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Epic Web Dev
Creating Glassmorphism Effects with Tailwind CSS (tip) Learn how to create glassmorphism effects using the backdrop blur in Tailwind CSS and achieve...
a year ago
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Creating Glassmorphism Effects with Tailwind CSS (tip)

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

a year ago
Learn how to create glassmorphism effects using the backdrop blur in Tailwind CSS and achieve realistic translucent credit card designs.
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Dreams of Space -...
The Spaceman at Home and at School (1958) The Spaceman at Home and at School was a pamphlet for elementary school teacher. It gave them ideas...
3 months ago
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The Spaceman at Home and at School (1958)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
The Spaceman at Home and at School was a pamphlet for elementary school teacher. It gave them ideas about how to teach about space flight in the classroom with vivid examples. It was not about the history of spaceflight but rather how to build on the "Space Race" excitement...
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Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Something Wicked This Way Comes Theater Kids, BlueSky momentum, and Kai Cenat's big month
7 months ago
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Weekly Scroll: Something Wicked This Way Comes

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7 months ago
Theater Kids, BlueSky momentum, and Kai Cenat's big month
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Productivity Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if this is the source of the protestant...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Productivity

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if this is the source of the protestant work ethic? Today's News: narf
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Seth's Blog
The illusion of concern When organizations reach scale, digital interactions belie our expectation that someone in charge...
a year ago
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The illusion of concern

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a year ago
When organizations reach scale, digital interactions belie our expectation that someone in charge actually gives a damn. Once there’s math to do, the CFO does the math. It quickly reveals that no, the search engine shouldn’t bother having a customer support team. That UPS or...
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Louwrentius
Wake On Lan not working with realtek r8168 card After messing around with different kernels on Debian Lenny, I noticed that my system did no longer...
over a year ago
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Wake On Lan not working with realtek r8168 card

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
After messing around with different kernels on Debian Lenny, I noticed that my system did no longer respond to WOL packets. The system is using an on-board Realtek R8168 chip which supports wake on lan. After searching and reading i found the problem. The system is using an...
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CONTEMPORIST
Wood Details Are Found Throughout This Apartment’s Interior Architecture and Design Studio Cuaik CDS has sent us photos of an apartment they have recently...
a year ago
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Wood Details Are Found Throughout This Apartment’s Interior

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Architecture and Design Studio Cuaik CDS has sent us photos of an apartment they have recently completed in Madrid, Spain, that includes wood details throughout its interior. In the living room, a wall-mounted TV is disguised as art, while illuminated wooden shelves on either...
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Society's Backend:...
The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Machine Learning Engineer And other practical guides to understand machine learning
a year ago
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The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Machine Learning Engineer

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a year ago
And other practical guides to understand machine learning
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Seth's Blog
Assume lack of context The person you’re working with might not know what you know, might not see what you see. It’s...
a year ago
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Assume lack of context

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a year ago
The person you’re working with might not know what you know, might not see what you see. It’s tempting to begin where we are. But it’s more useful to begin where they are.
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Old Structures...
Possibly A Bad Idea John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the...
a year ago
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Possibly A Bad Idea

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

a year ago
John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the Chicago Tribune about a plane semi-faking bombing lower Manhattan in 1916. The short version of the story: DeLloyd Thompson, an early aviator of some note, took off from the airfield...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Exponential curves feel gradual and then sudden "How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also...
over a year ago
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Exponential curves feel gradual and then sudden

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

over a year ago
"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises The core growth process in the…
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Joel Gascoigne
The quiet pivot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6...
over a year ago
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The quiet pivot

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

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6 months, we’ve quietly shifted the direction of Buffer. Our adjustment is now almost complete and we’re charging ahead with our new vision. It’s interesting to reflect on how we came...
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Londonist
Dad's Army Museum: Go On A Classic Sitcom Pilgrimage On This Day Trip From London "Now pay attention..."
a year ago
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Dad's Army Museum: Go On A Classic Sitcom Pilgrimage On This Day Trip From London

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a year ago
"Now pay attention..."
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Working Theorys
Notes on 'Founder Mode' Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
10 months ago
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Notes on 'Founder Mode'

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10 months ago
Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
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SatPost by Trung...
Beating the Auction Duopoly Sotheby's and Christie's are a combined 538 years old. Can the 48-year old Heritage Auctions topple...
a year ago
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Beating the Auction Duopoly

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

a year ago
Sotheby's and Christie's are a combined 538 years old. Can the 48-year old Heritage Auctions topple this duopoly?
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
Looking back When I started this journal, it was still very unclear what it would mean to get covid. If only I...
over a year ago
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Looking back

from Koos Looijesteijn - Everything [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
When I started this journal, it was still very unclear what it would mean to get covid. If only I...
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brr
The Last Egg Five more months until freshies...
over a year ago
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The Last Egg

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over a year ago
Five more months until freshies...
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Diaries of Note
I’m getting more confident and angrier each time From the age of fourteen Jack Kerouac could often be found carrying a spiral notebook in which to...
a year ago
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I’m getting more confident and angrier each time

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
From the age of fourteen Jack Kerouac could often be found carrying a spiral notebook in which to record his thoughts, frustrations, and aspirations. When he wrote the following journal entry in September of 1948, Kerouac was twenty-six and his first novel, The Town and the City,...
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Style over Substance
How to build your own Goodman ZONE camera, part 2 The Goodman ZONE is a medium-format 3D-printed film camera designed by Dora Goodman as part of her...
over a year ago
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How to build your own Goodman ZONE camera, part 2

from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
The Goodman ZONE is a medium-format 3D-printed film camera designed by Dora Goodman as part of her range of open-source camera models, using the existing Mamiya Press lens series for glass and the Mamiya RB67 backs to hold film. She sells pre-printed kits that contain all the...
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981 In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
7 months ago
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Willem's Blog
MUSE in Carré MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying...
over a year ago
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MUSE in Carré

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

over a year ago
MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying experience - read about my experience!
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Passing Time
The Highest Impact Thing You Can Do in Your Everyday Life Making friends is hard; introducing others is easy.
a year ago
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The Highest Impact Thing You Can Do in Your Everyday Life

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a year ago
Making friends is hard; introducing others is easy.
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bt RSS Feed
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often...
over a year ago
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Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons

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

over a year ago
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often times they come with a performance cost: JavaScript. Luckily for us, we can create our very own shiny, animated buttons with pure CSS. The Demo Live CodePen Example The...
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Londonist
Dive Into This Astoundingly Detailed Illustration Of Somerset House Adam Dant is at it again.
a year ago
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Dive Into This Astoundingly Detailed Illustration Of Somerset House

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a year ago
Adam Dant is at it again.
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Blog - Practical...
Why Bridges Don't Sink [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The essence of a bridge is not...
a year ago
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Why Bridges Don't Sink

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The essence of a bridge is not just that it goes over something, but that there’s clear space underneath for a river, railway, or road. Maybe this is already obvious to you, but bridges present a unique...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Accurate contrarian theories When Google released its search engine in 1998, its search results were significantly better than...
over a year ago
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Accurate contrarian theories

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

over a year ago
When Google released its search engine in 1998, its search results were significantly better than its competitors’. Many people attribute…
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Seth's Blog
Further vs. faster Sprints and marathons are both foot races, but they have very little in common. The training is...
7 months ago
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Further vs. faster

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7 months ago
Sprints and marathons are both foot races, but they have very little in common. The training is different, and so is the technique. Which one are you signing up for? What about the thing you sell? Are we trying to get there faster, or do we promise to go further?
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Society's Backend:...
Always Be Networking The things you should know about effective networking
a year ago
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Always Be Networking

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a year ago
The things you should know about effective networking
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Ruud van Asseldonk
Working on a virtualenv without magic
over a year ago
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Working on a virtualenv without magic

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Deno De-emphasizes HTTP Imports I’ve been a long-time fan of Deno and their ethos of following the web platform. But I’m not sure...
11 months ago
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Deno De-emphasizes HTTP Imports

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

11 months ago
I’ve been a long-time fan of Deno and their ethos of following the web platform. But I’m not sure how I feel about their latest admission which makes their dependency story more like npm and less like the web. Designing Deno’s module system around HTTP imports was ambitious. It...
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Louwrentius
Linode hacked: thoughts about cloud security I bought a Linode VPS for private usage just after the report that Linode had reset all passwords of...
over a year ago
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Linode hacked: thoughts about cloud security

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I bought a Linode VPS for private usage just after the report that Linode had reset all passwords of existing users regarding the Linode management console. Resetting passwords is not something you do when under a simple attack such as a DDOS attack. Such a measure is only taken...
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Marcus on AI
A new AI scaling law shell game? Scaling laws were supposed to be, well, laws.
7 months ago
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A new AI scaling law shell game?

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7 months ago
Scaling laws were supposed to be, well, laws.
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Open Culture
Enter a Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s First Science Fiction Magazine, Launched in... If you haven’t heard of Hugo Gernsback, you’ve surely heard of the Hugo Award. Next to the Nebula,...
a year ago
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Enter a Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s First Science Fiction Magazine, Launched in 1926

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a year ago
If you haven’t heard of Hugo Gernsback, you’ve surely heard of the Hugo Award. Next to the Nebula, it’s the most prestigious of science fiction prizes, bringing together in its ranks of winners such venerable authors as Ursula K. Le Guin, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Neil...
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#28) Cultural stagnation, pedestrian deaths, evidence on decoupling, the benefits of education, and why...
a year ago
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At least five interesting things to start your week (#28)

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a year ago
Cultural stagnation, pedestrian deaths, evidence on decoupling, the benefits of education, and why philosophers read the classics
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Nothing Human
Marl Meetups it is a truth universally acknowledged: a man with a mailing list must organize a meetup
a year ago
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Marl Meetups

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a year ago
it is a truth universally acknowledged: a man with a mailing list must organize a meetup
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The American Scholar
“Death Fugue” by Paul Celan Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Death Fugue” by Paul Celan appeared first on The American...
a year ago
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“Death Fugue” by Paul Celan

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a year ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Death Fugue” by Paul Celan appeared first on The American Scholar.
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99% Invisible
The Infernal Machine [EPISODE] For most of history there was only one way to blow things up. You could pack a bunch of gunpowder in...
9 months ago
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The Infernal Machine [EPISODE]

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9 months ago
For most of history there was only one way to blow things up. You could pack a bunch of gunpowder in one place and set it on fire. But then in the 1800s one scientist named Alfred Nobel dedicated himself to taming the incredibly volatile substance that was nitroglycerine.  After...
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Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948) With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
6 months ago
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)

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6 months ago
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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Open Culture
When the Dutch Tried to Live in Concrete Spheres: An Introduction to the Bolwoningen in the... In the decades after the Second World War, many countries faced the challenge of rebuilding their...
2 weeks ago
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When the Dutch Tried to Live in Concrete Spheres: An Introduction to the Bolwoningen in the Netherlands

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2 weeks ago
In the decades after the Second World War, many countries faced the challenge of rebuilding their housing and infrastructure while also having to accommodate a fast-arriving baby boom. The government of the Netherlands got more creative than most, putting money toward...
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The Codist
My Address Doesn't Fit, And Other Complaints So today, I decided to renew my driver's license online, like any modern person would. I started the...
a year ago
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My Address Doesn't Fit, And Other Complaints

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a year ago
So today, I decided to renew my driver's license online, like any modern person would. I started the process by going to my state's driver's license website. The first page is to verify my home and mail addresses. Since nothing changed, I hit "
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review) Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
6 months ago
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Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)

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6 months ago
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
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Posts on Made of...
Using Haskell's 'newtype' in C A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple...
over a year ago
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Using Haskell's 'newtype' in C

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

over a year ago
A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple types of data that share the same representation. Classic examples include differentiating between measurements stored in different units, distinguishing between a string of HTML...
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Yale e360
To Help Growers and the Grid, Build Solar on Farmland, Research Says Two new studies suggest that devoting a small fraction of U.S. farmland to solar power would be a...
2 months ago
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To Help Growers and the Grid, Build Solar on Farmland, Research Says

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in science

2 months ago
Two new studies suggest that devoting a small fraction of U.S. farmland to solar power would be a boon both for the energy system and for farmers themselves. Read more on E360 →
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Trying to Understand...
Back To The Un-Table For more non-negotiations.
a month ago
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Back To The Un-Table

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a month ago
For more non-negotiations.
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Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: 1. Guantanamo City Why we should turn Guantanamo Bay into Guantanamo City
5 months ago
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Ten New US Cities: 1. Guantanamo City

from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
Why we should turn Guantanamo Bay into Guantanamo City
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The Honest Broker
When a Single Person Controlled the Copyright on All Music (Even Blank Music Paper) Music copyright law is a mess today—but it's always been that way
over a year ago
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When a Single Person Controlled the Copyright on All Music (Even Blank Music Paper)

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over a year ago
Music copyright law is a mess today—but it's always been that way
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Abhishek Chakraborty
The Perks of Being Relentlessly Curious Being relentlessly and randomly curious about everything around us is something that each of us can...
over a year ago
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The Perks of Being Relentlessly Curious

from Abhishek Chakraborty [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Being relentlessly and randomly curious about everything around us is something that each of us can push ourselves to do, every waking hour, just as Leonardo did.
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Founder Visa
over a year ago
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The Founder Visa

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over a year ago
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Open Culture
Why You Do Your Best Thinking In The Shower: Creativity & the “Incubation Period” Image via Wikimedia Commons “The great Tao fades away.” So begins one translation of the Tao Te...
a year ago
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Why You Do Your Best Thinking In The Shower: Creativity & the “Incubation Period”

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a year ago
Image via Wikimedia Commons “The great Tao fades away.” So begins one translation of the Tao Te Ching’s 18th Chapter. The sentence captures the frustration that comes with a lost epiphany. Whether it’s a profound realization when you just wake up, or moment of clarity in the...
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Rest of World -...
The apps were designed for home security. They’re being used to watch and harass domestic workers Tiger Global-backed MyGate and Google-backed NoBrokerHood are digitizing social biases.
a year ago
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The apps were designed for home security. They’re being used to watch and harass domestic workers

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

a year ago
Tiger Global-backed MyGate and Google-backed NoBrokerHood are digitizing social biases.
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Good Enough
Bad Ideas Are Fun Once I was complaining to Arun about how hard it is to come up with ideas, and he pointed out that...
a year ago
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Bad Ideas Are Fun

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a year ago
Once I was complaining to Arun about how hard it is to come up with ideas, and he pointed out that coming up with ideas is actually very easy––what makes it hard is that we’re aiming for good ideas. The next time you're coming up with ideas, tell yourself, Forget about good...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Canvas: A Bet On New EMRs | Out-Of-Pocket what if EMRs didn't totally suck?
a year ago
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Canvas: A Bet On New EMRs | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
what if EMRs didn't totally suck?
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Abort Retry Fail
The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 From leather shoe bits to the TRS-80
a month ago
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The Tandy Corporation, Part 1

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a month ago
From leather shoe bits to the TRS-80
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xkcd.com
Humidifier Review
5 months ago
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Humidifier Review

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5 months ago
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The Scholar's Stage
The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite I often draw a distinction between the political elites of Washington DC and the industrial elites...
10 months ago
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The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite

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10 months ago
I often draw a distinction between the political elites of Washington DC and the industrial elites of Silicon Valley with a joke: in San Francisco reading books, and talking about what you have read, is a matter of high prestige. Not so in Washington DC. In Washington people...
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Joel Gascoigne
From startup to scaleup: What we’re changing as we make the transition > Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
over a year ago
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From startup to scaleup: What we’re changing as we make the transition

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over a year ago
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/from-startup-to-scaleup-what-were-changing-as-we-make-the-transition/] . In the past couple of months, I’ve had a number of thoughts around the growth Buffer has experienced in the last year and some...
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Flashbak
‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull “When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
7 months ago
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull

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7 months ago
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
7 months ago
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99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze

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7 months ago
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
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Archinect - Features
NYIT School of Architecture & Design's M.Arch Graduate Studio Explores 'Designing... Continuing with our Archinect Studio Pin-Ups series, we connect with Archinect Partner School New...
a year ago
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NYIT School of Architecture & Design's M.Arch Graduate Studio Explores 'Designing (Inter)Scalar Domains'

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a year ago
Continuing with our Archinect Studio Pin-Ups series, we connect with Archinect Partner School New York Institute of Technology to learn more about its Fall/Spring semester M.Arch studio led by Marcella Del Signore, the school's Associate Professor and Director of the Master of...
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Good Enough
TIL: JavaScript Turbo Stream Requests I am working on search for Album Whale and I was very confused when my JavaScript fetch requests...
over a year ago
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TIL: JavaScript Turbo Stream Requests

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over a year ago
I am working on search for Album Whale and I was very confused when my JavaScript fetch requests were not resulting in turbo_stream rendering getting displayed on my page. I checked my logs to see if the render was happening. I looked for missing <%= tags. Debugged and...
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The Honest Broker
Tell Us What You're Doing Here's your chance to strut your stuff
a week ago
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Tell Us What You're Doing

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a week ago
Here's your chance to strut your stuff
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Open Culture
Pink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to... When Roger Waters left Pink Floyd after 1983’s The Final Cut, the remaining members had good reason...
a year ago
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Pink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to Resign

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a year ago
When Roger Waters left Pink Floyd after 1983’s The Final Cut, the remaining members had good reason to assume the band was truly, as Waters proclaimed, “a spent force.” After releasing solo projects in the next few years, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright soon...
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Daniel De Laney
Network Engineering “My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in...
over a year ago
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Network Engineering

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over a year ago
“My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in a comprehensible and usable way. Finally, I had to make it less ugly.” The Challenge When you type “google.com” into your browser and press the Enter key, what happens? How do you...
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alexwlchan
Putting history on the map &rarr; Back in July, we built an interactive map for the Flickr Commons Explorer. I wrote an article for...
9 months ago
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Putting history on the map &rarr;

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9 months ago
Back in July, we built an interactive map for the Flickr Commons Explorer. I wrote an article for the Flickr blog about some of the photos I found using the map – including Antarctic explorers, northern factories, and Hawaiian industry. [If the formatting of this post looks odd...
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Calculated Risk
MBA: Delinquency Rates for Commercial Properties Increased in Fourth-Quarter 2024 From the MBA: Delinquency Rates for Commercial Properties Increased in Fourth-Quarter 2024...
5 months ago
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MBA: Delinquency Rates for Commercial Properties Increased in Fourth-Quarter 2024

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5 months ago
From the MBA: Delinquency Rates for Commercial Properties Increased in Fourth-Quarter 2024 Delinquency rates for mortgages backed by commercial properties increased during the fourth quarter of 2024, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) latest commercial real...
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TokyoDev
A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
over a year ago
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A Horrifying User Experience

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over a year ago
After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious one. Finding an apartment went smoother than I could have imagined, and in half-a-day, I had found a new apartment. The following day I set out to take care of the tasks surrounding...
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TheCollector
5 Incredible Historic Day Trips From Barcelona The thriving heart of coastal Catalonia, Barcelona, is a history buff’s paradise in its own right....
2 months ago
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5 Incredible Historic Day Trips From Barcelona

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2 months ago
The thriving heart of coastal Catalonia, Barcelona, is a history buff’s paradise in its own right. Venture just beyond the city limits, however, and you’ll be greeted with a kaleidoscope of sociopolitical, cultural, and art history waiting to be unpacked. These five Catalan...
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Birchtree
Yesterday's 'golden age' turns into today's mess Nick Timiraos for the Wall Street Journal: Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is...
3 months ago
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Yesterday's 'golden age' turns into today's mess

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3 months ago
Nick Timiraos for the Wall Street Journal: Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is Giving Way to Distress Investors were caught flat-footed by Trump’s animus toward Canada, which wasn’t a part of last year’s election campaign. Global
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computers are bad
2023-04-20 different kinds of differential On the front page of HN today was an [article with a confusing headline], "Farmers 'crippled' by...
over a year ago
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2023-04-20 different kinds of differential

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over a year ago
On the front page of HN today was an [article with a confusing headline], "Farmers 'crippled' by satellite failure as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt." Of course the headline doesn't actually say this, but it does seem to imply that there has been some kind of failure of...
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Open Culture
The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture... Alice’s Restaurant. It’s now a Thanksgiving classic, and something of a tradition around...
7 months ago
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The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic

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7 months ago
Alice’s Restaurant. It’s now a Thanksgiving classic, and something of a tradition around here. Recorded in 1967, the 18+ minute counterculture song recounts Arlo Guthrie’s real encounter with the law, starting on Thanksgiving Day 1965. As the long song unfolds, we hear all about...
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Future of Web Startups
over a year ago
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The Future of Web Startups

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over a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Bisiesto restaurant by Vang Studios It’s not only the good food, ditto drinks, and jolly banter—Bisiesto offers the full package,...
a month ago
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Bisiesto restaurant by Vang Studios

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a month ago
It’s not only the good food, ditto drinks, and jolly banter—Bisiesto offers the full package, offering a stylish setting which...
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Maggie Appleton
Frequently Asked Questions Questions I am often asked to answer
over a year ago
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Frequently Asked Questions

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over a year ago
Questions I am often asked to answer
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NeuroLogica Blog
More On Electric Vehicles I recently wrote about electric vehicles, which sparked a lively discussion in the comments. There...
a year ago
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More On Electric Vehicles

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a year ago
I recently wrote about electric vehicles, which sparked a lively discussion in the comments. There was enough discussion that I wanted to pull my responses together into a new post. Before I get to the details, some general observations. The conversation, in my opinion, nicely...
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Irrational...
Navigating ambiguity. Perceiving the layers of context in problems will unlock another stage of career progression as a...
a year ago
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Navigating ambiguity.

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a year ago
Perceiving the layers of context in problems will unlock another stage of career progression as a Staff-plus engineer, but there’s at least one essential skill to develop afterwards: navigating ambiguity. In my experience, navigating deeply ambiguous problems is the rarest skill...
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Mazdak
Loonie on the Brink: Can Canada Escape US Monetary Policy? The Canadian and American economies are deeply intertwined.
8 months ago
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Loonie on the Brink: Can Canada Escape US Monetary Policy?

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8 months ago
The Canadian and American economies are deeply intertwined.
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Remains of the Day
My first podcast appearance A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
over a year ago
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My first podcast appearance

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over a year ago
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
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diamond geezer
Route 129 Route 129: Lewisham to Gallions Reach Location: London southeast, crossriver Length of bus journey:...
3 months ago
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Route 129

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3 months ago
Route 129: Lewisham to Gallions Reach Location: London southeast, crossriver Length of bus journey: 9 miles, 70 minutes 129 has been searching for a purpose ever since it was introduced as a stumpy three mile route in 2006. The original idea was to connect the new Millennium...
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Eric Bailey
Web components still need to be accessible
over a year ago
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Web components still need to be accessible

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over a year ago
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The Honest Broker
Google Thinks Beethoven Looks Like Mr. Bean Instead of real portraits, Google serves up AI-generated garbage
10 months ago
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Google Thinks Beethoven Looks Like Mr. Bean

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10 months ago
Instead of real portraits, Google serves up AI-generated garbage
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Map of the Week
30 Day Map Challenge 2024-Part 2 Here is the second half of the 30 Day Map Challenge. The one where I don’t make anything but just...
7 months ago
24

30 Day Map Challenge 2024-Part 2

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7 months ago
Here is the second half of the 30 Day Map Challenge. The one where I don’t make anything but just sit back and enjoy the work of others. The first half of the month was reviewed here. I will start on Day 23 where the prompt was memory. There were quite a few good entries for this...
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Londonist
London's New Women's Museum Opens This March Launching on International Women's Day.
a year ago
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London's New Women's Museum Opens This March

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a year ago
Launching on International Women's Day.
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alexwlchan
Making inventory spreadsheets for my LEGO sets One of my recent home organisation projects has been sorting out my LEGO collection. I have a bunch...
5 months ago
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Making inventory spreadsheets for my LEGO sets

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5 months ago
One of my recent home organisation projects has been sorting out my LEGO collection. I have a bunch of sets which are mixed together in one messy box, and I’m trying to separate bricks back into distinct sets. My collection is nowhere near large enough to be worth sorting by...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
The absurdly complicated circuitry for the 386 processor's registers The groundbreaking Intel 386 processor (1985) was the first 32-bit processor in the x86...
2 months ago
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The absurdly complicated circuitry for the 386 processor's registers

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2 months ago
The groundbreaking Intel 386 processor (1985) was the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. Like most processors, the 386 contains numerous registers; registers are a key part of a processor because they provide storage that is much faster than main memory. The register...
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Archinect - Features
Narrative, Media, and AI in Architectural Academia; A Conversation with Natasha... Archinect last spoke with Natasha Sandmeier on the themes of visual media and narrative storytelling...
a year ago
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Narrative, Media, and AI in Architectural Academia; A Conversation with Natasha Sandmeier

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a year ago
Archinect last spoke with Natasha Sandmeier on the themes of visual media and narrative storytelling in 2019. Back then, few could have imagined the seismic impact that generative AI would have on such fields. In her leading role at UCLA AUD's Entertainment Studio, Sandmeier sits...
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Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: we are the 99%! In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on...
4 months ago
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A decade of dissent: we are the 99%!

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4 months ago
In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2020.
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Ben Borgers
Mornings Set the Tone
over a year ago
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Mornings Set the Tone

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over a year ago
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Steve Klabnik
Book review: Rework
over a year ago
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Book review: Rework

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over a year ago
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xkcd.com
Geology Murder
3 days ago
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Geology Murder

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3 days ago
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Damn Interesting
The Traveler and His Baggage On 19 May 1943, a news report from Berlin deepened the already dreary gloom that clung to the people...
over a year ago
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The Traveler and His Baggage

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over a year ago
On 19 May 1943, a news report from Berlin deepened the already dreary gloom that clung to the people of Nazi-occupied Paris. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels proudly announced to the world that the German capital of Berlin was officially judenfrei–free of all Jews. As this...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rich Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The second-floor problem remains difficult for...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rich

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The second-floor problem remains difficult for him. Today's News:
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Eric Bailey
Universal Design: 11 Practical Tips to Make Your Sites and Apps More Accessible
over a year ago
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Universal Design: 11 Practical Tips to Make Your Sites and Apps More Accessible

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over a year ago
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Common Edge
The Graveyard of Styles in Home Design Is the huge and sprawling “modern farmhouse” next?
3 months ago
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The Graveyard of Styles in Home Design

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3 months ago
Is the huge and sprawling “modern farmhouse” next?
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Molson Hart's Blog -...
Is China Taking Over US Retail? Yes. Let me explain. Amazon made it easy for Chinese companies to sell their products directly to...
over a year ago
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Is China Taking Over US Retail?

from Molson Hart's Blog - Molson Hart [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
Yes. Let me explain. Amazon made it easy for Chinese companies to sell their products directly to American consumers. In response, the Chinese, after having hollowed out American manufacturing, have moved up the value chain to do the same thing to American wholesale and retail....
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Rosanna Morris I am an illustrator and printmaker, working mainly with relief. I work from my large studio on the...
a year ago
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Meet the Maker: Rosanna Morris

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a year ago
I am an illustrator and printmaker, working mainly with relief. I work from my large studio on the top floor of an creative warehouse in east Bristol. I also run a courses, workshops and printmaking events. Describe your printmaking process. I usually start with a pencil...
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Open Culture
Watch the Very First YouTube Video, “Me at the Zoo,” Now 20 Years Old Given the dominance YouTube has achieved over large swathes of world culture, we’d all expect to...
a week ago
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Watch the Very First YouTube Video, “Me at the Zoo,” Now 20 Years Old

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a week ago
Given the dominance YouTube has achieved over large swathes of world culture, we’d all expect to remember the first video we watched there. Yet many or most of us don’t: rather, we simply realized, one day in the mid-to-late two-thousands, that we’d developed a daily YouTube...
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99% Invisible
The 15 Minute City In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their...
7 months ago
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The 15 Minute City

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7 months ago
In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their local government. They were wearing yellow vests and chanting slogans about the municipality’s new traffic policies. But most notably, many of them were vocally angry about a new...
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Birchtree
noclip is my favorite website find of 2025 so far noclip is quite the find, and I've lost more time than I'd like to admit in it this week. Basically,...
5 months ago
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noclip is my favorite website find of 2025 so far

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5 months ago
noclip is quite the find, and I've lost more time than I'd like to admit in it this week. Basically, it has a bunch of 3D models from mostly PS2-Wii era games that you can explore in your browser. It's awesome and anyone with
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Vitalik Buterin's...
The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications
a year ago
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The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications

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a year ago
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Home on Erik...
ML at Twitter I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is...
over a year ago
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ML at Twitter

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

over a year ago
I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is pretty interesting. Everything is a Pig workflow and then they do everything as UDF's. This approach seems pretty interesting.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Actually Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Playing video games BY DEFINITION uses fewer...
3 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Actually

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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Playing video games BY DEFINITION uses fewer resources than experiencing reality. Today's News:
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The Ruffian
How - and Why - To Read... ...in a World That's Giving Up On It
6 months ago
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How - and Why - To Read...

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6 months ago
...in a World That's Giving Up On It
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Alice GG
Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to...
over a year ago
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Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to implement a GitOps workflow, which means using a Git repository as the source of truth for the state of your cluster. Flux introduces multiple new objects in your Kubernetes...
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The Map is Mostly...
Designing a New Old Home: Research, Sketch, Collect Designing a New Old Home series, Table of Contents Beginnings — Why an “old” home, and how we came...
over a year ago
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Designing a New Old Home: Research, Sketch, Collect

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over a year ago
Designing a New Old Home series, Table of Contents Beginnings — Why an “old” home, and how we came to buy land Curiosity — Advice on starting Research, Sketch, Collect ← You are here Defining Constraints — What can we do without The Elements — Heating and cooling and airflow
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TheCollector
Meet Henry the Navigator, the Man Who Began the Age of Exploration The late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period saw the “Age of Exploration” really come into play,...
2 weeks ago
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Meet Henry the Navigator, the Man Who Began the Age of Exploration

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2 weeks ago
The late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period saw the “Age of Exploration” really come into play, from a Eurocentric viewpoint. Some of the biggest names in history are to be found in this period: Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama, Marco Polo, and perhaps a man that you’ve...
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Unfiltered by Tim...
The Secret Life of People with High Agency (It’s Simpler than You Think) It's bizarrely good for your health too
6 months ago
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The Secret Life of People with High Agency (It’s Simpler than You Think)

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6 months ago
It's bizarrely good for your health too
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Daily Stoic
12 (Stoic) Rules For Life: An Ancient Guide to the Good Life It’d be wonderful if life never tempted you, if you could just go day-to-day, winging it and always...
over a year ago
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12 (Stoic) Rules For Life: An Ancient Guide to the Good Life

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over a year ago
It’d be wonderful if life never tempted you, if you could just go day-to-day, winging it and always do right. But that’s not how the world is. That’s not who you are. If left to our own devices, with enough opportunities, eventually we’ll mess up—we’ll drift, we’ll stray. That’s...
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macwright.com
Replay.web is cool I’ve been trying to preserve as much of Placemark now that it’s open-source. This has been a mixed...
a year ago
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Replay.web is cool

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a year ago
I’ve been trying to preserve as much of Placemark now that it’s open-source. This has been a mixed experience: some products were really easy to move away from, like Northwest and Earth Class Mail. Webflow was harder to quit. But replay.web came to the rescue, thanks to Henry...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Living with Predators For much of human history, wolves and other large carnivores were considered pests. Wolves were...
3 months ago
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Living with Predators

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3 months ago
For much of human history, wolves and other large carnivores were considered pests. Wolves were actively exterminated on the British Isles, with the last wolf killed in 1680. It is more difficulty to deliberately wipe out a species on a continent than an island, but across Europe...
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Paul Graham: Essays
What I Did this Summer
over a year ago
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What I Did this Summer

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over a year ago
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Mazdak
Unplugging Australia: Kids vs. Social Media Australia is going offline!
7 months ago
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Unplugging Australia: Kids vs. Social Media

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7 months ago
Australia is going offline!
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Philosopher Kings
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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a year ago
Philosopher Kings
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Arduino Blog
Expanding possibilities: Blues Wireless amplifies Opta’s connectivity Blues Wireless and Arduino have joined forces to create the game-changing Blues Wireless for Arduino...
a year ago
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Expanding possibilities: Blues Wireless amplifies Opta’s connectivity

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a year ago
Blues Wireless and Arduino have joined forces to create the game-changing Blues Wireless for Arduino Opta, unveiled this week at the Automate Show in Chicago. The expansion module is an affordable solution to enhance connectivity options for Arduino Opta micro PLCs, and marks a...
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Classical Wisdom
The World of Homer Classical Wisdom Litterae
2 months ago
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The World of Homer

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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom Litterae
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Quanta Magazine
Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are...
a year ago
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Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

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a year ago
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction. The post Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Domain Sins of My Youth I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project. At the...
a year ago
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Domain Sins of My Youth

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

a year ago
I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project. At the checkout screen, I realized it would cost me $105 to renew this domain for 5 years. Why 5 years? Right now my disposition is: if I plan on keeping a domain for as long as possible I...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
No More Side Projects Generally speaking, side projects are great things. They offer us opportunities to create something...
over a year ago
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No More Side Projects

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over a year ago
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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symmetry magazine
LHC experiments see four top quarks The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs...
over a year ago
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LHC experiments see four top quarks

from symmetry magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs bosons. The ATLAS and CMS experiments have successfully detected the production of a quartet of top quarks during high-energy proton collisions inside the Large...
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
Businesses don't hire designers for their good work If you’re employed, it’s because somebody believes that spending money on your salary will lead to...
a year ago
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Businesses don't hire designers for their good work

from Koos Looijesteijn - Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
If you’re employed, it’s because somebody believes that spending money on your salary will lead to more profit for its...
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Calculated Risk
4th Look at Local Housing Markets in December Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 4th Look at Local Housing Markets in...
5 months ago
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4th Look at Local Housing Markets in December

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5 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 4th Look at Local Housing Markets in December A brief excerpt: Here are a few more local markets before the NAR releases December Existing Home sales tomorrow, Friday, January 24th at 10:00 AM. This will be the 3rd...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Poll Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It absolutely kills me dead when the votey is...
3 weeks ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Poll

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3 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It absolutely kills me dead when the votey is funnier than the daily comic. Today's News:
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Dave Buonaguidi Dave Buonaguidi, AKA Real Hackney Dave is a Hackney-based artist who combines the visual and verbal...
5 months ago
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Meet the Maker: Dave Buonaguidi

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

5 months ago
Dave Buonaguidi, AKA Real Hackney Dave is a Hackney-based artist who combines the visual and verbal language of advertising and propaganda with unique imagery and materials of found objects and ephemera. In a previous life, Dave worked in advertising for over 35 years, founding...
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The Marginalian
The Merger Self, the Seeker Self, and the Lifelong Challenge of Balancing Intimacy and Independence Each time I see a sparrow inside an airport, I am seized with tenderness for the bird, for living so...
a year ago
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The Merger Self, the Seeker Self, and the Lifelong Challenge of Balancing Intimacy and Independence

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

a year ago
Each time I see a sparrow inside an airport, I am seized with tenderness for the bird, for living so acutely and concretely a paradox that haunts our human lives in myriad guises — the difficulty of discerning comfort from entrapment, freedom from peril. It is a paradox rooted in...
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IEEE Spectrum
AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down to specific...
5 months ago
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AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic

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

5 months ago
AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down to specific regional accents. And with just a few seconds of audio, AI can now clone someone’s specific voice. AI agents will make calls on our behalf, conversing with others in natural language....
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Words and Buttons...
Rational interpolation Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines....
a year ago
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Rational interpolation

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines. With rational interpolation, you can build functions that run through a set of points and also have vertical asymptotes whenever you want. With this capability, you can now model...
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Marian's Blog
Raspberry Pi powered fishtank My fishtank is now internet-connected. It is run by a Raspberry Pi that can do three things: Feed...
over a year ago
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Raspberry Pi powered fishtank

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over a year ago
My fishtank is now internet-connected. It is run by a Raspberry Pi that can do three things: Feed the fish, switch the lights and take pictures. To feed the fish, the Raspberry Pi sends commands to an automatic fishfeeder that I modified. It can empty any container in any order....
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99% Invisible
The Known Unknown [EPISODE] How to honor unidentified remains has always been one of the great conundrums of war. The Romans...
a year ago
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The Known Unknown [EPISODE]

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a year ago
How to honor unidentified remains has always been one of the great conundrums of war. The Romans were fond of honoring them with an empty sarcophagus. After the Civil War, the Union buried 2,111 soldiers in a mass grave in Arlington that they purposely built in the middle of...
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THE ARCHITECTURAL...
Architect Releases Academic Dissertation That Questions Architects’ Taste Many architects look down upon residential areas built with the small town as a model, with new...
a year ago
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Architect Releases Academic Dissertation That Questions Architects’ Taste

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a year ago
Many architects look down upon residential areas built with the small town as a model, with new houses made in a traditional style. But this is exactly what the average person appreciates. “Why do many architects dislike the very thing that residents often enjoy?” asks architect...
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The Changelog
O, Sunlight! “O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in...
over a year ago
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O, Sunlight!

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over a year ago
“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in this world, much hope, much life. All we need to do is pause, breathe, and take a moment to see it. It might be as simple as the gift of sunlight. I hope you all have … Continue...
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AI Snake Oil
AI safety is not a model property Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be...
a year ago
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AI safety is not a model property

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a year ago
Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be used for bad things
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Identity Designed
Apex Designed by Gold Front, San Francisco.
a year ago
129

Apex

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a year ago
Designed by Gold Front, San Francisco.
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Diaries of Note
Now is the winter… When 35-year-old Anthony Sher took on the role of Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Company in...
over a year ago
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Now is the winter…

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over a year ago
When 35-year-old Anthony Sher took on the role of Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, two years after playing the Fool to Michael Gambon’s King Lear, he delivered a transformative performance. Using crutches to evoke a spider-like figure, Sher crafted a...
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Internal Tech Emails
iMessage for Android I am concerned the iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove and obstacle to iPhone families...
over a year ago
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iMessage for Android

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I am concerned the iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove and obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.
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Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
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The Cyclops

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a year ago
A Misunderstood Monster?
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Londonist
Christmas Carol Concerts In London To Make You Feel All Warm And Fuzzy Inside This December Including one with dogs. Woof!
a year ago
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Christmas Carol Concerts In London To Make You Feel All Warm And Fuzzy Inside This December

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a year ago
Including one with dogs. Woof!
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Making software...
CSS Variables CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
over a year ago
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CSS Variables

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over a year ago
CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I'd like to focus specifically on the "new" CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now. Getting started is easy Let's just jump...
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Lighthouse Blog
New feature: RSS feed export
7 months ago
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New feature: RSS feed export

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7 months ago
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Noahpinion
Jewish Americans are feeling unsettled Increasingly squeezed between the new leftism and the new rightism.
a week ago
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Jewish Americans are feeling unsettled

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a week ago
Increasingly squeezed between the new leftism and the new rightism.
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99% Invisible
Courtroom Sketch [EPISODE] Earlier this year, the city of New York closed off several blocks around the Manhattan Criminal...
over a year ago
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Courtroom Sketch [EPISODE]

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

over a year ago
Earlier this year, the city of New York closed off several blocks around the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse. Instead of early morning commuters, the sidewalks around the building were flooded with reporters, photographers, and camera people. They were there to capture the...
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Opsbros
JSON and PowerShell Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will...
over a year ago
22

JSON and PowerShell

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will allow you to manipulate these objects efficiently.
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wingolog
needed-bits optimizations in guile Hey all, I had a fun bug this week and want to share it with you. First, though, some background. ...
9 months ago
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needed-bits optimizations in guile

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9 months ago
Hey all, I had a fun bug this week and want to share it with you. First, though, some background. Guile’s numeric operations are defined over the complex numbers, not over e.g. a finite field of integers. This is generally great when writing an algorithm, because you don’t have...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
The 8 Jobs of Management Recently, John Cutler...
over a year ago
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The 8 Jobs of Management

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

over a year ago
Recently, John Cutler [tweeted](https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1533661807029563392?s=21&t=WJORvdw2EyoLB1ChjQ8NpA) a chart on the view of management:
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./techtipsy
We get laptops with annoying cooling fans because we keep buying them I don’t like laptops with loud cooling fans in them. Quite a controversial position, I know. But...
a month ago
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We get laptops with annoying cooling fans because we keep buying them

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a month ago
I don’t like laptops with loud cooling fans in them. Quite a controversial position, I know. But really, they do suck. A laptop can be great to use, have a fantastic keyboard, sharp display, lots of storage and a fast CPU, and all of that can be ruined by one component: the...
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Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia My interview with "Atlantico"
7 months ago
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Trump and the Rise of Asia

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7 months ago
My interview with "Atlantico"
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Odds and Ends of...
Here's how AI can REDUCE health misinformation How the government can build a bullshit detector
8 months ago
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Here's how AI can REDUCE health misinformation

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago
How the government can build a bullshit detector
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On Test Automation
First things first - automate the execution of your tests “Well, it works on my machine” I’m sure we’ve all heard a developer say that to us at some point in...
8 months ago
36

First things first - automate the execution of your tests

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

8 months ago
“Well, it works on my machine” I’m sure we’ve all heard a developer say that to us at some point in our career, and we all roll our eyes at them in response. It clearly doesn’t work on your machine… We would do well to apply that exact same philosophy of ‘it shouldn’t just run on...
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Tony Dinh's...
2023 Recap I turn 30, built a new app, and other updates in December 2023
a year ago
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2023 Recap

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

a year ago
I turn 30, built a new app, and other updates in December 2023
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Epic Web Dev
The True Purpose of Testing (article) Discover the true essence of automated testing and the difference between an implementation and...
a year ago
52

The True Purpose of Testing (article)

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a year ago
Discover the true essence of automated testing and the difference between an implementation and intention.
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nanoscale views
Items of interest The start of the semester has been very busy, but here are some items that seem interesting: As...
10 months ago
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Items of interest

from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
The start of the semester has been very busy, but here are some items that seem interesting: As many know, there has been a lot of controversy in recent years about high pressure measurements of superconductivity.  Here is a first-hand take by one of the people who helped bring...
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Maggie Appleton
Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
over a year ago
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Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
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Calculated Risk
Retail Sales Increased 0.2% in February On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 0.2% from January to February (seasonally adjusted), and...
3 months ago
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Retail Sales Increased 0.2% in February

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

3 months ago
On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 0.2% from January to February (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 3.1 percent from February 2024. report: Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for February 2025, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and...
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Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding Layout Algorithms As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should...
over a year ago
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Understanding Layout Algorithms

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over a year ago
As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should focus on how the language uses those properties to calculate layouts. In this blog post, we'll pop the hood on CSS and see how the language is structured, and how to learn it...
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Calculated Risk
Sunday Night Futures Weekend: Schedule for Week of February 9, 2025 Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are up...
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Sunday Night Futures

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5 months ago
Weekend: Schedule for Week of February 9, 2025 Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are up 18 and DOW futures are up 88 (fair value). WTI futures at $71.00 per barrel and Brent at $74.66 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $77, and Brent was at $83 - so WTI oil prices...
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the... On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
7 months ago
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the Protests

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7 months ago
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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The Rational Walk
Writing in Private Writing is an important tool for personal intellectual development even if you never intend to share...
2 months ago
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Writing in Private

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2 months ago
Writing is an important tool for personal intellectual development even if you never intend to share your work with others.
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024 Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
a year ago
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024

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a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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diamond geezer
Dorset and Devonshire Sorry, couldn't resist. 45 45 Squared 17) DORSET SQUARE, NW1 Borough of Westminster,...
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Dorset and Devonshire

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

a month ago
Sorry, couldn't resist. 45 45 Squared 17) DORSET SQUARE, NW1 Borough of Westminster, 100m×60m Dorset Square is the greenspace you pass if you walk the backroads between Marylebone and Baker Street stations. It's rectangular, Georgian, semi-private and generally unsung, yet...
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Londonist
A Brief History Of The Northern Line London's first deep-level tube.
a year ago
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A Brief History Of The Northern Line

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a year ago
London's first deep-level tube.
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Blog - Bitfield...
Rust and Go vs everything else Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages...
7 months ago
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Rust and Go vs everything else

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

7 months ago
Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages make perfect partners.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
American Airlines’ Top Credit Card Offers 100K Mile Bonus
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American Airlines’ Top Credit Card Offers 100K Mile Bonus

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Maggie Appleton
The Bare Essentials of Greensock Notes on the basics of the Greensock animation llibrary
over a year ago
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The Bare Essentials of Greensock

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over a year ago
Notes on the basics of the Greensock animation llibrary
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Adventures In...
van Gogh style wind map Here’s how to use compositing to tint flowing wind patterns by underlying terrain colors. Why?...
2 months ago
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van Gogh style wind map

from Adventures In Mapping [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2 months ago
Here’s how to use compositing to tint flowing wind patterns by underlying terrain colors. Why? Because rather than a basemap providing some context around a layer that inherently blocks your view of it, you can leverage the amazing compositing blend modes of the ArcGIS Online Map...
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 5 (Japan: Farther Afield) Monday arrived and I had to get back to work. A weekend in Tokyo was nice although I had other plans...
over a year ago
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Asia-Pacific, Part 5 (Japan: Farther Afield)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

over a year ago
Monday arrived and I had to get back to work. A weekend in Tokyo was nice although I had other plans and that involved getting out of the city. After all, the whole premise for this trip was visiting U.S. military facilities USS Blue Ridge The 7th Fleet of the United States Navy...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Moving to a GitHub CMS Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
over a year ago
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Moving to a GitHub CMS

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

over a year ago
Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
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The Marginalian
The Wild Iris: Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering "Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice."
a year ago
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The Wild Iris: Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

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

a year ago
"Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice."
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Atoms vs Bits
Mr. UFOs Go to Washington On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said...
7 months ago
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Mr. UFOs Go to Washington

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

7 months ago
On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said is already public knowledge, but it allowed witnesses to testify under oath, get information into the congressional record, and publicize the issue. The highlights: High-level...
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TheCollector
Roosevelt’s Big Stick: How America Flexed Its Muscle on the World Stage Theodore Roosevelt embraced a belief throughout his entire adult life that America was destined to...
2 months ago
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Roosevelt’s Big Stick: How America Flexed Its Muscle on the World Stage

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Theodore Roosevelt embraced a belief throughout his entire adult life that America was destined to be a major player in world affairs. Roosevelt was fond of saying that America should “speak softly, but carry a big stick.” Roosevelt’s Big Stick Policy not only defined his...
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Londonist
London Almost Had Another Public Aquarium - In Silvertown Docks Ever heard of 'Biota!'?
a year ago
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London Almost Had Another Public Aquarium - In Silvertown Docks

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a year ago
Ever heard of 'Biota!'?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Ship to the Moon (1952) Happy New Year! A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the...
6 months ago
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Space Ship to the Moon (1952)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

6 months ago
Happy New Year! A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
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The Changelog
See The World Through the Eyes of a Child, and You Are Free Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily,...
over a year ago
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See The World Through the Eyes of a Child, and You Are Free

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily, however, have a way of opening their eyes and seeing the wonders and beauties of this world as though seeing them for the first time. – Joseph Wirthlin Today is about dirt. I had to...
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TokyoDev
You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know...
a year ago
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You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know it. The trick is knowing what you’re up against, why these obstacles persist, who might be able to help, and how far you may be required to shift your perspective from where it...
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Sarah Parmenter
Geek Mental Health Week This has been written as part of the Geek Mental Health Week – starting on Monday October 3rd 2016. ...
over a year ago
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Geek Mental Health Week

from Sarah Parmenter [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
This has been written as part of the Geek Mental Health Week – starting on Monday October 3rd 2016.  You can hear me read this as an audioblog – 8 minutes. T his time of year is a strange one…
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TheCollector
An Overview of Russian Dynasties: From the Rurikids to the Romanovs The Rurik and Romanov dynasties of Russia have shaped modern-day Russia’s land and people. From the...
a month ago
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An Overview of Russian Dynasties: From the Rurikids to the Romanovs

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
The Rurik and Romanov dynasties of Russia have shaped modern-day Russia’s land and people. From the first dynasty, which began around the 780s, to 1917, when the Romanov dynasty fell to the Bolshevik Revolution, tsars and emperors ruled. With more than 1,000 years of rule between...
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The American Scholar
Learning to Be Social What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others? The post Learning to Be Social appeared...
4 months ago
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Learning to Be Social

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

4 months ago
What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others? The post Learning to Be Social appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Electronics etc…
The HP 423A and a Beginner’s Deep Dive into RF Crystal Detectors MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
over a year ago
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The HP 423A and a Beginner’s Deep Dive into RF Crystal Detectors

from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
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The DESK Magazine
The story of the Orange Welcome back! Many new readers joined this email list last week. Makes me happy that my writing...
2 months ago
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The story of the Orange

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

2 months ago
Welcome back! Many new readers joined this email list last week. Makes me happy that my writing resonates. Thank you for recommending this newsletter to your friends and colleagues, it means a lot to me ♡ LAST WEEK ON DESK Last...
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words: Póli Gynaikón – City of Women Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive,...
over a year ago
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Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words: Póli Gynaikón – City of Women

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive, Athens. License: All Rights Reserved. Covers of the magazine Póli Ginaikón Marsha Rowe, editor of the groundbreaking feminist magazine Spare Rib, famously recalled: “Suddenly, words...
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Seth's Blog
Conversations, an early review… (and the free class) “I have trained companies to treat people better, and SONG is the guidebook I wished I had when...
over a year ago
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Conversations, an early review… (and the free class)

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

over a year ago
“I have trained companies to treat people better, and SONG is the guidebook I wished I had when doing this work. Now, I will now give it to the enlightened and brutes alike, with a recommendation to take immediate action.  Seth Godin has been carefully documenting the end of the...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s Meaning in the Ordering of the Web’s Tech Stack I was watching Zach’s presentation at JSHeroes 2023, “The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components”,...
a year ago
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There’s Meaning in the Ordering of the Web’s Tech Stack

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

a year ago
I was watching Zach’s presentation at JSHeroes 2023, “The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components”, and a subtle point stuck out to me at the ending of his talk. When you run into performance problems, it's [because you tried] to reorder these things or combine them in weird...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Musings on CVS, two-way negotiation, and venture studios | Out-Of-Pocket + we're hosting another dinner! and courses ending!
a year ago
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Musings on CVS, two-way negotiation, and venture studios | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
+ we're hosting another dinner! and courses ending!
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History Today Feed
‘The Writer’s Lot’ by Robert Darnton review ‘The Writer’s Lot’ by Robert Darnton review JamesHoare Tue, 06/24/2025 - 08:09
2 weeks ago
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‘The Writer’s Lot’ by Robert Darnton review

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

2 weeks ago
‘The Writer’s Lot’ by Robert Darnton review JamesHoare Tue, 06/24/2025 - 08:09
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The Honest Broker
How to Discover Mindfulness in a Nazi Solitary Confinement Cell This extraordinary narrative is now available again
3 months ago
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How to Discover Mindfulness in a Nazi Solitary Confinement Cell

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3 months ago
This extraordinary narrative is now available again
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
a year ago
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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Seth's Blog
Useful assumptions for teachers Not simply in the classroom, but anywhere we hope to inform, inspire or educate: Assume enrollment....
over a year ago
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Useful assumptions for teachers

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over a year ago
Not simply in the classroom, but anywhere we hope to inform, inspire or educate: Assume enrollment. Either someone is committed to learning or they’re not. While many situations place people into a spot where they are compelled to show up (exhibit A: learning arithmetic in grade...
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Not Boring by Packy...
Hyperlegible 006: Forsaking Industrialism Conrad Bastable on how China built its Industrial Platform and what it would take for the West to...
2 months ago
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Hyperlegible 006: Forsaking Industrialism

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative

2 months ago
Conrad Bastable on how China built its Industrial Platform and what it would take for the West to reindustrialize (hint: tariffs aren't enough)
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A Beautiful Site
SVG Repo I stumbled upon a great resource for free SVGs. They're currently boasting over 300,000 images....
over a year ago
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SVG Repo

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I stumbled upon a great resource for free SVGs. They're currently boasting over 300,000 images. Check it out over at SVG repo. Looks like they have a sister site for fonts, too. Lots of 'em.
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The Elysian
CITY STATE: A discussion about autonomous governance Here's the recording from our literary salon discussion.
a month ago
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CITY STATE: A discussion about autonomous governance

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a month ago
Here's the recording from our literary salon discussion.
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Yale e360
How Wolves Could Help Bring Back Scottish Forests Wolves have been gone from the Scottish Highlands for more than 200 years, and in their absence red...
4 months ago
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How Wolves Could Help Bring Back Scottish Forests

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in science

4 months ago
Wolves have been gone from the Scottish Highlands for more than 200 years, and in their absence red deer have proliferated. Researchers say that returning wolves to the Highlands would keep deer in check, allowing large areas of native woodland to regrow. Read more on E360 →
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 38 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
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TinyPilot: Month 38

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
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Yale e360
U.S. Aid Cuts Are Hitting Global Conservation Projects Hard The Trump Administration’s dismantling of USAID has done more than cut off life-saving humanitarian...
2 months ago
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U.S. Aid Cuts Are Hitting Global Conservation Projects Hard

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in science

2 months ago
The Trump Administration’s dismantling of USAID has done more than cut off life-saving humanitarian assistance. It has also eliminated funding for environmental protection and conservation work in dozens of countries, with many programs now being forced to shut down. Read more on...
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CONTEMPORIST
This Kitchen Island Was Designed With Built-In Seating C. Kairouz Architects has shared photos of a renovation and extension project they designed for a...
a year ago
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This Kitchen Island Was Designed With Built-In Seating

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
C. Kairouz Architects has shared photos of a renovation and extension project they designed for a home in Melbourne, Australia. One of the design details in the new extension is the kitchen island that doubles as seating for the dining area. The design of the kitchen island has a...
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somenice
Golden Glide Silhouette This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to...
over a year ago
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Golden Glide Silhouette

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to watch.
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Neil Madden
API Security in Action handed over to production After a flurry of last-minute corrections and updates in response to review feedback, my book has...
over a year ago
22

API Security in Action handed over to production

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
After a flurry of last-minute corrections and updates in response to review feedback, my book has now been handed over to Manning’s production team. That means a few weeks of copy editing and graphics polish, then indexing and typesetting to produce the final version around...
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HTMHell
Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed...
6 months ago
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Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed significantly contributes to the overall user experience (UX), determining whether it feels positive or negative. To ensure the fastest possible page load times, it’s crucial to design...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Out of the Software Crisis”: Making Software 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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“Out of the Software Crisis”: Making Software

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

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. More manpower !== more innovation. design innovation isn’t generally a question of team size but more about having the resources and freedom to experiment...
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Common Edge
The Deceptive Grandeur of City Skylines Empty office towers are likely to remain that way for years.
11 months ago
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The Deceptive Grandeur of City Skylines

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11 months ago
Empty office towers are likely to remain that way for years.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Thermo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: +10 Internet points if you can identify all...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Thermo

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

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: +10 Internet points if you can identify all three. Today's News: Tomorrow.
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Escaping Flatland
Modular life, meaningful work Highlights from the cutting room floor, pt. 3
5 months ago
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Modular life, meaningful work

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5 months ago
Highlights from the cutting room floor, pt. 3
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Minification for Static Sites This is a note to my future self, as I’ve setup HTML minification on a few different projects and...
5 months ago
62

HTML Minification for Static Sites

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

5 months ago
This is a note to my future self, as I’ve setup HTML minification on a few different projects and each time I ask myself, “How did I do that again?” So here’s your guide, future Jim (and anyone else on the internet who finds this). I use html-minifier to minifiy HTML files...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 No one’s ready for this An explosion from the side of an old brick building. A crashed bicycle in a city intersection. A...
10 months ago
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🔗 No one’s ready for this

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10 months ago
An explosion from the side of an old brick building. A crashed bicycle in a city intersection. A cockroach in a box of takeout. It took less than 10 seconds to create each of these images with the Reimagine tool in the Pixel 9’s Magic Editor. They are crisp. They are in full...
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The New Oil
Noteworthy Updates to The New Oil
3 months ago
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Noteworthy Updates to The New Oil

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3 months ago
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Contemporist...
The Black Exterior Of This Barn-Inspired Home Is Contrasted With A White Interior Architecture and interior design studio Laney LA has shared photos of a modern home they designed in...
a year ago
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The Black Exterior Of This Barn-Inspired Home Is Contrasted With A White Interior

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Architecture and interior design studio Laney LA has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Culver City, California, that has a dark black exterior.
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Paul Graham: Essays
How to Get Startup Ideas
over a year ago
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How to Get Startup Ideas

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over a year ago
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Artificial Ignorance
Jevons Paradox and the future of programming Supply and demand in the Age of AI.
a year ago
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Jevons Paradox and the future of programming

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a year ago
Supply and demand in the Age of AI.
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Arduino Blog
Is there an online Arduino IDE? Since the inception of Arduino, the Arduino IDE has been a go-to tool for people learning to code...
8 months ago
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Is there an online Arduino IDE?

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8 months ago
Since the inception of Arduino, the Arduino IDE has been a go-to tool for people learning to code and creating projects ranging from remote-controlled cars to soil moisture monitoring. No wonder it’s been downloaded over 24 million times this year, so far!  Now if you’ve ever...
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Last Place Comics
Lasso Man 6 The post Lasso Man 6 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
11 months ago
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Lasso Man 6

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11 months ago
The post Lasso Man 6 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
The importance of predictability for platform developers A platform is a technology or product upon which many other technologies or products are built. Some...
over a year ago
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The importance of predictability for platform developers

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over a year ago
A platform is a technology or product upon which many other technologies or products are built. Some platforms are controlled by a single…
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xkcd.com
Air Handler
over a year ago
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Air Handler

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over a year ago
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Friendcatchers Patrick McKenzie's simple concept for making friends on the Internet.
over a year ago
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Friendcatchers

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over a year ago
Patrick McKenzie's simple concept for making friends on the Internet.
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Mazdak
OpenAI Launches Operator: The AI Agent That Works Autonomously (Why this could be the start of a new era for AI tools)
5 months ago
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OpenAI Launches Operator: The AI Agent That Works Autonomously

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5 months ago
(Why this could be the start of a new era for AI tools)
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Josh Thompson
Cones, Coning, and Fixing Junctions, And How And Why “Traffic Cones and Junction Fixes: A DIY Guide” ? this is very drafty This post is probably best...
3 months ago
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Cones, Coning, and Fixing Junctions, And How And Why

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

3 months ago
“Traffic Cones and Junction Fixes: A DIY Guide” ? this is very drafty This post is probably best viewed on desktop, with some links opening new tabs, viewed, closed, and then this post returned to. There’s a lot of videos farther down, some of them are tiktoks (sorry) and some of...
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RhysTranter.com
Easter 2022: A Roman Pilgrimage This Easter, my wife and I headed to Rome. What follows is a simple journal that records some of the...
over a year ago
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Easter 2022: A Roman Pilgrimage

from RhysTranter.com [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
This Easter, my wife and I headed to Rome. What follows is a simple journal that records some of the things that we did, with a selection of photographs from each day.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Applied Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You are all impure now! Today's News:
5 months ago
70

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Applied

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5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You are all impure now! Today's News:
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The Honest Broker
Here's a Map to 'The Honest Broker' Let me take you on a tour
a year ago
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Here's a Map to 'The Honest Broker'

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a year ago
Let me take you on a tour
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware January 2023 The Ware for January 2023 is a front-end readout board from the KASCADE muon detector. Thanks again...
over a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware January 2023

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

over a year ago
The Ware for January 2023 is a front-end readout board from the KASCADE muon detector. Thanks again to cpresser for contributing the ware, and also congratulations to AZeta for nailing it! email me for your prize.
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Louwrentius
Rebooting results in degraded RAID array using Debian Lenny As described earlier, I setup a RAID 6 array consisting of physical 1 TB disk and 'virtual' 1 TB...
over a year ago
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Rebooting results in degraded RAID array using Debian Lenny

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
As described earlier, I setup a RAID 6 array consisting of physical 1 TB disk and 'virtual' 1 TB disks that are in fact two 0.5 TB disks in RAID 0.  I wanted to upgrade to Lenny because the new kernel that ships with Lenny supports growing a RAID 6 array. After installing Lenny...
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Mazdak
Gannett Sues Google for Digital Advertising Monopoly. Gannett Sues Google for Digital Ad Monopoly. iPhone 15 Pro Max: Everything We Know So Far About...
over a year ago
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Gannett Sues Google for Digital Advertising Monopoly.

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
Gannett Sues Google for Digital Ad Monopoly. iPhone 15 Pro Max: Everything We Know So Far About Apple's Next Flagship. Reddit Protests Continue as Company Threatens to Remove Moderators. Gannett Sues Google for Digital Ad Monopoly. Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper chain, has...
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Simply Explained
Tuya IR Hub: control Daikin AC (Home Assistant + ESPHome) The release of ESPHome v1.15 brought better support for infrared climate control. This was enough to...
over a year ago
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Tuya IR Hub: control Daikin AC (Home Assistant + ESPHome)

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
The release of ESPHome v1.15 brought better support for infrared climate control. This was enough to finally make my YTF IR Hub useable. Here's how I flashed ESPHome onto it and how I configured it for my Daikin AC and Home Assistant.
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HTMHell
The hidden depths of the input element by Phil Nash The <input> element is the most fascinating element in HTML. Most elements behave the...
a year ago
21

The hidden depths of the input element

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
by Phil Nash The <input> element is the most fascinating element in HTML. Most elements behave the same way regardless of their attributes, the type attribute of the <input> element can take 1 of 22 different values that gives it not only different behaviour, but a different...
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Archinect - Features
'AI Is a Dangerous Distraction From the Pressing Issues Defining Our Generation'; A... Liam Young was once described by the BBC as “the man designing our future.” In 2023, with open...
a year ago
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'AI Is a Dangerous Distraction From the Pressing Issues Defining Our Generation'; A Conversation with Liam Young

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

a year ago
Liam Young was once described by the BBC as “the man designing our future.” In 2023, with open letters penned on the risks of extinction posed by artificial intelligence, such a role should be in high demand. Young’s speculations on the future take the form of fictional stories...
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880 Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
9 months ago
44

Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

9 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: North Star Advantage North Star's Advantage over IBM and Apple is easy to see.
2 months ago
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Plus Post: North Star Advantage

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

2 months ago
North Star's Advantage over IBM and Apple is easy to see.
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Lighthouse Blog
Updates November 24: Content parsing improvements
a year ago
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Updates November 24: Content parsing improvements

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a year ago
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julian.digital
Review of my 2020 Goals I set myself 24 goals for this year and completed 9 of them (38%), which is a significantly lower...
over a year ago
24

Review of my 2020 Goals

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over a year ago
I set myself 24 goals for this year and completed 9 of them (38%), which is a significantly lower success rate compared to my 2019 and 2018 lists (60% and 56%, respectively). Publish 52 blog posts ❌ This was my number one goal for this year and even though I ended up publishing...
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
How projects fail at large tech companies How do projects fail at large tech companies? As I’ve said many times, failure means executives...
2 months ago
22

How projects fail at large tech companies

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2 months ago
How do projects fail at large tech companies? As I’ve said many times, failure means executives aren’t happy with how the project turned out. At healthy companies, that typically means that a sensible engineer wouldn’t be happy either, because the project didn’t work or users...
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Steve Blank
Finding and Growing the Islands of Innovation inside a large company – Action Plan for A New CTO This post previously appeared in Fast Company. How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO)...
over a year ago
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Finding and Growing the Islands of Innovation inside a large company – Action Plan for A New CTO

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over a year ago
This post previously appeared in Fast Company. How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company? How not to waste your first six months as a new CTO thinking you’re making progress when the status quo is working...
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Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: enemies of progress In the first part of a retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit on the Winter Oak...
4 months ago
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A decade of dissent: enemies of progress

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

4 months ago
In the first part of a retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit on the Winter Oak site, I look back on its content in 2015, the year in which it was launched.
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TheCollector
11 Historical Places to Visit in Oxfordshire Home to some of England’s most known poets, scientists, and religious figures, the county of...
3 months ago
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11 Historical Places to Visit in Oxfordshire

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
Home to some of England’s most known poets, scientists, and religious figures, the county of Oxfordshire can trace its roots back 5,000 years to Neolithic times. Discover C. S. Lewis’s house, Oxford’s Castle and Prison, abbey ruins, an ancient Iron Age Hillfort, and a wealth of...
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Open Culture
How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome: A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals an Ancient Tax Evasion Scheme It was surely not a coincidence that the New York Times published its story on the trial of a...
2 months ago
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How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome: A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals an Ancient Tax Evasion Scheme

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2 months ago
It was surely not a coincidence that the New York Times published its story on the trial of a certain Gadalias and Saulos this past Monday, April 14th. The defendants, as their names suggest, did not live in modernity: the papyrus documenting their legal troubles dates to the...
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Dan Quach Blog
Rest in Peace Dad Around US Thanksgiving, my mom­ let me know that my dad had been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer...
a year ago
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Rest in Peace Dad

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Around US Thanksgiving, my mom­ let me know that my dad had been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer with a life expectancy of 1-2 years. In mid December my dad was hospitalized and one of the doctors suggested all family members should come urgently.  When I arrived, the days...
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Blog - Guerrilla...
Shelter: An Atlas Food, water, shelter. The tripartite of basic needs. Without these no living thing can survive. Not...
over a year ago
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Shelter: An Atlas

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
Food, water, shelter. The tripartite of basic needs. Without these no living thing can survive. Not a spider, not a badger, not a tree, not a human. The first two — food and water — are obvious; without them, sustenance is impossible. The food we eat gives us energy through...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Talk Notes for The End of Localhost (Infobip Shift 2022) I returned to Zadar!
over a year ago
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Talk Notes for The End of Localhost (Infobip Shift 2022)

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over a year ago
I returned to Zadar!
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Eric Bailey
Myth: ARIA Has Perfect Support
over a year ago
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Myth: ARIA Has Perfect Support

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over a year ago
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Quanta Magazine
Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering Memories may affect how well the brain will learn about future events by shifting our perceptions of...
over a year ago
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Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering

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

over a year ago
Memories may affect how well the brain will learn about future events by shifting our perceptions of the world. The post Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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TokyoDev
Living with a disability in Japan This article is informed primarily by my experiences as a deaf American living in Japan for the last...
a year ago
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Living with a disability in Japan

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a year ago
This article is informed primarily by my experiences as a deaf American living in Japan for the last 16 years. Even though I do not have a mobility disability, I have also included notes about mobility accessibility because I also have some awareness of those through relatives. I...
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Rest of World -...
Chinese streaming platforms and chill? In Southeast Asia, Netflix has competition from Baidu's iQiyi and Tencent's WeTV
over a year ago
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Chinese streaming platforms and chill?

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

over a year ago
In Southeast Asia, Netflix has competition from Baidu's iQiyi and Tencent's WeTV
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Matt Mullenweg
What’s in My Bag, 2025 It’s another year, I have ordered all the things and tested all the cables, there’s a little bit...
5 months ago
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What’s in My Bag, 2025

from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
It’s another year, I have ordered all the things and tested all the cables, there’s a little bit about tech and a little bit about life. Here’s what made the cut, now I’m going to be factoring in weight of everything as well. The flat-lay this year was taken at my sister...
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Risk of Discovery
over a year ago
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The Risk of Discovery

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over a year ago
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Calculated Risk
Lawler: Revisions Almost Eliminate Household/Establishment Survey Employment Growth Gap Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Lawler: Revisions Almost Eliminate...
5 months ago
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Lawler: Revisions Almost Eliminate Household/Establishment Survey Employment Growth Gap

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5 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Lawler: Revisions Almost Eliminate Household/Establishment Survey Employment Growth Gap A brief excerpt: From housing economist Tom Lawler: Revisions Almost Eliminate Household/Establishment Survey Employment Growth Gap There...
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Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Zuck Kisses the Ring Plus! A collection of LA wildfire takes
5 months ago
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Weekly Scroll: Zuck Kisses the Ring

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5 months ago
Plus! A collection of LA wildfire takes
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Ben Borgers
Sunk Cost Chinese
over a year ago
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Sunk Cost Chinese

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over a year ago
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Londonist
A Fantastically Festive Walk Through London's Christmas Lights And Decorations A self-guided tour through lights, shop window displays, ice rinks and more.
a year ago
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A Fantastically Festive Walk Through London's Christmas Lights And Decorations

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a year ago
A self-guided tour through lights, shop window displays, ice rinks and more.
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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
76

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Questions

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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:
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Making software...
Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles 2021-11-09 This website almost exclusively uses the...
over a year ago
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Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles

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

over a year ago
Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles 2021-11-09 This website almost exclusively uses the browser's (whichever one that might be) default styling to render it's HTML. I firmly believe, and have stated in a previous post, that the default HTML styling across all browsers...
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Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to make and share custom GPTs They're not going to disrupt everything (yet), but they're a ton of fun.
a year ago
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Tutorial: How to make and share custom GPTs

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a year ago
They're not going to disrupt everything (yet), but they're a ton of fun.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Transforming HTML With Netlify Edge Functions I’ve long wanted the ability to create custom collections of icons from my icon gallery. Today I can...
2 weeks ago
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Transforming HTML With Netlify Edge Functions

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

2 weeks ago
I’ve long wanted the ability to create custom collections of icons from my icon gallery. Today I can browse collections of icons that share pre-defined metadata (e.g. “Show me all icons tagged as blue”) but I can’t create your own arbitrary collections of icons. That is, until...
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Birchtree
I'm Sick, I Have a Sickness Niléane has entered her keyboard era, Chris has a consumer warning as well as a really good...
4 months ago
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I'm Sick, I Have a Sickness

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
Niléane has entered her keyboard era, Chris has a consumer warning as well as a really good macropad, and then we find the best games on the Mac. Weekly Topics Logitech MX Keys Mini Volt Plus+ numberpad (but probably don’t buy it) BNK8 macropad Stream Deck
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alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
a year ago
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Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site. This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 28-29 October 2023 London's newest exhibitions, plus Halloween events, rugby screenings and more.
a year ago
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 28-29 October 2023

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a year ago
London's newest exhibitions, plus Halloween events, rugby screenings and more.
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Josh Thompson
The Housing Market Is Absolutely Insane: How To Fix It I had a brief exchange with a good friend recently: The housing market is indeed insane. This...
over a year ago
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The Housing Market Is Absolutely Insane: How To Fix It

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

over a year ago
I had a brief exchange with a good friend recently: The housing market is indeed insane. This problem that we’re both discussing is: Unbelievable ($650,000 for a fixer upper) Oppressive (“unjustly inflicting hardship and constraint, especially on a minority or other subordinate...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Gadgets and Computers From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you...
over a year ago
29

Gadgets and Computers

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

over a year ago
From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you start with a product that has a few…
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 14-20 August 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
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Best Of Londonist: 14-20 August 2023

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a year ago
The best articles from the past week.
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Rest of World -...
The rise and fall of Argentina’s celebrity crypto pastor Generación Zoe promised investors massive returns thanks to market-predicting “robots” and a...
over a year ago
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The rise and fall of Argentina’s celebrity crypto pastor

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over a year ago
Generación Zoe promised investors massive returns thanks to market-predicting “robots” and a cryptocurrency backed by gold. It sounded too good to be true.
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Willem's Blog
Backup Rotation Scheme Learn about the rsync-backup-rotator tool that helps you automatically rotate backups using rsync,...
a year ago
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Backup Rotation Scheme

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a year ago
Learn about the rsync-backup-rotator tool that helps you automatically rotate backups using rsync, creating and maintaining multiple recovery points from your backups.
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Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
6 months ago
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand

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6 months ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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Diaries of Note
The century of Voltaire Eugène Delacroix, born in 1798, was a profoundly influential French Romantic artist who came to be...
over a year ago
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The century of Voltaire

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over a year ago
Eugène Delacroix, born in 1798, was a profoundly influential French Romantic artist who came to be renowned for his dramatic, emotive works, his use of bold colour and brushwork setting him apart. But his influence extended beyond the canvas, as at the age of twenty-three he...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Why to Move to a Startup Hub
over a year ago
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Why to Move to a Startup Hub

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over a year ago
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Diaries of Note
The degradation machine is running Jean Guéhenno was a French essayist and intellectual known for his unwavering commitment to freedom...
a year ago
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The degradation machine is running

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a year ago
Jean Guéhenno was a French essayist and intellectual known for his unwavering commitment to freedom and truth during a period when both were under severe threat. In the midst of World War II, France had become an eerie silhouette of its former self, ruled by a government that had...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Caveman Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This caption works for most comics, and makes them...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Caveman

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This caption works for most comics, and makes them a lot nicer. Today's News: I'll be at CulpeperCon today, if you're in central Virginia and want to say hi.
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Confessions of a...
Recording: How Hyper-Threading Works — A Microarchitectural Perspective Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous...
a year ago
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Recording: How Hyper-Threading Works — A Microarchitectural Perspective

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a year ago
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous multithreading) implementation in Intel’s x86 processors.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Plan To Build First Commercial Fusion Reactor How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a...
6 months ago
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Plan To Build First Commercial Fusion Reactor

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6 months ago
How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a huge and complicated question, and one with massive implications for our civilization. I think we are still at the point where we cannot count on fusion reactors coming online...
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Yale e360
Terminology matters: let's stop calling it a "sprint" If you're in the software industry, it's hard to not be aware of agile development at this point. It...
over a year ago
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Terminology matters: let's stop calling it a "sprint"

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over a year ago
If you're in the software industry, it's hard to not be aware of agile development at this point. It seems like every team practices it differently, but there are certain commonalities that run through all teams I've seen. One of those is the term used for each time-delimited...
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Atoms vs Bits
Hateful Things in 1002 AD When I say The Pillow Book, written by Sei Shōnagon in the late 990s AD, reads like a Tumblr, you...
3 weeks ago
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Hateful Things in 1002 AD

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

3 weeks ago
When I say The Pillow Book, written by Sei Shōnagon in the late 990s AD, reads like a Tumblr, you might reasonably assume I'm being wry and somewhat exaggerated: "ohhhh, this thing from 1000 years ago is just like things we write today [if you
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IEEE Spectrum
False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a...
over a year ago
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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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

over a year ago
In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology. The...
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Eric Bailey
Organizational buy-in on Responsive Design
over a year ago
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Organizational buy-in on Responsive Design

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over a year ago
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Arduino Blog
Assess your aquarium’s health with an AI-enabled ultrasonic sensor Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can...
a year ago
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Assess your aquarium’s health with an AI-enabled ultrasonic sensor

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can accumulate, which leads to a loss in fish and plant populations if not fixed quickly. But because most water testing, especially in aquariums, is done primarily on the surface, vital...
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Yale e360
Amid Devastation in Gaza, a Deepening Environmental Wound The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip has obliterated crops and trees, according to a new assessment of...
a month ago
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Amid Devastation in Gaza, a Deepening Environmental Wound

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a month ago
The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip has obliterated crops and trees, according to a new assessment of the impact. Read more on E360 →
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Confessions of a...
Invite your friends to read Confessions of a Code Addict Thank you for reading Confessions of a Code Addict — your support allows me to keep doing this work.
a year ago
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Invite your friends to read Confessions of a Code Addict

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

a year ago
Thank you for reading Confessions of a Code Addict — your support allows me to keep doing this work.
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room. And don't say a word about Europe.
a year ago
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China And Russia Walk Into A Room.

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
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Seth's Blog
Curation (vs the road to junk) The independent bookstore down the street is carefully curated. Each book takes up the spot that a...
a year ago
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Curation (vs the road to junk)

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

a year ago
The independent bookstore down the street is carefully curated. Each book takes up the spot that a different book could inhabit, so the owner makes sure that there’s a great reason a title is included. Amazon, on the other hand, has no shelf space problem, and the Kindle...
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CONTEMPORIST
This Small Home With A Green Roof Curves Around A Pond Architect office Hello Wood has sent us photos of a small modern house they completed tucked away in...
a year ago
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This Small Home With A Green Roof Curves Around A Pond

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Architect office Hello Wood has sent us photos of a small modern house they completed tucked away in Hungary’s lush rural landscapes. Situated next to a fishing pond, the home is a retreat for the owners and is dug into a mound, peeking out just enough to blend with the horizon....
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Herbert Lui
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast In the industrial era, the people that did more stuff—faster—added more value to the world....
4 months ago
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Slow is smooth and smooth is fast

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

4 months ago
In the industrial era, the people that did more stuff—faster—added more value to the world. Efficiency was the buzzword. That’s no longer the case. Now, slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. We are already bumping up on the limits of how fast we can do our work—and we will never...
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The Honest Broker
Healing with a Tin Whistle Also a story about Dave Brubeck (and more)
a year ago
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Healing with a Tin Whistle

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a year ago
Also a story about Dave Brubeck (and more)
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Good Enough
Our ChatGPT Mission Statement What follows is an edited transcript of my interaction with ChatGPT to help craft a mission...
over a year ago
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Our ChatGPT Mission Statement

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

over a year ago
What follows is an edited transcript of my interaction with ChatGPT to help craft a mission statement for Good Enough. The resulting mission statement was surprisingly good and I had some literal LOLs along the way. Though I think we'll leave out the haiku. You are an expert at...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
What we've learned about multi-product pricing (so far) PostHog started as a single product company. We just sold product analytics with a bunch of large...
over a year ago
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What we've learned about multi-product pricing (so far)

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

over a year ago
PostHog started as a single product company. We just sold product analytics with a bunch of large extra features thrown in – session replay, feature…
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wingolog
whippet lab notebook: untagged mallocs, bis Earlier this weekGuileWhippet But now I do! Today’s note is about how we can support...
4 months ago
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whippet lab notebook: untagged mallocs, bis

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 months ago
Earlier this weekGuileWhippet But now I do! Today’s note is about how we can support untagged allocations of a few different kinds in Whippet’s .mostly-marking collector Why bother supporting untagged allocations at all? Well, if I had my way, I wouldn’t; I would just slog...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rational Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's surprising how many situations where 'muddle...
3 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rational

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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's surprising how many situations where 'muddle through' is a better strategy than rationality. Today's News:
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Herbert Lui
Clear structures for creative visions When a creative vision for a project is too ambiguous, you need a person to drive it forward and...
6 months ago
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Clear structures for creative visions

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

6 months ago
When a creative vision for a project is too ambiguous, you need a person to drive it forward and clarify it. That person probably needs to be you.  To do this, you might find it helpful to channel a creative vision through a clear structure.  One example: at Figma, I was involved...
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alexwlchan
Fast and random sampling in SQLite I was building a small feature for the Flickr Commons Explorer today: show a random selection of...
3 months ago
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Fast and random sampling in SQLite

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
I was building a small feature for the Flickr Commons Explorer today: show a random selection of photos from the entire collection. I wanted a fast and varied set of photos. This meant getting a random sample of rows from a SQLite table (because the Explorer stores all its data...
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Steve Blank
How Saboteurs Threaten Innovation–and What to Do About It “Only the Paranoid Survive” Andy Grove – Intel CEO 1987-1998 I just had an urgent “can we meet...
9 months ago
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How Saboteurs Threaten Innovation–and What to Do About It

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

9 months ago
“Only the Paranoid Survive” Andy Grove – Intel CEO 1987-1998 I just had an urgent “can we meet today?” coffee with Rohan, an ex-student. His three-year-old startup had been slapped with a notice of patent infringement from a Fortune 500 company. “My lawyers said defending this...
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Dylan Huang Blog
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework that is widely adopted in large software companies. I...
a year ago
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I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC

from Dylan Huang Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework that is widely adopted in large software companies. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on gRPC to understand what developers think about it. Here is what I found.
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Asterisk
Making Sense of Moral Change A conversation about abolitionism, moral progress, and the pitfalls of historical counterfactuals.
over a year ago
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Making Sense of Moral Change

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over a year ago
A conversation about abolitionism, moral progress, and the pitfalls of historical counterfactuals.
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Seth's Blog
Elites (vs. elitism) Tom Brady is an elite athlete. Few have even approached the stats he had playing football. And...
7 months ago
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Elites (vs. elitism)

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7 months ago
Tom Brady is an elite athlete. Few have even approached the stats he had playing football. And Catherine Walker, NSTA Science Teacher of the Year, is an elite, because her pedagogy and understanding give her the ability to create better outcomes for her students. There’s a...
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Maps Mania
Some Musical Maps in Motion
2 months ago
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Some Musical Maps in Motion

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2 months ago
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Posts on Made of...
Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that...
over a year ago
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Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu

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

over a year ago
I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that it’s pretty close to what I want for managing wireless — closer than anything else I’ve found, at least. I figured I should document my setup and experiences. Some Background You...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - P Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Elsewhere, a species with 20 fingers per hand will...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - P

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Elsewhere, a species with 20 fingers per hand will believe pretty much anything is true. Today's News: To my intense horror, many of you have purchased the new book. And so, the bonus updates continue.
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The Turn Signal RSS...
The Citroën Ami and the Future of Urban Transportation The Ami started life as the AMI ONE C Concept which was a study on new ways to overcome the...
over a year ago
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The Citroën Ami and the Future of Urban Transportation

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
The Ami started life as the AMI ONE C Concept which was a study on new ways to overcome the challenges of designing a small, affordable…
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Fixing Up the Svelte Community Site Adding GitHub Actions and Updating Data Dependencies
over a year ago
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Fixing Up the Svelte Community Site

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

over a year ago
Adding GitHub Actions and Updating Data Dependencies
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Christian Selig
Juno 1.1 If you’re new, Juno is a visionOS app for YouTube! Juno’s initial launch blew my socks off. It was...
a year ago
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Juno 1.1

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
If you’re new, Juno is a visionOS app for YouTube! Juno’s initial launch blew my socks off. It was such a cool feeling to release an app on day one of the Apple Vision Pro’s launch, and having people be so excited about it and have such great feedback made it that much better....
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Logistics of Road War in the Wasteland This week, we’re doing another ‘silly’ topic, but this being me, it is a silly logistics topic,...
a month ago
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Collections: The Logistics of Road War in the Wasteland

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a month ago
This week, we’re doing another ‘silly’ topic, but this being me, it is a silly logistics topic, because – as the saying goes – amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. So we’re going to be professionally silly this week and talk about the logistics of vehicle warfare...
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Evan Jones -...
The C Standard Library Function isspace() Depends on Locale This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be...
over a year ago
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The C Standard Library Function isspace() Depends on Locale

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

over a year ago
This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be able to remember it in the future. I expect close to zero others to be interested. The C standard library function isspace() returns a non-zero value (true) for the six "standard"...
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Hidden History
Hominins The first diary in a series which looks at significant species in the evolution of humans. Humans...
3 months ago
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Hominins

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3 months ago
The first diary in a series which looks at significant species in the evolution of humans. Humans evolved from apelike ancestors. This idea was first put forth in 1859, when Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species and spelled out his idea of evolution through natural...
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Seth's Blog
Cheating at golf Someone who cheats at a friendly game of golf when nothing much is at stake–how can you possibly...
over a year ago
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Cheating at golf

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

over a year ago
Someone who cheats at a friendly game of golf when nothing much is at stake–how can you possibly trust them with something important? And yet, organizations and individuals “cheat at golf” all the time. They put clever clauses in the fine print. Spam a media list. Conceal the...
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Herbert Lui
Professionalism and pressure The person who holds the world record for basketball free throws shot over 2,000 consecutive baskets...
3 months ago
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Professionalism and pressure

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

3 months ago
The person who holds the world record for basketball free throws shot over 2,000 consecutive baskets in a row. But if you put them in a stadium and a tight score between the teams, they might not have been able to shoot two. The main difference between playing basketball in a rec...
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The Marginalian
Stunning Century-Old Illustrations of Tibetan Fairy Tales from the Artist Who Created Bambi Soulful art from stories that speak "to the childhood of all times and all races."
over a year ago
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Stunning Century-Old Illustrations of Tibetan Fairy Tales from the Artist Who Created Bambi

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over a year ago
Soulful art from stories that speak "to the childhood of all times and all races."
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Retail Design Blog
Hearts of Palm by HUMANO STUDIO A series of boxes for dietary pasta made out of palms’ inner core.
10 months ago
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Hearts of Palm by HUMANO STUDIO

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

10 months ago
A series of boxes for dietary pasta made out of palms’ inner core.
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Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI, Q3 Flow of Funds Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly...
7 months ago
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Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI, Q3 Flow of Funds

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

7 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for 220 thousand initial claims, up from 213 thousand last week. Producer Price Index for November from the BLS. The...
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Adventures In...
Gradients along lines, rather than across While there isn’t a direct way to symbolize a line feature in ArcGIS Pro to have a gradient that...
4 months ago
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Gradients along lines, rather than across

from Adventures In Mapping [alt+shift+b] in cartography

4 months ago
While there isn’t a direct way to symbolize a line feature in ArcGIS Pro to have a gradient that travels along its length (rather than across its width), there are a handful of workarounds to get you there. If your line is wiggly, you might have to try a more robust method, like...
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Old Vintage...
With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General) Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the...
a year ago
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With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General)

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

a year ago
Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the pandemic emergency, but speaking as someone with a day job in public health for almost two decades, it's always been a buzzword in certain corners of IT with enough money sloshing around...
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“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
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