Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Family Tree Wisdom
Chris:
My grandpa used to say that if you climb a rope every day, you’ll never not be able to do...
a year ago
Chris:
My grandpa used to say that if you climb a rope every day, you’ll never not be able to do it.
Ha, I love it!
It got me thinking: I’d love to hear more folks’ “wisdom from the family tree”. Stuff like Chris shared, “My grandpa used to say…”
I immediately had a few family...
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
Ken Shirriff's blog
The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor.
IBM's...
9 months ago
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor.
IBM's decision to use the 8088 processor in the IBM PC (1981) was a critical point in computer history,
leading to the dominance of the x86 architecture that continues to the present.1
One...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some thoughts on when to raise money, and the current financing environment
A key question for founders is when they should try to raise money. More specifically, they often...
over a year ago
A key question for founders is when they should try to raise money. More specifically, they often wonder whether to raise money now or wait…
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 21-27 August 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Archinect - Features
Archinect's Guide to the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale: Part I — The National...
With the opening week of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale now passed, there has been much...
a year ago
With the opening week of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale now passed, there has been much discussion and media coverage of the anticipated international exhibition. It's safe to imply that the high-profile event aims to highlight, unveil, celebrate, and at times, provoke new...
Damn Interesting
The Ancient Order of Bali
In the 1970s, the Indonesian island of Bali went through a period of rapid change. Along the...
a year ago
In the 1970s, the Indonesian island of Bali went through a period of rapid change. Along the stunning beaches on the southern side of the island, tourism boomed. Parking lots were put up, together with swinging hot spots and hotels of various colours. Hip young travellers from...
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Rach Lloyd
Hello, my name is Rach and I'm a printmaker from Shropshire. I go by the name Rach Lloyd Press, and...
2 months ago
Hello, my name is Rach and I'm a printmaker from Shropshire. I go by the name Rach Lloyd Press, and pride myself on making all of my print-runs and editions in very small numbers, so people can own a unique piece of artwork at an affordable price.
I am a multidisciplinary artist,...
HTMHell
Control the Viewport Resize Behavior on mobile with `interactive-widget`
by Bramus
figcaption {
font-size: 0.8em;
text-align: center;
}
Viewports units on...
2 weeks ago
by Bramus
figcaption {
font-size: 0.8em;
text-align: center;
}
Viewports units on mobile have been a problem for a long time. Using 100vh is most likely not exactly what you initially expected it to be. To fix this, the CSS Working Group came up with more units over...
Londonist
New Exhibition Explores How William Shakespeare Shaped Britain’s Experience Of War
From the English Civil War to the present day.
a year ago
From the English Civil War to the present day.
Daniel Miessler
Summary: Andrej Kaparthy on Lex Fridman’s Podcast (Late 2022)
9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My...
a year ago
9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My One-Sentence Summary/Highlight The future of programming is not humans writing code, but neural nets creating weights. Capture Neural networks are mathematical expressions with many...
Common Edge
What Is Sacred Architecture in an Increasingly Secular Time?
Is it space or the people who animate it?
10 months ago
Is it space or the people who animate it?
Seth's Blog
Leprechauns
Is there a rainbow underneath your pot of gold? Sometimes, we get it backwards.
6 months ago
Is there a rainbow underneath your pot of gold? Sometimes, we get it backwards.
TheCollector
7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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9 months ago
Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s Ogun State wants to lead the country’s EV revolution
But experts fear long-term success may not follow as Nigeria lags other African countries when it...
a month ago
But experts fear long-term success may not follow as Nigeria lags other African countries when it comes to EV adoption.
Londonist
Alternative London Tube Map Shows Great Engineers
From Bazalgette to modern day pioneers.
a year ago
From Bazalgette to modern day pioneers.
Artificial Ignorance
How to build an AI search engine (Part 1)
Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
2 months ago
Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
99% Invisible
Autism Pleasantville [EPISODE]
A few years back, journalist Lauren Ober was diagnosed with autism. She then made a podcast about...
9 months ago
A few years back, journalist Lauren Ober was diagnosed with autism. She then made a podcast about her experience called The Loudest Girl in the World. And she found herself imagining a fantasy world where everything is tailored to Lauren’s very specific autistic needs. And she...
devonzuegel.com
Cities reading list
Many people have reached out asking what books have been most impactful in shaping my views on...
over a year ago
Many people have reached out asking what books have been most impactful in shaping my views on cities. I've written and rewritten answers enough times that I figured it's most efficient if I just write it up one time here and share the link. 🙂
~
Order Without Design by Alain...
Archinect - Features
When California Tried to Abolish Architectural Licensure
Throughout the 20th century, every state and territory across the U.S. passed laws establishing a...
4 months ago
Throughout the 20th century, every state and territory across the U.S. passed laws establishing a requirement to license architects. Since then, no jurisdiction has successfully repealed such a requirement. In the late 1970s, however, California almost became a notable...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Setting up Medley for TableBrowser development
<![CDATA[Although Medley's documentation and published material is scattered across several archives...
a year ago
<![CDATA[Although Medley's documentation and published material is scattered across several archives and sources, and doesn't cover all the system facilities, once I find the right document I get most of the information I need on a specific feature.
But sometimes the information...
Josh Collinsworth
How to Create Custom Editor Blocks with Block Lab
Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the...
over a year ago
Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the block editor, AKA Gutenberg, the new content editor in WordPress 5.0. This post explains how to use it, even if you only know basic HTML.
Max Rozen
Methods for styling your React app
It can be pretty confusing to pick how to style your React app. This guide attempts to simplify your...
over a year ago
It can be pretty confusing to pick how to style your React app. This guide attempts to simplify your choice.
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...
Elad Blog
Fireside chat with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Video and transcript of our fireside chat at Stripe from Monday
a year ago
Video and transcript of our fireside chat at Stripe from Monday
Arduino Blog
How to use vintage LED bubble displays with your Arduino
If you want to add a display to your Arduino project, the easiest solution will likely be an LCD or...
a month ago
If you want to add a display to your Arduino project, the easiest solution will likely be an LCD or OLED screen. But though those are affordable and work really well, they may not provide the vibe you’re looking for. If you want a more vintage look, Vaclav Krejci has a great...
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Discover Novel Way to Predict Structure in Graphs
In new work on graphs’ hidden structure, mathematicians probe the limits of randomness. ...
a year ago
In new work on graphs’ hidden structure, mathematicians probe the limits of randomness.
The post Mathematicians Discover Novel Way to Predict Structure in Graphs first appeared on Quanta Magazine
NeuroLogica Blog
Havana Syndrome Revisited
Last month I wrote about Havana Syndrome, the claim that a number of American and Canadian diplomats...
7 months ago
Last month I wrote about Havana Syndrome, the claim that a number of American and Canadian diplomats and military personnel were the targets of some sort of directed energy weapon attack causing symptoms of headache, disorientation, nausea, and sometimes associated with an...
Anecdotal Evidence
'As Permanently a Monument As Anything'
Once it was a
commonplace: a letter in the mailbox, handwritten or typed, in an envelope most
likely...
5 months ago
Once it was a
commonplace: a letter in the mailbox, handwritten or typed, in an envelope most
likely moistened with the sender’s tongue and sealed. A person-to-person letter,
not junk mail, credit-card come-ons, campaign postcards, jury summonses and the
rest of the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jurassic
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
It's literally not even close. Look at the...
2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
It's literally not even close. Look at the unlabeled graph.
Today's News:
TheCollector
Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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5 days ago
Marco.org
Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation
Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign...
5 months ago
Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign of most of the iOS app, built to carry Overcast into the next decade — and hopefully beyond.
Like podcasts better than blog posts? Listen to ATP #596 for more!
What’s new
Much...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Health
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I'll just note that I'm posting this comic several...
6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I'll just note that I'm posting this comic several hours late because I had to turn in a manuscript that was due 6 months ago.
Today's News:
Open Culture
How Car Chase Scenes Have Evolved Over 100 Years: The Technology Behind Bullitt, The French...
For many a classic action-movie enthusiast, no car chase will ever top the one in Bullitt. The...
a month ago
For many a classic action-movie enthusiast, no car chase will ever top the one in Bullitt. The narrator of the Insider video above describes it as “the scene that set the standard for all modern car chases,” one made “iconic partly because of the characters, but also because of...
Diaries of Note
It’s almost impossible to know what to say
In 1990, the Royal National Theatre embarked on an ambitious international tour featuring two...
a year ago
In 1990, the Royal National Theatre embarked on an ambitious international tour featuring two towering Shakespearean plays, King Lear and Richard III, with groundbreaking lead performances from Brian Cox and Ian McKellen, respectively. Their first destination beyond the UK was...
alexwlchan
Getting alerts about flaky ECS tasks in Slack
At work, we use Amazon ECS to run some of our Docker-based services.
ECS is a container...
a year ago
At work, we use Amazon ECS to run some of our Docker-based services.
ECS is a container orchestrator, similar to Kubernetes: we tell it what Docker images we want to run in what configuration, and it stops or starts containers to match.
If a container stops unexpectedly, ECS...
Londonist
Christmas In London 2023: A Guide To Festive Events, Food And Drink In The Capital This Winter
Top tips for spending Christmas in the capital.
a year ago
Top tips for spending Christmas in the capital.
TheCollector
What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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a month ago
Society's Backend
Why MLX is Important for the ML Community
And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
7 months ago
And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
Old Structures...
Residential Conversion and a Mirror
Office-to-residential conversion is a hot topic lately, the result of a tight housing market and the...
a year ago
Office-to-residential conversion is a hot topic lately, the result of a tight housing market and the remote-work depression in commercial office space. The following is, at best, anecdata but gives a minor sense of that process for older buildings. I recently stayed in the Rand...
diamond geezer
Route 549
London's next dead bus
549: Loughton to South Woodford
Location: outer London/Essex
Length of...
3 months ago
London's next dead bus
549: Loughton to South Woodford
Location: outer London/Essex
Length of journey: 5 miles, 30 minutes
549, which dies tomorrow, is one of London's weirder bus routes. It was transferred to TfL control from Essex in 2003, hence the unusual opening digit. It...
CONTEMPORIST
The Reinterpretation Of A Gabled Roof Is On Display At This New House
Architecture firm Studio KUNZ has shared photos of a home they completed in a small town in the...
9 months ago
Architecture firm Studio KUNZ has shared photos of a home they completed in a small town in the south of Brazil. The home sits on a high plateau, surrounded by an idyllic landscape formed by araucaria trees, which was key for a young couple who have a close relationship with life...
Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
diamond geezer
Pudding Mill Lane 10
The DLR's youngest station is ten years old today.
Pudding Mill Lane opened on 28th April 2014...
7 months ago
The DLR's youngest station is ten years old today.
Pudding Mill Lane opened on 28th April 2014 and remains unnecessarily enormous.
Caveat: The station which opened 10 years ago was a rebuild paid for by Crossrail, because the original sat on the precise site where purple...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Arid Interrogation'
As boys, in
our imaginations we tested ourselves. Would we prove courageous in combat? Our
fathers...
4 months ago
As boys, in
our imaginations we tested ourselves. Would we prove courageous in combat? Our
fathers had, so we believed, during World War II. Could we withstand torture?
These virtues, touched with Hollywood melodrama, seemed like essential aspects of
maturity. We wanted to be...
Paul Graham: Essays
The New Funding Landscape
over a year ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
Copper • A blog...
A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible?
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience.
Another email,...
over a year ago
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience.
Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
Unpacked
Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act
On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which...
a year ago
On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which will force tech giants (predominantly Meta and Google) to pay news organizations in Canada for content that is shared on these platforms. The foundational premise of the law is...
Matt Blewitt
7 Languages in 7 Weeks for 2025
It’s been over 14 years since the original 7 Languages in 7 Weeks was first published, giving a...
3 weeks ago
It’s been over 14 years since the original 7 Languages in 7 Weeks was first published, giving a hands on tour of Ruby, Clojure, Haskell, Io, Scala, Erlang and Prolog. Ruby achieved critical mass, to some degree so did Scala, with the others being popular within their specific...
Seth's Blog
Writing your book
I spent time this week with two authors who are showing up to share their lives, their insights, and...
a year ago
I spent time this week with two authors who are showing up to share their lives, their insights, and their generosity in the form of books. A good book will change the reader, but it makes an even bigger impact on the author. Here’s a classic episode of Akimbo. Book publishing...
Maps Mania
How Near do You Live to a Mass Shooting?
a year ago
History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
Vadim Kravcenko
Process Debt
I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even...
a year ago
I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even worth […]
The post Process Debt appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Open Culture
How Man Ray Reinvented Himself & Created One of the Most Iconic Works of Surrealist Photography
It would surprise none of us to encounter a young artist looking to cast off his past and make his...
2 months ago
It would surprise none of us to encounter a young artist looking to cast off his past and make his mark on the culture in a place like Williamsburg. But in the case of Man Ray, Williamsburg was his past. One must remember that the Brooklyn of today bears little resemblance to the...
./techtipsy
Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem
Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and
move some files...
over a year ago
Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and
move some files around. You finish the script and test it out.
Oops.
All the files now have all the wrong names, and some have been randomly moved
10 folders deep. It’s a mess.
And you didn’t make a...
diamond geezer
London's least busy bus stop
Where is London's least busy bus stop?
It is however a very difficult question to answer, much...
6 months ago
Where is London's least busy bus stop?
It is however a very difficult question to answer, much harder than where's the busiest.
last year when TfL released a Weekday Passenger Data spreadsheet providing the number of boarders at all 19,827 of their bus stops during the month...
Oxide Computer...
Building Big Systems with Remote Hardware Teams
The product we’re building, a rack-scale computer, is specifically designed to
be a centralized,...
a year ago
The product we’re building, a rack-scale computer, is specifically designed to
be a centralized, integrated product because that’s what our customers need.
This requirement and the design choices we’ve made to meet this need
create some daily efficiency challenges for our team....
cdixon.org RSS Feed
“Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the…
“Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the...
over a year ago
“Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the next big thing — to listen for the…
Londonist
See London's Biggest Pie Chart
LSE's giant, mathematical mural.
a year ago
LSE's giant, mathematical mural.
Data Boutique
How to Price Web Scraped Data
5 Factors that Drive Data Pricing
a year ago
5 Factors that Drive Data Pricing
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).
A Weekly Dose of...
From Slow House to Blue Dream
Blue Dream is a house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Julia "Julie" Reyes Taubman and her...
a year ago
Blue Dream is a house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Julia "Julie" Reyes Taubman and her husband Robert "Bobby" Taubman. The house, located in East Hampton, on the South Fork of Long Island, was completed in 2017, nearly 30 years after the architects were commissioned...
Kat Snyder
Sketching e-commerce returns - pain points along the customer journey
A picture is worth a thousand words. I sketch user journeys and concepts captured during user...
over a year ago
A picture is worth a thousand words. I sketch user journeys and concepts captured during user interviews and conversations with...
TheCollector
The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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a month ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
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.
Noahpinion
Bad and good arguments for industrial policy
Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
5 months ago
Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
NeuroLogica Blog
Hunger Circuitry
One of the organizing principles that govern living organisms is homeostasis. This is a key feature...
a year ago
One of the organizing principles that govern living organisms is homeostasis. This is a key feature of being alive – maintaining homeostatic equilibrium both internally and externally. Homeostatic systems usually involve multiple feedback loops that maintain some physiological...
The American Scholar
Part of the Parade
The post Part of the Parade appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
The post Part of the Parade appeared first on The American Scholar.
bt RSS Feed
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
2019-05-29
Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users...
over a year ago
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
2019-05-29
Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users have decided to consume information elsewhere. Why? Because the news industry has become a cesspool of anti-consumer and blackhat practices that has eroded trust for the sake of...
The DESK Magazine
The anesthetization of beauty
They were all over the internet: Images of deep space, revealing thousands of distant galaxies,...
over a year ago
They were all over the internet: Images of deep space, revealing thousands of distant galaxies, twinkling in vivid detail. They were beautiful. Full-spectrum color. Never seen before – except they were.
Explorations of an...
Marsh Birding In Ceibas And Otamendi
February 18, 2023
Laura and I left Parque Nacional El Palmar and continued south towards Buenos...
a year ago
February 18, 2023
Laura and I left Parque Nacional El Palmar and continued south towards Buenos Aires and beyond. We had just five days remaining in our Argentina trip, with ferry tickets purchased that would take us to Uruguay on February 23. At this point in the trip, potential...
Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
a month ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
Jonas Hietala
Going to University
I mentioned in the last post that I’m going to the university, which might explain my lack of...
over a year ago
I mentioned in the last post that I’m going to the university, which might explain my lack of activity here and for that I’m sorry. It’s not as hard as I had imagined, and I don’t have that much in school but there’s still a lot that’s going on. For example now how to make...
Maps Mania
Using the Overpass API with Leaflet
10 months ago
Posts on Nikita...
How Did I Become Database Engineer at 23
Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very...
over a year ago
Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very different cultural background than me. Russians approach life in their own way and some things might seem strange. Still, this was my path and I would like to share it.
My name is...
CONTEMPORIST
A Kansas Ranch Home Gets A Mid-Century Modern Inspired Renovation
FORWARD Design | Architecture has sent us photos of a home renovation they completed for an existing...
a year ago
FORWARD Design | Architecture has sent us photos of a home renovation they completed for an existing mid-century ranch in Leawood, Kansas. Before Photos The existing house was a small two-bedroom home, with the clients originally wanting a temporary addition with the intent of...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Deeper dive on cross-L2 reading for wallets and other use cases
a year ago
Making software...
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
2021-12-06
I recently decided to switch my personal, static...
over a year ago
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
2021-12-06
I recently decided to switch my personal, static site's hosting from Netlify to sourcehut pages. The process went fairly smoothly with only a couple minor hiccups; nothing rage-inducing. After everything was up and running smoothly, I...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2024
Last month’s ware was internals from a VCH-1006 passive hydrogen maser. KE5FX has published a great...
7 months ago
Last month’s ware was internals from a VCH-1006 passive hydrogen maser. KE5FX has published a great write-up about the unit, its history, and how it was repaired. I’ll give the prize to Hessel. The guess given was about as close as anything I could have done myself — a pretty...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 11
Highlights Despite $30k in monthly revenue, TinyPilot barely covers costs. I’m exploring options to...
over a year ago
Highlights Despite $30k in monthly revenue, TinyPilot barely covers costs. I’m exploring options to get big companies to pay more for TinyPilot. I need to come to terms with the fact that managing people is a real job. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d...
FIRE v London
Sep 23: Antisocial markets
For some reason shoplifting is in the news. There’s evidently an epidemic of it. Not just in the UK,...
a year ago
For some reason shoplifting is in the news. There’s evidently an epidemic of it. Not just in the UK, but wider afield too – hence major brands pulling out of cities like San Francisco. From what I hear there is a general increase in antisocial behaviour, dating from the covid-19...
TheCollector
The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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11 months ago
Willem's Blog
Abandoning my own tablet OS
After a year of experimenting with Debian GNU/Linux on a Surface Go 2 I have returned to iPad Pro...
over a year ago
After a year of experimenting with Debian GNU/Linux on a Surface Go 2 I have returned to iPad Pro and the Mac.
alexwlchan
emptydir: look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them
I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty...
6 months ago
I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty or nearly empty, and deletes them.
This isn’t a completely trivial problem, because emptiness is deceptive.
Consider the following folder.
Finder tells us it has 0 items, so it...
mtlynch.io
GreenPiThumb: A Raspberry Pi Gardening Bot
Introduction This is the story of GreenPiThumb: a gardening bot that automatically waters...
over a year ago
Introduction This is the story of GreenPiThumb: a gardening bot that automatically waters houseplants, but also sometimes kills them.
The story begins about a year ago, when I was struck by a sudden desire to own a houseplant. A plant would look nice, supply me with much needed...
Noahpinion
America's supply chains are a disaster waiting to happen
A guest post by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
2 months ago
A guest post by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
99% Invisible
Craptions [EPISODE]
Bad closed captions can be entertaining, but they can be serious, too, because captions are a...
a year ago
Bad closed captions can be entertaining, but they can be serious, too, because captions are a critical tool for lots of lots of people. There are the people learning a new language, the easily confused, and of course captions are essential for people who are Deaf or...
TheCollector
Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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a month ago
Louwrentius
How to determine which process causes IO ?
There is a nifty little program called 'iotop'. Iotop is part of Debian or
Ubuntu and can be...
over a year ago
There is a nifty little program called 'iotop'. Iotop is part of Debian or
Ubuntu and can be installed with a simple apt-get.
Once you have determined with 'top' that the system is waiting on IO-access,
It is nice to know
which process is responsibe for this IO. Therefore, you...
Daniel Miessler
Frontview Mirror: 2023 Edition
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TheCollector
When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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5 months ago
Build In Public...
No-Code is Hitting an Inflection Point. Are You Ready?
Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy....
over a year ago
Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions :) Much like Shopify ‘armed the rebels’ by allowing anyone to build an e-commerce store, a slew of no-code tools are empowering...
99% Invisible
For Amusement Only (Free Replay) [EPISODE]
Everyone has tried it at some point. The authorities started turning a blind eye years ago, but it...
a year ago
Everyone has tried it at some point. The authorities started turning a blind eye years ago, but it wasn’t officially legalized until the summer of 2014. Finally, after more than 80 years of illegitimacy, the City of Oakland has legalized…pinball machines. Today, we travel back to...
The Marginalian
The Rigor of Angels: Human Nature and the Nature of Reality
"What we are striving for lies inside us; we find ourselves in the world and the world in...
a year ago
"What we are striving for lies inside us; we find ourselves in the world and the world in ourselves."
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
7 months ago
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
over a year ago
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
NeuroLogica Blog
Mach Effect Thrusters Fail
When thinking about potential future technology, one way to divide possible future tech is into...
9 months ago
When thinking about potential future technology, one way to divide possible future tech is into probable and speculative. Probable future technology involves extrapolating existing technology into the future, such as imaging what advanced computers might be like. This category...
Seth's Blog
Wearing the costume
There’s a huge difference between carrying a stethoscope and being a doctor. And being a clown...
a month ago
There’s a huge difference between carrying a stethoscope and being a doctor. And being a clown requires far more than getting a clown suit. Entrepreneurs with business cards, slick websites and mission statements are confused. That’s not the hard part. If the costume puts you in...
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,...
TheCollector
The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - HUGE
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a year ago
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
Mazdak
More Creators Can Now Make Money on YouTube
YouTube Lowers Monetization Requirements for Creators. New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Sets Out...
a year ago
YouTube Lowers Monetization Requirements for Creators. New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Sets Out Vision for the Platform. YouTube Makes It Easier for Small Creators to Earn Money YouTube is lowering the eligibility requirements for creators to make money from their channels....
The Modern House
A new chapter: seven creatively converted homes
It takes an especially skilled eye to see the potential of somewhere to call home in a space not...
a month ago
It takes an especially skilled eye to see the potential of somewhere to call home in a space not designed with that in mind. But in this country, with its architectural tapestry of period buildings and premium on space, we have become adept at repackaging […]
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...
Maps Mania
⅓ of Rafah’s Buildings Destroyed
8 months ago
Working Theorys
30 and Retirable
P.S. It’s not just about being retirable, but being more retirable than your neighbor.
4 months ago
P.S. It’s not just about being retirable, but being more retirable than your neighbor.
ToughSF
Fusion without Fissiles: Superbombs and Wilderness Orion
Fusion technology today relies on expensive, building-sized equipment for ignition, or the help of...
over a year ago
Fusion technology today relies on expensive, building-sized equipment for ignition, or the help of an already powerful fission detonation. What if we could do away with both?
Fusion power without the need for fissiles, but also small enough to be launched into space. It is...
Archinect - Features
2024 Summer Architecture Programs for Adults and High School Graduates
Archinect's 2024 highlight of summer architecture programs continues with Part 2, where we focus on...
9 months ago
Archinect's 2024 highlight of summer architecture programs continues with Part 2, where we focus on courses and workshops for adults, high school graduates, and current college students.
Take a look below at our curated selection of educational events at academic institutions and...
Stephen Diehl
The Explicit Choice by the SEC Not to Regulate Crypto
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
My love of solitude is growing with my growth
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an eminent 19th-century British poet most famous for her two-volume...
a year ago
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an eminent 19th-century British poet most famous for her two-volume collection, Poems, published in 1844, and the verse novel Aurora Leigh, which came out in 1856. It was in 1831, three years after the death of her mother, that Barrett Browning kept...
One Useful Thing
Innovation through prompting
Democratizing educational technology... and more
8 months ago
Democratizing educational technology... and more
Wuthering...
Thou hast devourd thy sonnes - some notes on Seneca's horror plays
My Seneca reading in March:
Medea, tr. Frederick Ahl
The Trojan Women, tr. E. F. Watling
Thyestes,...
a year ago
My Seneca reading in March:
Medea, tr. Frederick Ahl
The Trojan Women, tr. E. F. Watling
Thyestes, tr. Jasper Heywood
Hercules Furens, tr. Heywood
The Madness of Hercules, tr. Dana Gioia
The plays themselves are all from the mid-1st century,
perhaps written when Seneca was in...
Daniel Miessler
Custom Models Are AI’s Killer App
The killer app for AI right now is the universal “custom AI model”. Consume your whole business. Or...
a year ago
The killer app for AI right now is the universal “custom AI model”. Consume your whole business. Or your whole life experience. Every text. Every Slack. Every journal entry. Every blog post. Everything you’ve said or written publicly. All your logs. All your documentation. Turn...
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...
Blog posts of...
Why Lean Startup sucks for startups.
If you go to Lean Startup events you will find first time founders, consultants, accelerator...
over a year ago
If you go to Lean Startup events you will find first time founders, consultants, accelerator managers, r&d people, enterprise intr...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Trust
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a year ago
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I don't even trust MYSELF to catch my wife, even if I'm intending to.
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Observability for Frontend Developers
Some thoughts on how frontend developers can also embrace instrumenting their apps for observability
over a year ago
Some thoughts on how frontend developers can also embrace instrumenting their apps for observability
Raptitude.com
Two Ways to Change Your Momentum
This is hardly a brilliant insight, but I’ve noticed that making small, “good” decisions early in...
a month ago
This is hardly a brilliant insight, but I’ve noticed that making small, “good” decisions early in the day makes the whole day work better. If I wake up and avoid screen time and loafing around, I get more and better work done, I make more sensible meal choices, I’m less needy and...
Rest of World -...
In Nigeria, government and local VCs are helping startups weather the tech downturn
Sensing an existential threat to the country's tech scene, the government and local VCs are filling...
a year ago
Sensing an existential threat to the country's tech scene, the government and local VCs are filling the expanding funding gap.
Ferd.ca
My favorite Erlang Container
2022/07/09
My favorite Erlang Container
Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang...
over a year ago
2022/07/09
My favorite Erlang Container
Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang Program, which showed a very simple universal server written in Erlang:
universal_server()->receive{become,F}->F()end.
You could then write a small program that could fit this...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some thoughts on SEO
“SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via...
over a year ago
“SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via organic search traffic.” I don’t like…
Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much?
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful,
it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
3 months ago
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful,
it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy.
When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that
your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
TheCollector
Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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3 months ago
Seth's Blog
The gap between impossible and normal
It keeps getting shorter and shorter. This video couldn’t have been made, at any price, 18 months...
a year ago
It keeps getting shorter and shorter. This video couldn’t have been made, at any price, 18 months ago. 18 weeks ago, it would have required a thousand hours of work. Now, here it is. This impossible is going to happen faster and faster and faster.
Daniel Marino
My current prototyping environment
The other day I shared why I prefer coding prototypes rather than using design apps to create them....
8 months ago
The other day I shared why I prefer coding prototypes rather than using design apps to create them. My prototyping environment has evolved over the years. I love to hear how others build prototypes, so I thought I’d share where I’m at now. Maybe you’ll find it useful.
A single...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Little Towns Should Have Had Their Chroniclers'
Every St.
Patrick’s Day my mother pinned on my shirt before I walked to school a green
and white...
9 months ago
Every St.
Patrick’s Day my mother pinned on my shirt before I walked to school a green
and white knitted shamrock and reminded me of the origin of my first name. Her
father was born in County Cork, as were her mother’s parents. I waited until
the third grade to rebel against...
The Modern House
A fossil-shaped eco home on the border of Devon and Somerset
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Reimagining cities in a few simple questions
What would happen if public transportation were free? What if it were paid for by congestion...
a year ago
What would happen if public transportation were free? What if it were paid for by congestion pricing, digitally implemented? What if public toilets were safe, beautiful, well-appointed and consistently maintained? What if there were a tax on empty storefronts, payable after three...
diamond geezer
Walking on Canada Water
It's now quicker to walk from Canada Water station to the big Tesco. This is because British Land...
a month ago
It's now quicker to walk from Canada Water station to the big Tesco. This is because British Land are trying to sell flats.
swooshy timber boardwalk has just opened and it's red. Very red.
It starts from the dock edge by the library and ends at the far end of what used to be...
TheCollector
Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ugly
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a year ago
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Today's News:
computers are bad
2023-10-22 cooler screens
Audible even over the squeal of an HVAC blower with a suffering belt, the whine
of small, high...
a year ago
Audible even over the squeal of an HVAC blower with a suffering belt, the whine
of small, high velocity fans pervades the grocery side of this Walgreens. Were
they always this loud? I'm not sure; some of the fans sound distinctly
unhealthy. Still, it's a familiar kind of noise to...
Joel Gascoigne
Raising funding as a first-time founder
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over a year ago
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I’ve been fortunate enough to meet with some outstanding first-time
entrepreneurs on a few different days during this week. In almost every case I
can really feel the passion and determination...
Left To Write
Sinking To Survive
I always feel like I’m drowning. At this point I’m used to it. But I do question how much of this is...
a year ago
I always feel like I’m drowning. At this point I’m used to it. But I do question how much of this is inherited and how much of this is self-inflicted. Last year, I read an article on Epigenetics. The gist of it is that we’re shaped by the genes of our parents and grandparents,...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to better handle stress in a startup?
Dear Reader, First off, let me commend you on the courage and determination you’ve already shown on...
10 months ago
Dear Reader, First off, let me commend you on the courage and determination you’ve already shown on your journey. The […]
The post How to better handle stress in a startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The Marginalian
Jealousy and Its Antidote: Pioneering Psychiatrist Leslie Farber on the Tangled Psychology of Our...
"Every jealous person knows jealousy to be a brutally degrading experience and resists with all his...
a year ago
"Every jealous person knows jealousy to be a brutally degrading experience and resists with all his might revealing the extent of his degradation."
One from Nippon
A peek into Japan's Convenience Stores
Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a...
a year ago
Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a two-part article.
All across Japan, one sight remains ubiquitous – the convenience store.
A far, far cry from their American cousins, convenience stores in Japan are without...
diamond geezer
Pointless push-button crossings
There are seven pedestrian crossings at the Bow Roundabout.
This one's worthwhile.
However this...
7 months ago
There are seven pedestrian crossings at the Bow Roundabout.
This one's worthwhile.
However this one's useless.
This one's useless too.
And what's interesting is that people generally don't realise this and press the buttons anyway. Parents heading to the shops press the...
Maps Mania
The Five Minute Fantasy Map Maker
10 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Concrete Ceiling Floats Above This Round Hotel Bar
Portuguese architecture office Openbook has designed the Ritz Pool Bar as part of an overall project...
5 months ago
Portuguese architecture office Openbook has designed the Ritz Pool Bar as part of an overall project to renovate the terrace and galleries of the Ritz Four Seasons Hotel Lisbon. The bar has an organic design and total openness to the terrace, with walls of glass allowing the...
African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
2 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
Paul Graham: Essays
The Hacker's Guide to Investors
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - DNA
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2 weeks ago
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CONTEMPORIST
Black Accents Contrast The Wood And White Material Palette Of This Home
Design and interior architecture firm EntreQuatreMurs (EQM) has completed the contemporary interiors...
a year ago
Design and interior architecture firm EntreQuatreMurs (EQM) has completed the contemporary interiors of a home in Quebec, Canada, that was originally built in 1959. The house had not been renovated for several decades and featured typical enclosed rooms and small, narrow, dark...
Identity Designed
Ashton
Designed by LG2, Quebec.
5 months ago
Common Edge
Architecture and the God Problem
Defining divinity and higher powers, in the context of design, is often fraught.
a year ago
Defining divinity and higher powers, in the context of design, is often fraught.
Making software...
Improving Github's New Design
Improving Github's New Design
2020-07-07
Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
over a year ago
Improving Github's New Design
2020-07-07
Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine.
Sigh.
I was planning on recreating the...
The Modern House
A contemporary gallery-like home with countless credentials in Hampstead
a year ago
The American Scholar
“I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Forugh Farrokhzad
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Forugh Farrokhzad appeared...
4 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Forugh Farrokhzad appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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9 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“That’s Another Podcast”
I’ve long been a fan of the Rich Ziade / Paul Ford podcast duo. They did Track Changes then The...
a year ago
I’ve long been a fan of the Rich Ziade / Paul Ford podcast duo. They did Track Changes then The Postlight Podcast then The Aboard Podcast then Ziade+Ford, and now (again?) The Aboard Podcast.
Through all my listening, one thing I’ve noticed is that they often make comedic...
Epic Web Dev
React Server Components: An Optimistic Future (article)
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once...
5 months ago
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 2 (Atlanta Revisited)
I ventured into familiar territory as we started the trip, back to the same eastside of Atlanta that...
a year ago
I ventured into familiar territory as we started the trip, back to the same eastside of Atlanta that I’d explored just four months prior. That wasn’t a coincidence. I enjoyed the area so much that I wanted the whole family to experience it too. So it made perfect sense to fly...
TheCollector
Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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3 months ago
balajis.com
Too Fake to Tell
US government stats aren't reliable. More importantly, neither are US government bonds.
a year ago
US government stats aren't reliable. More importantly, neither are US government bonds.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI Is Like a Lossy JPEG
That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense...
9 months ago
That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense when I read it. But Paul Ford, writing in the Aboard Newsletter, helped it make even more sense in my brain.
[AI tools] compress lots and lots of information—text, image, more—in...
TheCollector
5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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a year ago
AVC
The Blackbird Platform
The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends...
a year ago
The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends and family program at a restaurant in Williamsburg Brooklyn called Gertie. Blackbird wrote about it today on their excellent Supersonic blog: Throughout, when you tap Gertie’s...
Map of the Week
The Film Industry's Nine Dash Line Problem
This summer's hit movie Barbie has been banned in Vietnam for its portrayal of the Nine Dash Line on...
a year ago
This summer's hit movie Barbie has been banned in Vietnam for its portrayal of the Nine Dash Line on a world map. Note: I have not (yet) seen any of the movies or shows listed below.
This line represents China's claims in the South China Sea. These claims have been rejected by...
37signals Dev
Speeding up mobile development with Turbo
Maintaining parity in a multi-platform product
Expectations for a product are higher now than ever....
10 months ago
Maintaining parity in a multi-platform product
Expectations for a product are higher now than ever. Users expect to use their software to be available everywhere: on the web, on desktops, on their mobile devices. Development for all these platforms is fractured so most companies...
Platformer
The Supreme Court reckoning over content moderation is arriving
Platforms might have a way around Texas's social media law — unless a separate case makes that...
a year ago
Platforms might have a way around Texas's social media law — unless a separate case makes that illegal, too
mtlynch.io
How I Tricked Myself into Shipping Too Late
Many software founders fail for a simple reason: they ship too late. They spend years developing a...
over a year ago
Many software founders fail for a simple reason: they ship too late. They spend years developing a product in a vacuum only to see it crumble the first time a real customer touches it.
The Indie Hackers podcast features many such stories. The show’s stated mission is to help...
African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
4 weeks ago
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
Stoic Simple
Self-Help Books & Stoicism: Why Stoic Thought is Having a Resurgence
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Stoicism as a philosophy for personal...
a year ago
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Stoicism as a philosophy for personal development. Once considered a relic of ancient Greece and Rome, its teachings are being rediscovered and repackaged for modern audiences. In this article, we'll explore the origins of...
David Heinemeier...
Dare to connect a server to the internet
The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest...
10 months ago
The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest things are too dangerous to even attempt by yourself these days. That without their rarified expertise, you’ll be left vulnerable. So best just to leave ever-more of your burdens to...
Open Culture
Behold a Digital Restoration of 655 Plates of Roses & Lilies by Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Greatest...
Pierre-Joseph Redouté made his name by painting flowers, an achievement impossible without a...
a month ago
Pierre-Joseph Redouté made his name by painting flowers, an achievement impossible without a meticulousness that exceeds all bounds of normality. He published his three-volume collection Les Roses and his eight-volume collection Les Liliacées between 1802 and 1824, and a glance...
Liz Denys
Reasons to kick Peter Thiel off Facebook's board
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about...
over a year ago
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the threat he poses. Many of the arguments are centered around diversity, which is a tenet Facebook says it deeply values.
The ways Thiel fails to value diversity matter: his...
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Jan 2020 Recap
a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
over a year ago
a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
Anecdotal Evidence
'Thoughts Wait Here for Future Readers'
In Another Beauty (trans. Clare Cavanagh,
2000), the late Adam Zagajewski revisits his alma mater,...
a year ago
In Another Beauty (trans. Clare Cavanagh,
2000), the late Adam Zagajewski revisits his alma mater, the Jagiellonka
Library in Kraków, and calls it a “botanical garden of ideas,” a metaphor
worthy of the librarian Borges. I briefly visited the Jagiellonka, as it’s
known, in 2012...
Louwrentius
Most Technical debt is just bullshit
Introduction
I made an offhand remark about technical debt to a friend and he interrupted me,...
over a year ago
Introduction
I made an offhand remark about technical debt to a friend and he interrupted me, saying: "technical debt is just bullshit". In his experience, people talking about technical debt were mostly trying to:
cover up bad code
cover up unfinished work
source1
Calling...
alexwlchan
Snippets to manage albums in Photos.app
Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that...
a year ago
Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that involves moving photos in and out of albums.
The tool I’ve built is very specific to my workflow and unlikely to be immediately useful to anyone else, but I thought some of the code for...
One Useful Thing
On the necessity of a sin
Why treating AI like a person is the future
8 months ago
Why treating AI like a person is the future
wadertales
UK waders: “Into the Red”
If you ask British birdwatchers to name the eleven wader species that are causing the most...
over a year ago
If you ask British birdwatchers to name the eleven wader species that are causing the most conservation concern in the UK, they would probably not include Dunlin. Curlew may well be top of their lists, even though the most recent population estimate is 58,500 breeding pairs, but...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Paradigm
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a year ago
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There's no turning back. We live in the same world as this joke now, and always will.
Today's News:
Hey friends, social media makes it impossible to reach my own readers. But you, the RSS reader have the ability to check out my...
Vadim Kravcenko
Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation
Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers...
over a year ago
Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers that they neglect actually running their […]
The post Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Mazdak
Tech Titans: AI Race Heats Up!
We will explore the intensifying competition between major tech companies in the field of artificial...
a month ago
We will explore the intensifying competition between major tech companies in the field of artificial intelligence.
TheCollector
How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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5 months ago
Math Is Still...
The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings
The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it...
11 months ago
The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it is, in fact, a hub of sensory and emotional processing in the brain.
The post The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings first appeared on Quanta...
TheCollector
Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Transit Maps
Historical Map: San Joaquin County, California, c. 1910
Here’s a beautiful old illustrative map – this is from a prospectus advertising the benefits of...
a year ago
Here’s a beautiful old illustrative map – this is from a prospectus advertising the benefits of settling in San Joaquin County, California in 1910. Part of depicting this as a desirable place to live and do business is showing the multitude of modern railway lines – including...
Patrick Kayongo
Martyr
Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the...
a year ago
Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the floor to catch the sweat that had started dripping from his forehead. His hand was shaking uncontrollably, jerked back and forth by the fear of getting caught again. Mukaajanga, the...
Paolo Amoroso's...
The Boot Sector Games book series
<![CDATA[The short ebooks on Intel 8086 Assembly programming Oscar Toledo self published are some of...
a year ago
<![CDATA[The short ebooks on Intel 8086 Assembly programming Oscar Toledo self published are some of the best 8086 resources I've seen.
After introducing the 8086 instruction set and Assembly, Programming Boot Sector Games describes the source code of several games each of which...
Open Culture
Andy Warhol Hosts Frank Zappa on His Cable TV Show, and Later Recalls, “I Hated Him More Than Ever”...
Had Andy Warhol lived to see the internet–especially social networking–he would have loved it,...
5 months ago
Had Andy Warhol lived to see the internet–especially social networking–he would have loved it, though it may not have loved him. Though Warhol did see the very beginnings of the PC revolution, and made computer art near the end of his life on a Commodore Amiga 1000, he was mostly...
Both Are True
Like the mirror and the moon, let's reflect
some thoughts on season one and some kind words from paid subscribers!
a year ago
some thoughts on season one and some kind words from paid subscribers!
Home on Erik...
Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction
This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity...
over a year ago
This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity Computation (DISCO)
I just glanced at the paper, and there's some cool stuff going on from a theoretical perspective. What I'm curious about is why they didn't decide to use...
There are two types...
A Short Discussion of Residential Building Heights in New York City
NOTE: The following was written for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Street Design, The Secret To...
a year ago
NOTE: The following was written for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Street Design, The Secret To Great Cities and Towns, where it will appear in a shorter version. This version still needs a little editing for its new context. Part … Continue reading →
The post A Short...
One Useful Thing
Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting
Don't make this hard
4 weeks ago
Platformer
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major...
a year ago
After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm
Old Structures...
Small Details
In “How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly”, Jennifer Ouellette gives a good summary of a...
2 months ago
In “How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly”, Jennifer Ouellette gives a good summary of a recent paper “Thread form at the Crystal Palace” by John Gardner and Ken Kiss. My even shorter summary: the 1851 Crystal Palace in London was made possible, in part, through the...
Oxide Computer...
RIP Khaled Bichara, 1971-2020
We were deeply saddened to learn that
Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s
angel investors,
died in a...
over a year ago
We were deeply saddened to learn that
Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s
angel investors,
died in a car
accident in Cairo on Friday night.
Those of us who have known Khaled for years have known him to be a bold investor
who appreciated hard technical problems – and also a profoundly...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sim
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated...
8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated years ago too.'
Today's News:
Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024 RLP 1.302E. I'll be talking space!
Melting Asphalt
Going Critical
Background: This is an interactive blog post. I wanted to host it here, but don't know how to make...
over a year ago
Background: This is an interactive blog post. I wanted to host it here, but don't know how to make it play nice with WordPress. So I decided to host it on another part of the site instead. Click here for…
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Wuthering...
Iphigeneia in Aulis by Euripides - even babies sense the dread of evil to come
The final Euripides play is Iphigeneia in Aulis, performed with The Bacchae in 405 BCE. I normally...
over a year ago
The final Euripides play is Iphigeneia in Aulis, performed with The Bacchae in 405 BCE. I normally write “Iphigenia,” but I read the 1978 W. S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr. translation titled which goes with “Iphigeneia,” so I will switch to that spelling for this post.
...
Jonas Hietala
A Christmas Game
I’m going through a bit of a boardgame stint, as I usually do during christmas time. I had exactly...
over a year ago
I’m going through a bit of a boardgame stint, as I usually do during christmas time. I had exactly one thing on my wishlist for this christmas for my little brother: Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries. Guess what? I got something from my wishlist!
This was our 5th or 6th game (or...
TheCollector
Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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TheCollector
10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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7 months ago
Londonist
Get A Dose Of The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum
Small museum that's free to visit.
a year ago
Small museum that's free to visit.
Tony Finch's blog
Random floating point numbers
Here are a couple of algorithms for generating uniformly distributed
floating point numbers 0.0 <= n...
a year ago
Here are a couple of algorithms for generating uniformly distributed
floating point numbers 0.0 <= n < 1.0 using an unbiased
random bit generator and IEEE 754 double precision arithmetic. Both of
them depend on details of how floating point numbers work, so before
getting into...
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
History Today Feed
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
11 months ago
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
Working Theorys
24 Working Theorys for 2024
Twenty-four ideas across four major themes: startups & investing, social products, media & creators,...
11 months ago
Twenty-four ideas across four major themes: startups & investing, social products, media & creators, and lifestyle
TheCollector
How Does the Electoral College Work?
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3 months ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
3 months ago
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Seth's Blog
The obligation of “none of the above”
As we continue to face difficult choices and work to make things better, it’s quite likely that the...
a year ago
As we continue to face difficult choices and work to make things better, it’s quite likely that the alternatives being presented aren’t ideal or even appealing. Many organizations and communities are stuck because “none of the above” is the majority’s opinion, or perhaps the...
Noahpinion
A pivotal moment for Japan's national defense
A guest post by Jonathan Grady
7 months ago
A guest post by Jonathan Grady
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
6 days ago
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
11 months ago
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
Adventures In...
Analysis in the Browser
Here is a two-pack with some small adventures with data in ArcGIS Online. The first is a smashing of...
a year ago
Here is a two-pack with some small adventures with data in ArcGIS Online. The first is a smashing of two fields into a new frankenfield ready for mapping, and the second shows how to create entirely new map layers and cram them with meaningful attributes. … Sometimes you have all...
tomcritchlow.com
Digital Bricolage & Web Foraging
When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme:...
a year ago
When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme: digital bricolage. Bricolage is “the skill of using whatever is at hand and recombining them to create something new.”
ToughSF
Nuclear Reactor Lasers: from Fission to Photon
Nuclear reactor lasers are devices that can generate lasers from nuclear energy with little to no...
over a year ago
Nuclear reactor lasers are devices that can generate lasers from nuclear energy with little to no intermediate conversion steps.
We work out just how effective they can be, and how they stack up against conventional electrically-powered lasers. You might want to re-think your...
Londonist
15 Delightful Day Trips From London: November 2023
Charming events within easy reach of London.
a year ago
Charming events within easy reach of London.
The Modern House
Father Studio, creators of our sonic identity, on why sound is an integral part of design
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
Rest of World -...
Teaching inmates in Argentina to make video games in prison
“Gaming studios need employees, and the formerly incarcerated need a place to work once they’re...
a year ago
“Gaming studios need employees, and the formerly incarcerated need a place to work once they’re released.”
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This...
over a year ago
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This guide walks you through these concepts one by one.
TheCollector
The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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4 months ago
37signals Dev
Solid Queue 1.0 released
We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version...
2 months ago
We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version has come a long way since we published the first version, 0.1.1, back in December 2023, with 132 merged pull requests and 126 closed issues, and the help of multiple...
Seth's Blog
Living in hyperbole
In the pre-media world, we bumped into fables, or news from across the village, but mostly, our role...
a year ago
In the pre-media world, we bumped into fables, or news from across the village, but mostly, our role models and experiences were based on reality. Now, when it’s not unusual to spend eight hours a day surrounded by media fueled by greatest hits (worst offender, breaking news,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem
We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a...
over a year ago
We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a month. This sounds like an incredible feat of…
Julia Evans
Some miscellaneous git facts
I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I
already knew Git pretty...
a year ago
I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I
already knew Git pretty well, but as usual when I try to explain something I’ve
been learning some new things.
None of these things feel super surprising in retrospect, but I hadn’t thought
about them...
Explorations of an...
Monsoon Season In Arizona, Part 1: Introduction, Phoenix to Miller Canyon
Earlier this summer, Laura and I were trying to determine where we would visit for a couple of mini...
3 months ago
Earlier this summer, Laura and I were trying to determine where we would visit for a couple of mini vacations. Due to the variations in her work schedule, Laura had two blocks of time - a five-day chunk in early August, and six days in early September - and we wanted to make the...
Construction Physics
Why Levittown Didn't Revolutionize Homebuilding
For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way...
5 months ago
For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way we build cars. While no one has succeeded, arguably the man that came closest to becoming “the Henry Ford of homebuilding” was William Levitt, with his company Levitt and Sons....
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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a month ago
The Modern House
Five joyful things to do this June
And just like that, it’s June: summer is here and – come rain or shine – our disposition will be...
a year ago
And just like that, it’s June: summer is here and – come rain or shine – our disposition will be thoroughly sunny, thanks to all the delightful things in our diaries. From an exhibition making a splash (and getting us in the mood for sun-soaked […]
PostHog's RSS Feed
Cancer and revenue - the latest board meeting
It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with ...
over a year ago
It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with retinoblastoma - a fairly rare form of cancer that…
Stephen Diehl
Facebook Libra is Architecturally Unsound
over a year ago
Londonist
Belgravia In Bloom 2024: Flower Arches And Sculptures Pop Up In West London
It's all fun and games this year - that's the theme!
8 months ago
It's all fun and games this year - that's the theme!
McMansion Hell
In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial claim that bike lanes are good, actually.
Bicyclists Deserve the Right to Free Movement
In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial...
a year ago
Bicyclists Deserve the Right to Free Movement
In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial claim that bike lanes are good, actually.
escape the algorithm
howdidyoufind.me
a website about how people found this website
2 months ago
a website about how people found this website
Retail Design Blog
Yiwu Place Public Shopping Precinct
The city of Yiwu has unique trading culture and a thriving economy of commerce. The city has...
2 months ago
The city of Yiwu has unique trading culture and a thriving economy of commerce. The city has witnessed great historical...
Quantum Frontiers
Crossing the quantum chasm: From NISQ to fault tolerance
On December 6, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2023 Conference in Silicon Valley. Here is a...
a year ago
On December 6, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2023 Conference in Silicon Valley. Here is a transcript of my remarks. Toward quantum value The theme of this year’s Q2B meeting is “The Roadmap to Quantum Value.” I … Continue reading →
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Family: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases
Previous Next https://youtu.be/f4sPP8SkiYQ Family was, without a doubt, an important element in the...
a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/f4sPP8SkiYQ Family was, without a doubt, an important element in the lives of the ancient Stoic philosophers. While Stoicism teaches that we shouldn't become too attached to people and that we should remember everyone can be taken from us, it also...
The Rational Walk
Thucydides
Thucydides is best known for his extensive history of the Peloponnesian War which took place between...
4 months ago
Thucydides is best known for his extensive history of the Peloponnesian War which took place between 431 - 404 BC.
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Iconic
There are all sorts of tricks – visual shorthand – for saying “you’re in New York” in movies, TV,...
3 months ago
There are all sorts of tricks – visual shorthand – for saying “you’re in New York” in movies, TV, and photos. One of them is to include some roof-top water tanks. Comics, too: The purpose of the tanks is very simple. They store water pumped up form the municipal main, and water...
The Marginalian
War, Peace, and Possible Futures: George Saunders on Storytelling the World’s Fate and the Antidote...
"War is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the...
11 months ago
"War is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being."
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Nick Morley (with giveaway!)
Nick Morley, aka Linocutboy, is an artist, illustrator, author and educator specialising in linocut....
a year ago
Nick Morley, aka Linocutboy, is an artist, illustrator, author and educator specialising in linocut. His prints have been bought by people all over the world and his illustrations have appeared on book covers and in magazines. Nick teaches regular linocut workshops at Hello Print...
Londonist
Which Tube Station Is Furthest From Its Namesake?
How far is it from Kew Gardens to Kew Gardens?
a year ago
How far is it from Kew Gardens to Kew Gardens?
Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
Jonas Hietala
Good and Bad Programmers
Every now and day blog posts about what it takes to be a good programmer or how you figure out if...
over a year ago
Every now and day blog posts about what it takes to be a good programmer or how you figure out if someone is a bad programmer arrives. There’s always talk about how you find the good programmers in interviews and the topic is always hot in schools and universities.
Today I read...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Making semantic sidenotes without JavaScript
One of the first things I learned about professional writing is that it’s best to remove all...
over a year ago
One of the first things I learned about professional writing is that it’s best to remove all unnecessary words. Problem...
Retail Design Blog
Simple Art Museum by HAS design and research
In the early 21st century, China witnessed a remarkable surge in museum construction. Cities...
2 months ago
In the early 21st century, China witnessed a remarkable surge in museum construction. Cities blossomed under the banner of cultural...
Seth's Blog
Elegant and classy
If you announce that something is elegant or classy, it probably isn’t. There’s a humility to...
a year ago
If you announce that something is elegant or classy, it probably isn’t. There’s a humility to hospitality and sophistication that evaporates when we name it.
Common Edge
Great American Cities That Teach Architecture
Learning about urban planning and design outside the studio.
10 months ago
Learning about urban planning and design outside the studio.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The most popular Heap alternatives and competitors, compared
The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines...
a year ago
The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines comprehensive analytics with session replay, A/B testing…
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
8 months ago
Posts on Nikita...
Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems
This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website,...
over a year ago
This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own.
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following...
CONTEMPORIST
A Cluster Of Shingle-Clad Buildings Create An Island Cottage Experience For These Owners
Akb Architects has shared photos of a cottage they designed that comprises a cluster of buildings,...
4 months ago
Akb Architects has shared photos of a cottage they designed that comprises a cluster of buildings, each scaled proportionately to the island’s one-acre size. Located three hours north of Toronto, Canada, the cottage includes four pitch-roofed structures, harmoniously clad in...
Escaping Flatland
Integrity
Intensely Human, No 3
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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10 months ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week
#1 💡 Phil is the founder of my favorite email software and he’s 100% correct here. Google sucks for...
11 months ago
#1 💡 Phil is the founder of my favorite email software and he’s 100% correct here. Google sucks for recommendations. The algorithm has been gamed to death. Just in the past two days I’ve asked GPT for recommendations on 2 high ticket decisions (job board in specific region,...
Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
Seth's Blog
This time it’s personal
My new book is urgent and it’s personal. Some readers have told me that it’s also their favorite. It...
a year ago
My new book is urgent and it’s personal. Some readers have told me that it’s also their favorite. It opens the door to a better way to work and to find meaning in how we spend our days. I’ve done dozens of podcasts talking about it, but when I talk about it, it’s not nearly […]
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs Redshift
We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google...
a year ago
We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google BigQuery , Elastic , and Apache Druid . Most of…
Nelson's Weblog
Seven slaves, a marker
I've written before
about learning that my ancestors Leonard and Melvina Ward owned a slave.
Today I...
over a year ago
I've written before
about learning that my ancestors Leonard and Melvina Ward owned a slave.
Today I learned there were more, at least seven.
This marker comes courtesy of Find-a-Grave.
It's on a small family cemetery near
Bagwell, TX. I'm not positive but I think the land is...
TheCollector
The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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7 months ago
Christopher Butler
Attention Degrowth
No one is entitled to anyone else’s attention.
Sometimes I think that may be the most important...
a year ago
No one is entitled to anyone else’s attention.
Sometimes I think that may be the most important insight beneath any design decision. Not to be combatted with manipulations, tricks, or just being a nuisance — but to be respected. The attention economy needs degrowth, too.
We...
Probably...
Ears Are Weird
In a previous article, I looked at 93 measurements from the ANSUR-II dataset and found that ear...
3 months ago
In a previous article, I looked at 93 measurements from the ANSUR-II dataset and found that ear protrusion is not correlated with any other measurement. In a followup article, I used principle component analysis to explore the correlation structure of the measurements, and found...
./techtipsy
The minimum viable fan control script
I’ve always been a fan of tinkering with cooling setups on my computers.
I’ve even went as far as...
over a year ago
I’ve always been a fan of tinkering with cooling setups on my computers.
I’ve even went as far as writing crappy
solutions to make up for
deficiencies on the hardware level. After years of dumb experiments I’ve seen
how little you can get away with in cooling and how to run your...
ntietz.com blog
My reference was dropped, why is the compiler complaining about multiple borrows?
Recently someone I was talking to ran into a fun borrow checker problem in Rust which is...
a year ago
Recently someone I was talking to ran into a fun borrow checker problem in Rust which is illustrative of some current underlying limitations of Rust's borrow checker.
The problem boiled down to: they took a reference in a loop (dropped on each iteration), and the borrow checker...
Jonas Hietala
Evolution of RTS games
Introduction
This is an essay for the course Game Design and I’m going to give you a ride through...
over a year ago
Introduction
This is an essay for the course Game Design and I’m going to give you a ride through the evolution of RTS game genre. I like RTS games and I’ve played them for as long as I can remember, from the classic Red Alert and Age of Empires to the newer Supreme Commander and...
The Changelog
A Maze of Twisty Little Pixels, All Tiny
Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since...
a year ago
Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since I wrote that post, most of those issues have been resolved. But then you throw HiDPI into the mix and it all goes wonky. If you’re running X11, basically the story is that you can...
Old Structures...
Amazing Detail
I recently put up a map put up an 1884 planning map for the expansion of the Croton water system...
11 months ago
I recently put up a map put up an 1884 planning map for the expansion of the Croton water system north of New York. It turns out that was just an appetizer. Today’s map, from 1899, has much more detail and is amazing proof of what could be done with hand drafting: no GIS...
Diaries of Note
To Nobody, then, will I write my Journal!
Born in Norfolk in 1752, Frances Burney was fifteen when she began to keep a journal, and this...
a year ago
Born in Norfolk in 1752, Frances Burney was fifteen when she began to keep a journal, and this entry, in which she identifies her audience, was the first she ever wrote. For 72 years she continued, by which time she was a famous novelist—most notably as the author of Evelina, or...
Steve Klabnik
Structure literals vs. constructors in Rust
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
A Climate Rebuttal
The climate change discussion would benefit most from good-faith evidence and science-based...
a year ago
The climate change discussion would benefit most from good-faith evidence and science-based discussion. Unfortunately, humans tend to prefer emotion, ideology, motivated reasoning, and confirmation bias. As an example, I was sent an excerpt from a climate change podcast as a...
Luxagraf:...
Before The Storm
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a year ago
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Mazdak
The Weight-Loss Gold Rush
A Race to Develop Blockbuster Obesity Drugs
a year ago
A Race to Develop Blockbuster Obesity Drugs
diamond geezer
In Jail
After Pentonville Road the next square on the Monopoly board is Jail. It's not assigned a location -...
9 months ago
After Pentonville Road the next square on the Monopoly board is Jail. It's not assigned a location - the corner squares never are - but I wonder if they had Pentonville Prison in mind when placing Pentonville Road beside the Jail. The two aren't close in real life, Pentonville...
Wuthering...
The Story of the Stone, fairy tale and realism - Not so wonderful, really, is it?
I left the characters of The Story of the Stone as
they were buying drapes and tablecloths for a...
2 months ago
I left the characters of The Story of the Stone as
they were buying drapes and tablecloths for a party. I will rejoin the party planning momentarily.
The Story of the Stone is a massive domestic novel
about an extended family. The main plot
is the teenage love triangle, but...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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5 months ago
Londonist
Cycle All Day For £3, As Santander Cycles Introduces New Day Pass
We feel a challenge coming on...
11 months ago
We feel a challenge coming on...
David Heinemeier...
There are no secrets left
First-time entrepreneurs are often insecure about all the things they believe they don’t know. Maybe...
11 months ago
First-time entrepreneurs are often insecure about all the things they believe they don’t know. Maybe if they just get this one investor involved, they’ll know everything they need to do to crack product-market fit. Maybe if they just compose a board full of smart people, they’ll...
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
10 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
Maggie Appleton
The Cultural Anthropology of React
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Greatness Is Difficult'
“It is
dangerous to admire a great man for his sins: we may too easily adopt his sins
for our own...
a year ago
“It is
dangerous to admire a great man for his sins: we may too easily adopt his sins
for our own out of admiration for his genius; and when the inevitable reaction
occurs, the great man’s reputation is likely to suffer unduly.”
Among writers, Dr. Johnson
is the first fallible...
Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
3 weeks ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
Christopher Butler
Personal Machines and Portable Worlds
A personal machine balances access to another world with the kinds of limits and boundaries that...
a year ago
A personal machine balances access to another world with the kinds of limits and boundaries that make a thing private.
A lifelong fascination with technology begins with a single object.
Think back to when you were a child, to when you first encountered something you could...
TheCollector
5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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10 months ago
Irrational...
Those five spare hours each week.
One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology...
11 months ago
One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology Officers should actively write code. There are a lot of strongly held positions, from “Real CTOs code.” at one end of the spectrum, to “Low ego managers know they contribute more by...
Farnam Street
Tit For Tat
Tit for tat is a strategy which, according to game theory, is the most effective choice for iterated...
over a year ago
Tit for tat is a strategy which, according to game theory, is the most effective choice for iterated games based on mutual cooperation or defection. Both players benefit if they cooperate, but one benefits and the other loses out if only they defect, and both lose out to a lesser...
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Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light
In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain...
a year ago
In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain whole underground ecosystems.
The post Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Headwaters
When I see a river, I often think about where it comes from and where it goes. I started a mapping...
a year ago
When I see a river, I often think about where it comes from and where it goes. I started a mapping project showing this for the Northeastern United States. For the level of detail needed it was necessary to choose a manageable area so I chose where I've lived almost all of my...
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The next big thing will start out looking like a toy
One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet...
over a year ago
One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet properties today looks from the list ten…
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