Wuthering...
Readalongs I wish someone else would organize - Cuban literature, August Wilson plays, and many more
The glory days of book blogs were full of “challenges.” I hosted several: Scottish literature,...
over a year ago
The glory days of book blogs were full of “challenges.” I hosted several: Scottish literature, Italian, Austrian, Scandinavian, Portuguese, always limited to the 19th century and earlier to keep the scope manageable. The idea was that I read a lot, while others were invited to...
Style over Substance
Using the EZCOO / AVStar HAE118 HDMI2.1 Audio Extractor for PS5/Xbox audio
Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out...
a year ago
Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out of this console meant we also had to buy a new TV, as our old TV was not 4K-compatible and did not support HDMI2.1, the new A/V standard required to support all of the PS5’s...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 14
Back to regular programming.
a year ago
Back to regular programming.
Daniel Miessler
Unsupervised Learning NO. 365 | China’s Decline, MicrosoftAI, Creativity Ratio…
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a year ago
🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your favorite client! APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS NYC Surveillance Amnesty International has revealed new research showing that the NYPD has over 15,000 cameras that can do...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Man vs. AI: optimizing JavaScript (Claude, Cursor)
How AI beat me at code optimization game.
When I started writing this article I did not...
3 months ago
How AI beat me at code optimization game.
When I started writing this article I did not expect AI to beat me at optimizing JavaScript code. But it did.
I’m really passionate about optimizing JavaScript. Some say it’s a mental illness but I like my code to go balls to...
The Ruffian
The Story Behind the Greatest Guitar Solo in Rock History
The Dark Energies Behind Prince's Moment of Genius
3 months ago
The Dark Energies Behind Prince's Moment of Genius
TheCollector
The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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a year ago
Common Edge
What Does Midcentury Modern Even Mean These Days?
When a style becomes historical, its meaning becomes slippery.
a year ago
When a style becomes historical, its meaning becomes slippery.
Jake Zimmerman
Approximating strace with Instruments.app
2 months ago
Probably...
Probably Overthinking It Notebooks
To celebrate one month since the launch of Probably Overthinking It, I’m releasing the Jupyter...
11 months ago
To celebrate one month since the launch of Probably Overthinking It, I’m releasing the Jupyter notebooks I used to create the book. There’s one per chapter, and they contain all of the code I used to do the analysis and generate the figures. So if you are curious about the...
TheCollector
3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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2 months ago
the jsomers.net blog
The best general advice on earth
These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology,...
over a year ago
These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology, Chapter IV, "Habit": The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at...
History Today Feed
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Joel Gascoigne
Start something small
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over a year ago
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The other day I was listening to Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and
Influence People and and I found it amazing how this book, which has now sold
over 15 million copies, originally started:
>...
mtlynch.io
My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes (Part One)
For the last eight years, I’ve carried around this box of videotapes through four different...
over a year ago
For the last eight years, I’ve carried around this box of videotapes through four different apartments and one house. They’re family home videos from my childhood.
After 600+ hours of work, I finally digitized and organized them well enough to throw away the original tapes....
Anecdotal Evidence
'How to Live With Ourselves As We Are'
“What’s
essential is not Montaigne’s wisdom, but his wise recognition of his
foolishness; not his...
3 months ago
“What’s
essential is not Montaigne’s wisdom, but his wise recognition of his
foolishness; not his virtue, but his good cognizance of his vices; not his ‘honesty,’
but his honesty, his complete
leveling with the reader.”
I tried a
little experiment, a variation on bibliomancy. I...
AFAR Media - Travel...
5 Most Exciting Travel Destinations in the U.S. to Visit
a year ago
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
Winter Wonderland, Doctor Who, Elf The Musical and Christmas at Kew.
Oykun
Tackling FOMO-driven social media struggle with your new Designer Mindset
You are a designer, working on your full-time job or your freelance projects.
You go online
Open X...
a year ago
You are a designer, working on your full-time job or your freelance projects.
You go online
Open X app
You see
1. John released his Framer template
2. Fatma launches her “How To Make $100k As A Designer” course
3. Gary starts his subscription model
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Guest Appearance on JS Party #288
My frequent ramblings on this blog garnered enough of the attention of Jerod Santo that he...
a year ago
My frequent ramblings on this blog garnered enough of the attention of Jerod Santo that he graciously invited me to come on the JS Party podcast to talk about, well, my blog posts.
Which ones? To name a few:
Language-Level Toll Roads
The Art of Knowing When to Quit
Subscribe...
Blog - Mac Pierce
Decreasing the F.Q. - A talk on Facial Recognition and the Opt Out Cap
Links to a talk I gave on the Opt-Out cap and the state of surveillance via
facial recognition.
over a year ago
Links to a talk I gave on the Opt-Out cap and the state of surveillance via
facial recognition.
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 18
Starting the year by cleaning up even more
11 months ago
Starting the year by cleaning up even more
Tech + Economics +...
The worst part of tech layoffs? The corporate bullshit.
EBay to eliminate about 1,000 jobs, or 9% of full-time workforce
Jamie Iannone, eBay’s CEO,...
11 months ago
EBay to eliminate about 1,000 jobs, or 9% of full-time workforce
Jamie Iannone, eBay’s CEO, told employees in a letter published on a
corporate blog, that the company will also “scale back the number of
contracts we have within our alternate workforce over the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Double
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a year ago
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Interestingly they're both reading AI image generation subreddits and pretending it's not to see the pinups.
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CommitStrip
Once upon a Teams meeting…
over a year ago
Beautiful Public...
Highway Photologs
Highway departments all around the country had "photolog" programs, some dating back as early as...
over a year ago
Highway departments all around the country had "photolog" programs, some dating back as early as 1961. Each year, specially tricked out vans would drive each mile of state road snapping photos to document the status of roadways.
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?”
I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP...
11 months ago
I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around whether or not I am allowed to have or hire any dedicated engineering managers....
Open Culture
Free: 356 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction Magazine
Along with Astounding Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy...
a month ago
Along with Astounding Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy Magazine was one of the most important science fiction digests in 1950s America. Ray Bradbury wrote for it–including an early version of his masterpiece Fahrenheit 451–as did Robert A....
TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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a year ago
Irrational...
Trying Tailscale.
Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp...
a year ago
Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp whitepaper. My foremost personal interest was grounded in the fact that Uber’s contemporaneous security implementation didn’t include a VPN, so it was interesting to see a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
JAMstack or 'Pilha de Atolamento'? i18n in Gatsby + Netlify
_Originally published on...
over a year ago
_Originally published on [Scotch.io](https://scotch.io/@sw-yx/jamstack-or-pilha-de-atolamento-let-your-user-decide-i18n-in-gatsby-netlify)_
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
How does Michelin Guide's business work?
The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is...
4 months ago
The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is 0.1% of sales. An incredible marketing deal.
Commoncog
Business Reality Without Frameworks
A paradox: why it’s important to think about business without abstractions, even as we from what’s...
2 months ago
A paradox: why it’s important to think about business without abstractions, even as we from what’s come before.
TheCollector
What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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11 months ago
Map of the Week
America's First Subway Map
The first subway in the United States was built in Boston. The tunnel ran along Tremont Street, a...
a year ago
The first subway in the United States was built in Boston. The tunnel ran along Tremont Street, a chaotic mess of streetcars, horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians. The tunnel was built to route the streetcars underground to ease congestion. Here is a plan of the original subway...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 4-10 September 2023
The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
The best articles from the past week.
Vitalik Buterin's...
How do trusted setups work?
over a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
Math Is Still...
Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft
Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the...
8 months ago
Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) next decade.
The post Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The DESK Magazine
People are talking about me, and I started it
People talk about you the way you talk about yourself.
a year ago
People talk about you the way you talk about yourself.
Matt Mazur
LearnGPT is for sale. Contact me if you’re interested.
On Friday I announced that I intended to shut down LearnGPT to focus on Preceden, my main business....
a year ago
On Friday I announced that I intended to shut down LearnGPT to focus on Preceden, my main business. I didn’t plan to sell LearnGPT because I didn’t think a month-old, pre-revenue project like this would be able to sell for enough to warrant going through a sale. It’s been three...
Old Structures...
What “Structure First” Means
I like “Why we need a ‘structure first’ approach to existing buildings” by Penny Gowler, which is...
8 months ago
I like “Why we need a ‘structure first’ approach to existing buildings” by Penny Gowler, which is perhaps not surprising since I’m a structural engineer. I’m going to argue here that Ms. Gowler’s article and my position are just slightly more nuanced than that. Architectural...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - App
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There needs to be a meta-app that just takes all...
4 months ago
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There needs to be a meta-app that just takes all the apps and converts them back into Internet.
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CONTEMPORIST
Before + After – A New Garden Studio For A Writer
MW Architects has shared photos of a new garden room in London, England, that replaced an old...
9 months ago
MW Architects has shared photos of a new garden room in London, England, that replaced an old derelict wash house, that was in danger of slipping down a steep slope and existed at the back of an overgrown garden. Here’s what it looked like originally. The new studio, which has...
Musings on Markets
Data Update 5 for 2023: The Earnings Test
As I have argued in all four of my posts, so far, about 2022, it was year when we saw a return to...
a year ago
As I have argued in all four of my posts, so far, about 2022, it was year when we saw a return to normalcy on many fronts, as treasury rates reverted back to pre-2008 levels, and risk capital discovered that risk has a downside. During the course of the year, investors also...
Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works #1: Data Auctions
The data auction system explained
9 months ago
The data auction system explained
A Beautiful Site
Code can change
As a web developer, your code is often visible to anyone who wants to review it. If you're like me,...
over a year ago
As a web developer, your code is often visible to anyone who wants to review it. If you're like me, you might get stressed out about the thought of people looking at your work and critiquing or criticizing your app's design.
Take a deep breath, recenter, and remember that code...
Letters of Note
I miss you so very much, Ryan
In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during...
over a year ago
In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during a contaminated treatment for hemophilia, a blood condition with which he had lived since birth. By June of 1985, keen to resume as normal a lifestyle as possible, Ryan attempted...
Retail Design Blog
Vialto Partners office by Woodalls
The space portrays Vialto Partners passion for new ideas, different perspectives, and collaboration....
3 months ago
The space portrays Vialto Partners passion for new ideas, different perspectives, and collaboration. These core values were the inspiration and...
charity.wtf
Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes
You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management...
a year ago
You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management you’ve endured and witnessed in tech, and you are god damn determined not to repeat all of those mistakes. You are tired of reporting to a manager who isn’t transparent with you, who...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies
In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without...
over a year ago
In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without using any third-party library (except React).
The notification component has the following requirements:
Four color variations: info (blue), success (green), warning (orange),...
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
Elad Blog
Back to the office
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first...
over a year ago
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first companies - Automattic, Gitlab, and Zapier [1]. During COVID companies were forced to work remote. Many companies are now going back into the office and companies are navigating this...
Spoon & Tamago
Demographics Professor Warns that by 2531, Everyone in Japan Will be Named Sato
image courtesy Mainichi Shimbun Despite today’s date, this is not an April Fool’s prank. At a press...
8 months ago
image courtesy Mainichi Shimbun Despite today’s date, this is not an April Fool’s prank. At a press conference in Tokyo last weekend, professor Hiroshi Yoshida from the Tohoku University Research Center for Aged Economy and Society, sounded the alarm bell for a looming crisis. By...
Computer Ads from...
Electronic Protection Devices' Electro-Clamp line
The Underrated Virtues of Plain Vanilla
9 months ago
The Underrated Virtues of Plain Vanilla
The Honest Broker
A Failed Rock Adaption of Dune Might Have Starred Mick Jagger, Orson Welles & Salvador Dalí (with...
This gets the top spot on my list of never-made films I'd like to see
9 months ago
This gets the top spot on my list of never-made films I'd like to see
The Modern House
‘I go to bed thinking about it’: why Tate Modern director Frances Morris returns to her childhood...
Where does our spirit go when we die? Frances Morris has this question figured out: she will return...
a year ago
Where does our spirit go when we die? Frances Morris has this question figured out: she will return to the home in which she was born, a Georgian house abreast the Meridian Line in Greenwich. Listen to this deeply personal conversation on our podcast, Homing […]
The Codist
I Have To Fix Broken Things
Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes,...
a year ago
Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes, products, or UI. If it's broken, I want to fix it. If I can't, it grates on me.
After I graduated from college, my parents, a friend, and his
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Directions
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a year ago
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Just wait till we have the heads up display that tells you which children are yours without you having to remember.
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TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Epitaph
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Arduino Blog
Can remote co-presence keep distant human connections alive?
The pandemic made a lot of things obvious, not the least of which is that humans need social...
5 months ago
The pandemic made a lot of things obvious, not the least of which is that humans need social interaction to maintain good mental health. Sadly, many of us spend our lives physically separated from our loved ones by great distances or inopportune circumstances. That’s why a team...
Epic Web Dev
Turn Progressive Enhancement up to 11 (tip)
Learn how to create a progressive enhancement image uploader that works for users with or without...
a year ago
Learn how to create a progressive enhancement image uploader that works for users with or without JavaScript.
A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
A Weekly Dose of...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books is on Substack
I'm breaking my blogging silence to do two things:
Alert readers to the fact I am still writing...
2 months ago
I'm breaking my blogging silence to do two things:
Alert readers to the fact I am still writing reviews of architecture books under the title A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books, but over at Substack, not Blogger.
Put a new post at the top of this blog so I don't have to look...
Londonist
London Hat Walk: Scores Of Fashionable Folk Will Parade Around Town This Weekend
Hat's the way uh-huh, uh-huh...
8 months ago
Hat's the way uh-huh, uh-huh...
Diaries of Note
My soul, my soul, where are you?
In 1913, at the age of 38, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung embarked upon a profound and deeply...
a year ago
In 1913, at the age of 38, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung embarked upon a profound and deeply introspective journey that would mark a significant phase in his life and work. Prompted by a series of unsettling dreams and visions amidst his contentious break with Freud, Jung found...
TheCollector
Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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9 months ago
Old Structures...
A Different Configuration
I almost didn’t recognize this photograph, even though I’ve been involved with the building since...
6 months ago
I almost didn’t recognize this photograph, even though I’ve been involved with the building since 2011. The New York Public Library digital archive has this labelled as the “Onderdonk Mill, Roslyn” and if they hadn’t mentioned the town name I wold have gone right by it. We’ve...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
I made some animated shorts
Watch the very first Oatmeal cartoons.
View on my website
a year ago
Watch the very first Oatmeal cartoons.
View on my website
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Autocomplete
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a year ago
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You catastrophic forgetter! You opaque box! You absolute Chinese room!
Today's News:
Nice book selection here on Barnes and Noble, with an especially good pick right at the bottom.
Seth's Blog
The leaping curve
The learning curve is familiar to many people. It might be steep, but it’s continuous. Organizations...
a year ago
The learning curve is familiar to many people. It might be steep, but it’s continuous. Organizations (and people) work their way up it, one step at a time (it’s the black line in the graph below). But there’s rarely a continuous learning curve. Instead, it’s often interrupted by...
Maggie Appleton
A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
SymPy makes math fun again
It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast,...
over a year ago
It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast, accurate, and without angst. In other words, it is everything I'm not.
Luxagraf:...
What Vanlife is Really Like
I have no idea what Vanlife is or is like. But I can tell you that if you think you're just going to...
a year ago
I have no idea what Vanlife is or is like. But I can tell you that if you think you're just going to cruise around in an old vehicle, living the life, um, yeah, not all the time. Some of the time, sure. Maybe even most of the time, but there's a good bit of work to be done on the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - History
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bt RSS Feed
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
2020-05-06
I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
over a year ago
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
2020-05-06
I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages:
libnettle6
libhogweed4
After...
TheCollector
Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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6 months ago
Matt Mazur
It’s Time to Build
It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few...
8 months ago
It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few updates about what I’ve been up to. Quick recap At the start of 2023 I quit consulting to go full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker, after growing it on … Continue reading...
Math Is Still...
The Search for What Shook the Earth for Nine Days Straight
Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made...
3 months ago
Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made the world ring. Finding its cause took 68 scientists and an assist by the Danish military.
The post The Search for What Shook the Earth for Nine Days Straight first...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Bluster (New Style) Invokes the Public Good'
I write
about money more often than ever before at my day job. I’m not naïve and understand
that...
a year ago
I write
about money more often than ever before at my day job. I’m not naïve and understand
that research can be costly and professors don’t work for the love of it, but money
has become the barometer of worth. Small grants can be ignored regardless of
the intrinsic worth of the...
diamond geezer
20 questions hide and seek
I have no idea if this'll work but let's give it a try.
20 questions hide and seek
I'll be there...
a year ago
I have no idea if this'll work but let's give it a try.
20 questions hide and seek
I'll be there from 10am to 11am.
I shall have Squeezy Pig with me.
Your questions go in this comments box. comments if(postComments['89451144195511'] != null){document.write(' (' +...
Rest of World -...
A little-understood role in a global VC could also be one of the most influential
Ana Jiménez, 500 Global’s chief of staff for Latin America, on building a relationship of trust and...
a year ago
Ana Jiménez, 500 Global’s chief of staff for Latin America, on building a relationship of trust and strategic vision with her organization’s leader.
Entrepreneur's Edge
OKRs will never be enough
Nuanced goal-setting frameworks to help manage the complexity in a growing company.
a year ago
Nuanced goal-setting frameworks to help manage the complexity in a growing company.
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
Made by Ollin
Maple Diffusion
I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
over a year ago
I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
Folklore.org:...
Round Rects Are Everywhere!
Steve inspires Bill by pointing out something about the real world
a year ago
Steve inspires Bill by pointing out something about the real world
The Rational Walk
By diverse means we arrive at the same end
Montaigne's Essays: Book 1, Chapter 1
a year ago
Montaigne's Essays: Book 1, Chapter 1
Dan Slimmon
The World Record for Loneliness
What's the farthest any person has been from the nearest other person?
7 months ago
What's the farthest any person has been from the nearest other person?
Cheese and Biscuits
Jacuzzi, Kensington
If you've been to Gloria, or Circo Popular, or Ave Mario, you'll know the drill by now. Big Mamma...
a year ago
If you've been to Gloria, or Circo Popular, or Ave Mario, you'll know the drill by now. Big Mamma group restaurants are ludicrous, overblown chintz-fests where decent if overpriced food plays second fiddle to people watching and celeb-spotting. And don't get me wrong, there's...
Handprinted - Blog
Using Hawthorn Process Colours
We've been stocking Hawthorn Stay Open Inks for 6 years now! These inks are oil based inks and work...
a year ago
We've been stocking Hawthorn Stay Open Inks for 6 years now! These inks are oil based inks and work beautifully for relief printing. We have a fantastic range of colours including the process range. Process colours are inks specially formulated to create a full spectrum of...
Working Theorys
Pursuits that can’t scale
What you should do "instead of going to therapy”
10 months ago
What you should do "instead of going to therapy”
Archinect - Features
Let’s Talk About Architectural Visualization
Welcome to Archinect In-Depth: Visualization. Over the coming weeks, Archinect will explore the...
2 months ago
Welcome to Archinect In-Depth: Visualization. Over the coming weeks, Archinect will explore the process of visualizing architectural work and what challenges and opportunities the field presents for the architectural design process. Our journey will include not only tips and...
Val Sopi
AI will make humans better
<p><i>Context: Read <a...
a year ago
<p><i>Context: Read <a href="https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/" target="_blank">Nick Cave's letter</a> first.</i></p>
<p><i></i>—</p>
<p>ChatGPT (or similar) are just tools!</p>
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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If suffering makes us stronger, shouldn't we try to suffer more?
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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George Saunders on How to Live an Unregretting Life
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"Have you done the snowman sculpture trail yet?" my brother asked. He does like a good thematic painted fibreglass orienteering gadabout.
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Striking up a friendship with an older writer meant accepting the risk of getting hurt
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Striking up a friendship with an older writer meant accepting the risk of getting hurt
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The Fast & Furious franchise was inspired by an article on street racing culture by Kenneth Li. The...
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One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony.
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Seth's Blog
Defending the apostrophe
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Does it need defending? The sign on some bushes near a park in my town says, Beware: Bee’s. A local merchant adds a note to some receipts that says, Your awesome. It’s tempting to speak up and point out that the sky comma is showing up where it shouldn’t. And missing when it...
Common Edge
Living in the Face of Fear: The Heterotopic Hope of the Maggie’s Centers
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The UK cancer centers are an incredible legacy for its co-founder, Maggie Keswick Jencks.
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The Manager's Handbook
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The...
over a year ago
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon (along with the free web version).
If you've read and enjoyed it, please Tweet about how it'
Blog System/5
Bazel interview at Software Engineering Daily
A detailed summary of the many topics we discussed during this fun interview
a year ago
A detailed summary of the many topics we discussed during this fun interview
haseeb qureshi
Ethereum is now unforkable, thanks to DeFi
By Haseeb Qureshi and Leland Lee
After the DAO hack of 2016, the Ethereum community was faced with...
over a year ago
By Haseeb Qureshi and Leland Lee
After the DAO hack of 2016, the Ethereum community was faced with an existential quandary: should the community roll back the chain to revert the DAO hack, or let the hacker get away? Those who said yes forked away to what is now called Ethereum....
TheCollector
The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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We’re so back
Under the old Twitter regime, politics seemed to seep into everything, especially tech talk. There...
11 months ago
Under the old Twitter regime, politics seemed to seep into everything, especially tech talk. There was scarcely a programming or product topic that couldn’t be turned into a struggle session on account of some perceived transgression or privilege. It was, to use the trauma...
Old Structures...
That Certain Something
About a dozen years ago, the Republic of Tanzania bought this building on East 53rd Street to serve...
a year ago
About a dozen years ago, the Republic of Tanzania bought this building on East 53rd Street to serve as, among other things, the Permanent Mission of Tanzania to the United Nations. Looking at the building I felt sure that it was constructed before 1900 and that it was industrial...
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Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons
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Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often...
over a year ago
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons
2021-04-27
Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often times they come with a performance cost: JavaScript. Luckily for us, we can create our very own shiny, animated buttons with pure CSS.
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ntietz.com blog
The bittersweet end of a year of independence
Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention...
over a year ago
Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention was to do freelance work ("consulting", to all my clients) until I was able to launch my first product, and then shift into being a product company. My ambitions and confidence...
The Marginalian
Love Anyway
You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the...
9 months ago
You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, knowing that the light will soon fade, knowing that the loving face too will one day fade to indifference or bone, and you love anyway...
The Marginalian
Kate Sessions and the Devotion to Delight: The Forgotten Woman Who Covered California with Trees and...
In May 1941, next to news of the Nazi savagely bombing London, The Los Angeles Times published a...
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In May 1941, next to news of the Nazi savagely bombing London, The Los Angeles Times published a memorial profile of “California’s Mother of Gardens” — a hopeful antidote to the undoing of the human world, celebrating the woman who covered Southern California with the loveliest...
The Marginalian
Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism
"Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so."
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"Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so."
Spoon & Tamago
New Tadao Ando-Designed Museum to Open on Naoshima in 2025
A new museum will open on the art island of Naoshima in 2025. Although the official name has yet to...
a year ago
A new museum will open on the art island of Naoshima in 2025. Although the official name has yet to be announced, the structure will be designed by architect Tadao Ando and will mark his 10th museum on the island. The ‘new museum’ will consist of 3 floors—2 underground and 1...
TheCollector
10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Then Came the Barbarians'
“Prose
poetry” suggests transfusing a patient with a blood type not his own. You’ll
kill him or at...
3 months ago
“Prose
poetry” suggests transfusing a patient with a blood type not his own. You’ll
kill him or at least make him sick. When I confront a prose poem I run, though
sometimes I pause to laugh and then run. The question becomes, which is worse:
the poet’s ineptness or his...
Retail Design Blog
Triage Staffing Offices by LEO A DALY
LEO A DALY transformed four abandoned floors into a vibrant, employee-focused office space for...
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LEO A DALY transformed four abandoned floors into a vibrant, employee-focused office space for Triage Staffing in Omaha, reflecting the...
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Lambeth NEWS
Lambeth North
northernmost point in the borough of Lambeth. Which is here in the middle of Waterloo...
a year ago
Lambeth North
northernmost point in the borough of Lambeth. Which is here in the middle of Waterloo Bridge.
Officially it's quarter of a mile downstream in the middle of the River Thames, but you can't stand there. The furthest north you can go in Lambeth without resorting to...
mtlynch.io
How to Grow Quickly and Never Turn a Profit
Early last year, I launched a nutrition site called Is It Keto. From November 2018 until March 2019,...
over a year ago
Early last year, I launched a nutrition site called Is It Keto. From November 2018 until March 2019, the site was my full-time focus. Every month, visitors increased by 50% to 150%, an exhilarating growth rate that far outpaced any of my previous projects.
There was only one...
mtlynch.io
Notes from PyGotham 2019
Overview This past weekend, PyGotham invited me to speak at their annual conference in Manhattan. In...
over a year ago
Overview This past weekend, PyGotham invited me to speak at their annual conference in Manhattan. In an effort to maximize the benefit I get from the event, I’ve prepared notes that capture what I learned by attending. I’m sharing them in hopes that it might be interesting or...
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Optimistic, Offline-First Apps
This is my attempt adapting an Amplify DataStore tutorial to Svelte
over a year ago
This is my attempt adapting an Amplify DataStore tutorial to Svelte
Julia Evans
Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section.
A little while ago I started...
a year ago
Hello! Here’s a new entry in the “cool software julia likes” section.
A little while ago I started using a Mac, and one of my biggest
frustrations with it is that often I need to run Linux-specific software. For
example, the nginx playground I
posted about the other day only...
The Elysian
Join our upcoming literary salon discussions
Our calendar of upcoming events.
3 months ago
Our calendar of upcoming events.
Tony Dinh's...
My new product on Product Hunt today
Not the usual monthly update, just a small update about Xnapper - my latest product
over a year ago
Not the usual monthly update, just a small update about Xnapper - my latest product
TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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Happy Pride! Have Some Updates!
This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big...
6 months ago
This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big update for Mail. Plus Wayland is here, there’s a new way to manage Drivers, and we’re shipping Flathub by default! And don’t forget Platform 8 is now ready for developers. Read ahead...
TokyoDev
個人のブログから利益を生むビジネスへ：TokyoDevのストーリー
This article is also available [in...
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This article is also available [in...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Aaand we're back in quarantine
PCR test of one of the children in our oldests’ daycare group was positive. Keeping our youngest at...
over a year ago
PCR test of one of the children in our oldests’ daycare group was positive. Keeping our youngest at home too,...
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Too many bronze medals?
In a recent video, Hank Green nerd-sniped me by asking a question I couldn’t not answer. At one...
4 months ago
In a recent video, Hank Green nerd-sniped me by asking a question I couldn’t not answer. At one point in the video, he shows “a graph of the last 20 years of Olympic games showing the gold, silver, and bronze medals from continental Europe. And it “shows continental Europe having...
Noahpinion
Why the U.S. should fight Cold War 2
And what it means to "fight" in this case.
a year ago
And what it means to "fight" in this case.
Nat Eliason's...
The Crypto Mania Has Begun. How to Profit & Understand What's Happening
If you missed out last time, this is your opportunity
a month ago
If you missed out last time, this is your opportunity
Londonist
Street Art Hopscotch Appears In London, With A Potent Anti-War Message
“Stop talking about the politics of war and think more about the children suffering from conflict."
a year ago
“Stop talking about the politics of war and think more about the children suffering from conflict."
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Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme
If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into...
over a year ago
If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into multi-millionaires overnight, chances are you've…
Steve Blank
Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster
This article previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that...
a year ago
This article previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that pre-seed and seed startups with employees showing up in a physical office have 3½ times higher revenue growth than those that are solely remote. Let the discussion begin. During the...
History Today Feed
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Seth's Blog
“What should I do now?”
We’ve forgotten how often society had an answer for that question. Perhaps our shift away from a...
a month ago
We’ve forgotten how often society had an answer for that question. Perhaps our shift away from a dictated answer not only gives us freedom, it also creates ennui and fear. The culture of a generation or two ago told you where to study, what to study, how to cut your hair, what to...
Steve Klabnik
When should I use String vs &str?
2 months ago
The Roots of...
Do we get better or worse at adapting to change?
Verner Vinge, in a classic 1993 essay, described “the Singularity” as an era where progress becomes...
a year ago
Verner Vinge, in a classic 1993 essay, described “the Singularity” as an era where progress becomes “an exponential runaway beyond any hope of control.”
The idea that technological change might accelerate to a pace faster than we can keep up with is a common concern. Almost three...
The Modern House
An apartment with star quality in a converted recording studio in west London
a year ago
Math Is Still...
The Quest for Simple Rules to Build a Microbial Community
Microbiologists are searching for a universal theory of how bacteria form communities based not on...
11 months ago
Microbiologists are searching for a universal theory of how bacteria form communities based not on their species but on the roles they play.
The post The Quest for Simple Rules to Build a Microbial Community first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TokyoDev
On the Value of Software
One of the biggest challenges in moving from a software developer to entrepreneur has been changing...
over a year ago
One of the biggest challenges in moving from a software developer to entrepreneur has been changing my perception of the value of software. As a developer, the underlying assumption was the more functionality software had, the more valuable it was. This proposition was...
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Static Svelte: JavaScript Blogging with 93% less JavaScript
This blog now uses [Svelte & Sapper](https://sapper.svelte.dev/) as a static site generator, where...
over a year ago
This blog now uses [Svelte & Sapper](https://sapper.svelte.dev/) as a static site generator, where it [previously used React & Gatsby](https://5d7699e172ae430007210374--scout-videos-51664.netlify.com/writing/moving-to-novela). This is achieved through [Sapper's `sapper export`...
Coffee with an...
Design explained with Bar Charts
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple bar charts. Right. This isn’t...
9 months ago
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple bar charts. Right. This isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE
Seth's Blog
“What’s the catch?”
It’s an important question. Lots of opportunities come with one, and going in with your eyes open...
8 months ago
It’s an important question. Lots of opportunities come with one, and going in with your eyes open helps avoid problems later. Two challenges: Sometimes, a really good opportunity doesn’t actually have a catch. And spending a lot of time looking for one keeps us from the work we...
Londonist
Review: V&A Shows Tropical Modernism Was So Much More Than An Architectural Movement
Politics, people, environment - all rolled into beautiful buildings.
9 months ago
Politics, people, environment - all rolled into beautiful buildings.
Sam Altman
American Equity
I’d like feedback on the following idea.
I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual...
over a year ago
I’d like feedback on the following idea.
I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual share of the US GDP.
I believe that owning something like a share in America would align all of us in making the country as successful as possible—the better the country does, the...
Fathy Boundjadj
Forking Chrome to render in a terminal
I wrote about forking Chrome to turn HTML to SVG two months ago, today we're going to do something...
a year ago
I wrote about forking Chrome to turn HTML to SVG two months ago, today we're going to do something similar by making it render into a terminal.
Let me introduce you to the Carbonyl web browser!
Drawing
Read more..
Seth's Blog
The low-stakes argument
It’s tempting and fun to argue about the logo. About the way the toilet paper is hung. About how to...
a year ago
It’s tempting and fun to argue about the logo. About the way the toilet paper is hung. About how to load the trunk of the car. These sorts of arguments work precisely because they don’t matter. At all. And they distract us from the incredibly difficult work of discussing the...
TheCollector
3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
The Elysian
I built a castle to save the economy
You're welcome.
8 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Gene Editing Chickens to Resist Bird Flu
There are 33 billion chickens in the world, mostly domestic species raised for egg-laying or meat....
a year ago
There are 33 billion chickens in the world, mostly domestic species raised for egg-laying or meat. They are a high efficiency source of high quality protein. It’s the kind of thing we need to do if we want to feed 8 billion people. Similarly we have planted 4.62 billion acres of...
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap 2023: Rise of AI
We analyze growth in unicorn market cap by region. We also compare # of Barry's Bootcamps to # of...
a year ago
We analyze growth in unicorn market cap by region. We also compare # of Barry's Bootcamps to # of unicorns for key cities.
macwright.com
Work hard and take everything really seriously
Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life
balance and whether it’s a good or...
10 months ago
Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life
balance and whether it’s a good or bad idea to work hard when you’re
young. Like most of these recurring debates, it has generated two
opposite archetypes:
The anti-capitalist tells the young worker not to trust HR...
Retail Design Blog
Lingyin Cultural and Creative Pavilion by Ondo Studio
At the initial stage of design, upon seeing the original store, we were moved by the lush branches...
5 months ago
At the initial stage of design, upon seeing the original store, we were moved by the lush branches and interplay...
Londonist
Dreaming Of Owning A Home In France? You Need To Know About This Event!
The French Property Exhibition returns to London this month.
11 months ago
The French Property Exhibition returns to London this month.
Platformer
What I learned in year three of Platformer
Has the Substack revolution come and gone? PLUS: What's changing in year four
a year ago
Has the Substack revolution come and gone? PLUS: What's changing in year four
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't be clever, be clear
I love plain language. (the last one is a pdf)
So it’s no surprise that one of my (many) pet peeves...
a year ago
I love plain language. (the last one is a pdf)
So it’s no surprise that one of my (many) pet peeves is when a title of an article tries to be clever. Consider, for example:
It Can Happen to You
This can be about anything from cancer to, as in this case, a very arcane piece of...
Computer Things
I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong
Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible...
6 months ago
Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible jetlag but also itching to get writing again, so let's go.
The opening keynote to the conference was called "Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Software Architecture". It was mostly about...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 22
Highlights TinyPilot generates $58k/month in revenue yet somehow loses money. It’s more important...
over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot generates $58k/month in revenue yet somehow loses money. It’s more important than I thought to have low-latency insight into developers’ hours. I’m trying paid advertising again for the first time in almost two years. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
Liz Denys
Notes on pandemic eats, March to mid-October 2020
I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian...
over a year ago
I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian before the start of a pandemic was really convenient. Few things beat having a bunch of dried beans, lentils, and veggies plus a bunch of rice on in my pantry while you're figuring...
AFAR Media - Travel...
These Airlines Make Flying Easier for Travelers With Autism
a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
Let's Learn CSS Variables!
CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to...
over a year ago
CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to CSS developers. This post covers what they are, how they work, and a couple of nifty ways you can implement them on your own website.
Liz Denys
Things I've learned about biking for transportation in NYC
I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier...
over a year ago
I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier person. That said, it took a while to go from very comfortable riding a bike around the car-free loop inside Prospect Park to no longer feeling extremely anxious riding on NYC...
Engineer’s Codex
7 simple habits of the top 1% of engineers
How elite software engineers maintain outperformance
a year ago
How elite software engineers maintain outperformance
Making software...
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
2020-12-04
Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
over a year ago
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
2020-12-04
Sometimes websites and web apps might require content to be "injected" via Javascript. I should mention that I am strongly against this practice - but often this kind of thing is out of one's hands. So, the least I can do is...
The Honest Broker
It's Open Mic Day—Talk About Anything You Want
What's on your mind?
7 months ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Map: Arendal Region Transit Map, Norway by Hazael
Hi! I made this transit diagram myself. I saw there was no “real” map with all the stations for the...
3 months ago
Hi! I made this transit diagram myself. I saw there was no “real” map with all the stations for the region of Arendal in Norway, so I decided to do this project. I would love to read your comments and criticisms! Transit Maps says: There’s a lot to like about this diagram – a...
Diaries of Note
CORONACION DAY
On 23rd April 1661, a decade after fleeing the country following defeat by Oliver Cromwell, Charles...
a year ago
On 23rd April 1661, a decade after fleeing the country following defeat by Oliver Cromwell, Charles II was crowned king, heralding the restoration of the monarchy and the end of political turmoil. The Abbey was resplendently adorned in reds that day, and the finest of garments...
Steve Klabnik
The language strangeness budget
over a year ago
Making software...
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
2022-09-10
Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
over a year ago
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
2022-09-10
Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the "golden age" in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
Rest of World -...
Two trophies, one meme
How the World Cup and the Golden Globes united Argentina through a single viral image.
a year ago
How the World Cup and the Golden Globes united Argentina through a single viral image.
The Marginalian
Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World
We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe....
a week ago
We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe. And maybe we have to forget — or we would be too stupefied with gratitude for every raindrop and every eyelash to get through the daily tasks punctuating the unbidden wonder of...
Rozado’s Visual...
Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España
Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post...
over a year ago
Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post Verification of integrity of frequency counts: https://zenodo.org/record/5674590
pcloadletter
Coding interviews are effective
Coding interviews are controversial. It can be unpleasant to code in front of someone else, knowing...
10 months ago
Coding interviews are controversial. It can be unpleasant to code in front of someone else, knowing you're being judged. And who likes failing? Especially when it feels like you failed intellectually.
But, coding interviews are effective.
One big criticism of coding interviews is...
Retail Design Blog
Ô D’OR maple syrup by Ezi Brand Design
A new player in the maple syrup industry, our client wanted to offer a niche, high-end product. The...
6 months ago
A new player in the maple syrup industry, our client wanted to offer a niche, high-end product. The client’s philosophy...
Patrick Kayongo
A World Offline
Loadshedding has hit South Africa in a bad way. Interruptions to electricity has disrupted...
a year ago
Loadshedding has hit South Africa in a bad way. Interruptions to electricity has disrupted businesses and resulted in unanticipated cost increases from those who have had to find alternative sources of electricity. 16 years ago, it was unimaginable that we would have some days...
Founder's blog
System.Drawing vs SkiaSharp benchmark
This is a ridiculously short post for .NET devs looking to compare System.Drawing with SkiaSharp...
a year ago
This is a ridiculously short post for .NET devs looking to compare System.Drawing with SkiaSharp (the fastest open-source alternative).
I'm currently building a new pet project - a free tool, that will allow bloggers and webmasters generate open-graph "cover images" via...
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Moderating AI Conferences
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
a year ago
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Platformer
How two insurgents are taking on Twitter
Artifact's Kevin Systrom on the disruptive power of good comments. PLUS: Substack's naïveté around...
a year ago
Artifact's Kevin Systrom on the disruptive power of good comments. PLUS: Substack's naïveté around Notes
TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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3 months ago
This Space
39 Books: 1991
One the first books I found in a bookshop* upon moving to Brighton was Rosalind Belben's novel Is...
7 months ago
One the first books I found in a bookshop* upon moving to Brighton was Rosalind Belben's novel Is Beauty Good. I had seen it two years earlier chosen in a newspaper books of the year listing alongside Jacques Roubaud's Le Grand Incendie de Londres and Thomas Bernhard's Old...
Epic Web Dev
Tips and Techniques for 'Pixel Perfect' Figma to Tailwind CSS Conversions (article)
Master converting Figma designs to Tailwind CSS with near "pixel perfection". Learn HTML structure,...
5 months ago
Master converting Figma designs to Tailwind CSS with near "pixel perfection". Learn HTML structure, design tokens, layouts, responsive design, and animations.
Map of the Week
Indigenous Languages-Part 3
Here is part 3 in what was meant to be a two part series. In between my last two posts, Vivid Maps...
10 months ago
Here is part 3 in what was meant to be a two part series. In between my last two posts, Vivid Maps posted a map of indigenous languages. I think this was just a coincidence. I only saw their post yesterday and I don't think they saw or were reacting to what I posted. Anyway this...
Old Structures...
Not Quite Changing
First, “Facade, 317 Broadway” from Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York Project”, taken in 1936....
10 months ago
First, “Facade, 317 Broadway” from Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York Project”, taken in 1936. Second, a street view photo of 319 Broadway, today. 317 Broadway is at the southwest corner of Thomas Street and Broadway; 319 at the northwest corner. So unless this building moved...
Stoic Simple
Using a Stoic Mindset to See Challenges from Two Perspectives
by Bob Cymber I recently watched the intense National Geographic documentary Free Solo. One of the...
a year ago
by Bob Cymber I recently watched the intense National Geographic documentary Free Solo. One of the most surprising things about the film is how Alex Honnold, the rock climber who challenges intense heights without a safety harness, approaches his challenges. Before each of his...
Rest of World -...
WhatsApp vigilantes in India are converting Christians by force
How far-right Hindu nationalists use WhatsApp to target Christian families when they’re most...
2 months ago
How far-right Hindu nationalists use WhatsApp to target Christian families when they’re most vulnerable — by preventing them from burying their dead.
TheCollector
9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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5 months ago
ntietz.com blog
Even bad estimates are valuable if you use them right
Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the...
over a year ago
Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the work, because we're inventing new things and invention doesn't happen on a fixed schedule. And yet, many teams still estimate how long their tasks will take to finish. Why should...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Things I Like Over Things I Don’t
It was another typical day on the internet: somebody did something, it felt like a big deal to me,...
a year ago
It was another typical day on the internet: somebody did something, it felt like a big deal to me, and I wanted to blog about why I didn’t like it.
To vent, I sent Dave a private message — well a couple of them — detailing my frustrations.
Looking back, I don’t remember what I...
PostHog's RSS Feed
CEO diary: The things I learned in 2022
It's always helpful to look back on the year just gone, and 2022 was an exceptionally good year for...
a year ago
It's always helpful to look back on the year just gone, and 2022 was an exceptionally good year for PostHog. Here's my personal perspective on how it…
The Roots of...
Neither EA nor e/acc is what we need to build the future
Over the last few years, effective altruism has gone through a rise-and-fall story arc worthy of any...
a year ago
Over the last few years, effective altruism has gone through a rise-and-fall story arc worthy of any dramatic tragedy.
The pandemic made them look prescient for warning about global catastrophic risks, including biosafety. A masterful book launch put them on the cover of TIME....
Anecdotal Evidence
'One Thing Always to Be Guarded Against'
“Poetry,
geography, moral essays, the divers [sic] subjects of philosophy, travels, natural
history,...
6 months ago
“Poetry,
geography, moral essays, the divers [sic] subjects of philosophy, travels, natural
history, books on sciences; and, in short, the whole range of book-knowledge is
before you; but there is one thing always to be guarded against; and that is,
not to admire and applaud...
Passing Time
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics and the Exploitation Problem
In one of my favorite blog posts of all time, Jai writes: The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum...
over a year ago
In one of my favorite blog posts of all time, Jai writes: The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics says that you can have a particle spinning clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time – until you look at it, at which point it definitely becomes one or the other....
Math Is Still...
Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture
In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound...
5 months ago
In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program.
The post Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Old Vintage...
Niklaus Wirth dies
Reported yesterday. The first computer program I remember in school was Apple Presents Apple, which...
11 months ago
Reported yesterday. The first computer program I remember in school was Apple Presents Apple, which was written in UCSD Pascal; the first actual compiler I ever used was Turbo Pascal 5.5 (purloined from a campus NetWare server), and the first actual compiler I ever used on the...
One Useful Thing
Thinking companion, companion for thinking
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
a year ago
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
10 months ago
The Antikythera Mechanism
Tech and Tea
Fall Delights
A few things that have brought me joy lately during this time of transition
2 months ago
A few things that have brought me joy lately during this time of transition
Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
TheCollector
How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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2 months ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#15)
Working-class wealth, the education gap, zero-sum thinking, data uncertainty, and indigenous...
a year ago
Working-class wealth, the education gap, zero-sum thinking, data uncertainty, and indigenous knowledge
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
Contemporist...
The client asked for "a hotel-like bedroom and bathroom in their home, so they could feel as if they...
Studio Kloek has shared images of a bedroom and bathroom suite they designed for their client who...
7 months ago
Studio Kloek has shared images of a bedroom and bathroom suite they designed for their client who desired "a hotel-like bedroom and bathroom in their home, so they could feel as if they were on vacation every day."
Spoon & Tamago
Myaku-Myaku Footwear, Inspired by the Googly-Eyed Mascot for the Osaka Expo
Myaku-Myaku, the unsettling googly-eyed humanoid that was selected as the 2025 Osaka Expo, has...
8 months ago
Myaku-Myaku, the unsettling googly-eyed humanoid that was selected as the 2025 Osaka Expo, has inspired numerous spinoffs, both official and unofficial. And with exactly 1 year to go before the Expo, we should all expect to see a lot more. The latest iteration comes in the form...
Arduino Blog
Arduino Cloud is now natively supported on tablets
We’re excited to announce the release of IoT Remote v3.0.0, featuring a native tablet version...
7 months ago
We’re excited to announce the release of IoT Remote v3.0.0, featuring a native tablet version (available for both Android and iOS platforms) optimized for unlocking the full potential of larger screen sizes. What is the Arduino IoT Remote app? The Arduino IoT Remote app allows...
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Bringing AWS to App Developers
Where Amplify fits in AWS' trajectory, and why I am joining
over a year ago
Where Amplify fits in AWS' trajectory, and why I am joining
Joel Gascoigne
Why you should start marketing early
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over a year ago
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about when the right time is to start
marketing a startup. In my previous startup [http://myonepage.com], we were
hesitant to attempt to get press early. We were...
The Modern House
Peak Performance: what does a walk up a mountain sound like?
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The coming ubiquity
The fuss about AI might be mis-focused. It’s easy to point to a computer-created essay, song or...
a year ago
The fuss about AI might be mis-focused. It’s easy to point to a computer-created essay, song or illustration and find the defects or errors. Given hard work by 1,000 trained people, it’s likely that a human could make something more useful or inspired than a computer could. But...
Anecdotal Evidence
'More Than Documentary'
“Literariness,
as I understand it, does not necessarily entail any particular set of...
3 months ago
“Literariness,
as I understand it, does not necessarily entail any particular set of formal
qualities. What makes a work literary is the ability to be understood and
appreciated outside the context of its origin. That is why a literary work, however
valuable as a document of its...
Product Identity
Niche product design
Seeking uniqueness where design flourish
10 months ago
Seeking uniqueness where design flourish
Spoon & Tamago
Coworking Space in Kinosaki Onsen Encourages Users to Take Bath Breaks
Photo: Madoka Nishiyama courtesy KIAC This might very well be the coworking space of our dreams. The...
a year ago
Photo: Madoka Nishiyama courtesy KIAC This might very well be the coworking space of our dreams. The Kinosaki International Art Center (KIAC) is a multipurpose community center located in Kinosaki Onsen, a quaint town on the coast of Japan that’s known for their natural hot...
The Modern House
A blank canvas within one of London’s best brutalist buildings
a year ago
TheCollector
Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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a month ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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5 months ago
computers are bad
2024-04-05 the life of one earth station
Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV)
services. Don't we all?...
8 months ago
Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV)
services. Don't we all? As a result, I've periodically come across a company
called AlphaStar Television Network. PrimeStar may have had a rough life, but
AlphaStar barely had one at all: it launched in...
SatPost by Trung...
9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh
Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding...
2 months ago
Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding Off-White and leading menswear at Louis Vuitton.
Londonist
Things To Do In London In The Easter Holidays 2024
Family-friendly events in the capital this spring.
9 months ago
Family-friendly events in the capital this spring.
Londonist
The Notable Benches Of London
64 unusual benches in one graphic (you might want to sit down).
10 months ago
64 unusual benches in one graphic (you might want to sit down).
Uncharted...
What Is Happening in Syria?
Assad’s regime has fallen, leaving a power vacuum. Why? Who are the winners and losers? What will...
a week ago
Assad’s regime has fallen, leaving a power vacuum. Why? Who are the winners and losers? What will happen next?
Internal Tech Emails
iMessage for Android
I am concerned the iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove and obstacle to iPhone families...
over a year ago
I am concerned the iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove and obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.
Math Is Still...
The Biggest Smallest Triangle Just Got Smaller
A new proof breaks a decades-long drought of progress on the problem of estimating the size of...
a year ago
A new proof breaks a decades-long drought of progress on the problem of estimating the size of triangles created by cramming points into a square.
The post The Biggest Smallest Triangle Just Got Smaller first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Health
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I'm just saying it's a valid concern.
Today's...
12 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I'm just saying it's a valid concern.
Today's News:
No idea why but A City on Mars is deeply discounted today on Amazon.
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Sega logo (1976–present)
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved.
The Sega logo...
over a year ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved.
The Sega logo used since 1976, in its official color for the Japanese market.
Source: segaretro.org Image: Scarred Sun. License: All Rights Reserved.
Sega logo used from the late 1950s to...
TheCollector
Who Was Tertullian?
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10 months ago
Wuthering...
everything in a being is always repeating - reading Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans
Since I actually read the thing for some reason I will write
some notes on Gertrude Stein’s enormous...
6 months ago
Since I actually read the thing for some reason I will write
some notes on Gertrude Stein’s enormous The Making of Americans: Being a
History of a Family’s Progress (1925).
It is a monster. Why did I read
it? No, that is not the right
questions. There are good reasons to
read...
Math Is Still...
Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity
As researchers race to cultivate more of the intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few cells...
a year ago
As researchers race to cultivate more of the intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few cells now growing in labs are giving us our best glimpses of the forerunners of all complex life.
The post Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity first...
Seth's Blog
2 + 2
Arguments about taste are more common than ever before. The long tail makes it easy to find what you...
7 months ago
Arguments about taste are more common than ever before. The long tail makes it easy to find what you like, and to talk about what you don’t. There’s no accounting for taste, and that’s a good thing. Because taste is useful. Flopping the toilet paper under or over the roll,...
Maps Mania
The Distressed Communities of America
9 months ago
TheCollector
Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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4 months ago
Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 7
In which I pay for people to check out OnlineOrNot to test my landing pages.
a year ago
In which I pay for people to check out OnlineOrNot to test my landing pages.
Matt Mazur
LearnGPT is now EmergentMind
Naming things is hard. Shortly after ChatGPT launched at the end of November, I decided to build a...
a year ago
Naming things is hard. Shortly after ChatGPT launched at the end of November, I decided to build a site to share ChatGPT examples and eventually be the home to educational content to help people learn more about GPT. To my surprise, there were a lot of relevant available .com...
Rest of World -...
New visa programs spark brain drain fears across Africa
German and Canadian visa policies could make it harder for African companies to retain talent.
a year ago
German and Canadian visa policies could make it harder for African companies to retain talent.
Construction Physics
Supersonic air travel recommended reading
Aviation has a huge number of enthusiasts, which is why essentially every aircraft model ever...
9 months ago
Aviation has a huge number of enthusiasts, which is why essentially every aircraft model ever produced has a book written about it. Supersonic aircraft are no exception. There’s a large number of books written about the Concorde, the Tu-144, and the American SST project. Many of...
Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
TheCollector
Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
3 months ago
This Space
39 Books: 1986
In my second year of reading, I read four novels by DM Thomas, beginning with his most famous, The...
8 months ago
In my second year of reading, I read four novels by DM Thomas, beginning with his most famous, The White Hotel, in the edition below with its very 1980s cover design. I look at the single-word titles of the others and can remember absolutely nothing about them.
Both the title...
Max Rozen
Understanding useState's initial value
If you're used to class components and setState, the useState Hook might be confusing at first....
over a year ago
If you're used to class components and setState, the useState Hook might be confusing at first. Let's learn more about it in this article.
Diaries of Note
I have drunk of the wine of life at last
In 1907, fourteen years before she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Age of...
a year ago
In 1907, fourteen years before she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton was introduced to Morton Fullerton, a journalist with whom she would embark on a passionate affair. It was months after that first encounter, in October, that she...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Exits & Outcomes Is Good | Out-Of-Pocket
moar newsletters
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
A student asked how I keep us innovative. I don't.
Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class.
One of the students asked a question...
a year ago
Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class.
One of the students asked a question that I loved.
They asked something like, "As a principal engineer, how do you make sure your company stays at the forefront of innovation?"
There are two reasons I love this...
TheCollector
Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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2 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Printing with Heat Stamps
If you haven’t tried printing with Heat Stamps yet, this is your new project. It’s really quick to...
a year ago
If you haven’t tried printing with Heat Stamps yet, this is your new project. It’s really quick to create a unique block that can be reused again and again to create different textures and patterns.
All you need is a heat gun and a variety of objects and surfaces to create your...
TheCollector
10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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TheCollector
5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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3 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Link One Watch
My name is Johan Link, a 23-year-old Swiss architecture student with a deep passion for design. Over...
5 months ago
My name is Johan Link, a 23-year-old Swiss architecture student with a deep passion for design. Over the past year,...
Liz Denys
Early one morning
The view shortly after waking up while camping at Marshall Beach, Point Reyes.
over a year ago
The view shortly after waking up while camping at Marshall Beach, Point Reyes.
Stoic Simple
What Did Epictetus Teach About Stoicism?
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been gaining popularity in recent years. It emphasizes personal...
a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been gaining popularity in recent years. It emphasizes personal ethics, rationality, and self-control. One of the most influential Stoic philosophers was Epictetus, who lived in the first and second centuries AD. Epictetus was born a slave but...
Ferd.ca
A Commentary on Defining Observability
2024/03/19
A Commentary on Defining Observability
Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great...
9 months ago
2024/03/19
A Commentary on Defining Observability
Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great article titled Redefining Observability. In it, she covers competing classical definitions observability, weaknesses they have, and offers a practical reframing of the concept in the...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Reality of Real-World Evidence | Out-Of-Pocket
Real recognize real...sort of
a year ago
Real recognize real...sort of
TheCollector
The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Remember
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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I was in a train station a few years ago and all...
6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I was in a train station a few years ago and all the women were dressed like it was the eighties. Went back to my farm and emerged a year later to see all the men had developed mustaches as a kind of reflexive mating...
Sarah Parmenter
America, here is why I love you.
I am proud to call America my second home, and I’ve toyed with living there permanently more times...
over a year ago
I am proud to call America my second home, and I’ve toyed with living there permanently more times than I can count. On this day when emotions are running high, and sadness, anxiety, and trepidation is in the air for so many, I wanted to note down why I love America and what, as...
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
7 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Should Social Determinants Come From Payers and Providers? | Out-Of-Pocket
I've got some questions
a year ago
Londonist
On 29 February Do One Of These Things A Londoner Would Never Do
From rickshaws to Angus Steakhouses.
10 months ago
From rickshaws to Angus Steakhouses.
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020
Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 ....
over a year ago
Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 . For those who don't know, Hacktoberfest is an…
NeuroLogica Blog
How Substance Abuse Affects the Brain
I will acknowledge up front that I never drink, ever. The concept of deliberately consuming a known...
a year ago
I will acknowledge up front that I never drink, ever. The concept of deliberately consuming a known poison to impair the functioning of your brain never appealed to me. Also, I am a bit of a supertaster, and the taste of alcohol to me is horrible – it overwhelms any other...
The Honest Broker
Get Ready to Pay More for Music
The power brokers have already squeezed musicians—so fans will be next
a year ago
The power brokers have already squeezed musicians—so fans will be next
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