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Keep a React component mounted The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is...
2nd Dec 2018
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Keep a React component mounted

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

2nd Dec 2018
The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is remount management. Some portions of the UI can be hidden or shown — sidebars, drop-down menus, modals and draggable widgets are all prominent examples. The basic React pattern for...
Why Bad AI Is Here to Stay It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes to AI: skeptic or...
2nd Feb 2025
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Why Bad AI Is Here to Stay

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2025
It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes to AI: skeptic or fanatic. The skeptic thinks AI sucks, that it’s overhyped, it only ever parrots nonsense and it will all blow over soon. The fanatic thinks general human-level intelligence is just...
3rd Sep 2024
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Founder Mode, How AI Impacts Education, Diffusion Models As Real-Time Game Engines, and More

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Sep 2024
Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
The System-Level Foundation of Assembly Tracing how the CPU, OS, and ELF format shape the structure of your assembly code
5th May 2025
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The System-Level Foundation of Assembly

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th May 2025
Tracing how the CPU, OS, and ELF format shape the structure of your assembly code
NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble (1994) They discuss NeXT's OpenStep, open standards, and more.
1st Feb 2026
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NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble (1994)

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

1st Feb 2026
They discuss NeXT's OpenStep, open standards, and more.
CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
15th Apr 2024
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CSS in React Server Components

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

15th Apr 2024
You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General) Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the...
5th May 2024
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With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General)

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th May 2024
Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the pandemic emergency, but speaking as someone with a day job in public health for almost two decades, it's always been a buzzword in certain corners of IT with enough money sloshing around...
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...
19th Jul 2023
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There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS

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

19th Jul 2023
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...
How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!) In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from...
22nd Mar 2023
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How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!)

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

22nd Mar 2023
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from anywhere on my Mac. I just open Alfred, type “note” followed by my query, and see my search results. Hit enter and the correct note opens in Obsidian. Easy and quick!
Wayne Clough: Smithsonian Forever ### The Smithsonian's long now [Note for those who mentally enunciate words while reading: the last...
18th Aug 2009
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Wayne Clough: Smithsonian Forever

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

18th Aug 2009
### The Smithsonian's long now [Note for those who mentally enunciate words while reading: the last name is pronounced "Cluff."] Secretary Clough reminded the audience that we own the Smithsonian, and what that amounts to is 19 museums and galleries containing 137 million...
Soi Ram You have probably heard me go on and on about how good the Portland Thai food scene is compared to...
1st Nov 2025
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Soi Ram

from Sherman's Food Adventures [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Nov 2025
You have probably heard me go on and on about how good the Portland Thai food scene is compared to what we have here in Vancouver.  Well, that doesn't mean we don't have good Thai food at all.  In fact, some of my favourites include Song, Siam Le Bien, Zab Zaab and Silom. ...
331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse Certain features of our universe seem unnatural to us. These include "constants of nature" such as...
6th Oct 2025
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331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse

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

6th Oct 2025
Certain features of our universe seem unnatural to us. These include "constants of nature" such as the cosmological constant and […]
Princess Anne To Walk Through Giant Inflatable Gut.... And You Can Too! Paternoster Square will host a microbiome festival.
1st Sep 2025
Automatically Reload Modules with %autoreload Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was...
1st Oct 2019
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Automatically Reload Modules with %autoreload

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

1st Oct 2019
Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was testing it in the interactive Python REPL, the first version turned out to have some bugs (the second and third ones also did 😉). That's fine - I thought - I will just fix the module...
#22 the good ol’ div link Context: A link to another page. Bad code <div>About us</div> <div...
14th Oct 2020
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#22 the good ol’ div link

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Oct 2020
Context: A link to another page. Bad code <div>About us</div> <div onClick="location.href='about.html'"> About us </div> <div data-page="aboutus" data-url="index.php"> About us </div> …or any other variation of this pattern where an element other than <a> is used to link to a...
I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing...
17th Apr 2023
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I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Apr 2023
In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing the same thing (but better)1. The answer was 'yes', but only through spring and summer. I live in an apartment complex in The Netherlands and my balcony is facing west. This...
A Retrospective on Seven Months at Turing Collection of thoughts on Turing It’s the last week of Turing. I went through the backend software...
8th Aug 2017
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A Retrospective on Seven Months at Turing

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

8th Aug 2017
Collection of thoughts on Turing It’s the last week of Turing. I went through the backend software engineering program, and it’s been a journey. In no particular order, I’m throwing down thoughts in three general categories: What went well What didn’t go well What I might have...
Everything I know about gardening I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies...
2nd Jul 2023
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Everything I know about gardening

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

2nd Jul 2023
I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies and roses, or my fields, and several people have asked me to write about gardening, or for gardening advice. But this request encounters a ridiculous shortcoming: I know almost...
Tech metaphors Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors...
11th Nov 2019
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Tech metaphors

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

11th Nov 2019
Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors to drop at your next sprint planning meeting: Winchester Mystery House A mansion in San Jose, California that was once occupied by Sarah Winchester, widow of the eponymous firearms...
Utopia Bagels On our last day in NYC before an evening flight, we made the trek out into midtown searching for...
2nd Aug 2026
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Utopia Bagels

from Sherman's Food Adventures [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Aug 2026
On our last day in NYC before an evening flight, we made the trek out into midtown searching for some bagels.  The first stop was at Utopia Bagels out on East 34th Street.  Founded in 1980 at its original Queens location, Utopia is known for its hand-made bagels.  We made it...
Setting up a VPN with your iPhone using L2TP, IPSec and Linux This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server....
11th Dec 2011
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Setting up a VPN with your iPhone using L2TP, IPSec and Linux

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Dec 2011
This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server. Updated 16 October 2012 - now compatible with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS IMPORTANT! (update January 2013) I find using OpenVPN with the new iOS OpenVPN client a way better solution. OpenVPN...
1st Jul 2022
The Soul of the Heart Nebula A spectacular emission Nebula, the Heart Nebula is one of the classics of Northern Hemisphere...
5th Nov 2022
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The Soul of the Heart Nebula

from Light from Space [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Nov 2022
A spectacular emission Nebula, the Heart Nebula is one of the classics of Northern Hemisphere amateury astronomy. In the gallery below, I've highlighted 3 very different areas of the image: Left: Planetary Nebula WeBo-1 Middle: Melotte 15 in the... heart of the Heart...
Boot.dev Beat. February 2023 I’m back from paternity leave! My new son is healthy, and my daughter is… busy. It’s good to be back...
1st Mar 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. February 2023

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

1st Mar 2023
I’m back from paternity leave! My new son is healthy, and my daughter is… busy. It’s good to be back writing code, writing courses and filming videos.
Leaning into joy and community Processing this past week and some joyful things in my life
11th Nov 2024
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Leaning into joy and community

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

11th Nov 2024
Processing this past week and some joyful things in my life
Check-In Culture: Foursquare Raps by the Go-Bang Mayor I recently had occasion to write about Foursquare, the once popular location check-in app. I’d been...
21st Feb 2023
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Check-In Culture: Foursquare Raps by the Go-Bang Mayor

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

21st Feb 2023
I recently had occasion to write about Foursquare, the once popular location check-in app. I’d been emailed by its PR firm about a potential Machine Learning story. In her pitch, the PR rep had called Foursquare a “location data platform.” All this piqued my interest as a tech...
17th Feb 2025
The Outrage Cycle The Outrage Begins First Hour: Journalists scramble to disseminate news of the Significant Event far...
7th Mar 2022
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The Outrage Cycle

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Mar 2022
The Outrage Begins First Hour: Journalists scramble to disseminate news of the Significant Event far and wide. Most of this happens on Twitter, but placeholder web pages are thrown together on various news sites and cable news channels interrupt the latest car chase to give you...
Brainwashing for Confidence My mom brainwashed me to be confident. She told me over and over that I was great and destined for...
15th Apr 2026
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Brainwashing for Confidence

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

15th Apr 2026
My mom brainwashed me to be confident. She told me over and over that I was great and destined for great things. And it worked. To this day, when I lose or make a mistake, I get mad, but I always wind up where my mother left me: “You’re great. All you need is more practice.” And...
Weeks 40-43: A $5k Month and Billion Dollar Idea The second to the last update is focused and short. I have just one goal: convert subscribers into...
31st Jul 2023
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Weeks 40-43: A $5k Month and Billion Dollar Idea

from Scott DeLong [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

31st Jul 2023
The second to the last update is focused and short. I have just one goal: convert subscribers into paying customers. The post Weeks 40-43: A $5k Month and Billion Dollar Idea appeared first on Scott DeLong.
Review of the 2-dial TTArtisan Light Meter My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter...
30th Dec 2021
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Review of the 2-dial TTArtisan Light Meter

from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Dec 2021
My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter accessory. The market for these shoe-mounted light meters for vintage cameras has become weirdly competitive. They fit on top of a mechanical camera and provide you with the right...
Stoic advice: can a salesperson be a Stoic? [Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org....
2nd Jul 2018
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Stoic advice: can a salesperson be a Stoic?

from How to Be a Stoic [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Jul 2018
[Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org. However, consider that I have a significant backlog, and I may not get to your question for some time, or at all.] D. writes: How should a practising Stoic ethically approach their...
Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM. I tested...
5th Aug 2026
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Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats

from Jeff Geerling [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Aug 2026
Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM. I tested it on my Ampere Altra Dev Platform—the same machine on which I've booted Windows on Arm the first time, messed with multiple GPUs, and most recently tested Houdini's native arm64...
Showdown, p22 The post Showdown, p22 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
1st Dec 2025
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Showdown, p22

from Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic [alt+shift+b] in comics

1st Dec 2025
The post Showdown, p22 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
The Forged Apple Employee Badge Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught...
16th May 2024
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The Forged Apple Employee Badge

from cabel.com [alt+shift+b] in creative

16th May 2024
Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught my eye: Wow. Someone was selling Apple Employee #10’s employee badge?! What an incredible piece of Apple history! Sure, it’s not Steve Jobs’ badge (despite the auction title), but...
Fixing the Prusa MINTEMP Error with Custom Firmware Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not...
21st Feb 2022
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Fixing the Prusa MINTEMP Error with Custom Firmware

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Feb 2022
Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not watching the first layer of the print. This led to a large blob of PLA sticking to my heat block. In my attempts to remove it, I severely damaged the thermistor wires resulting in the...
I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center! It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three...
11th Sep 2022
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I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center!

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

11th Sep 2022
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three startups, co-founded a non-profit immigration tech company, consulted for the United Nations, and noped out of grad school after one semester (twice!). I've also struggled with depression...
What went wrong with wireless USB (Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist...
4th May 2025
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What went wrong with wireless USB

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th May 2025
(Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist PDA smartwatch mobile. It has no on-board networking libraries but can be coerced into doing PPP over its serial port (via USB) by using the libraries from my Palm m505. Of...
Transition to the Other Side with Container Query Units Managing the position of an element as it travels across the length of its parent container can be...
11th Oct 2025
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Transition to the Other Side with Container Query Units

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Oct 2025
Managing the position of an element as it travels across the length of its parent container can be tricky. Assuming they both have dynamic, responsive dimensions, we might rely on JS to check the width and/or height of each element and do some calculations for a proper end...
Book Club: ‘The Island of Sea Women’ by Lisa See Little is known about Jeju- a Korean island- occupied by brutal Japanese troops in the 1930s and...
1st Sep 2021
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Book Club: ‘The Island of Sea Women’ by Lisa See

from Marine Madness [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Sep 2021
Little is known about Jeju- a Korean island- occupied by brutal Japanese troops in the 1930s and ’40s, later liberated by US forces and turned over to the even more barbarous Korean regime whose wrongdoings were overlooked by both American and U.N. occupiers. Lisa See travels...
Weeks 31-34: Banned Sometimes business can be boring and sometimes you see set backs, but this is where you...
14th May 2023
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Weeks 31-34: Banned

from Scott DeLong [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

14th May 2023
Sometimes business can be boring and sometimes you see set backs, but this is where you perservere. The post Weeks 31-34: Banned appeared first on Scott DeLong.
First Snow Snow brings a stillness to the world. Life hides away, burrowed under, tucked in. Sound is muted,...
11th Dec 2024
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First Snow

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

11th Dec 2024
Snow brings a stillness to the world. Life hides away, burrowed under, tucked in. Sound is muted, lost in the hush of falling flakes. Only the soft brush of wind through the pines. I would like to say that Winter's first snow dumped a substantive number of feet, but it did not....
Godcat has a special message for you Your lord and savior, Godcat, has a favor to ask regarding his new Netflix series. View on my...
27th Mar 2024
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Godcat has a special message for you

from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics

27th Mar 2024
Your lord and savior, Godcat, has a favor to ask regarding his new Netflix series. View on my website
Sep ’25: Gains continue, and I trim September was a busy month. In the middle of it we saw a disruptive tube strike. I don’t use the...
11th Oct 2025
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Sep ’25: Gains continue, and I trim

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

11th Oct 2025
September was a busy month. In the middle of it we saw a disruptive tube strike. I don’t use the tube that much so didn’t expect it to affect me much but two important meetings were postponed, one of which still hasn’t happened, so that event has stayed in my memory. Thank...
A guide to not being a sidewalk jerk Hello friends. It has become apparent that you are all terrible at being pedestrians. I feel...
1st Feb 2016
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A guide to not being a sidewalk jerk

from Cartogrammar [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Feb 2016
Hello friends. It has become apparent that you are all terrible at being pedestrians. I feel confident saying that despite some good eggs and battle-tested walkers such as New Yorkers, most Americans are obliviously selfish, inconsiderate users of sidewalk space. It’s true even...
Crème de Mouthwash What price, enlightenmint?
25th Sep 2022
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Crème de Mouthwash

from Haterade [alt+shift+b] in creative

25th Sep 2022
What price, enlightenmint?
The Jupyter+git problem is now solved Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the...
25th Aug 2022
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The Jupyter+git problem is now solved

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

25th Aug 2022
Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the problem has been totally solved.
Video: Barbershop tag taught with hand signs I recorded a video multitrack of a barbershop tag, showing all four parts in sol-feg hand signs.
14th Jun 2008
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Video: Barbershop tag taught with hand signs

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

14th Jun 2008
I recorded a video multitrack of a barbershop tag, showing all four parts in sol-feg hand signs.
7th Aug 2017
A design API in practice Update 6/12/22: The links to the implmentation of the API are currently broken. I'm updating some...
6th Jul 2020
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A design API in practice

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

6th Jul 2020
Update 6/12/22: The links to the implmentation of the API are currently broken. I'm updating some dependencies to make it work again. A few months ago I wrote an essay titled “Design APIs: the evolution of design systems”. The API model for design systems resonated with design...
Kinds of courage Courage is a generous act that involves risk. It’s not courageous to hang out with friends and make...
1st Apr 2024
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Kinds of courage

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

1st Apr 2024
Courage is a generous act that involves risk. It’s not courageous to hang out with friends and make a crank phone call. The risk involved might be actual risk (it took courage to go to the moon) or it might feel risky (raising your hand at a meeting to ask a useful question...
10 must-see architecture & design events to see this May in NYC, Venice, Montreal, Bilbao,... If you're in search of exciting architecture and design events to add to your calendar this May,...
1st May 2026
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1st May 2026
If you're in search of exciting architecture and design events to add to your calendar this May, check out our curated selection of exhibitions, festivals, and conferences taking place across the U.S. and abroad. From the roster of ongoing and upcoming events listed on Bustler,...
Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms In the last blog post,...
11th Jul 2016
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Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Jul 2016
Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms In the last blog post, we Parsing Renaming Typechecking Desugaring Simplification Code Generation Passes The following functions are the main passes are that are used inside of the HscMain . -- Parse a module. parseModule :: GhcMonad m =>...
Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
5th Oct 2016
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5th Oct 2016
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home: I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday: I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election. I don't unfriend people due to political views....
British Summertime Aha, the great British Summer. You really never know what you’re going to get and it makes planning...
3rd Aug 2017
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British Summertime

from Sarah Parmenter [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Aug 2017
Aha, the great British Summer. You really never know what you’re going to get and it makes planning weekends so darn difficult. Us Brits really do love to talk about the weather; as I write this post I started the day in shorts and a t-shirt and I’m about to go and fetch a...
What does a Data Scientist really do? No, you don't need a PhD or 10+ years of experience.
30th Apr 2019
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What does a Data Scientist really do?

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

30th Apr 2019
No, you don't need a PhD or 10+ years of experience.
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899) State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
2nd Jul 2023
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A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)

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

2nd Jul 2023
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
Sticky Page Header Shadow on Scroll We've seen it plenty of times around the web where a website's page header follows us as we scroll...
2nd Apr 2023
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Sticky Page Header Shadow on Scroll

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Apr 2023
We've seen it plenty of times around the web where a website's page header follows us as we scroll down the page. CSS makes doing this a breeze with sticky positioning: .page-header { position: sticky; top: 0; } What if we desired something a little bit extra, like applying a...
The False Narrative Around Theranos One of the interesting aspects of the Theranos trial is the degree to which some folks are buying...
26th Sep 2021
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The False Narrative Around Theranos

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

26th Sep 2021
One of the interesting aspects of the Theranos trial is the degree to which some folks are buying into part of the defense's narrative that "Theranos was just acting like every Silicon Valley startup". This is of course blatantly false, but it is being adopted as some form of...
Why America fell behind in drones, and how to catch up agaon A guest post by Cat Orman and Jason Lu
3rd Aug 2024
What Is Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom? Do you want to learn about philosophy and how it affects our idea of freedom? If you do, then Rudolf...
17th Feb 2025
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What Is Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

17th Feb 2025
Do you want to learn about philosophy and how it affects our idea of freedom? If you do, then Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy of freedom is something you’ll find incredibly interesting. In his famous book The Philosophy of Freedom, Steiner, an Austrian philosopher, anthroposophist,...
You can move !Unpin Although I am now mostly comfortable with Rust, some concepts still elude me. One of them is the...
4th Dec 2024
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You can move !Unpin

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

4th Dec 2024
Although I am now mostly comfortable with Rust, some concepts still elude me. One of them is the exact meaning of Unpin. The documentation says: The documentation of Unpin says: Types that do not require any pinning guarantees. Where pinning is described as: From this, you could...
Browser caching with Django & Webpack Table of contents What is browser caching and why is it useful? Crude approaches ...
8th Jan 2022
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Browser caching with Django & Webpack

from Tiny struggles [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Jan 2022
Table of contents What is browser caching and why is it useful? Crude approaches Disable all caching! Change the filename/import every time you edit Content hashes in filenames Let Django do it for you ...
The best web analytics tools for developers, compared Welcome. Grab a chair. There's coffee in the back. No one's judging you for ignoring your analytics...
15th Jan 2025
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The best web analytics tools for developers, compared

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

15th Jan 2025
Welcome. Grab a chair. There's coffee in the back. No one's judging you for ignoring your analytics for six months. We've all been there. This is a…
Making a Stamp with Japanese Transparent Stamp Carving Block This new Japanese Transparent Stamp Carving Block enables you to carve your design and bake it in...
3rd Nov 2022
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Making a Stamp with Japanese Transparent Stamp Carving Block

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

3rd Nov 2022
This new Japanese Transparent Stamp Carving Block enables you to carve your design and bake it in the oven until it appears clear. Clear stamps are so handy as they let you see where you’re printing! This is great for repeat patterns, accurate registration, multi-colour designs...
A Programmer’s Guide to x86-64 Assembly (Series Overview) Welcome to my ongoing series on x86-64 assembly programming, designed for programmers who want to...
16th Jul 2025
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A Programmer’s Guide to x86-64 Assembly (Series Overview)

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2025
Welcome to my ongoing series on x86-64 assembly programming, designed for programmers who want to peel back the abstraction and understand how code really runs at the machine level.
Mapping digital worlds I gave a talk at The Stoa in February about “Mapping digital worlds to understand our present and...
17th Apr 2023
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Mapping digital worlds

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Apr 2023
I gave a talk at The Stoa in February about “Mapping digital worlds to understand our present and future.” You can watch the video here; the following is a transcript of that talk. Peter Limberg asked me to talk about an analysis I did late last year, where I mapped out all the...
Northern Sky & Southern Sky quilts I find a lot of value in doing creative work that isn't in clay - I can feel more fully relaxed...
3rd Jul 2025
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Northern Sky & Southern Sky quilts

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

3rd Jul 2025
I find a lot of value in doing creative work that isn't in clay - I can feel more fully relaxed creating something that's purely a hobby, and working in other mediums inspires my ceramic studio practice in unexpected ways. I recently finished a very large, non-ceramic project:...
How Did I Become Database Engineer at 23 Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very...
15th Aug 2022
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How Did I Become Database Engineer at 23

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

15th Aug 2022
Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very different cultural background than me. Russians approach life in their own way and some things might seem strange. Still, this was my path and I would like to share it. My name is...
Revealed Preferences Every keystroke is a vote
3rd Mar 2026
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Revealed Preferences

from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Mar 2026
Every keystroke is a vote
2024 wrapped This year’s review is going to be shorter than 2023 (and previous years) because I’m in Goa right...
31st Dec 2024
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2024 wrapped

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

31st Dec 2024
This year’s review is going to be shorter than 2023 (and previous years) because I’m in Goa right now for a holiday and I don’t feel like being in front of a screen for long. I mean, just look at this view and tell me that you’d rather be in front of a screen writing… Read...
I Learned We All Have Linux Seats, and I’m Not Entirely Pleased I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of...
11th Jun 2025
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I Learned We All Have Linux Seats, and I’m Not Entirely Pleased

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jun 2025
I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of my machines. The last one that needed this was my Raspberry Pi hooked up to my DEC vt510 terminal and IBM mechanical keyboard. Yes I do still use that setup! To my surprise,...
Links in Progress: Expanding the Mediterranean's busiest port Plus: New tunnels, monorails, canals, small modular reactors, and horseless carriages
5th Nov 2024
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Links in Progress: Expanding the Mediterranean's busiest port

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Nov 2024
Plus: New tunnels, monorails, canals, small modular reactors, and horseless carriages
Towards better creative feedback Creative work — be it designing, writing, coding, or managing — is a collaborative practice. At...
7th Jan 2015
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Towards better creative feedback

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

7th Jan 2015
Creative work — be it designing, writing, coding, or managing — is a collaborative practice. At least two parties are always involved: The maker (a designer, developer, or manager) on one end, and the audience on the other.1 Feedback between the maker and the audience is...
Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction .modal { display: none; position: fixed; z-index: 9999; padding-top: 50px; left: 0; top:...
1st Jul 2025
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Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jul 2025
.modal { display: none; position: fixed; z-index: 9999; padding-top: 50px; left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow: auto; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.9); } .modal-content { margin: auto; display: block; max-width: 90%; max-height:...
One year of cycling One year ago I started recording all my bike rides, including commutes, short grocery trips and long...
30th Dec 2016
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One year of cycling

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Dec 2016
One year ago I started recording all my bike rides, including commutes, short grocery trips and long Gran Fondos. I equipped my bicycles with Garmin Edge computers that recorded location (GPS), speed, cadence and my heart rate. I covered more than 7683 kilometers during 320 hours...
22nd Aug 2025
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How the Domino’s pizza tracker conquered the business world

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Aug 2025
One cheesy progress update at a time.
SEO Is Dead In the first week of April I did the SEO job I had put off for years: new landing pages and...
18th Apr 2026
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SEO Is Dead

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Apr 2026
In the first week of April I did the SEO job I had put off for years: new landing pages and thousands of cross-links, on willem.com and on two customer sites, generated through the new API of my platform. It works, and well, I wrote on 4 April. Two weeks later I looked at what it...
Flipping the switch on far-UVC We’ve known about far-UVC’s promise for a decade. Why isn't it everywhere?
10th Mar 2025
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Flipping the switch on far-UVC

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

10th Mar 2025
We’ve known about far-UVC’s promise for a decade. Why isn't it everywhere?
How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a...
13th May 2025
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How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower

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

13th May 2025
This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth. Since 20 January, US science has been upended by severe cutbacks from...
You And Whose Army? NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
1st Mar 2023
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You And Whose Army?

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

1st Mar 2023
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon? Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
1st Aug 2023
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What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon?

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

1st Aug 2023
Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
8th Feb 2024
February, 2026 Last month's Wednesday update, I recorded from a train headed to Middelburg. This month I write...
1st Mar 2026
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February, 2026

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2026
Last month's Wednesday update, I recorded from a train headed to Middelburg. This month I write closer to home temporally and otherwise. I am en route to the office on a very early Friday morning. We are still eight days from being able to return home with a new set of floors and...
SpaceX's 5-Step Design Process How rapid failure and iteration will get Starship to orbit and beyond.
22nd Apr 2023
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SpaceX's 5-Step Design Process

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

22nd Apr 2023
How rapid failure and iteration will get Starship to orbit and beyond.
Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles...
1st Sep 2021
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Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2021
In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.
Adjacent meanings Someone is someone’s friend.
20th Feb 2026
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Adjacent meanings

from Ánh [alt+shift+b] in creative

20th Feb 2026
Someone is someone’s friend.
JSX is a Lovechild Illustrated notes on how JSX in React works
20th Jan 2019
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JSX is a Lovechild

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jan 2019
Illustrated notes on how JSX in React works
Building my ultimate keyboard The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate...
26th Nov 2024
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Building my ultimate keyboard

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

26th Nov 2024
The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate keyboard”? There are many keyboards in this world; here are some that might fit the “ultimate” moniker: Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate mechanical keyboard DataHand Ergodox EZ Glove80 Happy...
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
18th Mar 2020
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)

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

18th Mar 2020
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
Human + Fallible = Love; Corporate + Sterile = Refund People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy...
1st Sep 2024
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Human + Fallible = Love; Corporate + Sterile = Refund

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

1st Sep 2024
People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy customers, even when you mess up.
M1 Max MacBook Pro Long-term Report The 2021 MacBook Pro alongside the cable-management fail of my iMac Pro Back in October when I got a...
7th Mar 2022
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M1 Max MacBook Pro Long-term Report

from Prolost [alt+shift+b] in creative

7th Mar 2022
The 2021 MacBook Pro alongside the cable-management fail of my iMac Pro Back in October when I got a chance to use a pre-release 14″ MacBook Pro with M1 Max processor, I openly questioned whether this laptop could replace my venerable iMac Pro. Four months later, I’m back with an...
The Pulse: a new trend, smart model routing Are there any ‘intelligent’ router solutions out there which select the right model for the right...
2nd Jul 2026
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The Pulse: a new trend, smart model routing

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

2nd Jul 2026
Are there any ‘intelligent’ router solutions out there which select the right model for the right task? I looked into it, and there are a few options.
Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers? TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more...
12th Feb 2025
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Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2025
TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more Japanese companies we’ve interviewed, the more we’ve realized that a talent shortage is not the only reason for Japanese companies to hire from overseas. There are a host of other...
The Residents - Commercial Album Videos for many brilliant one minute songs
2nd Nov 2025
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The Residents - Commercial Album

from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Nov 2025
Videos for many brilliant one minute songs
Reasons I still love the fish shell I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day...
12th Sep 2024
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Reasons I still love the fish shell

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Sep 2024
I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I thought I’d write a new post with both the old reasons I loved it and some reasons. This came up today because I was trying to...
Change: Damned if you do, damned more if you don't Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and...
3rd Dec 2023
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Change: Damned if you do, damned more if you don't

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

3rd Dec 2023
Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and exhausting. Manage it with kindness.
Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split...
8th Apr 2024
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Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2024
A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split keyboard has been after about six months of daily use.
My Temporary Enemy's Temporary Enemy... Can be my temporary friend.
6th May 2026
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My Temporary Enemy's Temporary Enemy...

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

6th May 2026
Can be my temporary friend.
A design API in practice Update 6/12/22: The links to the implmentation of the API are currently broken. I'm updating some...
6th Jul 2020
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A design API in practice

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

6th Jul 2020
Update 6/12/22: The links to the implmentation of the API are currently broken. I'm updating some dependencies to make it work again. A few months ago I wrote an essay titled “Design APIs: the evolution of design systems”. The API model for design systems resonated with design...
A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
28th Oct 2019
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline

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

28th Oct 2019
I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
The New Wave of Concierge Medicine | Out-Of-Pocket This episode of Out-Of-Pocket is brought to you by…
9th Jul 2024
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The New Wave of Concierge Medicine | Out-Of-Pocket

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

9th Jul 2024
This episode of Out-Of-Pocket is brought to you by…
Nefasta's Box, a low entropy song Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the...
29th Nov 2013
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Nefasta's Box, a low entropy song

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

29th Nov 2013
Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the clefs, but it was the least nasty way to span the piano. You can grab a full copy of the score.
different realities under the same blue sky My partner and I were were surprised we had radically different interpretations of a particular...
1st Oct 2023
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different realities under the same blue sky

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

1st Oct 2023
My partner and I were were surprised we had radically different interpretations of a particular scene of a kdrama we had just watched. She had thought the lines were full of hope...
Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you...
11th May 2026
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Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture

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

11th May 2026
I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you set an evolutionary algorithm on the task of producing a structure that is as efficient at its intended function as possible. Past that there’s no human input, the algorithm just...
Running Sia on a Synology NAS via Docker Overview Sia is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network for buying and selling computer storage space....
30th May 2016
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Running Sia on a Synology NAS via Docker

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

30th May 2016
Overview Sia is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network for buying and selling computer storage space. If you have extra storage space, Sia allows you to sell it to others who want to store their files on the Sia cloud network. Hosting a Sia server on your personal laptop or...
Know thyself Throughout the series, we’ve covered four of the major ethical movements in philosophy. Here’s a...
8th Jun 2020
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Know thyself

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

8th Jun 2020
Throughout the series, we’ve covered four of the major ethical movements in philosophy. Here’s a brief recap: Virtue ethics is the belief that well-being comes from having the right personality traits or dispositions. The key to virtue ethics is finding those special skills that,...
How to interpret medieval marginalia 101 A non-comprehensive and unofficial guide
3rd Jun 2026
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How to interpret medieval marginalia 101

from weird medieval guys [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Jun 2026
A non-comprehensive and unofficial guide
The best keyboard for iPad The tablet is at the frontier of mobile computing and its hardware form factor is evolving. This...
10th Aug 2020
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The best keyboard for iPad

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Aug 2020
The tablet is at the frontier of mobile computing and its hardware form factor is evolving. This year Apple introduced a new Magic Keyboard for iPad that includes a trackpad. Everybody is raving about it, yet I think there is something to be said for the "mouse-less" Smart...
Independent Study: A Reflection Earlier this summer, I decided to embark on an educational experiment: I wanted to create a version...
30th Jul 2023
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Independent Study: A Reflection

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

30th Jul 2023
Earlier this summer, I decided to embark on an educational experiment: I wanted to create a version of the independent study groups that I used to co-teach when I was at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in which students would work on a mapping project, and meet weekly for...
Truth in the old myths On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
3rd Jan 2025
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Truth in the old myths

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

3rd Jan 2025
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
Moving from Stencil to LitElement Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of...
2nd Mar 2021
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Moving from Stencil to LitElement

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

2nd Mar 2021
Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of the library won't see much of a difference, this was a major overhaul of Shoelace's internals. Naturally, such a big change brings questions from the community, such as "what were...
A New Project: Remote Rocketship 🚀 In my last post, I talked about how I going about searching for a new idea to work on. I’ve now...
11th Dec 2022
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A New Project: Remote Rocketship 🚀

from I Have No Idea What I'm Doing [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

11th Dec 2022
In my last post, I talked about how I going about searching for a new idea to work on. I’ve now landed on Remote Rocketship, a job board for remote roles. In this post, I’ll talk about how I got there, what I’ve been up to and how I’m thinking about moving forward.
2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps...
7th Aug 2023
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2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Aug 2023
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps spurred by boredom, I looked through the schedule to see what's in store in the world of telephony. There is a workshop on SS7, of course [1], plenty of content on cellular, but...
A brief response to a reader regarding prejudice denoting terms in Swedish media Regarding when Swedish media started to increase mentions of prejudice denoting terminology and a...
11th Dec 2024
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11th Dec 2024
Regarding when Swedish media started to increase mentions of prejudice denoting terminology and a reader comments about it, several things to note:
The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
9th Apr 2021
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The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Apr 2021
A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
When to join a startup Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to...
14th Jan 2016
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When to join a startup

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

14th Jan 2016
Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to join startups. It seemed to start around the time the Social Network movie came out - perhaps it’s just a coincidence, but part of me imagines a group of MBAs sitting around watching...
How one Kiwi tamed inflation Inflation targeting is now standard in central banking. But it began with an offhand comment and a...
12th Jun 2025
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How one Kiwi tamed inflation

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

12th Jun 2025
Inflation targeting is now standard in central banking. But it began with an offhand comment and a political gamble in New Zealand – long before economists took it seriously.
The Tandy Corporation, Part 2 Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
2nd Jun 2025
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The Tandy Corporation, Part 2

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

2nd Jun 2025
Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart AIs Are? Scientists have repeatedly failed to recognize the complexity of animal cognition. Will we make the...
1st Jun 2023
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart AIs Are?

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Jun 2023
Scientists have repeatedly failed to recognize the complexity of animal cognition. Will we make the same mistakes with AI?
Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
11th Dec 2023
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Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2023
Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about an hour. The exact pathology is a tale for another time, but the investigation led...
HIRING: Fulfillment Manager – Daily Stoic About the Role We’re hiring an on-site Fulfillment Manager to lead day-to-day shipping operations...
31st Jan 2026
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HIRING: Fulfillment Manager – Daily Stoic

from Daily Stoic [alt+shift+b] in life

31st Jan 2026
About the Role We’re hiring an on-site Fulfillment Manager to lead day-to-day shipping operations for The Painted Porch Bookshop and Daily Stoic e-commerce products. This person will manage the fulfillment team, ensure orders go out accurately and on time, and continuously...
A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics...
21st Sep 2020
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A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics

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

21st Sep 2020
Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.
What the mudslide along China-Nepal border tells us about Himalayan Risk What we know about the disaster, why it was so hard to predict, and the challenge of building a...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
What we know about the disaster, why it was so hard to predict, and the challenge of building a cross-border warning system
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about...
9th Nov 2020
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?

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

9th Nov 2020
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It’s a very good article overall, and I suggest...
Mixed model equivalence test using R and PANGEA How to calculate an equivalence test, and power for an equivalence test, for a fixed effect in a...
25th Nov 2019
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Mixed model equivalence test using R and PANGEA

from Peder M. Isager [alt+shift+b] in science

25th Nov 2019
How to calculate an equivalence test, and power for an equivalence test, for a fixed effect in a mixed effects model using R and PANGEA.
On life as an independent contractor right now Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in...
1st Nov 2024
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On life as an independent contractor right now

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2024
Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in response to people both from the Netherlands and from abroad who have shown interest in working as an independent contractor over here. As Google Analytics tell me only a small portion...
You can now use Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® LE simultaneously on Arduino NINA-based boards! Here’s how If you like IoT, you’ll love this update! Starting today, if you own a board powered by the...
2nd Mar 2026
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2nd Mar 2026
If you like IoT, you’ll love this update! Starting today, if you own a board powered by the NINA-W102 module – like the Arduino® MKR™ WiFi 1010, Arduino® Nano™ RP2040 Connect, or Nano 33 IoT – you can now use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) at the same time, in the...
MD5-based uniqueness constraints in Django Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental...
1st Sep 2024
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MD5-based uniqueness constraints in Django

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Sep 2024
Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental double-commenting, and I ran into a problem that I hadn't seen before:
Duane Blehm A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
3rd Mar 2025
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Duane Blehm

from Engineers Need Art [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Mar 2025
A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation! In my last data updates for this year, I looked first at how equity markets rebounded in 2023,...
28th Jan 2024
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28th Jan 2024
In my last data updates for this year, I looked first at how equity markets rebounded in 2023, driven by a stronger-than-expected economy and inflation coming down, and then at how interest rates mirrored this rebound. In this post, I look at risk, a central theme in finance and...
Ten Blue Links, “If I sound angry, it’s because I am” Edition 1. Claude’s system prompt is a wild work of AI art Behind every LLM lies a system prompt. This is a...
1st Jun 2025
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Ten Blue Links, “If I sound angry, it’s because I am” Edition

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

1st Jun 2025
1. Claude’s system prompt is a wild work of AI art Behind every LLM lies a system prompt. This is a set of instructions written by the creators of the LLM designed to give it personality, a starting point for response, and to build in “fences”
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate? One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating...
18th Apr 2026
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The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

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

18th Apr 2026
Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate? One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating from the positions of the stars, planets, or the sun. While celestial navigation is accurate, cannot be jammed, and doesn't require any broadcast infrastructure, it is a difficult...
2025 Year in Review An eventful year of progress in health and career, while making time for travel and reflection.
14th Dec 2025
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2025 Year in Review

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Dec 2025
An eventful year of progress in health and career, while making time for travel and reflection.
Redis Quicklist: Do you even list? Quicklist Final (Still have a short attention span? See graphs at the bottom.) This describes the...
19th Dec 2014
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Redis Quicklist: Do you even list?

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Dec 2014
Quicklist Final (Still have a short attention span? See graphs at the bottom.) This describes the third and final major improvement to Redis Quicklist. Previously On Recap Before Quicklist, Redis Lists had two representations: ziplist stored small lists in a solid block of...
Much Ado About Adenoids Edmund Lawall must have felt cursed. He’d brought his family to New York in the late 1800s to carry...
23rd Jun 2025
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Much Ado About Adenoids

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

23rd Jun 2025
Edmund Lawall must have felt cursed. He’d brought his family to New York in the late 1800s to carry on his father’s business as a pharmacist, but fate—or perhaps the city itself—seemed determined to drive him back out again. Lawall’s health had been in decline since their...
Terry Hunt & Carl Lipo: The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island ### Easter Island reconsidered In the most isolated place on Earth a tiny society built world-class...
18th Jan 2013
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18th Jan 2013
### Easter Island reconsidered In the most isolated place on Earth a tiny society built world-class monuments. Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is 1,000 miles from the nearest Pacific island, 3,000 miles from the nearest continent. It is just six by ten miles in size, with no running...
Book Review: The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin "Ahra", the Eaten One, the high priestess of the Tombs of Atuan belongs to the Nameless Ones. She...
8th Oct 2016
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Book Review: The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin

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

8th Oct 2016
"Ahra", the Eaten One, the high priestess of the Tombs of Atuan belongs to the Nameless Ones. She is, herself, nameless. Her name along with her family and future were taken from her in a ceremony on which the novel opens. At the beginning of the novel, her 6-year-old life...
The Pentium as a Navajo weaving Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving...
1st Sep 2024
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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

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

1st Sep 2024
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium...
Eight-Part Barbershop Tag In Parallel Fifths Experimenting with recording every part in a barbershop tag a perfect fifth higher to create jazzy...
14th Nov 2009
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Eight-Part Barbershop Tag In Parallel Fifths

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

14th Nov 2009
Experimenting with recording every part in a barbershop tag a perfect fifth higher to create jazzy chords.
Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability On Friday, Raluca Budiu posted “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” to the...
12th Oct 2025
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Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Oct 2025
On Friday, Raluca Budiu posted “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” to the Nielsen Norman Group site. If the name isn’t familiar to you, the Nielsen Norman Group are UI/UX specialists who’ve been commenting insightfully about design since the late-90s. The...
Ralph Cavanagh & Peter Schwartz: Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years ### Climate change and nuclear prospects Given the power to decide who would go first-- anti-nuke...
14th Jan 2006
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14th Jan 2006
### Climate change and nuclear prospects Given the power to decide who would go first-- anti-nuke Ralph Cavanagh from Natural Resources Defense Counsel or pro-nuke Peter Schwartz from Global Business Network-- the large audience Friday night voted for Schwartz to make the...
Steven Hitchcock tweed bespoke coat: Review  This is the first English overcoat I’ve ever had made - or a traditional one anyway. There was the...
22nd Oct 2025
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Steven Hitchcock tweed bespoke coat: Review 

from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design

22nd Oct 2025
This is the first English overcoat I’ve ever had made - or a traditional one anyway. There was the topcoat from Michael Browne , but that was his own particular style and structure. And there was the wrap coat from Whitcomb & Shaftesbury , b... > Read more
Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode...
9th Mar 2025
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Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Mar 2025
About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode interpreter. The initial headline results were very impressive, showing a 10-15% performance improvement on average across a wide range of benchmarks across a variety of...
Who are design systems for? I’ve spent the past few days feeling an immense amount of FOMO. A major design conference called...
14th Dec 2018
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Who are design systems for?

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

14th Dec 2018
I’ve spent the past few days feeling an immense amount of FOMO. A major design conference called Clarity happened here in New York, and my twitter feed has been full of pictures and quotes from the very talented and articulate speakers. Lesson learned: go to more conferences. To...
Experiments in music and life One approach to music is to do whatever you want. Absolutely anything goes. But to me, that’s too...
7th Nov 2019
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Experiments in music and life

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

7th Nov 2019
One approach to music is to do whatever you want. Absolutely anything goes. But to me, that’s too free. It’s anti-inspiring because having infinite options is overwhelming. So my favorite approach to music is in-between. You make up your own rules, and apply them to a piece of...
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
4th Apr 2023
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From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

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

4th Apr 2023
We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
31 Simple Pleasures Simple doesn’t mean small.
25th May 2025
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31 Simple Pleasures

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

25th May 2025
Simple doesn’t mean small.
Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

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

14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf upgrade --refresh. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
It is link winter on X We do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without...
5th Dec 2024
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It is link winter on X

from Dustin Curtis [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Dec 2024
We do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without telling you, and by a lot—and it makes the experience there worse. Without links, information on X is headlines without stories, commentary without context, magic without the...
1st May 2013
How your choice of tech can help you grow How your choice of tech can help you grow Making architectural choices for scaling your...
29th Oct 2018
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How your choice of tech can help you grow

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

29th Oct 2018
How your choice of tech can help you grow Making architectural choices for scaling your business Making architectural choices for securing your business We’re hiring! ¶How your choice of tech can help you grow I’ve been working at Elvie for almost 2 years. My remit has been to...
Do Things You’ll Love Yourself For The night before you travel somewhere, order your favorite pizza, eat some of it for dinner, and...
2nd Jun 2026
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Do Things You’ll Love Yourself For

from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Jun 2026
The night before you travel somewhere, order your favorite pizza, eat some of it for dinner, and seal the rest in a bag and put it in the freezer. A week later, when you get home unexpectedly late, wiped out and ravenous, you’ll open your fridge to find only eggs, pickles, and...
1998: How Amazon Conquered Online CD Retailers Like CDnow CDnow homepage, December 1998; via Wayback Machine. 1998 started promisingly for CDnow, a leading...
1st Jul 2025
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1998: How Amazon Conquered Online CD Retailers Like CDnow

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

1st Jul 2025
CDnow homepage, December 1998; via Wayback Machine. 1998 started promisingly for CDnow, a leading online music retailer — or "e-tailer" as e-commerce sites were sometimes called at the time. "CDnow goes public with a bang," read a CNET headline on February 10, 1998: "After upping...
Does Pinball Cause Violence? A recurring theme here is that social science often asks the wrong questions about media -- and that...
15th May 2025
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Does Pinball Cause Violence?

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

15th May 2025
A recurring theme here is that social science often asks the wrong questions about media -- and that this dysfunction is driven by media itself. This puts us in a bit of a bind, obviously, insofar as we are relying on social science to improve the media enviroment, or at least to...
My new podcast: Tick Talk + Core 2 Duo demo I started a little podcast… And named it something ridiculous - Tick Talk w/ Eric Migicovsky !...
1st May 2025
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My new podcast: Tick Talk + Core 2 Duo demo

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

1st May 2025
I started a little podcast… And named it something ridiculous - Tick Talk w/ Eric Migicovsky ! We’ll see if that name sticks 😂. I set up a…
Time-warp walkability mapping in ArcGIS Pro In my mental model of a walkability map it’s not enough to know how far away something is, but also...
6th Aug 2025
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Time-warp walkability mapping in ArcGIS Pro

from Adventures In Mapping | John Nelson Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

6th Aug 2025
In my mental model of a walkability map it’s not enough to know how far away something is, but also how long it takes me to get there. My perceptions of the same distances, but with different walk times, are much different. There are realities that slow me down like...
How northwest Europe attained modern homicide rates already by 1750 The long-run decline of violence in Europe, and why poverty is not responsible for violent crime
26th Nov 2025
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How northwest Europe attained modern homicide rates already by 1750

from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history

26th Nov 2025
The long-run decline of violence in Europe, and why poverty is not responsible for violent crime
How Are Hit Songs Rediscovered Decades Later? A Statistical Analysis How does music undergo a cultural revival long after its original release?
4th Sep 2024
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How Are Hit Songs Rediscovered Decades Later? A Statistical Analysis

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

4th Sep 2024
How does music undergo a cultural revival long after its original release?
How To Invest In Startups There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about...
13th Jan 2020
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How To Invest In Startups

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Jan 2020
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before going any further, I should point out that this is a particularly hard time to invest in startups—it’s easier right now to be a...
The Hiker's Dilemma How to take care of your tribe The other day I read: "If you're hiking and you stop to let other...
1st Mar 2022
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The Hiker's Dilemma

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2022
How to take care of your tribe The other day I read: "If you're hiking and you stop to let other people catch up, don't start walking immediately when they arrive. Because that means you got a rest and they didn't. I think about this a lot." I want to dissect this sentiment...
135 Cedar Street 1:20 Scratchbuilt miniature based off 135 Cedar Street, San Francisco. Wood, MDF, Plastruct,...
27th Mar 2017
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135 Cedar Street

from Joshua Smith [alt+shift+b] in design

27th Mar 2017
1:20 Scratchbuilt miniature based off 135 Cedar Street, San Francisco. Wood, MDF, Plastruct, Cardboard, Paper, Plastic Card, Wire, Acrylic paint, Spraypaint, Chalk pastels. February 2016 SOLD. Photo Credit: Andrew Beveridge/ASB Creative The post 135 Cedar Street appeared first on...
It’s Time to Build It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few...
23rd Apr 2024
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It’s Time to Build

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

23rd Apr 2024
It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few updates about what I’ve been up to. Quick recap At the start of 2023 I quit consulting to go full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker, after growing it on … Continue reading...
From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and... MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
13th Nov 2025
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From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate

from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Nov 2025
MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
How to Tell if Your Job is Real After quitting his job, a friend made an odd comment. He said, "It’s weird when you realize that...
2nd Dec 2018
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How to Tell if Your Job is Real

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

2nd Dec 2018
After quitting his job, a friend made an odd comment. He said, "It’s weird when you realize that none of it is real." His observation stuck me as both profoundly true and maddeningly confusing.
Venezuela killed the U.S. In the history of the US’s relation with Latin America, what just happened in Venezuela is hardly...
6th Jan 2026
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Venezuela killed the U.S.

from Arnaud Bertrand [alt+shift+b] in history

6th Jan 2026
In the history of the US’s relation with Latin America, what just happened in Venezuela is hardly unique: in the slightly less than a hundred years from 1898 to 1994, the U.S.
5 Life-Changing Levels of Not Giving a Fuck Every day, hundreds of millions of people suffer from giving too many fucks. They spend their lives...
25th Jan 2024
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5 Life-Changing Levels of Not Giving a Fuck

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

25th Jan 2024
Every day, hundreds of millions of people suffer from giving too many fucks. They spend their lives imprisoned by meaningless anxiety and unnecessary concerns. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this article, I'm going to walk you through the five levels of non-fuck-giving,...
Summary of changes for September Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
3rd Oct 2021
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Summary of changes for September

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

3rd Oct 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
25th Mar 2024
Securing My Web Infrastructure Securing My Web Infrastructure A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my...
17th Apr 2025
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Securing My Web Infrastructure

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

17th Apr 2025
Securing My Web Infrastructure A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my web infrastructure off Cloudflare, as well as having built a custom web service to host it all. I call this new web service WebCentral and I'd like to talk about some of the steps...
Using JavaScript to prevent comment spam Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam...
5th May 2007
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Using JavaScript to prevent comment spam

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

5th May 2007
Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam bots post comments on someones blog, guestbook, or wiki for the sole purpose of boosting traffic and promoting better search engine rankings for their site. Like email spam, it can be...
Exploring Chess Positions and Counts Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number...
11th Feb 2026
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Exploring Chess Positions and Counts

from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Feb 2026
Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number of typical short chess games is around 10151. This turned out to be much larger than the “Shannon number” 10120 side-note from Shanon’s remarkable 1950 paper “Programming a...
Lima, Shoreditch I don't usually like to do invited reviews back-to-back, so this was supposed to be a post about a...
5th Nov 2024
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Lima, Shoreditch

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

5th Nov 2024
I don't usually like to do invited reviews back-to-back, so this was supposed to be a post about a lovely Catalonian restaurant called El Molí de L'Escala. El Molí serve a daily-changing menu of exciting and unusual local seafood (they had sea cucumber on the menu last week, and...
Borneo: Ridiculous Mothing At Trus Madi Entomology Camp When doing research on the few possible "lifer" birds that I could find on this trip to Sabah, and...
14th Dec 2024
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Borneo: Ridiculous Mothing At Trus Madi Entomology Camp

from Explorations of an Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science

14th Dec 2024
When doing research on the few possible "lifer" birds that I could find on this trip to Sabah, and in particular, looking for sites to find the Bornean Frogmouth, I read about the Trus Madi Entomology Camp. This piqued my interest, as there is almost nothing I like more than...
Building an AI Coach to Help Tame My Monkey Mind Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
7th Apr 2024
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Building an AI Coach to Help Tame My Monkey Mind

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Apr 2024
Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
Pocketwatch of Goo [Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
6th Mar 2025
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Pocketwatch of Goo

from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Mar 2025
[Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
The Hunting Gun A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see...
15th Jul 2018
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The Hunting Gun

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Jul 2018
A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see Misugi change from thin and narrow to nuanced and vital and then to a defeated husk of a man is expertly drawn. This kind of framing device has an odd effect: if it was done in a more...
Tools for a Culture of Writing One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to...
30th Oct 2021
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Tools for a Culture of Writing

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

30th Oct 2021
One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to each other. With significant room for misunderstanding, biases, assumptions and cultural differences, communicating with other engineers (or to stakeholders) appears fraught....
Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors Explaining React through visual metaphors
1st May 2020
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Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2020
Explaining React through visual metaphors
Reader Mailbag: Struggling to do it all A reader writes in with questions about technical up-skilling, finding balance in life and work, and...
9th Mar 2024
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Reader Mailbag: Struggling to do it all

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

9th Mar 2024
A reader writes in with questions about technical up-skilling, finding balance in life and work, and getting in touch with their identity outside of work.
Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform...
11th Dec 2022
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Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2022
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is. But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
Awkward Zombie - A Leap of Logic New comic! Today's News: Being able to see other players' vehicles and structures provides some...
1st Jun 2026
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Awkward Zombie - A Leap of Logic

from Awkward Zombie [alt+shift+b] in comics

1st Jun 2026
New comic! Today's News: Being able to see other players' vehicles and structures provides some very interesting data regarding statistically likely behavior. It is somehow comforting to drive my truck into a ditch and find evidence that other humans also couldn't resist taking...
From error-handling to structured concurrency How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs? In single-threaded programs, we’ve...
23rd Mar 2026
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From error-handling to structured concurrency

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Mar 2026
How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs? In single-threaded programs, we’ve mostly converged on a standard pattern, with a diverse zoo of implementations and concrete patterns. When an error occurs, it is propagated up the stack until we find a stack frame...
5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
10th Aug 2020
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book

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

10th Aug 2020
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
3 Years of Extremely Remote Work In the last 3 years I've attended 77 meetings that began between 1am and 6am, roughly once every two...
21st May 2025
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3 Years of Extremely Remote Work

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

21st May 2025
In the last 3 years I've attended 77 meetings that began between 1am and 6am, roughly once every two weeks, followed by my usual 7am start, Monday to Saturday. I'm working remotely from Australia for a US firm (Intel) who does not have a local office here. I'm not complaining. I...
on edward jenner and creativity One common question that’s on everyone’s minds as we fiercely scrub our hands, pool our resources,...
20th May 2020
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on edward jenner and creativity

from Apoorva Srinivasan [alt+shift+b] in science

20th May 2020
One common question that’s on everyone’s minds as we fiercely scrub our hands, pool our resources, conserve our consumption, stock up (but not hoard), invent calculus or write King Lear is: when will this end? Nobody knows what the answer to that question is but we
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