TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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TheCollector
10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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The American Scholar
Good Vibrations
One eccentric’s desert landmark allows visitors to bathe in sound
The post Good Vibrations appeared...
8 months ago
One eccentric’s desert landmark allows visitors to bathe in sound
The post Good Vibrations appeared first on The American Scholar.
Vadim Kravcenko
Building a side-project
So as you noticed, I’m late with my newsletter Issue this week. Everything is fine. I just got...
over a year ago
So as you noticed, I’m late with my newsletter Issue this week. Everything is fine. I just got sidetracked a […]
The post Building a side-project appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go
I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go.
The code in question is a Java client for...
over a year ago
I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go.
The code in question is a Java client for RavenDB, a NoSQL JSON document database. Code with tests was around 50 thousand lines.
The result of the port is a Go client.
This article describes what I’ve learn in the...
Paolo Amoroso's...
The faded world: my experience with cataract
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme....
4 hours ago
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme. Until cataract came.
In May of 2024 my ophthalmologist confirmed what I surmised: both of my eyes were affected by cataract. It came earlier than my age would suggest but that's...
TheCollector
Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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10 months ago
Making software...
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community....
over a year ago
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn't have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in "web dev" some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
Anecdotal Evidence
'Indubitably I Should Miss Them'
Every year,
in the weeks preceding Christmas, I face the question I’ve been asked since I
was a kid,...
a year ago
Every year,
in the weeks preceding Christmas, I face the question I’ve been asked since I
was a kid, and my answer always leaves me feeling sheepish. “What do you want
for Christmas?” “Well, ah . . .” “Yeah, we know: books.” Piteously, I’ll add, “Socks.
I could use some socks,”...
TheCollector
Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Rest of World -...
Running a food-delivery service in Nigeria is hard; Chowdeck makes it look easy
Bolt, Glovo, and Jumia struggle with long delivery times, but this Y Combinator-backed startup has...
a year ago
Bolt, Glovo, and Jumia struggle with long delivery times, but this Y Combinator-backed startup has impressive tech and rider incentives on its side.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Raising money is less stressful than bootstrapping
Since PostHog raised Venture Capital (VC), we've had far less stress, and far more fun. There are...
over a year ago
Since PostHog raised Venture Capital (VC), we've had far less stress, and far more fun. There are lots of myths around what it's like run a business…
The American Scholar
“Spring” by J. R. Solonche
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Spring” by J. R. Solonche appeared first on The American...
7 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Spring” by J. R. Solonche appeared first on The American Scholar.
Seth's Blog
Analyzing the last move
When the deal falls apart, or the team loses the game, or a partnership hits the rocks, it’s easy to...
8 months ago
When the deal falls apart, or the team loses the game, or a partnership hits the rocks, it’s easy to focus our energy on what just happened. “What if they had called a different play?” This overlooks the real issue. It’s the first move, or the fifth, that led to this problem, not...
Christopher Butler
The Internet's Greatest Potential
It seems that the internet’s greatest potential is to create intimacy across distance.
Which means...
a year ago
It seems that the internet’s greatest potential is to create intimacy across distance.
Which means we still have a long way to go.
Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 359.5
...
a week ago
diamond geezer
LNER 70min Flex Tickets
Long distance rail travel can be both complicated and expensive.
fare pilot to tackle one of these...
11 months ago
Long distance rail travel can be both complicated and expensive.
fare pilot to tackle one of these issues.
LNER's innovation is 70min Flex, a flexible ticket which allows you to travel within a specific window either side of your booked train. Up to 70 minutes before, up to 70...
This Space
39 Books: 1994
Given that my undergraduate degree was in Philosophy, it may seem odd that this the first book of...
7 months ago
Given that my undergraduate degree was in Philosophy, it may seem odd that this the first book of philosophy in the series. Many will say it is not a book of philosophy at all. That would explain why I gorged on Nick Land's The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and...
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang
By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative views of the universe’s...
6 months ago
By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative views of the universe’s first moments.
The post Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Rozado’s Visual...
Mentions of Political Extremism in English Wikipedia
A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader...
a week ago
A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader societal/historical dynamics?
Seth's Blog
Market pressure
Every competitor faces pressure, and it varies by industry, consumer/investor segment and geography....
8 months ago
Every competitor faces pressure, and it varies by industry, consumer/investor segment and geography. This applies to services, products, ideas, organizations, jobs… whenever there’s a choice and a market. The pressure might push you to be: But it’s also possible to choose a...
Tom Blomfield
Customer churn can kill your startup
Startups are about growth, and of all the different possible metrics, startups often focus on user...
over a year ago
Startups are about growth, and of all the different possible metrics, startups often focus on user growth - if people aren’t using your new product or service in greater and greater numbers, it’s a good sign that you’re not on the right track. And, as long as your business-model...
Diaries of Note
You must be looking for Stuart
Kevin Bentley was twenty-one when, in July of 1977, he left El Paso and headed for the bustling...
a year ago
Kevin Bentley was twenty-one when, in July of 1977, he left El Paso and headed for the bustling streets of San Francisco—one of thousands of young gay men flocking to this vibrant city in search of acceptance, community, and hedonism. San Francisco offered an enticing allure of...
Blog - Practical...
How Do Fish Ladders Work?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Building a dam imparts a...
8 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Building a dam imparts a stupendous change to the environment, and as with any change, there are winners and losers. The winners are usually us, people, through hydropower generation, protection from flooding,...
Seth's Blog
Out to get you
It’s easy to believe that in some moments, the world is out to get you. This is unlikely. The world...
11 months ago
It’s easy to believe that in some moments, the world is out to get you. This is unlikely. The world hardly knows you exist. There is injustice and trauma and systems of caste. There are tiny pockets of humanity that hold a grudge. But most of the time, in most situations, what...
Rest of World -...
Shein and MercadoLibre are fighting over vendors in Brazil’s largest garment market
After the pandemic pushed Brazilian manufacturers and store owners to digitize their businesses,...
8 months ago
After the pandemic pushed Brazilian manufacturers and store owners to digitize their businesses, e-commerce platforms began pulling out all the stops to lure vendors.
Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
Retail Design Blog
Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation Offices by SUBU Design Architecture
SUBU Design Architecture transformed the Levitt Foundation’s office space in Los Angeles,...
5 months ago
SUBU Design Architecture transformed the Levitt Foundation’s office space in Los Angeles, emphasizing luxury and community with a focus on...
Rest of World -...
Bolt’s drive-to-win insurance scheme is putting drivers’ lives at risk
Many drivers who attempted to win health care said they’ve become ill while doing so — and still...
6 months ago
Many drivers who attempted to win health care said they’ve become ill while doing so — and still can’t afford treatment.
Irrational...
Constraints on giving feedback.
Back when I was managing at Digg and Uber, I spent a lot of time delivering feedback to my...
7 months ago
Back when I was managing at Digg and Uber, I spent a lot of time delivering feedback to my management chain about issues in our organization. My intentions were good, but I alienated my management chain without accomplishing much. I also shared my concerns with my team, which I...
TheCollector
The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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2 months ago
Irrational...
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer.
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
a year ago
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
McMansion Hell
bonus mcmansion hell: terrible things are happening in McLean, VA
Read the bonus post on Patreon!
over a year ago
Read the bonus post on Patreon!
TheCollector
NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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a year ago
diamond geezer
Unblogged first week of May
7 unblogged things I did in the first week of May
Wed 1: While I was touring City churches I came...
7 months ago
7 unblogged things I did in the first week of May
Wed 1: While I was touring City churches I came across this, the Lost London Churches Project. They've printed a little colour card for every church in the City of London - current and former - and the idea is to collect them all...
The American Scholar
“how i got ovah” by Carolyn Rodgers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “how i got ovah” by Carolyn Rodgers appeared first on The...
3 weeks ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “how i got ovah” by Carolyn Rodgers appeared first on The American Scholar.
fast.ai
nbdev+Quarto: A new secret weapon for productivity
Our favorite tool for software engineering productivity–nbdev, now re-written with Quarto
over a year ago
Our favorite tool for software engineering productivity–nbdev, now re-written with Quarto
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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8 months ago
The Works in...
The Cocktail Revolution
How bad drinks became good, and good drinks became great
a year ago
How bad drinks became good, and good drinks became great
Paolo Amoroso's...
Documenting WebCard
<, I ran into a very...
over a year ago
In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very peculiar problem: my pages were being generated a lot more slowly than expected:
Rest of World -...
At home with Asia’s shopping influencers
In Vietnam, Pakistan, and Indonesia, three livestreamers build well-paid but precarious careers.
a year ago
In Vietnam, Pakistan, and Indonesia, three livestreamers build well-paid but precarious careers.
David Heinemeier...
Dare to connect a server to the internet
The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest...
10 months ago
The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest things are too dangerous to even attempt by yourself these days. That without their rarified expertise, you’ll be left vulnerable. So best just to leave ever-more of your burdens to...
Open Culture
The First “Selfie” In History Taken by Robert Cornelius, a Philadelphia Chemist, in 1839
In 2013, the Oxford Dictionaries announced that “selfie” had been deemed their Word of The Year. The...
4 months ago
In 2013, the Oxford Dictionaries announced that “selfie” had been deemed their Word of The Year. The term, whose first recorded use as an Instagram hashtag occurred on January 27, 2011, was actually invented in 2002, when an Australian chap posted a picture of himself on an...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Suffering
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Please consult yesterday's comments (we have comments now) for the excellent post by Hans Rickheit.
Today's News:
We have them, like it's the 90s again! Please don't be a dick - I would like to keep moderation light. Also, if you...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Hot Dogs In A Temple
Above, a somewhat pathetic villain threatens the people of Gotham City, while Batgirl muses. Below,...
a year ago
Above, a somewhat pathetic villain threatens the people of Gotham City, while Batgirl muses. Below, the stair connecting the train shed at the old Penn Station with the concourse: And zoomed in: And another angle:
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
10 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
Londonist
Kong And Godzilla Appear By/In The Thames For Epic Selfie Op!
They're only here till tonight.
9 months ago
They're only here till tonight.
The Ruffian
Is Forgiveness a Power Move?
Plus a very juicy rattle bag which includes my favourite ever sad song
4 months ago
Plus a very juicy rattle bag which includes my favourite ever sad song
TheCollector
Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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a year ago
The Modern House
Our guide to North Norfolk: spectacular wildlife, unspoiled beaches and stargazing
a year ago
TheCollector
Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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a year ago
Noahpinion
Argentina's macroeconomic situation is even worse up close
A guest post by Karl T. Muth
a year ago
A guest post by Karl T. Muth
PostHog's RSS Feed
Startups, stop treating engineers like a different species
Today I’d like to rant talk about how non-engineering people at startups – especially execs –...
over a year ago
Today I’d like to rant talk about how non-engineering people at startups – especially execs – treat engineers like a fundamentally different type of…
Matt Mazur
“Monthly Billed Annually” is Cursed Copy
There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS...
a year ago
There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS for not refunding an accidental annual payment he made on their service. He intended to purchase the monthly plan, but due to an unclear UI and poor copy, he unintentionally...
David Heinemeier...
Where next for DEI?
It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural...
10 months ago
It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural world from 2020-2022, the reversal last year was astounding. The Supreme Court ruled the use of race in college admissions illegal, Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracst Research center fell...
Blog - Practical...
East Palestine Train Derailment Explained
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
On the evening of Friday,...
a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
On the evening of Friday, February 3, 2023, 38 of 149 cars of a Norfolk Southern Railway freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Five of the derailed cars were carrying vinyl chloride, a hazardous...
Old Structures...
An Alternate Timeline
Gustav Lindenthal really wanted to bridge the Hudson River. He was one of the most successful bridge...
11 months ago
Gustav Lindenthal really wanted to bridge the Hudson River. He was one of the most successful bridge engineers in the US – he’s best represented in New York by the Queensboro and Hell Gate Bridges – but nothing compares with his effort to building a suspension bridge across the...
Tech + Economics +...
Nazis don’t deserve free speech.
Reality check: Nazism is not an intellectual hypothetical that bears good
faith discussion. It's...
a year ago
Reality check: Nazism is not an intellectual hypothetical that bears good
faith discussion. It's not a controversial thought experiment. It is a
historical movement designed to demonise and exterminate the Other. Born in
the tumultuous aftermath of World War I, Nazi...
High Signal
Making thousands from a German learning online community
Rónán is the founder of Deutsch Gym, an online community for learning German. He's making thousands...
a year ago
Rónán is the founder of Deutsch Gym, an online community for learning German. He's making thousands in revenue from his startup which he made after moving to Berlin and wanting to improve his German language skills. Read on for his tips on making a
Farza's Newsletter
just used my car keys to lock my macbook wow 2021 is legit
Was a busy week at ZipSchool! It’s interesting, we’re quickly moving more toward an experience that...
over a year ago
Was a busy week at ZipSchool! It’s interesting, we’re quickly moving more toward an experience that the student themselves can control. This sounds kinda obvious in retrospect (as most things do). For basically the last 6 months the experience we’ve been building has been pretty...
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Old Man or Young Man Mad About Literature'
Sometimes an
eccentric judgment – one that reflects the critic’s discernment, not merely his
wish to...
7 months ago
Sometimes an
eccentric judgment – one that reflects the critic’s discernment, not merely his
wish to provoke and attract attention – proves useful to the common reader. Take
a sentence from Ford Madox Ford's final book, The March of Literature (1939): “The modern
English language...
Platformer
Winners and losers in the race to add AI
ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining...
a year ago
ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining advantage — or just line OpenAI's pockets?
Rest of World -...
Mexico’s growing e-commerce infrastructure is built on top of its smallest shops
Amazon and MercadoLibre get all the credit, but it’s really a patchwork of mom-and-pop shops that...
a year ago
Amazon and MercadoLibre get all the credit, but it’s really a patchwork of mom-and-pop shops that keep Mexico’s e-commerce running.
Julia Evans
ASCII control characters in my terminal
Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious
about all these...
a month ago
Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious
about all these “control codes”, like Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-W, etc. What’s
the deal with all of them?
a table of ASCII control characters
Here’s a table of all 33 ASCII control characters, and what they...
Open Culture
Hear Flannery O’Connor Read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1959)
Flannery O’Connor was a Southern writer who, as Joyce Carol Oates once said, had less in common with...
8 months ago
Flannery O’Connor was a Southern writer who, as Joyce Carol Oates once said, had less in common with Faulkner than with Kafka and Kierkegaard. Isolated by poor health and consumed by her fervent Catholic faith, O’Connor created works of moral fiction that, according to Oates,...
The Ruffian
Threads Isn't Toxic Enough
Why I'm sticking with Twitter For Now
a year ago
Why I'm sticking with Twitter For Now
Noahpinion
China at the peak
The country's rise is complete, but don't expect a rapid decline.
a year ago
The country's rise is complete, but don't expect a rapid decline.
Wuthering...
The Nicomachean Ethics - moderate Aristotle - clarity within the limits of the subject matter
I will borrow the quotation from Aristotle’s Nicomachean
Ethics I found on p. 186 of Gary Paul...
a year ago
I will borrow the quotation from Aristotle’s Nicomachean
Ethics I found on p. 186 of Gary Paul Morson’s extraordinary new study of
the ethics if Russian literature:
Our discussion will be adequate if it achieves clarity
within the limits of the subject matter.
For precision...
Steve Klabnik
Show solidarity to all who resist
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Sage office by Morgan Lovell
Transformative, people centric workplace Sage set out to revitalise their office environment,...
2 months ago
Transformative, people centric workplace Sage set out to revitalise their office environment, transforming their new space into a dynamic ‘next...
Christopher Butler
What Eyes Want
South of the Border. These signs are impossible to miss.
Today, over 175 South of the Border signs...
over a year ago
South of the Border. These signs are impossible to miss.
Today, over 175 South of the Border signs remain along the interstate; when I was a child making a two-day road trip from Boston to Florida, there were more than 250. Spotting them, reading them, and counting them made...
Flashbak
Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
6 months ago
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
The Marginalian
Grace Paley on the Countercultural Courage of Imagining Other Lives
“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real,” Iris...
4 months ago
“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real,” Iris Murdoch wrote in her superb investigation of the parallels between art and morality. There could be no such realization without imagination, which is our only instrument for fathoming...
Making software...
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-19
It's no secret that I'm passionate about open...
over a year ago
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-19
It's no secret that I'm passionate about open source software, but I'm also extremely adamant about protecting the privacy of all users across the web. So when I decided to implement analytics on my own personal website, I ended...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Reading A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP
<![CDATA[I got a cheap used copy of the book A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP by Deborah G....
10 months ago
<![CDATA[I got a cheap used copy of the book A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP by Deborah G. Tatar, Digital Press, 1987.
The book A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP by Deborah G.
Why did I read such an old book, published a few years after CLtL1 and well before ANSI...
Tech + Economics +...
Samsung Galaxy S24 Unpacked Event Set for Jan. 17
PCMag.com:
The company says it will show off "the newest additions to the Galaxy
mobile...
11 months ago
PCMag.com:
The company says it will show off "the newest additions to the Galaxy
mobile device portfolio." In its teaser video, the company goes a step
further and explicitly states that "Galaxy AI is coming," so get ready
for some form of on-device,...
samwho.dev
Having a Baby
During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like...
over a year ago
During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like I have much to say in them. This was different. The whole experience was new, and there was a lot to learn.
This post is a cleaning up and stitching together of that journal. It...
Tech + Economics +...
Elon Musk’s childishness knows no bounds.
Taylor Lorenz on Threads:
At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the...
a year ago
Taylor Lorenz on Threads:
At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the room,
Elon Musk just told advertisers — including Disney CEO Bob Iger — to go
fuck themselves."Don't advertise... If somebody did try to blackmail me
with...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Digital Garden Terms of Service
This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who...
over a year ago
This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who peruse Digital Gardens, and the people who Learn in Public with them.
Stephen Diehl
The Philosophical Argument Against Crypto
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
New Whale Fossil – Possibly Heaviest Animal Ever
The largest and heaviest animal to ever live on the Earth, as far as we know, is the blue whale,...
a year ago
The largest and heaviest animal to ever live on the Earth, as far as we know, is the blue whale, which is extant today. The blue whale is larger than any dinosaur, even the giant sauropods. The average weight of a blue whale is 160 tons, with the largest specimen being 190 tons,...
TokyoDev
僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について
This article is also available [in...
over a year ago
This article is also available [in...
Tech + Economics +...
A shared burden: rethinking cybersecurity post the 23andMe breach.
TechCrunch: 23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was
breached
But in a...
11 months ago
TechCrunch: 23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was
breached
But in a letter sent to a group of hundreds of 23andMe users who are
now suing the company, 23andMe said that “users negligently recycled
and failed to update their passwords...
Wanderingspace
Cassini’s Final Look at Enceladus
Taken on August 28, 2017. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
This is from images...
over a year ago
Taken on August 28, 2017. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
This is from images obtained by Cassini shortly before plunging into the Saturnian atmosphere. The images were taken over 14 hours and compiled into this animation.
UX Collective
Are you considering the developer’s mental model?
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Classical Wisdom
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
11 months ago
Noahpinion
Three years of Noahpinion
What happened to the world in 2023, and what I wrote about it
a year ago
What happened to the world in 2023, and what I wrote about it
TheCollector
The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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5 months ago
Open Culture
What Is Religion Actually For?: Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury Weigh In
In the nineteen-sixties, the music media encouraged the notion that a young rock-and-roll fan had to...
7 months ago
In the nineteen-sixties, the music media encouraged the notion that a young rock-and-roll fan had to side with either the Beatles or their rivals, the Rolling Stones. On some level, it must have made sense, given the growing aesthetic divide between the music the two world-famous...
Seth's Blog
Scaffolds and talent
Kindergarten teachers matter more than you think. Chess isn’t a talent, it’s a learned practice....
a year ago
Kindergarten teachers matter more than you think. Chess isn’t a talent, it’s a learned practice. We’re sorting for head starts, not growth. And that’s just the first chapter. I think Hidden Potential is the most important book in Adam Grant’s career. The indoctrination around...
TheCollector
What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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The Marginalian
Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality
How to "include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided,...
a year ago
How to "include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border."
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Farming Life
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Try to get the feudal lord before he gets to...
11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Try to get the feudal lord before he gets to plaguey.
Today's News:
Stephen Wolfram...
Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT
ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us...
a year ago
ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. And it’s happening now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time...
NeuroLogica Blog
Journalists Fail on UAP Story
Nothing about the recent resurgence in interest in UFOs (now called UAPs for unidentified anomalous...
a year ago
Nothing about the recent resurgence in interest in UFOs (now called UAPs for unidentified anomalous phenomena) is really new. It’s basically the same stories with the same level of completely unconvincing evidence. But what is somewhat new is the level of credulity and outright...
TheCollector
The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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3 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Present to Investors
over a year ago
Max Countryman
A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt
Leverage is a powerful tool that applies to many things, including the code we write. However, tech...
a year ago
Leverage is a powerful tool that applies to many things, including the code we write. However, tech debt like all leverage, comes with interest payments. How do we know when to start spending bandwidth on addressing it? We'll look at a framework that can help us ensure we don't...
Old Structures...
Mystery Work
From 1908, a stereograph of the construction of the tower of the Singer Building: The title is...
a month ago
From 1908, a stereograph of the construction of the tower of the Singer Building: The title is accurate – “Four hundred ft. above the street – iron worker on the Singer Tower, New York, U.S.A.” but it doesn’t tell us what we’re actually looking at. For example, the steel we’re...
Londonist
SWANA Clubs In London, And How They Give Me A Sense Of Cultural Identity
Finding yourself in the rhythmic pulse of Arabian music.
10 months ago
Finding yourself in the rhythmic pulse of Arabian music.
Society's Backend
Run Your Own Race
What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
8 months ago
What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
AFAR Media - Travel...
What it's Like to Try an Adaptive Outdoor Recreation Tour
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Improving Receipt UX
Improving Receipt UX
2019-05-15
There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago...
over a year ago
Improving Receipt UX
2019-05-15
There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago about rethinking the standard receipt design that I found quite compelling. Although, as good as the concept is, I think it can be improved (simplified) even further.
What was the...
Common Edge
Let’s Stop Using the Terms ‘Traditional’ and ‘Modern’
By now, the terms are arbitrary and confusing.
a year ago
By now, the terms are arbitrary and confusing.
diamond geezer
Building churches on housing estates
When did they stop building churches on housing estates?
Time was when even the smallest village...
5 months ago
When did they stop building churches on housing estates?
Time was when even the smallest village had a church, such was the domination of religion in our society. As towns and suburbs grew they too were always built with churches, often of multiple denominations, these an...
Old Structures...
Old-Fashioned Spelling
From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us...
10 months ago
From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us “The Willams [sic] Street Cañon”. The drawing seems pretty accurate. Here’s a similar view in a photo from 1928: I am a little suspicious of an article that misspells a street name...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The New Wave of Concierge Medicine | Out-Of-Pocket
This episode of Out-Of-Pocket is brought to you by…
5 months ago
This episode of Out-Of-Pocket is brought to you by…
Drew Ex Machina
Webb’s First Glimpse of Jupiter, Its Moons & Rings
A long time ago when I was a budding amateur astronomer, one of the first targets I would observe...
over a year ago
A long time ago when I was a budding amateur astronomer, one of the first targets I would observe each evening with my new telescope was […]
swyx's site RSS Feed
Putting your Keyboard on Steroids with Karabiner Elements
I did a livestream with John Lindquist from Egghead.io today, and he blew my mind on how much...
over a year ago
I did a livestream with John Lindquist from Egghead.io today, and he blew my mind on how much mileage you can get out of your keyboard!
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Day I Became A Software Engineer
A single mindset shift that changed my entire attitude to software.
over a year ago
A single mindset shift that changed my entire attitude to software.
diamond geezer
Unwritten
Seven posts that I considered writing today but they were going nowhere so I didn't finish...
a year ago
Seven posts that I considered writing today but they were going nowhere so I didn't finish them
What's the lowest numbered A road you've never driven on?
Wow didn't it just get cold?
the temperature in my living room for three years. I note the indoor temperature first thing...
Nelson's Weblog
The Transcantábrico Train
We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week
long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was...
a year ago
We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week
long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was great! Like a
cruise but on a train. We did something similar in India in
2015 and it’s an interesting way to travel. Some photos here.
The Transcantábrico goes across a part of...
David Heinemeier...
Clear the barnacles
The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at...
a year ago
The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at once. These little mental barnacles add up in imperceptible ways until you suddenly feel like you're getting nowhere, no matter how hard you push. You must keep scrubbing your...
Common Edge
Why Mass Transit in America Disappeared
A talk with the author of The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric...
a year ago
A talk with the author of The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight.
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust error handling: Option & Result
The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these
gracefully and safely in our...
6 months ago
The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these
gracefully and safely in our Rust programs? Let’s introduce two of every
Rust programmer’s favourite types: Option and Result.
Elad Blog
Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination?
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly...
over a year ago
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated per day and over 23% of the country vaccinated in the first few weeks. The country hopes to have the entire population over age 16
TheCollector
What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
These Airlines Make Flying Easier for Travelers With Autism
a year ago
Max Countryman
Let It Fail
I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I...
a year ago
I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I feel compelled to jump in and lend a hand. However, sometimes that's a leadership blunder which does a greater disservice to the longer view of things.
diamond geezer
Climbing Campden Hill
A Nice Walk: Campden Hill (¾ mile)
Campden Hill, a full 42 metres above sea level. Here it is on a...
3 months ago
A Nice Walk: Campden Hill (¾ mile)
Campden Hill, a full 42 metres above sea level. Here it is on a topographic map, a raw bruise to the east of Holland Park, entirely untroubled by public transport. [1872 map] [2024 map]
Campden Hill rises to the south of Notting Hill Gate,...
Rest of World -...
In Indonesia, social media is a “hunting ground” for religious minorities
Conservative Muslim influencers spread hate speech to their millions of followers on TikTok and...
5 months ago
Conservative Muslim influencers spread hate speech to their millions of followers on TikTok and YouTube, with little pushback from authorities or platforms.
Math Is Still...
The Hidden Brain Connections Between Our Hands and Tongues
Sticking out your tongue while doing delicate work with your hands reveals a history of evolutionary...
a year ago
Sticking out your tongue while doing delicate work with your hands reveals a history of evolutionary relationships.
The post The Hidden Brain Connections Between Our Hands and Tongues first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Chris Nicholas
Which blend mode?
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for...
over a year ago
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for use in the wild.
History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
The Honest Broker
Why I Don't Read Reddit
And why I did read Reddit's IPO filing—here are seven things I learned
9 months ago
And why I did read Reddit's IPO filing—here are seven things I learned
Making software...
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux
2023-04-13
Everyone seems to be running some...
a year ago
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux
2023-04-13
Everyone seems to be running some version of VSCode as their main editor these days. But not me. I find VSCode to be too bloated for my needs - not to mention being built on top of electron instead of native code. I...
Blog - Practical...
You Spend More on Rust Than Gasoline (Probably)
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
In July of 1995, Folsom Lake,...
over a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
In July of 1995, Folsom Lake, a reservoir created by Folsom Dam in Northern California, reached its full capacity as snow continued to melt in the upstream Sierra. With the power plant shut down for...
Nelson's Weblog
My work at early Twitter
I worked at Twitter part-time starting June 2007. I've never talked much about this in public. I'm...
a year ago
I worked at Twitter part-time starting June 2007. I've never talked much about this in public. I'm revisiting it because of the complete disaster Elon Musk has made of Twitter. His sabotage of the company has felt personal to me. It hurts to watch him destroy something I helped...
Common Edge
How Madagascar Is Confronting Climate Change
The island nation is grappling with unique and formidable environmental challenges.
a year ago
The island nation is grappling with unique and formidable environmental challenges.
Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
over a year ago
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
Working Theorys
The Lost Sense
OR: The Marginalization of "Touch" in a Digital World
3 months ago
OR: The Marginalization of "Touch" in a Digital World
Old Structures...
Structural Logic In An Older Form
From an 1880s building in Tribeca: the double beam supporting the front facade (sidewalk vault on...
4 months ago
From an 1880s building in Tribeca: the double beam supporting the front facade (sidewalk vault on the left, cellar on the right) where it meets the side wall at a pier. That’s a granite block directly below the beams, which can be a little hard to tell because of the paint on all...
The Diff
We Still Have No Idea Whether Passive Investing is a Meaningful Risk
Plus! Complements and Strategy; Privacy, Competition, and Scale; Platforms and Ownership; KYC;...
3 weeks ago
Plus! Complements and Strategy; Privacy, Competition, and Scale; Platforms and Ownership; KYC; Tariff Man
The Ruffian
My Ten Favourite Books of the Year
Plus a Rattle Bag of Goodies (and a special Christmas offer)
a week ago
Plus a Rattle Bag of Goodies (and a special Christmas offer)
TheCollector
5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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7 months ago
Maps Mania
Google Updates Satellite Imagery of Ukraine
a year ago
Open Culture
Why You Can Never Tune a Piano
Grab a cup of coffee, put on your thinking cap, and start working through this video from Minute...
3 months ago
Grab a cup of coffee, put on your thinking cap, and start working through this video from Minute Physics, which explains why guitars, violins and other instruments can be tuned to a tee. But when it comes to pianos, it’s an entirely different story, a mathematical impossibility....
Liz Denys
Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music -...
over a year ago
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - specifically, I saw all 26 of the Next Wave Festival productions.
I've been coming to BAM regularly since I moved to New York in 2011, and Next Wave is always an exciting time of year...
CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension And A Garden Studio For This Heritage-Listed Home
Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town...
a year ago
Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town House in Greater London, England. Not only did they design the addition, but they also created a small garden studio that provides a workspace for the musician owner. A large...
A Smart Bear
No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric
Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
a month ago
Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
Arduino Blog
Discover the new Arduino UNO SPE Shield: the quick and easy way to advanced connectivity
Arduino and Microchip are excited to open electronica – the “world’s leading trade fair and...
a month ago
Arduino and Microchip are excited to open electronica – the “world’s leading trade fair and conference for electronics” – by introducing the Arduino UNO SPE Shield, a powerful ally to bring advanced connectivity to new and existing projects, with Single-Pair Ethernet (SPE) and...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 095: QwQ
November 29, 2024.
3 weeks ago
Old Structures...
A Similar Feeling
First, looking east on 14th Street from First Avenue, last week. The endless repetitive buildings on...
9 months ago
First, looking east on 14th Street from First Avenue, last week. The endless repetitive buildings on the left are Stuyvesant Town, a 1940s middle-class housing development that replaced the Gashouse District with a whole bunch of mid-rise red-brick apartment houses. The ornate...
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 events all teams should track with PostHog
It can be tricky to know which events you should start tracking first if you haven’t used product...
over a year ago
It can be tricky to know which events you should start tracking first if you haven’t used product analytics before. That’s why we recommend using…
TheCollector
Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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10 months ago
Old Structures...
Tiny and Cute, But Purposeful
This is the lighthouse at the northern tip of Roosevelt Island. The island is two miles long and a...
6 months ago
This is the lighthouse at the northern tip of Roosevelt Island. The island is two miles long and a tenth of a mile wide, cutting the East River into two roughly-equal half-channels. That alone makes the need for lighthouses at its tip reasonably clear, but the conditions are...
TheCollector
The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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swyx's site RSS Feed
What drives Optimal Overhead?
The biggest unanswered question in the study of systems.
over a year ago
The biggest unanswered question in the study of systems.
Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Stationery Award Offers a Return to the Primitive
Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably...
8 months ago
Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably Japan’s most-influential stationery design award, which this year asked designers to look to the past. “If we return to the idea of ‘primitive’ in order to create the future,”...
Blog System/5
Links: December 2023 edition
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
11 months ago
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
A Smart Bear
Finding Fulfillment
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
a year ago
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
sbensu
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Notes on the book.
2 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Snake
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a year ago
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A patreon subscriber points out that there aren't any South American pythons, but my defense is that the drawings don't even look like pythons.
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Seth's Blog
What if they’re right?
We spend a lot of time in our own heads, certain that our path and our method make sense. We often...
2 weeks ago
We spend a lot of time in our own heads, certain that our path and our method make sense. We often become more certain in the face of criticism or even suggestions. This confidence is essential, as it allows us to lean into our project. Once in a while, though, it might help to...
👋 Hello, I'm...
Why I started consulting, why you should too, and why you need to be your own customer!...
a year ago
HTMHell
Control the Viewport Resize Behavior on mobile with `interactive-widget`
by Bramus
figcaption {
font-size: 0.8em;
text-align: center;
}
Viewports units on...
2 weeks ago
by Bramus
figcaption {
font-size: 0.8em;
text-align: center;
}
Viewports units on mobile have been a problem for a long time. Using 100vh is most likely not exactly what you initially expected it to be. To fix this, the CSS Working Group came up with more units over...
Liz Denys
Reasons to kick Peter Thiel off Facebook's board
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about...
over a year ago
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the threat he poses. Many of the arguments are centered around diversity, which is a tenet Facebook says it deeply values.
The ways Thiel fails to value diversity matter: his...
diamond geezer
completely screwed at the moment
I was on the Central line the other day and there was a 15 minute gap between trains. You might...
10 months ago
I was on the Central line the other day and there was a 15 minute gap between trains. You might expect this kind of thing at the extremities or late at night, but not at Bethnal Green mid-morning. "Sorry, we're going to be held here for 5 minutes," said the driver. "This is due...
ToughSF
Advanced Solar Energy in Space: Part II
In this post, we continue looking at high power density options for solar energy.
Brayton...
over a year ago
In this post, we continue looking at high power density options for solar energy.
Brayton cycle
We commonly see the Brayton cycle used to convert heat into work in jet engines and the steam turbines of power plants. There are three main components: a compressor, a heat...
Ink & Switch
10 · Beyond prose
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
8 months ago
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
Open Culture
A New 3D Scan, Created from 25,000 High-Resolution Images, Reveals the Remarkably Well-Preserved...
Photos on this page courtesy of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Few who hear the story of the...
a month ago
Photos on this page courtesy of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Few who hear the story of the Endurance could avoid reflecting on the aptness of the ship’s name. A year after setting out on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, it got stuck in a mass of drifting ice...
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
Black Pride, All Points East, a foodie weekend, a cocktail festival and more.
Arduino Blog
Arduino IDE 2.3.3: discover new support for shared spaces and more!
We’re excited to announce that the Arduino IDE 2.3.3 is now live! What’s in the new version This...
2 months ago
We’re excited to announce that the Arduino IDE 2.3.3 is now live! What’s in the new version This new release is packed with improvements, including one feature we’re particularly proud of: support for shared spaces in Arduino Cloud. If you have a Cloud Business plan or School...
99% Invisible
Uptown Squirrel [EPISODE]
This past fall, hundreds of people gathered at The Explorer’s Club in New York City. The building...
6 months ago
This past fall, hundreds of people gathered at The Explorer’s Club in New York City. The building was once a clubhouse for famed naturalists and explorers. Now it’s an archive of ephemera and rarities from pioneering expeditions including treks to the North Pole, the moon, and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Starting Svelte Society
Thoughts on how I am doing with 4 months of Svelte Society in the bag.
over a year ago
Thoughts on how I am doing with 4 months of Svelte Society in the bag.
Working Theorys
Rabbitholes as Portals
Fall down the right ones
9 months ago
macwright.com
SaaS exits by
I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit...
a year ago
I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit experiences:
Loom is surprisingly hard to exit from. There’s no bulk export option, no way to export metadata.
Webflow doesn’t support exporting sites with CMS collections (blogs, docs,...
Retail Design Blog
Warner Music Group and Spinnin’ Records Offices by HofmanDujardin
HofmanDujardin designed the Warner Music Group and Spinnin’ Records office in Amsterdam, emphasizing...
3 weeks ago
HofmanDujardin designed the Warner Music Group and Spinnin’ Records office in Amsterdam, emphasizing a music-driven, immersive environment that reflects the...
Louwrentius
Migration from blogger to blogofile and disqus is complete
As stated in my previous post, I migrated all posts from blogger.com to my own host running...
over a year ago
As stated in my previous post, I migrated all posts from blogger.com to my own host running blogofile.
At the time of my previous post, I was not able to restore all comments made on my old blog. Thanks to some help
from disqcus I fixed an error on my behalf and all old comments...
TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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8 months ago
diamond geezer
How deep is Crossrail?
In the last week TfL have refused to answer two freedom of Information requests both asking the same...
11 months ago
In the last week TfL have refused to answer two freedom of Information requests both asking the same thing. How deep are Crossrail stations?
geology student at UCL attempting to complete an air quality project and the other just wanted a data dump.
I am looking for the platform...
The Convivial...
Impoverished Emotional Lives
Is this anything?
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Brass-Lined Arches Connect The Kitchen With The Dining Room Inside This Home
Architecture and art studio Svima has shared photos of a kitchen and living room they updated, with...
8 months ago
Architecture and art studio Svima has shared photos of a kitchen and living room they updated, with the kitchen featuring brass design accents. Their clients, a Toronto couple, has opposite tastes: he is an enthusiast of tenebrous minimalism, and she is a lover of bright French...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sorry
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3 weeks ago
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This is like a time machine to SMBC circa 2005.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Temple
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Let us rise and make similar noises!
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a year ago
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Willem's Blog
Limitations of sleep tracking using a wearable
Limitations of heart rate analyses during sleep, why you should reconsider tracking your sleep.
over a year ago
Limitations of heart rate analyses during sleep, why you should reconsider tracking your sleep.
Society's Backend
Positioning Myself: The Greatest Piece of Career Advice I've Ever Received
And how it changed my personal life too
12 months ago
And how it changed my personal life too
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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9 months ago
Archinect - Features
Discussing Paid Research Opportunities for M.Arch Students at UW-Milwaukee SARUP
In November 2022, we connected with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture &...
a year ago
In November 2022, we connected with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) to unpack its Mellows Graduate Research Positions (formerly called the Mellowes Master’s Research Assistantships).
For the 2024-2025 school year, SARUP is...
Atoms vs Bits
The Al Capone Problem
Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion, and didn't go to prison for tax evasion.
a year ago
Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion, and didn't go to prison for tax evasion.
Confessions of a...
(Live Session) Performance Thinking: Six Key Lessons from 1BRC
Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation...
4 months ago
Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation for the finer details that drive performance optimization—something I truly enjoy discussing.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Largest Money-Printing UI Element Ever Made
I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics...
a year ago
I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics of Programming Languages”.
It’s a fascinating look at how a small OSS project like Elm has to compete in a world where many of the expectations around developer experience for a...
TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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11 months ago
The Pragmatic...
Apple: The Only Big Tech Giant Going Against the Job Cuts Tide
Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can...
a year ago
Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can we now expect it to follow suit by shedding workers?
Anecdotal Evidence
"The Saint’s Strange Way to Practice Death"
Among the road
kill I’ve tallied on Houston streets, the most common casualty is the...
9 months ago
Among the road
kill I’ve tallied on Houston streets, the most common casualty is the strangely
spelled opossum (from the Powhatan). The least common, incidentally, is the
armadillo, with two KIAs sighted in twenty years, both being pecked at by
crows. Natives here seem uncommonly...
TheCollector
How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Rest of World -...
You can’t play on both sides of the Great Firewall
What the TikTok ban really means for U.S. companies.
9 months ago
What the TikTok ban really means for U.S. companies.
Making software...
CSS Variables
CSS Variables
2018-03-24
The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
over a year ago
CSS Variables
2018-03-24
The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I'd like to focus specifically on the "new" CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now.
Getting started is easy
Let's just jump...
diamond geezer
The Secret Life of the Home
As science evolves, so does the Science Museum.
The Secret Life of the Home.
This much-loved...
7 months ago
As science evolves, so does the Science Museum.
The Secret Life of the Home.
This much-loved corner of the basement, where the life of the domestic appliance is quirkily celebrated, closes forever on Sunday 2nd June. I went for a last look round with a wall-to-wall smile,...
mtlynch.io
Deploying Syncthing on a Fly.io Cloud Server
I recently discovered Syncthing, an open-source tool for syncing files across multiple...
a year ago
I recently discovered Syncthing, an open-source tool for syncing files across multiple machines.
Setting up Syncthing on my personal devices was easy, but I went on an interesting journey deploying it to a cloud server.
Why run Syncthing in the cloud? Syncthing synchronizes files...
A Smart Bear
Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...
a year ago
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
Londonist
Direct Trains From London To Paris Were A Thing In 1936
These trains went over, rather than under, the water.
11 months ago
These trains went over, rather than under, the water.
TheCollector
What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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a month ago
Josh Collinsworth
Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
over a year ago
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse
We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of...
a year ago
We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of data we process every day. In doing this at scale for…
elementary Blog
It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible
This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and...
5 months ago
This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and plenty of OS 8 news.
Disability Pride Month
It’s disability pride month, which means making space to talk about how we can build communities and systems that better accommodate...
Irrational...
Navigating ambiguity.
Perceiving the layers of context in problems will unlock another stage of career progression as a...
11 months ago
Perceiving the layers of context in problems will unlock another stage of career progression as a Staff-plus engineer, but there’s at least one essential skill to develop afterwards: navigating ambiguity. In my experience, navigating deeply ambiguous problems is the rarest skill...
Val Sopi
The downsides of building in public
<p>I first started "building in public" back in 2017.</p>
<p>Not sure if the term existed back...
a year ago
<p>I first started "building in public" back in 2017.</p>
<p>Not sure if the term existed back then, but I started talking about my newest product at the time (Claritask), which I ended up <a href="https://bootstrapping-saas.transistor.fm/episodes/claritask-sold"...
The Convivial...
The Work of Art
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 8
6 months ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 8
Charles Chen
End-to-End Type Safety with .NET7, TypeScript, and OpenAPI -- with Hot Rebuild
Supercharge your dev workflow with end-to-end type safety and hot rebuild!
a year ago
Supercharge your dev workflow with end-to-end type safety and hot rebuild!
bt RSS Feed
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
2019-09-28
I recently began working on a small side...
over a year ago
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer
2019-09-28
I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I’m writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
TheCollector
Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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8 months ago
TheCollector
8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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a week ago
The DESK Magazine
When good is no longer good enough
It wasn’t long ago I’d see a 3D rendering or piece of highly detailed art and feel blown away.
a year ago
It wasn’t long ago I’d see a 3D rendering or piece of highly detailed art and feel blown away.
Ryan Mulligan
The Shape of Runs to Come
Over the last few months or so, I have been fairly consistent with getting outside for Sunday...
2 weeks ago
Over the last few months or so, I have been fairly consistent with getting outside for Sunday morning runs. A series of lower body issues had prevented me from doing so for many years, but it was an exercise I had enjoyed back then. It took time to rebuild that habit and muscle...
nanoscale views
Strategic planning + departmental reviews
It's been a while since I've written a post about the ways of academia, so I thought it might be...
a year ago
It's been a while since I've written a post about the ways of academia, so I thought it might be time, though it's not exactly glamorous or exciting. There are certain cycles in research universities, and two interrelated ones are the cycle of departmental strategic planning and...
Making software...
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-12-03
With the recent domain switch that took place on...
over a year ago
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-12-03
With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like "URL forwarding" through your domain provider could work,...
History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
Seth's Blog
Sharp tools
Professional woodworkers rarely have to be reminded to sharpen their tools. Of course they know...
3 months ago
Professional woodworkers rarely have to be reminded to sharpen their tools. Of course they know this. The rest of us, on the other hand, regularly use digital tools we don’t understand, don’t maintain and haven’t optimized. Sometimes, our lack of care in the choice and use of...
somethingaboutmaps
Kickstarter 3: The Return
For the past several years, I’ve enjoyed the process of cyanotype printing, and have released a...
a month ago
For the past several years, I’ve enjoyed the process of cyanotype printing, and have released a number of projects based on this technique (including my favorite item I’ve ever made). Now, I’ve decided to take my recent work in developing terrain sketches, and turn it into a new...
Epic Web Dev
Making Use of Code Coverage (article)
Dive into the contentious world of code coverage. Learn its nuances, pitfalls, and practical...
10 months ago
Dive into the contentious world of code coverage. Learn its nuances, pitfalls, and practical applications for modern web app testing
TheCollector
4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Book Tour!
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
We'll also have a UK schedule soon. Thanks...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
We'll also have a UK schedule soon. Thanks everyone! Sorry to nag about this, but well, it's the culmination of 4 years of work. I hope to see some of you!
Today's News:
Here are links to the individual events:
Strand...
Sam Altman
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get...
a year ago
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.
Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry...
Wait But Why
It’s 2020 and you’re in the future
Some people are young, just not you.
The post It’s 2020 and you’re in the future appeared first on...
over a year ago
Some people are young, just not you.
The post It’s 2020 and you’re in the future appeared first on Wait But Why.
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #45: Deliverism, blasphemy and selfies from space
Plus the best Minecraft-themed political deepfake you'll see today
2 weeks ago
Plus the best Minecraft-themed political deepfake you'll see today
Seth's Blog
Trouble in the grey zone
In many creative industries, there’s a similar pattern. When the stakes are very low, most creators...
a year ago
In many creative industries, there’s a similar pattern. When the stakes are very low, most creators produce things that are fairly banal and ordinary. Part of that is the law of large numbers, but it’s mostly our personal cultural resistance to leaning too far into weird stuff....
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, May 2023
This is a monthly feature. As usual, I’ve omitted recent blog posts and such, which you can find in...
a year ago
This is a monthly feature. As usual, I’ve omitted recent blog posts and such, which you can find in my links digests.
John Gall, The Systems Bible (2012), aka Systemantics, 3rd ed. A concise, pithy collection of wisdom about “systems”, mostly human organizations, projects, and...
Rest of World -...
Desperate for dollars, Argentina just gave digital nomads another advantage over locals
Foreign bank card holders now get better exchange rates than Argentines.
a year ago
Foreign bank card holders now get better exchange rates than Argentines.
TheCollector
Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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10 months ago
Acko.net
Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams
Hassle free GLSL
I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side...
over a year ago
Hassle free GLSL
I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side project to come up with a composable and incremental way of driving WebGPU and GPUs in general.
#pragma import { getColor } from 'path/to/color'
void main() {
gl_FragColor =...
Vadim Kravcenko
Where do I find technical co-founder for my startup?
Starting a business can be a daunting task. It’s even more difficult when you’re doing it alone and...
over a year ago
Starting a business can be a daunting task. It’s even more difficult when you’re doing it alone and you’re not […]
The post Where do I find technical co-founder for my startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Handprinted - Blog
Hand-Painted Textiles: A Practical Guide to the Art of Painting on Fabric by Sarah Campbell Book...
We have recently added some fantastic new books to the Handprinted shop and this one is no...
a year ago
We have recently added some fantastic new books to the Handprinted shop and this one is no exception. Sarah Campbell's beautifully curated and inspirational book explores the art of painting and making patterns on fabric. Even just flicking through the pages of this book makes...
Maps Mania
The Global Problem of Forever Chemicals
a year ago
Ink & Switch
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React
Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
over a year ago
Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
swyx's site RSS Feed
swyx in 2024 End of Year wraps
i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
5 days ago
i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
7 months ago
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
The Marginalian
Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection
“To be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” Emily Dickinson wrote. From the moment she pressed the...
7 months ago
“To be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” Emily Dickinson wrote. From the moment she pressed the first wildflower into her astonishing teenage herbarium until the moment Susan pinned a violet to her alabaster chest in the casket, she filled her poems with flowers and made of...
Rozado’s Visual...
Northern Awokening: Social-justice and prejudice-signifying language in Canadian news media
I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about...
a year ago
I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about changes in the language that the news media in Canada use. I have documented previously how in American news media mentions of terms that signify distinct forms of prejudice have...
Stat Significant
What Makes a Movie Hateable? A Statistical Analysis
What makes a movie bad, and what makes a review of a bad movie?
a month ago
What makes a movie bad, and what makes a review of a bad movie?
Made by Ollin
NVIDIA Internship (2017)
Notes on my internship at NVIDIA Redmond.
over a year ago
Notes on my internship at NVIDIA Redmond.
Open Culture
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Creative Process: A Look Inside the Books & Techniques That Allowed His Art...
The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat has its unfortunate aspects: not just his premature death, but...
3 weeks ago
The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat has its unfortunate aspects: not just his premature death, but also the aggressive marketing of his work and persona in the years leading up to it. He became a vogue artist of the eighties in part because he could be taken as an unfiltered voice...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - NYT
Click here to go see the bonus...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/opinion/space-billionaires-sex.html
Today's News:
Back to regular comics shortly, but the book comes out tomorrow. Opening week sales matter a lot, so wish me luck!
Jonas Hietala
An Epic Start
Oh what a mistake. I woke up at 05.00 when my girlfriend woke up, she’s working early today, and...
over a year ago
Oh what a mistake. I woke up at 05.00 when my girlfriend woke up, she’s working early today, and went to the bathroom. After I was done, still pretty tired, I made a big mistake. I checked the current theme for Ludum Dare 29: Beneath the Surface and guess what? Now I wasn’t tired...
Data Boutique
Urgency Factor: Why Timing is as Critical as Cost
The Issues of Planning Web Data Projects
a year ago
The Issues of Planning Web Data Projects
diamond geezer
One Stop Beyond
But what are the first stations beyond the Greater London boundary?
Herts
Moor Park...
4 months ago
But what are the first stations beyond the Greater London boundary?
Herts
Moor Park z6/7
Carpenders Park z7
Herts
Elstree and
Borehamwood z6
Potters Bar
Herts
Cuffley
Theobalds Grove z7
Waltham Cross z7
Essex
Buckhurst Hill z5
Roding Valley z4
Grange Hill...
TheCollector
Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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a month ago
TheCollector
How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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3 months ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
Monoids for analytics
This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is...
over a year ago
This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is a set that is closed under an…
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Slackware
The Oldest Surviving Linux Distribution
a year ago
The Oldest Surviving Linux Distribution
Anecdotal Evidence
'Till Love and Fame to Nothingness Do Sink'
Dr. Johnson
thought the first aim of biography was utilitarian: “I esteem biography, as
giving us...
a month ago
Dr. Johnson
thought the first aim of biography was utilitarian: “I esteem biography, as
giving us what comes near to ourselves, what we can turn to use.” The reader reads
the life of another, reflects on it and applies the lessons he deduces to
himself. In the early pages of his...
Rest of World -...
Scale AI’s Remotasks platform is dropping whole countries without explanation
Workers in Kenya, Nigeria, and Pakistan were booted off the AI-training service earlier this month.
8 months ago
Workers in Kenya, Nigeria, and Pakistan were booted off the AI-training service earlier this month.
The Marginalian
The Importance of Trusting Yourself: Nick Cave on the Relationship Between Creativity and Faith
"There is more going on than we can see or understand, and we need to find a way to lean into the...
a year ago
"There is more going on than we can see or understand, and we need to find a way to lean into the mystery of things."
SatPost by Trung...
"Now is the Most Important Time"
Jensen Huang, Cillian Murphy, Michael Jordan, Jerry Seinfeld and Oprah Winfrey on the power of being...
9 months ago
Jensen Huang, Cillian Murphy, Michael Jordan, Jerry Seinfeld and Oprah Winfrey on the power of being present.
Tech + Economics +...
AI hardware is kind of cool.
PC Mag: The r1 AI Pocket Companion Will Take You Down the Rabbit Hole
LAM works "by first...
11 months ago
PC Mag: The r1 AI Pocket Companion Will Take You Down the Rabbit Hole
LAM works "by first understanding complex human intentions, then
spinning up on human-oriented interfaces across all mobile and desktop
environments on a customized cloud platform, and finally...
TheCollector
What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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a year ago
Steve Blank
The 6th Lean Innovation Educators Summit – Education and Innovation in the Age of Chaos and...
Join Jerry Engel, Pete Newell, and Steve Weinstein for the sixth edition of the Lean Innovation...
over a year ago
Join Jerry Engel, Pete Newell, and Steve Weinstein for the sixth edition of the Lean Innovation Educators Summit December 14, 1-4 pm Eastern Time, 10 am-1 pm Pacific Time. Register here. — This virtual gathering will bring together entrepreneurship educators from around the world...
Londonist
The Funniest Things You've Heard Tube Drivers Say - Vol. 4
"Anyone know where the brakes are on this thing?"
a year ago
"Anyone know where the brakes are on this thing?"
TheCollector
How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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8 months ago
Computer Ads from...
IBM RISC System/6000 Family
Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go...
7 months ago
Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go...
Society's Backend
LLM-as-a-Judge, Instruction Pretraining, Solving Benchmarks Instead of Real-World ML Problems, and...
Weekly updates and resources 7/22/24
5 months ago
Weekly updates and resources 7/22/24
TheCollector
5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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3 months ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
Mercedes vs Lucid: Different Views on Luxury UI Design
With each launch of a Mercedes S-Class, the whole automotive world watches. It is a prelude to the...
over a year ago
With each launch of a Mercedes S-Class, the whole automotive world watches. It is a prelude to the technologies that will be the industry…
Old Structures...
I Have A Theory
Walking along East 52nd Street, I passed a partially built house for sale that’s a bit narrow. More...
a year ago
Walking along East 52nd Street, I passed a partially built house for sale that’s a bit narrow. More precisely, the lot is ten feet wide. It’s possible to have a realistic layout for a house that narrow, although obviously there will not be any grand interior spaces. The question...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Gadgets and Computers
From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you...
over a year ago
From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you start with a product that has a few…
CONTEMPORIST
This Home Extension Made Space For A New Kitchen And Dining Area
AR Design Studio has shared photos of a project they completed that included a new contemporary...
4 months ago
AR Design Studio has shared photos of a project they completed that included a new contemporary single-storey extension for a private residence. Mature trees surround the site to the north and east, and tall lush hedges to the south and west perimeter of the property that provide...
macwright.com
On Placemark
Yesterday, I announced that I was joining Val.town, but that Placemark lived. And I haven’t really...
a year ago
Yesterday, I announced that I was joining Val.town, but that Placemark lived. And I haven’t really given an update on Placemark, the product and business, in a while. Writing about an operating business is a different thing that writing feature announcements or essays about...
The DESK Magazine
Introducing: The Escape Machine
The day has finally come.
a month ago
The day has finally come.
Retail Design Blog
Canam Engineering Offices by Sensyst
Sensyst completed a comprehensive redesign and renovation project for Canam Engineering in...
5 months ago
Sensyst completed a comprehensive redesign and renovation project for Canam Engineering in Mississauga, integrating unique design elements like steel trusses...
The Honest Broker
Here's a Map to 'The Honest Broker'
Let me take you on a tour
7 months ago
Let me take you on a tour
Londonist
London On Fire: Paintings Of The Blitz By The Firefighters Who Were There
City's darkest hour captured in vivid paint.
a year ago
City's darkest hour captured in vivid paint.
Sam Altman
Please Fund More Science
Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health,...
over a year ago
Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health, and the economy to return roughly to normal.
Either we get a vaccine good enough that R0 for the world goes below 1, a good enough treatment that people no longer need to be...
pcloadletter
Coding interviews are effective
Coding interviews are controversial. It can be unpleasant to code in front of someone else, knowing...
10 months ago
Coding interviews are controversial. It can be unpleasant to code in front of someone else, knowing you're being judged. And who likes failing? Especially when it feels like you failed intellectually.
But, coding interviews are effective.
One big criticism of coding interviews is...
FIRE v London
August ’24: From triumph to tragedy
Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are...
3 months ago
Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are getting used to our new government. And, in some cases, violently testing its boundaries with some summer rioting. We’ve seen some dreadful street behaviour, frequently of a racist /...
How to Be a Stoic
The evolution of ancient Stoicism, and why it matters today
Modern Stoics are interested in picking up the ancient tradition while at the same time updating it...
over a year ago
Modern Stoics are interested in picking up the ancient tradition while at the same time updating it and molding it to modern times. For some reason, this is often considered a controversial thing, with flying accusations of cherry picking and dire warnings about the result not...
Commoncog
Tacit Expertise Extraction, Software Engineering Edition
One software engineer's story of extracting expertise from the heads of 'a tiger team of senior...
10 months ago
One software engineer's story of extracting expertise from the heads of 'a tiger team of senior software engineers'. Useful to anyone who might want to accelerate their own skills.
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