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The Institute Behind Taiwan’s Chip Dominance TSMC (and most of Taiwan’s chip industry) spun out of one government research institute. How did...
16th Mar 2026
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The Institute Behind Taiwan’s Chip Dominance

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

16th Mar 2026
TSMC (and most of Taiwan’s chip industry) spun out of one government research institute. How did ITRI implement one of the most successful industrial policy programs of all time?
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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something...
4th Jul 2025
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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

4th Jul 2025
As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in the United States. Civil-military relations (typically shortened to ‘civ-mil’ or...
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Forecasting - Metaculus Q4 2024 Retrospective
13th Jan 2025
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Forecasting - Metaculus Q4 2024 Retrospective

from Niklas Oberhuber’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Jan 2025
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Setting Up Jekyll on Windows Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I've recently been playing around with using Windows...
2nd Sep 2022
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Setting Up Jekyll on Windows

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2022
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I've recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as my daily operating system. So far, it has been going fairly well. Nothing will probably ever feel as "optimized" as running a Linux-based system but it works well for my...
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Where’s the magic? I got asked once my favourite person from history in a job interview. I said Isaac Newton. An old...
11th Jan 2024
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Where’s the magic?

from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life

11th Jan 2024
I got asked once my favourite person from history in a job interview. I said Isaac Newton. An old cricket coach told me about the laws of motion. And I never forgot. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. It helped fix my right arm leg spin. I later
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you will blame the wrong people Billionaires, am I right? Immigrants, am I right? It’s going to be so painful to...
1st Sep 2025
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you will blame the wrong people

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2025
Billionaires, am I right? Immigrants, am I right? It’s going to be so painful to watch. Billionaires will go away. Immigrants will go away. The problems will continue to get worse. The problem is the unproductive. The rich unproductive and the poor unproductive. The finance...
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Mar ’26: Iran clobbers markets In March the rain stopped. We started March with North London already having seen 2x its usual...
12th Apr 2026
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Mar ’26: Iran clobbers markets

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

12th Apr 2026
In March the rain stopped. We started March with North London already having seen 2x its usual rainfall for this point in the year. And thankfully in the middle of March, it stopped. As I write this I have actually needed to start watering the garden, something that felt a very...
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Analyzing Token Sale Models
9th Jun 2017
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Analyzing Token Sale Models

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jun 2017
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Some thoughts on incumbents Reposted from Oct 7, 2010 from cdixon.posterous.com By “incumbents” I mean the big companies that...
7th Oct 2010
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Some thoughts on incumbents

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Oct 2010
Reposted from Oct 7, 2010 from cdixon.posterous.com By “incumbents” I mean the big companies that are loosely competitive to your startup…
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Mommy bloggers react After a write-up in the New York Times, Mommy Bloggers had two options. Either lean in, or step...
22nd Sep 2026
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Mommy bloggers react

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Sep 2026
After a write-up in the New York Times, Mommy Bloggers had two options. Either lean in, or step back. Given how popular it became after that, it's not hard to guess which option they chose. The post Mommy bloggers react appeared first on The History of the Web.
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This Is TASTE 832: Pim Techamuanvivit’s First Restaurant Job Was Opening a Now Legendary Restaurant Pim Techamuanvivit left a career in Silicon Valley to become one of the most important Thai chefs...
4th Sep 2026
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This Is TASTE 832: Pim Techamuanvivit’s First Restaurant Job Was Opening a Now Legendary Restaurant

from TASTE [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Sep 2026
Pim Techamuanvivit left a career in Silicon Valley to become one of the most important Thai chefs working today. The post This Is TASTE 832: Pim Techamuanvivit’s First Restaurant Job Was Opening a Now Legendary Restaurant appeared first on TASTE.
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The day I killed my LAN I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
30th Jul 2017
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The day I killed my LAN

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Jul 2017
I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
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Event, Feb 29: “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” in Boston and on Zoom On Thursday, February 29, I’ll be giving my talk “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” to the New...
21st Feb 2024
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Event, Feb 29: “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” in Boston and on Zoom

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

21st Feb 2024
On Thursday, February 29, I’ll be giving my talk “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” to the New England Legal Foundation, for their Economic Liberty Speaker Series. The talk will be held over breakfast at NELF’s offices in Boston, and will also be livestreamed over Zoom. See...
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Adding auto-generated cover images to EPUBs downloaded from AO3 I was chatting with a friend recently, and she mentioned an annoyance when reading fanfiction on her...
1st Feb 2025
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Adding auto-generated cover images to EPUBs downloaded from AO3

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2025
I was chatting with a friend recently, and she mentioned an annoyance when reading fanfiction on her iPad. She downloads fic from AO3 as EPUB files, and reads it in the Kindle app – but the files don’t have a cover image, and so the preview thumbnails aren’t very readable: ...
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Kidz Fun Art – Tablet app for kids I’ve built a fun new app for young kids, called Kidz Fun Art. Get it at https://kidzfun.art. I’m a...
14th Sep 2022
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Kidz Fun Art – Tablet app for kids

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Sep 2022
I’ve built a fun new app for young kids, called Kidz Fun Art. Get it at https://kidzfun.art. I’m a software engineer, but far more importantly I’m the happy dad of two amazing girls, currently 4 and 6 years old. They love to draw, colour in pictures and tell stories, and when I...
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Being a good mentor – a developers guide Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and...
8th Jul 2023
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Being a good mentor – a developers guide

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2023
Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and illuminate the path ahead. I’ve […] The post Being a good mentor – a developers guide appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts...
11th Feb 2024
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Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Feb 2024
I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts as a way to keep two separate watch histories. I was watching videos about gender and trans stuff before I came out, and I didn’t want them appearing in my main account – say, when...
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Visionaries Have Democratised Remote Network Access - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops... Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive...
12th Nov 2024
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Visionaries Have Democratised Remote Network Access - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVE-2024-8068 and CVE-2024-8069)

from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Nov 2024
Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive Artifact Generator). This time, it’s in Citrix’s “Virtual Apps and Desktops” offering. This is a tech stack that enables end-users (and likely, your friendly neighbourhood...
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Lord Kelvin and His Analog Computer William Thomson, mourning the death of his wife and flush with cash from various patents related to...
2nd Jun 2024
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Lord Kelvin and His Analog Computer

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd Jun 2024
William Thomson, mourning the death of his wife and flush with cash from various patents related to the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, decided to buy a yacht. His schooner, the Lalla Rookh, became Thomson’s summer home and his base for hosting scientific...
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Go package for better guid generation The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is...
12th Feb 2015
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Go package for better guid generation

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2015
The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is popular but it can be done better. I wrote betterguid Go package that does it better. Unique id generated by this package: is a 20 character string, safe to include in urls (no need...
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Food Waste is Bad Actually How we frame the problem makes all the difference
7th Dec 2024
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Food Waste is Bad Actually

from Anarchy Unfolds [alt+shift+b] in creative

7th Dec 2024
How we frame the problem makes all the difference
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Compare to None How do we check if something is None? With the beauty of the Python language - the code that you...
23rd Feb 2023
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Compare to None

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Feb 2023
How do we check if something is None? With the beauty of the Python language - the code that you would write is literally the same as the above question: if something is None: It reminds me of this joke: - How do you turn pseudocode into Python? - You add .py at the end of the...
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How to stop feeling guilty about the unfinished work?
10th Mar 2014
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How to stop feeling guilty about the unfinished work?

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Mar 2014
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Postgres large JSON value query performance Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
1st Feb 2022
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Postgres large JSON value query performance

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2022
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
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Maybe it's time for lots of little indie AIs to take over “[T]here can be alternatives. What we can imagine is, rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of...
15th Jun 2026
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Maybe it's time for lots of little indie AIs to take over

from Anil Dash [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Jun 2026
“[T]here can be alternatives. What we can imagine is, rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of different little AIs from little responsible players.” That’s me, in The Guardian a few days ago, trying to distill a message that I’ve been trying to get out as broadly as possible for...
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What Is Reasoning A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight...
19th Aug 2026
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What Is Reasoning

from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Aug 2026
A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models. Together with online discussions about tricking models into leaking them, it made me investigate it more out of curiosity. Twitter seems full of half-truths and confusion...
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Rethinking work and HR for 100-year lives Laetitia@Work #86
9th Oct 2025
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Rethinking work and HR for 100-year lives

from Laetitia@Work [alt+shift+b] in life

9th Oct 2025
Laetitia@Work #86
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Making Generative Art I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he...
13th Jan 2024
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Making Generative Art

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jan 2024
I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he was, but more so with the work he was doing with generative art. I had never heard of generative art before, but I immediately fell in love with the concept of it. I like to draw,...
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Learning a new codebase: hacking on nginx I have never contributed to nginx. My C skills are 1/10. But downloading the source, hacking it up,...
4th Apr 2021
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Learning a new codebase: hacking on nginx

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Apr 2021
I have never contributed to nginx. My C skills are 1/10. But downloading the source, hacking it up, compiling it, and running it doesn't scare me. This post is to help you overcome your own fears about doing so. Not necessarily because you should be running out-of-tree diffs in...
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How to convince engineers that formal methods is cool Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also...
8th Oct 2024
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How to convince engineers that formal methods is cool

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Oct 2024
Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also short. Logic for Programmers v0.4 Now available! This version adds a chapter on TLA+, significantly expands the constraint solver chapter, and adds a "planner programming" section to...
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An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff The Summer 2026 Edition
23rd Jul 2026
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An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

23rd Jul 2026
The Summer 2026 Edition
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Braces Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by...
24th Jun 2024
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Braces

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jun 2024
Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by Dentist Chung (in Vietnamese I called him Bác Sĩ Chung – which means Dr Chung translated directly) and his sister running the office. The office was in Garden Grove, in between the...
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Innovation is not linear Many have argued that innovation develops in a simple linear fashion – from research to...
19th Oct 2020
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Innovation is not linear

from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science

19th Oct 2020
Many have argued that innovation develops in a simple linear fashion – from research to experimentation to engineering.
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Kagi status update: First three years Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to...
2nd Jun 2025
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Kagi status update: First three years

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2025
Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to which we are eternally grateful for helping put Kagi on the map).
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Objectivity is superstition An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our...
17th Mar 2025
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Objectivity is superstition

from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Mar 2025
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our subjective experiences correspond to an external reality. However, they may simply be subjective through and through. That which we claim to be evidence of external reality is actually...
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RWC 2016 Lightning Talk Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the Real World Crypto 2016 conference...
7th Jan 2016
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RWC 2016 Lightning Talk

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2016
Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the Real World Crypto 2016 conference in Stanford, CA. This is a pseudotranscript of that lightning talk. I'm Mahmoud Hashemi and I work as a Lead Developer at PayPal. I mostly focus on Python frameworks and software...
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Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation...
29th May 2024
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Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th May 2024
I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation system. Aerospace computers are an interesting but mostly neglected area of computer hardware, so I'm always delighted to examine one up close. In an era when most computers were large...
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
7th Sep 2020
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Sep 2020
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
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Gift interfaces, an interview, and how you found me Some updates on things that have happened and that are coming in the escape the algorithm cinematic...
14th Nov 2024
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Gift interfaces, an interview, and how you found me

from escape the algorithm [alt+shift+b] in creative

14th Nov 2024
Some updates on things that have happened and that are coming in the escape the algorithm cinematic universe:
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I'm Recommending 12 New YouTube Videos Let's support indie voices instead of Netflix
1st Feb 2026
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I'm Recommending 12 New YouTube Videos

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Feb 2026
Let's support indie voices instead of Netflix
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a new space over the years, I’ve used multiple services to host my website. from geocities, to the most recent...
19th Jan 2025
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a new space

from ramsés cabello [alt+shift+b] in design

19th Jan 2025
over the years, I’ve used multiple services to host my website. from geocities, to the most recent read.cv — which is getting sold to perplexity — ive enjoyed building, designing and planning my personal site. i moved to pika.page today and im excited to build a small space where...
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Mongrel Microbe Tests Story of Complex Life A newly discovered class of microbe could help to resolve one of the biggest and most controversial...
12th Nov 2015
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Mongrel Microbe Tests Story of Complex Life

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

12th Nov 2015
A newly discovered class of microbe could help to resolve one of the biggest and most controversial mysteries in evolution — how simple microbes transformed into the complex cells that produced animals, plants and fungi. The post Mongrel Microbe Tests Story of Complex...
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Unblogged June 30 unblogged things I did in June Sun 1: My Dad hasn't had any answerphone messages for three weeks...
1st Jul 2025
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Unblogged June

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

1st Jul 2025
30 unblogged things I did in June Sun 1: My Dad hasn't had any answerphone messages for three weeks since BT switched him to Digital Voice, the internet-based phone connection. We tried to work out why this might be, and were surprised/shocked to discover that as part of the...
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I won’t marry Jo to Laurie to please any one Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was...
1st Nov 2023
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I won’t marry Jo to Laurie to please any one

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Nov 2023
Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was originally published in the 1860s as two separate volumes, the first of which Louisa May Alcott completed in two months after being asked by her publisher to “write a girl’s book.” The...
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The 27 tools I use to grow my online business People often ask me what tools I use to build and grow French Together so I thought I would put...
30th Oct 2022
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The 27 tools I use to grow my online business

from Grow With Less [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

30th Oct 2022
People often ask me what tools I use to build and grow French Together so I thought I would put together a list of my favorites. These are not necessarily the best and trendiest tools, some may even be considered old-fasshioned. But they are the tools that help me build and grow...
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Coffee in a Can Life’s inconveniences, when they happen to you and me, are just that. Inconveniences. When they...
10th Sep 2023
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Coffee in a Can

from One from Nippon [alt+shift+b] in travel

10th Sep 2023
Life’s inconveniences, when they happen to you and me, are just that. Inconveniences. When they happen to some people though they end up becoming multi-billion dollar businesses. This is the story of Japan’s canned coffee. One finds at least one vending machine in almost every...
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Continuos Glucose Monitors (part 2) About a year ago, I wrote this post about continuous glucose monitors, that’s sorta ‘part 1’ of...
12th Mar 2026
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Continuos Glucose Monitors (part 2)

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

12th Mar 2026
About a year ago, I wrote this post about continuous glucose monitors, that’s sorta ‘part 1’ of these two parts. Since then, and parallel to this most recent time with the sensor, I’ve encountered improvements to the ecosystem. The sensor technology is way better, as is the...
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If you build it, they won't come, unless… A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt...
11th Oct 2010
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If you build it, they won't come, unless…

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Oct 2010
A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt and cheese" isn't a recipe.
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Summary of changes for January 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
31st Jan 2026
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Summary of changes for January 2026

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

31st Jan 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Uxn, we released a new SDL2 emulator called uxn2 to replace the ol' uxnemu! Wiki, updated moisture prevention underliner, chainplates(with new photos and measurements), and...
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Nils Gilman: Deviant Globalization ### The anti-state economy Gilman described deviant globalization as "the unpleasant underside of...
4th May 2010
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Nils Gilman: Deviant Globalization

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

4th May 2010
### The anti-state economy Gilman described deviant globalization as "the unpleasant underside of transnational integration." There's nice tourism, and then sex tourism, such as in Thailand and Switzerland. The vast pharmacology industry is matched by a vast traffic in illegal...
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Real estate is one of the hardest open problems in scaled self driving I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few...
3rd Sep 2024
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Real estate is one of the hardest open problems in scaled self driving

from Kevin Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2024
I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few months, I’ve flown a drone as part of a stakeout to understand how they work. And I’ve taken a deep dive into an apparent Waymo outage to find the company charging its electric vehicles...
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Recently Some meta-commentary on reading: I’ve been trying to read through my enormous queue of...
4th Oct 2025
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Recently

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Oct 2025
Some meta-commentary on reading: I’ve been trying to read through my enormous queue of articles saved on Instapaper. In general I love reading stuff from the internet but refuse to do it with a computer or a phone: I don’t want all my stuff to glow! So, this led me to an abortive...
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Referencing subscriber tags in your newsletter Use tags with templating to customize your emails!
12th Feb 2021
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Referencing subscriber tags in your newsletter

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2021
Use tags with templating to customize your emails!
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AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) NLP & AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) Part of the challenge of “AI” is...
30th Aug 2022
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AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs)

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Aug 2022
NLP & AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) Part of the challenge of “AI” is we keep raising the bar on what it means for something to be a machine intelligence. Early machine learning models have been quite successful in terms of real world impact. Large...
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Incentives as selection effects When you apply a new incentive, you select for a new population that prefers the incentive.
11th Jun 2024
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Incentives as selection effects

from sbensu [alt+shift+b] in literature

11th Jun 2024
When you apply a new incentive, you select for a new population that prefers the incentive.
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025 Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children...
2nd Jan 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2025
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children just won’t stop being sick for more than 4 days at a time. Win some, lose some.
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Selling Unicorn Platform for $800k I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder,...
16th Aug 2023
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Selling Unicorn Platform for $800k

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

16th Aug 2023
I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder, as I previously interviewed him about learning to code without a CS degree. Alex has stayed on at Mars, the company which has acquired him and unlike a lot of founders, will stay
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7 best free open source business intelligence tools right now Not everyone has money to dish out for an enterprise Tableau contract, and not everyone wants to...
9th Sep 2025
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7 best free open source business intelligence tools right now

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Sep 2025
Not everyone has money to dish out for an enterprise Tableau contract, and not everyone wants to send their data to Looker (Google) either. Free and…
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Should Congress be Allowed to Trade? Plus! Norms Trading; Point-of-Sale; Trade Trench Warfare; AI and Ads; Bluffing Your Way to Better...
1st May 2025
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Should Congress be Allowed to Trade?

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

1st May 2025
Plus! Norms Trading; Point-of-Sale; Trade Trench Warfare; AI and Ads; Bluffing Your Way to Better Management
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Seeing Like a Newsfeed Machine Learning Through Machine Poetry
5th Aug 2024
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Seeing Like a Newsfeed

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Aug 2024
Machine Learning Through Machine Poetry
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The Traveler and His Baggage On 19 May 1943, a news report from Berlin deepened the already dreary gloom that clung to the people...
3rd Jun 2021
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The Traveler and His Baggage

from Damn Interesting [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd Jun 2021
On 19 May 1943, a news report from Berlin deepened the already dreary gloom that clung to the people of Nazi-occupied Paris. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels proudly announced to the world that the German capital of Berlin was officially judenfrei–free of all Jews. As this...
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Sunken Cities Foundation Contributing an original map to GC’s newest Shelter: An Atlas was very appealing to me...
24th Aug 2021
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Sunken Cities

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

24th Aug 2021
Foundation Contributing an original map to GC’s newest Shelter: An Atlas was very appealing to me for a couple of reasons: One, as an independent map illustrator, it would give my work wide exposure. Two, it would put me in good company with other talented mapmakers. Suggestions...
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Backtrack-free cursive
12th Jul 2026
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Backtrack-free cursive

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jul 2026
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The Real Way to Make Agentic Development Faster (It Isn’t Tokenmaxxing) Dispelling the myth that more tokens = better productivity
7th May 2026
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The Real Way to Make Agentic Development Faster (It Isn’t Tokenmaxxing)

from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th May 2026
Dispelling the myth that more tokens = better productivity
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The Corporate Life Cycle: Managing, Valuation and Investing Implications! As I reveal my ignorance about TikTok trends, social media celebrities and Gen Z slang, my children...
20th Aug 2024
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The Corporate Life Cycle: Managing, Valuation and Investing Implications!

from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance

20th Aug 2024
As I reveal my ignorance about TikTok trends, social media celebrities and Gen Z slang, my children are quick to point out my age, and I accept that reality, for the most part. I understand that I am too old to exercise without stretching first or eat a heaping plate of cheese...
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COVID-19 FAQ A lot of people have been asking me questions about the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) outbreak, in my...
12th Mar 2020
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COVID-19 FAQ

from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

12th Mar 2020
A lot of people have been asking me questions about the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) outbreak, in my informal capacity as “local biodefense person”.
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July ’24: New UK government July has been quite a busy month. I’ve been getting about a bit. Some South Coast action, some...
5th Aug 2024
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July ’24: New UK government

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

5th Aug 2024
July has been quite a busy month. I’ve been getting about a bit. Some South Coast action, some Mediterranean fun, a trip up to Oxford, a visit to one of England’s great Cathedrals, and more. And July saw some fine times in London. Both outdoors and inside. And of course we had...
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Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling...
1st May 2023
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Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2023
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop 2023-05-01 I recently wrote about physically disabling the WiFi toggle switch on my X201 which was a fun “hack” to an annoying issue I was running into. Since then, the laptop has been running flawlessly. The only other minor issue I had...
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Profiling Rust programs the easy way Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just...
4th Dec 2023
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Profiling Rust programs the easy way

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2023
Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just gives you the control to eke out whatever performance you need. So if your program is still slow, how do you fix that? Profiling your program is one of the best options for figuring...
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Continued Fraction Streams
17th Aug 2016
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Continued Fraction Streams

from Jaz's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Aug 2016
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Memory Safety is a Red Herring
21st Dec 2023
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Memory Safety is a Red Herring

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Dec 2023
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370 | Daniel Akerib on a Faint Hint of Dark Matter One reason it's been so hard to directly detect the dark matter is that we're not sure what it is....
3 weeks ago
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370 | Daniel Akerib on a Faint Hint of Dark Matter

from Sean Carroll [alt+shift+b] in science

3 weeks ago
One reason it's been so hard to directly detect the dark matter is that we're not sure what it is. […]
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In defense of screen time My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding...
28th Oct 2024
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In defense of screen time

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

28th Oct 2024
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. The reason for these claims? My...
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Service Introduction: Forkwell One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending...
2nd May 2012
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Service Introduction: Forkwell

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd May 2012
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending out your resume to lots of companies and hoping for the best is clearly broken. Despite this, people all around the world, but especially in Japan, cling to it. So I got excited...
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Raspberry Pi powered fishtank My fishtank is now internet-connected. It is run by a Raspberry Pi that can do three things: Feed...
3rd Apr 2015
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Raspberry Pi powered fishtank

from Marian's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

3rd Apr 2015
My fishtank is now internet-connected. It is run by a Raspberry Pi that can do three things: Feed the fish, switch the lights and take pictures. To feed the fish, the Raspberry Pi sends commands to an automatic fishfeeder that I modified. It can empty any container in any order....
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Clean your Mac & Windows/Linux PC with Disk Space TLDR: Download the best disk cleanup app in existence from diskspace.io. A fun experiment in writing...
3rd Sep 2026
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Clean your Mac & Windows/Linux PC with Disk Space

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2026
TLDR: Download the best disk cleanup app in existence from diskspace.io. A fun experiment in writing the same app three times (well kind of 4 times) with AI, and being as optimised and OS native as possible. My Mac recently filled its 1TB drive and my quest to find out where the...
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The Story Of Mu -James Cordova
1st Feb 2017
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The Story Of Mu

from The Tao Of Wealth [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Feb 2017
-James Cordova
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How to build a PostHog integration with the provisioning API I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are...
6th Jul 2026
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How to build a PostHog integration with the provisioning API

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2026
I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are better versed in the subtle arts of soil, plants…
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Optimize for not breaking up with your co-founder Last week we had an offsite in the beautiful Portuguese countryside, an hour's bus journey from...
10th Sep 2021
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Optimize for not breaking up with your co-founder

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Sep 2021
Last week we had an offsite in the beautiful Portuguese countryside, an hour's bus journey from Porto. We uploaded a highlight reel of the retreat to…
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The United States Frequency Allocation Chart This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation’s...
6th Feb 2023
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The United States Frequency Allocation Chart

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

6th Feb 2023
This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation’s most crucial – and invisible – national assets: the radio spectrum.
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Gitignore Patterns: What to Ignore and Why Many devs adopt the git add . (yolo, just yeet it all into the commit) workflow. It is fast, simple,...
1st Apr 2026
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Gitignore Patterns: What to Ignore and Why

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2026
Many devs adopt the git add . (yolo, just yeet it all into the commit) workflow. It is fast, simple, and usually correct. But eventually you’ll have files in your repo directory that should never be committed: secrets, generated artifacts, dependency folders, and random local...
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Truths about digital accessibility Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind...
29th Jul 2019
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Truths about digital accessibility

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Jul 2019
Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind (note that identity-first language is intentional): Each screen reader behaves differently This is by design. Behavior is a balancing act between a screen reader’s features, the...
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The Start of Hurricane Season
2nd Jun 2025
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The Start of Hurricane Season

from Maps Mania [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2nd Jun 2025
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AI Doesn't Have ROI If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a...
2nd Jun 2026
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AI Doesn't Have ROI

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jun 2026
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and
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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in...
9th Jan 2024
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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jan 2024
Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in the cloud. See also more detailed information on Version 13.1, Version 13.2 and Version 13.3. Building Something Greater and Greater… for 35 Years and Counting Today we celebrate...
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Did Unions End Long Work Hours? Is it growth or organized labor that's more responsible for giving us shorter workdays?
4th Sep 2024
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Did Unions End Long Work Hours?

from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science

4th Sep 2024
Is it growth or organized labor that's more responsible for giving us shorter workdays?
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AAA gaming on Asahi Linux Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which...
10th Oct 2024
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AAA gaming on Asahi Linux

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2024
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0. Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®, OpenCL™, and...
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99 percent Utopia and money For full happiness is possible only in stagnation.
6th May 2026
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99 percent Utopia and money

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

6th May 2026
For full happiness is possible only in stagnation.
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In the Iran war, it looks like AI helped with operations, not strategy A hot take on how AI may have played out in the war so far
1st Apr 2026
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In the Iran war, it looks like AI helped with operations, not strategy

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Apr 2026
A hot take on how AI may have played out in the war so far
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A Dusting of Gamification I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe...
13th Apr 2018
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A Dusting of Gamification

from Joel on Software [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Apr 2018
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation. Read more "A Dusting of Gamification"
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Guerrillas in the Midst: Crowdsourcing Cartography When I think about what Guerrilla Cartography does, I think of building and creating something new...
26th Aug 2024
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Guerrillas in the Midst: Crowdsourcing Cartography

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

26th Aug 2024
When I think about what Guerrilla Cartography does, I think of building and creating something new from many different pieces, like a puzzle that only makes sense once it’s put together. But unlike a puzzle, there is no single correct way to put the pieces together, as they can...
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD Journal of African cities chapter 6
5th Mar 2023
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

5th Mar 2023
Journal of African cities chapter 6
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The Super Effectiveness of Pokémon Embeddings Using Only Raw JSON and Images Embeddings encourage engineers to go full YOLO because it’s actually rewarding to do so!
26th Jun 2024
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The Super Effectiveness of Pokémon Embeddings Using Only Raw JSON and Images

from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

26th Jun 2024
Embeddings encourage engineers to go full YOLO because it’s actually rewarding to do so!
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[2012] FachMe mentioned on Voicebox Recalling the time in 2012 when my opera related software project was discussed on a local public...
19th May 2025
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[2012] FachMe mentioned on Voicebox

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th May 2025
Recalling the time in 2012 when my opera related software project was discussed on a local public radio program
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Can I Speak To Someone? On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from...
9th Aug 2023
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Can I Speak To Someone?

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Aug 2023
On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from Heathrow Airport, London. After boarding, the flight remained on the runway for over an hour without taking off. Eventually, the pilot told us that due to the coup in Niger, the...
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Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
3rd Apr 2025
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Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Apr 2025
Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, French, and German.
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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...
3rd Jul 2023
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Bi-Directional EV Charging

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Jul 2023
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 […]
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Quiet People in Meetings Are Incredible Knowing when not to talk is an art.
3rd Dec 2024
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Quiet People in Meetings Are Incredible

from Unfiltered by Tim Denning [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Dec 2024
Knowing when not to talk is an art.
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Big Tech Fails EU’s Digital Services Act: Only Wikipedia Passes the Test
7th Dec 2024
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Big Tech Fails EU’s Digital Services Act: Only Wikipedia Passes the Test

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2024
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The ABCs Backwards I learned to sing the alphabet song backwards and recorded it in Golden Gate Park.
6th Feb 2009
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The ABCs Backwards

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2009
I learned to sing the alphabet song backwards and recorded it in Golden Gate Park.
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Knowledge is Power
19th Oct 2025
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Knowledge is Power

from Hall of Impossible Dreams [alt+shift+b] in creative

19th Oct 2025
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Inside the Chic Winery Where the Owners Got Married Frank Family Vineyards has unveiled Miller House, a new hospitality space designed to host guests in...
1st Jun 2025
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Inside the Chic Winery Where the Owners Got Married

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Jun 2025
Frank Family Vineyards has unveiled Miller House, a new hospitality space designed to host guests in a setting that’s both refined and deeply personal. Located in Calistoga, California, the space was created by Hawkins Interiors in collaboration with Backen & Backen for...
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2018: Reflections on trying to start an internet business A review post on what I've done this year in terms of trying to start an Internet business
31st Dec 2018
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2018: Reflections on trying to start an internet business

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

31st Dec 2018
A review post on what I've done this year in terms of trying to start an Internet business
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How on-target is that ETA, really? Now there’s a way to know. We pop open the hood on a shared benchmark to measure the accuracy of public transit's real-time...
11th Apr 2024
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How on-target is that ETA, really? Now there’s a way to know.

from News Archives | Transit [alt+shift+b] in travel

11th Apr 2024
We pop open the hood on a shared benchmark to measure the accuracy of public transit's real-time countdowns The post How on-target is that ETA, really? Now there’s a way to know. appeared first on Transit.
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Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been...
19th Sep 2024
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Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Sep 2024
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been framing the weaponization of pagers and radios in the Middle East as something we do not need to concern ourselves with because “we” are safe. I respectfully disagree. Our militaries...
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Challenging the Acceleration of the Universe South Korean astronomers are challenging the notion that the universe’s expansion is accelerating,...
5th Jan 2026
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Challenging the Acceleration of the Universe

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Jan 2026
South Korean astronomers are challenging the notion that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, an observation in the 1990s that lead to the theory of dark energy. This is currently very controversial, and may simply fizzle away or change our understanding of the fate of the...
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Nothing beats having good references On this day in letters
3 weeks ago
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Nothing beats having good references

from Letters of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

3 weeks ago
On this day in letters
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Spotlight and Mei Semones Last night I was able to experience a rare musical two-fer. First was day one of Minnesota’s annual...
10th Jun 2025
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Spotlight and Mei Semones

from I am BARRY HESS [alt+shift+b] in travel

10th Jun 2025
Last night I was able to experience a rare musical two-fer. First was day one of Minnesota’s annual celebration of high school musicals: Spotlight Showcase. This is a two-night event for the Minnesota theater to community to celebrate tens of schools whose musical productions...
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IF YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR HOUSE, FIGURE OUT WHAT TO RENOVATE FIRST You want to sell your home, but the kids have scuffed up the floors and chipped the paint. The...
30th Jan 2023
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IF YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR HOUSE, FIGURE OUT WHAT TO RENOVATE FIRST

from Melissa Penfold [alt+shift+b] in design

30th Jan 2023
You want to sell your home, but the kids have scuffed up the floors and chipped the paint. The kitchen could use a face-lift and the lawn has seen better days. Every seller has to decide whether to sink money into their home before listing it, and how much. Lately, the stakes...
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Treats from git's contrib tools🍭 .title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here,...
1st Jan 2024
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Treats from git's contrib tools🍭

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2024
.title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones Junio C Hamano, git/contrib/README Git bundles handy tools along with its source repo. They live in a directory named contrib—short for contributed...
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What Makes Picasso’s Guernica a Great Painting?: Explore the Anti-Fascist Mural That Became a... A painting is not thought out and settled in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s...
1st Sep 2025
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What Makes Picasso’s Guernica a Great Painting?: Explore the Anti-Fascist Mural That Became a Worldwide Anti-War Symbol

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

1st Sep 2025
A painting is not thought out and settled in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. — Pablo Picasso In a famous story about Guernica, Pablo...
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Stairs With Built-In Planters Lead To The Back Garden At This Home Lior Brosh of Brosh Architects has shared photos of a recently completed renovation project in...
1st May 2023
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Stairs With Built-In Planters Lead To The Back Garden At This Home

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st May 2023
Lior Brosh of Brosh Architects has shared photos of a recently completed renovation project in Greater London, England, that included new outdoor stairs with built-in planters. The client contacted the architects to renovate the lower ground floor of the house due to severe damp...
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Sara Huddleston on the Latino Vote in Iowa Last week I spoke with Sara Huddleston, candidate for Iowa state house in district 11 (Storm Lake)....
8th Aug 2020
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Sara Huddleston on the Latino Vote in Iowa

from Idle Words [alt+shift+b] in literature

8th Aug 2020
Last week I spoke with Sara Huddleston, candidate for Iowa state house in district 11 (Storm Lake). A longtime community organizer and three-term city council member, she was the first Latina elected to a city council in the state of Iowa, and would be the first Latina to serve...
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In Search of Perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow (Rail Symbol 2, Nick Job for Network Rail, 2022) It takes some strange mixture of bravery, confidence, and the thickest of skins to take on the job...
14th Dec 2022
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In Search of Perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow (Rail Symbol 2, Nick Job for Network Rail, 2022)

from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture

14th Dec 2022
It takes some strange mixture of bravery, confidence, and the thickest of skins to take on the job of redesigning a national icon. Once again, the rail industry’s “double arrow”, the symbol that has come completely to mean “railway” in Britain, has been given a facelift. Previous...
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America's $175 Trillion Problem The true state of the global financial system, in ten charts.
25th Jul 2024
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America's $175 Trillion Problem

from balajis.com [alt+shift+b] in finance

25th Jul 2024
The true state of the global financial system, in ten charts.
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3D printing is pretty darn cool, actually I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is...
4th Aug 2025
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3D printing is pretty darn cool, actually

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2025
I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is genuinely useful. There’s simply something magical about being able to design or download a model from the internet, send it to a machine, and after a few hours you get an actual...
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Thomas Heywood's early melodrama A Woman Killed by Kindness - I’ll say you wept, I’ll swear you made... I have called Thomas Dekker and Henry Chettle hacks, but Thomas Heywood was the greatest hack of the...
2nd May 2026
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Thomas Heywood's early melodrama A Woman Killed by Kindness - I’ll say you wept, I’ll swear you made me sad

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

2nd May 2026
I have called Thomas Dekker and Henry Chettle hacks, but Thomas Heywood was the greatest hack of the Age of Shakespeare, having “an entire hand or at least the main finger” in “two hundred and twenty” (!) plays (Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies, p. 38).  He is more like a...
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About antisocialne.ws
3rd Apr 2012
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About antisocialne.ws

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Apr 2012
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Why midlife women walk out of corporate jobs Laetitia@Work #67
23rd Feb 2024
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Why midlife women walk out of corporate jobs

from Laetitia@Work [alt+shift+b] in life

23rd Feb 2024
Laetitia@Work #67
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Films + Books, Q1 2023 What I watched and read
6th May 2023
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Films + Books, Q1 2023

from Nabeel S. Qureshi [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th May 2023
What I watched and read
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The books I read in 2018 A list of books I read in 2018
2nd Jan 2019
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The books I read in 2018

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

2nd Jan 2019
A list of books I read in 2018
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Concatenating with strings.Builder Quickly in Golang The Go standard library makes concatenating strings easy. Concatenation is just a fancy word for...
4th May 2021
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Concatenating with strings.Builder Quickly in Golang

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2021
The Go standard library makes concatenating strings easy. Concatenation is just a fancy word for adding strings together to make a larger string. For example, if we concatenate "hello", " " and "world" we’d get "hello world".
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Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026) Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights...
1st Jul 2026
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Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026)

from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jul 2026
Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Grampa's backyard Disneyland; Elizabeth Warren on monopolies; Spotify v Apple (antitrust edn); Exxon lobbyist confesses; "When the Sparrow Falls."...
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Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager? The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was...
15th Dec 2023
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Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager?

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Dec 2023
The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing startup, where he had substantially built out the entire...
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Building less, tinkering more, and walking away sooner I'm back from my vacation to Japan, slowly adjusting to California time. It was a fun and inspiring...
5th Dec 2025
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Building less, tinkering more, and walking away sooner

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2025
I'm back from my vacation to Japan, slowly adjusting to California time. It was a fun and inspiring trip – I'm thinking about it now while listening to the Eric Dolphy album Out There on vinyl, which I bought after hearing it at the Eigakin jazz kissa
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Why people avoid social media detox (let’s bust those excuses) I truly believe everyone would benefit from taking a long break from social media at least once a...
30th Oct 2023
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Why people avoid social media detox (let’s bust those excuses)

from Nela Dunato Art & Design [alt+shift+b] in design

30th Oct 2023
I truly believe everyone would benefit from taking a long break from social media at least once a year. In my many articles on this topic I gushed about the benefits of digital media sabbaticals, and my own experiences with increased mindfulness, focus, and productivity. So let’s...
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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
28th Apr 2024
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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Apr 2024
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
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Fiction is truer than fact Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking
2nd Apr 2025
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Fiction is truer than fact

from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Apr 2025
Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking
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Digital product studios I describe Contraption Company as a digital product studio. Many people ask what that means. "Is it...
28th Jan 2024
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Digital product studios

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jan 2024
I describe Contraption Company as a digital product studio. Many people ask what that means. "Is it a startup?" (not exactly). "Is it an agency?" (ideally, no). "Do you make apps to spin them out into new companies?" (no). I envision a digital product
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Before and after Almost Perfect At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in...
8th Jul 2024
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Before and after Almost Perfect

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2024
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in Tokyo, run by Luis and Yuka. This week Luis and Yuka published a podcast we recorded during my resi...
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Notational Velocity Notational Velocity (NV) is a “modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application”, as the...
26th Aug 2019
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Notational Velocity

from DevOps - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Aug 2019
Notational Velocity (NV) is a “modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application”, as the author describes it, which is elegant, attractive, and powerful. The original application has inspired various forks, of which  nvALT is perhaps the best, and adds some very useful...
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Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a...
3rd Jun 2025
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Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Jun 2025
Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a state-of-the-art language model) on a dataset of 22 million enzymes and then use it to predict the function of 450 unknown enzymes, you can publish your results in Nature Communications (a...
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The Finite Faculties of Man What is the extent of human cultural variation?
16th Jul 2023
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The Finite Faculties of Man

from Lefineder’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in life

16th Jul 2023
What is the extent of human cultural variation?
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More Apps, More Features, More Cowbell! Hot off the release of OS 8.0.2, we’ve got a great new batch of feature updates for you as we get...
6th Oct 2025
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More Apps, More Features, More Cowbell!

from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Oct 2025
Hot off the release of OS 8.0.2, we’ve got a great new batch of feature updates for you as we get closer to the release of elementary OS 8.1! Maps The first stable release of elementary Maps is now available for download on any Linux OS. For now we’ve focused on some of the...
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How I Built This In Public: Khe Hy Lessons from building RadReads and helping over 40,000 professionals in public
14th Apr 2023
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How I Built This In Public: Khe Hy

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

14th Apr 2023
Lessons from building RadReads and helping over 40,000 professionals in public
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Fourways Mall It’s Saturday at 1:37pm. I’ve been sitting in the 2nd floor parking trying to muster the energy to...
2nd Dec 2023
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Fourways Mall

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2023
It’s Saturday at 1:37pm. I’ve been sitting in the 2nd floor parking trying to muster the energy to walk in there to do everything on my to-do list: buy bread rolls for the kids’ lunch, new school shoes for Khanyi, check on the price of a new iron, and maybe just maybe upgrade my...
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A Language For Agents Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming languages might look like...
9th Feb 2026
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A Language For Agents

from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Feb 2026
Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming languages might look like now that agentic engineering is a growing thing. Initially I felt that the enormous corpus of pre-existing code would cement existing languages in place but now I’m starting to think...
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The iPad is a family device
29th May 2010
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The iPad is a family device

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th May 2010
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How to get the best design feedback from your team In 2015, I wrote out my thoughts on creative feedback. Here’s that article in list format: Feedback...
13th Apr 2017
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How to get the best design feedback from your team

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

13th Apr 2017
In 2015, I wrote out my thoughts on creative feedback. Here’s that article in list format: Feedback should be concise Feedback should be action-oriented Feedback should have a consistent format At the time, the Planetary design team was growing. We were grappling with one of the...
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From Where the Sun Now Stands An American Indian man on horseback stood outlined against a steely sky past midday on 05 October...
22nd May 2023
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From Where the Sun Now Stands

from Damn Interesting [alt+shift+b] in travel

22nd May 2023
An American Indian man on horseback stood outlined against a steely sky past midday on 05 October 1877. Winter was already settling into the prairies of what would soon become the state of Montana. Five white men stood in the swaying grass on the other side of the field,...
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Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet Dnsmasq Valet ¶Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel...
9th Sep 2019
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Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Sep 2019
Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet Dnsmasq Valet ¶Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet Valet is great. Occasionally though I need an app to respond on a different TLD to the default one. And there are even times when it makes sense to have an app respond on multiple...
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This Elevated Home Allows Plants To Be Grown Underneath Bates Masi + Architects has sent us photos of a new home they recently completed in Bridgehampton,...
9th Jan 2024
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This Elevated Home Allows Plants To Be Grown Underneath

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9th Jan 2024
Bates Masi + Architects has sent us photos of a new home they recently completed in Bridgehampton, New York, that has its living spaces elevated above the ground.
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1995: The Birth of JavaScript Netscape Navigator 2, which featured the first version of JavaScript; image via...
22nd Dec 2020
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1995: The Birth of JavaScript

from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history

22nd Dec 2020
Netscape Navigator 2, which featured the first version of JavaScript; image via Wikimedia. JavaScript was invented in a two-week flurry in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, at the time a newly hired developer at browser company Netscape. The project was initiated by Netscape because of a...
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Lowering the Barrier to Blogging I really want to blog more. The problem is that most of the posts to this blog are fairly long-form....
2nd Sep 2016
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Lowering the Barrier to Blogging

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2016
I really want to blog more. The problem is that most of the posts to this blog are fairly long-form. This will probably change as I do blog more. I've also moved to Pandoc for rendering posts via ikiwiki-pandoc. In that process, I've also come to realize that pandoc handles...
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Recently Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
3rd Sep 2024
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Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2024
Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories. Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
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Doom3 BFG Code Review More...
23rd May 2013
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Doom3 BFG Code Review

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd May 2013
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A Brief History of Sega Enterprises Sega does what Nintendon't
12th Jan 2026
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A Brief History of Sega Enterprises

from Abort Retry Fail [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Jan 2026
Sega does what Nintendon't
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Rust Gotcha: last() on DoubleEndedIterator tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a...
1st Jan 2025
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Rust Gotcha: last() on DoubleEndedIterator

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2025
tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a space-separated string in Rust? It will be obvious to some, but the obvious answer of s.split(' ').last() is wrong. The mistake is easy to make; I encountered it in a recent MR I...
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He's not my friend. Appearances can be deceiving. When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind....
3rd Sep 2016
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He's not my friend.

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2016
Appearances can be deceiving. When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind. What I want to say is often not what someone else wants to hear, and I learned early in life that men who don't hear what they want to hear often get angry. Maybe that anger will...
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!!con or doing inclusivity well Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and...
14th Aug 2017
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!!con or doing inclusivity well

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Aug 2017
Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and accommodating for various needs.
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Which Songs Are Frequently Featured in Film and Television? A Statistical Analysis Which songs have become staples of film and television?
5th Mar 2025
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Which Songs Are Frequently Featured in Film and Television? A Statistical Analysis

from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative

5th Mar 2025
Which songs have become staples of film and television?
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Claude Code and What Comes Next With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
7th Jan 2026
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Claude Code and What Comes Next

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Jan 2026
With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
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Announcing FinFam In my last post, I mentioned founding a startup. It's called FinFam, and we're building...
19th Sep 2025
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Announcing FinFam

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Sep 2025
In my last post, I mentioned founding a startup. It's called FinFam, and we're building collaborative financial planning. The GitHub of money, if you will. Enough with the telling, time for the show! Here's a 3-minute demo: We launched beta this week and I couldn't be more...
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Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White...
6th Nov 2023
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Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Nov 2023
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White House and the Secretary of Commerce to place restrictions on Americans working with RISC-V (see also the initial request from the Senate) in order to prevent China from gaining...
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Heat-Loving Microbes, Once Dormant, Thrive Over Decades-Old Fire In harsh ecosystems around the world, microbiologists are finding evidence that “microbial seed...
12th Mar 2020
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Heat-Loving Microbes, Once Dormant, Thrive Over Decades-Old Fire

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

12th Mar 2020
In harsh ecosystems around the world, microbiologists are finding evidence that “microbial seed banks” protect biodiversity from changing conditions. The post Heat-Loving Microbes, Once Dormant, Thrive Over Decades-Old Fire first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Winner, Name that Ware July 2024 The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS...
15th Aug 2024
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Winner, Name that Ware July 2024

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Aug 2024
The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS terminal myself, so it was pretty interesting to see all the anti-tamper traces built into the product (thank you jackw01 for sharing it!). I wonder how effective these are, and...
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MUSE in Carré MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying...
22nd Oct 2022
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MUSE in Carré

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Oct 2022
MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying experience - read about my experience!
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Ten Blue Links, "the wrong timeline" edition 1. Data sovereignty as a global issue You are probably already aware of the EU’s (slow) moves...
13th Jul 2025
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Ten Blue Links, "the wrong timeline" edition

from Ian Betteridge [alt+shift+b] in creative

13th Jul 2025
1. Data sovereignty as a global issue You are probably already aware of the EU’s (slow) moves promoting data sovereignty, and of course China’s efforts to ensure it has independence from western tech. But they aren’t the only parts of the world worried about
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Predictability. Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how...
1st Jan 2024
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Predictability.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2024
Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how much it believes that key individuals drive and create industries. It’s an infectious belief, and a necessary one to write a concise, coherent narrative story about the origins of...
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Unseen Friends: Rare Behind-the-Scenes Photos from the Iconic Sitcom In the mid-1990s, television audiences were introduced to a group of six friends whose daily lives...
1st Nov 2025
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Unseen Friends: Rare Behind-the-Scenes Photos from the Iconic Sitcom

from Rare Historical Photos [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Nov 2025
In the mid-1990s, television audiences were introduced to a group of six friends whose daily lives in Manhattan would soon redefine the meaning of modern friendship. Friends, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994, and instantly captured...
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2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
1st Jan 2025
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2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review

from CrimethInc. [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Jan 2025
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world. A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
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Vatavaran, Knightsbridge It was Trishna in Marlebone, all the way back in something like 2009, that opened many Londoners'...
5th Jan 2025
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Vatavaran, Knightsbridge

from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel

5th Jan 2025
It was Trishna in Marlebone, all the way back in something like 2009, that opened many Londoners' eyes - not least my own - to the possibilities of modern Indian fine dining. Now, I'm sure Vivek Singh (Cinnamon Club, 2001), Sriram Aylur (Quilon, 1999) and Cyrus Todiwala (Café...
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Send your users this welcome email
3rd Feb 2024
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Send your users this welcome email

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Feb 2024
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What does psychological safety at work depend on? Laetitia@Work #75
21st Oct 2024
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What does psychological safety at work depend on?

from Laetitia@Work [alt+shift+b] in life

21st Oct 2024
Laetitia@Work #75
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Optimizing for iteration speed I've written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn't necessarily talk about...
6th Jul 2017
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Optimizing for iteration speed

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Jul 2017
I've written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn't necessarily talk about some concrete things you can do. When I've built up the tech team at Better, I've intentionally optimized for fast iteration speed above almost everything else.
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Birth of a new blog What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or...
3rd Jan 2023
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Birth of a new blog

from Confused bit [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jan 2023
What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or dynamic typing? The answer to all these questions and more on “Confused bit”. This blog is a place to host and share my thoughts on software, crafting, and my experience with various...
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Hate, supremacism and the satanic world order The word “hate” is bandied about a lot by our global overlords.
5th Jan 2026
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Hate, supremacism and the satanic world order

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Jan 2026
The word “hate” is bandied about a lot by our global overlords.
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8 Lessons from "Curb Your Enthusiasm" What Larry David's legendary sitcom can teach about creativity and work.
2nd Feb 2024
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8 Lessons from "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Feb 2024
What Larry David's legendary sitcom can teach about creativity and work.
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Searching for the Root of the Tree of Evil The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among...
8th Jun 2024
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Searching for the Root of the Tree of Evil

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Jun 2024
The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among thousands. Many of us feel like we need to Do Something about these problems. There’s just one problem (sorry):
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Drew Ex Machina 10th Anniversary: Top Ten Posts I find it difficult to believe but, it was ten years ago today that I posted the first article on my...
27th Mar 2024
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Drew Ex Machina 10th Anniversary: Top Ten Posts

from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science

27th Mar 2024
I find it difficult to believe but, it was ten years ago today that I posted the first article on my then-new website, Drew Ex Machina. […]
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Rethinking famous college admissions Even if you’re not applying, this thought experiment gives a glimpse into how the world is about to...
1st Jun 2026
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Rethinking famous college admissions

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Jun 2026
Even if you’re not applying, this thought experiment gives a glimpse into how the world is about to be rewired. The top 10 most selective colleges in the US admit about 5% of those who apply. They’re not selling education as much as a label, a rare chance for someone to slot...
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A better way to write config files in PHP How many times have you seen something like this in a config file? $db_host = 'localhost'; $db_name...
2nd May 2016
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A better way to write config files in PHP

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd May 2016
How many times have you seen something like this in a config file? $db_host = 'localhost'; $db_name = 'somedb'; $db_user = 'someuser'; $db_pass = 'somepass'; Then, of course, it gets included and the variables are referenced as globals: include('config.php'); echo $db_host; //...
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Demystifying styled-components For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses...
21st Jun 2021
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Demystifying styled-components

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Jun 2021
For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses traditional CSS features under-the-hood, and that lack of clarity can cause real problems when things go awry. In this post, we'll learn exactly how styled-components works by...
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Live Near Friends I can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m about to recommend that you subscribe to a product marketing...
16th Jul 2024
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Live Near Friends

from escape the algorithm [alt+shift+b] in creative

16th Jul 2024
I can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m about to recommend that you subscribe to a product marketing email.
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf upgrade --refresh. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
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Why AI agents aren’t adopted widely Hint: managing someone is actually hard, and most times not worth it. Most people don’t use AI...
5th Aug 2026
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Why AI agents aren’t adopted widely

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Aug 2026
Hint: managing someone is actually hard, and most times not worth it. Most people don’t use AI agents daily because delegation (to another human) is a learned skill. Using AI agents is actually a lot like doing natural language programming: specifying requirements, verifying...
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The decreasing/increasing prevalence of the terms "global warming" and "climate change" in news... I will drop this here as a simple curiosity without much further comment: The decreasing/increasing...
21st Dec 2021
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The decreasing/increasing prevalence of the terms "global warming" and "climate change" in news media discourse

from David Rozado Substack [alt+shift+b] in AI

21st Dec 2021
I will drop this here as a simple curiosity without much further comment: The decreasing/increasing prevalence of the terms global warming and climate change in news media discourse. For some reason, peak usage of the term global warming happened in 2007 and it has been dropping...
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Engineering Manager Archetypes and Career Paths Cross-posted from leaddev.com Exploring seven common leadership scenarios. If you’re looking for a...
3rd Aug 2021
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Engineering Manager Archetypes and Career Paths

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Aug 2021
Cross-posted from leaddev.com Exploring seven common leadership scenarios. If you’re looking for a very traditional breakdown of engineering manager archetypes – tech lead manager, team manager, director, and so forth – you can’t do better than Will Larson’s post, and I won’t...
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When People Outperform Data People who succeed via analysis of numbers and facts need to learn that understanding of people can...
23rd Nov 2024
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When People Outperform Data

from Molson Hart's Blog - Molson Hart [alt+shift+b] in finance

23rd Nov 2024
People who succeed via analysis of numbers and facts need to learn that understanding of people can make that analysis unnecessary and can even outperform it. Examples: 1. Amazon did not make money between its 1994 founding through 2002. There was no financial or business...
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Procrastination hack: change “and” to “or” My unwritten condition for when to exercise was this: and I’ve finished my work, and I haven’t just...
24th Oct 2011
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Procrastination hack: change “and” to “or”

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

24th Oct 2011
My unwritten condition for when to exercise was this: and I’ve finished my work, and I haven’t just eaten, and I’m feeling energetic. My coach suggested I change “and” to “or”. or I’ve finished my work, or I haven’t just eaten, or I’m feeling energetic. Do you have a...
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The 8-bit (MCU) manifesto Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them...
12th Jun 2024
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The 8-bit (MCU) manifesto

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Jun 2024
Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them more.
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#define CTO OpenAI It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I...
9th Jan 2017
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#define CTO OpenAI

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jan 2017
It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I could have scalable impact by writing code. I’ve finally found that role, though not by seeking it — instead, I sought out a problem more important to me than my role within it,...
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Discord considered harmful In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now...
16th Jun 2025
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Discord considered harmful

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jun 2025
In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now aware that TikTok is ruining your attention span, and Twitter is radicalizing you into extreme ideologies. But, despite its enormous popularity amongst technology enthusiasts,...
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Code reviews And why they're probably the most important software engineering skill
5th Dec 2025
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Code reviews

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2025
And why they're probably the most important software engineering skill
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25 Years of Higher Interest Rates Ahead? Interest rates are linked to inflation, but they're also linked to risk. As a result of...
2nd May 2025
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25 Years of Higher Interest Rates Ahead?

from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance

2nd May 2025
Interest rates are linked to inflation, but they're also linked to risk. As a result of recency bias, where we assume the recent past is a permanent state of affairs, many believe near-zero interest rates are "normal." They aren't. As the chart of 10-year US Treasury...
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London at its Dickensian finest What a time to be alive (if you didn’t die from cholera)
3rd Sep 2025
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London at its Dickensian finest

from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Sep 2025
What a time to be alive (if you didn’t die from cholera)
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Free Things Are Complicated (Especially the Sphere Spectrum!) I’ve spent the last week at CT2025, which has just come to a close. It was great getting to see so...
20th Jul 2025
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Free Things Are Complicated (Especially the Sphere Spectrum!)

from Chris Grossack's Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

20th Jul 2025
I’ve spent the last week at CT2025, which has just come to a close. It was great getting to see so many old friends and meet so many new ones, and every time I go to a CT I’m reminded of just how much category theory there is in the world, as well as just how much I enjoy all...
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How Mutant Viral Swarms Spread Disease A new understanding of viral swarms is helping researchers predict how viruses will evolve and where...
3rd Sep 2015
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How Mutant Viral Swarms Spread Disease

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd Sep 2015
A new understanding of viral swarms is helping researchers predict how viruses will evolve and where disease is likely to spread. The post How Mutant Viral Swarms Spread Disease first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Monitoring my 3D printer with a Pi Zero, Home Assistant and TinyCore Linux Many devices in my home have become "smart" over the last couple of months, with one big exception:...
20th Apr 2020
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Monitoring my 3D printer with a Pi Zero, Home Assistant and TinyCore Linux

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Apr 2020
Many devices in my home have become "smart" over the last couple of months, with one big exception: my trusty 3D printer. It's a super reliable Prusa i3 MK3, but it lacks an internet connection.So I decided to use a Pi Zero to keep track of my 3D prints and send the progress to...
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My eclipse photography plan .title {text-wrap:balance;} 2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original) In 2017, I...
31st Mar 2024
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My eclipse photography plan

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Mar 2024
.title {text-wrap:balance;} 2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original) In 2017, I opted to skip the crowds and the drive and settle for a 94% solar eclipse. I fully regret that decision. Weather permitting, I’ll be photographing the full solar eclipse from the path...
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Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
5th Jan 2025
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Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Jan 2025
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1 The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials. But how does the Pentium...
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Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older...
18th Jul 2018
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Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jul 2018
Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older generation of web scraping and spidering tools would grab and analyze HTML pages as returned by a web server. It doesn’t work well anymore because less and less website are static...
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Pull
1st Sep 2025
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Pull

from xkcd.com [alt+shift+b] in comics

1st Sep 2025
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AI for Work & Life Hackathons need a “why” –
15th May 2025
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AI for Work & Life

from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th May 2025
Hackathons need a “why” –
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A simple timeline using CSS flexbox As I added a /now page to the site I also decided to refresh my /about page and I figured it would...
25th Aug 2024
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A simple timeline using CSS flexbox

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Aug 2024
As I added a /now page to the site I also decided to refresh my /about page and I figured it would be neat to have timeline element where I could list some of the larger events in my life. To my surprise it wasn’t too difficult to create one that looks pretty clean—the flexbox...
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Nokia 5110 - Back from the dead. Part 1: Nostalgia I loved my Nokia 5110 and I wonder if it was possible to breathe new life into this long-shelved and...
27th Nov 2022
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Nokia 5110 - Back from the dead. Part 1: Nostalgia

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Nov 2022
I loved my Nokia 5110 and I wonder if it was possible to breathe new life into this long-shelved and still-memed mobile phone. As it turns out, not only is it possible, but it's going to be a lot easier than I anticipated.
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Why is Clojure so stable?
18th Dec 2018
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Why is Clojure so stable?

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Dec 2018
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In praise of questions Prende y se apaga sola, sale después de hora. CHARLY GARCÍA La máquina de ser feliz I’ve learned to...
2 weeks ago
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In praise of questions

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

2 weeks ago
Prende y se apaga sola, sale después de hora. CHARLY GARCÍA La máquina de ser feliz I’ve learned to tolerate them, and sometimes even like them, but Zoom meetings are weird. Even in familiar contexts: I have weekly check-ins with … Continue reading →
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Why now? What's behind our current AI boom?
4th Oct 2023
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Why now?

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Oct 2023
What's behind our current AI boom?
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So you think you know everything about React refs React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you...
17th May 2021
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So you think you know everything about React refs

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th May 2021
React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you can access the current DOM node for that component in your JS. This is one of those great APIs that work just the way you'd expect, so you don't even think about how, exactly, it...
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