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I hate work. The piercing sound of my alarm shatters the stillness of my room at the ungodly hour of 5 AM, and...
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The piercing sound of my alarm shatters the stillness of my room at the ungodly hour of 5 AM, and I reluctantly drag myself out of bed. It’s the same daily grind, a routine I’ve been stuck in for years, first as a sound engineer, then as a tech exec, and now as an indie...
Alex Meub
Amazon's Top Rated Items I developed a set of scripts that scrape Amazon’s product pages. The result of scraping and...
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I developed a set of scripts that scrape Amazon’s product pages. The result of scraping and processing nearly 300,000 products from 26 departments is my own Amazon Top 400 List. _chart("scatter","scatter-chart2", "Amazon Product Ratings", {categories:[ 'Average Rating', 'Number...
nanoscale views
Interesting reading - resonators, quantum geometry w/ phonons, and fractional quantum anomalous Hall Real life continues to be busy, but I wanted to point out three recent articles that I found...
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Real life continues to be busy, but I wanted to point out three recent articles that I found interesting: Mechanical resonators are a topic with a long history, going back to the first bells and the tuning fork.  I've written about micromachined resonators before, and the quest...
Beautiful Public...
Mapping the Sea Floor USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of...
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USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of the sea floor off Cape Ann, MA.
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 16-17 September 2023 Comedy, podcasts, fashion exhibitions, Open House and the Great River Race.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Indonesia has more than 700 languages. Can AI save them? Most LLMs such as GPT, Llama, and Gemini are trained largely in English, but several Southeast Asian...
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Most LLMs such as GPT, Llama, and Gemini are trained largely in English, but several Southeast Asian firms are focusing on Bahasa Indonesia and other regional languages.
devonzuegel.com
Independence for whom? I recently spent a day at Sea Ranch, a strange and beautiful place. Sea Ranch is a planned community...
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over a year ago
I recently spent a day at Sea Ranch, a strange and beautiful place. Sea Ranch is a planned community with a distinctive architectural style: simple timber-frame structures clad in wooden siding, and gardens all planted with native flora. The Sea Ranch Design Committee enforces...
Society's Backend
Always Be Networking The things you should know about effective networking
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Grateful: Colors in console.log() So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every...
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So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values. I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 50%...
AVC
Bi-Directional EV Charging EV sales in the US are on the rise, reaching 7% of all car sales in Q1 2023, up from 4.6% a year...
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EV sales in the US are on the rise, reaching 7% of all car sales in Q1 2023, up from 4.6% a year earlier. If that rate of growth continues, EVs will be 10% of the US car market by next year. Most people who own an EV charge it at home, using an EV […]
Abort Retry Fail
Unboxing New Old Stock Windows 3.11 A Photo Gallery
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States? undefined
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut 2021-12-06 I recently decided to switch my personal, static...
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Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut 2021-12-06 I recently decided to switch my personal, static site’s hosting from Netlify to sourcehut pages. The process went fairly smoothly with only a couple minor hiccups; nothing rage-inducing. After everything was up and running smoothly, I...
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 1–5
3 weeks ago
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 20-26 November 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Simply Explained
Make Your Garage Door Opener Smart: Shelly 1, ESPHome and Home Assistant I've been adding more and more devices to my smart home lately, so naturally, my garage door opener...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been adding more and more devices to my smart home lately, so naturally, my garage door opener had to follow. But instead of swapping it out for a new unit, I used a Shelly 1 and a cheap door contact sensor to make it smart for less than $20!It runs ESPHome (open-source, no...
PostHog's RSS Feed
HostHogs - free drinks, free pizza and frequently asked questions As you may have heard, we’ll soon host our first ever meet-up for anyone who uses or is interested...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As you may have heard, we’ll soon host our first ever meet-up for anyone who uses or is interested in finding out more about PostHog. It’ll take place…
nanoscale views
Wind-up nanotechnology When I was a kid, I used to take allowance money and occasionally buy rubber-band-powered balsa wood...
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When I was a kid, I used to take allowance money and occasionally buy rubber-band-powered balsa wood airplanes at a local store.  Maybe you've seen these.  You wind up the rubber band, which stretches the elastomer and stores energy in the elastic strain of the polymer, as in...
journal – Winnie Lim
42 Last year, I wrote I wanted to learn how to cope. I don’t think I have learnt to cope well yet, but...
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a year ago
Last year, I wrote I wanted to learn how to cope. I don’t think I have learnt to cope well yet, but I do think I have made some progress compared to...
TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters? undefined
10 months ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Costa Rica, Part 2 (In the Shadow of the Volcano) We landed at Juan Santamaría airport in San José on a Friday afternoon, clearing Immigration and...
a year ago
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a year ago
We landed at Juan Santamaría airport in San José on a Friday afternoon, clearing Immigration and Customs nearly effortlessly. Then we got a taste of rush hour traffic riding on the shuttle to retrieve our rental car. Driving conditions became a lot more difficult later in the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
People and Blogs and Me If you haven’t seen it, Manu has a new series called “People and Blogs” centered around a lovely...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you haven’t seen it, Manu has a new series called “People and Blogs” centered around a lovely goal: to both highlight wonderful human beings and their blogs, and also to promote a healthier way to inhabit the web and show that traditional social media is not the be all and end...
Spoon & Tamago
A New Brewery in Yobuko Wants to Revive the Former Whaling Town Photos by Hiroshi Mizusaki courtesy Case-Real Architects The Town of Yobuko, located at the tip of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Photos by Hiroshi Mizusaki courtesy Case-Real Architects The Town of Yobuko, located at the tip of North-Western Kyushu, is named after the migratory path that whales swam. Beginning in the 1700s, Yobuko prospered as a whaling town, birthing the idiom, a single whale flourishes...
Remains of the Day
And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at...
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over a year ago
It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at the companies that have survived, certain application architectural choices are ubiquitous. By now, we're all familiar with the infinite vertical scrolling feed of content units,...
Seeking Wisdom
Embeddings – Part 1 This is the 8th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend...
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This is the 8th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend reading my earlier posts first. I love playing and watching cricket. The dominance India showed in the recently concluded World Cup is astounding. I have never seen anything like it in...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Idioms as Code This is silly. I wrote code depicting common idioms. You read the code and try to guess the...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is silly. I wrote code depicting common idioms. You read the code and try to guess the idiom. Answers are below the code (and, for clients viewing in supported readers, appear upside down like a children’s book). pen > sword >>> true The pen is mightier than the...
Hixie's Natural Log
Ask for forgiveness, not permission A colleague of mine asked me to explicitly put an LGTM on their design doc so that they could go...
a year ago
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a year ago
A colleague of mine asked me to explicitly put an LGTM on their design doc so that they could go ahead and implement it. The design doc was one I had previously reviewed and commented on, and had indicated that it seemed like a good idea, but I hadn't filled in the box saying...
Home on Erik...
Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Perryville? undefined
4 months ago
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862) the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament? undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio? undefined
11 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some More 2025 predictions | Out-Of-Pocket OOP readers always have some interesting ones
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism? undefined
a year ago
Londonist
"Every Year We Do A Free Christmas Day Dinner At Our Wimbledon Pub, For People On Their Own" Almost 200 people come to the Alex on 25 Dec.
a year ago
alexwlchan
Taking regular screenshots of my website A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks associated with their long-term preservation. What formats need urgent attention before they’re lost forever, what mediums are already being well-preserved, and so on. For example,...
Josh Thompson
Turing Prep Chapter 1: Make Mod 1 Easier Than It Otherwise Would Be Preparing for Turing Series Index What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Preparing for Turing Series Index What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up useful information about a number of topics related to Ruby, specifically geared for students learning the Ruby programming language, as part of the Turing School’s Backend Software...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Stumped with URL validation in WebCard <![CDATA[I started working on URL validation in WebCard and soon bumped into a bug. When creating a...
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<![CDATA[I started working on URL validation in WebCard and soon bumped into a bug. When creating a new Web card, WebCard prompts for a URL to store in the card. I wrote the predicate WCD.ValidURLP to do some minimal validation and make sure the input resembles a URL. For...
Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status “All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
a month ago
Arduino Blog
Receive an alert when your device goes offline in Arduino Cloud You’re managing a network of IoT sensors that monitor air quality across multiple locations....
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a month ago
You’re managing a network of IoT sensors that monitor air quality across multiple locations. Suddenly, one of the sensors goes offline, but you don’t notice until hours later. The result? A gap in your data and a missed opportunity to take corrective action. This is a common...
NeuroLogica Blog
Oxygen As A Technosignature This is one of the biggest thought experiments in science today – as we look for life elsewhere in...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is one of the biggest thought experiments in science today – as we look for life elsewhere in the universe, what should we be looking for, exactly? Other stellar systems are too far away to examine directly, and even our most powerful telescopes can only resolve points of...
Rest of World -...
Self-checkout is putting elderly grocery baggers out of work in Mexico Volunteer packers at stores like Walmart say they’re receiving 50% fewer tips than before the...
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Sandoitchi, Chatswood Chase Sandoitchi, a renowned brand specializing in flavorful Japanese sandwiches, prides itself on its...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Sandoitchi, a renowned brand specializing in flavorful Japanese sandwiches, prides itself on its simplicity and delicious ingredients. The store’s concept,...
The American Scholar
Island Royalty A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary The post Island Royalty appeared first on The American...
a month ago
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a month ago
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary The post Island Royalty appeared first on The American Scholar.
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Louis Pereira Lessons from building AudioPen to 600+ paid users to clinching #1 on Product Hunt
a year ago
Ben Borgers
Three People Talking
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
RE5.5 by Lana Burlachuk Company RE5.5 is a company with a focus solely on the delicate art of eye care, that stood out as...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Company RE5.5 is a company with a focus solely on the delicate art of eye care, that stood out as...
sbensu
Breaking changes in JSON APIs A collection of common breaking changes to JSON APIs for you to keep in mind as you design.
a year ago
Nadia Asparouhova
How to do the jhanas The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to...
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The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This...
Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s Ogun State wants to lead the country’s EV revolution But experts fear long-term success may not follow as Nigeria lags other African countries when it...
a month ago
Spoon & Tamago
Not a Hotel: A Unique Timeshare Concept Redefining Luxury Travel All images © Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office “Buy a vacation home that doubles as a...
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All images © Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office “Buy a vacation home that doubles as a hotel.” That’s the tagline for ‘Not A Hotel,’ a real estate start-up founded by Shinji Hamazu. The company challenges the traditional hotel model by treating it as a timeshare and...
xkcd.com
Coordinate Plane Closure
a year ago
Common Edge
Great American Cities That Teach Architecture Learning about urban planning and design outside the studio.
10 months ago
David Heinemeier...
We’ve resubmitted the HEY Calendar app to Apple Apple waited until end of business on Friday to send us the formal rejection of the HEY Calendar...
a year ago
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a year ago
Apple waited until end of business on Friday to send us the formal rejection of the HEY Calendar app. It seems they love to play these little games to try to drown any controversy with the cover of a weekend. But we don’t roll over that easy, so the team worked through the...
Trying to Understand...
The Long Run. The future belongs to them.
yesterday
Ink & Switch
Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection...
6 months ago
Rest of World -...
Meet the mothers in small-town Hungary leading a fight against Chinese EV battery plants Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s goal to turn Hungary into a global EV battery hub is facing...
2 months ago
Londonist
Take A Tour Of The Magnificent Palace Of Westminster This Autumn Ahead of the State Opening in November.
a year ago
TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
A History of Italy in 13 Monuments undefined
5 months ago
Old Structures...
A Last Remnant I’ve mentioned before the way that the numbered street grid was literally cut though the once-hilly...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I’ve mentioned before the way that the numbered street grid was literally cut though the once-hilly topography of Manhattan Island. It’s hard to find visible evidence of that process today. The Dyckman Farmhouse, near the north end of the island and dating to 1784, is on a hill...
TheCollector
1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History? undefined
8 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn
Are design ethics useless?
a year ago
Rest of World -...
The tech executive who believes AI needs more voice-based learning systems Bayo Adekanmbi explains why voice-based learning is the best way to increase AI adoption across...
9 months ago
Common Edge
Money and the Conundrum of Architects Who Don’t Build The identity is a little different than the actual grind.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI predictions for 2024 Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Walking With The Snowman "Have you done the snowman sculpture trail yet?" my brother asked. He does like a good thematic...
a year ago
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a year ago
"Have you done the snowman sculpture trail yet?" my brother asked. He does like a good thematic painted fibreglass orienteering gadabout. Walking With The Snowman and is spread across part of the City between Chancery Lane and St Paul's. There are a dozen snowmen altogether, and...
Posts on Made of...
How I Write Tests The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe to the definition of legacy code as “code without an automated test suite.” I’m convinced that the best thing you can do to encourage fast progress in a test suite is to design...
TheCollector
What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration? undefined
11 months ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 14-15 October 2023 A rum festival, a new fashion exhibition, Cocktail Week and more.
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Counter, Tunbridge Wells As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the world that are somewhat better-represented on these pages than others. Obviously as I live in London, and it's the best food city on the planet, that's the main focus of this blog....
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau undefined
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
There are two types...
My Comments at the Midtown South Social Equity and Music Festival Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only...
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3 months ago
Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only is it the best building ever torn down in New York, but in the combined Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, we got the worst building in … Continue reading → The post My...
Home on Erik...
Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely similar to it) is an exciting field, in particular because (despite what the neo-luddites may say) it keeps getting better every year! I love working with something that moves so...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Coordination, Good and Bad
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 21 Highlights TinyPilot had its best sales month ever, with $69k of total revenue. I’m now five months...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot had its best sales month ever, with $69k of total revenue. I’m now five months and $32k over budget on a website redesign. I launched PicoShare, and it’s the fastest-growing project I’ve ever published. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what...
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in May 2024 20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in May 2024 1) The three Elizabeth line ticket offices...
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7 months ago
20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in May 2024 1) The three Elizabeth line ticket offices which sold the fewest tickets in 2023 were Acton Main Line (2736), Hanwell (3375) and Maryland (4037). That's about 10 tickets per day. 2) The installation of new brighter lighting...
History Today Feed
The First Anglo-Burmese War The First Anglo-Burmese War JamesHoare Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
A small freedom area...
Improving color quantization heuristics In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was improved in FFmpeg in order...
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over a year ago
In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was improved in FFmpeg in order to make nice animated GIF files. For some reason, to this day this is one of my most popular article. As time passed, my experience with colors grew and I ended up being...
Laetitia@Work
Navigating Change: The Midlife Journey Laetitia@Work #76
a month ago
TheCollector
5 Ancient Roman Monuments & How They Survived to the Modern Day undefined
3 days ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Why Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No, this is not my best comic, this is THE best...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No, this is not my best comic, this is THE best comic. Today's News: Thanks geeks of Austin for coming to see me!
Liz Denys
Cocoa brownies Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice Medrich's ingredient list is nearly flawless. (Okay, okay, I can never truly stick to a recipe as written. Here, I prefer a little more vanilla extract and like to put a pinch of flaky...
journal – Winnie Lim
random scenes from busan I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the archive from my korea trip a couple months ago. It is an...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Soothe the Soul and Nurture the Imagination' “Among the lessons we’ve learned during these past few difficult years of pandemic, climate crisis...
a year ago
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a year ago
“Among the lessons we’ve learned during these past few difficult years of pandemic, climate crisis and political discord is that beauty and nature matter more than ever, and that if our homes are to be sanctuaries from an often harsh outside world, then we should fill them with...
Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
Rest of World -...
In Indonesia, social media is a “hunting ground” for religious minorities Conservative Muslim influencers spread hate speech to their millions of followers on TikTok and...
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5 months ago
Conservative Muslim influencers spread hate speech to their millions of followers on TikTok and YouTube, with little pushback from authorities or platforms.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Git-Centric Workflow _Published on [the Netlify...
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over a year ago
_Published on [the Netlify Blog](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/09/26/git-centric-workflow-the-one-api-to-rule-them-all/)_
Seth's Blog
A protest or a project? Protests let off steam. They organize people who might not show up by creating a moment in time...
a year ago
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a year ago
Protests let off steam. They organize people who might not show up by creating a moment in time where there’s enough opportunity and social pressure that they participate. A protest sends a message. But almost every time, the very things that made a protest appealing mean that it...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Half-Buried Sense for Poetry' It’s easy to mistake geniality for prevarication. So rare a quality seems suspicious or...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
It’s easy to mistake geniality for prevarication. So rare a quality seems suspicious or naively unprofessional, a mask worn to conceal the shark within, especially among literary types. Of course, critics are born to be severe, nobody’s pal. How many critics can you name whose...
mtlynch.io
My Second Year as a Solo Developer Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I posted an update about my finances, happiness, and lessons learned. Today marks the end of my second year, so it’s time for another update. How I made and spent money Metric 2018...
symmetry magazine
Listening to the radio on the far side of the moon LuSEE-Night will demonstrate whether an experiment to search for ancient radio signals can survive...
a year ago
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a year ago
LuSEE-Night will demonstrate whether an experiment to search for ancient radio signals can survive the moon’s unforgiving environment.
Maps Mania
Mapping Tree Shadows
a year ago
axio.ms
32-bit hat, with LEDs Built in November 2015 (now-traditional multi-year writeup delay applied) A hat,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Built in November 2015 (now-traditional multi-year writeup delay applied) A hat, bejewelled with 38 RGB LEDs Is this thing on..? It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these. So, the hat. It’s been on the writeup pile for almost 6 years, nagging away. Finally...
Notes on software...
Writing a web server from scratch: 1. HTTP and sockets Say we have some HTML: <html> <body> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </body> </html> And say we'd...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Say we have some HTML: <html> <body> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </body> </html> And say we'd like to be able to render this page in a web browser. If the server is hosted locally we may want to enter localhost:9000/hello-world.html in the address bar, hit enter, make a...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Fabiola Knowles Originally from Sicily, I grew up in Australia; however, having settled in the UK in 1996, it has...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Originally from Sicily, I grew up in Australia; however, having settled in the UK in 1996, it has been my home for the largest part of my life. I love the outdoors and I am drawn to open landscapes with big skies. I am an artist working mainly with various forms of printmaking. I...
Stoic Simple
Stoicism Simplified: an Easy Overview of What Stoics Believe by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism...
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by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism (referenced in the diagram above), and I wanted to use this opportunity to go over each of these in a little more detail. Hopefully you’ll get an understanding of what they mean,...
Posts on Made of...
Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash Suppose we have a large collection of documents, and we wish you identify which documents are...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Suppose we have a large collection of documents, and we wish you identify which documents are approximately the same as each other. For instance, we may have crawled the web over some period of time, and expect to have fetched the “same page” several times, but to see slight...
Copper • A blog...
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise. I had to get my...
Londonist
Celebrate The Bicentenary Of This Great Gothic Revival Architect G E Street tours, talks and more.
9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
Maps Mania
Reconstructing a Plane Crash
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Looking to optimise your webpack config? Understanding the difference between style-loader and mini-css-extract-plugin can help you speed up your page loads.
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If you’ve always known something, it can be difficult to see how weird it is. New Yorkers walk through construction sites all the time, intentionally so on the part of the builders and with the blessing of the Department of Buildings. It looks something like this: Like so many of...
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Danglegeek (2) How fast? 2012 it was a two-speed service, offering 5 minute crossings before 10am and after 5pm on weekdays and 10 minute crossings at other times. In 2015 they also introduced slower 'night flights' after 7pm, this time taking 12-13 minutes, as a further nod that...
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"I'm on the edge of revolt" I've been both a supporter and I believe friend to Google and its senior management through all...
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I've been both a supporter and I believe friend to Google and its senior management through all these years, but I must say I'm on the edge of revolt now that Google's actions are so punitive, not just for Expedia, but also for IAC and all the players that depend upon something...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We need an arc of History that smashes BOOM right into Justice. Today's News:
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“Part of the drama of reading Boswell’s Life for the first time is that one can never (however much classical or Christian erudition one brings to the task) predict confidently how Johnson is going to respond to this or that specific question; yet of course by the end one...
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Daily Journal, Apple, Costco, Moody's, Munger's wisdom, Tesla's narratives, Tim Urban on writing, Rivian, AI's morality, AI bubble?, How James Longstreet defied the South after the war
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The Arduino UNO is legendary among makers, and with the release of the UNO R4 in 2023, the family gained a powerful new member. But with two incredible options, which UNO should you pick for your project? Here’s a breakdown of what makes each board shine, depending on your needs,...
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How to Wake Up Early An understanding of sleep, and attempts to wake up early (Read Part Two, and Part Three) My...
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An understanding of sleep, and attempts to wake up early (Read Part Two, and Part Three) My understanding of sleep has evolved. When I was born, I spent most of my time asleep (if I recall correctly…) and gradually spent less and less time sleeping, until I was down to about...
IEEE Spectrum
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Every invention begins with a problem—and the creative act of seeing a problem where others might just see unchangeable reality. For one 5-year-old, the problem was simple: She liked to have her tummy rubbed as she fell asleep. But her mom, exhausted from working two jobs, often...
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London's shortest On the shortest day of the year, a shortlist of London's shortests • London's shortest suburbs are...
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On the shortest day of the year, a shortlist of London's shortests • London's shortest suburbs are Bow, Ham, Kew and Lee. (118m) 823m long at Kenley Airfield. 1508m long at City Airport. • London's shortest canal tunnel is Eyre's Tunnel which bores 48m under Lisson...
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The stench of the system: conspiracy Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass...
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Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass murder, lies, hypocrisy and repression.
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The Strange Case of the Danish Aarhus Mafia Why are so many CS pioneers from Denmark?
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Stat Significant
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Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side...
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Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I'm writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
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Constructing the Pattern on the Sala de la Barca Ceiling I was flipping through Owen Jones’s Grammar of Ornament a couple months ago, and my eye was caught...
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I was flipping through Owen Jones’s Grammar of Ornament a couple months ago, and my eye was caught by this handsome pattern I had not noticed before. This is Jones’s Plate XLII, in the chapter on designs from the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. He calls it, “Part of the ceiling of...
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To all the newspapers I loved The decline and fall of the print media.
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TheCollector
Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible? undefined
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A ride down the Marston Vale line (where a train journey currently costs just £1, for reasons explained yesterday) Bedford Platform 1a beside the car park, chugging away noisily and hourly. Nearby: The town centre was fairly buzzy on Saturday, helped by umpteen outdoor market...
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Becoming intentional about virtual meetings A manual I recently read listed the “cons” of having a meeting virtually: To be accurate, every one...
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A manual I recently read listed the “cons” of having a meeting virtually: To be accurate, every one of these points should have “so far” added. The videogame market is far bigger than the box office of Hollywood films. The people who play video games at home for hours at a time...
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Neutrality and experimental detective work One of the remarkable aspects of condensed matter physics is the idea of emergent quasiparticles,...
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One of the remarkable aspects of condensed matter physics is the idea of emergent quasiparticles, where through the interactions of many underlying degrees of freedom, new excitations emerge that are long-lived and often can propagate around in ways very different than their...
Steve Blank
A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale An edited version of this article previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy...
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An edited version of this article previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank website. I spent last week at a global Fortune 50 company offsite watching them grapple with disruption. This 100+-year-old company has seven major product divisions, each...
Paul Graham: Essays
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Quanta Magazine
Cellular Self-Destruction May Be Ancient. But Why? How did cells evolve a process to end their own lives? Recent research suggests that apoptosis, a...
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How did cells evolve a process to end their own lives? Recent research suggests that apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, first arose billions of years ago in bacteria with a primitive sociality. The post Cellular Self-Destruction May Be Ancient. But Why? first...
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Jaguar is lost but Volvo knows the way Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as...
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Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as the diversity pandering is dated. CREATE EXUBERANT. LIVE VIVID. DELETE ORDINARY. You'd think these were slogans from a Will Ferrel bit about insufferable marketing trons, but nope,...
TheCollector
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. On...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. On July 5th, 1852 (168 years ago today) Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to 500–600 people in the Corinthian Hall of Rochester, New York. The speech, preceded by a reading of the...
Anecdotal Evidence
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Turnstile One (1948) is a slender anthology of poems, stories, essays and reviews edited by V.S Pritchett and drawn from The New Statesman and Nation. Founded in 1913 by the Webbs and others associated with the Fabian Society, the magazine’s politics were  left-wing and many of...
Castles in the Sky
To go and lay down in that sense of it. Castles in the Sky #45
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My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a...
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My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
DYNOMIGHT
Links for January (1) Jimmy Carter rabbit incident On April 20, 1979, President Carter was on vacation fishing in a...
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(1) Jimmy Carter rabbit incident On April 20, 1979, President Carter was on vacation fishing in a pond in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. After returning to DC, he mentioned to some White House staffers that a large rabbit had swum towards him “hissing menacingly” and he’d had...
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Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 has been released! This is a pretty slow...
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I'm happy to announce that Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 has been released! This is a pretty slow moving project but the last (and only) release was in 2018 so this release is long overdue. Guile-syntax-highlight is a general-purpose syntax highlighting library for GNU Guile. It...
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The LD Seating showroom renovation aimed to transform the space into a modern and visually captivating environment tailored for presenting...
Londonist
London Hotel Rooms With A Serious View Penthouse suites, balconies, and the city spread at your feet.
a year ago
Quantum Frontiers
To thermalize, or not to thermalize, that is the question. If Hamlet had been a system of noncommuting charges, his famous soliloquy may have gone like this…...
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If Hamlet had been a system of noncommuting charges, his famous soliloquy may have gone like this… To thermalize, or not to thermalize, that is the question:Whether ’tis more natural for the system to sufferThe large entanglement of thermalizing dynamics,Or … Continue reading →
ribbonfarm
History is More Like Science Fiction Than Fantasy I’ve been slow-reading Bettany Hughes’ Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities for months now, ever since I...
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I’ve been slow-reading Bettany Hughes’ Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities for months now, ever since I visited the city (on Kindle, so I didn’t realize when I started that it’s 600 pages plus another 250 odd notes). It’s dense and absorbing and I’ll probably do a reflections post...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics...
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Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.
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How rollup-plugin-svelte Works Svelte is often thought of as a compiler. But really it is a compiler within a bundler.
over a year ago
Style over Substance
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How I modified an Instax Wide instant camera to mount a Mamiya Press medium format lens The post Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod appeared first on Style over Substance.
Open Culture
How Olivetti Designed the First Personal Computer in History, the Programma 101 (1965) If you were to come across an Olivetti Programma 101, you probably wouldn’t recognize it as a...
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If you were to come across an Olivetti Programma 101, you probably wouldn’t recognize it as a computer. With its 36 keys and its paper-strip printer, it might strike you as some kind of oversized adding machine, albeit an unusually handsome one. But then, you’d expect that...
Arduino Blog
Reimagining the chicken coop with predator detection, Wi-Fi control, and more The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a...
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The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a nesting area, an egg-retrieval panel, and a way to provide food and water as needed. Realizing that some aspects of raising chickens are too labor-intensive, the Coders Cafe crew decided...
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Building an all-remote company from scratch Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started...
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Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started this way from scratch? PostHog has a team of 1…
Farza's Newsletter
me and satoru iwata were chilling at target and bought some beef jerky I’ve been having a ton of fun lately with ZipSchool. We’re evolving fast in terms of our...
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I’ve been having a ton of fun lately with ZipSchool. We’re evolving fast in terms of our understanding of the product, problem, user. We’re following the data and have numbers we can point to when making a majority of our decisions. We’re focusing on growth.
The Universe of...
My reply to the people who want to designate my neighborhood a "historic district" Last week I received a widely circulated email that began: With tall apartment buildings being...
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Last week I received a widely circulated email that began: With tall apartment buildings being erected all around, we feel it is ever more important to preserve our community. I sent this reply. I have been a Spruce Hill homeowner for 16 years. I had to miss the June 26...
Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
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If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
xkcd.com
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High Signal
Living the digital nomad dream in Bangkok Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle...
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Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle at a fraction of the price back in the US. I chatted to him about growing his DropInBlog business into a SaaS success story. Why did you become a founder? My brain doesn&
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The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them...
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Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them and pressing play when ready to view…
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We ship whenever PostHog ships every two weeks, unless it makes more sense not to. Why? Iterating frequently helps...
over a year ago
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PostHog ships every two weeks, unless it makes more sense not to. Why? Iterating frequently helps improve our product. We get features in users’ hands…
Josh Thompson
Continuous Glucose Monitors: Why & What This is a story and explanation about why I sometimes wear a glucose monitor. It’s visible on the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This is a story and explanation about why I sometimes wear a glucose monitor. It’s visible on the rear of my upper arm, usually sparks a question or two, I’ve usually stumbled through a response, now I can simply pass this page along to anyone who asks. Since maybe 2018, every...
computers are bad
2024-01-21 multi-channel audio part 1 Stereophonic or two-channel audio is so ubiquitous today that we tend to refer to all kinds of...
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Stereophonic or two-channel audio is so ubiquitous today that we tend to refer to all kinds of pieces of consumer audio reproduction equipment as "a stereo." As you might imagine, this is a relatively modern phenomenon. While stereo audio in concept dates to the late 19th...
bt RSS Feed
Improving Receipt UX Improving Receipt UX 2019-05-15 There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago...
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Improving Receipt UX 2019-05-15 There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago about rethinking the standard receipt design that I found quite compelling. Although, as good as the concept is, I think it can be improved (simplified) even further. What was the...
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Recruiting programmers to your startup Here are some things I’ve learned over the years about recruiting programmers* to startups. This is...
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Here are some things I’ve learned over the years about recruiting programmers* to startups. This is a big topic: many of the points I make…
Data Boutique
Expensive Data and Cannibalism Or.. Why some data products are priced so high
a year ago
diamond geezer
Vine Street VINE STREET £200   London's Monopoly Streets VINE STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price:...
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VINE STREET £200   London's Monopoly Streets VINE STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price: £200 Rent: £16 Length: 40m Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1 In this year-long feature my aim has been to write just over 1000 words about each of the properties on the Monopoly...
Londonist
Dazzling Light Festivals To See In London: Winter 2023 Light tunnels, fire gardens and lasers.
a year ago
Inverted Passion
Notes from the book “Decoding the Why” Finished (well, skimmed) the book “Decoding the Why: How Behavioral Science is Driving the Next...
a year ago
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Finished (well, skimmed) the book “Decoding the Why: How Behavioral Science is Driving the Next Generation of Product Design”. It’s a decent introductory book if you have not delved into behavioral science before, but if you have, most of the ideas in the book won’t come across...
Quantum Frontiers
The power of awe Mid-afternoon, one Saturday late in September, I forgot where I was. I forgot that I was visiting...
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Mid-afternoon, one Saturday late in September, I forgot where I was. I forgot that I was visiting Seattle for the second time; I forgot that I’d just finished co-organizing a workshop partially about nuclear physics for the first time. I’d … Continue reading →
History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review ‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review JamesHoare Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
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Blog - Practical...
The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Wallis Annenberg...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing under construction over the 101 just outside Los Angeles, California. When it’s finished in a few years, it will be the largest wildlife crossing (*of its kind) on...
TheCollector
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This Space
39 Books: 2010 This series has sailed into the doldrum years. Reading has become less of a headlong existential...
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This series has sailed into the doldrum years. Reading has become less of a headlong existential adventure than something one does, a pastime, a hobby, something you tell a quiz show presenter how you relax: "I like to read, Brad." By this time I had given up reviewing...
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How To Deploy a Django App to Render.com Messing around learning Django and deploying
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Predicting Outcome in Severe Brain Injury One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical...
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One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical medical condition and have to make life-or-death medical decisions for them. I have been in this situation many times as the consulting neurologist, and I have seen how weighty this...
Retail Design Blog
Freeths LLP office by Denton A New Beginning for Freeths LLP Leeds Freeths LLP, a leading legal firm, found its Leeds office...
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A New Beginning for Freeths LLP Leeds Freeths LLP, a leading legal firm, found its Leeds office bursting at the...
Seth's Blog
Late-stage technocrats Water flows downhill, and tech solves the easy problems first. After the launch of Amazon and...
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Water flows downhill, and tech solves the easy problems first. After the launch of Amazon and Google, when smartphones reached critical mass, an easy problem to solve involved bridging information with stuff. So you could use your phone to summon a car, a case of beer, a dog...
Last Place Comics
Spin the Bottle The post Spin the Bottle appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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Blog -...
Book Review - Owning Your Own Shadow The shadow of the human psyche cannot be overlooked in a thorough exploration of personal...
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The shadow of the human psyche cannot be overlooked in a thorough exploration of personal development. According to the classic resource Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche, “The shadow is that which has not entered adequately into...
ntietz.com blog
It's easier to code review Rust than Python On Monday, I was talking to a friend about programming and I mentioned that I prefer to review Rust...
a year ago
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On Monday, I was talking to a friend about programming and I mentioned that I prefer to review Rust code over Python code. He asked why, and I had some rambling answer, but I had to take some time to think about it. It boils down to the fact that I can give a much better review...
TheCollector
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The personal website...
Agile & anxiety Managing anxiety is a big part of my life. I have generalized anxiety:1 I constantly feel that...
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Managing anxiety is a big part of my life. I have generalized anxiety:1 I constantly feel that something will go wrong at any moment. Often, I can’t even identify what I’m anxious about. Work is a significant contributor to my anxiety. When I’m at work (and often when I’m not), I...
Seth's Blog
The near future (and summer reads) Near-future science fiction is a fine way to consider our now. Without the reality of today, we can...
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Near-future science fiction is a fine way to consider our now. Without the reality of today, we can think hard about the tomorrow we’re about to live in. Summer reads are supposed to be a bit lighter. Technological change is making our near future a bit harder to dance with, and...
Old Structures...
Land Engineering This map shows the proposed street layout in Manhattan from the original northern boundary at 155th...
a year ago
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a year ago
This map shows the proposed street layout in Manhattan from the original northern boundary at 155th Street (on the left, where the blocks are shown as featureless white rectangles) to the northern tip of the island (on the right). I mentioned two days ago that the street layout...
Seth's Blog
Nice bike A well-designed bicycle is efficient, inexpensive and delightful. If you use your bike on the right...
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A well-designed bicycle is efficient, inexpensive and delightful. If you use your bike on the right paths, with appropriate goals, it can deliver exactly what you need, while also allowing you to go at your own pace, see what’s going on around you and feel grounded. Until, of...
Maps Mania
Visit Barcelona Without Going Abroad
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The Rational Walk
The Dividend Signal Mature technology companies are establishing regular quarterly dividends. Is this a positive or...
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Mature technology companies are establishing regular quarterly dividends. Is this a positive or negative development for shareholders?
Blog - Practical...
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4 This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's...
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This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
Joel on Software
Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team,...
over a year ago
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New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team, company, or organization. Read more "Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams"
99% Invisible
Orange Alternative [EPISODE] In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across...
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In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across Russia. People started writing out the phrase “no war” using asterisks instead of the various letters in order to disguise the meaning of the message. Then back in September, a...
Quanta Magazine
Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent...
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The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent evolution, in which a critical fork in the creatures’ past determined their evolutionary futures. The post Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past...
mtlynch.io
Notes from PyTexas 2019 Overview This past weekend, PyTexas invited me to speak at their annual conference in Austin,...
over a year ago
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Overview This past weekend, PyTexas invited me to speak at their annual conference in Austin, Texas. It was a fun trip, and I learned a lot. It was also expensive, both financially and in terms of time. I’m taking these notes partly to share what I learned and partly to help me...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Research Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I have this fear that one day an all-powerful AI...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I have this fear that one day an all-powerful AI will be able to examine a statement you made and determine precisely where you got the information and it will be the most shame-filled moment of your life. Today's News: Very sweet...
Handprinted - Blog
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Hello, I’m Rachael and I am a printmaker based in Bath, UK. I generally work with linocut and mainly print in monochrome or bright primary colours. My work celebrates family life, nature and the local area. Describe your printmaking process. I normally sketch out a composition...
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Dreams are fine. And dreams involve contradictions. We want this AND that, but both can’t happen. That’s what keeps them from being plans. Plans embrace boundaries and reality, they don’t ignore them. Plans thrive on scarcity and constraints. Plans are open for inspection, and a...
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This post features a few random shots from the iPhone. Some are from my very old iPhone 5s, that recently died. And some are from the refurbished iPhone 8 that replaced it. As a photographer, I don't buy into the concept that phone cameras will ever totally replace 'real'...
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I seem to have accidentally come up with a method for duplicating a centuries-old terrain representation technique. If you’ve looked at old maps, you’ve probably seen hachures: lines that run up and down along the slope of terrain features. There were a wide variety of approaches...
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While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m really not much of a 3D cartographer. I make oblique-view maps only rarely, and when I do, it’s usually in a simplified, abstract style, rather than the detailed, naturalistic...
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V8 is, I'm sure, the most used implementation of JavaScript today. Used in Chrome, (and by extension) Microsoft Edge, Node.js, etc. Safari's JavaScriptCore and Firefox's SpiderMonkey are also contenders for extremely mainstream implementations. But what else is out there? What if...
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But we hesitate to be the connector. Everyone wants to be trusted, but we hesitate to trust. And everyone wants to be respected, but we often fail to offer our respect. What an opportunity.
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Did UFO reporting increase during the pandemic? A group of researchers set out to answer that question, and recently published their results. Their hypothesis was two-fold, including the notion that people had more free time during the shutdown and perhaps spent more time out...
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This is a first pass at trying to do something interesting (repeatedly) with the same base primative, in this case, a “polyline”. Read the rest of this post, understand what we’re going for, then go to part 2: get your own polyline from strava. It’s not trivial to get, but its...
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Look Ma! No hands! just watching a system PXE-boot and install itself into a fully operational system is fun. PXE boot and preseeding is not enough however to accomplish this. By itself, preseeding only installs a basic operating system. Next, you need to configure all sorts of...
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The recent excitement about the alleged high temperature superconductor "LK99" has introduced some in the public to the idea of a metal-insulator or insulator-metal transition (MIT/IMT).  For example, one strong candidate explanation for the sharp drop in resistance as a function...
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023 No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they make. This gives the path a lovely human fit. But sometimes you want to do the opposite. You want to design ways to get people to take a longer path, a longcut, so they can see or...
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Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance, has has to pay multiple fines. Western Union was famously busted in 2017. Meanwhile, Cash App is being probed as we speak for inadequate anti-money laundering controls. In the...
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“Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you,” says the Skin Horse — a stuffed toy brought to life by a child’s love — in The Velveteen Rabbit. Great children’s books are works of philosophy in disguise; this is a fundamental question: In a reality of matter,...
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“All of us, probably, have some favorite unfashionable author. Occasionally a minority taste can be powerful enough to make for some isolated masterpiece a small niche in literary history -- Henry Green’s Loving and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Mr. Fortune's Maggot have both...
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Kétévi Assamagan's contributions to physics go beyond his research at the Large Hadron Collider. Kétévi Assamagan first became interested in physics in high school—because he had to be. His school in Togo, in West Africa, required students to declare a major....
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Disclosure: Waterfield sent this in exchange for a review. Yeah, that probably colors something on a deep-down, subconscious level, but I won’t say anything that I don’t truly believe. Unlike a phone or laptop, the Vision Pro is one of those products that is particularly tricky...
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This is a quick introduction to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The post Ludwig Wittgenstein – How we speak appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
This Space
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Even before one begins reading Sam Riviere’s first novel there is despondency as one registers that the title is a duplication of the English translation of Nikolai Gogol’s Мёртвые души, the novel in which a character seeks to buy dead serfs from their owners but who have yet to...
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dg 2023 index Beyond London Nottingham: Not just Robin Hood and cricket, but also caves, Boots and a complete traverse of the tram network [photos] West Midlands Metro: A day of faffing about on the trams, especially the latest extensions Cheltenham and Gloucester: Spas, racing...
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I’m not entirely sure what this proposed law would mean in practice: existing data at the Department of Buildings will be examined to identify which buildings are considered to be high risk, and the usual DoB actions – violations, etc. – will start from there. It all depends on...
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The software engineering rule of 3 Here's a dumb extremely accurate rule I'm postulating* for software engineering projects: *you need...
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Here's a dumb extremely accurate rule I'm postulating* for software engineering projects: *you need at least 3 examples before you solve the right problem*. This is what I've noticed: Don't factor out shared code between two classes.
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At first, this stop sign sign makes a lot of sense: Lives are at stake. Break the rhythm, turn something ignored into something noticed. The challenge with “highlighting” is that it fades. When everything is in all caps, nothing is. Exclamation points are like salt. When people...
The Rational Walk
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bunnie's blog
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This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Jessie de Salis I am Jessie de Salis. I run a screen printing textile business with my cousin, Alice. We print...
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I am Jessie de Salis. I run a screen printing textile business with my cousin, Alice. We print colourful patterned fabrics from a Somerset barn, a space we share with the sparrows and house-martins. What inspires you? I love bold and bright design. I always seem to come back to...
TheCollector
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Daniel Miessler
Stadia is Google’s Product Strategy Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it...
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over a year ago
Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it came out: Here’s what I said about it in 2021. And here’s my analysis of why this keeps happening: How I Knew Stadia Would Fail The overall reason for this is UI/UX in my opinion,...
Steven Scrawls
Word Rot Word Rot Unless you are extraordinarily unfortunate, every problem you ever face will have been...
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Word Rot Unless you are extraordinarily unfortunate, every problem you ever face will have been faced in some form by someone who came before you. That person may have already shared the story of that challenge, and that story might have melded with other tales to form collective...
Alex Meub
Windows 98 Icons are Great In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons...
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In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons from Windows 98 just look amazing. Why are they so good? Rather than some designer’s flashy vision of the future, Windows 98 icons made the operating system feel like a place to get...
Birchtree
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AI might help the middle class, Americans can afford food, narratives about science, Europe's defense industry, and Native American YIMBYism
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on Framework Churn I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they...
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I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they save time. They help you build things faster. Yes, there are costs associated with frameworks later on, especially as new versions come out and your app instantly feels like...
Max Rozen
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Monoidal Monoidoidoids So I was on the nlab the other day, and I saw a fantastic joke: A 2-category is “just” a monoidal...
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So I was on the nlab the other day, and I saw a fantastic joke: A 2-category is “just” a monoidal monoidoidoid! Here’s a screenshot in case the nlab page for 2-categories changes someday: There’s a thing called the Category Theorist’s “Just”, which describes the joy that many...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are...
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over a year ago
photo by Tools for motivation There is a disconnect between product design and product engineering. Three factors contribute to this disconnect: Products get shipped faster every day. DevOps teams automate huge amounts of the delivery process, enabling engineering teams to ship...
NeuroLogica Blog
Scammers on the Rise Good rule of thumb – assume it’s a scam. Anyone who contacts you, or any unusual encounter, assume...
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Good rule of thumb – assume it’s a scam. Anyone who contacts you, or any unusual encounter, assume it’s a scam and you will probably be right. Recently I was called on my cell phone by someone claiming to be from Venmo. They asked me to confirm if I had just made two fund...
NeuroLogica Blog
Reconductoring our Electrical Grid Over the weekend when I was in Dallas for the eclipse, I ran into a local businessman who works in...
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Over the weekend when I was in Dallas for the eclipse, I ran into a local businessman who works in the energy sector, mainly involved in new solar projects. This is not surprising as Texas is second only to California in solar installation. I asked him if he is experiencing a...
The Ruffian
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Citation Needed
Issue 67 – Bug out bitcoin Crypto resurfaces on the campaign trail and the FTX fallout continues to unfold. Also, merch!
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Brain Size Deep thought is what distinguishes humans from other animals. The brain is the medium for thought;...
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Deep thought is what distinguishes humans from other animals. The brain is the medium for thought; so, there's the idea that brain size is important, with larger brains allowing more profound thought. Larger brains in hominids appears to have an evolutionary advantage, but the...
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Want to understand how PostHog and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) are different? Here's the short answer: Google Analytics is primarily designed for…
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Anti-aging tech fixes demographic collapse With the latest studies on GLP-1 drugs showing not just a drop in all-cause mortality but also an...
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With the latest studies on GLP-1 drugs showing not just a drop in all-cause mortality but also an apparent slowing of aging, I thought I’d write a quick note on how I think this technology, if it replicates, can drastically improve our lives. It’s hard to believe I’m writing...