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Adrian Hanft, III:...
A Job Interview Trap Designers Might Avoid I was caught off guard during a job interview after I told the story of my Ghost-O-Meter app. My...
over a year ago
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A Job Interview Trap Designers Might Avoid

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

over a year ago
I was caught off guard during a job interview after I told the story of my Ghost-O-Meter app. My audience was several designers and one developer who sat quietly on the edge of the group eying me skeptically.
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Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 6-12 November 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
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Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 6-12 November 2023

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
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Retail Design Blog
Parinee I Lobby by Studio Symbiosis The Parinee I Tower Lobby in Andheri West, Mumbai, presents a harmonious fusion of exterior...
4 months ago
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Parinee I Lobby by Studio Symbiosis

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

4 months ago
The Parinee I Tower Lobby in Andheri West, Mumbai, presents a harmonious fusion of exterior architecture and interior design. The...
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Tinloof - Blog
How we build fast Shopify stores It is no surprise that ecommerce page speed is a key factor in user satisfaction, conversion rates,...
over a year ago
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How we build fast Shopify stores

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It is no surprise that ecommerce page speed is a key factor in user satisfaction, conversion rates, SEO, and brand perception. Research clearly shows that the slower the ecommerce is, the less likely visitors are going to purchase; 79% of customers are less likely to buy again...
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Irrational...
Building your executive network. In most of my roles, I’ve learned more from my peers than from my manager. Even when you get along...
over a year ago
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Building your executive network.

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

over a year ago
In most of my roles, I’ve learned more from my peers than from my manager. Even when you get along well with your manager, your peers’ perspective will usually be closer to yours than your manager’s. Once you transition into an engineering executive role, you’ll still have peers,...
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Mind Prison: Notes...
The post-truth chronicles - Dead Internet Theory Notes From the Desk: No. 29 - 2024.03.11
a year ago
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The post-truth chronicles - Dead Internet Theory

from Mind Prison: Notes From the Desk [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
Notes From the Desk: No. 29 - 2024.03.11
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Londonist
Bits Of London That Aren't In The Bit Of London They Say They Are In, But In Another Bit Of London If you see what we mean.
a year ago
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Bits Of London That Aren't In The Bit Of London They Say They Are In, But In Another Bit Of London

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
If you see what we mean.
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TokyoDev
Running a job board in Japan can land you in prison *Note, [new regulations were introduced in October 2022 regarding job...
over a year ago
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Running a job board in Japan can land you in prison

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
*Note, [new regulations were introduced in October 2022 regarding job boards](/articles/keeping-job-board-legal-in-japan). While the principles for determining whether or not something is considered recruiting with regards to licensing is unchanged, there are additional...
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Yale E360
If software engineering roles were chess pieces, what would they be? Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground. It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to...
over a year ago
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If software engineering roles were chess pieces, what would they be?

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground. It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to acquire the entire tech industry. And when Chess acquires us, they'll replace us and take our software engineering jobs1. Then we'll be stuck playing their game, and we'll be...
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Open Culture
Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late...
5 months ago
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Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation

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

5 months ago
Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late David Lynch’s, from 1984 — though even according to many of Lynch’s fans, it could hardly have been worse. In a 1996 piece for Premiere magazine, David Foster Wallace described...
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Eric Bailey
Equivalent experience can cut both ways I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and...
a year ago
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Equivalent experience can cut both ways

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

a year ago
I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and expertise (and grace in answering the occasional ignorant question) in exchange for payment. The goal here is to uncover assumptions I carry with me when using assistive technology,...
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TheCollector
Leahy Law: Context, Overview, & History During the Cold War, the United States became a major exporter of weapons to countries fighting...
4 months ago
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Leahy Law: Context, Overview, & History

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
During the Cold War, the United States became a major exporter of weapons to countries fighting communism around the world. The issue of US arms sales to foreign militaries accused of human rights violations has been the subject of intense debate in the American political arena...
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The DESK Magazine
What makes me a designer? This question crossed my mind enough times recently that I went into the DESK archives to find my...
over a year ago
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What makes me a designer?

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

over a year ago
This question crossed my mind enough times recently that I went into the DESK archives to find my own answer. To my surprise, there wasn’t one. I’ve never written about it, not until today.
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exist
Spinning Diagrams with CSS
over a year ago
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Spinning Diagrams with CSS

from exist [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Dover Street Market Although Paris was initially considered too bourgeois as a location for Rei Kawakubo‘s brilliantly...
a year ago
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Dover Street Market

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

a year ago
Although Paris was initially considered too bourgeois as a location for Rei Kawakubo‘s brilliantly forward Dover Street Market store concept,...
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Articles
Better time spent at work
over a year ago
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Better time spent at work

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Business Brainstorms
Daily briefing AI, Hello Fresh but better, building in a cave, postcard lead gen, controllable input... Hey, In this issue: idea for an AI-powered Gmail extension to streamline your digital life, private...
a year ago
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Daily briefing AI, Hello Fresh but better, building in a cave, postcard lead gen, controllable input metrics.

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Hey, In this issue: idea for an AI-powered Gmail extension to streamline your digital life, private prep cooks as a service, startup concepts inspired by Y Combinator data, prompt for SEO optimized articles. Plus, founder insights on the power of focus and advertising channels....
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Posts on Made of...
Property-Based Testing Is Fuzzing “Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code...
over a year ago
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Property-Based Testing Is Fuzzing

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

over a year ago
“Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code (“properties”), and then using automated tooling to generate test inputs (typically, randomly-generated inputs of an appropriate type), and observe whether the properties hold for...
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Dreams of Space -...
My Weekly Reader February 4, 1962 Happy 4th of July! Here is your My Weekly Reader for "Happy 4th of February, 1962."
a week ago
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My Weekly Reader February 4, 1962

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

a week ago
Happy 4th of July! Here is your My Weekly Reader for "Happy 4th of February, 1962."
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IEEE Spectrum
James Wimshurst’s Electrostatic Immortality James Wimshurst did not invent the machine that bears his name. But thanks to his many refinements...
over a year ago
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James Wimshurst’s Electrostatic Immortality

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

over a year ago
James Wimshurst did not invent the machine that bears his name. But thanks to his many refinements to a distinctive type of electrostatic generator, we now have the Wimshurst influence machine. What does a Wimshurst machine do? Influence machines date back to the 18th century....
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Making software...
Do You Have an Extra $10? Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
over a year ago
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Do You Have an Extra $10?

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

over a year ago
Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it's a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it's a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it's an impulse buy while we're out shopping for...
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TheCollector
Not Just Balto: 7 Other Heroes From Nome’s 1925 Serum Run Living in isolated Alaska has its risks. Particularly in the early days of its development, Alaskan...
2 months ago
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Not Just Balto: 7 Other Heroes From Nome’s 1925 Serum Run

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Living in isolated Alaska has its risks. Particularly in the early days of its development, Alaskan citizens had limited access to resources, especially in the winter when the snow and ice made transport by traditional means difficult. In 1925, disaster struck when an outbreak of...
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Rest of World -...
Tears of a get-rich-quick guru Influencers like Sunny Ali promote the Amazon seller dream, but not everyone buys the hustlepreneur...
a year ago
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Tears of a get-rich-quick guru

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

a year ago
Influencers like Sunny Ali promote the Amazon seller dream, but not everyone buys the hustlepreneur fantasy.
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Herbert Lui
Notes on fragmented sleep I’m really good at waking up. I’m so good at waking up, in fact, that occasionally I wake up two...
4 months ago
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Notes on fragmented sleep

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

4 months ago
I’m really good at waking up. I’m so good at waking up, in fact, that occasionally I wake up two hours too early. I used to find it difficult to fall back asleep. When I asked a doctor about this, they told me it was called “fragmented sleep” and there wasn’t that much they could...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Writers That Are Worth Anything Are Humorists' Bertie Wooster has asked if he can purchase a gift for Jeeves while he is out, and the valet...
4 months ago
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'Writers That Are Worth Anything Are Humorists'

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

4 months ago
Bertie Wooster has asked if he can purchase a gift for Jeeves while he is out, and the valet replies: “‘Well, sir, there has recently been published a new and authoritatively annotated edition of the works of the philosopher Spinoza. Since you are so generous, I would appreciate...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Push Notifications Are Organizational Marshmallows It’s a notifications’ world, we’re just living in it. Companies can’t help but try and get your...
6 months ago
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Push Notifications Are Organizational Marshmallows

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

6 months ago
It’s a notifications’ world, we’re just living in it. Companies can’t help but try and get your attention via email, text, or push notifications and drive you to their app. Push notifications in particular are a powerful tool — and where there’s power, there’s abuse. I’m sure...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
The New Clinic Buildouts | Out-Of-Pocket Has software changed what's necessary in the clinic?
a year ago
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The New Clinic Buildouts | Out-Of-Pocket

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

a year ago
Has software changed what's necessary in the clinic?
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Willem Pennings
Fixing my heating system The heating system in my apartment building consists of a group of heat pumps that deliver warm...
a year ago
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Fixing my heating system

from Willem Pennings [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
The heating system in my apartment building consists of a group of heat pumps that deliver warm water to the underfloor heating system of about a dozen apartments, including mine. During the warm summer months, the system supplies cool water instead. The heat pumps figure out...
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Jason Crawford
Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars Excited to announce that I’m launching an online high school summer program in the history of...
over a year ago
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Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars

from Jason Crawford [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Excited to announce that I’m launching an online high school summer program in the history of technology: Progress Studies for Young Scholars. Daily online content, plus a speaker series featuring Tyler Cowen, Patrick Collison, Max Roser, Joel Mokyr, Deirdre McCloskey, and more....
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
a year ago
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx

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

a year ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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Farnam Street
Focus to Win Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas. Focus is about...
over a year ago
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Focus to Win

from Farnam Street [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas. Focus is about saying no. When talking about one of the biggest lessons he learned from Steve Jobs, Jonny Ive said it was focus. This sounds really simplistic, but it still shocks me how few...
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Asterisk
The First Day
3 months ago
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The First Day

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

3 months ago
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David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us in 2023 It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
a year ago
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Five big open source gifts from us in 2023

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

a year ago
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
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TheCollector
What Is Christian Pacifism? Exploring Non-Violent Resistance Not only does the New Testament present Jesus as having refrained from using violence, he also...
2 months ago
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What Is Christian Pacifism? Exploring Non-Violent Resistance

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Not only does the New Testament present Jesus as having refrained from using violence, he also reportedly taught his followers to love their enemies and to respond to evil with good. While Jesus taught that God would one day judge the wicked, he never suggests that humans should...
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Seth's Blog
“Ready” vs. “Done” Ready means that time is up, spec is met and the user can engage. Done might mean that you believe...
a year ago
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“Ready” vs. “Done”

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

a year ago
Ready means that time is up, spec is met and the user can engage. Done might mean that you believe it’s perfect and cannot be improved. We’ll settle for ready. In fact, meeting spec means we’re not settling. It’s just what you promised.
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Tech + Economics +...
I hate work. The piercing sound of my alarm shatters the stillness of my room at the ungodly hour of 5 AM, and...
a year ago
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I hate work.

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
The piercing sound of my alarm shatters the stillness of my room at the ungodly hour of 5 AM, and I reluctantly drag myself out of bed. It’s the same daily grind, a routine I’ve been stuck in for years, first as a sound engineer, then as a tech exec, and now as an indie...
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The American Scholar
“A Blessing” by James Wright Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “A Blessing” by James Wright appeared first on The American...
a month ago
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“A Blessing” by James Wright

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

a month ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “A Blessing” by James Wright appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
9 months ago
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

9 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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Rozado’s Visual...
New Results of State-of-the-art LLMs on 4 Political Orientation Tests One model appears closer to the center than the rest
2 months ago
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New Results of State-of-the-art LLMs on 4 Political Orientation Tests

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

2 months ago
One model appears closer to the center than the rest
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Articles
You don't learn until you ship
over a year ago
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You don't learn until you ship

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over a year ago
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99% Invisible
One-Nil to the Arsenal When Arsenal striker Kai Havertz stepped up to take a penalty against Bournemouth last season, it...
2 months ago
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One-Nil to the Arsenal

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

2 months ago
When Arsenal striker Kai Havertz stepped up to take a penalty against Bournemouth last season, it felt like his career was a crossroads. The German forward had joined Arsenal from their London rivals Chelsea for a hefty £60 million transfer fee, but he still hadn’t found the back...
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The Works in...
Three percent more Monaco: Links in Progress, infrastructure edition Plus: high speed rail in Vietnam, India's first vertical lift sea bridge, and a £100 million bat...
6 months ago
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Three percent more Monaco: Links in Progress, infrastructure edition

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

6 months ago
Plus: high speed rail in Vietnam, India's first vertical lift sea bridge, and a £100 million bat tunnel.
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Making software...
Never Do Spec Work for Free Never Do Spec Work for Free 2022-11-07 Your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Let...
over a year ago
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Never Do Spec Work for Free

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

over a year ago
Never Do Spec Work for Free 2022-11-07 Your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Let me say that again for the people in the back: your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Time is the most precious commodity we have as human beings, so never waste...
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The Marginalian
Shame and the Secret Chambers of the Self: Pioneering Sociologist and Philosopher Helen Merrell Lynd... "Experiences of shame throw a flooding light on what and who we are and what the world we live in...
a year ago
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Shame and the Secret Chambers of the Self: Pioneering Sociologist and Philosopher Helen Merrell Lynd on the Uncomfortable Path to Wholeness

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a year ago
"Experiences of shame throw a flooding light on what and who we are and what the world we live in is."
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Abishek Muthian
OpenWrt login alert I wanted to receive alert when logged into my OpenWrt router via SSH and this what I did. Replace...
over a year ago
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OpenWrt login alert

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I wanted to receive alert when logged into my OpenWrt router via SSH and this what I did. Replace Dropbear with OpenSSH-server OpenWrt uses lightweight Dropbear as SSH server by default but it needs to be compiled with PAM support to add alerts. Instead I'm replacing Dropbear...
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Blog posts of...
AngelList is the NASDAQ of our generation. It’s fair to say that Angellist is the most exciting (web/mobile) tech startup in 2013. Even before...
over a year ago
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AngelList is the NASDAQ of our generation.

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
It’s fair to say that Angellist is the most exciting (web/mobile) tech startup in 2013. Even before they launched syndicates, earl...
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The American Scholar
Once More, Without Feeling Can a memoir be effective when it lacks any warmth? The post Once More, Without Feeling appeared...
4 months ago
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Once More, Without Feeling

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

4 months ago
Can a memoir be effective when it lacks any warmth? The post Once More, Without Feeling appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Jonas Hietala
Stereotypes I read a great essay or article about stereotypical programmers called The Little Printf. I really...
over a year ago
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Stereotypes

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

over a year ago
I read a great essay or article about stereotypical programmers called The Little Printf. I really couldn’t do it justice so do yourself a favor and go read it. It touches on several types of programmers or rather traits of programmers I recognize in my surroundings and also...
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Archinect - Features
ChatGPT Interviews Matias del Campo: Architecture, Hallucinations, and other Exotic... What is artificial intelligence? How can we maximize the benefits of AI while minimizing the risks?...
over a year ago
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ChatGPT Interviews Matias del Campo: Architecture, Hallucinations, and other Exotic Occurrences

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over a year ago
What is artificial intelligence? How can we maximize the benefits of AI while minimizing the risks? Is the role of the architect safe from AI? In any conversation about the impact of artificial intelligence on the architectural profession, such questions are at the forefront of...
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Stat Significant
Which Countries Have the Most Unique Taste in Music? A Statistical Analysis Which nations have the most distinct music tastes?
3 months ago
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Which Countries Have the Most Unique Taste in Music? A Statistical Analysis

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3 months ago
Which nations have the most distinct music tastes?
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One Useful Thing
Democratizing the future of education We are all EdTech designers, now
over a year ago
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Democratizing the future of education

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over a year ago
We are all EdTech designers, now
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Last Place Comics
Lasso Man 5 The post Lasso Man 5 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
a year ago
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Lasso Man 5

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a year ago
The post Lasso Man 5 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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the singularity is...
Where the Bitter Lesson ends Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the...
a year ago
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Where the Bitter Lesson ends

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

a year ago
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the thing we built can do the engineering. Clips have been making the rounds on Twitter from my second Lex about the “bishop guy” in a chess engine, or a “cone guy” in a self driving...
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Joel Gascoigne
Why I'm helping startup founders * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last month I...
over a year ago
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Why I'm helping startup founders

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last month I wrote about my discovery that helping others makes me happier [https://joel.is/post/26003263041/want-to-be-happy-and-successful-bring-happiness-to] than spending the time seeing a...
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Classical Wisdom
Athens' Most Important Woman Secret Mover of History
3 months ago
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Athens' Most Important Woman

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3 months ago
Secret Mover of History
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TokyoDev
Remote Worker Rights In Japan Are you working remotely for a Japanese company? What happens if your company suddenly issues a...
7 months ago
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Remote Worker Rights In Japan

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7 months ago
Are you working remotely for a Japanese company? What happens if your company suddenly issues a return-to-office mandate? Will you have to move back to Tokyo? What if remote work is in your contract—do you have the right to refuse to return to the office? What standing do you...
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The Marginalian
Walt Whitman on Owning Your Life At the bottom of the abyss between us is the hard fact that to be a person, a particular person, is...
3 months ago
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Walt Whitman on Owning Your Life

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3 months ago
At the bottom of the abyss between us is the hard fact that to be a person, a particular person, is so profoundly different from what any other person can suppose. This is why one of the hardest learnings in life is that you cannot love — or scold, or coax, or palter — anyone out...
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Maps Mania
The Start of Hurricane Season
a month ago
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The Start of Hurricane Season

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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy? The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
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Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?

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a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
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Citation Needed
Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles The formerly anti-government bitcoin movement abandons its principles in favor of number-go-up,...
4 months ago
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Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles

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4 months ago
The formerly anti-government bitcoin movement abandons its principles in favor of number-go-up, applauds federal plan to stockpile seized crypto with no clear benefit to national interest
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
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Summary of changes for March 2025

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3 months ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March. Summary Of Changes In the above illustration, little Ninj is going through a first-aid kit, looking through our supplies to see what needs to be topped off and what is...
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Adventures In...
Illumination Cartography Here are a few flavors of a technique, illumination cartography, that uses data to shed light on its...
a year ago
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Illumination Cartography

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a year ago
Here are a few flavors of a technique, illumination cartography, that uses data to shed light on its underlying basemap. There’s something satisfying about presenting a phenomenon as revealing geography rather than obscuring it. Love, John
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Good Enough
How We Made A Good Enough Zine We made a zine! The first issue was released in August, and I finished the second issue just last...
a year ago
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How We Made A Good Enough Zine

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a year ago
We made a zine! The first issue was released in August, and I finished the second issue just last week. Right now, a hundred copies are on their way from the printer to me (update: they've just arrived!). Today I'd like to share the story of how this zine came about. (Sorry for...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sylph Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Locking down the graph joke/obscure word enthusiast...
a month ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sylph

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a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Locking down the graph joke/obscure word enthusiast crossover crowd. Today's News:
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
Horrible Therapist - Random Comic Generator The images here are picked randomly, so they might be nonsensical and/or terrible. View on my...
over a year ago
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Horrible Therapist - Random Comic Generator

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over a year ago
The images here are picked randomly, so they might be nonsensical and/or terrible. View on my website
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Retail Design Blog
ramencraft restaurant by SOA architekti Quite similar to coffee, ramen has gained an extensive global reach, becoming even a culinary...
a year ago
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ramencraft restaurant by SOA architekti

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a year ago
Quite similar to coffee, ramen has gained an extensive global reach, becoming even a culinary routine in the lifestyle of...
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The Honest Broker
Netflix CEO Mocks Moviegoers: Theaters Are Dead! How fear and self-loathing took over Hollywood
3 months ago
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Netflix CEO Mocks Moviegoers: Theaters Are Dead!

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3 months ago
How fear and self-loathing took over Hollywood
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GeoCurrents
Economic Factors Behind the Alberta Secession Movement in Canada Several recent GeoCurrents posts have emphasized similarities in the electoral geographies of the...
a month ago
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Economic Factors Behind the Alberta Secession Movement in Canada

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a month ago
Several recent GeoCurrents posts have emphasized similarities in the electoral geographies of the United States and Canada. But there are also some major differences, particularly regarding state/province voting patterns and levels of economic development. In the U.S., the...
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sbensu
There Is No Antimemetics Division Notes on the book.
9 months ago
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There Is No Antimemetics Division

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9 months ago
Notes on the book.
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Diaries of Note
I have drunk of the wine of life at last In 1907, fourteen years before she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Age of...
over a year ago
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I have drunk of the wine of life at last

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over a year ago
In 1907, fourteen years before she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton was introduced to Morton Fullerton, a journalist with whom she would embark on a passionate affair. It was months after that first encounter, in October, that she...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 The mining of the public domain These sites can only exist because of the work put in by librarians and archivists to collect,...
11 months ago
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🔗 The mining of the public domain

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11 months ago
These sites can only exist because of the work put in by librarians and archivists to collect, curate, and share these images to begin with. It is a shame that so much of their work was erased so that this site can claim to show you an internet of the future, ‘rich, organized...
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Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications...
3 months ago
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MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey

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

3 months ago
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications increased 20.0 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending April 4,...
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Applied Cartography
Using Cursor to port Django tests to pytest When it comes to AI tooling, I am equal parts optimist and cynic. I have no moral qualm with using...
10 months ago
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Using Cursor to port Django tests to pytest

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10 months ago
When it comes to AI tooling, I am equal parts optimist and cynic. I have no moral qualm with using these tools (Supermaven is a pretty heavy part of my day-to-day work), but have found most tools quite bad by the metric of "do they make me more productive on Buttondown's code...
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The Modern House
Inside architect Ben Allen’s modernist ‘cottage in the sky’
5 months ago
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Inside architect Ben Allen’s modernist ‘cottage in the sky’

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5 months ago
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Maps Mania
Google's AI Hurricane Predictor
3 weeks ago
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Google's AI Hurricane Predictor

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3 weeks ago
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diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #17 The major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout are reaching their peak. It's resurfacing week which means...
4 months ago
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Bow Roundabout update #17

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4 months ago
The major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout are reaching their peak. It's resurfacing week which means the roundabout has been descended upon by a huge hi-vis army of drivers, operatives, technicians, contractors, stewards and supervisors keen to get the job done as quickly as...
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Joel Gascoigne
Is making mistakes a necessity for success? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I would like to...
over a year ago
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Is making mistakes a necessity for success?

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I would like to ponder whether making mistakes is actually a necessary part of the process of achieving whatever form of “success” we are striving for. I’d love your thoughts in the comments. A...
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TheCollector
Battle of Verdun: Who Won and Its Lasting Impact By the end of 1915, it was clear to the German General Staff that there was a growing discrepancy in...
2 months ago
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Battle of Verdun: Who Won and Its Lasting Impact

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2 months ago
By the end of 1915, it was clear to the German General Staff that there was a growing discrepancy in the number of troops on the Western Front. The Entente forces were growing in size and Germany needed to keep pace. Germany sought to mitigate the growing strength of the Entente,...
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #222 Berkshire Hathaway's Q3 Results, BRK 2X Long Daily Target ETF, Presidential Election Polling, Online...
8 months ago
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The Digest #222

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8 months ago
Berkshire Hathaway's Q3 Results, BRK 2X Long Daily Target ETF, Presidential Election Polling, Online Speech, Price Controls, Shakespeare's Caesar, Musk and SpaceX, Micro-Cap Investing
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Common Edge
How AI Can Help Us End Design Education Anachronisms Let’s use the power of technology to actually improve architectural learning.
a year ago
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How AI Can Help Us End Design Education Anachronisms

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a year ago
Let’s use the power of technology to actually improve architectural learning.
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David Perell
28 Pieces of Life Advice In honor of my 28th birthday, here are 28 pieces of life advice. The post 28 Pieces of Life Advice...
over a year ago
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28 Pieces of Life Advice

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over a year ago
In honor of my 28th birthday, here are 28 pieces of life advice. The post 28 Pieces of Life Advice appeared first on David Perell.
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Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions Topologists prove two new results that bring some order to the confoundingly difficult study of...
a year ago
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Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions

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a year ago
Topologists prove two new results that bring some order to the confoundingly difficult study of four-dimensional shapes. The post Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
End of Year Book Review (2022) I enjoy books (more so audio books than reading), but I don't consume them very much or as often as...
over a year ago
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End of Year Book Review (2022)

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over a year ago
I enjoy books (more so audio books than reading), but I don't consume them very much or as often as I'd like. At least in my own mind I don't get through many, but what's the global average? I don't honestly care. This year I wanted to make a concerted effort to consume more...
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Uncharted...
Why Is Canada’s Population so Concentrated? In three spots that are disconnected?
2 months ago
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Why Is Canada’s Population so Concentrated?

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2 months ago
In three spots that are disconnected?
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Novela by Narative (updated) With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier...
over a year ago
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Using Novela by Narative (updated)

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

over a year ago
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier for anyone to grasp the power of this incredible tool.
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary of changes for February

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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Seth's Blog
I fixed it for you Creativity is about hope and possibility. It gives us a chance to make things better. Plenty has...
a year ago
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I fixed it for you

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

a year ago
Creativity is about hope and possibility. It gives us a chance to make things better. Plenty has been written about the sad iPad ad that Apple just apologized for. It wasn’t just out of character for the story Apple tells, it was a cheap hack, taking the nihilism and helplessness...
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Diaries of Note
Our worst fears are realized On 2nd June 1854, following a failed rescue attempt at the courthouse, huge numbers of angry...
over a year ago
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Our worst fears are realized

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over a year ago
On 2nd June 1854, following a failed rescue attempt at the courthouse, huge numbers of angry protesters lined the streets of Boston as hundreds of federal soldiers led twenty-year-old Anthony Burns to the harbour where he was to be shipped to Virginia, back to the life of slavery...
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Mazdak
Apple’s Credit Card Shakeup: A Look at the Future of Fintech Partnerships In 2019, Apple and Goldman Sachs partnered to launch the Apple Card, a bold move that combined...
6 months ago
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Apple’s Credit Card Shakeup: A Look at the Future of Fintech Partnerships

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6 months ago
In 2019, Apple and Goldman Sachs partnered to launch the Apple Card, a bold move that combined technology and finance to offer a seamless credit experience.
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Both Are True
the 'many escape rooms' theory of why our smartphones suck the big one a confession that things have also been v hard + a pretty elaborate escape room metaphor // S1E8
a year ago
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the 'many escape rooms' theory of why our smartphones suck the big one

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a year ago
a confession that things have also been v hard + a pretty elaborate escape room metaphor // S1E8
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Noahpinion
America is ruled by gangsters now Three takeaways from Trump's disastrous meeting with Zelensky.
4 months ago
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America is ruled by gangsters now

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4 months ago
Three takeaways from Trump's disastrous meeting with Zelensky.
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TokyoDev
There’s No Place Like Home: Finding an Apartment in Japan What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor...
10 months ago
27

There’s No Place Like Home: Finding an Apartment in Japan

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10 months ago
What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor give a moving-in quote of 600,000 yen for an apartment that costs 80,000 yen a month to rent? Why does my apartment not have lights, curtains, or even a stove? Am I getting ripped...
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Both Are True
'all food is unhealthy' and other dumb shit I believe about cooking Some strange realizations I had while making some truly delicious fuckin yum yum food from Hungry as...
a year ago
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'all food is unhealthy' and other dumb shit I believe about cooking

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a year ago
Some strange realizations I had while making some truly delicious fuckin yum yum food from Hungry as Hell, the new cookbook by Michelle Albanes-Davis that I highly recommend !
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Inverted Passion
Notes from the book “Magic Words” Just finished reading Magic Words by Jonah Berger and my notes follow. 1/ Most of us spend a...
a year ago
27

Notes from the book “Magic Words”

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a year ago
Just finished reading Magic Words by Jonah Berger and my notes follow. 1/ Most of us spend a significant amount of time in assembling the thoughts we want to convey, but assume the words to convey them as a given. 2/ This book – written by a professor of business – takes the view...
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Matt Mullenweg
State of the Word Tokyo It’s a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We’re going to be in an...
7 months ago
55

State of the Word Tokyo

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7 months ago
It’s a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We’re going to be in an amazing venue that looks over the city. Most of WordPress and Automattic’s senior leadership is here, and we’ll also have several hundred folks from the local community and press. We’ve...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Poetry That Nobody Nowadays Reads' Once I patronized a library book sale where volumes were sold not by age, condition, whether...
a month ago
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'Poetry That Nobody Nowadays Reads'

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a month ago
Once I patronized a library book sale where volumes were sold not by age, condition, whether paperback or hard cover, and certainly not by literary worth but by weight. On the table by the exit was a scale, the flat-topped sort associated with butcher shops. The arrangement was a...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
over a year ago
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp

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over a year ago
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IEEE Spectrum
Protecting Robots in Harsh Environments with Advanced Sealing Systems This is a sponsored article brought to you by Freudenberg Sealing Technologies. The increasing...
3 months ago
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Protecting Robots in Harsh Environments with Advanced Sealing Systems

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

3 months ago
This is a sponsored article brought to you by Freudenberg Sealing Technologies. The increasing deployment of collaborative robots (cobots) in outdoor environments presents significant engineering challenges, requiring highly advanced sealing solutions to ensure reliability and...
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Joel Gascoigne
The quiet pivot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6...
over a year ago
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The quiet pivot

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

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6 months, we’ve quietly shifted the direction of Buffer. Our adjustment is now almost complete and we’re charging ahead with our new vision. It’s interesting to reflect on how we came...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Curved Green Roof Allows This Winery To Blend Into The Landscape Architecture studio Aleš Fiala has recently completed the design of Gurdau Winery in the Czech...
over a year ago
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A Curved Green Roof Allows This Winery To Blend Into The Landscape

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
Architecture studio Aleš Fiala has recently completed the design of Gurdau Winery in the Czech Republic, which includes a unique curved green roof. The building’s location in the open countryside naturally brought with it high demands for architectural and landscape integration....
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Articles
How to get 1000's of paying customers
over a year ago
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How to get 1000's of paying customers

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over a year ago
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xkcd.com
Data Quality [last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] ->...
over a year ago
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Data Quality

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over a year ago
[last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] -> [photo of your cat] -> [clone of your cat] -> [your actual cat] -> [my better cat]" alt="[exclamation about how cute your cat is] -> [last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your...
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Mazdak
Elon Musk’s $97.4 Billion Bid for OpenAI Elon Musk has once again made headlines with a massive $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI,...
5 months ago
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Elon Musk’s $97.4 Billion Bid for OpenAI

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5 months ago
Elon Musk has once again made headlines with a massive $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.
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Home on Erik...
We're hiring at Better Just a quick note that my team is always hiring at Better. A lot of new people have been joining the...
over a year ago
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We're hiring at Better

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

over a year ago
Just a quick note that my team is always hiring at Better. A lot of new people have been joining the team here in NYC lately—the tech team has actually grown from 35 to 60 in just ~3 months.
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elementary Blog
elementary OS 8 Available Today We’re proud to announce that elementary OS 8 is available to download later today and shipping on...
7 months ago
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elementary OS 8 Available Today

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

7 months ago
We’re proud to announce that elementary OS 8 is available to download later today and shipping on several high-quality computers! With OS 8, we’ve focused in on: Creating a new Secure Session that ensures applications respect your privacy and require your consent A brand new...
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The personal website...
Design-by-wire There’s a lot of fear in the air. As AI gets better at design, it’s natural for designers to be...
over a year ago
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Design-by-wire

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

over a year ago
There’s a lot of fear in the air. As AI gets better at design, it’s natural for designers to be worried about their jobs. But I think the question — will AI replace designers? — is a waste of time. Humans have always invented technology to do their work for them and will continue...
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Retail Design Blog
Aesop Suzhou Cangjie Store by Offhand Practice Aesop Suzhou Cangjie: A Fusion of Ancient Charm and Modern Poetry – As the first soft rays of dawn...
8 months ago
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Aesop Suzhou Cangjie Store by Offhand Practice

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

8 months ago
Aesop Suzhou Cangjie: A Fusion of Ancient Charm and Modern Poetry – As the first soft rays of dawn paint...
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Seth's Blog
Full circle with myopia In 1983, an old article from the Harvard Business Review changed my life. In 1960, Ted Levitt, a...
8 months ago
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Full circle with myopia

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

8 months ago
In 1983, an old article from the Harvard Business Review changed my life. In 1960, Ted Levitt, a professor at HBS, wrote the most popular article in the Review’s history. Called Marketing Myopia, it described a different way of thinking about change and marketing. I was a (very)...
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Asterisk
Automating Math Computers can already help verify proofs. One day soon, they may be able to come up with new ones.
6 months ago
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Automating Math

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
Computers can already help verify proofs. One day soon, they may be able to come up with new ones.
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Open Culture
How Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon Became the First Sci-Fi Film & Changed Cinema Forever (1902) If you happen to visit the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, do take the time to see the Musée Méliès...
7 months ago
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How Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon Became the First Sci-Fi Film & Changed Cinema Forever (1902)

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

7 months ago
If you happen to visit the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, do take the time to see the Musée Méliès located inside it. Dedicated to la Magie du cinéma, it contains artifacts from throughout the history of film-as-spectacle, which includes such pictures as 2001: A Space Odyssey...
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Last Place Comics
Boy’s Club VS Girl’s Club, Part 1 The post Boy’s Club VS Girl’s Club, Part 1 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
7 months ago
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Boy’s Club VS Girl’s Club, Part 1

from Last Place Comics [alt+shift+b] in comics

7 months ago
The post Boy’s Club VS Girl’s Club, Part 1 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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99% Invisible
The Lost Subways of North America [EPISODE] If you’ve spent any amount of time driving through any major American city, you know what it’s like...
a year ago
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The Lost Subways of North America [EPISODE]

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

a year ago
If you’ve spent any amount of time driving through any major American city, you know what it’s like to be stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. But if you’re from Los Angeles – the land of freeways, traffic and smog –  you know this struggle especially well.   But Jake Berman, the...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
The Surprisingly High Table Stakes of Modern Blogs Bottom Line Up Front: You are probably underestimating how much goes into blogging technology these...
over a year ago
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The Surprisingly High Table Stakes of Modern Blogs

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

over a year ago
Bottom Line Up Front: You are probably underestimating how much goes into blogging technology these days.
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Construction Physics
How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly...
a year ago
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How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly everything else: semiconductors. Semiconductors are materials that can have their conductivity varied by many orders of magnitude, which makes it possible to selectively block and allow the...
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Charles Chen
Beware the Complexity Merchants When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not...
2 months ago
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Beware the Complexity Merchants

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

2 months ago
When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not going to have a good time
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journal – Winnie Lim
scenes from tsukiji & asakusa Sometimes it is nice to be a tourist and do touristy things. tsukiji outer market We got there at...
a year ago
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scenes from tsukiji & asakusa

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

a year ago
Sometimes it is nice to be a tourist and do touristy things. tsukiji outer market We got there at 740am because I read that the crowds will start to get crazy at...
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Product Identity
Building as gardening Although I've never had a garden
3 months ago
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Building as gardening

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

3 months ago
Although I've never had a garden
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Eric Bailey
Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 1
over a year ago
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Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 1

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over a year ago
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Stephen Diehl
Facebook Libra is Architecturally Unsound
over a year ago
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Facebook Libra is Architecturally Unsound

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over a year ago
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TheCollector
Your Guide to Detroit’s 10 Must-See Art Attractions Michigan’s largest city is a center of culture and expression. You’ll find works by some of the...
2 months ago
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Your Guide to Detroit’s 10 Must-See Art Attractions

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Michigan’s largest city is a center of culture and expression. You’ll find works by some of the country’s best artists side by side with pieces created by the city’s endless local talent.   From downtown’s famous museums to up-and-coming art districts, you’ll have plenty of...
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Seth's Blog
An end to pop Pop culture depends on scarcity. When there are only a few TV stations or a dozen radio stations,...
over a year ago
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An end to pop

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

over a year ago
Pop culture depends on scarcity. When there are only a few TV stations or a dozen radio stations, it’s likely that many of us watch or hear the same thing at the same time. And so a popular TV show or song from fifty years ago probably reached twenty times as many people as a […]
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One Useful Thing
The future, soon: what I learned from Bing's AI We had a brief glimpse of two different types of AI. Both are significant
over a year ago
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The future, soon: what I learned from Bing's AI

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

over a year ago
We had a brief glimpse of two different types of AI. Both are significant
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Ognjen Regoje •...
The boy who cried risk On a recent project, I worked with a principal engineer. He’s a very prolific contributor and...
a year ago
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The boy who cried risk

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
On a recent project, I worked with a principal engineer. He’s a very prolific contributor and involved in several projects. Most of his contributions are related to risk management. That made me think about the other senior-most engineers and what they work on, leading me to...
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Open Culture
The Simple, Ingenious Design of the Ancient Roman Javelin: How the Romans Engineered a Remarkably... As Mike Tyson once put it, with characteristic straightforwardness, “Everybody has a plan until they...
2 months ago
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The Simple, Ingenious Design of the Ancient Roman Javelin: How the Romans Engineered a Remarkably Effective Weapon

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

2 months ago
As Mike Tyson once put it, with characteristic straightforwardness, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Back in the time of the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire, all of Rome’s enemies must have had a plan until pila punched through their shields....
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Mazdak
Meta's Shifting Approach to Politics and Content Moderation Meta is backtracking on its political content policy.
6 months ago
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Meta's Shifting Approach to Politics and Content Moderation

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

6 months ago
Meta is backtracking on its political content policy.
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Calculated Risk
MBA Survey: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Increases to 0.50% in November From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Increases to 0.50% in November The Mortgage...
6 months ago
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MBA Survey: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Increases to 0.50% in November

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

6 months ago
From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Increases to 0.50% in November The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey revealed that the total number of loans now in forbearance increased to 0.50% as of November 30, 2024. According to MBA’s...
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Christopher Butler
Are We Ready? Inventions that were ahead of their time can help us to understand whether we are truly ready to...
over a year ago
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Are We Ready?

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

over a year ago
Inventions that were ahead of their time can help us to understand whether we are truly ready to live in the world we are making. every detail — but hinting at them by highlighting mere facets that represent a coherent reality beneath them. If that reality is convincing, then...
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Daniel Bourke
Copying Tesla's Data Engine (for food images) A cooking recipe for building Nutrify's data engine.
over a year ago
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Copying Tesla's Data Engine (for food images)

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

over a year ago
A cooking recipe for building Nutrify's data engine.
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Thu Le
Things worth spending on Worthwhile investments, in my experience, and occasional treats that make my day more delightful.
8 months ago
22

Things worth spending on

from Thu Le [alt+shift+b] in life

8 months ago
Worthwhile investments, in my experience, and occasional treats that make my day more delightful.
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Rest of World -...
Careless People: Facebook insider’s memoir reveals more in what it omits Sarah Wynn-Williams’ memoir is a courageous feat, but it glosses over her own indifference to...
3 months ago
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Careless People: Facebook insider’s memoir reveals more in what it omits

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

3 months ago
Sarah Wynn-Williams’ memoir is a courageous feat, but it glosses over her own indifference to warnings from policymakers, civil society, and internal teams outside the U.S. about serious harm to communities from Facebook.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Scaling Coding Communities People who can scale coding communities are 🔥 🔥 🔥
over a year ago
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Scaling Coding Communities

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

over a year ago
People who can scale coding communities are 🔥 🔥 🔥
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alexwlchan
A script to get Live Text from images One of my favourite new features on Apple’s OSes in the last few years is Live Text, which is an...
over a year ago
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A script to get Live Text from images

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
One of my favourite new features on Apple’s OSes in the last few years is Live Text, which is an optical character recognition tool that lets you select text in images. This sort of tech has been around for decades, but having it built into the OS makes it much easier to use. The...
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Commoncog
Charlie Munger’s Supply Demand Curve Puzzle What a puzzle from Charlie Munger tells us about a supply-side business model with unreasonably high...
a year ago
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Charlie Munger’s Supply Demand Curve Puzzle

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
What a puzzle from Charlie Munger tells us about a supply-side business model with unreasonably high returns.
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Josh Thompson
My Good Friends (Who Don't Know Me) Rumor has it you become like those you spend time with. Or “birds of a feather flock together”, or...
over a year ago
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My Good Friends (Who Don't Know Me)

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

over a year ago
Rumor has it you become like those you spend time with. Or “birds of a feather flock together”, or “you are what you eat”. Maybe that last one was Hannibal Lector, having an old friend for dinner. Anyway, the person that you are is influenced by the people you spend time with....
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Making software...
Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
over a year ago
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Proper UI Hierarchy

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

over a year ago
Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
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balajis.com
Too Fake to Tell US government stats aren't reliable. More importantly, neither are US government bonds.
over a year ago
31

Too Fake to Tell

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

over a year ago
US government stats aren't reliable. More importantly, neither are US government bonds.
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Christopher Butler
In Defense of Screens Screens are good, actually. Screens get a lot of blame these days. They’re accused of...
2 months ago
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In Defense of Screens

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

2 months ago
Screens are good, actually. Screens get a lot of blame these days. They’re accused of destroying attention spans, ruining sleep, enabling addiction, isolating us from one another, and eroding our capacity for deep thought. “Screen time” has become shorthand for everything...
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mtlynch.io
Increase Your Reply Rate on Cold Emails to Me The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before. There are lots...
5 months ago
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Increase Your Reply Rate on Cold Emails to Me

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

5 months ago
The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before. There are lots of guides on writing cold emails. This one is a bit niche, as it’s about cold emailing a particular person: me. But I guarantee you that it’s the best guide you can find on this...
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Abishek Muthian
My experience with Fitbit Charge HR — numbness, tingling and pain Disclaimer : I have limb deformities, but my deformities haven’t been an issue with any wrist based...
over a year ago
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My experience with Fitbit Charge HR — numbness, tingling and pain

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Disclaimer : I have limb deformities, but my deformities haven’t been an issue with any wrist based gadget in the past. Especially in the non-dominant hand, apart from it being stunted I haven’t faced restrictions to daily activities due to my disabilities. But I’m open to the...
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Astral Codex Ten
The Early Christian Strategy ...
8 months ago
33

The Early Christian Strategy

from Astral Codex Ten [alt+shift+b] in literature

8 months ago
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somethingaboutmaps
Going Live I know it’s short notice, but I wanted to let you all know that I’m doing a livestream tomorrow....
5 months ago
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Going Live

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

5 months ago
I know it’s short notice, but I wanted to let you all know that I’m doing a livestream tomorrow. It’s been well over 2½ years since my last one. I’ll be covering a few monochrome maps I made for an upcoming book. Please come on by to ask questions, offer feedback, and share your...
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Society's Backend:...
ML for SWEs 7: Eval-driven Model Development? Machine learning for software engineers 4-18-25
2 months ago
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ML for SWEs 7: Eval-driven Model Development?

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

2 months ago
Machine learning for software engineers 4-18-25
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99% Invisible
The Chinatown Punk Wars [EPISODE] The most recognizable feature of LA’s Chinatown is its Central Plaza. It’s an outdoor pedestrian...
over a year ago
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The Chinatown Punk Wars [EPISODE]

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

over a year ago
The most recognizable feature of LA’s Chinatown is its Central Plaza. It’s an outdoor pedestrian mall that is almost overwhelmingly colorful.  Brightly painted buildings are topped with sweeping pagoda style roofs, and then accented with fluorescent neon lacing. For decades...
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TheCollector
How Did The Spanish Civil War Affect Surrealism? In 1936, the eruption of the Spanish Civil War forced thousands of Spaniards to flee their country,...
3 months ago
20

How Did The Spanish Civil War Affect Surrealism?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
In 1936, the eruption of the Spanish Civil War forced thousands of Spaniards to flee their country, unsure if they ever could come back. Back home, the troops of Francisco Franco murdered tens of thousands and imposed conservative oppressive laws. Surrealist artists, usually...
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Londonist
Brentford's Enchanting Musical Museum Is Under Threat - And You Can Help Save It Uniquely quirky museum could close later this year.
a year ago
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Brentford's Enchanting Musical Museum Is Under Threat - And You Can Help Save It

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a year ago
Uniquely quirky museum could close later this year.
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The Intimate Mirror
Scaling Down the Cliff of Collapse Choosing Agency When Systems Fail
5 months ago
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Scaling Down the Cliff of Collapse

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5 months ago
Choosing Agency When Systems Fail
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Quentin Santos
Linux always toggles DTR & RTS In my previous article, I explained how Arduino makes the life of its users easier by automatically...
2 months ago
15

Linux always toggles DTR & RTS

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

2 months ago
In my previous article, I explained how Arduino makes the life of its users easier by automatically resetting the board when the UART pin DTR (or RTS) transitions from electrically high to low. This exploits the fact that this transition happens automatically when someone or...
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 16-22 October 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
19

Best Of Londonist: 16-22 October 2023

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
The best articles from the past week.
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Contemporist...
Prefab, But Make It Joyful: Inside a Colorful Modular Escape In the green hills of Ibiúna, a quiet rural town about 90 minutes from São Paulo, architect Rodrigo...
3 days ago
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Prefab, But Make It Joyful: Inside a Colorful Modular Escape

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

3 days ago
In the green hills of Ibiúna, a quiet rural town about 90 minutes from São Paulo, architect Rodrigo Ohtake has built a family retreat unlike any other. Designed for weekends away with his wife Ana Carolina and their three children, the home is both a restful hideaway and a bold...
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MMapped blog
Effective Rust canisters
over a year ago
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Effective Rust canisters

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

over a year ago
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cool Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately, by the time this all happened,...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cool

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately, by the time this all happened, everything was a form of branding, and there was nothing left to lament. Today's News:
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Tom Blomfield
Taking Risk I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities;...
a year ago
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Taking Risk

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

a year ago
I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities; Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College. Along with UCL, these British universities represent 4 of the top 10 universities in the world. The US - a country with 5x more people and...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tone Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, any noise other than hatred or complete...
a week ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tone

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

a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, any noise other than hatred or complete lack of interest should not be allowed. Today's News:
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Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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Calculated Risk
Moody's: Retail Vacancy Rate Unchanged in Q4 Note: I covered apartments and offices in the newsletter: Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased...
6 months ago
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Moody's: Retail Vacancy Rate Unchanged in Q4

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

6 months ago
Note: I covered apartments and offices in the newsletter: Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased in Q4; Office Vacancy Rate at Record High Multifamily Continued to Defy the Supply Shock, Office’s Vacancy Rate Broke Another Record, Retail Rents Drift Higher with Tight Supply,...
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Retail Design Blog
Tasty Coffee by LINII Tasty Coffee is not only a production, but also an entire ecosystem for wholesale and retail...
12 months ago
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Tasty Coffee by LINII

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

12 months ago
Tasty Coffee is not only a production, but also an entire ecosystem for wholesale and retail clients, which includes a...
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Chris Grossack's...
How to Explicitly Compute Charts for a Levelset Submanifold While doing a computation with my friend Shane the other day, we realized we needed to explicitly...
3 weeks ago
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How to Explicitly Compute Charts for a Levelset Submanifold

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

3 weeks ago
While doing a computation with my friend Shane the other day, we realized we needed to explicitly compute a local chart near the identity of $SL_2(\mathbb{R})$. It took us longer than I’d like to admit to figure out how to do this (especially since it’s so geometrically...
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A Beautiful Site
Give your JPEGs alpha channels If you need alpha transparency on the web, 24-bit PNGs are usually your best bet. The only problem...
over a year ago
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Give your JPEGs alpha channels

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

over a year ago
If you need alpha transparency on the web, 24-bit PNGs are usually your best bet. The only problem is that PNGs are lossless and can grow in file size very quickly — much larger than your average JPEG. So what if there was a way for JPEGs to support alpha channels? I discovered...
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TheCollector
The 10 Greatest Military Leaders of the High Medieval Period While the High Medieval Period is famous for its warrior and martial cultures, there are some...
a month ago
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The 10 Greatest Military Leaders of the High Medieval Period

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
While the High Medieval Period is famous for its warrior and martial cultures, there are some military leaders who really stand out above the rest. These are the men known not merely as great fighters, but as generals whose successes are studied even to this day. The ten figures...
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 44 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
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TinyPilot: Month 44

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

a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
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ribbonfarm
Arbitrariness Costs I’ve long held that civilization is the process of turning the incomprehensible into the arbitrary....
a year ago
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Arbitrariness Costs

from ribbonfarm [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
I’ve long held that civilization is the process of turning the incomprehensible into the arbitrary. The incomprehensible can be scary but the arbitrary tends to be merely exhausting. Unless the stakes are high, such as in paperwork around taxes or passports and visas. Then the...
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Jak masować osoby autystyczne?
a year ago
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Jak masować osoby autystyczne?

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

a year ago
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Old Vintage...
Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack (featuring Slirp-CK) TCP/IP Illustrated (what would now be called the first edition prior to the 2011 update) for a...
2 months ago
34

Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack (featuring Slirp-CK)

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

2 months ago
TCP/IP Illustrated (what would now be called the first edition prior to the 2011 update) for a hundred-odd bucks on sale which has now sat on my bookshelf, encased in its original shrinkwrap, for at least twenty years. It would be fun to put up the 4.4BSD data structures poster...
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Matt Mullenweg
Boom & Deepseek What an exciting time to be alive. I was hipped to Deepseek by Andrej Kaparthy’s tweet the day after...
5 months ago
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Boom & Deepseek

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

5 months ago
What an exciting time to be alive. I was hipped to Deepseek by Andrej Kaparthy’s tweet the day after Christmas, it was clear then that something big had happened and that it was truly open source and open weights (not this fake Llama stuff). It’s been fun to see the rest of the...
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Seth's Blog
Two kinds of instructions The more common, easier to execute sort: Instructions to remind people who already know what to do,...
4 months ago
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Two kinds of instructions

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

4 months ago
The more common, easier to execute sort: Instructions to remind people who already know what to do, what to do. The more essential and harder to create kind: Instructions for people who don’t know what to do. It’s a mistake to assume that just because you know all the steps, the...
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CONTEMPORIST
The Remodeling Of This Home’s Rear Addition Created A Light-Filled Interior Cox Architects has sent us photos of a project they completed that included the re-modeling of a 775...
a year ago
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The Remodeling Of This Home’s Rear Addition Created A Light-Filled Interior

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Cox Architects has sent us photos of a project they completed that included the re-modeling of a 775 square foot (72 sqm) brick addition. BeforeThe original Edwardian house, located in a leafy South London Conservation Area, already had a rear brick addition, however, it was not...
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balajis.com
The Balaji Newsletter A single place for all updates at balajis.com
over a year ago
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The Balaji Newsletter

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

over a year ago
A single place for all updates at balajis.com
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Julia Evans
Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers) I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source....
a month ago
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Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)

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

a month ago
I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the dependencies, run make, if it doesn’t work, either try to find a binary someone has...
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Both Are True
graphic design is my new pation that's really how my brain spelled passion!!
a year ago
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graphic design is my new pation

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a year ago
that's really how my brain spelled passion!!
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Christian Selig
Using PHPickerViewController Images in a Memory-Efficient Way PHPickerViewController is (in my opinion) one of the more exciting parts of iOS 14. We developers...
over a year ago
50

Using PHPickerViewController Images in a Memory-Efficient Way

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
PHPickerViewController is (in my opinion) one of the more exciting parts of iOS 14. We developers now have a fully-fledged photo picker that we can just use, rather than having to spend a bunch of our time creating our own (much like SFSafariViewController did for developers and...
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Calculated Risk
ISM® Manufacturing index Increased to 49.3% in December (Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated contraction. The PMI® was at 49.3%...
6 months ago
46

ISM® Manufacturing index Increased to 49.3% in December

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

6 months ago
(Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated contraction. The PMI® was at 49.3% in December, up from 48.4% in November. The employment index was at 45.3%, down from 48.1% the previous month, and the new orders index was at 52.5%, up from 50.4%. Manufacturing...
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Working Theorys
Rabbitholes as Portals Fall down the right ones
a year ago
47

Rabbitholes as Portals

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Fall down the right ones
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Luxagraf:...
Ready to Start If you're not excited about where you're going, you're going the wrong way. Where you're going may...
a year ago
25

Ready to Start

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

a year ago
If you're not excited about where you're going, you're going the wrong way. Where you're going may be challenging, difficult, a real pain in the ass even, but come what may, you should be excited about getting there—both the getting, and the there. That's how you know you're on...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
over a year ago
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond

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

over a year ago
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The Honest Broker
I Receive a Letter from a High School Student I share this dispatch from 11th grade in its entirety
a year ago
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I Receive a Letter from a High School Student

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

a year ago
I share this dispatch from 11th grade in its entirety
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Rozado’s Visual...
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...
7 months ago
77

A brief response to a reader regarding prejudice denoting terms in Swedish media

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

7 months ago
Regarding when Swedish media started to increase mentions of prejudice denoting terminology and a reader comments about it, several things to note:
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Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 3 Marketing week? More like reliability week
over a year ago
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 3

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

over a year ago
Marketing week? More like reliability week
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Rest of World -...
Why Meta still needs China You can take Facebook out of China, but you can’t take China out of Facebook.
a year ago
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Why Meta still needs China

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

a year ago
You can take Facebook out of China, but you can’t take China out of Facebook.
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Tony Dinh's...
Nov 2024: My first million! $1M in annual revenue, B2B sales, SOC 2, resellers, grow team, and other updates in November 2024.
7 months ago
105

Nov 2024: My first million!

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

7 months ago
$1M in annual revenue, B2B sales, SOC 2, resellers, grow team, and other updates in November 2024.
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History Today Feed
The First Men’s Cricket World Cup The First Men’s Cricket World Cup JamesHoare Wed, 06/18/2025 - 08:00
3 weeks ago
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The First Men’s Cricket World Cup

from History Today Feed [alt+shift+b] in history

3 weeks ago
The First Men’s Cricket World Cup JamesHoare Wed, 06/18/2025 - 08:00
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Cheese and Biscuits
Uncle Hon's BBQ, Hackney Wick After traipsing halfway across London, dodging travel works and closed Overground lines and...
4 weeks ago
19

Uncle Hon's BBQ, Hackney Wick

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

4 weeks ago
After traipsing halfway across London, dodging travel works and closed Overground lines and carriages with malfunctioning air conditioning and all the other things that make moving around this city on a weekend in the summer such an endless joy, it's equally annoying to find that...
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Josh Thompson
Can You Recover From Months (YEARS!) of Not Climbing? A few weeks ago, I headed into the gym thinking that I felt a little off-kilter. I’d not climbed in...
over a year ago
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Can You Recover From Months (YEARS!) of Not Climbing?

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

over a year ago
A few weeks ago, I headed into the gym thinking that I felt a little off-kilter. I’d not climbed in a week, I though, and maybe I was getting weaker or something. Turns out that wasn’t the problem - I had actually been climbing too much, and was feeling it. This is an odd...
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Citation Needed
Issue 49 – And so the Lord says "give them a 10x" Bitcoin ETP approval, God-sent crypto scammers, and more trouble in Justin Sun's world.
a year ago
100

Issue 49 – And so the Lord says "give them a 10x"

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

a year ago
Bitcoin ETP approval, God-sent crypto scammers, and more trouble in Justin Sun's world.
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Quanta Magazine
Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order? Two new notions of infinity challenge a long-standing plan to define the mathematical universe. ...
3 weeks ago
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Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order?

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

3 weeks ago
Two new notions of infinity challenge a long-standing plan to define the mathematical universe. The post Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Honest Broker
100 of My Favorite Things in Music (Part 1 of 2) And you can add some of your own
over a year ago
37

100 of My Favorite Things in Music (Part 1 of 2)

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

over a year ago
And you can add some of your own
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Evolved Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I've heard people do this on Duolingo and it'll be...
a year ago
40

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Evolved

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I've heard people do this on Duolingo and it'll be the hardest thing to explain to AGI when it tries to do anthropology. Today's News:
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Ieuan Edwards I’m a linocut printmaker and illustrator based in Broadstairs on the Isle of Thanet in Kent, which...
over a year ago
87

Meet the Maker: Ieuan Edwards

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

over a year ago
I’m a linocut printmaker and illustrator based in Broadstairs on the Isle of Thanet in Kent, which is home to a good few other lino folks and a thriving and supportive art scene in general. Describe your printmaking process. I tend to print fairly small runs of reduction linocut...
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Diaries of Note
Donald was the kid who threw cake at the birthday party In 1983, at the age of thirty-one, British journalist Tina Brown moved to New York to become...
over a year ago
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Donald was the kid who threw cake at the birthday party

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

over a year ago
In 1983, at the age of thirty-one, British journalist Tina Brown moved to New York to become editor-in-chief at Vanity Fair, marking the start of a transformative era for the magazine. During her legendary nine-year tenure, she catapulted the magazine into its golden age and...
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Mazdak
Netflix Discontinues Basic Plan in Canada Netflix has stopped offering its Basic subscription plan in Canada. The company has not said if it...
over a year ago
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Netflix Discontinues Basic Plan in Canada

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
Netflix has stopped offering its Basic subscription plan in Canada. The company has not said if it plans to discontinue the plan altogether, but it is no longer available to new or rejoining members. The Basic plan was the most affordable option for Netflix subscribers in Canada,...
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Julia Evans
What helps people get comfortable on the command line? Sometimes I talk to friends who need to use the command line, but are intimidated by it. I never...
a year ago
25

What helps people get comfortable on the command line?

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

a year ago
Sometimes I talk to friends who need to use the command line, but are intimidated by it. I never really feel like I have good advice (I’ve been using the command line for too long), and so I asked some people on Mastodon: if you just stopped being scared of the command line in...
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Quanta Magazine
The Largest Sofa You Can Move Around a Corner A new proof reveals the answer to the decades-old “moving sofa” problem. It highlights how even the...
5 months ago
38

The Largest Sofa You Can Move Around a Corner

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
A new proof reveals the answer to the decades-old “moving sofa” problem. It highlights how even the simplest optimization problems can have counterintuitive answers. The post The Largest Sofa You Can Move Around a Corner first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Construction Physics
The Birth of the Grid The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of...
over a year ago
112

The Birth of the Grid

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of heaven. It should not merely be supplied, but lavished, that men may use it at their will, as the air they breathe. - Emile Zola, “Travail”, 1901
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Vadim Kravcenko
How can you tell if you’re a good developer? Question: Hey Vadim, So, I've been coding for money for about 5 years now. I've jumped around a lot...
a year ago
53

How can you tell if you’re a good developer?

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

a year ago
Question: Hey Vadim, So, I've been coding for money for about 5 years now. I've jumped around a lot — Java, Javascript, Python, NodeJS — you name it. The job market's been great, making it super easy for me to switch between gigs. I've done both full-time and contract work across...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Crazy New Ideas
over a year ago
37

Crazy New Ideas

from Paul Graham: Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Ascencio Offices by Tétris Tétris’ project for Ascencio/Equilis in Belgium involved creating a unique office design reflecting...
2 months ago
11

Ascencio Offices by Tétris

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

2 months ago
Tétris’ project for Ascencio/Equilis in Belgium involved creating a unique office design reflecting values, building a mountainous landscape with architectural...
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The American Scholar
“Stick the Landing” by David Gewanter Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Stick the Landing” by David Gewanter appeared first on The...
11 months ago
37

“Stick the Landing” by David Gewanter

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

11 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Stick the Landing” by David Gewanter appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Eric Bailey
On Jakob Nielsen, AI hype, and accessibility A few years ago I made a New Year’s Eve resolution to stop overthinking assholes. I could...
a year ago
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On Jakob Nielsen, AI hype, and accessibility

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

a year ago
A few years ago I made a New Year’s Eve resolution to stop overthinking assholes. I could delicately, patiently, and painstakingly debunk the gigantic, misplaced swing of a man who is burning others' lived experience as fuel to propel his increasingly irrelevant career. I could...
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Isabel Unraveled
the taste issue things i've loved this past year / things i'm excited about in 2025
6 months ago
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the taste issue

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6 months ago
things i've loved this past year / things i'm excited about in 2025
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Mitten Accomplished I got a unique opportunity to visit counties in a corner of the Midwest I hadn’t touched much when...
over a year ago
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Mitten Accomplished

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

over a year ago
I got a unique opportunity to visit counties in a corner of the Midwest I hadn’t touched much when my older kid decided to go to college in Michigan. But it didn’t offer a lot of time for my quest, just a four year window before graduation. Even so, I set what I thought was...
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sbensu
Vibes are music, arguments are lyrics Losing My Religion is not about religion and Arguments are not about arguments
11 months ago
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Vibes are music, arguments are lyrics

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11 months ago
Losing My Religion is not about religion and Arguments are not about arguments
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anderegg.ca
Two flavours of open social media Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new...
6 months ago
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Two flavours of open social media

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6 months ago
Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new non-profit organization. The timing of this announcement is perfect given everything that’s happening with WordPress, Meta, and… well, everything else. To date, I think Eugen Rochko...
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TheCollector
What Can Marcus Aurelius Teach Us About Resilience? When we encounter challenging obstacles in our lives, we instinctively tend to fight against them,...
2 weeks ago
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What Can Marcus Aurelius Teach Us About Resilience?

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2 weeks ago
When we encounter challenging obstacles in our lives, we instinctively tend to fight against them, escape them, or simply freeze. Marcus Aurelius, however,  responded to obstacles in a different way. Armed by the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, he considered barriers on his journey...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Seeking Good Light There used to be a small park just off a Colorado highway down in the Big Thompson Canyon. If you...
over a year ago
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Seeking Good Light

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

over a year ago
There used to be a small park just off a Colorado highway down in the Big Thompson Canyon. If you stopped there you would usually see several photographers pointing their cameras at the glow of pre-married couples, the awkward smiles of pimply high school seniors, or toddlers...
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Yale E360
Foreign Trawlers Plunder Senegalese Waters, Driving Small Fishers to Migrate to Spain A foreign fleet of industrial trawlers is exhausting fish stocks in Senegal, driving artisanal...
2 months ago
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Foreign Trawlers Plunder Senegalese Waters, Driving Small Fishers to Migrate to Spain

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2 months ago
A foreign fleet of industrial trawlers is exhausting fish stocks in Senegal, driving artisanal fishers to undertake a difficult, and sometimes deadly, migration to Spain. Read more on E360 →
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Prototyping Magic Tricks and Software In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their...
9 months ago
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Prototyping Magic Tricks and Software

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9 months ago
In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their favorite ways to design a magic trick is to come up with an idea and then act it out as if they already know how to do it. Here’s Penn: We still start with an idea for a trick, how we...
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Blog of Simple...
Legal troubles for Adobe Analytics
a year ago
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Legal troubles for Adobe Analytics

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a year ago
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General Robots
Nailing the Demo So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9.   If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to...
over a year ago
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Nailing the Demo

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over a year ago
So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9.   If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to do a demo for an Important Person. This could be a VC, a potential customer, an executive or a journalist
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Londonist
A Fantastically Festive Walk Through London's Christmas Lights And Decorations A self-guided tour through lights, shop window displays, ice rinks and more.
a year ago
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A Fantastically Festive Walk Through London's Christmas Lights And Decorations

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a year ago
A self-guided tour through lights, shop window displays, ice rinks and more.
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Rest of World -...
The slow transformation of Facebook in India As the general election approaches, there are few spaces where the opposition can be safe online
a year ago
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The slow transformation of Facebook in India

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a year ago
As the general election approaches, there are few spaces where the opposition can be safe online
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Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: All Hail New Media Censorship, platforms, and exactly who are we empowering?
5 months ago
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Weekly Scroll: All Hail New Media

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5 months ago
Censorship, platforms, and exactly who are we empowering?
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Society's Backend:...
Ask Stupid Questions I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term...
a year ago
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Ask Stupid Questions

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

a year ago
I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term memory ceases to function properly. I’ve become victim to this and I’ve started taking very detailed notes during meetings. If my brain won’t store the information, something else...
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#27) Chaos Climbers, gender wars, union wars, social media toxicity, a good spending bill, and urban...
a year ago
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At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#27)

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a year ago
Chaos Climbers, gender wars, union wars, social media toxicity, a good spending bill, and urban agglomeration
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Tech and Tea
Leaning into joy and community Processing this past week and some joyful things in my life
8 months ago
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Leaning into joy and community

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8 months ago
Processing this past week and some joyful things in my life
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Retail Design Blog
KITH store Following stores in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, cult streetwear brand KITH has opened a third...
a year ago
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KITH store

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a year ago
Following stores in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, cult streetwear brand KITH has opened a third outpost in the Greater...
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Open Culture
How Scientists Recreated Ancient Egypt’s Long-Lost Pigment, “Egyptian Blue” Photo courtesy of Washington State University. It’s become fashionable, in recent years, to observe...
3 weeks ago
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How Scientists Recreated Ancient Egypt’s Long-Lost Pigment, “Egyptian Blue”

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3 weeks ago
Photo courtesy of Washington State University. It’s become fashionable, in recent years, to observe that we live in an increasingly beige-and-gray world from which all color is being drained. Whether or not that’s really the case, all of us still enjoy easy access to a range of...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Gitcoin Grants Round 5 Retrospective
over a year ago
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Gitcoin Grants Round 5 Retrospective

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over a year ago
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TheCollector
What Is the Story of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle? The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important artifacts of English history. As a text, it...
4 months ago
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What Is the Story of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important artifacts of English history. As a text, it is a remarkable record of events that helps shine a light onto the so-called “Dark Ages.” However, the Chronicle is more than just a record. In many ways, it is more than a mere...
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Laetitia@Work
The Authority Gap Laetitia@Work #47
over a year ago
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The Authority Gap

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over a year ago
Laetitia@Work #47
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Incubators It seems like every successful entrepreneur I know at one point or another kicks around the idea of...
over a year ago
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Incubators

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

over a year ago
It seems like every successful entrepreneur I know at one point or another kicks around the idea of creating an incubator. The appeal is the…
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Retail Design Blog
TEC Energy offices by A+ This boldly elegant workplace located in 3,000 ft2 of an industrial building in Montreal is a...
3 months ago
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TEC Energy offices by A+

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

3 months ago
This boldly elegant workplace located in 3,000 ft2 of an industrial building in Montreal is a noteworthy example of an...
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Elad Blog
Things I Don't Know About AI The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
a year ago
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Things I Don't Know About AI

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a year ago
The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
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Open Culture
The 1924 Soviet Chess Match Where The Chess Pieces Were Real Soldiers and Horses Let’s time travel back to Leningrad (aka St. Petersburg) in 1924. That’s when an unconventional...
2 months ago
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The 1924 Soviet Chess Match Where The Chess Pieces Were Real Soldiers and Horses

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2 months ago
Let’s time travel back to Leningrad (aka St. Petersburg) in 1924. That’s when an unconventional chess match was played by Peter Romanovsky and Ilya Rabinovich, two chess masters of the day. Apparently, they called in their moves over the telephone. And then real-life chess...
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Abishek Muthian
Paytm says to me that it’s PoS feature didn’t have a security risk Paytm- Alibaba backed India’s leading mobile payment wallet saw a 1000 % growth in the amount of...
over a year ago
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Paytm says to me that it’s PoS feature didn’t have a security risk

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Paytm- Alibaba backed India’s leading mobile payment wallet saw a 1000 % growth in the amount of money added to its wallet during India’s demonetisation. I must acknowledge that digital wallets like Paytm, Ola money etc. did help in easing the pains of demonetisation for those...
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Luxagraf:...
Build When in doubt, build shelves. Building things is an essential part of life. Shelves are easy and...
over a year ago
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Build

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

over a year ago
When in doubt, build shelves. Building things is an essential part of life. Shelves are easy and satisfying to build. They're useful too. Everyone needs more shelf space. Everywhere I've ever lived I built some shelves or bookcase or some sort of flat surface on which to put...
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Rest of World -...
Indonesia’s e-bike shops are building their own batteries Battery-pack builders chase maximum range, despite safety risks.
a year ago
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Indonesia’s e-bike shops are building their own batteries

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a year ago
Battery-pack builders chase maximum range, despite safety risks.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
3 Reasons to Upgrade Git For The First Time Ever Relatively new Git features that actually have me excited
over a year ago
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3 Reasons to Upgrade Git For The First Time Ever

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

over a year ago
Relatively new Git features that actually have me excited
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Odd Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you toot the whoopie cushion long enough you'll...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Odd

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you toot the whoopie cushion long enough you'll eventually toot the proof. Today's News:
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The American Scholar
Riding With Mr. Washington How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction The post Riding With Mr....
a year ago
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Riding With Mr. Washington

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a year ago
How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction The post Riding With Mr. Washington appeared first on The American Scholar.
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TheCollector
The Nine Years’ War: The End of Gaelic Ireland Ireland had been under nominal English control since the 1100s but across much of the island local...
a month ago
13

The Nine Years’ War: The End of Gaelic Ireland

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a month ago
Ireland had been under nominal English control since the 1100s but across much of the island local Gaelic lords continued to enjoy great autonomy, similar to the highlands of Scotland. The English Crown’s efforts to extend its political control over the island during the 16th...
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The Works in...
A writing fellowship on scientific progress Works in Progress and Asimov Press are launching a paid six-month fellowship.
5 months ago
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A writing fellowship on scientific progress

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5 months ago
Works in Progress and Asimov Press are launching a paid six-month fellowship.
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Seth's Blog
Speaking up For many, the imagined cost of speaking up is almost always higher than the actual cost. And we live...
a year ago
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Speaking up

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a year ago
For many, the imagined cost of speaking up is almost always higher than the actual cost. And we live with the cost in our imagination daily, dying a little bit over time as we keep our insights to ourselves. Speaking up is a skill, and we can only improve it with practice.
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Open Culture
The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism It would hardly be notable to make the acquaintance of a Greek Buddhist today. Despite having...
4 months ago
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The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism

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

4 months ago
It would hardly be notable to make the acquaintance of a Greek Buddhist today. Despite having originated in Asia, that religion — or philosophy, or way of life, or whatever you prefer to call it — now has adherents all over the world. Modern-day Buddhists need not make an arduous...
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Vadim Kravcenko
How much equity should a CTO ask for? This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s...
over a year ago
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How much equity should a CTO ask for?

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

over a year ago
This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s especially awesome […] The post How much equity should a CTO ask for? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
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A Clash Of Symbols

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a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
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History Today Feed
Politicising Abortion in the United States Politicising Abortion in the United States JamesHoare Tue, 05/27/2025 - 09:01
a month ago
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Politicising Abortion in the United States

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a month ago
Politicising Abortion in the United States JamesHoare Tue, 05/27/2025 - 09:01
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Willem's Blog
Tablet as Tool Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and...
over a year ago
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Tablet as Tool

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

over a year ago
Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and personal experiences to help you maximise the tablet's potential and redefine your workflow.
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The Forney Flyer
From the Flight Line Here's some random shots from the flight line. First, one of our Cessna 208B Grand Caravans taking...
over a year ago
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From the Flight Line

from The Forney Flyer [alt+shift+b] in travel

over a year ago
Here's some random shots from the flight line. First, one of our Cessna 208B Grand Caravans taking off from our home airstrip in Kajjansi, Uganda. This aircraft is now serving in Liberia. I've always loved watching the sky and the weather. Last week I was out of the city and...
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the singularity is...
Dangerous Misinformation When I Google myself, I get this infobox: As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not...
11 months ago
95

Dangerous Misinformation

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

11 months ago
When I Google myself, I get this infobox: As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not 5’4” Google, please take this misinformation seriously before you end up in a very large libel suit. This is not on a site you are linking to, this is first party misinformation...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Teach Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later they just have their bots engage in a debate...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Teach

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later they just have their bots engage in a debate while they go get ice cream. Today's News:
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to destroy your app performance using React contexts useContext hook has made React Context API so pleasant to work with that many people are even...
over a year ago
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How to destroy your app performance using React contexts

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

over a year ago
useContext hook has made React Context API so pleasant to work with that many people are even suggesting that we drop external state management solutions and rely on the built-in alternative instead. This is dangerous thinking that can easily push your app's performance down the...
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Josh Thompson
An Intro to Customer Success Customer Success - what is it? When I tell people I work in “Customer Success”, they immediately...
over a year ago
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An Intro to Customer Success

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over a year ago
Customer Success - what is it? When I tell people I work in “Customer Success”, they immediately think I do either Customer Support, or sales. In a way, they are correct. I do both. Today, and more in the future, I’ll dig deep into this particular industry. A traditional...
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The personal website...
Making WSJ.com more accessible As I write this, the WSJ.com team is launching a brand new homepage experience for small screens.1...
over a year ago
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Making WSJ.com more accessible

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

over a year ago
As I write this, the WSJ.com team is launching a brand new homepage experience for small screens.1 It’s one of our biggest subscription-drivers, a page that hundreds of thousands of people see every day. The new experience builds on the award-winning design of the WSJ iOS and...
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Calculated Risk
President Washington's Farewell Address I usually celebrate President Washington's birthday by reading his Farewell Address. A brief...
4 months ago
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President Washington's Farewell Address

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4 months ago
I usually celebrate President Washington's birthday by reading his Farewell Address. A brief excerpt: To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they...
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Contemporist...
A Sculptural Facade Hides One Of This City's Most Tranquil Stays Tucked within the historic streets of Bangkok’s old town, Double B Hostel by VMA Design Studio is...
a month ago
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A Sculptural Facade Hides One Of This City's Most Tranquil Stays

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a month ago
Tucked within the historic streets of Bangkok’s old town, Double B Hostel by VMA Design Studio is turning heads, not just for its sleek architecture, but for the way it honors the past while stepping boldly into the present. What was once a narrow plot in the dense Sao Chingcha...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Vidjagames Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First Person Murder Spree VII was the high...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Vidjagames

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First Person Murder Spree VII was the high watermark, of course. Today's News:
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Noahpinion
Dems need to moderate and fight There's no contradiction there.
3 months ago
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Dems need to moderate and fight

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3 months ago
There's no contradiction there.
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Archinect - Features
‘Architecture Is About Survival’: Archinect Talks With 2025 Venice Biennale Curator Carlo... The Venice Architecture Biennale, arguably the most iconic event in the architectural calendar,...
2 months ago
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‘Architecture Is About Survival’: Archinect Talks With 2025 Venice Biennale Curator Carlo Ratti

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2 months ago
The Venice Architecture Biennale, arguably the most iconic event in the architectural calendar, opens its 2025 edition to the public this week on May 10th. As crowds begin to descend on the Italian city and organizers and participants finish their final preparations, Archinect's...
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Archinect - Features
10 Controversial Buildings That Became Iconic Landmarks Architectural landmarks often become beloved symbols of their cities, but many were not always...
9 months ago
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10 Controversial Buildings That Became Iconic Landmarks

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

9 months ago
Architectural landmarks often become beloved symbols of their cities, but many were not always welcomed with open arms. Throughout history, some of our most acclaimed structures have in fact provoked heated debates, divided public opinion, sparked fierce controversy, and in one...
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Wrong Side of...
Travels in Vietnam In my father's footsteps
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Travels in Vietnam

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5 months ago
In my father's footsteps
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NeuroLogica Blog
Oxygen As A Technosignature This is one of the biggest thought experiments in science today – as we look for life elsewhere in...
a year ago
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Oxygen As A Technosignature

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a year ago
This is one of the biggest thought experiments in science today – as we look for life elsewhere in the universe, what should we be looking for, exactly? Other stellar systems are too far away to examine directly, and even our most powerful telescopes can only resolve points of...
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Charlie Becker
How many of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century have I read? This is a Workshop post, which means it doesn’t get emailed out to everyone and doesn’t show up in...
a year ago
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How many of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century have I read?

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a year ago
This is a Workshop post, which means it doesn’t get emailed out to everyone and doesn’t show up in the Castles in the Sky best of lists. To subscribe and receive these in your email inbox (or unsubscribe from them if you’re already receiving them), adjust your
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Quanta Magazine
Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look. A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one...
a month ago
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Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.

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a month ago
A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are both interested and skeptical. The post Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 13 I tried building a monolith.
over a year ago
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 13

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over a year ago
I tried building a monolith.
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2023 The Ware for June 2023 is a Sony TR-733 “7-transistor radio” from the mid 1960’s. I’ll give the...
a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware June 2023

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a year ago
The Ware for June 2023 is a Sony TR-733 “7-transistor radio” from the mid 1960’s. I’ll give the prize to Pedro Rodrigues, because even though the model number isn’t correct, as far as I can tell the portion of the electronics shown is identical between the TR-729 and the TR-733....
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The Honest Broker
My Rule of the 6 Spheres Like most people, I'm reluctant to discuss personal matters, but I take this rule very...
a year ago
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My Rule of the 6 Spheres

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a year ago
Like most people, I'm reluctant to discuss personal matters, but I take this rule very seriously—it's at the heart of my worldview and keeps me on the right path
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Old Structures...
Wider I’ve talked about some of the weirdness of Park Avenue before, but there’s a basic problem with the...
10 months ago
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Wider

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

10 months ago
I’ve talked about some of the weirdness of Park Avenue before, but there’s a basic problem with the street’s name: there’s no park. There are planted medians, but they’re not accessible to foot traffic and narrow enough that even if you could get out onto them, you’d be...
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Society's Backend:...
The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Machine Learning Engineer And other practical guides to understand machine learning
a year ago
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The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Machine Learning Engineer

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a year ago
And other practical guides to understand machine learning
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Electronics etc…
Setting Up a Symmetricom SyncServer S200 Network Time Protocol Server Introduction What was the SyncServer S200 Supposed to be Used For? IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS...
a year ago
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Setting Up a Symmetricom SyncServer S200 Network Time Protocol Server

from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
Introduction What was the SyncServer S200 Supposed to be Used For? IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The SyncServer S200 Outside and Inside Installing the Missing BNC Connectors Setting Up a SyncServer S200 from Scratch Opening up the SyncServer S200 The SyncServer File...
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Making software...
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut 2022-11-14 It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated,...
over a year ago
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Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut

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

over a year ago
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut 2022-11-14 It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated, but I have finally started to port over all my personal open-source projects to sourcehut.org. I'll get into the why and how momentarily, but first let's take a look at all the...
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AI Snake Oil
AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves. What spending $2,000 can tell us about evaluating AI agents
a year ago
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AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves.

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a year ago
What spending $2,000 can tell us about evaluating AI agents
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
“PCs are going to be like trucks” Steve Jobs in 2010: When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you...
over a year ago
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“PCs are going to be like trucks”

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over a year ago
Steve Jobs in 2010: When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. Cars became more…
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Paolo Amoroso's...
Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment....
4 months ago
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Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 months ago
<![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment. It can capture and optionally save to a file the full screen, a window with or without title bar and borders, or an arbitrary area. This project helped me learn the internals of...
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Tinker, Tamper,...
Should I Use JWTs For Authentication Tokens? No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about....
a year ago
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Should I Use JWTs For Authentication Tokens?

from Tinker, Tamper, Alter, Fry [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens, a reasonably well defined standard for authenticated tokens. Specifically they have a header with format information, a payload, and a signature or...
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Never Met a Science
Action Syllabus Week 1: Decide Technology Policy in the Classroom
a year ago
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Action Syllabus

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a year ago
Week 1: Decide Technology Policy in the Classroom
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Open Culture
A Forgotten 16th-Century Manuscript Reveals the First Designs for Modern Rockets The Austrian military engineer Conrad Haas was a man ahead of his time — indeed, about 400 years...
3 months ago
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A Forgotten 16th-Century Manuscript Reveals the First Designs for Modern Rockets

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3 months ago
The Austrian military engineer Conrad Haas was a man ahead of his time — indeed, about 400 years ahead, considering that he was working on rockets aimed for outer space back in the mid-sixteenth century. Needless to say, he never actually managed to launch anything into the upper...
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ntietz.com blog -...
Python is an interpreted language with a compiler After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted...
3 months ago
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Python is an interpreted language with a compiler

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

3 months ago
After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted languages in common usage," and that they "wish Python was more widely recognized as a compiled language." This got me thinking: what is the distinction between a compiled or...
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Max Rozen
Getting your own good enough laptop for under $500 I recently bought a cheap, used Thinkpad T480, replaced a bunch of parts. Some folks were asking how...
over a year ago
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Getting your own good enough laptop for under $500

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

over a year ago
I recently bought a cheap, used Thinkpad T480, replaced a bunch of parts. Some folks were asking how they could do the same thing, so I figured I'd write about it
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The Intimate Mirror
The Seduction of Rationality How Our Minds Transform Reality to Serve Our Desires
4 months ago
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The Seduction of Rationality

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4 months ago
How Our Minds Transform Reality to Serve Our Desires
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Quanta Magazine
Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement While devising a new quantum algorithm, four researchers accidentally established a hard limit on...
10 months ago
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Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
While devising a new quantum algorithm, four researchers accidentally established a hard limit on entanglement. The post Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Balancing Tools and Culture A few weeks ago, a timely project at work rallied almost everyone to be “all hands on deck.” My...
a year ago
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✏️ Balancing Tools and Culture

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

a year ago
A few weeks ago, a timely project at work rallied almost everyone to be “all hands on deck.” My immediate team uses Slack, having transitioned away from another longstanding project management platform [1]. The larger team has used this platform for years, and it contains a...
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Old Structures...
Somehow, We’re Large-Small When you look past the good-news headline, there’s some interesting discussion in “NYC’s Small...
a year ago
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Somehow, We’re Large-Small

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a year ago
When you look past the good-news headline, there’s some interesting discussion in “NYC’s Small Business Recovery: Patterns of Growth in a Changing Economy”, a report from the city’s Economic Development Corporation. The showy headline is that “Total small businesses in NYC...
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Don't Worry About...
Go Grok Yourself That title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
4 months ago
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Go Grok Yourself

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4 months ago
That title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
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the jsomers.net blog
More people should write More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the...
over a year ago
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More people should write

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. I have a selfish reason for my demand: I have a lot of friends who are thoughtful, but keep their...
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escape the algorithm
The perfect pecan pie will never exi— Cutting a slice of longing
7 months ago
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The perfect pecan pie will never exi—

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7 months ago
Cutting a slice of longing
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Buh-bye, Spotify I finally ditched Spotify at the end of 2024. I never loved it, and I felt extra icky about giving...
6 months ago
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🔗 Buh-bye, Spotify

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

6 months ago
I finally ditched Spotify at the end of 2024. I never loved it, and I felt extra icky about giving them my money ever since they had no trouble finding $250 million for the sham supplement salesman and douchebag magnet Joe Rogan, despite their inability to promote or pay the vast...
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Old Structures...
Imitation There’s a phenomenon that I think of as “life imitiates art imitates life imitates art…ad...
a year ago
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Imitation

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

a year ago
There’s a phenomenon that I think of as “life imitiates art imitates life imitates art…ad infinitium”. A work of art – a drawing, a painting, a movie – is base don reality and augments, making it look better than it does in real life, and then people change what they’re doing to...
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Julia Evans
New playground: integer.exposed Hello! For the last few months we’ve been working on a zine about how integers and floating point...
over a year ago
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New playground: integer.exposed

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

over a year ago
Hello! For the last few months we’ve been working on a zine about how integers and floating point numbers work. Whenever I make a zine I like to release a playground to go with it, like mess with dns for the DNS zine or the sql playground. For this one, I made a simple playground...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Soon, TSA Security Screenings Will Be Self-Service
over a year ago
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Soon, TSA Security Screenings Will Be Self-Service

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

over a year ago
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Quantum Frontiers
Quantum computing vs. Grubhub pon receiving my speaking assignments for the Tucson Festival of Books, I mentally raised my...
over a year ago
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Quantum computing vs. Grubhub

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

over a year ago
pon receiving my speaking assignments for the Tucson Festival of Books, I mentally raised my eyebrows. I’d be participating in a panel discussion with Mike Evans, the founder of Grubhub? But I hadn’t created an app that’s a household name. I … Continue reading →
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TheCollector
Tracing the Roots of Shaolin Kung Fu Back to Ancient China Shaolin kung fu, or Shaolinquan is one of the oldest extant styles of martial arts and one of the...
3 weeks ago
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Tracing the Roots of Shaolin Kung Fu Back to Ancient China

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 weeks ago
Shaolin kung fu, or Shaolinquan is one of the oldest extant styles of martial arts and one of the most influential. It has existed since the 6th century CE as a means of self-defense and exercise for Buddhist monks. Over time it spread throughout Eastern Asia. Even many modern...
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Stephen Diehl
Reflecting on Haskell in 2017
over a year ago
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Reflecting on Haskell in 2017

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over a year ago
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The Codist
What Is Software Quality? Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In...
3 months ago
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What Is Software Quality?

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3 months ago
Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In addition, how do you know when you have it? This is the longest single blog post I have ever written. I spent four decades writing software used by people (most of the server
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Calculated Risk
1st Look at Local Housing Markets in March Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 1st Look at Local Housing Markets in March A...
3 months ago
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1st Look at Local Housing Markets in March

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

3 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 1st Look at Local Housing Markets in March A brief excerpt: This is the first look at several early reporting local markets in March. I’m tracking over 40 local housing markets in the US. Some of the 40 markets are states,...
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Citation Needed
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the...
10 months ago
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Big publishers think libraries are the enemy

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

10 months ago
The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Atomists The Origins of Oppenheimer?
a year ago
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Ancient Atomists

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a year ago
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Month 3 of Daily Art Since January 1, I have been posting one piece of art a day.
over a year ago
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Month 3 of Daily Art

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

over a year ago
Since January 1, I have been posting one piece of art a day.
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Christopher Butler
sketchbook – 2024 March 17 - March 23 Every page is a time capsule.
a year ago
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sketchbook – 2024 March 17 - March 23

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a year ago
Every page is a time capsule.
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Contemporist...
The 5 Ceramics of Italy 2025 Tile Trends That Are Shaping Interiors Fresh from the floors of Coverings 2025 in Orlando, Ceramics of Italy has just unveiled its...
a month ago
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The 5 Ceramics of Italy 2025 Tile Trends That Are Shaping Interiors

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

a month ago
Fresh from the floors of Coverings 2025 in Orlando, Ceramics of Italy has just unveiled its Spring-Summer 2025 Tile Trend Report, and it’s brimming with energy, craftsmanship, and soulful design. This year, Italian ceramic and porcelain tile is rewriting the rules of surfaces....
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Identity Designed
Atypical Designed by Behalf, Saigon.
over a year ago
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Atypical

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

over a year ago
Designed by Behalf, Saigon.
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Liz Denys
Cancel Like Everything Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a...
over a year ago
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Cancel Like Everything

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

over a year ago
Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a new poster inspired by For Like Ever and the current need for social distance: The texture in the clouds below the text is made up of no symbols and small x's: I've made an A4...
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Wrong Side of...
The 2020ers The Transition #4
2 months ago
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The 2020ers

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2 months ago
The Transition #4
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History Today Feed
Brahmins: The Origins of India’s Priestly Caste Brahmins: The Origins of India’s Priestly Caste JamesHoare Wed, 03/19/2025 - 09:01
3 months ago
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Brahmins: The Origins of India’s Priestly Caste

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3 months ago
Brahmins: The Origins of India’s Priestly Caste JamesHoare Wed, 03/19/2025 - 09:01
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 34 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
over a year ago
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TinyPilot: Month 34

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

over a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
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Ink & Switch
Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P...
over a year ago
32

Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration

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

over a year ago
Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P collaboration software.
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Both Are True
The masks we wear (rom com, act three) A denoument? In this economy? You betcha. Let's boogie.
a year ago
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The masks we wear (rom com, act three)

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a year ago
A denoument? In this economy? You betcha. Let's boogie.
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Paul Cudenec
Leaving the "Left" behind I have never regarded myself as belonging to the “Left” or the “Right” – I think these labels have...
3 months ago
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Leaving the "Left" behind

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3 months ago
I have never regarded myself as belonging to the “Left” or the “Right” – I think these labels have been manufactured and maintained in order to limit our individual thinking and to rule over us by division.
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Josh Thompson
Bollards: Why & What author’s note: it’s always fun to see your own stuff on the Hacker News front page! This very post...
a year ago
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Bollards: Why & What

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a year ago
author’s note: it’s always fun to see your own stuff on the Hacker News front page! This very post sparked >450 comments worth of conversation! I didn’t even know this got posted until days later! What are bollards The what and the why in a single image: The what and why in a...
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TheCollector
What Is the Second Epistle of Peter About? The Second Epistle of Peter (2 Peter) is a timeless epistle that speaks to the contemporary believer...
4 months ago
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What Is the Second Epistle of Peter About?

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4 months ago
The Second Epistle of Peter (2 Peter) is a timeless epistle that speaks to the contemporary believer as much as it did to the intended audience in the 1st century CE. The guidance on spiritual growth, false teaching, and the focus on the return of Christ resonates with Christians...
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New zine: How Integers and Floats Work Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work! You can get it for $12...
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New zine: How Integers and Floats Work

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

over a year ago
Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/integers-floats, or get an 13-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table of contents! Now let’s...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Don&#39;t trust JS library size, min+gzip Many modern front-end libraries and apps obsess over their bundle size. It’s a noble pursuit — an...
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Don&#39;t trust JS library size, min+gzip

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

over a year ago
Many modern front-end libraries and apps obsess over their bundle size. It’s a noble pursuit — an app that uses smaller libraries has less bloat, loads faster, and the users are happier. We can agree to that. Measuring the impact of a library on the app’s bundle size sounds easy,...
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