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Common Edge
‘My Photographs Are a Celebration of the Making of Things’ A talk with Christopher Payne about his recent book, Made in America.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy? A Different View of Thucydides
7 months ago
A Smart Bear
Distributed Logical Time Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is...
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over a year ago
Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
Himanshu Mishra |...
Joining Spotify in Sweden Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as I arrived here 8 months ago. Japan is a…
High Signal
10 websites for selling your startup If you are wanting to sell your startup but aren't sure where to do that, here are all your options....
a year ago
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a year ago
If you are wanting to sell your startup but aren't sure where to do that, here are all your options. There's lots of choice here for you
Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
Classical Wisdom
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions Advice from the Ancients
a year ago
37signals Dev
Solid Cache We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and HEY. Solid Cache uses a SQL database as its cache store. We get a much larger cache at a fraction of the storage costs of memory caches like Redis or Memcached. For us, that’s a...
Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 362.5 ...
2 months ago
Calculated Risk
ISM® Manufacturing index Increased to 49.3% in December (Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated contraction. The PMI® was at 49.3%...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
(Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated contraction. The PMI® was at 49.3% in December, up from 48.4% in November. The employment index was at 45.3%, down from 48.1% the previous month, and the new orders index was at 52.5%, up from 50.4%. Manufacturing...
The American Scholar
Dottie Lo Bue House and home The post Dottie Lo Bue appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
Home on Erik...
How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable. It's not very important what those are, so let's just call them “thing A” and “thing B” for now.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Crushing JIRA tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did...
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a month ago
Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did this once - is to get frustrated at the…
Willem's Blog
Building a product platform Leverage platform capabilities to quickly launch new products, designing for reusability,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Leverage platform capabilities to quickly launch new products, designing for reusability, flexibility and extensibility.
Rest of World -...
Predatory loan apps are thriving in the Google Play store, despite ban Google says it takes the problem seriously, but over a dozen loan apps remain available in the...
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Primrose store The store of Primrose, a sleepwear, home and leisurewear brand, has recently opened. In honor of its...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The store of Primrose, a sleepwear, home and leisurewear brand, has recently opened. In honor of its tenth anniversary the...
Seth's Blog
The problem with marketing puffery It costs more than you think. Last month, I hit the old stock on the Avery labels in my office...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
It costs more than you think. Last month, I hit the old stock on the Avery labels in my office cabinet. I had a bunch of things to send out, and off they went. It turns out, who knew, that old labels stop sticking. It’s entirely possible some of my really important packages never...
Dan Slimmon
Clinical troubleshooting: diagnose any production issue, fast. Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My approach is derived from a different field in which groups of experts with various levels of context need to reason together about problems in a complex, dynamic system:...
Casey Handmer's blog
Why do we need a Department of Government Efficiency? President Trump’s recent sweeping electoral victory is a clear mandate for change. There is some...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
President Trump’s recent sweeping electoral victory is a clear mandate for change. There is some urgency, and Trump has assembled the early stages of a team and coalition that can deliver it. It’s not exactly a mystery what Elon and Vivek plan for The Department of Government...
ntietz.com blog
Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this was the second time I ran into the exact same issue, so it's time to write it down. (Hopefully, the third time I run into this, I have the presence of mind to look up my own...
Blog - Practical...
What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] At around 7PM on the balmy...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] At around 7PM on the balmy evening of Saturday, December 3, 2022, nearly every electric customer in Moore County, North Carolina was simultaneously plunged into darkness. Amid the confusion, the power utility...
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 33 [May 2023] Big, Big News!
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Meet the “digital parents” giving millions in China a vision of family love they never had Creators Jiang Xiuping and Pan Huqian, a viral Douyin duo, act as fictional parents, providing...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Creators Jiang Xiuping and Pan Huqian, a viral Douyin duo, act as fictional parents, providing solace to young adults and adolescents amidst economic inequalities and a scarcity of mental health support in China.
Notes on software...
Interpreting Go After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct definitions I had enough exposure to Go's built-in parsing package that next steps were clear: write an interpreter. It's a great way to get more comfortable with a language's AST. In...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Precise Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There, another philosophical conundrum solved in 4...
2 months ago
Seth's Blog
Useful assumptions for teachers Not simply in the classroom, but anywhere we hope to inform, inspire or educate: Assume enrollment....
a year ago
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a year ago
Not simply in the classroom, but anywhere we hope to inform, inspire or educate: Assume enrollment. Either someone is committed to learning or they’re not. While many situations place people into a spot where they are compelled to show up (exhibit A: learning arithmetic in grade...
Josh Comeau's blog
CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
Benny Kuriakose
Designing Student Amenities That Encourage Creative Growth Providing spaces in schools that promote extracurricular activities in children and grow interests,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Providing spaces in schools that promote extracurricular activities in children and grow interests, hobbies, and talents is highly...
Old Structures...
Cartesian I’ve written before about the Washington Bridge over the Harlem River – not to be confused with the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I’ve written before about the Washington Bridge over the Harlem River – not to be confused with the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River about a mile away – with good reason. There’s an argument to be made that this small (for NYC) bridge is the most beautiful in the...
Anarchy Unfolds
Queer Folk Don't Need Orientation How decade-old discourse shows us a way out
5 months ago
Both Are True
i went mostly offline and then all this happened without the internet, my family steps into it; our wild and crazy offline Friday night
a year ago
Josh Thompson
Job Hunting Recommendations for Early-Career Software Developers I’ve distilled a number of conversations into this post. Some of it is specific to getting a remote...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve distilled a number of conversations into this post. Some of it is specific to getting a remote job and working remotely, but all of it is applicable for any kind of software-related role. It’s probably applicable to non-software roles, but this is where most of my exprience...
Calculated Risk
Friday: Personal Income & Outlays Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Personal Income...
a week ago
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a week ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Personal Income and Outlays for January. The consensus is for a 0.3% increase in personal income, and for a 0.2% increase in personal spending. And for the Core PCE price index to increase...
Seth's Blog
Good advice The cult of consulting suggests that if you simply had better advice from someone who knew more than...
a month ago
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a month ago
The cult of consulting suggests that if you simply had better advice from someone who knew more than you, your problems could be solved. Generally, the advice isn’t really the hard part. There’s endless good advice just a click away. The art is in creating the conditions for...
High Signal
Newsletter that make money in 2024 Newsletters are a great way to make money. The humble email list can be monetized through...
a year ago
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a year ago
Newsletters are a great way to make money. The humble email list can be monetized through advertising or if you have a seriously big value proposition, paid subscriptions. Most email platforms give generous free plans so you don't have to pay anything for your first 1,000-2500...
Jonas Hietala
Laying off Pintos Exam period is here which means all courses should be wrapping up and a week or so ago we finished...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Exam period is here which means all courses should be wrapping up and a week or so ago we finished up our lab series about pintos. The labs were among the best I’ve had yet and I learned a ton. We didn’t follow the official instructions but we had our own assigmnets....
Jason Fried
What's still here? Be curious about what's new, sure. That's expected. But it's more interesting to be curious about...
a month ago
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a month ago
Be curious about what's new, sure. That's expected. But it's more interesting to be curious about what's old. 
What stood the test of time? What worked before and still works now? What survived through all the jabs that you assumed would knock it out, but didn't? That's worth...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 059: In̶f̶l̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Microsoft AI March 22, 2023.
11 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Firing Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious mistakes. Here are a few things I’ve observed…
Max Rozen
How the React Hooks ESLint plugin saved me hours debugging useEffect useEffect is great for fetching and rendering data, but are you using it correctly? There's an...
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Denmark and Finland Are Must-Visits for Foodies
6 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Taking time to reflect * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s been a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s been a while since my last blog post, and I’ve recently been pondering why that may be. It’s not that I’ve been doing less than when I was regularly blogging, it’s in fact quite
Josh Thompson
Quotes from 'Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving', by Pete Walker I’ve found Pete Walker’s Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving to be deeply helpful. Some of you,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve found Pete Walker’s Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving to be deeply helpful. Some of you, many of you, have blessed me and cared for me in kind ways, sometimes with very little knowledge of what was going on, or why I was the way that I was. Thank you. I’ve been...
David Crawshaw
2016-01-05 www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/12311322-planetary-exploration-timelines.html
over a year ago
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over a year ago
www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/12311322-planetary-exploration-timelines.html
Calculated Risk
Retail Sales Increased 0.4% in December On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 0.4% from November to December (seasonally adjusted), and...
a month ago
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a month ago
On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 0.4% from November to December (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 3.9 percent from December 2023. report: Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for December 2024, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and...
Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968     You didn’t need...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst? Without living forever in fear and worry?
8 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Import/restore MySQL files from the command line I don't use this very often, but when I do I always spend a decent amount of time trying to figure...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I don't use this very often, but when I do I always spend a decent amount of time trying to figure it out online. Here are the steps to import a large SQL file from the command line. Upload the SQL file to the server that your MySQL database is on Execute the following command...
Old Structures...
Boosterism I don’t have an exact date for this photo, but the Temple Bar Building, the three-turreted...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I don’t have an exact date for this photo, but the Temple Bar Building, the three-turreted skyscraper in the center, was constructed 1899 to 1901, so 1900 to 1910 is my guess. (As for how difficult discussing timelines can be, the New York Times article on the building I discuss...
Maggie Appleton
The Eponymous Laws of Programming A collection of laws named for specific people in the field of programming
over a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time That’s what makes it worthwhile
11 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Umedacho Community Centre by OHArchitecture Long cedar counters wrap around Umedacho Community Centre, a public hall by Kyoto studio...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Long cedar counters wrap around Umedacho Community Centre, a public hall by Kyoto studio OHArchitecture in Japan where people can...
The Universe of...
Polish Spam Content warning: mass killing of farmed animals Today I complained that my email provider had...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Content warning: mass killing of farmed animals Today I complained that my email provider had delivered a spam message to me that was in Polish. I understand that spam can be hard to identify, but Polish isn't, I don't know Polish, and any message sent to me in Polish can be...
Diaries of Note
Left the Beatles On the evening of 10th January 1969, after a tough day at work, guitarist George Harrison opened his...
a year ago
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a year ago
On the evening of 10th January 1969, after a tough day at work, guitarist George Harrison opened his diary and in three words noted that he had quit the world’s most popular band. For a week the Beatles had been rehearsing at Twickenham Film Studios, their efforts captured on...
DYNOMIGHT
OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now We recently talked about a mystery: All large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess. All,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We recently talked about a mystery: All large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess. All, that is, except for gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, which for some reason can play at an advanced amateur level. This is despite the fact that this model is more than a year old and much...
Diaries of Note
How beautiful that leaf was, so simple in its death Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life teaching and sharing his insights on self-awareness, freedom from conditioning, and the importance of living in the present moment. He traveled the world, engaging in dialogues with...
Farza's Newsletter
imagine if birds were slices of pizza with wings Chilling at Central Park. I usually hang out here on the same bench on Sunday mornings, blast some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Chilling at Central Park. I usually hang out here on the same bench on Sunday mornings, blast some music, and do stuff :). Going to write this newsletter and then head to the office. Lots to do with Zip this week! We’re finding tons of cool new teachers, making dope content,...
Louwrentius
Debian Lenny and Dell R410 network card not supported For those who are running Debian Lenny and want to order the new Dell R410 server, beware! There is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For those who are running Debian Lenny and want to order the new Dell R410 server, beware! There is no safe solution to get Debian Lenny working with the on-board Broadcom network cards. A fairly recent kernel is required. Basically, you will have to install back-ported kernels,...
Jason Fried
Do learn Imagine teaching guitar without putting an instrument in someone’s hands. Or teaching ceramics...
a year ago
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a year ago
Imagine teaching guitar without putting an instrument in someone’s hands. Or teaching ceramics without having people work with clay. Or teaching tennis without swinging the racket and hitting balls. I’m sure there’s some way to teach those things without doing those things, but...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Why we prefer computers over consoles when introducing kids to gaming I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing...
a year ago
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a year ago
I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing games with my brothers on those devices. But as my own kids have gotten older, my wife and I have decided to first introduce them to gaming with computers, instead of consoles. The...
Making software...
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
Darek Kay
GitHub developer statistics Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me to check my own impact as an employee: 1002 pull requests shipped 3062 pull requests reviewed 5 years (since migrating to GitHub Enterprise) LOC (lines of code) is a terrible...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Fruity Cereal Version of Your Predicament A dazed bunny landed inches from my head. It was the night before a race, the precious hours of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A dazed bunny landed inches from my head. It was the night before a race, the precious hours of sleep before my 4am wake up call.
Louwrentius
ZFS: Performance and capacity impact of ashift=9 on 4K sector drives Update 2014-8-23: I was testing with ashift for my new NAS. The ashift=9 write performance...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update 2014-8-23: I was testing with ashift for my new NAS. The ashift=9 write performance deteriorated from 1.1 GB/s to 830 MB/s with just 16 TB of data on the pool. Also I noticed that resilvering was very slow. This is why I decided to abandon my 24 drive RAIDZ3...
mtlynch.io
Traction by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares This book was thoroughly underwhelming. Dozens of people have recommended it to me in the past...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This book was thoroughly underwhelming. Dozens of people have recommended it to me in the past couple of years, and I don’t understand the hype. It has some insightful ideas, but they’re buried under questionable advice and poor writing.
Herbert Lui
Document the moment A few days ago, I tried explaining why blogging was great precisely because it reached a smaller...
a month ago
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a month ago
A few days ago, I tried explaining why blogging was great precisely because it reached a smaller audience than social media.  The smallest audience is one—and that’s you.  Skateboarders bring a video camera to document the moment. They’ve done this since way before social media,...
Eric Bailey
How to Lead Better User Interviews
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Where's Teddy? So I did this course Game Design and what’s a course on Game Design without a game? Well, here it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I did this course Game Design and what’s a course on Game Design without a game? Well, here it is. Made in about seven days (more likely eight) and I thought it became quite cool. Where’s Teddy? How to Play Your mission is to find teddy and his teddybear friends. The...
Posts on Nikita...
Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it. Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
Londonist
Things To Do This Week In London: 13-19 November 2023 Winter Wonderland, Doctor Who, Elf The Musical and Christmas at Kew.
a year ago
Bits about Money
The business of check cashing Check cashing, as a business, is a poorly understood "alternative" financial service.
a year ago
alexwlchan
A script to get Live Text from images One of my favourite new features on Apple’s OSes in the last few years is Live Text, which is an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of my favourite new features on Apple’s OSes in the last few years is Live Text, which is an optical character recognition tool that lets you select text in images. This sort of tech has been around for decades, but having it built into the OS makes it much easier to use. The...
pcloadletter
Surely dark UX doesn't work in the long run I was just feeling pretty good—I published my article about RSS and it's being pretty...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was just feeling pretty good—I published my article about RSS and it's being pretty well-received. I decided a fitting way to celebrate was to head on over to Feedly and catch up on some reading! I clicked on an engineers blog feed to check out here latest couple posts. I...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Putting the “Person” in “Personal Website” The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities like singing, dancing, and making art have been turned into skills instead of being recognized as behaviors? The point of doing these things has become to get good at them. But...
Computer Things
Logic for Programmers now in early access! I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in early access, it's almost 20,000 words, has 30 exercises, and covers a wide variety of logic applications: Property testing Functional correctness and contracts Formal...
xkcd.com
House Inputs and Outputs
7 months ago
Old Structures...
Originality Is Not Easy, Part 3 The first two parts of this series looked at patents that involved odd details that were not really...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The first two parts of this series looked at patents that involved odd details that were not really part of the metal-frame revolution that was taking place in the 1890s but rather adjacent to it. Neither of those patents reflected actual structure that I’ve ever seen in an old...
The Honest Broker
The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice A new book reminds us what we lost when the counterculture disappeared
11 months ago
samwho.dev
Bloom Filters .bf { width: 100%; height: 150px; } @media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width:...
a year ago
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a year ago
.bf { width: 100%; height: 150px; } @media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width: 479px) { .bf { height: 200px; } } @media only screen and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width: 676px) { .bf { height: 200px; } } @media only screen and (min-width:...
Diaries of Note
The ultimate bovine humiliation Anne Lamott was thirty-five, single, and newly sober when she gingerly entered the world of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Anne Lamott was thirty-five, single, and newly sober when she gingerly entered the world of motherhood. Already a seasoned novelist born in 1954 in San Francisco, this transformative period of her life became the foundation for her first foray into non-fiction, Operating...
Rest of World -...
India’s ambitious lithium dreams have stalled Last year, India touted the discovery of a huge reserve of valuable lithium in Kashmir. Experts say...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Last year, India touted the discovery of a huge reserve of valuable lithium in Kashmir. Experts say optimism around the discovery was overblown.
A Beautiful Site
Valid Names for CSS Parts CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web component's shadow root so they can be styled by consumers with CSS. But what are we allowed to call these parts? What characters comprise a valid CSS part name? To find out, I had to dive...
Mazdak
OpenAI Unveils GPT-4.5: Here’s Everything You Need to Know The AI race just got more interesting.
a week ago
Inverted Passion
Usefulness grounds truth Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what LLMs can or cannot do. To a limited extent, the original question is useful because it creates an opening for people to go into specific. But, beyond that initial use, the question...
The Convivial...
The Pathologies of the Attention Economy The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 16
over a year ago
The Convivial...
What You Get Is the World The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 21
over a year ago
Notes on software...
How to recommend books, or, stop recommending SICP Many "must-read" books are not well-written. I try to read a lot, but I still have a low tolerance...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many "must-read" books are not well-written. I try to read a lot, but I still have a low tolerance for bad writing and bad editing. I write this post both to discourage thoughtless recommendations and to encourage the receivers of bad recommendations. For software developers,...
Ink & Switch
Capstone: A tablet for thinking Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
over a year ago
This Space
More and less: Veilchenfeld by Gert Hofmann Gert Hofmann's Veilchenfeld is the latest of his novels to be published in English translation, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Gert Hofmann's Veilchenfeld is the latest of his novels to be published in English translation, and the first translated by Eric Mace-Tessler. Tom Conaghan at Review31 has given it an appreciative review, recognising that Hofmann's presentation of a civilisation's descent into...
Retail Design Blog
Marie Curie building by Proof of the sum Pivot Park in Oss is an inspiring campus for open innovation in the life sciences. For starters and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Pivot Park in Oss is an inspiring campus for open innovation in the life sciences. For starters and existing companies....
Infinite Scroll
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China dreams of competing with global superpowers in the semiconductor industry. Whether its efforts will succeed is far from clear.
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Back over at The Experimental Gameplay Project a new theme has come up. My last three themes haven’t been “my” themes: I’ve been following their lead and their themes and this month is no exception. This months’ apparently a big theme - Art. It’s even a collaboration with a big...
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Should an artificial intelligence (AI) be treated like a legal “subject” or agent? That is the question discussed in a new paper by legal scholars. They recognize that this question is a bit ahead of the technology, but argue that we should work out the legal ramifications before...
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My two-part piece on equivalent experiences is now live on Smashing Magazine. I have complicated feelings about it. First off, writing for Smashing Magazine is a great experience, and I encourage you (yes, you) to pitch them. Their team is friendly, knowledgeable, and will help...
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When it comes to building out forms, it sometimes seems like there are at once both too few field types and too many. This is especially true when it comes to having users choose an option from a pre-defined list, also known as “choose one” fields. This article will take you on a...
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I’ve been listening to The Tim Ferriss Show a while now and he and his guests often inspire me to make changes and start doing new things. I got introduced to Josh Waitzkin’s excellent The Art of Learning and the meta skill of learning has since then fascinated me. So when I got...
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In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why — probably because I could. I had a hotel booked via booking.com, but once I arrived there the receptionist told me it was the first time he's heard of my booking, and he told me that...
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I met boatloads of physicists as a master’s student at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Researchers pass through Perimeter like diplomats through my current neighborhood—the Washington, DC area—except that Perimeter’s visitors speak math...
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I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom. I read novel-length stories about Doctor Who characters; I swooned over fan art of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries; I pored over in-depth analyses of each episode of Carmilla. Most of that is gone now. Links rot quickly,...
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There’s a difference between intellectual and smart. A plumber is smart, they know how to do a skilled and effective job on the task at hand. Intellectualism isn’t about practical results, it’s a passion for exploring what others have said, though this approach is sometimes...
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My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor and an advisor) that helps teachers run Cohort-Based Courses on the Internet and has students from around the world. Gagan also founded a multi-billion dollar online education...
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A bureaucracy recently asked me to submit a few documents. They were very specific and the person on the phone said that the subject line of the email I sent should be blank. This is really unsettling. Almost like taking the labels off bottles at the supermarket. My email...
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Woorkeri Raman, a former Indian cricketer and former coach of the India women’s national cricket team, has two non-negotiables. As an offspinner, you must never get cut, and you must never get driven through the covers. Even when Ravichandran Ashwin takes five wickets, Raman will...
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Warren Buffett has revised his will to leave his remaining assets at the time of his death to a new charitable trust run by his children.
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After messing around with different kernels on Debian Lenny, I noticed that my system did no longer respond to WOL packets. The system is using an on-board Realtek R8168 chip which supports wake on lan. After searching and reading i found the problem. The system is using an...
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Here’s a clip from a video I shot today.  Can you guess what’s coming? (This is all going to happen on The Climber’s Guide) (Warning to mobile users: big gif) In case you didn’t guess, or you guessed wrong… I’m shooting tons of video for a course. It’s going to be awesome. It’s...
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It’s been pretty quiet around here lately. It’s been almost a month since my last entry. I thought about writing something here almost every day, but here is why I didn’t: I want to produce “content” that is helpful and relevant to those who might read it. I felt like nothing I...
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The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea almost always doesn’t work. Having ideas is among the most important qualities for...
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Jules is making $500k a year in revenue with his SEO agency Embarque. But now he's switching things up with a move into SaaS.
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In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the initial launch – I’m going full time on it and I couldn’t be more excited. A brief history...
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The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks, but the details of the design of this type of ware are interesting from an engineering standpoint. Some of the tricks used here are kind of mind blowing; on paper, I wouldn’t think...
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When building your own DIY home NAS, it is important that you simulate and test drive failures before you put your important data on it. It makes sense to know what to do in case a drive needs to be replaced. I also recommend putting a substantial amount of data on your NAS and...
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As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our company, I've spent the last couple of months woried about the performance of our pre-commit checks. We have around 50 projects on a standard react + typescript stack, and a...
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A researcher in virology and immunotherapy got bad news: Her cancer was back with a vengeance; the treatments weren’t working. She decided to treat it herself.
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You will remember that my knowledge of football can be transcribed onto the reverse of a postage stamp, possibly with room left over, and that what knowledge I do possess is thanks to my other half’s family being Portsmouth FC supporters; an emotional rollercoaster, it has to be...
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Metrics, Logs, and Traces in JavaScript Tools The DX of JavaScript Developer Tools could be better if we added Metrics, Logs, and Traces
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So-called “higher symmetries” 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
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Sustainability is a practice that seeks to minimize the negative impact of buildings on the environment by efficient and moderate use of...
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That’s a 1911 panorama, taken from the east side of Fifth Avenue and 8th Street, looking south (on the left), west (in the middle) and not-quite-north (on the right). I’m not sure how the photographer, Burton Welles, managed this, but it’s an impressive shot. On the left, we have...
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When the host machine is suspended while the KVM through QEMU is running lead to issues like display unable to wake up when resuming suspend. Suspending and resuming the Virtual Machine when the host machine is suspended using hooks in systemd and resumed fixes this...
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Three months ago, Anthropic released “the Model Context Protocol”, or MCP. In the last few weeks, interest in it seems to have really picked…
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The video above from YouTuber Alex Day includes clips from about 500 movies, and you’ve almost certainly seen more than a few of them. Battleship Potemkin, Dumbo, Rear Window, Dr. No, The Godfather, E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Top Gun, Braveheart, Gladiator, Inception: we’re not...
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A vague sense of disquiet settled over Europe in the period between World War I and World War II. As the slow burn of militant ultranationalism mingled with jingoist populism, authoritarian leaders and fascist factions found mounting support among a citizenry hungry for...
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New year, new calendar We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a...
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We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a calendar! And now, in celebration of the new year, it’s finally ready, and we’re rolling it out to the first customers starting today 🎉 See, it turns out that lots of people would...
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A lesson from a four month accelerated expertise experiment. Or: why creating new drills for a deliberate practice training program isn't as difficult as you might think.
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Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency, scalability, and improved tooling for devs.
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Bugger On 18th June 1960, during a practice run for the Belgian Grand Prix that was to take place the next...
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On 18th June 1960, during a practice run for the Belgian Grand Prix that was to take place the next day, British Formula One driver Stirling Moss almost died when the left rear wheel of his Lotus-Climax 18 fell off on the treacherous Burnenville curve. Moments later he was thrown...
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Speeding up Postgres Queries by 200x with Analyze I’ve been working on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent data from a...
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I’ve been working on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent data from a social network. Part of this process involves archiving every post on a social network, running Computer Vision models on every image posted to the network, and running sentiment...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel like if prayers came with a token fee people would consume a lot less. Today's News:
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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Personal Income and Outlays for November. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in personal income, and for a 0.5% increase in personal spending. And for the PCE price index to increase 0.2%, and...
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Designing a Lego orrery I've always been a fan of the Lego Technic series, especially those models that have gears and...
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I've always been a fan of the Lego Technic series, especially those models that have gears and cranks and moving parts. But it seems that Lego is shifting the focus of the Technic series away from functional models, so I had to take matters into my own hands. I think an orrery is...
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South Africans are using a power outage notification app to sell weed, find odd jobs With blackouts devastating the country’s economy, EskomSePush’s AskMyStreet feature has become a...
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How to stop thinking as an engineer and start thinking like a business man? Uff, this is a tough one. I can say for sure — it’s possible, everything can be learned. I do...
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Uff, this is a tough one. I can say for sure — it’s possible, everything can be learned. I do […] The post How to stop thinking as an engineer and start thinking like a business man? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Update 18 February 2012 There is one problem. When the robot is not connected to the charger, the batteries are depleted very fast. Even if the batteries are not entirely depleted and the robot can still display the menu, the clock loses it's time. Every time the robot gets a too...
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🔀 The Law of Line Extension
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Feeling broke My psychology around money has changed significantly over the last two years. While some of that is...
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My psychology around money has changed significantly over the last two years. While some of that is captured in my monthly portfolio updates, I thought it was worth recording some of my emotions while they are still fresh. Two years ago Turning the clock back, my financial...
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ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter...
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Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter Thread Summary Between December 5-6, I applied 4 political orientation tests to ChatGPT. Results were consistent across the tests. All 4 tests diagnosed ChatGPT answers to their...
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The only two log levels you need are INFO and ERROR Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong. With...
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Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong. With great logs, you can see what your application is doing. And without them? Things can be broken left and right without you ever finding out. Instead, you wonder why your customers...
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WATCH: Were the US election polls right? My conversation with polling guru Mark Pack
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'Improved' image gallery for Blogofile This blog is just static HTML pages that are generated using Blogofile. The Blogofile website sports...
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This blog is just static HTML pages that are generated using Blogofile. The Blogofile website sports a small image gallery that has been written to illustrate how to create your own 'controllers' or Blogofile plugins. My Python skills are horrible buy I managed to improve a bit...
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No Observability Without Theory: The Talk Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at...
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Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at Monitorama 2024. If you’ve never been to Monitorama, I can’t recommend it enough. I think it’s the best tech conference, period. This talk was adapted from an old blog post of mine,...
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Invisible and relentless, sound is seemingly just there, traveling through our surroundings to carry beautiful music or annoying noises. In this article I’ll explain what sound is, how it’s created and propagated. Throughout this presentation you will be hearing different sounds,...
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GPT-4 + Stable-Diffusion = ?: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with... TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable...
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TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable Diffusion -> Image. Recent advancements in text-to-image generation with diffusion models have yielded remarkable results synthesizing highly realistic and diverse images. However,...
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Tech pace layers I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for...
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I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for thinking about how different ecosystems and emergent forces interact. I’ve been thinking about a tech version of it for the better part of a year, and I finally took advantage of the...
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> Translations welcome! ([Português](https://meleu.github.io/artigos-traduzidos/marchas-de-aprendizagem.html))
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Still Here... Again. Folks, I'm still alive! I don't just mean that figuratively, I mean it literally. It seem like I've...
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Folks, I'm still alive! I don't just mean that figuratively, I mean it literally. It seem like I've made a lot of excuses on this blog over the past year, for the chunks of time where I seem to disappear for a while. Well, this time I really had a good excuse!  Last October I...
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Building a 3D Printer Enclosure Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
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Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected. But some things are more connected than others.
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Open Culture
The World’s First Mobile Phone Shown in 1922 Vintage Film A number of years ago, British Pathé uncovered some striking footage from 1922 showing two women...
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A number of years ago, British Pathé uncovered some striking footage from 1922 showing two women experimenting with the first mobile phone. A spokesman for the archive said: ”It’s amazing that 90 years ago mobile phone technology and music … was not only being thought of but...
Seth's Blog
Your preference is not universal You’re entitled to it, and we will do our best to help you find what you want. But it’s unlikely...
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You’re entitled to it, and we will do our best to help you find what you want. But it’s unlikely that what you want is what everyone wants. It’s hard to believe that there is only one appropriate standard for value, observance, speed or performance. The easiest way for us to help...
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Asia-Pacific, Part 9 (Postscript: Brew It) This is it, the final stop on the Asia-Pacific series, and this one is especially for me. I always...
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This is it, the final stop on the Asia-Pacific series, and this one is especially for me. I always have mixed feelings about the brewery articles because they’re rather self-indulgent. So viewers should feel free to skip past this one and wait until the next series begins because...
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How to select your angel investors I’ve seen a number of situations recently that are something like the following.  A VC firm signs a...
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I’ve seen a number of situations recently that are something like the following.  A VC firm signs a term sheet with an early stage company…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Sleepy Robot Baby Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
HTMHell
#20 HTMHell special: close buttons This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in...
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This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in front-end development: 🔥 the close button. 🔥 In modals, ads, and other overlays you often find a button with a close symbol that allows users, or at least some of them, to close...
Miguel Carranza
Technical debt isn't evil Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the...
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Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. There are multiple interpretations of what technical debt is, but I am going to focus on the financial debt metaphor. Like financial debt, technical debt is something...
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Dec. 21 is Winter Solstice — Why We Have Seasons on Earth Saturday, Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year, with...
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Saturday, Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year, with which we mark the beginning of the winter season in the Earth’s northern hemisphere.  It’s interesting to note that the planets Venus and Jupiter do not have seasons like the...
Retail Design Blog
Pulmuone’s Innovative Store Redefines Food Culture with Sustainability and Modern Convenience. Pulmuone Foods has launched an innovative store that redefines food culture, offering an immersive...
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Pulmuone Foods has launched an innovative store that redefines food culture, offering an immersive experience that transcends traditional retail. This...
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Lululemon's $50B+ Apparel Innovation Chip Wilson launched the athleisure industry by solving the "camel-toe problem" (via breakthroughs...
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Chip Wilson launched the athleisure industry by solving the "camel-toe problem" (via breakthroughs in materials and sewing methods).
Ink & Switch
02 · Group Key Agreement with BeeKEM How Beehive groups can agree on keys over time
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Math Is Still...
The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes In the rumbles and groans of underwater volcanoes, Jackie Caplan-Auerbach finds her favorite...
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In the rumbles and groans of underwater volcanoes, Jackie Caplan-Auerbach finds her favorite harmonies — and clues to the Earth’s interior. The post The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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There is an "AI Factor," and It's Worth Hedging Plus! Sweeteners; The American Difference; AI Experiments; Media Relations; Sanctions are Hard,...
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AKILA store by 22RE Although founded in Los Angeles in 2018 by seasoned designer Chris Mart, eyewear brand AKILA‘s first...
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Although founded in Los Angeles in 2018 by seasoned designer Chris Mart, eyewear brand AKILA‘s first standalone store opened its...
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Best Of Londonist: 1-7 April 2024 Our top stories from the last seven days.
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The Writing on the Wall Augustine Sedgewick on his discovery of Henry David Thoreau’s connection to slavery The post The...
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Augustine Sedgewick on his discovery of Henry David Thoreau’s connection to slavery The post The Writing on the Wall appeared first on The American Scholar.
Jonas Hietala
Default audio card in linux There are a bunch of posts about making your audio work by default in Linux but none that just...
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There are a bunch of posts about making your audio work by default in Linux but none that just worked for me. I had three separate problems: Getting sound Playing sound from multiple sources at the same time Audio card getting different numbers on reboot Getting sound Here I...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Under One of the most formal elements in Central Park is the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, just south of...
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One of the most formal elements in Central Park is the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, just south of The Lake. The terrace overlooks the fountain from the elevation of the 72nd Street crosstown drive, and has three sets of stairs leading down; the undercroft of the terrace is a...
xkcd.com
Contact Merge
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Astral Codex Ten
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Open Culture
Marcus Aurelius’ 9 Rules for Living a Stoic Life: Presented by Ryan Holiday This week, the Guardian’s Zoe Williams profiled Ryan Holiday, a one-time public-relations whiz-kid...
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This week, the Guardian’s Zoe Williams profiled Ryan Holiday, a one-time public-relations whiz-kid who’s reinvented himself over the past decade as a speaker for the dead: specifically Epictetus, Seneca, and above all Marcus Aurelius, the figureheads of the ancient school of...
Founder's blog
Zen Browser review and benchmark vs Chrome, Brave, Firefox and Safari I'm looking for a new daily driver browser on my Mac. Chrome is a non-starter for me due to privacy...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I'm looking for a new daily driver browser on my Mac. Chrome is a non-starter for me due to privacy concerns (Google's tracking empire is alive and well), and Edge is just... too much. Every update shoves another set of “features” down my throat — Copilot, discount coupons, Bing...
Matt Mullenweg
Cloudflare Stories There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend. The first is Steven Levy’s...
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There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend. The first is Steven Levy’s incredible story about Tim Jenkin, who created a secure communication protocol for the African National Congress to overthrow the apartheid regime in South Africa. Cloudflare’s CTO,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Golden Era of Blogging Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s...
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a year ago
Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s bloggers”. While I’m not super into the YouTube scene, his observations sound right from where I sit. He points out how some of the YouTube creators he loves and follows are...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Olly Lessons from building Senja.io to $4,000 MRR in Public
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TheCollector
Archaeologists May Have Found Second Pharaonic Tomb in Egypt The recent discovery of King Thutmose II’s long-lost royal tomb has been touted as Egypt’s most...
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The recent discovery of King Thutmose II’s long-lost royal tomb has been touted as Egypt’s most impressive archaeological find since King Tut. Now, just days later, the same archaeologists say there is a yet-undiscovered second tomb of Thutmose II located nearby.   The Royal...
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 16-17 March 2024 Vintage clothes, live jazz, and the St Patrick's Day parade.
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Transit Maps
Official Map: C-TRAN Bus Network, Vancouver, Washington, October 2023 Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Transit Maps has never taken a look at the map for Portland’s...
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Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Transit Maps has never taken a look at the map for Portland’s northern neighbour, the (original) Vancouver. With the recent addition of their second “The Vine” BRT route along Mill Plain Boulevard, now seems like a good time. At first glance, it...
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: assemblages
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High Signal
Making a living from no-code Katt Risen is a no-code founder and the creator of the No-Code Exits newsletter and co-creator of...
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Katt Risen is a no-code founder and the creator of the No-Code Exits newsletter and co-creator of Build the Keyword
Classical Wisdom
How to Celebrate the Love of Learning Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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Netlify Year One > Update: I have since [left Netlify](https://dev.to/swyx/farewell-netlify-1alo).
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
CSS Parts Inspired by BEM In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few...
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In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few restrictions in what you can call them. The purpose of that deep dive was to help identify a pattern for naming parts that lets me expose states and subparts, or parts exported as a...
Londonist
See Dozens Of Tube Sketches At Barbican Library Martin Church's vibrant portraits in free exhibition.
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OH8HUB’s Substack
Spring ham radio activation of Korkattivuori (Mt. Korkatti) Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature...
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Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature reserve area near town Haapavesi (pop. 6588) in Finland. The nature reserve area consist of short family friendly hiking path of approximately 1.5km. One end of the path has parking...
The Marginalian
Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life Somewhere along the way of life, we learn that love means very different things to different people,...
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Somewhere along the way of life, we learn that love means very different things to different people, and yet all personal love is but a fractal of a larger universal love. Some call it God. I call it wonder. Dante called it “the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.”...
TokyoDev
There’s No Place Like Home: Finding an Apartment in Japan What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor...
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What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor give a moving-in quote of 600,000 yen for an apartment that costs 80,000 yen a month to rent? Why does my apartment not have lights, curtains, or even a stove? Am I getting ripped...
Rest of World -...
The Philippine army is recruiting young tech civilians to fight cyber attacks The country is among the most vulnerable to online threats, many of them from China. To fight back,...
3 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Plans are nothing, but planning is indispensable It is widely believed that writing a business plan is a waste of time, because: 1) very few people...
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It is widely believed that writing a business plan is a waste of time, because: 1) very few people will read it, and 2) you’ll end up…
Ryan Hoover's...
Silicon Valley isn’t “Mainstream”
over a year ago
Calculated Risk
The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3 Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3 A brief...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3 A brief excerpt: During the housing bubble, many homeowners borrowed heavily against their perceived home equity - jokingly calling it the “Home ATM” - and this contributed to the subsequent...
The American Scholar
“The Horses” by Ted Hughes Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Horses” by Ted Hughes appeared first on The American...
2 months ago
Yazin Alirhayim
The Meem app: it sucks If you’re a “digital only” bank like Meem, the app your customers use is all they see: it’s like a...
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over a year ago
If you’re a “digital only” bank like Meem, the app your customers use is all they see: it’s like a virtual 🏦 branch. That’s fitting, because you know what my impression of meem is as a user? When I open up their app, it feels like walking into a crowded butcher shop, with...
Escaping Flatland
On feeling connected generosity is potency
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csvbase blog
Client libraries are better when they have no API fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
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Seth's Blog
The Santa problem An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from...
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An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from conventional discourse. It can happen to sports and music fans, to investors, to companies that have confidence in their view of the world, or to social or political gatherings. We...
Londonist
Christmas Dinner In London: Where To Eat In The Capital On Christmas Day Book soon if you want a seat at these tables on 25 December.
a year ago
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There are three New York Cities There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born...
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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Health Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'll just note that I'm posting this comic several...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'll just note that I'm posting this comic several hours late because I had to turn in a manuscript that was due 6 months ago. Today's News:
the singularity is...
Imitation Learning 7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea. Gather tons of human driving data, state action...
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7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea. Gather tons of human driving data, state action pairs: (S_t, A_t) Train a supervised model f(S_t) -> A_t Drive cars with that model. The exact original formulation was a model that predicts steering angle from image, then used a...
mtlynch.io
Hiring Content Writers: Part Three - Screening Candidates Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job...
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Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description Part Three: Screening Candidates (this section) Part Four - Working with Writers Part Five - Terminating Writers Screening writing candidates requires you to make decisions...
Rest of World -...
Uber hates this app that tells drivers whether it’s worth picking you up Brazil’s StopClub app shows drivers what every minute and mile of your ride is worth.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Algorithm Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You are what we call a discontinuity at...
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The Honest Broker
Car Drivers Torment a City with Celine Dion Songs An update on dangerous music
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Open Culture
eanuts Creator Charles Schulz Shares with a 10-Year-Old Kid the True Meaning of Good Citizenship In 1970, when 10-year-old Joel Linton asked Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, “What do you...
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In 1970, when 10-year-old Joel Linton asked Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, “What do you think makes a good citizen?” Schulz sent the youngster a short but pithy reply: Dear Joel: I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever...
Joel Gascoigne
Beware of the social ideas * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last time I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last time I wrote about how to start your startup in 4 steps [https://joel.is/post/5507881155/how-to-start-your-startup-in-4-steps], and the first step I mention is to “Have an idea”. This can...
Good Enough
Strong Prototypes, Weakly Held Excuse any obtuse thoughts that make their way into this writing. I sat down to type with My Life in...
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a year ago
Excuse any obtuse thoughts that make their way into this writing. I sat down to type with My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Brian Eno and David Byrne as my soundtrack. This is an album I've never listened to before, and apparently I'm supposed to love it or hate it. Mostly the...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
We asked for flying cars and all we got was the entire planet communicating instantly via pocket... Benedict Evans has a new presentation about the explosive growth of internet-connected smartphones....
over a year ago
xkcd.com
RNAWorld
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Best of the Best
a year ago
Open Culture
Coursera Offers 30% Off of Coursera Plus (Until September 30), Giving You Unlimited Access to... As the new school year gets underway, millions of students are heading back to classrooms. And you...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
As the new school year gets underway, millions of students are heading back to classrooms. And you can too. From now until September 30, 2024, Coursera is offering a 30% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus...
CONTEMPORIST
A Cantilever At One End Allows This Home To Project Over The Land Leah Martin, partner and founder of Allied8 Architects in Seattle, Washington, has shared photos of...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Leah Martin, partner and founder of Allied8 Architects in Seattle, Washington, has shared photos of a modern Orcas Island home she designed for herself and her family. This small home, which cantilevers at one end, sits on the top of a ridge and is anchored to the bedrock in six...
Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do! But striking poses is fun and easy.
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Futuristic Progressive Enhancement Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that becomes more capable as time passes without any effort on our part.” Wouldn’t that be amazing? Surely you’d want to know what sorcery makes this possible, right? Well the future is...
Daniel Bourke
Home alone on a Saturday night Got caught in thought space today. Ideas galore, activities here and there, actions minimal, lots of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Got caught in thought space today. Ideas galore, activities here and there, actions minimal, lots of standing around watching not enough touching. Like the guy with a crush on a girl but never says anything. So I took a step outside thought space. And found gravity. Twenty...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The Pull Request A brief and biased history. Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now – GitHub blog, Sat, 23 Feb 2008 When...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A brief and biased history. Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now – GitHub blog, Sat, 23 Feb 2008 When GitHub launched, it had no code review. Three years after launch, in 2011, GitHub user rtomayko became the first person to make a real code comment, which read, in full:...
Londonist
Ticket Alert: Beyoncé's Renaissance Tour Film Is Coming To London Welcome to the Renaissance.
a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Keyword Conversations No really, I'd love to know what's happening here.
3 months ago