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Good Enough
Season 3, Issue 2: Britney Coltrane 1. I ❤️HR The past two weeks Barry and Lettini have been building our next little project, and I...
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1. I ❤️HR The past two weeks Barry and Lettini have been building our next little project, and I tried to deal with the company-side of work: setting up payroll, health insurance, and making sure we’re compliant (hello, bureaucracy!). Back in the day when Danny and I started...
TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else? undefined
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Matt Mullenweg
Welcoming Harper As announced by Automattic and covered by TechCrunch, I want to take a moment to welcome Elijah...
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As announced by Automattic and covered by TechCrunch, I want to take a moment to welcome Elijah Potter and Harper to join Automattic. Harper is a super-fast (way faster than LanguageTool and Grammarly), local English grammar checker. The technology is nascent, but I’m very...
Map of the Week
A Blue Map of China This past weekend I finally got to the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library to see...
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This past weekend I finally got to the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library to see their exhibit, Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China on one of its final days. Yes, I should have visited months ago when I could have encouraged readers to see it but though they...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids? undefined
6 months ago
Seth's Blog
After the emergency If we need to wait until after the short-term emergency is settled, it’s unlikely we’re ever going...
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If we need to wait until after the short-term emergency is settled, it’s unlikely we’re ever going to get to work on the long-term important work. Of course, we want to do “everything we can” when an emergency strikes. But the standard for that has always involved tradeoffs....
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Found-Money Startups 'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of...
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'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
The American Scholar
Our Pets, Our Plates In defense of the furred and the hoofed The post Our Pets, Our Plates appeared first on The American...
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In defense of the furred and the hoofed The post Our Pets, Our Plates appeared first on The American Scholar.
Making software...
Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) 2020-03-31 In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I...
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Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) 2020-03-31 In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I showed how you could create a basic menu dropdown with only 121 bytes of CSS. While this demo is great for simple text-based menu dropdowns, it doesn't show just how complex (in a...
TheCollector
Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History undefined
10 months ago
Maps Mania
Global Sunlight Chart
a year ago
TheCollector
Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art undefined
9 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Google’s feature creep Microsoft used to be considered the king of feature creep.  Here was Microsoft Word when it was most...
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Microsoft used to be considered the king of feature creep.  Here was Microsoft Word when it was most cluttered: I don’t use any of…
Confessions of a...
The Pythonic Emptiness Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most...
a month ago
Vadim Kravcenko
🔥 Battling daily procrastination 🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do?...
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over a year ago
🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? What […] The post 🔥 Battling daily procrastination appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio? undefined
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Trusting platforms In response to my post yesterday about how an internet of people has enabled a new wave of web-based...
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In response to my post yesterday about how an internet of people has enabled a new wave of web-based marketplaces, Nick Mango commented…
The Marginalian
The Sunflower and the Soul: Wendell Berry on the Collaborative Nature of the Universe and the Cure... "We are not the authors of ourselves. That we are not is a religious perception, but it is also a...
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"We are not the authors of ourselves. That we are not is a religious perception, but it is also a biological and a social one. Each of us has had many authors, and each of us is engaged, for better or worse, in that same authorship. We could say that the human race is a great...
Daniel Miessler
AI Art Just Opened The Threat to Human Work We Were Expecting from AGI Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get...
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Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get replaced by artificial intelligence. I’m not professionally educated or trained in AI, but I’ve read probably 30 books and spent thousands of hours thinking about it. I am not talking...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Best Lawn in the Entire Post-Apocalypse What kind of an idiot am I that I would be doing lawn maintenance during the zombie apocalypse? Let...
over a year ago
./techtipsy
Testing GPU passthrough on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU Introduction Before we jump into all the nitty-gritty details, I’d like to go over what we are...
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Introduction Before we jump into all the nitty-gritty details, I’d like to go over what we are dealing with here since these topics may be unfamiliar to you. VFIO is quite a niche topic and not everyone knows about it. GPU passthrough: the process of allowing a VM...
Rozado’s Visual...
Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post...
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Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post Verification of integrity of frequency counts: https://zenodo.org/record/5674590
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #15 Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism? undefined
4 months ago
ntietz.com blog
Great management and leadership books for the technical track In tech, we're fortunate to have separate management and technical tracks, though it's still...
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In tech, we're fortunate to have separate management and technical tracks, though it's still underdeveloped1. However, the path you take isn't very clear, it's not broadly understood what the responsibilities are, and there aren't as many resources out there as there are for...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Interior Decoration Doesn't Count" Just last week, and not for the first time, I had a dream set in Kay’s Books in downtown Cleveland,...
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Just last week, and not for the first time, I had a dream set in Kay’s Books in downtown Cleveland, where I visited often as a kid and worked in 1975. I was in the basement in the general hardback fiction section where I saw the copy of Under the Volcano I bought there forty-nine...
The Works in...
Issue 10: One word—plastics. Plus: France's baby bust, why we empathise with animals, building infrastructure faster, and more.
a year ago
alexwlchan
Saving your alt text from Twitter It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of...
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It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of their archive in case the site goes down unexpectedly. But large as it is, the archive doesn’t contain everything: Kate @thingskatedid my twitter archive...
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye undefined
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Service Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is just a big thank you to Bea Wolf buyers....
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is just a big thank you to Bea Wolf buyers. We're already in our 3rd printing and it doesn't come out for a month. If you want a hardcover, lock it in soon - they're gorgeous :D Today's News: Thanks y'all, I mean it. Here's...
Seth's Blog
Inverting the vex Life can be irritating. And sometimes, we can make a choice. The thing that’s vexing you: is it a...
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Life can be irritating. And sometimes, we can make a choice. The thing that’s vexing you: is it a situation or a problem? Problems have solutions. If we care enough, we can find a way to solve a problem, but it might cost more money, require more effort or involve more risk than...
CONTEMPORIST
A Tiny Public Library With A Roof Inspired By A Sheet Of Paper Ninja Stuudio has shared photos of “White Sheet”, a tiny public library and reading pavilion they...
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Ninja Stuudio has shared photos of “White Sheet”, a tiny public library and reading pavilion they completed in Tallinn, Estonia. The design has been inspired by the image of a literary idea, with the pavilion’s roof hovering as a light sheet of paper in mid-air relying only on...
NeuroLogica Blog
Is AI Sentient Revisited On the SGU this week we interviewed Blake Lemoine, the ex-Google employee who believes that Google’s...
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On the SGU this week we interviewed Blake Lemoine, the ex-Google employee who believes that Google’s LaMDA may be sentient, based on his interactions with it. This was a fascinating discussion, and even though I think we did a pretty deep dive in the time we had, it also felt...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Lost in the desert and all I got was this lousy RV brochure I am in a rental car outside Las Vegas heading toward the sand dunes they told me are popular with...
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I am in a rental car outside Las Vegas heading toward the sand dunes they told me are popular with local dune buggy enthusiasts. I find the arrow drawn on faded neon paper pointing off the road. For a popular destination there sure aren't many people around. None in fact.
Musings on Markets
Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO! A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering, and noted that the...
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A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering, and noted that the reception that the stock gets will be a good barometer of where risk capital stands in the market, right now. After a buzzy open, when the stock jumped from its offering price of $30 a...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pig Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel there's a culinary horseshoe graph where...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel there's a culinary horseshoe graph where only the highest and lowest quality restaurants will serve you macerated chicken kidneys or whatever. Today's News:
Society's Backend
Discussions around OpenAI's o1, Superhuman AI, When AI Should Be An App, and More Discussions from the past week: 09/16/2024
3 months ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Rail and Bus Map of Southeast Queensland, Australia, 2024 Submitted by Lachlan, who says: Brisbane dropped a new transit map and it is EXTREMELY pretty. I’m a...
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Submitted by Lachlan, who says: Brisbane dropped a new transit map and it is EXTREMELY pretty. I’m a big fan. Definitely the best-designed official transit map in Australia in my opinion. It even acknowledges the rapid bus routes and the G-Link light rail! I wish it could have...
Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965) Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
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Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
Wuthering...
Notes on Aristotle's Poetics - What are the conditions on which the tragic effect depends? Aristotle did not invent literary criticism with Poetics(late 4th c. BCE, maybe) – we just read The...
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Aristotle did not invent literary criticism with Poetics(late 4th c. BCE, maybe) – we just read The Frogs – but for centuries it was the base of Western literary criticism, not a source of insight but rather a set of rules.  The Unities, the Tragic Flaw, catharsis, the ranking of...
Old Structures...
Happy Presidents’ Day The cover of the dinner menu for Washington’s Birthday from the SS Columbia of the Hamburg-Amerika...
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The cover of the dinner menu for Washington’s Birthday from the SS Columbia of the Hamburg-Amerika Line. That’s a portrati of the Columbia on the right, apparently about to run down a sailboat. Columbia had a weird history, having served as a liner between Germany and the US,...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Steve Blank
A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale An edited version of this article previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy...
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An edited version of this article previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank website. I spent last week at a global Fortune 50 company offsite watching them grapple with disruption. This 100+-year-old company has seven major product divisions, each...
CONTEMPORIST
This Modern Home Was Designed Around A Split-Trunk Oak Tree A Parallel Architecture has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Austin, Texas, that’s...
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A Parallel Architecture has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Austin, Texas, that’s designed around a split-trunk live oak, which has stood guard over the center of the tight lot for decades. The home’s exterior features concrete, wood, and large windows, with some...
TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning undefined
6 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
The Asuke II Cruise Ship is a Floating Museum of Traditional Craftwork Over 50 pieces of traditional craftwork (dento kogei) are on display on the Asuka II cruise ship for...
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Over 50 pieces of traditional craftwork (dento kogei) are on display on the Asuka II cruise ship for a project organized by the Japan Kogei Association, a Tokyo-based group comprising artisans nationwide, and Anchor Ship Partners Co., a shareholder of the company that operates...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Pure Essay' “A good deal that he wrote took the form of the ‘pure’ essay, written, as Lord David Cecil says,...
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“A good deal that he wrote took the form of the ‘pure’ essay, written, as Lord David Cecil says, ‘not to instruct or edify but only to produce aesthetic satisfaction.’ I do not know why it should be so, but today the ‘pure’ essay is a literary genre to which no reader under sixty...
The Modern House
Room for Improvement: designer Nat Buckley rethinks Energy Performance Certificates
2 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Is the AI Singularity Coming? Like it or not, we are living in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Recent advances in large...
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Like it or not, we are living in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Recent advances in large language models, like ChatGPT, have helped put advanced AI in the hands of the average person, who now has a much better sense of how powerful these AI applications can be (and...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Easier Web Hosting on Github
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
A type checking error in Elixir 1.18 Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and...
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Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and why I think Gleam is so cool). I think static typing helps catch bugs earlier and in an automated way, leading to less buggy software and saves time in the long run. To my great joy...
99% Invisible
The 15 Minute City In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their...
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In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their local government. They were wearing yellow vests and chanting slogans about the municipality’s new traffic policies. But most notably, many of them were vocally angry about a new...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Full stack startups Many of today's most exciting startups were tried before in a different form. Suppose you develop a...
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Many of today's most exciting startups were tried before in a different form. Suppose you develop a new technology that is valuable to some…
TheCollector
Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s undefined
8 months ago
Marcus on AI
Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI...
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We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following bet, at 10:1 odds, with criteria drawn from two earlier Substack essays by Gary...
Joel Gascoigne
5 varieties of remote working in companies I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the nature of a company...
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I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the nature of a company where the team works from remote locations to accomplish our work. Scaling remote working has been a challenge as the team has grown. Remote companies are still relatively rare,...
ntietz.com blog
Affirmations for bloggers Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of...
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Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of those blogs lie abandoned or sporadically updated. It's okay if you start blogging and figure out it's not really for you. But there are also some common issues that block people...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Whole Hog Barbecu'd!' I was surprised to see that Alexander Pope was familiar with the most popular cuisine served in...
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I was surprised to see that Alexander Pope was familiar with the most popular cuisine served in Texas: barbecue. You’ll find his reference in “The Second Satire in the Second Book of Horace Paraphrased”: “Oldfield, with more than Harpy throat endu’d, Cries, ‘send me, Gods! a...
Common Edge
Inga Saffron on the Philadelphia 76ers’ Push for a New Downtown Arena A talk with the Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
3 weeks ago
Flashbak
In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In  Your Face. Like Mark...
Arduino Blog
Discover #Virgil: history comes to life with Arduino We’re excited to introduce #Virgil, an innovative project that combines the power of Arduino...
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We’re excited to introduce #Virgil, an innovative project that combines the power of Arduino technology with a passion for history, creating a groundbreaking interactive experience for museums.  Using Arduino’s versatile and scalable ecosystem, #Virgil operates completely...
Retail Design Blog
Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation Offices by SUBU Design Architecture SUBU Design Architecture transformed the Levitt Foundation’s office space in Los Angeles,...
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SUBU Design Architecture transformed the Levitt Foundation’s office space in Los Angeles, emphasizing luxury and community with a focus on...
TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism undefined
5 months ago
Wuthering...
Thales, the first philosopher - what is philosophy, anyways? He [Thales of Miletus] held that the original substance of all things is water, and that the world...
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He [Thales of Miletus] held that the original substance of all things is water, and that the world is animate and full of deities.  They say he discovered the seasons of the year, and divided the day into 365 days.  (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, p. 12,...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now...
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I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now pages” but I felt like it would be better if it had an RSS feed. The feed would give interested parties a way to subscribe to life changes. The problem is that RSS feeds aren’t...
One from Nippon
A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 3) Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of...
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a year ago
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of onsens and the science behind them. In this article we take a deep-dive into the business of onsens. Onsen as a Business Despite all the hype in Part 1
diamond geezer
Unblogged first week of May 7 unblogged things I did in the first week of May Wed 1: While I was touring City churches I came...
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7 unblogged things I did in the first week of May Wed 1: While I was touring City churches I came across this, the Lost London Churches Project. They've printed a little colour card for every church in the City of London - current and former - and the idea is to collect them all...
Many Worlds
Webb Telescope Finds No Signs of a Thick Atmosphere Around a Second TRAPPIST-1 Planet Among the most eagerly awaited results from the early observations of the James Webb Space Telescope...
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Among the most eagerly awaited results from the early observations of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is whether or not the seven rocky planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system have atmospheres. The TRAPPIST-1 planets are close to us (40 light-years away), are all solid rather than...
Musings on Maps
Maps and Metaphors The war around Gaza is not for territory, but rather for the destruction of the presence of a terror...
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The war around Gaza is not for territory, but rather for the destruction of the presence of a terror network that has entrenched its power base deep underground. In many case, deeper than thought.  While Israel has been pretty clear about … Continue reading →
Julia Evans
In a git repository, where do your files live? Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does...
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a year ago
Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does git store your files? We know that it’s in your .git directory, but where exactly in there are all the versions of your old files? For example, this blog is in a git repository, and...
99% Invisible
Towers of Silence [EPISODE] Situated right in downtown Mumbai, India is an area of about 55 acres of dense, overgrown forest. In...
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Situated right in downtown Mumbai, India is an area of about 55 acres of dense, overgrown forest. In one of the most populous cities in the world, this is a place where peacocks roam freely — a space out of time. This forest is protected by a religious community. It has survived...
A Beautiful Site
Empowering Design System Users The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite...
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The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite a bit. For example, if a button spec only calls for primary, secondary, and tertiary variants, should we still expose parts and custom properties so users can make further...
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Blues? undefined
10 months ago
xkcd.com
Relative Terms
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The status quo is very good… at sticking around. In fact, that’s what it’s best at. New research shows that computers and robots...
a year ago
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at sticking around. In fact, that’s what it’s best at. New research shows that computers and robots are now better at solving CAPTCHA puzzles than humans. This was inevitable. The interesting question is, “how long before they go away?” First, someone has to decide that it’s...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
10 months ago
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A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Celebrating the Centennial of Galaxies January 1 2025 On January 1, 1925, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, astronomer...
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On January 1, 1925, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, astronomer Henry N. Russell read a paper contributed by a young astronomer named Edwin Hubble (who was too junior to earn a trip across the country from the California observatory where he...
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a...
A Beautiful Site
A user interface is like a joke When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good...
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When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good rule of thumb: A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good. And I've heard some websites tell pretty bad jokes...
mtlynch.io
My Fifth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder Five years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software...
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Five years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. None of them earned more than a few hundred dollars per month in revenue, and they all had negative profits. Halfway...
Working Theorys
Notes on 'Founder Mode' Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
4 months ago
Jonas Hietala
A small LED Cube As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I...
over a year ago
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As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I got started a little with soldering by constructing a small 3x3x3 LED cube. Although extremely hard to see in this picture it actually worked without a hitch! It’s not the...
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: Vision Pro 👓 This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major...
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This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Vision Pro report card here. Year one of Vision Pro This is a bit of
Founder's blog
Cross-Post: Migrating a 1TB database from Win to Linux with no downtime For those of you who don't follow our company blog, we've just published another "tech porn" story...
a year ago
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For those of you who don't follow our company blog, we've just published another "tech porn" story on migrating a huge database from Linux to Windows with no downtime. Check it out. TL;DR: we spawned a Linux version of SQL Server and moved the database using "log-shipping"....
Steve Klabnik
When should I use String vs &str?
2 months ago
somethingaboutmaps
Independent Study: A Reflection Earlier this summer, I decided to embark on an educational experiment: I wanted to create a version...
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Earlier this summer, I decided to embark on an educational experiment: I wanted to create a version of the independent study groups that I used to co-teach when I was at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in which students would work on a mapping project, and meet weekly for...
Stoic Simple
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/ELM6pYo76DQ For Stoics of antiquity, the most admirable and important kind of strength was the type that came from an inner fortitude that was nurtured with discipline and devotion to philosophy. The most difficult trials of our lives come not from...
Maps Mania
The Sea Trade Monitor
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diamond geezer
Untangling Hackney We're not due another tube map until August when the Overground lines get their own names. There's...
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We're not due another tube map until August when the Overground lines get their own names. There's no point replacing paper maps and posters on platforms until then. But the online map on the TfL website is another matter and is often updated between print runs to reflect the...
Tech + Economics +...
The eternal victimhood of the right-wing mind. The right-wing has become obsessed with what they term the 'Victimhood Olympics.' Conservative...
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The right-wing has become obsessed with what they term the 'Victimhood Olympics.' Conservative politicians and pundits have made a cottage industry out of the idea that progressives indulge in a competitive display of grievances, vying for the spotlight of sympathy and the...
Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
Ink & Switch
Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools
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An engineer's guide to picking a cofounder What could be worse than handing out 50% of your company's equity to a co-founder who doesn't...
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What could be worse than handing out 50% of your company's equity to a co-founder who doesn't understand the product as much as you do, and all they…
Matt Mazur
When LTD Purchasers Meet an Inactive User Policy Last year I participated in a Lifetime Deal (LTD) promotion to offer Preceden to the AppSumo...
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Last year I participated in a Lifetime Deal (LTD) promotion to offer Preceden to the AppSumo community. Maybe I’ll dive into my experience there in another post, but I wanted to share an interesting thing that’s happening now, a year after the deal ended. AppSumo has a policy...
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“Otherwise do something else” I remember back when I started my first company, a friend said to me “get ready to have a knot in...
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I remember back when I started my first company, a friend said to me “get ready to have a knot in your stomach and feel nauseous for years…
Raw Thought (from...
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Christian Selig
Introducing Juno for Apple Vision Pro YouTube is probably one of the parts of the internet I consume the most, so I was more than a little...
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YouTube is probably one of the parts of the internet I consume the most, so I was more than a little sad when YouTube announced that they don’t have plans to build a visionOS app, and disabled the option to load the iPad app. This leaves you with Safari, and the website is okay,...
Open Culture
The 63 Cuisines of China Explained in 40 Minutes: A Complete Primer Wherever in the world you grew up, you probably grew up with an inaccurate idea of Chinese food. For...
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Wherever in the world you grew up, you probably grew up with an inaccurate idea of Chinese food. For Americans, it can come as a shock to hear that such familiar dishes as chop suey and General Tso’s chicken are unknown in China itself. By the same token, almost every country in...
Evan Jones -...
gRPC is easy to misconfigure Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think...
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Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think its popularity is due to being used for parts of Docker and Kubernetes. I think gRPC is mostly fine, but it is surprisingly easy to screw up by misconfiguring it. Part of that is...
Anecdotal Evidence
'That Is My Ambition Here' Does anyone still read “Invictus”? Is it part of any school’s curriculum? It was as late as 1965,...
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Does anyone still read “Invictus”? Is it part of any school’s curriculum? It was as late as 1965, when Miss Wagy had us memorize it in eighth-grade English. The poem is irresistible for recitation, whether privately in times of self-doubt or at the Kiwanis luncheon: “I am...
Beautiful Public...
FAA Aviation Maps Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a...
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Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s aviation maps.
TheCollector
Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay undefined
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2023 The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully...
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The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully photographed circuit board as this month’s entry.
XO Capital - Field...
Everything I've learned about buying small software businesses over the past 4 years 💡 We started out buying 1 business for $25k in 2020. Our deals are now around $1M - $2M purchase...
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💡 We started out buying 1 business for $25k in 2020. Our deals are now around $1M - $2M purchase price. So my notes below relate to a mostly linear path from $25k to ~$2M. XO has been a tough ride. We had some wins, some losses and overall haven&
Maps Mania
The October Solar Eclipse Map
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The Solarchitecture...
The Solar Manifesto - Part 2. ...or how hard it is to name the foundations of a healthy home?
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Old Structures...
Old-Fashioned Spelling From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us...
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From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us “The Willams [sic] Street Cañon”. The drawing seems pretty accurate. Here’s a similar view in a photo from 1928: I am a little suspicious of an article that misspells a street name...
Notes on software...
Writing a simple JSON path parser Let's say we want to implement a simple list filtering language so we can enter a.b = 12 and return...
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Let's say we want to implement a simple list filtering language so we can enter a.b = 12 and return only results in a list where the a column is an object that contains a field b that is set to the value 12. What would a filter(jsonPath, equals, listOfObjects) function...
Londonist
Charlie Brown's - The Story Of Limehouse's Incredible 'Pub Museum' An Aladdin's Cave in the East End.
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99% Invisible
The Known Unknown [EPISODE] How to honor unidentified remains has always been one of the great conundrums of war. The Romans...
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How to honor unidentified remains has always been one of the great conundrums of war. The Romans were fond of honoring them with an empty sarcophagus. After the Civil War, the Union buried 2,111 soldiers in a mass grave in Arlington that they purposely built in the middle of...
Dan Slimmon
Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
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Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about an hour. The exact pathology is a tale for another time, but the investigation led...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Building an Infinite Spreadsheet As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think...
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As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think Figma (infinite canvas) meets Excel (spreadsheet) meets VSCode (IDE). In addition to formulas (e.g. SUM(A1:A5)) every cell in Quadratic can be the result of code (right now it’s...
Acko.net
On Witchcraft Lies, damned lies, and social media Rhetoric about the dangers of the internet is at a feverish...
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Lies, damned lies, and social media Rhetoric about the dangers of the internet is at a feverish high. The new buzzword these days is "disinformation." Funnily enough, nobody actually produces it themselves: it's only other people who do so. Arguably the internet already came up...
TheCollector
Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications) undefined
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Math Is Still...
Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and...
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A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. The post Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making first appeared on...
Marine Madness
Penguin Problems: Are human-induced food shortages driving population declines? We all love penguins. Clumsy and awkward on land, stealthy and precise underwater- these charismatic...
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We all love penguins. Clumsy and awkward on land, stealthy and precise underwater- these charismatic creatures have captured our hearts ever since the release of March of the Penguins. Unfortunately, penguin populations across the globe (especially in South Africa and Antarctica)...
Making software...
Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
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Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles. This is overkill. You can...
Classical Wisdom
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Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible,...
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Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible, while still maintaining the original UI concept. Let's build out a demo example with a simple menu dropdown element. Interesting facts about our final CSS menu: Total weight 121 bytes...
Open Culture
Launch Your Project Management Career with Google’s AI-Enhanced Professional Certificate ?si=TMflasoogRfSD14h Back in 2021, Google released a series of certificate programs, including one...
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?si=TMflasoogRfSD14h Back in 2021, Google released a series of certificate programs, including one focused on Project Management. Designed to give students “an immersive understanding of the practices and skills needed to succeed in an entry-level project management role,” the...
Diaries of Note
Almost flying apart at the seams In the spring of 1965, American author Gail Godwin found herself at a crossroads. For five years,...
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In the spring of 1965, American author Gail Godwin found herself at a crossroads. For five years, she had been living in London, and it was there, while working for the U.S. embassy, that she endured the disappointment of her novel, Gull Key, being rejected by multiple...
The Works in...
Whatever happened to the industrial R&D lab? From the Works in Progress archives.
a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Why I cancelled my Replit subscription <![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of...
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<![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of 2023. Replit is a popular and growing multi language development environment in the cloud. I've been subscribing to the Hacker plan for the past few years and it worked well for my...
Home on Erik...
statself.com Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together:...
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over a year ago
Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together: it's a website where you can track any numerical data on the web. Want to know how many Twitter followers you have?
Mind Mine
the taste issue things i've loved this past year / things i'm excited about in 2025
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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
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Why You Have an Obligation To Be Optimistic The Ethics of Emotional Disposition
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TheCollector
Who Were the 43 Group? undefined
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alexwlchan
Two examples of hover styles on images I enjoy adding :hover styles to my websites. A good hover style reminds me of how fast and...
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I enjoy adding :hover styles to my websites. A good hover style reminds me of how fast and responsive our computers can be, if we let them. For example, I add a thicker underline when you hover over a link on this site, and it appears/disappears almost instantly as I move my...
Matt Blewitt
Service Objects in Rails Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects, in the context of Rails.
Moneyness
There won't be a Blackrock bitcoin ETF, at least not until Binance bites the dust Back in 2018 I wrote about the controversy over the constant stream of bitcoin ETF denials emanating...
a year ago
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Back in 2018 I wrote about the controversy over the constant stream of bitcoin ETF denials emanating from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). And my conclusion then was: "further rejections likely." My conclusion in 2023 is the same. Even with Wall Street-giant...
Platformer
New cracks emerge in Elon Musk's Twitter Jira went down, Slack's gone, and site performance is degraded. What's next?
a year ago
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
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This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site. This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Wow Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Earlier he changed his name to Emperor but nobody...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Earlier he changed his name to Emperor but nobody was buying it. Today's News:
TheCollector
Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality? undefined
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Sponsored Interview: Erkang Zheng of JupiterOne In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Erkang Zheng of JupiterOne. So...
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In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Erkang Zheng of JupiterOne. So Jupiter One is a special company to me. I just built a vuln management program at Robinhood based around them, and I believe so much in their vision that I’m looking to actually...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 21-22 October 2023 Exhibitions, tours, live music, and half term fun.
a year ago
African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond. uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
The DESK Magazine
Introducing: The Escape Machine The day has finally come.
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XO Capital - Field...
We 10x-ed screenshotapi.net and sold it Before we jump in, I was on a pod talking through content, acquisitions, etc: This exit is bitter...
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Before we jump in, I was on a pod talking through content, acquisitions, etc: This exit is bitter sweet. Screenshot was our first ever acquisition. We 10x-ed it, and it is really the reason XO exists today. If this first acquisition hadn't gone well, I think I would
CONTEMPORIST
This Small Home Has Glass Walls And A Glass Ceiling Arno Schuurs and Paulien van Noort of design-build firm GetAway Projects BV, have shared photos of a...
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Arno Schuurs and Paulien van Noort of design-build firm GetAway Projects BV, have shared photos of a tiny house in The Netherlands that they completed that’s almost entirely made out of glass to fully enjoy the surrounding forest. The allowed footprint of the new build was 21...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Coverage Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: C'monnnnnn hatemail. Today's News:
8 months ago
Platformer
The unbearable slowness of Meta's Oversight Board A 234-day wait to get a ruling in a case about incitement to violence suggests that something...
a year ago
Home on Erik...
hdfs2cass Just open sourced hdfs2cass which is a Hadoop job (written in Java) to do efficient Cassandra...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just open sourced hdfs2cass which is a Hadoop job (written in Java) to do efficient Cassandra bulkloading. The nice thing is that it queries Cassandra for its topology and uses that to partition the data so that each reducer can upload data directly to a Cassandra node.
Epic Web Dev
Unleash the Designer in You (with Tailwind CSS) (article) Explore how Tailwind CSS fosters collaboration between developers and designers, enhancing UI design...
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Explore how Tailwind CSS fosters collaboration between developers and designers, enhancing UI design skills with utility classes and shared principles.
Val Sopi
The incredible March 2024 <p>March was an absolutely insane month for <a href="https://blogstatic.io/">blogstatic.io</a>. The...
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<p>March was an absolutely insane month for <a href="https://blogstatic.io/">blogstatic.io</a>. The majority of this spike I can attribute to the <a href="https://blogstatic.io/blog/pricing-2024">price change announcement on March 1st</a> and customers were rushing to lock in...
TheCollector
Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale undefined
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Ruud van Asseldonk
A perspective shift on automated market makers through MEV
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How to brand your startup so it isn't boring The world would be more fun if most startups hadn't undergone a personality vasectomy. Be it the...
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The world would be more fun if most startups hadn't undergone a personality vasectomy. Be it the human instinct for conformity, or the inevitable…
Seth's Blog
Avoiding the trap questions A trick question is designed to fool us into proposing the wrong answer (example below). A trap...
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A trick question is designed to fool us into proposing the wrong answer (example below). A trap question, on the other hand, stops the train completely. A trap question demands an answer, and the answer will paralyze us and keep us from the work at hand. “Yes, but how many...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Playing Chicken with Eagles Some _thing_ has dragged a carcass into my path. It isn't the first corpse I've seen by this pond....
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over a year ago
Some _thing_ has dragged a carcass into my path. It isn't the first corpse I've seen by this pond. The carp grow huge here and I marvel at the long skeletons strewn along the shore as I run by. Are the bodies discarded by disappointed fishermen or the prize of a lucky critter...
Joel Gascoigne
Reflecting on 10 years of building Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the...
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the first version of Buffer. What started as a landing page to gauge interest, and then a very basic product that I worked on alone, has become so much more. Buffer is now a
Diaries of Note
What does it mean if we climb the heights and no one observes it? Lawrence Ferlinghetti, best known as a poet, activist, and co-founder of the renowned City Lights...
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, best known as a poet, activist, and co-founder of the renowned City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, was a central figure in the Beat movement, and his A Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling poetry books of all time. He also travelled far and...
Quantum Frontiers
Now published: Building Quantum Computers Building Quantum Computers: A Practical Introduction by Shayan Majidy, Christopher Wilson, and...
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Building Quantum Computers: A Practical Introduction by Shayan Majidy, Christopher Wilson, and Raymond Laflamme has been published by Cambridge University Press and will be released in the US on September 30. The authors invited me to write a Foreword for … Continue reading →
The Ruffian
The Historian and the Culture Warrior Plus: Thoughts on Responses To the Kaba Verdict
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TheCollector
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Tikalon Blog by Dev...
A.I., Wine, and Beer There have been many studies using scientific instrumentation, mostly gas chromatography, in...
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There have been many studies using scientific instrumentation, mostly gas chromatography, in attempts to find what distinguishes a superb wine from an inexpensive house wine. A typical wine can contain more than 800 different aroma compounds. One study examined two Australian...
Maps Mania
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Rest of World -...
A step counter, but for your prayers At least 20 apps exist to help Muslims track their dhikrs, a form of Islamic worship in which people...
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At least 20 apps exist to help Muslims track their dhikrs, a form of Islamic worship in which people repeat prayers and holy phrases.
TheCollector
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Engineers Need Art
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Remembering Casady & Greene and the excitement (and closing) of an era of Macintosh software publishing.
xkcd.com
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Product and process What do we get in exchange for our work? There’s pay, of course, and the satisfaction of a job well...
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What do we get in exchange for our work? There’s pay, of course, and the satisfaction of a job well done. There’s stress and human interaction, learning and physical exertion. We get the drama of what might happen next and the delight of actually pulling it off. And mostly we get...
The Modern House
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Stoic Simple
How Stoicism Can Calm Anxiety and Bring Peace of Mind Anxiety can be a debilitating condition that affects millions of people worldwide. While there are...
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Anxiety can be a debilitating condition that affects millions of people worldwide. While there are countless treatments available, many individuals find relief in ancient philosophies like Stoicism. In this article, we explore Stoicism's teachings and practical techniques for...
TheCollector
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Nat Eliason's...
Slow Habits Change without Force
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Plastic archeology The history, science and engineering of Lego bricks, on the cusp between trash and treasure.
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Farnam Street
A Wandering Mind: How Travel Can Change the Way You Think Most people travel as an observer, and as a result, “see” a lot. When you travel as an active...
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Most people travel as an observer, and as a result, “see” a lot. When you travel as an active participant, the experience can transform the way you think, and how you see the world. *** Here’s a situation familiar to many of us: We decide to take a vacation and go somewhere...
High Signal
$200k from selling Google Sheets tutorials Andrew Kamphey is a creator who has made $200k from teaching people how to use Google Sheets over...
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Andrew Kamphey is a creator who has made $200k from teaching people how to use Google Sheets over the past three years. Think 'Miss Excel' but he's a beardy guy who doesn't dance in his videos. In this interview Andrew shares his marketing wins,
TheCollector
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Style Review Donut dessert lollipop dragée pudding marzipan jelly Danish icing cake sugar plum chocolate bar...
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Donut dessert lollipop dragée pudding marzipan jelly Danish icing cake sugar plum chocolate bar candy canes macaroon pie. Bear claw bear claw biscuit fruitcake icing brownie. Jelly-o pudding tart cake ice cream jelly-o. Danish sugar plum chocolate cake wafer cake pudding sweet...
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust error handling: Option & Result The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these gracefully and safely in our...
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The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these gracefully and safely in our Rust programs? Let’s introduce two of every Rust programmer’s favourite types: Option and Result.
Infinite Scroll
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Who Was Oscar Wilde? undefined
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Soulbound
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The Platinum Rule You've heard of the Golden Rule? "Treat others as you want to be treated." Introducing the Platinum...
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You've heard of the Golden Rule? "Treat others as you want to be treated." Introducing the Platinum and Silver Rules.
Map of the Week
The New Acadian Heritage Room On my recent trip to Nova Scotia, I stumbled upon the grand opening of the New Acadian Heritage Room...
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a year ago
On my recent trip to Nova Scotia, I stumbled upon the grand opening of the New Acadian Heritage Room at the O’Dell House Museum in Annapolis Royal. I had not known anything about it, but was in the right place on the right day. The room is primarily a collection of maps from the...
Jonas Hietala
The End of the Tunnel Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from...
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over a year ago
Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from the last time. One course about data structure and algorithms (super fun to be honest) has wrapped up. We thought we were ahead with the assignments but in the end it got very...
Jonas Hietala
Geekhack Toxic I came back to Linköping yesterday and I had a package waiting for me to pick it up. What could it...
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over a year ago
I came back to Linköping yesterday and I had a package waiting for me to pick it up. What could it be? With a crummy mobile phone photo I give you my TOXIC keycaps mounted on my trusty old das keyboard: Woooo If only my GH60 could arrive some time this decade…
Hixie's Natural Log
Power dynamics in web specifications My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we...
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My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Creator Clones Fail The Innovator's Dilemma according to MKBHD, applied to YouTube's attempt to clone TikTok
over a year ago
Eukaryote Writes...
Web-surfing tips for strange times Meditations on what's bad about the internet lately and how to use it anyhow.
7 months ago
xkcd.com
Time Capsule Instructions
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ben-mini
Building FirstMover I had one month to find a place to live in Manhattan. I reached out to friends for tips, and nearly...
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I had one month to find a place to live in Manhattan. I reached out to friends for tips, and nearly all of them pointed me to StreetEasy, the Zillow-owned NYC real estate search platform. Some of my more Type-A friends gave me extra helpful advice: Narrow your search to 2-4...
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Subscribe now to get a dose of London transport news in your inbox every Thursday. Four stations miss out on 4G can't ring a friend and have a very loud conversation and they are Paddington, Whitechapel, Canary Wharf and Woolwich. These will be added to the roster next year,...
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Born in Norfolk in 1752, Frances Burney was fifteen when she began to keep a journal, and this entry, in which she identifies her audience, was the first she ever wrote. For 72 years she continued, by which time she was a famous novelist—most notably as the author of Evelina, or...
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A fan of my Library Blanket color palette preview tool asked if I could make one for the Mitered Corner Blanket, so I did. This blanket's square building blocks are also made by holding different pairs of yarns together, so this tool can be used to help imagine how a custom yarn...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
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Caffeine lovers take their coffee very seriously and that is most apparent when you dive into the world of espresso machines. To satisfy enthusiasts, an espresso machine needs to provide precise control over temperature, pressure, and flow to enable the perfect pull. But if...
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Every 10 years the Routemaster Association likes to take over Finsbury Park with a mass line-up of London's favourite heritage vehicle, the RM bus. Unfortunately this year Haringey council made things difficult so the 70th anniversary bash, RM70, had to find a different home....
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Discover my journey from noob to (half) marathon finisher and how I balanced data with fitness - read about my experiences!
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Before the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps encouraged segregation (documented extensively including on this blog), there was this 1934 map by property analyst J. M. Brewer. It showed real estate conditions in Philadelphia with a wary eye towards immigrants,...
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this post is sponsored by Japan Society From July 26-Aug 6, Japan Society is presenting the 16th annual JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film. This year’s festival, which marks the first fully in-person JAPAN CUTS since 2019, features over 25 films from major blockbusters to...
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Simple math can help explain the complexities of the newly discovered aperiodic monotile. The post Math That Goes On Forever but Never Repeats first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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With conversation threading (which almost everyone has enabled), Gmail was trimming the bottom of the emails we send with our new app because they were too similar to the other emails in the conversation thread. They’re similar because that’s just the link to get back into the...
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We actually don’t really know. Netflix just released their first-ever detailed analysis of how many hours of engagement the top 15,000+ most watched shows on the network received over a six month period. Here’s the file. Who won? That question is actually the lesson here. The...
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With TokyoDev, this site, my goal is to help international software developers start and grow their career in Japan. Being a developer myself, it's been tempting to come up with technical solutions to do this. But I've realized that rather than writing code, my time is better...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later bean guy makes a fortune selling cans of beans with his label on them. People who hate him are 60% of his audience. He goes on to a university position in media studies. Today's News:
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I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the markets. Most of that advice focuses on how founders need to adjust to survive the...
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Syncing files seamlessly between smartphone and tablet In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on...
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In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on both my computer and smartphone. Read along to find out how I did it.
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Ruzena Bajcsy is one of the founders of the modern field of robotics. With an education in electrical engineering in Slovakia, followed by a Ph.D. at Stanford, Bajcsy was the first woman to join the engineering faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the first, she...
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Ever since O. Henry wrote about the Magi, it’s been pretty clear that gifts aren’t about the stuff as much as they are the intent. Holidays where gifts are expected undermine this, because it’s hard to tell where obligation begins and intent fades away. One lightweight and quick...
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The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
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One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise. I had to get my...
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Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free to reach out if you find something you love. Best, Daniel InfoSec When to Use Vulnerability Assessment, Pentest, Red Team, vs Bug Bounty How to Build a Successful Information...
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Once their leaves come out, trees are green until the autumn. But they're never as brilliantly green as they are in early spring when the leaves are still young. The canopy is a beautiful burst of light greens, a mix of subtle tones of jade and emerald. Here's the view from...
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MAYFAIR £400   London's Monopoly Streets MAYFAIR Colour group: dark blue Purchase price: £400 Rent: £50 Area: 1km² Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1 Mayfair was mostly fields until the late 17th century when Sir Thomas Grosvenor, a Cheshire baronet, made an exceptionally...
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When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do...
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image courtesy Mainichi Shimbun Despite today’s date, this is not an April Fool’s prank. At a press conference in Tokyo last weekend, professor Hiroshi Yoshida from the Tohoku University Research Center for Aged Economy and Society, sounded the alarm bell for a looming crisis. By...
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I suck at New Year's Resolutions. Most of them are boring which is one reason we don't really stick with them.
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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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In recent years, tools such as the FlipperZero have become quite popular amongst hobbyists and security professionals alike for their small size and wide array of hacking tools. Inspired by the functionality of the FlipperZero, Project Hub user ‘andreockx’ created a similar...
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The new issue of our print magazine has just landed in our shop – and it’s filled with stories that look at the journeys we go on with our homes, from the emotional paths they take us on, to the very real process of renovating […]
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Photos on this page courtesy of the Falklands Maritime Heritage  Few who hear the story of the Endurance could avoid reflecting on the aptness of the ship’s name. A year after setting out on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, it got stuck in a mass of drifting ice...
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Style over Substance
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How I modified an Instax Wide instant camera to mount a Mamiya Press medium format lens The post Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod appeared first on Style over Substance.
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*Spy for Spy*, at Riverside Studios Last night I went to see the second preview of Spy For Spy, which I very much enjoyed. It’s a...
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Last night I went to see the second preview of Spy For Spy, which I very much enjoyed. It’s a romance story with a clever narrative twist – it’s being told in the wrong order. Aside from the prologue and epilogue, the show is split into six scenes from the Molly and Sarah’s...
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First week of school is over and it’s been full throttle from the start, in a good way. We’re having four courses and for once I like them all. We have an interesting math course, a useful course “Software Development in Theory” (boring but useful) and a big project course where...
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Exploring Medley as a Common Lisp development environment <![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp...
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<![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp is a project for preserving, reviving, and modernizing the Interlisp-D software development environment of the Lisp Machines Xerox created at PARC. Nine months later I know...
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Ken Griffey Jr’s face was sandwiched between thick plastic, his friendly grin locked up – screwed tight at four corners. A gold chain hung around his Mariner’s blue turtleneck, a bat rested on his left shoulder, calligraphic letters hovered above a gold star announcing the birth...
Anecdotal Evidence
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As a non-mathematician, I’m more interested in the history of mathematics than in math itself. That’s a confession of inadequacy, though I’m not one of those people who says, “I don’t have a head for math,” when what they really mean is arithmetic. Because of my job I’ve learned...
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Delaying The Obvious Solution The idea behind Columbus Circle was a good one. The corner of a large park (Central Park, in this...
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The idea behind Columbus Circle was a good one. The corner of a large park (Central Park, in this case) is a good place to have a monumental space. The only problem was reality: the southwest corner of Central Park is the intersection of Central Park West (AKA Eight Avenue),...
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Poetry is a notable absence in my book lists. I assumed at this time that because novels excited my attention, poetry should do too. Under this assumption I bought and read Wallace Stevens' Collected Poems in this chunky Faber edition, adding an ugly plastic cover.* Many of...
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Ever wondered, "Is there an AI to see how your baby looks?" Well you're not alone! OurBabyAI is an app that shows how your future baby may look.
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I have just conducted an experiment where I forced myself to use Bing's new chat-based search for almost a week, and spoiler alert: I loved it. But I'll get into that later. Googling without Google When was the last time you searched Google and found the answer on the...
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Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at...
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Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at your browser’s URL - I’ve swapped over to a new domain for my personal website: tdarb.org. I’m a fickle person and this is a random change - but it is one I’ve been planning to do...
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Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from other countries, and if that means that…
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It’s 2020 and if you are like me you are hoping to spend as much of this year in a flow state as possible. I am always looking for hacks that allow my to get into the zone faster, stay there longer, and increase my creative output. Here’s a new trick that has been working for me...
TheCollector
7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations undefined
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Zhoushan Summer Hotel Phase II by MAT Office The Zhoushan Summer Hotel was completed five years ago. The strategy of adding balconies and...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The Zhoushan Summer Hotel was completed five years ago. The strategy of adding balconies and changing the facades at that...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Context Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Anyone taking this comic out of context will be...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Anyone taking this comic out of context will be sent a prize. Today's News:
Anecdotal Evidence
'Intensely Cultivated and Painstakingly Honest' In the brief foreword to her first prose collection, Predilections (1955), Marianne Moore writes as...
a month ago
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a month ago
In the brief foreword to her first prose collection, Predilections (1955), Marianne Moore writes as good an apologia for her manner of writing, among others, as I’ve ever encountered: “Silence is more eloquent than speech – a truism; but sometimes something that someone...
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976) Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
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a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic. Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
The Marginalian
The First Scientist’s Guide to Truth: Alhazen on Critical Thinking Born into a world with no clocks, telescopes, microscopes, or democracy, Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham...
a year ago
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a year ago
Born into a world with no clocks, telescopes, microscopes, or democracy, Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (c. 965–c. 1040), known in the West as Alhazen, began his life studying religion, but grew quickly disenchanted by its unquestioned dogmas and the way it turned people on each other with...
Willem's Blog
Climbing Mount Etna Climbing Mount Etna, an active volcano on Sicily Italy.
over a year ago
Eukaryote Writes...
A point of clarification on infohazard terminology “Infohazard” means any kind of information that could be harmful in some fashion. Let’s use “memetic...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Infohazard” means any kind of information that could be harmful in some fashion. Let’s use “memetic hazard” to describe information that could specifically harm the person who knows it.
TheCollector
Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit undefined
a month ago