Mark Manson
My Response to Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock
Last weekend, Will Smith walked on stage at the Oscars and slapped Chris Rock for making a joke...
over a year ago
Last weekend, Will Smith walked on stage at the Oscars and slapped Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife. Since that moment, my phone and inbox have been inundated non-stop with people (friends, family, readers, journalists) wanting my “take” on the situation. After all, I...
Ruud van Asseldonk
An API for my Christmas tree
over a year ago
GitButler
Fixing up Git with Autosquash
How can you amend a series of commits automatically to keep a clean history? Let's take a look at...
9 months ago
How can you amend a series of commits automatically to keep a clean history? Let's take a look at git autosquash.
Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 4: Hits And Misses With Rare Endemics (February 5 and 6, 2024)
February 5, 2024
Today's plan was to complete the drive to Cajamarca, stop for Unicolored Tapaculos...
9 months ago
February 5, 2024
Today's plan was to complete the drive to Cajamarca, stop for Unicolored Tapaculos on the way, and then spend the rest of the day at a particular river valley where the Gray-bellied Comet is regularly seen. Therefore, since we did not have any early morning...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Pure Essay'
“A good deal
that he wrote took the form of the ‘pure’ essay, written, as Lord David Cecil
says,...
7 months ago
“A good deal
that he wrote took the form of the ‘pure’ essay, written, as Lord David Cecil
says, ‘not to instruct or edify but only to produce aesthetic satisfaction.’ I
do not know why it should be so, but today the ‘pure’ essay is a literary genre
to which no reader under sixty...
somethingaboutmaps
A New Take on an Old Style
Gentle readers, I have some exciting things to share with you. After several months of tinkering and...
a month ago
Gentle readers, I have some exciting things to share with you. After several months of tinkering and toolmaking, I have created a series of posters of iconic peaks (and other terrain), illustrated in a sketch style inspired by old hachure drawings. There are 37 designs to choose...
diamond geezer
Freshwater fish quiz
Freshwater fish quiz
(quiz complete... all answers now in the comments box)
1) roost
2) plump
3)...
8 months ago
Freshwater fish quiz
(quiz complete... all answers now in the comments box)
1) roost
2) plump
3) long spear
4) below tenor
5) director Ken
6) former Sussex MP
7) Surrey MP
8) vehicle (quiet)
9) phone company (large)
10) 10 swiss
11) 60 secs at present
12) 500 + 1
13) 1000...
Christian Selig
A free, 3D printable Meta Quest 3 stand
People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I...
8 months ago
People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I designed in Fusion 360 with the goal of being visually appealing and compact as it stored the headset vertically so it wouldn’t take up too much space on your desk.
Turns out there were...
Map of the Week
Maps GPT
I've been seeing a few interesting uses for ChatGPT-type artificial intelligence lately. Of course...
a year ago
I've been seeing a few interesting uses for ChatGPT-type artificial intelligence lately. Of course there has to be a map generator. MapsGPT is powered by Proxi, an alternative to Google's MyMaps. I started out looking at their map suggestions, such as worst places to take a nap...
NeuroLogica Blog
Did They Find Amelia Earhart’s Plane
Is this sonar image taken at 16,000 feet below the surface about 100 miles from Howland island, that...
10 months ago
Is this sonar image taken at 16,000 feet below the surface about 100 miles from Howland island, that of a downed Lockheed Model 10-E Electra plane? Tony Romeo hopes it is. He spent $9 million to purchase an underwater drone, the Hugan 6000, then hired a crew and scoured 5,200...
The Works in...
Notes on Progress: Representation and human history
Do shrunken heads belong in a museum?
over a year ago
Do shrunken heads belong in a museum?
TheCollector
How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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12 months ago
The Modern House
Kevin McCloud: the Grand Designs presenter takes us behind the scenes of his own life
Anyone who’s ever dreamed of building their own home has probably watched an episode of Grand...
a year ago
Anyone who’s ever dreamed of building their own home has probably watched an episode of Grand Designs. In fact, quite a few people have – the programme has been on our screens since 1999, during which time Kevin McCloud has cemented his reputation as a […]
CONTEMPORIST
A Complete Renovation Was Given To This 1980s Plaster Clad House
Michael Cooper Architects has shared photos of a 1980s plaster-clad home in Auckland, New Zealand,...
a year ago
Michael Cooper Architects has shared photos of a 1980s plaster-clad home in Auckland, New Zealand, that they renovated to bring it up to today’s standards. The house needed a re-design inside and out, with the clients requesting a contemporary design. The clients also wanted a...
Mazdak
Jeff Bezos sold around $240 million worth of Amazon shares
Jeff Bezos sold around $240 million worth of Amazon shares last week. The transactions were listed...
a year ago
Jeff Bezos sold around $240 million worth of Amazon shares last week. The transactions were listed as contributions to nonprofit organizations. Shares of Amazon fell 1.8% on Nov. 15 and 0.3% on Nov. 16. Bezos still holds 988.3 million shares of Amazon, around 10% of the company.
Patrick Kayongo
Iinkomo
“I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing...
a year ago
“I know you’ve explained this to me before, but why do I have to leave again?” Gomolemo was packing the last bit of her belongings into her bags, rushed by her anger and irritation. “I told you; it will just be for a few days. My grandfather is here for a medical procedure, and...
The Marginalian
The Science of Tears and the Art of Crying: An Illustrated Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Deepest...
“All the poems of our lives are not yet made. We hear them crying to us,” Muriel Rukeyser writes in...
a month ago
“All the poems of our lives are not yet made. We hear them crying to us,” Muriel Rukeyser writes in her timeless ode to the power of poetry. “Cry, heart, but never break,” entreats one of my favorite children’s books — which, at their best, are always philosophies for living. It...
The Solarchitecture...
7-Stage Solar Design Review - launched!
Together we make your home healthier, full of sunlight & abound with natural energy
over a year ago
Together we make your home healthier, full of sunlight & abound with natural energy
Quanta Magazine
A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus
By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force...
a year ago
By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons.
The post A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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a year ago
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in June 2024
20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in June 2024
1) Whatever 16 members of the public have...
5 months ago
20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in June 2024
1) Whatever 16 members of the public have said, no occurrences of bedbugs have been identified on TfL services over the past two years.
2) London's least busy bus stop is at Dysart Avenue (I blogged about this in some...
David Heinemeier...
Committing to Windows
I've gone around the computing world in the past eighty hours. I've been flowing freely from Windows...
9 months ago
I've gone around the computing world in the past eighty hours. I've been flowing freely from Windows to Linux, sampling text editors like VSCode, neovim, Helix, and Sublime, while surveying PC laptops and desktops. It's been an adventure! But it's time to stop being a tourist....
Good Enough
Let's talk about conversations
If you subscribe to our newsletter — which you do, right? — then you'll know that recently we've...
9 months ago
If you subscribe to our newsletter — which you do, right? — then you'll know that recently we've been thinking about conversations.
We're a small group making fun software for people, and we like to have conversations with those people; the lovely folks who like our take on...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Accident
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The really distressing part wasn't the 3 hours...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The really distressing part wasn't the 3 hours spent yanking her cheeks, but the variations in pace from time to time.
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The Marginalian
The Paradox of Free Will
The neuroscience, physics, and philosophy of freedom in a universe of fixed laws.
a year ago
The neuroscience, physics, and philosophy of freedom in a universe of fixed laws.
TheCollector
What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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a year ago
Platformer
Another Facebook content moderation company quits the business
Amid worker unrest and a lawsuit, Sama says it's done. Will others follow?
a year ago
Amid worker unrest and a lawsuit, Sama says it's done. Will others follow?
The Map is Mostly...
[subscribers only] Office Hours & Tidings
The Map is Mostly Water Office Hours are open For about 2 days. What do you need feedback or advice...
7 months ago
The Map is Mostly Water Office Hours are open For about 2 days. What do you need feedback or advice on, what questions do you have, what secret trouble stirs thy breast? Feel free to ask about house design, New Hampshire, philosophy, parenting, or anything else you want to...
diamond geezer
The Battle of Barnet
The Battle of Barnet, one of the key turning points of the Wars of the Roses, took place on 14th...
8 months ago
The Battle of Barnet, one of the key turning points of the Wars of the Roses, took place on 14th April 1471. A 553rd anniversary's not particularly major but unfortunately I missed the 550th, as did most of the population of Barnet due to lockdown issues. Also the battle took...
Simply Explained
How WebP Images Reduced My Bandwidth Usage by 50%
Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP...
over a year ago
Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP images to save bandwidth and make this site even faster to load! This simple change reduced my bandwidth usage by 50% and is still backwards compatible with old devices and...
Quantum Frontiers
Quantum physics proposes a new way to study biology – and the results could revolutionize our...
By guest blogger Clarice D. Aiello, faculty at UCLA Imagine using your cellphone to control the...
a year ago
By guest blogger Clarice D. Aiello, faculty at UCLA Imagine using your cellphone to control the activity of your own cells to treat injuries and disease. It sounds like something from the imagination of an overly optimistic science fiction writer. … Continue reading →
Charles Chen
React is the New IBM
You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get...
a year ago
You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get right, and joyless every step of the way.
Wait But Why
Mailbag #2
We have a whole lot to talk about.
The post Mailbag #2 appeared first on Wait But Why.
over a year ago
We have a whole lot to talk about.
The post Mailbag #2 appeared first on Wait But Why.
Tony Finch's blog
libc delenda est
Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C
library are terrible,
especially if...
a year ago
Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C
library are terrible,
especially if you are coding on Windows - good fun if you like staring
into the abyss. He followed up with let’s write a
setjmp which is fun in a
more positive way. I was also pleased to learn...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
GTFO Employers | Out-Of-Pocket
Back To The Future
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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7 months ago
Casey Handmer's blog
Entrepreneurship changed the way I think
A quick note with some self reflection on the eve of my 37th year and after nearly three years of...
3 months ago
A quick note with some self reflection on the eve of my 37th year and after nearly three years of running a hardware start up. I never saw myself as a founder. At some point a few years ago I realized nearly all my friends were founders or managers of their own business, but I...
TheCollector
How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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5 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Colossal Curved Glass Window Shows Off The Biggest LULULEMON Flagship Store In The World
AIM ARCHITECTURE has shared photos of the LULULEMON Flagship Store they designed in Shanghai, China,...
6 months ago
AIM ARCHITECTURE has shared photos of the LULULEMON Flagship Store they designed in Shanghai, China, that uses curved glass to create an eye-catching retail destination. The facade with its curved glass window, allows people on the street to witness the movement of activity...
CONTEMPORIST
Handmade Elongated Bricks Cover The Exterior Of This Home
Photography ©Paolo Abate MoDusArchitects has sent us photos of a modern home they recently completed...
a year ago
Photography ©Paolo Abate MoDusArchitects has sent us photos of a modern home they recently completed in South Tyrol, Italy, that’s faced in handmade bricks. Photography ©Gustav Willeit The home, located in a small town and surrounded by vineyards, appears as a single-family...
Old Structures...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
A few comments about today’s holiday. First, if you’re so inclined, the city Parks Department has...
11 months ago
A few comments about today’s holiday. First, if you’re so inclined, the city Parks Department has opportunities for public service: here. Otherwise, memorials and celebrations: here. Some of the permanent memorials to King in New York: here. Some of his relationship to New York...
Steve Klabnik
Why I don't like factory_girl
over a year ago
Seldo.com
There's no such thing as the fundamentals of web development
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Did Automattic commit open source theft?
The maker of WordPress took 2M customers from its biggest rival: has a red line been crossed?
2 months ago
The maker of WordPress took 2M customers from its biggest rival: has a red line been crossed?
Rest of World -...
This app makes sure dinner is halal
The Indonesian app Momasa features recipes, cooking lessons, and restaurants that meet the standards...
2 months ago
The Indonesian app Momasa features recipes, cooking lessons, and restaurants that meet the standards of Islamic law.
Old Structures...
Obvious In Restrospect
The first real commuter rail in New York was the New York and Harlem Railroad, which eventually...
11 months ago
The first real commuter rail in New York was the New York and Harlem Railroad, which eventually served, through a combination of horse-drawn street cars and heavy rail, from lower Manhattan to Chatham, New York, not far south of Albany. The portion in Manhattan south of 23rd...
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog's recommended reading for startup teams
The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so...
a year ago
The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so here’s a collection of the books our teams recommend…
The Works in...
Escape to the country
What makes a successful New Town?
4 months ago
What makes a successful New Town?
TokyoDev
自営業している開発者の事例
[IT飲み会名古屋](http://www.it-nomikai.jp/nagoya/before-info/...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Content Distribution
How CDNs, BitTorrent and Distributed Hash tables work
over a year ago
How CDNs, BitTorrent and Distributed Hash tables work
The Rational Walk
The Digest #224
Edith Hamilton on human stupidity, BHE's latest investor presentation, Berkshire's 13-F, Extending...
a month ago
Edith Hamilton on human stupidity, BHE's latest investor presentation, Berkshire's 13-F, Extending human lifespan, Fastenal's success story, Buffett's early investments, IKEA's founder
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway’s 2024 Q&A Session
Warren Buffett answered over thirty questions in a five hour marathon session in the first annual...
7 months ago
Warren Buffett answered over thirty questions in a five hour marathon session in the first annual meeting after Charlie Munger's death.
AFAR Media - Travel...
How to Redeem AmEx Membership Rewards Points for Top Value
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The natural size
No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few....
a year ago
No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few. And no matter how big the crowd in the arena, the musicians can only see the faces of a few hundred. An investor can only be engaged and smart about a very small number of […]
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Offensive AI
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I'm slightly regretting not having this as the...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I'm slightly regretting not having this as the twist ending to a comedic novel. Gimme a few years.
Today's News:
One week until BEA WOLF DAY!
Old Structures...
The Name Lost Meaning
From the great archive of her photographs that Carol Highsmith donated to the Library of Congress,...
3 months ago
From the great archive of her photographs that Carol Highsmith donated to the Library of Congress, “View of a Manhattan street from New York City’s High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail.” Except that you can’t see the High Line because she was...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Arid Interrogation'
As boys, in
our imaginations we tested ourselves. Would we prove courageous in combat? Our
fathers...
4 months ago
As boys, in
our imaginations we tested ourselves. Would we prove courageous in combat? Our
fathers had, so we believed, during World War II. Could we withstand torture?
These virtues, touched with Hollywood melodrama, seemed like essential aspects of
maturity. We wanted to be...
diamond geezer
Route 24
A New Year means new digits, and new digits mean a series of posts about the number 24. I've chosen...
11 months ago
A New Year means new digits, and new digits mean a series of posts about the number 24. I've chosen to start with London's oldest unchanged bus route, the 24's north/south run from Hampstead down to Pimlico. Rest assured I won't be writing a full travelogue because I did that...
TheCollector
The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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9 months ago
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
6 days ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
TheCollector
US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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6 months ago
Old Structures...
It Is Sorely Missed
Conceptions of leisure activities have changed over the years. The fact that people now sun...
11 months ago
Conceptions of leisure activities have changed over the years. The fact that people now sun themselves lying on towels in Central Park while wearing quite brief bathing suits would seem as weird to people in the 1870s, when the park was new, as the presence of sheep in the Sheep...
Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
a month ago
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Ways to Experience Minnesota's Scandinavian Heritage
7 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Where at least I know I'm free
I used to find the American self-image of being this uniquely freedom-loving, freedom-having people...
4 months ago
I used to find the American self-image of being this uniquely freedom-loving, freedom-having people delusional. Sure, I'd think, you're not North Korea or Venezuela, but is that really a standard worth celebration? Shouldn't America compare itself to higher alternatives, like...
The Modern House
Far-Flung: Four remote homes (and one hotel) scattered across the Scottish Isles
With gargantuan views across machair-robed mountains and legend-laden lochs, the wild and windswept...
7 months ago
With gargantuan views across machair-robed mountains and legend-laden lochs, the wild and windswept Scottish coast offers up a different kind of island dwelling. These far-flung homes (and one beach-front lodging) offer a sense of considered and quiet retreat amid what is an...
Retail Design Blog
Bupa Acıbadem Offices by İkibiniki
İkibiniki designed Bupa Acıbadem’s Istanbul office to prioritize collaboration and productivity with...
6 months ago
İkibiniki designed Bupa Acıbadem’s Istanbul office to prioritize collaboration and productivity with multifunctional areas, vibrant colors, ample natural light, and...
Neil Madden
Multiple input MACs
When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a...
over a year ago
When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a single string, but multiple fields of data. For example, when creating an authenticated encryption mode by composing a cipher and a MAC (like AES-CBC and HMAC), you need to ensure the...
Christopher Butler
Link – Gemma Copeland's personal website
gemmacope.land is a really cool digital garden.
I love the simplicity of the main page — it...
11 months ago
gemmacope.land is a really cool digital garden.
I love the simplicity of the main page — it manages to fit in just about everything in one vertical pane. But the real surprise is on the right side of the page, where Gemma stacks blocks pulled in from her Are.na account. It’s...
NeuroLogica Blog
Flooding is Increasing
Last month my flight home from Chicago was canceled because of an intense rainstorm. In CT the storm...
3 months ago
Last month my flight home from Chicago was canceled because of an intense rainstorm. In CT the storm was intense enough to cause flash flooding, which washed out roads and bridges and shut down traffic in many areas. The epicenter of the rainfall was in Oxford, CT (where my...
swyx's site RSS Feed
First Look at AWS Amplify Flutter (Developer Preview)
AWS Amplify launched a Flutter Integration, so I thought I would record a quick video and blogpost
over a year ago
AWS Amplify launched a Flutter Integration, so I thought I would record a quick video and blogpost
Max Rozen
How to write semantic HTML
Writing semantic HTML markup is one of the first steps to writing accessible websites. Let's learn...
over a year ago
Writing semantic HTML markup is one of the first steps to writing accessible websites. Let's learn how to get started!
Maps Mania
The Stunning Beauty of Air Traffic Data
8 months ago
The Marginalian
Look Up: The Illustrated Story of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, Who Laid the Groundwork for...
How a brilliant woman rose against the tide of her time to fathom the mysteries of space.
a year ago
How a brilliant woman rose against the tide of her time to fathom the mysteries of space.
Paul Graham: Essays
The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Honing Life on the Edges of the Possible: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries...
"At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a...
4 months ago
"At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution."
Christopher Butler
Link – Johannes Klingebiel's Personal Website
johannesklingebiel.de is a really nice website and digital garden.
There is so much to like on...
6 months ago
johannesklingebiel.de is a really nice website and digital garden.
There is so much to like on Johannes’s website — from the attention he gives to details that orient you to the site’s structure to the delicate balance between the playful and the analytical in its visual...
Rest of World -...
India’s plan to export its wildly successful digital payments system
After starting cross-border payments with Singapore, India is now setting up more international...
a year ago
After starting cross-border payments with Singapore, India is now setting up more international partnerships.
Old Structures...
Other People’s Perception
Every once in a while, something slightly out of the ordinary reminds me of how our work looks to...
5 months ago
Every once in a while, something slightly out of the ordinary reminds me of how our work looks to people not in the AEC world. Yesterday morning I was walking up Thames Street from Trinity to Broadway and took this photo: That block of Thames is a great illustration of why the...
Patrick Kayongo
Play
“I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their...
a year ago
“I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their backs from the lazy sloth on the paved ground outside of his garage. All the kids in the conformant townhouse complex regularly gravitated towards his house during the school...
Passing Time
A Wednesday at Arapahoe Lakes
Not because it's there, but, instead, to feel something
a year ago
Not because it's there, but, instead, to feel something
Seth's Blog
On whining
It’s not just for little kids, and it might not be a bug in our culture. Whining might be a feature,...
a month ago
It’s not just for little kids, and it might not be a bug in our culture. Whining might be a feature, something that all humans have a desire to do, regardless of our age or position. Let’s define whining as a complaint about a situation that’s not easily addressed, often a...
Seth's Blog
Unfettered
That’s unlikely. You’re rarely going to get the freedom and resources to do your best work...
a year ago
That’s unlikely. You’re rarely going to get the freedom and resources to do your best work unfettered. The hard part (and the opportunity) is to figure out how to get comfortable with fettered. Because fettered is what’s on offer. Boundaries and scarcity aren’t simply...
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A Dark Retail Space Transformed Into A Bright Skincare Center
ISENSE DESIGN has shared photos of a recently completed retail design for Beauty Technology Skincare...
a year ago
ISENSE DESIGN has shared photos of a recently completed retail design for Beauty Technology Skincare Center in Beijing, China. The designers transformed a dark store with a red facade and awning, into a bright and open retail design with a green facade and large windows. Seizing...
Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
Infinite Scroll
On Consumption vs Production
How to improve yourself and be happier, online or offline
a month ago
How to improve yourself and be happier, online or offline
computers are bad
2023-06-02 the reinvention of owens lake
Programming note: In an effort to introduce an exciting new social aspect to
Computers Are Bad (a...
a year ago
Programming note: In an effort to introduce an exciting new social aspect to
Computers Are Bad (a functional necessity to appease early-stage investor
demands for "engagement")¸ I am launching a Matrix room for CAB readers.
You can join it! Do whatever you do to join rooms in...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
John & Paul & Ringo & George / &&& T-shirt
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: walkerart.org License: All Rights Reserved.
Experimental...
over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: walkerart.org License: All Rights Reserved.
Experimental Jetset designed the original John & Paul & Ringo & George T-shirt (referencing the names of the Beatles) in 2001 for Yoshi Kawasaki at the Japanese apparel company 2K/Gingham. The...
TokyoDev
The Difficulties of Getting a Software Developer Job in Japan in 2023
Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan...
a year ago
Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan is. Overall, my impression is that it is nowhere as bad as places like the US, but nevertheless I have been hearing stories of developers struggling to get jobs here. In this...
Wuthering...
Middle period Plato - He’s garbage, he cares about nothing but the truth.
Assembling yesterday’s post I saw that I was only missing one dialogue from Plato’s early period, so...
a year ago
Assembling yesterday’s post I saw that I was only missing one dialogue from Plato’s early period, so I knocked off Greater Hippiaslast night. The early dialogues are generally short; the three in the “death of Socrates” group are only fifty pages total, for example.
Hippias is...
Retail Design Blog
The Visitor by Altavia ODG
The Visitor is a groundbreaking addition to the retail landscape at the King Abdulaziz International...
2 months ago
The Visitor is a groundbreaking addition to the retail landscape at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia....
TheCollector
Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Extracting domain models: a practical example
over a year ago
The Marginalian
William James on Love
"If it comes, it comes; if it does not come, no process of reasoning can force it. Yet it transforms...
8 months ago
"If it comes, it comes; if it does not come, no process of reasoning can force it. Yet it transforms the value of the creature loved."
RhysTranter.com
A New Role at St David’s Catholic College, Cardiff
I have just started a new role as a pastoral tutor at St David's Catholic College in Cardiff. Over...
over a year ago
I have just started a new role as a pastoral tutor at St David's Catholic College in Cardiff. Over the last two years I have been looking for a secure full-time job that would allow me to draw on my teaching skills and experience, while also offering an opportunity to serve my...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
St. Mary’s (and Calvert), Maryland
County counting becomes increasingly difficult as I continue my glacially slow progress. Now it...
a year ago
County counting becomes increasingly difficult as I continue my glacially slow progress. Now it takes more than five hours to reach the closest unvisited county from my home. Fortunately I found a workaround by shifting my focus to overnight county visits. There are plenty of...
Val Sopi
On using time
<p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my...
a year ago
<p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my product-making process.</p><p>Back in the day, when I was greener, I used to rush things, not just for the sake of rushing to get them out of the door — but I would get to...
Jibran’s Perspective
Failure 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post.
This is...
6 months ago
I have failed, and that is exactly what I had hoped for a few months ago in this blog post.
This is a good failure. It has taught me things, lessons I can use in the future to avoid failing this way again.
But first a bit of context. What did I fail at?
In February of 2024 I...
Escaping Flatland
Life update
+ open thread and a few fragments of essays
11 months ago
+ open thread and a few fragments of essays
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gold
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When I think of altruism, I think of guys selling...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
When I think of altruism, I think of guys selling apocalypse gold on youtube.
Today's News:
FIRE v London
Nov ’24: 3x
London life I’ve been keeping busy as winter in London sets in. The Christmas lights are all out and...
2 weeks ago
London life I’ve been keeping busy as winter in London sets in. The Christmas lights are all out and looking resplendent, and both the West End and the City are feeling pretty buzzy. For all the general ‘UK stuck in the weeds’ economic commentary, we feel a long way from any talk...
A Smart Bear
Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not...
a year ago
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not selling" might be worse. Maybe my story will help you.
Uncharted...
10 Other Places Where Geniuses Hide
Groups, networks, the Internet, IQ, state sponsorship, and many more
a week ago
Groups, networks, the Internet, IQ, state sponsorship, and many more
TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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2 days ago
The Rational Walk
Warren Buffett on Inflation — Part 1
This article presents lessons learned regarding investing in bonds based on Warren Buffett's...
a year ago
This article presents lessons learned regarding investing in bonds based on Warren Buffett's commentary in his final partnership letters written in 1969 and 1970.
Adventures In...
Thoughts on the Cartographer’s Role in an AI Future
A few moments ago I was asked by a student about the “development of cartography over the next 10...
9 months ago
A few moments ago I was asked by a student about the “development of cartography over the next 10 years.” Here’s my somewhat off-the-cuff response, though my thoughts have been steeping in this for the past year or so. In the next 10 years artificial intelligence, and probably...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 May 11 - May 19
SimPocalypse
Our older kiddo has been playing SimCity — the first version. I’ve always...
7 months ago
SimPocalypse
Our older kiddo has been playing SimCity — the first version. I’ve always preferred the simplicity of its symbolic graphics. I remember when SimCity 2000 came out and, despite all its upgrades, I still played the old version. Same thing for Civilization, and...
Arduino Blog
This smart spice box makes cooking a breeze
Many people shy away from cooking because they’re overwhelmed by all of the different steps and...
6 months ago
Many people shy away from cooking because they’re overwhelmed by all of the different steps and ingredients. Recipes are useful, but they aren’t very intuitive to those who are more comfortable with visual thinking. To help these people enjoy the cooking experience, Purdue...
Seth's Blog
Coercion
One way to look at power is “you get to tell people what to do.” But an alternative is that the most...
11 months ago
One way to look at power is “you get to tell people what to do.” But an alternative is that the most powerful institutions, brands and people are the ones who are in alignment with their audience. Trust and the benefit of the doubt are more powerful and resilient than command and...
Retail Design Blog
2gethr Hub Private Limited Offices
Innovative and sustainable workplace design at 2gethr Hub in Bengaluru prioritizes natural light,...
4 months ago
Innovative and sustainable workplace design at 2gethr Hub in Bengaluru prioritizes natural light, comfort, functionality, inclusivity, and sustainability certifications, creating...
Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
Retail Design Blog
Dynamic Frame office by balbek bureau
Dynamic Frame is the office of the eponymous film production company in the center of Zurich,...
3 weeks ago
Dynamic Frame is the office of the eponymous film production company in the center of Zurich, Switzerland. At the request...
Rest of World -...
These women fell in love with an AI-voiced chatbot. Then it died
An AI-voiced virtual lover called users every morning. Its shutdown left them heartbroken.
a year ago
An AI-voiced virtual lover called users every morning. Its shutdown left them heartbroken.
Making software...
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
a year ago
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings.
Built to Fail?
I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
SatPost by Trung...
Introducing "Caffeinated Deep Dives"
My new podcast.
a month ago
macwright.com
Web pages and video games
An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are...
8 months ago
An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are so amazing and fast?” I’ve thought about it more than I’d like. Anyway, here are some reasons:
Web pages are just-in-time delivered, with no installation required. Modern video...
balajis.com
California Is Not A Democracy
It's a one-party state. They hold elections, but the Party always wins.
6 months ago
It's a one-party state. They hold elections, but the Party always wins.
Mark Manson
The Outrage Cycle
The Outrage Begins
First Hour: Journalists scramble to disseminate news of the Significant Event far...
over a year ago
The Outrage Begins
First Hour: Journalists scramble to disseminate news of the Significant Event far and wide. Most of this happens on Twitter, but placeholder web pages are thrown together on various news sites and cable news channels interrupt the latest car chase to give you...
diamond geezer
Arsenal title-chasing live blog
Arsenal title-chasing live blog
16:00 Could still win it.
16:05 Bugger.
16:23 Sigh.
16:43...
7 months ago
Arsenal title-chasing live blog
16:00 Could still win it.
16:05 Bugger.
16:23 Sigh.
16:43 Aagh.
16:45 Oooh.
17:22 Bugger.
17:53 Ooooooh!
17:54 Sigh.
17:59 Could still win it.
18:00 Didn't.
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A Kitchen And Dining Area Remodel To Open Up The Space And Create More Seating
Floisand Studio Architects has shared photos of a kitchen and dining area renovation they completed...
a year ago
Floisand Studio Architects has shared photos of a kitchen and dining area renovation they completed for a home in Seattle, Washington. The homeowners, both small business owners in Seattle, worked with Floisand Studio for over a decade designing a number of popular cafes and a...
Beautiful Public...
Mapping Volcano Eruptions With Drones
Drones have become an essential tool to map, measure and observe the extremely dangerous...
a year ago
Drones have become an essential tool to map, measure and observe the extremely dangerous environments surrounding volcanic eruptions.
Maggie Appleton
The Bare Essentials of Greensock
over a year ago
Christopher Butler
Negative Space Typography
Controlling the space between text styles is as important as differentiating the styles...
a year ago
Controlling the space between text styles is as important as differentiating the styles themselves.
Whenever I review design documentation, there are a few things I look for in the first few seconds. All of them have to do with how scannable a page or screen’s layout is. In...
Aaron's Essays
In defense of exploding term sheets
There’s a lot of content out there arguing that exploding term sheets—ones that expire after a set...
over a year ago
There’s a lot of content out there arguing that exploding term sheets—ones that expire after a set amount of time, whether or not they’re accepted—are bad. Some of this comes from founders who do not appreciate the pressure; some if it comes from VCs who want to emphasize their...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Ten million users is the new one million users
Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few...
over a year ago
Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few years. But there are signs this is ending…
Stoic Simple
Stoicism Techniques to Cope with Change
Change is an inevitable part of life. Whether we like it or not, things are constantly shifting and...
a year ago
Change is an inevitable part of life. Whether we like it or not, things are constantly shifting and evolving around us. While some changes are positive and exciting, others can be challenging and overwhelming. The art of stoicism can teach us how to cope with these changes in a...
Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
3 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
diamond geezer
Thames Water
"Sorry, we might go bust next year," is not what you want to hear from your water company. Ideally...
a year ago
"Sorry, we might go bust next year," is not what you want to hear from your water company. Ideally we wouldn't have water companies at all, we'd have one competent publicly owned authority, but we are where we are and this is the shitshow we've ended up with. So I wondered, how...
TheCollector
What Is Theodicy?
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a year ago
Londonist
This Free Quentin Blake Exhibition Lands In London At The End Of January
You can even buy the artworks.
11 months ago
You can even buy the artworks.
Sean Carroll
Johns Hopkins
As far as I remember, the first time I stepped onto a university campus was in junior high school,...
over a year ago
As far as I remember, the first time I stepped onto a university campus was in junior high school, when I visited Johns Hopkins for an awards ceremony for the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. (I grew up in an environment that didn’t involve spending a lot of time on...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor.
IBM's...
7 months ago
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor.
IBM's decision to use the 8088 processor in the IBM PC (1981) was a critical point in computer history,
leading to the success of the x86 architecture.
The designers of the IBM PC selected...
essay – snarfed.org
I’m not eating my own dog food
PetMD …or if you prefer, eating my own cooking, or scratching my own itch, or drinking my own...
a year ago
PetMD …or if you prefer, eating my own cooking, or scratching my own itch, or drinking my own champagne. Sure. These are all metaphors for the idea that if you build something, it turns out better if you use it yourself, especially if you want it yourself. However, when I think...
Arduino Blog
This 3D-printed robotic arm can be built with just a few inexpensive components
Robotics is already an intimidating field, thanks to the complexity involved. And the cost of parts,...
2 months ago
Robotics is already an intimidating field, thanks to the complexity involved. And the cost of parts, such as actuators, only increases that feeling of inaccessibility. But as FABRI Creator shows in their most recent video, you can build a useful robotic arm with just a handful of...
Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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IEEE Spectrum
How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah
Animation has come a long way since 1900, when J. Stuart Blackton created The Enchanted Drawing, the...
a year ago
Animation has come a long way since 1900, when J. Stuart Blackton created The Enchanted Drawing, the earliest known animated film. The 90-second movie was created using stop-motion techniques, as flat characters, props, and backgrounds were drawn on an easel or made from...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Burial
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They must've felt so in tune with their...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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They must've felt so in tune with their environment.
Today's News:
Next Tuesday!
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hood
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It's uniforms all the way down, man.
Today's News:
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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It's uniforms all the way down, man.
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TheCollector
Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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10 months ago
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Data General/One (and the worst LCD in the world)
I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't...
8 months ago
I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't collect interesting or unusual x86 laptops, like the Brother GeoBook NB-60 (I finally tracked down a mostly working NB-80C, the top of the line model, which will be the subject of a...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Lost In The Future
Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay
I haven't wanted to write much in the last...
a month ago
Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay
I haven't wanted to write much in the last week.
Seemingly every single person on Earth with a blog has tried to drill down into what happened on November 5 — to find the people to blame, to somehow explain what could&
Nat Eliason's...
The Best Books I Read in 2024
My first fiction-heavy roundup
4 days ago
My first fiction-heavy roundup
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Call for Entries: Finding Forte
Contributed by Fonts In Use Staff
Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved....
over a year ago
Contributed by Fonts In Use Staff
Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved.
The call for entries is now open! Forte in use for a shop sign, spotted by Tom Koch in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved....
The Marginalian
The Majesty and Mystery of Night Migration, in a Stunning Poem Turned to Music
“Night, when words fade and things come alive,” Little Prince author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote...
a year ago
“Night, when words fade and things come alive,” Little Prince author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote in his love letter to the hours of darkness, composed while flying alone over the Sahara Desert. No aliveness animates the nocturne with more grandeur than the migration of birds....
Old Vintage...
The Living Computers Museum finally isn't
First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are...
5 months ago
First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are now on a better footing (more articles are in the hopper). Unfortunately, the same apparently can't be said for the once-great Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sacrifice
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There should be an ipad news app that just shouts...
a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
There should be an ipad news app that just shouts the news in handwritten letters.
Today's News:
The Modern House
Dancing down the decades at Domus – a monument to mid-century modernism
4 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Yomatsuri whisky by Backbar Studios
Yomatsuri, a blended Japanese whisky, takes its inspiration from the ‘Chichibu Yomatsuri Night...
3 months ago
Yomatsuri, a blended Japanese whisky, takes its inspiration from the ‘Chichibu Yomatsuri Night Festival,’ a 300-year-old celebration and one of...
Castles in the Sky
Notes on Artistry from Jonathan Miller, TV Director for BBC's Shakespeare Seasons 3-4
A long Wikipedia excerpt
5 months ago
History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
9 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Sort Of Obvious
The fact that Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is from Jersey City is integral to her character. As a teen,...
a month ago
The fact that Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is from Jersey City is integral to her character. As a teen, she lives at home with her parents and most of the stories revolve around that location. So this view of the waterfront is not exactly hard to find
The Honest Broker
Healing with a Tin Whistle
Also a story about Dave Brubeck (and more)
10 months ago
Also a story about Dave Brubeck (and more)
Data Boutique
Stop Scraping H&M (And Other Things Live on Data Boutique)
Web Scraped Data Catalog June 2023
a year ago
Web Scraped Data Catalog June 2023
Laetitia@Work
5 things I find very interesting about the Boeing downfall
Laetitia@Work #70
7 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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a year ago
Matt Mazur
Don’t Self Host Unlicensed Proxima Nova Fonts
I’m a big fan of the Proxima Nova font and have been using it on Preceden for years: For a long time...
a year ago
I’m a big fan of the Proxima Nova font and have been using it on Preceden for years: For a long time I was loading Proxima Nova on Preceden via Typekit (a hosted web font service) for $49.99/year, but at some point I decided to self-host it to avoid the third party request which...
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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5 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of…
If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of...
over a year ago
If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of spectacular superorganisms to choose from…
Beautiful Public...
Trademark Design Codes
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes"...
8 months ago
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes" allowing you to search for trademarks with “Rickshaws”, “Centaurs” or “Mechanical women”.
TheCollector
Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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./techtipsy
You can use almost anything as a key file for your encrypted storage device
Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts...
a month ago
Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts throwing a bunch of
errors. You have backups of the data so you’ve got that part covered, but would you feel comfortable sending the drive
in to be warrantied? You have no control over...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
VC investment vs Gartner hype cycle
Here is total VC investment over time: And here's the Gartner hype cycle: One reading of this is...
over a year ago
Here is total VC investment over time: And here's the Gartner hype cycle: One reading of this is that the advent of the internet was the…
Articles - Alex...
The age of average
In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander
Melamid hired a market...
a year ago
In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander
Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they
wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a
piece that reflected the results. Each piece was...
Londonist
16 Spring Day Trips From London: April 2024
Steam trains, flower festivals and a mysterious grotto.
9 months ago
Steam trains, flower festivals and a mysterious grotto.
Louwrentius
Configuring, attacking and securing VRRP on Linux
The VRRP or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol helps you create a reliable network by using multiple...
over a year ago
The VRRP or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol helps you create a reliable network by using multiple routers in an active/passive configuration. If the primary router fails, the backup router takes over almost seamlessly.
This is how VRRP works:
Clients connect to a virtual...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The interoperability of social networks
Google recently added a caustic warning message when users attempt to export their Google Contacts...
over a year ago
Google recently added a caustic warning message when users attempt to export their Google Contacts to Facebook: Hold on a second. Are you…
Map of the Week
This One
This one map (via New York Times) tells you quite a bit about what happened in the U.S. Election on...
a month ago
This one map (via New York Times) tells you quite a bit about what happened in the U.S. Election on Tuesday.
Aside from a few strange outliers (western Oklahoma, suburban Atlanta, northwest Michigan) The "red shift" happened across all regions and demographics. Hard to look at...
Letters of Note
Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you
On this day in 1876, shortly after making history, Alexander Graham Bell wrote the following letter...
a year ago
On this day in 1876, shortly after making history, Alexander Graham Bell wrote the following letter to his father. To read his diary entry from that same day, visit Diaries of Note. And don’t forget to sign up for the Letters of Note newsletter. Born in Scotland in 1847,...
TokyoDev
How to create your own company in Japan
Since coming to Japan, I've incorporated three companies. Although creating a company isn't a walk...
over a year ago
Since coming to Japan, I've incorporated three companies. Although creating a company isn't a walk in the park, I think it is easier than the general perception is. Part of the problem is the lack of English-language information about it. I hope by sharing my experiences I can...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Reflexive McLuhanism
First we shape X, then X shapes us.
over a year ago
First we shape X, then X shapes us.
Mark Manson
5 Best Personal Traits for Life
https://youtu.be/kDqQGogavmY
What if I told you there's a hidden treasure trove of personal traits...
a year ago
https://youtu.be/kDqQGogavmY
What if I told you there's a hidden treasure trove of personal traits that could turn your life around?
Are you curious?
Are you dying to know what they are?
Are you wondering why I'm asking so many questions instead of getting to the point?
OK,...
Londonist
Ramadan And Eid Events In London 2024
Illuminations, shopping festivals and Eid celebrations.
10 months ago
Illuminations, shopping festivals and Eid celebrations.
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
Archinect - Features
AI, Complexity, and Ecological Futures: A Conversation with Alisa Andrasek
For Alisa Andrasek, a career in architecture represents a point of convergence for her dual passions...
a year ago
For Alisa Andrasek, a career in architecture represents a point of convergence for her dual passions for art and science. For the past two decades, a respect for both the mathematic and emotional, the computational and the creative, has propelled Andrasek's enthralling...
A Beautiful Site
A Web Component Story
Gather 'round, it's story time.
A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a...
over a year ago
Gather 'round, it's story time.
A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a component library for their design system. The one they were replacing was built with AngularJS, but AngularJS was old and rickety and nobody wanted to use it anymore. Plus, many teams...
The Honest Broker
I Receive a Letter from a High School Student
I share this dispatch from 11th grade in its entirety
8 months ago
I share this dispatch from 11th grade in its entirety
Christian Selig
Logging information from iOS Widgets
Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home...
over a year ago
Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home screen widgets, and some well-placed logs can really help with identifying what’s going wrong. iOS has a sophisticated built in logging mechanism, os_log, and now with SwiftLogger in...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 27-28 January 2024
A frost fair, snowdrops and an Australia Day party.
11 months ago
A frost fair, snowdrops and an Australia Day party.
NeuroLogica Blog
What Is a Grand Conspiracy?
Ah, the categorization question again. This is an endless, but much needed, endeavor within human...
9 months ago
Ah, the categorization question again. This is an endless, but much needed, endeavor within human intellectual activity. We have the need to categorize things, if for no other reason than we need to communicate with each other about them. Often skeptics, like myself, talk about...
Seth's Blog
The challenge of “a risky scheme”
New ideas aren’t adopted all at once. A few people go first while the rest of us watch to see how it...
4 months ago
New ideas aren’t adopted all at once. A few people go first while the rest of us watch to see how it goes. “Look, Mikey, he likes it!” This is the story of tech innovations, dance crazes and even food. Ideas spread horizontally, and people who prefer the status quo will embrace...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Related But Detached'
I’ve seen Hamlet on the stage only once, in 1971.
The prince was played by Dame Judith Anderson,...
10 months ago
I’ve seen Hamlet on the stage only once, in 1971.
The prince was played by Dame Judith Anderson, unconvincing in her early seventies.
Wrong sex, wrong age, wrong play – a stillborn theatrical stunt. My reaction was perhaps the
worst that staged Shakespeare can inspire – boredom...
TheCollector
Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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6 months ago
The Marginalian
Jonathan Franzen on How to Write About Nature, with a Side of Rachel Carson and Alice in Wonderland
I grew up loving Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. My grandmother read it to me before I could read....
9 months ago
I grew up loving Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. My grandmother read it to me before I could read. I read it to myself as soon as I could. I loved the strangeness of it, and the tenderness. As a child mathematician, I loved knowing that a grown mathematician had written it. But...
Arduino Blog
Making fire detection more accurate with ML sensor fusion
The mere presence of a flame in a controlled environment, such as a candle, is perfectly acceptable,...
4 months ago
The mere presence of a flame in a controlled environment, such as a candle, is perfectly acceptable, but when tasked with determining if there is cause for alarm solely using vision data, embedded AI models can struggle with false positives. Solomon Githu’s project aims to lower...
Adventures In...
Dashing Maps
There are lots of reasons why cartographers use dashed lines in their maps. Sometimes there are a...
a month ago
There are lots of reasons why cartographers use dashed lines in their maps. Sometimes there are a lot of different sorts of lines going around and it’s the best way to differentiate between different categories of things. Or we can embed meaning into them, like a dashed line...
Product Identity
#6 Twitter: What's My *Name* Again?
Your beloved Twitter might suffer from an X identity crisis
8 months ago
Your beloved Twitter might suffer from an X identity crisis
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Care
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a year ago
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This accidentally became Bea Wolf for teenagers.
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add Whisper to your iOS Action Button
The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows...
11 months ago
The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows some customization. the highest degree of customization is Shortcuts. Apple's default transcription is terrible. I got a new iPhone recently and so this is my chance.
The Honest Broker
We Need More Jazz Vinyl Cafés
And I have a hunch we will get them
a year ago
And I have a hunch we will get them
Castles in the Sky
I have a new face.
Reintroducing myself and Castles in the Sky
4 months ago
Reintroducing myself and Castles in the Sky
The Oatmeal - Comics...
JokeBomb - Series One
This is a series of animated shorts about tortillas, butts, and a hit TV show called Gene's Jeans...
10 months ago
This is a series of animated shorts about tortillas, butts, and a hit TV show called Gene's Jeans starring a handsome man named Gene.
View on my website
Old Structures...
Obvious, Expensive, and Worth Doing
A lot of different trends combined to create the decline of the Bronx between 1950 and 2000, and one...
a month ago
A lot of different trends combined to create the decline of the Bronx between 1950 and 2000, and one of them is firmly within the realm of the built environment: the construction of highways. Any road entering New York City from the north has to pass through the Bronx, and...
Scott DeLong
Weeks 26-30: We’re On A Collision Course
It's almost poetic that the Internet is shifting at exactly the time I'm doing a challenge to prove...
a year ago
It's almost poetic that the Internet is shifting at exactly the time I'm doing a challenge to prove what works - and how to overcome change.
The post Weeks 26-30: We’re On A Collision Course appeared first on Scott DeLong.
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Guide to Mindful Travel in Greater Palm Springs
a month ago
History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
somenice
Matter as a Smart home standard
Matter is the name of the smart home standard that promises to bridge IOT devices and different home...
8 months ago
Matter is the name of the smart home standard that promises to bridge IOT devices and different home eco-systems. Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Homekit, Samsung SmartThings, etc. To prevent 6+ flavours of smart lightbulbs working with 6+ different apps, a standard needed to be...
alexwlchan
Setting up Fish to make virtualenv easier
Since I started my new job, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Python.
As I was starting with a...
a year ago
Since I started my new job, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Python.
As I was starting with a completely clean slate, I wanted to try setting up Python the “right” way – or if not “right”, at least better way than my previous pile of hacks and kludges.
(I don’t remember much of...
nanoscale views
Very brief end of the year round-up
It's hard to believe that it's already the end of 2023. It's been a busy year for condensed matter;...
11 months ago
It's hard to believe that it's already the end of 2023. It's been a busy year for condensed matter; it's unfortunate that two of the biggest stories (problems with high pressure superconductivity papers; the brief excitement about LK99, the not-actually-a-superconductor) were...
devonzuegel.com
Inflation propagates unevenly
Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say...
over a year ago
Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say it, and yet the way pundits and academics talk about inflation glosses over this reality. As a result, most people who haven't had direct experience with high inflation have a flawed...
Society's Backend
Founder Mode, How AI Impacts Education, Diffusion Models As Real-Time Game Engines, and More
Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
3 months ago
Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
Mind Mine
transformations
surrender & renew
6 days ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 35
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
ntietz.com blog
Throw away your first draft of your code
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then...
a year ago
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all.
Just throw it away.
I'm serious.
And you should probably have some of your best engineers doing this throwaway work.
It's going to save you time in the long run.
The...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Gratitude: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases
Previous Next https://youtu.be/9GQ1QTVVeNk Did you know that gratitude is actually considered to be...
a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/9GQ1QTVVeNk Did you know that gratitude is actually considered to be one of the most important, positive emotions that the ancient Stoics believed human beings should develop? In fact, it's such an important emotion that it's even been said that the...
Retail Design Blog
NANGA Shop Sendai by ABOUT + monotrum
“A sleeping bag manufacturer’s store design that enables creative displays through a ceiling hanger...
5 months ago
“A sleeping bag manufacturer’s store design that enables creative displays through a ceiling hanger rack system and movable raised floor.”...
Data Boutique
How to Estimate Sales Using Inventory Web-Scraped Data
A powerful use case for web data
9 months ago
A powerful use case for web data
Wuthering...
Books I Read in April 2024 - this irritation passes over into patient completed understanding
Grinding away at Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans
(1925), a genuine monster. “As I...
7 months ago
Grinding away at Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans
(1925), a genuine monster. “As I was
saying it is often irritating to listen to the repeating they are doing, always
then that one has it as being to love repeating that is the whole history of
each one, such a one has it...
Applied Cartography
Is cool enough?
Via HN I ran into not one but two extremely neat
and pleasant-looking libraries for URL...
9 months ago
Via HN I ran into not one but two extremely neat
and pleasant-looking libraries for URL manipulation. They look like great libraries, and a prior version of me would have taken a brief set of cursory
glances at the hodgepodge of janky URL manipulation code that I wrote for...
Mazdak
Why 2024 will be the year of the Delivery Drone?
For years, drone delivery has hovered on the horizon, a tantalizing glimpse of a futuristic utopia...
11 months ago
For years, drone delivery has hovered on the horizon, a tantalizing glimpse of a futuristic utopia where packages pirouette through the air and land at our doorsteps with clockwork precision. But 2024 marks a pivotal juncture, a year where the sci-fi fantasy transforms into a...
XO Capital - Field...
We 10x-ed screenshotapi.net and sold it
Before we jump in, I was on a pod talking through content, acquisitions, etc:
This exit is bitter...
3 months ago
Before we jump in, I was on a pod talking through content, acquisitions, etc:
This exit is bitter sweet. Screenshot was our first ever acquisition. We 10x-ed it, and it is really the reason XO exists today. If this first acquisition hadn't gone well, I think I would
Blog - Practical...
Why Construction Projects Always Go Over Budget
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Boston, Massachusetts is one...
a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Boston, Massachusetts is one of the oldest cities in America, founded in 1630, more than a few years before the advent of modern motor vehicles. In the 1980s, traffic in downtown Boston was nearly unbearable...
Diaries of Note
Work under any circumstances
Benjamin Robert Haydon was a 19th-century British artist and writer whose career was plagued by...
a year ago
Benjamin Robert Haydon was a 19th-century British artist and writer whose career was plagued by financial hardship and legal troubles. Born in 1786, Haydon’s passion for historical painting led him down a tumultuous path, as mounting debts and controversial public statements...
Old Structures...
Reuse, Well Done
From Carol Highsmith’s archive, a Target store in Brooklyn in 2018. If you’re going to reuse an old...
4 months ago
From Carol Highsmith’s archive, a Target store in Brooklyn in 2018. If you’re going to reuse an old theater for your big-box store, why not reuse the marquee and vertical knife sign for advertising?
diamond geezer
Wimbledon expands
Last week the Deputy Mayor approved the All England Club's planning application to build 39 new...
2 months ago
Last week the Deputy Mayor approved the All England Club's planning application to build 39 new tennis courts across Wimbledon Park. But was that decision right or was it wrong?
extend across the road with a new show court and dozens of practice courts, and throw in a new...
The Codist
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer
I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
2 months ago
I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted).
The office I worked in was a
Paul Graham: Essays
Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Knight
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a month ago
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The really creepy part is the tower is its cloaca.
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Gestaltungsprobleme des Grafikers by Josef Müller-Brockmann
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License:...
a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License: All Rights Reserved.
Book jacket (second edition by Niggli, Teufen, 1964)
Dan Reynolds, esteemed friend of the site, writes on Mastodon:
125 years ago today – at exactly...
symmetry magazine
Physics on tour
A group called the Big Bang Collective sets up physics discovery stations at rather unexpected...
a year ago
A group called the Big Bang Collective sets up physics discovery stations at rather unexpected venues: music festivals.
Posts on Made of...
Record/Replay testing in Sorbet
In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the...
over a year ago
In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the Sorbet project at Stripe to build a gradual static typechecking system for Ruby, with the aim of enhancing productivity on Stripe’s millions of lines of Ruby, and eventually producing a...
Val Sopi
Quitting is for the naive
<p>Pop culture glorifies quitting. I have done it. There's nothing glorious about it. Having your...
over a year ago
<p>Pop culture glorifies quitting. I have done it. There's nothing glorious about it. Having your savings dwindle fast is no fun. Time is relative. You have no idea how fast it flies when you need it the most. Especially when you have no contacts in the industry nor an audience....
TheCollector
What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
undefined
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
How This Record Company Engineer Invented the CT Scanner
The inspiration for computed tomography (CT) came from a chance conversation that research engineer...
a year ago
The inspiration for computed tomography (CT) came from a chance conversation that research engineer Godfrey Hounsfield had with a doctor while on vacation in the 1960s. The physician complained that X-ray images of the brain were too grainy and only two-dimensional.
Hounsfield...
The Modern House
A contemporary gallery-like home with countless credentials in Hampstead
a year ago
The Modern House
Tim Little: the owner of Grenson footwear on his journey from Adidas ad man to sole trader
For this week’s episode of Homing In, Matt Gibberd talks to Tim Little, who – after zigging and...
9 months ago
For this week’s episode of Homing In, Matt Gibberd talks to Tim Little, who – after zigging and zagging his way through the worlds of marketing, advertising and, latterly, shoes – now sits at the head of Grenson, the traditional cordwainers that have been handcrafting […]
Archinect - Features
Some of the World’s Most Beautiful Coffee Shops
Happy International Coffee Day! To celebrate this culturally significant October 1st holiday, we...
2 months ago
Happy International Coffee Day! To celebrate this culturally significant October 1st holiday, we have picked a few of our favorite examples of coffee and architecture existing in blissful harmony.
So pour yourself another cup of your favorite roast (how about Archinect's very...
Stephen Diehl
The Intellectual Incoherence of Cryptoassets
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
New Computer!
I briefly mentioned my new computer in the last post and I thought I’d make a post about it, as it’s...
over a year ago
I briefly mentioned my new computer in the last post and I thought I’d make a post about it, as it’s awesome (as all new computers are).
The specs:
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 550Ti OC 1GB
CPU: Intel core i5 2500K
CPU cooler: Zalman CNPS-9900NT
Motherboard: MSI P67A-C45 REV B3
Ram:...
Identity Designed
Juicy Sonic Magic
Designed by The Collected Works, New York.
a year ago
Designed by The Collected Works, New York.
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 April 21 - April 28
Apocalpyse
7 months ago
pcloadletter
The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape
Here we go again: I'm so tired of crypto web3 LLMs.
I'm positive there are wonderful applications...
7 months ago
Here we go again: I'm so tired of crypto web3 LLMs.
I'm positive there are wonderful applications for LLMs. The ChatGPT web UI seems great for summarizing information from various online sources (as long as you're willing to verify the things that you learn).
But a lot fo the "AI...
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A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
over a year ago
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
The Honest Broker
What's the Greatest Live Music Event You Ever Saw?
Today is open mic day at The Honest Broker
6 months ago
Today is open mic day at The Honest Broker
The Honest Broker
Why I Don't Read Reddit
And why I did read Reddit's IPO filing—here are seven things I learned
9 months ago
And why I did read Reddit's IPO filing—here are seven things I learned
Anecdotal Evidence
'Not Movement But Glaciation'
There’s an
art to reviewing a book one doesn’t love but doesn’t hate, especially if the
reviewer...
a year ago
There’s an
art to reviewing a book one doesn’t love but doesn’t hate, especially if the
reviewer prizes the author’s earlier work. How to juggle critical rigor, honesty and
tact? Turner Cassity, writing about Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Amaranth (1934), does it with confident...
diamond geezer
Brent Cross West, West and East
The new Brent Cross West station serves two very different communities either side of the tracks....
a year ago
The new Brent Cross West station serves two very different communities either side of the tracks. You could call them Brent Cross West West and Brent Cross West East. Neither is buzzing with potential passengers.
Brent Cross West West is commercial and car-dominated, as befits...
Epic Web Dev
Deploy Web Applications All Over the World (tutorial)
a year ago
Joel on Software
Strange and maddening rules
There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get...
over a year ago
There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code was supposed to work. Read more "Strange and maddening rules"
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Be at Home in Other Places'
At his day
job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol
and/or...
4 weeks ago
At his day
job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol
and/or drug problems. Like most in that field, he values his clients and
dislikes the bosses, who live by the dictates of bureaucracy. Barbers are like
bartenders. The good ones usually...
Archinect - Features
AI Bias and Digital Colonialism; A Conversation with Morehshin Allahyari
Whether through her art, writings, or lectures, Morehshin Allahyari's work evokes a range of...
a year ago
Whether through her art, writings, or lectures, Morehshin Allahyari's work evokes a range of emotions among its audience. There is wonder and intrigue at her reinterpretation of centuries-old Middle Eastern stories, images, and artifacts. There is introspection on our...
blag
Recurse Center Day 8: B Tree Fill Factor (Part 2)
I found out the answer to B tree fill factor
over a year ago
I found out the answer to B tree fill factor
ntietz.com blog
Writing Hurl's grammar, twice
Recently I started working on a programming language, Hurl.
Writing the initial code samples and...
a year ago
Recently I started working on a programming language, Hurl.
Writing the initial code samples and developing the concept is all fine and good, but the next step is to actually make it work.
The steps I outlined for developing Hurl in the last post were:
Write out code samples to...
Seth's Blog
Complex or complicated?
Complicated problems have a solution, and the solution can often be found by breaking the...
a year ago
Complicated problems have a solution, and the solution can often be found by breaking the complicated portions into smaller pieces. And complicated problems often have an emotional component, because there are parts of the problem we don’t want to look at closely, or deal with...
diamond geezer
Sharpenhoe Clappers
Over the weekend I went to Sharpenhoe Clappers.
The Canine Activity paragraph
memorial stone at...
8 months ago
Over the weekend I went to Sharpenhoe Clappers.
The Canine Activity paragraph
memorial stone at Sharpenhoe Clappers because just before I reached it I encountered a group of young people with two dogs. I wasn't at all pleased when the bull terrier looked up and started running...
Londonist
Get A Dose Of The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum
Small museum that's free to visit.
a year ago
Small museum that's free to visit.
Left To Write
№ 76: RIP Charlie Munger (1924-2023)
The investing legend, the goat of common sense and wisdom, and the Vice Chairman of Berkshire...
a year ago
The investing legend, the goat of common sense and wisdom, and the Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
Explorations of an...
Monsoon Season In Arizona, Part 3: Hunter Canyon to Portal
September 2, 2024
We awoke to another beautiful sunrise in the Huachuca Mountains. I could get used...
2 months ago
September 2, 2024
We awoke to another beautiful sunrise in the Huachuca Mountains. I could get used to this view.
View from Beatty's Guest Ranch - Miller Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona
This was our final morning in this region; we had plans to make the long drive eastwards...
Arduino Blog
RIoT Secure joins Arduino’s SIPP as Gold Partner
We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership...
6 months ago
We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership Program at the Gold level. Founded in 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden, RIoT Secure is at the forefront of IoT security, especially in regards to resource-constrained microcontrollers,...
Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers
To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to...
a week ago
To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.
The post Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
mtlynch.io
Import from a URL in Nix
I’m still a Nix beginner, and one thing I couldn’t figure out until recently was how to keep parts...
a year ago
I’m still a Nix beginner, and one thing I couldn’t figure out until recently was how to keep parts of my configuration.nix file under source control.
My goal I’d like for my Nix configuration files to be modular and reusable, so depending on the system or flake, I can pull in...
Spoon & Tamago
Noriko Sugiyama Transforms Old Kimono Into Luxurious Landscapes
all images courtesy Noriko Sugiyama Noriko Sugiyama is a self-taught artist who works with discarded...
10 months ago
all images courtesy Noriko Sugiyama Noriko Sugiyama is a self-taught artist who works with discarded kimono and obi, which she masterfully upcylces to create landscapes brimming with energy and hope. But her path to artistry has been anything but conventional. Now at the age of...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Prominence of Prejudice and Social Justice Rhetoric in UK News Media
I have recently published a report with Matthew Goodwin about the increasing prominence of prejudice...
over a year ago
I have recently published a report with Matthew Goodwin about the increasing prominence of prejudice and social justice rhetoric in UK news media. Recent years have seen considerable debate about the rise of political polarization in British society. Specifically, over the last...
Paolo Amoroso's...
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