Confessions of a...
All Set! Looking Under the Hood of Python's Set Data Structure
Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
6 months ago
Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
xkcd.com
Data Quality
[last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] ->...
a year ago
[last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] -> [photo of your cat] -> [clone of your cat] -> [your actual cat] -> [my better cat]" alt="[exclamation about how cute your cat is] -> [last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your...
Daniel Miessler
NO. 358 | NEWS, ANALYSIS & DISCOVERY
๐ฆ We're doing our second-ever discount on UL Membership starting the day after Thanksgiving. But...
over a year ago
๐ฆ We're doing our second-ever discount on UL Membership starting the day after Thanksgiving. But that's a Friday, so I'm going to enable the discount link earlier. How early, and how much of a discount? You'll have to find out. If the link works before the date, then it's...
Society's Backend
How to Know if Your Data is Being Used Maliciously
The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
a year ago
The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
Louwrentius
IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor
This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with...
a year ago
This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with a $290 air quality monitor made by Dylos to see if it's any good.
Context
If you care about indoor air quality, you may already own a CO2 to determine if it's time to ventilate...
Marcus on AI
๐ผ๐ฏ โ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐โ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐บ ๐บ๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ: ๐๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ ๐ด๐ผ๐...
Kevin Roose, of Hard Fork and NYT, was so impressed with OpenAIโs rollout that he joked โof course...
a week ago
Kevin Roose, of Hard Fork and NYT, was so impressed with OpenAIโs rollout that he joked โof course they have to announce AGI the day my vacation startsโ.
Liz Denys
Printable shrinkage rulers
Clay shrinks as it dries and even more as it's fired, so it's useful to have a way to estimate the...
3 months ago
Clay shrinks as it dries and even more as it's fired, so it's useful to have a way to estimate the final size of in-progress work - especially if you're making multiples or trying to fit pieces together. One way to do this is with shrinkage rulers. I figured I'd design my own...
Contemporist...
This Prefab Home Was Installed On The Property In Just One Day
BIO-architects together with DublDom, have sent us photos of their latest project, DUB, a modular...
a year ago
BIO-architects together with DublDom, have sent us photos of their latest project, DUB, a modular single-family home in Russia.
Explorations of an...
2022 Part 5: October, November, December (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand)
October
I was only home from Peru for a week when it was time to leave on the next adventure. While...
a year ago
October
I was only home from Peru for a week when it was time to leave on the next adventure. While Laura jetted off to Scotland to attend a friend's wedding, I flew to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, located on the island of Borneo to lead a tour for Worldwide Quest. I really enjoyed...
One Useful Thing
A quick and sobering guide to cloning yourself
It took me a few minutes to create a fake me giving a fake lecture.
a year ago
It took me a few minutes to create a fake me giving a fake lecture.
mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 2
Highlights I learned a few techniques that make it easier for me to record videos for my course....
4 months ago
Highlights I learned a few techniques that make it easier for me to record videos for my course. Iโve decided I donโt need to use a Merchant of Record service. Iโve integrated htmx into my standard toolkit for making web applications. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
a year ago
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
journal โ Winnie Lim
did i just do my first pull-up?
Wanted to write a note but I guess this warrants a proper post since Iโve completed my main...
7 months ago
Wanted to write a note but I guess this warrants a proper post since Iโve completed my main aspiration for 2024! Today while trying our home pull-up bar I realised I could...
Moneyness
Elon Musk's understanding of payments dates back to his PayPal days. It needs an update
[This is a republication of my most recent CoinDesk opinion piece.]
You've
heard the script...
a year ago
[This is a republication of my most recent CoinDesk opinion piece.]
You've
heard the script before. Migrants need to make payments back home to
their family, but cross-border payments are achingly slow, taking days
to process. Luckily, revolutionary new technologies like...
Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
9 months ago
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
Fonts In Use: Blog...
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source:ย www.worthpoint.comย License: All Rights Reserved.
On...
over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source:ย www.worthpoint.comย License: All Rights Reserved.
On July 5th, 1852 (168 years ago today) Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to 500โ600 people in the Corinthian Hall of Rochester, New York. The speech, preceded by a reading of the...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Turkish Airlines Launches New Flights to Istanbul From Detroit
a year ago
Home on Erik...
It's called Berkson's paradox!
As noted by multiple tweets, my previous post describes a phenomenon denoted Berkson's...
over a year ago
As noted by multiple tweets, my previous post describes a phenomenon denoted Berkson's paradox.
Here's another example: Why Are Handsome Men Such Jerks?
diamond geezer
The temperature post
The temperature post
19.6ยฐC at Kinlochewe.
Kinlochewe is a village in NW Scotland, about halfway...
11 months ago
The temperature post
19.6ยฐC at Kinlochewe.
Kinlochewe is a village in NW Scotland, about halfway between Skye and Inverness. It sits at the head of a loch and is also surrounded on three sides by mountains, so is precisely the sort of place where the Fรถhn effect might boost...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome)
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this...
over a year ago
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this need came the role of product engineer. They are aโฆ
Notes on software...
Obsession
In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having...
4 months ago
In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having something in mind and the desire to do it. Yet the natural way to deal with a desire to do something is to justify why it's not possible.
"I want to read more books but nobody reads...
Flashbak
Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 โ 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collierโs photographs of New York City in the late...
4 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collierโs photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
TheCollector
How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
undefined
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Agency problems
โAgency problemsโ are what economists call situations where a personโs interests diverge from his or...
over a year ago
โAgency problemsโ are what economists call situations where a personโs interests diverge from his or her firmโs interests. Large companiesโฆ
Ben Borgers
Designing Posters for Humans
over a year ago
The Modern House
Scene Stealers: seven rural homes with spectacular surroundings
Weโve all found ourselves daydreaming of life in the country โ growing your own fruit and veg, wild...
a year ago
Weโve all found ourselves daydreaming of life in the country โ growing your own fruit and veg, wild swimming, enjoying a glass of red by a cosy log fireโฆ But if thatโs never been quite enough to inspire you to take the plunge, the homes [โฆ]
Seth's Blog
Elites (vs. elitism)
Tom Brady is an elite athlete. Few have even approached the stats he had playing football. And...
4 weeks 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. Thereโs a...
TheCollector
What Is First Corinthians About?
undefined
a month ago
Mazdak
Don't Let Savings Turn into Penalties: Understanding RRSP and TFSA Contribution Limits
Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) are cornerstones...
10 months ago
Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) are cornerstones of Canadian financial planning. Both offer distinct advantages for saving and investing, but exceeding their annual contribution limits can lead to unwanted financial consequences.
Transit Maps
Submission โ Official Map: Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Map at Bergenline Avenue Station
Submitted by Kara, who says: At the (extremely cool) Bergenline Avenue station, [my partner and I]...
a year ago
Submitted by Kara, who says: At the (extremely cool) Bergenline Avenue station, [my partner and I] stumbled across this official map that Iโd never seen before, depicting both the HBLR and the PATH! It was actually all over that station, and itโs definitely a relatively old map,...
journal โ Winnie Lim
practicing is also a practice
Most skills if not all requires practice. Recently I realised to be capable of the discipline and...
a year ago
Most skills if not all requires practice. Recently I realised to be capable of the discipline and regularity that practicing needs, is a practicable skill too. We think ofย disciplineย as some inherent character...
Retail Design Blog
Bronx Childrenโs Museum by OโNeill McVoy Architects
Located on the banks of the Harlem River, the Bronx Childrenโs Museum aims to engage children with...
5 months ago
Located on the banks of the Harlem River, the Bronx Childrenโs Museum aims to engage children with the connectivity of...
Renegade Otter
Getting our focus back
โWe was robbedโฆโ
Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
a year ago
โWe was robbedโฆโ
Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to
improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the
nine unmonetized glances.
An...
Jim Nielsenโs Blog
โThe macOS App Icon Bookโ IRL
Guess what I received in the mail today?
You likely guessed it from the title, but Iโll say it...
11 months ago
Guess what I received in the mail today?
You likely guessed it from the title, but Iโll say it anyway: The macOS App Icon Book.
(If you didnโt catch it, Iโve written previously about my contribution to its prequel.)
This one got funded on Kickstarter a few months back and,...
Maps Mania
Alien Arrivals Nosedive in 2023!
10 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Cobot Proxie
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
Humanoids Summit: 11โ12 December...
Retail Design Blog
Parkway Clinic by AsNow
The interior design of the Parkway office project with a small area 85 square meters and an...
7 months ago
The interior design of the Parkway office project with a small area 85 square meters and an amorphous geometry was...
Castles in the Sky
Confronting and Embracing the Void | A Review of The Stranger by Albert Camus
Castles in the Sky #36
a year ago
Old Structures...
Pro Tip, As They Say
A slightly-redacted photo from a Brooklyn site visit, showing a diagram on the wall in a maintenance...
2 months ago
A slightly-redacted photo from a Brooklyn site visit, showing a diagram on the wall in a maintenance room: No one I spoke to had floor plans of any kind for the building. I knew it had a steel frame but not where the interior columns were. And then, during a site visit, a handy...
Seth's Blog
Amplifying the fringes
Culture is: โPeople like us do things like this.โ We might even have a chance to choose our group....
2 months ago
Culture is: โPeople like us do things like this.โ We might even have a chance to choose our group. Hipsters do this, hippies do that. People in this town wear this outfit, students at this school hang out here on Saturdaysโฆ We might be born into a culture. Less agency, but just...
James Cheshire
The long history of using maps to hold water companies toย account
James Cheshire, UCL Southern Water was handed a record fine of ยฃ90 million in July 2021 after...
over a year ago
James Cheshire, UCL Southern Water was handed a record fine of ยฃ90 million in July 2021 after pleading guilty to illegally discharging sewage along the rivers and coastline of Kent, Hampshire and Sussex. More than a year later, the headlines have not improved for Britainโs...
Jonas Hietala
November Theme: Art Game
Back over at The Experimental Gameplay Project a new theme has come up. My last three themes havenโt...
over a year ago
Back over at The Experimental Gameplay Project a new theme has come up. My last three themes havenโt been โmyโ themes: Iโve been following their lead and their themes and this month is no exception. This monthsโ apparently a big theme - Art. Itโs even a collaboration with a big...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Extreme Off-Road
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
Humanoids 2024: 22โ24 November...
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
undefined
a month ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential PostHog apps for new users
PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. Theyโre powerful because they...
over a year ago
PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. Theyโre powerful because they can do almost anything โ and theyโre hard toโฆ
FIRE v London
Jan โ24: A giant tax bill lands
One of several highlights for me in January was visiting Salisbury cathedral, which I did on an...
10 months ago
One of several highlights for me in January was visiting Salisbury cathedral, which I did on an impulse while travelling back from the Coastal Folly. My main frame of reference to the cathedral being those notorious Russian nerve agent assassins citing it as their reason for...
Retail Design Blog
Sidewalk Bakehouse and Cafe by Forearch Studios
In Lucknow, retro chic meets modern pulse at Sidewalk Bakehouse & Cafรฉ In the sphere of hospitality,...
2 months ago
In Lucknow, retro chic meets modern pulse at Sidewalk Bakehouse & Cafรฉ In the sphere of hospitality, where does the...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Embark on Epic Adventures in the British Virgin Islands
a year ago
Marian's Blog
BTduino
BTduino is an Android app that lets you add a custom bluetooth interface to your Arduino project...
over a year ago
BTduino is an Android app that lets you add a custom bluetooth interface to your Arduino project without any programming on the Android side.
Everything is better with bluetooth! Here are some examples:
Download
Android APK file Android 4.0 or higher is...
Julia Evans
How HEAD works in git
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they
were that they...
10 months ago
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they
were that they understood how HEAD works in Git. The results (out of 1700
votes) were a little surprising to me:
10% โ100%โ
36% โpretty confidentโ
39% โsomewhat confident?โ
15% โliterally no ideaโ
I was...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How rollup-plugin-svelte Works
Svelte is often thought of as a compiler. But really it is a compiler within a bundler.
over a year ago
Svelte is often thought of as a compiler. But really it is a compiler within a bundler.
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
TheCollector
Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythologyโs Greatest Warrior
undefined
a year ago
Noahpinion
Let us pause to appreciate the remarkable U.S. economy
It really doesn't get much better than this, folks.
3 months ago
It really doesn't get much better than this, folks.
The Modern House
Views From Above: five homes that celebrate Londonโs skyline
Seen from on high, Londonโs shifting cityscape never ceases to fascinate โ a patchwork of man-made...
9 months ago
Seen from on high, Londonโs shifting cityscape never ceases to fascinate โ a patchwork of man-made shapes interrupted by so many pockets of green. No matter the weather, a view from above brings out the distinct colour and characteristics of each neighbourhood, encouraging you to...
Making software...
Setting Up a Free SSL
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
over a year ago
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol.
Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
undefined
4 months ago
nanoscale views
What do we want in a conference venue?
The APS March Meeting was in Las Vegas this year, and I have yet to talk to a single attendee who...
a year ago
The APS March Meeting was in Las Vegas this year, and I have yet to talk to a single attendee who liked that decision in hindsight. ย In brief, the conference venue seemed about 10% too small (severe crowding issues in hallways between sessions); while the APS deal on hotels was...
Londonist
Where To Recycle Or Dispose Of Your 2023 Christmas Tree In London
Which London boroughs recycle them?
a year ago
Which London boroughs recycle them?
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Once you take money, the clock starts ticking
One of the interesting things about having been investing in startups for a number of years is that...
over a year ago
One of the interesting things about having been investing in startups for a number of years is that at any moment you get an inside peek atโฆ
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 7-8 October 2023
Oktoberfest parties, rugby screenings, and an open day at a rather niche museum.
a year ago
Oktoberfest parties, rugby screenings, and an open day at a rather niche museum.
Louwrentius
Understanding the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Autoinstaller
Introduction
Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation...
over a year ago
Introduction
Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation process. This includes support for 'preseeding' to create unattended (automated) installations of ubuntu.
the debian installer
With the introduction of Ubuntu Server 20.04 'Focal...
Open Culture
When 20,000 Americans Held a Pro-Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939
Above, two-time Academy Award nominee Marshall Curry presents A Night at The Garden, a film that...
2 months ago
Above, two-time Academy Award nominee Marshall Curry presents A Night at The Garden, a film that revisits a night in February 1939 when โ20,000 Americans rallied in New Yorkโs Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism โ an event largely forgotten from U.S. history.โ...
Internal Tech Emails
"I'm on the edge of revolt"
I've been both a supporter and I believe friend to Google and its senior management through all...
a year ago
I've been both a supporter and I believe friend to Google and its senior management through all these years, but I must say I'm on the edge of revolt now that Google's actions are so punitive, not just for Expedia, but also for IAC and all the players that depend upon something...
Home on Erik...
Installing TensorFlow on AWS
Curious about Google's newly released TensorFlow? I don't have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some...
over a year ago
Curious about Google's newly released TensorFlow? I don't have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some time getting it to run on EC2. The steps on how to reproduce it are pretty brutal and I wouldn't recommend going through it unless you want to waste five hours of your live.
Open Culture
Hokusaiโs The Great Wave off Kanagawa Now Appears on Japanese Banknotes
If youโve lived or traveled in Japan, you know full well how much of daily life in that...
6 months ago
If youโve lived or traveled in Japan, you know full well how much of daily life in that cash-intensive society involves the use of thousand-yen bills. Once considered the equivalent of the American ten-spot, the yenโs lately having fallen to its lowest value in decades means that...
Rozadoโs Visual...
An Analysis of AI Political Preferences from a European Perspective
Introduction
2 months ago
Essays - Benedict...
Vision Pro
What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why
does it cost $3,500?...
a year ago
What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why
does it cost $3,500? Check back in 2025.
Retail Design Blog
MAAP LaB Berlin
The European retail expansion of MAAP has reached yet another major capitalโBerlin. The cycling...
4 weeks ago
The European retail expansion of MAAP has reached yet another major capitalโBerlin. The cycling apparel brand has secured a unit...
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Trams of Brisbane, Queensland, 1957
A simple but nicely drawn map of tram services in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1957. The lack...
a year ago
A simple but nicely drawn map of tram services in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1957. The lack of any sort of key for the routes means that users need to have some familiarity with the city to decipher where trams might go. The pamphlet that the map is part of includes...
Common Edge
MoMAโs Woefully Incomplete Look at Architectureโs Environmental Arc
A new exhibition is at best a limited glimpse at a critical movement.
a year ago
A new exhibition is at best a limited glimpse at a critical movement.
Louwrentius
Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault
My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with:
A bootable partition with Mac OS X...
over a year ago
My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with:
A bootable partition with Mac OS X Lion
Time machine partition (I use an external SSD as my main OS)
Bootcamp partition with windows
A data partition containg... data.
The problem is that CoreStorage is too new. Disk...
Anecdotal Evidence
'My Soul, Beyond Distant Death"
More than
any secular writer I can think of, Vladimir Nabokov hints at the existence of
an...
3 months ago
More than
any secular writer I can think of, Vladimir Nabokov hints at the existence of
an afterlife. He never preaches and makes no theological assertions. His frequent
use of the word โparadiseโ is often ambiguous, blurring its mundane,
metaphorical meaning โ an earthly place...
Retail Design Blog
thisisneverthat store by COM
Since its inception in 2010 by friends Inwook Park, Nadan Cho, and Jonkyu Choi, fashion brand...
a week ago
Since its inception in 2010 by friends Inwook Park, Nadan Cho, and Jonkyu Choi, fashion brand thisisneverthat has come a...
Epic Web Dev
React Server Components: The Future of UI (article)
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once...
6 months ago
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
Noahpinion
Is the West falling behind in science?
China is now the leader in applied physical sciences. How can the U.S. and its allies catch up?
6 months ago
China is now the leader in applied physical sciences. How can the U.S. and its allies catch up?
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Adult
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Later he awkwardly buys a beer and pours it down...
3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Later he awkwardly buys a beer and pours it down his shirt.
Today's News:
The Marginalian
From Stardust to Sapiens: A Stunning Serenade to Our Cosmic Origins and Our Ongoing Self-Creation
We were never promised any of it โ this world of cottonwoods and clouds โ when the Big Bang set the...
a year ago
We were never promised any of it โ this world of cottonwoods and clouds โ when the Big Bang set the possible in motion. And yet here we are, atoms with consciousness, each of us a living improbability forged of chaos and dead stars. Children of chance, we have made ourselves into...
Home on Erik...
Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows support
I've been a bit bad at posting things with a regular cadence lately, partly because I'm trying to...
over a year ago
I've been a bit bad at posting things with a regular cadence lately, partly because I'm trying to adjust to having a toddler, partly because the hunt for clicks has caused such a high bar for me that I feel like I have to post something Pulitzer-worthy.
A Smart Bear
Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company
Reflecting on selling Smart Bear in 2007, offering insights for entrepreneurs facing similar...
a year ago
Reflecting on selling Smart Bear in 2007, offering insights for entrepreneurs facing similar decisions.
Applied Cartography
Applied Cartography ร 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 โ not just this interview series โ feels a bit like walking on a quiet beach in autumn: there's a...
Epic Web Dev
Inverse Assertions (article)
Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives...
3 months ago
Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives in time-dependent tests without using sleep.
Diaries of Note
Iโll have to grow it again
As the creative force behind such movies as Stalker, Mirror, and Solaris, Russian filmmaker Andrei...
a year ago
As the creative force behind such movies as Stalker, Mirror, and Solaris, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, born in 1932, is widely considered to be one of the greatest directors to have ever lived, his pioneering use of long takes and his profound philosophical and poetic...
TheCollector
Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
undefined
9 months ago
Old Structures...
Another Moment of Transition
This a nice postcard of the north end of Union Square, using a hand-color photograph from 1910 as...
10 months ago
This a nice postcard of the north end of Union Square, using a hand-color photograph from 1910 as its basis. The centerpiece is the Metropolitan Life tower at Madison Square, seven blocks to the north of the foreground buildings on East 17th Street. Those buildings include the...
Avestura's Blog
How to change visibility in massive GitHub organizations like EpicGames?
How to publicize and un-publicize your visibility in massive GitHub orgs?
over a year ago
How to publicize and un-publicize your visibility in massive GitHub orgs?
Making software...
Width or Flex-Basis?
Width or Flex-Basis?
2018-11-28
Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be...
over a year ago
Width or Flex-Basis?
2018-11-28
Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be a little tricky depending on the desired outcome. Let's breakdown how to solve this issue using both inline-block paired with width and flex-basis.
Width
Setting the width of the...
The Pragmatic...
Github Copilot and ChatGPT alternatives
There are a growing number of AI coding tools that are alternatives to Copilot. A list of other...
a year ago
There are a growing number of AI coding tools that are alternatives to Copilot. A list of other popular, promising options.
The Modern House
How an artist and architect converted a war bunker on the wild Isle of Wight coast
a year ago
Society's Backend
The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Machine Learning Engineer
And other practical guides to understand machine learning
11 months ago
And other practical guides to understand machine learning
AVC
The Daily Bolster
USV is an investor in Bolster, a marketplace for fractional and full-time executive talent for...
a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
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Pivot Park in Oss is an inspiring campus for open innovation in the life sciences. For starters and...
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Asterisk
Moving Past Environmental Proceduralism
The foundations of modern environmental legislation were laid in the early โ70s. Some of these laws...
9 months ago
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The Rational Walk
The Sad Irons
During the depths of the Great Depression, Lyndon Johnson was determined to electrify the Texas Hill...
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During the depths of the Great Depression, Lyndon Johnson was determined to electrify the Texas Hill Country. Success was integral to his path to greater power.
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Setting Up a Free SSL
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
over a year ago
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol.
Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
This Space
Further in the opposite direction
Modernity is supposed to be the moment when religious claims and systems of authority reveal...
a year ago
Modernity is supposed to be the moment when religious claims and systems of authority reveal themselves to be human-all-too-human fictions that lack divine legitimation. Religion is supposed to wither away. But this itself...can be understood as a religious claim: the very...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 31, 2016: 'innocent until proven guilty' gives cover to abusers
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. The ride home after yet another day hearing someone famous has been abusing a woman in his life:
Content warning: abuse, rape
Johnny Depp has allegedly been...
This Space
39 Books: 2002
The quiet joy of short, constrained memoirs. I borrowed a copy of this book in 2002 and then found a...
7 months ago
The quiet joy of short, constrained memoirs. I borrowed a copy of this book in 2002 and then found a copy in a remaindered shop for ยฃ5.
Anne Atik got to know Beckett in the late 1950s through the artist Avigdor Arikha, later her husband. Beckett's circle of friends included as...
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Contents: How is PostHog different to Amplitude? PostHog vs Amplitude feature comparison...
over a year ago
Contents: How is PostHog different to Amplitude? PostHog vs Amplitude feature comparison Integrations and data sources Strengths of PostHog Strengthsโฆ
Saturday Morning...
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But you should see what happened to the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
But you should see what happened to the first-born.
Today's News:
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Nestedly Recursive Functions
Yet Another Ruliological Surprise Integers. Addition. Subtraction. Maybe multiplication. Surely...
3 months ago
Yet Another Ruliological Surprise Integers. Addition. Subtraction. Maybe multiplication. Surely thatโs not enough to be able to generate any serious complexity. In the early 1980s I had made the very surprising discovery that very simple programs based on cellular automata could...
The Map is Mostly...
Everything I know about gardening
I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies...
a year ago
I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies and roses, or my fields, and several people have asked me to write about gardening, or for gardening advice. But this request encounters a ridiculous shortcoming: I know almost...
Math Is Still...
What Is Distributed Computing?
Our computers can get a lot more done when they share the load with other machines.
The...
a month ago
Our computers can get a lot more done when they share the load with other machines.
The post What Is Distributed Computing? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Huge Pages are a Good Idea
Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to...
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Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to physical addresses. These translations are usually fast because the mappings are cached in the CPU's Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Unfortunately, virtual memory on x86 has...
Londonist
Tempting New Afternoon Teas To Try In London Right Now: March 2024
Get booking for the newest afternoon tea menus in the capital.
10 months ago
Get booking for the newest afternoon tea menus in the capital.
The personal website...
My management philosophy
After reading Lara Hoganโs post and getting some inspiration from my own manager, I thought itโd be...
over a year ago
After reading Lara Hoganโs post and getting some inspiration from my own manager, I thought itโd be good to write up my management philosophy. This reflects my approach at this moment in time โย Iโm still pretty new to management, and will be revisiting this over time.
My...
Archinect - Features
From the Editors: What We're Thankful for in 2023
In a year marked with highs and lows, the Archinect editorial team has spent another year watching,...
a year ago
In a year marked with highs and lows, the Archinect editorial team has spent another year watching, listening, and reporting on the events of 2023. With the holidays drawing near and the year coming to a close, we pause to extend our gratitude to our dedicated readership and...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Devonshire, Soho
There's no avoiding the fact, and there's no point dancing around it. There's no need for lengthy,...
a year ago
There's no avoiding the fact, and there's no point dancing around it. There's no need for lengthy, thoughtful or measured arguments; no sense in analysing the details. There needs to be no slow and steady building of a case, culminating in a grand and weighty conclusion. The...
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A standardized, simplified, and beautiful icon set
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Death Is Divestment, Death Is Communion'
โWhenever in
my dreams I see the dead, they always appear silent, bothered, strangely
depressed,...
6 months ago
โWhenever in
my dreams I see the dead, they always appear silent, bothered, strangely
depressed, quite unlike their dear, bright selves. I am aware of them, without
any astonishment, in surroundings they never visited during their earthly
existence, in the house of some friend of...
diamond geezer
London Countries - Albania
For the avoidance of doubt, I will not be writing a full alphabetical series of posts called London...
7 months ago
For the avoidance of doubt, I will not be writing a full alphabetical series of posts called London Countries.
But think more deeply and it's actually a terrible idea, at least in its entirety, which is why it won't be happening.
Albania and I'd be starting to scrape the...
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โIncalculable Lossโ front page of The New York Times for May 24th, 2020
Contributed by Nick Sherman
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over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source:ย store.nytimes.comย The New York Times. License: All Rights Reserved.
The front page of The New York Times for Sunday, May 24th, 2020, was a stark wall of type, and only type: a long and somber list of Americans who have lost their lives...
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
5 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
Math Is Still...
Ecologists Struggle to Get a Grip on โKeystone Speciesโ
More than 50 years after Bob Paineโs experiment with starfish, hundreds of species have been...
8 months ago
More than 50 years after Bob Paineโs experiment with starfish, hundreds of species have been pronounced โkeystonesโ in their ecosystems. Has the powerful metaphor lost its mathematical meaning?
The post Ecologists Struggle to Get a Grip on โKeystone Speciesโ first...
Louwrentius
8 TB RAID 6 Linux software RAID using EXT4
Mobo: Asus P5Q-EM DO ( 6x sata)
CPU: Core 2 Duo E7400
RAM: 4 GB
Controller; HighPoint RocketRAID...
over a year ago
Mobo: Asus P5Q-EM DO ( 6x sata)
CPU: Core 2 Duo E7400
RAM: 4 GB
Controller; HighPoint RocketRAID 2314 (16x poorten)
PSU: CooMas Silent Pro M 600W ATX2 (definitely not overkill)
HD: Samsung 1 TB SAT2 HD103UJ (10x)
OS: Debian Lenny with custom kernel (backported)
FS: EXT4
RAID...
Kagi Blog
Summarize anything with the Universal Summarizer
Universal Summarizer ( https://kagi.com/summarizer ) is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing...
a year ago
Universal Summarizer ( https://kagi.com/summarizer ) is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing just about any content of any type and any length, by simply providing a URL address (and soon ( #roadmap ) by uploading a file).
Naveen Arun's Blog
Think Excel Canโt Handle PDEs? Think Again: A Chemical Engineering Case Study
Did you know you can solve 2D partial differential equations (PDEs) in Excel without resorting to...
a year ago
Did you know you can solve 2D partial differential equations (PDEs) in Excel without resorting to macros? In this post, weโll look at how to solve Laplaceโs Equation, , in two dimensions using nothing but Microsoft Excel. Introduction Heat transfer is a critical concept in...
diamond geezer
Green Chain 12
It's not often London's Strategic Walk Network is extended. The London Loop has been in existence...
10 months ago
It's not often London's Strategic Walk Network is extended. The London Loop has been in existence since 2001, the Capital Ring completed in 2005, the Green Chain grew an extra leg in 2010 and the Jubilee Greenway emerged in 2012. So I was thrilled to discover that the Green Chain...
Seth's Blog
The leap
In action movies, thereโs a lot of leaping. Brave shifts in which the hero gets from here to there,...
10 months ago
In action movies, thereโs a lot of leaping. Brave shifts in which the hero gets from here to there, all at once. Itโs easy to imagine that sudden leaps are how we make our impact. This is blog post #9000 (give or take). When did the leap happen? It wasnโt an external leap. The...
Platformer
It's time to change how we cover Elon Musk
After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more...
a year ago
After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach
CONTEMPORIST
20 Award Winning Architectural Designs From A Design Award & Competition
This article has been brought to you by Aโ Design Award and Competition. Aโ Design Award &...
2 months ago
This article has been brought to you by Aโ Design Award and Competition. Aโ Design Award & Competition is the Worldsโ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing award winners from 114 different design disciplines. Aโ Design Award winning...
Code Of Honor
Stay Awhile and Listen
Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that Iโve had less time for...
over a year ago
Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that Iโve had less time for blogging as Iโve started creating a new game. After a two-year stint helping other folks publish their games Iโm back to coding and game design full-time and having a wonderful time. But...
Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 โ October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
a month ago
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladiesโ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
A Beautiful Site
Getting localized month and day names in the browser
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip โ...
over a year ago
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip โ you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app.
I've...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
That Inspiration Stuck in Your Teeth
Remember the last time inspiration blessed you with its divine presence? The clouds parted, angels...
over a year ago
Remember the last time inspiration blessed you with its divine presence? The clouds parted, angels sang, and an idea descended like a holy dove. What, it doesn't happen that way for you? Me neither.
Musings on Markets
Beat your Bot: Building your moat against AI
It seems like a lifetime has passed since artificial intelligence (AI) became the market's biggest...
4 months ago
It seems like a lifetime has passed since artificial intelligence (AI) became the market's biggest mover, but Open AI introduced the world to ChatGPT on November 30, 2022. While ChatGPT itself represented a low-tech variation of AI, it opened the door to AI not only as a business...
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
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.
99% Invisible
In Proximity: Roman Mars and Ryan Coogler [EPISODE]
In Proximityย is a podcast from Proximity Media about craft, career, and creativity. Proximity...
a year ago
In Proximityย is a podcast from Proximity Media about craft, career, and creativity. Proximity founder Ryan Coogler talks all about podcasts with Roman Mars, host and creator ofย 99% Invisible, a sound-rich narrative podcast about architecture and design. They discuss holding...
TheCollector
What Was โThe Malleus Maleficarumโ, or โThe Hammer of Witchesโ?
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Unit and Integration Testing for Plugin Authors
Some thoughts on how to set up testing with plugins
over a year ago
Some thoughts on how to set up testing with plugins
TheCollector
Candomblรฉ: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchampโs work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
Retail Design Blog
Deokboon Korean Dining and Grill by FLYMINGO
โCapturing the Warmth of the Timeโ : A cozy atmosphere that provides calmness to all, wherein a...
4 months ago
โCapturing the Warmth of the Timeโ : A cozy atmosphere that provides calmness to all, wherein a delicious meal and...
Ink & Switch
Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints
How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
over a year ago
How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
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Array 1.40.0: Interface improvements and more!
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
over a year ago
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! Running a self-hosted instance? Checkโฆ
The Honest Broker
Nine Predictions for the Future of the Music Business
I offer a forecast for 10 years in the futureโand it's filled with good news (surprise!)
2 months ago
I offer a forecast for 10 years in the futureโand it's filled with good news (surprise!)
UX Collective
Story of a button
Weekly curated resources for designers โ thinkers and makers.
3 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers โ thinkers and makers.
Diaries of Note
Now is the winterโฆ
When 35-year-old Anthony Sher took on the role of Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Company in...
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 Gambonโs King Lear, he delivered a transformative performance. Using crutches to evoke a spider-like figure, Sher crafted a...
Calculated Risk
Census: The U.S. population grew by nearly 1.0% between 2023 and 2024
From the Census Bureau: Net International Migration Drives Highest U.S. Population Growth in Decades...
2 weeks ago
From the Census Bureau: Net International Migration Drives Highest U.S. Population Growth in Decades
The U.S. population grew by nearly 1.0% between 2023 and 2024, according to the new Vintage 2024 population estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
As the nationโs...
AVC
Etsy Lens
I am the Chair of the Etsy Board and have been an investor and board member at Etsy since the...
a year ago
I am the Chair of the Etsy Board and have been an investor and board member at Etsy since the mid-2000s. It is a company that I love and get great joy from being part of. Last year Etsy quietly launched a feature that has completely changed the way I use Etsy. It is called [โฆ]
Commoncog
Operational Excellence is the Pursuit of โKnowledgeโ
It turns out that operational excellence results from the pursuit of a certain form of knowledge....
a year ago
It turns out that operational excellence results from the pursuit of a certain form of knowledge. This is Part 3 of the Becoming Data Driven series, and the result of a deep dive into the field of statistical process control.
Home on Erik...
In defense of false positives (why you can't fail with A/B tests)
Many years ago, I used to think that A/B tests were foolproof and all you need to do is compare the...
over a year ago
Many years ago, I used to think that A/B tests were foolproof and all you need to do is compare the metrics for the two groups. The group with the highest conversion rate wins, right?
Herbert Lui
Confidence vs. trusting the process
โThis might not work,โ Seth Godin writes in his blog post, โOut on a limb.โ (Itโs one of my...
4 weeks ago
โThis might not work,โ Seth Godin writes in his blog post, โOut on a limb.โ (Itโs one of my favorites, alongside โTalkerโs Block.โ ) Itโs fascinating to see this idea make it into a key part of his book The Practice, which I recently picked up and find myself liking a lot. If you...
The Rational Walk
Will Progressiveโs Growth Strategy Pay Off?
The auto insurer continues to add customers but posted disappointing results in the second quarter...
a year ago
The auto insurer continues to add customers but posted disappointing results in the second quarter due to catastrophe losses and inadequate pricing.
alexwlchan
Generating art from lattice graphs
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the...
over a year ago
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the Proms.
While I was on the train home, I had an idea for a fun art project.
I sketched it out on a napkin, got it working, posted a few pictures on Twitter, then put it down.
On Saturday I was...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I write blog posts every month
Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my...
over a year ago
Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my first post that my goal was to write oneโฆ
Matt Mazur
Itโs Time to Build
Itโs been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few...
8 months ago
Itโs been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few updates about what Iโve been up to. Quick recap At the start of 2023 I quit consulting to go full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker, after growing it on โฆ Continue reading...
Archinect - Features
Exploring Architectureโs Uncertain Nature With Schidlowski Fellow Franรงois Sabourin
Academic fellowships provide unique opportunities for designers and researchers to explore specific...
a year ago
Academic fellowships provide unique opportunities for designers and researchers to explore specific topics of interest while teaching. Archinect's Fellow Fellows series showcases individuals who are currently in or have recently finished an architecture fellowship.ย
For our...
TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
Prolost
Log is the โProโ in iPhone 15 Pro
And Iโve got some free LUTs for you.
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature log video recording. This...
a year ago
And Iโve got some free LUTs for you.
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature log video recording. This is a big deal, but thereโs already some confusion about it. Where consumer devices and pro video overlap, thatโs where the Prolost Signal gleams brightest in the night sky. So...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 3: The Scourge
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says?
In 1976, Ralph Baer and Howard Morrison, two game designers, happened to see a trade show...
a year ago
In 1976, Ralph Baer and Howard Morrison, two game designers, happened to see a trade show demonstration of an Atari arcade game called Touch Me. The gameโs waist-high cabinet featured four large buttons on the top, which lit up in random sequence; the player had to push the...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
TheCollector
A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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12 months ago
Unpacked
Generative AI and the Future of News - a tale of two worlds
Last week, the New York Times reported that Google is testing an AI tool that enables news...
a year ago
Last week, the New York Times reported that Google is testing an AI tool that enables news organizations to create content using AI. It is unclear what the exact capabilities of the product are but based on one comment from Google, it helps with tasks like headlines and modifying...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Memories Packed in the Rapid-Access File'
Last
Saturday morning, the day my brother would die, the Uber driver who carried me
from hotel to...
4 months ago
Last
Saturday morning, the day my brother would die, the Uber driver who carried me
from hotel to hospice in the morning went by the professional name โLazarusโ โ
an omen I choose to leave unexamined and merely enjoy. Ken would have enjoyed
it.
Shortly after his death one of the...
IEEE Spectrum
Sci-fi and Hi-fi
Many a technologist has been inspired by science fiction. Some have even built, or rebuilt, entire...
10 months ago
Many a technologist has been inspired by science fiction. Some have even built, or rebuilt, entire companies around an idea introduced in a story they read, as the founders of Second Life and Meta did, working from the metaverse as imagined by Neal Stephenson in his seminal 1992...
Coffee with an...
Christmas Cards from the Architects 2024
Itโs that time again. It is the time of year when the architects turn their attention from their...
3 weeks ago
Itโs that time again. It is the time of year when the architects turn their attention from their Dec. 25th deadline to thoughts of Christmas. Here we are, sitting by the floor-to-ceiling glass storefronts in our offices, staring out at the rolling hills covered with snow,...
ToughSF
NTER: Nuclear Thermal-Electric Rocket
There
is a type of nuclear propulsion that can have most of the acceleration of a nuclear thermal...
over a year ago
There
is a type of nuclear propulsion that can have most of the acceleration of a nuclear thermal rocket but also the high Isp of an electric thruster.ย
Letโs have a look at nuclear โthermal-electricโ engines and
their advantages.
The title image is from 'dV: Rings of...
The Ruffian
Threads Isn't Toxic Enough
Why I'm sticking with Twitter For Now
a year ago
Why I'm sticking with Twitter For Now
Vadim Kravcenko
Stand Out and Dare to Disagree
Question:
Answer:
The post Stand Out and Dare to Disagree appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
7 months ago
Question:
Answer:
The post Stand Out and Dare to Disagree appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Noahpinion
The Democrats' new sunny vibes
Suddenly, the country has an opportunity to leave the madness of the 2010s behind.
4 months ago
Suddenly, the country has an opportunity to leave the madness of the 2010s behind.
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Guo Lai Ren (่ฟๆฅไบบ)
One of the most powerful forms of persuasion is the argument from crossover people
over a year ago
One of the most powerful forms of persuasion is the argument from crossover people
Alex MacCaw
Captain's Log #1
In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech...
over a year ago
In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech businesses, and more.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Serverless Machine Learning at Google
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over a year ago
This Space
39 Books:ย 1993
I've written about Gert Hofmann's novels a few times, most recently Veilchenfeld (Our Philosopher in...
8 months ago
I've written about Gert Hofmann's novels a few times, most recently Veilchenfeld (Our Philosopher in the US edition), but not his short stories. In the year Hofmann died aged only 62, I bought and read Balzac's Horse and other stories in the wonderful Minerva paperback imprint....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - All
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Happy family life, productive work life, and...
11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Happy family life, productive work life, and worldwide hegemony.
Today's News:
Nice review of our space book in WSJ.
Contemporist...
A Kitchen And Bathroom Renovation Updates This Home With New Ideas
Australian-based Studio Minosa has shared photos of a kitchen and bathroom renovation they completed...
a year ago
Australian-based Studio Minosa has shared photos of a kitchen and bathroom renovation they completed for a Sydney suburban home owned by a design-conscious couple.
CONTEMPORIST
This Hotel Includes A Series Of Treehouse Inspired Elevated Cabins
Studio Saxe has shared photos of the Suitree Experience Hotel they completed in Sardinal, Costa...
a year ago
Studio Saxe has shared photos of the Suitree Experience Hotel they completed in Sardinal, Costa Rica, that offers a distinct canopy-based guest experience. Inspired by childhood treehouses, the designers created tree-inspired pods floating over the landscape, together with a...
The personal website...
Goldilocks your graphs
Data visualization is everywhere. From analytics platforms to infographics, across newsrooms and...
over a year ago
Data visualization is everywhere. From analytics platforms to infographics, across newsrooms and social media channels, there are vast swaths of the internet devoted to delivering data in non-tabular format. There are entire blogs devoted to the subject, such as the ubiquitous...
Map of the Week
Parking Lot Map
The Parking Lot Map is a project of the Parking Reform Project, an organization dedicated to climate...
a year ago
The Parking Lot Map is a project of the Parking Reform Project, an organization dedicated to climate action, safer streets and housing affordability. The map explores how much land in the central area of the major cities of the United States is dedicated to parking. On average...
Coffee with an...
Buildings are important
People are born in themGrow up in them Fall in love in them Get married in them Raise kids in them...
a year ago
People are born in themGrow up in them Fall in love in them Get married in them Raise kids in them Grow old in them Die in them Buildings are important. People decide big things here Decide on small things too Draw conclusions inside Make plans Change plans Change our minds Make...
The Ruffian
Rattle Bag
History, learning, screw-ups, and suitcase-packing
a year ago
History, learning, screw-ups, and suitcase-packing
Flashbak
The Devilโs Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynicโs Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 โ c.1914), The Devilโs Dictionary, aka...
6 months ago
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 โ c.1914), The Devilโs Dictionary, aka The Cynicโs Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierceโs columns for The Wasp (1881โ1860 plus) and The...
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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...
Home on Erik...
Optimizing things: everything is a proxy for a proxy for a proxy
Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for...
over a year ago
Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for something. You have 1-5 stars as ratings so let's optimize for mean squared error. Great.
Then let's say you build a new model.
TheCollector
6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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5 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clusivity
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This is literally the funniest clusivity joke ever...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This is literally the funniest clusivity joke ever created.
Today's News:
Another double update thanks to this stupid book I wrote that people keep preordering.
CONTEMPORIST
This Alley Between Buildings Was Transformed With A Series Of Arches
Photography by Robin Hill Daniel Toole Architecture in collaboration with SB Architects, has...
8 months ago
Photography by Robin Hill Daniel Toole Architecture in collaboration with SB Architects, has transformed a nondescript alley in Miami, Florida, with a series of concrete arches. Photography by Heywood Chan This alley was originally surrounded by trash rooms, dumpsters, mechanical...
Seth's Blog
Conspicuous (non) consumption
One way to show status is by demonstrating how many resources you have. A bespoke suit, a huge...
a year ago
One way to show status is by demonstrating how many resources you have. A bespoke suit, a huge graduation party, a fancy buildingโฆ A bully who physically intimidates or an angry driver who cuts you off in traffic are each working to show their status and strength. But itโs also...
ntietz.com blog
Starting a New Chapter
At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last...
over a year ago
At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last week at CrossChx, and then I begin splitting my time between contract work and developing some of my own ideas.
I only spent about three quarters of a year at CrossChx, but in that...
Weighty Thoughts
What is Defensibility?
Back to basics for AI startups and others
9 months ago
Back to basics for AI startups and others
The History of the...
The Website that Predicted AI
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in...
a month ago
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in predictive technology, driven by sophisticated algorithms that provide real-time recommendations. And it was launched in 1995.
The post The Website that Predicted AI appeared first...
Archinect - Features
โIn the Climate Context, Architects Need to Push a New Frontierโ; A Conversation with Mario...
When TECLA was unveiled to the world at the beginning of 2021, it captured the attention of both the...
a year ago
When TECLA was unveiled to the world at the beginning of 2021, it captured the attention of both the architectural community and the imagination of the mainstream media. The world's first 3D-printed house made from raw earth, TECLA was one of 17 projects showcased at COP26 in an...
Arduino Blog
Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace!
Weโre excited to announce that Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace, making it easier...
3 months ago
Weโre excited to announce that Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace, making it easier than ever for developers and businesses worldwide to integrate our powerful IoT platform into their AWS infrastructure. This development is particularly relevant for those in...
Retail Design Blog
Kurasu cafรฉ by Kousou
Exploring the tension between order and disorder When Kurasu, the specialty coffee brand from Kyoto,...
4 months ago
Exploring the tension between order and disorder When Kurasu, the specialty coffee brand from Kyoto, entered Indonesia, its first home...
NeuroLogica Blog
AI โ Is It Time to Panic?
Iโm really excited about the recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and their potential...
a year ago
Iโm really excited about the recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and their potential as powerful tools. I am also concerned about unintended consequences. As with any really powerful tool, there is the potential for abuse and also disruption. But I also think that...
Arduino Blog
Two NEW Arduino Plug and Make Kit projects recreate iconic vintage games
The Plug and Make Kit is a toolbox you can use for infinite ideas. So what happens if you ask a mix...
3 months ago
The Plug and Make Kit is a toolbox you can use for infinite ideas. So what happens if you ask a mix of Arduino designers, engineers, and managers to sit down and brainstorm new ideas to have fun with it? Well, at least one of them is guaranteed to come up with an adorable,...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Metra tickets, 1990โ1991
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source:ย www.c82.netย C82 / Nicholas...
a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source:ย www.c82.netย C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved.
January 1990, ft. an unidentified rounded sans
Source:ย www.c82.netย C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved.
February...
TheCollector
St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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8 months ago
alexwlchan
The new Flickr Commons Explorer →
One of the things Iโve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new โCommons Explorerโ, a way...
9 months ago
One of the things Iโve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new โCommons Explorerโ, a way to browse the photos in the Flickr Commons.
Flickr Commons is a collection of historical photography from cultural institutions from all around the world, all with no known...
TheCollector
Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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3 months ago
Sarah Parmenter
Salt of Southend
โSalt seasons, it preserves, it improves. In Southend itโs in the air we breathe and itโs on the...
over a year ago
โSalt seasons, it preserves, it improves. In Southend itโs in the air we breathe and itโs on the best fish and chips in the country. The people featured in this book do the same thing; every day they get up, and improve the borough in their own special way.โ Rich With Last year I...
diamond geezer
Unblogged September
30 unblogged things I did in September
Sun 1: My new laptop is on quite the sightseeing tour....
3 months ago
30 unblogged things I did in September
Sun 1: My new laptop is on quite the sightseeing tour. Yesterday it was in Shanghai, today it's in Kรถln and tomorrow it'll be in Stanford le Hope.
Mon 2: At Gipsy Hill station I spotted a cat on the Oyster reader, and quite frankly this...
Seth's Blog
โI changed my mindโ
Who is โIโ and how does that โIโ have the power to change the mind in question? What actually...
a month ago
Who is โIโ and how does that โIโ have the power to change the mind in question? What actually happens is this: If you are brave enough to have your mind changed, experience can do that. But itโs rarely as conscious an intentional act as we give ourselves credit for.
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Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
2021-12-17
Designing1 software is a complex...
over a year ago
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
2021-12-17
Designing1 software is a complex thing. A great deal of real-world testing and user feedback is needed to create the best solution to the problem you are trying to fix. Obvious requirements are to keep things...
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Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 2
This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1...
over a year ago
This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1 here](https://dev.to/swyx/make-your-own-dev-to-cms-livestream-part-1-2ad1)
Londonist
BFI Flare: Huge LGBTQIA+ Film Festival Lands In London This March
Feat. Layla, Close To You and All Of Us Strangers.
10 months ago
Feat. Layla, Close To You and All Of Us Strangers.
Passing Time
Backyard Skiing
You donโt have to go far from home for adventure
9 months ago
You donโt have to go far from home for adventure
Max Rozen
Protecting your React routes
React apps send their code directly to users, so you might be a little confused about how React...
over a year ago
React apps send their code directly to users, so you might be a little confused about how React 'guards' routes from unauthorised viewing. This article explains how.
On Life and Lisp
Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications
Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact...
over a year ago
Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth, implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available here in Toronto.
Wait โ...
Jim Nielsenโs Blog
Browser Defaults We Throw Away
Stefan Judis on Twitter:
I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a...
a year ago
Stefan Judis on Twitter:
I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a JS approach that includes writing event.preventDefault all the time is kinda off.
The browser defaults are great, and yet we're rollin' our own for years now. ๐ค
Iโve been thinking...
Rest of World -...
Kathmandu is making taxi drivers switch to EVs. Not all drivers can afford one
The Xpres-T, made by Indian carmaker Tata, is the only EV approved for use as a taxi in Nepal. It...
6 months ago
The Xpres-T, made by Indian carmaker Tata, is the only EV approved for use as a taxi in Nepal. It costs $27,000 โ several yearsโ income.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
Passing Time
How to improve traffic efficiency and save time
Why merging early when there is a lane closure makes YOU the asshole
over a year ago
Why merging early when there is a lane closure makes YOU the asshole
HTMHell
You donโt need the isOpen class
by Maureen Holland
Donโt get me wrong. You can keep it if you like it. But you donโt need it.
A...
2 weeks ago
by Maureen Holland
Donโt get me wrong. You can keep it if you like it. But you donโt need it.
A class selector can allow us to visually show or hide content for disclosure widgets, like a custom select component or dropdown navigation menu. But a disclosure widget is made of two...
Arduino Blog
Receive an alert when your device goes offline in Arduino Cloud
Youโre managing a network of IoT sensors that monitor air quality across multiple locations....
a month ago
Youโre managing a network of IoT sensors that monitor air quality across multiple locations. Suddenly, one of the sensors goes offline, but you donโt notice until hours later. The result? A gap in your data and a missed opportunity to take corrective action. This is a common...
Maps Mania
The Unknown Pleasures of Population Density
a year ago
The Marginalian
The Dictionary Story: A Love Letter to Language Tucked Into a Delightful Fable about the Difficult...
โWords belong to each other,โ Virginia Woolf rasped in the only surviving recording of her voice โ a...
a month ago
โWords belong to each other,โ Virginia Woolf rasped in the only surviving recording of her voice โ a love letter to language as an instrument of thought and a medium of being. โWords are events, they do things, change things,โ Ursula K. Le Guin wrote a generation after her. To...
TheCollector
When Did the Korean War Start?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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a year ago
Old Structures...
Buildings Are Not Static
It canโt be said often enough that buildings move in various ways, from the effect of environmental...
7 months ago
It canโt be said often enough that buildings move in various ways, from the effect of environmental conditions. Youโve got gross structural movement from gravity and lateral loads; up, down, and sideways movement from changes in soil volume from water movement; expansion and...
macwright.com
Get the text of an uploaded file in Remix by ()
This took way too long to figure out.
The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and...
a year ago
This took way too long to figure out.
The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and .arrayBuffer() methods, which arenโt mentioned on MDN. So, assuming youโre in an action and the argument is args, you can get the body like:
const body = await...
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$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail
*This post originated as [an AMA on...
over a year ago
*This post originated as [an AMA on IndieHackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/made-121-326-since-launching-my-book-last-july-63-of-it-after-launch-month-ama-about-long-tail-infoproducts-41b55f5670)*
The Turn Signal RSS...
The Role of Cognitive Load in Automotive UX Design
Cognitive load refers to Cognitive load is not the same as cognitive distraction. Cognitive...
a year ago
Cognitive load refers to Cognitive load is not the same as cognitive distraction. Cognitive distraction is Cognitive load may lead toโฆ
Flashbak
The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville โ 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
4 days ago
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gรฉrard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandvilleโs characters have a human body and an...
XO Capital - Field...
2023 In Review
2023 was a tough year. It started out with a bang (high expectations, everything going right) and...
a year ago
2023 was a tough year. It started out with a bang (high expectations, everything going right) and ended with a whimper for us. The zero interest rate environment really came down hard on a few products like Cold Email Studio and now that the AI craze is cooling off, we&
TheCollector
Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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2 months ago
Society's Backend
Godmother of AI Warns Against Regulation, Apple Intelligence System Prompts, Faster and Cheaper AI,...
Machine learning resources and updates 8/12/2024
4 months ago
Machine learning resources and updates 8/12/2024
Seth's Blog
Market insulation
Itโs possible that your day will be more enjoyable if you are insulated from the market. If you have...
7 months ago
Itโs possible that your day will be more enjoyable if you are insulated from the market. If you have a boss who has a bossโฆ If you donโt have to review the sales numbers for the products you created or editedโฆ If you have raised a ton of venture investmentโฆ If you are embracing...
The Modern House
Rich Pickings: four homes for sale in Kent
Fruit may be Kentโs greatest export, but as regular explorers of our listings will know, there are...
a year ago
Fruit may be Kentโs greatest export, but as regular explorers of our listings will know, there are other sweet surprises to be found here โ albeit of a more architectural streak. And while thereโs plenty of history to be found in this corner of the [โฆ]
Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
a month ago
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
Spoon & Tamago
60-Year-Old Machiya Adapted into Hender Schemeโs New Osaka Flagship
All images ยฉ toha courtesy DDAA Hender Schemeโs flagship store in Kansai is an adaptive reuse of a...
a year ago
All images ยฉ toha courtesy DDAA Hender Schemeโs flagship store in Kansai is an adaptive reuse of a sixty-plus-year-old one-story wooden house near Umeda Station in Osaka. With a spacious area of around 175mยฒ and impressive high ceilings, the store has been designed to reflect...
IEEE Spectrum
When IBM Built a War Room for Executives
Computer History Museumโs collection has a biography of sortsโa life before CHM, a tale about how it...
3 weeks ago
Computer History Museumโs collection has a biography of sortsโa life before CHM, a tale about how it came to us, and a life within the museum. The chapters of that biography include the uses made of it, and the historical and interpretive stories it can be made to tell. This then...
Londonist
DLR Extension To Thamesmead: Public Consultation Opens
Have your say before 18 March.
11 months ago
Have your say before 18 March.
ntietz.com blog
Making progress on side projects with content-driven development
It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes.
Getting started is easy when we see the...
3 months ago
It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes.
Getting started is easy when we see the bright future of the project.
Then somewhere in the middle, we get stuck in lists of tasks to do, a long way in and still a long way from the finish line.
This happens to me as much as...
Oxide Computer...
Remembering Charles Beeler
We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor
in Oxide, passed
away...
a month ago
We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor
in Oxide, passed
away in September after a battle with cancer. We lost Charles far too soon;
he had a tremendous influence on the careers of us both.
Our relationship with Charles dates back nearly two...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
ARISE ERISA | Out-Of-Pocket
Levity in the time of Coronavirus
a year ago
Levity in the time of Coronavirus
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2023 Q3
As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now...
a year ago
As we roll towards the end of the year data engineering as expected does have some changes, but now everyone wants to see how Generative AI intersects with everything. The fits are not completely natural, as Generative AI like Chat GPT is more NLP type systems, but there are a...
Castles in the Sky
You're not Simon Sarris.
Castles in the Sky December 20, 2024
a week ago
Castles in the Sky December 20, 2024
Business Brainstorms
๐ก Business Brainstorms ๐ก- My favorite ideas of the week
๐ The Law of Line Extension
3 months ago
๐ The Law of Line Extension
Josh Thompson
Quick Dive into React
As usual, this is a work in progress. At a high level, Iโm familiarizing myself with Phoenix/Elixir,...
over a year ago
As usual, this is a work in progress. At a high level, Iโm familiarizing myself with Phoenix/Elixir, and need to sharpen my React knowledge along the way.
After working through part 1 of a slack clone in Elixir/Phoenix tutorial, I ran into some errors getting the React app up and...
Birchtree
My favorite (and least favorite) movies of 2024
Iโve watched 48 new release movies in 2024, and with just a few weeks left in the year, I wanted to...
2 weeks ago
Iโve watched 48 new release movies in 2024, and with just a few weeks left in the year, I wanted to make what is my current top 10 (plus honorable mentions & worst movies). As we get to the end of the year and you might have some
Drew Ex Machina
Habitable Planet Reality Check: TOI-700e Discovered by NASAโs TESS Mission
During a press conference held on January 6, 2020 at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical...
a year ago
During a press conference held on January 6, 2020 at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Honolulu, Emily Gilbert (then a graduate [โฆ]
Joel Gascoigne
How to gain traction in two sided markets
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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Startup ideas...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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Startup ideas that involve two sided markets are notoriously difficult to get
off the ground. Itโs the age-old chicken and egg problem. You need lots of
buyers for the sellers to be interested,...
Math Is Still...
A New Kind of Symmetry Shakes Up Physics
So-called โhigher symmetriesโ are illuminating everything from particle decays to the behavior of...
a year ago
So-called โhigher symmetriesโ are illuminating everything from particle decays to the behavior of complex quantum systems.
The post A New Kind of Symmetry Shakes Up Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
nanoscale views
Bob Curl - it is possible to be successful and also a good person
I went to a memorial service today at Rice for my late colleague Bob Curl, who died this past...
over a year ago
I went to a memorial service today at Rice for my late colleague Bob Curl, who died this past summer, and it was a really nice event. ย I met Bob almost immediately upon my arrival at Rice back in 2000 (though Iโd heard about him from my thesis advisor, whoโd met him at the Nobel...
Sam Altman
GPT-4o
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight.
First, a key part of our...
7 months ago
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight.
First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price). I am very proud that weโve made the best model in the world available for free in...
The American Scholar
The Power of the Common Soul
Ives, music-making, and hope
The post The Power of the Common Soul appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
Ives, music-making, and hope
The post The Power of the Common Soul appeared first on The American Scholar.
Christopher Butler
Periodical 19 โ Creative Miscellany
Design texts, maker stories, Figma complaints, and more.
Hello from a very steamy Durham. It was...
6 months ago
Design texts, maker stories, Figma complaints, and more.
Hello from a very steamy Durham. It was 99ยฐ as I wrote some of this yesterday with the felt temperature well exceeding 100. And then it started to rain. The temperature dropped a few degrees and the air was filled with...
Jim Nielsenโs Blog
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break
Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
8 months ago
Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn.
His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS.
His post actually...
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Nov 2019 Recap
Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
Hello mailing list friends!
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...
a month 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 Railtrackโs major stations by Citigate Lloyd Northover. These onesโฆ Firstly โ have I really been...
Calculated Risk
Tuesday: Case-Shiller House Prices
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Start New Week With Some Hope
Last week...
3 days ago
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Start New Week With Some Hope
Last week wasn't great for mortgage rates. They moved higher on each of the 5 days. Moreover, there was a distinct lack of logical motivation from the economic data. In fact, on a few...
Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 1: Introduction
Ever since wrapping up our extensive traveling last spring, Laura and I have been itching to get...
10 months ago
Ever since wrapping up our extensive traveling last spring, Laura and I have been itching to get back on the road in Latin America. After returning to Ontario, finding a rental house and obtaining employment, our lives have been a little more grounded. I still have been on some...
Bastaโs Notes
33
Reflecting on another year
a year ago
Reflecting on another year
Tech + Economics +...
There is only one form of passive income worth celebrating. Itโs a UBI.
The romanticised notion of passive income typically conjures up picturesque
images of digital...
a year ago
The romanticised notion of passive income typically conjures up picturesque
images of digital nomads lounging on immaculate beaches, their bank
accounts growing with the profits from their latest online course on
becoming a digital nomad.
Dividends from investments in...
Seth's Blog
โWhatโs the catch?โ
Itโs an important question. Lots of opportunities come with one, and going in with your eyes open...
8 months ago
Itโs an important question. Lots of opportunities come with one, and going in with your eyes open helps avoid problems later. Two challenges: Sometimes, a really good opportunity doesnโt actually have a catch. And spending a lot of time looking for one keeps us from the work we...
The Pragmatic...
Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond
Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives....
a year ago
Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives. But thereโs a way they can fix this. I show what companies are doing - and why.
HTMHell
The Gift You Do NOT Want: A Div in a Button's Clothing
by Corina Murg
With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a...
2 weeks ago
by Corina Murg
With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a button. In accessibility work, we spot these fakes and fix them, but teaching others why and how to do it is just as important. Itโs not just about correcting a single mistake; itโs...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
over a year ago
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing youย Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.ย
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
a year ago
Here is wishing youย Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.ย
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
Commoncog
What To Think When Looking at a Chart
In a business context, what should you think when presented with a time series? Or: a really dumb...
a year ago
In a business context, what should you think when presented with a time series? Or: a really dumb question that nobody seems to talk about.
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 2.0
Success and Litigation
a year ago
TheCollector
Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Conkeror
Iโve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension,...
over a year ago
Iโve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension, but nowadays itโs a standalone app built on top of Mozillaโs xulrunner, so it uses the Gecko rendering engine.
What it is, is an emacs implemented in Javascript, for the web. This...
TheCollector
What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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9 months ago
99% Invisible
Cooking with Gas [EPISODE]
Back in January, Bloomberg News published a story quoting an obscure government official named...
a year ago
Back in January, Bloomberg News published a story quoting an obscure government official named Richard Trumka Jr. He works with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulates stuff like furniture and electronics and household appliances. Basically, the agency is supposed...
Damn Interesting
Devouring the Heart of Portugal
On the morning of Thursday, 04 December 1924, a tall and well-dressed Dutch trader named Karel...
over a year ago
On the morning of Thursday, 04 December 1924, a tall and well-dressed Dutch trader named Karel Marang strolled along Great Winchester Street in the City of London, among the bustling crowds of bankers and brokers of the business district, unaware that the parcel he carried held...
Daniel Miessler
Generate AI Art Using Your Own Writing
One of the most challenging parts of finishing a post is coming up with a good image. The AI art...
over a year ago
One of the most challenging parts of finishing a post is coming up with a good image. The AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are cool, but a lot of the magic comes down to prompt engineering, which is non-trivial. Prompt Engineering is almost equal parts...
Jonas Hietala
Reinstalling Slackware
So I reinstalled slackware on my machine and decided to take some rough notes of the most important...
over a year ago
So I reinstalled slackware on my machine and decided to take some rough notes of the most important steps I made. I did not document the steps in detail, and some are very specific for my setup. But maybe it can be useful for someone, or myself.
Basic steps
Make slackware usb...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Remember
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I was in a train station a few years ago and all...
6 months ago
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I was in a train station a few years ago and all the women were dressed like it was the eighties. Went back to my farm and emerged a year later to see all the men had developed mustaches as a kind of reflexive mating...
Applied Cartography
Buttondown Analytics 3.0
Working on a new analytics engine โ a scant eleven months after the previous 'new analytics...
10 months ago
Working on a new analytics engine โ a scant eleven months after the previous 'new analytics engine'.
Calling this 3.0 is a bit of a misnomer: most of the code, design, and plumbing from the 2023 redesign is sticking around, just in a more modular format. The goal here is to...
Nat Eliason's...
The Most Useful Feedback Hurts
Plus a sci-fi novel update
4 months ago
Plus a sci-fi novel update
SatPost by Trung...
Trader Joe's: The Anti-Grocer
The grocer created a cult brand with sales of $16B+ a year by doing the opposite of industry...
a year ago
The grocer created a cult brand with sales of $16B+ a year by doing the opposite of industry best-practices (from wages to product to ads).
Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
โEverything centred on the living room โ itโs where everyone met and congregatedโ โ Nick Walpington...
2 months ago
โEverything centred on the living room โ itโs where everyone met and congregatedโ โ Nick Walpington on his Living Room project ย ย Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplingtonโs Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
Both Are True
and baby makes four???
lauren and baby are healthy, i am unwell!
11 months ago
lauren and baby are healthy, i am unwell!
Jonas Hietala
Geekhack Toxic
I came back to Linkรถping yesterday and I had a package waiting for me to pick it up. What could it...
over a year ago
I came back to Linkรถping yesterday and I had a package waiting for me to pick it up. What could it be?
With a crummy mobile phone photo I give you my TOXIC keycaps mounted on my trusty old das keyboard:
Woooo
If only my GH60 could arrive some time this decadeโฆ
TheCollector
Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queenโs Gallery
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a year ago
Elad Blog
Startups are an act of desperation
Startups are hard. For the first few years of a company, forward momentum is largely due to founders...
over a year ago
Startups are hard. For the first few years of a company, forward momentum is largely due to founders pushing every day. The weight of the company rests on their shoulders - including the financial well being and success of everyone they hired and the promises they made to their...
Spoon & Tamago
Tomohiro Inaba Invites Viewers to Complete the Story of His Sculptures
โTo the promised landโ (2024) | installation view at YukikoMizutani Tomohiro Inaba is an artist who...
5 months ago
โTo the promised landโ (2024) | installation view at YukikoMizutani Tomohiro Inaba is an artist who creates sculptures that engage the viewer through their own imagination. Depending on your point of view, Inabaโs works look like theyโre either disintegrating into mid-air or or...
Steven Scrawls
Against Confidence
Against Confidence
I hope I never make a habit of writing stuff that makes me feel
confident.
If my...
a year ago
Against Confidence
I hope I never make a habit of writing stuff that makes me feel
confident.
If my writing makes me feel confident, it probably has a title like
โLook At My Cleverly Constructed Argument/Insightโ (subtitle: โAlso Look
At My Pretty Wordsโ). If I release writing...
The Berkeley...
Training Diffusion Models with <br> Reinforcement Learning
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a year ago
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replay.style.display = 'flex';
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Old Structures...
Iconic
The Third Avenue elevated, looking north from 23rd Street or so. (The street sign at the lower right...
5 months ago
The Third Avenue elevated, looking north from 23rd Street or so. (The street sign at the lower right reads East 24th Street.) My guess is that the photographer was standing at the north end of the northbound platform of the 23rd Street station. Off in the distance, weโve got the...
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