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A Beautiful Site
JSON Feed JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec,...
over a year ago
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JSON Feed

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

over a year ago
JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec, introduced just last week, but it's been getting some major coverage and a number of applications have already started supporting it. Since Postleaf was built for the modern...
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Flashbak
Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots “The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt  ...
a year ago
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots

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a year ago
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt   Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
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Asterisk
Mysticism & Empiricism The best way to predict if you’ll benefit from psychedelic therapy is a questionnaire asking if...
a year ago
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Mysticism & Empiricism

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a year ago
The best way to predict if you’ll benefit from psychedelic therapy is a questionnaire asking if you’ve met God. Where did it come from, and what is it really measuring?
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Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much? Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
10 months ago
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When to write strategy, and how much?

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10 months ago
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
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The Honest Broker
The Death of the Slow Dance (and Other Emerging Trends) My latest briefing paper on the state of the creative economy
a year ago
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The Death of the Slow Dance (and Other Emerging Trends)

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a year ago
My latest briefing paper on the state of the creative economy
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Mazdak
What is QSBS? As a small business owner, you know the importance of every dollar. You pour your heart and soul...
a year ago
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What is QSBS?

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a year ago
As a small business owner, you know the importance of every dollar. You pour your heart and soul into your company, and you want to see it thrive. But taxes can eat into your profits, leaving you feeling frustrated and discouraged. That's where QSBS (Qualified Small Business...
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Seth's Blog
The Coney Island problem Disney theme parks created more than 20 billion dollars in revenue last year. Coney Island, not so...
a year ago
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The Coney Island problem

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

a year ago
Disney theme parks created more than 20 billion dollars in revenue last year. Coney Island, not so much. Coney Island is dozens of small honky tonk vendors and attractions, an ecosystem, not a corporation. Independent local stores got hammered by the more organized stores in the...
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The Pragmatic...
Uber’s engineering level changes Uber revamped its engineering levels in 2022. How did the levels evolve over time, why was it time...
over a year ago
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Uber’s engineering level changes

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Uber revamped its engineering levels in 2022. How did the levels evolve over time, why was it time to change, and what were they? I’ve collected details.
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Rest of World -...
Nigerian businesses increasingly skip traditional banks and turn to Moniepoint Moniepoint’s payment machines have become ubiquitous across Nigeria. But the company faces...
a year ago
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Nigerian businesses increasingly skip traditional banks and turn to Moniepoint

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a year ago
Moniepoint’s payment machines have become ubiquitous across Nigeria. But the company faces competition from Chinese-backed OPay.
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Confessions of a...
How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal Another Python gotcha and an investigation into its internals to understand why this happens
a year ago
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How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal

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a year ago
Another Python gotcha and an investigation into its internals to understand why this happens
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Flashbak
‘Goldfish Are Wankers’: London Graffiti, 1984-1994 In 1994, the graffiti on the wall that ran along the Riverside Path in London’s Thamesmead told...
3 months ago
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‘Goldfish Are Wankers’: London Graffiti, 1984-1994

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3 months ago
In 1994, the graffiti on the wall that ran along the Riverside Path in London’s Thamesmead told everyone that “GOLDFISH ARE WANKERS”.  We’ve seen “LESBIAN TURDS“, learned that “Cats like plain Crisps” and that you can “FREE KUWAIT WITH TIGER TOKENS“, but this is the first...
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Retail Design Blog
AREMAR jewelry Showroom Upon entering the Aremar showroom, visitors find a refined environment of curved forms and textured...
5 months ago
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AREMAR jewelry Showroom

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

5 months ago
Upon entering the Aremar showroom, visitors find a refined environment of curved forms and textured surfaces, highlighted by a subtle...
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Common Edge
Contemporary Architecture and the Modern City Americans don’t like modern buildings because they don’t like the modern city.
10 months ago
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Contemporary Architecture and the Modern City

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10 months ago
Americans don’t like modern buildings because they don’t like the modern city.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Market Yourself Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market...
over a year ago
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How to Market Yourself

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

over a year ago
Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market Yourself in Public + at Work.
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xkcd.com
Demons
8 months ago
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Demons

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8 months ago
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Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
8 months ago
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s

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8 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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Matt Blewitt
Lua: The Little Language That Could Lua is probably my favourite “little language” - a language designed to have low cognitive load, and...
over a year ago
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Lua: The Little Language That Could

from Matt Blewitt [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Lua is probably my favourite “little language” - a language designed to have low cognitive load, and be easy to learn and use. It’s embedded in a lot of software, such as Redis, NGINX via OpenResty and Wireshark. It’s also used as a scripting language in games such as World of...
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Matt Mazur
Nick Kolenda Reviews Preceden Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing...
over a year ago
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Nick Kolenda Reviews Preceden

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing and related topics like pricing optimization, sales psychology, and website behavior. He’s also happens to be a regular in a poker game I host each week. A few months back he...
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Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
a year ago
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Daily Inspirational Word

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

a year ago
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...
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Christopher Butler
Link – Rebecca Toh's Personal Website rebeccatoh.co is a really nice personal website. Something about the chunkiness of Karla at 700...
a year ago
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Link – Rebecca Toh's Personal Website

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
rebeccatoh.co is a really nice personal website. Something about the chunkiness of Karla at 700 weight is just ideal, and the colors Rebecca has chosen are unique and gentle. It is all just perfectly simple and lovely to read.
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Month 3 of Daily Art Since January 1, I have been posting one piece of art a day.
over a year ago
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Month 3 of Daily Art

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over a year ago
Since January 1, I have been posting one piece of art a day.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
21 Must-Try Michelin-Star Restaurants in Monaco
a year ago
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21 Must-Try Michelin-Star Restaurants in Monaco

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Marcus on AI
Did Elon Musk just Mu$k Sam Altman? With some bonus eye candy to lighten the mood
4 months ago
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Did Elon Musk just Mu$k Sam Altman?

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4 months ago
With some bonus eye candy to lighten the mood
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Open Culture
Inside SNL: Al Franken Reveals How Saturday Night Live Is Crafted Every Week As Saturday Night Live celebrates its 50th anniversary, Al Franken takes you inside the making of an...
4 months ago
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Inside SNL: Al Franken Reveals How Saturday Night Live Is Crafted Every Week

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4 months ago
As Saturday Night Live celebrates its 50th anniversary, Al Franken takes you inside the making of an SNL episode. He should know a thing or two about the subject. Part of the original SNL writing team, Franken spent 15 years writing and performing for the show. (Anyone remember...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ There's a Tarantula In Our Room “Err, I just saw a head poke out.” “What?” “I think there’s a rat or mouse in our...
over a year ago
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✏️ There's a Tarantula In Our Room

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over a year ago
“Err, I just saw a head poke out.” “What?” “I think there’s a rat or mouse in our room.” “Where?” “Near your bags. I saw a head.” Gingerly and slowly, I tiptoe over to my pile of bags, just a few feet away and peer around them. I see nothing, and my bags are leaning against an...
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Flashbak
Hannah Arendt on Jews, Refugees And Suicide, 1943 “The comity of European peoples went to pieces when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to...
4 days ago
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Hannah Arendt on Jews, Refugees And Suicide, 1943

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4 days ago
“The comity of European peoples went to pieces when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to be excluded and persecuted.” – Hannah Arendt, We Refugees, 1943     Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906–December 4, 1975) was a German Jew who escaped the Holocaust, became an American...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Bringing AWS to App Developers Where Amplify fits in AWS' trajectory, and why I am joining
over a year ago
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Bringing AWS to App Developers

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over a year ago
Where Amplify fits in AWS' trajectory, and why I am joining
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Articles
Stop by for coffee I live in the interior of BC, Canada, surrounded by lakes and mountains. It's not easy getting here....
over a year ago
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Stop by for coffee

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over a year ago
I live in the interior of BC, Canada, surrounded by lakes and mountains. It's not easy getting here. If you make the trip, I'll try to meet with you.
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The Honest Broker
I'm Confessing that I Love Doris Day As a jazz singer—but I don't know if that makes it better or worse
over a year ago
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I'm Confessing that I Love Doris Day

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over a year ago
As a jazz singer—but I don't know if that makes it better or worse
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David Heinemeier...
Staying in the arena One of the things that can seem difficult to understand for people who merely tolerate having a job...
over a year ago
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Staying in the arena

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
One of the things that can seem difficult to understand for people who merely tolerate having a job is why anyone would continue working if they didn't have to. You often see a version of this incredulity when the peanut gallery weighs in on the choices of billionaires. Why do...
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Quanta Magazine
Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent...
6 months ago
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Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life

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6 months ago
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab. The post Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life first appeared...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dying Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Who is kind - he that kicketh a man in the balls...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dying

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Who is kind - he that kicketh a man in the balls for no reason, or he that doeth not? Today's News:
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History Today Feed
Martin Crusius’ Armchair Voyage Martin Crusius’ Armchair Voyage JamesHoare Wed, 05/14/2025 - 10:36
a month ago
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Martin Crusius’ Armchair Voyage

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a month ago
Martin Crusius’ Armchair Voyage JamesHoare Wed, 05/14/2025 - 10:36
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NeuroLogica Blog
Carbon Fiber Structural Battery I have written previously about the concept of structural batteries, such as this recent post on a...
9 months ago
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Carbon Fiber Structural Battery

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

9 months ago
I have written previously about the concept of structural batteries, such as this recent post on a concrete battery. The basic idea is a battery made out of material that is strong enough that it can bare a load. Essentially we’re asking the material to do two things at once – be...
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TheCollector
9 Facts About St. Patrick’s Day You Never Knew Though St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, people all over the globe celebrate his feast...
3 months ago
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9 Facts About St. Patrick’s Day You Never Knew

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3 months ago
Though St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, people all over the globe celebrate his feast day, March 17, every year. Generally, in the United States, this celebration follows a standard order: don something green, go to a parade, eat corned beef and cabbage, and drink a...
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alexwlchan
Getting the base directory of an sbt project This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $...
over a year ago
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Getting the base directory of an sbt project

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $ sbt --batch -error "project $PROJECT" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d "\n" For example: $ sbt --batch -error "project ingests_api" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d...
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Yale e360
Environmental Enforcement Slows Under Trump Federal enforcement of environmental laws has slowed significantly under President Trump. Read more...
a month ago
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Environmental Enforcement Slows Under Trump

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a month ago
Federal enforcement of environmental laws has slowed significantly under President Trump. Read more on E360 →
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Research Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I have this fear that one day an all-powerful AI...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Research

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I have this fear that one day an all-powerful AI will be able to examine a statement you made and determine precisely where you got the information and it will be the most shame-filled moment of your life. Today's News: Very sweet...
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The Ruffian
Hitler's Willing Executioners On the genocidal mindset
a year ago
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Hitler's Willing Executioners

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a year ago
On the genocidal mindset
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Jenny McCabe I am printmaker based up north in Lancaster. I currently work mainly with intaglio printmaking...
over a year ago
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Meet the Maker: Jenny McCabe

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
I am printmaker based up north in Lancaster. I currently work mainly with intaglio printmaking methods, preferring metal plate etchings and card Collagraph constructed plates. I have been making printed items for many years including printed textiles and writing books about...
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TheCollector
The First Independent US Intelligence Agency: What Was the OSS? The OSS, or Office of Strategic Services, came into being on President Roosevelt’s order on June 13,...
2 months ago
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The First Independent US Intelligence Agency: What Was the OSS?

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2 months ago
The OSS, or Office of Strategic Services, came into being on President Roosevelt’s order on June 13, 1942, during World War II. The agency’s responsibilities included consolidating the nation’s intelligence efforts, collecting and analyzing strategic information, and conducting...
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Londonist
Hither Green Rail Crash: 1967 Disaster Was One Of London's Worst "I saw one of the coaches go straight up on its end."
a year ago
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Hither Green Rail Crash: 1967 Disaster Was One Of London's Worst

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a year ago
"I saw one of the coaches go straight up on its end."
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
The default state of a startup is failure If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to...
over a year ago
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The default state of a startup is failure

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over a year ago
If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to happen, that’s because the world wants…
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Good Enough
TIL: Turbo Stream broadcasting needs default_url_options to be set We've been using Turbo Streams in some of our recent prototypes, which makes it really easy and fun...
over a year ago
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TIL: Turbo Stream broadcasting needs default_url_options to be set

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over a year ago
We've been using Turbo Streams in some of our recent prototypes, which makes it really easy and fun to get responsive and fun interactions set up. However, we kept having issues with images sent in a turbo stream response. If the response was delivered by a normal controller...
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Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,”  he...
a year ago
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s

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a year ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,”  he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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Escaping Flatland
The third chair I remembered my loneliness; I felt it with a defencelessness that I had denied myself at the time....
a year ago
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The third chair

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a year ago
I remembered my loneliness; I felt it with a defencelessness that I had denied myself at the time. The feeling that writing was impossible; that I would never find a place in the world that felt like home; that no one except my wife would ever care about me, about the things that...
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Calculated Risk
Housing April 7th Weekly Update: Inventory up 2.3% Week-over-week, Up 34.7% Year-over-year Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 2.3% week-over-week. Inventory is now up...
2 months ago
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Housing April 7th Weekly Update: Inventory up 2.3% Week-over-week, Up 34.7% Year-over-year

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2 months ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 2.3% week-over-week. Inventory is now up 10.7% from the seasonal bottom in January and is increasing.   Usually, inventory is up about 4% or 5% from the seasonal low by this week in the year.   So, 2025 is seeing a...
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TokyoDev
Getting a job at a Japanese startup At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead...
over a year ago
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Getting a job at a Japanese startup

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead software developer at [Crowdcast](http://crowdcast.jp/), a Japanese startup with a product, [bizNote](https://secure.biznote.jp/) that makes small business accounting easier. As it...
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symmetry magazine
Celebrating Dark Matter Day in Latin America Scientists, artists, communicators and physics fans find creative ways to mark the unofficial...
a year ago
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Celebrating Dark Matter Day in Latin America

from symmetry magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Scientists, artists, communicators and physics fans find creative ways to mark the unofficial holiday devoted to dark matter.
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mtlynch.io
Hiring Content Writers: A Guide for Small Businesses If you write original content for your business, you know how quickly it drains your time and mental...
over a year ago
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Hiring Content Writers: A Guide for Small Businesses

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
If you write original content for your business, you know how quickly it drains your time and mental energy. It’s extremely challenging to write articles or blog posts that readers find engaging, clear, and eloquent. You may have considered hiring a freelance writer, but it’s...
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Tom Blomfield
Getting Shit Done I was recently talking to a handful of successful startups founders about issues they were facing as...
over a year ago
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Getting Shit Done

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I was recently talking to a handful of successful startups founders about issues they were facing as they scaled up their companies. Unanimously, hiring and retaining people who “get shit done” seemed to be their biggest problem. I’ve been thinking about this for the last few...
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Mazdak
OpenAI’s Operator Tool: A Glimpse into the Future of Autonomous AI Agents Imagine an AI tool that doesn’t just assist but takes over tasks like writing code, booking travel,...
5 months ago
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OpenAI’s Operator Tool: A Glimpse into the Future of Autonomous AI Agents

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
Imagine an AI tool that doesn’t just assist but takes over tasks like writing code, booking travel, or managing your schedule—all autonomously.
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Seth's Blog
It could have easily gone the other way It could have been way better. It could have been far worse. It’s easy to imagine that outcomes are...
a year ago
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It could have easily gone the other way

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

a year ago
It could have been way better. It could have been far worse. It’s easy to imagine that outcomes are inevitable, but they’re not. Was it your fault, or was it luck (good or bad)? If our story of the past is filled with second guesses, shame or blame, it can carry forward. Or...
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TheCollector
5 Great Achievements of the Roman Emperor Nerva Marcus Cocceius Nerva became emperor of the Roman Empire following the assassination of Domitian in...
2 months ago
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5 Great Achievements of the Roman Emperor Nerva

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Marcus Cocceius Nerva became emperor of the Roman Empire following the assassination of Domitian in 96 CE. Chosen by the senate, he was the first in the series known as the “Five Good Emperors.” But his short reign is often overshadowed by the chaos and fear caused by his...
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Citation Needed
Issue 73 – Degen volunteer fire brigade Terra founder Do Kwon is finally extradited, the CFPB proposes crypto consumer protections, and...
5 months ago
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Issue 73 – Degen volunteer fire brigade

from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
Terra founder Do Kwon is finally extradited, the CFPB proposes crypto consumer protections, and Polymarket reaches new lows.
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Seth's Blog
Project resistance In Steven Pressfield’s classic The War of Art, he introduces the idea of Resistance. It’s the...
a year ago
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Project resistance

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

a year ago
In Steven Pressfield’s classic The War of Art, he introduces the idea of Resistance. It’s the internal force that keeps us from doing our most important creative work. If an instinct, a habit or a feeling gets in the way of the work, it’s Pressfield’s Resistance. Things we would...
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XO Capital - Field...
Distribution As part of UCLA's MBA program, I've had the opportunity to sit in on some VC pitches. It's been a...
a year ago
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Distribution

from XO Capital - Field Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
As part of UCLA's MBA program, I've had the opportunity to sit in on some VC pitches. It's been a while since I've stepped back and looked at the broader startup ecosystem. My head has been in the micro saas space for
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bt RSS Feed
Blogging for 7 Years Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven...
over a year ago
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Blogging for 7 Years

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

over a year ago
Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven years ago. In that time, quite a lot has changed in my life both personally and professionally. So, I figured it would be interesting to reflect on these years and document it for...
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Seth's Blog
A bowl of rice It’s expensive. Hundreds of people were involved in getting you that simple bowl of rice. It...
11 months ago
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A bowl of rice

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

11 months ago
It’s expensive. Hundreds of people were involved in getting you that simple bowl of rice. It involved countless gallons of water, hours of labor, gallons of fuel. A complex supply chain that ensured you got what you needed, in perfect condition, just as you were ready for it. And...
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99% Invisible
Trail Mix: Track Two [EPISODE] Welcome to our second episode of short stories all about what may be the original designed object:...
a year ago
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Trail Mix: Track Two [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Welcome to our second episode of short stories all about what may be the original designed object: the trail. If you haven’t heard the first episode yet you should totally go back and listen. It’s a lot of fun. Trail Mix We’re going to kick this second episode once again starting...
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Seth's Blog
Can’t wait The urgent problem might actually benefit from a short cooling-off period. But important challenges...
over a year ago
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Can’t wait

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

over a year ago
The urgent problem might actually benefit from a short cooling-off period. But important challenges can’t wait. Today is a good day to remember that better is possible, and that we shouldn’t wait for the problem to become easy or fade away. Better begins with each of us, but it...
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The DESK Magazine
One step forward, two steps backwards — From the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №255 ⏱️ Average reading time: 4 minutes 🎵 Soundtrack of this essay: Listen here while reading It's a...
5 months ago
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One step forward, two steps backwards — From the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №255

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

5 months ago
⏱️ Average reading time: 4 minutes 🎵 Soundtrack of this essay: Listen here while reading It's a curious paradox: Scroll through your Instagram feed or peek at your own profile and you'll likely find pixel perfect, high-resolution photos deliberately aged and weathered with...
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One Useful Thing
The Machines of Mastery "Anyone can learn anything they want..." and how technology can help
over a year ago
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The Machines of Mastery

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

over a year ago
"Anyone can learn anything they want..." and how technology can help
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Paul Cudenec
The global mafia and its designs on Africa Rwanda has in recent years become an important nerve-centre for the global criminocracy’s...
6 months ago
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The global mafia and its designs on Africa

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

6 months ago
Rwanda has in recent years become an important nerve-centre for the global criminocracy’s financial-imperialist designs on Africa, as I set out in an August 2023 article entitled ‘Cogs of corruption and control’.
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Computer Ads from...
MacWorld Interviews Apple CEO John Sculley (1987) They discuss the future of Apple, personal computing, and the Mac II
7 months ago
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MacWorld Interviews Apple CEO John Sculley (1987)

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago
They discuss the future of Apple, personal computing, and the Mac II
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
More Thoughts On Amazon and One Medical | Out-Of-Pocket Is this the start of Amazon's business offering? A recession hedge?
a year ago
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More Thoughts On Amazon and One Medical | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Is this the start of Amazon's business offering? A recession hedge?
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Blog - Bitfield...
Slow, flaky, and failing Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and...
5 months ago
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Slow, flaky, and failing

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

5 months ago
Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and dangerous: one day it might fail for real, and you won’t notice. Here’s what to do.
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Marc Astbury
The Continuum of Design Where do we go from here? User centricity helped us build software, but what comes next? The past:...
6 months ago
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The Continuum of Design

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
Where do we go from here? User centricity helped us build software, but what comes next? The past: the genius designer design through ideology Vignelli, Da Vinci, Le Corbusier etc. master designer will intuit problems and find solutions, a moment of genius designing with atoms...
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Retail Design Blog
Hoovu by Stratedgy Hoovu, known for their fresh prayer flower delivery, was ripe to deepen their relationship with...
10 months ago
30

Hoovu by Stratedgy

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

10 months ago
Hoovu, known for their fresh prayer flower delivery, was ripe to deepen their relationship with their customers. Having gained customer...
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Tony Finch's blog
Migrating to BIND9 dnssec-policy Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new...
a year ago
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Migrating to BIND9 dnssec-policy

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

a year ago
Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy. I have been procrastinating this migration for years, and I avoided learning anything much about dnssec-policy until this month. I’m writing this from the perspective of a DNS...
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Steve Klabnik
Beware subclassing Ruby core classes
over a year ago
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Beware subclassing Ruby core classes

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

over a year ago
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Josh Thompson
On Fables: Finishing up Antifragile I’m cleaning up some notes I wanted to jot down over the last few weeks Nassim Taleb, in...
over a year ago
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On Fables: Finishing up Antifragile

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

over a year ago
I’m cleaning up some notes I wanted to jot down over the last few weeks Nassim Taleb, in Antifragile, says: The great economist Ariel Rubinstein gets the green lumber fallacy - it requires a great deal of intellect and honesty to see things that way. Rubinstein refuses to...
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Notes on software...
The case for comments in code When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose...
over a year ago
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The case for comments in code

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

over a year ago
When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose and would often duplicate in English what the code clearly indicated. I knew that "commenting is good" but as a beginner I had no further insight. Over time with the help of books...
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Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics It's about having small expectations.
over a year ago
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The Rise of Extractive Politics

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

over a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
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Steve Blank
The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics Richard...
over a year ago
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The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics Richard Feynman Tens of billions of public and private capital are being invested in Quantum technologies. Countries across the world have realized that quantum technologies can be a major...
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Identity Designed
September Café & Cake Designed by Chochoi Creative, Ho Chi Minh City.
over a year ago
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September Café & Cake

from Identity Designed [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Designed by Chochoi Creative, Ho Chi Minh City.
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Drew Ex Machina
USAF Project Able-1: The First Attempt to Reach the Moon In the years leading up to the beginning of the Space Age, there were many studies made in the West...
over a year ago
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USAF Project Able-1: The First Attempt to Reach the Moon

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

over a year ago
In the years leading up to the beginning of the Space Age, there were many studies made in the West about lunar missions which gripped the […]
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Home on Erik...
ML at Twitter I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is...
over a year ago
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ML at Twitter

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

over a year ago
I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is pretty interesting. Everything is a Pig workflow and then they do everything as UDF's. This approach seems pretty interesting.
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David Crawshaw
Sharp-Edged Finalizers in Go Sharp-Edged Finalizers in Go 2018-04-05, David Crawshaw For background, see my last post on why in...
over a year ago
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Sharp-Edged Finalizers in Go

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Sharp-Edged Finalizers in Go 2018-04-05, David Crawshaw For background, see my last post on why in general .finalizers do not work We cannot use an object finalizer for resource management, because finalizers are called at some unpredictable distant time long after resources need...
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Christopher Butler
object – Bedside Lamp It’s not smart, but it dims. We briefly dabbled with smart-bulbs in our house. It did not go...
over a year ago
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object – Bedside Lamp

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
It’s not smart, but it dims. We briefly dabbled with smart-bulbs in our house. It did not go well. Why we make these things, I do not know. Why is controlling a lamp with your phone better than with your hands? What I noticed after creating a smart light array in our house...
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diamond geezer
London's three fare scales Ever since contactless travel became the norm, people have got used to swanning round London without...
a month ago
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London's three fare scales

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

a month ago
Ever since contactless travel became the norm, people have got used to swanning round London without knowing what their journey costs. Swipe, travel, swipe, and somewhere around four the next morning your bank balance is adjusted by the requisite total. The capital's fare system...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Ryan Dahl Talks Deno on The Changelog Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more...
8 months ago
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Ryan Dahl Talks Deno on The Changelog

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8 months ago
Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more broadly. What follows are a few things that stood out to me. His Regrets From Node Are Now in Deno I think it’s interesting that Ryan’s famous talk 10 Things I Regret About Node.js...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly, what're the odds we DON'T creep out...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly, what're the odds we DON'T creep out God? Today's News:
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Calculated Risk
Thursday: National Day of Mourning for former President Jimmy Carter, Unemployment Claims Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Thursday: NYSE...
5 months ago
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Thursday: National Day of Mourning for former President Jimmy Carter, Unemployment Claims

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Thursday: NYSE and the NASDAQ will be closed in observance of a National Day of Mourning for former President Jimmy Carter. Small Business Optimism Index for December. initial weekly unemployment...
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Arduino Blog
5 ways to use Arduino with kids One of the great things about making is that it really is for everyone — every budget, every skill...
a year ago
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5 ways to use Arduino with kids

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
One of the great things about making is that it really is for everyone — every budget, every skill level, and every age group. Children are one of the groups that can benefit the most from Arduino. Getting exposed to making and home automation from an early age can be enormously...
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Pia Bramley I’m an artist, illustrator and printmaker. Having left London after a decade of city life I now live...
a year ago
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Meet the Maker: Pia Bramley

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
I’m an artist, illustrator and printmaker. Having left London after a decade of city life I now live and work in The New Forest, squeezing in drawing and printing around caring for a three year old. How and where did you learn to print? I did my foundation at KIAD (formerly...
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Isabel Unraveled
my phone is making me dumb is yours too?
6 months ago
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my phone is making me dumb

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6 months ago
is yours too?
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xkcd.com
Types of Eclipse Photo
a year ago
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Types of Eclipse Photo

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a year ago
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The Map is Mostly...
Start With Creation Not knowing what one is doing is no prohibition on doing it. We all grope ahead. — Anne Carson
over a year ago
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Start With Creation

from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Not knowing what one is doing is no prohibition on doing it. We all grope ahead. — Anne Carson
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Color Theory Scams, Exposing How Designers Manipulate You With Color I am here to give you permission to call them out next time you hear color jargon. It is time...
over a year ago
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Color Theory Scams, Exposing How Designers Manipulate You With Color

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
I am here to give you permission to call them out next time you hear color jargon. It is time someone exposed the babble for what it is, manipulation.
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Londonist
Rare Chelsea Books: Memories Of A Bookshop On The King's Road "We discouraged visitors from bringing in galettes, to prevent sticky fingers."
a year ago
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Rare Chelsea Books: Memories Of A Bookshop On The King's Road

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
"We discouraged visitors from bringing in galettes, to prevent sticky fingers."
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The Pragmatic...
Code Review on Printed Paper: an Excerpt from the Twitoons Comic Book 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every...
a year ago
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Code Review on Printed Paper: an Excerpt from the Twitoons Comic Book

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. In this article, we cover two out of seven topics from today’s
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Not Boring by Packy...
Long Questions/Short Answers Questions reshape reality
4 months ago
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Long Questions/Short Answers

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative

4 months ago
Questions reshape reality
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Rozado’s Visual...
Is the Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part I: Some Multifaceted Evidence from Twitter Content There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham...
over a year ago
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Is the Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part I: Some Multifaceted Evidence from Twitter Content

from Rozado’s Visual Analytics [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham and Musa Al Gharbi as to whether The Great Awokening is winding down. I’m going to write a series of blog entries about this topic to contribute to the discussion. In order to do...
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TheCollector
The Devaluation of the Denarius Under Augustus: What Happened? In the 3rd century BCE, the Romans began using the silver denarius as their standard form of...
2 months ago
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The Devaluation of the Denarius Under Augustus: What Happened?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
In the 3rd century BCE, the Romans began using the silver denarius as their standard form of currency. As the Republic grew in size and stature, the denarius played an important role in the international economy, requiring more silver to mint the coins. The system continued to...
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Maps Mania
Your Local Business Chatbots
5 months ago
26

Your Local Business Chatbots

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

5 months ago
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Starfish Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Do not try this at home. Today's News:
a month ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Starfish

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Do not try this at home. Today's News:
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Josh Thompson
On Money (again) Recently I posted thoughts about money I’d written from back in 2013.  Money is hard to write about,...
over a year ago
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On Money (again)

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over a year ago
Recently I posted thoughts about money I’d written from back in 2013.  Money is hard to write about, because there are many different ways we can approach it. It’s easy to feel judged when someone does something with their money that I don’t do with mine. That all said, there...
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Both Are True
All Day I Dream About Substack (ADIDAS) writing is the new sex
8 months ago
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All Day I Dream About Substack (ADIDAS)

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8 months ago
writing is the new sex
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Liz Denys
Better with Star Wars, baking is Isn't everything? Star Wars partnered with Williams-Sonoma to make pancake molds and some rather...
over a year ago
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Better with Star Wars, baking is

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over a year ago
Isn't everything? Star Wars partnered with Williams-Sonoma to make pancake molds and some rather insanely high quality cookie cutters: The set of four includes a Yoda face and helmets from each of Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and a stormtrooper. I knew that if I ever got my hands on...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'People Who Just Love the Proximity of Books' Left in a hefty anthology titled The Faber Book of War Poetry (ed. Kenneth Baker, 1996) was...
3 months ago
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'People Who Just Love the Proximity of Books'

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3 months ago
Left in a hefty anthology titled The Faber Book of War Poetry (ed. Kenneth Baker, 1996) was a postcard from O’Gara & Wilson, Ltd. Booksellers in Chicago. More than forty years ago I visited that shop near the University of Chicago and purchased a partial set of Conrad for a...
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Jason Fried
Why new when? When we make something new, people often ask "why don't you just add that to Basecamp?" There are a...
a month ago
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Why new when?

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a month ago
When we make something new, people often ask "why don't you just add that to Basecamp?" There are a number of reasons, depending on what it is. But, broadly, making something brand new gives you latitude (and attitude) to explore new tech and design approaches. It's the...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
A massive misallocation of online advertising dollars In an earlier blog post, I talked about how sites that generate purchasing intent (mainly “content”...
over a year ago
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A massive misallocation of online advertising dollars

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over a year ago
In an earlier blog post, I talked about how sites that generate purchasing intent (mainly “content” sites) are being under-allocated…
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Never had Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It later turns out that airborne carcinogens slow...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Never had

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It later turns out that airborne carcinogens slow global warming, so everything is fine. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ism Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: St. Peter just taps the crudely drawn No Girls...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ism

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: St. Peter just taps the crudely drawn No Girls Allowed sign made by God. Today's News: Whoever made the A City on Mars wikipedia entry, bless you. Now when people argue against stuff that we didn't actually say, I'm just linking...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
I wrote a book: Read Write Own I wrote a book: Read Write Own I believe blockchains and the software movement around them –...
over a year ago
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I wrote a book: Read Write Own

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over a year ago
I wrote a book: Read Write Own I believe blockchains and the software movement around them – typically called crypto or web3 – provide the…
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IEEE Spectrum
In 1926, TV Was Mechanical John Logie Baird had a lot of ingenious ideas, not all of which caught on. His phonovision was an...
9 months ago
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In 1926, TV Was Mechanical

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9 months ago
John Logie Baird had a lot of ingenious ideas, not all of which caught on. His phonovision was an early attempt at video recording, with the signals preserved on phonograph records. His noctovision used infrared light to see objects in the dark, which some experts claim was a...
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abdz.do - Have you...
Adobe Illustrator Splash Screen by Daniel Escudeiro Adobe Illustrator Splash Screen by Daniel Escudeiro AoiroStudio0123—23 ...
over a year ago
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Adobe Illustrator Splash Screen by Daniel Escudeiro

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over a year ago
Adobe Illustrator Splash Screen by Daniel Escudeiro AoiroStudio0123—23 Daniel Escudeiro is a design & creative director whose work has been featured on the splash screen of Adobe Illustrator. Escudeiro's use of vibrant colors, bold lines, and...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Olympics Special
11 months ago
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Weekend Roundup

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11 months ago
Olympics Special
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Steve Blank
A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale An edited version of this article previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy...
over a year ago
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A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale

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over a year ago
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...
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The Honest Broker
Where in the World Is the World's Fair? It's happening right now—but can you tell me where?
4 weeks ago
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Where in the World Is the World's Fair?

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4 weeks ago
It's happening right now—but can you tell me where?
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David Perell
Nik Sharma: Building DTC Companies My guest today is Nik Sharma, the founder of Sharma Brands and an advisor to companies like Judy and...
over a year ago
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Nik Sharma: Building DTC Companies

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over a year ago
My guest today is Nik Sharma, the founder of Sharma Brands and an advisor to companies like Judy and Cha Cha Matcha. Nik is one of my very best friends and my go-to person for all things commerce. Since we first met, we’ve spent hours exploring the future of marketing and...
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Ben Borgers
Cheating on Field Notes
over a year ago
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Cheating on Field Notes

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over a year ago
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Paradox Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Whenever I explain this to someone the only...
10 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Paradox

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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Whenever I explain this to someone the only responses are amazement and being unable to fathom why anyone would care. Today's News:
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Ben Borgers
Bronze, Silver, Gold
over a year ago
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Bronze, Silver, Gold

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over a year ago
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Josh Thompson
Avoid a car accident with a $3 tool TL;DR: Buy a blind spot mirror for your car. They are $2, and can keep you from getting in an...
over a year ago
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Avoid a car accident with a $3 tool

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over a year ago
TL;DR: Buy a blind spot mirror for your car. They are $2, and can keep you from getting in an accident. Not a lot of people have them, though they’re awesome. I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about how to make driving safer. Step 1 to making driving safer is “don’t...
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weird medieval guys
My favourite etymologies: clue A word for worms, string, romance, and advice
3 months ago
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My favourite etymologies: clue

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3 months ago
A word for worms, string, romance, and advice
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Josh Comeau's blog
The Post-Developer Era When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus...
2 months ago
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The Post-Developer Era

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2 months ago
When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus online was that front-end development jobs would be totally eliminated within a year or two.Well, it’s been more than two years since then, and I thought it was worth revisiting some...
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Noahpinion
How much can you really learn about a country from visiting it? Not as much as people think.
a year ago
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How much can you really learn about a country from visiting it?

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a year ago
Not as much as people think.
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nanoscale views
Items for discussion, including google's latest quantum computing result As we head toward the end of the calendar year, a few items: Google published a new result in...
6 months ago
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Items for discussion, including google's latest quantum computing result

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6 months ago
As we head toward the end of the calendar year, a few items: Google published a new result in Nature a few days ago.  This made a big news splash, including this accompanying press piece from google themselves, this nice article in Quanta, and the always thoughtful blog post by...
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Christopher Butler
Unscalable, Hand-Crafted Lists of Links Or, Technology vs. Taste The first search engine wasn’t one at all. It was a webpage with a...
a year ago
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Unscalable, Hand-Crafted Lists of Links

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a year ago
Or, Technology vs. Taste The first search engine wasn’t one at all. It was a webpage with a list of links on it. There were many of these, some freely accessible, and others within the first walled-gardens of America Online, Prodigy, and so on. But the most famous one is...
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Londonist
The Open House London 2023 Programme Has Been Announced - Including BT Tower Tours Plus tube station tours, and other landmark buildings.
a year ago
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The Open House London 2023 Programme Has Been Announced - Including BT Tower Tours

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a year ago
Plus tube station tours, and other landmark buildings.
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Citation Needed
Issue 85 – All the President’s tokens As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga”...
4 weeks ago
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Issue 85 – All the President’s tokens

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4 weeks ago
As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga” in the crypto sector that echoes the 2008 financial crisis
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This Space
Proust regained I recommend very highly for anyone who has read or not read In Search of Lost Time Brian Nelson's...
a year ago
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Proust regained

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a year ago
I recommend very highly for anyone who has read or not read In Search of Lost Time Brian Nelson's The Swann Way, the first volume in a new translation of the entire novel by diverse hands, in this fine paperback from Oxford World's Classics. His translation of the chapter Swann...
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David Perell
People Don’t Actually Read People don’t read as much as they say they do. This trend is accelerating too. I’m in a friend group...
over a year ago
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People Don’t Actually Read

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
People don’t read as much as they say they do. This trend is accelerating too. I’m in a friend group of intellectually curious people, and just about everybody says they’re reading fewer books than they used to. But at the risk of sounding like your 5th grade English teacher,...
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Not Boring by Packy...
Primer: From Software to Schools Watch now (47 mins) | To fix the school system, build schools
4 months ago
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Primer: From Software to Schools

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4 months ago
Watch now (47 mins) | To fix the school system, build schools
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The Marginalian
The Middle Passage: A Jungian Field Guide to Finding Meaning and Transformation in Midlife "Our task at midlife is to be strong enough to relinquish the ego-urgencies of the first half and...
a year ago
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The Middle Passage: A Jungian Field Guide to Finding Meaning and Transformation in Midlife

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a year ago
"Our task at midlife is to be strong enough to relinquish the ego-urgencies of the first half and open ourselves to a greater wonder."
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century

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over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Jonas Hietala
Before the Games: The Site I’ve got some things I want to do before I start with my next game and they’re all about improving...
over a year ago
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Before the Games: The Site

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over a year ago
I’ve got some things I want to do before I start with my next game and they’re all about improving the site. The last week or so has been extremely productive with me throwing out a lot of wasted code, speeding up the site and adding/removing features and I want to continue with...
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cabel.com
Marching Age This is a short story about something delightful. In 2014, I did a bunch of music for my friends...
a year ago
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Marching Age

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a year ago
This is a short story about something delightful. In 2014, I did a bunch of music for my friends Neven Mrgan and Matt Comi who were making an incredible iOS game called Space Age. I had never written that much music in my life, and it was incredibly fun for me in every way. (You...
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Weighty Thoughts
Deep Tech Startups Are Not Software Startups Or why AI and “Software/SaaS” are apples and oranges
a year ago
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Deep Tech Startups Are Not Software Startups

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a year ago
Or why AI and “Software/SaaS” are apples and oranges
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Luxagraf:...
In The Dunes Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.—Henry David Thoreau,...
a year ago
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In The Dunes

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.—Henry David Thoreau, Journal, March 22, 1842 Mornings grow colder with every passing day. The sunrise edges a little further south every time I crest the dunes to watch. The wind howls most mornings, a...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
10 Best Countries for Working Remotely in 2023
a year ago
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10 Best Countries for Working Remotely in 2023

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a year ago
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sancho.dev
Server-side rendering React in OCaml
over a year ago
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Server-side rendering React in OCaml

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over a year ago
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The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread Moon, Welch, Robinhood, Heterodoxy, Bots, Liquidity, Trade, Google
2 months ago
32

Longreads + Open Thread

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2 months ago
Moon, Welch, Robinhood, Heterodoxy, Bots, Liquidity, Trade, Google
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Notes on software...
A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure...
over a year ago
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A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library

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

over a year ago
When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure out how to use Hashicorp's Raft implementation. There weren't any examples I could find in the Hashicorp repo itself. And the only example I could find was Philip O'Toole's hraftd. It's...
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Yale e360
Don't Disrupt Things; Fix Them People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but...
over a year ago
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Don't Disrupt Things; Fix Them

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over a year ago
People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but inefficient state. For example, the taxicab industry: there was little innovation going on in it, and it was stable, but it seemed like it was far from ideal. Along came Uber, intent to...
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Quanta Magazine
Quaking Giants Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism In their jiggles and shakes, red giant stars encode a record of the magnetic fields near their...
a year ago
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Quaking Giants Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism

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a year ago
In their jiggles and shakes, red giant stars encode a record of the magnetic fields near their cores. The post Quaking Giants Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Retail Design Blog
ISA ENERGIA Offices by Casbro Spa Casbro Spa designed the ISA ENERGIA offices in Santiago to embody sustainability and employee...
a month ago
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ISA ENERGIA Offices by Casbro Spa

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a month ago
Casbro Spa designed the ISA ENERGIA offices in Santiago to embody sustainability and employee well-being through flexible spaces that maximize...
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Arduino Blog
Code faster with the new Arduino AI Assistant We’re very excited to share that the Arduino AI Assistant is now available in the Arduino Cloud...
2 months ago
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Code faster with the new Arduino AI Assistant

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2 months ago
We’re very excited to share that the Arduino AI Assistant is now available in the Arduino Cloud Editor! This expert coding companion truly understands your project and board, and can generate and fix your code in seconds. We know that many of you already use other AI tools to...
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The Elysian
What is the goal of anarchism? Letters to an anarchist, part five.
7 months ago
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What is the goal of anarchism?

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7 months ago
Letters to an anarchist, part five.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Utterly Intoxicated by His Affection' Montaigne’s charming opening to his essay “Of the Education of Children”: “I have never seen a...
a month ago
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'Utterly Intoxicated by His Affection'

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a month ago
Montaigne’s charming opening to his essay “Of the Education of Children”: “I have never seen a father who failed to claim his son, however mangy or hunchbacked he was. Not that he does not perceive his defect, unless he is utterly intoxicated by his affection; but the fact...
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Jorge Arango
AI Needs Architects – That’s Why I’m Pivoting In over thirty years in business, two technological shifts have fundamentally changed my work. The...
4 months ago
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AI Needs Architects – That’s Why I’m Pivoting

from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
In over thirty years in business, two technological shifts have fundamentally changed my work. The first was the web in the mid 1990s, which led me to leave architecture and focus on what we now call UX. The second is happening now – and it may be bigger. AI is poised to reshape...
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Quanta Magazine
Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still...
7 months ago
55

Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?

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7 months ago
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well. The post Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Seth's Blog
Knowing your customers In the very small business, the freelancer knows each customer. By name, by volume, by preferences....
10 months ago
72

Knowing your customers

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

10 months ago
In the very small business, the freelancer knows each customer. By name, by volume, by preferences. And in the huge business, expensive software, data analysts and relentless margin seeking pushes organizations to increase their yield. But most businesses (and non-profits and...
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Both Are True
bits all the way down also: remember when you said you'd write something and then you just...didn't? i have a solution lol
a month ago
14

bits all the way down

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a month ago
also: remember when you said you'd write something and then you just...didn't? i have a solution lol
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swyx's site RSS Feed
The Genius of Apple's Name An excerpt from Becoming Steve Jobs that made me stop in my tracks.
over a year ago
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The Genius of Apple's Name

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

over a year ago
An excerpt from Becoming Steve Jobs that made me stop in my tracks.
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xkcd.com
Tall Structures
4 months ago
37

Tall Structures

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4 months ago
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Folklore.org:...
What Hath Woz Wrought The first product I developed for Apple
over a year ago
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What Hath Woz Wrought

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over a year ago
The first product I developed for Apple
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somethingaboutmaps
Another Atlas of Minor Projects A few years ago, I compiled a PDF of various small odds-and-ends mapping projects that I’d done....
a year ago
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Another Atlas of Minor Projects

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a year ago
A few years ago, I compiled a PDF of various small odds-and-ends mapping projects that I’d done. Now, I’ve done it again. Please enjoy Another Atlas of Minor Projects, which houses a few dozen cartographic items that needed a home. These are all small, mostly-quick projects that...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

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bt RSS Feed
Faking 3D Elements with CSS Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that...
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Faking 3D Elements with CSS

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

over a year ago
Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that some of your web elements are 3D can be a fun experiment. I set out to see if I was able to create such an illusion with only 2 HTML elements and as little CSS as possible. This is...
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Mazdak
Google's AI Search Tool: A Traffic Nightmare for Publishers? AI Threatens to Shake Up the News Landscape.
a year ago
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Google's AI Search Tool: A Traffic Nightmare for Publishers?

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a year ago
AI Threatens to Shake Up the News Landscape.
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The Wandering...
Making shaded relief directly from DEMs projected in degrees? In a presentation I gave at GeoIgnite 2021, I was explaining the process of using QGIS to make...
over a year ago
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Making shaded relief directly from DEMs projected in degrees?

from The Wandering Cartographer [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
In a presentation I gave at GeoIgnite 2021, I was explaining the process of using QGIS to make shaded relief from DEMs, more or less as detailed in this post. There wasn’t time to explain the process of re-projection, so I rather boldly asserted that you don’t need to re-project...
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David Heinemeier...
There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last...
a year ago
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There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies. This...
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David Heinemeier...
The Year on Linux I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or...
3 months ago
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The Year on Linux

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or more. That's the funny thing about habits: They can be so hard to break, but once you do, they're also easily forgotten. That's how it feels having left the Apple realm after two...
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Archinect - Features
When Form Follows Meanings: AI’s Semantic Turn in Architecture In the wake of artificial intelligence’s recently popularized presence in the architectural field...
over a year ago
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When Form Follows Meanings: AI’s Semantic Turn in Architecture

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
In the wake of artificial intelligence’s recently popularized presence in the architectural field and beyond, many are pondering what changes may be on the horizon in the discipline, if any. For Stanislas Chaillou, AI’s dissemination in architecture may refocus the profession’s...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your...
over a year ago
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Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog

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

over a year ago
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your PostHog data using SQL . We call this HogQL because…
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wingolog
whippet progress update: feature-complete! Greetings, gentle readers. Today, an update on recent progress in the embeddable...
9 months ago
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whippet progress update: feature-complete!

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9 months ago
Greetings, gentle readers. Today, an update on recent progress in the embeddable garbage collection library.Whippet When I started working on Whippet, two and a half years ago already, I was aiming to make a new garbage collector for . In the beginning I was just focussing on...
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Both Are True
i think my son hates me PLUS: i am not handling it well AND ALSO: a baby update
a year ago
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i think my son hates me

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a year ago
PLUS: i am not handling it well AND ALSO: a baby update
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
over a year ago
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The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

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Flashbak
Emma Willard’s Time Maps “Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
a year ago
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps

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a year ago
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard   Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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The Diff
Venture and Media Plus! Cluely; Big Tech Sees Like a State; Distribution; Student Loans and Demand Shocks; Rollups
2 months ago
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Venture and Media

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

2 months ago
Plus! Cluely; Big Tech Sees Like a State; Distribution; Student Loans and Demand Shocks; Rollups
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TheCollector
What Do Methodists Believe? Born in England from a revival in the Anglican Church, Methodism soon jumped across the ocean to...
2 months ago
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What Do Methodists Believe?

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2 months ago
Born in England from a revival in the Anglican Church, Methodism soon jumped across the ocean to become a significant denomination among American churches. It originated with the brothers Wesley, John, and Charles, though the most notable name in Methodism was Francis Asbury....
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Retail Design Blog
Heni Herbáriuma plant relief packaging by Corvin Art School Heni Herbáriuma specializes in delicate yet vivid flower arrangements, bouquets and ceramic reliefs...
3 months ago
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Heni Herbáriuma plant relief packaging by Corvin Art School

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

3 months ago
Heni Herbáriuma specializes in delicate yet vivid flower arrangements, bouquets and ceramic reliefs made with plant prints. Their motto, “Just...
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Londonist
Horizon 22: Visit The Tallest Free Viewing Gallery In Europe The City's tallest building lets you looking down on the Shard.
a year ago
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Horizon 22: Visit The Tallest Free Viewing Gallery In Europe

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a year ago
The City's tallest building lets you looking down on the Shard.
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Confessions of a...
Recording: Six Key Performance Engineering Lessons from 1BRC Last night we did this live session on performance engineering.
9 months ago
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Recording: Six Key Performance Engineering Lessons from 1BRC

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9 months ago
Last night we did this live session on performance engineering.
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Jonas Hietala
A Nice Weekend I’ve had a pretty nice weekend. On Friday MLG Orlando began and I’ve been staying up to 2 and...
over a year ago
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A Nice Weekend

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

over a year ago
I’ve had a pretty nice weekend. On Friday MLG Orlando began and I’ve been staying up to 2 and sleeping until at least 10 the last days. My inner night-owl is very happy about it, my early-rising girlfriend perhaps not as much, but I think she’s a bit understanding? On Saturday we...
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macwright.com
Remix notes Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some...
a year ago
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Remix notes

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a year ago
Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some reflections: The Remix versioning scheme is a joy. They gradually roll out features under feature flags, so you have lots of time to upgrade. Compared to what seems like chaos over in...
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The Diff
Who is Levered to Extreme, but not History-Ending, Growth? Plus! Bond; Capitalizing Nvidia's Strategy; Creator Funds; Adjusted EBITDA; Shortages and Gluts
4 months ago
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Who is Levered to Extreme, but not History-Ending, Growth?

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

4 months ago
Plus! Bond; Capitalizing Nvidia's Strategy; Creator Funds; Adjusted EBITDA; Shortages and Gluts
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Quantum Frontiers
How writing a popular-science book led to a Nature Physics paper Several people have asked me whether writing a popular-science book has fed back into my research....
3 months ago
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How writing a popular-science book led to a Nature Physics paper

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

3 months ago
Several people have asked me whether writing a popular-science book has fed back into my research. Nature Physics published my favorite illustration of the answer this January. Here’s the story behind the paper. In late 2020, I was sitting by … Continue reading →
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David Heinemeier...
The tech layoffs continue A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta,...
a year ago
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The tech layoffs continue

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and thousands of other big and small companies in the industry. And it looks like this year is not going to bring any relief. Google just announced more layoffs, Twitch...
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Rest of World -...
Chinese streaming platforms and chill? In Southeast Asia, Netflix has competition from Baidu's iQiyi and Tencent's WeTV
over a year ago
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Chinese streaming platforms and chill?

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
In Southeast Asia, Netflix has competition from Baidu's iQiyi and Tencent's WeTV
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The Ruffian
Jemima Kelly on Trump: Part II On Melania, and Trump's Taste In Music
3 months ago
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Jemima Kelly on Trump: Part II

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3 months ago
On Melania, and Trump's Taste In Music
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Courthouses Galore Foley Square, northeast of City Hall Park, has a collection of very large courthouses. Here’s Matt...
10 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Courthouses Galore

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

10 months ago
Foley Square, northeast of City Hall Park, has a collection of very large courthouses. Here’s Matt Murdoch, otherwise known as Daredevil, on the steps of a courthouse having just finished a case: Here’s a view looking north with the New York State Supreme Court and its large...
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journal – Winnie Lim
pathological demand avoidance I first came across this term when I was browsing the subreddits for adhd and autistic women. After...
a month ago
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pathological demand avoidance

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

a month ago
I first came across this term when I was browsing the subreddits for adhd and autistic women. After reading more about it I realised belatedly (in my 40s) that I have been...
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Christopher Butler
The Internet Can't Discover: A Case for New Technologies The internet reflects us. But new technologies must explore the world beyond. We’ve spent more...
4 months ago
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The Internet Can't Discover: A Case for New Technologies

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

4 months ago
The internet reflects us. But new technologies must explore the world beyond. We’ve spent more than two generations and trillions of dollars building the internet. It is, arguably, humanity’s most ambitious technological project. And yet, for all its power to process and...
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Jonas Hietala
Weekend Tournaments This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament...
over a year ago
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Weekend Tournaments

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

over a year ago
This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament and on Sunday the local Netrunner community hosted a small summer kit tournament. Game of Thrones We’ve had a similar tournament once before when me and my girlfriend invited two of...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Flow State and Surfing Jack Johnson is on Rick Rubin’s podcast Tetragrammaton talking about music, film making, creativity,...
3 months ago
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Flow State and Surfing

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
Jack Johnson is on Rick Rubin’s podcast Tetragrammaton talking about music, film making, creativity, and surfing. At one point (~24:30) Johnson talks about his love for surfing and the beautiful flow state it puts him in: Sometimes I’ll see a friend riding a wave while I’m...
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Joel Gascoigne
Change at Buffer: The next phase, and why our co-founder and our CTO are moving on > Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
over a year ago
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Change at Buffer: The next phase, and why our co-founder and our CTO are moving on

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/]. We’ve always done things differently at Buffer. For me, this has always come from a natural desire to question things. Why base your company and team in a single location? Why is...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Engineering Behind Healthcare LLMs with Abridge | Out-Of-Pocket What kinds of challenges come up with creating a speech-to-text gen AI product?
10 months ago
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The Engineering Behind Healthcare LLMs with Abridge | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
What kinds of challenges come up with creating a speech-to-text gen AI product?
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Entrepreneurs need to learn some law I recently wrote a post where I said entrepreneurs need to understand term sheets on their own,...
over a year ago
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Entrepreneurs need to learn some law

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I recently wrote a post where I said entrepreneurs need to understand term sheets on their own, without the assistance of lawyers.  I got…
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oftwominds-Charles...
The Crises Yet to Come "Controlling the narrative" to justify destabilizing asymmetries won't change the consequences. ...
4 months ago
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The Crises Yet to Come

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

4 months ago
"Controlling the narrative" to justify destabilizing asymmetries won't change the consequences. That the Trump Reformation / Counter-Reformation is disrupting various nodes of the status quo is viewed as an existential crise by many. The choice between Reformation /...
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Retail Design Blog
Māsa Māsa is a restaurant in Riga with natural wine and local products from Latvian farmers. The clients...
5 months ago
55

Māsa

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

5 months ago
Māsa is a restaurant in Riga with natural wine and local products from Latvian farmers. The clients are a couple...
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Articles
Cynicism kills progress
over a year ago
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Cynicism kills progress

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over a year ago
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Odd Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you toot the whoopie cushion long enough you'll...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Odd

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you toot the whoopie cushion long enough you'll eventually toot the proof. Today's News:
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Coding Horror
I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is...
over a year ago
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I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992,
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Scarlet Ink
How Senior Leaders Evaluate Ideas — And a Story of Amazon's 3-Year Planning Process Ideas are valuable if they're not simply a desired outcome. A path to an outcome is the core element...
11 months ago
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How Senior Leaders Evaluate Ideas — And a Story of Amazon's 3-Year Planning Process

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11 months ago
Ideas are valuable if they're not simply a desired outcome. A path to an outcome is the core element of a good idea.
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Ditch walkin' Day 11: Sept 20, 2023 — I hear footsteps and morning routines in motion. My sister-in-law and her...
a year ago
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✏️ Ditch walkin'

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Day 11: Sept 20, 2023 — I hear footsteps and morning routines in motion. My sister-in-law and her family are gearing up for work and school. I remember this flurry of activity as a kid myself — the hustle to get motivated. Jen goes upstairs to chat briefly with everyone before...
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Josh Thompson
20 Things 20-Year-Olds Don't Get Jason Nazar recently wrote an article titled 20 Things 20-Year-Olds Don’t Get. Please read it, but...
over a year ago
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20 Things 20-Year-Olds Don't Get

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

over a year ago
Jason Nazar recently wrote an article titled 20 Things 20-Year-Olds Don’t Get. Please read it, but with a big grain of salt. Nazar opens with the statement “I made a lot of mistakes along the way, and I see this generation making their own.” This seems to be an aspirational...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Building an all-remote company from scratch Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started...
over a year ago
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Building an all-remote company from scratch

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

over a year ago
Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started this way from scratch? PostHog has a team of 12, 1…
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NeuroLogica Blog
UFOs and the Pandemic Did UFO reporting increase during the pandemic? A group of researchers set out to answer that...
over a year ago
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UFOs and the Pandemic

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

over a year ago
Did UFO reporting increase during the pandemic? A group of researchers set out to answer that question, and recently published their results. Their hypothesis was two-fold, including the notion that people had more free time during the shutdown and perhaps spent more time out...
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essay – snarfed.org
Interactive navigation in embedding space tdjgordon, Pixabay Discussed a fascinating idea for a foundation model tool at lunch today:...
5 months ago
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Interactive navigation in embedding space

from essay – snarfed.org [alt+shift+b] in startups

5 months ago
tdjgordon, Pixabay Discussed a fascinating idea for a foundation model tool at lunch today: interactive navigation in embedding space. Right now, you prompt most generative models with human language. That works, but it’s imprecise and coarse. If you’re generating an image of an...
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Open Culture
What Makes Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas One of the Most Fascinating Paintings in Art History Diego Velázquez painted Las Meninas almost 370 years ago, and it’s been under scrutiny ever since....
4 months ago
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What Makes Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas One of the Most Fascinating Paintings in Art History

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

4 months ago
Diego Velázquez painted Las Meninas almost 370 years ago, and it’s been under scrutiny ever since. If the public’s appetite to know more about it has diminished over time, that certainly isn’t reflected in the view count of the analysis from YouTube channel Rabbit Hole above,...
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Nat Eliason's...
You Can Handle Much More Than You Think Big changes take time
a year ago
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You Can Handle Much More Than You Think

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a year ago
Big changes take time
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Posts on Nikita...
Handmade Seattle 2023 A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
a year ago
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Handmade Seattle 2023

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract: An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.” Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
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Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: tide turning, fog lifting In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on...
4 months ago
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A decade of dissent: tide turning, fog lifting

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4 months ago
In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2021.
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History Today Feed
Europe and the End of Old Java Europe and the End of Old Java JamesHoare Mon, 06/16/2025 - 06:00
2 weeks ago
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Europe and the End of Old Java

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2 weeks ago
Europe and the End of Old Java JamesHoare Mon, 06/16/2025 - 06:00
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Best practices for raising a VC round Having raised a number of VC rounds personally and observed many more as an investor or friend, I’ve...
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Best practices for raising a VC round

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Having raised a number of VC rounds personally and observed many more as an investor or friend, I’ve come to think there are a set of…
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Time Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look you're not allowed to make meaningful changes...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Time

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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look you're not allowed to make meaningful changes to history so this sort of stuff is the next best thing. Today's News: Psssst. Hey, London.
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Seth's Blog
Understanding pricing The money we exchange for a service or item isn’t based on how much it cost to make, how hard it was...
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Understanding pricing

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The money we exchange for a service or item isn’t based on how much it cost to make, how hard it was to produce or how much the producer likes it. That’s hard to hear, because when we make something, we spend most of our time thinking about those very things. Price is based on...
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Seth's Blog
The generosity of concealment Human beings never reveal all of our emotions. We don’t simply blurt out the first thing that pops...
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The generosity of concealment

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Human beings never reveal all of our emotions. We don’t simply blurt out the first thing that pops into our head in a meeting, or insult someone upon meeting them. We’re able to give people the benefit of the doubt (which requires doubt before we can offer the benefit) and to...
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AVC
AI Art There has been a lot of discussion about how AIs can make art and possibly replace artists, but I...
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AI Art

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There has been a lot of discussion about how AIs can make art and possibly replace artists, but I think the opposite is more likely to happen. Artists have been using AI to make art for a while now and the pace has picked up a lot in recent years. I have always loved the […]
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Common Edge
After the Ashes in LA: “The Future Is Right in Front of You” Rebuilding doesn’t have to mean sterile development. Just look at the innovative and resilient ways...
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After the Ashes in LA: “The Future Is Right in Front of You”

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Rebuilding doesn’t have to mean sterile development. Just look at the innovative and resilient ways people are already doing it.
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The Elysian
We can terraform the Earth—not just Mars If we can revive a dead planet, we can revive our own.
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We can terraform the Earth—not just Mars

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If we can revive a dead planet, we can revive our own.
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The Berkeley...
Modeling Extremely Large Images with $x$T As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems...
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Modeling Extremely Large Images with $x$T

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As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems to be a writer’s block settling into the field when it comes to dealing with large images. Large images are no longer rare—the cameras we carry in our pockets and those orbiting our...
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Oykun
Practising distraction-free creativity The design world is filled with exciting opportunities. We see Designers on X who are creating...
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Practising distraction-free creativity

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a year ago
The design world is filled with exciting opportunities. We see Designers on X who are creating Framer templates, experimenting with 3D, writing newsletters, starting design subscription agencies, selling icon packs and many more. I know it’s tempting to chase them all. I’ve given...
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Versioned Docs in 30 Seconds with Amplify Console's Branch Subdomains Amplify Console just got the ability to create a custom subdomain for every new branch. This makes...
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Versioned Docs in 30 Seconds with Amplify Console's Branch Subdomains

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over a year ago
Amplify Console just got the ability to create a custom subdomain for every new branch. This makes creating versioned docs a cinch!
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Dreams of Space -...
My Weekly Reader April 9, 1962 My Weekly Reader for April 9, 1961 is now YOUR weekly reader! Just a minor article about space...
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My Weekly Reader April 9, 1962

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My Weekly Reader for April 9, 1961 is now YOUR weekly reader! Just a minor article about space medals, so look and see!
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The Works in...
Communities of Practice: The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine The first section of Ch. 3 of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance on Books in Progress
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Communities of Practice: The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine

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The first section of Ch. 3 of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance on Books in Progress
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Mark Manson
The Power (and Limitations) of Self-Belief In 1959, a surgeon named Leonard Cobb called bullshit. At the time, the most common procedure to...
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The Power (and Limitations) of Self-Belief

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over a year ago
In 1959, a surgeon named Leonard Cobb called bullshit. At the time, the most common procedure to help people with chest pain caused by heart disease was something called “internal mammary artery ligation,” where basically, they would intentionally close one of the main arteries...
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Blog - Practical...
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 2 This is the second episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's...
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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 2

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a year ago
This is the second episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Investor Herd Dynamics
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Investor Herd Dynamics

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Arduino Blog
Prototype faster and smarter in 2025: Meet the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit Launching today at CES 2025, the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit is here to revolutionize how...
5 months ago
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Prototype faster and smarter in 2025: Meet the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit

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5 months ago
Launching today at CES 2025, the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit is here to revolutionize how professionals approach prototyping. Designed to empower engineers, designers, and innovators from all walks of life, this kit provides everything you need to turn your ideas into...
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Open Culture
Man Ray’s Surrealist Cinema: Watch Four Pioneering Films From the 1920s Man Ray was one of the leading artists of the avant-garde of 1920s and 1930s Paris. A key figure in...
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Man Ray’s Surrealist Cinema: Watch Four Pioneering Films From the 1920s

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Man Ray was one of the leading artists of the avant-garde of 1920s and 1930s Paris. A key figure in the Dada and Surrealist movements, his works spanned various media, including film. He was a leading exponent of the Cinéma Pur, or “Pure Cinema,” which rejected such “bourgeois”...
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.25 - Good Writing New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Comic for 2025.05.25 - Good Writing

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New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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abdz.do - Have you...
Flore — A Collection of Digital Illustrations Flore — A Collection of Digital Illustrations AoiroStudio0508—23 ...
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Flore — A Collection of Digital Illustrations

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over a year ago
Flore — A Collection of Digital Illustrations AoiroStudio0508—23 Laura Normand is a talented Paris-based artist whose work revolves around vibrant and captivating digital illustrations. With a particular focus on flowers, her series of colorful...
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Val Sopi
Year 2300 <p><i>From all that is currently happening to us, I want to believe that we’re at the dawn of a new...
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Year 2300

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11 months ago
<p><i>From all that is currently happening to us, I want to believe that we’re at the dawn of a new era </i>✊</p><hr><p>I&nbsp;am&nbsp;predicting year 2300 to be the one when we’re living the progressive dreams of today.<br></p><p>By then we have reached a new...
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Seth's Blog
The 1:1 method The reason that most memos, speeches and edicts fall flat is simple: we get stuck on the idea that...
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The 1:1 method

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a month ago
The reason that most memos, speeches and edicts fall flat is simple: we get stuck on the idea that we’re talking to a crowd. When we’re speaking or writing, the crowd is just an illusion. What’s actually happening is that there is one person over there, another over there,...
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Bits about Money
The business of wallets How digital wallets work, and how payment costs drive a lot of product decisions inside and around...
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The business of wallets

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a year ago
How digital wallets work, and how payment costs drive a lot of product decisions inside and around them.
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Coffee with an...
Design explained with pie charts Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple pie charts. Unfortunately, this...
a year ago
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Design explained with pie charts

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a year ago
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple pie charts. Unfortunately, this isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE and HERE
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Nelson's Weblog
Linkblog archives I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to...
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Linkblog archives

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over a year ago
I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to 2003. The UI is a little minimal but usable and it will work for any search indexers, which is what I most care about. Note old posts will have a grey background because I wasn't...
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Blog - Mac Pierce
XL Flex Arms, posable mounting for cameras and lighting. Making a few custom mounts for cameras and camera accessories.
over a year ago
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XL Flex Arms, posable mounting for cameras and lighting.

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over a year ago
Making a few custom mounts for cameras and camera accessories.
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Posts on Made of...
Reflections on software performance At this point in my career, I’ve worked on at least three projects where performance was a defining...
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Reflections on software performance

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over a year ago
At this point in my career, I’ve worked on at least three projects where performance was a defining characteristic: Livegrep, Taktician, and Sorbet (I discussed sorbet in particular last time, and livegrep in an earlier post). I’ve also done a lot of other performance work on the...
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Seth's Blog
On to the next thing Vitally important, rarely taught, easily messed up. In order to go onto the next thing, which we all...
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On to the next thing

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over a year ago
Vitally important, rarely taught, easily messed up. In order to go onto the next thing, which we all do (unless you’re still wearing pajamas with feet and taking ballet lessons), we need to walk away from the last thing. Wrap it up, learn from it, leave it in good hands. And we...
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing MagBase Today we launched MagBase - it makes Apple's MagSafe Charger much easier to use. After trying other...
over a year ago
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Introducing MagBase

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over a year ago
Today we launched MagBase - it makes Apple's MagSafe Charger much easier to use. After trying other mounts for the MagSafe charger, we found it annoying to not be able to pick up & use your iPhone while charging. So we designed MagBase: Pull up to use your iPhone with MagSafe...
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Stat Significant
How Many Episodes Should You Watch Before Quitting a TV Show? A Statistical Analysis When to quit a subpar TV show, according to the data.
4 months ago
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How Many Episodes Should You Watch Before Quitting a TV Show? A Statistical Analysis

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4 months ago
When to quit a subpar TV show, according to the data.
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Quantum Frontiers
Astrobiology meets quantum computation? The origin of life appears to share little with quantum computation, apart from the difficulty of...
a year ago
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Astrobiology meets quantum computation?

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a year ago
The origin of life appears to share little with quantum computation, apart from the difficulty of achieving it and its potential for clickbait. Yet similar notions of complexity have recently garnered attention in both fields. Each topic’s researchers expect only … Continue...
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Quanta Magazine
What Is Distributed Computing? Our computers can get a lot more done when they share the load with other machines. The...
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What Is Distributed Computing?

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7 months ago
Our computers can get a lot more done when they share the load with other machines. The post What Is Distributed Computing? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
Ugh Feeling pretty bad today. I mean for a day on which I feel a lot better than the day before....
over a year ago
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Ugh

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over a year ago
Feeling pretty bad today. I mean for a day on which I feel a lot better than the day before....
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 6 (South Korea: Seoul) I didn’t get much time to wander around Seoul like I did in Tokyo. Every day was a work day and it...
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Asia-Pacific, Part 6 (South Korea: Seoul)

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over a year ago
I didn’t get much time to wander around Seoul like I did in Tokyo. Every day was a work day and it was a brief stop. So I was confined mostly to what I could see from the windshield as we drove through the city or from the hotel. However, this was my first trip […] The post...
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Ploum.net
Le succès existe-t-il ? Le succès existe-t-il ? La notion de succès d’un blog Un blogueur que j’aime beaucoup, Gee, revient...
4 months ago
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Le succès existe-t-il ?

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4 months ago
Le succès existe-t-il ? La notion de succès d’un blog Un blogueur que j’aime beaucoup, Gee, revient sur ses 10 ans de blogging. Cela me fascine de voir l’envers du décor des autres créateurs. Gee pense avoir fait l’erreur de ne pas profiter de la vague d’enthousiasme qu’à connu...
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Commoncog
The Jobs to be Done Framework as a Method to Understand Demand How and why the Jobs to be Done Framework can help you sell more, faster, and accelerate your...
2 months ago
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The Jobs to be Done Framework as a Method to Understand Demand

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2 months ago
How and why the Jobs to be Done Framework can help you sell more, faster, and accelerate your understanding of demand.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Everything Will Evaporate What will be the ultimate fate of our universe? There are a number of theories and possibilities,...
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Everything Will Evaporate

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over a year ago
What will be the ultimate fate of our universe? There are a number of theories and possibilities, but at present the most likely scenario seems to be that the universe will continue to expand, most mass will eventually find its way into a black hole, and those black holes will...
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Arduino Blog
The Swervebot is an omnidirectional robot that combines LEGO and 3D-printed parts Robotic vehicles can have a wide variety of drive mechanisms that range from a simple tricycle setup...
5 months ago
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The Swervebot is an omnidirectional robot that combines LEGO and 3D-printed parts

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5 months ago
Robotic vehicles can have a wide variety of drive mechanisms that range from a simple tricycle setup all the way to crawling legs. Alex Le’s project leverages the reliability of LEGO blocks with the customizability of 3D-printed pieces to create a highly mobile omnidirectional...
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #217 Berkshire Hathaway Acquires BHE Minority Interests, Measuring Competence, Greg Abel Interview, The...
9 months ago
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The Digest #217

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9 months ago
Berkshire Hathaway Acquires BHE Minority Interests, Measuring Competence, Greg Abel Interview, The Fed's Inflationary Bias, Jimmy Carter at 100, Sam Altman, Bruno Leoni, Thermopylae
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This Space
39 Books: 1997 I found this ghastly 60-page Grove Press hardback edition in a second-hand bookshop, its large...
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39 Books: 1997

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a year ago
I found this ghastly 60-page Grove Press hardback edition in a second-hand bookshop, its large typeface and generous spacing very similar to Beckett's late works (Barbara Bray, Beckett's translator, also translated this). Such productions are rare now, and perhaps were when it...
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Bits about Money
Deposit insurance maximization as a service In the wake of the recent banking crisis, there is some attention to deposit insurance limits. Some...
over a year ago
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Deposit insurance maximization as a service

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over a year ago
In the wake of the recent banking crisis, there is some attention to deposit insurance limits. Some products increase them; here is how.
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The Prism
30 Useful Concepts (Autumn 2023) Ideas to help you make sense of the world
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30 Useful Concepts (Autumn 2023)

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a year ago
Ideas to help you make sense of the world
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NeuroLogica Blog
How Substance Abuse Affects the Brain I will acknowledge up front that I never drink, ever. The concept of deliberately consuming a known...
a year ago
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How Substance Abuse Affects the Brain

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a year ago
I will acknowledge up front that I never drink, ever. The concept of deliberately consuming a known poison to impair the functioning of your brain never appealed to me. Also, I am a bit of a supertaster, and the taste of alcohol to me is horrible – it overwhelms any other...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it... People love to focus on horse races:  NYC vs Silcon Valley, Facebook vs Twitter, IPO markets vs...
over a year ago
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Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it will.

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over a year ago
People love to focus on horse races:  NYC vs Silcon Valley, Facebook vs Twitter, IPO markets vs private exchanges, the valuation of some…
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Push to Prod
Is AI-based Root Cause Analysis a Real Thing? Logs, LLMs, AI, Decision Trees, and Root Causes
3 months ago
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Is AI-based Root Cause Analysis a Real Thing?

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3 months ago
Logs, LLMs, AI, Decision Trees, and Root Causes
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Open Culture
The Oldest Beer Receipt (Circa 2050 BC) Above, we have the Alulu Beer Receipt. Written in cuneiform on an old clay tablet, the...
5 months ago
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The Oldest Beer Receipt (Circa 2050 BC)

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5 months ago
Above, we have the Alulu Beer Receipt. Written in cuneiform on an old clay tablet, the 4,000-year-old receipt documents a transaction. A brewer, named Alulu, delivered “the best” beer to a recipient named Ur-Amma, who apparently also served as the scribe. The Mesopotamians drank...
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Yale e360
Lessons from my first (very bad) on-call experience Near the beginning of my career, I was working for a startup that made database software used by...
over a year ago
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Lessons from my first (very bad) on-call experience

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over a year ago
Near the beginning of my career, I was working for a startup that made database software used by other companies in their production infrastructure. The premise was that our super-fast database had a computing framework that would let you do things in real-time that usually took...
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Product Identity
Looking for humanness in the world wide social This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
5 months ago
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Looking for humanness in the world wide social

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5 months ago
This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
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Home on Erik...
More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome...
over a year ago
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More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings

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over a year ago
I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome website I encountered is Usability Hub which lets you run 5 second tests. Users see your site for 5 seconds and you can ask them free-form questions afterwards.
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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 16-17 March 2024 Vintage clothes, live jazz, and the St Patrick's Day parade.
a year ago
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 16-17 March 2024

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a year ago
Vintage clothes, live jazz, and the St Patrick's Day parade.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
(draft) On Intentionality slug: intentionality
5 months ago
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(draft) On Intentionality

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5 months ago
slug: intentionality
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Blog System/5
Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
a year ago
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Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel

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a year ago
A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
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Open Culture
The Story of Fascism: Rick Steves’ Documentary Helps Us Learn from the Painful Lessons of the 20th... From Rick Steves comes a thought-provoking documentary that revisits the rise of fascism in Europe,...
8 months ago
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The Story of Fascism: Rick Steves’ Documentary Helps Us Learn from the Painful Lessons of the 20th Century

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8 months ago
From Rick Steves comes a thought-provoking documentary that revisits the rise of fascism in Europe, reminding us of how charismatic figures like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler came to power by promising to create a better future for their frustrated, economically depressed...
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Marcus on AI
Unwoven How the CoreWeave IPO may be the beginning of the end
3 months ago
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Unwoven

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3 months ago
How the CoreWeave IPO may be the beginning of the end
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Dan Slimmon
Incident metrics tell you nothing about reliability When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As...
over a year ago
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Incident metrics tell you nothing about reliability

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over a year ago
When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As long as we’re creating standards for incidents, let’s track Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) and Mean-Time-To-Detection (MTTD) and Mean-time-Between-Failures (MTBF)!” they say things...
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Diaries of Note
The sight that met us was beyond anything one could conceive Few archaeologists can claim to have felt the surge of exhilaration that Howard Carter did on 27th...
a year ago
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The sight that met us was beyond anything one could conceive

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a year ago
Few archaeologists can claim to have felt the surge of exhilaration that Howard Carter did on 27th November 1922, as he stood before the threshold of discovery in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. The electric lights glared down on a scene of ancient splendour as Carter and his team...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fri. March 8, 2024: Inkbase demos A few quick demos of Inkbase
a year ago
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Ink Note Fri. March 8, 2024: Inkbase demos

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a year ago
A few quick demos of Inkbase
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Joel Gascoigne
Taking time to reflect * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s been a...
over a year ago
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Taking time to reflect

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s been a while since my last blog post, and I’ve recently been pondering why that may be. It’s not that I’ve been doing less than when I was regularly blogging, it’s in fact quite
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bt RSS Feed
Avoiding Featurism Avoiding Featurism 2022-10-14 I rather enjoy the term “featurism”. I came across this term while...
over a year ago
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Avoiding Featurism

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over a year ago
Avoiding Featurism 2022-10-14 I rather enjoy the term “featurism”. I came across this term while reading the wonderful article Why I don’t use Netscape, which the author credits to Bernd Paysan. Although it sums up the current “digital product” industry quite well the more...
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee ☕ Complicated coffee: plain and simple. There’s a scene in AMC’s “Breaking Bad” where Gail Boetticher...
over a year ago
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The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee ☕

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over a year ago
Complicated coffee: plain and simple. There’s a scene in AMC’s “Breaking Bad” where Gail Boetticher explains to Walter White how to make the perfect cup of coffee. And it all sounds so plausible—there’s a perfect coffee, and science will magic it for us. That whole idea, scene,...
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Ryan Hoover's...
Why you should move
10 months ago
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Why you should move

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10 months ago
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Old Structures...
Raking Sunlight Pro tip, as computer manuals said back when (a) everyone was not yet comfortable using a computer...
a year ago
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Raking Sunlight

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a year ago
Pro tip, as computer manuals said back when (a) everyone was not yet comfortable using a computer and (b) computer manuals still existed: environmental conditions can help in building investigation. For example, I like conducting facade inspections on very cold days because you...
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Applied Cartography
Applied Cartography × People & Blogs There are few pleasures greater than getting to be profiled for an interview series that you've been...
8 months ago
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Applied Cartography × People & Blogs

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8 months ago
There are few pleasures greater than getting to be profiled for an interview series that you've been reading for months, and last week I got to do exactly that. To browse Manu's site — not just this interview series — feels a bit like walking on a quiet beach in autumn: there's a...
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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 19-20 August 2023 Black Pride, All Points East, a foodie weekend, a cocktail festival and more.
a year ago
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 19-20 August 2023

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a year ago
Black Pride, All Points East, a foodie weekend, a cocktail festival and more.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Continuum From Static to Dynamic Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and...
3 weeks ago
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The Continuum From Static to Dynamic

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3 weeks ago
Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and “dynamic” don’t have to be binaries that describe an entire application architecture. As Dan describes in his post, “static” or “dynamic” it’s all just computers doing stuff. Computer A...
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Common Edge
Why So Many Banal Boxes? Because Architecture Reflects the Ethos of Its Time The 5-over-1 is a perfect embodiment of our increasingly selfish and self-isolated existence.
a year ago
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Why So Many Banal Boxes? Because Architecture Reflects the Ethos of Its Time

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a year ago
The 5-over-1 is a perfect embodiment of our increasingly selfish and self-isolated existence.
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Fancy Digs Hawkeye chases some bad guys in New York: Looking north up Central Park West from a bit below 71st...
9 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Fancy Digs

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9 months ago
Hawkeye chases some bad guys in New York: Looking north up Central Park West from a bit below 71st Street: The relatively-low brown building two blocks up is the Dakota Apartments, but the drawing in the comic isn’t accurate enough to recognize it. The building at the first...
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diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #18 The major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout are so nearly complete. We have a reshaped roundabout, we...
3 months ago
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Bow Roundabout update #18

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3 months ago
The major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout are so nearly complete. We have a reshaped roundabout, we have resurfaced roads, we have repainted lines and we have a new contraflow lane under the flyover. The resurfacing works that were meant to take four nights eventually took...
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Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
8 months ago
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s

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8 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name     We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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Maps Mania
The First Cuckoo of Spring
2 months ago
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The First Cuckoo of Spring

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2 months ago
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Special Hell 6, Dymaxion Man Meet Buckminster Fuller, the visionary crackpot who held Earth’s rudder.
over a year ago
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Special Hell 6, Dymaxion Man

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over a year ago
Meet Buckminster Fuller, the visionary crackpot who held Earth’s rudder.
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Society's Backend:...
AI Video Editing, MLX vs PyTorch, AI in Space, and More [Comprehensive ML Resource List for 6/28/24] Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank...
a year ago
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AI Video Editing, MLX vs PyTorch, AI in Space, and More [Comprehensive ML Resource List for 6/28/24]

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a year ago
Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank you for supporting Society's Backend! Don't forget to also follow me on X. Claude 3.5 Sonnet Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More?
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The Marginalian
The Merger Self, the Seeker Self, and the Lifelong Challenge of Balancing Intimacy and Independence Each time I see a sparrow inside an airport, I am seized with tenderness for the bird, for living so...
a year ago
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The Merger Self, the Seeker Self, and the Lifelong Challenge of Balancing Intimacy and Independence

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a year ago
Each time I see a sparrow inside an airport, I am seized with tenderness for the bird, for living so acutely and concretely a paradox that haunts our human lives in myriad guises — the difficulty of discerning comfort from entrapment, freedom from peril. It is a paradox rooted in...
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Grant Slatton
Quasirandom sequences Cool method to generate non-clumping random points
a year ago
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Quasirandom sequences

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a year ago
Cool method to generate non-clumping random points
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Maps Mania
Snakes on a Plane(t)
2 months ago
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Snakes on a Plane(t)

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2 months ago
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David Crawshaw
jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering Consider your requirements! A reference implementation A final...
a year ago
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jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering

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a year ago
jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering Consider your requirements! A reference implementation A final thought 2024-02-06 The year is 2024. I am on vacation and dream up a couple of toy programs I would like to build. It has been a few years since I built a standalone toy, I have...
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Uncharted...
What Asian Development Can Teach the World The Magic Development of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and China, and What That Tells Us about US...
3 months ago
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What Asian Development Can Teach the World

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3 months ago
The Magic Development of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and China, and What That Tells Us about US Tariffs, China’s Future, EU Protectionism, Japan’s Zombie Debt, Argentina’s Arrested Development, and more
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 My Mom Taught Me But really, my mom loved to shop and I’ve inherited that skill. I’ll call it a skill because Mom...
10 months ago
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🔗 My Mom Taught Me

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10 months ago
But really, my mom loved to shop and I’ve inherited that skill. I’ll call it a skill because Mom knew quality. She loved things made by hand. By real people. Things that were made well and lasted. — Dan Cederholm Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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Birchtree
Grading my 2024 Apple predictions First off, merry Christmas! I closed out last year with a series of posts reviewing Apple’s main...
6 months ago
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Grading my 2024 Apple predictions

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6 months ago
First off, merry Christmas! I closed out last year with a series of posts reviewing Apple’s main product lines, iPhones, iPads, Macs, Watches, and the soon-to-be-released Vision Pro. I’ll be doing that again over the last few days of the year, but in the interest of
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Anita Klein Hi, I am a painter and printmaker working in London and Italy. Describe your printmaking process. I...
over a year ago
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Meet the Maker: Anita Klein

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over a year ago
Hi, I am a painter and printmaker working in London and Italy. Describe your printmaking process. I use almost all printmaking processes and choose between techniques depending on the type of mark that suits the picture I want to make. At the moment I am mostly working in...
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Simply Explained
Howto Virtualize Unraid on a Proxmox host Here's how to run Unraid as a virtual machine under Proxmox. This is useful when you're already...
over a year ago
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Howto Virtualize Unraid on a Proxmox host

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over a year ago
Here's how to run Unraid as a virtual machine under Proxmox. This is useful when you're already using Proxmox and if you want to use Unraid as a NAS.
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A Weekly Dose of...
Book Briefs #47: Three Altrim Titles Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short...
over a year ago
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Book Briefs #47: Three Altrim Titles

from A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Obviously, these briefs are not full-blown reviews, but they are a way to...
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947) Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
a year ago
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Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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Calculated Risk
Industrial Production Increased 0.7% in February From the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial production (IP) increased...
3 months ago
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Industrial Production Increased 0.7% in February

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3 months ago
From the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial production (IP) increased 0.7 percent in February after moving up 0.3 percent in January. Manufacturing output rose 0.9 percent, boosted by a jump of 8.5 percent in the index for motor vehicles and parts. The...
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The Works in...
Links in Progress: rising incomes do not always mean fewer births And how having a baby can make you believe in the future
8 months ago
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Links in Progress: rising incomes do not always mean fewer births

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8 months ago
And how having a baby can make you believe in the future
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Memorial Day Weekend Sale
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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a year ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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The Marginalian
The Unphotographable: Richard Adams on the Singular Magic of Autumn There is a lovely liminality to autumn — this threshold time between the centripetal exuberance of...
8 months ago
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The Unphotographable: Richard Adams on the Singular Magic of Autumn

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8 months ago
There is a lovely liminality to autumn — this threshold time between the centripetal exuberance of summer and the season for tending to the inner garden, as Rilke wrote of winter. Autumn is a living metaphor for the necessary losses that shape our human lives: What falls away...
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Notes on software...
Lessons learned streaming building a Scheme-like interpreter in Go I wanted to practice making coding videos so I did a four-part series on writing a basic Scheme-like...
over a year ago
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Lessons learned streaming building a Scheme-like interpreter in Go

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over a year ago
I wanted to practice making coding videos so I did a four-part series on writing a basic Scheme-like language (minus macros and arrays and tons of stuff). I picked this simple topic because I wanted a low-stakes way to learn what I did not know about making videos. Here was the...
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SatPost by Trung...
H-Mart Stays Winning How the cult grocer went from a single Korean corner store in Queens, NY to America's largest Asian...
3 months ago
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H-Mart Stays Winning

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

3 months ago
How the cult grocer went from a single Korean corner store in Queens, NY to America's largest Asian supermarket with $1B+ in sales.
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Wuthering...
The Story of the Stone, fairy tale and realism - Not so wonderful, really, is it? I left the characters of The Story of the Stone as they were buying drapes and tablecloths for a...
8 months ago
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The Story of the Stone, fairy tale and realism - Not so wonderful, really, is it?

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8 months ago
I left the characters of The Story of the Stone as they were buying drapes and tablecloths for a party.  I will rejoin the party planning momentarily. The Story of the Stone is a massive domestic novel about an extended family.  The main plot is the teenage love triangle, but...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Motorcycles, Cars, Websites, and Seams In high school, I had a friend named Joe who owned a Honda Trail 110, a small motorcycle with enough...
a year ago
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Motorcycles, Cars, Websites, and Seams

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
In high school, I had a friend named Joe who owned a Honda Trail 110, a small motorcycle with enough history for its own Wikipedia page. It didn’t go very fast (40MPH tops if you’re going downhill) but Joe rode that thing to school every day — or at least he tried, it often...
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Retail Design Blog
Aman Nai Lert hotel by Denniston In a remarkable post-pandemic resurrection, Bangkok has not only emerged as Southeast Asia‘s top...
2 months ago
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Aman Nai Lert hotel by Denniston

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

2 months ago
In a remarkable post-pandemic resurrection, Bangkok has not only emerged as Southeast Asia‘s top destination, but also the region’s leading...
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Irrational...
Running your engineering onboarding program. Most companies say that it takes three to six months for newly hired engineers to fully ramp...
over a year ago
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Running your engineering onboarding program.

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

over a year ago
Most companies say that it takes three to six months for newly hired engineers to fully ramp up. Engineering leaders know it’s impolitic to admit that it takes their team longer than three to six months to onboard new engineers, so that’s what they say out loud, but they...
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Tony Finch's blog
LEGO Technic beam sandwich keyboard case My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way. story time Two years ago I...
a year ago
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LEGO Technic beam sandwich keyboard case

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

a year ago
My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way. story time Two years ago I planned to make a typical acrylic sandwich case for HHKBeeb, in the style of the BBC Micro’s black and yellowish beige case. But that never happened because it was too hard to choose...
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Platformer
Reddit doubles down Delaying its API changes would benefit everyone — but users have other options, too
over a year ago
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Reddit doubles down

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over a year ago
Delaying its API changes would benefit everyone — but users have other options, too
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This Space
A mighty contagious absence, part two On submission and resistance to AI-generated literature   To great writers, finished works weigh...
a month ago
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A mighty contagious absence, part two

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a month ago
On submission and resistance to AI-generated literature   To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives. For only the more feeble and distracted take an inimitable pleasure in conclusions, feeling themselves...
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Notes on software...
Embedding Python in Rust (for tests) This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
5 months ago
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Embedding Python in Rust (for tests)

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5 months ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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lcamtuf’s thing
Random objects: Guycot & Jarre Early repeating handguns, or another unnecessary excursion into the bowels of history.
a year ago
20

Random objects: Guycot & Jarre

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

a year ago
Early repeating handguns, or another unnecessary excursion into the bowels of history.
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Jonas Hietala
My first rust Contribution The problem with open-source for most people isn’t writing code, but it’s all the other things. How...
over a year ago
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My first rust Contribution

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

over a year ago
The problem with open-source for most people isn’t writing code, but it’s all the other things. How shall I push my changes? How do I handle git? What should I do? I was the same and I actually dreaded my awesome summer job, just a little bit, because now I’m supposed to...
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David Crawshaw
Smaller Go 1.7 binaries blog.golang.org/go1.7-binary-size
over a year ago
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Smaller Go 1.7 binaries

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
blog.golang.org/go1.7-binary-size
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Rest of World -...
Amazon and Walmart didn’t defeat India’s mom-and-pop stores. But rapid delivery might Services like Blinkit and Zepto are estimated to put more than 25% of India’s neighborhood kirana...
7 months ago
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Amazon and Walmart didn’t defeat India’s mom-and-pop stores. But rapid delivery might

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

7 months ago
Services like Blinkit and Zepto are estimated to put more than 25% of India’s neighborhood kirana stores out of business by 2030.
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Joel Gascoigne
Your startup is a rocket ship * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When you’re...
over a year ago
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Your startup is a rocket ship

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When you’re building a startup, the startup itself has a reputation and credibility around it. The startup has tremendous power. As the startup rocket ship takes off, the best thing you can do is...
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Calculated Risk
Lawler: Treasury Secretary Wrongly Says Fed Has Been “Big Seller” of Treasuries From housing economist Tom Lawler: Treasury Secretary Wrongly Says Fed Has Been “Big Seller” of...
4 months ago
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Lawler: Treasury Secretary Wrongly Says Fed Has Been “Big Seller” of Treasuries

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
From housing economist Tom Lawler: Treasury Secretary Wrongly Says Fed Has Been “Big Seller” of Treasuries “The Fed’s balance sheet runoff increases the supply of Treasuries. It’s easier for me to extend duration when I’m not competing with another big seller.” This statement...
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