TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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6 months ago
diamond geezer
Rayners Lane
Four tube stations are named after country lanes, the longest of which is Rayners Lane in Harrow....
a month ago
Four tube stations are named after country lanes, the longest of which is Rayners Lane in Harrow. What's more it still follows exactly the same meandering path across two miles of suburbia as it did when everything was fields. So I've walked it.
entirely undeveloped agricultural...
TheCollector
James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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5 months ago
diamond geezer
Westminster 25
Silver Jubilee: Westminster
Westminster's Jubilee line platforms opened 25 years ago today on 22nd...
9 hours ago
Silver Jubilee: Westminster
Westminster's Jubilee line platforms opened 25 years ago today on 22nd December 1999.
Westminster station - a clickable choose-your-own adventure
(it is genuinely clickable - give it a go!)
(1) You have arrived on the westbound Jubilee line...
The Works in...
Invisible College applications close on Friday
Applications to our new residential seminar close this coming Friday, 31st May
6 months ago
Applications to our new residential seminar close this coming Friday, 31st May
Artificial Ignorance
The Chatbot Trap
Why AI products really need some better UX.
a month ago
Why AI products really need some better UX.
HTMHell
#24 A placeholder is not a label
Bad code
<input type="text" placeholder="First name">
Issues and how to fix them
Every form input...
over a year ago
Bad code
<input type="text" placeholder="First name">
Issues and how to fix them
Every form input element needs a label. When screen reader users access a form field, the label is announced with the field type (e.g. first name, edit text). If it’s missing, users might not know...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - PIE
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Hovertext:
If anyone does this, please pour out a glass of...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
If anyone does this, please pour out a glass of eggnog antecedent beverage for me.
Today's News:
TheCollector
Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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8 months ago
Passing Time
A Wednesday at Arapahoe Lakes
Not because it's there, but, instead, to feel something
a year ago
Not because it's there, but, instead, to feel something
Paul Cudenec
Industrialism is a manifestation of Evil
Nature, in the organic radical tradition, is regarded as the manifestation of Good.
a month ago
Nature, in the organic radical tradition, is regarded as the manifestation of Good.
alexwlchan
Two examples of hover styles on images
I enjoy adding :hover styles to my websites.
A good hover style reminds me of how fast and...
2 months ago
I enjoy adding :hover styles to my websites.
A good hover style reminds me of how fast and responsive our computers can be, if we let them.
For example, I add a thicker underline when you hover over a link on this site, and it appears/disappears almost instantly as I move my...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Data General/One (and the worst LCD in the world)
I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't...
8 months ago
I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't collect interesting or unusual x86 laptops, like the Brother GeoBook NB-60 (I finally tracked down a mostly working NB-80C, the top of the line model, which will be the subject of a...
computers are bad
2024-03-17 wilhelm haller and photocopier accounting
In the 1450s, German inventor Johannes Gutenburg designed the movable-type
printing press, the first...
9 months ago
In the 1450s, German inventor Johannes Gutenburg designed the movable-type
printing press, the first practical method of mass-duplicating text. After
various other projects, he applied his press to the production of the Bible,
yielding over one hundred copies of a text that...
Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
3 weeks ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
over a year ago
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
Simply Explained
Retrospective: 4 years on YouTube
Every year I sit down and take a look at how my YouTube channel has been doing. I reflect, evaluate,...
over a year ago
Every year I sit down and take a look at how my YouTube channel has been doing. I reflect, evaluate, and set goals for the coming year. This year is no exception. January 13th, 2020, marks my fourth year on YouTube. Time to do a little retrospective.
Seth's Blog
Multiple choice
“None of the above” is often the best option. We’re regularly confronted with multiple-choice...
4 months ago
“None of the above” is often the best option. We’re regularly confronted with multiple-choice questions. The foundation is already established, the options are already limited, do you want this or that? But the real questions lie in the assumptions that happened before you were...
Londonist
Brentford's Enchanting Musical Museum Is Under Threat - And You Can Help Save It
Uniquely quirky museum could close later this year.
10 months ago
Uniquely quirky museum could close later this year.
./techtipsy
My very first career day
This post is a short overview of my experience at
a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the...
10 months ago
This post is a short overview of my experience at
a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the help of GreenDice.
I’ve never spoken at a career day before nor attended one as a student, which is why I instantly agreed to going to one
when GreenDice reached out to me.
Why? I...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Brave Respect the Brave'
In
observance of Memorial Day, R.L. Barth sent me a poem by Ambrose Bierce, one I
had never read...
6 months ago
In
observance of Memorial Day, R.L. Barth sent me a poem by Ambrose Bierce, one I
had never read before, “To E.S. Salomon” (Black Beetles in Amber, 1892). Here is the memorably pertinent third stanza:
“The brave
respect the brave. The brave
Respect
the dead; but you -- you...
Irrational...
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer.
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
a year ago
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
Farza's Newsletter
just popped a white claw w/ kevin from the office
Zip Good week. Went through a product pivot this week. We shut down our small class program, where...
over a year ago
Zip Good week. Went through a product pivot this week. We shut down our small class program, where students would have a class with a ratio of 1 teacher-to-5 students. Why did we pivot? Growth wasn’t going anywhere w/ the small class program. Our growth curve for the last 4...
Society's Backend
Allen AI and DeepSeek are Taking Off, Professional Advice for Working in AI, Agentic Web Design, and...
Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
2 weeks ago
Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
NeuroLogica Blog
Making Computers More Efficient
An analysis in 2021 found that 10% of the world’s electricity production is used by computers,...
a year ago
An analysis in 2021 found that 10% of the world’s electricity production is used by computers, including personal use, data centers, the internet and communication centers. The same analysis projected that this was likely to increase to 20% by 2025. This may have been an...
bt RSS Feed
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
2022-09-20
Installing custom fonts is a...
over a year ago
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
2022-09-20
Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow easy for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get...
Retail Design Blog
Sidewalk Bakehouse and Cafe by Forearch Studios
In Lucknow, retro chic meets modern pulse at Sidewalk Bakehouse & Café In the sphere of hospitality,...
2 months ago
In Lucknow, retro chic meets modern pulse at Sidewalk Bakehouse & Café In the sphere of hospitality, where does the...
bt RSS Feed
Proper UI Hierarchy
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
over a year ago
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it’s core seems so simple - yet is...
Old Structures...
Baseball in New York 3
After Tuesday’s description of teams, and yesterday’s discussion of some of the ball fields in...
2 months ago
After Tuesday’s description of teams, and yesterday’s discussion of some of the ball fields in Brooklyn, it’s time for stadiums in Manhattan. Like yesterday, this is not an exhaustive list, just some of the interesting highlights…excluding the more famous major league fields. All...
Vitalik Buterin's...
What do I think about network states?
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
I really seem to have no idea of the passage of time
Michel Siffre’s intrigue with caves took root when he was just ten, and in 1962, aged twenty-three,...
a year ago
Michel Siffre’s intrigue with caves took root when he was just ten, and in 1962, aged twenty-three, he embarked on a bold experiment in the French Alps. Descending deep into an ice cavern via a staggering 130-foot vertical pothole, he found himself in an environment devoid of...
TheCollector
Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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2 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Care
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This accidentally became Bea Wolf for...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This accidentally became Bea Wolf for teenagers.
Today's News:
Handprinted - Blog
In the Studio 2022
We have had the pleasure of hosting lots of new and exciting Fab Friday workshops and wonderful...
over a year ago
We have had the pleasure of hosting lots of new and exciting Fab Friday workshops and wonderful Guest Tutors in 2022, exploring a variety of printmaking techniques. Take a look at this selection of work produced by students throughout the year:
Life Drawing - Mono Screen...
TokyoDev
Keeping your job board legal in Japan
I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in...
a year ago
I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in Japan](/articles/recruiting-in-japan), and because of this, [you need to be careful](/articles/legally-operating-a-job-board-in-japan) about how you operate your job board to ensure it isn't classified as...
One Useful Thing
Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI
Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks
a year ago
Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks
diamond geezer
Unblogged 1984
30 unblogged things I did in September 1984
They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago,...
2 months ago
30 unblogged things I did in September 1984
They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago, indeed my Sinclair ZX81 wasn't capable of much, but here are 30 things I didn't digitally publish at the time. To help you get your bearings I was 19 and most of this is the end...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - NYT
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Today's News:
Back to regular comics shortly, but the book comes out tomorrow. Opening week sales matter a lot, so wish me luck!
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Doesn't Want to Read'
In a comment
on last Friday’s post, my friend John Dieffenbach asks about bibliophile:
“Is that a...
a year ago
In a comment
on last Friday’s post, my friend John Dieffenbach asks about bibliophile:
“Is that a ‘lover
of books’ because they are books? A lover of reading books? A lover of reading
certain books? What makes one bibliophile more of a bibliophile than another?
Size of the...
Diaries of Note
The sight that met us was beyond anything one could conceive
Few archaeologists can claim to have felt the surge of exhilaration that Howard Carter did on 27th...
a year ago
Few archaeologists can claim to have felt the surge of exhilaration that Howard Carter did on 27th November 1922, as he stood before the threshold of discovery in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. The electric lights glared down on a scene of ancient splendour as Carter and his team...
The Solarchitecture...
7-Stage Solar Design Review - launched!
Together we make your home healthier, full of sunlight & abound with natural energy
over a year ago
Together we make your home healthier, full of sunlight & abound with natural energy
Arduino Blog
Arduino Nicla Sense Env: adding advanced environmental sensing to a broad range of applications
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Nicla Sense Env: the latest addition to our portfolio of...
2 months ago
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Nicla Sense Env: the latest addition to our portfolio of system-on-modules and sensor nodes, empowering innovators with the tools to unlock new possibilities. This tiny yet powerful sensor node is designed to elevate your environmental...
TokyoDev
Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift
Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their...
over a year ago
Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their pay rising as their seniority increases. So uniform is compensation that common wisdom even gives [a formula](https://news.nicovideo.jp/watch/nw1745758) for what your monthly...
Matt Blewitt
Long Distance Relationships
I’ve been managing a fully remote, fully distributed team, covering timezones from UTC-8 through...
2 months ago
I’ve been managing a fully remote, fully distributed team, covering timezones from UTC-8 through UTC+10, for the last couple of years. Through that time, I’ve learned a lot on organising work, interpersonal relationships, and ultimately how to overcome a lack of promximity to my...
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
Willem's Blog
Building a professional 72TB NAS
This month I installed a professional HPE ProLiant DL380p server in a datacenter in Amsterdam, read...
over a year ago
This month I installed a professional HPE ProLiant DL380p server in a datacenter in Amsterdam, read this post to see how this was done!
Home on Erik...
Implicit data and collaborative filtering
A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right?...
over a year ago
A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right? People rate things 1-5 stars and then you have to predict missing ratings.
While there's no doubt that the Netflix Prize was successful, I think it created an illusion that all...
Handprinted - Blog
Making a Stamp with Japanese Transparent Stamp Carving Block
This new Japanese Transparent Stamp Carving Block enables you to carve your design and bake it in...
over a year ago
This new Japanese Transparent Stamp Carving Block enables you to carve your design and bake it in the oven until it appears clear. Clear stamps are so handy as they let you see where you’re printing! This is great for repeat patterns, accurate registration, multi-colour designs...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clear
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Based on a conversation I had with two different...
9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Based on a conversation I had with two different astronomers recently, in which I was informed Jupiter is unable to clear its orbit. They weren't willing to say Jupiter is a dwarf planet but *I* am.
Today's News:
Paolo Amoroso's...
A demo notefile for WebCard
<![CDATA[To complete WebCard for my RetroChallenge 2024 project I created a demo notefile, a file...
a month ago
<![CDATA[To complete WebCard for my RetroChallenge 2024 project I created a demo notefile, a file that stores the data of a NoteCards hypertext.
The notefile WCDEMO.NOTEFILE contains exmples of Web cards filed into various types of containers and cards such as fileboxes and Text...
Founder's blog
Speeding up a huge multi-tenant SaaS database
Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver...
a year ago
Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver bullet
The problem
Our SaaS is powered by a huge multi terabyte "multi tenant" relational database cluster. Some tables are more than 200 GB - this is crazy, to be honest. And for the...
abdz.do - Have you...
Dynamic animations and motion design — Nike, Just for Fun
Dynamic animations and motion design — Nike, Just for Fun
abduzeedo0501—23
...
a year ago
Dynamic animations and motion design — Nike, Just for Fun
abduzeedo0501—23
Nike Kids is a live-action piece directed by MANSON and produced by CANADA, with support from R/GA Shanghai. The talented team at Studio Bliss was responsible for the...
Christian Selig
Server side Live Activities guide
iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and...
2 months ago
iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and handy! I’ve been playing around with it a bit and found some parts a bit confusing, so I thought I’d do a little write up for future me as well as anyone else who could benefit!
(For...
TheCollector
Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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a year ago
A Smart Bear
Metrics that cannot even be measured in retrospect
Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's...
a year ago
Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's now to identify and avoid this trap.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
a16z
VCs are experts at analyzing industries and identifying new opportunities, which is why it’s odd...
over a year ago
VCs are experts at analyzing industries and identifying new opportunities, which is why it’s odd that the VC industry itself has so…
Paolo Amoroso's...
How to build Medley Interlisp
<![CDATA[Although online access to Medley Interlisp is convenient and prebuilt binaries are...
3 months ago
<![CDATA[Although online access to Medley Interlisp is convenient and prebuilt binaries are available for all major operating system, it's also possible to compile it from source.
I first built Medley from source when I wanted to run it on my Raspberry Pi 400 and no ARM64...
Frank’s Ramblings
Vision Transformers are Overrated
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
11 months ago
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious upside: in a visual recognition setting, the receptive field of a pure ViT is effectively the entire image 1. In particular, vanilla ViTs maintain the quadratic time complexity...
Charles Chen
Programmatically Invoke Cloud Run Jobs with Runtime Overrides
Love Google Cloud Run but need to be able to programmatically invoke long running jobs?
a year ago
Love Google Cloud Run but need to be able to programmatically invoke long running jobs?
The American Scholar
“What a Strange Path”
Three new prompts
The post “What a Strange Path” appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 days ago
Three new prompts
The post “What a Strange Path” appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Ruffian
Why Are Americans Growing Less Comfortable With Speaking Up?
The Paradox of the Internet
4 months ago
The Paradox of the Internet
TheCollector
Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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2 months ago
diamond geezer
Unblogged November
30 unblogged things I did in November
Wed 1: I went to peripheral Hadley Wood and walked the length...
a year ago
30 unblogged things I did in November
Wed 1: I went to peripheral Hadley Wood and walked the length of peripheral Waggon Road, having climbed the peripheral footpath over the tunnel portal. In the process I spent 30 seconds in Hertfordshire, which it turns out is the last time I...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Collaboration for PostHog
PostHog is better with teammates. You only have to create a dashboard once, but it becomes more...
over a year ago
PostHog is better with teammates. You only have to create a dashboard once, but it becomes more valuable every time you invite someone from your…
Map of the Week
Guided Across Switzerland by Hand Drawn Maps
The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland...
4 months ago
The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland guided only by hand drawn maps from the people he met along the way. I love a nice hand drawn map and this article provides lots of good examples.
These maps illustrate the things...
TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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5 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Hoovu by Stratedgy
Hoovu, known for their fresh prayer flower delivery, was ripe to deepen their relationship with...
4 months ago
Hoovu, known for their fresh prayer flower delivery, was ripe to deepen their relationship with their customers. Having gained customer...
Beautiful Public...
Design for the People: The US Web Design System and the Public Sans Typeface
The United States has an official web design system and a custom typeface that belongs to the...
5 months ago
The United States has an official web design system and a custom typeface that belongs to the people. This thoughtful public design system aims to make government websites not only look good, but to make them accessible and functional for all.
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
SOCKS
A Building to Tell the Time: The Toghrol Tower in Rey, Iran (1063)
The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and...
over a year ago
The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and Sarooj, a water-resistant mortar. It was erected in 1063, and according to some sources, it was conceived as the tomb of Tuğrul Beg, the founder of the Seljuk dynasty. Other scholars...
Platformer
How the Brazil riots change Facebook's Trump equation
After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former...
a year ago
After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former president's account
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 22 Here I Come
The time has finally come. After more than three hours of exam writing, and almost double spent on...
over a year ago
The time has finally come. After more than three hours of exam writing, and almost double spent on studying for it, I am now ready to declare my entry into Ludum Dare 22! I’ve been away far too long, with my entries for the 17th and the 20th dare being almost a century away, the...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2023
The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the...
a year ago
The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the general category of the ware first, David was the first to give the exact model. Usually I award the prize to the first person to give an exact, correct model number and fall back to...
Mazdak
AI Energy Fears: Overblown or the Next Crisis?
Is the fear of AI's energy consumption a tempest in a teapot or a sign of a looming energy crisis?
a month ago
Is the fear of AI's energy consumption a tempest in a teapot or a sign of a looming energy crisis?
Liz Denys
Striped pitcher, 2024
Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, denim satin glaze
7 months ago
Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, denim satin glaze
The Rational Walk
The Digest #158
Claude Shannon's mighty mouse, Ben Graham's father, Doomberg quits Twitter, FASB segment disclosure...
a year ago
Claude Shannon's mighty mouse, Ben Graham's father, Doomberg quits Twitter, FASB segment disclosure rules, Podcasts on old annual reports, Henry Ford's road trips, Jony Ive, Sal Kahn
Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
David Heinemeier...
Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line
I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They...
9 months ago
I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They are:
1. Chart the course
Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone...
Londonist
Things To Do In London In Half Term: October 2023
Family-friendly school holiday activities for all budgets.
a year ago
Family-friendly school holiday activities for all budgets.
Math Is Still...
Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance On Old Problem
Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are...
8 months ago
Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are all whole numbers.
The post Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance On Old Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, February 2024
Here’s the Ware for February 2024: Here’s another ware courtesy of FETguy, who recovered this from...
9 months ago
Here’s the Ware for February 2024: Here’s another ware courtesy of FETguy, who recovered this from Renew Computers in San Rafael, CA. Renew is a recycling facility that apparently processes a fair bit of e-waste. NGL: I’m a little envious of being able to rummage around an...
Melissa Penfold
2025 PREDICTIONS ARE IN: DESIGN FORECAST FOR THE WHOLE HOUSE
Style manifested in many forms over the last 12 months, as well as in our homes and gardens with the...
3 weeks ago
Style manifested in many forms over the last 12 months, as well as in our homes and gardens with the way we decorate, entertain, and live. Of course style – and trends – are subjective, not to mention a subject of heated discussion – but each of the trends we discuss for the year...
Anecdotal Evidence
Kenneth C. Kurp 1955-2024
My brother died Saturday afternoon in the hospice in Cleveland, Ohio where he spent the last two...
3 months ago
My brother died Saturday afternoon in the hospice in Cleveland, Ohio where he spent the last two weeks of his life. He was age sixty-nine. I was with him as was his son, Abraham Kurp. I watched as his eyes closed and he stopped breathing. There was another sense, too, of a sudden...
Rest of World -...
How China’s hottest social media app turned Düsseldorf into a foodie destination
The trendiest food city in Europe isn’t Paris or London. It’s Düsseldorf — thanks to Xiaohongshu.
a year ago
The trendiest food city in Europe isn’t Paris or London. It’s Düsseldorf — thanks to Xiaohongshu.
Noahpinion
Argentina's macroeconomic situation is even worse up close
A guest post by Karl T. Muth
a year ago
A guest post by Karl T. Muth
TheCollector
10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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3 weeks ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Serverless Machine Learning at Google
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over a year ago
The Works in...
The road from serfdom
Using opt-ins to reform Russia's backwards tsarist agricultural sector
9 months ago
Using opt-ins to reform Russia's backwards tsarist agricultural sector
Handprinted - Blog
Making a Copper Sulphate Mordant Solution
Copper sulphate is a non-toxic mordant used to etch aluminium, zinc and steel plates for intaglio...
a year ago
Copper sulphate is a non-toxic mordant used to etch aluminium, zinc and steel plates for intaglio printmaking. Copper sulphate is a safer alternative to acids - and we always opt for safer solutions here at the Handprinted studio!
Metal plates are traditionally etched using...
Society's Backend
What Makes Machine Learning so Hard for Software Engineers
How decades of learning a mindset makes adapting difficult
4 months ago
How decades of learning a mindset makes adapting difficult
TheCollector
What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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7 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Use of Letters
As Mark Twain said, a person who won't read has no real advantage over a person who can't read. It...
a year ago
As Mark Twain said, a person who won't read has no real advantage over a person who can't read. It makes no sense to refuse to learn vicariously.
Seth's Blog
The useful agreement
Contrary to expectations, written contracts don’t have to be adversarial. In fact, the effective...
a year ago
Contrary to expectations, written contracts don’t have to be adversarial. In fact, the effective ones rarely are. When you hand someone a release, a royalty agreement or even a partnership document, it pays to point out the gnarly parts, the controversial bits and the ones that...
Rest of World -...
To connect disparate tech scenes, Brazil, Mozambique, and Angola show language is a great unifier
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Musings on Markets
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As we get deeper into earnings season for the third quarter of 2022, the biggest negative surprises...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Words
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Chap Who Doesn't Care Much About Anything'
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Below the
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Earth. They spend 90 percent of their time in trees, even sleeping in leafy
nests. No wonder...
The Marginalian
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The Codist
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Then, one
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Haiku
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Ken Shirriff's blog
The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive
While repairing an eight-inch HP floppy drive, we found that the problem was a broken interface...
a year ago
While repairing an eight-inch HP floppy drive, we found that the problem was a broken interface chip.
Since the chip was bad, I decapped it and took photos.
This chip is very unusual: instead of a silicon substrate, the chip is formed on
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Where To Eat And Drink In Croydon
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam
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The Rational Walk
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Simply Explained
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Posts on Made of...
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Good Enough
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even if they...
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We’re building some software where we’d like to display avatars for email contacts
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email addresses in that...
Left To Write
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Articles - Alex...
The ageism in advertising
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possessed. We crave it in our...
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The advertising industry is addicted to youth. We are obsessed and
possessed. We crave it in our agencies and we covet it in our audiences. We
believe younger staff are more creative and younger consumers are more
valuable. But this is nothing more than received wisdom....
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The Pull Request
A brief and biased history.
Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now
– GitHub blog, Sat,
23 Feb 2008
When...
3 months ago
A brief and biased history.
Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now
– GitHub blog, Sat,
23 Feb 2008
When GitHub launched, it had no code review.
Three
years after launch, in 2011, GitHub user rtomayko
became the first person to make a real code comment, which read, in
full:...
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Tinloof - Blog
PWA: What it is and why you should try it
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Map of the Week
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Strangling your service with a Kubernetes misconfiguration
This is a quick story about a fun discovery that I made a while ago.
For legal reasons, all of this...
over a year ago
This is a quick story about a fun discovery that I made a while ago.
For legal reasons, all of this is made up and no such service ever existed.
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Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal
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Passing Time
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Handprinted - Blog
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If you're thinking about ordering a custom screen with us, we need your artwork to the...
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If you're thinking about ordering a custom screen with us, we need your artwork to the specifications laid out in this blog post.
First, these are the technical specifications we require
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Seth's Blog
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Left To Write
№ 64: How I Make A V60 Pourover Coffee
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Bacchus continues his reign of terror in Canto IV of Metamorphoses
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So what if you want to host your...
Escaping Flatland
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A heatwave in September is unusual but not unprecedented.
Dates on which the temperature at...
a year ago
A heatwave in September is unusual but not unprecedented.
Dates on which the temperature at Hampstead reached 30°C
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2010279/10
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2012 2518
2013 13 15/16/17 221
2014 18
2015 122
2016 18/19/202413
201717/18/19/20/216
2018 5/6/7/8 15 23 25/26/272/3...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech
In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
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99% Invisible
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My Raspberry Pi Desktop
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2020-09-02
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it's...
over a year ago
My Raspberry Pi Desktop
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Ink & Switch
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In this dispatch we're sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.
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Spoon & Tamago
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Confused bit
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nanoscale views
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A Beautiful Site
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Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume...
over a year ago
Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume you're not logged in as the root user. Change example.com to your own domain/subdomain.
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Basta’s Notes
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99% Invisible
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Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her...
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Julia Evans
New playground: integer.exposed
Hello! For the last few months we’ve been working on a zine about how integers
and floating point...
a year ago
Hello! For the last few months we’ve been working on a zine about how integers
and floating point numbers work. Whenever I make a zine I like to release a
playground to go with it, like mess with dns for the DNS zine or the sql playground.
For this one, I made a simple playground...
General Robots
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I hope you don’t fail, but building a robotics company is very hard. So it's useful to study the...
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How do we know if a large language model is lying? Letting AI systems argue with each other may help...
a month ago
How do we know if a large language model is lying? Letting AI systems argue with each other may help expose the truth.
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The Thinking Cap
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On waiting for AI's Godot.
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Flashbak
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3 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
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NeuroLogica Blog
Solution Aversion Fallacy
I like to think deeply about informal logical fallacies. I write about them a lot, and even have an...
a year ago
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over a year ago
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Stoic Simple
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over a year ago
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The post The Challenge appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
The post The Challenge appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Marginalian
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In the late morning of the first day of August in 2023, exactly twenty summers after I arrived in...
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I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching
arrangements (CCSAs)....
3 months ago
I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching
arrangements (CCSAs). These could be considered an early form of products like
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same switching machines that handled the...
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Leadenhall Market Is Wrapped In Giant Purple Tentacles Again
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning
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Meaning is for 18 year olds. I'm ready for...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Jonas Hietala
2022 in review
A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice...
a year ago
A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice to see that despite a tough year I’ve done some good things.
2022 Non-Geek Achievements
We got our third child!
This time we got a girl to complement our two boys, and I love them...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Think for Yourself
over a year ago
TheCollector
4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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a year ago
A Beautiful Site
The next version of PHP may very well be 7
We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact,...
over a year ago
We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact, the project was so plagued with problems that in 2010, it was abandoned. It almost felt like PHP would be perpetually stuck at version 5.
Except now there's talk about another major...
This Space
A review from abroad
In April 2016, a review by Alexander Carnera of my book This Space of Writing appeared in the...
over a year ago
In April 2016, a review by Alexander Carnera of my book This Space of Writing appeared in the Norwegian edition of Le Monde diplomatique as a supplement to the delightfully named Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen. Even though I can't read Danish, it was not only a highlight of the...
TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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a year ago
Londonist
London On Fire: Paintings Of The Blitz By The Firefighters Who Were There
City's darkest hour captured in vivid paint.
a year ago
City's darkest hour captured in vivid paint.
The Beauty of...
Never(?) Decreasing Circles (Railtrack/Network Rail major station logos, UK (continued))
One of the most enduringly popular articles on this website (at least in terms of clicks and...
3 weeks ago
One of the most enduringly popular articles on this website (at least in terms of clicks and re-posts) is a very early one, from 2013. It concerns the graphic identities created for Railtrack’s major stations by Citigate Lloyd Northover. These ones… Firstly – have I really been...
Anecdotal Evidence
'As Sensitive As Anyone Else'
“In common
with James Jones, Gina Berriault knows that ill-educated or inarticulate people
are as...
8 months ago
“In common
with James Jones, Gina Berriault knows that ill-educated or inarticulate people
are as sensitive as anyone else. She renders their speech with a fine and
subtle ear for the shy or strident inaccuracies, for the bewilderment of missed
points and for the dim, sad rhythms...
Strange Loop Canon
Disruption starts at the margins, but doesn't stop there
Contra Hoel on AI and its supply paradox
a year ago
Contra Hoel on AI and its supply paradox
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #7
The second full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen drilling continue on the Stratford...
a month ago
The second full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen drilling continue on the Stratford side, both under and beside the flyover. A third lane is already substantially carved out at the end of Stratford High Street. Below we see a broad curve where grey concrete block...
Math Is Still...
Tiny Tweaks to Neurons Can Rewire Animal Motion
Altering a protein in the neurons that coordinate a rattlesnake’s movement made a slow slither...
9 months ago
Altering a protein in the neurons that coordinate a rattlesnake’s movement made a slow slither neuron more like a speedy rattle neuron, showing one way evolution can generate new ways of moving.
The post Tiny Tweaks to Neurons Can Rewire Animal Motion first appeared...
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Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit...
a year ago
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit today. I am now taking Latent Space (the new name enabled by the previous owner of that domain selling it to me in my first P2P domain purchase) a lot more seriously with the support...
Maps Mania
⅓ of Rafah’s Buildings Destroyed
8 months ago
Dominik Sobe's...
Feedback, acquisition offer and the journey to product-market fit
over a year ago
Londonist
The Grant Museum Of Zoology Is Reopening Very Soon
And yes, the jar of moles will still be there.
10 months ago
And yes, the jar of moles will still be there.
Seth's Blog
Perfect pavement
Paving the ground might be an option. Pavement is invisible to the driver. It’s expected, smooth,...
6 months ago
Paving the ground might be an option. Pavement is invisible to the driver. It’s expected, smooth, resilient and gets out of the way. You only notice a road when it’s not paved well. Nature, on the other hand, is never perfect. All untouched forests are natural, yet each is...
Computer Things
TLA from first principles
No Newsletter next week
I'll be speaking at USENIX SRECon!
TLA from first principles
I'm working on...
2 months ago
No Newsletter next week
I'll be speaking at USENIX SRECon!
TLA from first principles
I'm working on v0.5 of Logic for Programmers. In the process of revising the "System Modeling" chapter, I stumbled on a great way to explain the temporal logic of actions that TLA+ is based on....
TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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6 months ago
Rest of World -...
The augmented-reality app helping Muslims pray toward Mecca
Miqat uses 360-degree views and mapping software to help users determine the exact right direction...
2 months ago
Miqat uses 360-degree views and mapping software to help users determine the exact right direction for their prayers.
Mazdak
Free Press or Bezos Press? The Washington Post Stays Silent
This episode examines the Washington Post's controversial decision to no longer endorse presidential...
a month ago
This episode examines the Washington Post's controversial decision to no longer endorse presidential candidates, a move that has sparked outrage and accusations of cowardice, especially given the perceived threat to democracy posed by one of the candidates.
David Perell
Saving the Liberal Arts
We start with their history by returning to the origins of Western thought. We argue that splitting...
over a year ago
We start with their history by returning to the origins of Western thought. We argue that splitting education into two halves — Professional and Civilized — is the only way to think about education clearly. We then outline the evolution of the Liberal Arts, from the ancients to...
abdz.do - Have you...
Blueshift Collective: Where NFT Meets Creativity
Blueshift Collective: Where NFT Meets Creativity
abduzeedo0214—23
...
a year ago
Blueshift Collective: Where NFT Meets Creativity
abduzeedo0214—23
Are you tired of the same old NFT collections that feature the same type of art over and over again? Look no further than the Blueshift Collective - a free and open NFT...
99% Invisible
De Fiets is Niets [EPISODE]
Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more...
a year ago
Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. The country has more than 20,000 miles of dedicated cycling paths. International policymakers make pilgrimages to the Netherlands...
Tom Blomfield
Taking Risk
I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities;...
7 months ago
I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities; Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College. Along with UCL, these British universities represent 4 of the top 10 universities in the world. The US - a country with 5x more people and...
Old Structures...
I’m Fairly Sure
The Library of Congress calls this 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto “View of children playing on sand...
6 months ago
The Library of Congress calls this 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto “View of children playing on sand and dirt mound near stone structure and construction materials” which is nice and descriptive. They use that kind of title when no one was certain what the subject of the photo is....
Map of the Week
Where Your Christmas Tree Comes From
A recent map on maps.com (an Esri run map site) by Joshua Stevens shows where Christmas trees are...
a year ago
A recent map on maps.com (an Esri run map site) by Joshua Stevens shows where Christmas trees are grown.
The data is from the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Each tree shaped spike represents a county. The most significant areas are in Oregon and North Carolina. If you click on...
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Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning
My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
over a year ago
My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory:
Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
3 months ago
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, September 2024
The Ware for September 2024 is shown below: This ware was a gift, but I won’t credit the donor until...
2 months ago
The Ware for September 2024 is shown below: This ware was a gift, but I won’t credit the donor until the solution is revealed, because the credit itself might give a clue about the ware. My first reaction to seeing this board is: “this thing has a high BOM cost”. My second...
Posts on Made of...
Regular Expression Search with Suffix Arrays
Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had...
over a year ago
Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had worked, using a trigram index.
By that point, I’d already implemented early versions of my own livegrep source-code search engine, using a different indexing approach that I...
Home on Erik...
Waiting time, load factor, and queueing theory: why you need to cut your systems a bit of slack
I've been reading up on operations research lately, including queueing theory. It started out as a...
over a year ago
I've been reading up on operations research lately, including queueing theory. It started out as a way to understand the very complex mortgage process (I work at a mortgage startup) but it's turned into my little hammer and now I see nails everywhere.
Arduino Blog
Adding proximity unlock to an old car with the Arduino Nano 33 BLE
A lot of newer cars have a really nifty feature called “proximity unlock,” which automatically...
5 months ago
A lot of newer cars have a really nifty feature called “proximity unlock,” which automatically unlocks the doors when the driver approaches while carrying their key fob. When paired with a push-to-start ignition switch, the driver never has to take their keys out of their pocket....
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 5
Happy Thanksgiving!
Here in Durham, it is close to perfect. Clear skies and heading toward 57°;...
a year ago
Happy Thanksgiving!
Here in Durham, it is close to perfect. Clear skies and heading toward 57°; the aroma of holiday fireplaces is drifting through the neighborhood.
Tonight, we’ll be enjoying a special treat — a holiday sherry cocktail, the Sherry Flip. It’s simple to...
Mazdak
Tesla Cybertruck beats a Porsche 911 while towing a 911 🫡👀
a year ago
Both Are True
Let go AND let god?
seems like a lot no?
3 months ago
computers are bad
2023-06-12 radio on the tv
Like many people in my generation, my memories of youth are heavily defined by
cable television. I...
a year ago
Like many people in my generation, my memories of youth are heavily defined by
cable television. I was fortunate enough to have a premium cable package in
my childhood home, Comcast's early digital service based on Motorola equipment.
It included a perk that fascinated me but...
TheCollector
What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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a month ago
Maggie Appleton
Testing Apps with Cypress
over a year ago
TheCollector
“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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11 months ago
Mark Manson
How to Make Friends as an Adult
Romantic relationships get all the attention, but I'd argue that friendships are just as...
a year ago
Romantic relationships get all the attention, but I'd argue that friendships are just as important—if not more so—for our health and happiness.
Just like with romantic relationships, creating fulfilling, lasting friendships as an adult can be really hard.
But… Why?
I mean, sure,...
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 26
The Power of Meeting Weirdos
a year ago
The Power of Meeting Weirdos
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Old Collections Persist Somewhere'
Speaking of
anthologies, I again picked up Books and
Libraries (2021), published as part of the...
a year ago
Speaking of
anthologies, I again picked up Books and
Libraries (2021), published as part of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Series. I’ve browsed in several of these attractively compact volumes and they are
a very mixed bag, as any thematic anthology must be. You can sense...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding
over a year ago
Ralph Ammer
Bergson — Why we live in the past
Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson...
2 months ago
Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson claims that this is not even possible. 1. Perception is physical First of all: How do we perceive the “current moment” anyway? Bergson suggests that the whole point of perception is...
bt RSS Feed
CSS Video Backgrounds
CSS Video Backgrounds
2018-04-16
With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3,...
over a year ago
CSS Video Backgrounds
2018-04-16
With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3, developers now have the ability to support background videos (mp4 support only - at the time of this article) with pure CSS.
Example:
.video-background {
background-image:...
Christopher Butler
Friction Can Be Good
Something I have noticed as content, software, and product design have attempted to eradicate...
a year ago
Something I have noticed as content, software, and product design have attempted to eradicate friction is that friction is not necessarily a bad thing.
Friction is a part of everyday life. It comes from the difference between one thing and another — the encounter of two things....
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Open-ended Project'
Two writers
separated by language, experience and two and a half centuries make...
10 months ago
Two writers
separated by language, experience and two and a half centuries make complementary
observations about memory. Here is Dr. Johnson in The Idler essay he published on this date, February 17, in 1759:
“The two
offices of memory are collection and distribution; by one...
Seth's Blog
Surprise and uncertainty
Until just recently, a solar eclipse wasn’t a tourist event. It was the cause of real panic. Two...
8 months ago
Until just recently, a solar eclipse wasn’t a tourist event. It was the cause of real panic. Two reasons that are worth considering: Eliminate surprise and explain the circumstances and panic starts to fade.
TheCollector
What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Taking time to reflect
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over a year ago
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It’s been a while since my last blog post, and I’ve recently been pondering why
that may be.
It’s not that I’ve been doing less than when I was regularly blogging, it’s in
fact quite
Retail Design Blog
Rice to Riches by Wid Chapman Architects
With the new Lower East Side-location of Rice to Riches, the Wid Chapman Architects were tasked with...
7 months ago
With the new Lower East Side-location of Rice to Riches, the Wid Chapman Architects were tasked with reimagining an iconic...
The Modern House
How a love of Japan and the 1970s shaped Sherrill Smith’s Hackney home
a year ago
The Marginalian
Albert Camus on Writing and the Importance of Stubbornness in Creative Work
"There is no greatness without a little stubbornness... Works of art are not born in flashes of...
a year ago
"There is no greatness without a little stubbornness... Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in a daily fidelity."
One from Nippon
The World's First App Store
Editor’s Note: This article ends on a cliffhanger. The next part goes out in a week.
I will start...
a year ago
Editor’s Note: This article ends on a cliffhanger. The next part goes out in a week.
I will start with an honest admission. I didn’t set out to write about the world’s first app store. I set out to write about Brother printers.
But
Ralph Ammer
The Book of Change
Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book.
The post The Book...
over a year ago
Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book.
The post The Book of Change appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
The Pragmatic...
The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
The bank serving half of all VC-funded startups in the US and UK collapsed more or less overnight....
a year ago
The bank serving half of all VC-funded startups in the US and UK collapsed more or less overnight. How did it play out, and what are the next steps for startups?
Stephen Diehl
FTX: Greed, Grift and Grandiosity
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Muse: Designing a studio for ideas
Physical workspaces inspire a fast, fluid digital tool for creative thinking.
over a year ago
Physical workspaces inspire a fast, fluid digital tool for creative thinking.
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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7 months ago
devonzuegel.com
Book notes: Against the Grain, by James C. Scott
Here are some notes and quotes that particularly stood out to me from each chapter of Against the...
over a year ago
Here are some notes and quotes that particularly stood out to me from each chapter of Against the Grain. This isn't a summary of the book. It's mostly for my future self to refer back to (and thus probably missing a lot for someone who hasn't read it), but the tidbits are so...
Maggie Appleton
Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards
over a year ago
Letters of Note
Into Eternity
Born in the Czech Republic in 1904, Vilma Grünwald was 39 years old when she wrote a final letter to...
a year ago
Born in the Czech Republic in 1904, Vilma Grünwald was 39 years old when she wrote a final letter to her husband, Kurt. They had been held at Auschwitz with their two sons for 7 months, separated for much of their ordeal following a stint in a “family camp” that was soon...
Mazdak
The Ultimate Small Business Hiring Guide
How to Find the Right Fit for Your Team
2 months ago
How to Find the Right Fit for Your Team
diamond geezer
Unblogged 1984
31 unblogged things I did in December 1984
They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago,...
3 days ago
31 unblogged things I did in December 1984
They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago, indeed my Sinclair ZX81 wasn't capable of much, but here are 31 things I didn't digitally publish at the time. To help you get your bearings I was 19 and December featured one week...
Seth's Blog
Consider the WordWindow
Computer adventure games were possible in the 1980s because of a bit of code called a ‘parser’. You...
a year ago
Computer adventure games were possible in the 1980s because of a bit of code called a ‘parser’. You could type, “pick up the axe” and the computer would understand the phrase and follow your commands. In italics, because it didn’t understand anything, it simple broke your...
Mazdak
Block, TikTok & Beyond
From Block's latest moves to TikTok's impact on the music industry, we explore the trends shaping...
a month ago
From Block's latest moves to TikTok's impact on the music industry, we explore the trends shaping our digital world.
SatPost by Trung...
How Hermès Sells "Time"
The ~$250B French luxury giant creates the most sought after leather bags through craftsmanship,...
10 months ago
The ~$250B French luxury giant creates the most sought after leather bags through craftsmanship, heritage and long-term thinking.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Platform distribution risks
When your product extends a platform’s functionality, one of the main risks you face is that the...
over a year ago
When your product extends a platform’s functionality, one of the main risks you face is that the platform could embed your product’s key…
Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Madder Cutch & Co.
We are screen printers. We presume everyone knows that this is pushing ink through a mesh, which has...
over a year ago
We are screen printers. We presume everyone knows that this is pushing ink through a mesh, which has a pattern on it, using a squeegee. In our case, the screen and squeegee are quite big!
We print linen by the metre and it is mainly used for home decorations, including...
TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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a year ago
diamond geezer
The Bridge To Somewhere
In the middle of Burgess Park is an old and seemingly pointless bridge. It's red, it crosses nothing...
a year ago
In the middle of Burgess Park is an old and seemingly pointless bridge. It's red, it crosses nothing worse than a footpath and you can walk/scoot/cycle past at ground level alongside its entire length. It need not be here and yet it is, and what's more it's just been repaired,...
Escaping Flatland
Having a shit blog has made me feel abundant
From Giacometti’s sketch book
3 months ago
From Giacometti’s sketch book
./techtipsy
I've reached the self-hosting endgame
Setup
After I had a perfectly functional, quiet and performant server up and running, I fell
victim...
over a year ago
Setup
After I had a perfectly functional, quiet and performant server up and running, I fell
victim to my imagination and completely changed my self-hosting setup. Again.
Here it is, in all its glory:
Well, at least that’s what’s on the table.
This machine is a true all-in-one:...
NeuroLogica Blog
Using Plants as Biofactories
When you think about it, plants are self-reproducing solar-powered biological factories. They are...
a year ago
When you think about it, plants are self-reproducing solar-powered biological factories. They are powered by the sun, extract raw material from the air and soil, and make all sorts of useful molecules. Mostly we use them to make edible molecules (food), but also to make textiles,...
David Heinemeier...
Enough problems to go around
The worst kind of company is usually not the one where there's too much real work to do, but the...
8 months ago
The worst kind of company is usually not the one where there's too much real work to do, but the kind where there's not enough. It's in this realm the real monsters appear. Without enough real problems to go around, humans are prone to invent fictitious and dreadful ones.
This...
Probably...
Think Python Goes to Production
Think Python has moved into production, on schedule for the official publication date in July — but...
9 months ago
Think Python has moved into production, on schedule for the official publication date in July — but maybe earlier if things go well. To celebrate, I have posted the next batch of chapters on the new site, up through Chapter 12, which is about Markov text analysis and generation,...
Rest of World -...
How RRR’s success brought a wave of Telugu-language movies to Netflix
Netflix in the U.S. now has more content in Telugu than in German, Russian, or any dialect of...
8 months ago
Netflix in the U.S. now has more content in Telugu than in German, Russian, or any dialect of Chinese.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Cool Facts About Health Insurance Enrollment with Aleka Gurel | Out-Of-Pocket
Tis the season
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Occasion for Festive Processions"
“Others will
balk at his sometimes extravagant vocabulary; words such as ‘amphisbaenic’ or ‘labarum’...
5 months ago
“Others will
balk at his sometimes extravagant vocabulary; words such as ‘amphisbaenic’ or ‘labarum’ or
‘ithyphallic’ will send them ‘scurrying’ to their dictionaries (why do they
always ‘scurry’ or even ‘scuttle’? A new word, rightly used, should be an
occasion for festive...
Strange Loop Canon
Power, money and human nature
Thoughts on OpenAI, a tragedy
a year ago
Thoughts on OpenAI, a tragedy
Retail Design Blog
Casa LOEWE
Following no less than eight shop-in-shops at leading department stores across Seoul, the time was...
4 months ago
Following no less than eight shop-in-shops at leading department stores across Seoul, the time was right for Spanish luxury brand...
Notes on software...
On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul
I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly
and after growing up in a...
over a year ago
I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly
and after growing up in a rural community a few hours west of
there. My wife is South Korean and last week concluded my second trip
to the suburbs of Seoul to visit her family. We finished up that trip
with a...
Escaping Flatland
Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing
I began emailing essays into the void on 30 May 2021, 53 days before Rebecka, our youngest daughter...
6 months ago
I began emailing essays into the void on 30 May 2021, 53 days before Rebecka, our youngest daughter was born. This writing experiment has followed roughly the same trajectory as the baby. In 2021, Escaping Flatland's prime achievement was putting a few toys in its mouth (a...
Alice GG
How to publish your Godot game on Mac
Since 2019, Apple has required all MacOS software to be signed and notarized.
This is meant to...
3 months ago
Since 2019, Apple has required all MacOS software to be signed and notarized.
This is meant to prevent naive users from installing malware while running software from unknown sources.
Since this process is convoluted, it stops many indie game developers from releasing their Godot...
Adventures In...
Blend Mode Helper
Blend modes can be a complex thing to wrap one’s head around. Experimentation is the best teacher,...
a year ago
Blend modes can be a complex thing to wrap one’s head around. Experimentation is the best teacher, but even then there are lots of variabilities involved, depending on the layer you use to experiment. The Blend Mode Helper Map (and its constituent Blend Mode Helper layer) reduces...
Applied Cartography
Why your marketing site should be separate
In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we...
3 months ago
In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we serve buttondown.com both as a marketing site (public-facing, Next/Vercel, largely just content pushed by non-developers) and an author-facing app (behind a login, Django/Heroku/Vue)...
davidyat.es
Syntax highlighting with render hooks
2 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
Overhanging Plants Surround The Exterior Of This Home
Niraj Doshi Design Consultancy has sent us photos of a home they completed in the neighborhood of...
a year ago
Niraj Doshi Design Consultancy has sent us photos of a home they completed in the neighborhood of Pune, India that has abundant greenery. To complement the surrounding neighborhood, they designed the house to have planters that line the exterior. The planters help the home merge...
diamond geezer
London's triple points
There are six points around the Greater London boundary where three counties...
a year ago
There are six points around the Greater London boundary where three counties meet.
London/Kent/Surrey
Specifically: Biggin Hill/Westerham/Tatsfield
Location: Rag Hill
To get here take a walk along the quiet twisty country lane that wends between Tatsfield Green and the...
Vadim Kravcenko
📈 The Toxic Grind
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
over a year ago
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […]
The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cortex
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This is why artists and mathematicians were ahead...
5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This is why artists and mathematicians were ahead of the curve on madness. You are all us now.
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Applied Cartography
Applied Cartography × People & Blogs
There are few pleasures greater than getting to be profiled for an interview series that you've been...
2 months ago
There are few pleasures greater than getting to be profiled for an interview series that you've been reading for months, and last week I got to do exactly that.
To browse Manu's site — not just this interview series — feels a bit like walking on a quiet beach in autumn: there's a...
The Honest Broker
How Songs Created Western Rational Thinking
And Socrates sends me on a mad chase into the wild world of musical dreams
a year ago
And Socrates sends me on a mad chase into the wild world of musical dreams
Josh Comeau's blog
Hands-Free Coding
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately,...
over a year ago
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
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