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Reading List 12/06/2025 3D printed legos, exploding wire detonators, the David Taylor model basin, multi-point metal...
6th Dec 2025
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Reading List 12/06/2025

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

6th Dec 2025
3D printed legos, exploding wire detonators, the David Taylor model basin, multi-point metal forming, and more.
Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming...
12th Jul 2021
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Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project

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

12th Jul 2021
Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming languages offer an alternative to low-level machine code, which makes coding more accessible than ever. Let’s dive into how Golang, a modern higher-level language, matches up to C++, a...
Your life is your art use it to get to know yourself
10th Nov 2025
1

Your life is your art

from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life

10th Nov 2025
use it to get to know yourself
Ray Kurzweil: Kurzweil's Law ### Escape velocity Attempts to think long term, Ray Kurzweil began, keep making the mistake of...
24th Sep 2005
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Ray Kurzweil: Kurzweil's Law

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

24th Sep 2005
### Escape velocity Attempts to think long term, Ray Kurzweil began, keep making the mistake of imagining that the pace of the future is like the pace of the past. Pondering the next ten years, we usually begin by studying the last ten years. He recommends studying the last...
Be curious, not judgmental Being judgmental is useful for doing difficult things. (Sanctimonious, self-righteous, prideful, are...
2nd Apr 2026
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Be curious, not judgmental

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

2nd Apr 2026
Being judgmental is useful for doing difficult things. (Sanctimonious, self-righteous, prideful, are all variations of what I mean by being judgmental.) When you believe in a statement that’s judgmental, it gives you the energy you need to stick with letting go of bad habits,...
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration
1st Feb 2018
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Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React

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

1st Feb 2018
Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration
What I'm up to - July 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jul 2025
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What I'm up to - July 2025

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - I wrote a post about open-sourcing Postcard. The post got picked up by Hacker News...
The first conformant M1 GPU driver Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the...
22nd Aug 2023
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The first conformant M1 GPU driver

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Aug 2023
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES 3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux! For existing Asahi Linux users, upgrade your system with dnf upgrade (Fedora) or pacman -Syu...
Mac OS X keychain fix How to fix a corrupt keychain file on Mac OS X
29th Oct 2007
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Mac OS X keychain fix

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

29th Oct 2007
How to fix a corrupt keychain file on Mac OS X
Boot.dev Beat. February 2023 I’m back from paternity leave! My new son is healthy, and my daughter is… busy. It’s good to be back...
1st Mar 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. February 2023

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

1st Mar 2023
I’m back from paternity leave! My new son is healthy, and my daughter is… busy. It’s good to be back writing code, writing courses and filming videos.
Duane Blehm A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
3rd Mar 2025
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Duane Blehm

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

3rd Mar 2025
A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
Captain's Log #1 In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech...
11th Nov 2022
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Captain's Log #1

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

11th Nov 2022
In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech businesses, and more.
Goodbye Offpunk, Welcome XKCDpunk! Goodbye Offpunk, Welcome XKCDpunk! For the last three years, I’ve been working on Offpunk, a...
1st Apr 2025
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Goodbye Offpunk, Welcome XKCDpunk!

from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Apr 2025
Goodbye Offpunk, Welcome XKCDpunk! For the last three years, I’ve been working on Offpunk, a command-line gemini and web browser. Offpunk.net While my initial goal was to browse the Geminisphere offline, the mission has slowly morphed into cleaning and unenshitiffying the modern...
The Permanence of Form from Vernacular to Rationalism: Giuseppe Pagano’s “Architettura Rurale... Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century....
16th Jun 2024
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16th Jun 2024
Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century. Along with his practice as a rationalist architect and his political engagement, which led him to leave the Fascist Party, join the Resistance, and later be deported to Mauthausen,...
Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
1st Feb 2019
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Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines

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

1st Feb 2019
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble (1994) They discuss NeXT's OpenStep, open standards, and more.
1st Feb 2026
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NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble (1994)

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

1st Feb 2026
They discuss NeXT's OpenStep, open standards, and more.
Set Explicit Help Timeouts A simple way to normalize asking for help.
5th Apr 2021
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts

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

5th Apr 2021
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
Naniwa Okina なにわ 翁 Wanting to go for something light, we decided to hit up Naniwa Okina in Osaka.  This Michelin Bib...
1st Dec 2025
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Naniwa Okina なにわ 翁

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

1st Dec 2025
Wanting to go for something light, we decided to hit up Naniwa Okina in Osaka.  This Michelin Bib Gourmand spot is small and cozy featuring handmade soba noodles.  It was a bit of a walk from the Kitahama Station, especially in the scorching heat (in July).  Glad their A/C held...
The Two Classes of Software Engineer “Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or...
5th Mar 2021
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The Two Classes of Software Engineer

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

5th Mar 2021
“Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or sometimes even simply test code. In reality, I think there are two classes of “software engineers”; those who understand computer science well enough to do challenging, innovative work,...
agents, ai, and software engineering People are limited in the number of decisions they can make in a day. Most people do not experience...
24th Feb 2026
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agents, ai, and software engineering

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

24th Feb 2026
People are limited in the number of decisions they can make in a day. Most people do not experience this limit as day to day, the decision volume is pretty low. The day to day of an executive? It is generally a non-stop firewall of decisions.
how not to run a saas company Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
13th Oct 2024
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how not to run a saas company

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

13th Oct 2024
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago....
18th Jul 2024
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semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make

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

18th Jul 2024
Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago. They are weird: usually the only numbers of concurrent processes we care about are zero, one, or many – but semaphores deal with those fussy finite numbers in between. Yesterday I...
Proving that every program halts One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely...
23rd Jun 2025
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Proving that every program halts

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

23rd Jun 2025
One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely thought[1] that you cannot write a program that will, for any arbitrary program as input, tell you correctly whether or not it will terminate. This is written from the framing of...
The M1 Max MacBook Pros Apple opened their October event with a young musician creating an Apple-inspired music track in a...
25th Oct 2021
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The M1 Max MacBook Pros

from Prolost [alt+shift+b] in creative

25th Oct 2021
Apple opened their October event with a young musician creating an Apple-inspired music track in a dingy garage filled with gear worth tens of thousands of dollars. Some viewers commented on the unrealistic portrayal of a creative professional. But I felt like I was looking in a...
On Estimates, Time, and Evidence Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this...
7th Aug 2017
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On Estimates, Time, and Evidence

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

7th Aug 2017
Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are...
8th Mar 2014
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How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness

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

8th Mar 2014
At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are a mid-size company, bandwidth is clearly a severe constraint. But it was not our biggest problem. Even simple web-browsing was very slow. As I was setting up a monitoring...
Cicero and Leadership Philosophy in Action?
3rd Jan 2025
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Cicero and Leadership

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Jan 2025
Philosophy in Action?
America Turns 250. Its Biggest Companies Never Do—And That's Great! AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
3rd Jul 2026
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America Turns 250. Its Biggest Companies Never Do—And That's Great!

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Jul 2026
AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32e -- Interventions: the learning rate I'm still working on improving the test loss for a from-scratch GPT-2 small base model, trained on...
10th Mar 2026
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10th Mar 2026
I'm still working on improving the test loss for a from-scratch GPT-2 small base model, trained on code based on Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)". In my training code, I have this code to create the optimiser: optimizer =...
Social Development > Self-Development We need one much more than the other.
1st Jan 2025
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Social Development > Self-Development

from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Jan 2025
We need one much more than the other.
AI Play #4 AI Play #4 The Play-en-ing system> You are writing Aaron-Sorkin-esque characters in a JMS-like...
7th Mar 2023
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AI Play #4

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

7th Mar 2023
AI Play #4 The Play-en-ing system> You are writing Aaron-Sorkin-esque characters in a JMS-like sci-fi environment with fantasy elements. Please create a character sheet succintly describing 5 named characters, each having first and last names from 5 different cultures, each with...
Using a Mylar Mask to Reduce Chatter in a Linocut One of the problems to overcome when printing a linocut is ink being picked up by the carved away...
2nd Jul 2025
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Using a Mylar Mask to Reduce Chatter in a Linocut

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

2nd Jul 2025
One of the problems to overcome when printing a linocut is ink being picked up by the carved away areas of the block. These lines print onto the paper causing 'chatter' or 'noise'. Sometimes chatter on a print can add character or interest to a piece but other times it can just...
I made my screen blurry to get more done Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I...
19th Nov 2025
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I made my screen blurry to get more done

from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Nov 2025
Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I have. The problem, counterintuitively, was lack of interruption. I never paused to ask whether I was doing the right thing. Or whether my approach was working. Or if I was spending...
Clip sharing with Overcast Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
27th Apr 2019
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Clip sharing with Overcast

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2019
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014. Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
Local Voltron The post Local Voltron appeared first on Last Place Comics.
22nd Jun 2025
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Local Voltron

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

22nd Jun 2025
The post Local Voltron appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Are we worrying more about AI than global warming So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media...
29th Aug 2017
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Are we worrying more about AI than global warming

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

29th Aug 2017
So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media inducing cognitive biases fuelled by Hollywood when a celebrity speaks about dooms day AI. Let’s discuss some facts, Let’s take prof. Hawing, he’s vocal about the need to keep AI...
A C program who’s source code is a Magic Eye A 2001 International Obfuscated C Code Contest winner who’s code forms a magic eye and which can...
8th Mar 2025
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A C program who’s source code is a Magic Eye

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

8th Mar 2025
A 2001 International Obfuscated C Code Contest winner who’s code forms a magic eye and which can produce a magic eye for any input
Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first...
28th Apr 2023
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Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Apr 2023
Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first Rails Girls event in Nagasaki - as both an attendee and a speaker. It was a great experience where I was able to learn more about Rails, meet new people, make friends, practise...
TinyPilot: Month 17 Highlights TinyPilot’s sales jumped to $57k, and it might be sustainable. I’m just about to launch...
6th Dec 2021
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TinyPilot: Month 17

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

6th Dec 2021
Highlights TinyPilot’s sales jumped to $57k, and it might be sustainable. I’m just about to launch TinyPilot’s new product and branding. I reduced Google Cloud Platform fees by 90% on my side projects. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
The Boot.dev Beat. December 2025 We plan to wrap up 2025 with some important quality of life updates! League placement badges, lesson...
7th Dec 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2025

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

7th Dec 2025
We plan to wrap up 2025 with some important quality of life updates! League placement badges, lesson bookmarks, and major improvements to the Training Grounds are just a few of the highlights. Thanks for learning with us, we’re gearing up the platform for a ton of new courses in...
Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples) Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature...
5th Jan 2023
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Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples)

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

5th Jan 2023
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature flag. Testing multiple variants of a new UX? Use…
In pursuit of democracy Every time someone said 'democracy' in Congress.
3rd Nov 2025
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In pursuit of democracy

from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Nov 2025
Every time someone said 'democracy' in Congress.
Revisiting the SpaceX Valuation: A Post-Prospectus Update! A few weeks ago, I assessed the value of SpaceX ahead of its initial public offering, with the...
4th Jun 2026
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Revisiting the SpaceX Valuation: A Post-Prospectus Update!

from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance

4th Jun 2026
A few weeks ago, I assessed the value of SpaceX ahead of its initial public offering, with the admission that I was making my estimates with drabs of data, some of it coming from unofficial sources. I also promised to revisit my valuation, when the prospectus came out, and now...
Generative Art on a Round TFT Display I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px...
9th Dec 2023
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Generative Art on a Round TFT Display

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Dec 2023
I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px round TFT display. The results look amazing. Using the IOT capable Adafruit Qualia Board and 2.1″ Round TFT with capacitive touch it’s programmed using CircuitPython. I look forward to...
1st Nov 2025
Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag Sorry for the delay. - JP
22nd Jan 2025
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Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag

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

22nd Jan 2025
Sorry for the delay. - JP
On Foraging Mushrooms From the Local Park (Part 2) A time ago, I wrote a thing that felt like stumbling into a delightful discovery: On Foraging...
2 weeks ago
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On Foraging Mushrooms From the Local Park (Part 2)

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

2 weeks ago
A time ago, I wrote a thing that felt like stumbling into a delightful discovery: On Foraging Mushrooms at Cheesman Park Sometimes I’ll amend a post, with updates from a later time, sometimes it’s easier to just make a separate part 2. Everything continues delightfully with...
Jigsaw Block Printing on Fabric Block printing onto fabric is such a fun way to create your own designs. Jigsaw printing allows you...
4th Jun 2025
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Jigsaw Block Printing on Fabric

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

4th Jun 2025
Block printing onto fabric is such a fun way to create your own designs. Jigsaw printing allows you to carve just one block to print a multi-coloured design. By cutting our carved block into jigsaw pieces we can ink them up separately and print onto the fabric, knowing they'll...
on one-sidedness giving without getting
3rd Feb 2025
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on one-sidedness

from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Feb 2025
giving without getting
The Forged Apple Employee Badge Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught...
16th May 2024
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The Forged Apple Employee Badge

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

16th May 2024
Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught my eye: Wow. Someone was selling Apple Employee #10’s employee badge?! What an incredible piece of Apple history! Sure, it’s not Steve Jobs’ badge (despite the auction title), but...
Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models Ollama now supports decision models, based on TypeSafe's Jev API for fast, typed decisions. Decision...
29th Sep 2026
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Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

29th Sep 2026
Ollama now supports decision models, based on TypeSafe's Jev API for fast, typed decisions. Decision models can now be run at no cost with low latency. Based on text, decision models answer yes-or-no questions, choices and scores about it, with a probability for every option.
Build vs Buy: age old dilemma The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch...
5th Mar 2023
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Build vs Buy: age old dilemma

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

5th Mar 2023
The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch or buy some off-the-shelf solution? […] The post Build vs Buy: age old dilemma appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers? Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
13th Jan 2025
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Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Jan 2025
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
More Everything With AI From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts...
2nd Apr 2023
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More Everything With AI

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

2nd Apr 2023
From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. With Copilot, you’re always...
ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #14: How do we combat cognitive decline? An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-1-25
1st Jul 2025
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ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #14: How do we combat cognitive decline?

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jul 2025
An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-1-25
how to be a domestic goddess notes from nigella & myself
12th Mar 2025
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how to be a domestic goddess

from Mind Mine [alt+shift+b] in life

12th Mar 2025
notes from nigella & myself
Destruction and despair A review of “A Sentimental Journey 1917-1922” by Viktor Shklovsky
2 weeks ago
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Destruction and despair

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

2 weeks ago
A review of “A Sentimental Journey 1917-1922” by Viktor Shklovsky
In Praise Of Bulletpoints - they are great
4 weeks ago
Developing An Intuition For Georgism WIRED published our weird ramblings on Land; here's the even weirder ramblings.
4th May 2023
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Developing An Intuition For Georgism

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

4th May 2023
WIRED published our weird ramblings on Land; here's the even weirder ramblings.
What’s good for General Motors is good for America On March 15 I tweeted, “If America hadn’t decided to create a new national transportation system...
16th Mar 2023
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What’s good for General Motors is good for America

from There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind [alt+shift+b] in architecture

16th Mar 2023
On March 15 I tweeted, “If America hadn’t decided to create a new national transportation system based on individuals in private cars driving everywhere for everything, climate change would be a very different—and smaller—problem than it is.” I posted the … Continue reading → The...
Why Is Argentina Poor? The root of its economic mismanagement
1st Nov 2025
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Why Is Argentina Poor?

from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Nov 2025
The root of its economic mismanagement
Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11 This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at...
7th Jan 2024
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Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11

from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

7th Jan 2024
This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at great effort and expense during the 1969 Apollo landing.
On running Never did I imagine myself getting into running, especially as a middle-aged man. It always seemed a...
2nd Aug 2026
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On running

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Aug 2026
Never did I imagine myself getting into running, especially as a middle-aged man. It always seemed a bit boring to me. Cycling is what I thought I‘d inevitably venture into, especially because I love watching that sport. But here I am, roped in by a couple of friends, fully...
Sudan, 1898 From the archives
3 weeks ago
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Sudan, 1898

from Looking Through the Past [alt+shift+b] in history

3 weeks ago
From the archives
21st Aug 2023
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Escapism Frequency

from Neocha – Culture & Creativity in Asia [alt+shift+b] in creative

21st Aug 2023
A Stepped Design For This Renovated Century-Old Edwardian House In San Francisco Andrew Mann Architecture has shared photos of a century-old Edwardian house they renovated in a...
6th May 2024
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A Stepped Design For This Renovated Century-Old Edwardian House In San Francisco

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

6th May 2024
Andrew Mann Architecture has shared photos of a century-old Edwardian house they renovated in a bustling San Francisco neighborhood.
Food Waste is Bad Actually How we frame the problem makes all the difference
7th Dec 2024
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Food Waste is Bad Actually

from Anarchy Unfolds [alt+shift+b] in creative

7th Dec 2024
How we frame the problem makes all the difference
Introducing Nutrify | A Pokédex for Food Like Shazam. But for food. A simple app to make learning about food fun.
27th Feb 2024
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Introducing Nutrify | A Pokédex for Food

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

27th Feb 2024
Like Shazam. But for food. A simple app to make learning about food fun.
Drawing repetitive radial artworks I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just...
1st Jun 2024
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Drawing repetitive radial artworks

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2024
I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just had a text from a friend about an upcoming trip to Ireland, and she’d sent me the four-leafed clover emoji (🍀), so I was sketching some petal-like shapes. These are a few of my...
Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively...
27th Jul 2022
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Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box

from Jibran’s Perspective [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jul 2022
I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively to manage my knowledge base. I started the day by dumping my thoughts into Logseq. Here they are. These are open questions for now. I plan to investigate this further and try out...
A Runbook for Upgrading Your Parent's Junky Old Laptop to a Chromebook tl;dr: I’m creating a runbook for a very specific, delicate, and potentially time-consuming and...
20th Jul 2020
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A Runbook for Upgrading Your Parent's Junky Old Laptop to a Chromebook

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

20th Jul 2020
tl;dr: I’m creating a runbook for a very specific, delicate, and potentially time-consuming and emotionally-charged operation to replace my 70-year-old newly-widowed mother-in-law's ancient desktop computer with a easy-for-me-to-manage Chromebook Update: I posted to r/ChromeOS...
The best-kept secret of the French press: cold brew coffee Whether staying up late mandated my love of caffeine or vice versa, I've become hooked on coffee of...
11th Jan 2010
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The best-kept secret of the French press: cold brew coffee

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

11th Jan 2010
Whether staying up late mandated my love of caffeine or vice versa, I've become hooked on coffee of all forms. My hands-down favorite until a few months ago was the caffè macchiato - not to be confused with the highly commercialized latte macchiato you see in places like...
Books To Help Us Understand The World? Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
1st Nov 2023
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?

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

1st Nov 2023
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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How to Plan Your Trip to Bermuda Carnival

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

30th Jan 2026
Virtual Memory: A Deep Dive into Page Tables, TLBs, and Linux Internals From page faults to NUMA topology: how the Linux kernel manages memory, and what that means for the...
10th May 2026
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Virtual Memory: A Deep Dive into Page Tables, TLBs, and Linux Internals

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

10th May 2026
From page faults to NUMA topology: how the Linux kernel manages memory, and what that means for the performance of data-intensive systems.
How big is the Flutter team? I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter. It's a hard question to answer because...
3rd Feb 2024
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How big is the Flutter team?

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2024
I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter. It's a hard question to answer because "contribute" is a very vague concept. There's tens of thousands of packages on pub.dev, all of which are written by contributors to the community. There's over 100,000 of issues...
Explore Wallpapers for Mac Many years ago (2010 or so) I released an app called Flickr Addict for Palm WebOS phones, which...
22nd Apr 2025
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Explore Wallpapers for Mac

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2025
Many years ago (2010 or so) I released an app called Flickr Addict for Palm WebOS phones, which automatically downloaded beautiful images from the Flickr photography website and changed the phone background image on a regular basis. I wanted to see if I could rebuild that app in...
Software is Polluting the World Sustainable UX: A design approach to reducing carbon emissions
29th Apr 2020
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Software is Polluting the World

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Apr 2020
Sustainable UX: A design approach to reducing carbon emissions
14th Aug 2023
Postwar Postwar is not a book so much as it is a college course on 20th century Europe. Judt makes it clear...
2nd Sep 2020
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Postwar

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2020
Postwar is not a book so much as it is a college course on 20th century Europe. Judt makes it clear in his introduction that rather than try and propose a grand theory or specific thesis with which to plumb the six decades following World War II, he wrote the book in an exercise...
16th Jun 2024
The Parable of Anna Akhmatova Who is more powerful, the artist or the dictator?
4th Jan 2025
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The Parable of Anna Akhmatova

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

4th Jan 2025
Who is more powerful, the artist or the dictator?
Takeaways from Cory Zue's May 2023 Livecoding Session My friend Cory Zue has been publishing his live coding sessions, so I decided to watch one and...
3rd Jun 2023
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Takeaways from Cory Zue's May 2023 Livecoding Session

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

3rd Jun 2023
My friend Cory Zue has been publishing his live coding sessions, so I decided to watch one and record my notes. My background vs. Cory’s I’ve read a lot of Cory’s blog. We’re both Python developers, but he specializes in Django, whereas I’ve always worked with thinner frameworks...
WP Enqueue for Beginners WP Enqueue for Beginners 2020-05-05 Throughout my career designing, developing and auditing...
5th May 2020
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WP Enqueue for Beginners

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

5th May 2020
WP Enqueue for Beginners 2020-05-05 Throughout my career designing, developing and auditing WordPress themes, I’ve come across many that include their custom styles / scripts as static HTML elements inside their respective header and footer templates. This is perfectly fine, but...
Home Energy Monitor: V2 My DIY home energy monitor has been running for almost a year now. It's been recording my...
11th Feb 2020
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Home Energy Monitor: V2

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

11th Feb 2020
My DIY home energy monitor has been running for almost a year now. It's been recording my electricity consumption every second and everything is neatly archived in my AWS account.Still, though, there is room for improvement. It's time to look back, evaluate & improve the design....
Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMs --> Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language...
13th Mar 2026
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Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMs

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

13th Mar 2026
--> Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is a critical challenge in modern artificial intelligence. Interpretability research aims to make the decision-making process more transparent to model builders and...
When Is Architectural Symbolism Hypocrisy? Like or loathe it, symbolism over substance has a long tradition.
2nd May 2024
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When Is Architectural Symbolism Hypocrisy?

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2nd May 2024
Like or loathe it, symbolism over substance has a long tradition.
Weekly Scroll: The Deep State Cometh /r/FedNews, DeepSeek hot takes, and a brutal menswear guy post
3rd Feb 2025
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Weekly Scroll: The Deep State Cometh

from Infinite Scroll [alt+shift+b] in creative

3rd Feb 2025
/r/FedNews, DeepSeek hot takes, and a brutal menswear guy post
New zine: How Git Works! Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It...
3rd Jun 2024
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New zine: How Git Works!

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

3rd Jun 2024
Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It came out on Friday! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git, or get an 14-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table...
Coming soon This is shani's mind, a newsletter on whatever I am thinking about lately .
15th Nov 2022
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Coming soon

from skin contact [alt+shift+b] in life

15th Nov 2022
This is shani's mind, a newsletter on whatever I am thinking about lately .
Making a photo enlarger more efficient with precisely controlled LEDs In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a...
2nd Mar 2025
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Making a photo enlarger more efficient with precisely controlled LEDs

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

2nd Mar 2025
In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a photosensitive material below using a strong light source and a negative to produce a much larger print. And while these have historically relied on single-color incandescent bulbs, such as...
RWC 2016 Lightning Talk Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the Real World Crypto 2016 conference...
7th Jan 2016
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RWC 2016 Lightning Talk

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2016
Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the Real World Crypto 2016 conference in Stanford, CA. This is a pseudotranscript of that lightning talk. I'm Mahmoud Hashemi and I work as a Lead Developer at PayPal. I mostly focus on Python frameworks and software...
Interlude at Leonardslee, Horsham If there's one thing I've learned after nearly twenty years of writing about food in this country,...
18th Mar 2025
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Interlude at Leonardslee, Horsham

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

18th Mar 2025
If there's one thing I've learned after nearly twenty years of writing about food in this country, it's that fine dining can happen pretty much anywhere. If Ormskirk, an otherwise unremarkable town in Lancashire previously best known as the childhood home of Marianne Faithful...
8 Best Ways to Learn JavaScript, Personalized JavaScript is undoubtedly one of the best languages to learn as a developer, whether you’ve been at...
5th Feb 2022
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8 Best Ways to Learn JavaScript, Personalized

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

5th Feb 2022
JavaScript is undoubtedly one of the best languages to learn as a developer, whether you’ve been at it for years or are just starting out. More than 97% of today’s websites are powered by JavaScript. Regardless of what field you work in, you’ll likely be exposed to JavaScript at...
Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
1st Jul 2025
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Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2025
Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive. Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
Avoid multitasking to write better code Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a...
26th Oct 2018
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Avoid multitasking to write better code

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

26th Oct 2018
Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a second thing done? Why not fill those five seconds while your code compiles with reading an article about the latest web frameworks? In fact, multitasking is hiding everywhere in...
What I've been eating... Anyone who spends any time with me knows that I love food — thinking about food, making food, eating...
3rd May 2023
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What I've been eating...

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

3rd May 2023
Anyone who spends any time with me knows that I love food — thinking about food, making food, eating food, telling people about food. Why not add it into Tech and Tea?
Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic...
14th Feb 2019
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Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

14th Feb 2019
In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic systems. The post Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Can patients be good healthcare shoppers? | Out-Of-Pocket Should their be limits to patient agency?
8th Aug 2024
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Can patients be good healthcare shoppers? | Out-Of-Pocket

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

8th Aug 2024
Should their be limits to patient agency?
Embodiment Since I was small, I’d lived my life through screens, one way or another. For the last...
15th May 2025
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Embodiment

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

15th May 2025
Since I was small, I’d lived my life through screens, one way or another. For the last quarter-century or so, I had been piloting the machine of flesh and sinew to keep my mind going, rarely engaging with the machine itself. This was a mistake.
NYC subway math Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the...
4th Apr 2016
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NYC subway math

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

4th Apr 2016
Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the subway takes autistic proportions and so obviously I had to analyze some of the data. The documentation is somewhat terrible, but here's some relevant code for how to use the API:
Learn Go Fast - Top Courses and Resources Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out...
2nd Nov 2020
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Learn Go Fast - Top Courses and Resources

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

2nd Nov 2020
Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out there. It was designed to have a compact feature set, which means you can learn it much faster than most other languages.
BFS vs DFS in friendships If you already know and remember what Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS) are,...
9th Feb 2020
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BFS vs DFS in friendships

from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Feb 2020
If you already know and remember what Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS) are, skip to What are you saying? Take my…
A clever way to style the <mark> element I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in...
1st Feb 2019
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A clever way to style the <mark> element

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

1st Feb 2019
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials: Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
My Skill for More Productive Deep Research A lesson in learning, summarization, and explaining via LLMs
3 days ago
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My Skill for More Productive Deep Research

from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

3 days ago
A lesson in learning, summarization, and explaining via LLMs
Most Software Was Already Slop As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works...
4th Sep 2026
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Most Software Was Already Slop

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

4th Sep 2026
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works in detail. While there are many developers out there who build good software, there are many, many more who don’t. Yet we balk at the idea of vibe coding, even when it yields...
Early-stage engineering Early on you need to be fast. And to do that you have to have the confidence to break with best...
1st Oct 2023
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Early-stage engineering

from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2023
Early on you need to be fast. And to do that you have to have the confidence to break with best practices.
The End of Search, The Beginning of Research The first narrow agents are here
3rd Feb 2025
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The End of Search, The Beginning of Research

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

3rd Feb 2025
The first narrow agents are here
Organising my cross-stitch patterns I have a lot of digital cross-stitch patterns and until recently they were a mess. My “collection”...
2 weeks ago
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Organising my cross-stitch patterns

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago
I have a lot of digital cross-stitch patterns and until recently they were a mess. My “collection” was a series of several hundred PDFs, disorganised and spread across my disk. Recently, I was looking for a pattern and it took me several minutes to find it. I had a brief moment...
How the 'Diamond of the Plant World' Helped Land Plants Evolve Structural studies of the robust material called sporopollenin reveal how it made plants hardy...
9th Nov 2022
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How the 'Diamond of the Plant World' Helped Land Plants Evolve

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

9th Nov 2022
Structural studies of the robust material called sporopollenin reveal how it made plants hardy enough to reproduce on dry land. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Redwood Trail” by Audionautix.
Establishing Habits with Habitica I have used Habitica the last 18 months to organize my habits and things I want to get done. I...
21st Nov 2015
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Establishing Habits with Habitica

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

21st Nov 2015
I have used Habitica the last 18 months to organize my habits and things I want to get done. I believe it all started with an amazing book called The Power of Habit which describes the amazing benefits habits can give, both in the context of your own life but also in business....
Generating 3D Molecular Conformers via Equivariant Coarse-Graining and Aggregated Attention --> Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture. (I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the...
29th Jun 2023
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Generating 3D Molecular Conformers via Equivariant Coarse-Graining and Aggregated Attention

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

29th Jun 2023
--> Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture. (I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the fine-grained (FG) ground truth conformer $X$, RDKit approximate conformer $\mathcal{R}$ , and coarse-grained (CG) conformer $\mathcal{C}$ as inputs (derived from $X$ and a predefined...
10 year review Wahoop! I have made it through ten years. In fact, I’ve had a trackable portfolio for over 20 years....
20th Jan 2023
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10 year review

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

20th Jan 2023
Wahoop! I have made it through ten years. In fact, I’ve had a trackable portfolio for over 20 years. But 10 years ago I started tracking my portfolio in a consistent, monthly way – unitising its performance so I could measure its return. It wasn’t until 2015 that I started this...
Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe's First Stars Theory has it that “Population III” stars brought light to the cosmos. The James Webb Space...
12th Apr 2023
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Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe's First Stars

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

12th Apr 2023
Theory has it that “Population III” stars brought light to the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope may have just glimpsed them. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon.
The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A...
16th Dec 2023
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The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen

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

16th Dec 2023
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A lot has changed in the world since then, and Shenzhen is no exception. There’s a new maintainer of the guide, Naomi Wu (@realsexycyborg), and she is crowdfunding an updated, new...
Toward a shallower future Adversity isn't worth the price of adversity.
3rd Jan 2024
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Toward a shallower future

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Jan 2024
Adversity isn't worth the price of adversity.
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...
5th Dec 2013
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AngelList is the NASDAQ of our generation.

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

5th Dec 2013
It’s fair to say that Angellist is the most exciting (web/mobile) tech startup in 2013. Even before they launched syndicates, earl...
Generating a 12 Hour Youtube Video With Python Making a video that smoothly scrolls through 70k Winamp skins over the course of 12 hours.
12th Sep 2021
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Generating a 12 Hour Youtube Video With Python

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

12th Sep 2021
Making a video that smoothly scrolls through 70k Winamp skins over the course of 12 hours.
1st Aug 2025
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What I have been up to lately

from Dominik Sobe's Thoughts ツ [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

1st May 2023
2015-04-02 "- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one...
2nd Apr 2015
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2015-04-02

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

2nd Apr 2015
"- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one common section.- When a blue train waits for red trains to go through the shared section, the blue trains behind it catch up (get more clumped)- If the merge rules are efficient...
HandCash handles require trust and are insecure The HandCash wallet has recently become a popular Bitcoin Cash wallet in large part thanks to their...
22nd Sep 2018
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HandCash handles require trust and are insecure

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

22nd Sep 2018
The HandCash wallet has recently become a popular Bitcoin Cash wallet in large part thanks to their $handle concept. It’s basically a username you use instead of the normal Bitcoin Cash address, similar to how domain names abstract away IP addresses. For example instead of...
Sing your way to learning a new language Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million...
1st Sep 2023
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Sing your way to learning a new language

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

1st Sep 2023
Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million users.
How to build your own Goodman ZONE camera, part 2 The Goodman ZONE is a medium-format 3D-printed film camera designed by Dora Goodman as part of her...
21st Feb 2020
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How to build your own Goodman ZONE camera, part 2

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

21st Feb 2020
The Goodman ZONE is a medium-format 3D-printed film camera designed by Dora Goodman as part of her range of open-source camera models, using the existing Mamiya Press lens series for glass and the Mamiya RB67 backs to hold film. She sells pre-printed kits that contain all the...
LAKE.app Following a recent weekend trip, I wrote a simple little app that plays a recording of waves on Lake...
31st Aug 2021
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LAKE.app

from Project: LAKE.app - Chris Dzombak [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Aug 2021
Following a recent weekend trip, I wrote a simple little app that plays a recording of waves on Lake Michigan crashing at the shore. It’s around 14~15 minutes long, and it loops perfectly. The app’s “artwork,” such as it is, consists of two
The Epic Stack Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to...
10th May 2023
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The Epic Stack

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th May 2023
Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to production more efficiently.
2025-09-02 As an experiment, I've machine-translated the help docs in Lua Carousel into 7 languages: Spanish...
2nd Sep 2025
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2025-09-02

from Freewheeling Apps [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2025
As an experiment, I've machine-translated the help docs in Lua Carousel into 7 languages: Spanish (Peninsular and Latin American) German French Japanese Chinese Portuguese Hopefully it...
CSS-Tricks could be a co-op I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks. CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the...
18th Sep 2026
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CSS-Tricks could be a co-op

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

18th Sep 2026
I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks. CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the opportunity to write for them. In doing so, they helped to both socialize and normalize accessibility as a mainstream frontend concern. I’m deeply thankful to them for this. The...
TfL FoI requests in September 2026 20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2026 1) Since Superloop routes were...
4 weeks ago
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TfL FoI requests in September 2026

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

4 weeks ago
20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2026 1) Since Superloop routes were introduced, the most used is the SL8 (22.7m passengers) followed by the SL9 (12.7m) and SL7 (10.5m). Already twice as many people have ridden the SL11 (2.2m, introduced January 2026) than...
LinkedIn’s Broken Automation Took Down My Company’s Page Without Warning TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow...
2nd Sep 2024
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2nd Sep 2024
TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow their careers in Japan. Given our focus, it’s not surprising that LinkedIn is the social network that delivers us the most traffic. Typically, about 4% of our total visitors arrive...
Twelve Career Lessons They Don’t Put in Onboarding A few hard-earned lessons about people, politics, consistency, and the parts of work we pretend...
8th Dec 2025
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Twelve Career Lessons They Don’t Put in Onboarding

from Scarlet Ink [alt+shift+b] in life

8th Dec 2025
A few hard-earned lessons about people, politics, consistency, and the parts of work we pretend aren’t part of the job. But really are.
Hate, supremacism and the satanic world order The word “hate” is bandied about a lot by our global overlords.
5th Jan 2026
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Hate, supremacism and the satanic world order

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

5th Jan 2026
The word “hate” is bandied about a lot by our global overlords.
Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
2nd Jan 2025
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2nd Jan 2025
Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
Bare Metal vs. Virtualization Performance I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows: Neil's Lab Server Specifications CPU...
7th Dec 2021
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Bare Metal vs. Virtualization Performance

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2021
I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows: Neil's Lab Server Specifications CPU Model Intel® Xeon® Gold 6326, 16 Cores (32 Threads), 2.90 GHz (Base), 3.50 GHz (Turbo) CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12S DX-4189 Motherboard Supermicro...
Enhancements to the Kagi search experience We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
3rd May 2023
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Enhancements to the Kagi search experience

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

3rd May 2023
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
Real estate is one of the hardest open problems in scaled self driving I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few...
3rd Sep 2024
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Real estate is one of the hardest open problems in scaled self driving

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

3rd Sep 2024
I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few months, I’ve flown a drone as part of a stakeout to understand how they work. And I’ve taken a deep dive into an apparent Waymo outage to find the company charging its electric vehicles...
1st Two Lessons of From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion 4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early...
19th Oct 2022
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19th Oct 2022
4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early preview of the new course.
Mercedes-Benz Offices by Boytorun Architects Boytorun Architects designed the Mercedes-Benz Istanbul Headquarters in a way that fosters...
1st Aug 2024
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Mercedes-Benz Offices by Boytorun Architects

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

1st Aug 2024
Boytorun Architects designed the Mercedes-Benz Istanbul Headquarters in a way that fosters collaboration and innovation, emphasizing a sense of belonging...
Beware The Fallacy of Composition Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
1st Oct 2020
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Beware The Fallacy of Composition

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

1st Oct 2020
Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
Basecamp's house of cards... Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash Character is like toothpaste - it really only comes out under pressure...
4th May 2021
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Basecamp's house of cards...

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th May 2021
Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash Character is like toothpaste - it really only comes out under pressure (unknown) I don’t know where I first heard the above quote, but the events of the last week have really shown how true this saying is. I will start by saying that I have been an...
Matt Ridley: Deep Optimism ### Undeniable Progress Hominids had upright walking, stone tools, fire, even language but still...
23rd Mar 2011
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Matt Ridley: Deep Optimism

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

23rd Mar 2011
### Undeniable Progress Hominids had upright walking, stone tools, fire, even language but still remained in profound stasis. What led to humanity's global takeoff, Ridley argues, was the invention of exchange about 120,000 years ago. "That's ten times older than...
CSS Grid Gap Behavior with Hidden Elements I was recently prototyping a component layout that included a way to toggle the visibility of...
14th Feb 2023
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CSS Grid Gap Behavior with Hidden Elements

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

14th Feb 2023
I was recently prototyping a component layout that included a way to toggle the visibility of sibling elements inside a grid display. What tripped me up was, while these elements were hidden, all of the container's gap gutters remained, leaving undesired extra visual spacing. I...
The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand...
4 weeks ago
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The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate

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

4 weeks ago
In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand for professional work – at 37signals at least. Is this change now unstoppable?
What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory Textbooks say that the moon was formed after a Mars-size mass smashed the young Earth. But new...
17th Nov 2017
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What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

17th Nov 2017
Textbooks say that the moon was formed after a Mars-size mass smashed the young Earth. But new evidence has cast doubt on that story, leaving researchers to dream up new ways to get a giant rock into orbit. The post What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a...
Your Allergies Are Probably Fake You might be avoiding medications that don't do anything to you
4th Feb 2026
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Your Allergies Are Probably Fake

from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science

4th Feb 2026
You might be avoiding medications that don't do anything to you
The Necrologs of Bulgaria Remembering the Dead in Daily Life
2nd Aug 2023
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The Necrologs of Bulgaria

from On the Arts [alt+shift+b] in creative

2nd Aug 2023
Remembering the Dead in Daily Life
Content but Restless There is tension between being content with what you have, and striving for more. We have all heard...
3rd Sep 2013
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Content but Restless

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

3rd Sep 2013
There is tension between being content with what you have, and striving for more. We have all heard the “serenity prayer”: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. This prayer is...
Messing with bots Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
13th Nov 2025
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Messing with bots

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

13th Nov 2025
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
Fio-plot: creating nice charts from FIO storage benchmark data New release of fio-plot I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice...
27th Nov 2019
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Fio-plot: creating nice charts from FIO storage benchmark data

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

27th Nov 2019
New release of fio-plot I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice charts. It allows you to create four types of graphs which will be discussed below. The github project page explains how to run this tool. Fio-plot also includes a benchmark script...
Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project. Luigi is a Python module that helps...
21st Oct 2012
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Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python

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

21st Oct 2012
I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project. Luigi is a Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs, handle dependency resolution, and create visualizations to help manage multiple workflows. It also comes with Hadoop support built in...
The Infinite Heist - Part 1 In 1874, Georg Cantor published one of the most important papers in math’s 4,000-year history. Some...
3rd Mar 2026
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The Infinite Heist - Part 1

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd Mar 2026
In 1874, Georg Cantor published one of the most important papers in math’s 4,000-year history. Some ideas in it were stolen. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, the first of a two-parter, host Samir Patel speaks with math editor Jordana Cepelewicz about the hard-fought journey...
The grid part II - the golden age of the power industry Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the...
3rd Jun 2023
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The grid part II - the golden age of the power industry

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

3rd Jun 2023
Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the US was using 114 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, generated by more than 4000 power plants. Most electricity was generated by coal (56%) and hydroelectric (34%)...
Geoffrey B West: Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster ### Superlinear Cities "It's hard to kill a city," West began, "but easy to kill a company." The...
26th Jul 2011
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26th Jul 2011
### Superlinear Cities "It's hard to kill a city," West began, "but easy to kill a company." The mean life of companies is 10 years. Cities routinely survive even nuclear bombs. And "cities are the crucible of civilization." They are the major source of innovation and wealth...
Go and SQLite in the Cloud Why SQLite and Go in the cloud are a great match, getting started, best practices, and more.
4th Nov 2022
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Go and SQLite in the Cloud

from maragu’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Nov 2022
Why SQLite and Go in the cloud are a great match, getting started, best practices, and more.
How To Sell Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
18th Jan 2020
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How To Sell

from Nabeel S. Qureshi [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Jan 2020
Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel after Atari Purchase (1985) They talk about Jack's past and the future of Atari.
3rd Nov 2025
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Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel after Atari Purchase (1985)

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

3rd Nov 2025
They talk about Jack's past and the future of Atari.
What I'm up to - September 2023 I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Sep 2023
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What I'm up to - September 2023

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in August - Launched FRCTNL, a community of fractional tech workers. - Co...
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2026 We’re off to an incredible start to 2026. December of 2025 broke a new record with 3,075,904 lessons...
13th Jan 2026
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2026

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

13th Jan 2026
We’re off to an incredible start to 2026. December of 2025 broke a new record with 3,075,904 lessons completed and 82,578 training grounds challenges completed during the month! In January, I’m writing this on the 13th, and we’re already at 1,657,581 lessons and 47,795 challenges...
Doing versus Delegating A staff+ skill
6th Aug 2025
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Doing versus Delegating

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Aug 2025
A staff+ skill
Revised icebreakers for nicer New Yorkers You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet...
2nd Sep 2015
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Revised icebreakers for nicer New Yorkers

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

2nd Sep 2015
You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet someone new, and you're inevitably asking and being asked three questions: Where do you work? Where do you live? How much is your rent? Okay, you don't always encounter that last one,...
ViHN: Vim for Hacker News tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s...
24th Feb 2024
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ViHN: Vim for Hacker News

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

24th Feb 2024
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox and Chrome. This is about yet another Hacker News extension. But other people with my obsession for killing the mouse might enjoy it. Most of the...
New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory Researchers have mapped hundreds of semantic categories to the tiny bits of the cortex that...
11th May 2022
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New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

11th May 2022
Researchers have mapped hundreds of semantic categories to the tiny bits of the cortex that represent them in our thoughts and perceptions. What they discovered might change our view of memory. The post New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory first...
IC Necklace [Misc] Setting silicon
21st Feb 2025
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IC Necklace

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

21st Feb 2025
[Misc] Setting silicon
preliminary notes on a nofl field-logging barrier When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part of the object graph that has...
3rd Oct 2024
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preliminary notes on a nofl field-logging barrier

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Oct 2024
When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part of the object graph that has been allocated recently. To do so, you need to keep a : a set of old-to-new edges, used as roots when performing a minor collection. A language run-time maintains this set...
What I'm up to - September 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Sep 2024
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What I'm up to - September 2024

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in August Hello from a train somewhere in the French countryside. I just finished spending a few d...
Virtual Branches Alpha GitButler is introducing an entirely new way to work on branches in Git. Join the alpha!
1st Sep 2023
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Virtual Branches Alpha

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Sep 2023
GitButler is introducing an entirely new way to work on branches in Git. Join the alpha!
Content debt There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
4th Jul 2024
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Content debt

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

4th Jul 2024
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
Redesigning the Cakedesk Website Read the post here.
30th Dec 2025
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Redesigning the Cakedesk Website

from Max Schmitt [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Dec 2025
Read the post here.
What I Read in May 2026 – “These stories appeal to my sense of humor as well as my taste for formal... NOT SHAKESPEARE Poems and a Defence of Ryme (1592-1605), Samuel Daniel – Author of the “Delia”...
4th Jun 2026
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4th Jun 2026
NOT SHAKESPEARE Poems and a Defence of Ryme (1592-1605), Samuel Daniel – Author of the “Delia” sequence of fifty sonnets, a genuine sequence, with for example lines ending one poem and beginning the next.  For some reason Thomas Campion, a writer of the most beautiful songs,...
Why I don’t want stuff About once a month, someone asks for my mailing address because they want to send me...
16th Feb 2016
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Why I don’t want stuff

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

16th Feb 2016
About once a month, someone asks for my mailing address because they want to send me something. They liked something I wrote, and want to send me a gift in return. I’m very thankful, but have to say no. Here’s why. I just moved into this place a few weeks ago. I’ve moved...
Proudly exclude most people We love when someone hates the same thing we hate — especially if that thing is popular. You can...
2nd Feb 2000
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Proudly exclude most people

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

2nd Feb 2000
We love when someone hates the same thing we hate — especially if that thing is popular. You can use this to attract your future fans. You can say, “Don’t listen to this if you’re happy with your life.” Then people who hate all that happy crap will be intrigued. You can...
An Interstate Highway Program — but for Sidewalks? What if communities had more control over their transportation priorities?
2nd Sep 2026
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An Interstate Highway Program — but for Sidewalks?

from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2nd Sep 2026
What if communities had more control over their transportation priorities?
Literary Fiction As Niche Hobby We might be better off this way
2nd Jun 2025
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Literary Fiction As Niche Hobby

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Jun 2025
We might be better off this way
John Rendon: Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short ### Only connect John Rendon, head of The Rendon Group, is a senior communications consultant to...
15th Jul 2006
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John Rendon: Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short

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

15th Jul 2006
### Only connect John Rendon, head of The Rendon Group, is a senior communications consultant to the White Houses and Departments of Defense. His subject in this talk is how to replace tactical, reactive response to terror with long-term strategic initative. I think that people...
15th Jul 2026
Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Proto Firehose by >99% Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter. As a...
24th Sep 2024
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Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Proto Firehose by >99%

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

24th Sep 2024
Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter. As a result, the AT Proto event firehose provided by Bluesky’s Relay at bsky.network has increased in volume by a huge amount. The average event rate during this surge increased by...
If your team is happy, are you doing a good job? Brilliant jerks, ZIRP-era managers, and how psychological safety lost the plot. Part 3 of my...
3 weeks ago
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If your team is happy, are you doing a good job?

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
Brilliant jerks, ZIRP-era managers, and how psychological safety lost the plot. Part 3 of my conversation with Dr. Cat Hicks.
Selling a directory website for $10,000 - Damn Good Tools Imagine selling a website you made for $10,000. Pretty great, huh? Well that's exactly what Dmytro...
1st Nov 2023
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Selling a directory website for $10,000 - Damn Good Tools

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

1st Nov 2023
Imagine selling a website you made for $10,000. Pretty great, huh? Well that's exactly what Dmytro did
Baccano! I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting,...
4th Nov 2021
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Baccano!

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

4th Nov 2021
I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting, anachronistic setting; weird alchemy stuff; a huge slew of characters and viewpoints; framing devices within framing devices.
A Quick and Easy Win for the New Year (and an Important Check) 2020 is finally over (thank God.) Which means it’s time for some New Year cleaning. You may have...
14th Jan 2021
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A Quick and Easy Win for the New Year (and an Important Check)

from Grow With Less [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

14th Jan 2021
2020 is finally over (thank God.) Which means it’s time for some New Year cleaning. You may have articles or copyright notices that reference previous years. Now is the perfect time to update these and make sure they say “2021” and not “2020” or even “2019.” To find pages...
TinyPilot: Month 3 Highlights TinyPilot generated $3,800 in revenue with zero marketing. I went from zero to a...
6th Oct 2020
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TinyPilot: Month 3

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

6th Oct 2020
Highlights TinyPilot generated $3,800 in revenue with zero marketing. I went from zero to a complete, custom manufactured product in 26 days. I’m still struggling to manage my inventory. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I...
Data Update 9 for 2025: Dividends and Buybacks - Inertia and Me-tooism! In my ninth (and last) data post for 2025, I look at cash returned by businesses across the world,...
5th Mar 2025
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Data Update 9 for 2025: Dividends and Buybacks - Inertia and Me-tooism!

from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance

5th Mar 2025
In my ninth (and last) data post for 2025, I look at cash returned by businesses across the world, looking at both the magnitude and the form of that return. I start with a framework for thinking about how much cash a business can return to its owners, and then argue that, in the...
Never Bet Against America Why the US Is Overpowered
4th Sep 2025
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Never Bet Against America

from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science

4th Sep 2025
Why the US Is Overpowered
Limitations of My Own Thinking I sometimes make recommendations, or at least recount a story that has “actionable insights”....
5th Nov 2015
21

Limitations of My Own Thinking

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

5th Nov 2015
I sometimes make recommendations, or at least recount a story that has “actionable insights”. Anytime this happens, I start tripping over myself with warnings and qualifying statements. Here’s what would happen: I would make a recommendation (“start a side project to help get a...
The many benefits of paying for search “Wait, you PAY for search?” We get this reaction a lot about Kagi.
18th Aug 2025
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The many benefits of paying for search

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

18th Aug 2025
“Wait, you PAY for search?” We get this reaction a lot about Kagi.
Fell in Love with Fire : A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October...
21st Oct 2024
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21st Oct 2024
Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and mutual aid. This is an inspiring portrayal...
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