to...
over a year ago
I wondered if I could escape Windows by installing Debian GNU/Linux on a Surface Go, read along to find out how to do this!
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Lorenzo Davitti
Originally from Florence, Italy, I'm a printmaker and tutor now based in London for the past 10...
7 months ago
Originally from Florence, Italy, I'm a printmaker and tutor now based in London for the past 10 years. I work mainly on abstract art, and I am especially interested in the possibilities that printmaking offers when experimenting with colour, shapes and textures.
Describe your...
TheCollector
Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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6 months ago
The Marginalian
How to Live a Miraculous Life: Brian Doyle on Love, Humility, and the Quiet Grace of the Possible
Suppose we agree that we are here to love anyway — to love even though the work is almost unbearably...
3 weeks ago
Suppose we agree that we are here to love anyway — to love even though the work is almost unbearably difficult, even though we know that everything alive is dying, that everything beautiful is perishable, that everything we love will eventually be taken from us by one form of...
Both Are True
after 12 years of writing, here's everything i know
+ my #1 tip on how to get paid subscribers
7 months ago
+ my #1 tip on how to get paid subscribers
Cremieux Recueil
China's Upside-Down Meritocracy
New evidence suggests China systematically misallocates its human capital
2 months ago
New evidence suggests China systematically misallocates its human capital
Tech and Tea
Transformed into a couch
On taking this time to slooooooow down
a year ago
On taking this time to slooooooow down
TheCollector
Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Cool Ideas For Dentistry + Medicine With Nisarg Patel | Out-Of-Pocket
plus what actually happens in the operating room?
a year ago
plus what actually happens in the operating room?
Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
a month ago
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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5 months ago
Old Structures...
Travelog: Far From Home
Traveling to another country usually gets you views of a built environment that is in some respects...
9 months ago
Traveling to another country usually gets you views of a built environment that is in some respects fundamentally different than the one you’re used to. London is, for a New Yorker, the worst place in the UK to get that feeling because of the many similarities between the two...
History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
CONTEMPORIST
A Single Sloping Roof Covers This Home That Hovers Above The Land
Weber Arquitectos has sent us photos of their recently completed project, a tiny house in Valle de...
a year ago
Weber Arquitectos has sent us photos of their recently completed project, a tiny house in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, that rises from the ground on a platform supported by a metal structure. The house, which measures 1291 square feet (120m2), has exterior walls made from heat-treated...
The Works in...
Notes on Progress: Breakfast with g
IQ, lived experience, and my boyfriend’s underpants
over a year ago
IQ, lived experience, and my boyfriend’s underpants
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 059: In̶f̶l̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Microsoft AI
March 22, 2023.
9 months ago
Epic Web Dev
Mocking Techniques in Vitest (workshop)
2 months ago
TokyoDev
Working as a Female Software Developer in Japan
For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan)...
a year ago
For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) would be a dream come true. As an Australian software developer who has been in Japan for 6 months, I’m one of those dreamers.
If you’ve been looking to work in Japan for a while,...
Retail Design Blog
Mercedes-Benz Offices by Boytorun Architects
Boytorun Architects designed the Mercedes-Benz Istanbul Headquarters in a way that fosters...
4 months ago
Boytorun Architects designed the Mercedes-Benz Istanbul Headquarters in a way that fosters collaboration and innovation, emphasizing a sense of belonging...
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...
TheCollector
Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Adding and removing virtual hosts on Ubuntu 14.04
Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume...
over a year ago
Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume you're not logged in as the root user. Change example.com to your own domain/subdomain.
Adding a virtual host #
Create the directory for your new site and grant permissions. If your...
Vadim Kravcenko
How dangerous is over-engineering for a start up?
Hey there, I appreciate your question—it’s a complex one that many startups, including those I’ve...
a year ago
Hey there, I appreciate your question—it’s a complex one that many startups, including those I’ve consulted with, grapple with. I […]
The post How dangerous is over-engineering for a start up? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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a year ago
Arduino Blog
This small device enables users to feel braille through haptics
For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to...
7 months ago
For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to text-to-speech (TTS) interfaces that read portions of the screen aloud. Dynamic braille displays also exist as a tactile means of communication, but their prices can get close to...
Patrick Kayongo
A New Dog
“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their...
a year ago
“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their living room with her phone. He was growing tired of her ever-new discoveries and project ideas, and he didn’t know if he had the energy to stomach this new one. But she was too busy...
Vadim Kravcenko
Stand Out and Dare to Disagree
Question:
Answer:
The post Stand Out and Dare to Disagree appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
7 months ago
Question:
Answer:
The post Stand Out and Dare to Disagree appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Aaron's Essays
The Hindsight Game
There are all kinds of strategies for evaluating startup ideas - investors talk about having a...
a year ago
There are all kinds of strategies for evaluating startup ideas - investors talk about having a “prepared mind,” others build market maps, I like to think about toys, and we could go on. What everyone wants to do is predict the future. That’s honestly impossible. But we can...
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
bt RSS Feed
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source
2024-01-02
I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than...
11 months ago
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source
2024-01-02
I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than I can remember. I think Sublime has been around since the start of my “real” career over 10 years ago, but I could be mistaken1. It certainly feels that long. And in that time I...
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