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Seth's Blog
The problem with ‘very’ It’s a lazy amplifier. “Very” can modify almost any adjective, but it might not deliver our intended...
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It’s a lazy amplifier. “Very” can modify almost any adjective, but it might not deliver our intended message. Putting it in front of a positive like “charming” or “kind” or “generous” can make it clear that we mean what we said, but more so. But, placed in front of a description...
essay – snarfed.org
So long, Twitter API, and thanks for all the fish Well, it’s come to this. Twitter is burning, a billionaire owes money, an API will soon get...
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Well, it’s come to this. Twitter is burning, a billionaire owes money, an API will soon get lobotomized, so Bridgy‘s Twitter support will die within the month is dead. Granary‘s and twitter-atom too. The Twitter API may now be effectively unmaintained, but they still managed to...
Quanta Magazine
How Pools of Genetic Diversity Affect a Species’ Fate A new, deeper understanding of how the breeding structure of species affects their genetic diversity...
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A new, deeper understanding of how the breeding structure of species affects their genetic diversity is giving conservationists better tools for saving animals. The post How Pools of Genetic Diversity Affect a Species’ Fate first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Epic Web Dev
Two Factor Auth is Included in the Epic Stack (tip) A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
over a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
Harry Potter and the Secret to Learning We've Been Doing it Wrong
a year ago
Gwern.net Newsletter
February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
over a year ago
xkcd.com
Cold Air
7 months ago
Seth's Blog
Avert your eyes There are things we avoid looking at too closely. If we looked, really saw what was happening, we’d...
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There are things we avoid looking at too closely. If we looked, really saw what was happening, we’d have to change our minds, admit we were mistaken, refactor our priorities or take action. It’s so frightening that we even hesitate to make a list of the things we don’t want to...
alexwlchan
Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or dynamic visualisation – just a static map with coloured dots for each coordinate. I’ve created maps on the web using Leaflet.js, which load map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and...
Wrong Side of...
Farewell to Our Kith and Kin Why doesn't Britain doesn't stand up for Canada?
4 months ago
Old Structures...
Bucolia First up, some very tame woods, with a picnic bench: About a mile away, a peaceful – if rainy and...
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a year ago
First up, some very tame woods, with a picnic bench: About a mile away, a peaceful – if rainy and foggy – stretch of water, as seen from a causeway: This is, against most people’s expectations, the Bronx. More specifically, it’s Pelham Bay Park, and Eastchester Bay, where the...
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Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
over a year ago
TheCollector
Thor’s Adventures in Jotunheim (The Norse Myth of Utgard-Loki) The Prose Edda preserves a strange story that sees Thor, Loki, and two servants traveling to...
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The Prose Edda preserves a strange story that sees Thor, Loki, and two servants traveling to Jotunheim. But when they get there, nothing is as it seems. They encounter a world of illusion. Overall, it feels a bit like the Norse version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Many of...
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Humanoids Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Don't Worry About...
On GPT-4.5 It’s happening.
4 months ago
macwright.com
Increasingly miffed about the state of React releases by I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s...
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a year ago
I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s not good for every problem, I think React is a good solution to many problems. I think the React team has good intentions. Even though React is not a solution to everything, it a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Iterative Building and Decision Making Imagine you’re driving a dirt road and you come to a fork. Which way do you go, left or right? This...
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10 months ago
Imagine you’re driving a dirt road and you come to a fork. Which way do you go, left or right? This decision is much easier to make if you’ve been traveling that road for the last hour and you’re sitting there in your truck facing the reality of the decision. You can see the...
Retail Design Blog
Māsa Māsa is a restaurant in Riga with natural wine and local products from Latvian farmers. The clients...
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Māsa is a restaurant in Riga with natural wine and local products from Latvian farmers. The clients are a couple...
Odds and Ends of...
Building luxury homes for millionaires is good for poor people Yes In My Back Yard!
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia? Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
a year ago
Seán Barry
Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific...
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over a year ago
The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
Yale e360
Will U.S. Push on Seabed Mining End Global Consensus on Oceans? President Trump’s recent order to expedite permits to begin deep-sea mining bypasses international...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
President Trump’s recent order to expedite permits to begin deep-sea mining bypasses international agreements that protect oceans. By moving unilaterally, says the Ocean Conservancy’s Jeff Watters, the U.S. could endanger fragile marine ecosystems and set a troubling...
Handprinted - Blog
Making a Multi-Block Linocut A multi-block linocut uses more than one piece of lino to create a layered image. Usually, each...
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A multi-block linocut uses more than one piece of lino to create a layered image. Usually, each block is inked with a separate colour. Where the colours overlap, another colour can be achieved. Multi-block linocuts allow you to partially print an edition and create complete...
Sean Carroll
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion Just in case there are any blog readers out there who haven’t heard from other channels: I have a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just in case there are any blog readers out there who haven’t heard from other channels: I have a new book out! The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion is Volume One of a planned three-volume series. It grew out of the videos that I did in 2020, trying to offer...
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 1) ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to JavaScript. ReasonReact is Reason bindings for ReactJS (aka the translated ReasonML version of the ReactJS). It has improved a lot lately and even added support for hooks in a...
Rest of World -...
The Indian company forcing Uber to change its business model Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now...
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Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now other ride-hailing apps are rethinking their strategy.
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army? NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
over a year ago
FIRE v London
Oct ’23: Terror erupts from Gaza It’s the Middle East again. I don’t have any perspective on it, sadly, other than that I hear of...
a year ago
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It’s the Middle East again. I don’t have any perspective on it, sadly, other than that I hear of some nasty low level youth violence/intimidation/vandalism in North London in Jewish neighbourhoods by pro-Palestinian, dare-I-say-it pro-Hamas hotheads. But in most of London life...
Calculated Risk
PCE Inflation expected to be Soft in March The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index for March will be released on April 30th. ...
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The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index for March will be released on April 30th. The data released so far suggests the PCE inflation will be soft in March. The producer price index (PPI), the PPI excluding food and energy, and the PPI excluding food, energy, and...
Ben Borgers
The Redemption Arc Is Coming
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics The Science of Art
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Genius Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Of course then it becomes insulting when the other...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Of course then it becomes insulting when the other person doesn't want nightvision. Today's News:
David Crawshaw
2015-12-15
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Being Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm officially adding an AI tag, since from now on...
over a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm officially adding an AI tag, since from now on 83% of comics on SMBC will be about AI ennui. Ennai? AInnui? Today's News:
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 120: DeepSeek's back May 30, 2025.
a month ago
OH8HUB’s Substack
A quick visit to Vaajasalo island Vaajasalo is a small island in lake Kallavesi in eastern Finland with population less than hundred....
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Vaajasalo is a small island in lake Kallavesi in eastern Finland with population less than hundred. There’s also a winery called Alahovi Berry Wine Farm. They produce berry wines, cider, beer and liqueur. The temptation to visit them was huge, but I was on tight schedule. Maybe...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Questions Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look if we could define it there wouldn't be any...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look if we could define it there wouldn't be any fun in fighting over it. Today's News:
Liz Denys
A geek feminism anecdote Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't...
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over a year ago
Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't intended to be about a specific topic - it's just full of what I feel like writing at the time. Perhaps, more technical things will follow in the future. Some friends and I randomly...
Abishek Muthian
Migrating PostgreSQL To SQLite I'm migrating a project from PostgreSQL to SQLite. There's nothing wrong with PostgreSQL, It's the...
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over a year ago
I'm migrating a project from PostgreSQL to SQLite. There's nothing wrong with PostgreSQL, It's the best RDBMS; period. I'm just building a product where the benefits of the portability, performance seem to outweigh the quirks of SQLite; At-least that's what I think. Btw, I learnt...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Fund a Startup
over a year ago
The Ruffian
Introducing 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs' Free To Read (This Post, Not the Book)
9 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
How These Black Artists Shaped Charleston’s Culture
over a year ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Good vs Evil I have an update about my Netflix show. View on my website
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let's fight about it. Today's News:
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version. Wunderland...
Seth's Blog
Memo to the future The experience of the now is often more vivid than a distant memory. As a result, we can make...
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The experience of the now is often more vivid than a distant memory. As a result, we can make decisions in the future without enough regard for how we felt the last time we were in a similar situation. Here’s a simple hack that can inform your decisions… You know someone who...
Light from Space
Andromeda: Our Galactic Neighbor Many things have been said about the Andromeda Galaxy, arguably the most majestic galaxy that...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Many things have been said about the Andromeda Galaxy, arguably the most majestic galaxy that amateur astronomers can image due to it's sheer size in the sky—many times larger than the Moon appears to us, but also many times dimmer. With the naked eye, even in
Quanta Magazine
Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse? Several areas of physics suggest reasons to think that unobservable universes with different natural...
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Several areas of physics suggest reasons to think that unobservable universes with different natural laws could lie beyond ours. The theoretical physicist David Kaplan talks with Steven Strogatz about the mysteries that a multiverse would solve. The post Are There...
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...
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over 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...
The Intimate Mirror
Sincerity Makes Everything Possible The Radical Power of Loving Things for Their Own Sake
5 months ago
xkcd.com
CrowdStrike
11 months ago
Retail Design Blog
FRU:DOZA Protein Ice Cream by Brama Branding Ice-Cream with Powerful Numbers Package design for a new line of ice-cream rich in protein – it...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Ice-Cream with Powerful Numbers Package design for a new line of ice-cream rich in protein – it contains up to...
bt RSS Feed
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
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over a year ago
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I’m keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site. I recently added a fairly...
Herbert Lui
Some notes on a return visit to Hong Kong In late 2021, I moved to Hong Kong for six months. My partner and I enjoyed it so much that we ended...
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7 months ago
In late 2021, I moved to Hong Kong for six months. My partner and I enjoyed it so much that we ended up staying nearly a year and a half. We moved to New York City shortly after that, and I started my job at Figma.  I always thought I’d document the trip some other […] The post...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences Tips for Speakers Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
over a year ago
Old Structures...
A For Effort I’ve shown a few old train stations with curved steel in their canopies. The picture above, taken...
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a year ago
I’ve shown a few old train stations with curved steel in their canopies. The picture above, taken yesterday at the Peekskill station on the MTA Hudson Line – AKA, a local station on the former main line of the New York Central – shows a modern version. I’m not sure when this...
Arduino Blog
Explore two ways to white label with Arduino Cloud We’re excited to announce a brand-new feature called “Custom Branding,” which allows Enterprise plan...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re excited to announce a brand-new feature called “Custom Branding,” which allows Enterprise plan users to white label their workspace and enhance the overall user experience. This announcement is exciting because it empowers businesses to create a truly tailored environment...
99% Invisible
Broken Plexus (3 of 3): Threading Sensational Paradoxes of Peripheral Nerve Damage Peripheral neuropathy feels paradoxical at times, as sensory nerve damage can lead both to extreme...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Peripheral neuropathy feels paradoxical at times, as sensory nerve damage can lead both to extreme hypersensitivity on the one hand, as well as sections of complete numbness on … well, that very same injured hand. The impacts of such damage can be felt most persistently in the...
Joshua Smith
Republic Dumpster Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from cardboard, paper, chalk pastels, spraypaint, wire,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from cardboard, paper, chalk pastels, spraypaint, wire, plastruct, paint markers. Created for VOLTA Art Fair, New York City, March 2017. Photo Credit: Andrew Beveridge/ASB Creative The post Republic Dumpster appeared first on Joshua...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Redox and The Future Of Integrations | Out-Of-Pocket Actually...what is an integration lol
a year ago
Yazin Alirhayim
How do you know that an API does what it says it does? Having been in fintech for a while, I’ve noticed something in common between the many new startups...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Having been in fintech for a while, I’ve noticed something in common between the many new startups that come and go. They all require access to personal information. A specific example that comes to mind is the Plaid-like solution we developed while working on amal. We’d ask...
The Works in...
From MANUALS to YOUTUBE A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
a year ago
The American Scholar
The Birthmark The post The Birthmark appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Roman Britain: Origin or Decline? What can we learn from Transition?
4 months ago
Rest of World -...
The viral AI portrait app sweeping across China Miaoya, which means "fabulous duck" in Chinese, charges users $1.40 to generate AI portraits that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Miaoya, which means "fabulous duck" in Chinese, charges users $1.40 to generate AI portraits that many say are shockingly accurate.
Josh Thompson
Krav Maga, or "Crush Balls, Gouge Eyes, and Break Bones" In the last few weeks, I have been physically attacked dozens of times. Usually the attacker was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the last few weeks, I have been physically attacked dozens of times. Usually the attacker was just trying to choke me, but sometimes he was trying to throw me to the ground. After a few minutes of fighting, I would attack him. Then we’d both shake hands, say “thank you”, and...
Jonas Hietala
Let's create a Tree-sitter grammar One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax highlighting that works well even in an error state (often the case when you’re editing code), and it has additional semantics (you can differentiate between function parameters and...
alexwlchan
Getting the base directory of an sbt project This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $...
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over a year ago
This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $ sbt --batch -error "project $PROJECT" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d "\n" For example: $ sbt --batch -error "project ingests_api" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d...
bt RSS Feed
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my...
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over a year ago
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my Eero mesh network setup and replaced it with two Mango Mini Travel Routers (GL-MT300N-V2). There were some obvious reasons to make this switch but I was initially unsure how the...
TokyoDev
Asiajin Meetup Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what is going on in the Japanese internet space. About 20 people participated, with over half the attendees being Japanese. This surprised me, as the blog's target is English speakers,...
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 2: Wtf is MCP, Manus, and Why You Should Still Learn to Code Machine learning for software engineers 3-14-25
3 months ago
Common Edge
“Boston Is A Red City” Construction rooted in local materials is what has provided cities with distinctive identities—and...
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over a year ago
Construction rooted in local materials is what has provided cities with distinctive identities—and colors.
Grow With Less
Here Is What a Disappointing Experiment Taught Me About Headline A/B Testing After reading about the huge conversion boosts many bloggers got after A/B testing their headlines,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After reading about the huge conversion boosts many bloggers got after A/B testing their headlines, I assumed A/B testing the headlines of 73 articles I have published on my language learning blog French Together would be a no brainer. I could already picture myself writing a...
Transit Maps
Quick Project: Queensland Rail Network Diagram Okay, as promised in the previous post, here’s my version of the Queensland passenger rail network...
a week ago
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a week ago
Okay, as promised in the previous post, here’s my version of the Queensland passenger rail network as a diagram. As is usual for these redesigns, I’ve only spent a few hours on this – just to show that better design doesn’t necessarily need to take a lot of time. Everything is...
./techtipsy
Backing up another PC with a single Ethernet cable I was in a pinch. I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I was in a pinch. I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device with me to store it on. The local Wi-Fi network was also way too slow to transfer the disk over it. All I had was my laptop with an Ethernet port, a Fedora Linux USB stick, and a...
Diaries of Note
Industry, Thrift, and Loyalty On 13th September 1840, the day after their wedding and on Clara’s 21st birthday, Robert Schumann...
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a year ago
On 13th September 1840, the day after their wedding and on Clara’s 21st birthday, Robert Schumann wrote the first entry in a diary with a difference. Designed to be a shared sanctuary for the newlyweds, the diary was a place for them to alternately record their aspirations, joys,...
Londonist
13 Autumnal Day Trips From London: October 2023 Charming events within easy reach of London.
a year ago
The Roots of...
What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came? Imagine you could go back in time to the ancient world to jump-start the Industrial Revolution. You...
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Imagine you could go back in time to the ancient world to jump-start the Industrial Revolution. You carry with you plans for a steam engine, and you present them to the emperor, explaining how the machine could be used to drain water out of mines, pump bellows for blast furnaces,...
Paul Cudenec
Video: The Corruption is Real and Sickening I am delighted to be able to share a link to a new 16-minute video that has just been published by...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I am delighted to be able to share a link to a new 16-minute video that has just been published by Drs Mark and Sam Bailey in New Zealand, based on some of my recent writing.
Platformer
A visit to TikTok's transparency center Few companies have ever made their code so available for inspection. How much will it matter?
over a year ago
The Marginalian
The Beach and the Soul: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the Benedictions of the Sea "The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience,...
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a year ago
"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach."
Retail Design Blog
JLL office by iDA Workplace Under the innovation spearheaded by iDA Workplace, the JLL Taipei office has undergone a striking...
a year ago
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a year ago
Under the innovation spearheaded by iDA Workplace, the JLL Taipei office has undergone a striking transformation. Integrating local elements and...
Retail Design Blog
Horli Baking by True Thing Design Studio Located within the Hamasen Train Depot in Kaohsiung, Houli finds its home in the historic “Doo-Doo...
a month ago
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a month ago
Located within the Hamasen Train Depot in Kaohsiung, Houli finds its home in the historic “Doo-Doo Train,” once part of...
Applied Cartography
Notebook as marketing primitive Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from SingleStore — notebooks as a first-party page! There are a handful of nice things about this idea: Very easy to fan out. You're not going to really run out of sample notebooks from which you...
The Turn Signal RSS...
Overcoming Automotive Overconsumption Through Design The average car consists of around 30,000 parts. They are built up from many different resources...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The average car consists of around 30,000 parts. They are built up from many different resources that come from all over the world. These…
Raptitude.com
How to Avoid Getting Lost in Thought Say you’re walking through Death Valley, trying to find your way back to the highway. Luckily you’ve...
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6 months ago
Say you’re walking through Death Valley, trying to find your way back to the highway. Luckily you’ve got a good paper map. As you walk, you scan the territory around you for landmarks. You see some large-scale details: hills, rock formations, and gullies. Also some minute ones:...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 4 On ripping out product analytics, updating the pricing page, and adding multi-region monitoring
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On ripping out product analytics, updating the pricing page, and adding multi-region monitoring
The Great Discontent...
Brad Montague Brad Montague is an illustrator, speaker, picture book author, video creator, and all-around maker....
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Brad Montague is an illustrator, speaker, picture book author, video creator, and all-around maker. He’s a self-proclaimed dreamer and doer. Above all, he’s a storyteller, “working to create a better world for kids with kids” through Montague Workshop, the creative studio he runs...
Open Culture
The Very First Coloring Book, The Little Folks’ Painting Book (Circa 1879) Funny how not that long ago coloring books were considered the exclusive domain of children. How...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Funny how not that long ago coloring books were considered the exclusive domain of children. How times have changed. If you are the sort of adult who unwinds with a big box of Crayolas and pages of mandalas or outlines of Ryan Gosling, you owe a debt of gratitude to the...
Londonist
Greek Things To Do In London: Cuisine, Culture, History And More As picked by experts.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Delano Dubai hotel by Elastic Architects ELASTIC reimagined Delano’s legendary style embracing modernity while staying true to the brand’s...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
ELASTIC reimagined Delano’s legendary style embracing modernity while staying true to the brand’s core ethos. Our goal was to merge...
alexwlchan
Plates and states I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I...
10 months ago
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I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I was drawn to the license plates on passing cars, and how they look different to the cars I’m used to. Whenever I visit new places, I enjoy looking for the tiny bits of infrastructure...
Construction Physics
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Since there’s more interesting things happening in construction than I can cover in a weekly post (especially if I’m spending posts writing about things that happened 800 years ago), I’m experimenting with occasionally sending out a brief roundup of interesting links related to...
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Wallpaper isn’t just background anymore, and The Art Collection by Skins Wallpaper proves it. Designed by L'Antic Colonial (part of the Porcelanosa Group), this latest series turns walls into immersive experiences. Each mural goes beyond decoration to create a mood, a story, or...
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A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is:  how secretive should I be about my idea?  My answer…
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The celebrated English scientist Sir Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in a small village in England named Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth. Newton later on became one of the most celebrated English scientists. He was also one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution....
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Photography ©Paolo Abate MoDusArchitects has sent us photos of a modern home they recently completed in South Tyrol, Italy, that’s faced in handmade bricks. Photography ©Gustav Willeit The home, located in a small town and surrounded by vineyards, appears as a single-family...
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In the northern reaches of Newfoundland, near the town of St. Anthony, is the Fox Point Lighthouse. I’ve never been there, but I know it has one of the most impressive ocean views in the world. If you face perpendicular to the right bit of rocky coastline there and gaze straight...
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It is my joy and pleasure to present to you: the Zune "HD". The final device to wear the Zune name, released by Microsoft in October of 2009. A direct competitor to Apple's wildly successful iPod Touch, the Zune HD was the first Zune to feature a multi-touch display, full web...
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People don’t read as much as they say they do. This trend is accelerating too. I’m in a friend group of intellectually curious people, and just about everybody says they’re reading fewer books than they used to. But at the risk of sounding like your 5th grade English teacher,...
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I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots of our knowledge, or the ways of thinking, about international relations, economic policies, poverty and wealth etc.
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You don’t want your software to crash, do you? This post describes my experiences in making SumatraPDF crash less. SumatraPDF is a Windows desktop app. It’s a fast viewer for PDF, ePub, comic books etc.. It’s small and yet full of features. Know thy crashes The most...
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The Irish poet Michael Longley died on Wednesday at the age of eighty-five. I’ve read him sparsely but recall a devotion to the natural world and to World War I, in which his father fought. Here is “Glossary” (The Candlelight Master, 2020):   “I meet my father in the glossary Who...
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No matter how many buildings you’ve seen, you can always find something that will surprise you. The picture above is not an underwater shot from the Titanic, it’s the cellar of a circa-1900 rowhouse. This was a house of some pretension when first built. As in most wider...
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WP Engine has filed hundreds pages of legal documents seeking an injunction against me and Automattic. They say this is about community or some nonsense, but if you look at the core, what they’re trying to do is ask a judge to curtail my First Amendment rights. The First...
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Design feedback is one of the challenges I return to over and over again. It never seems to get easier, no matter how many times I practice or how many different tactics and frameworks I try. Recently, I did my first rounds of feedback with a new team. Once again, I was nervous....
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One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “is information architecture still relevant now that we have AI?” Of course, not everyone puts it like that. Instead, they’ll say things like “we won’t need navigation if we have chat” or “AI will organize the website” or “in a world...
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Alien Sex Fiend played at Camden Palace on February 13, 1990, as part of the venue’s Feet First indie nights. Posters advertising the show went up around the area in other parts of London, featuring the faces of lead singer Nicholas Wade (aka Nik Fiend) and Christine Wade (Mrs...
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In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’ Events That Could Upend Life in 2025”, Politico asked “15 futurists, foreign policy analysts and other prognosticators”, including me, “to provide some explosive potential...
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In March of 1834, 25-year-old John Kirk Townsend was invited by fellow naturalist Thomas Nuttall to join him on an expedition across the Rocky Mountains, his role being to collect and identify birds and mammals as they journeyed. Before long, Townsend, a keen ornithologist,...
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Call me old-fashioned, but despite using streaming services, I like to own the music I listen to. This also means I'm handling album cover images that come in different sizes and ratios. Recently I wrote a script to unify the image size: The base image size should be 500×500...
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories has an archive of an estimated 10,000 films of nuclear weapons tests from the 1940's - 1960's.
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I work on design systems now. It scratches a lot of itches I have, most importantly organizing and standardizing things, as well as baking accessibility in at both the design and development layers. My very cool boss is working on updating our grid system, and with that comes...
Birchtree
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Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is essential for creating high-quality products that stand out in today’s market. A key part in this process is optimizing power consumption without sacrificing performance or...
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Generally speaking, side projects are great things. They offer us opportunities to create something new. Sometimes these are merely hobbies and sometimes these are projects we’d like to pursue as a potential career. They all have to start somewhere, right? Over the past five...
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For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of apartment, called a “chambre de bonne.” Literally, a maid’s room. A chambre de bonne is usually one small room, on the top floor of a five- or six-story apartment building, and...
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Recently I’ve been having a dozen ideas and projects I’ve been poking around with: I wrote a simple lua, later perl, which announced when a new day9 episode has come. Later I expanded it to search for new manga episodes, but now it’s broken and unfinished. In an attempt to learn...
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A lack of basic infrastructure forced a 74‒year-old widow to carry a water bucket a mile-and-a-half back to her tiny shack.
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So there I am, working on a bug exclusive to Safari (we’ve all been there). I can’t figure it out so I ask AI, “Hey, this piece of code is not working in Safari, what’s wrong?” The issue might be related to how Safari handles keyboard events, especially for certain keys… It gives...
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As our recent Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series demonstrated, AI will inevitably play a sizeable role in the future of the architectural profession. For architecture schools tasked with equipping students for the future of practice, the advent of AI poses...
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Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon, and since I’m deliberately slowing down this week and will be away from work for two weeks after that, this to me is a great time to look back on 2024 and what it has brought me...
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Two years ago a Navy destroyer was ripped open by the nose of a Liberian tanker. Ten sailors were crushed or drowned as their sleeping quarters filled with water after the collision. At the heart of the tragedy is a single checkbox on a touchscreen. This is the untold story of...
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How to embrace our inheritance as "a creature of organic substance and electricity that can be eaten, injured and dissipated back into the enigmatic physics of the universe."
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CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and...
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While working on Jonas IceCream Stand I took a screenshot every day and I thought they looked pretty cool so here they are: And now I’m off with New World Order and (for once) I’ve got a really really good idea!
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With frozen glaciers disappearing into the oceans at an unprecedented rate, the rise of an ecotourism of glacier viewing is hardly unexpected. But the rise of new heights of glacial melt that are feared for much of the arctic this … Continue reading →
Ink & Switch
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In our *Ambsheets* project, we are exploring a small extension to the familiar spreadsheet: **what if a single spreadsheet cell could hold multiple values at once**?
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Although my useless photos hardly do it justice (let's just get that out of the way from the start), Crispin at Studio Voltaire is a lovely space to eat in. The candles on each table aren't the only source of light, but provide a romantic accessory to the tealights dangling above...
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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Why do we buy the pitch of the snake oil salesman, the flim-flam man, the con artist, the demagogue or the trickster? As our modern world becomes more informed and more rational, we see an increase (not the expected decrease) in scams, hustles, and chaos. There are Jokers and...
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While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
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I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
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Today is your last chance to join Creating Space, the 6-week journaling course I co-created with Buster Benson of 750 Words!
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Final Look at Local Housing Markets in February and a Look Ahead to March Sales A brief excerpt: After the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) releases the monthly existing home sales report, I pick up additional local...
The Scholar's Stage
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Two items of interest passed through my feeds this week. The first is the podcast Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz released to explain why they are endorsing Trump for president. The second is an evocative and viral internet advertisement for careersbuilttolast.com, a slick...
Classical Wisdom
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I started playing clarinet in fourth grade, and dabbled in other instruments.. I never stopped entirely, but I took years-long breaks from playing music. Earlier this year, I picked up a new instrument while I was very sick. I got a wind synth, the Roland AE-20. It was a somewhat...
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Today I have found some "space crafting" : ) projects for you. Make Your Own Space Station is a series of cards that show you how to built some cute little space toys. It seems to have been part of of series of crafting cards of projects you could make from household objects....
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Elasticsearch and ClickHouse are both open-source frameworks with advantages over conventional databases like PostgreSQL for performing tasks over…
One Useful Thing
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A look back at 2024, and what’s next for 2025 At the end of last year, I wrote about wanting to focus on the web in 2024. How did that shake...
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TokyoDev
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Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first Rails Girls event in Nagasaki - as both an attendee and a speaker. It was a great experience where I was able to learn more about Rails, meet new people, make friends, practise...
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Personal Newsletter 2023 Q1 Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the...
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Construction Physics
What Progress Has Icon Made on 3D-Printed Homes? We last looked at 3D-printed buildings about three years ago. At the time, the technology was still...
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We last looked at 3D-printed buildings about three years ago. At the time, the technology was still nascent. Although there was a lot of enthusiasm, many efforts were academic, with little commercial deployment, and practitioners were experimenting with a wide range of...
Retail Design Blog
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Long cedar counters wrap around Umedacho Community Centre, a public hall by Kyoto studio OHArchitecture in Japan where people can...
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After spending a few weeks in China, the most notable behavioural difference is the usage of mini-programs. Every restaurant has a menu mini-program sitting on top of WeChat or Meituan. Hello Ride the bike-sharing startup is a mini program on top of Alipay. Here is a diagram...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin   Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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From WardsAuto: February U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Maintain Growth; Inventory Resumes Gains (pay content).  Brief excerpt: Sales are recording solid gains, but production slowdowns capping dealer stock in a growth market – a market that ostensibly still is climbing out of the...
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And then, suddenly, it works The other day a friend was demoing a new app he was working on. My first reaction was: “Yeah, yeah....
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The other day a friend was demoing a new app he was working on. My first reaction was: “Yeah, yeah. This is nicely executed version one of…
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There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are my reviews of what I think are the truly essential Rust books available today.
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If your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and indicator lights. But how many of those do you actually look at on a regular basis? Likely only one or two, like the speedometer and gas gauge. Knowing that, John Sutley embraced...
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Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and failures. Over time this developed into a more defined goal and principle as part of the values of the company [http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-04]. Since we defined our value of...
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“Enigmatic chemical reactions” have broken out underground inside two Los Angeles-area landfills, according to the L.A. Times. These “highly unusual reactions at Los Angeles County’s two largest landfills have raised serious questions about the region’s long-standing approach to...
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I’m in the civil service atm and, sadly, we’re going to be extremely busy the coming… two months or something? So I can’t promise a game the next two months. Kinda beats the point of this site doesn’t it? I’m really sorry and that’s all I can say really… Hopefully I’ll get a week...
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In 2023, I published 37 essays. I’ve spent the better part of the morning going through it all to see what the themes were—it is quite surprising to notice what emerges when you allow yourself to follow your curiosity and intuition for a full year. I wrote a summary of the...
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I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore, Doximity, Coinbase, and others claim billion-dollar valuations from work done with Rails. It's beyond satisfying to see this much value created with a web framework I've spent the...
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Did this talk resonate and you want to implement some of the ideas at your company? I might be able to help. Shoot me an email at joshthompson@hey.com or book some time to talk at https://calendly.com/joshthompson/coffee. This talk is available on railsconf.org, here:...
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The fuss about AI might be mis-focused. It’s easy to point to a computer-created essay, song or illustration and find the defects or errors. Given hard work by 1,000 trained people, it’s likely that a human could make something more useful or inspired than a computer could. But...
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I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I grew up with, Boy Meets World. The main characters, who've now come of age, speak with the teacher that has been with them through every phase of their educations and lives: Mr....
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For a couple of our S3 buckets at work, we use S3 Bucket Inventory to track their contents. Once a week, it creates an inventory; a collection of compressed CSV files that describe every object in the bucket. If we want to analyse everything in the bucket, reading this inventory...
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Early Dark Age Britain is notorious for being poorly recorded. Most of our information about the era comes from much later records, written centuries after the events they allegedly describe. There is endless debate among scholars, based on the literary evidence, surrounding the...
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This counter-map was the product of a collaboration between the Junior Philippine Geographical Society – University of the Philippines Diliman (JPGS-UPD), the Save San Roque Alliance, Kadamay – San Roque, and most especially the urban poor residents of San Roque. The...
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In Finding Nemo, there was a scene about a root canal surgery that absolutely terrified me: This could just be me, but I spent a remarkable amount of my childhood worrying about root canals. Horror stories like these created a universal phobia that dentists suck and that’s...
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Today, Alec Watson posted a video titled “Algorithms are breaking how we think” on his YouTube channel, Technology Connections. The whole thing is excellent and very well argued. The main thrust is: people seem increasingly less mindful about the stuff they engage with. Watson...
The American Scholar
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A great intern brings positive energy, a relentless work ethic and doesn’t cost very much. They ask a lot of questions, and the most useful questions will help you see an existing situation with fresh eyes. Of course, you’ll expect them to make mistakes, and a professional needs...
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This is the third official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. Blank Check podcast co-host and The Atlantic movie critic David Sims is our book club guest. On today’s show, Elliott Kalan, Roman Mars, and David...
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I’ve taken this post down. I’ve been attacked so much the past few days; the most vicious, personal, hateful words poisoned my brain, and the original version of this post was mean. I am so sorry. I shouldn’t let this stuff get to me, but it clearly did, and I took it out on DHH,...
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As Adolf Hitler’s chief architect and later his Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer was a key instrument in the murderous machine of the Third Reich, a role for which he was rightly convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials. During his...
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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To frame this post, I’d like to share a tweet by Irina Bednova: Apparently everyone in our team interpreted "lgtm" in Github reviews differently. The interpretation were: - Lets get this merged - Looks good to me - Legitimate — Irina Bednova (@jafrog) February 1, 2019 This is...
The Honest Broker
Record Labels Are Running on Empty The latest news is ominous
a week ago
IEEE Spectrum
The British Navy Resisted a Decent Lightning Rod for Decades Frustrated scientists turned to visual aids to help make their case for the lightning rod. The...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Frustrated scientists turned to visual aids to help make their case for the lightning rod. The exploding thunder house is one example. When a small amount of gunpowder was deposited inside the dollhouse-size structure and a charge was applied, the house would either explode or...
xkcd.com
Excusing Yourself
4 months ago
Anarchy Unfolds
Pride, noise, and fear Sleep deprivation is a social justice and public health issue
10 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Heresy
over a year ago
Map of the Week
My Favorite New Jersey Drone Map Here is my favorite “map” showing the drone hysteria over New Jersey. It’s from Instagram...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Here is my favorite “map” showing the drone hysteria over New Jersey. It’s from Instagram user wmh_x_0, aka Oona Harrigan.   It is based on these maps of drone sightings that have been going around the internet. The “globe” text is there because she is known for designing sad...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
a year ago
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a year ago
The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. Software is a lot like life — probably because it models our lives — in that it’s constantly changing. The biggest threat to the economic value of code is...
BLDGBLOG
Architectural Dressage You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single...
2 days ago
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2 days ago
You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single block and walked to an adjacent site by a phalanx of miniature robots. Then walked back into place again. The 432 individual machines used for the move were “actually...
The History of the...
Where does SEO come from? In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It couldn't be owned. The post Where does SEO come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Support my open-source work and blog posts
over a year ago
Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England.   “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
Retail Design Blog
Ørsted office by Workplace Design philosophy The design of the Ørsted office is a harmonious blend of Scandinavian simplicity...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Design philosophy The design of the Ørsted office is a harmonious blend of Scandinavian simplicity and a gently activating functional...
Retail Design Blog
L’Oreal Skincare Set by BXL Design We designed a skin care product gift box for L’Oreal. The project service team held several creative...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
We designed a skin care product gift box for L’Oreal. The project service team held several creative brainstorming seminars and...
The Diff
Who Else But Google? Plus! Tariff Plays; Good Trades; Capital Structure; Moderation; Debt and the Dollar
2 months ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Proving that every program halts One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely thought[1] that you cannot write a program that will, for any arbitrary program as input, tell you correctly whether or not it will terminate. This is written from the framing of...
Steve Klabnik
Extracting domain models: a practical example
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
Building a Homelab VM Server Note: This article describes a VM build in 2017. For the 2020 version, see, “Building a Homelab VM...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: This article describes a VM build in 2017. For the 2020 version, see, “Building a Homelab VM Server (2020 Edition).” Overview I do the bulk of my home development work in virtual machines (VMs). My main desktop PC is a Windows 10 machine, so I had always run my VMs from...
Josh Comeau's blog
You Don’t Need a UI Framework As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap. Seems like a great way to outsource design and save a bunch of time, right? In my experience, this is an unrealistic expectation, and things don’t quite work out that way.